Comedian Adam Friedland, Daniel Jones QB1 Again, Mt Rushmore Of Things That Make Your Friends House Cool + Guys On Camp From Camp Barstool
The QB depth charts are rolling in and Daniel Jones is back at QB1. Hank is doubling down on his Super Bowl England take and we talk some more sports news (00:00:00-00:28:02). Hot Seat/Cool Throne including Tommy Pham, LeBron golfing too much and more (00:28:02-00:46:45). Mt Rushmore of things that make your friends house cool (00:46:45-01:00:13). Comedian Adam Friedland joins the show to talk about his show, Cumtown, becoming an industry plant, Arsenal and more (01:00:13-02:12:13). We finish with Guys on Camp from the listeners (02:12:13-02:24:40).
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Today is Wednesday, August 20th.
And we got some quarterbacks, boys.
Daniel Jones is back.
Indiana Jones.
Indiana Jones.
So Daniel Jones has won the QB battle in Indianapolis.
That 2014 AFC finalist banner belongs in a museum.
Oh, man.
I feel like Giants fans should make a presentation for the Colts.
Yeah.
Just being like, hey, here's what you're about to experience.
It's an experience.
So we've noticed that you're dealing with acute bout of Daniel Jones as your starting quarterback.
You can call me crazy.
I think he might be good.
Better than you think Daniel Jones is in the room.
Here is why
he was in the room with Kevin O'Connell.
Here's why I'm nervous about Daniel Jones.
Well, the obvious, he's Daniel Jones.
That would be stating the very obvious.
I believe this is a decision made under duress by Shane Steichen.
I hear
his hand force.
Very much on the hot seat.
And he basically is in the worst place you want to be is an organization where it's like, I'm going to get fired.
I got to find a way to eke out like six or seven wins.
And Anthony Richardson has struggled, but he obviously probably has more upside or at least he's still,
people could still sell themselves on Anthony Richardson, but Daniel Jones gives you a higher floor.
I think Anthony Richardson might be younger than some of the rookies this year.
Yeah.
So he is definitely younger than Shador.
Yeah.
He's still definitely, he's a project.
Not completed project.
Not even really like, he's a project that you have given consideration to starting.
He is an IKEA furniture project that you've laid out all of the tools.
You haven't started putting anything together.
Like, what the fuck kind of wrench is this?
Yeah.
Oh, shit.
Did I, did I,
you hear that, like, the drop of a, of a piece of hardware?
You're like, fuck, where'd that go?
I lost something.
Oh, no.
You turn to page two, and you're like, I don't have this.
I don't have this piece.
Yeah.
It's just not here.
Throwing with touch, I don't have this piece.
Well, Daniel Jones would be a project that you reach the end of.
And you're like, he's like fully baked
and then you've got 90 pieces left Yeah, that you didn't use when you constructed it and you're like this is going to break and it and you're also like this is not looking what it looked like in the showroom not at all like I thought I bought one thing Yeah, it's basically seeing a commercial for a cheeseburger and then getting it at a drive-through I went to I purchased a Manning I thought I got a Manning and it's a simian Yeah, what what just happened here?
I had the Brooks brother Manning model
and uh yeah, we ended up with a simian TJ Maxx.
Yeah.
So, I mean, Daniel Jones, when I say he's going to be good, I would be shocked if he was like a Pro Bowl level quarterback, but I think he could be serviceable.
Don't.
There could be like seven or eight people who opt out of the Pro Bowl.
It's true, Tyler Huntley.
Yeah.
But you know what I'm saying?
Like, I don't think he's going to be one of the better quarterbacks in the AFC, but I do think he could be good enough to win like eight games.
I mean, Daniel Jones has had a good year.
Yeah.
He will be very funny.
He's fast.
He is fast.
He is the fastest quarterback.
well, not inside the 20.
Fastest quarterback.
Daniel.
That is true.
By the way, did you see this is totally off?
Not Daniel's.
Not Daniel's, but Daniel.
Did you totally sideways here, but did you see we're getting the first Bob in the in Major League Baseball in 15 years?
That's great.
We haven't had a Bob in 15 years.
A Bob Drought.
A Tampa Bay Ray is named Bob.
I love that.
There are a lot of Bobs in baseball history, but 15 years without a Bob?
What happened to Bob?
Way too long.
What about Bob?
Yeah.
Itty bitty titties into Bob.
Itty-bitty titties into Bob.
I wonder what those girls are up to these days.
Probably killing it.
Yeah, they're definitely.
Absolutely.
But I think with Daniel Jones, the funniest possible outcome would be if he played kind of okay, maybe got to the playoffs.
Then they gave him a big contract and they didn't give Jonathan Taylor a new contract.
And then Jonathan Taylor went to the Eagles and ruined everyone's dreams.
Yeah.
That feels like that could happen.
Now, Anthony Richardson, him and his agent, they're not happy with what
because the Colts, they feel like the Colts are giving up on them.
Oh, that makes sense.
I say maybe they're not giving up on him.
Maybe they're just encouraging him to kind of, you know, he didn't get a full college experience.
He was a young kid.
Maybe he needs to do more experimenting.
Yeah.
Maybe try out tight end.
See if you like it.
Ooh, you're getting on your Bill Pollyanche.
You're getting a little freaky.
I don't know.
But there is a chance that, you know, something happens.
Maybe Daniel Jones doesn't play well at all.
And then Shane Steichen being a coach that needs to save his job.
He's like,
if I put Richardson in and he happens to play really well, maybe I can stick around for him.
Yeah, you do have the
Anthony Richardson button that you can press.
Yeah, which is fun.
Whereas the Daniel Jones button is not as fun.
No.
It just isn't.
It's not really even a button.
No.
It's just like a
curtain that you pull down by hand when it comes out.
Yeah, it's the old window in the car that you're cranking.
Yeah, it's a crank window.
Yeah.
So yeah, that was, I think we said that that was going to happen, right?
Yeah.
We thought that it was going to be Daniel Jones.
Who knows?
Maybe he did get fixed in Minnesota.
DJ, if I were a GM, I would, if the agent was mad, I would just play dumb.
I'd be like, why are you mad?
Yeah.
Well, you're not playing my quarterback.
Like, oh, okay.
But you know,
I guess.
You thought that we were going to play?
Yeah, just be like, all right, well, we'll look at it.
I'll get back to you.
That sounds like it's a, that's you problem for thinking that we're going to do that.
Yeah, see, why are you triggered, bro?
Yeah.
Why are you triggered about this?
We got a golf cart going by.
We're at Camp Barstool.
And then the Browns.
Browns.
As expected by us, Joe Flacco is starting the season for the Cleveland Browns.
Did you see that Stabler was at Cleveland Browns practice today?
No.
Elliot Stabler from SVU.
Okay.
Literally from SVU
was at the Cleveland Browns practice today on the sideline watching.
What was he doing?
Just hanging out?
I thought maybe they're filming an episode.
He might be.
I don't know.
Some Browns that could be an episode.
2025 Browns presented by Dick Wolf.
Yeah,
the Browns now, like, I I hope Joe Flacco goes back to the playoffs, and they're like, what'd you do that last?
What'd you do that middle Flacco year?
Yeah.
Why didn't you have Flacco?
Yeah.
You had Flacco.
You let Go Flacco go.
Flacco's back.
It's always been Joe Flacco.
I'm ruining for Flacco.
Something about that spiral.
He's both an entertainer and a competitor.
Yeah.
It is funny now looking at AFC North quarterbacks.
Flacco, Rodgers, Lamar, Burrow.
Yeah.
It's it, the division of quarterbacks.
Division of quarterbacks.
Listen, two guys have, the two old guys have Super Bowls.
Yeah, that's true.
Some guys haven't done it.
That's true.
They both had the exact same number of Super Bowls.
People forget that.
Yeah.
It is funny, too, like looking at,
I tweeted that, I think I said it last week, the quarterback ages where I changed Jordan Love's age.
But seeing the bottom where it's like, if you win a Super Bowl, you just get to be a quarterback till you're 50.
Exactly.
Yeah, it's pretty funny.
People will always be like, well, you won a Super Bowl.
And speaking as a 40-year-old, it's important that I see a guy like Joe Flacco out there representing me.
That's facts.
We could still play in the NFL.
Other quarterback news,
Matthew Stafford might have died.
Yeah.
I fully believe that what the Rams have done in that room, the table that they had, what was it called again?
It was a mortal table.
I think it was a milking table.
A human charger.
The human charger is actually just a cloning machine.
It was one of those.
They 3D printed a quarterback.
You know, you have the iPhone charger, and then you can buy like the pad that you just rest it on, and it never charges as fast as the cord.
He has the pad.
So we need to put the cord up his butt.
But I don't know if that's actually Matt Stafford.
Right.
So
a hashtag started Matthew Stafford died or Stafford died weeks ago.
And people are running with the theory that he's dead and this is a clone because he finally was at practice on Monday.
I'm not saying
I don't believe it.
I do.
There's a 1% chance I believe it.
Avril Levine.
Yeah.
I wonder if he was
good.
See you later, boy.
Do we think this math effort is good?
I don't think he's going to be as good.
Copy is never as good as the original.
Yeah.
Some sequels are pretty good.
Hank, you alluded to
you have a hot take.
You said you have a take that you wanted to get off.
I want to double down.
Oh.
Okay.
And what is it?
Oh, no.
I know what he's going to say.
Go for it.
Patriots.
Nope.
Well, that too.
But no, we talked about the.
Oh, no.
You come on, dude.
We're going to lose fans.
No, we're not.
We should gain fans.
It's a football field.
It's the same dimensions.
It's the same place.
People are having it so twisted where it's like, if we want this to be the biggest event in the world, we should have it.
I don't care.
Here's the thing for people who might have missed Monday's show.
So hold on.
The more people are getting upset with me, the more
sense.
Like, oh, play football in America.
Take points away.
Take points away.
Take football.
Take points away.
So football for people.
People who miss Monday's show, Hank.
Thinks that we should have a Super Bowl in London.
I didn't really care when I said it, but then the reaction really, really made me.
That's a great sound of maturity
to not actually believe your take, but then when people get mad at you, you're like,
I said,
how was the reaction?
I said to suck my dick from the back.
And then you went online and you're like, oh, people don't like this.
Well, yeah, but you guys say that to anything.
No.
Pooh poo, poo-poo, poo-poo.
Are you fresh now?
Hank, listen, the Super Bowl is played in America.
It's played on a football field in America.
Not on a soccer field.
Exactly.
Boom, point us.
Oh, no, they can bring in football fields.
Oh, yeah, those always work.
Shout out to one guy who, like, maybe 12 hours after the show came out on Monday, tweeted me so confidently, being like, what don't you understand?
They'll play the game at 6 p.m.
like Eastern Time.
It will just be 1 p.m.
in London.
No, it won't.
No, it won't.
It's going to be
11 o'clock at night.
I'm playing a game at midnight.
It's going to be 11 o'clock at night, which is going to suck.
Everyone's clock is going to be screwed up.
That's associated with the game that's playing in the game.
The Super Bowl is played
in America
by American teams.
It belongs in America.
It does not belong overseas.
It does not belong
overseas because you're making me so mad.
Hank, because your take is so wildly incorrect.
What has Europe ever done?
Why do they have football games there in the first place?
What has Europe done to display?
Why do they follow games in the game?
Answer me this.
Why do we play in Brazil?
Riddle me that.
Why do we play games in London?
He's trying to get all the games in Germans, dude.
It's a big season.
Exactly.
You know what?
You either die one of the Brady four or you live long enough to become a Goodell.
And Hank,
you've become a Goodell.
You're a corporate Hank.
Corporate Hank.
Put a suit on for
Friday's show.
Hank, you do have a desk again.
That was actually jarring to see.
Hank hasn't had a desk in like a year and a half.
And I just walked by yesterday.
He was like, what the fuck are you doing?
You're sitting in a chair?
He's like, yeah, I got a desk.
Hank, the Super Bowl, I would say...
I would make the argument the Super Bowl is the most important thing we do as a country.
We create the Super Bowl every year.
We have a season, a football season that creates the Super Bowl.
To give that to another country is disgusting.
I'm disgusted with you.
I want to puke on you.
Listen, I know it's good.
You guys get, you know, pro-america like you pander that's pro-american yeah no it's kind of pro-american but it's more just like better for the sport it's better for the show it's better for us it's better for everyone hank why don't we why the fuck don't we play the masters in in england because the masters let's just play the masters no let's no let's play the masters
literally worst example you can't stop they don't have football you could have said no it's not you could have said the u.s open because that's played in a different venue every year the masters played you'd want the u.s open to be played in england well no they have the open okay well they have week eight: Jaguars versus Titans.
Hank, what about the Final Four?
Would you like to see that overseas, too?
Yeah, you probably would, you sick pervert.
No, they don't have colleges in England.
Oh, they don't have colleges.
They don't have NFL teams there.
But they have NFL games there.
They don't play college teams.
Okay, they play, yeah, they play college games
abroad.
Do they?
Yeah, for sure.
They played on the aircraft carrier.
Yeah.
International waters, bro.
They don't have colleges in Europe, is one of the best takes.
They're universities.
You actually have to.
They're universities.
I don't need
Zach,
I could see how it could open up to more fans.
Yeah, Zach, get out of here.
Yeah,
PFT, let's quit.
Let's quit.
This is what I want.
Let's fuck out.
We're done with you guys.
Pardon my America.
Hank, listen, it's okay to take pride in your country.
It's a fucking game.
You're going to watch it the same way.
You're going to enjoy the same zone.
It's not.
Here's why it's not.
It is.
No, it's not.
Because
time zones.
Because then
all of a sudden, travel becomes a real issue for the Super Bowl.
It becomes the culture over there becomes a real issue for the Super Bowl.
You know how long?
How far away is on that?
Hank, you know how long it takes Super Bowl to be able to get it.
It's so it takes six hours to get to Super Bowl.
Shut the fuck up, Hank.
It's an extra two hours.
Shut the fuck up.
What's the difference?
Because American cities have planned for Super Bowl.
We know how to do Super Bowls in America.
We just do them well.
They don't know how to do that overseas.
What if we just did this?
What if you just
go to England and play?
And also, by the way, someone said that if you think you can play golf in England in February, you can do it.
I said the whole time it had nothing to do with golf.
But it does.
But you didn't mean that.
It's February.
You don't mean that.
It's February.
I do mean that.
You don't mean that.
You should want Super Bowls in America in warm weather climates where you can play golf.
That would be selfish of me, and I'm not selfish.
I care about the show.
I care about growing the show.
I care about growing the beautiful game of football, which we all love.
I heard from a bunch of AWLs over in England saying, fuck Hank, keep it in America.
Yep, I heard the same thing.
Yeah.
PFT said, pardon my America, which is actually like anti-America.
Yep.
That's like what like a lib would say to someone who's like very anti-American.
Shut up, Max.
Shut up, Max.
You don't want the Super Bowl overseas either.
No, I do.
I think it would be fun.
No, you didn't know what time to put the show out.
No, you're still trying to figure out what's on the show.
I figured out I would have more time to put out the show.
How much is Goodell paying you guys?
Seriously, because
you don't have to worry about Goodell paying it to this guy right now.
I thought so.
I thought that.
Until this whole weird thing you're doing.
Maybe, you know what, PFT?
They're just going through a phase.
They're lashing out.
They They want to do a little bra.
You guys are lashing out.
No, you know what?
No, no, no, no.
No, we're not lashing out.
You're sloshed.
You're closed-minded, and you're not realizing the world you live in today.
I think Hank just realizes that the Patriots won't be in a Super Bowl, so he doesn't care.
He's like, Yeah, send it over to Superman will be in a Super Bowl before the Commanders.
No, that's not true either.
You want to double down?
No.
Double down.
Double down.
Double down.
Double down.
Double down.
$50,000.
I don't think I can afford to double down.
$50,000.
Double down.
Put your money where your mouth is.
What would that mean?
Talk is cheap.
Hold on, hold on.
Double down, but if there's a Super Bowl bowl in england in the next 10 years your but your your uh debt is wiped clean if there's a super bowl in england yeah
you're not gonna wipe that debt no he gets an out if the super bowl is in england then you have to pay me in british pounds i think that'll be more money you never know what that's that's actually very anti-american of you guys
do you not believe in our dollar for not believing
in the u.s dollar stand currency brux it yeah max always thinks that the pounds are way higher than you thought they'd be
Look at the scale, buddy.
Zach, what did you think about that one?
I think everybody weights fluctuate.
Everybody's weights fluctuation.
Zach's just not eating this conversation.
He's just sitting here like a neutral observer.
Okay.
What, Max?
I have nothing to say.
Okay, that's what I thought.
The field will look the same.
No it won't.
No one won't.
Soccer field.
It's raining there, dude.
They have don't.
No, they don't.
I think they do.
You know what?
You know what won't be the same?
They won't serve beer.
They don't serve beer during soccer games.
Yeah.
They did serve beer at football game one.
Shut the fuck up, Max.
I'm the only one who's been to a football game in London in this room.
Would you want the Super Bowl there?
Do they have a dome?
It was fun.
I would like to go back.
Is it in a dome?
It was not in the dome.
Yeah, they don't have domes.
Listen, I'm talking dome.
Throw a tarp on the roof.
If you want to play Commanders Dolphins in Madrid during the regular season, that's fine.
What is the
one cares?
Yeah, that's fine.
Like a Super Bowl in Madrid would be awesome, too.
No, it wouldn't.
It really?
You just never want the Super Bowl in America again.
I don't care.
It's a neutral site every year.
You want it in China?
China.
No.
Yeah, you do.
You do.
You want it in China?
No.
No.
How about Jacksonville?
Yes.
Uh-huh.
That sounds good.
Jacksonville is basically a different country.
No, Jacksonville is the Australia of the United States.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Exactly.
We did settle kill you.
Everyone there is a convict.
We did an abroad Super Bowl last year in New Orleans.
Yeah.
She's French as fuck.
I like New Orleans.
Yeah, I do too.
That's what I'm saying.
It's a different country.
Also, you ever thought about this?
The fans.
The fans hank.
Yep.
This is the other point that also is just people are full of shit.
Normal fans are priced out of the Super Bowl already.
But some of them still go to the city.
Some of them still go.
But they could, like, it's already
dispensed.
I disagree with it.
Oh my god.
It was in 2013, it was like six.
Like, I know that tickets are family tickets to Dave for God.
But it's the same thing.
You can still save up and go to London.
Not everybody has Daddy Portnoy getting you into the game saying that.
I had to pay Dave
five grand out of my own pocket when I had no money in my name.
I had to pay him like 200 bucks a paycheck for like four months.
Max, were there regular fans at the Super Bowl?
I
yeah.
Okay, thank you.
But rest our case.
I didn't.
But those same regular fans could go to fucking London.
No, no, they don't pass.
You think the city of Philadelphia has a passport?
Yeah, I have a passport.
Oh, there you go, Max.
You don't live in the city of Philadelphia.
That's true.
But yeah, hey,
so it's already super expensive to go to the game if you buy a ticket.
What about getting to you want them to pay an additional like $7,000 to go to the game?
$7,000.
What team's fan base has the least amount of passports?
Is it the Jaguars?
Raiders.
Raiders?
Yeah, as well.
Jaguars.
Cardinals is a good one.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Let's see.
Maybe.
No, because I was thinking, like,
Bills definitely do.
Bills definitely do.
Like, anything on the border, Vikings, Packers, yeah, we do.
I would say the Rams prior to the LA move.
Steelers, maybe?
Steelers fans, yeah.
Could be up there.
This is Steelers.
Someone's just.
Yeah, I'm going to say that.
Someone's just banging because they're so upset with what Hank's doing.
That's Danny Conrad.
Is there a world of compromise where it's like one here, one there?
What did you say?
Is there a world of compromise where it's one here, one there, and flip third?
Why do we have to compromise?
Why do we have to compromise with England?
But hear me out.
We won a war for it.
Then there's possibly two Series situations.
What do you mean?
Super Bowl Sunday twice.
One here, one there.
You mean two Super Bowls in one here?
One Sundays?
Like
a home and home?
One here.
They're turning into soccer.
It's on aggregate now?
Oh, God.
A road touchdown cast for 14.
I would take a best of Sunday.
I would take a best of three.
Super Super Bowl Bowl would be awesome.
I would take a best of three Super Bowl.
Yeah, that would actually rock.
In aggregate, yeah, or in aggregate, that would actually rock.
I just, I don't like an extra football.
I just don't like the idea.
Listen, you might call me too patriotic.
I'll wear that.
Closed-minded.
Yeah, whatever you want to call me.
I think that
the Super Bowl
should be in America.
At least we're not fucking pussy bitches that just suck off Roger Goodell.
I mean, that's, I mean, you know, I literally got arrested in the middle of the year.
Long time ago.
Yeah.
Long time ago.
All right.
What else do we have?
That was good.
Good, good.
I think we almost.
I actually covered everything.
We might have gotten Supreme Debate there.
Yeah, we did.
Feelings could could have gotten hurt.
I think we all got into trouble.
I appreciate Zach.
Zach, Zach having my back there.
I got the first time.
I got one more news story.
Okay.
Before we get into the rest of the show, it's just BYU's new starting quarterback.
Yes.
So they named a true freshman, their starting quarterback.
He wears number 47.
Ew.
Okay.
He better be running people over.
Like,
this better be a Taysom Hill.
Like the 40s?
No, different number.
What?
Never mind.
41.
I don't know if that was the TikTok number.
All right, so this guy's a true freshman.
He's going to wear 47.
I'll say this.
I'm going to hate it, but if he's good, it's going to be awesome.
It's going to be great.
It's not going to be.
As a college quarter.
NFL, it's not going to work.
His name is Bear.
Bear?
B-E-A-R.
His name's Bear Bachmeier.
Wait.
He's Hank's younger brother?
Well,
I'm out.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Why are you being hurt by this guy?
I can't be hurt by this family anymore.
You ruined the setup.
Why?
His name is Bear Bachmeyer.
His older brother is named Tiger Bachmeyer.
Okay.
And then their oldest brother is Hank
Bachmeyer.
Can't do it.
But I was just thinking about the parents.
When they have their firstborn child, they had to be thinking like, we're going to name them like Tiger and Bear and shit.
And then the baby comes out and they're like.
Not this one.
I can't.
This one's a Hank.
I'm sorry I cut you off, but I didn't know.
Obviously, government name.
The last name is triggering to me.
Is Hank Bachmeyer still in college?
I'm sure he is.
He's gonna, I'm going to bet.
I'm gonna bet a game on a Saturday.
He's definitely not.
Turn it on, and they're gonna be like, Hank Bachmeyer drops back to the game.
I think that was too long ago.
I don't think his brother's still in college.
There's also probably a family, like, it's named after.
Tiger is still in college.
You know what I'm saying?
Like,
they probably had to name Henry after, you know, relative,
keep the name in the family.
And then they were just like, fuck it.
I just think they met the first baby and they're like, no, this is probably a soccer fan.
We're going to name him Hank.
And then second one, yeah.
Tiger is now at Stanford, I believe, which is pretty cool.
The most famous guy named Tiger to ever go to Stanford.
I'm checking Hank Pachbunner eligibility.
I think he's really true.
He's in 2024.
Okay, he's done.
I believe so.
He's done.
We're done.
He played 2019 through 2024.
He played a lot of college.
I think Bear, I think he's a true freshman, so he's probably also the youngest starting quarterback in BYU history.
I'm going to give Bear one chance.
Yeah.
I'm going to bet on Bear.
Bad start.
You can't pick out.
You put hard-earned money on a team and you see a quarterback coming out wearing number 47.
You don't like 47?
I like it.
It's a great brand.
Yeah, you're right.
It's on the side of our hats right now.
It's a great brand, great hats.
Terrible number for a quarterback.
By the way, speaking of college football, congratulations to Auburn Tigers.
Oh, that was going to be my.
Oh, sorry.
Yeah.
We can get to it then.
All right.
Well, then let's do it.
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Yeah, no, I got...
I was mad.
Did you get shelled?
You guys were lame.
Okay.
Why?
Why were we lame?
Because you went up looking for walks in slow pitch softball inning.
You can't.
There were...
10 pitches that were like an inch off the plate that you guys were.
You missed them all.
Yeah, that's so lame.
Also,
let's put a poll.
Let's throw strikes.
Is it cool for people to go up looking for walks in the first inning of slow pitch?
I went slow every day.
I wish slong every hit.
I did too.
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Oh, by the way, PFT, that was a fun Monday Night Football game.
It was a very fun Monday night.
I should have said something about that.
No, it was great.
It had pretty much everything I was looking for.
Bill, Jakore, croskey merit i told you guys about him right after we visited ashburn this dude is smooth he's got a great first cut he's fast he's got uh not a lot of wear on his tires because he didn't play last season college football and he changed his name and he changed well his name's bill he goes by bill yeah his mom calls him bill i'm not going to say why because uh involves bill cosby but his name's bill And he's awesome.
You didn't say why.
And I love him.
And he looked awesome last night.
He was a lot of fun to watch.
And then Jaden Daniels is still very, very fast and very, very good at quarterback.
And he needs to learn how to slide, especially in preseason games, because that was scary for me.
But then he went and he redeemed himself because after Bill scored his touchdown, Jaden sprints across the field
because Bill spiked it and got rid of the ball.
Jaden had the presence of mind, grabbed that ball, got it back for his teammate.
Here's your first NFL touchdown.
That's leadership.
Debo looked very fast.
He looked very skinny.
What did you say?
Fast.
Fast.
Fast.
He got skinny through the hole through the crease.
And
Sam Hartman didn't.
No.
Sam Hartman, really good looking guy.
Happy birthday.
Happy birthday.
How did Terry play?
Terry was resting.
How are we at with Terry?
I'm actually more confident now than I was last week.
You were at 110%.
Because I think Jaden Daniels, when he was asked about Terry and he was like, yeah, it's just a matter of time before he comes in the door.
Hearing Jaden say that, that inspired me.
Well, he's been coming in the door.
Well, yeah, he's holding in.
So he isn't coming in the door.
Well, he said he's going to be stepping onto the field.
Got it.
Or on the field, too.
He's going to be stepping in between the lines on the field.
Got it.
All right, I'm glad we cleared that up, Hank.
I think Terry is going to sign my prediction, my official prediction.
I think he's signing today.
Whoa.
I think he's signing on Wednesday.
Do you have a little birdie?
No.
Inside my own brain.
Okay.
The crazy bird inside my own brain is telling me he's going to sign today.
Remember when you said you were going to go sign him when we went to Commander's Camp?
He wasn't there that day.
Yeah, so you can't call another signing?
You can't just
say, say that you're going to call his signing.
I didn't call the signing then.
I said I would
personally.
I would personally sign him, but he wasn't there.
I thought he was holding in.
He wasn't at camp that day.
He was getting treatment on his ankle.
Oh.
That makes sense.
His ankle is probably really hurt.
It's a bad ankle.
That's why he hasn't practiced.
Yeah, yeah.
He's still in the pup, right?
No, he just got off the pup, right?
Just got deactivated from the pup.
Got it.
So his ankle's fine now?
Yep.
Got it.
Ankle's good.
He will be signing.
My prediction is today.
But it could not be today, but I'm pretty sure it's today.
Okay.
Seems like you got a birdie.
I literally have no birdie.
There's no birdie involved in this.
My only birdie is Jaden Daniels sounding like he was happy about Terry.
Context clues.
But that's a big birdie for me.
That's a big, that's a huge birdie.
Jaden Daniels is like what he says.
My life and happiness fluctuates depending on Jaden Daniels' mood
at any given time.
What about when Jaden Daniels takes like a 15-yard sack and he still wakes up or stands up smiling?
Like he's always happy.
Yeah, he leads the league and smiles.
So
sometimes bad things happen to Jaden Daniels and he still seems happy.
Okay.
It's a good quality to have.
No, I'm saying that, but if you're basing.
It's like a deflection.
Terry McClaurin should have signed every day.
Because Jaden Daniels always,
like, I feel like Jaden Daniels' happiness does not dictate things that are going on around.
I feel like you're going to feel really stupid if I'm right.
Well, I, and we, I've been on your side.
I think Terry McLaurin will sign with the, with the Washington Commanders.
I think he will.
Um, and no, I, there's no birdie.
I have no inside information.
This is mostly me just wish casting and hoping against hope that that is going to get done because I don't want to think about going to the season without Terry because that makes me very sad.
But what would make me very happy is if he signed today and then I'd be happy and then I wouldn't have to hear Max.
So that's my, that's, that is literally why I'm predicting that he's going to sign today.
I like that.
I like that.
All right, Hank, your hot seat, cool draw.
My hot seat is LeBron James.
Oh.
It's been in the offseason.
You know, he's old.
He probably should be taking more time to get ready and prepared and get his body ready.
And he's just spent the whole summer golfing.
Wow.
He's just not locked in.
He's not focused on
the task at hand.
Wow.
Well, I think it's important.
I think it's like something, you know, that's something for when you're retired, but, you know, in the summer, in the offseason, there is no offseason in his industry.
What about ours?
There is no offseason in LeBron's industry.
So far in this podcast,
you've become
a Roger Goodell dick sucker who likes to do it.
I never once said the word Roger Goodell.
You brought him up.
And those are also two words.
Yeah, and you just did.
Oh, I never said his name before that.
Okay.
Never said it.
Never said it.
Is he getting better?
A little bit.
I don't know.
I haven't seen him post a score.
Something to do.
Are you talking about Goodell?
No.
Oh.
LeBron.
You have to clarify when you're talking about anyone, if it's Goodell or LeBron.
Okay.
Your two favorite people.
LeBron screams, put me down as a par guy, though.
Oh,
we're really call shaming.
Oh, no.
Okay.
And then your cool throne?
My cool throne is Justin Herbert.
Here there's a handicap.
I started limping.
Yeah.
My cool throne is It's Justin Herbert.
Madison Beer.
Do you guys know who that is?
Yeah.
He was on set, like, holding hands with her at a music video shoot.
That's QB1 activity.
I agree.
I think this is actually Justin Herbert's breakout season.
Yeah.
I like it.
Like getting the hot girlfriend.
He's now.
So what's tell me about Madison Beer?
Because aside from having a great name, is she a talented author?
Literally my college.
Yeah, no, literally.
Experience.
It literally translates to...
That's what I did, went to college for.
It literally means spotted cow yeah
I would say uh her her
player comp would be Megan Fox
oh that's a good player comp yeah but but Madison Beer is an artiste she is a yeah musical artiste twitch artiste what's that uh yes well uh twitch artiste musical artiste uh socialite artiste kind of situation as well yeah she rolls out if that's photo shoot I'm gonna go I'm just gonna go rapid reaction image search Madison Beer okay
yeah
yeah
Guy loves beer.
Yep.
Taylor's all the time.
Yep.
So good for Justin Herbert.
Looks like a very nice lady.
Good for him.
Good for him.
So he's probably going to be happy.
Yeah.
Maybe a little tired.
Maybe his
maybe his wrist will be a little sore.
No.
No, his wrist will be sore.
His wrist will be fine.
His wrist will be okay?
Yeah.
I guess probably less, yeah, less sore than normal.
Yeah, it's when you break up, that's when you're like, this guy.
His fingers might be sore.
I are fingers sore.
Tongue.
He might not be able to call out the plays yeah could be could have a problem yeah uh okay good hot seat cool throw on
you what are you great job Hank
my hot seat today is going to be time
putting time on the hot seat Max had a tough time with time on Monday as part of my take and it might be a Philly thing yeah because John Kruk during the Phillies broadcast last night recurring guest of the show, we love John Cruck, he brought up an interesting point that broke a lot of people's brains.
He asked the question: How did the person who invented the clock know what time it was?
No fucking idea.
No idea.
He just,
that guy just said what time it was, and we just all go off that now.
This shit is like thinking about
space and the universe.
Hank looks confused.
Is the answer not the sun?
Yeah, but what
does the sun tell you?
Oh, it's overhead, so it's noon.
Why did he decide 12?
Because he realized it took 12 hours or 24 hours to come back up.
Yeah, but how did he know
in that moment, how did he know, oh, it's 9.30 right now?
Yeah, how did he know it was 24 hours when he didn't know time?
Or how long an hour was.
Or how long an hour was.
I get it.
I know, I get it.
There you go.
I'm done.
There we go.
Yeah, I'm checked out.
Tapping in.
See?
See how it happens?
Yeah.
Pretty crazy.
Just a couple follow-ups.
My theory is that it was a guy that was in England, and they think
it revolves around them.
And so the guy guy in England was like, I'm going to declare that now is 9 a.m.
and the rest of the world has to abide by my declaration because I'm British, that it's 9 a.m.
and now everyone has to follow that.
Yeah, and if they ever decide to
fuck spills.
If they ever have to decide to do a Super Bowl here,
everyone in America will have to watch it at noon.
Yep.
So it's just minor spill.
That's the story of the clock.
Minor spill.
That's the story of the clock.
He also said on the broadcast, if he ever becomes vegan, he wants to be punched directly in the face.
Oh, did he?
John Croc is
the best.
He's the best.
We need more John Crux and less Henry Lockwoods.
Agreed.
Make fathers.
America great again with raise your sons to become John Crux.
Not a Henry Lockwood.
And then my cool throne was Auburn football.
Congratulations to Auburn Football.
Great work, memes.
Auburn football run.
They won
four
national championships today.
Hold on, hold on.
This is, these are not, these are just moving it around.
What is this?
What are these?
We just made it wetter
a lot more of the area.
You're doing moist towle let?
Lynn White, I had an apology trying to see the work.
Oh, okay.
Auburn football.
They won four national titles today.
Okay.
World record.
They've won four before the season started.
So they updated their official national titles.
They added a championship in 1910 when they probably played against like Alabama Community Catholic College.
Yeah, yeah.
1914 when the world was at war.
1958, and then most notably, they added 2004.
They're claiming a national championship for 2004.
That, I believe, was the Jason Campbell,
Cadillac Williams, Ronnie Brown Auburn Tigers team.
They finished the season undefeated, but they didn't get invited to the national championship game.
So they just said, fuck it, we're national championship.
I think they they beat Virginia Tech that year, if I remember.
So in 1914, Big T looked this up.
In 1914, the Tigers finished second place in the Southern Athletic Association.
They didn't even finish in first place in their own conference.
They're claiming that as a title.
In 1958, Auburn finished second in the SEC.
Undefeated LSU won the national championship, but Auburn is claiming it, even though they went 9-0-1 and tied against Georgia
Okay.
And LSU won all their games.
Okay.
But this is kind of the beauty of college sports, that
you can just claim whatever you want if you haven't won anything in a while.
That's the next best thing.
Remember when AM put up all those national championships on the side of their stadium?
You can just say whatever you want.
Yeah, you can just claim them.
UCF did that for a while.
So, yeah, congratulations to the Auburn Tigers.
And also, current Auburn Tigers are going to do something that I don't know if it's ever been done.
So they have three different quarterbacks going into week week one, which that's probably been done.
Hugh Freeze was asked about the possibility of playing all three against Baylor.
He said yes
to that question.
I love that.
And then they also have three different play callers.
So they have nine different combinations.
They're play caller QB.
This is how they get ahead of the Connor Stallions of the world.
Yeah.
What is it?
Three?
What's the thing?
Three times two.
Three times three.
Yeah.
No, what do you think?
So nine times three, 20
point.
The
permutation?
Three.
I think they have 27 different possibilities of play callers.
Yeah.
I might have screwed you up.
No, no, nine.
I thought it was three times three times three.
Pendance?
No, because that's three times three.
There's only three play callers, three QBs.
We're not a math podcast.
No, we're not.
Yeah, you're right.
We're not a math podcast.
You're right.
You're right.
When you're right, but
I think it's permutations.
When you just...
What?
Factorial.
There you go, Shane.
Shane.
Shane from way downtown.
Shane.
Shane from the back of the the bus.
Where's
Backdoor Jack?
Yeah, where's Backdoor Jack?
No, it's Jack from the back.
Jack from the back.
Where's Jack from the back?
Where's a great name?
Where's Jack from the back?
We know our Jack from the back.
Is he in the back?
No, he's in the back.
Is he coming from the back right now?
All right.
I thought his name should have been Wipe from the Back because his name's Wiper.
Yeah.
Would have been better.
Yeah.
All right.
My hot seats is
anyone who is on Tommy Pham's shit list because he's in it again.
Tommy Pham bat-flipped a walk the other night.
Okay.
Tommy Pham is a badass.
He obviously fights everyone.
Remember, what was it?
I think it was last year he did a press conference.
It was last year or the year before, where I'll play it real quick.
This was him talking about why he does all the fighting in the offseason.
You know, so I'll never start anything, but I'll be prepared to finish it.
There's a reason why, you know, I do all kinds of fighting in the offseason because I'm prepared to fuck somebody up.
So you can take it as what it is yeah that's tommy fam tommy fam also uh looking for it remember tommy fam's been stabbed twice uh in his life i think it was one time was in 2020 at a uh outside of a strip club and the other time was actually by his uh
stepfather Oh my god.
Because if you read Tommy Pham's Wikipedia, I believe it says that when his mom remarried when he was five, he never got along with his stepfather.
They were always at odds.
And then he ended up stabbing him when he was, his stepfather stabbed Tommy Pham in a fight.
Yikes.
That's chill.
Yeah, Tommy Pham is a badass, but he's mad again.
Okay.
He's ready to go after it.
I do not want any problems with Tommy Pham.
No smoke.
No smoke.
My cool throne is Bowling Green football because they have an official mascot, Pudge the Cat.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Pudge the Cat also has a jersey.
Bowling Green has Pudge the Cat in their locker room.
This is worth, I mean, these are vibes.
This is a vibes thing.
It is a good.
If you're going to
think about live mascot cats, this has got to be right up there with Mike the Tiger.
Yeah.
He's, Pudge the Cat just sleeps in a locker, and he's, he's like kind of a fat cat.
What kind of cat is that?
He looks like
it's not Siamese, but it kind of
looks like that.
Okay.
Oh,
whatever that is.
That's great.
I'm not a big cat.
Kind of looks like it's having an allergic reaction to something.
Yeah.
Hey, what's the I got a question because it's just on this Pudge the Cat video.
What's the genesis of the Nothing Beats a Jet 2 holiday?
It's just a TikTok sound.
Oh, it's just a TikTok sound?
Yeah, just a TikTok sound.
It's from Levant.
It's a commercial.
It's a meme.
It's a meme.
People will show.
Nothing they do.
I think it started as a shitty vacation.
Someone would play that sound.
Got it.
Something insane.
Maybe if you see a homeless person outside your hotel,
Nothing Beats a Jet 2 holiday.
Got it.
I think I also on my cool throne is two-lane football because they had 880 meatballs during fall camp love that that's awesome the fact that they tracked well like the uncrustables yeah yeah 10 880 meatballs max that should be your team i know i like that i got tagged in that a million times hell yes all right zach uh so uh my hot seat uh my hot seat today uh me along with uh other buccaneers fans we've talked about this uh before on the show uh so desmond watson is running at time to lose the weight i don't know if you guys saw the video from today where he's playing with
the practice equipment.
It's like kind of shadow boxing on the sideline.
Final rosters, I think, for 53 man rosters are August 26th.
He can join, I think it's
he can join a word.
I'm missing the word.
Practice squad.
Reserve list for 21 days to try to get the weight off.
It won't take a roster spot, but they don't have to pay him.
What was he?
Where was he drafted?
What round?
Undrafted.
I think he was undrafted.
Undrafted.
My question is:
Why was he able to play at Florida, but not at Tampa?
And also, what is the Bucs plan?
Like, why wouldn't you, like, he's fat, dude's fat, he's not going to lose weight.
Why wouldn't you at least see what he has?
Yeah.
I think playing football is a good way to lose the weight.
So I don't know why he's just playing with the equipment on the sideline.
It was a tough video to see.
And I just want to see if he can get the weight off because now I'm invested.
Yeah, I'm quite a while for the guy.
I am.
But he was playing at Florida, right?
He was a consistent football player there.
What about that did they see at the NFL level and they're like, we're not even going to let him practice.
Maybe it's like an insurance thing or like a liability.
Like if you're, if the doctors say we really can't clear you, then they can't let him play.
Yeah.
It's weird.
Okay.
So I would have him in the hot seat.
Yeah.
Hopefully he can get it off.
Yeah.
We're rooting for him.
Quick, cool throne is,
you guys remember the video game Fortnite.
Everyone let it go, Fortnite.
Kaiser and I got an icon skin, which is themselves in the game.
And he was able to launch that icon skin on the sphere in Las Vegas.
Whoa, wow, which I thought was pretty awesome.
That is pretty cool.
That's awesome.
Hey, you guys want to feel old, real quick?
I just did.
Yeah, well, I did that, but the Cassianos home run was five years ago.
Oh, no.
Isn't that crazy?
That is wild.
When I saw that, I was like, what?
Five years ago today?
It was five years ago yesterday.
Wow.
Memes got to the airport this morning.
He just looks at me and goes, Happy Tom Brennan Midday for all who celebrate.
Oh, so it's today.
it's today yesterday but today
we're is it today today's wedding today right now as we're sitting here uh yes it's today oh well happy holidays happy holidays
yeah we should have celebrated we should have gotten you a cake that just said that word
no just get him a cake shaped like a stanley cup
oh man uh okay Let's get to our Mount Rush war.
We got our Mount Rush war.
We're going to do the Mount Rushmore of what is it again?
Things that make your friend's house cool.
Friends house cool.
Hank really liked it.
He liked it.
Yeah.
25 seconds.
Before we do that, though, Mountain Dew.
We're at Camp Barstool.
We love Camp Barstool.
Thank you to Mountain Dew for getting us out here.
We played softball today.
We played Jerry's Eggs.
Jerry O'Connell is hosting Camp Barstool this year.
It's been wild.
Me and PFT had a tennis match that was basically Wimbledon 2.0.
Really?
It was Center Alcatraz.
How were you guys serving?
My serve was dialed in at the start.
It fell off a little bit at the end.
Hank was making me run.
Hank would hit every shot.
He would hit back to me.
He would say, drop shot.
And then it would land like 30 feet back on the court.
Every shot was a drop shot for him, but it was a battle.
I love that.
So, yeah.
And guess what goes great with playing tennis being at summer camp?
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Mount Rushmore.
Who's up first?
Is it Max and memes?
And then we're second?
We're up.
We got five left.
Five.
Or me and PFT are cuffed.
Well, we're two back
of second place.
No one's cuffed at all.
That's one.
That's a
we could tie second place after this episode.
Yeah, right.
So far for the first time.
It's between us two.
It's between you guys and us.
You got to finish strong.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like, if Big Cat and Zach go go last every time, yeah, we're screwed with a chance.
Be a real shame.
Okay.
Who's up?
We're up.
We are going to go with.
How should we?
We'll just say with
the best snacks.
The best snacks.
Good snack house?
Best snacks.
What would you define as a good snack house?
Mountain Dew, for sure.
Doritos was a big one.
Zebra cakes.
Yeah.
Tasty cakes for the people in Philly.
Yeah.
Dogger,
Oh, the big barrel cheese balls.
What are the oatmeal pies?
Yeah, cream pie.
Cream pie on the left.
I love a cream pie.
Okay.
Everyone knew the house that had the good cereals.
Yeah,
and that was always a great house to go.
When you walk into the camera, you kind of had to sneak in to get them sometimes.
They had the snacks there, but you had to be a little bit.
Oh, they usually had good breakfast cereal, like sugary breakfast cereal that you weren't allowed to have.
Yep.
Chocolate milk.
Okay.
All right.
Well, that was R1-1 as well.
So we will go with
number six.
We can have six.
Yeah.
The kid
who had
the newest video games.
Video game console.
Newest video game console.
I just remember like when my friend got N64 and it was just like lived at his house.
It was the best.
Because
if you weren't allowed to get video games as a kid, you always had to know someone who had them, and they got to play them all the time.
Yep.
And they usually had like two or three consoles.
Question: Does this still happen, though?
I feel like everybody just has every game now.
No.
I like to even have video games in my house, so I just wouldn't.
I didn't need any of my neighbors had video games.
Yeah, another
lived there, which is I still think it happens if you're like moved by my parents, because I was never home.
That was just a question.
Yeah, no, like if you're like, not a bad call.
My kids don't have video games yet, but I think some of their friends do.
I also think a good iteration of what is like
if your parents wouldn't let you play the super violent games and your friends.
That was big for me.
There were games that I wasn't allowed to play.
How about when you go over to your friend's house, and since you're not there all the time, all you want to do is play their awesome video game and they're sick of their video game.
Or they give you the bad controller.
Yeah.
The bad joystick on N64 was the worst.
I remember going over to a friend's house being like, let's play GoldenEye.
And him being like, dude, I'm so sick of that game.
He's like, how can you be sick of it we never play it he's like dude i play it every day yeah yeah like i'm i don't want to play this anymore like but dude let me play yeah okay that's why i'm here
you guys have two picks hank's got the ball does that sound um
we're just gonna
what do they call it eye formation run the ball we're gonna go with a pool okay yeah i'm just hoping that was right pool house is great
and in that same vein we're gonna go with a trampoline yep okay trampoline picks hang pick good picks good picks, good picks, okay.
Um,
I did have a trampoline growing up, and
we had
my dad built like a basketball hoop, but hung it on a tree, so it was like harder to dunk.
So it was like we would, we were, we were playing like intense, intense trampoline basketball games.
That's why I often said I've never, I never made it to the NBA.
Uh, what are we doing here, Zach?
Spent all my money.
What do you think about 17 or 19?
I like 17.
I think we maybe go
three here?
Three is good.
What about five?
Go three and then come back for the 17?
Five.
Okay.
Yeah, because it probably was.
There's a good chance to get it.
We could take four awesome snacks.
What about two, Zach?
That was cool.
Can't do it.
So, yeah, that's also
seven.
Okay,
the friend's house who
you can watch R-rated movies and TV shows.
Yep.
yeah that was a good one awesome yeah also usually the friend that had cinemax yep and also normally was the friend that later in life their parents let them let them drink you know oh yeah oh yeah i would say uh that's responsible for first boob for a lot of people
absolutely absolutely okay zach we play a game on the show first boob recurring segment i i don't remember the movie but i know it was who's the actor from uh
We're talking cinema boob, right?
Yeah, yeah.
Okay, yeah.
So Nicholas Cage is in a movie, and he's celebrating
St.
Patrick's Day, and I don't know what the movie's called, but Force Come.
I don't think it was either for a second, but there was definitely...
Saving Prev Ryan.
No.
No.
No.
Okay.
It's not a National Treasure movie, but it isn't.
I know Nicholas Cage is in it, and he's looking at the rack.
And the rack is looking at the movie.
Passionate.
John Q.
i'm not going to be able to know the name of it okay apocalypto apocalypse now a score to settle godfather national treasure godfather two bad lieutenant godfather three
i i don't think i'll know the movie if we get wizard of oz no way okay we're out of movies all right you guys have two
uh okay we are gonna go with a
cool basement
Good one.
Like, you had
a basement.
Yeah, yeah, we had that.
Finished basement.
And a
big big backyard for Wiffleball.
Okay, you know what's great about the basement?
Because we had this too, I was hoping it would get back to us, but uh, the parents not being able to hear you exactly,
it was like you had your own apartment, yeah, and it was completely separate from
like all adults.
You stay up the latest in that basement, yeah,
Zach.
Should we pull the trigger on 17?
Could also go five.
Five
five, you five is good.
I like five.
I loved five as a kid
Very young in life, yes.
Yeah.
Because I didn't, yeah.
I'm down for five.
Okay.
The kid who had all the toy guns.
I had that.
I had that
guns.
Wasn't allowed guns in my house.
I wasn't allowed guns in my house.
But I had a friend who allowed all the guns, and it was fucking awesome.
You go over there.
You just say you want to play guns?
Yeah, just nerf.
Cab guns, nerf guns, paintball guns, whatever the fuck you want.
This has been a great.
I think every single thing that's been said has been on my list, and I feel like it's
everything has been on everybody's list.
Yeah.
yeah, it's been good, good, good picking.
Okay, all right, we are going to go with two, right?
Yep.
We're going to go tell them, Hank,
keep it simple again, basketball hoop.
Okay, good, good pick, and we're going to go.
Well, yeah, we can tell you, Max, you don't ball up.
I just think that most.
Okay.
And then
a lot of our good ones have been taken, so we're going to go
hot sister.
Okay.
Hot sister is great.
Hot sister is awesome, especially if she's like a year or two older because then she's got hot sister friends.
And then also maybe she can buy you cigarettes.
Yes.
Yeah, like three years older.
Three or four because I don't want to say.
Yeah.
It's too close.
Hot sister is a great pick.
Yeah.
And you're never going to sleep with hot sister.
You're never going to fool around, but it's fun to think about.
Yeah.
Okay.
Our last pick.
We're going to go with the friend with divorced parents because there's just no rules.
And usually they get everything.
And you could go back and forth to either house.
And when you get a little older, that is definitely the party house.
We had divorced dad on the list.
Yeah, divorced parents because, like, the mom also, like, she got her hands full
working.
There's just no rules.
The dad, like, sometimes just wants to hang out.
Yeah, there's just no rules.
Like, everyone knows that the divorce parents' house was the house that you get to party at because one parent to keep control of everything is a lot.
Two Christmases.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It usually has awesome toys.
Yeah.
And like the best shit because they're both parents trying trying to win the love.
Yep.
Okay.
Uh-oh.
Me falls.
So we can't say hot mom.
You can.
All right.
That was going to be our pick is hot mom.
Okay.
Hot sister, I think, is better, but hot mom.
Do you think hot sister?
Hot mom's good?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean,
that was the first time that like my entire board was full, was taken.
Yeah.
No, it was good, good picks all around.
We had
some honorable mentions,
go-karts, kind of tough.
Yeah, power wheels,
dirt bikes, nice couches, like the reclining couches.
Bunk beds.
Bunk beds were cool.
I had a very niche one.
Yeah.
But when their parents smoke, so that you can blame that if your parents say that you smell like smoke when you come back, but actually you're just smoking.
Yep.
Ping pong table for beer pong.
But both.
Like as a kid, and then when you get older, it's like
the ping pong table is great because you know the basement has room for beer pong.
One that's easy to sneak out of.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
That's a big one.
A little later in life, but did you guys have any friends whose dad had a keg rator in the in the garage?
Yep.
Because that's just,
you can't keep track of how much beer's in there.
No.
So it's just free beer.
It's awesome.
Or just like the dad liquor cabinet.
The dad who had a shitload of like alcohol on deck where it's like, you can take stuff from this house because they're they're not going to be able to see it.
Yeah.
Tree house.
Yep.
I never really fucked up.
I never saw a tree.
I never really went into the big TV thing.
I never really, but I would love one.
Like when I was watching the sand lot, I was like, holy shit, a tree house was so fucking my aunt built like a self-contained bedroom in a tree that was like insulated, had air conditioning, electricity.
That was always awesome.
Hot tub.
Hot tub's good.
Really, the house that that you could just do whatever you wanted.
Yeah, that was, yeah.
Just absent parents.
Maybe like a chill room situation.
Theater room.
Or chill parents, but not too chill.
No, because you don't want them so chill that they're like also like getting fucked up with you.
That's weird.
No, not with you, but like.
Yeah, yeah, but like that's the thing.
Like they do the like the like
pretend to be oblivious.
Right, right.
What's up, guys?
Oh, like coming in.
But I think there is a too chill parent that like wants to have going to the basement and you're like,
teenage kids, and it's, that's weird.
Yeah, that's weird.
Yeah, really weird.
All right.
That was a good Mount Rushmore.
Great Rushmore.
Good Mount Rushmore.
Fantastic one.
Like our list.
Everyone's got a strong list.
Okay.
Let's get to our interview.
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okay we now welcome on a very very very special guest friend of ours first time on the show It is Adam Friedland from the Adam Friedland Show.
It's a dream, boys.
Yeah, you're here.
You've done the car wash.
I just went through the whole junket today.
Yeah, so how, I mean, how's it going?
The Adam Friedland show is awesome.
Thank you, guys.
Thank you.
Yeah.
It's good.
It's going well.
It's taking some weird twists and turns, it feels like, but it feels like you've landed at a.
I don't know how it's.
It's a sort of a joke.
Right.
Right.
You guys were doing it as like almost a satire of regular stand-up.
To make like the least popular guy from a podcast for ugly men into an intellectual style public public intellectual in the vein of Dick Cabot.
I think that was like, but then, yeah, eventually,
credit to Nick.
I mean, Nick, Nick was the one who
pushed the idea because after Sav left, I was like, Nikki, we have a brand.
Let's just keep doing Come Town.
He's like, no, you got to listen to me on this one.
Yeah, he was like,
I guess so.
I mean, like, history kind of bends to Nick Mullen's will.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But, yeah, credit to him.
I don't know.
I'm the kind of the, I don't, I couldn't really say how it happened.
I do think it was the first time I tried at something.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I was a very lazy guy for a long time.
I was like, you know, I was the third Mike on a come podcast.
But that was also the beauty of Come Town is you guys, you guys basically always made it.
I mean, even doing like alarms to be like, all right, we've gone an hour.
We're done now.
And I've, you know, talking to Stav, like, you had a podcast that made so much money and it still was tough to be like, hey, can we record this one?
No, no, no.
We would argue about what we're having for lunch.
We didn't think it was good.
We would be like, that sucked.
This sucks.
I literally didn't know it was funny.
That was some of the funniest parts, though.
Like, when you guys are like, this podcast sucked.
Yeah, we're like,
sucks.
Wait, was there a moment, though, when you realized, like, oh, this is funny?
Like, recently, in the last couple of years, I've heard on like my YouTube algorithm, I get like compilations, and I'm like, that was amazing.
Yeah.
I was like, that was incredible.
I mean, like, they were like, Nick was on, he was a genius, he was the funniest guy of all time.
Yeah, no, I mean, it was like, it was so funny.
I, I literally, it made us miserable.
I, we had no idea.
That's a great feeling, though, because I have the reverse where I see like a tweet from like six months ago.
I'm like, that was the dumbest thing ever.
So, you have the opposite of that, where you're like, holy shit, that was incredible.
What we did.
Well, yeah, I mean, it's, I think it's like, uh, also, like, when you're doing something that's like
irony is like, you,
it's like you kind of protect your feelings a little bit.
Where it's like, if it sucks, it's like, well, fucking, we were trying.
Right.
Yeah, like, fuck you.
Yeah, it's your fault for listening, you fucking losers.
And then, but, like, now that, like, the new show is like so work intensive, and I'm doing it like seven days a week.
It's kind of the first time I've ever tried in my life.
You just older at 35.
It's like, if you're trying as hard as you can, and then someone says, you suck, it really hurts your feelings.
Yeah.
Like, I know, like, it's like a little bit like if you're like, you made it to the NBA, if you're like on the end of a bench in the NBA, and like, you know, the phenomenon of sports fans, like, we're fat, we're fucking losers.
We're watching and we're like, that guy's a, that guy's a fucking loser.
Like, and he's like, fucking top-level athlete.
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, it must be so annoying for them.
But like, yeah, now if you try and you're really making yourself putting yourself out there, it's scary.
But it seems like it's been going well.
It seems like it's it's going good i feel like i i talked to a lot of people who were fans of the cometown podcast that are now massive fans of your show but with come town there's like there's a huge audience out there for it who's who's like the most surprising guy that you found out was a comeboy um
i i don't know you find out sometimes yeah uh i mean i think like i don't know i i think reason
like there are famous people i guess that liked it yeah it's always a surprise um
but yeah it's it's cool when you find out that people were listening to it.
I don't know.
I'm trying to think of who, or if it's lame to say people's names.
I think probably Bill Clinton.
I don't know if that's
Hillary Clinton.
Yeah.
He didn't think you were doing irony, though.
No.
Yeah, he took it literally.
He took it very seriously.
Yeah, yeah.
The new show is awesome.
I love it.
I've watched, I think, almost every episode of it.
And when it came out, I feel like Nick was, he filled a very valuable role that maybe didn't always translate on camera all the time, which was like, he was letting you know that you can do it.
Yeah.
He was gassing you up.
He was like, keep going with this.
This is funny.
Because there would be times in interviews, you want to pull the plug on whatever angle you were taking.
He was like, no, keep going.
This is good.
And it ended up being great.
Yeah, I did.
Well,
I think I didn't know how to do interviews, right?
And the only reference from doing stand-up you have to interacting
is like, I guess, crowd work where you're like, you fuck what you what do you do for a living they're like i'm a fucking you know like uh speech pathologist for kids with you know disabilities and you're like you're fucking pedophile
laughs see it works right out it's it's funny it's funny yeah yeah but it's like naturally like mean so like um so when i started the interviews like i think nick actually gave me the best advice which was like obviously couched in like i thought it was an insult right but he's like why you take this fucking affect when you're doing the interviews i was like oh go ahead criticize me again.
He's like, no, you're like a nice guy and you make people feel good to be around.
That's why I encouraged you to do this.
And he's like,
I wouldn't, I don't have that quality.
Yeah.
And so I had to like figure out like, what, what about me is like, it
could translate over to this.
And I kind of like, I googled journalism, literally.
I read the Wikipedia page for journalism.
And then I'm fucking,
and then I, what?
I, uh, then I tried why.
I was like, who's good at interviews?
And so then I I watched,
I was like,
maybe Joe Rogan.
I watched.
And then what he does is like the guest always feels like they're crushing.
So he'll have Bernie on one week and then he'll have like a guy that says the Holocaust didn't happen the next week.
But both times he's like, that's fucking trippy.
But like when naturally, if you feel like you're convincing the host, you're going to get more and more and more.
I don't want to roll here.
He's very agreeable, right?
And so for me, it's like, I can't do it with my fucking like sarcastic, dumb, Jewish, like, oh, yeah, like, I can't do it.
Like, so, and then I was like, who else is good?
And then I watched, I've actually watched a lot of Stern.
I think that that's, yeah, that's, I grew up listening to a lot of Stern and kind of what he did the first like 90 seconds to two minutes, like he, he was like, he would become your best friend.
Right.
He was like, you're a huge star.
Everyone wants a piece of you.
You're incredible.
And like, he'd flatter and he'd like, and then he'd be able to get anything you wanted.
And again, first time he fingered a check.
Yeah.
Oh, did you do her?
Yeah.
I've been going back through and watching a bunch.
He always talks about doing girls.
Yeah, I would do her.
Yeah.
I just watched the
Miss Butterface competition.
Oh, yeah, it's been going viral.
It was been going viral on Twitter, and I was like, I forgot about that one.
Yeah.
And I watched the full one.
I was like, it's so mean.
So mean.
When Gary insults a woman, there's something that's so repulsive about it.
When Baba Bowie thinks that he could tell, yeah, I wish your body was a little bit tighter, sweet.
It's like, Gary, you look disgusted.
You're one of the ugliest men I've ever seen in my entire life.
Just, yeah, we, it used to, we used to, we used to have a great country, folks.
We lived in a great country, folks, before these vaccines and these goddamn cancel, whatever.
No, um, no, but I realized that kind of like the way I would had to find a way to ingratiate is just to like kind of self-deprecate, I think.
Yeah, which is like that comes naturally to me, and I've been doing that my whole life.
So, I'm like, you know, if I have a guest and I'm like, listen,
I crap my pants on a podcast called Come Town.
You can kind of drop your guard a little bit and then
kind of then have a more interesting conversation.
I also think the set that you created is like a big piece of it that's very underrated.
It's like a public affairs.
Right.
It was intentional.
It's almost like Kramer when he when he bought was the Merv Griffin.
Merv Griffin.
Yeah.
Like it's it looks ridiculous in what I don't know what the whole room looks like, but I assume it's just a regular small room in New York City.
No, it's pretty big.
I mean, it's like an office space and like, yeah.
But when you sit on it, there's got to be a little bit of like it's ridiculous.
Almost like we're doing like a make-believe that would get someone a little bit more comfortable.
Like, this can't be that serious.
I remember that we were doing, like, we would do the podcast too.
Like, when Nick, Nick, and I were like doing it together, Nick, Nick's working on other stuff right now.
And so, um, so Nick and I would still do the podcast to, like, kind of pay for it.
And I guess the new, now that, like, the new chapter, the Adam Free Lunch, I was like, we were sick of fucking podcasts.
It was like nine years of this shit.
And I've like demeaned and humiliated myself for years.
I was like, I want to try something, and I wanted to be like a little bit more sincere and high effort and like kind of like challenge myself to do something good.
And so, but like, so then I was like, I got to make the monetize kind of the talk show.
But Nick and I would still do the podcast there.
And I think, like, there's a, I think it's, there's a clip of it somewhere online.
The two of us were like, a girl walked in, like a woman
who needed a bathroom key and walked in on us, like
sitting on this set, yeah?
And like, there were no camera operators, we were alone in a room.
She's like, What is this?
Like, a talk show?
We're like, it's like a talk show.
Yeah,
we just looked at two mentally ill people.
She's like, Yeah, the mics weren't even plugged in, or something.
Like, yeah, we're like, Yeah, there were just two men sitting
in a facsimile of the Dick Cabot show set from the 1970s.
Yeah.
Just playing make-believe, like, in this room.
But yeah, I mean, it's, it's cool.
I mean, like, it's become a real thing and like we're booking you know the it's easier to i think you guys probably understand this too i mean you guys have a huge show so maybe you guys didn't experience this as much but like for my purposes like trump doing i think during the last election doing like rogan and theo and stuff like that it kind of legitimized a platform yeah so like booking people to do the internet three years ago was like a sell
and i think now it's like uh there's like a it makes sense to people as like publicists and like It's very normalized.
And it's also there's going to be the clips and everything that comes out of your show is going to be seen by more people
like Jimmy Kimmel.
So
when do you, well, I actually have a question about Nick.
So he left.
He's working on other stuff.
Were you worried when he left?
Because that was kind of
it always felt like Cometown happened.
Come Town was incredible.
Then you guys went right into the Adam Friedland show.
So it's like, oh, this is kind of still Cometown.
It's like, you know, the basis died.
But we're still watching.
And they're doing this weird thing.
They publicly claim claim they're going to make a television show and they have no idea how to make a television show.
I think it was pretty interesting kind of in that area.
Yeah, band going basically like, oh, this is their disco era.
But we didn't know.
Yeah.
Like, we're literally, we were like, how does a camera?
What's a camera?
Yeah.
But now that Nick leaves.
What wires do you need?
Yeah.
Did you feel a little when he said that he was going to leave?
We're like, oh shit, now this is kind of the end of a chapter and I'm losing
him.
I think it was like, you know, we're adults.
Yeah.
You know, like, he's like, um, you know, like, this is, I found this thing, the talk show, and like, he was getting sick of doing podcasting.
Both of us were getting sick of doing the podcast, we were both like, fuck this.
And it was like, the nice thing is that, like, you know,
now we've, I mean, we've like, we're, we, you know, we're chill, we were very young men starting
starting the podcast.
We didn't, we needed it, we didn't know you could make money from a podcast, and then now we're like middle-aged men, and I kind of was like, for the first time, I was like, yeah, I want to like,
you know, I want to, I want to put it all on my shoulders.
And if I fuck up,
it's on me.
If I day good, it's on me.
I mean, it's a good feeling.
Yeah.
Have there been like TV networks that have reached out to you to say, why don't you come off the internet?
Why don't you come to us?
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
Who?
I mean, like nation states.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I was going to say, when are you going to become an industry plan?
I know they're going to try to get you to do that.
Israel's been like hitting me up non-stop, but I don't know.
It's a little dicey these days.
Yeah.
That's Saudi money.
Well, and also, you don't want to get the Nelk Boys sloppy seconds.
I want to get, yeah, well, I want to, I want to get Saudi, yeah, I want to get the uh, get the live golf kind of deal going.
Yeah, I want to do a podcast from Fight Island for like three guys
where he like three shakes.
That's bullshit because it's not an island, you know, it's not an island, right?
It wasn't an island, no, they lie, they lied about they lied, it's a beach, yeah.
It's a fight beach, yeah, fight beach.
Yo, fuck off.
It was fighting.
Did you guys watch this weekend?
We were at the, yeah, you watched
My Countryman.
Oh, that's true.
With DDP.
Oh, yeah, yeah, South Africa.
We got South Africa.
Manhandle.
Just an ass kick.
It was just like a.
He just got.
He just got wrestled.
It was just hugging.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It was like...
Dragged around.
He got his asshole knee.
It did seem like at the end, like, maybe the most miraculous.
It did seem like maybe.
I was like, I kept saying to my boy, I was like, maybe, like, this guy, but he's like, you know, this guy is
the mental fortitude of the people that did the apartheid.
I mean, this guy's, this guy's gonna, this guy's like, he doesn't have quit, you know?
Yeah.
No, but yeah.
He came in.
He was a great guy.
We interviewed him last year.
He seems like a great guy.
He's doing it for African, dude.
Yeah.
He's doing it for
the African king.
Wait, what is he?
He's like, I'm the real African king.
He said that.
Hell yes.
Yeah, I'm the real African.
I just went back.
My parents are from Cape Town.
I was born in LA, but I just went back in March
for
my grandma's 94th.
Oh, shit.
Yeah, yeah.
But yeah, we were back there for like for like two weeks.
So we go back every couple of years.
Beautiful city.
Yeah.
Have you ever seen the sharks?
I didn't see the shark.
Right before I went last time, I was saying before my friend, he's like, yo, my cousin got just eaten.
I was like,
he's like, yeah, my cousin's dead because he got eaten by a shark.
Oh, shit.
That's not something you casually tell someone.
Yeah, like right the day, I was like, I got to go to South Africa tomorrow.
He's like, yeah, my cousin got eaten there.
I was like, I feel like I should have known that.
It's like, my boy.
I was like.
My cousin got eaten.
Yeah.
Why are you keeping that for me?
Those are crazy odds.
Like, nobody gets eaten by a shark.
I guess Lucas' cousin did.
Damn.
Shout out to his cousin.
He's dead.
R.I.P.
R.I.P.
Yeah.
He was a good one.
Yeah, fuck off to the sharks.
Fuck off to the sharks.
Do you, do you, so you said that
people have reached out, like, actual networks?
Because there is.
I don't know, no.
I don't know.
Because I was waiting for the DNC money.
I really thought I was going to get that goddamn call.
Yeah.
Listen, they're at least open.
What, like 10 million or something?
Listen,
these people will pay anyone money.
Listen, I will, listen, I stand for nothing.
I'm, I am, it's the highest bidder.
A dollar.
It is the highest bidder.
Capitalism.
I will, I will do it for anyone.
But no, the DNC never called me.
I guess no one wants me.
I think at this point, it's like
the concept was always like to make something real and then sell it.
But I don't know if in this day and age, like, I have the ability.
I'm like, I have, like, I'm not going to sell my
show and they own it now.
And then I get canceled.
Right.
And you're also, then it's not real because then you have someone telling you what you have to do.
You have, like, standards and practices and lawyers.
And then, like, I have to, you know, I can make anything I want, really.
And, like, I get to adhere to whatever rights.
Don't give up that freedom.
And it's, but I think also, just if anything, like, I think if you you like, see
them boys down in Austin, it's like you kind of also make more money, maybe?
I think
you can.
I don't think there's money in TV anymore.
But no, Joe still owns his stuff, right?
Yeah.
Like, he just has to put it on Spotify.
Yeah.
Have you realized that you are doing a podcast?
No, it's not a podcast.
It's a talk show.
Okay.
You're wearing suits.
You say how much you hated doing a podcast.
Well, it is highly produced.
It is.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, like, we I am trying to make something cohesive that is a little bit different because the concept of like making another fucking podcast
is just like, what are you gonna,
it's another one?
Like, you have to do something a little bit like a little bit different.
Yeah.
Um, do you get nervous for every guest?
Yeah, I don't, I don't know.
I've kind of like realized that I'm like,
I don't know, I have like a very, like,
maybe it's a delusional, but like, I've realized when you meet people, they're not that scary.
Yeah, yeah.
Jadekus, I was nervous about because it's like, I'm like a white guy, like a white boy my age.
I was like, I've been talking like him my whole life,
just like behind closed doors.
In a Jewish summer camp scenario, we're like, yeah, we're putting on fitteds and stuff.
I felt a little bit like, and I had to tell him.
Off top, I was like, listen, I'm nervous right now because I used to, I used to wear Mitchell and Ness
in a Jewish context
and pretend.
And he's like, that's love, that's hip, that's real hip-hop.
I don't think it is, but thank you.
I remember before Dave went on your show, we talked for.
I think Dave thought it was come to him.
Yeah, I think he might have thought it.
I think Dave was one of the most confused of ours.
I think afterwards he said, I was like, how to go.
He's like, weird.
He's like, that guy.
I think he was like, yeah, this was...
This was one of the, that was weird.
Yeah.
And I was like, thanks for doing it, dude.
Really excited.
I think he didn't know what to make of me.
We talked for, I think you talked to me for like two hours.
I love researching
and knowing what to expect.
And yeah, I think the amount that I told you was like you would say, like, put these ideas at me, and I'd be like, yeah, do that.
He's going to be fine.
Just say whatever you want to him.
Well, yeah, you want to know, you want to make someone comfortable.
Yeah.
I don't know if I did with Dave, but like, I think, I think with Dave, like, I think historically, maybe
like when he looks at me, he's like, historically,
that's all, like, that's a gay f.
And then I, like, knew, I knew Ball, right?
Yeah.
And he's like, and I think if the gay, if, if, if gay, if a gay fing that knows ball, it's like, am I gay?
Am I gay?
I think I just like, I broke his brain.
Yeah.
I think he was expecting not that.
And then I was like, you know, like,
I asked him if he, he's read pornoise complaints.
Everyone fucking asked me that.
Yeah, no, that was, that was.
I love doing it.
Credit to Roan and you guys like encouraging this because I think that, you know,
you're head of state, if anything.
You're president.
You can say whatever you want to Dave.
Yeah, yeah.
Your president, you know, like you put him in a situation where he's
incredibly confused as to how he got there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like this is, yeah, he like calls the crisis team right after.
He's like, what did you just have me do?
Yeah.
Back to my booker.
Yeah.
Dave's eliminated, then Frank the Tank has to step up.
Yeah.
Is he vice president?
Yeah.
You should interview Frank the Tank.
Yeah, yeah.
Or at least still Frank Walls.
he's still in new york yeah yeah he's loyal not like you boy yeah sold out what guest uh actually got mad at you who's got actually mad at me um i'm assuming it happens well yeah anthony wiener yeah yeah yeah that was good though it was good i i i didn't see like i so why did he get mad at you i think that he just knows how to argue i think that he's just like i i i think
which is like the the language of like me arguing with another jewish guy
it's like I've been doing it my whole life with other Jewish people.
Like, it's like just like me and my dad have yelled at each other in that way, and it just became that very early on.
I set up like some, you know, I try to set up small talk, right?
Right.
I guess comfortable and like, ha, ha, ha, you know, like, and I was like, you know, I was like, oh, he's a Met fan.
I was like, oh, yeah, like, you seem more like a Yankee fan, you know?
And he's like, what's that supposed to mean?
What's that supposed to mean?
And I was like, you know, because you're like macho, the met fans are are like, you know, like, I'm sorry.
And
I'm getting with this.
Like, you know, like, Met fans are redheads and they allergies and like go to therapists and stuff.
Yankees fans, two families.
Yeah.
You know, like, yeah, cheat on taxes.
Insider trading.
Insider trading, secret wife, yeah, that lives three blocks away in the South Bronx.
You know,
that's a Yankee fan, like a guy that's like a god machismo.
And he's like, I don't know what the the fuck you're talking about.
He's like, the Mets are New York's team.
He's like, any real New Yorker, he's like, no real New Yorker is our Yankees fans.
And I was like, what are you talking about?
Yeah, that cannot be possible.
He's like, you guys buy your fucking rings.
And I was like, this was the small talk section.
This was the small talk section.
Sorry, we were supposed to giggle at each other.
I was like, he's supposed to be like, ha ha, yeah, yeah.
I think you hit it off with Fredo, though.
Oh, Freda loves it.
Right off the bat.
I was like, I don't know which way this is going to go.
Typically, if I expect someone, I'm going to vibe with someone, they don't like me.
And if I'm going to expect that I'm not going to vibe, they do end up liking me.
Yeah.
Does he like you still, though?
Yeah, I did his News Nation show.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Yeah, he makes, I don't know.
He makes fun of me.
When I did his News Nation show, it was very
laudatory, but it was a little bit embarrassing.
It was like, this is the future of the world of the voice of a generation.
I was like, shut up, dude.
Yeah, you had
embarrassing me.
Your New Yorker profile kind of had, they're like,
last week we got, there was that, that came out.
Yeah, they were like, oh, is he the next Jon Stewart?
Is he the key to like Rogan on the right?
Is Adam Friedland on the left?
They're fucking desperate.
And you just are like, I don't fucking know.
They're fucking desperate.
It's crazy.
They have nothing.
If it's me from Come Town, they don't have a shit, dude.
Like, just like fascism is,
they fucking...
Is it me versus what?
Donald Trump?
Yeah.
What the fuck am I going to do about it?
And I just wanna make the show funny.
I don't want to be like the left.
I have my own opinions on shit, but I'm not, yeah.
Have they, has anyone approached you about that?
Because it is, it is the desperation.
You can like smell it on them where it's like, who's the answer?
Who's the I've got a couple members of Congress now?
Like, well, I had Roe Connor as a senator, and then I did two interviews with members of Congress last week.
Yeah.
But it's just like, if they fucking think that they lost because they didn't, because they didn't have a good enough podcast,
They're fucking idiots.
Because they thought it's a savvy, too.
Maybe they lost because they offered nothing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Maybe they lost because
they're like, yeah, you can't have healthcare, but like we painted a rainbow crosswalk.
Yeah.
Listen, Adam, if we want to pitch credit.
It's podcasts.
If we're going to pitch tax credits for healthcare, Adam is our guy.
Yeah, it's always, their shit is always so.
It was like a Nathan for you.
Like, Democrat plans are always like, if you like, you know, like, we have a voucher that you need like validated.
Like, and you have to get, like, punch cards.
You have to hike to the top of a mountain, and you have to be a Latina that's between 20 and 23.
And then, like, you have like, if you're born in the first six months of the year, and then you get $200 towards, like, your first house.
Yeah.
And it's like, like, what?
How is that?
Like, they're like, they're like, this is like, yeah, we're all, just no one understands what that means.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Donald Trump's like, if you, um,
if you like, uh, say, I'm sorry, you're gay.
It makes way more sense.
That makes total sense.
Is it uncomfortable though?
Because it's happened to Stavi, too, where the left, this weird thing has happened where it's like, we need to find someone, and you guys, you're
Stavi.
Your names come up.
Yeah, I see it.
And they're like,
and it's funny because I obviously know both of you, and being fans of both of you, it's like, these guys are just fucking around.
And they also, again, they have their own opinions.
They don't fit into a box.
That's why people like them.
Yeah, I'm not, I don't,
I'll share my opinions.
But the other thing is, this is like comedians have been like hoisted to this level that they shouldn't be at.
Like, I hear people online say shit that they are not qualified to say.
And it's like, you talk about your dick on stage.
Like, you're not qualified to talk about the transmission rates of COVID and like the fucking NIH health fraud.
And like, shut up.
That was about the
guys that try to literally
fuck a waitress at a comedy club.
Bill Burr on Rogan was like during COVID and they were both smoking cigars.
And Bill Burr was was like, dude, we're not doing this.
We don't know anything.
They feel fully covered.
So I don't, I try to avoid that.
If there's something that I believe, like, I have an opinion on, I'll share that.
But I'm not like.
It's not going to be me, folks.
I don't know.
I mean, like, I just want the show to be clear.
Wait, did they bring that check?
But when I,
where's the check?
The check.
Where's the fucking check?
All right.
You stop me
when the money's enough for you to become an industry plant for the democrats all right five million
what does that mean ten million just one time
one check one check twenty million
twenty five million they wasted two fifty million dollars in that last election yeah one hundred million dollars yeah of course i don't know okay all right that's of course what is that that's my line we're doing the game we get a 10 cut we're doing
we negotiated that for the game would you suck a dick yeah I would suck a dick for $500,000.
You've come to a lot of money.
No, no.
It used to be a million.
Yeah.
It used to be a million.
You used used to have standards.
That was the funniest game of all time, like middle school game.
Who's that with that you did on Steiny?
Steiny, that's right.
And Steiny was like, no way, bro.
He was like, no way, but I would do it for 100 mil, but I'd have to be really drunk.
Yeah.
He's like, wait, so that you would like it more?
You get molested?
You would kind of want to do it for
you?
That notion of
that I'd be ruined the rest of my life.
Yeah.
If I got $100 million from Sucking a Dick, a scenario, which is a very real scenario, that somebody...
the notion that there's like a daddy warbucks that has a hundred million dollars for one suck like it's just a it's an it's such a funny absurd concept yeah yeah i would suck a dick for a million dollars who cares yeah but for the rest of your life people will be like that's the guy that's rich because he sucked a dick yeah and you'd be like yeah correct didn't you do uh merry fuck kill with him too and and steroids was on it and he was like Or was that another someone else and they were like
they were struggling.
They're like, we got to keep steroids.
Like we got to get rid of those.
Well, those guys, like, yeah, it's so funny in retrospect what happened to them.
Now everyone's mad at them because then
they'd be on their show.
The funniest was after it was over when they were looking at the comment section, be like, that's like having the modern-day Hitler on your show.
All right, that's a valid point.
Yeah, yeah, we didn't really know.
Like, if we knew what we know now, we probably wouldn't have done it.
But the funniest part is, like, they were like, we've been talking to experts all day.
We talked to Nick Fuentes,
Myron from Fresh and Fit, and then some other guy.
And I was like, you talked to three Holocaust deniers, and then me?
Yeah, I was like, What do you mean they're experts on Israel?
It's like, that's a, it's such a funny idea that, like, concept or like microcosm of the world today.
It's like in the middle of Gaza, Bibi's like, we got to do full sand,
we got to drink, we got to drink a happy dad, we got to crack a happy dad with Steve.
We'll do it.
Yeah, yeah, we got to do a chug.
Yeah, it was, it was absolutely insane.
Then, afterwards, yeah, all the fallout after it, when they were like we should okay in retrospect we probably should have done some more research to find out who we're gonna they're not they're not gonna change anything well the thing about them is like they literally the that's the interesting thing and that's what like when I interviewed him like I talked to him about it but like is that like in the
world today it was like you know I was like why do you think like the most powerful man in the world like Donald Trump the president have has done your show four times and why do you think like the richest man in the world Elon Musk has done your show and I think like they have like no concept they just think they're they're really good.
They're like, they're like, because it's awesome interviews, because it's fire, dude.
We crack happy dads, do prank content, lifestyle content.
Yeah, yeah, we party content.
Yeah, we said we'd have we'd have anybody, but it's just like that's what the world is today.
Like, you used to have to go out like
you, that's that's meet the press nowadays.
It's just fucking chug, chug guys,
and then, yeah, and then, like, uh, now in the middle of, yeah, like uh, like, uh, probably like the most controversial, like, uh, human rights, like, like, disaster in the world.
Like the prime minister of Israel is like,
we got to fucking do
how we got to do Nilk.
How much do you think they told him beforehand, BB?
How much did they tell him before?
How did they prep him?
I think Israel thought it was a good idea.
I think it's more like that morning where they're like,
it's got to be more embarrassing for Israel than it is for Nilk.
If we're talking about seriously right now,
they thought this was good PR.
To see Jews bad at PR like this, that is really the offensive part to me.
Like,
this is a thing we invented.
We're good at lying and being sneaky.
We used to be sneaky.
I miss what our thing used to be hiding.
We used to be like one of my favorite Jews ever, Anna Frank.
She was one of the best hiders in history.
What happened to hiding?
Now we're going to the army?
If I told my mother I was going to Afghanistan after I graduated high school, she would have killed herself.
We're not supposed to go to the army.
Yeah.
We're not made for it.
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Who's your dream guest?
1-1.
I don't know, dude.
Fucking Obama, Trump.
I mean, I would love.
I was saying earlier today, and also I was like dead tired the first part of the day, dude.
Dude, I've done like, I feel like I told you I was going to you text me.
You're like, hey, I want to do it.
I'm still
car wash.
No, you guys are increasing.
You guys are, you guys are fucking.
This is a lot of work to me.
Yeah.
We had
four shows today.
Yeah, that's...
I'm impressed.
I'm floored.
I'm impressed by the.
One of the shows is also.
I'm standing on the shoulders of giants right now.
One of the shows is also just you eating lunch.
Yeah, well, Adam did a lunch podcast.
Not only lunch, but he said, I said, Adam, what do you want for lunch?
And he's like, whatever, I'm easy.
I was like, tell me your favorite meal.
He's like, sushi.
And then, and Jeff Donne's like, yeah, I can make him sushi.
Yeah, it took no problem seconds to eat sushi.
And we were standing there.
I was like, you've been in Japan before?
He's like, yeah.
I was like, the food's good.
He's like, oh, no, it's great food.
Check out the cooking one that I did.
No, no, but early this morning, I was like, I am interested, like,
like, what's going on in Obama's mind?
I mean, I don't know.
Like, yeah, what, yeah.
It's like, I would love to interview.
There's like a ton of people I'd probably love to interview.
I don't know.
I haven't really thought about it.
You know, it's just like, Obama's got to be so bored.
Like, he stopped being the president so young.
And he was, what is he doing?
Yeah, like, and everything changed dramatically the second it was over.
And it's like, does he think it's his fault?
Does he think he should do say something?
Yeah, like, deep down inside.
Does he, is he happy?
Is he depressed?
And, like, uh, yeah, I wonder if he's like laying in bed at night and he's just like, uh,
if he's like depressed or stressed out.
He saw the drone strikes on Houston, and he was like, that makes me miss the White House so much.
Yeah.
This Houthi's getting.
I wish I missed the drones.
Yeah.
Because I feel like obama's like there is like a maybe some conscience in there like bill clinton like came from a dirt floor you know it's like arkansas like he got it out the mud you know bill clinton's like it's all in the game you know right bill clinton like would like uh you know kill an orphan and be like that's what the game's all about like he's like proposition joe yeah you know the game
yeah that's what the game's all about you know like but like barack obama i feel like is like uh i don't know he's the first black black president, you know?
Do you remember like when he won?
We were like, damn, a black guy's the president?
We're like, we're like, America.
The United States is fixed.
America's great.
Like, we're, yeah,
America is awesome.
Yep.
Yeah.
I lived in D.C.
I went to college there and I ran to the White House and I was like, fuck.
I was yelling at the building.
I was like, fuck you, Bush.
I was like, we got a black guy's moving to the White House, you fucking piece of shit.
That was like when everyone hated Bush.
He was like, 8% approval rating.
Yeah.
Were you there when they killed Bin Laden?
Dude, when they killed Bin Laden and like John Cena said it on fucking raw best, dude, America.
That was awesome.
Did you go to the White House that night?
I think, when was that?
That was that was maybe 2011?
2011.
I don't know.
I think I was mad at Obama already.
Okay.
I think I was like, already, like, when they, they, like, fucked up healthcare and then
they fucked up, like, you know, they bailed out Wall Street.
Yeah.
Like, the guys who ruined everyone's life, like, just got more, made more money from it.
Yeah.
I was like, oh, Obama's just like the rest of them.
You're like, damn, he caught it.
He could have.
I was like, I got him.
Obama.
I got fooled.
Yeah.
But no,
no, I was talking the other day.
Do you remember like there was that shooting in South Carolina at that church?
Yeah.
And then he did the memorial.
And this was like years into his presidency.
And he's giving the
like eulogy at the church.
And then he starts like, Amen.
Sing.
And we found, we're like, Obama can sing.
Yeah.
We're like, he can fucking sing to me.
Tune that out.
Yeah, that was.
We're like, we didn't even know he could sing.
And he can ball, too.
And he can sing.
And pulls off a mean tan suit.
Yeah.
Although I was saying earlier today,
I've heard from someone that's hooped with him.
Oh, you think he's getting preferential treatment?
I heard that he calls bullshit fellow.
No, he can pick up.
Not to, now I'm going to get fucking killed by the Secret Service.
You need to get drone strikes, yeah.
I don't give a fuck, dude.
Obama apparently calls it bullshit fellow.
That's actually like, because I would, I would have no problem.
That is like a person.
It's a market guess is personal.
No, absolutely.
I would have no problem.
That's the only thing.
If you told me that guys take it easy on them, I'd be like, well, yeah.
Yes, he's president.
Jump shot goes in.
The jump shot goes in.
If you're calling bullshit fouls, like I don't even call fouls.
It's a pickup.
You don't call fouls.
We have one guy here who calls fouls and everyone just hates.
And everyone thinks he's.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's Obama.
He plays with us.
Just don't get it.
You're the president.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You're the president.
Mr.
President, do not.
I would love to interview someone who's like, yeah, Obama called some bullshit fouls on me.
Isn't that like a, that's like a it's a thing yeah brain you're like no i judge him differently i don't like that i don't like that yeah
yeah just weak ass fouls and pick up basketball i just want to know what he
i don't i want to know because this is like we you know i guess he he was in the campaign last last time but we really just haven't heard from him and it's like um i just want to know what he what his his deal is the last thing we heard from him was he got accused of like inventing the dossier behind trump the russian dossier yeah the state And like being a big part of that and pushing that forward.
Was that him?
Investigating him.
And then he released a statement, which he never does.
He's not like, he doesn't ever really come out and say anything, but he was just like, hey, I didn't do this.
This is bad.
Because it took him being accused of treason and threatened with the death penalty for him to be like, I didn't do that.
So I think wherever he is, he might just be off the grid all the time.
I think he's in Martha's Vineyard.
Yeah, he's just chilling.
I think he's just water skiing.
He's golfing.
He's just chilling and just golfing.
I don't like that.
I feel like there has to be something inside of obama
it is weird when you say it because there has to be in his brain which is like where he's like watching this and he's like like let me be god damn yeah get me back no because he's hoping that trump runs again yeah so that he can then come in does he want to get off the bench trump v.
Obama I think he'll do it for Trump v.
Obama.
Because they don't, if they're looking at me and stop, they don't have shit.
No.
Okay.
He's the one, he's the one talent they have.
Yeah, I always say that if you want to be president, you should never be president.
And that's the problem that we have.
The mindset that it takes to get to that position is just absolutely insane.
I'm probably going to have to do it.
It's not.
Yeah, you meet a reluctant president such as yourself.
I made that joke to my girlfriend.
I was like,
because I've been interviewing these people.
I was like, these people are like, you're supposed to, I thought they were like supposed to be.
I'm expecting them to cook me.
Right.
And then I'm finding that they're
way less impressive
than I would have thought a politician should be.
Yeah.
I feel like doing crowd work preps you for that a little bit.
I don't know.
I'm not a crowd work guy.
I'm terrible at it.
I mean, I just.
But you've done it.
Well, just in me asking them a question, they get like, I've, they get flustered.
Yeah, no, you politicians in your head.
Adam Friedland.
Yeah.
Like, you know, it's like not.
In your head, when you're like younger, you're like, politicians, those are the bots, those are the adults in the room.
And then you realize, like, no, they're just fucking idiots who are addicted to power.
No, but they're supposed to be able to
dance around shit.
Right.
And deflect and stuff.
And sometimes I've like asked a question.
They're like, ah.
You're like, dude,
come on.
I'm not even trying.
Yeah, I don't know.
I'm an idiot.
I think since media has become so fragmented where you have, like, your friendly shows that you do, they all just go on their friendly shows and get softballs.
So they're not used to having somebody ask them, like, any sort of follow-up question for anything.
When you do, you scramble their brains.
Yeah, yeah.
I think, and well, also, they're
with like the Democrats, they're used to like just doing the, like, like the like Anderson Cooper.
And they're like, well, Anderson.
And then they like give the talking point thing.
And then they're not used to actually having a conversation about this stuff, like in a different context.
And I think it's like, what I found, there's one I did last week that was like, the guy was like,
I said to him, I was like, you sound bad.
Like, I was like, I'm not even saying that in a mean way, but you can't say that in front of people.
Like, I said, I was like, you know, like, you, you, you know, I asked him about like one of the people that, you know, donors to, you know,
private donors that he's taking money from.
And he's like, well, I can't decide, you know, when people like me.
And I'm like,
You can't, it doesn't sound like a good excuse.
Yeah, no, yeah, like maybe it's like if you don't need that money, you're in a safe blue district.
Maybe you don't have to take money from the real estate lobby.
Yeah, you know, you don't have to take money from BlackRock.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Maybe it sounds like you're not doing what's the right thing.
Call George Clooney, he'll help you.
Yeah, exactly.
Come on, bro.
Just don't like, yeah, just lie, just cheat.
I do like how everybody watched the debate last year and was like, well, this isn't going to work with Biden.
And then the Democrats were like, well, let's hold on.
Let's give it a sec.
Then George Clooney was like, I don't think it's going to work.
They're like, okay, George Clooney.
He called me Leo.
Well, they said that it was Obama that kind of like,
that pulled the trigger on Clooney.
He put Clooney up to it?
Yeah, that was
Obama's the background.
That's what I've heard.
But that in the background, Obama was trying to get Biden to drop out for a while.
And that I think it was like, just, it's, I think in retrospect, it's kind of just these fucking families that don't like each other.
Yeah, and then I think Jill, Dr.
Jill's a bad Dr.
Jill was like, uh, fuck you, we're not gonna do it.
Yeah, so then the Democrats rolled out like a mentally enfeebled,
septogenere.
I mean, that was like embarrassing.
Do you remember thinking like, it's but it's like embarrassing for America.
Oh, yeah, exactly.
Like, everyone's watching that.
We look like idiots.
The argument about the golf handicap was good.
That was amazing.
That was strong.
I'll kick your ass, Buster.
You got to carry your own.
Listen, Nancy,
See me on the links.
It was always great when he would break out like insults that haven't been said since like 1920.
Yeah.
That's how old he was.
Listen, Carol.
Yeah.
You horse whisperer.
I think so, Buster Brown.
Dude, I re-watched the fucking,
what was it, the corn pop video the other day.
Oh, yeah, that was a good one.
And first of all, that was like 10 years.
Which one was that?
It's not even the craziest part.
The craziest part was him talking about how the kids used to play with his leg hair.
Yeah,
they used to rub my hair up and down.
And he's like, around all these little kids in like bikinis and stuff, and they're so bored.
He's like at a pool, like, and it's the opening for a pool in Delaware where he used to lifeguard, I guess.
And I think it's an integrated pool.
So there were some African-American kids that were there.
I think the message behind it was they had never seen white persons' leg hair in the water before.
They were just enamored by it.
And so he was like sharing this story as a touching part of his youth growing up.
And then his brain just goes on this tangent about this like rough customer named Corn Pop
who he calls Nan, he calls him Mary because he had a, because he had a, because they used to put the pomade in their hair
and you know, put the pomade in your hair and and I said, get off that diving board, Nancy, or Mary or something.
He's like, homophobically abuses a gang member and then the guy threatens him with a with a
switchblade,
a straight razor.
Yeah, probably a comb, yeah.
Westside story.
Yeah, like, yeah, he's like, you know, how they used to put the straight razors and put them, knock them on the curb, you know, get them rusty, put them in a barrel.
And there's just all these bored kids in bikinis being like, what the fuck is this guy talking about?
Put him in my barrel, get him rusty.
And then, yeah, and then he tells this story that the engineer at the pool, the guy that, like, there's a pool engineer, is like, you go out there and he gives him some chain.
And he's like, and he like goes up, yeah, he goes to his car with a chain wrapped around his, and then corn pops, like, he's like, I apologize for calling you Mary.
Now, that would be, it would be an awesome story to hear your grandfather tell.
Yes.
Yeah.
Like his old senile grandfather.
He'd be like, my grandfather was a badass.
But it was great.
Remember the one when he just said he called the guy fat?
He's like, listen, fat.
Listen, fat.
It was really sad in the end.
It was great when he called Zelensky Putin.
He's like, on stage, he was like, he said it like it was the music guest on SNL.
He's like, ladies and gentlemen, Vladimir Putin.
It was the wrong one.
It was the opposite.
Let me ask you this.
So, did you see the visual from this weekend when it was Trump and it was Putin in Alaska, the B-2,
the F-35s flying overhead?
Yeah.
Do you think that Trump would have gone down in history as the best American president of all time?
If he bombed himself,
if he called in a strike on himself and Putin and just killed both of them, and he wrote a letter to America being like, and it's like the end of Tale of Two Cities.
It's a far, far better thing that I've done.
I think you're absolutely right.
Yeah.
I think there's no way around that.
That would beat the Trojan horse.
That would be the top military sneakery of all time.
I mean, that would be insane.
And it was a fake Trump.
Yeah.
But it turns out it was a fake Trump.
It's a fake Trump.
He's sitting in the White House.
Out of him.
It was like his body double, like Saddam Hussein used to have his body double.
So many body doubles.
I love that.
I love that idea.
That'd be great.
You want to talk to some ball real quick?
Yes, I'd love it.
I know you're a big ball guy.
I like it.
You're talking to all kinds of ball.
You're talking tennis.
He actually
agasses.
He broke my brain.
I did not know that Andre Agassi wore a wig all those days.
He was wearing a rug.
And he had the bullet.
The bullet was a rug.
That's crazy.
And he was doing it.
Spoke a meth.
Yeah.
Meth, and wearing a rug.
He was nuts.
And winning majors.
That's crazy.
And that's wearing like the coolest clothes of all time.
I was a, well, I'm from Vegas, and so I was always an Agassiz man.
I was always, I liked the bad boy.
Pete Sampers had too much chest hair.
But he was like, you know, these greaty two shoes.
Yeah, he's too pretty.
Those were great rivalries those days.
I also, I told you, I sat next to him and Steffi Graff
when I went with my parents in like, I think, 10th grade to see Fahrenheit 9-11.
The Michael Morgan sitting next to them.
And I was like, wow, that's the goat.
Yeah, I know you like Tennis.
You're an Alcaraz fan, right?
I like Alcarez.
Yeah, I do.
I like him too.
But I like that there's a new rivalry.
Yeah, it's good.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah,
I liked Fed a lot too.
Yeah, it feels good.
I mean, like, I, uh, right now, I was, I was telling you,
if you go in New York to the early rounds, like day one or day two of the U.S.
Open, and just get a grounds pass, you could, they, they just have like 10 matches going on, 10 different courts at a time, like the little courts, and you just see, like, the, you know, number 48 guy versus, like, the, you know, like a guy that won a play-in tournament, and they were, like, just playing their fucking, like, hearts out, and it's like, you could just bop around and watch different matches it's like it's a really fun day yeah um but yeah i can say i i i was telling you you you gotta read the the autoblog i gotta read that yeah have you read it no doing the the canon ads back then like images i know that he was like crazy and his father his father was he was like uh earl woods uh yeah style but like he was uh fucking psychologically destroyed by this like i feel like that happens a lot in tennis specifically he was well first of all yeah it's like it's a it's a there's a site, it's a psychological game.
And it's also a game like you, like you have to start very young, and there's no team aspect.
Exactly.
So it's just very much like your dad's your coach, and he's just wearing you down as a five-year-old.
Well, also, but his dad was like, his dad was Iranian, and his dad was a degenerate gambler, and he grew up in Vegas, and he'd like make
it, he'd make him play a man, and he'd be like, and he'd like, you know, he was like 11, and he'd be like, if you fucking lose, we're going to lose our house.
I mean, mean, that's a crazy mentality
to immigrate to the United States and then be like, I got to live in Vegas.
You got to go to Vegas.
That's where we're going to live.
I love it there.
That is the best place in the world.
Let's go.
I love it there.
So, so you're a tennis guy.
I'm not a tennis guy, but it sounds like
guys that you're liking tennis.
Yeah, you like, that's a cool thing, is like you follow personalities and guys.
Yeah, yeah.
And I've gone, like, it's really fun to, like, I live in New York, so it's fun to go to the U.S.
Open when you can.
And you're an Arsenal fan.
Yeah.
That's huge.
What do you mean this stuff?
I mean, they don't win.
What are you talking about?
They haven't won in a long time.
They're like a real team all of a sudden.
Oh, yeah, this year actually should be good.
No, I mean, we should be.
We're nervous right now.
I'm nervous right now.
But we're actually like, we're finally not pathetic.
We've been pathetic for I started watching in 2005-2006.
That's right after they had the Invincibles?
They went Invincible 04.
Yeah, so that's the worst time.
I've never seen anything good happen.
Yeah.
I mean, it really is.
It's made me, I think,
it's a reminder every year that you're going to die one day.
The saying is, it's the hope that kills you.
And it's just like every single year they fucking do it again.
Last year was a wash.
Everyone got hurt.
It was just like everything that could go wrong went wrong.
And we're like, we go again next season.
And then we like accidentally
made the champions.
We like were facing Rey Al Madrid in the quarters.
And I was like, oh, fuck, we have to put.
The whole world loves to laugh at us.
because our thing is that we always fucking like our pants fall down in front of the whole school you know and uh and they just they love to like see that happen and um
yeah and then i saw probably
i think probably my the best thing i've ever seen which was us win that quarterfinal against rail madrid and like win at the burn to bayo and like and um and i was like this season might not be over i was like and then just we got shitted on by psg in the course how'd you become an arsenal guy I was
on a gap year program and like half the, there were a lot of Arsenal supporters.
And the first year I watched, they were like, I'm a Laker fan.
It was like the two best teams are Arsenal and Man Yu.
Yeah.
And it's kind of like the, there were like the cool like crossovers and dunks guys, like the saucy guys.
Yeah.
And then there were like the, you know, workmen like, it was like the Celtics Lakers, you know, Mikhail, you know, Manu had like Ingerlish
brutes, and we had like just like
artists.
Yeah.
And like Thierry Henri was
my favorite player, like my first favorite.
Tier Henry versus Wayne Rooney.
And like, well, like, Henri was like, no one has played the position like he did.
I mean, he was just
there.
He was the best I've ever seen as a center forward.
And, yeah, they were like, they just had cool guys, and
they played a beautiful way.
Yeah.
And, but for 20 years I would just see us get doo-doo like just laughed at and shitted on and like Jose Mourinho would give a press press conference and call like our manager Arsen Venger would be like he's gay and he's
and everyone's like ha ha ha ha he sucks fuck you and like just every time something good could happen it would like but it was like it's this weird thing is because I can't go to the like they have the pub like they have Arsenal pubs yeah in New York and I just, I, being an American, like, soccer fan is like, it's the, it's just the worst kind of guy you could be.
It's just the most, oh,
it's just like, I know that it's lame.
Living in Brooklyn.
I live in Brooklyn.
I live in Brooklyn and I like footy.
Like, it's just like, shut up.
You are actually just like a made-up person on Twitter that, that, like, uh, super, you know, red-pilled guy.
I used to, yeah.
It's like, if
Tucker saw that.
It's was like, oh, giant.
Go tell Tucker.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
With my latte.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No, yeah, yeah.
No, literally, I used to lay in bed at night.
And now that I'm just doing the talk show, which is not a podcast, actually.
Not a podcast.
Just not on the rap.
Not a podcast.
But I used to lay in the bed.
Do you listen to it as a podcast feed?
Yeah, we do.
There is a podcast element to it.
That's for the ad.
Yeah, of course.
For the ads.
For the ads, introduce the numbers.
Right, right.
But for the downloads.
But it's meant to be, you you watch it on youtube.com.
It's the Adam Freelan show, guys.
Check it out if you're in the list.
If you listen to it, though, you're not missing anything, right?
You're missing a lot.
What do you mean?
I mean,
there's a whole visual aspect.
Adam's physique.
Yeah, right.
Are you on TRT?
Listen, hey, now here.
You should get on TRT.
Yeah, yeah, back to the business.
Before that, I used to lay in bed and you know that one thought you have about yourself where you're like, I'm going to fucking kill myself.
You're like, you're almost as sleepy.
You like jolt out of bed, and it's just the worst thought you have about yourself.
And mine was like, always, you're a podcaster who lives in Brooklyn.
And I'm like, this is what I've done.
We've joked about it for a long time, though.
It is the worst sentence you could say to someone is, could you come on my podcast?
I'm a podcaster who lives in Brooklyn who supports Arsenal.
Who likes European soccer?
Yeah, football.
I call that football.
I actually call it football.
Yeah.
I actually call it, I say soccer on purpose.
Are you sick of LeBron?
He's a Laker fan?
Yeah.
You know what's going to be the worst is the farewell.
Yes.
You remember the video tribute Kobe year?
Yeah.
Where everyone has to act.
Everyone was like, you're right, brashed.
Like for like 20, 19 years in Kobe's career, everyone's like, fuck you, Kobe.
And then
for some reason, the whole NBA decided, like, what a gentleman.
Thank you, Key.
Thank you, Kobe.
And he was like, we wheeled him out every game.
It was like pathetic.
It's going to be that time.
It's 50.
Oh, it's going to be crazy.
There's going to be a documentary about it.
There's going to be the documentary, the motivation, the genius of the eye, the genius, the
fucking bullshit.
No, I mean, I think that I'm a Laker fan, so I guess I'm a Kobe guy.
So it's just like
becoming,
yeah, when we won in the bubble, I've said this before, but like, I like looked into my heart.
Like, 30 seconds later, I was like, it doesn't feel the same with him.
Thank you for being honest about that.
It really doesn't feel the same with him.
And it's like, it just, it's an emotional thing, I guess.
I think like
he's just not going to be my guy.
But it's fine.
I still like, he's really good.
He's 40, like, and he's this good still.
And, like, we're still making fun of him and laughing at him.
Yeah.
I don't think like.
He's a funny guy.
Yeah.
No, I mean, he's embarrassed.
Like, he's a very funny guy.
He's just a fucking.
Why does he have to say that he knew who Migos was like eight years ago when they came out?
We make fun of LeBron, but at the end of the day, imagine
the type of brain you would have if from
15 years old for the rest of your life, literally every single interaction you have with another human being is someone trying to be like, we love you, you're the best, like whatever you want.
He has had just nothing but yes, men, for his entire life.
It changes everything.
You think you're the funniest.
You think you know everything.
Like it's, it would fuck you up.
That's true.
Like, every joke he's told has been laughed at.
Correct.
Right.
And so he thinks he's funny, maybe.
He doesn't have anyone busting his balls.
No chance.
Right.
I think,
I think
he's also the first
NBA superstar in an era where you have to market yourself.
Like, we didn't know who Jordan was.
We didn't know that he had just hate in his gut.
We just thought he
offseason he goes and hangs out with Tweety Bird, Bugs Bunny.
We didn't know that he was like, you know, just like, you know, like arranging hits and like
just like, you know, like, and then, like, in his, in his fucking Hall of Fame speech, he's like drunk and he's like talking shit on Brian Russell.
Yeah, yeah, like, he's just like,
he's just like, yeah, when we watch the last dance, we just see like just the spite that motivated him.
We didn't know that at all.
He was like a cartoon character.
LeBron has had to market himself because of like social media and like the digital age and all that shit.
And, you know, he's just terrible at it.
I mean, I don't know who's this, whoever's like advising.
I think he's the Akron crew is around him.
Yeah.
And I think the other difference I think is like Kobe and MJ
think that it's maybe soft to have friends.
Yeah.
They like, they're like, yeah, you're pathetic that you need other men around you.
Yeah, yeah.
Like boys.
We're people that have no, like, we're like, it's a
man doesn't have friends.
A man, like, you know.
A man has a wife and then he dies alone.
Yeah, has a wife.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
That's it.
He's friends with his kids until they're, you know, 12 years old.
Then he, then he puts them out on the farm.
Yeah.
gets them drafted, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know, that's what a man does, that's what a man does.
A man will only cry if their dog dies, yeah, or at the national anthem, yeah.
You know, you kill your dad, you play baseball,
ah, just allege.
Uh, this is a big show, I shouldn't be
getting in trouble.
We're having fun, that was a fun thing, that was a fun thing.
We were riffing, we were just riffing, uh, no, but like the thing is, like, LeBron's just like, shut up, dude.
You don't like last year when he was like on Pat McAfee, he's like, oh, I'm, oh, like, he was like on team T-mode.
He's like, oh, I've had a,
I've had the hail.
And I've like, you know, I don't, I don't, the hail care no more.
Yeah.
By the way, Brian Windhorse, you, I, I'm not your best friend.
I've never known you.
Yeah.
If you have to say, I'm like, I don't know, Brian Windhorse.
He's like some guy that's like, also, like, was your, like, your guy in the media for 20 years.
Yeah.
He's, like, went to the same high school as you.
And he's like, oh, and by the way, I am not friends with.
He's like, why are you doing this?
Like, everyone loves Wendy.
Also, just like, just leave him alone.
LeBron's just like, you don't have to convince us.
Like, just be bald.
Can you imagine if he had one of those Clyde Drexler C afros and he was just yamming on guys?
He was just as buff as he is now.
Can you imagine how cool that would look?
That whole thing with Windhorse was like, he was so mad that Windhorse might have gotten one small thing wrong in one of his, I don't know, 10,000 rules.
Who cares, you idiot?
Don't care.
Yeah.
Just shut up.
And Windhorse has never pretended that he was like best friends with LeBron.
Yeah.
That's my favorite say.
That's my favorite saying.
Yeah, yeah, mine too.
I said that.
I say that all the time.
I love La Cap.
Apparently,
I've talked to people that are covering the NBA, and they say that
he reads everything.
Oh,
all the Lafraud, LeBum.
I would love to see him on
La Adam Friedland show.
That's my favorite saint.
That's my favorite.
That would be an all-time interview.
I would love to have him on.
Well, I had Blake Rivet on the show.
Blake Rend.
Yeah, he's the best.
It's not fair.
That's the bar how funny Blake is.
It's funny.
He was dunking better than anyone.
A professional athlete made hundreds of millions of dollars.
Oh, and he's funnier than he has better comedic timing than almost all comedians.
Like, I had to do it because I'm like, I thought I was never going to find a wife.
You're like, 6'10, why are you funny?
Yeah.
Well, you're handsome and funny.
Yeah.
What's the point of funny?
Yeah.
Bullshit.
He's going to get awesome at golf, too.
I know that.
He's going to be nice at golf.
Yeah, he's going to go to the senior tour.
Yeah, he's going to just do it.
He's going to be a scratch golfer in like 18 months.
And also, he does it all and he's still the nicest guy.
So it's like, you can't even be mad about, like, if he was a dick with it, you'd be like, oh, fuck him.
He's just the nicest guy.
He's genuinely the best.
Yes.
Why is he nice to me?
The best.
I don't deserve him being nice to me.
I think he thinks you're funny.
He's lovely.
Yeah.
He's a great guy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, I just.
Yeah.
I really got.
I gave him my theory.
We didn't actually.
I don't know if it was in the episode about MJ LeBron thing.
Because like from what I've heard,
the whole Stephen A,
the whole
goat debate.
He'll never die.
I think that's, well, and Stephen A., that was the thing.
What we watched last year was
it was the best because the first time that people weren't talking about Trump, it was like,
like, it was the first thing that we got to be like, oh, this is great.
Isn't this great?
But Stephen A is like,
yeah, and if you, and if you touch me, like, I will have no choice but to give you hands.
And I'm like, what are you?
It's LeBron James.
Yeah.
Also, why are you threatening?
Why are they threatening?
And why is he saying he doesn't want to be fucking and I'm not friends with Brian Wayne Horse?
It's like, what is going on with these people right now?
It's like, these people are falling apart, right?
And if you, but, and I will give you the hail hand.
I will give you, I have, I will have no choice.
And then, and then, but the best part of that whole thing was just like Skipp was just so upset.
Yeah.
He was tweeting for like four years.
Oh, he wanted to get noticed so bad.
To avoid and like just being ignored.
Zero engagement.
Another pathetic
buzzer beater for LeBron tonight.
He's the SpongeBob.
He's the most pathetic losers I've ever seen play in the NBA, perhaps.
Top 40, perhaps, maybe top 50 player.
And he noticed Skip too.
Like, he's been doing, he's basically been pumping up Bronny.
Almost like a slight to LeBron.
It's a weird, yeah, like being like, he's going to be the next.
I don't know.
He's lost it.
But my, he just wanted attention, and Stephen A.
got all of it.
My read of the subtext with this LeBron, Stephen A thing, is that
somewhere in North Carolina in a big-ass house, a gentleman had that, they took the damn team away because he sucked at owning a team and he's a little bit.
And
he's, I think the power you have in NBA journalism is who you have in your phone.
And I think
Mr.
Stephen A.
Smith, I think he's MJ's guy.
And I think that potentially, I mean, the concept of him drunk in a mansion alone, just being like, go fuck with him today.
Yeah.
Get him.
Just go fuck with LeBron today.
And LeBron has guys.
Like for 20 years.
For 20 years.
Yeah.
But for 20 years.
And now he's going to be on TV, which is going to be awesome.
Do you think he'll be good?
He needs a buddy.
He needs somebody that can bring it out of him.
I was also saying, like, they should actually lean into it.
He doesn't have buddies.
They should lean into it and, like, make the desk like a blackjack table.
Like, because who wouldn't watch
in between commercials?
We need to give him.
MJ's playing blackjack.
We're going to go in live.
He's going to cry.
Yeah.
This game's a blowout.
Let's watch MJ play a couple hands.
I wonder how it's going to go.
You got to watch.
I mean,
you have to watch that.
I hope the hate comes out.
What is it?
NBC?
Yeah.
And then, of course, Blake is going to Amazon.
Yep.
And then Inside the NBA is going to ESPN.
And they just have to go everywhere to watch games.
It's crazy.
I mean, it's just like, can it?
I don't think there's as.
I don't think there's a funnier show on TV than Inside the NBA.
No.
It's a perfect show.
It's funnier than Curb.
It's the funniest show I've ever seen in my life.
And we got to interview Charles Barkley last month, and I was just smiling ear to ear for like a day after.
He's just the best.
Like, everything about him is the best.
Oh, my God.
They don't have to talk about basketball.
They could put Inside.
Chuck fell asleep too.
Remember that game?
Yeah, yeah.
Chuck was asleep.
I mean, just think about some of the hits they do where they would be like, name
what team this guy plays for.
The league they cover, and they would get it wrong.
Chuck, Chuck doesn't know how to say any European person.
Doesn't care to learn.
Yeah.
But that's the difference.
They're drunk.
When Stephen A.
Smith makes a mistake, they'll go into like, like crisis mode.
Like, he'll say, you know, someone's on the Chargers who's not on the chart, who hasn't been on the Chargers in a year.
And then you'll see all these stories like Stephen A.
Smith has worked so hard.
No one else works.
These guys make a mistake and they're like, yeah, we fucked that up.
That's the, you've got to do that.
It's barely about the game.
Yeah, you've got to be barely about the game.
You got to be like, hey, I'm an idiot.
I fucked that up.
If you try to pretend that, like, oh, no, it's because I've been working so hard.
You guys are working me to the bone.
It's like, come on.
I have to imagine they all actually are concealed carrying while they're on set.
Shaq's got a fucking deputies badge.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
I would watch them do the red zone because ESPN's got red zone, too, in the future.
Not this year, right?
I think it's like
next year.
I would just have them just sit there.
ESPN got red zone.
Yeah, and Charles Barkley loves football.
He's kept on saying that to us.
Do you appreciate red zone?
I do if I can't watch the actual game.
I can't.
It just makes me feel like I'm losing my mind.
Well, you know what it is for me, from a gambling brain?
Every time they flip to a game, I'm like, where's the big play?
And then it would be like, all right, and that's a five-yard out.
And you're like, fuck.
I thought it was gonna be like a pick six or something, a touchdown.
But yeah, we watch all the games here, so we have all the games, like the actual feeds of the games up.
I knew some guys that like were like, uh, went into like finance, like, you know, but like the 22, 23-year-old kids, and they get like first huge big check, and they had a huge like apartment in the West Village, and just too much money for the age we were at.
I think I remember they had one thing on the wall, it was a pulp fiction poster.
Love that.
It was like still, like, just we're boys.
Yeah, yeah.
And they used to just do, they just used to on Sunday, 1 p.m.
kickoff, they just start ripping Coke, watching Red Zone.
Yeah,
that's too much.
And I was like, it was a chaos.
I went over it a couple times and I was like, what are these guys doing?
And it was, can you imagine the sensation of being in daylight cocaine?
Yeah.
Watching football.
Yeah.
How many screens is it?
How many games?
Eight?
They get the Octobucks.
Yeah.
The Octobux.
Yeah.
It is like, it's visual cocaine.
It's visual cocaine.
And you're also doing actual cocaine.
Yeah, yeah.
At the same time, they have not stimulated enough.
Then they have to go like, you know, like just to BlackRock the next day and just, you know, make them a zillion dollars.
How to figure out how to buy every house in America.
Yeah, how to figure out how to engineer a housing price
after being hung over from
1 p.m.
below the day before.
Eight ball and the Jaguars and Titans.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
It was, yeah, that was really funny, dude.
I used to watch them do that.
All right.
This has been awesome.
I got one last question for you.
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Yep.
So we talked about Cometown.
We loved Cometown.
When you guys did break up, was there any bad feelings?
I feel like you guys obviously came back and did a
podcast together.
Yeah.
Because it was abrupt a little bit.
Stav was exhausted from the road, and he was just like, we couldn't.
And then we had to like gang record.
I think Stav was just burnt out, and then he just recorded a special, so then he took some time off.
We kept doing the show.
I mean, the point is that at a certain point, you're gonna like when you're not a baby anymore, and like you want to stop doing the podcast where it's like, What if a, you know, what if that, you know, what if fucking Tom Brady was Chinese or something, and it would go a little bit something like this.
Like
the tuck rule would be called the fucking, I don't know, the Chinese rule.
You know, we're like, at a certain point, we're like exhausted.
yeah and it's like you know we want to do other things for me personally when i started got to start doing the talk show it was like a new thing and it was like put like wind in my sails i was like oh this is like something i want to work on and then i think nick nick's now working on things himself um and like you know i think it's at a certain point is like you know you're like i don't know i'm 38 years old now yeah i'm a middle-aged man now is it still weird i assume people still come up to you on the street call yeah it'll be the rest of my life a bug yeah yeah yeah
I remember when that all unfolded.
Yeah, I found out.
And I was like, shit, he's screwed.
They got him on the floor.
I don't care, dude.
I really don't care.
I was so lucky I got any of this crap.
I mean, like, and it, what is like, oh, I'm sorry.
But, like,
this is bull.
This is a really sad story, but it's,
I got, I got a call from my dad.
I was in Union Square.
I got a call from my dad, and he said, your mom had an MRI,
and
she's got a brain tumor that's expanding.
We knew she had cancer, and he said it's now aggressively growing.
And I said to my dad,
I was like in public and you square crying.
I said, Dad, you know, like, listen, you know, we,
you know, I just want to let you know you're taking incredible care of her, and like, you're my hero.
Even if I've, I've said, we've said some terrible things to each other during arguments.
Like, and then I literally, someone behind me was like, yo, Adam, you're fucking bugged.
And like,
in the middle of that, and I turned around, I was, and I had tears in my eyes, and he was like, oh, sorry.
And, like,
I imagine this guy was like, thought that I was, that I was calling my dad, and it was like, yo, I got like Nick and Stop burned me extra hard this week.
It's just like,
I was crying.
Like, yeah, it was like, it's hilarious.
I don't know.
I mean,
it's weird, but what do you mean?
It's funny.
I mean, I've been,
you know, I really don't care about, you know, if my friends like the talk show, I like work really hard on it.
I kind of have guys do the internet for me.
Yeah.
These days they like posts for me.
Yeah.
I don't like really care.
What are the fuck?
I mean, like I've been, I think I've, because I was the
bug or like, you know, on Come Town.
Gay bug.
I think the gay, I'm just a fucking gay Jewish bug.
I think
I think this just like I kind of processed the internet a while back, and now it's just like a little bit like, oh, yeah, I'm like, I have a career.
Now I get to do this talk show thing.
It's like, I'm fucking like, I don't deserve any of this shit.
Like, I was just like, I'm incredibly fortunate.
I was an incredibly lazy person.
But now that I, like, have an opportunity to do something different and cool, you know, I don't want to blow it.
I don't want to blow that opportunity.
But also, I want to work really hard.
You say that you were lazy, but it was still like, it was a great podcast.
Yeah.
It was really, very funny.
Yeah.
But I don't think it was like I had to.
I mean, I would like, I would knock out three movies a day.
I wasn't like working hard.
Like, stop was like doing the road still.
I think I was like paying my rent and like, uh, I wasn't broke anymore.
So I'd like it just blew my ambition.
And at a certain point, you're like, no, there's, I gotta fucking, I'm like, I gotta, like, I'm gonna die one day.
Like, I'm gonna go do something with my life.
So, you have a, like, an actual schedule now, like, uh, oh my god, I have a staff.
I have, like, yeah, I have like, you know, what I research-wise, I have like, you know, if it's a more substantive guess, I have like a journalist that does research packages
to work with.
I'm like, yeah, yeah.
No, I mean, I like I'm like, uh, investing myself into this.
Um, yeah, and I I was just like, you know, it, it does feel like, uh, like, you know, I'm like, uh, I've, I, I think when you're lazy for so long, you're like, uh, yeah, I'm, I'm not capable of it.
Hey, it's good, it's made me feel pretty happy that I could do it, and I, but I, like, I'm, I still, I'm not good at yet.
Like, I want to get better at interviews, and like, well, you are good, yeah, you are, yeah, well, yeah, well, I want to get better at it, yeah, yeah, you know, you've got the most unique style, and I do think it does disarm the guests a little bit where they sometimes try to make they want to rescue you sometimes, I kind of feel like an alien, I think, to some guests.
And then them making sense of me, I think, is kind of an advantage.
Yeah, yeah.
It's great.
Everyone, I appreciate it, guys.
Check out the Adam for the show.
It was awesome having you guys are the best, too.
I love this show.
You guys, I appreciate coming on.
Anytime you're in town, you're welcome to come on.
I love it.
I'm going to go to O Block after this.
Okay, there you go.
I'm going to go down.
I'm going to tap in at Oblock.
I heard they got love for me down there.
Yeah, sure.
Yeah.
Thanks, boys.
All right.
Thanks, Adam.
Take care.
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Okay, let's wrap up.
Guys on camp.
Also, by the way, our good friends,
John Feidelberg, Tommy smokes uh little sass
nick kb they made it they made a show it's awesome go watch it on the out of order uh youtube it's probably mascots and uh
yeah they made a tv show it's fucking sick so go watch it please yes uh okay hank
hey big canopy oh pitching free tents oh
Hank K
and the booth boys.
What are they talking about boners?
Yeah, I guess so.
No, I think they're talking about actual tents.
Kitchen tents.
Oh, yeah, yeah, no, it's guys on camp.
Oh, okay.
Wow, bonk.
Well, I mean, what was yours, Hank?
Hang K.
Like, Hang.
Like, like, your home.
Hang.
Okay, got it, got it.
Thank you.
On your training camp visits during Great Week, did you ever experience the NFL players union poll questions and did they make sense?
For example, pre-Josh Harris weight rooms were smaller than high school lock rooms, food, etc.
Thanks for all that you do.
The Commanders upgraded this year?
well commanders was tough we went to the ravens greatest facility i've ever seen which by the way i think they had a bad uh rating like a few years ago and they in basically like this i'm changing uh
they because remember they had the new pools just put in the pools it was unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable but then we went to the commanders next day kind of looked like rinky dink operation but they got a they had a new
they had a new locker room which was nice their new locker room is very nice rinky dink compared to the Ravens?
Their locker room was sick.
It's a great locker room.
The new locker room is nice.
The Ravens did win us over with their pools.
Yeah, and teams do take into account the NFL PA thing.
Like, I think
the commanders, a couple years ago, they got an F-
for treatment of families.
And I did notice that Casey Anthony is now banned from the facility.
So they take active steps to correct these issues.
Hank, should we do this?
Players will?
Yeah, Barstool.
Sure.
Publish the results.
And just throw in the trash?
I mean, I wonder what it would be, though.
Like, what would the facilities, like...
Ice cream.
Ice cream not is too soupy.
Ice cream has been pretty good recently.
Yeah, ice cream has been good.
It's been...
That's good.
Is it having a moment?
It is having a moment.
I don't know what.
It's getting better.
What would be the facilities complaint?
Is there one?
The leaky roof.
Yeah.
That's getting fixed.
Jerry parking in the handicap spot.
That's not getting fixed.
What?
Parking.
Parking.
That's definitely not getting fixed.
Jack McCarthy parking in the cars.com spot.
Lack of a batting cage.
Lack of a batting cage is a good one.
I can't do anything about it.
I actually had a conversation about that.
I love that.
I love that.
I appreciate the effort.
Yes,
I've been making.
I had a conversation that was going to cost a lot of money.
And then at the end of the conversation, the person who I was talking to was like, why?
And I was like, batting cage.
It was just,
yeah.
There are some more creatures we could make for sure.
Yeah.
They disassembled the flight simulator.
Oh, they did?
Yeah.
Why didn't they put it in the
flight internsulator?
The interns took over the flight simulator mood.
Yeah, okay.
Yeah.
Put it back up.
It goes back up.
Because then Paige was like, Do you want to take this home?
And then I'm thinking I might just take the flight simulator home and put that.
Now that becomes my desk.
Why wouldn't you?
Yeah.
That's the only reason we have it.
No, a lot of people did one stream a lot of people play on the flight simulator how many
so many so many people it's everyone how many times did you play on the flip everyone like everyone likes planes
if i had it in my own house so if we did the if we did the nflpa poll at parsley one of the things would be like pft doesn't play with his simulator no yeah
well hank i work a lot okay and then and then guess what i had to do i i had to stop i had to curtail some of my extracurricular activities such as flight simulator to work on my golf game.
The golf simulator.
Yeah.
So I trade one for the other.
Now I'm back in the skies.
Okay, fair enough.
All right.
Every summer, five of my friends from college and myself go on a camping trip.
We go to a different national park every year.
Can you please help us choosing the national park we should go to for our next trip?
For example, on past trips, we've gone Denali, Mount Renee, Glacier, and Banff.
What national park should we go camping at next?
Thanks, guys.
Fuck you, that goes.
You got to go Yellowstone.
I had a debate because I was trying to figure out if
I was going to go to Yellowstone or if I was going to go to Glacier.
And I ended up settling on Yellowstone, but then I fucked my backup, so I couldn't go to Yellowstone.
But Yellowstone, if you like animals, I'm told that's the place to go.
That is a place, another one, sneaky one that's really good, Badlands.
Yeah.
Badlands is sick.
The rocks just look cool.
What's the one in Utah?
I think that's Badlands.
It's Badlands.
I think they got a few.
Arches.
I'm thinking about arches.
What is Bad?
Where is Badlands?
New Mexico.
crater lake a national park crater lake is i think yeah in oregon when i was playing baseball on the west coast we drove by and we stopped at crater lake and it was it felt like it wasn't like on earth wait i was wrong badlands is in south dakota what is the one national parks
arches and then they got like the salt flats in utah which i want to go to both of those i've never been to
I've never been to Badlands.
I need to correct myself.
I would also go back to the Grand Canyon.
The Grand Canyon is
what I've been to.
Yeah, Arches.
So we were on the same wavelength.
Arches is awesome.
I'm told it's awesome.
I've been to that one.
And Zion.
Zion's also sick.
That's Utah as well.
That's like big rivers and big rocks.
Just big.
When you think Zion, think really, really fast.
Crazy big.
Yeah.
Yeah, I would say Yosemite, too.
Yeah.
I've been there.
Yosemite is awesome.
Yosemite's in California.
Yeah, or Yosemite.
That's what happened.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I've been in.
Yellowstone
and Arches.
Never been to Bad.
I got to go to Badlands.
That was all time.
Shout out to Teddy Roosevelt.
Yeah.
These guys on Cam Questions rock.
Zach,
is camping in a video game ever okay?
Great question.
Sometimes when you're trying to get these camo challenges knocked out, you gotta just come on.
I'm not saying it's okay or I don't condone it.
I'm just saying.
Oh, you're trying to protect a streak.
I understand doing it if you need
100 more headshots to get like
a break.
It's where you find a spot and you just kind of hide out there and like
that's awesome.
Yeah, it's great.
You find a good spot where you're camping, it's really good.
Yeah,
so
I think everything's okay in moderation.
I just don't think it's so like you can't make a habit of it.
You got to get in the mix.
If we're trying to get some achievements unlocked, you know, just
five, ten minutes more.
I understand that if you're like trying to level up a gun or like,
I've never been a camo challenge guy, but
in a game, like, what do you say?
What do you say if you walk into a room and you just get killed by a corner camper?
You You can't you're a motherfucker Yeah, no, it's not okay.
It's part of the game that example not okay not cool so remember when Hank for the longest time could not get a
Win in Call of Duty Warzone.
Yeah, and I got like four wins Yeah after playing it for a week It was great because Hank Hank is almost too mobile his ADD is so bad that he won't even like not I'm not even saying camp he won't like stay in the same like two buildings for longer than 30 seconds.
Why why?
But when I got my four wins, they were almost exclusively because because I found this one room on the top floor of this one building.
I would just go in there and just not move.
And I would just stand in there with an automatic shotgun
with a mine that was attached to the door, waiting for somebody to open the door and then I'd blast them four times.
And then all you'd hear on the death comps is like, you motherfucker, you little pussy.
It was great.
It was great.
I ended up winning.
Team would play Games of Warzone 45 minutes without leaving like one.
I love that.
Well, also because you had a little sniper position so you could maybe pick somebody off on the roof from that same room.
You You should be
so you just go to the roof, then you go back to the door and wait.
Then you go to the roof, then you go back to the door and wait.
It was great.
That's terrible.
That's not cool, not cool.
All right, and then last one.
Hey, guys, love the show.
My camp question is, is it ever appropriate to camp out in front of a store, restaurant, ticket booth, et cetera, to ensure you get a highly sought-after product?
For example, Zach may have camped out to ensure he gets the new Xbox, maybe max waited hours at a new fast food location to get free food for a year.
Does the item being obtained matter?
Do you draw the line at bringing a tent?
Is it all just a no-go?
We're talking like the store opens at 7 a.m.
People start lining up at 5 p.m.
the day before.
Have you seen Beth Page?
No, it's crazy.
It's like two and a half days now.
I think tickets, it's all right.
So I've done it for tickets,
for
student tickets at Wisconsin.
If you do it, you have to do it the fun way.
You got to get an actual tent and do it with your friends.
And it's just fun.
If you're doing it like sitting in a chair outside of like a Best Buy, I don't know.
Yeah, I also feel like the internet has kind of taken a lot of that away.
So we used to have to camp out to get tickets for HF Festival back in the day, which you could only get at like Tower Records or Sam Goody.
And so you'd go sleep out there and then you'd buy.
Now you just get them online.
Yeah.
So you don't have to worry about that.
I remember camping out for,
I didn't do it, but I remember the lines and like some of my friends doing it for the Xbox 360.
Yeah, I did it one time for, I think, what was the PlayStation that came out out in like 2005, 2006?
2002.
PS2.
Yeah, I camped out for a PS2 because I was going to get it, then I was going to sell it online because I had spent all my money at college.
I needed some money for Christmas.
So I camped out, bought it, spent every last cent that I had buying it, and then I put it for sale on eBay.
And I think I made like five or $10 off it.
That's good money.
But I thought that I had figured out the economy.
Little tip for you, you do that 10 million times.
That's 50 million bucks.
That's right.
Hey, you can't go broke taking a profit, right?
You sell
a soda can to every single person in China for one dollar, you're a billionaire.
That's a great point.
I think I want that.
That's a great point.
That's one of those we should do the Mount Rushmore things that someone told you and you thought were really smart, and then you grew up and you're like, Well, that was fucking stupid.
The Mount Rushmore things that Gary China, yeah,
the Mount Rushmore things Gary Vee would say, yeah, right.
And that people are going to buy and be like, oh shit.
Yeah, he's right.
He's right.
He's so right.
I found a market inefficiency.
Kill your whole family every morning.
Okay.
What was the question?
Oh, camping out.
Have you camped out?
Yeah.
I used to camp out.
Growing up like sneakers and stuff like that.
Oh, okay.
Well, they're different in Florida.
Not bad weather.
Not bad weather, no.
Yeah, you can camp out forever in Florida.
What sneakers?
Yeah, different phone posits as a kid.
Orlando Mall, Galaxy Phone Pausits.
There was a...
That one ended bad, but that was just one that came to mind.
What happened?
There was like a shooting situation, but
you camp out?
Yeah, at the camp out.
All right.
With Zach,
anything's on.
No, no, no.
Did you shoot someone?
No, no, no, not at all.
Not at all.
No, that was just the first one that caught the mind.
Because that would be very Zach.
If he's like, there's a shooting situation.
No, we dig in.
He's like, well, I had to shoot someone.
Not a weapon.
As a Florida man, have you ever owned a gun?
No, not in on weapons.
I'm out on weapons.
Did you ever think about it?
Also, no.
Okay.
If I get robbed, I just take my stuff.
I get robbed.
Sorry, sir.
Yeah.
Just let him have it.
Yeah, this guy brings up a pretty good point you should have my shoes yep my phone posits so did you get them no no you left after the shooting didn't get them after the shooting i don't i wasn't there when that happened that happened later okay got it got it got it got it uh okay good show boys camp barstool tune in to all of our stuff uh for the rest of the week it's gonna be awesome team max versus team dana jerry's here
Jerry's here.
Friday, we're doing our fantasy football preview.
How about Jerry O'Connell?
How about Jerry O'Connell's singing voice?
Unbelievable.
Unbelievable.
Some guys have it all.
All right.
We're at camp, so we're going to do the numbers.
Three.
Oh, nice.
2-2.
85.
I'm going to do the numbers.
99.
Nice.
21.
You have to say your name is 67.
No, I don't.
10.
You've never gotten it.
Don't tell me what to do.
What'd you say?
85.
You said 85?
I'll go 73.
I'll say 17.
Seventeen possible notes.
Thirty
six, thirty
eight, thirty-eight, thirty-eight.
Sorry for anyone at thirty-six, thirty-eight.
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