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Well, so Black Friday is always well, I don't know why we keep getting those glitches.

I hold you response, Michelangelo, and I expect you to be in here till fucking you're 100 years old and doing test till you can figure out how to stop in future episodes. These glitches in my ears, because I just did BFX pod. Did you hear it again? Do you.

Am I the one who hears it? So we do it every show.

So why are we just going to keep pretending it doesn't happen? And then when the show's done, we forget about till next time when I sit down, have the glitches in my ears, we'll get through it the show.

But it keeps coming back every time we do it.

So something has to be fixed. I don't know if it's a computer. I don't know what is.

Anyways, I'm glad that happened because it is like being at a cockfight when you take a little stuffed animal and you start punching the rooster in the face to get his lather up before he gets in the fight. And you're asking me about Black Friday, Eddie. And we got Michaelangelo. Can't get the glitch out of my ears, so he's working me into a lather to get into the segment. So thank you, Michelangelo. Clearly well played. For the fourth week in a row, we have the same exact tech issues.

So and this should be a surprise to nobody. Black Friday is huge for us. Always is. I sent out that email. Did you read it, Eddie? What was the email that I sent out, which was essentially I don't have in front of me? You may, but it essentially was like, listen, I'm very proud that barstool still has not had any layoffs during this pandemic.

Corona, look at every other media company, ESPN file, you name it.

They're having layoffs left and right, the athletic, because it's hard to get ad dollars because not because we're not producing for advertisers, but advertisers clothes. They're cutting budgets this that we haven't laid off anybody. We fought tooth and there it is again. We fought tooth and nail to keep everybody employed. And merch is a big reason we can do that because we picked up merch and we're coming up with creative ways. So I sent an email saying, hey, Black Friday is coming.

Black Friday, Cyber Monday, really important for the company. You know, this is what lets us not lay people off and keep doing what we do.

So I thought I sent a fair, nice email reminder. So Black Friday rolls around. I'm up till midnight. I send the email. All right. We can promote it. And I'm pushing stuff in Black Friday and we're doing well with sales.

And then Paul Golinski, store sales guy, he's like, hey, he's helping with beef pot because we remember we came in here steaming about the creative process. He took it upon himself, put a team together way, better, way better.

So till Michelangelo start fucking with the with the ones and twos here, I was in a good mood. And there it is again to people at home here that every time just me. So I don't hear it.

Just to be clear. I don't hear it. So it's something in your studio, right? Got it.

OK, so. Paul comes over and we're talking about Piaf's. He's like, oh, I put together an email for you. You want to see how many tweets like and promo on Twitter, Instagram, whatever it may be for basically every employee like. Yeah, OK, so then he gave me the list and.

I called Erica, I'm like, have you or I'm like, have you mentioned any of these people that haven't done anything yet? Because I noticed one had come out. By the way, I am playing like absolute hero ball. Because, Eddie, if you go to hear what's going on my headset right now, it's virtually impossible to think. So. A couple that stuck out and I had already thrown a feeler out on Whippy, to be honest before, because I got a list of all the products that were being sold and there was almost nothing new from Bastable outdoors.

And so I'm like, how does Baras? Because I think it's a cool logo itself.

So my antenna was up a little bit, but then I get the list. Nothing basically from Whippy, no promo, nothing large was another one that stuck, didn't tweet once like nothing. And, you know, Carrabba's did very little. It was a lot of people who just did nothing. And in it infuriated me clearly, because this is like I'm not I could almost understand it back in the day when, like, all merch sales went to my pocket and, you know, then I kept a lot of it.

But I, you know, give some to the guys. But a small team, I don't get a fuckin red cent, all right?

I don't get a red cent of what's being sold.

Now, it goes to I, I don't get any of it, but I'm out there promoting it hard, getting, you know, my message out there, putting on my Instagram stories. And these people like Y p who hasn't been in the office for fucking a year, God knows why he's doing. He always has something up his sleeve. What he's doing, I know he got engaged is on a honeymoon probably for fucking on our dime for a year.

His film, what, ten episodes is something I thought film ten episodes a day of different shit. And you don't have the wherewithal to to help promote again is not it's everybody. This I made it crystal clear it was very important for us and to keep everybody employed and have it like gives us a little breathing room is from to me and it's just to not do it. How is it that the people are promoting it the most like? Are the people who really would be impacted the least?

Like Dan me like KFC is all over that. To me it's insanity. So it really did drive me fucking bananas. And Whippy obviously texted me like all this fucking made up thing. Fuck you.

I wrote back in that text like Fuck You and Large jumped on it after, but it just to me shows chips down. These people don't give a fuck. They, they, they live in a fantasy land and maybe they don't care that much about their job. Honestly, that's what it felt like.

And I put out the thing we're looking for a new head of Basel. I'm serious about that.

Like why he didn't build why the sociales of Passell outdoors. We did. We put people on Wikipedias Dick like he really does not do much. So I could. And we have so many applicants for that more qualified than he is, more established than he is. It's just like what world? And I'm being very honest and transparent and fearing. I like Whippy like as a human. But if you're not going to show an ounce of respect for your job in a way, me, then get the fuck out of here.

That's how I felt about it.

First sales guy, 700 people reached out about the past lotus position. Yeah. And like some like blue checkmark people with hundreds of thousands of followers who have, like, established credibility in the area just. To totally ignore. The most obvious March day, I do not get it on any level. It's not even about Eddie selling merch, meaning like I don't care if you try if you try with me, I generally accept that, like, a try guy works like if you fuckin do your best and come up with ideas or show effort or initiative and it doesn't work, you'll never be on the wrong side of the law with me.

You really won't. But to just do nothing and to do nothing combined with the fact you already I've already reached out a couple of times. What are you doing right now, Whippy?

No communication, no nothing. He is somebody.

And again, I'm harping on him, but there's multiple people I felt that way with.

But he is somebody who I feel like has gotten so comfortable and just really infuriated and I kicked him out. It's important he's no longer in it.

Logit dun dun. Did he respond after you said, fuck, you know, he started promoting on, like social media, but honestly, at that point it was too late, you better like what you got yelled at in fucking school. It is much more of a mindset like that. I will never be under able to understand. To to miss that Black Friday, if you weren't up at midnight when your ship went on sale or talk. I think there are two blogs, me and Klemm, on it.

Like how am I? What? People just want to, like, ride my back, like Alice Cooper fucking murdered it, like murdered it. I just people take it for granted and it drives me nuts. Yeah.

I mean, you said in your email, too, that, you know, everybody's doing a great job across the board of being scrappy and not having to make, you know, layoffs aren't covered. So I guess that's relating to, you know, kind of when the lockdowns happen. A lot of people hopped on, you know, a bunch of different shows and shit to keep popping out content. So this was kind of like the last wave. And you say before the second lockdown, that seems like it's about to come and is coming and a lot of respect.

So, I mean, it makes sense.

I mean, I couldn't have been clearer. It really couldn't be clearer. I think Erica sent some emails. I sent an email.

We're not asking you to fucking work wonders.

We're asking you to support a major, major sales day when and by the way, like after I ripped into people's assholes and it started this viral thing, like if you looked at our chart in Shopify Shadow Shelvy EZchip.

It went back up like millions of dollars were made, like if I just sat there and sat on my hands and didn't freak out or anything, we would have sold, I would say two to three, maybe more millions dollars of much less like effort counts.

It's crazy. And I said a tweet. I said a tweet at the end, which is true. Like, you know what is let barstool be barstool. And gotten to this point over two decades, Mirch, because it's always willing to be like, oh, this advertiser wants to change. Don't do that. Oh, we can let them go because we do these merch sales and our our fans support us.

So it's a crucial and it always has been an important part of what we did. This shouldn't have snuck up on anybody.

We've done huge extravaganzas for as long as I can remember on Black Friday and now Cyber Monday. So just ignore it totally in the times we're in is as disrespectful a thing that you can do to me in this company, really, period.

Because I know there are people who think, oh, like Dave was waiting for this. This was like a kind of another ploy to kind of drum up more sales. No, you were actually mad. Yeah.

Oh, no. There was no ploy to it worked out like in that respect. And it's funny how that happens. But there was absolutely zero for thought of that. I was steaming. That's what I just said.

I found it extremely disrespectful, arrogant, cocky, comfortable, you name it. That's how I viewed it.

Was there an element of people like didn't know how much to tweet or it's like, hey, how do you know what I do?

I mean, they did nothing like like why p did nothing large did nothing like nothing zero. So there's not. How much do they do. They did zero. Yeah, because I know we got to talk to other people, they were sending out checks, everyone said, hey, beef up, beef it up. So it wasn't, you know, we did a lot and there was more than nothing, but there was communication that they off to keep it going.

So, yeah, I mean, again, it's a big thing is one of those days where you can do that, like it's expected to do that. It's Black Friday, Cyber Monday. That is like when people aren't going to really get mad at you for for promoting shit. And like my own personal Instagram, I'm doing stories and I don't do that very often.

I have like on my main Instagram feed, which, you know, is big. I just did a picture of you all of March talk about merch, like I don't get it. What do people think? I'm doing that for fun. Why did I like I yelled at my own team.

Actually, I don't know if Michaelangelo's on that because you know what I did. So Blackfriars Friday, the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, I went out and did a million pizza reviews. You know why? Because I hadn't done anything wearing my merch and getting it out and I needed a video for it.

I didn't want to do that anymore. And I'm not jamming down people's throats, but like, I'm worth a lot of money and I made it.

I am going to be successful and happy no matter what.

I did that because that's what you do when you have a company.

It's like, all right, I'm not making a cent of anything I sold on Black Friday or Cyber Monday. None.

I don't get a cent, so I'm doing it.

I don't want to drive around Wednesday with a guy I just met, Austin, who's weird as fuck doing like pizza reviews and shit. You think that's how I want to spend it? I'm out there till like seven p.m. I actually a date.

We're going to dinner. And it was like I could barely eat because I ate 700 pizzas. I'm doing merch and fucking getting the photos. And I yelled at my team because they didn't tell me to do it either. I was like, I don't going to, like, set up this fucking review for Black Friday. Like Black Friday is coming again. It shouldn't never stock up. So it's a lesson in something that maybe it's the entrepreneurial spirit and these people are just different.

It's like they don't view it, but they should because that, I think, is what makes this company different.

It's why we didn't have layoffs is why we're successful. I truly want people to feel like kind of a team thing, but it's always the case. It's the people who should be like. Who should be worried the most, who do the least, it's insane. Where do you NYP go from here like? So is this going to be an extra guy or like, can he do anything to get in your good graces or you kind of have you been kind of on to him for the whole year?

He's on the ropes while he is on the ropes. Yeah, he's on the ropes. And I got to go through I'm dead serious and go look because I know we can do a lot more with outdoors. It's a great category. Mark, by the way, should be fucking huge because there's all sorts of like hunting and whatever. So and he's just doing it the least amount possible. Oh, he goes films and shows. I don't care. Whippy, you can fucking scream till you're blue in the face.

Like two seasons of something takes you fucking a year. And he said different things.

Fine if that's the case and that's what you're going to stick with, you can't not have merch like it's so easy to keep me off your back.

And he said Cooper's back must hurt because fucking how much call daddy sells. Is there anything like what do you like a stat or anything? That's how much you sold or I think people are interested in that whole kind of side.

I mean, she's a monster. Cooper's an absolute monster. Like I was at the top, like eight items were maybe hers, Black Friday to Cyber Monday, so like call her daddy, huge foreplay, huge. The one by category huge preempts flakes were big.

And, you know, and look at this way, Donny, Chef Donny, that book he did killed it. Like, what the fuck, Chef Donnis like just fighting for attention and airtime and you know who I am now going to, which I've never before like. Chef Donny earns a ton of fucking credibility from me because he comes up with his own concept, promotes it, sells a ton of it.

And then he got this fucking lazy ass wipe. And again, lazy ass, I'm doing this. I'm doing that.

You don't care. You only care about yourself. And we got enough fucking magazine, even Cooper clearly and I guy but you to be an eye guy when you're hit 90 home runs a year in Baton 420.

I've said that from beginning to end like we have all the people here are like, oh, Cooper and Nate. I always thought that he's the one, but that always jumps in my head.

Like Cooper's helping everybody here more than people. And by the way, who knows what happen because their contract is up and she'll as I've said from beginning, she'll be negotiating from a place of power. But it's like. Yeah, and she, by the way, was promoting the fuck out of it.

The fuck out of her merchandise if you looked at her stories promoting the fuck out of her merchandise.

And then I kind of seem like you're a little better mood on Cyber Monday, but you're so upset a couple of people didn't show up. How did you feel?

Like cannabis is doing nothing. And he wants me like and then he's like, hey, do you have time to talk? No, not really. Jared, I really have time for you. Like, I'm not going to give time. I'm too busy. I'm too busy. I've already gone over with cannabis like the merch and the parade stuff. He did very little.

Even Kirk, who, you know, Kirk will never I saw Carfagno days, right. Like we get to do whatever the fuck we want to do here. We should probably promote on Black Friday and Cyber Monday like.

It's a no brainer thing, it's just a no brainer thing, so it you know. It bothers me and I'll get over it, but. There's no amount of, like, apologies that can make up for the fact that you don't care what you think of the escape room.

I mean, it's always hard to come up with ideas that was not set up great. But I didn't care. Like, we had a very probably because of the pandemic. Like, we shattered our. Black Friday, Cyber Monday, numbers shattered, so again, a lot of it's not did we make enough money?

And we did because we shattered every goal we set. But it's much more the effort thing and Dave Blattman, who I always fuckin roast, but he he's a perfectionist and works hard in an effort like I bust ball. He should almost have. He's listening to the segment when I start, like, ripping you a little bit publicly with the exception Welker like, that's good. I feel comfortable. The cameras are set up very strangely. It was a weird thing, but it got the job done.

Speaking of Welker, I saw he was not talking CEO. I feel like we might have a little rivalry thing.

I apologize because I said that guys suggested it was like that seems like somebody that's on you for sleeping at the switch.

I guess that should have been a Black Friday guest. On me, yeah, well, you get to guess, right? Can I tell you something? Yes, I requested Welker to come on dog walk back in August before we were even doing the show, and he declined. He said he talked to Erica and they agreed it's in the best interest to keep him behind the scenes.

And then he goes on that. Yeah, I don't Welker behind the scenes. I don't know, I asked him, I was like, hey, I think those says. That makes I was surprised to. I asked my son, is that why you didn't ask him? Yeah, because I was like, OK, if you and Erica had a conversation, I'm going to respect that you turned down dog. Obviously, this show's different than dog walk.

But regardless, I reached out. He said me and Erica talked. We think it's best behind the scenes. So, of course, I would love to have my UVAs Welker's a fucking great feud. I think it'd be a great interview with Walker and Stoolies. Want to hear you guys show. But I was I was declined at the door.

So say if he picks up. I think he's got Korona. Hey, hey, question for you. Yeah, why did you refuse to go on Eddie's dog walk and say that like you think it's better to be behind the scenes? And then you went on, like, token CEO. That was before you did anything with them, I just didn't want to be on I don't know, you told me not to ever go on anything, and then I said that.

You said to me once, like, don't be don't be content behind the camera, not on the camera. What did I say that. Six years ago, seven years ago. That sounds pretty made up. So, all right, so if I said that, what changed? You went on Erica's show. Mean asked so if Erica asked, yes, so you overrule me, so you answer to her or not me after all these years?

No, I said Well you just said I said no.

And but then you went on hers, which is clearly not behind the scenes, I find.

I'm just getting the pecking order. Oh, I report to you if you tell me. Well, you just but Welker, you just said I said no and then which I don't recall, but then I'm like, well, why are you going? Erika's is.

Well, Erica asked. I said. Eddie, what's up, man? Hope you're well. I spoke with I spoke with Eric and I think it makes sense for me to lay low. I appreciate the so that has nothing to do with me.

This was August 25th. But but you I said, why do you say no, Daddy, you said I said to say no six years ago and you just read an email that said you and Erika decided.

So was it me or Erika? Well, this you told me not to go on camera, so why didn't you reply to Daddy? They've said no, you said Erika and I decided no, and then you went on Erica on camera. Well, and you said you report to me, I do report you don't want anything, anything at all that you want me to do, I would do for you.

But you just said I said don't go on camera. Then you went on camera. But so you disobeyed, even though I don't remember saying it theoretically.

I mean, yeah, in theory, yes, I just I apologize and then for the reason for no Ferretti, you're saying it's me, but when you gave the reason it had nothing to do with me, it was you and Erica Fair, I believe, at the time I called Erica and I said, hey, should I do this or should I not do this?

So you do report to Erica, not me, because that's content. That's clearly content. Like, you know, I'm content, right?

I report to you, but you don't. Because when Eddie asked, you called Erica. OK, all right. Thanks, Mike. That made no sense, right? No, it didn't. I know I'm not dealt with, just like I've dealt with this idiot for two decades now, and that's it. Never gets easier.

Was never a lot of people want. What's it? Well, there's some classic stories that some people wanted to tell because, you know, you're on so many platforms. What's the Christmas story?

I. So. We missed years ago getting people their stuff by Christmas, and I think it was Welker's first time that he had a kid or something, and I called them up and told them he ruined Christmas lights.

Dead serious, too.

I'll call them back. Hold on. I'll ask him that so I forget how he tells it.

But, yeah, you know, well, Welker is also like a huge woe is me guy.

He loves to tell you all the shit that is going wrong in his life, but it's like, I don't want to hear that.

We have to get people there. Merche, I don't care that you have the sniffles or you got a coach, a men's soccer game or like whatever it may be in this year is quarantine with Korona Welker.

Hey, Dave. Yeah, I figure is that what is the ad he just asked me? You're on the Dave partnership. What is the Christmas story.

The Christmas story. So this I think it was twenty eighteen. That's when we all the inventory fucked up. And you asked me to stay up for like three straight days and contact everyone and credit them back their their twenty percent. I didn't sleep for like three days but we were still behind on orders because we didn't have the product and I was scrambling and everyone was bitching at you and you called me on Christmas morning. Are you. Text me on Christmas morning.

You my kids first Christmas Mason Levi. And you said you've ruined my Christmas, now I'm going to ruin yours. Fuck you or something. To that degree, you copied Erica and I on it and then you proceeded to send me every single tweet of every person who was pissed off. And it did it did ruin my Christmas. And I felt terrible for all the people that didn't get their shit. I still feel terrible about it. It it was awful.

Not a good it was not a good Christmas. All right.

Thanks, Mike. Yeah, so, I mean, listen, people in the shipping lanes, people ask somebody literally just sent me like and I was going to respond to it because I didn't think the price was right. But I can send I can send you up. Michaelangelo, it's a guy this is the fifty nine dollar hoodie, which I can't believe it's only money.

Sweatshirts cost that much, but maybe it does. This is the hoodie I received yesterday. Look how crooked the lettering is. And now they're sold out. So I'm stuck with this. At least they refunded the money. Nice move, but fair warning to anybody ordering from Bastable this holiday season. And I just got right back.

Welker, like if you're any fan of barstool, you want the Welker experience. Like, that's what being a story is all about. You're going to get fucked up merch. You're going to get six of something totally different.

What was what was the Rene? Oh, we had a shirt that had seven on it. What was it, four or six? It must have been six for the Patriots Super Bowl, so it was a six shirt as like, hey, Welker, send Rooney the SEC shirt and he just sent six of them.

Like he's you know, he's like to be a stoolie is to get your merch fucked up. I'll send this to you, Michelangelo, right now.

But this guy, sure. He got it for free, should be happy he got the Welker experience. That's a big thing. How did you meet Welker? So I used to do all the shipping myself, right, and we needed people, we got too big. And Welker was very familiar with the brand. And he actually Dan brought this up big cat the other day. Chris Christie wore like a vest that said, like Governor Chris Christie. And he sent me one that said, like Dave Al Prez, I wore it and Welker's sold me a bill of goods.

Everything he said his company could do, they could not.

They've learned with us. So everything was a debacle. And I do like Mike, I think is a genuinely nice person.

He in fact, he's still with us.

He's just one of those guys who he's probably top top two, maybe probably one most talked about.

We got a Firewalker like I mean, come on, we can't run this company. I get rid of this guy, like it's been said so many times to the point. It's like, you know, we'll have nobody to blame next Christmas when no one gets our stuff. It's like we said, it's almost like this tech issue. It's like once you're through it, you forget about it.

But he's with us for such a nice guy. I've told this story, too. We went to Vegas. I hosted him like he was supposed to host me. He took me to Vegas to go like a trade show to look at clothes, put us up in the worst hotel.

It fucking smelled. And I'm like, all right, I'm not staying here. Or so I got new rooms. Oh, you know, my company won't pay it turns out.

Well, who was paying for it out of his own pocket, which is insane. So I got Welker a hotel room. I'm taking him out to clubs. I hosted the host like he didn't spend a dime. You had the time of his life. And I remember I was running around to meetings and like, Mike, do me this one favor. Here's like I forget it was a thousand bucks because there's a huge line at the sports book for, I don't know, NFL Sunday might go place like thousand bucks in the past.

OK, I can do that for you.

Goes waits in line. The man placed a bet for himself and forgot to place my bet. That's Mike Welker. He means well, but he's really he's got rocks upstairs at times, but he means well. And that Christmas story. Look, I feel bad when people buy shit, we're trying to make it right and everyone goes after me and you just go after Welker, I used to always be like, not me. I'm mad, too. Like, let's ruin this dude's Christmas.

He sold your bill of goods. He's got some Hanken them. You know, that's a big chunk of the same thing.

They kept saying, we work with tequila, bananas, bananas. You see those banana? We produce millions of Chiquita banana shirts, which they do.

But they they're all like premade like Chiquita Banana is not like, oh, my God, somebody hit a home run.

We need a home run shirt. We need it fast. They had no clue how to do that.

They but they did not of service. Chiquita Banana.

I mean, you've been doing all along with that. I have always been like fucking Jimmy Johnny on the spot like right. Order. So I don't know.

Ask Frankie. It's if you ask Frankie because Frankie would be my he there's no I mean he fucks up everything I do, everything I touch, everything I do.

We fucks it up. So is he grandfathered in, though? I think yes, I think he is, even if we like a lot that he'd be here. He's one of those guys.

I've given him a life like he's probably made a lot of money and all that, but he's. Like he should be in the wall, he should be on the mural, he really should. Yeah, if where's his where's he based on Cincinnati.

I mean, there's if Berzon Ohio becomes a thing like, well, he's a past guy, he's barstool history, Bastar law. And he's I don't deal with them nearly as much as I used to. But I mean, I and to his credit, just blows it off like he gets the worst of me because I'm only calling when, like, things are really like that.

Christmas was like, dude, which like we're telling people. And we've got way better at it, but it's like we're selling this Black Friday, like they get their stuff for Christmas and we just missed it.

Like we can't like, how do we. We just missed it. I don't know what Ohio's restrictions are for gambling, but when they go live, there has to be an electric chair in the warehouse with him.

There was something I mean, he just he's in Atlantic City gift shop salesman who landed at barstool sports.

And that's that's part of this company that's incredible. How was Thanksgiving? You end up seeing a cousin of mine?

No, I stayed in New York. I was didn't do much. It sounds lonely, but, I mean, I actually didn't hate it. I just ordered food and watch TV. I was exhausted for whatever reason all week. So but no, I didn't see them. I stayed away. I posted that people are confused. I posted the my dad carving the turkey, but it was from the year before. Yeah.

And what about the Big Apple? Was Big Apple success? Huge success. You obviously got a little convoluted because the game got switched. But yeah, people like those promos. And I saw there was that meme that went around, whose table would you sit at? And you said, no offense to Zah, but you would not sit on your table at your table is useless. Many little sass and Greaney, no interest there.

I had the worst table by far. I love that I could talk to his eyes, Smitti. Smitty, was what was Smitty doing for like? Cyber Monday, Simone just got a new contract. I'm not going to. He he so he got a new contract and these noises, this is like literally Jordan flu game with what's going on here.

And he calls you like any new contracts. He's like talking to agencies like I'm not going to say the figure, but I'm talking to agents and they say it's like criminally offensive. I'm not making this much money. Yosemite, go get that money, boy, like if you can go get that money, there's I will be a cheerleader for you. Like if someone's going to pay that much money, you're an absolute moron not to take it. Go get that money, do whatever you can give them.

I was like, well, maybe like so but he got a new contract, not nearly like what that is. And Smithy's, you know, he's my Romper Room guy and he's listing all the things he does and he doesn't show up on Cyber Monday.

But I expect that from Smitti. Like, let me put it this way, if his contract wasn't done, Smitty, you know, you know who's showing up at the Philly gambling house a lot when he was like talking about, you know, the new contract, Smitty, you know, who hasn't showed up at all after he got the new contract?

Smitti So you don't want to sit next to him at the table? Fair enough. He'd probably freak out. I mean, I laugh at the you know, the paintball and Smitty and I were acquaintances.

Monday's rundown, you getting a lot of shit from KFC and Dan about going out shopping. It was all over Instagram. So who's the bachelorette girl?

Yeah, she was on The Bachelor. She's on The Bachelor. Yeah, Victorio was her name.

She's gorgeous. Stunning girl. Stunning. So I like to me, it's like that's I don't mind that type of like, oh, Dave's going to show off. First of all, I got a couple of things I want to a place that's like literally a stone's throw from my house, my apartment.

They have a beautiful restaurant, literally like one of the nicest restaurants. I went there and I need a couch. So I got a couch and she's like, oh, put on the insta. I don't care if I like gorgeous girls, like I'm going to show them hanging out with you that I said it on the rundown, it's Castanza. When it's like you, Seinfeld, you get into a club, it's like, whoa, Dave's hanging out of like that.

Pretty a girl. Yeah, that that's a rumor I'm fine with. Yeah.

But on the couch room floor, I don't know. I kind of do agree with calfskin Dan that you're in some aspects.

You didn't want that. No Patriots Sunday yet, but the Patriots listen, if the Pacers and one the week before, probably not. I'm watching it saw the end of the game, but it's like. I have the seven wind bet, but I just know to win the Super Bowl, I don't think they are. I think they are what they are, which is eight and eight, nine and seven. I've had six years of greatness where in a pandemic, you know, I needed the couch again.

I'm not out there trying to impress fucking KFC and big Cascos kid. And and, you know, you got what are you married government to? You know, a single guy.

All right. So let me say this, Eddie. If that girl was interested in you and was like, hey, you're going to have to go sit on a couple couches, you go sit your ass on a couple of couches. Sure.

Sure. I'm not. I'm not I'm not denying that. But. And you want the world to know. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, but if you don't want to hide it. I wasn't putting it.

I didn't put it. I didn't read Twitter. I didn't do anything on my own.

But if she's like, hey, I'm like this. Somebody open the.

I'm like this wildly attractive girl and I'm hanging around, Dave Portnoy, spread those rumors, let it I don't care, but I'm just saying there is an element of, listen, going out to brunch versus, hey, let's sit on this, you know, plush leather, whatever. Let's see how this all happened.

But right. And I don't care about that. But I'm saying the restaurant is like people go regardless of the furniture and you walk down like, oh, that looks good.

And it's across the street from where I live again, I have no problem with it. I think it's good publicity when she's like, Do you mind if I put you in? My Instagram story is like, no, like, no, I don't.

Go go right ahead and then Kelly. There was a quick snipe back and forth, to be fair, I didn't know what she was talking about either.

It so, Kelly, basically, I did the GPP thing and even show his face in the comment I see is like, oh, you're finally being funny again from Kelly Keg's.

And I was taken aback. I was like because I haven't communicated with Kelly Keeks very much and like, what the fuck? Kelly keys. And I go, I felt my face getting flush. And then I looked at the comments and nobody knew people like the gift of me just looking around like, what was that?

People like, holy shit, Kelly cakes.

So I fired her in my brain. I was just waiting to do it. And then someone's like, oh, that's a callback. Because Victoria earlier was like, be funny.

And then I'm like, oh, I get it. I overreacted and I owned up to it. I put my hand up. I said, mistake, I overreacted. I love Kelly, kids rising star. I fucked that one up.

I was right there with you. I was like, whoa, what a bold tweet. Yeah. And then it was like, we don't have that relationship. So I was like, she's never joke with me. I'm like, she's fuckin out of here. She's. Do you think that's funny? Kelly hit the road, Jack? No, I hear what you're saying.

I just think the situation just makes it a lot funnier. Go watch Monday's rundown. It was really funny what you, Kevin and Dan we're talking about.

So I again and I get it, we're in this world.

What made it even better are not funnier is I got home. I'm like catching up on everything.

And is the image from the gambling cave and Dan's losen and they're all miserable and dugs is taking up eighteen seats in the front row and eat pizza and like those are the two options is go find sitting on a couch with arguably one of the prettiest girls you'll ever see or be swallowed in a smelly pit with like a thousand pounds of men.

Sorry, I was with a stunning woman. Sorry, but Dave, that is your life.

Your life should be that sitting on couches with fucking smoke shows. But instead you're promoting Black Friday when you want to have two and you're fucking sitting on a couch with guys like us.

And I do it ninety nine percent of the time, like I was supposed to be in Philly. Philly's like shut down. So I had like a free weekend. It's so.

Yeah, I mean, this wasn't I feel like, oh, people may be confused, like, oh this is like the Hammie because I went off the rails there for like a couple of it's not I'm as plugged in and I was on my phone checking scores every two seconds. Sorry I had one Sunday off where I hung out again not to keep beating a dead horse, but even people don't like this girl like. Yeah, she's fucking stunning. So sorry.

The girlfriend, who is she? No, no, definitely not.

No, no. I'm Davit Daytrotter. Global is under fire, it seems. Well, not really, but a couple of sites. I don't even know what the names are. They were saying how your live streams could be influencing penstock.

And yeah, I think the people who wrote it should be in prison is Robert Silverman. It's that fucking clown again.

I guess you can write on media personality. I'm in the news. I do agree. It opens myself up. But they everything they said, they didn't say anything.

And I tweeted out, well, if I commit murder and the cops hear about it, I'll be in trouble degree. I do nothing. I'm not the underlying theme, which clearly would be illegal if I am trying to pump up penstock so I can, like, flip it and sell it or if I knew something about it. I don't know anything about Penn more than what I say, which is I believe in barstool and how we can get market share and I would invest in it.

I do invest and I've bought more on my own. And if you believe in us, I think it's a good investment. It could fucking tank. I don't have a special knowledge.

I said that all the time and I certainly am not trying to do anything with DDT where I pump a stock and sell it. I never do that.

So it's just all these hypotheticals, which I guess if they were true, would be illegal, but none of them are true. So what's the point of writing the article? And if you paid an ounce of attention to what I do, you know, it's not true. That's probably why the SEC is like, okay, he doesn't do anything that they're saying he does.

And obviously, Jay, like there is some stuff they got to keep from you now, and we've always kept that stuff, always kept that stuff like we did this huge fuckin raise. Right. We raised like we put more stock on sale. They raise a billion dollars.

The stock went down like 10 percent and like it. I got fucking murdered. Yet I got fucking murdered. I was busted. I would've been nice to you. I can't know about that. I got fucking cleaned up. If you want to go. Look, if I know what's going on, go look at how much stock I had when that fucking happened because I got fucking killed. The way they word it, though, they say Elon Musk got in trouble for doing something in the sense of stocks on Twitter and then but because you have a lesser following than him, maybe they're not you're not so much under the microscope.

I don't know. Elon Musk read it is I skimmed it once.

I saw who wrote it. Elon Musk at one point said. Tesla's stock is wildly overpriced, he tweeted that out. To me, that's a problem that could be a problem because the stock tanked in one second and he's been in trouble for others.

I don't do that. I'm not saying this. I've no idea.

I just say we're going to the moon and I believe in us. I don't. And I'll never say anything negative.

It's just like, yeah, we're trying to build to try to build it. But I have no fucking clue. Again, if I want if the SCC was like, hey, we want to look at one you've owned stock and one you've sold it or anything like this, they'd see that. I don't know what the fuck I'm talking about with Penn at all. Nothing. And it's just factual. So I'm not it's just there's not an ounce. I mean, it's like, oh, the SEC is coming for me.

It's just these fucking guys just try to stir it up. Robert Sillerman, Clown City. And then this next topic I love. Lane Kiffin is running a campaign to get you to Mississippi. Yeah, the Lane Lane train has been a huge Basel huge Dave Portnoy guy for a while, like we had our old old intern, Ella, who worked at Florida Atlantic with him, I believe. So he's DME and been in my DMS for a long time.

He's got Chad Kelly in the sweatshirt. Yes, Kelly. Marcellinus, not your lane, your lane, is this your teen Pawni guys in college basketball, college football, you have an awesome twosome with Lane Kiffin and Bob Huggins.

Yeah, Huggy Bear loves Huggy. I will give a speech at West Virginia. I have an open door policy to go give a speech. I'm 100 percent going to do it and I'm just going to I already know what the speech is going to be is going to be like.

You may not be the greatest shooter.

There's nothing you can do about that. But everybody can crash the glass. You want frosted glass, crash glass play defense crashed the glass. Oh, he'll love it. I mean, you want to talk about two guys that have been through the fucking wringer and don't care about whatever people say about interacting with barstool? It's Bob Huggins and like Bob Huggins, I love Huggins.

And the first time I met them, all those guys, I think they never know. They meet so many people, but it's like instantly Huggy Bear.

I've been like such a fan of his for so long. Back to Cincinnati. And so you start talking and it's like, man, I wish you had a shooter like Man Axl this year. And they light up like, OK, this guy knows his shit and like, I like his brand and he stands for and has been a good relationship, I guess.

Huggy, like that time he had a heart attack and just got up and kept Cotchin like that's my guy.

It's just it's such a great combo for barstool. It really is. So I love it. And then I saw a couple of things broke today. Tweets were being deleted out. The people are still account with Jack McCarthy. Are you aware of that.

Not aware. Oh, I'm sure you'll get into on Peckham, so go listen to that, I guess, you know, there's a lot of, you know, the democracy and the benchmark for you.

Something to do with that. Interesting. Interesting. Listen to pick. And I'm sure they will be feeling that perhaps. What's the update? We had a good episode. And I think BFE is going to be huge. I think it's going to be legitimately huge. Could be wrong. No reason it shouldn't be. But like, I'm generally not wrong about these things, like it's brand new and the amount of people in the street and granted, they're young who come up to me now.

I like love beliefs. That only happens when you have hits happen and happen to call her daddy. And we're not close to there yet, but we haven't really started yet. We haven't found the flow. This last episode was the most positive episode that we had. In terms of being able like repeat it. And he also haven't been just, you know, throughout the streets yet because of Korona and Shites right now could change. And then we got a couple of ads and we're going to bring Amir Garrett on and we're going to.

Yes, switch gears here for a second. But I do have to say Uber driver Debi's Pizza Review. I know she's is not a sponsor for this show, but I love that they fucking don't care. Uber Uber driver. Dubbie, get out there. Cut an ad that much respect to that company for that. Yeah. And people can buy her now for ads, so.

That's all for us tonight. That's great. Another Chicago guys, so that's that's very sweet. So, yeah, let's let's these let's talk about Felix Gray, Dave, and then we'll get to America.

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It helped greatly during my DTG days. I couldn't sleep and it blew my glasses. So you can stare at screens. And I like the way they look so much like last. Don't fill them up. Blue light and light spectrum feels great. Glasses filled are 15 times more blue light from screens and other blue lights lenses. What else do we have to say? I mean, I've said everything but headaches, blurry vision, giat tired eyes, trouble sleeping, all this stuff I had and these glasses got rid of it.

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I did say she tried to take me then she's like, I got a couch literally. And then she wanted to go to. What was it? There's another not is not the story, but a nice one in there was a line and I drew the line, I took the man. I'm like, I can't do it. I'm not going to wait in line for this. That's football time. So credit to me. Yeah.

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All right, let's get you a mere Garrett up. My guys. There he is. It's up to me. Good.

Yes. So right now, we're live on the podcast, we're joined by Rajput, Jaromir Garrett, Omiya, big time beef here. This is kind of is this our first meeting here, David?

This is the first we traded we traded a couple a couple online barbs for the first time.

We've we've spoken years, our first formal, you know, introduction each day. Nice to see you guys. Thanks for having me.

Thanks for coming on. Yeah. So how do you know how this started, right. Yeah. He gets somebody through trickery and deception by, like, pumping himself up and being I'm a fucking badass or something. And they threw him a fucking breaking ball. So I was like, you can't if you're going to fucking be like, I'm a badass, you got to fucking Ghasem. And in here. So here it is. Yeah, we're watching.

And it's a nasty pitch I get that's like your pitch. But come on, if you're going to be like talking that much junk, you you got to tell your catcher, number one, it's coming in. Fucking throw a payam.

Listen, listen. I'm great at what I'm good at. That slider is arguably on the best in the big leagues. Fastballs just, you know, it's I can get up to ninety nine but it's just not you don't have that zip one of them like everybody's so it with me being, you know, the magician that I got to throw this slider, I have to you know, I mean and I am one of the baddest motherfuckers in MLB. Everybody knows that, you know.

But the fastball is just the fastball. It's not my it's not my bread and butter. You know, in this game I that I've got to get some elbows, man. I have to in sliders is what I've been living off for. You know, you got to live and die by your best pitch at all times.

So then I guess, like, I get that part of it. But it would be and I know what your answer is going to be. He's like one of the greatest pitchers of all time. But I'm not walking around be like that. Greg Maddux is a bad motherfucker. It's like he'll paint job me and he'll like fuckin, you know, get me off balance. But he is not Ricky Vaughn. He's not Nolan Ryan. He's not Randy Johnson.

And those are like I almost feel like you knew you were tricking that guy when you're, like, puffing yourself up and then you fucking slide PSM.

I mean, yeah, you know, that's what his game is, is you got to have some trickery by me saying that he probably got a fastball was coming. But, you know, I just lost LeMaster that I am a hit. Throw the slider there. And, you know, you look at the numbers with me and Eversole, he's a great hitter and I face him four times this year. And I struck him out three of the four times, you know, I mean, like, he probably was waiting for me to do something like that.

But, you know, I had to throw the slider many. He wasn't able to hit it. So I had to I had to keep doing what I'm good at now.

You saw. So we got bought by gambling company. All right. And so we we have like people can actually bet just now in Pennsylvania. But I actually created a prop bet just for you in the prop bet was next time you'd come into the game, you'd give up a run. And I think it was plus money. Lo and behold, with all the press, you came in bam, like clockwork. It was like a cartoon there rounding the bases all over.

Did you know this happened? No.

You know, I don't I don't pay attention to any of that. You know that I don't get into any of that. But I'm calling bullshit.

I'm calling bullshit because I was tagging you. I was tagging you. I was sending it to you. We had our everyone like you found out about when I talk shit the first. By the way, do you know I'm always curious that to like you replied, did you know right away, like, OK, what barstool who I was. Are you like, who the fuck is this guy. Like how does that go down? Because then you got you got playful after the first couple like back and forth.

I mean, when you when you wrote me first I get what the fuck is like, what what's going on right now? And then, you know, a couple of my friends as estimates were like, hey, Dave Portnoy, like, came at you. And I'm like, who the hell is this guy? And I'm in. And I knew I didn't know who you were, you know, I know bar stool and everything. But my friend was like, he's the one like everybody knows the rules guy.

And I'm like, oh, shit, that's pretty cool, you know what I mean? Like, that's pretty sick. You know, I watched a couple of your videos. I watched a lot of them might be otherwise you coming at me, like, why is he talking shit to me? But, you know, it's all fun and games. Like, I know what you do. And, you know, a couple of my team was like, bro, he destroys people on social media.

This is what he does. And I'm like, well, you know, I love the little competition. I love the little challenge. So let's do it. Yeah.

I mean, it's funny, I still stand by for day. Dave Swing. I have a great swing. That's just a fact.

So yeah. Yeah. I mean, Dave, I've seen your swing. You hit the ball like two hundred and ten, you know, barely out. You put everything you had into this swing the other day when you posted on Twitter. I mean, come on now you got to put some shit beat if you've got to put some shit for.

I don't like to side with you.

I don't decide where they put the fences. I mean, the thing cleared the fence by like, you know, two hundred feet.

So and to be honest, the only thing that has kept me honestly from me, like some sort of challenge is I don't like you. I'm a lefty. I don't like your wind up for, like, a lefty on lefty match up if you are righty.

I would already been on a park right now being like, all right, let's see how good your fastball is or even this like wipe away.

And by the way, have you ever talked to Carrabba's? Jared was such a little pussy with him. It's like always going to talk shit. Have you talked to Jared, our baseball guy?

He like I mean, he rolled over for you. He's like, hey, I'm here, pet my belly. I've never seen him roll over like that.

I mean, because he knows that I'm a bad motherfucker. I'm trying to tell you, you know, there's nothing there's no there's no games about me. But Jared's a good deal, man. But I mean, it is what it is.

I also without knowing you were going to be on the show.

I was talking about you yesterday because when we first got into it, it didn't register that you played basketball at St. John's. So I was watching them yesterday and then I remembered. So I was watching you when you were there, too.

How close are you to taking basketball, like on basketball as opposed to baseball, where you I mean, you know, like, my story was a little different. You know, I think I would pursue basketball if I didn't, you know, get a little tiny bonus at a high school. I just never really had to drive anymore. You know, I got to New York and all that I like got a little bit of money living a nice little house.

I went to college, you know, I didn't have to I didn't have to grind is hard. So, you know, if I didn't get baseball, I would have pursued basketball for sure because the hunger would have been that much more. The fire in me would have been that much more. But, you know, everything worked out. I'm a bad motherfucker. Yeah. At least that's the other day.

I haven't decided. I'm going back and forth in my head whether bad motherfucker can wear a Valencia hat.

I haven't quite decided whether, like high end designers is kind of like a little bit soft.

I may wear it, but it's like walking around bad motherfucker, throwing sliders, wearing Valencia hats. I'm sure those two things go together undecided.

I mean, you know, I'm I'm in the fashion, you know, it is. But it is this this is the trick. People like me and I drink Starbucks. I'm like, man, this guy. So they got to try me, you know? And then they're like, damn, I'm not going to mess with that guy anymore.

Well, how about I mean, how tall are you? I'm sixty. Yeah. So that may have something to do with why people aren't going to fuck with you because you're like if I see a six, six to fifty guy wearing a Starbucks, I'm probably gonna be like, oh, let that slide if I have any thoughts on that. So it may be more of a fucking sheer size but yeah maybe I don't know, six, six to fifty and you throw and you can't break a hundred.

Can't break a pane of glass again.

Oh I can't break it. You said that, you said that I can get up to need. I can't. The only one I want to do you know. But I just got to get that little zip on the fast ball a little bit more and it'll be a little bit more deadly. All right, Eddie, any questions for him?

Are you a better mother fucker than Trevor Bower? How do you guys get along? Listen, Trevor is my teammate, but there's there's like there's no tough people like me in that, you know, you can ask a bunch of guys this, you know, that's just not even the same category. You know, that means there is a great pitcher, is a great pitcher. He's a great he's a great pitcher.

And you know what he does on the field and stuff like that. But you know me off the field and on the field, nobody is going to try me at all because physically or anything, they might try him. They're never going to try because the Pittsburgh Pirates think that's what it was.

He sent me the Pittsburgh Pirate, when he got shirt going against, like 30 guys at once. All right.

So take you out of the equation. Who would you say? Major League Baseball like the last guy you'd want to fight. Don't answer you, but who's the guy like, oh, that's somebody you don't want to mess with.

I mean, the chit chat, this Chapman is probably it's I know it's somebody you don't want to mess with. See how big that dude is. He makes me look small. What he does.

What about Pujols? Probably is a little bit older, you probably probably got some probably got some stuff up asleep, but yeah, probably probably close to a little bit. But, you know, outside of those guys, I mean, there it is. Nobody wants to smoke.

How about Rizzo? He tossed you around a little bit, right?

That is a that is hilarious. I didn't come out here to call people, but Rizzo definitely does not want no smoke with me. I can promise you that. No smoke.

I actually did a piece, a great player.

I did a picture of you with him. And I was actually shocked that he wasn't bigger. He was like skinnier than I was granted.

It was like Korona Times. But I thought I was going to be bigger than he was when I met him. Yeah, I mean, he he looks big on TV, doesn't he, like, he looks pretty big, but I mean, you know, he's he's a pretty he's a pretty big guy, but, you know, I mean. Yeah, no, he's our guy.

I guess my last question would be, do you know who Divino. DeShields, Shields's. Yeah, of course, the Big Bopper Little Bob was a big, big dad. Yeah. Yeah, I have I have a third base coach, here's an absolute fact, so back in the day when I was just fucking hitting seeds all over the place, we had it. We had our batting practice pitcher who played with the to Shield Senior, and he's trying to pep it up.

He's trying to gas me. And I'm just, like, ripping everything. He looks he goes, you have faster hands and the shields. It's a fact.

Oh, I don't know. I don't know. But I know I got I got to see that Bob got some you know, his hands are pretty quick and, you know, he played basketball as well. So, yeah. You know, he's an athlete. I don't know if you ever saw him. And I got to see it. I got to basically. I have to see it. I can't hear it. I have to see it.

Wait, he's your third base coach right now? Yeah, we got it.

I mean, first base goes. First base goes. Sorry, first base coach. I mean, Dave, something's got to happen now.

Well, he's probably older than I am at this point. Well, he definitely is.

He's in great shape. Great. I am not. So that that's one problem. I know why it's not awful shape.

It's not. It's not.

I mean it. And I see like men. Come on, you've got to get in the gym, you know, before you talk and shoot the people. And where you me from Philly or what?

I'm from Boston to talk about throwing a fastball when you're when you say you're the best motherfucker, just youth. Next time you do that, I want to see a fastball and I'll give you all in the world. I don't even know what people are talking about. I it just you're going to throw the fastball you got you.

I mean, OK, so it's a you stop to be for me. If I throw a fastball or somebody as FBI, does it have to be, you know, a credible hitter. No. You can whoever throw it to whoever you want just when you come to your set.

I'm a bad motherfucker and throw the fastball and we'll if the guy turns it around for fifty, then you got to wear it. But if he swings and misses, then I'll be all right.

There's bad motherfucker. Idea, that's deal, that's a deal. I mean, I need to do because I've got to redeem myself and I can't be tone deaf to striking people. I got it. I got to the fastball by somebody. So that's that's just noted. There's no there.

They're all right. I appreciate it. Thanks for coming on.

And thanks for having me. All right. Take it easy, Xiomara. Yes, sir. You guys do see it as funny.

Yes, that was good. All right. That was a merger is pretty good. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, people don't fuck with you because you're a bad motherfucker when they mess with you and that he's like, I have my Starbucks, my points ahead and they mess with me and they realize I'm a bad motherfucker. They don't get to the mess.

Part one four six six two fifty. The mess part never shows up. Good for him. The line of the shields, him there's that's too much of the stars aligned to perfectly there, but what would we say?

He'd just be like, so what? I just need, like, a handshake.

I just need your hands next to his date. That's all we need.

Yeah. You know, I retired because I Dallas Braden, and we did that pitching challenge and he struck me out, thrown like 78 mile per hour juice balls. But maybe if I, I hadn't picked up a baton years, maybe if I got in the cage and tried to get back in shape. But you get to an age like me and it just can be gone. It just it doesn't matter how much you do it, it can just be gone.

But I hand to God when I play baseball, it didn't matter how fast you threw it, I could turn it around.

Now what? I go in slumps and whatnot and off speed. Yeah, but like fastball.

Forget about it. You know, I was a wrecking ball hitter. Couldn't throw hitting was no problem though.

I know the salesman is one of the most notable barstool athletes. Has never done anything with Bastable. True.

True. Darnell Darnell. That's who said it. Darnell. There RSPCA Bob Hawke will do well, we'll do a couple less listener emails and we'll get out of here because we're a long day porti show at Salesforce.com. Make sure you go send us an email if you want to be on the show. This one was from George Day. What's your thoughts on Bob Memory? Launching a podcast with Griffin Johnson. He launched it a while ago.

So, you know. Was it before BFX or not? Right, about the same time, I have no problem. All this White House is doing stuff, you know, it doesn't surprise me. You've got problems of Bobzilla now, and we just haven't talked about each other in a long time. I don't know how he feels about me, but it's called, I'd say this one from John if he thought about bringing rough and rowdy the Delco.

We can't get to Pennsylvania so rough and rowdy is based on states that allow it legally, and if we could get to Pennsylvania, we certainly would.

This one's from Zack. Will you ever bring the goalie challenge back? Yeah, I'm sure. But even that. I'm getting old, I'm getting long in the tooth is not much to gain for me. One's from Cameron, can we get an update on how many horses you currently own? I don't know. I don't know, because a guy manages like the barn sort of, and he's more active, so I'm not always 100 percent sure there's only really one that I'm like very aware of named CrossBorder.

The rest haven't really done much yet.

So I don't know. Last one from here, how is the gym, Florentin, here been so far in your eyes? Are you coming around to more stand ups joining BASTABLE? Neutral, you know, it's weird because quarantine, obviously, so I haven't seen him around that much, I think he's very funny. I've always loved that metal show and it's a case by case basis.

You know, if someone's funny and it can translate to our world, we're open to it. But I wouldn't say like, oh, we're focused on stand up now.

Someone and someone, persons that Christa Stephano, there was a possibility there. Do you remember that? Was that something you were involved in? I don't think so, maybe I'm not, if not recently, if that was the case. OK, all right, that's all our listener emails today, Dave. That's all I got. All right. Good show. Good show. Yeah. Dave, thanks. Thanks for listening. And we'll see you again next week.