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All right, bean bag. Welcome to the day partner show with Eddie and Company before really kick it off here, Dave. Let's talk about simply safe. If you ever if you have thirty three minutes, you never have to worry about a break in at home ever again. That is how quick and easy it is to set up a security system from simply safe. It's the kind of thing that is so easy to do. You can do it during a Netflix binge, watching the game or listening to a certain podcast.

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Dave, I know you talked about buying property and whatnot. I know you are hooking it up with simply safe, is that right?

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Yeah, yeah, I guess, yeah. If I get a new property. Yeah, sure. Yeah.

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So if you get a new property. I got it Dave. I got it all hooked up. I feel nice and secure. It's definitely a great piece and mine. Incredibly easy to customize for your home. Just going to simply save dotcom slash Portnoy. You can easily choose the exact sensors you need or get help from one of their experts. It'll get to your house in about a week, which means by this time next week you and your whole family can go to bed knowing your home is being guarded.

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It's easy to assume everyone in your house already feels safe, but they might not. And it's worthwhile to talk about it and simply say if it's a small, easy step to make sure everyone feels safe at home, all you got to do is go to simply safe dotcom safe Portnoy today to customize your system and get a free security camera. You also get a 60 day risk free trial. So there's nothing to lose that simply safe dotcom stocks. Portnoy Dave loaded week loaded show a lot to get you in the barstool world, but let's talk about your world first.

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We talked a lot about Miami. We talked a lot about your videos that were gone kind of viral on Tic-Tac that someone posted. There was a response, which I'm sure you're aware about.

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Yeah, but before we get into that, Eddie. Yeah. And I shouldn't do this. This bad one to do. But simply safe, I'm sure they're great. I'm sure they're great. And Steve Shay, you know, he sent us an email asking for better outrage, right? Did you see that? Recently on the BFX thing, it oh, do you have it? Do we have let me see if I can pull this up. What he said to me.

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Oh, yeah. All right. Here it is. This to me who succeed, who's just mean eupol. So this is from Steve Ché, February 10th. I want to reach out because of Piaf's and a bunch of other pods that are video along with audio. We've upped the production quality with graphics, clickable link and description screenshot Atash.

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As a result, we're charging more for atresia like add quality to match. I should clarify, he underscore because of our past, no advertisers have said anything yet. This is purely my observation. But can we maybe make the reads a little more integrated? I think the reads on the day Pawni show our awesome unity tag teams.

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Maybe we can move something like that. Brown chicken fries. Lastly, I just want to make sure that the advertisers don't get any blowback because it is solely my observation and I'm cuing on all our shows that are moved to YouTube since technically a new product we're offering.

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Let me know if that's cool. Do you have my response to that, Paul?

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You responded get better advertisers and I'll do better reads. So insipidly says great. They're great. I'm glad they do it. I'm sure they're great. And maybe we shouldn't put. But in the thing here, please give your personal testimonial here.

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It says. I don't have simply safe in any of my houses or if I get a new house and someone wants to connect me and do all the logistics, but sales can't continually be be more integrated, a.k.a. fake, I don't have it. You know how I built this company by being real and authentic. This, I'm sure, is a great product. I don't fucking use it. So, Steve, Ché, stop telling me to do integrated reads and more authentic in this and that when I don't have the fucking product.

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Because any time you do that, Steve, Jay will be like, oh, I support this and I endorse this and I'd use nothing else but this. Your word means Dick.

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And when you actually do endorse something and believe in the product and want to say it's great, can charge those higher rates because it means something, it'll be nothing because Steve Ché is crawling around telling his support, give personal endorsements and make shit up about things you don't use. Continue.

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All right. Hey, buddy, get Dave. The product like this is fine.

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We can advertise. There's there's products that you can advertise like simply safe is a great security system. I'm sure they are. I'm glad they support the show.

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But to sell just fake sell. Have Dave in Dorset. No, I'm not going to endorse. I don't fucking use it. I'll say it's great. Maybe that's it. But it's not personal. I don't use it. I don't have it. Have you ever had it? No, no. All right, tons of people like am I only gets that no, and they don't listen anything else, they're probably indoors, no one's using. What's the point of every single podcast host or every single radio host or every single TV host all saying how great a product is, the same type shit and all that bullshit?

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You know, you just tune it out. I would rather wait. Again, I'm always fine when I saw the ads like we'll do, the outbreed will say, but we're not going to pretend like I have it if I don't fucking have it. What is the point of that? What what good does that do anybody? And again, I love thank you for supporting the show. Simply safe. If they really want me to get it and use it and install it, I don't even know where my apartment.

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Like I'm not in a house.

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Yeah. So don't tell me to do you want the integrated real fucking ads about real life experiences? Get me those products. Fair enough. Seems easy enough as well, buddy, how are you feeling today you shot him?

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I'm not kidding, but I see this thing here. Please give your personal testimony or. Steve Ché is asking me to lie, they have sent one to the Chicago office, so that's why I know is it in the Chicago office, like you said, we call it insoles. You break through the front door of the Chicago office, by the way. That's an insult. You're off. What's in that? I guess your equipment.

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But we got a mover's blanket. Just don't ask a why. Steve. Jay. Yeah, enough fair enough, back to to get him in here. I texted him, he hasn't answered. OK, no response. Do you want to roll the video, Dave? Which we should play it for You Tube, obviously, right now.

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That's a heavy sigh. Well. Heavy sigh. It's a pain in the ass to deal with because last time on the show. That we discussed Miami in those videos. I was accused of like, oh, you hate it so much, then why are you, like, promoting the fuck out of it on your podcast in which I tried to explain, it's like I'm not bringing it up.

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It's like it's in the news. It's everywhere. And and to ignore it would be a disservice to everything I stand for.

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So so putting these on on, it's like this thing has moved and I'm done with it.

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And if we show it. I'm going to have to deal with it again and I'm going to be accused of. Oh, you must, like, bring it on. I don't I don't want to bring it up. The look of defeat in your face, the people can hear it in their voice if you're just listening. You've got to go watch the YouTube version because it was I'm sorry, but it's funny. Listen, I already said my piece on this, I don't know what else to say.

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I talked to her after she did the rant and I wasn't mad, I'm not mad like. I'm like, you know, we're saying the same thing, like just in different ways, which we are. Like she she was basically. Being like. What, because I'm like I spend money to hang out. I know her friends, like I've known her for years, like the video was cut in a way that makes it look like something like those shoes.

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I had nothing to do it. And she's like, what you want spend money on?

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And I'm like, no, the point is, we're friends. It's like. Yeah. And to be fair to you, never said you didn't have fun. There was never that I no, I never trashed them, I'm just like it gave the appearance like that. I was like a sugar daddy. I'm like, that's not the case at all. And they weren't those girls that were like, oh, we wanna hang out with them because I knew them.

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But the video gave a different story.

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That's my point. And we're saying the same thing from different angles.

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So but it just. You know, I don't know. So we should not roll the video. It's a no win for me. I mean, it's just a no it's a no win situation for me.

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We don't have to we could just describe what happened in the video, right? I mean, she fucking I watched the beginning of it. Again, I'm not sure why she trashed me, but not like really, she's like she's a medium. It's like I said, everything that's like she was in Miami. I read something like, hey, you're in Miami, let's hang out. I said that I did not have fun, I didn't like the cameras and shit and like, yeah, I should have been like, don't don't film me, but I thought it was awkward.

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It's our sister or whatever. It it it's a no win situation.

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This is the annoyance of having the target on your back. Are the big star, the Alistar know what you do?

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I go out in Miami, Atun. I said to Paul that weekend wasn't too dissimilar from any weekend. I'm out there hanging out with people. He wasn't there. That's about it. And there was a camera. But it's like I'm.

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You don't see much. I don't post much and this is why. But whatever it is.

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All right, we don't got a role in so many words. Like I said, if you don't know what the fuck we're talking about by now, the girl we talked about last week, that was in an article, what they've, I don't know, Eagles cheerleader or whatever, she posted Instagram basically saying like, oh, why are you talking about me so much on your podcast if you don't care?

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Well, yeah, exactly. But that now of. But it's like the bride to be like. It's because they roast me, it's like if it was someone else, I'd bring it up. I had no choice. It's like once it went viral, it's like it's going to get talked about. We can't just pretend it doesn't exist. I don't want to talk or whatever.

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Yeah, I mean it in a publication. Of course, I'm going to ask you everything that happened in your week. So, yeah, that's why I was brought up. You didn't ask for it to be brought up and I don't know. She just said that. Basically said that she said you had fun, you should have come out with them, which I don't think you ever denied any of that. You just said you didn't like the way the videos were portrayed, that it wasn't like that.

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But you weren't like, hey, was not like I had a bad time with you guys.

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I had a good time. So I hung out with them two days. I wouldn't hang on a second day if I had bad time. The first day, no chance. Right. And vice versa. There was no like. Yeah. Saved by Steven Chu. Steven Chu has just walked in the studio. I've been summoned, apparently. Yeah, well. You're asking me to be a liar. Maybe, yes. OK. Remember that email like we want integrated reads and like all that jazz because we're going to video for me to it, to you and guess.

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Yeah, yeah. And I wrote Get better advertisers what I wrote back and better.

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I'm not I'm not trashing simply safe here, but that's in my head. Like Steve Chag got to produce FaceOff. FaceOff, he runs things around here like I got I got to live up to Steve Jay's expectations. So we get the ad simply safe.

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And what is it was as in big red letters there. Please give your personal testimonial here. OK. I have never used simply save Steven Ché. So what do you want me to do to make a great integrated read here lie? OK, so here's the the counterargument, right? Yes, I'm sure I actually know for a fact that one has been sent to you, but somewhere to your apartment or previously the office, 100 percent sure.

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This was actually probably, if I'm being honest, the twenty eighteen, twenty, seventeen. So we're in HQ too at this point.

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So I got this thing in twenty eighteen. I mean, OK, so I can't, I can deliver the product at which point you know, pass that setting up is not necessarily my scope. I don't know if you've been sent an additional once and so let me rewind.

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Sure. I get sent a security system, I don't know how and we all expect me then to go install it in my own house.

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I mean, that's what's great about simplicity. It's really easy up. I have one in my home. That's great. So do you want to come to the address? And this is by the way, you'll relisten. This is not at all, again, simply safe. I appreciate them being an advertiser.

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But. You're asking me to lie? I'd never use the product and I'm trying to integrate, read, and I'm fine with doing reads, but if I haven't used the product yet, I'll do the read.

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And if it's great and it catches people's attention, great. But don't you think then when we find something, because every ad says the same thing, like give your personal testimonial at how much you like it if you do that every time. Mm hmm.

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Don't you think the end user and by the way, it's not just us, it's every podcast, every TV, everything. Don't you think at some point someone watches like this person is just doing the outrageous lying because Steve Jay told them to.

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And then when you truly love a product and believe in a product and want to give that next level endorsement of why it's so great. It kind of washes away because you say about everything and then you can't get the higher rates in the bank. OK, so in everything that does, say the give your personal testimony, personal endorsement deals have been sent to. But how do you know that?

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I believe in the product you're selling it. But in saying give your endorsement before I even use it.

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OK, I mean, I would sell it that way. I believe not you, but it's like. So in this specific example, I'm going to call the agency, but there are several agencies that require this when they advertise, so they do it again, in turn they will send the product. We have gotten a handful of pushbacks in my time here, four, half years. We've gotten a handful pushbacks that are like, hey, this product doesn't jibe with me.

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Like, I don't think this would be a good fit, in which case we remove it from the show or find another place for it to live in this case. You're right, and this this is like I'm not going to print that or has a name, but another advertiser, which I was sure and I mentioned that you didn't necessarily I know for a fact that you personally did not use it despite it being sent or whatever. So on the ad side, we can do a better job of, I guess, personalizing this show towards what you need, but.

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I would say that there's a less of a marrying of interests from what we see, the pool that we have and kind of the lands that you put that that to me is and that is not an easy answer, but that's a sales issue.

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Fast sell. Like, I mean, these shows are buying across our networks, so we've 40 something Todds. This is one of the big pods they've been here, correct?

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OK.

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You'd rather not have advertisers? I think I'm a big enough fish where rather than just selling across 40 pods, we should be like Dave, especially now he's like hot in the streets. Let's find things that actually fit his lifestyle and have a budget and he'll kick the shit out of it rather than let's sell across a network of 40 parts. OK, it's not in like 40 pods, but like when you look at the Parcel Sports Network, there are 40 or some some odd pods.

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There's going to be a couple of headliners, one of which is this. They want to be in the Dave Portnoy business and they're going to see this show. They're going to CPFL and that is one of the headliners for.

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But there is an element of he doesn't like. I understand where you're saying you can advertise on it and you'll get the listeners, but like. A true Dave Portnoy endorsement should be very valuable, scarce and expensive, but I'm going to give it like the old.

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I understand what you're saying, and to an extent, I agree with it. But. The fact of the matter is that two of the agencies that we work with and probably make up. Fifty percent of our overall pod spend, which is, you know, a very high amount, require these type of things. Now, if there are specific things with your show where you'd like us to, like, review advertisers that come in and, you know, I don't know if it's on the run, you run them by you or whatever, like we can explore those avenues.

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But, yeah, I understand your gripe is not necessarily a gripe.

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It's I truly believe it's bad for if you if you endorse everything, you endorse nothing.

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I mean, some counter argument. It's not like we're asking you to endorse like ten different metrics.

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Companies like these are all different products. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

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I have definitely, definitely endorsed 10 different not just companies and which one and which one sticks out as the original.

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The first which I created the mattresses, mattresses, mattresses. But since then I've done like 100.

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But you also used to be in sales. So you get this there's year over year goals. Things that we did in twenty seventeen necessarily aren't in the same ballpark.

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In only twenty one I ever sell like this. Did I ever give endorsements. Just I want I turn it away. That's how I built this free country. You like free Milton days? I was only selling like Milton's was like, I'll wear Hugo Boss from Milton, so let's do it.

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Like, I wouldn't make sure it was something like Milton's is a good example. It's like they had suits. I didn't like them. Like I'm not doing I don't wear those suits. And I had no money. It's like Hugo Boss suit. I wear that suit. All right. I can get behind it. I know I'm going to wear the doing it even when I'm not doing ads. Going to be part of it. I've always been. That's how you want.

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People are like authenticity sales. I truly believe in my heart of hearts from a business side, if you can maintain that and say no.

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It'll come back to be a higher yield in the end because the endorsement in that shit matters. And so when I get like, that's why our outrage, we had so few in the beginning, but there were literal and they were real.

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Right. So, yes. And by the way, I'm fine with average. You go to Outteridge. It's like seeing a commercial on TV, right? Personal dorsum. It gets an out there and simply say it's a great product. People can hear it fine.

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But like, I don't I don't have it.

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OK, I think that's a fair gripe. I think we could do a better job customizing this to your wants and needs. Those are I mean, in fairness, you live a different lifestyle than a lot of people. One hundred percent here.

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OK, we did this during brand two weeks ago. I gave them a list of, like, everything that you actually do like. Well, but get you to go get them. They may be long sales.

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I get that. But in fairness, that was whatever, February 15th or something like that. And, you know, we're part of the Wincer and some of these advertisers signed contracts through the year to do X number of weeks, whatever, 100 percent.

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And I get I have them in, but and I get that that they sell the big agency and things like that. But the person and I know it doesn't always make sense, but people know like I don't think anybody listening to the show is like Dave fucking Wolf simply say if he's got this personal story of fucking simply safe.

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Well, here, let me tell you something, because I am on the Dave Portnoy Show right now. And I personally, you simply say this is my simply safe app. Go to simply safe dot com slash Portnoy today to customize your system and get a free security camera. You also get a 60 day risk free trial. So, Dave, you can try it out. And if for whatever reason you don't like it, you can send it back risk free.

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There's nothing to lose that's simply safe. Dotcom Slash Portnoy. The app is so easy to use installation about fifteen minutes. I'm not. I mean I can do like OPCON like tech stuff but like as far as hardware and using hammers and things like that. I'm awful this even I could do it very easily.

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Steve, you Connie Mack. Well, Walden, while you're here, let's talk about that for a second. Let's bring this out now.

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Matt Welden, I've come to actually like the Holy Grail then and this and this is your opinion. McWorld builds the best stuff.

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I mean, we've a lot of guys do welding stuff.

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They do. They're coming in. Frankie's wearing the sweat pants everywhere. And we're talking about it looks good. And so that that is something that where I put it on. So the mat. Well, then I'm fine with I wear it. I know what it is.

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Beautiful. We're going somewhere.

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So I wear the boxer briefs. I only wear fucking here. Read it. I mean, it's during this read it, read it, Sancerre, say it, say it for 20 percent what?

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Underwear, undershirts, regular shirts going out, shirts and sweatshirts and stuff that I like. Sweatshirt sweatpants are awesome, but I don't wear them for underwear. That's OK. I say, well they offer a lot of it.

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Now if the outbreed is over and we are done with the Mac world and Atari, you're wearing Dolce and Gabbana under the only underwear I wear.

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It doesn't really. Yeah. How much it costs, you know, 50, 60 bucks a pair. Oh how many got thirty bucks. Probably save you some money. I just go in there and buy every size they have, like maybe once every six months.

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I'm like give me all your mediums. I just take them.

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They're good, they're good underwear I used to wear Hugo Boss found out he was a Nazi, had to switch.

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Counterpoint from sales here, so let's say pushing Hugo now, well, let's just say Dave loves Hugo Boss for getting a huge Hugo Boss endorsement and you find this out, then you're like, fuck Hugo Boss.

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Correct? What do you want me to do?

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He was a Nazi. He literally put the clothes on the like the Sopo or whatever the SS says he did.

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I used to have it. People like, what are you doing? He was a fucking Nazi. I research it. I'm like, damn, this dude was a Nazi. My entire wardrobe had to be overhauled. OK, but you used to be in sales.

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And just think about how fragile I would hope that the sales guy or girl would be like he was a Nazi. What if nobody was more upset than me? I had to do a whole new fucking thing.

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OK, I'm just putting a hypothetical up there that literally put the clothes on the SS. When did this happen? When you think, oh, when when Hitler was fucking in Germany.

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Look, look at this guy. Really? Well, yeah, really hurts it, he I'm telling you, I'm not making it up, he put the clothes on the SS and I was like wearing his underwear and she's like, hey, tough luck.

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Hugo Boss is not like a current guy. What should they have shown so to I can't believe they haven't changed the name of a company, it's insane. We'll go put his Wikipedia up there. The guy was bad, bad news, sounds like. Steve, were you upset that he can go down in support of Nazis or go scroll down notes like. It's on there it is, boss, join the Nazi Party three one two years before Hitler came to power, the all black SS uniforms was designed by this dude.

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And you want me if you want to get them as an advertiser. Steve Che. Well, I mean, to use that as available.

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So before I knew technically in a million days then you were correct. But I think that was actually what brought to light because I was doing these great advocates for them and.

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And what do you do it?

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I don't wear it anymore. You won't find me anymore.

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And if Dolce and Gabbana, Mr. Dolce Gabbana or whoever it were in the Nazis, keep to yourself, because I don't want to have to redo that whole thing.

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Steve, were you upset that Dave didn't attend Brandee? No, I mean, gas was there. Well, why don't you attend, Dave? I mean, we corresponded over. Oh. Well, it is one of those things we should be on the same page like.

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There's a company that I know right now, and I told Erica about it, that and I don't know how you would know it, but I know for a fact I should be the face of this company and I would blow it up because what was it that clothing company that we talked about a while ago?

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RLF know they could be, too, but there's another one. OK, we should be on the same page. I'm telling you, like, I just firmly believe if you hold out on the endorsements so they really matter and find something that aligns and truly is a product they use, it's better for everyone and much more money out of it.

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I get much more bang. The advertisers are going to be happier. I do believe that.

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I think we are much more selective in like the presenting sponsor selectees taser in the next week trade is coming in, which I know you're going to be fully on board with. But yes, like live reads and stuff, we could be a little more selective against. Some of these places have signed yearly contracts. This is kind of in like November and I'm fine with reading.

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I would let it slip if he didn't, like, send me that email, like, hey, be better. Like, I'd be more integrated. I thought it was a pretty well put together, even though it wasn't like offensive. I mean, if I have something to say, then I'll say it to you.

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I mean, yeah, it wasn't offensive. I gave you that snap back, like, get me out like and I didn't mean like get me shit that I actually was pretty funny response.

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Yeah. OK, thank you Steve Tchi always here. Steve Chat's are most frequent guest on the show. You know, I have to say, I get my dad now that he has nothing to do.

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Yeah. Have you talked to him? What's what's the state of mind?

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I don't know. I've talked to Mike once or twice. I've been so busy, but yeah, I've talked to him a little bit. Yeah. We haven't talked about the show. I mean, it's not just him, it's the whole network's gone.

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He's got to be just going to grocery stores and talking to people during that hour.

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There's no way he's got to be lost. We got to get them back on soon. What else is going on? So we talked about that. Not a bad talk off the top, the David Beckham picture. I don't get starstruck or rattled very often because, you know, the world I'm in right now, I'm meeting a lot of people, but Beckham is I mean, back in the day I went to a revolution game or playing the L.A. Galaxy, and I was just trying to get close to Beckham to see how good looking he was.

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And I was in the crowd like staring at him.

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And I move like from one section to the L.A. Galaxy section. And he had personal security that actually was like, why are you staring at Beckham so much? So you're hot guy meter, I think, is that Tyler C from The Bachelor and then also an ex boyfriend, right? Yeah. Where does she go?

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Way older than those guys, but he's just you know, he's got that Jenny Sakwa. He's got the thing going. I met Victoria as well. They both have, like, awesome accents and I.

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I don't know where he fits on the spectrum of like superstars, but man, he's up there. You remember where he rode the boat into the Olympics?

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Where was that they must have been doing it in? Were they have London must have been the London Games. Did you do you approached him, I assume. Did he know you were at all?

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I don't know, because all roads go back to Dave Grobman. It was like the most connected human and of all time. So he introduced me to him. So it was like a very warm and I wasn't like I just went up to him randomly, like, hey, Dave, I was introduced to him in this in the context of Dave Grupp being like this is I've told you about Dave and Grubman's like a great cheerleader for me.

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I mean, he really, like, builds me up to be probably a lot more than I actually am. But so, you know, he was super friendly.

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Dave, Dave has three big time Dave's three days. Three days. Yeah, three days. Correct. OK, that's that seems legit. What about Aikman? That was pretty fucking cool too. I mean, you got it. You got a little sappy there, Dave.

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Well, it's crazy. I mean, a lot of it's crazy. It truly is. And I feel like we do it in the show. People like, all right, we get it.

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But how can you not sometimes just take a step back and be like, what the fuck is going on with, like, my life and barstool and things like that?

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I mean, he's Troy fucking I mean, Detroit and one of the great quarterbacks of all time, just out of the clouds and like, I want to be Portale.

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I mean, it's nuts.

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It's the way he said it to was funny. Like, I have so serious. I had two stories and I get now the people who know me and are like fans of barstool and shit like that. But I was in Miami and we were trying to get into a section in the span of like three seconds, we couldn't get it, it was too busy, was nuts.

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And Meek Mill was there and he had a big crew and like like, no, no more people. And Meek Mill saw me like, oh, Dave, come on in. I mean.

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Like, what the fuck? And then two seconds later, Tiger walked by, is like, Hey, Dave, it's like not it's not it's not dead. You Diamond, you said you were going to who? Eckmann. Erica was trying to convey Erica asked me, like, can I give them your number? Obviously, Hagman was there for Deon, so but still it was Dana sent me that clip. I had no idea what I was about to watch as.

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What the fuck? Would you have him on the show here? Totally, yeah, we should do that big I mean, big other news. Did you hear Rogan brought you up on a show the other day? I did, but. It must have been like such a minor because Rogan's so big, I had one person mention it. I'm talking to random, like Rogan talking about you, and then one person sent it to where were you the day?

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I don't know where I was, Franki. Somebody sent Frankie over like, hey, Rogan's talking about Dave and Basel. That's it.

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And I'm pretty sure if Rhodian actually is talking about you like a million people, would it?

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Because I hear about everything I barely like almost to the point it didn't even see me, actually was I think I had it sent to me twice, which usually shit like that sent a lot more.

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We had the clip if you want to play it. Sure. I haven't heard it.

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It must have been very recently and I didn't even realize you German names, which he told me I was going to be in.

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So he told me he's going to be in something. And I submitted the audition and I didn't get it, OK?

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And then I lost eighteen hundred dollars on AMC stock and I thought I was going to retire. So can someone call Dave Portnoy and ask for my money. Where's the line holding. I'm fucking busy sampling pizza. OK, all right. So you heard the clip though.

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Yeah. I didn't really recognize his voice and it was quick and minuscule. Minuscule. Yes, so that was Tim Dillon, that was the one who did the king in the staying with him in the shop. Yeah, but yeah, I don't know. I don't know if that was him fucking around or if that was a jab or what.

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I. I don't know how neutral I don't really understand what he meant, like audition, who was I don't know who was. I can't separate the voices.

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Rogan was just at the very end saying, you're probably busy sampling pizza.

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Got it. Got it. So Dylan brought it up, correct. Got it. Now he's a fan. I know that. So, yeah, Dylan's a big fan.

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Yeah. He's like, can we get the video back up to videos out for us as well. But we could keep going. A little gambling news here. Day cease and desist from Westgate. I was pretty wild.

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Yeah. I mean, those are just lawyers doing lawyer things so stupid there's no chance they invented great teams. Good teams win. Great teams cover. If we argued against it, we'd win. But what's the point? Yeah, it's crazy, like if we went the distance to try to fight, even though they already have it, we could easily prove that we used it. Everybody used it before they trademarked it. It's a ridiculous, ridiculous trademark.

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And I don't care. We want to take down tweets. I don't fucking care. I'm not going that battle like I want it. I'd be like, come and get me you fucking losers.

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Then he tweeted, the handle from the first 10 days in Michigan, looks like we're like a little less than a million behind draft kings for the first.

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Yeah, it was very good, very good opening numbers. We went toe to toe with basically all of them with little to no advertising and little to no like bonuses, free money for gamblers. So very good. We're the only ones that made money they all lost. And that's kind of the whole business model of what we're talking about. So Michigan numbers are very encouraging that.

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I also saw you tweeted that both Fanjul and draft Kings, their valuations were way lower. And did you ever talk about the way you that.

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Oh, you mean when we're selling the company? Yes. Somebody asked me if. If we met with them or something or they made offers and neither of them did, but we would have sold for probably less than, what 10 ended up paying, which ended up being a great deal for them. But we didn't have a ton of suitors. What was the other what was the original draft Kings Equity that you passed up on like 13 million or something?

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Who knows what it'll be now? I mean, that shit's impossible to tell because I would have been diluted like a thousand times over. I think it was like three percent or something, but. Like they've done, they take so much money since then, who knows what it would be that I saw. Penn also partnered with Capital Region Gaming. You said that's a big fucking deal.

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It is. We did a trade. With Russell Street, which is like, I believe, based out of Chicago, I met with them as well when we were going through the process and they actually were interested in purchasing us as well or coming to a deal. But the finances weren't exactly right.

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But they run street, even though they totally understand us. I don't think they knew there was something there.

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They got the value to a degree. So we traded skins basically from what I gather.

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So we have market access and a ton of states because Penn has casinos and ton of states, Russell Street at Market Market Access and New York State, we didn't.

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So we basically trade. It's a trade. It's like, hey, we'll give you market access for these three states. In exchange, you give us New York, because such a big boy state, big deal for us.

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We needed access here. Yeah, I mean, when is there any word on that, New Yorkers? I was just going to keep talking. I think it's like sort of approved and then it's like is Cuomo originally said he wants to do a plan where, like, the state controlled it. I think Oregon sort of does it like that. Not many people endorse that method Cuomo has got.

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So many issues of his own right now, I don't think that's going to happen, and who knows if he's even here to to go with that plan. He's in the extreme minority. The only person who wants to do it that way, he has no political capital right now.

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So that's why New York so big, like Cuomo is not in good shape here for, well, the nursing home thing. So his book, you know, on how he won covid, maybe prematurely wrote that. A little bit, I'd say, yeah, can't be writing those books when you go, you know, maybe like the biggest scandal in history, like scandals going on.

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You can't write a book before halftime. No halftime. He wrote it. He wrote it after the first drive.

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He did. He really did the last fifty 56. It's like the Pats, I think, to the Patriots take a three nothing lead on the Bears in the eighty five Super Bowl. I think they did that would be writing a book. Right then you look up, it's now fifty six to three at this time.

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You're right, you're very right. One of the last things on game like here Mr. Ice, our guy is ice cold.

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Listen, I love them and I've known them forever, Leo never been a great gambler in the philosophy that you could just strictly bet over's. What goes up must come down. He's putting out content or shoveling snow that was is his. I mean, I've always known he's good content. I've known him long enough, I we have have a very legit gambling crew. Yeah, the shoveling video was great. You did ask him to and try your like, so what's the deal like?

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Do you ever bat? She's like, yeah. Oh yes. Oh, he has one.

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I mean, he honestly. When we're in Michigan, he looked like a scene out of a beautiful mind, like it was just he and I watching hockey and he was pacing back and forth, just yelling, goal, goal. Not even in the games. He bet he was just tracking every game.

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I was telling him some other game he didn't that had goals.

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He thought that hurt his goals, which there is truth to that.

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But I was I was texting with like two in the morning that night, and he was he was not in a good way. No. He's like, I don't drink. I just had like 12 beers.

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And he's like, I texted Dave. All he did was send me something. He asked for it. Yeah, I know. I know.

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And I was like, oh, that's fucked up for him to do that. He's like, Yeah, I know, right. That's not fair. Dave's in Miami doing this and I'm, you know, losing eight in a row.

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Yeah.

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Obviously, the big news of the week, though, we'll get inside baseball here, Jeff, to do resigned. Yeah, and they do to do so, he. He didn't tell me, no one tells me when they resign. I don't blame them. I wish he stuck it out. I think maybe, you know.

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Listen, Bosco, I saw or I saw a big cat going after Ryko, everything he said is correct, Danz 100 percent right. Rico is a. Immature, crazy baby, he's also like super funny, he's been with us for, what, two presidencies, as he puts it, so is money in the bank and he has loyalty, but he's a crazy person and he's benefited. Like, I don't. So he's run out three people blackjack.

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Paul and needed to do. I think they did it, who could have found a niche here now? He wasn't coming to the office. He if he's in the office, he's doing his own thing and he almost got to he got wrapped up in the whole thing, but you don't have to be in everything that Ricos in it sucks. I mean, I would probably have quit if I didn't do to do we and be on the show is like only if Riccobono comes on.

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But you know, Ng'andu to did a bunch of things wrong. So I offered to do a contract way back when he said no and then he came back and it was like kind of a trial thing. But he's still in Philly. You've got to be in the office like like no, nobody was going to tell him he couldn't show up in the office ever.

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He can do his own thing, but he's isolated. And then, you know, Ricos doing the other stuff. So it sucked. But Nigeria has a gripe for sure. And a lot of people what about the people saying you, like all you guys are enabled and this is your fault? Because if you didn't do well, if you didn't coddle Rico, there's a lot of that to.

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We definitely enabled. We definitely, definitely enable Rico, but Ricos like. It you know, now, due to news, just like I'm out on this, put that content was funny and good ricos a legit, crazy person like insane. I've known that forever. And the dynamics very real of what was going on.

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Like he's a legit, insane asylum, but he's funny content and to be honest, like keeping Rico crazy. It produces better content like there, what we weren't getting fire conduct, the person who got screwed the most is probably Ladka because he's a crazy person in his own right and interesting.

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But he got caught up in the whole thing.

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But yeah. Ricos fucking nuts, and he railroaded and he's railroaded a bunch of people, Bryan, and do the most, I think he probably railroaded needed to do the most.

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And what Rigo says is like true in the sense that the dude who used to trash us all, like, I know that, but like, I was willing to overlook that. So he should be able to overlook that. But he can't. He's a legit, insane asylum. Yeah, it's hard because on one hand, I do understand that you don't want a lot of fucking, you know, fox in the henhouse and that's that has happened here.

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And, you know, you got to be cognizant of it, because when that happens, you know, who the fuck knows how fast that fire can spread?

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We don't want to be fucking bad, but we don't want you know, who should have that earpiece right now? Is that Ricoh? No, not at all. That's why you think I'm speaking for you? Well, that would be his point, but that's not Rico's job here.

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Like Rico's job is just to be content guy in, for better or for worse.

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The facts are. It's not just like we have a long relationship with where he's going, I think his content is more interesting, unique electric than like Naidoo to dos in. So I didn't see, like, a huge loss. You know, it was like, well, I can't lose in the doodoo.

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Like I didn't when Eric is like, hey, no didgeridoos resigning.

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Are you OK with it? I'm like, yeah, I get it. I didn't, but I didn't. I was like, no, oh my God, we lost in order to do. Yeah.

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And listen, he's not my hero, but, you know, like, this company's personal to a lot of people. Yeah. Totally. Totally.

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And and truly, he's not there because I do agree with Jeff and a lot of ways, like he got a fucking raw deal from the jump in a lot of ways to. Yeah, I really think he did a hundred percent now.

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Again, he didn't like go full bore in. He's living off and his, you know, wherever you are in Philly.

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And he wasn't coming in, but he knows college hoops really good way better. But I'm trying like go back to that T-shirt thing when they needed to do, which he thinks I like, altered the numbers. I did not alter the numbers. Nobody wanted more to do to do shirts to be sold than me. Nobody would have liked do to do to create like an army of people who supported him to go. That would have been great.

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And then if needed to do is like, I'm leaving. I'm like, well, you can't.

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You've built this thing but didn't happen. So, you know. Easier to do, unfortunately, and maybe it's because he was never given the chance, he could argue that his greatest value was just riling up Rico.

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I wonder in the future, like, is this kind of going to be we're going to keep going with it, or is it something that it's like haricot, like not what's actually time to stop or no. Do you think you can reason with Riko like it doesn't matter what you say to him, he's an insane person.

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Do I think he was a little taken aback? I will say that. Taken aback about what?

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Dan getting mad at him? He was I think that was like, oh, like he's not used to that, but he's not taken aback at all. He got exactly what he wanted. He wanted to do out. Yeah.

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But he kept saying I shouldn't niblets, I shouldn't blitzed. That's the first time I've ever seen him be like, OK, like maybe I shouldn't have done, maybe I should have done things differently. He first time ever I.

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He's happy. It went exactly how Rico Bosko wanted it to. Did you see him in Trista? They got into it with the viva cameras covering that a little bit.

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I don't know. I didn't even know they had beef. Yeah, he doesn't like her. Who does? I mean. He's a crazy person. Deon got his first win. It's a shitstorm on. You sent balls in the case? Well, yeah, and then they got shipped back and then the school saying they didn't steal it and he's like, of course they stole it. I as someone who watched it, why would Don ever fucking make that up in a million years?

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I think the school just want to make it seem like we don't have, like, criminals running around whatever it it I'd be philosophized on to.

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Congrats on the win, by the way, for 53, nothing but.

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Yeah, weird story, but 100 percent Deon's tell the truth. There isn't one.

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It's very easy to see why the school would say otherwise, why would Don ever say otherwise? Of course, Deon's telling the truth.

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Do you see new Deadspin shitting on them? No, why, they just wrote an article being like, oh, Deon Sanders making it about himself, yadda, yadda, yadda. He talked about stuff at the end of the game. He talked about, you know, just all that whole kind of thing through a parade when he got hired.

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This in that I mean, he's fucking primetime. He's getting players. He's doing Deadspin is below me to even dignify them. They are the dummies.

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Didn't they say what was the article they had? Carson Wentz. Yeah. Yeah.

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What was that? All of Pennsylvania was racist or some all the Philadelphia.

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And by the way, Deon Sanders. Is and I think we're going to have them on a different podcast, you probably talk to people that I can just think out loud in my head. That. Surprised me when I met them in terms of like what you're expecting and what you get, Deon's brilliant everything about him, he is far more calculating. And if you don't think. Deon Sanders and primetime and dancing in the locker room and stuff like that.

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Recruits, players and speaks to like the social media age, you're a fucking moron, he knows exactly what he's doing.

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And if you watch the college football show, he talked about going into the draft, looking at how much different players got paid and why they got paid and like defensive backs weren't getting paid, like other players being like, I need to create something around me to make me marketable, to get more money. And that's where Primetime Deon is fucking brilliant.

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What did you expect? Primetime like through and through? Yeah. But he was a lot more well, more measured and a lot more. He was a lot smarter than he thought he would be. Maybe not.

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Smarter isn't the right word. Yeah, calculated, calculated down to earth. He just gets it.

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He gets everything he really does. And that's why he's going to be like the fact Florida State interviewed him and didn't hire him is bananas to me. I don't know how anybody could leave a meeting with Deon Sanders. With everything he has where he went to school, and I'll be like, that's my guy, state will regret that. I mean, listen, by the way, just the fact he goes to Jackson State to coach, which I don't think many guys in his shoes would be like Michael Jackson state to start this career shows how bad he wants to be a coach.

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They made a big mistake. Yeah, it's weird to speculate and I don't know what his career aspirations are, but I think not very much wants to be like Division one big time college football coach. And he will be I don't know where.

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Yeah. What do you think about your boy Dana being back on the sidelines, vintage Dana, just going to be doing Tenby stuff? No, he may be the most. Self-congratulatory guy that we got on social media. Why, because he was posting the best stuff he's always going to be looks great. He's like, Oh Girl said, I look good, blah, blah. Isn't that a good one? Last night about a waitress handing him.

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Yeah, I'm a big boy in a B. You miss him, baby. I feel like he hasn't been around it forever.

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No, because he wasn't really part of my world for a while. Yeah, for sure. Let's talk about zip recruiter here for a second day, even though finish out the show. Obviously businesses have had flexible years this past year from working remotely to pivoting their business models for long term survival and growth. I mean, they're on like every barstools. They were on barstool radio. I know a lot on Sirius Show. Zip recruiters always been with bar stools.

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So how do you feel about zip recruiter Dave?

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I know this. It is a good, good place to find like qualified candidates. Always has been. Yeah.

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Dave blindsight bar stool stuff. I saw there were some. Some fluff about Brandon Walker, he was doing a Mississippi State podcast that he said was approved and it wasn't approved. What happened there? So he has to do this. He wants to run a podcast on his own. How did you hear about this? He said on the air. OK, so you want to do a podcast is on a Mississippi State baseball podcast inlike you want to monetize it himself.

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You just a total separate podcast. If he said it was approved, he said something about the email. Like I said, he could do it. I don't remember that conversation, but I feel like what I would say is you can do like whatever you want, you can do.

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And if he was like, Hey, I want to Mississippi State podcast, inlike Bastable tries to monetize or they get. It's like most of them, I probably said yes, but it sounded as though he just wants to do his not sound he want won't do his own podcast. And obviously, you can't do that. Is that what you're saying? Correct. Like, just a totally separate podcast. That would be nice. Yeah, because I know well, on the short list, he said he was just like, oh, when I first got here, like I said, I still want to do Mississippi State stuff like that's what he's passionate about.

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So that I would be like, yeah, you want to go to Mississippi? He's like, I'll do it my free time, which I don't even know what that means yet because we're in a world 24/7. But it's like if you want to do that, OK, you're doing it. But where the discrepancy is, it's not like he's like, I just want to make some extra money for myself, like he want to do it totally independent, so.

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That, yes, if Rand Walker, when he signed I don't want to leave Mississippi State, I still want to do Mississippi State, I believe. Yup, knock yourself out, do it.

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But it's hours like what happens if that that's what is Mississippi State. But theoretically, what if he does it and starts becoming big and is making a lot of money, then what?

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Like what what possible good can that be for Bastable as a business?

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If you have a guy just doing something where he keeps one hundred percent of the revenue he's doing, all himself become super popular or popular?

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Hey, I'm making all his money like, well, don't you see how that could be an issue? Other podcasting, other higher news, PFG and Arian Foster, they started a podcast called Microdots saw that. So look out for that. I knew that was coming, would you say? So I knew that was coming. Yes. So that should be good. Sidney Wells hired for Barzilai Outdoor Show. We have a replacement. It sounds like someone else.

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Come in. Have you announced that? Are you going to announce that? No, I believe it's her. You kind of had like a look on your face like something happened. We're still looking for other people, too. It's not like she's going be a one man show or woman show potentially. Anything on Sydney, Dave, I think you find it. We put out that were looking her dad's huge in the industry. She's very good, so she'll be a great hire.

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Awesome. Yeah, she was on the back yesterday to go check out her stuff. Caleb's moving to Florida. Did you know that?

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Yeah, he called and asked.

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I think I've said a million times he can do as long as he's continuing to produce content. You can do what the fuck he wants.

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Yeah. And his content isn't like stationery to the office and.

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All right. Gotcha. Well, good for Caleb, good luck in Florida and I forgot to bring this up last week. I don't know how I did, but you see someone named their baby Riggs after Rick's.

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Yeah, legitimately. His name is Riggs. Yeah. Can someone pull up the picture for us? Why? Is it ugly?

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No, it's just it's just the baby in like the nursery at the hospital and there's like a Riggs cut, not a picture of Riggs, but just the name Riggs and like, whatever. And they're like, I like your name, I sold it to my wife and I, she liked it. So we named our baby Riggs because of Eurex. It is actually kind of a cool first name. Rigs a little bit, rigs, Rahim. That's the name, yeah.

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Can I wrap this kid for like an athlete like Riggs, Raheen, want a name? The only thing I wouldn't know if I want to, like, actually say was after Riggs, just it's cool name you don't want. It just looks like a baby. Yeah, just one more thing before we go to listener questions, NBA top shot suboffices like fucking freaking out if you got it on that.

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No, I've known about this. Someone was telling me about this in Miami like a month and a half ago. So I've known about it and it's insane.

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Everyone's in on it now. You can make money, it seems like a bubble. I mean, it's just fucking insane, like it's insane. It. I get I mean, I thought about it a lot before this all popped off because I was already popping off and I guess the mental aspect of Hey.

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I own this, even though you can go watch this fucking highlight anywhere and you can edit it up and do whatever you want. It's like a mindfuck, but it's like a baseball card in baseball cards are coming back. But those golden fluctuations, what a world.

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Do you like all these people at the office acting like they're the next great investor? I mean, somebody told me that by like a tzion was like nine hundred thousand dollars. Did you think about it? No, no, I didn't. I mean, if you fucking blows up, it's crazy. The whole thing's crazy.

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It is I the listener questions here put I show up at Salesforce.com if you want to get yours in. First one from Michael. Dave, do you ever hear from MO? If you ever want to come back, would you be open to that. We discussed it once before in the past, but, you know, most killing it where he is, I think he's just kept going up. I like Mo, but I don't I don't think we'll ever reunite here.

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You guys had like a meeting, like a dinner meeting or so I just remember, like I forget under what pretense, but Tamako brought it up back in the day and I can't I think I talked to Mo briefly.

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But no, I don't I don't think. This next one is from Patrick MFK, Mary Faycal Randolph, the goldfish purple starfish sharks have feelings to. I mean. Probably marry sharks have feelings too underrated like moment book, such a good book, I don't fuck Randolph and Kill Purple Starfish.

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Oh, that's fucked up, I think. Purple staff killed five killed Randolph Purple, I don't care, don't question great passion behind you. Well, that was a dumb question. Well, I know those are three.

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You know, she create crustaceans. Is that a word? Yeah, kind of.

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Shark isn't a crustacean. I mean, the shark book is fucking awesome. Like, if you go back and read the shark book, it is laugh out loud. Funny.

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It's on Amazon or. No, I think so.

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A Kindle Kindle. Kindle got a Kindle. Maybe Elmore's like greatest triumph. The illustrations of it.

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You if you go back and read the the like reviews of the book, if you didn't know what it was, it's a must buy. I mean the reviews are ninety six percent. Go, go scroll down. Actually look like just read what the reviews time has not damaged this time has not damaged his tone. It remains a somewhat harrowing, sometimes absorbing, sometimes frustrating, sometimes moving look into the mind, into a mind in a state of disarray.

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Others have written more shocking books or have been more overtly anti-social. But with sharks have feelings to Dave Portnoy captures the bitterly confused mind of a shark who hates the whole world, not because the world is worth hating, but because he's frustrated his own ability to get along in that world with such a crisp reality that it shocks far more than any fantastical American psycho.

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Every review is written in this tone, so like serious and deep sharks have its crazy sharks. I'm feeling, too, is more than just a transcendent piece of investigative journalism and has more than a masterfully crafted work of Joycean prose on and on.

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It got one after another of the most remarkable, the most memorable and original aspect. The Sharks have feelings too wise and portnoy's portrait of sharks themselves. He brings to light their feelings, their emotions, their struggle, most importantly, humanizes them on in on the reviews. Go like this.

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You released a hardcover, I think, for Black Friday. Yes. Although Soldo. Good book by the book is a timeless classic that stimulates the mind with interesting and incomplete facts about sharks. Prepare yourself for an emotional avalanche. Well, turning the page every two seconds due to the fact that Ms. Paint does not lend itself to high workout per page, the headline of that one sums it all up perfectly.

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Yeah. Shakespeare to ski vonna important. Yeah, there's strong reviews.

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Next one's from Michael. Dave, what happened to your Quasimoto posture from the Milton days? How did you fix it? It's coming back, but I just stopped sitting at a computer 24 days, 24 hours. Matt, I've told it, but if you sit like this for 24/7, for ten years straight, you become that guy.

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You didn't you were like one of those braces. Like one of those. No, I just walk a little bit. I get out of my seat a little bit. All right, next one's from Kevin, how much of barstools, early success do you attribute to the rundown? An interesting question. Uh. Oh. I have no at 10 percent, I don't know. That's a weird it's a good question, but it's hard to break that down.

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I mean, I think if one feature, if you had to be like, what is the one feature that attributed maybe the most success, I would say, to the local small show of the day.

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Do those are big because people just send those around to share them, because everyone who knows that girl sends it and people are like, what is this? So what's the most terrible thing we had to me that that it will be the number one doesn't matter anymore. But when we're growing, that was a free marketing vehicle.

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Yeah, you're very right. You can't can't say that enough. I mean, it helps us a lot. We do like local Chicagoans now. And it's been it's been a great way to just grow Instagram and stuff.

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So but no, I mean, the rundown was fucking can't miss early on. It was only the original Daily Show you guys had, but I feel like it was very important.

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But I feel like for the most part, you kind of had to be a fan to like get into that show that like local smoke show as an example, you didn't have to know anything. It's like, what is this? Then you may go check it out, start seeing.

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But like the the the rundown, you kind of had to know the characters to truly appreciate it. And there's a lot of inside jokes and callbacks and things like that now.

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And also it's a constantly email. They do have a do you have the state of the rundown? A lot of people always ask about that, like, is there anything where you think it's kind of fallen off a little bit or there's not a solid cast that there used to be? Is there any plans for it? Like what's what's your thoughts of its current state? I mean. You know, it's still something we do every day is consistent, it's long running, you know, if you look at like PTI, PETA the best when Wilbourne and Kornheiser together and if someone's off, it loses a little.

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So if you don't hand me Dan and Kevin. It's probably not as good as when you have, like, our three biggest guys, like doing it, you know. Mm. And but. Obviously still going to continue and stop next ones from Tim, how many people do you have blocked on Twitter? I don't have a ton, I generally will block somebody if they won't stop.

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It's not necessarily what they say, it's more they won't shut up and they're just clogging my feet like Bailey.

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Yeah. Yeah, right. Exactly.

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What about the traffic barrel guy? No, he's not blocked now. How about remember the blobfish guy, he may be blocked because I haven't seen him.

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I think he stopped, but that guy was relentless.

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Yeah. Yeah. Big time he was. I respect relentlessness.

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Oh, man. I don't know. I just thought that was interesting. How many people you have blocked. Did you look it up? You actually want me to look. Yeah. Why not. Right. Fifty four. Wow. Do you think that's a lot or a little little for how many fucking followers you have and how long have you been on it? That's a little. I don't even recognize half of them. I just started like I don't know any of them that I just I look quickly, none of them more like personal.

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They're more like people who just were clogging my feet.

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Yeah.

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Last one from Alexander. Dave, did you ever end up taking manual Sugarcreek Shikari on a proper date after her pizza review? You have Mike Posner blocked it grudging from way back in school.

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I grudged hard. That was with with the agent, just like anybody else on that list.

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Yes.

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No, no, no one really that no notables let I sit still on it.

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No, Bailey just got unfollowed. You didn't block this. Think bubbly gangs on there. Yes, so far I'm scrolling down, recognize any of them, Mike Posner. Yeah. I have USA Today sports blocked, is that because a tourist is the only time that tie in with them?

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Oh, yeah, probably gangs blocked. That's me taking the high road so I won't get mad. Yeah, that's probably better. Yeah, last one, Alexander Dave, did you ever end up taking Emanuels for Ricky on a date after her pizza review that's slung from Entourage?

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Of course. No, I think we would have heard about that by now. Should we should we fire up the dams or what? Center one. Yeah, like I told you, I'd take you on a proper day like. What's going on? You know, it's the pizza man. I'm Emmanuel Shariq. I don't just follow me, I think what is there I don't what. They have it all locked. I got it, her Instagram or Twitter.

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Instagram right there. Yeah, I guess there she is. I don't even follow her, we show she's single. No, I don't know. She's doing some dating, some guy. All right, so I'm not going to do that. Nice try, Ali. Well, you know. Was just trying hard day. That's it. Anything else, sir? Anything else to say, anything to get you, anything that people should know about?

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No, we're good. We've got you explaining the picture. Yeah, we could do that. I was just we were thought we went along, so. But we could we could do that. People at the picture, we'll do a quick explain that picture, then we'll get out. Airness. That was me. That was me when I went through my mimic, everything Bieber does phase with Crazy Tracy. Gracie Tracy was early, like Antonya early, and that wasn't during her internship, but that that was early.

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Calvin Klein, the tattoo on was probably the most. Yeah, I really went through that phase, the sorry video man that you still haven't met him, right? Never met him.

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Now you got your cell phone thrown that one time. Yeah. Taylor Yeah. We met him at a club at the Super Bowl, like Caleb's like third day and Bieber was there. I'm like, hey, let's get a good picture with him.

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So I walk with Caleb and Caleb had the phone and somehow he had like a Félix.

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Wanna take that picture down so I could see the.

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Like, he had a phalanx of like security guards, like almost three hundred, like the gladiator type situation, and I ended up on the inside of it. So it's just me and Beeber. And I was like, hey, is like, hey. So I guess it hit me, but I didn't know. He just it was like a random person in Caillaux we're walking and Caleb went to take the picture and the security guard just took the phone out of Caleb's hand and just threw it.

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He just threw it against the wall and that was it. Never of the picture, that was a well, that's a first of all, we went to San Francisco. All time, sure to that, what was it, the pink in the black one? Oh, yeah, sex, drugs and rock and roll. Yeah, that's one of your favorites. I love that shirt. Yeah. Such a good shirt. I was a classic.

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No good. Good show, Dave. Anything else. All right. A lot of stuff.

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A lot of stuff. Thanks for listening, everybody. That's it for today. That's it for this week. We'll catch you guys next week.