Hey, what's up, guys, it's big cat. Before you start listening to this episode, I want to let you know that we're running a special sale on all bar stool merch, go to store barstool sports, dotcom and use code podcast for 10 percent off, go to store barstool sports, dotcom and use code podcast for 10 percent off. Well, I guess Fokin 88 CBD complaints, so I'm just going to say you took a couple minutes before your flight last week, so I guess I was relaxed.

What do you mean complaint? I don't know.

They were like you were you had you had a couple misreads. And Dave didn't seem ready for when he told them.

I don't know. Whatever they were, they were complaining about the ad reads.

So who who complained? The presenting sponsor?

I don't even remember. I did an ad read. No, I did it. A complaint about me. I just threw it to you. And I was like, You love Eighty-eight CBD and you're like, Yeah. And they're like, Oh, David, you sound surprised. And you were stumbling over words is like, all right, all right. We know who complained about it.

The company did. But who told you, Stephen Shea, how we think we live?

Yeah, this is part of this show. It can be. It's a no no, it is.

OK, I'll leave it, because anyone who's going to sponsor the Dave Portnoy Show has to know if you complain about our ad reads, we kick you out, you don't kick them out. Our our Adoree. So they're out like, give me a break.

We'll find a new one who wants. Listen, first of all, Steve. Well, for one week.

Yeah, they're out one. They're going to be out. This company's out. I'm sorry, but like you don't complain about our attitudes if you can't break to be like, oh, he wasn't ready for it.

Just be like, well, it was to be clear, they said it was good that I tossed it to you. This the feedback I got because I was like, all right, I don't I never mind. I'll fix it. I'll give I'll give the you know, no, they're by or whatever.

They're no, they're out. They're out. We'll get a new one. Steve Okay. Again, I don't know who they are. They can do other stuff. They're not doing this one thing.

We don't like the Adoree tough. Like I do it on my way. We do the ad reads I want we'll deliver value.

Don't fucking worry about it. Come up. Come to me in a way like, hey, we need a big week. Talk to me side on the side. Steve, whoever.

Whose client is it. We should get them in the show, like learn like Steve Chase should be sitting next to me right now, first of all, I'm fucking tired. I haven't caught up from Miami going. I'm excited, but I'm running around the earth. All right, I'm running. I didn't have time to breathe the election. I'm predicting winners and losers and flip flopping. I get home from Philadelphia at 2:00 in the morning. I'm up at fucking 7:00 to do the show.

I sit down and I hear this company, CBD. What is it? What who are these people? Eight.

They're not happy with the ad while you're out. You just lost, I guarantee you what.

Who are they? Eighty-eight CBD, I guarantee you. And I'm sure it's a great product that if they just stuck with it and came at me in a way that I've only been doing this for 15 years, like, hey, whoever the salesperson like great read, they just want this out of it. I would have sold more of this product than they could have made. They would have had to have thirty more Greenhouse's tomorrow to make this shit. But instead I sit down and it's.

Do they make CBD in Greenhouse's by the way.

I have no idea. Well whatever.

However they make it out, they would have had to they would have had to triple the fucking production capacity because Dave Portnoy is pushing it and selling it. They can't find fucking high noon and you got this and that into the moon. Whatever I push I sit down when I haven't had fucking sleep, you know, like, oh, they one week and they complain about the ads, they're out. And I don't know if that's on the sales people for not coming about isn't a better way.

And being like yo, we loved it but or connected me or let me in there already you don't you complain about the average one that you know what that means. I can complain about every time they're out. Don't don't do business. Don't get in the Dave Portnoy business. If you're nitpicked, the reason you're out. I thought it was a great read. Hey Eddie, they're fucking out. The last show we did, I was doing it at fucking 10:00 PM in a hotel room in Miami.

Bear with it. This one seven. I'm not traveling on Thursdays for a while. These two Thursdays. Hey, Eddie, they're fucking out.

All right. So who's a sales person? I'm not sure. I think we heard from Stephen.

We call Stephen. Yeah, Steve Che on the line. All right, Michelangelo, can you get that ball in motion? Yeah. All right. Bang, bang. Welcome to the day Part II show this episode co-sponsors. No, practically no, no. Sonic sponsors.

They're gone. Probably so. Eighty eight CBD for today. They bought today's Dave. So we've got to wait until we can refund them.

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Dave, here is where we talk about, you know, your experience using and everything like that. So I thought I did better. I feel better because I they were happy with my rate. So I don't know.

If you're not happy, get out. If you're not happy, get out after one read the feed is you're not happy. What do you what do you want? You want some fuckin lotty da voice?

Like, what do you want?

As one read, how does Steve Chase. So they're not happy with it. That's what he said.

He said, I mean, word for word.

I have it. I have it. And that's why I was like, hey, you know, let's correct it. But, you know, you're you're right. Maybe it could be this can be worked out another way. So let me pull up Steve Chase here. This email. All right. Without text. Actually, I fucked Steve Jay to.

Hey, buddy. Hey, buddy. That's how we started it. Yeah, but we're buddies. Steve Chao.

You know, you don't start it with a buddy and then tell somebody they did a bad read. Eddie, he's walking all over you. You do that show dog eat dog walking you, Eddie. Hey, Busson. Steve chases dog walk. Do you read the text, Dave?

No, listen, I understand there's a negative connotation with hey, buddy, but we're Steven Shea. That's just his language. That's just his word.

Steve, as you fooled, when you give a hey buddy, your ad reads suck, you're getting Dogwalker. Read the rest of it.

I got some negative feedback about the OK, so hey, buddy, I got some negative feedback. Is dog walking, you know, it's just around the ring. All right. Continue.

I know this. OK, hey, buddy, I want this. I got some negative feedback about the eighty eight read in your pod with Dave. The presenting sponsorship is a big deal, so please make sure you're familiar with the copy. I thought the Question of Day was really good, but he didn't really seem ready for it. Not a horrible read at all. Just make sure you're familiar with all the verbiage. I said, OK, can you be more specific?

What didn't they like? He said, of course it was just a few stumbles over words. So they wanted to make sure you and reviewed the copy beforehand. Normally not an issue, but it is a close eye. There is a close eye being paid to these now. I said, all right, I'll try to correct it. I was like, I you know, I like to just toss it to Dave, you know, get him involved.

That's probably the best way.

Yeah. I mean, close is fine, first of all. Hey, buddy. Negative ad reed. Come on. Fucking Ché second. If they're going to pay that close, then I have no problem paying close eye, but you get to roll with the punches you can get some reeds are going to be spectacular on the Deepwater Horizon and you got to get other reeds that I'm fucking rolling into a hotel at nine p.m. and I haven't had a second to blink, not a second to blink.

That's true for the first one, you know, to come in, like with complaints on.

I mean, we're working on fucking dicks after the show. Even this, I had to set my alarm at like six, 45. I'm up with the birds and the bees.

Yeah, you're right. I'm about Central Time, Dave, to an hour behind.

I know we're working on resolve it. We're just starting how the presenting sponsor. First of all, I should have to approve the presenting sponsor. I should have to allow you to be associated with me. And now. Now they're out. Too bad I'll gurstelle sure. I'll go sell my own if I have to. I'll go put this out. Hey, presenting sponsor and I will put on reads of the likes you've never seen before Eddie. The likes of you've never seen before.

So we don't want to maybe put them on suspension and bring them back with totally out one and done.

I mean they're going to listen to this and they're going to have to make a choice. Do they want to be in the Dave Portnoy business or not? In the future, the business may ride on it. It's up to them. But I don't want to hear. We didn't like your read after the first read. There he is. Hey, buddy.

Steven Chase here. Hey, buddy. Guys, I pulled over in a stop for you.

What's going on? So we're going over this. What's the name of the company? Eddie. Eight CBD. Yeah, and the hey, buddy, we don't like your ad read, so they're out. Steve, check your text. You're quoting my text editor. Yes. Hey hey buddy. We didn't we didn't like your ad read. That's how your dog walked. Eddie, you stepped in. You sent him a taxi going, hey, buddy.

Negative, negative ad read. Well, first of all, I. Hey, buddy, everybody. Well, you don't. You don't. Hey, buddy. Somebody then followed up with. Hey, hey buddy. Your ad reads sucked that.

And I know I know where you're coming from. It's OK. I don't do that to me. You'd have we'd be in Georgia right now. Steve. Hey, buddy. This company hated your ad.

Read it. They didn't hate the advertisers giving him inside sales feedback that basically said, hey, just this is the presenting sponsor. Let's make sure we're a little buttoned up. No, no fumbles on a few things. I thought overall the read was good. He just needs to be a little, I don't know, more rehearsed.

No, not on the show. Do they know what show they do? They signed up for Steve Che. We don't rehearse ad reads this. They're either in the Dave Portnoy business or they're not. There's no rehearsal. I walked into a hotel at 9:00 p.m. We're just shooting the shit. I will sell more of this product then they can even make Steve Che, but not if the one thing we're getting. Hey, Buddied, do it this way.

We're watching closely. You fumbled over words. Yeah, we fumble over words. Steve. Jay, did you give that back? Like, hey, presenting sponsor. If you want to be in the Dave Portnoy business, you may not want to start issuing read complaints after the first episode.

Did you do that, buddy? I just wanted to make sure we were all buttoned up so it wasn't an issue going forward. It wasn't it wasn't a big I actually I'm not even sure there was an advertiser complaining. Might have been just a note from Internal from Barstow. And I just wanted to make sure to relate properly.

Who gave that note on that note? Who's listening to what we say? Giving notes on my show. Everybody listens and they give notes on what I say. Steve say that you get that you get to the third floor taking notes on what Dave Portnoy says and be like, hey, maybe Dave can say this way to be better.

That's going up on the third floor presenting sponsorship, which, by the way, I created.

You know, it's got this company, it's got kicked out that there is a big focus on that internally, I guess, towards end of this year and going into next year. When I say, well, it's true, I want on one issue, Eddie and I have a I feel like Eddie and I have a very good relationship. Hey, buddy, I sent him a quick note.

You put it know you walked him around the office. Hey, buddy, do the reads this way.

I start almost all my textbook. Hey, buddy or hey pal. Or something like that. Eddie, any any other texts that I've sent you your negative connotation after? I mean, normally I guess there isn't a negative connotation following, but that's just the way I talk. Who's taking notes on what I say? It's not necessarily what you say. It's any presenting sponsor.

Yeah, I fucked it up. Right, Steve? It was it was me. It was.

Bail him out, Eddie. He put you. He dog walked you. Eddie, listen, that's great for ending, by the way. I know. I subscribe.

Thank you, Stephen. I what. So what do we do here, Steve. So if we take this away, it's going to be taking money out of your pocket then. Right.

I'll go give them the commission. How much you'll tell me off air how much they fucking paid. I'll go get someone who wants to be in the business and who isn't going to sit there with a fine tooth comb being like you stumbled on that word. We want a free ad read. Hey, buddy, you stumble.

No, they were. They were they weren't asking for a free read, I think got on our end. We just wanted to make sure we were fully Polish. The presenting sponsor is a big deal. You're on those emails. I send those. So, you know, I just want to make sure for those for those sponsors, we're going above and beyond them.

So were you the internal complaint? Maybe I was.

It was brought to my attention by and after. By who? Who brought it to your attention.

And it was to be brought to my attention. I wanted to go back and listen. I listened. I was like, your attention, Steve Ché. Oh, no.

To people who really don't listen to Dave portion of the show being like what? We tell Dave how to how to do his podcast on the third floor. Who who's doing that?

You're not putting me in a good position right now. I told you. Hey, buddy, this is my podcast partner. And you you made a fool out of them.

Eddie, I'm not looking at our text directly, but if I ever have anything to say with you, it almost always is going to start off with, hey, buddy or hey, pal, that is not me.

I'm giving you a social lesson here. Don't. Hey, pal. Somebody. Hey, Chief. Somebody. Hey, buddy. That ad reads, Hey, buddy, that ad reads sucked. Hey, Chief, you got to do better than that because that comes across as condescending and dog walk.

Well, I mean, I would think that you're you know who it's coming from. I mean, I say. I say it's. Everyone, how how would you recommend that I open that, Steve, if sent me a fucking email and say, Hey, buddy, that Aderet sucked, I'd be I would be like the flash, how fast I would be in your face.

Hey, buddy, that that really you got to do better than that buddy guy. Do better than that on your podcast, buddy. That won't sit well with me. Hey, Chief. Hey, Skip. They're all the same words. You can maybe get away with it because you're this Lartigue guy, but not when you followed up with a Buddy Adoree law. Negative comments sponsoring Happy Hour. All right.

I'll I'll make sure.

Who said renames who is reading who is who on our side is going through these. Be like, no, not good enough.

It's nobody's like listening to all the ads but like the people that are involved with that sponsorship who sold it. You I don't sell ads.

So who sold it. Whose client is it. Is it sausage.

Is it. It's not say it's not. Who sold the great guy. Yeah. Yeah, he's a great guy.

That's because he shows his face with fucking shrimp at a buffet.

Who sold it to whoever sold it. If you're Steve Chase sitting there, I mean Coy, if it's that big of a deal in that big of a sponsorship, you come down. I'm not an idiot. Here's a little story, Steve.

I started this company by myself. I used to sell all the ads. I understand how sales works. If it's that big of a client, that big of a sponsor, whoever sold it should come down to me like huge deal, big entry point, like, excited about it. I'm not an idiot. And I'll make sure we fucking take care of it. No. Yeah. Presenting sponsor. He read it. I didn't think twice about it, but then the dog was already here and send them a hey buddy.

It shouldn't even be your job. It should be the sales job. If it's that big of a client that people are listening, everything they say they should walk their ass down into my fucking office or pick up the phone, OK? Hey, Dave, huge fucking sale here. I don't want to bother you sitting away, but like, it would be awesome if we really killed this and I'll fucking sell more of that CBD shit than they even have in the warehouse.

OK, so who is the salesperson? So for for these you may have noticed that I sent an additional email with with kind of parameters ro I don't read emails, I get a million zillion trillion of them a day.

You're going to walk in. I'm face to face or text me and if you don't get a reply for me, I assume I didn't see it.

OK, that's fair. I will ensure that this is communicated with you better in the future. That's on me. Who are you protecting, Steve?

I'm going to find out who this person is. You think if I go to Erica Betio, who's a salesperson on this, I'm not going at the answer. One second. Give it up.

She is in the parking lot of a Wendy's right now.

You are driving into the office. Have you happy to live here?

I'm going to get whoever the salesperson is will be discussed and will probably be on the show.

So, I mean, I could be squirming. I mean, I know I'm in a no win position here. Well, I mean I mean, it was I mean, this is it.

Someone who is keyed on the email. It would have had to have been. So I don't know offhand, but that would make sense. Who is it? I'm trying to put it on the screen, I'm just going to read them because you're afraid of yourself.

Anyway, I feel and Steve, my great writer, David Portnoy, Eddie Ferrer, Michelangelo, Stephen Jay, Brian Fitzsimons, Fitzsimons said, no, no, no, it's not.

And he was going to look so sorry to the next few names here. Jennifer Powerpack.

I don't know who that is now. She's my boss. She's the VP of Client Solutions. Now, Nicole Lusia Ostrowski, don't know who that is.

Oh, that's what we do know, Nicole, is. Do I you know who Nicole is? Maybe. I recognize she worked in New York. Yeah, she has glasses, brown hair, super nice.

OK, it sounds like Nicole and Nicole may be the next guest on the day of Pordenone show.

Well, I mean, I'm not saying it's Nicole. Well, yeah, you did. You said with your face. You said it was your face. T.J., I can see you. I mean, yes, of course you did. Of course you did. All right.

So we just hang up. I yes, you did. Yeah. Oh, there he is. All right.

So, you know, Nicole's going through everything I say and with a little yellow highlighter and me mean like, this is wrong, Eddie. Screw that. Then she puts you on the case, I will say.

Then you get it. I will say this. I'm pretty sure she's a salesperson, but I didn't hear it from her.

So then who did you hear it from? There's a chain of command up there. And you know what the chain is? You know who's at the top of the chain of command, do you?

I do. I don't know that you do, Steve, do I? Because the top is asking who who gave the order, who put the hit, who do the code red?

I, I originally heard this from someone that brought it up to Deirdre. Deirdre alerted me about it.

OK, who alerted it to Deirdre? Not Nicole's boss, which is. We naming names there. Yeah, we're naming names, Steve, you're blacklisted from things Casey, Casey, Casey Murphy.

OK, all right. There it is. And where is he based? Out of New York. So, I mean, then what? Casey Murphy as a boss, what's his title? Sales director. All right. So then as a sales director, put your nuts between your legs and walk into my office and say there was an issue, not this around about. I mean, think about what we've just said and how dysfunctional this is. It goes from Casey Murphy to Georgia to Che and then Che dog walks Eddie.

And that comes back to me this way. All could have been avoided if Casey Murphy, hey, we got a big deal. Like, I know you're super busy. Just look at it and like, it's huge. Avoid it. It's crazy. The amount of, like, communications in six different people. Just fucking nork.

I don't bite. I don't bite.

In fairness, the critique wasn't on you, on Eddie. Eddie's not local. Eddie and I have a good relationship. I've texted Eddie before. I texted Eddie about something this week that was not related to this.

What's the name of the show? What's the name of the show that you're on right now, the Dave Portnoy Show with Eddie and Co? Correct.

Something's wrong with the show. I want to know about it. I want to know about it. My name is Casper Fair.

If next time, if the situation arises in the future, I will text both of you and let you know, heads up, don't be like don't maybe be. I don't shoot the messenger like I know it's the first one, but don't start the next complete text with the hey buddy.

That's just a personal no you can't do it. Not to me you can't. If Eddie has no problem getting dog walked on a national level. Fine, you're walking the dog. Walk me like that, Jay.

I have one hundred percent called you buddy at some point.

And when I get a fucking connotation like that, I take Steve Che. He's permanent contact now, right? He could never go back up there.

Well, hey, buddy. Hey, buddy. Sorry I fucking squealed. That's what he's going to said. Hey, buddy. Sorry, I just fucking like him.

I might have. Yeah. Yeah.

Hey buddy. Sorry case lady. You out to the boss.

Sorry you're in deep trouble now.

Thank you. Yes. This is very enjoyable. I'll see you guys in a little bit.

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What aready do you. Thank you. Do you think they come back next week.

I mean they just got a twenty five minute average so I would hope so. But really it's your call.

Well no it's their call. Oh well if they, I don't allow them to stay if they wanted but they may not want any part of it. But this is see what I do. Eddie, I'm a team guy. I can't want my guy getting a dog walk. So I stood up for you.

I appreciate that. I did. That was that was nice. Like I said, I, I fully admit I was the one they weren't happy with. So I was like, all right, hey, I got to correct this. I'm just keeping you aware, like I'm going to toss to you that I guess that was like a minor blip, like just be ready, you know?

Yeah, I listen, I've been around a lot of bad reads, probably I didn't notice it being, like, spectacular or spectacularly bad. Not enough for Steve Jay to, you know, do what he did to you, emasculate you basically. Essentially, yeah.

I mean, you told you you said I got dog walked fifteen times. So I guess if you say it, you put it into motion. So anybody I don't care how he uses that phrase.

Anybody who hits you with a hey buddy bad ad read you get in dog walk, daddy. It doesn't matter if he says, hey, buddy, a lot. You can't say, hey, buddy, you got to be better on those.

Adria's it's such a condescending tone, but you know how chia is matter. Doesn't matter. Hey buddy. Got to be better on that.

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All right. You know, while we're here, this was a topic that I definitely like to bring up at some point. I kind of want to talk to you about sales in general. What's your your general feelings lesson?

Nobody likes doing sales. Nobody grows up and says they want to be a sales guy. I did it for a long time. Obviously, I did it before I started Basel. That was my career path and. When I started Basel for a long time, I was the only sales guy, you know, despite Paul Kosminsky being known as sales guy, I think he sold anything. Fuck no. I did tell Bubley gang came along. So it's a tough gig and it's not easy.

So I would never like you know, it's not an easy thing to do. I do think Basel itself presents challenges and that we have all the negative, you know, bullshit that surrounds it that can make sales more difficult than it should be. I also think we deliver so well that it makes it a fun thing to sell. I'm sure I can be hard to deal with at times or content in general because I still have the same thing. The my major complaint, if I had one from our sales people, for the most part, not all is their order takers and not hunters like the phone rings.

A lot of people want to advertise that barstool. In my experience, they contact me. I get people all the time being like I reach out to sales and nobody gets back to me, what the fuck? And now they're busy and they may not view it as a big enough sale.

The two things they resell, the stuff that works over and over, big cats always getting sold.

Pente, you know, crawdaddy one that's big me like it's the same group and that's the easier sell as opposed to like creating new business, which is always the harder sale. So but that's not just our sales force, probably that's in general.

The I've always said about sales, and this is even when I was doing sales because I was an inside salesman and I was an outside salesman, it is very ironic. The most important and hardest part of sales is building a pipeline and cold calling. And whether that sending emails, I think, is picking up the phone, knocking on doors, whatever it may be, that's the hardest part of sales, getting new business breaking in. And generally in most companies, the newest people do that.

That's like an inside sales person job to create leads for the upper salesman senior who close it. It's reversed the funnels backwards.

The most important, hardest part of sales is creating new business, creating new leads. Not when someone picks up and you get a warmly in, someone's like, Hey, I'm interested in BASTABLE. I feel like we do too much of that. Like sausage, which is somebody who got on my nerves, I'm sure is nice. I don't talk to them that much like. I I would think of things and hand him deals that an ant could have closed, you know, and that and I'm not saying he hasn't done more, but unlike the gambling space of that time when he was stuffing his face with shrimp, we did a deal with TVG that I put together all myself.

Like I connected it. I told him what they wanted. I was on the conference calls. Ozona thought about it, and then he just shows up, eat some shrimp and closes. It gets a nice commission on it. It's like, what did you do? That drives me nuts.

So you've complained before, too, about pizza and the pizza reviews. One bite not being sold. Like, what's what's that like? It's just because they're so kind of spaced out. You don't know when they're coming. I mean, do you have a pretty good schedule? But when you're gone, it's yeah.

Sometimes whenever it is sold now and will be coming, I think what I've been told, they don't know what I'm going to talk about and I won't I'll never sacrifice content.

So, you know, I may swear if someone comes in, I make a comment I didn't know I was going to make. That makes a little more difficult. But then I also think there's a lack of creativeness or like. I know. I can sell anything for myself if no, it's me going out selling, but, you know, let's take Tums, right? Like Tums, I've said, oh, Tums should be in the gambling house because you're gambling and you get heartburn and like or deodorant because it's like you're sweating and things like that.

I think of these things I don't know about our sales force necessarily always.

Is that creative or think about it or they're too busy or they're in their routine of the normal. But I reached out to Toms and set up a meeting in two seconds. I've reached out to Ford. We have Chevy now and set up meetings in two seconds. Like again, is that because they're responding to me? But I.

If any salesperson came down like, hey, I think this client or this concept is a perfect fit for your brand, I'd reach out on behalf for them to set up the meeting.

So, you know, I just don't think they think about that.

Is there a particular lead that you gave to someone that never came of anything that particularly made you very upset?

No, not really. I mean, I think during the gambling time, I think we weren't doing a very good job of pitting them against each other. We just would get the one, you know, client and be, like, happy that they're paying a lot. When there was so much more like I remember sitting next to the bubbly gang at a horse race and he was trying to close the deal is like, all right, just deals done.

Like you're doing it that way is like, yup, he's like, hold. I'm like, all right, slow down. Bubbly for two seconds.

I made literally in half an hour, probably five to ten phone calls, emails. And I turn what was like a 100 K deal until like a two million dollar deal in literally an hour, because it's like I just went the extra steps to get it done, like, hey, we're about to do this deal just so you know, like we'd love to do with you. Are you interested in the go up? So I sometimes think we just don't take the extra like the extra route, like your asses on the line.

And granted again when I was doing it so different, if I sold something that went into my own pocket, these people on commission checks and may not make us different. And I always have to remember remind myself of that. Passell has never been just a job for me, both personally and financially, we've grown it's just a job for a lot of people. My former sales life, it was just a job like you're not going to find me on the weekends, like thinking and doing stuff.

I was out enjoying my life. So I do lose track of that at times. And I have to remind myself it's just a job. How do you make it not just a job for somebody? I like to, but if you're employee number two hundred and sixty two here, you're not going to be as connected to the brand and as passionate as I am. And that's just a fact. So I've got to remember that.

What's your outlook on that as far as content goes?

Someone who you've got the same thing, really same meaning as just a job for a lot of people here. But the content is a little different because content like even if you're not gung ho barstool in Francis, for example, like your brand is on the line, like you're not just building barstool when you hear you're building yourself. And if you're not going to be here long term, there's Alex Cooper. And who knows? I hope she is. But I call her daddy.

She she's set up for life based on what she did here. So the motivation is always there for the content side because it's like being an athlete a way.

It's like the better you do, you're better for yourself. That's not necessarily the same for I mean, financially.

Yeah, for like sales. But they may be limited. I don't know the exact comp plans and shit.

So it's like if you don't want to play eighty two games. Sure. Set out a few. But in your eyes you're kind of missing out because you're building your own brand and turn.

Yeah. Totally for content. Yes.

But like I know what sales in my old life, it's like once I hit my comp plan, like I was sort of limited.

It's like I made just Zumwalt's like, you get your homework done early and then you have the rest of the night where I never get my homework done early. It's like, all right, I'm done. What can I do next? Now I have time to do more, but I'm in a very different spot, clearly. Yeah.

Now that's true. I mean, that's I'm like, is this like a new epiphany for you, Dave? I feel like this.

I've always had it, but it's like that doesn't change. How I'll drive or like get at people, but then in quiet moments, I'll know this is like just chill out for a second.

Gotcha, and I still think we're a great place to work, regardless of where you are, like as much as we bust balls and things I've seen and I shouldn't say, I don't know, I don't think on the third floor, people like watching when they go to lunch and shit.

I don't think I mean, no one's even in their own right. It's there are still out. Like, it's pretty hands off, I think. I mean, I'm not really involved in that floor.

So you guys change. You always used to be that guy. What is your big problem with him? We went to the Kentucky Derby that time.

I'm telling you the story where I set up every aspect of a pretty big sales deal. And I don't even know why he came to the Derby that day. But Frankie and I were there. And when we got clients, we weren't at our own table. By the way, I usually go to Kentucky Derby on my own and I will get myself the best tickets and I'll go like with Ric Flair, like the most beautiful of women and all the like.

I have a great time. Well, I didn't because we did. The sales do. He said it was like, do we have our own seats, Sagal? Now he sat us with the clients so we weren't even, like, able necessarily enjoy it. He was off gallivanting on his own. I don't know why he was there just in at a precise moment when the people you're with were so shitfaced that they literally are falling down like they'd stand up and fall down.

I'm at the Kentucky Derby, like this is my event. I love it. Like I'm in the book, like handicapping, I take it fucking serious. And I get drunk people falling down around me because that's where I'm at.

I look up. And at that precise moment, you can ask Frankie Barella, swear to God, Hillary, if you called him without him listening now, he would retell the story word for word. We look at the buffet as a beautiful buffet and sausage has his head in the air dropping shrimp like he's a like an Egyptian God into his mouth one after another. And from that moment, I've had a disdain like this because I was in the weeds taking shrapnel.

It's like Wedding Crashers when he comes to I was like, I got like raped and all this shit upstairs. And the other guys, I had a great day. That was it. It was the moment when, like, the person fell down and everyone's drunk.

And it's like, I'm just trying to fucking handicap the race and sausage, just shoveling, shoveling shrimp cocktails down his face.

Did you say anything to him in the moment? He was like on the other side of the room. I've said a lot to him since.

I'm telling him right now I am not exaggerating on the way he was eating it and how much shrimp cocktail he was eating in a rapid succession.

I mean, hey, yo, you're the Kentucky Derby once for that guy. Yes. You're not getting that. No, but you ride horses, are you doing Pegasus this year with Allio is a Zakhilwal.

I'm leaving for Breeders Cup this afternoon. That's why we're doing Harley, OK.

Gotcha, gotcha. Oh, interesting, I don't know the sales team, and they just have to it's a hard job and I think that listen, so we started kind of coming at them.

I think you you kind of that was like a rally cry. Like, I think they'll be happy to hear you say that. Yeah.

And I've said it to them before. Listen, you have to kind of understand me because I'm like kind of a bombastic cutting person. I've also done sales like my back. I know what sales is about. I know it's not easy. And I've said to them a million times, they never take me up on it. Like, use me, I'll go in, I'll pitch, I'll fucking help.

That's why I like this thing with the like, tell me, like, I can't help you if I've no idea what's going on except but you're so busy day like you have so much shit going on.

Doesn't matter if if somebody tells me there's something big or whatever, I'll find fucking time. I find time. I work 100 hours a day.

Eddie like that was a pretty big deal. We closed with Chevy, right? Yes. So what did you have anything to do with that?

Nobody see it. And I know. So like we've been very pro Chevy and I see it in pro football show and all that. Like I'm out on Ford, I'm all Chevy. I'll buy a fucking Chevy.

So if it's big enough, you'll get involved.

Well, I mean, Chevy I know is a huge deal. Name, brand, everything. I appreciate coming on. I don't know any. I mean we have nine thousand KBD companies, to be honest. I don't I didn't know like that. This one's necessarily different than a different one. Yeah.

I think Frankie's cued up if we want to bring them in. I don't know if he could add some context here tonight to the front of the shirt.

He's not on yet.

All right. Well, we could we could keep moving until the exact same.

I mean, it was. And he just has a look about them, so I say, I mean, that's the best nickname of all time sausage because he looks like us.

Are you saying soft or small?

What do you know, like a sausage sausage?

Oh, you're saying it looks like a sausage. Oh, dear. I thought you were saying saw.

No, I was like, oh, no h no sausage.

Like a sausage. Oh, that is a pretty good nickname. Yeah.

Well it's negative connotation but yes. Very good. It's maybe the best thing that we've had at this company. Are you what's your relationship with this guy?

I don't know. I don't think he likes me.

No. How could he. I, I'm consistently in his asshole sausage.

That's true. All right. Well, we'll see what happens with Frankie, but we'll move it on. I mean, how much are you getting now for moshing, Trump? Listen. I'm not getting a lot or most people like the rant, if you listen to what I said and I meant it, I did the opposite rant. I just want to be the first one to call it.

Oops. Yup, any time I talk about politics. And a lot of people don't believe it in the way you did this, you said this, you're involved in when I say I'm not political, I really don't give a fuck, I give a fuck. Only a sense of how it affects me directly. And I don't think either one will affect me that much. The same bite in taxes, 63 percent, who knows whatever.

But I don't like care that much. I really, truly think both sides suck. I think politicians suck so I don't get bent out of shape on either side. That's why I like when I talk about it. I don't care.

I really, truly don't.

But people keep fucking harping on it like all day. Why don't you just admit you're a Trump guy? Why don't you just say you're getting that a lot, right?

Yes, I did an interview, though. Like you said, you're a Trump. I don't think I've ever said I'm a Trump guy. So I agree. I agree with some of the things he does. I don't feel the same with anybody. Like every issue is individual. He said something absolutely idiotic, things that I think he has done. I think he's done some things I think he has treated unfairly. I don't think he's as big a monster as people make him out to be.

But every case is individual.

Did your ECG really get bad, who, Instagram? Yeah, so bad. I'm Shadowman. Yes, I like you. I can't grow. So let me put this way. When I'm public, I'm lucky to get like 50 to 100 followers a day.

When you have three million, that's impossible. I went private around noon yesterday and I got 15000 new ones.

And in a sense, it was it was almost instantaneous when you called it and it flipped, the odds just flipped. And it was you really were the Grim Reaper there for a sec. It was Arizona.

And then I was reading yesterday that or seeing tonight, like some people saying Arizona could flip back to them. I owe fucking those I don't think is going to. But the whole thing's crazy.

And how many times do you get when you go on a rant like that? Infinity. Yeah, I get it fun.

It's weird. What I've noticed is Instagram, at least my following or whatever is conservative pro Trump 95 percent, Twitter the opposite. Twitter is all like libs. So it depends the the platform you're on, like that's why I know Israel is fucking with me, because most people in Instagram love those rants they love. On Twitter, not so much, and I guess it is kind of where it gets in to people who don't really know you, right, is just kind of like the stock and like the pizza crew who are like they don't know that you saying like, oh, Trump won.

That's just how you say things. You just fucking you don't sugarcoat anything.

Yeah, right. And if you. Are upset that I called the election for Trump like you have rocks in your head. Did you see gas at a watch party? I saw I was doing something.

You didn't see the picture of Jack Merchant, Jack Macintyre a day on his couch? No. Oh, Michelangelo, you got pulled up for him because it is quite a picture.

And guys, I guess chaps looked up as cow gas is a six thousand dollar cow, which is pretty impressive.

Gazza's, that Scousers couch. You know what the. He bought my couch, really, Jack, Max trashing his boots on. That's my couch. No, not my actual couch. That's my Nantucket house couch he is on believable. He literally has hijacked my entire existence, except he doesn't have to do the work. He's never told me he did that. That's the that's like the cloud couch from. And I'm getting it in my. He is.

So you can confirm that that's a six thousand dollar couch. It's expensive. But he he bought my couch. I didn't know he did that.

You look a little little shaken. You don't think imitation is the I mean, it's everything.

It's everything. It's but I didn't know he had done that cock. This fucking guy.

When you think about your exact position, whatever it is, a comfortable couch.

That's a hell of a watch party, though. Jack McCann all day. That's Gadge. You got to love that. He's just he's so deep into this content world where it's not even it's for his own entertainment at this point where he wants us to go.

So he needs somebody to work for him. KFC had a very funny tweet about that, said it was like a rich people pairing people off to fight each other for sport and entertainment.

And you're your idea for the election. Took off on social media, too, about releasing the results of midnight. That would be.

Yeah, I feel like I've said that before, but that would be awesome. It'd be great. But yeah, I don't know. That's really a luxury. So I don't know what's going on. What's the latest as far as right now? Are you are you up to date?

It seems like Biden's going to win, but I don't think Trump's ever going to submit. So it's going to probably drag on for the foreseeable future weeks until it's official.

I found this story kind of interesting. She Burger King told customers to order from McDonald's to support fellow businesses. And I know we don't usually do like, you know, social talk or whatever, but I found it interesting. I want to know your take on that.

Burger King told people to order me. Oh, because they're trying to take a shot at them. They're a small business.

I figure we just know to support fellow businesses because, you know, the pandemic and shit makes no sense to me. Oh, we got Frankie Burrell here, Frankie probably on the scene. Frankie, what's up? So we want to bring you on. We want to talk about a Kentucky Derby. Was there any moment there? What was the most memorable one? Well, what can you tell us?

I mean, you just I told you, we're talking about sales. Just retell the sausage story. Like I said, it would be exactly how I told it.

Oh, well. Well, memorable moment was a meeting. Tom Brady, that was definitely the first one, because I remember that being like the craziest moment ever. Like Tom Brady was there, like, holy shit, this is insane. But sausage was we got there and, you know, we got put on this table.

It's like my first time with the Kentucky Derby. I'm like, oh, we're going to have a really good spot. We're getting set up by the people at the Kentucky Derby, remember?

And Sage, like Madison was like, all right. Like we have a spot over here at this table. Actually, prior to that, I think he took one of Dave's extra tickets, like days like I have an extra ticket and sausage. Like, can I have that? Like like I'm like, I'm going to take that. And that was like a stunning moment to like like Dave could have given that to anyone in the world. Oh, I don't even think I gave it to him.

I think I said no. And he just got his own. I think if I recall.

Okay, I thought he took the extra ticket. So, like, we, like, sit down at this table and we've quickly, very quickly realized that we are with a bunch of like people that, like the sales team would have met like this was basically a sales meeting, like to meet with reps and like schmooze a little bit. And like, we got stuck talking with some people and then, like, we look over and say, just gone for the entire day.

At one point I remember we got put, like in the corner, maybe the worst seat, like in the entire room.

And Sage was wearing his whole his whole outfit. And we look around the corner and he's just like unpeeling shrimp and just walking around eating like a king crab legs, just having maybe the best day at the Kentucky Derby anyone's ever had. Like, it was like a movie scene when we're like in just like a mess and you look over and Seijas like slow motion laughing with like the rich people in the corner. It was crazy. It felt like a scene out the Titanic where we were in the basement and we couldn't get through.

We we were like we couldn't get through to Sage, like we were locked in. It was insane. He had the best seat in the house.

I was telling more that, like, the shit like he was dropping like shrimp cocktail into his mouth, like he was eating grapes.

Yes. Yeah, it was it felt like the Titanic, like he was like the upper class. And we were we were in the basement as unbelievable.

Oh, thanks, Frankie.

That was since that that's been my thing for him. Yeah. So I say maybe the best nickname ever to. Yes.

Yeah. I didn't get it at first. I and now that I hear how it's fully it's just one word that that's very good nickname. Yeah. Thanks Frankie. We appreciate it. But anyways, Dave, I bring up that Borking story because people love the fucking Burger King Wendy's McDonald's video. The scumbag, yes, yep. You took it down for a while because he was like an advertiser that was with orange, you guys are chicken fries at the NCAA tournament, right?

Yes. And were they was that like a non-starter? Like, oh, I don't do that.

I don't think they ever knew it existed. We never heard. But it's like, oh, we're doing business with them. I'm calling Burger King Scumbag Burger. I probably shouldn't have it in there.

OK, so you just kind of you were looking ahead. You're being a sales guy, Dave. Correct. What happened to what happened at DLO? He was a big part of that. Is he you talk to him. Is he still around?

No, I haven't talked to him in a while. I don't. Was he a police officer in Philly or something? I really don't know. I haven't talked to him in a while. But he was an intern at the time.

Yeah, I don't know. For some reason, that story obviously just reminded me of that fucking video where it got deleted. And there was a lot of, you know, what happened to video. Everyone was kind of looking like who done it. So I guess that's pretty much squashes. Yeah.

I mean, Borking was like a fairly big advertiser and I was on the record calling it a scumbag burger. So it's like, let's take that off the Internet till things and weren't aren't you in Big Cat pissed at them because you told to bring back chicken fries in the day to them that put some part of the campaign?

No, no, no. I think we told them to bring back the king. The king.

Oh yeah. Sorry. Maybe that was it. The king and chicken for I don't know, maybe chicken fried chicken fries was like what they paid us for and then we were just with them and.

Well, you guys should bring back the king and then like ten minutes later, they brought back the king.

Are you a big fan of the king? For a while, Dr. King was a pretty good campagna, King was good. Besides that, you and Brandon Walker kind of went at each other on Twitter. Was that kind of joking around real serious?

No, that was a joke in people at my house. They all make fun. I don't think he I mean, he does get Brent Walker gets like he's like a candle. Well, it lights and it burns down pretty quick, like he needs to rejuvenate, recharge the batteries pretty quickly. So he always needs a couple of days off to do that. I don't think he has any real like if I thought he had real mental issues. I mean, he's a crazy person, clearly.

But if he had, like, real mental issues, I wouldn't be like, oh, you know, you need mental days off. He just gets burned out quickly. Thank God I didn't get burned out for 15 years, not taking the day off. He needs one off every couple of weeks. That's fine.

And then Batman sees a new Mississippi guy. I kept calling Brandon, the other Mississippi guy.

I think he may be I think I bedmates I expect big things from and when you have two Mississippi guys, one's bound to be the other Mississippi guy.

It's a good point. Where do you think he's going to fit in? Do you like a podcast forum? Do you think I could have gone to college football show where he thought he was big gambler?

He'll probably do some stuff with brain like he should have been. I saw Brandon was met. Penn was sitting on the couch watching Mac yesterday, like he should have been with us in Philly. And that just fell through the cracks.

And his brain and their relationship, like I mean, they seem to be OK now. But, you know, Brandon wears thin on everybody, I feel like. But at the same time, wouldn't it be nice for Brandon, you've got to assume for him to have someone from his state come up here? I mean, I think he's from Louisiana, but still.

Yeah, you'd think so. But again, I don't pretend to know what's going through Brandon Brenham Walker's plan and walk his mind at any time.

You tweeted he tweeted a screenshot from what was a door dash that your delivery driver fell and dropped your food and water.

Yeah, he water the food. But what did it say exactly?

It was so bizarre. And you're like, what is what is going on? This does not seem good. It.

It was basically let me see if I can find it. It's like I apologize.

It was not the text I wanted to get from my food delivery guy tonight. And the text said, excuse me, I watered your food a bit. I fell off my bike.

So I actually stayed true to the game. I got a pizza and he just put the pizza in the elevator like I have an elevator opens into my apartment and I never saw the guy he just put the pizza in. It was like watery. A boxer like that.

The pizza was Warnock's more. So did you eat it? Yeah, of course. So fine. I do reorder.

There's nothing worse in the world than when your mind is program for delivering. Something happens. It's like that can set you back a month.

So you still order pizza. Yeah. Often or.

No, no, not often. You know what? I've been so tired. I was just Jones and I've been doing a lot of like like yesterday Frankie and I did until five or six pizza reviews in Philly, so I won't have to eat it for another week. So I had another batch of those, so I hadn't had it probably in a week.

Oh, and do you like a spot or is it Johns of lekker.

Oh. From Friday delivery. Yeah. Yeah. You could eat Johnson Blaker a little watered. Yup. Yup.

I was, I was waiting on pins and needles about that because it was crazy, crazy text to get home.

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What did you think. I know you're in Miami when that all.

Yeah, so I know the king wants to fight Daina currently. I'm not going to identify it. I did I say that last night. I mean, he's back out for a living and I saw him. He's like, I won't back out this time.

It's like, all right, all right. Big bad wolf. Like I mean, how many times can we huff and puff and not blow the house down?

And I got to tell you to pirate Simon, I mean, there might be some cause for concern as well, Michaelangelo reached out. So I don't know what he told you, Mike, but we we had a tough time locking him down. He said he was going to be the guest. He's obviously not here.

Oh, yeah. What happened? That he was concerned with his boss, not allowing him to do it. And he didn't get a chance to ask the boss, but he should hopefully be on next week. The boss won't let him do it, but yet he's out here challenging people to fight.

Yeah, I was confused about that, too, on Twitter. But that's why this whole fight smells to me.

It's cutting promos.

He wants a Super Bowl fight, too. I found that interesting.

Yeah, he wants to go Super Bowl, but yet he's afraid he can fight, but he can't get on the show because of the boss. This fight just says something like not everyone gets it's fun and games, but. If we promote a fight, it has to happen. I'm not convinced with either of these guys that would happen another rumored fight, but it looks like they fucking made nice already was do versus double vodka, Don. Were you interested in that one?

That fight would be a fight. I would watch, yes. Because I know last year you and big I've got into it because he thought he was fighting, too. Well, you canceled him.

So you're coming around and big guy big enough didn't have an opponent opponent for me. OK, so that was more it. Like you wanted to see a fight.

Someone just fighting for the hell of it did nothing for me. So even if they're on good terms and they fight still, you'll still be into that, because having to do could be an interesting fight.

And I think to do that could turn ugly. So that would be something to consider.

And then since we announced that Pirate Simon wants to fight, has anybody come forward besides Dana that said they want to fight them?

Not that I'm aware. And didn't Simon Simon chose Dana. OK, so he called them up.

But you're like, I don't know. I don't want Dana right now. Dana wants to fight. I mean, yeah, pretty clear.

Yeah, well, he says that all the time, so.

And there's nothing he could do still that could be like no man. I'll give you the fight for pirates.

No, I mean I already gave him a fight and he backed out. I will pirate Simon.

We need it. We need him to come on soon if we want to, if we want to find him a fight. So alert alerts on that. Send out the dogs to fire Michaelangelo's saying he wants to fight pirates. Would you let that happen?

I've boxed before. Never again someone. But I boxed. You know, it may be, but it's like I'm not a big fan of fights that have like it's not professional boxing, they don't have some back story to it.

Well, I would hate pirate Simon if he doesn't come out next week because Eddie wanted him to be a guest. And I tried and he let Eddie down so I'd fight him.

And I think it's got to be Pirate Simon versus Big Cat for throwing under the bus for the pirate ship.

I mean, Pirate Simon really didn't have any enemies, you know. Now, is he public, he's like, is he with those guys, like, what's his E? I think he's loosely affiliated with the bubble.

Yes, I'm not I said last week, but whatever our dogs First Lady Gaga is called, did you see this shit insane?

Yes, very funny. Maybe me happy for dogs. Oh, great, at video, got over a million views. Yeah, no, I was happy with it. It was fucking wild. It was I commented one thing to him and I was bombarded with it, too. So go take a peek. If you haven't seen it, don't get involved.

By the way, I'm a Gaga fan, so I would probably choose the monster side on this one. I mean, I think best thing I've ever been to I think everyone's a Gaga fan, but best concert I've ever been to.

How'd you go?

That was recently. Right? You were there or something.

And I know I went over and actually it was probably a year and a half, like she's a she's a huge monster. So it was a private show at the Apollo from Sirius Radio. They do it a couple of times a year and it was fucking spectacular. She was fucking so good.

And nothing else compares that you've ever been to a concert was. Stone Temple Pilots at the Orpheum, it was an unbelievable concert. But this this was something I love, the revivalists at the chicken box, there's nothing like that in Kentucky. It's such a small venue. But yeah, Lady Gaga was spectacular. Did you see the picture of Frank the tank on the skateboard? I did. We're talking about Frank the Tank. I did see the picture of him and Nick as their team for Jenga and.

Frank's pants never cease to amaze me. Well, what was wrong with them this time? Well, you can't say it's wrong. It's the same as it always is, but they're like. The belt half falling down, but not falling down because that's how he wears them look is quite, quite spectacular.

And I believe you also told Michelangelo that starting next week, he's going to be coming in every day. Mm hmm. Listen, if he can exist in this office every day, he's more than welcome. If he's just going to float around and sing songs and bother people, we're going to have to put him on a pitch count.

We had a nice time the other day. I'm trying to help him a little bit with the editing and he posts it up with me for about five hours. It was nice. Got some good bonding. Oh, he has.

He's converting VHS tapes, right? Mike Yeah. He's got a whole trove of college era videos, some man on the street stuff, some sports coverage. Oh, shit. Yeah. Yeah, he's I helped him pull a video.

He's reporting on his college cafeterias, state of disarray.

And he gets up in front of people and like, ask them if they're going to throw their trash out and stuff. It's pretty electric video, but there's a lot more where that came from. So stay tuned. There we go.

Stay tuned, Michelangelo. And then let's just before we get to listener emails, this has brought up a lot. So I'm just going to group it into here Struhl streams, which, you know, are you happy with everything? What's like the future? I should hang out with a few future games. So, yeah, Hank's doing a great job with it.

I give him a lot of credit. I'm not surprised he has kind of carte blanche. It was his concept, his idea. He's the one who has made it all happen. It's crazy, I mean, I don't work with them nearly as much as I do, but he's obviously turned into a super productive, you know, guy at the company, so I'm very impressed with it.

You competed for first time, right? You did. And I beat Tommie and Frankie are going to be getting mixed more. Is that was that like, you know, I think I think I got double team, not not the way that people may use it, even though there are a couple. But redrafted me. And I think Hank's probably like it would be nice because he wants it to be great to get Dave involved. So I'm guessing a little like, hey, Rio, why don't you pick Dave?

And then Hank's like, hey, if redrafts you will you have time to play. It's like if you work it around my schedule, then yeah, I'll play.

So I think it was, you know, a little pillow talk going on between Rich and Hank to, like, figure out how to get me involved in this for eyeballs. Smart move, though.

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Listener emails. This one's from Matthew. Dave, are you considering bringing in any more people for stock content?

Yes, we have a lot. We have a lot in the works that I'm not at the liberty to discuss right now. But yes, I think there'll be a lot more DTG content moving forward.

And now is that because, like, you're you're too busy and you kind of want to take a step away?

Yes, I think it's a great vertical. I think we resonate I think have create a good brand there. But I'm just too fucking busy. Like I'm not doing it today. Stock market is ripping, you know.

Have you lost interest at all? No, I like it. If I could just trade stocks and do nothing else, I would do it.

Well, why do you like are you getting kind of in a situation where you want to be pulled away from other stuff, like do you still want to do the college football shows? Like, do you still want to do both of those?

I don't. I mean, I love Deon, but it's just. This Wednesday, Thursday cycle is a lot, and so I'm doing. I wake up, I do advisors, which is relatively quick and I like and then the college pick them with Ricoh and then we do the college football show.

I'm doing this podcast, I'm doing the the BFX, which is like very popular right now, so which I'm missing. This week we just couldn't figure out a time. Then I do the pro football show. So it's just a lot it's a lot of the same stuff. Yeah.

You know, I'm weird.

I just like doing stuff by myself a lot of times, so. I mean, I liked all the shows individually, maybe the college show, the college show is probably the one by the time it rolls around, I'm just like, you know, we just get this done with because that's late on Wednesday. And I've already done so much of the content of it on the football show of our done and advisers.

And I'm just like ready to be done doing that type of content, not as Michigan in the Patriots being down have anything to do with this? No, I don't know. No, it doesn't matter that this one's from Mike. You said that the plan is to take care of all of Milton eventually. Does that include Jerry thought? And what are your thoughts on Jerry's revival at BASTABLE does not include Jerry.

I'm happy zir. We've done very well by Jerry, but he was gone for majority of it. He was never a full time employee while we're in Milton.

I don't think now is that because he took that what it was that he was put for a little bit.

He was at for a little bit. He in he was never like a full time guy. He was never in the mill office.

So there's that. So it stems from that. It's just would he have been full time? Would you have brought him on or it was just the timing. So who knows or.

Yeah, I think. Is he then possibly I would have. I mean, it it's different now, obviously, because he created the niche, but he won't do radio in like it was just different vibe. And I'm not sure what he would have done in that office.

And then with Jerry, he came back, obviously, what's his thing, he just he blogs and how much do you contact with them? Like, is it not.

Not often, no. No, he's he's just kind of left to do his devices. Patriots blog, do his thing. He's grandfathered in, but he gets a lot of page views.

All right. This one's from Ross. Are there any plans for Bastable to get into the daily fantasy game? No. One's from Joey, what's the update on Greektown in Detroit opening up, will there be a betting house like Philly? Oh, there won't.

I think so. We will probably stay at the casino, will live at the casino and probably have like a suite there.

And we'll probably have a studio or something on the floor where we can do the gambling content people can watch is what I assume.

Hopefully late November is when we'll be ready to go. And a lot of that is based on the state of Michigan when they actually legalize it.

That's like one of the nicest properties, Las Vegas style casino. It's nice.

And I say, are you going to go there for like weeks at a time? Yes, I think the private plane.

Well, I mean, I still always have to be here for content midweek in New York, but I'll be there a lot on the weekends, Thursday, Friday. It's kind of like how I am in Philly.

Are you looking forward to that? I mean, obviously, it's part of the you know, what you are and for for these next five years. But at this point, going back and forth, Ofili are already kind of dragged out. I mean, no, no, no, no.

Philly so close. And I do like Philly. It's just a lot. It's like I feel like I haven't been able to put my head on the same pillow, like two nights in a row now for like two months. So it's just a lot. And I went away this past weekend in Miami and burnt the candle on every end possible. And that kills because then I'm just not recovered. I'm fucking so tired.

You are fucking done for a Monday, right? Done. Done Monday, Tuesday and then. But now I haven't slept because the election and I was in Philly yesterday to late watching Machsom, now I'm flying to Kentucky.

So it's just, it's just it's a never ending book to talk about my Miami.

Oh yeah. Fuck yeah. Yeah. They like open like what size is it. Yeah they were open. And are you going back soon or what you know, well, maybe a couple of weekends if I have it, but it's like it's weird, I'm caught because I have so few weekends off where I can do my own thing. So I want to do something. But I also just want to die for a weekend and like, not leave my couch.

But Miami's fun is fun.

You're like a Miami guy now. That's like you're I'm very connected in Miami. Yes. Yeah. We got together. I was going to say this and we should get Grobman on what he do. What would you want him on?

Yeah, he could. Come on. He gave me his boat while we were there. He didn't even go on it. He just let me take his boat, you know, like this. You know what you're doing. He's got like a crew and shit. It's a huge fucking both. Like an 80 foot boat. Wow.

So he's got someone that like, hey, he has a crew.

He catered. It was fucking nice. He has his own merch on the boat was very nice.

We're talking like like a yacht or like a sailboat.

Like no it's like I want to say it's a big fucking boat. It's like, it's like it's a famous boat like celeb's go on the boat. And he's just like I'm not using if you want to take it for the day. So I did.

Did you bring like a crew or a couple of people or what was the couple. A couple of people. All right, this next one from Kay from I could add one more there.

I can see the wheels turning in your head. That's why I laughed.

I know you fucking defended me early on in the show, Dave, so I'm fucking I appreciate that. So I fucking got your back to Dave. Always know that.

Yeah, well, if you're getting dog walked, Imjin Dog walked through those next words from K from Ghana. Dave I first heard about Bastable when he got into it. AOC I thought you were done for. I wanted to know if there was ever a day stoolies can tour the office. I don't watch American football but I thought to the saying, fuck Goodell, you came from Ghana in the office I'm sure. This person can come in the office.

Kay, from there you go. I'm not going to be the tour guide, but somebody else will maybe Zac. Yeah, so I would be great. Yeah, I mean, honestly, that would be like a good video. Yeah, right. Just greeting came from Ghana. Next one from Andrew. He once said that Johnny Manziel could have a job doing bars to a club reviews. Does that offer still stand? Probably not. We don't need club reviews, not a pandemic.

Maybe post pandemic. Pandemic, Johnny Football is going to be he's going to be grading the people that, you know, that the door guys need to be getting the people at hand out the fucking candy in the bathroom.

Yeah, Johnny Johnny Manziel post pandemic club world or something. That's not bad, actually. No, there's no excuse for Max. How did you meet the Montandon and what's your relationship like with him?

So I hadn't met him, but I knew of Donnie forever, like he was a barstool guy for every Massachusets. I knew his videos and we always tried to work together and occasionally post them.

And then I think when we became when we got bought, had more budget like he was interested. I always wanted to bring him on. I want to say, no, I'm great.

Like, we're friendly and he is free, like he knows he's one of those talent guys. He has free reign to do whatever the hell he wants, whatever he wants, whatever budget he needs, whatever he wants to do, Donnie can do.

Do you get annoyed when people are like, oh, I know, why don't you feature this guy or that guy more when it's like if you get that, that's pretty much the greatest Cormega give, right? Yeah. If you give someone the freedom to do whatever they want, that's really that's the beauty. Yeah.

The feature part that's more on like that'll be a new KOELIE issue and gas. And I agree with people, they should consistently post the videos over and over. They should cut them up. They should do it the way like my guys do my stuff in which we cut up the funny stuff and it's out. And I'm aware and that should be a constant thing they should feature. So I agree with them. But that's not like home for me. That's that's more of like a now a cold and for sure a gas issue.

But Gazza's asleep by nine p.m., so it's hard for him to keep up.

I'm your couch. No, I can't believe you bought my couch. It's unbelievable. All right, Dave, that's all I got. You got anything else? No, no.

I got to go to this other show here, and then we go to actually two of my favorite days of the year.

So I am excited to go to the Breeders Cup. Leo and I, we got a private plane waiting.

He's bringing his whole family because they live near there. So Ellie and I, this is these are two days I truly enjoy the Breeders Cup.

He's bring it all 17 kids. He's got a million.

I have to be like some of the names I fucking I hate kids. These give me a terrible two and a half hour flight pretending that I like Leo's kids, but he knows that's what's going to happen. So we'll do that.

How did they get in on this? This is you said you these are most excited for these days. He's bringing in 17 kids. Well, they're not going to the races.

They he has family near there. So I'm like, I'm going to fly out private. If you want to come to New York and jump on the plane with me.

And he's like, yeah, I can't bring my family life. I can't bring your family to it.

And I guarantee you, he complains about the seat being too small for him on a private plane. I guarantee you he does.

How many seats are on this plane? I don't know. It's not a huge I wasn't flying private, very expensive. It's not like a 747. It's going to be tight. How much is it?

The plane's probably 20 grand. Oh, wow. Yeah, and how's he doing after that star's loss? I think he's all right.

I mean, this will be big. It's when we go to these things and I'm worth, you know, a lot of money now, tens and tens and tens and tens and hundreds of millions of dollars. Whatever my net worth is, is non-paper. He's still slinging pizzas and we're still a team where we go and bet on this.

So he's actually got it fairly good because I'll bet, like God knows how much I'm alive or that five, ten grand on a race. He's been a grand. I could get more, but we're still down the middle no matter what. So I can't win no matter what unless I'm winning because it doesn't like it doesn't matter how much. You bet you still split it. So he's got this pretty good.

And you knew that too, when the deal went through. That was one of the first things that popped into my mind was like house me and Leo's deal going to work now? Because I if I'm only betting a tiny amount, I get no rush. So he's just got he'll complain about it. He'll still complain like you ever want to race. It's like, well I'm betting like 100 hundred grand a race and you'll get a thousand. So shut up.

Eliot's the best.

Don't get rich. Have your buddy get rich. Who's your gambling partner. Yeah, it'll be good to go.

But unfortunately, even though it's a good setup, I don't think we've won since we've been doing it. We all just end up losing way more than he does, but we both generally lose, so.

And then fucking Bob Baffert fucked you last time? Yeah, he did. He did big time, big time walking. That was the Breeders Cup. Yeah, yeah.

He talked about it was the for something. He talked me off of it and then. Yeah, yeah.

I remember that I was on a hosted radio with you that Monday and you were like your eyes were just like Yeah. He Bob Baffert.

Yeah. He killed us. He killed Baffert. He killed.

All right. That's all we got. Dave, have a nice weekend, everybody. Listen, have a nice weekend. We'll be back next week. We'll see you then.

All right. Thanks, Dan.