WEBVTT - “TBT Finals” with Big Cat | 2014 Inaugural Championship: Team Barstool vs. ND Alumni 0:00:03.640 --> 0:00:12.360 June twenty eighth, twenty fourteen, Boston, Massachusetts, Case Gymnasium, five 0:00:12.440 --> 0:00:15.240 hundred can the line. A group of ex college stars 0:00:15.280 --> 0:00:18.520 bat let out for a winner take all championship. Two 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:22.800 slubs watch from the sideline as twenty Case slips away 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:37.040 before their eyes. This is twenty fourteen's the Basketball Tournament Championship. Hello, okay, 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:43.760 and welcome to games with Names presented by Wisdom, Oh sorry, 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:48.240 presented by win Bed of course, as you guys can tell, 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:51.520 I'm Julian Edelman, I'm sammurrel one to search to find 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:54.560 the greatest games of all time. And yes we're we're 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:59.400 joined here today with the infamous Big Cat. What's up? 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:02.640 How I feel great? And today we're gonna be talking 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:12.000 about the infamous twenty fourteen first Annual the Basketball Tournament Final. Yes, history, history, history, 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:14.680 This thing's literally been under wraps for years. You haven't 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:18.640 talked about this, Nope, nope. And this is Team Barstool 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:24.200 versus the Notre Dame Fighting Alumni. Yes, yes, and it's uh, 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:26.800 it is history. Because the Basketball Tournament is something people 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:29.520 watch now, they watched it on regular ESPN. It's become 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:32.360 a big deal. This was the first ever tournament, the 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:36.360 first ever championship. We could have been in history as 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:41.600 being the inaugural champions and we did. Sometimes, you know, 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:44.440 getting to the championship and losing is it's like the 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:46.800 worst thing you can ever have. Yes, you know, you 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:50.560 wish almost you losing like the divisional round or the championship, 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:53.559 to get to the championship. So I can feel you 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:56.000 gonna This is gonna really open you up a little bit. 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:58.280 It's it's the pain of knowing you were right there, 0:01:58.400 --> 0:02:02.120 we were half away, and uh, like I said, it 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:04.120 would have been history. You know, if this, if the 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:07.640 basketball tournament becomes something that lives on for a hundred years, 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:09.400 they could always point back to us and be like 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:12.240 that team won the first one ever. Instead were just 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:15.880 erase from history. Oh it's amazing how quickly I got 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:17.960 into this too. I was, this is the first non 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:21.720 you know, professional sport thing we've done. WHOA, WHOA? Are 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:24.680 you saying this wasn't a real No, I'm saying, I'm 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:26.440 saying legally, this is the first one we can use 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:29.760 clips of on YouTube. What I'm saying, there we go. No, 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:32.760 But I got into this quickly. The nostalgia, the NBA 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:35.480 on NBC Music. You're using it takes me back. That 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:38.519 was my favorite time to watch basketball, the whole thing, 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:42.640 and it was Yeah, I mean the entire lead up 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:45.280 to it, the tournament was very, very fun. It's a 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:48.800 lot of our fans old school barstool like this is 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:50.959 what they look to when Dave and I would go 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:53.520 out and do stuff like this, and uh, it could 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:55.440 have it could have been something we could have talked 0:02:55.480 --> 0:02:58.880 about forever in glowing terms. Now it's instead something we 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:01.639 just never bring up. We never ever bring it up. 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:03.880 Never bring it up. We never bring it up. We 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:06.200 just bury it away and pretend it never happened. To 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:09.000 get up and go after this loss, right and go, Yeah, 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:10.639 get up and go and just never talk about it, 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:12.320 never talk about it. We also got to give a 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:15.960 shout out because this is a team Hank podcast. Yes, 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:18.600 Hank's in the building. Think how you feeling over there? 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:20.760 You're good. He's gonna come up to mic. So Hank 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:24.040 is my memory, Hank. If every clip you see, Hank, 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:27.040 this is truly old school barstool where it was Dave 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:30.160 and I, Gaz and Hank all traveling around. They were 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:33.079 videoing everything. It was you know, a four man operation. 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:35.840 I don't think there was anyone else. And so he 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:38.880 is here, is my is my memory? As you know jewels, 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:42.520 sometimes memory, you know, evades us. So that's why he's here, 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:45.120 does it? Yeah? You need a Hank who walks around 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:48.240 and tells you everything that happened in your life. Yeah, 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:50.840 I'm also I was also very broken. I remember we 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:52.760 were gonna go to the club and like, oh, we'll 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:55.560 get to that or to that. Just there's a lot 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:58.440 of side stories sad night. Yeah, can we start with 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:03.960 how the team was assembled? Yes? Yes, So so Matt Walsh, 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:06.680 who played at Florida, also played for the Heat. So 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:11.040 he is a huge stooly longtime stooy friend of ours, 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:14.080 and he approached us and he was like, Hey, there's 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:16.440 this new tournament that they're trying to put on. And 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:20.239 essentially there's a component to the tournament that's a fan vote. 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:22.880 So if you get enough fan votes, you get the 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:26.919 one seed. You get to if you get to the championship, 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:29.840 you get to pick your location. All these perks come 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:33.200 with being the one seed. So he was like, hey, 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:35.480 let's team up because he knows like Dave and I 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:39.000 and Barstool has a big following. Matt said that he 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:41.200 would take care of the players. All we got to 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:44.200 do is take care of the fan vote, which we 0:04:44.240 --> 0:04:48.200 crushed so much that like there were all these ancillary 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:51.479 prizes that TBT was going to give away for anyone 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:53.400 who had, Like, you know, if you get ten thousand 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:54.880 people to vote for you, you you get this, if you 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:57.160 get twenty, we crushed it so bad they just shut 0:04:57.200 --> 0:04:59.320 off all the prizes. They're like, you guys, can't get 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:01.240 anything else. Tell me you got more votes than the 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:04.039 best of the DMV. He had the best, the best 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:05.800 of the deal. And this is a brand new thing, 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:09.440 so no one knows what it is. So so Matt 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:13.360 puts together the team. His coach, the our coach, coach 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:16.320 Ross Burns, who trains a bunch of NBA players. He's 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:18.839 connected with a bunch of NBA players. The rule was 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:21.039 you can't have any active NBA players on the roster. 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:24.159 So but we got If you look at all the 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:26.919 rosters and all the teams, we had by far the 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:29.919 best talent because we had Dante Jones, who want to 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:33.240 ring with the Cavs. Two years later, played played for Duke, 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:35.719 played in the NBA Josh Boone who he was still 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:37.440 an NBA level town. Yeah, I know, he's an NBA 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:40.520 level talent. Yeah in college? What they were in college? 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:43.040 No, no no, all the guys were out of college but 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:45.240 not a pro yet. Not no, no, they were they 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:50.240 were either overseas or washed up college athletes. So if 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:52.920 you look at the all the rosters, right, I would 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:55.400 say most of them, we were compiled of guys who 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:58.520 played four years in college, maybe a year or two 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:02.320 overseas at best, and then of working, you know, doing 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:05.839 regular life. Right, you guys had two championship guys on 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:08.159 your team. We had. We had pros that were still 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:11.640 actively playing overseas, like Donny McGrath who played at Providence. 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:15.440 He had a really good international career. Matt Walsh who 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:18.320 played at Florida had a really good international career. Are 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:22.279 like quote unquote worst player who was like actually the 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:25.240 guy got along with the most. Justin Burrell, he played 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:28.920 for Saint John's. He then played overseas in Japan. Like 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:31.760 all these guys were very very Andre Barrett what played 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:34.640 at Seaton Hall. They were all I remember that, really 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:37.040 really good basketball players. So when you looked at our 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:40.760 roster we had, like I think everyone on our roster 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:44.040 had been to it at least bare minimum and NBA 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:47.480 training camp, and every other roster didn't have anyone even 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:50.240 close to them. This is ridiculous. They're pro players though 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:54.200 pro technically you are. You can't have pros on the team. No, 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:56.560 I'm a pro. Yeah, this is like some Daniel two. 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:58.840 What is the kid who was like fifteen years old, 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:02.440 Daniel monte Monte. Yeah. I don't understand how they could 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:04.000 play if they were as long as they didn't play 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:07.040 in the NBA NBA only. Yeah, so they all these 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:09.840 guys had been in the NBA or were like Dante 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:14.920 Jones were working an NBA players. You couldn't grab Kevin Durant, correct, correct, 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:16.440 But you can't know or would he do it, because 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:18.400 it's obviously the injury risk. You never know in a 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:20.679 hundred years he could. This is the tournament, that's true, 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:22.840 This is what we're going on five years. Yeah, that's true. 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:25.120 That'd be great if Lebron just dominated it in like, 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:27.360 you know, fifteen years and tried to presend they were 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:30.480 real rings, which they would be real rings if I 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:33.640 had won a ring. Whatever, the point of the tournament 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:38.000 though was essentially they wanted to create a tournament every 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:40.440 summer where they know they can capture the guys. Like 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:44.320 if if you talk to any international guy who plays overseas, 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:46.480 they play basically for nine months and they come back 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:49.000 for the entire summer. So they're trying to capture those guys, 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:52.080 and they're trying to capture guys like you and guys 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:57.120 like me. So we're we were very much the odd 0:07:57.200 --> 0:08:00.080 the odd ducks in this whole thing. But we we 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:04.640 did provide like a pretty significant benefit to our team 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:06.480 because we got the fan vote. So that's how it 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:08.520 all started. I don't got the team the one seed. Yeah, 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:10.160 I don't know. I don't know if they still do 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:12.520 the fan vote thing. They might have stopped after we 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:16.520 kind of like broke it. But the first initial tournament 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:18.960 was set up where it was a big benefit if 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:21.280 you could get a bunch of people to vote for 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:24.080 your team, and we were able to do that, like 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:26.440 we got we got uh, I think we got three 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:29.560 different jerseys. Everyone else got one. Like all these perks 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:31.760 that you had alternate jerseys, and we had alternate jerseys 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:34.600 because we had so many fans and Latin nights jerseys. 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:37.800 If this was the WNBA, you might get suspended for what. Oh, 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:40.199 they can't have like private planes, like if it's a 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:43.120 it's an unfa true. Yeah, we did have an unfair advent. 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:45.320 Know that's that's kind of ridiculous. Well, let's get back 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:48.680 into June twenty eighth, twenty fourteen. We'll get back into 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:51.600 the game. We like to go over pop history, big 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:54.400 cat things that were going on. What we were doing, 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:57.880 dicking around having fun during the times of these games 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:01.000 and when they were played and on this day in America, 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:06.360 Transformer Age of Extinction was the best movie in the 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:12.199 box office. Honestly, Which number one was this? What number 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:17.000 was this? Number? Two? Three? Was this a Wahlberg one? 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:20.280 I liked it. It was good. Can you guys pull 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:23.400 up videos while we're doing this show right now? Yeah? 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:26.200 You pull up videos right here? No? Yes, give me 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:33.720 a no what video? Uh? Big cat? Nick fancy fancy 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:36.360 that's the number one hit right now, that's the number 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:52.560 at this moment. Yes, yeah, I play that in and out. 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:55.000 So yeah, that this is where you're taking us back to. 0:09:57.320 --> 0:10:00.760 This is when you're in it. I was at fourteen 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:03.800 where I'm doing a terrible lipt up of the number 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:07.280 one song in the country. Look for Me, I kind 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:10.800 of look ripped you look you look strong. I was 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:15.000 saying that in twenty fourteen, I was watching these videos. 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:18.400 I don't understand how Dave has gotten skinnier. I know, 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:21.600 and you've kind of we we got big bone bodies. 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:24.120 We boned it a little more. Yeah, I mean, blog 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:26.079 life took a lot out of me. I was when 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:28.720 I when I entered blog life, I was still doing CrossFit, 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:32.920 and uh yeah, it all fell apart and you had kids, kids, 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:36.640 like one back injury still haven't recovered from. I've recovered 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:38.920 from the back injury. I just haven't gotten back in 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:40.800 the gym. But you're still playing I was like eight 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:44.160 nine years ago. You still play herd. Yeah, you always 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:46.640 always got to play hurd. It's a great guy. Yeah. 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:49.080 But yeah, this was Yeah, this was early barstool. Like 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:51.320 I mean, there's been a lot of iterations. You could 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:54.080 say early barstool was when Dave was doing it solo. 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:56.599 But this was old school barsol that a lot of 0:10:56.600 --> 0:10:59.679 people appreciated because it was truly like seven or eight 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:02.880 of us total. Wow. Yeah, ground Floor now that one 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:05.880 of the biggest companies in sports. Huge. The other thing 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:07.720 I see is ice bucket challenge? Do you know that 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:11.600 me and Feidelberg started that? I saw Fidelberg at the 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:14.400 game in a suit at the championship. He looked like 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:18.240 a I don't know we did one. Yeah, so I 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:20.520 don't remember people. I think there's been people who got 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:23.520 mad when I say this out loud. But Pete Fradi's 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:26.280 who's like, was a friend of Barstool. We went to 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:30.400 his uh right, yeah, and we he challenged me and 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:35.040 Feidelberg as the first challenge. Well that was for a 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:37.400 great cause. Yeah, so that he was. We were the 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:40.080 first person to do, like to accept the challenge and 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:43.280 the challenge I can't even remember. I'm sure Hank can 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:46.719 find it. I probably challenged Dave and like Kevin and 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:49.480 you know the rest of the Barstool guys. I think 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:51.439 we were the first athlete to do it. I don't 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:53.200 think so. I think I just said that I was 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:56.520 the first. You were the first podcast by being in 0:11:56.520 --> 0:12:00.440 this game. Trulian we're doing he's played in sports. We're 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:03.760 doing one of his games. I forgot, you know, I've 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:06.400 been hit a few times, Like Big Cat says, memory 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:08.240 is not good, Sam, Where the fun Where are you? 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:13.800 Where's my memory? Yeah? It was in college. I'm I'm 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:15.840 going this is fun though, you guys are this is 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:18.400 a great like the way you're doing this, because now 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:21.360 I'm going down memory lane. Remember the Spurs heat That 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:24.000 was the Lebron Cramp game where the Spurs turned off 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:27.920 the AC Oh yeah, his competitive advantage. Yeah, and he 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:30.240 was like dying on the sideline. How come we don't 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:32.720 have her hear anything about the Spurs doing stuff like that? 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:35.720 Like if if we God forbid as Patriots were to 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:38.200 do anything like that, there'd be a gate at the 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:40.600 end of it. But that's actually a fair point. I 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:43.360 did say. That's actually I did say Spurs are the 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:52.240 NBA Patriots. I have said that Tracy Tracy, because that 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:55.160 was right when we did fights and I did the 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:57.280 the weight loss challenges. She was part of that video. 0:12:57.440 --> 0:13:01.840 That's very funny. She's part of history. You're right, was 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:06.000 that the only person I challenged? That's funny. Yeah, No, 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:09.720 you're right though, that would be a c gate AC gate. Yeah. 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:16.240 Shout out to Gracy Tracy engaged now to who Mojo? Yeah, 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:19.360 Gracy's the old school. She's part of barstool history. She 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:22.360 was always she was the best. She would I mean, 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:24.319 she would always be down for any video. She was 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:27.520 part of the first rundown. I think too, the first rundown. 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:34.240 I didn't realize Gracy Tracy was a yeah, yeah, huge Wow. 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:36.600 Didn't think we'd be going down this path. But here 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:40.120 we are. Here we are. Andrew Wiggins first pick in 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:44.240 the Calves draft, traded for Kevin Love yeap worthwhile trade 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:47.440 and retrospect obviously, and they won to ring. Yeah. Yeah, 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:50.280 although you could argue could they have one multiple? Although 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:52.520 I love Kevin Love so I'm gonna back him. He's 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:55.840 my guy. And also wiggans kind He's figured out this year, 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:58.560 but it took him a while. Yeah, well he figured 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:03.040 he's he is now getting the benefit of being around 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:07.240 Steph Curry. It's like Andremond. Sometimes you see players and 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:09.360 you have to ask yourself, like are they truly great? 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:11.360 Or are they just playing with someone else great? That's 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:14.960 like feeding them the ball? What are you trying to say? 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:17.840 I'm talking about basketball? Oh, I'm talking about how you 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:20.120 were talking about, you know, being around great players that 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:23.720 feed you the ball? Right? Is that a shot? No? No? No, 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:26.640 is that a shot. No, that's not that's just how 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:29.680 what I think of Andrew Wiggins on the Warriors. Now, okay, right, 0:14:29.760 --> 0:14:31.800 so like you have to separate, like is he truly 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:34.520 great or is he just around greatness? It's hard to 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:38.600 figure out it is. I guess it is. We're all 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:42.120 just trying to figure it out. We're all just trying 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:44.280 to figure it out. Sam's like, what the hell is 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:47.840 going on between these two right now? There's like a 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:50.200 sexual tension here. It's kind of I want you guys 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:54.080 to kiss What Julian, what were you doing in twenty fourteen? 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:59.440 Twenty fourteen? We uh at this time, I think I 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:01.960 just signed up contract to go back to the Patriots 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:05.200 and we were in a I believe training camp or 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:10.280 OTA's preparing for a deep run into the playoffs that 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:13.560 soon turned into a Super Bowl victory against Seattle Seahawks. 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:15.800 Was that your first big contract, like the big big one? 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:18.120 That was my first big way? It wasn't a big contract. 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:20.240 What was it? I think it was like four years, 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:23.000 nineteen million. I mean, that's still nineteen five, But that 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:25.000 had to have been the first time where you were 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:28.720 like I'm good now, not good forever, but like I'm 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:31.960 I've made enough money now where I can be comfortable. 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:35.000 I was celebrating. I mean, I never thought I would 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:38.440 get a contract like that, but you know, coming especially 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:40.680 coming off of league minimum the year before, signed a 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:43.200 one year deal, got hurt and bet on yourself, got 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:46.400 a bet on yourself, and uh, you know, it was crazy. 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:49.560 It was like pulling teeth to negotiate with the fucking Patriots. 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:53.240 It's the absolute fucking worst. I literally had to set 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:57.720 up a visit to get like two million more to 0:15:57.800 --> 0:16:00.840 go to the Niners, my hometown team, and as soon 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:02.840 as I got there, they found out. I got there 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:04.720 and they fucking hit me up and they go, oh, well, 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:06.480 this is the deal and I'll go, well, I'm gonna 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:09.560 take this. I'm gonna take this interview. He goes, now, 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:12.280 you know we're gonna pull this and if you if 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:14.320 you do or if you don't, if you don't take it, 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:16.320 by the end of the day, I'm like, what the 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:19.520 fuck these guys are But I ended up signing. Yeah, 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:21.720 they knew what they were doing. And what did you buy? 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:24.840 What was the big purchase? I didn't buy shit, really 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:30.520 really nothing. I bought like a laptop. That's that's such 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:33.400 a boring big contract. Per No, it actually you know what, 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:36.160 I'm actually gonna back you up though, because like obviously 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:39.080 there's been you know, through the course of barstool like 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:41.760 where we're at now, I've had moments where it's like, oh, 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:43.800 this is pretty nice, Like I have money now, and 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:46.080 I never did buy anything big. It was more like 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:49.520 I can just pop on Amazon and like like buy 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:54.000 like seven like not even blank, you know exactly. Or 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:56.600 take your friends out to dinner. Yeah, I have to 0:16:56.640 --> 0:16:59.000 like cut up the check. Yeah, buy some shoes and 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:00.640 not feel bad about it. Did you go did you 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:02.960 do a big dinner the night of Yeah, I had 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:05.640 a barbecue with my family and friends. Oh that's cheap, 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:10.240 you know, very cheap, but you know, and then like 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:12.080 like big Cat said, it was like all right, now 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:14.639 I can go buy I can spend a thousand dollars 0:17:14.640 --> 0:17:17.480 on shoes, right. It's it's it is a weird like knowing, Yeah, 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:19.080 you don't you don't like say like, oh, I'm gonna 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:21.200 go buy some big thing. It's more like I'm gonna 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:23.639 buy all the things that I looked at and was 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:26.440 like I shouldn't. Yeah, exactly, I have a friend who 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:29.080 It's like, I have a friend who can't. He struggles 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:32.239 to make ramp, but he has like four rolexes and 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:34.000 ship like that one. I'm like, yeah, well you gotta 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:35.560 you gotta get He's like, well, I can sell these 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:39.400 any point, Like, but you won't. You like having the rolexes, Yeah, 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:41.600 but he can't. I liked. I liked the thought process 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:45.000 of like I could sell these. I could. Yeah. There 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:46.720 used to be back in the day when it was like, 0:17:46.800 --> 0:17:49.320 you know whatever, if you have a bad weekend gamble, 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:51.240 it's like, well, I do have an Xbox I could 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:55.080 sell anymore. You know Xboxes they go up in value 0:17:55.119 --> 0:17:59.359 every year. That's how they the original Xbox. You've been 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:02.320 gambling that that long my whole life. I remember you 0:18:02.320 --> 0:18:04.520 remember the Red Ring of Death. Oh my god. I 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:06.600 hated that. You got to get it refurbished, right, Yeah, 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:09.439 well you had to get refurbished or you had to 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:13.240 do tow like the twenty four hour dryer and the towel, 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:14.680 and then you just break it more and then it 0:18:15.119 --> 0:18:18.680 just ruins the warranty the worst. Yeah, Sam, what were 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:20.959 you up to? I had just done I think it 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:23.199 was just doing my first ever late night set. I'm like, 0:18:23.280 --> 0:18:25.919 I still live like it's the nineteen eighties. It's your comedian. 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:29.480 I'm a comic. Yeah, so tell us a joke. Jesus Christ, 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:32.120 I'll tell you I did. I remember my first joke 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:35.479 on on Conan. It didn't it did not get what 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:37.840 I wanted. And then you have to fake smile for 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:40.680 the next four minutes because you don't get that first laugh, 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:43.560 and you're like, fucking kill me. Yeah, but uh yeah, 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:45.800 the crowd wasn't hot. Sometimes you get a not hot 0:18:45.880 --> 0:18:48.080 it's five pm in Burbank. Sometimes you get a not 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:50.880 hot crowd. It's a set. You run into the ground, 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:53.680 and I remember I didn't. I was miserable for a 0:18:53.720 --> 0:18:55.480 year til I got to go back on and next 0:18:55.480 --> 0:18:58.000 one was killer. Really yeah, but I was like, oh, 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:00.800 I still stand by the joke. But it was a 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:05.320 tough crowd. Damn. Yeah. That's and to know they do 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:07.679 tape those before you you weren't like, hey, can we 0:19:07.720 --> 0:19:09.720 cut that? Can we do that again? I didn't know you. 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:12.960 I didn't know. I didn't know you could like flub 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:14.879 a joke and keep I thought it was like, I 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:16.640 gotta just nail this. I thought it was like ice 0:19:16.680 --> 0:19:21.080 skating or something. But no, but I flubbed the joke 0:19:21.200 --> 0:19:24.160 this year on Cordon and I was like, I'm gonna 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:25.720 do it again. Like of course, I was like, I 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:27.520 didn't know you could do that. Oh so you Oh 0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:29.920 that's awesome, you actually did do that. Yeah, I take 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:32.040 I didn't know you could do that for like eight years. 0:19:32.280 --> 0:19:35.400 Wait so could you? Okay? So and then did people 0:19:35.480 --> 0:19:38.919 laugh more? Yeah? They actually laughed harder. The second you 0:19:38.920 --> 0:19:40.560 think that it's gonna go worse, but the second time, like, 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:42.840 it's hilarious. He's telling the same joke. Yeah, he just 0:19:42.920 --> 0:19:45.440 changed a couple of words. What an idiot. That's a 0:19:45.520 --> 0:19:50.000 great time. Yeah, yeah, you were up to this game. 0:19:50.160 --> 0:19:52.840 Yeah I was. Yeah, we were blogging. Mentally it was 0:19:53.160 --> 0:19:56.800 mentally good place, I think, and Hank's here he can 0:19:56.840 --> 0:19:58.960 back it up. Like twenty fourteen, I think we were 0:19:59.040 --> 0:20:03.320 right in that zone of things started to feel like 0:20:03.400 --> 0:20:07.200 they were all like getting bigger for barstool, you know 0:20:07.240 --> 0:20:10.480 what I mean. Like things started to slowly feel like, hey, 0:20:10.520 --> 0:20:14.640 we've got you know, the rundown. That's doing well, We've 0:20:14.680 --> 0:20:17.840 got the blog set up. I think we actually around 0:20:17.840 --> 0:20:21.879 this time we went Hank Dave and I went and 0:20:21.920 --> 0:20:24.000 it would I wish we had like film the whole thing. 0:20:24.520 --> 0:20:26.919 We went and took a bunch of meetings in Hollywood 0:20:26.960 --> 0:20:29.600 to try to get the Rundown on TV, and we 0:20:29.640 --> 0:20:32.720 went to every meeting and we walked out and we're 0:20:32.720 --> 0:20:36.680 like we fucking crushed that, Like Comedy Central wants us 0:20:36.680 --> 0:20:38.960 and they want us bad like not we would walk 0:20:39.000 --> 0:20:42.080 out being like should we do like every night? Should 0:20:42.119 --> 0:20:44.680 we do like four nights a week with Comedy Central? 0:20:44.760 --> 0:20:47.440 Like what do you think? We didn't get a single callback, 0:20:47.760 --> 0:20:50.040