Dave Portnoy | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #429

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today's guest is uh the founder of bar. stool and bar stool Sports. um he's uh. I mean he's a media. Legend uh he's kind of a revolutionary. in a way he's he's kind of a dang Paul. Revere. for a lot of people. um. he hasn't he has a unique ability he. makes you feel like anything is possible. and uh I'm grateful to have him here. today today's guest is Dave portnoway.

[Music]. I don't know. and I will. follow. [Music]. we High I mean I hired a guy strictly.

because. it was like yeah it was like in the like. he interviewed it was a Telly was. wallpaper I mean he was so boring but he. knew me he's like I have one thing that. may sway you like in my favor it's like. what he's like well I'm legally blind. I'm like well like can I make fun of you. for it like is it open game he's like. yeah so we hired him oh wow he's still. like sore he's still with us in a way. like to the point we thought he was. faking it because like he knew that. would get me so one day.

we just and a bunch of people if I was. faking it so we called him up I'm like. I'm just gonna like toss my wallet to. him and see if he reacts smacked him. right in the face it's the only time I. felt bad so I he was literally literally. blind but he'd sit at his computer like. what you're saying with this huge. magnifying glass you tell him to do. something it took him four hours yeah. yeah yeah yeah it was kind of a gimmick. but not the most productive guy to ever. come down the street. yeah we we interviewed a blind woman one. time and uh it was pretty fascinating.

she said she remembered like the E like. she almost feels like a computer. sometimes like how like she would. remember the way she would walk to. school and stuff like that so she lost. her sight. yeah she had some sight when she was. young and it wasn't a lot and then she. lost it completely yeah and so then she. had to like she said she started to feel. like a computer and the only animal she. didn't like she said was a snake she. said a snake doesn't give any feedback. she's like it just feels like. just like a piece of Satan I guess maybe. I was born to be one I don't like snakes. either yeah absolutely age-old question.

like would you rather uh would you. rather like if you were blind would you. rather have been able to see or never. been able to see. I think I would like to if I'm gonna be. blind I'm going all in I'm saying never. see right because then you don't know. what you're missing yeah yeah and then. you can yell stuff you could use like I. don't want to say slurs but you could. probably say things that are. other people are gonna be like oh he. shouldn't say anything like oh he's. blind you know. what. um. Dave Portner thanks for coming in man.

yep we don't know each other that great. you know definitely not yeah. definitely not I feel like maybe we're. I just met recently really for the first. time I think it was the uh no when's the. first time we met was it at the LSU uh. tailgate I think yeah and then we saw. each other a couple times after that. yeah. yeah man we're kind of like just sort of. getting to know each other. um and you are uh. you grew up in New York wrong see we.

don't know each other that well Boston. oh yeah yeah and but does Boston always. have such a chip on their shoulder about. New York it's almost like it almost. seems like. um. there's more like it seemed like New. York but with more like kind of spousal. abuse kind of a little bit low-key you. know yeah I don't know I'd have to look. up the stats on that one uh. it there's definitely animosity I don't. know if it stems from like spousal abuse. but it's the uh you know New York so I. grew up in Boston and everybody in New.

York is always like Boston is a little. town yeah it's not a city it's a town. you know you know you as a Boston guy. you kind of take offense to that then we. moved to New York and New York's it is. compared to Boston it's a small little. city but it's so close the sports. rivalry reminds me I was in Milwaukee. right and I did a pizza review which I. do and and I thought I was in Milwaukee. it's actually in a Racine oh yeah the. Racine Bells from um I was actually I. didn't realize it till after and I was. mad I didn't know that I would have. worked it in but Racine people are very.

upset that I was calling it Milwaukee. like you're in Racine you're not. Milwaukee it's kind of that Vibe Boston. you know yeah like the underdog when you. were growing up what kind of like school. did you go to like what was it like when. you were growing up like traditionalized. middle class went to all public like. swamps got uh just I grew the town I. grew up was called Swan Scott so I just. went to the normal high school normal. normal Middle School Normal everything. like my friends that I grew up with are. still like really my best friends oh. yeah yeah and what was it like at your. house like was your dad pretty cool or.

what was he like. no he's definitely I want to that cool. is not the word I I would ever describe. my dad as he's like. my parents are like the seinfelds that's. a better way to like Morty you know. Morty and he takes by the way great. offense to that oh he loved it no no he. if you're like you're like Morty. Seinfeld when Morty Seinfeld does. something weird and so he's like no I'm. not what are you talking about but he is. exactly like them they're kind of maybe. the traditional like over protective. like Jewish like family parents kind of.

that's what they are is it fun so you've. been doing your whole life I mean yeah. yeah okay is it fun being Jewish like. what is it like like no I won't say it's. fun it's nothing like I wasn't overly. religious right so but it I no I. wouldn't say it's fun you're gonna. battle you know I I I always like. Jews you know there's more everyone. celebrates Christmas like far fewer to. uh Hanukkah so like in the early days. the bar stool we had this guy Kevin. Clancy gets the big ass tree you know.

it's like well if we're gonna do a big. ass tree I'm gonna get a big ass manure. we have the biggest manure like ever. made it had to be like put together in. the office just so we weren't getting. like short shifted on it but uh yeah no. I don't I don't really give a [ __ ]. um I'm not overly religious I mean you. know I'll stick up for Jews if we're. getting like if Kanye is like you know. Hitler wasn't that bad of a dude I'll be. able to hold on there like he kind of. was like I don't I like well he did rail. he did the the highway system I'm like. yeah but you know he used it wrong yeah.

he killed a lot of us too so I don't. know that one plus one equals two. whatever so but I'm not you know I'm not. overly but like [ __ ] like that I will. get involved like yeah when people are. defending him it's like the guys out. here like basically pro-hitler how can I. even defend him so that [ __ ] I'll speak. up on but. I'm not you know I'm not overly like a. lot of the holidays I don't follow and. stuff like that yeah yeah that's always. wonder like probably half of my closest. friends are Jewish especially once you.

get to like LA or New York you meet a. lot more Jewish people they didn't have. like a lot of Jewish people when I was. growing up so we're running the media. yeah that's what they say I mean. yeah I don't I mean there's so many. Jewish people that work in the media I. don't know I have no idea you know it's. like I don't know who's. I don't know who's if somebody's really. running something I don't know no well I. mean it's like anything you can look I. run barcel sports that's the media. company I work my ass for it I mean. whatever it listen there's bad people or.

scumbags in every race religion Creed. whatever oh yeah uh Jews get a bad rap. but a lot of people get bad raps so what. yeah I was just wondering what is it. like like does it feel I wonder if it. feels different being Jewish does it. feel like. like do I wake up I'm like damn I'm Jew. or like yeah I get I I don't know I. guess I don't even know what I'm asking. I guess I just I guess someone would. wonder what it feels like yeah I guess. like the thing about it though which. I've always said so because Jewish. people are very determined Jewish people. like to create value and yeah well I.

think it's kind of like a family thing. like they're very very education very. hard working. um and put uh a premium on that and then. it shows but the thing about being. Jewish which I've always pointed out. that we're getting deep but it's like. people say you'll hear this a lot like. what are you and someone will be like. I'm Italian I'm [ __ ] you know Russian. I'm Jewish. but Jewish like if I want to change. being Jewish tomorrow I could it's not. like a blood thing Jewish is a religion. that you choose if someone wants to be. Catholic they can choose it in a second.

you can't change being like Italian if. you're that's what you are like if. you're born from there so Jewish it's. kind of one of those things over time I. think it's probably out of prejudice. people make it sound like it's your. blood it's [ __ ] not your blood it's. like it's your religion that somewhere. along the way somebody chose to believe. but you can change it like I'm Russian. that's my my family is from who you are. I could see that a little bit now yeah. and and we don't in my family to be. honest we don't talk like I don't even. know that much about the history I'm. sure bad [ __ ] happened like most people.

don't leave their country just because. Daniel you're Russian yeah yeah Russian. dang yep. wow man. that's great man I don't know I knew. this one Russian girl and she was so. sexy man and God she invited me over one. time and like she was sick or something. I brought her some soup and she like was. so aggressively trying to [ __ ] that I. guess she didn't feel well yeah and so. that I was like oh what do you do here. you know like see I'm such a. hypochondriac I would I'd be like not.

like you got to get healthy well that's. kind of how I was I was so scared. there's like you know I kept trying to. lead her back to the soup and she kept. coming for me and uh and I got so scared. because she was sick but she was so like. aggressive and determined and it's wild. yeah it was interesting man and she. actually went to J she went to jail I. remember she hit me up like years later. to come testify for her in some thing. and I couldn't make it all right I just. wanted to sleep in honestly yeah that's. tough like if you're being asked to.

testify and you're like sorry oh you. must not have really been that close. with her yep the you know Skip the trial. or whatever she was going down for she's. like I need somebody to show up yeah I. guess I guess my question is that like I. does it feel do you feel a lot of. pressure being Jewish to be successful. no. no that's interesting no I don't feel. pressured to be successful at all but no. nothing to do with if anything like I. feel like there no there's a lot of.

successful Jews yeah my parents weren't. like hey you're Jewish you better be. successful no oh maybe that's what it is. maybe I've had a lot of friends of my a. lot of my Jewish friends are successful. you know and so it's like. um yeah I guess I wonder do I feel like. that there's a pressure and then all my. Jewish friends are always saying that. their moms are always driving them nuts. and so I guess I started doing that I. started to put those things together I. love my mother she's coming to the Super. Bowl with me just to like probably get. away from my dad for a couple days but. like my mother's the type of woman and. again this is a typical like I go home.

I'll go back to wherever I'm going and. you know I open my like suitcase and. they'll be like geez it's hidden in. there and like all sorts of gadgets like. she's just a overprotective like she. doesn't anything I say I don't want that. I don't do this she'll do it like she's. always you know if I could walk around. giant bubble like that's what they do. like my grandmother remember one time I. was looking at colleges and there was a. plane crash we were driving yeah and she. called work she's like the plane crash. you're all right like we we weren't we.

weren't flying she's like well the plane. could have landed on you like that's the. type of like thing you know just a. little bit overly protective. okay interesting but no pressure no. pressure in that I mean uh I originally. want to be like a gym teacher like that. was what I graduated actually college. with and they would have been fine with. it they've been supportive no pressure. at all they're just I think the Jewish. thing for my it's just most uh just. super intense on like education like do. good in school like if you if you're.

[ __ ] off on school my parents would. be like what are you doing right and I. did [ __ ] off a little bit at school but. that they'd be in your grill about that. yeah that's it were you. um yeah cause I'm just curious you know. I'm just curious and so do you like did. in high school were you like kind of. like a funny guy where you like kind of. like the guy who was like the student. council leader like what kind of like. what was some of your vibe in high. school so yeah I I I I played Sports. hung out with like your Riz actually.

which I learned what it means from you. and your Tick Tock I didn't know yeah I. didn't know that either until yeah with. those [ __ ] kids up on game [ __ ] them. yeah right so I mean are good kids. so this should give you a insight into. the like. I I and this is again my parents being. like you got to get your resume right. for like going to college so I was the. vice president of my class and that was. like calculated because I didn't want to. do the work so I was like I'm not gonna. run for president because then you got. to do [ __ ] vice president kind of skate.

but put it on the resume so that's what. I did and then I played uh Sports so I. was just again I'd say I ran in like the. uh the popular crowd but I was friends. with everybody yeah a little bit funny. yeah you know I couldn't get buying. looks so if you don't go looks you go. funny yeah oh yeah trust me dude I feel. you I'm like an eight I've always been. kind of like an eight. and you gotta [ __ ] you gotta an eight. you gotta come up with some jokes yeah. like on looks I think I'm out of a ten. yeah that's a [ __ ] super high score. I don't think you think it's that high. yeah.

eight eight so who's a ten. like what's Matthew McConaughey. I think he was a 10. I think he's coming. down a touch all right let's let's go. somebody who's I mean look the kid you. work with Josh Richards okay yeah I mean. the guy is B yeah I mean he's an. attractive woman I mean he's yeah no. he's a good looking guy he's like he's. the [ __ ] um I'm sorry it actually. turned 21. yesterday but he's like the. uh Calvin Klein's yeah he's doing Calvin.

Klein's like oh my God yes all right God. I'd put tits on him found him I know. that I know he's a good looking kid he. always is when I walked in with that. original Tick Tock crew he's he's. definitely good looking guy smart kid. too he looks like a mannequin there's a. good picture of you guys together right. there impersonating each other yeah that. was like the first time we met so we. that's when we watched it you guys meet. at dude so do you know you probably do. know this guy know this guy because he. knows [ __ ] everybody do you know. Michael Gruen Michael ruin knows Bruin.

no that's surprising because I feel like. this dude knows everybody. um so there he is. um no but he looks like kind of like a. uh so basically I was on Twitter one day. and uh. Dixie Demello yeah she broke up with her. boyfriend at the time you may not these. were these are huge yeah I know she is. yeah so she was like the original kind. of it girl on Tick Tock oh yeah yeah. yeah and it broke into Twitter okay and.

they broke up and I and everyone was. talking about Twitter and I was like who. the [ __ ] are these people Gruen who is. Josh uh Richard's manager reached out. he's like hey he'll explain it to you. want to do a Instagram live with him so. like sure we did it and I was surprised. we kind of like had some chemistry like. who is this kid Snapchat reached out. after we did that like would you guys do. a show on Snapchat I had no interest. because I wasn't. like Snapchat just wasn't where I want. to be Tick Tock I knew it was something. it's like I'm sure you view the world at.

times like all right I gotta get my name. like who are these kids on Tick Tock. because parcel have been around for a. while but nobody knew us on Tick Tock. was a younger demo so to me partnering. with him who was big on Tick Tock he's. like all right that's gonna get me. Barstool maybe this new audience and. that's where it came from he wanted to. get maybe a little more credible with. like an older crowd who had been around. I want to get the tick tock crowd to. know who we were and that's where it. came from it's great yeah I came on that. show so Michael Gruen is his manager he. was he was okay and and he he like just.

connected people he uh yeah you know I. still hear blue ones yeah he he when I. first met him no joke to Gruen the first. thing I said to him was he was the most. obnoxious human I ever met is he really. he grew on me but he can come across as. sandpaper when you meet him but I do. like him now. he's grueling on people huh yeah well. played oh wow and yeah uh I would like. to maybe meet that guy but then I yeah.

it's interesting if people kind of get. onto your nerves you know I had this. dude that used to kind of would always. kind of bite the air a little bit he had. a little bit of a. just a little hitch in him you know like. uh like Val Kilmer like Iceman. like that like he was eating a berry off. a tree or something you know and he. would do that just every now and then. and like you can deal with it for a. while but after about that 50th Berry. you gotta [ __ ] shut him down or you. got to leave the room do you know the. part I'm talking about with Iceman and. Top Gun he just he's like uh that's.

right ice man I am dangerous I just. based there does the book oh he does. that yeah. um so in high school so yeah I could I. could see that man I could see you did. you feel like you had kind of like that. so obviously you knew that you could. kind of relate to everybody then a. little bit yeah that was because. sometimes as you get a little you start. to learn just some of your skills you're. like oh I kind of can fit in wherever. yeah I was pretty good at that did you. have a lady in high school or no no no. no no no uh.

no I wasn't good looking I didn't really. do great with the girls at all in high. school what about like for dance is. there anything did you ask a lady out. ever like do you remember like the first. date you ever went on or anything like. that. first date no I I don't I mean I. remember obviously going to like proms I. know who I went to proms with and [ __ ]. like that but no I didn't really uh I I. had very little if any. successful yeah yeah. blue eye you're handsome guy yeah I.

don't know no I well first of all I went. through it like there's a whole fat day. of stage not that wasn't high school but. I mean I and I'm getting back to it. because I'm getting old but yeah no it's. the truth I tell you you always hear. like you know good looking people be. like no I didn't do anything like I was. ugly in like high school no I I was like. I'm not like those I don't believe the. good people like Jon Hamm like oh I I. have it rough my dick's too big you know. like no that I I really didn't do well. in high school yeah yeah I have to wear.

like an 80 gauge Underpants just to hold. them up yeah like that kind of [ __ ] yeah. I hate that. um yeah do you remember like even just. like what about your first kiss in high. school what had to have happened huh. yeah I I'm trying to think who did I. kiss first uh I don't even know if I. remember it couldn't have been anything. you mean dude you were a document tour. of no I don't know it couldn't have been. that memorable. I I'm honestly trying to think I don't I. don't know if that's like sad or what. but I I honestly can't remember wow yeah.

some people I remember locked us in this. room and they had this girl and she had. like a chipped tooth she had that kind. of that Lloyd Christmas on her you know. or at least the Christmas tell me your. first guess it was like were you playing. like spin the ball you locked in a room. or you just locked in the room just. angry like kind of pervy older kids like. you better get in there and [ __ ] kiss. you know what I'm saying or we're gonna. jerk off out here and we're like Jesus. Christ all right I took a turn and so uh. but she had that Lloyd Christmas or at. least she had the Lord she had like that. Lloyd Christmas Eve it was like a less.

of a chip. but she had that thing and I remember. God she was also she was like the first. girl I ever remember really like seeing. with my eyes and she was. her name was Chrissy and she was. beautiful I thought and just bite the. teeth yeah so we had to sit next to each. other and just kiss. um what about the first time you had sex. you remember it that I do yeah yeah now. we're talking that that's a little. different than like a kiss yeah yeah it. wasn't great it's still probably not. [ __ ] great you know oh yeah dude yeah.

yeah when did it happen College freshman. his girlfriend yeah okay was it at a. party or was it like kind of a uh no it. was actually at so it it was at my house. it was actually summer going into. college okay yeah oh yeah dude I I love. like I love thinking about like those.

kind of like just like times when we. were young and stuff like yeah there was. nothing like that time getting ready for. college and then I almost feel like that. was the time you feel like you had to. like. you had to get sex active you were going. into college college and you don't. really know what you expect yeah no I. mean it was like a romantic thing did. y'all go to like yeah it knows romantic. it was definitely romantic she was my. girlfriend so it was a romantic that's. cool. that's cool man you know I'm learning. Spanish right now. I I know some but I'm learning Moss.

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on the Gaza Strip or something I mean. people were [ __ ] there was like it. was hard so were people like watching if. they're throwing rocks at you I wouldn't. say they were watching but they were. checking in a lot yeah yeah you know no. mine was not like that yeah mine was. probably pretty traditional yeah. yeah dude I remember one time I got so. nervous some girl and I tried to have. sex and I just couldn't I just like. I remember just. I ended up ejaculating and. and then she left and she was. embarrassed she climbed out of my window.

in my room too I remember she was afraid. to even like leave through the living. room I think oh it was [ __ ]. embarrassing because why. I think why did you go through the. window I think she was maybe just. I don't know I think it was just the. whole thing was a lot for everybody I. think everybody was kind of didn't know. their way around the world right after. it it was just it was like we planned on. it we were excited and I just and so. then you're sitting there with all and. you literally have your shame is right. there like in a liquid yeah you know.

it's like hey here's it you're talking. if you if you bust you're not fast oh. yeah I mean I ejaculated immediately. well guys yeah and it was like that. scientifically means you're like uh good. right the faster the better that's. that's how we're programmed that's true. if we were like in the jungle days or. something we would be do it move on on. to the next one that's how it goes. that's efficient it's gonna be Elon bust. yeah I'd be [ __ ] it's true yeah. um but yeah I think at that point. everybody was so just confused people.

weren't even using the doorway anymore. like it was just that kind of thing you. know. um actually if you pull up look up uh. bowling alley bowling in. Saint Tammany Parish. this place looks like it's the [ __ ]. bowling capital of the world a lot of. bowling alleys in a very short area yeah. if you look on that one Tiffany Lane's a. 3.4 Stars. just click on that one if you oh man. there's a review somewhere and somebody.

wrote so you can go to the first review. on there oh it's closed down yeah. somebody sent me the other day it says. like sometimes there's like. oh there you go. oh this was like the top question on. there I'm here because of uh theobon. became a man behind this building. it was just a crazy thing one of my. friends said hey I'm looking for a place. to bowl locally and this came up and the. top thing says that the Obama came so. it's like a known fact this is where he. lost your virginity picking up splits.

homie in there cuz love it. um interesting man yeah I was just kind. of wondering like what maybe you were. like when you were younger you know yeah. it's like I said traditional I don't. very very uh. forgettable probably a lot of a lot of. people like me normal normal growing. played Sports ran with like the the. popular crowd in school but just one of. the guys yeah you love sports now it. seems to be like something you really. love do you really really love it do you. love just the gambling do you love.

sports yeah so I always love sports I. love gambling right obviously it's what. we do now so that worked out like before. I started Barcelona I was trying I want. to get into that industry right yeah I. flew out to Vegas tried to do all the. stuff so it's worked out perfectly for. me I'm probably like one of the few guys. who's made money through gambling most. people get wiped out. um so yeah no I'm a big sports fan and. obviously it's been a core part of what. we do so it makes me like I'm not. uh maybe I'm not getting arrested and. going to jail if we're not doing.

Barstool I'm not like that crazy if I. was just sitting around as a normal fan. okay um but I love sports yeah Boston. Sports guy through and through yeah. um do you think that they should have. legal gambling like everywhere because I. know you guys work with your gambling. site is I know Sports Social Sports. Books Okay personal sports book yeah and. they even have bars like I was in Baton. Rouge and they have like a barcel. Sportsbook bar in the casino yeah yeah. because so we were bought by a company. called pen and they have uh L'Auberge we. also have like Standalone so we're.

actually getting one here in Nashville. like yeah or they'll be a barcel sports. bar it's where like the old uh Joe's. Crab Shack used to be so it's a good. spot. um. so I think it will eventually go Most. states but it it so gambling became. legal to bet on Sports outside of Vegas. maybe two years ago two and a half. something like that they repealed some. federal law and now it's up to the. states so they just decide state by. state so I think we're live in like. maybe 11 or 12 States and do you Lobby.

for that somehow or you just that's just. let the world do that our parent company. lobbies for it and all the different. companies that are involved in that. Lobby for it and there's people Lobby. against it so I have nothing to do with. it but yeah there's a lot of politicking. going around with that do you get more. joy out of making like a big wager on. one thing or hitting like a crazy parlay. you know I don't do as much as parlays. so like bet on one thing winning it I. mean I I bet my whole life so it's just. but yeah not it's I love it I love.

gambling yeah you like to gamble like do. you feel like that that's just like a. thing you'd like to do just with sports. or even like kind of with everything. like you kind of like to go kind of like. the alternate route a little bit yeah. yeah it's I definitely even Barstool. like I think being an entrepreneur kind. of is like gambling different different. respect but I saw barcel with nothing. really and everything we made we put. back into it for the most part work but. you know we did concert I thought we. were going out of business at one point. because I put all our money into like a. concert tour and it kind of who was it.

like Third Eye Blind or something no. believe it or not so we did this thing. it we had never left downtown Boston. ever and and I was like all right we. gotta see if we're big outside of Boston. and we had liquor sponsors at the time. and they were like well you know we. can't sponsor you if you're going to. colleges and we're like well what if we. make it a Music Tour could you they said. yeah so we had this kid Sam Adams um it. kind of blew up and he's got some big. songs we did it we did six six stops and. it went really well.

um bigger than we ever thought and I I. looked at it so we originally thought. we're going like frats and you we go to. UMass and this the actual School calls. like hey we were again all these. requests for tickets what is this so we. went from the Frat to the actual like. Mullen Center which is the gymnasium. sold out in a second my brain's going. the business side's like hey if I can. recreate this with like big talent I may. be on to something so we had a Music. Tour it was headlined uh by Mike Posner.

do you remember like cooler than me at. the time I saw Mike two weeks ago yeah. so that song just came out he was the. headliner it was uh him Wally I had Mac. Miller for 1500 bucks that's how much we. were paying him to play so he was the. third guy coming up on it uh and nobody. [ __ ] bought well people bought. tickets same amount as the first time we. went around it turned out our crowd they. weren't coming necessarily for who we're. booking they're coming because Barstool. was on it oh wow we got [ __ ] wiped.

out I actually hated posing he didn't. promote the [ __ ] he didn't promote it at. all not his fault his agent's fault. um so that was a disaster and then we. moved from that because it was kind of. like all right if people are coming for. bar stool not the talent does it really. matter and we went into EDM so you lost. you lost your butt on that smoked. because you had to pay the act so much. pay the accent I rented the buildings so. we were going I was paying like Yeah The. Vig on that building like 100 Grand or.

something a night and we weren't doing. it I thought I was gonna have to pay the. full thing we had to cancel a lot of the. shows so. um that was a disaster and then we we. came up with something called the. Blackout Tour which essentially was a DJ. playing EDM music this is at the infancy. of EDM and it exploded like to the point. we had I bought all our own production. you could go to an EDM show it looked. like ours we had a full crew doing it I. thought and were you into it were you. like doing the pills and everybody like.

partying no we had I I would we we did. three shows a week throughout the. country like we had a whole crew driving. around setting up the lights renting. venues. um I thought I thought I was gonna. become so rich that I'd be like Bezos. and retire we were clearing like 250. Grand to show it was nuts and we weren't. paying for talent so we're charging 50. bucks a ticket selling out literally and. it was just like an EDM party show yes. so This Crew so you guys were just in. Boston and this crew is now traveling. doing shows for you correct like have.

you ever heard there's a festival like. bamboozle it's a big Festival in New. Jersey so the Bonnaroo bamboozle is like. one of those type things yeah and we. were on a call with Live Nation uh I'll. never forget this call like we want you. to close the last music they had was Bon. Jovi they're like we want you to come on. after Bon Jovi and close it like we'll. pay you 250 Grand just to show up and. before we could say anything like we. know it's not a lot of money it's cheap. um but you'll introduce your music to so.

many new people and I was like wait wait. we don't have music what are you talking. about there's no one like what do you. mean you have no music the only thing. they saw was our ticket sales in their. system whenever we put tickets they were. gone in 10 seconds wow so we like did. that turned into a foam thing but but. that was because of the bar stool name. again so you're still like we're just. selling EDM yeah dude because where I'm. from if somebody showed up with damn two. laser lights and a [ __ ] flood beam. dude people would pay 50 dollars nuts. for it and it was [ __ ] like we had. outside of it like we had Avicii like.

playing our thing for like no money it. was before the DJ thing took off okay so. so you did actually have talent coming. to the yeah we rotate but we won't pay a. lot like we did we paid maybe two grand. for Avicii but it just they it was. before the DJ boom right then the DJ. boom started happening and a couple. things happened we had our name and. we're always sort of controversial but. if somebody OD'd at EDM Vegas yeah we. would be mentioned it'd be like barcel. uh blackout or part of this and people.

would be calling me Insurance went. through the roof. um and news crews were following like. our production around just looking for. controversy so the whole thing as quick. as it came it disappeared so because of. insurance really Insurance EDM it went. from there'd be one EDM show at a. college a month so there were three a. week and we were playing Avicii's music. and Avicii was going to be there. tomorrow so all host of factors and I. was investing this is the gambling part. every cent I made I'm like let's get the.

next biggest laser let's get this let's. get that so we put it all back in at the. end of the day we're probably not even. like we we didn't make money we didn't. lose money. when it comes to business sense do you. has that been a was that a tough thing. to realize like even just as my own. business and and world has grown like. it's tough sometimes to realize. especially if you don't come from a lot. to reinvest and stuff is that always I. mean obviously in that instance it kind. of evened out yep but do you has that. like been a tough thing for you to.

realize or is that like what no the for. me that's been like uh. that's just something I think that. that's in my like blood that goes back. to the gambling uh like I've made money. I don't think I need money like I didn't. have any for a long time not that I was. like living like I could eat but uh no I. just have a risk taker personality so I. I never I I'm always like pushing things. into the middle now I'm at a different. stage in my life right so would I risk.

it all now I've been doing this for 20. years be like if I thought there was a. huge opportunity I'm gonna put. everything back probably not but at that. point we were still pushing yeah that's. so cool man because you kind of became. like this guy who's like I'll [ __ ]. put it on the table right now you know. even throughout like the pandemic and. stuff like. um the way you were like kind of uh you. know you were championing like keeping. small businesses open and what the what. are we doing here. um not afraid to interview Trump or to. talk about you know conservative like.

views or even look at them you know when. a lot of the world was like mainstream. media was like kind of shunning them do. you get is that kind of a little bit of. the high because I'm just wondering like. because gambling is kind of a high but. there's a little bit of high and [ __ ]. gambling with yourself as well yeah. that's always you know we never look for. fights with that stuff I'm pretty I'm. pretty much a free speaker I have had to. tone it down uh which is I got a lot of. haters out there and I always say. probably the number one benefit they. have that they don't realize is that.

Penn the gambling company bought us. because we are regulated so it's it's. for the first time since I've been doing. Barstool people can sort of get at me. through a side door like I don't care. what you [ __ ] say about me I really. don't and I have thick skin and if. you're gonna come at me I'll come at you. like I've done things that not like I've. staked out [ __ ] a New York Times. Reporter like who was I know digging. through my [ __ ] past in life and. trying to like really write a nasty hit. piece about me it's like if you want to.

[ __ ] talk to me let's [ __ ] talk. and I wait I did like a uh 48 Hours like. I literally parked my car with my camera. guy outside the house for like six hours. and just waited for them to come out ran. out and like confronted them. um I like doing that I like I just I. it's like I'm a confrontational person. by Nature so that that part of me has. always been there I have had to tone it. down a little bit because I don't. barcel's so much bigger than just me now.

and right what I do does affect other. people. um and I see it like I go on Fox News. I'll go and talk to Carlson and he knows. I'm not overly like political but every. time I go on there that affects how. people view the whole company and some. people may have different views whatever. so that that I do sort of pay attention. to it still doesn't affect necessarily. what I do like people are mad within our. company that I interviewed Trump right. but you know you're gonna make the. decisions you think are right at the. time yeah dude there was a fun that.

interview was so funny man when he was. like you're like you ever just rattle. off a tweet and then just kind of hit. he's like I still think I'm the only guy. who's ever gotten him to say like yeah I. regret something he's like yeah I do. regret it I don't know that he's ever. been like I regret something in his life. except for that yeah it was so good but. he's like yeah you know you just write. it and go to sleep yeah you wake up. you're like what the [ __ ] did I write. he's like yeah I've done that I've done. that he was listen people have such. strong opinions about him uh I think. right off the bat he kind of realized I.

wasn't like out to be like gotcha right. uh so he he was he was good with me he. was down to earth he was he was not like. his guard wasn't up it was surreal. experience oh look yeah I can only. imagine I remember watching he's. watching that interview and watching you. sit there I'm like god dude that'd be so. like first of all Dave's doing this you. know like he's actually going and like. you know whereas everybody else was just. like making fun of trump or not even. giving him a chance I mean mainstream. media did not I mean he didn't help. himself certain points but they didn't.

help him out of the gate or give them a. chance but yeah right there it's sort of. there's definitely a similarity with him. and how I it's like if you come at him. he'll be a dick 10 times harder back to. you. um when you're president that can cause. like issues like I have so many things. that people still bring up with me and. they'll bring up quotes or whatever and. somebody who came after me and I'm being. like so sarcastic and an [ __ ] back to. them and then they take what it is so I. see it but you're right he's uh you know.

he's the pre he was the president yeah. so. like I'm not the president so I can do a. lot of things I'm not trying to be. presidential and I think some people. like well you should be and he he's a. totally different cat. oh I remember when he was running I. thought right at the beginning I was. like he's gonna win I was like he just. sounds like he just it seems like it's. not a part of a bigger plan you know but. then I wonder once he got an office did. is it just too convoluted in there or.

was he just kind of overshooting his own. Mark or you know that's what I kind of. Wonder because in the beginning he was. kind of like even though he wasn't. really like this came from nothing kind. of guy he was kind of talking to a lot. of people that I think felt. underrepresented or you know or people. who want some tradition in the country. you know and it's like he was dismissed. by so many people and I think. that almost made him more popular with. the people he was resonating like any. way you look at it he won the election.

so there's a large large large portion. of the country he was speaking to and. people are so dismissive if you weren't. on his side if if you like Trump you're. like a racist [ __ ] idiot yeah that's. like so so you're saying like more than. half the country are those people now. I'm sure there's definitely a subsection. within his demo that do fit that. description but certainly not everybody. and you just paint everybody with one. brush and actually made them more. popular doing that oh for sure you know. I've said before I he's intentionally.

divisive which you know I I want people. to get along so that that that's where I. kind of lose it like and it's not just. him it's both sides it's like you need. somebody who at least honestly wants to. bring people together and that I don't. know who that's going to [ __ ] be. that's a good point huh yeah you do and. it's it's not Biden because he he's so. dismissive of the people who do like. Trump it's like they're just. everything's now it is and so that sucks. it is it takes away almost half the.

dating pool I think for a lot of people. too I think about that sometimes because. you know it like it used to be you know. every it used to be it didn't matter so. much. um if someone like you'd have husbands. and wives at a different politics just. kind of yeah no it's toxic now it's. gotten weird. um would you ever run for like a. governor or something [ __ ] no. I ran for mayor of Boston oh you did. yeah I didn't know that I tried to they. they [ __ ] blackballed me so. this was Boston [ __ ] they did they did.

this is I'm telling I was doing that. black people get blackballed all kind of. stuff I was doing the Blackout Tour that. I told you about okay so we rented these. venues we House of Blues is a venue of. Boston like 3 000 people we sold it out. I think seven straight days in like 30. seconds we were doing it so there's a. ton of schools in Boston so like Hey. Monday it's bu barcel blackout Tuesday. BC Wednesday Northeastern so all the. kids at each school would buy it sold. out instantly the the police were so.

[ __ ] like bad they they were breath. have you ever heard of kids getting. breathalyzed in line going down the line. if we sold 3 000 tickets like 20 kids. gone into the show everyone else too. drunk this that I was like this is. [ __ ] [ __ ] so. um I'm like I'm gonna run for mayor so. they can't do this [ __ ] to me anymore uh. and you had to basically get what was it. like 12 000 signatures to get on the. ballot now there's two parts of the. signatures you had to be able to read.

the signature and the person had to be a. registered voter I hired a full-blown. agency that you have professional people. get it uh get the signatures we had like. 20 000 they just ruled ten thousand of. them didn't count there's no way to. appeal there's no nothing so I didn't. make it onto the uh ballot but yeah I I. was like trying to do it that's wild but. other than that no who needs that I. don't who would ever. I've used this quote like the movie. Gladiator when Maximus.

um it's the the the king or uh wants. Maximus to be the the lead of Rome he's. like no thanks though who wants that. headache and he's like that's exactly. why you have to do it who would who in. their right mind would want to be in. politics well like you the person who. want politics should be somebody who's. not doing it for ego who truly cares. about like the well-being of the people. not doing it to money get rich none of. the politicians do that now because why. would you like I never understood that.

with Trump like you're this Rich dude. nobody really hates you like people. actually kind of Love You on The. Apprentice yeah like you know you have. no ill will he's gonna go down is one of. the most hated dudes who ever lived like. why it just I guess ego like yeah maybe. that's ego I mean I could see it if. somebody could say you get to be. president yeah everybody wants to be you. know or a little better you I mean maybe. for like an a you know a couple hours I. don't know if I would do a full term you. know like I think I'd want to be in the.

office and like walk down and see like. that well that's ego yeah it's ego yeah. that's it which is cool but the amount. of hate and the amount like I I get so. much hate and it's all political like. people who don't like me always if you. don't like Dave Florida I can go to your. Twitter and within three you have. something political on your timeline. yeah and it's like who needs that no I. don't know how isolated like these guys. are like when I went and visited Trump. you know everyone's sold pro-trump it's. like he maybe he doesn't even hate. doesn't get to him on a level I don't.

know but no I won't never run yeah but. do you think 10 years from now you're. like I am and I'm [ __ ] around you no. [ __ ] way wow no I think we would I I. would I mean I guess part of me would. like to see you have but then also I I. sometimes feel like politics is just. this like. it's this this shell company for actual. real leaders which is a lot of it is in. the tech world this these days yeah and. even if you look at like you mentioned. the Barstool fund which we gave away 50.

million basically wow like the. government couldn't do that they they. move so [ __ ] slow if you actually. want to get stuff done it's way easier. to do it the way I did it which is we. just set it up 24 hours later the. money's going in and the second the. money comes in the money's going out. they did the government basically did. nothing for like small business they're. still talking about now and so much. fraud with the PPP and [ __ ] like that so. I don't know if it's hard yeah and if. you really want to get stuff done you.

can get stuff done not within you know. the government well it's almost becoming. more like that I think in in the in. America these days it's like. there's all the like you know there's a. few kind there's less companies there's. less mom and pop places there's just a. few larger companies oh totally man it's. ridiculous I wish we had never done so. much globalization I don't know a lot. about that kind of stuff but it's like. you know the guy the kid down the street. it used to be their dad worked at the. factory in the town and they were proud.

of like if their dad's factory made. tables they were proud of the table they. had in their house my dad made this you. know and there was like a sense of like. you were doing something now your table. comes from China you have no idea the. Dad's doing pills the kid is in the. other room you know cooking pills and. then there's a guy in China making a. table his gets shipped off he never sees. they're just like I mean it's kind of a. very small example but no that was a. small business we look for like. generational and that was so sad about.

it like nobody was helping these people. it it really was crazy it's like hey you. can't have customers right but we're not. going to give you the money so like what. do they think is going to happen yeah. it's like that that to me was always the. wildest part yeah. and again I mean you've built up your. career over the time the barcel was the. same I always looked at like I worked my. dick off to get where I was and then if. something that's so far out of control. and it just vanishes like that and. nobody's there to like that is what the. government in my that's what it's. [ __ ] for like that is what we're.

paying taxes and all this [ __ ] nobody. was nowhere to be found like if you want. to keep [ __ ] closed fine but you better. figure out how to take care of the. people who need things to be open or let. people make their own decisions one. another. yeah I agree I mean I go to a lot of. like recovery meetings and stuff and. they closed all those recovery rooms. right right that's crazy bro I had no. joke I had five maybe six friends that. overdosed and died during the pandemic. right died like and it was and people. were like well it's not because but they.

need those rooms like they just [ __ ]. shut it down like what do you think. people I'd rather have covered than yeah. you know and to be honest that was. always my point it's like you let let. people decide right like if you were. you know like my parents or whoever like. scared of covert you do have the option. to stay inside like nobody's coming into. your house you can you can live your. life pretty safely I get it I mean it. was crazy [ __ ] it's like a horror. movie who knows yeah [ __ ] like people. right there like at their funerals over.

Zoom like you know what I'm saying like. what the [ __ ] that's crazy crazy time. yeah crazy time and then I talked to my. friends in Mexican like yeah nobody's. doing [ __ ] down here dude we're [ __ ]. partying we're shooting each other we're. [ __ ] having a blast you know we're. drinking they're shooting each other I. mean not you know not shoot you know or. probably grazing each other but there's. a lot of violence down there. um today's episode is brought to you by. betterhelp we are grateful for their. support. and I'm grateful for what they do.

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really neat Talent like guys like Caleb. uh big cat who's your you know I don't. know if you hired him or he was a. partner no no he hired him okay yep. um you know Glenny balls uh um wow was. there Caleb. big cat and Glennie balls and put in. getting put in that category is pretty. [ __ ] high level they're making me. some better guys I don't know and big. Freddie or whatever who's the guy that's. right the tank yeah that guy yeah listen. we've hired uh I bet the under on him.

huh he's a big dude he'll surprise you. though that's like you don't think he. can fit in an airplane seat and he can't. so he'll he'll Point uh we have Jenna. Marbles do you know her yeah yeah she. came from us really yeah dude I was in. love with her dude yeah hired out of a. tanning salon oh I could see that McAfee. Pat McAfee was us really yeah we've had. we have a pretty good like roster how do. you pick Talent like do you like now. obviously people end up usually speaking.

mostly of people's successes right do. you feel like you've had a good eye for. it or do you feel like you've had just. as many hits and misses what do you. think no we definitely have a good eye. for it and we have misses for sure I. think though the biggest. thing we have an eye for it and we don't. control people at all so you know we. hire somebody and there's like you do. you and and. hopefully they find the word like Caleb. use an example like we saw him uh he was. running up and down the sidelines of. North Carolina he was like because they.

wouldn't because he never started yeah. and it but he wasn't even uniform his. his title was like I think the professor. of morale or director of morale so he. had his blonde hair he'd wear like a uh. ex North Carolina professional football. player who's now in the league their. number we saw him on TV like who the. [ __ ] is this kid we had him on one of. our shows like oh he's got a weird brain. that's what we say like we look for. weird brains yeah guys and we hired him. and it's like yeah do whatever you want.

and you know he kind of he was always. talented and funny bounced around kind. of trying to find his Niche and then he. the Sunday conversation which is now his. his kind of trademark thing and is great. that took a couple years for him to like. fit that exact perfect role and we just. let people sort of do that so I think. it's the combo we have a good eye for. talent but more so we we are so free in. in letting and I don't know if that's. just we're lazy or whatever but we never. tell people right what to do it's like.

you're hired we'll give you the. resources do whatever you want and we've. had a lot of hits because of it like PMT. which is Big Cat yeah dude like that was. all his idea I mean totally. like I thought podcast when when I first. heard about podcaster a guy Kevin Clancy. who's been with us forever oh yeah yeah. like that's a stupid idea podcast you'll. never make money doing that but they. [ __ ] did it obviously they were. smarter than me call her daddy that came. from us yeah yeah Alice Cooper so yeah. we've had a lot of uh.

a lot a lot of big big successful people. that really were I mean McAfee played in. the NFL but no one knew him on the media. side a lot of big people that million. dollars worth of game is a huge like. Urban podcast with us right now. um so yeah we've had a lot of big. successes. um was there someone that you can you. turn the heat on a little chilly out. Yeah I broke out my scarf game for today. I want to become a scarf guy yeah really. yeah oh that's a move I feel like yeah. it is this is a first time kind of.

debuting going with it but yeah it's. good I took I was taking off in the car. I'm like you know what I'm gonna try and. maybe get into the scar phase of my life. there is something nice it feels like it. unless you feel a little bit Regal or. you feel like at least they'll let you. in a department store at the time and. I'm starting to get like fat it kind of. like how do you say that on a video the. other day you were saying how like yeah. I'm sorry I put on weight it comes with. the age so it's like I I've been eat. doing the pizza thing forever uh my. shoulders all [ __ ] so yeah I think.

it's just you know life yeah. um was there a was there a higher uh or. a uh fire or something because oh I. wanted to say this yeah Caleb whenever I. got to know Caleb one thing he Raves. about is that he loves working for you. yeah he he's he's been great I think I. mean he genuinely like you know what I'm. saying like some people say my job but. he has I mean he absolutely loves it I. think it's two things for him that. probably he likes working for us me is. the freedom which I just said and I.

always do what I say so. I have the back of the talent as much as. I can always but like if I say something. it's it's Bond I actually think in his. contract he has something like when Penn. bought us he's like if there's a. disagreement between Penn and me or. something like Dave gets to make the. final decision he just so he just trusts. that he is good to work for somebody. where you you know you can trust like.

they have your best interest and I do. and some people may not like what I say. or do but I'm pretty straightforward and. the track words is like there like 20. years I've been pretty consistently. straightforward honest truthful yeah. is there a higher or a departure that. you regret or that you like somebody. that you let go or anything or did you. have any no I mean we we hired Mike. Rappaport this is a big [ __ ] I don't. like that guy right now uh he doesn't. like me he doesn't like me that that was.

at the Block like I I literally. if I throw a punch I've never been a. fight in my life never thrown a punch in. Anger if I threw a punch right now with. my left arm it would dislocate that's. how [ __ ] up my shoulders are he got me. so mad I sent them a contract to fight. him like that's how [ __ ] that ended. terribly uh the McAfee thing with us. didn't end great but like I don't really. have regrets he was always going to be. like a huge star on his own he's so good. at so many things so no not not too much.

yeah I mean we're we've become to a. degree. and I always said a Saturday Night Live. model like we bring unknown Talent and. try to make them stars and we'll keep. them as long as we can keep them but. really you know if we can't hopefully. they go become big somewhere else and it. adds more credibility for us right. because then people like oh this is a. place where I can get a start and build. my name and either stay with Barstool or. not we've been pretty good at that like. we got a girl now Brianna chicken fry. she's [ __ ] exploding like yeah she's.

she's becoming big so yeah she's cute I. saw her on your thing is she is that. Native American what is chicken fry that. was just she likes chicken fries. like you know like the I think it was. Burger King right chicken fries chicken. fries yeah so oh it's not a last name no. no that was her when we hired her she. already had like Brianna chicken fries. those are Tick Tock user handle oh okay. I think she liked chicken fries late at. night what's up she likes eating late at. night yeah yeah.

um oh I was wondering I thought maybe. she was like Cherokee imagine that'd be. like your Native American name chicken. fry that'd be [ __ ] fire yeah. yeah I almost knocked up this Native. American Girl one time so I met this. girl in a motel right. so how does that work like is there like. uh does do motels have like. Motel bars or like you just saw walking. in a room oh no no this girl we met on. uh social media right got it and this.

was probably Instagram I might even. remember no it was an intentional Meetup. yeah so she drove I think like 10 or 11. hours too and she drove from like she's. a red flag oh yeah yeah it was and she. was a Native American. and so she drove in. and she and uh we ended up making love. or whatever I don't remember exactly. what happened but then on the drive home. I guess she got kind of bored and she. starts saying well if I'm pregnant I'm. gonna keep this child and now I'm like. right out right yeah although to her.

defense you probably do have a lot of. time to think. on a 10-hour drive that's a good point. that takes a lot of things go through. your mind yeah I should have given her. at least five hours to be hypothetically. pregnant on that yeah yeah like a. 10-hour Drive you're you're you're. thinking a lot of [ __ ] yeah yeah. especially when you're just driving back. to the res or whatever and she just get. back there there's a bunch of free. gasoline from the government and you're. like what the [ __ ] am I gonna do with. this family you know if I have a family. but anyway she got intense and God that.

made me so nervous uh. did you um because you got into a. relationship you are I was married I'm. in a relationship now okay in a. relationship now and was it did you were. you looking for a relationship or did. this kind of happen which one the my. current girlfriend current girlfriend no. no. um so like. my ex-wife basically I met when I. started Barcelo right about the same. time and I'm still like best friends. with her she's the best uh and then I. was single for a while probably uh.

being living a a crazier lifestyle let's. say like it was a totally different time. because. parcel with nothing and they're to it. obviously like being well known fame. money brings more women and. opportunities in your life so I've seen. you [ __ ] on Twitter a little at some. point I had seen something you know oh. yeah no I didn't watch all of it yeah. there's some stuff out there that you. know. good for you man you know I get. embarrassed like if I'm I even walk out. of the room backwards because I don't.

want women seeing my butt and stuff no I. was a big video guy like I I that that. probably and back in time it's like who. the [ __ ] would ever want to watch me. [ __ ] so yeah uh but so I don't know five. years single and then just met her uh. Sylvanas her name it was pretty organic. yeah and do you is it kind of less. stressful because I start to find that. like. like as you start you you don't want to. just like hook up with strangers it gets. a little bit like scary kind of like you.

know it's like I don't want a child like. a even a possible child somewhere yeah I. no I was pretty free and loose uh. I would never like in hindsight. I was probably a [ __ ] idiot because. there's a lot of a lot of post [ __ ] that. I've dealt with that a lot of people. know about me I mean I I you know hit. pieces written about me about my sexual. activity sex tapes about it all which I. never would have guessed for like. [ __ ] me like that if if someone back.

in high school was like wait till you. [ __ ] see what this guy is gonna turn. out to be like I I would have never. [ __ ] guessed it uh so yeah I was. probably playing uh fast and loose is. how I describe it but whatever it's um. it's been a wild ride I'll say that yeah. it's been exciting man I think it seems. like it's really been exciting do you. feel like a pressure like I feel the. pressure as I get older to try and stay. like younger and stuff does that feel. hard for you does it no no I I feel like. it's been a fairly natural thing like I.

so I probably cram so much into that. five years of being single like go I. never went to clubs really ever and then. I started going out a lot and you know I. went from the guy who's like with his. buddies if you're trying to save up to. go at once like how the [ __ ] am I going. to afford this table only [ __ ] losers. would pay for that table all our girls. are there but it's like I can't [ __ ]. afford this to you know you're getting. opportunity like I remember I was just. saying on the way over like Super Bowl.

is coming up and I'm getting every. invite in the book like hey come to this. party you have a table here a table. there and I sent it to this guy Paul Gaz. who's who's been employed basically. number one worked at my kitchen table we. went to a Super Bowl party and we had to. pay 25 grand for a table for us that's. like do we have it credit card can we do. it and they [ __ ] put us in a. satellite room we weren't even in the. room where the [ __ ] party was. happening we were watching the party on. a TV and I just I sent them the link I'm. like man times have changed we're.

getting but so I I did that phase I mean. I was doing drugs I was going out all. the time yeah it was just like a very. different phase in my life now I really. don't like being in clubs at all like I. sylvana my girlfriend still loves it but. I've I've toned it I've gotten heard me. like listen I can't I I don't want to be. there like it's not where I want to be I. don't feel comfortable I actually do. feel old in those situations yeah the. first time in my life I look around like. damn I'm a [ __ ] old guy in here so. that part of my life I think is pretty.

much in the rear view like Super Bowl. yeah I'll go out but I mean I was going. out. [ __ ]. four or five days a week damn pretty. pretty heavy pretty heavy and will you. party in priyo could you party pretty. hard or not yeah I was I never I never. used to but yeah and I was we're y'all. doing drugs too cocaine I'm not a big. Coke guy people always think I'm a Coke. guy I'm pretty honest about uh I think. it's the hair probably. this looks like a hair oh the hair looks. like I'll find a gram in it son yeah.

I think it looks like uh like a what. maybe now especially since you live in. Florida maybe that adds to it like you. think like oh this guy yeah no I was I. was doing a lot Adderall would be like I. do a lot just to even wake up work. um I guess he's the best drug there is. like yeah you know I never get like. depressed on it. um but no I was never big on Coke but. like for me to be out I don't know how. people I mean what are you Miami doesn't. [ __ ] close oh yeah Miami's insane man.

so you're there even the trees man. you'll walk by two trees will be [ __ ]. enough away it literally like is like. you walk out of 11 and there's a [ __ ]. line at 9am yeah it's just I don't even. know what people do then yeah how you. work and what are you doing and people. don't start going out it's like hey you. want to go at 11 it's like sure you're. gonna be the only [ __ ] in the club. like nobody's out yet so it's a super. late City uh and. yeah I was I was definitely partying I.

was definitely partying dude a friend of. mine got all coked up one night fell off. of his balcony right landed on another. balcony right and T.I the rapper came. out and found him. yeah he's a big T.I is a big big Miami. guy yeah yeah there's all sorts of [ __ ]. I remember I was like who who was it uh. who's who's the Miami guys I was at 11. there's another rapper who was always in. Miami whatever whoever this guy he's a.

big rapper I and. the camera guy came up I moved out of. the way he's like hey this guy ruins the. story not knowing him I'll probably. think of it put Miami rapper look at. Google Miami rapper is wizzy thick guy. no he's a little guy okay oh it might be. uh what's his name uh. who has that same beat over and over. again. um. uh uh but he's from Atlanta that guy uh. he wears the the the green gloves in. that one video. ludicrous no no no Pitbull Sean Kingston.

no no he's a little skinny guy. oh oh uh he's been around forever but. he's like still super popular Nelly. isn't going to bother the [ __ ] out of me. not Nelly. play Guess That rapper. T I almost it was similar I feel like. Bobby Shmurda no no I feel like it was. keep going down. Hulk Hogan no not a rapper uh Jason. Derulo I did pizza review with him.

though. he seems like a nice guy he was he ate. pizza with no no cheese though which is. wild you know who told me the Earth was. flat two black guys at a pizza parlor. the Earth was flat first time I ever. heard it. that's Kyrie uh yeah it might have been. who the [ __ ] am I thinking of I. can't Dahlia who lives in Miami he. actually just he. I want to say it was with a t too but I.

can't remember Trick Daddy no I like. that song though take it to the house uh. my who. whatever the story is [ __ ] ruined. yeah. it's ruined forget the [ __ ] dude I. did uh I went to Paris fashion week last. week right and which was crazy yeah. which is crazy right so this guy. um comb delaying he's like a fashion guy. right he makes fashion so he had um.

comedians come and be in his fashion. show Andrew Schultz went. um a couple of other guys. uh and. it's the fashion finally was at like 11. p.m and Kodak Black is sitting in there. with a baby in the front row. like he he. you all time. name drops I was credited. in Kodak Black and pardoned by Trump.

were you really yes. he credited you Trump mentioned. some convoluted like Kodak Black. actually reached out to me like during. the uh Barstool fund I think he donated. and then trumped when he pardon him he's. like Kodak Black donated to like Dave. Portner the Barcelo funny is like a good. guy it was a little blurb I was like. what the [ __ ] world am I in like Kodak. Black Trump crazy yeah everything's. crazy now it is does it excite you or.

does it scare you like how everything. the lines are so blurred Everything. feels so crazy the news you can't trust. the news anymore so there's conspiracy. theories people are always like there's. all these conspiracy theories but it's. like a lot of it is because you can't. rely on the news so people are gonna try. and get whatever they think the news is. yeah no I the whole thing yeah that. which I agree I don't trust the [ __ ]. news like everybody has an angle yeah. I've said that boy I don't even know. where you go if you want like a a. non-spin take on something where the.

[ __ ] do you go I don't know. um so yeah that that is just a way of. life uh but I don't know I found it. crazy everyone's just got an agenda yeah. everybody every there's nobody who. doesn't have an agenda I know it's. getting weird huh yeah yeah big time I. just wonder kind of how does that end. you know or do we evolve out of it you. know like everything's gotten so like me. you know. um. I don't know it's an interesting it. definitely feels like an interesting. time to be alive um you got to go and do. Joe Rogan Experience that was your first.

time right yeah it was my first time. what were you pretty nervous tell me. about that yeah I I didn't know what to. expect I I really didn't because I was a. huge podcast guy and I people always I. always got like hey you should go on. Rogan. um. yeah I'm not like ever somebody really. necessarily I did ask to go on Rogan. once and that was when all the [ __ ]. negative [ __ ] was happening I wanted to. say my case but I didn't know what to. expect uh his Studio was sick it was. easy like and and I met the producer. Jamie before he's like I know all the. bar stool [ __ ] I have no idea what he's.

gonna talk about he may talk about all. of it none of it. um smoked a cigar I'm not a cigar I got. like [ __ ] weirdly high from smoking. it's hard isn't it yeah it's like I am. not a cigar guy in his studio is like. trippy right it's like with the little. the lights and it went by quick my main. thing honestly because I know he goes so. long it's like if I go two hours that. probably means he [ __ ] didn't like me. and like I'm out so once it ended I'm. like how long was it but it was cool and. it's so big you know you don't even real. I mean I know how big he is because.

we're sore in the business but even. still like after we did it so many. people just walking down the streets. like oh listen to Rogan show the phone I. mean his reaches is crazy he's probably. the most influential you know guy in. media there is I think think so I think. it's been like that for a while yeah you. know I think and especially people. didn't realize that until he got that. big contract that almost kind of I mean. it was amazing for him and and he. deserves it but when they put out that. article that he made like a hundred. million a year or something yeah and I. think it was twice that but uh that's.

when everybody like that's when people. started attacking and that's when you. saw these hit pieces it's like. it's just it's so dangerous kind of like. um. I don't know the the the the media is. just so scary it's like they can shape. anything any way they want and I. uh he he he's definitely perceived as a. threat because he he's he uses escape. velocity whatever but you can't control. right if you can't control how somebody.

thinks and you really can't hurt them. that that is a threat I think the. attacks come when and why they came. because what's the point really of going. after him when he's a solo guy you don't. give a [ __ ] when you have Spotify. there's a thought I can get to him now. right because spot is now Spotify the. pen yeah it's like Spotify backed him up. but I mean he did have to delete it uh. episodes and maybe say things that. ordinary life was by himself maybe would. have maybe he wouldn't have but I think.

that is that's the switch it's like aha. he kind of has the answer to somebody. now whether he actually does or he. doesn't but somebody's signing his. checks right before nobody is so what's. the point of going out what is that. going to do because you may just. actually ignite more because he doesn't. give a [ __ ] his audience is his audience. yeah that would be to me the GIF. difference and why it happened when he. did that yeah. um yeah I remember when I first went in. dude I was Sinners I got a twit a tweet. a DM from him in the middle like in just.

like 11 p.m or something but I was going. to bed early so it's like middle of the. night but. um. and it was like hey do you want to call. my show and I remember being like Oh my. God I was excited too when I got it yeah. because if you people always hit me up. like hey can you have me get on or sit. and it's like there's no real way to get. like Joe like will literally hit people. up that's exactly that's how he does it. it was mine so the New York Times wrote. basically a hit piece on me and it. they're working on for a year I knew. about it they dug through my entire. [ __ ] past like so trash.

every single person that I was friends. with in my network they're reaching I. was having girls call me like I didn't. even know or send me DMS being like what. is this about. um a year long they really found nothing. it turned into just like again like I'm. a scumbag gambling hippies the point of. the story the reporter wrote in the. article like we reached out to Dave for. comment he didn't reach back and I. posted my exchanges with this woman and.

they went back I think seven months. where I'm like hey I know you're digging. into my past I will sit down meet with. you we both get to record you can ask me. anything I'll answer anything you want. I'm right here she kept responding I'm. eager to meet soon soon this went on for. months of her being like I'm eager to. meet with you I'll talk to you soon. ghost for like uh five six articles she. writes the whole article she's like you. have 48 hours to respond to a million. bullet points I'm like [ __ ] that it's. like I gave you the opportunity and I.

posted the exchange Rogan saw that and. he's like the New York Times it's the. worst and that that prompted it and. actually I have my phone so I I she she. never is the reporter never responded I. wrote her name is Emily Steele this lady. wrote the article on me this is Friday. January 13th I just tweeted a thank you. for the hit piece you wrote on me it's. what landed me on Rogan and introduced a. brand new audience to me thank you for. being a hater it actually made my brand. stronger than ever thank you so I just.

sent her that little [ __ ] for you yeah. they [ __ ] do that [ __ ] man they do. that [ __ ] they sneak around people call. somebody call your old employer it's. crazy and it's like I've always said hey. I'm here like I'm I'm saying I'll sit. down you can ask me [ __ ] anything and. record it as long as I can too if you're. trying to do a fair and what's crazy. like I grew up you know in my brain like. the New York Times is like legit yeah. that is what I thought of the New York. Times so I always look at that unless.

you're in this [ __ ] world and you're. like part of it like even my dad who's a. liberal hates [ __ ] Trump that type of. guy like he still has a hard time being. like Yeah The New York Times is biased. like he almost has to because he's seen. it but it it it is scary because if. you're not in it you just believe like. most normal people aren't gonna do the. back research no no hit piece they're. like oh that's true so that that part of. it is [ __ ] scary well it's even like. even headlines in anything yeah if. somebody writes like Larry's gay and you. see that as the headline like damn dude.

right because he's gay yeah you hear. Larry's gay yeah Larry's [ __ ] gay ad. they didn't even know who they didn't. even look at if who it is if it's. Lawrence or who it is yeah no that is. nobody it's just like and then it's like. and there's never any apology that's the. weirdest thing you're like you're you're. there's never any like recuperate or any. uh so Business Insider who I [ __ ]. hate wrote uh hit piece on me and it was. vicious basically made me sound like a. rapist and like within 24 hours I had.

all the receipts like oh thank God. um of like well here's all the proof. that this is totally [ __ ] [ __ ] I. was I guess naive at the time like oh. they're gonna retract it say apology. they said they wrote another article and. my lawyer was like well they can now say. It's News it's like well it's only news. because they [ __ ] wrote it but it. becomes new it's like what what kind of. [ __ ] up game is this it's news now.

it's crazy it's [ __ ] crazy I went all. the way [ __ ] sue their asses and it. it just the judge came back they're like. there's no way. being bad at your job isn't an excuse to. like so it's almost like Johnny Depp. Johnny Depp when he's sued he originally. sued the newspaper and lost because the. newspaper can always be like well we. didn't know that she wasn't telling the. truth or we didn't look at any of the. other evidence you have to sue the. actual like he sued Amber Heard so the. whole thing's [ __ ] I know huh makes me.

really jaded yeah dude this [ __ ] makes. everybody mad I think as you start to. feel like there's no way to win against. this thing and whatever this thing is. but it starts to feel like there's. something that you can't you know the. only way I look at it. people [ __ ] hate me are always going. to hate me I could cure cancer they'd be. like why didn't you do it faster now the. flip side the people like me and love me. are always going to love me and and I've. said before what's great now I tell the. truth but my crowd is so kind of like.

in my corner it and I wasn't but if I. wasn't telling the truth they'd probably. still believe me it's like it's almost. they're on my side and the people aren't. aren't now I good for the people like me. I do tell the truth and it's always. honest but it's so hard to convince once. people have their minds set up or made. up it's hard to get them off that point. they they just ignore like facts yeah. yeah people want to be blind and facts. that's kind of bizarre but then. sometimes I wonder how much do I fall. into the same trap even myself you know.

it's like I sometimes wonder that. um. we saw this thing like BuzzFeed was. starting to use like AI to generate. articles do you see that yeah stock went. up like a bazillion percent because of. it but do you like because you have like. real you know employees with alcoholism. and whatever else yeah we got the real. deal yeah you guys got the [ __ ] guy. you know he's right there you know some. guys you know gonna overdose or his. wife's gonna leave him because he's. writing another article for you you know.

it's like you got yeah but you got real. people we got real people yeah you got. real people with [ __ ] asthma you know. like [ __ ] real [ __ ]. um does this kind of [ __ ] scare you or. do you think this is cheap or do you. think anything about it it's a business. I mean. I I feel like BuzzFeed has always been. the lowest common denominator for talent. so it doesn't surprise me nothing will. ever for our business we look for weird. talented people there's no AI or. anything like that who can you know. reply well any balls uh but no this is.

in our world. it doesn't scare me it doesn't surprise. me. um because it says buzzfeed's using AI. to write its articles after firing 180. employees yeah and they're talking about. their like listicles and [ __ ] right so. they're just aggregating I feel bad for. the people who got fired too but I. wouldn't say those people were like the. Pinnacle of like Talent you know right. um so yeah you know thoreau's no walls. yeah you're coming up with like the you. know that I don't know 10 things you.

should [ __ ] be doing when you like. come home after your groceries I don't. know what the [ __ ] yeah yeah 10 things. you do when your cat dies yeah right. yeah so they're just aggregating it. again I do feel bad for the employees uh. but this isn't I won't view BuzzFeed as. like my world necessarily we really are. looking for like talented people yeah or. weirdos. yeah me and Caleb wanted to try and do a. show you know. it would be fun I like spending time. with him. uh the the bigger I I would say the.

bigger. threat if you want to call it to my. world our world is the evolution of like. technology let's take you for example. there's probably a world back when we. started where you wouldn't have nearly. the vehicles to get your name out there. without like coming to us you know or or. somebody or tick tocker like Tick Tock. doesn't exist so if you're a talented. person how do you get your content out. there it's far fewer places.

um so that that's the harder thing. because you know we really have to find. the talent early early because once. someone's pre-established on social. media or through their platforms they. don't need us at all so that that's the. harder thing with do you have somebody. looking for that kind of thing yeah. we're always looking for talent really. always now when you say always looking. but you have like it's like an employee. that's actively kind of no we don't. right so I guess not we're we're always. willing to hire Talent if we find it. right right but it it is hard you got to.

get them super early and and our value. prop on that early is basically we'll be. like gasoline will accelerate you you. sign you know a generally like a two. three year contract and if you're good. good. being in our Network should really like. give you maybe a a way to cut the line. so to speak to get your name out there. then you can reevaluate you want to stay. with us you want to do it on your own. that type of thing yeah. um what do you think anything about like. this GP this GP Chat thing that thing. that can make all its own articles and.

stuff it can write papers you know is. that what's the difference between that. and the listicle [ __ ] chat gbt can be. like hey will you write me a um. a paper. you know it's a Dave Portnoy writes a. paper on uh young men trying to meet. each other in the 17th century right. yeah at night yep and you put that. information in there and then it'll do. like a three-page paper that would be in. your voice sounds like a good [ __ ]. way to like get through school yeah.

I just wonder how weird that's going to. get if every you know like I at the same. questions I mean the same questions I. guess would come it's like well they're. sourcing the information from somewhere. you know so who's fact like. how do you know where you're getting the. information from what's real what's not. what's biased that doesn't change that. part of it yeah I don't know yeah I. guess in the end in the end I think. you're still gonna have to have real. talent will prevail. I think even with stuff like this. hopefully most people are going to see. through like oh this is just another.

[ __ ] article yeah and it's not. anything that even a human wrote I feel. like you can see that stuff pretty. easily on the internet and if you're. falling for that [ __ ] then you you are. something is wrong with you and. yeah I don't know what what these things. will be used for exactly but I I know in. our world at least. a lot of what people like is because. they are attached to the personalities. so like if if you switch the names on. who like you I it changes how people.

perceive it because. if it's Theo Vaughn wrote or did. something people know you and they view. it through that lens and that affects. their enjoyment or lack thereof yeah you. know yeah like when Frank left the Jags. game early that [ __ ] broke my I was like. what is even going on but I found myself. enveloped in his life I want to know. what's going on why is he leaving her I. didn't know I was leaving early either. at blew my it's like this is the best. game and he flew all the way you're. talking to bills bills Dolphins yeah. Bill's Dolphins sorry when he left and.

when Frank left the Bills Dolphins game. early I just that's the attitude of. Barstool and and full display he I think. I was mad at first because like why'd we. [ __ ] send him there yeah if he can't. stay and by the way you're never gonna. make a six six pm flight the game is. long but the game's at one you're gonna. be sitting in traffic there's no chance. so it was doomed from the beginning so. like this went through like 10 different. things at parcel like people booked it. it's like in what world you can't it's a. one o'clock game you're never gonna make. six so yeah yeah he's in that Park a lot.

with. and I think he really thought he had to. leave he's like what do you talk like of. course you'll stay stay the night and. fly it's crazy. um Tom Brady just retired yeah yeah did. you feel anything about that so he's. he's do you know Tom. very Loosely all right but I have like a. long history with him because of where I. grew up like of course you know I uh.

the good the bad the ugly like so he. first of all he wants the same school as. me Michigan so he's the same year okay. so oh really he remembers from college. yeah yeah so went to college with him. then he comes to the Pats and I'm I'm in. Boston and in the Patriots rise uh. really coincided with the bar stool rise. so we're so closely linked together. everything since I've been involved with. like the cops twice with Brady once in a. negative fashion once in well cops. involved is never good but one.

anti-brady I guess you could say and one. pro like so he way back in the day uh. he he basically Giselle was on the beach. with their little kid Ben he was an. infant Ben Brady god wow uh and he was. naked who was Thomas no Ben the kid with. Gisele on a beach myself Beach Miami. naked too if I was with her yeah well. keep in mind the kid's an infant her son. oh okay so it's his son tiny little like. the Gerber baby oh wow huge dick huge.

dick no way for a little baby and you. saw it how far away were you no it was a. [ __ ] Paparazzi photo it was on the. internet and I could see that wand on. him yeah and I made a joke that going. deep this was the height of the Peyton. Manning Tom Brady like rivalry so I I. wrote a Blog in this one blog he said. check out the Howitzer on Brady's baby. and I wrote a sentence below I go Peyton. Manning could never have a kid with this. big of a hog or something like this.

world war three broke out Dave's a. pedophile he's sexualizing kids the kid. was an infant police knocked on my door. and Austin came in like we're gonna make. your life real [ __ ] horrible if you. don't take this down like people are. saying I should be beaten to death it. was oh it's like Mystic River it was. crazy so. that was way early and then fast forward. the Patriots explode where we end up. going to jail defending Brady for when. he got suspended by the NFL handcuffed. ourselves to each other at NFL.

Headquarters I've been dragged out of. the Super Bowl in handcuffs. um Bob Kraft the owner of the team when. Brady came back with Tampa Bay called me. up he's like I want you to be my guest. for when Brady comes back so it's been. the full circle and I have met him I. think a couple times. um but I like so if I saw him I'd be. like hey Tommy like hey Dave how's it. going good to see you but I don't know. him like on a real personal level but. yeah it's uh. their success and everything that.

happened with the Patriots. I don't think Barstool probably is the. same if that doesn't happen it put us in. the headlines in a lot of different ways. so it's just a weird magical ride it. really has been it's been nuts. real fascinating man congratulations. just on getting to have that experience. because life you know to have the ups. and downs to have all of it you know to. really have so many experiences. football's so big in this country and. the Super Bowl's so big and we became. Barstool the face of like the Patriot.

fan like there's a game they could. probably pull if you pull up like uh. Goodell clown towel so could tell a. commissioner in a league like the first. time he came back to uh Gillette after. all the controversy we printed like 70. 000 of these towels with his face and a. nose and we we got we're like we need. volunteers to hand these things out. it was a big [ __ ] thing like if you. you can if you on the images for it oh. yeah you'll see like the whole [ __ ].

Stadium basically. oh. like go to the bottom right we had the. shirts so yeah like wow there you are. yeah so like the whole [ __ ] Stadium. you Dell in there it just it was a wild. time and and we became people just they. hated us because people hated the. Patriots like but that was your thing. you did was it bar stools in here it's. like this infection it's like this yeah. it's almost like this like this plague. but it's not a negative plague it's like.

this. disrupter yeah and the Patriots were the. most talked about hated loved whatever. team for like two decades oh yeah and. we're just right in the middle of it I. remember Tony Collins by there didn't he. was that Tony yeah you're going way back. yeah yeah running back yeah I I I got to. meet him one time he went to ECU he's a. cool cat man yeah I like Tony Collins. but I think he played in their Super. Bowl game that would have been 85 and. they lost to the Bears man yeah yeah wow. yeah yeah yeah yup that was when the. Patriots they were very good that Steve. Grogan was like my guy he was like I.

loved him yeah that I mean the Patriots. are for the most part terrible franchise. up to Bill the Brady hour they had two. Super Bowls um and the second one being. the Parcells but like if you like Tech. Mobile did you ever play like oh yeah. like they're the worst team in Tech. Mobile very sad I can't even remember. they had a lot of I think one of the. running back was white I think even. could have uh yeah Craig James. half the Pony Express yeah I mean yeah. them in the Colts are the two worst. teams in it. yeah that was a lot. um what do you got for the Super Bowl.

man where are you landing at with it. I don't know I'm back and forth uh I. think right now you gotta see if the. Chiefs get healthy their wide receivers. are so banged up but if they get back I. I think they get a pretty good shot I. bet it'll be a good game I think we're. heading out there so we have a bar in. Scottsdale which is cool so oh nice yeah. we'll be doing like live radio there all. week so we'll be there the whole time oh. wow oh yeah I'm trying to see if I'm. gonna get over there I I expect to see. you yeah I think we'll probably figure. hopefully I'll figure something out.

um yeah I feel like the eagles it just. feels like there's some kind of weird. Destiny thing going on there I mean. they're just tearing people up I can't. tell I mean it's the game they beat San. Fran no quarterback like anybody could. be I mean I've never seen an NFL team. they literally couldn't throw a forward. pass so you're not gonna win many games. that way I think the Giants suck. the Eagles will number one team best. team the whole time in the NFC but I. don't know how good they are right yeah. that division there was no there was so. much disparity in the League this year.

between like good teams there's like. there's so many bands and I thought the. AFC was overall better but I think the. Eagles are very good yeah they're gonna. be a very good game yeah yeah I think. it's going to be exciting. um what did you have you seen this power. slap and stuff yes. it's crazy. what do you mean by crazy because it's. because people are getting like well. their faces are getting like deformed. and [ __ ] yeah one guy's wife couldn't. recognize him you know so that's crazy. yeah I saw the clip of the woman doing. like the somersault after yeah no I see. it's nuts it's nuts well I mean people.

love that [ __ ] it does remind me of. early UFC like Earl UFC because if you. go Google it. a lot of hate out there online like this. is the worst thing that's ever [ __ ]. happened. um you know obvious a lot of people have. opinions on Dana White. his incident oh that was crazy that that. happened right when the league started I. almost feel like I wonder if that was. planned it's like unbelievable. um because his wife's at least a lot or. she's probably bantamweight I don't know. I didn't get it's hard to see I don't.

know about that uh I don't know what. what qualification would be but. so if you Google it there's law hate. right but. it's entertaining. but people are getting hurt one guy. bought a van right if you see that the. guy left the place and bought a van for. no reason like and he didn't even. there was no re like something so. they're saying his brain got you know. like his wires got crossed and. something's like you got to buy a van. yeah imagine this going first of all. imagine buying a van yeah that's kind of.

cool yeah kind of but if you don't even. need a van you're just like hey I'm. getting a vet like you [ __ ] come home. from losing the fight with them to pick. a van yeah listen it's entertaining I I. like I really do think it's early I used. to watch like the early early ufcs no. weight class that was like ancient Rome. yeah and you had to fight like you fight. you win you fight again it's like. tournament and people are like horrified. though what the [ __ ] is this it reminds. me a lot because there's definitely. something about it and I don't know what. that says about the human psyche it's. like yeah I want to watch I like this is.

[ __ ] interesting like slap them. harder so uh it's an interesting thing I. think Dana's pretty confident it's gonna. be successful and numbers are big so. we'll see yeah it's hard to deny those. clips when you see them it's like you. want to stay on it but you don't want to. it's like that and the people like. attacking CVS workers those are the two. clips where I'm like do I want to keep. watching like [ __ ] like that like you. just now. I'm sure they'll have to just like UFC. that's what I say it if it continues and. grows they'll have to put some.

regulations which he already said but. there's something there there's. undeniable something there a human. psyche it's like yeah I want to watch. somebody get slapped so silly they do a. somersault or if it's I don't know what. it says about humans but like you said. people [ __ ] used to go to the. Coliseum in Rome to watch [ __ ]. Gladiator so yeah there's something. inherent to it yeah. um with all the success with Barstool. you guys have crushed it so much and and. and your journey through it do you think. that there'd be a do you ever start to. have ideas of like there's something.

else you want to do down the line I know. you guys are you have a watch company. now yeah brick watch Brick watch right. that's how you tag us applied for it you. did crucified so the the number one. thing I've been crucified it for in my. life for doing watches because I they're. they're not cheap they're 2400 bucks. okay and people's nice looking thank you. it is I saw Eric Olson have one no is it. Greg Olsen yeah he had it on. um but there's a community to watch. people who take their watches so [ __ ]. seriously that I did I was I built mine.

was like built for people like me who. I'm not gonna spend like 10 grand on. Rolex but I thought I want a watch. that's clean looks good I spent a lot of. time like coming up with the design of. it it's more of a fashion watch people. went under the hood they it was. we'll see what happens with it but. whenever I post it like watch snobs they. come from my throat really crazy like. time knots he's like [ __ ] yeah yeah. yes time knots it's like a [ __ ]. second monkeys out yeah no they're. they're like I could buy this watch for.

this [ __ ] has this movement and does. this and [ __ ] sucks my dick and you. know it doesn't do that they're crazy. watch people. and they thought they're like you're. doing it as a scam it's like what the. [ __ ] you talking about doing out of this. game why like no I'm not and it's like. by the way I'm at the point and maybe. rightly or wrongly where I can get. investors for every people like oh he's. a smart business guy so if I'm like I'm. doing something people knew I was doing. this they were like begging to throw. money and I was like no because honestly.

if it doesn't work I don't want you to. be able to be like in my grill like if. I'll lose my own money and I don't have. to worry about a phone call from anybody. yeah that's kind of nice huh yeah so I. it's my own money that I I either will. lose or make but yeah it's been a wild. experience I've done a the. people it's slowed down a little bit but. when I launch it people coming for the. throat but to answer a question beyond. that and that was just something I I. thought would work right it's like I I. it's kind of that entrepreneurial spirit. I spent a year or so year and a half.

developing it beyond that. one misconception I think people have. always had about me is like I'm ultra. driven like to do [ __ ] like I think I. have two more years with barcel. guaranteed. um. and that could disappear to a beach who. [ __ ] knows like I don't I don't know. I I don't have that inherent need I. don't think to work hmm people don't. believe me about that they think I'm an. egomaniac like I'll have to be in the. headlines I don't we'll see. I mean always an instigator I just don't.

know if that'll kind of disappear and I. hope it doesn't you know it's fun to. watch you instigate through the world I. think yeah you know it's been really. entertaining I mean it's been. entertaining. um you know I've long been a fan and. then I got to meet you and you seem like. a very uh you just seemed a lot more. even down to earth than I expected man. and I know that's a weird it's not a. compliment to give someone but I think. you look at someone's life and it looks. so busy and insane and then you meet. them and they seem uh you know it's. interesting to find that somebody that. seems kind of down to earth. um so like I'm sure with like in your. work like there's a lot of decisions to.

be made right have you always been a. good decision maker do you have like a. process when it comes to that because. you probably have to make decisions. pretty quick yeah no I just go with my. gut like uh I always view it. sort of Family Feud style like you know. if you watch a Family Feud you got the. head guy at the table right oh yeah and. then everyone shouts the answers at them. if you hear a good answer you're like. all right I'll go with that guy but even. if they have the right answer but in my. gut I'm like no I get the right answer. I'll go with mine I may get the X but it.

that's kind of how it is it's all gut. based yeah yeah there's no. it. I look at this I follow my gut since I. started we've been wildly successful a. lot a lot of breaks that I could have. never dreamed of and I didn't start. barcel really to like be here I just. didn't want to hate my job waking up in. the morning but uh why would I stop. following my gut it's got us this far so. you have a mentor that you reach out to. if there's things that like you're. unsure about occasionally there's a. couple guys uh there's there's dude Mike.

rapoli. um who I met through horse racing he. started like. um Vitamin Water he started. um body armor so he sold both for like. billions he's a crazy guy but down to. earth nice so sometimes like business. questions I'll ask him Erica nardini our. CEO we have like the best relationship. so I'll run [ __ ] by her. um. you know my family but. those are those are kind of it we met a. guy who sells they do like horse you.

know the horse uh. does sex with other horses oh yeah yeah. breeding and their horse was like a. champion it won like a. it won the damn. you know. I don't know what it is the Kentucky. Derby no I think it was like brick stone. or Bricktown or I don't know what it's. called but uh yeah maybe Kentucky Derby. I can't remember but that or the. Brookstone or the Brickstone so they're. wondering so but people will pay and he. said like like all through the week. there's just lines of like people.

bringing in their horse and the horse. has sex with it and then. they'd make like thirty thousand dollars. every time the horse pumps and it's just. out there pumping all all fall yeah. that's crazy yeah what that has to do. with oh rapoli I mentioned the horse guy. yeah breeding that's where all the money. is God yeah and they have to have it. like natural you can't like artificial. inseminate it has to they actually have. to [ __ ] that's part of the rules yeah. yeah cause you get to be right there he. said yeah and it's like if it doesn't. take or it doesn't work you still. [ __ ] spend the money yeah damn boy.

that's a lot for a glass yeah put it out. to stud that's basically what that's. called the male they put out stuff they. bring the females. boom bang bang. you're a busy guy and so like obviously. you're like super busy do you have like. a day-to-day routine a ritual that you. do every morning this might be a bad. question I don't know if I've been asked. yeah no it it. I've definitely taken the foot off the. gas a little bit like the early days I I. much more do uh no not not as much. anymore I mean I have my schedule like.

the BFF podcast which is like a Tuesday. we'll have college depending on sport. like sport shows to do my pizza review. is every single day so I got to make. sure those are in. um I'm gonna start day trading again. probably in March that'll be like at the. beginning of the stock market at the end. of it but I've definitely taken the gas. the foot off the pedal a little bit I. mean 20 years a long [ __ ] time to be. doing something yeah would you ever come. up with like a investing arm through. Barstool do you think yeah I I.

theoretically because uh at some point a. lot some of your fans will start to get. older yeah and they'll have in money. they want to invest yeah so well and. other things yeah yeah potentially I. don't know maybe I mean it might be. interesting you know yeah especially if. you were doing it or you get involved. with people that do it well yeah I'm. sure a lot of your supporters would want. to have the same or do the same. um are we done yeah I think we covered a. lot of stuff ma'am all right dude thanks. so much for hanging out dude yeah no. it's uh it was fun I'm glad I got to do.

it yeah I appreciate it man yeah for. sure um I want to come back on BFF. sometime open invite praise brother all. right all right thanks Dave cool nah I'm. just floating on the breeze. I must be. Cornerstone. I'll share this piece of my life. [Music].