Speaker 1: Welcome to the No Sports Report, a production of I
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Speaker 1: recorded prior to the murder of George Floyd and the
Speaker 1: resulting global reaction in protests, which is the only reason
Speaker 1: it's not mentioned. Something to keep in mind while listening.
Speaker 1: My name is Jensen Carp and I'm a sports fan who,
Speaker 1: right now, without any actual competition on an American field,
Speaker 1: has had to, for lack of a better pun, move
Speaker 1: the goalposts. You see, the only sport I'm watching right
Speaker 1: now live is Holy Moldy. Yeah, it's Steph Curry's Extreme
Speaker 1: Mini Golf Show, and it's as close as any of
Speaker 1: us are getting to actual sports, so no need to
Speaker 1: roll your eyes. There are chipping Dale's, they light one
Speaker 1: of the contestants on fire, there's electric cutions, and since
Speaker 1: it's in its second season, this is how they're able
Speaker 1: to advertise it totally to the sequel The Balls Drop,
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's super classy. Please Sports come back soon,
Speaker 1: because in the meanwhile, I'm talking to athletes and sports
Speaker 1: industry professionals about what they're doing in quarantine, hoping to
Speaker 1: figure out if famous competing as much as I miss
Speaker 1: watching it. This is the No Sports Report Hawaii native
Speaker 1: in Miami Marlin's picture. Jordan Yamamota was someone you once
Speaker 1: knew only as an afterthought. He was one of the
Speaker 1: four unknown prospects traded to the Brewers for All Star
Speaker 1: slugger Christian Yellich, and at one time it was seen
Speaker 1: by fans as a true fire sale, a tradition known
Speaker 1: way too well in Florida when superstars might get a
Speaker 1: little too expensive and ownership hadn't cared about the product
Speaker 1: on the field for years. But ownership had changed thanks
Speaker 1: to new CEO Derek Jeter, and baseball insiders knew better
Speaker 1: than to chalk this up to tanking, especially when it
Speaker 1: came to Jordan's and the entire world realized that last
Speaker 1: year when he was called up to the majors and
Speaker 1: set a franchise record with fourteen scoreless innings over two
Speaker 1: starts to begin his career. He didn't even lose until
Speaker 1: his sixth appearance. Things evened out a bit over the season,
Speaker 1: but he still ended up with the rotation's best whip
Speaker 1: at one point one four four and had eight you
Speaker 1: strikeouts in just under seventy nine innings. The dude was
Speaker 1: throwing and even with a talented, crowded pool of arms
Speaker 1: in Miami. Things looked even better this spring training for
Speaker 1: Jordan's and he's currently seen as a favorite to make
Speaker 1: the heavily contested starting rotation, and he knows how to
Speaker 1: cut hair, so they better keep him happy in case
Speaker 1: of Barbara isn't allowed to join the team. We talked
Speaker 1: about his skills with a shaver, staying level headed through
Speaker 1: professional ups and downs, and solving a Rubik's cube. And
Speaker 1: in another installment of Pandemic, I talked to barstool funny
Speaker 1: man and Battle Rap champion Adam Roan Farron about making
Speaker 1: sports content in a pandemic. This is a new episode
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Speaker 1: Jordan's Yes, how's it going? I wanted to know how
Speaker 1: where you're currently quarantined. I'm actually right now, okay, Jupiter,
Speaker 1: because I spoke with Colton long recently and I'm still
Speaker 1: trying to figure out that if you were quarantined in
Speaker 1: the heaven that is Hawaii, if that's a good or
Speaker 1: bad thing. No, I'm actually not home right now, but
Speaker 1: but um we'll get back there sooner or later because
Speaker 1: I wonder, like it seems good because it's Hawaii, but
Speaker 1: then you're stuck inside just staring at the wonderful ocean
Speaker 1: and and the surroundings around. It's like I feel like
Speaker 1: maybe it's more of a torture. Um. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: both places right now. You know, the water is very
Speaker 1: nice on both places, beaches are nice. So it's kind
Speaker 1: of like it's still still kind of torture over here too,
Speaker 1: where I can't go to the beaches, peaches are still closed. Um,
Speaker 1: so I kind of wait it out. You know, we're
Speaker 1: trying to keep myself occupied totally. I assumed you were
Speaker 1: quarantined with your fiance Madison. Does this pandemic mess Does
Speaker 1: it mess with your wedding plans at all? I mean
Speaker 1: right now, no, because our our wedding is in late November,
Speaker 1: so almost into Decembers. I mean unless this runs to
Speaker 1: the day, then we're not going to change it. Um.
Speaker 1: I mean everybody got their plans. Like I said, it's
Speaker 1: it's not going to run into our day because it's
Speaker 1: totally I mean hopefully. Yeah. That's very lucky though, but
Speaker 1: it is sort of one of those things that I'm
Speaker 1: sure you're just like refreshing, being like, Okay, are they
Speaker 1: closing the venue? I got married, what now, two years ago,
Speaker 1: and I feel like there's so much preparation that goes
Speaker 1: into it. It's like you can't really stop the momentum
Speaker 1: unless unless it's really over. Yeah, exactly. You know, we
Speaker 1: un lucky because when we did the wedding, it was
Speaker 1: more of a package deal. So we got a wedding
Speaker 1: funder involved. Because it's so far away, it's hard to
Speaker 1: kind of plan a wedding from being six thousand all
Speaker 1: of the way, So we just decided to hire a
Speaker 1: wedding fund to kind of do everything on the whole
Speaker 1: lot of you side um, and then from there we
Speaker 1: just figure it out on this how she was asked
Speaker 1: this question, will hey, you want this or that? And
Speaker 1: then you say yes or no, it makes a lot easier. Yeah,
Speaker 1: would you get married? Because I was thinking of this myself,
Speaker 1: like if my reception was canceled and I couldn't have
Speaker 1: my whole family there, I would still probably go to
Speaker 1: city hall get that part done and then just wait
Speaker 1: for the pandemic to pass to have a party for everyone.
Speaker 1: Does that seem I mean that seems right not to
Speaker 1: when people are doing nowadays. Um, I mean this as hard,
Speaker 1: you know, like because it was funny when when it's
Speaker 1: hoping started, Um, Madison actually was talking about Elope, you know,
Speaker 1: and still having a reception. But it's just like we're
Speaker 1: not gonna be affected by it, least we don't think
Speaker 1: we will be affected, you know. So it's kind of
Speaker 1: like we'll just stay the course and it's happy that happens.
Speaker 1: If it doesn't, well we'll figure it out and when
Speaker 1: that time comes. Totally. She is a kindergarten teacher, which
Speaker 1: is the least selfish thing she can be. I'm sure
Speaker 1: her leaving her class in the middle of this whole
Speaker 1: thing was not easy. Um. Yeah, that definitely wasn't you know.
Speaker 1: But but she is working every day from home. She
Speaker 1: does a lot for the kid, you know, but she's
Speaker 1: actually building um goody vantage for them for the end
Speaker 1: of the year. So it's actually kind of cute. Um,
Speaker 1: she had her and she had all their names become
Speaker 1: of bags and everything, so we have to go go
Speaker 1: deliver them soon. And uh, I know all about Piper,
Speaker 1: you like, millions of other people were kind enough to
Speaker 1: adopt a dog during the pandemic. Tell me about the
Speaker 1: decision to do that. Um, I've been wanting a dog
Speaker 1: for a while. Um, it was funny because I've been
Speaker 1: wanting a dog for a lot of year. Now, you know,
Speaker 1: my own she's been really good. You're actually speaking right now,
Speaker 1: which is really helpful for both of us because matters
Speaker 1: is finally, um nail salon opened up, so she's gonna
Speaker 1: go get her nails on and I'm just signing cards.
Speaker 1: So it's's kind of like it's perfect time and no pertly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: my my wife is gonna be extremely jealous when she
Speaker 1: finds out the nail salon has opened in Jupiter, Florida.
Speaker 1: That that is, it has become quite She's tried to
Speaker 1: do it herself. She just isn't as good at it.
Speaker 1: She actually, which we'll get into with you in a
Speaker 1: little bit, she cut my hair and did an incredible job.
Speaker 1: So I feel like it's just weird. It's the one
Speaker 1: talent she doesn't have is her is doing her nails.
Speaker 1: That's funny. I actually haven't really cut here too much
Speaker 1: during this time either. Yeah, I assumed you also made
Speaker 1: a great point on Instagram about people who are adopting
Speaker 1: these pets right now and that when we go back
Speaker 1: to our normal lives that we have to make sure
Speaker 1: not to neglect them just because we won't be home
Speaker 1: the entire time. Yeah, you know, like like that was
Speaker 1: the first thing. I like, we said, so I'm lucky,
Speaker 1: I got madicine, you know who, we don't know what's
Speaker 1: gonna have. This whole thing was teaching everything that she
Speaker 1: possibly could be home, my shaving at shortes. So we
Speaker 1: really with the dolls um pretty often, you know. But
Speaker 1: it's just it just sucks, you know when people go,
Speaker 1: I can get a dog now because because I'm home,
Speaker 1: But when I go back to work, when they do
Speaker 1: like an impulse buy and they go, okay, I can
Speaker 1: get a dog in and once that rolls around where um,
Speaker 1: work comes back into player where they're not where they're
Speaker 1: where they're gone for eight hours a day. It's not
Speaker 1: what s in the kennel all day long. You know.
Speaker 1: I don't want to see the dollars go go go
Speaker 1: get it. It's such things dolls, the tent to shelters
Speaker 1: and all that stuff, you know. So I just want
Speaker 1: people to realize what they're doing and it's in it
Speaker 1: for the long run and not in it just because
Speaker 1: it's it's convenied right now, agreed. Also, like millions of
Speaker 1: other people during the pandemic, you you gave into the
Speaker 1: pressure and you opened the TikTok account. How do you
Speaker 1: feel on the app? I have been vocal here on
Speaker 1: this podcast that I have never felt older. I'm forty
Speaker 1: years old. On TikTok, I feel a hundred and forty.
Speaker 1: How have you been getting along with the app all time?
Speaker 1: Post the video here and there? You want one of
Speaker 1: the videos of Piper kind of blew up. But other
Speaker 1: than that, I'm I don't really go on because it's
Speaker 1: a younger generation of kids who are thirteenth or fifteen
Speaker 1: years old, um where they're doing something. Impersonally, I'm not
Speaker 1: a big fan of a lot of stuff to down
Speaker 1: the book. There is funny content on it, so I
Speaker 1: kind of like to watch between me, my fiance and
Speaker 1: her brothers, like we send each other videos of the
Speaker 1: funny stuff that goes around, you know, not so much
Speaker 1: of all the ticktoff famous girls. It's more of the
Speaker 1: funny pranks that go on or just a home videos
Speaker 1: that are played on a couple of theres. So those
Speaker 1: are the views I like to watch them. Couple up
Speaker 1: of my feet. Yeah. I am a big fan of
Speaker 1: that one challenge where it's like and you move an
Speaker 1: arm and then an arm and then a leg and
Speaker 1: then you run after your dog. Yeah. Yeah, I haven't
Speaker 1: tried that with Piper. Yes, she's kind of like he
Speaker 1: doesn't really get scared or skittish. She's more like, okay,
Speaker 1: well you're playing, I'm much are biting you. So I
Speaker 1: don't really want to do that because, yeah, we are
Speaker 1: already have enough time with her biting us, so we
Speaker 1: kindly kind of try to limit that. That's true, it
Speaker 1: could end poorly. You also celebrated a birthday in quarantine.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry to hear that. It must have been just you, Madison,
Speaker 1: and Piper, But how did you celebrate? Well, now, the
Speaker 1: sound it's actually come from the Tupid area too, So
Speaker 1: we've kind of been quarantine with them where we have
Speaker 1: our house over here, but we go there often to
Speaker 1: kind of hang out. You know, they have a pool
Speaker 1: over there, so we'll jump in the pool, we'll play
Speaker 1: the dogs, and because we have two dogs over there,
Speaker 1: so we're trying to get Piper afflimated to the two dogs.
Speaker 1: So we hung out over there. For a little while. Uh,
Speaker 1: and then we also had dinner. The night before that,
Speaker 1: I started working on my truck. I work on my
Speaker 1: truck all day pretty much, because that was what I
Speaker 1: wanted to do. I got lights for my birthday for
Speaker 1: my truck, and I put those in. But we hung
Speaker 1: out and we also jove up to to the beach,
Speaker 1: sat inside the back of my truck and watch the sunset.
Speaker 1: So it's kind of cool. I love that. I know
Speaker 1: you're a big car guy. What what truck are you
Speaker 1: building out? What are you working on? How have my
Speaker 1: silver rattle that I've been building for a while. Um?
Speaker 1: I got it when it was pretty much fully stopped
Speaker 1: um and white, but now it's black with other stuff
Speaker 1: done to it. You know. It's fun because every other
Speaker 1: week I get I order something. And when Magic, I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, another thing for your trucks. Another thing,
Speaker 1: pretty truck, you know, but I love my trucks. My
Speaker 1: truck is like, uh, it is my bayby show. I
Speaker 1: got to take care of her. So beyond these things,
Speaker 1: how have you been able to stay in shape and
Speaker 1: mentally prepared for a season that looks like it's kind
Speaker 1: of on the brink. But but how have you stayed
Speaker 1: Have you stayed active? Right before this whole quarantine shut down,
Speaker 1: we kind of got a win from it that we
Speaker 1: were about to go in to shut down and everything
Speaker 1: like about a week and a half two before it
Speaker 1: actually happened. So what I did is I kept searching
Speaker 1: online for a weight set anything. I got lucky that
Speaker 1: did down in thirty minutes away. He had like a
Speaker 1: warehouse full of full of weights for that that I
Speaker 1: bought a whole set from like an Olympic weight set
Speaker 1: um from him, and then I also ordered one of Amazon,
Speaker 1: which came in a month after. So it was definitely
Speaker 1: a perfect timing. I got lucky with the weight So
Speaker 1: that's why I keep it at my fiancee's mom's house.
Speaker 1: So we worked out almost four times a week. You know,
Speaker 1: throw every day to the Spade shape. You know, it's
Speaker 1: kind of like you don't want to be not ready,
Speaker 1: and they go, Okay, you have to be backed by
Speaker 1: this time, you know, so and be ready for the season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that is super lucky because a lot of people I've
Speaker 1: spoken to were like racing to get to get equipment
Speaker 1: at the last minute. Have you been able to throw? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's hard. To long thought turning because all the parks
Speaker 1: are closed and everything, but um, we just don't have
Speaker 1: the street. And then also have this indoor facility where
Speaker 1: I got lucky with again in Jupiter, and it's like
Speaker 1: you indoor preasility where has a mounditus. I go there
Speaker 1: once a week and I felt bullpens with a cattut
Speaker 1: that I've known for a little while. A good time
Speaker 1: spread about my fianto them. So I got kind of
Speaker 1: lucky in this area during this time. Absolutely last season,
Speaker 1: you got called up to the bigs all after a
Speaker 1: very high profile trade, you face the pressure head on.
Speaker 1: Had a tremendous start, it seemed reading it all again
Speaker 1: as for research, I knew it when had happened, but
Speaker 1: reading it it made me it's almost like inhuman how
Speaker 1: do you think you were able to overcome those nerves
Speaker 1: and the tension of the first few games. How did
Speaker 1: it not get to you? It's all in God's time.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, you know, it's that competitive
Speaker 1: side of every athlete. You know. The day I called
Speaker 1: up and I had the most nerves you can imagine.
Speaker 1: You know, I couldn't sleep. I was just I was
Speaker 1: just ready to go and I just wanted to play.
Speaker 1: But once I do that first pitch, you know, everything
Speaker 1: calmed down. I just held everything just like kind of left.
Speaker 1: All the nerves left, and it was like, Okay, I
Speaker 1: got my first pitch, and I'll let's go. It's the
Speaker 1: same game. It's the same distance from home to to
Speaker 1: the mountain. You know, it's it's kind of like, I
Speaker 1: just gotta pitch. How I know how um be the
Speaker 1: person I am that got me here. So all the
Speaker 1: nerves went away, and over time, you know, you still
Speaker 1: get the genes of being the big league. You will
Speaker 1: never get used to that, but just the competitive side
Speaker 1: of kicks in during during the game. So it was
Speaker 1: actually kind kind of cool. Yeah, it was incredible to watch.
Speaker 1: You had a really strong spring before everything was postponed,
Speaker 1: and you appear to be set for the starting rotation
Speaker 1: in a battle that a lot of baseball was watching.
Speaker 1: What hurdles do you think now you'll face once you
Speaker 1: guys all get back into action. Are are there certain
Speaker 1: things for a guy who started his professional career without
Speaker 1: any fear? It looked like from afar, what are you
Speaker 1: fearful of? If baseball were to start again pretty soon? Honestly,
Speaker 1: I'm not really fearful and much because to me, it's
Speaker 1: hitching God's fun, It's hitching God's home. You know, what
Speaker 1: he wants is going to happen. And if, by chance
Speaker 1: to anything that like happened, that that's that's negative in
Speaker 1: my life. You know, it's just like, Okay, it happened.
Speaker 1: You know what am I gonna do? How How do
Speaker 1: I look at it as a positive? Alcome? You know,
Speaker 1: how can I spend this to be positive? And my
Speaker 1: thing is life too short to be negative? So you'll
Speaker 1: you'll rarely hear me ever be negative. Um. I always
Speaker 1: like to look at the positive leaf, and right now
Speaker 1: there's a pretty good positive. You know that we will
Speaker 1: have a baseball season, that we will be able to
Speaker 1: play again. You know, I don't know where, I don't
Speaker 1: know when, but for the most right now, just being
Speaker 1: lucky to even put on the uniform is just good
Speaker 1: enough for me. Yeah. I was looking through some of
Speaker 1: your social media, and you know, obviously with the extremely
Speaker 1: hot start that you had, you started to even out
Speaker 1: afterwards a bit and when people would kind of get
Speaker 1: on your case about it. I was super impressed with
Speaker 1: your response to a lot of the tweets if you
Speaker 1: just being like, yeah, man, it's baseball. There's ups and downs,
Speaker 1: which I don't think is a very common answer. I
Speaker 1: think sometimes people get in a slump, especially after being
Speaker 1: such an amazing, hot rookie start. It's like you definitely
Speaker 1: have a really tepid mind about those kind of things,
Speaker 1: and where where did you start to get that? Like
Speaker 1: how are you not getting down on yourself? If if
Speaker 1: you're not living up to the expectations you have set
Speaker 1: for yourself. It's a supportive to you know. It's it's
Speaker 1: your family, it's your friends. It's not Beyonce, it's everybody
Speaker 1: back home in Hawi. You know, no matter how I do,
Speaker 1: no matter what the outcome is, I'm always gonna getting
Speaker 1: Tex lessons after the game, you know, like hey, if
Speaker 1: it feels good, like hey, congratulation like that the great
Speaker 1: outy it feels bad, you know where it was just
Speaker 1: like hey, it's all good. It's baseball, you know. So
Speaker 1: you're done in yourself, like you'll you'll come back the
Speaker 1: next out, and so it's just a support the stem.
Speaker 1: The more you mean on them is the more you'll
Speaker 1: have success, because the more you start meeting on the
Speaker 1: people who would probays do down there time and you've
Speaker 1: got negative bodes is what you're gonna go to, you know,
Speaker 1: So tell me it's like I said earlier, a positive bodges.
Speaker 1: What is positive outcomes? You know? So you some people
Speaker 1: don't understand that. People don't understand it's getting always ye
Speaker 1: is numbers and always he is figure on TV. And
Speaker 1: if we lose their money and say Fantasy Baseball, they
Speaker 1: thin getting mad at us, you know. But at the
Speaker 1: same time, I'm a human ding, I'm a person. So
Speaker 1: they are achieving, people making mistakes, people talking about things
Speaker 1: that that they're passionate about. And if they're passionate about
Speaker 1: their money, meaning that they're like a gamble um, hey,
Speaker 1: so be it. But I'm not gonna judge them. And
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna get to an argument over something I
Speaker 1: can't can show you know that that I know I
Speaker 1: did my best at that I know I prepare for,
Speaker 1: you know, and it just didn't go my way. So
Speaker 1: there's no point in arguing there, says No. There's really
Speaker 1: no pointing arguments. More to take the high road, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of spread love, and that's spread law, and that's
Speaker 1: how I live. Derek Deeter is an owner of the Marlins.
Speaker 1: I'm asking you, are you guys text friends? No? No, No,
Speaker 1: he just keeps professional. I've never texted in and I'm
Speaker 1: talking in person all the time whenever I see him.
Speaker 1: But that's just that, that's what they say. You know,
Speaker 1: he's my boss, you know, as much as I'm a
Speaker 1: fan of him and growing up was a fan of him,
Speaker 1: you know, you got to keep on a professional basis.
Speaker 1: So whenever I see him, I said, Hi, shake his hand.
Speaker 1: You know, I have a little conversation. But that's to
Speaker 1: the extent I have with him, you know, and if
Speaker 1: I meet anything, you know, he's open to kind of
Speaker 1: advice where he can help us out, you know. But
Speaker 1: at the same time, he has his work cut out
Speaker 1: for him. I have mind, so I cannot be bothering
Speaker 1: him every single day there but Christmas card, uh, I
Speaker 1: mean I had one of these things where I kind
Speaker 1: of I kind of uh made a fool of myself.
Speaker 1: You know, we were at this um we have fan
Speaker 1: fest there this past spring training and we were at
Speaker 1: top Golf. But we had all the sponsors of the Martins,
Speaker 1: you know that each had a boots of their own.
Speaker 1: We had our communications guys who was giving out the
Speaker 1: like where which boots we belong to? So each play
Speaker 1: I have to get a different boots and everything, and
Speaker 1: I don't know where I'm going. They didn't tell me
Speaker 1: at the front door. So I'm gonna trying to find
Speaker 1: a guy running around and everything, and I see in
Speaker 1: my spot of so I started running towards him. I
Speaker 1: get caught behind somebody and I feel someone poked me,
Speaker 1: like jab me from the back. Turned around and they're
Speaker 1: your folks are here, what's helping that all? I'm so
Speaker 1: sorry I did not see you there. I was going
Speaker 1: to mission, like, I'm so I had a conversation with
Speaker 1: him myself bad because I walked right past and you know,
Speaker 1: not not even realizing he was there. So I felt
Speaker 1: kind of like a fool of that moment. But he
Speaker 1: started laughing and he's like, okay, as long as you're
Speaker 1: doing something, you know. So it was definitely fun. That's great.
Speaker 1: I mean his gambles. You know a lot of people
Speaker 1: looked at stuff like the trade for for you with
Speaker 1: Christian getting sent away. I mean, this was the year
Speaker 1: it was supposed to pay off for him. So I
Speaker 1: kind of I'm I'm excited just for his redemption of Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know a lot of people um felt what up
Speaker 1: Mormons are doing. But you kind of you kind of
Speaker 1: expect change right away, you know, like what they say,
Speaker 1: rebial takes time. And then if you expect like the
Speaker 1: trade just instantly magically worked, it's not gonna happen. You know,
Speaker 1: we're on the fourth place in that Yellow trade has
Speaker 1: never been to the big league. You know, now a
Speaker 1: three of the whole are in the big leagues. You
Speaker 1: got the fourth one former version of all being on
Speaker 1: the continue the big league. So so knowledge to the tape.
Speaker 1: He let it play out, give it time to kind
Speaker 1: of develop and then and then you make your judgment.
Speaker 1: You know, like not not everything is supposed to be
Speaker 1: right then and there, you know, instantly happened. So it's
Speaker 1: kind of fun to talk to people about it when
Speaker 1: they find I'm part of the Yellows trade, because I
Speaker 1: probably like, hey, they're great players, Yellows with Muto umor everybody.
Speaker 1: All those guys were here stanton. You know, they were
Speaker 1: all unbelievable players. But at the same time you look
Speaker 1: at it and go, hey, when they were there in Miami,
Speaker 1: what could they do? You know, So you kind of
Speaker 1: have to look at it that way and just and
Speaker 1: just trust the process that the Mars are doing something
Speaker 1: to change something up to try to win. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to chase something up to that he gives
Speaker 1: him a new opportunity to start a fresh start of everything,
Speaker 1: you know. So that's why I guess that they brought
Speaker 1: everybody in to kind of get new players in there,
Speaker 1: um to set a new a new way of of
Speaker 1: the mare. Sure, and I'm excited for it. Other than Jeter,
Speaker 1: you brought him up? Who else were your players growing up? Actually?
Speaker 1: Like the Red Sox so Jeter were all the big
Speaker 1: kind of Jeter, but you know all the big Red
Speaker 1: Sox stands, yeah yeah, and so who are your Red Sox?
Speaker 1: It was funny because growing up was always Jason's air texts,
Speaker 1: um you know jd Drew that did the whole two
Speaker 1: thousand seven UM World Series. Tame was it was a
Speaker 1: team that when I was in Little league, was that
Speaker 1: we all used to sitting in the living and watched
Speaker 1: that season and that's one that I detally were playing
Speaker 1: and then watched over and over. So like that was
Speaker 1: when I initially probably became a Red Sox fan. Now
Speaker 1: you decided to take on hair cutting as a hobby.
Speaker 1: I think a few years back, did you ever think
Speaker 1: it would be such a hot commodity in our country
Speaker 1: to know how to cut hair? Um? No, I did.
Speaker 1: And you know, it's crazy because I grew up drawing that,
Speaker 1: I grew up painting, you know, doing art. So I figured, hey,
Speaker 1: hair cuttings and art, why am I tried? You know?
Speaker 1: And so I bought my first clippers back in twos fifteen.
Speaker 1: I believe we were in the basement of our whole
Speaker 1: family in Helen and Montana. I thought it was that
Speaker 1: that same night I got that, I I cut my roommate's
Speaker 1: hair and everything, and slowly, you know, um, they started
Speaker 1: cutting for free. You started cutting out in practicing, having
Speaker 1: the guys be like, hey, yeah, I thought the painting,
Speaker 1: as long as you let me practice on your guys hair.
Speaker 1: A lot of guys are like, you know what, we
Speaker 1: wear hats a living, why not? So they let me
Speaker 1: do that and everything. And over time I became the
Speaker 1: team barber, you know, and people started trusting me more
Speaker 1: and more to cut their hair. So it's it's kind
Speaker 1: of a good thing. It's awesome. I mean, our teammates
Speaker 1: just texting you like see you soon with a question mark. Yeah, definitely, No,
Speaker 1: I don't bund the guys text me. Um right when
Speaker 1: the quarantine thing started after baseball is kind of shut
Speaker 1: down because the original Barbara Juice, he's done in mind
Speaker 1: and who's actually the barber of our team. Um, he
Speaker 1: has a barbershop inside the stadium and everything. Um, he
Speaker 1: didn't want to drive up here every single day to
Speaker 1: kind of cut people hair. So the guys who live
Speaker 1: up here and Drew Gray, they kind of called me,
Speaker 1: was like, hey, canna get a hair cut? You know.
Speaker 1: So at first I started cutting hair during the quarantine,
Speaker 1: but after a while I was like, you know my feelings.
Speaker 1: Grandma is is the higherst patient too. It's COVID. So
Speaker 1: I was like, hey, guys that I gotta understand that
Speaker 1: I have I feel to grandmother, you know, because of
Speaker 1: his hand. So ever since his whole quarantine started, I
Speaker 1: haven't been cut cutting hair with which is kind of drunk,
Speaker 1: but it is what it is generally helping and he's
Speaker 1: gotta just wait for this whole thing is over. I
Speaker 1: love it, man, I love I love how good of
Speaker 1: a barber you are makes me very excited. We like
Speaker 1: to end this on a bit of a positive note.
Speaker 1: Is there anything that you think we've adapted during COVID
Speaker 1: nineteen that you hope sticks around, Something that when we're
Speaker 1: all better, we're walking out of our houses, maybe we
Speaker 1: we keep in our arsenal um people you see out so,
Speaker 1: like Likelyn, like, we've seen a lot of people walking,
Speaker 1: riding their bikes, spending family times together, you know, to
Speaker 1: think outside being active rather than inside and all the
Speaker 1: iPads or whing TV all the time, you know. So
Speaker 1: that's something that I think should continue to happen after
Speaker 1: this is all done, because it's nice seeing people out.
Speaker 1: It's nice seeing people interact pub with other people, you know,
Speaker 1: and be a little bit more kind out day, you know.
Speaker 1: Kind of It's just one of those things that I
Speaker 1: like to buy that have being going on because people
Speaker 1: want to be outside and not stuff in their house. Seven. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agreed. I I walk around my area and it
Speaker 1: feels like it's like the sixties, like what I used
Speaker 1: to hear about people just biking, and I even see rollerblades,
Speaker 1: like it's literally toably the full families on bikes. It's
Speaker 1: really great to see it is, all right, So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get you some suggestions. We're gonna round down now
Speaker 1: with some ideas I have for you in quarantine. Sounds
Speaker 1: like you and Madison and Piper are busy, but still
Speaker 1: I'm going to give you some ideas things you could
Speaker 1: take on as we seem to be in our houses.
Speaker 1: At least here in l A. They they pushed are
Speaker 1: in home until the end of July, which is crazy.
Speaker 1: I know it's a lot different in Florida. I know.
Speaker 1: Here are some suggestions. I think it's time for me,
Speaker 1: or you, or really anyone listening to learn how to
Speaker 1: solve a Rubik's cube. I know how to do that already,
Speaker 1: you do, got it? How did you learn? I learned
Speaker 1: back in high school. Back this time, I've ever done
Speaker 1: it a minute forty seconds. I mean, I don't want
Speaker 1: to tell you what the world record is, but but
Speaker 1: there are so many YouTube videos seconds. But yeah, to
Speaker 1: do it in less than two minutes, yeah, the record
Speaker 1: is now four point two to one seconds. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: that's too much. I don't I don't have that much time. No,
Speaker 1: Now I feel like the only guy who doesn't know
Speaker 1: how to do it? Did you? Did you ever look
Speaker 1: anything up? Or you just kept doing it to learn it? Um? No,
Speaker 1: I have to leave from the other YouTube is is key?
Speaker 1: YouTube taught me and then ever since then, you know,
Speaker 1: you kind of just have the algoris of his down
Speaker 1: and then you just play with it. Hair cuts, baseball.
Speaker 1: Is there anything Yamamoto can't do? Unbelievable? Okay, moving on.
Speaker 1: It was funny because actually just remodeled her mom's house.
Speaker 1: They have like a rental department called Bigger Rogers, So
Speaker 1: a good quarantry project was we remodeled the whole thing.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, you're so active. Yeah. I took construction
Speaker 1: in office in the minor league. You know, when you
Speaker 1: don't get paid off these you make six cards and
Speaker 1: laws a year, you gotta find a way to kind
Speaker 1: of offsets yere, uh, financing in the off season. So
Speaker 1: now that's where I took up, and that's where I
Speaker 1: learned how to remodel things. Amazing, all right, I feel
Speaker 1: like this is all going to be a letdown. Second, Uh,
Speaker 1: do you know anything about the tops Baseball Card project?
Speaker 1: Baseball Card Project? What is that? It's it's not a
Speaker 1: sponsor of the show, but I will gladly trade cards
Speaker 1: for a sponsorship. This is a collection from the Tops,
Speaker 1: which we all know, the world famous card company, where
Speaker 1: they took twenty iconic twenty iconic players including Sandy Kofax,
Speaker 1: Jackie Robinson, Each Row, Mike Trout, and even your coach
Speaker 1: Don Mattingly. They took these iconic cards right from these
Speaker 1: players from certain years and then they matched them up
Speaker 1: with popular artists, which you must like because you said
Speaker 1: you got into art at an early age, and they
Speaker 1: had those artists reimagine what those cards would look like
Speaker 1: if they created them, like the cartoon. Yes, so Mr
Speaker 1: Cartoon is one of them. Josh Vitti's Don c Matt Taylor,
Speaker 1: Ben Baller the jewelry Artist, and Ermsy who I love. Uh.
Speaker 1: They all have released cards and they're gonna do twenty
Speaker 1: each obviously, and they're available for just forty eight hours
Speaker 1: at a time and they're limited. They and then they
Speaker 1: also released yeah, they released one that's like only out
Speaker 1: of twenty, but those sell out in literally seconds. But
Speaker 1: my favorites have been so far, Arms is Dwight Gooden
Speaker 1: and Matt Taylor's Derek Jeter. But I'm now scouring eBay.
Speaker 1: There's new ones that get released every day on their site.
Speaker 1: But anyway, I thought it was pretty cool. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: definitely cool because I followed tops actually just finished the
Speaker 1: one of like signing some of their cards, but I
Speaker 1: sat on a couple of the Instagram pays them what
Speaker 1: is this? You know? And then now your explay and
Speaker 1: I kind of I'm just kind of a little better now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and Mr Cartoon, I'm sure we're both both obviously fans
Speaker 1: of his, but I mean it's uh, it's really cool.
Speaker 1: All right. Lastly, this one I have put a lot
Speaker 1: of work into. I'm very scared about this one. You're
Speaker 1: into country music, right, Okay, alright, so this is my thing.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking this will work out perfectly. I think that
Speaker 1: you should write a country song called the Quarantine Blues.
Speaker 1: I'm not very good at any instruments, and I'm not
Speaker 1: very good at singing. Okay, I think I'm going to
Speaker 1: see you in the shower. But other than that, yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm not very good at singing. Well, so much
Speaker 1: of country music is about hard times, and what's harder
Speaker 1: than right now? I wrote you a few lines if
Speaker 1: you'd be willing to just listen to them. Maybe maybe
Speaker 1: you'd be into it, and then you can have a song. Okay, Okay,
Speaker 1: here we go. I've worn the same pajama pants for
Speaker 1: a week or two. That, my friend, is the quarantine blues.
Speaker 1: M hm hm. Pretty good. Okay, all right, here's here's
Speaker 1: another one. I guess I'll never be able to take
Speaker 1: a cruise. That's what we call the quarantine blues. Mhm hm.
Speaker 1: That's pretty all right. Last one, I cut hair, but
Speaker 1: it's useless if I can't see my dudes. That's what
Speaker 1: we call the quarantine blues. That's good. That's that's pretty good.
Speaker 1: All right. I'll send you the lyrics. I'll email them
Speaker 1: to you just in case you feel like you want
Speaker 1: to write a song. Okay, sounds good to me. They'll
Speaker 1: definitely look into it. Well, thank you for talking to
Speaker 1: me today. And I stay healthy with Madison and Piper
Speaker 1: and the whole family, and and and I'm so excited
Speaker 1: to see you back on the field for a great
Speaker 1: follow up season. And please be safe. Thank you for
Speaker 1: having me. Ye after this my pandemic chat with Barstool
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Speaker 1: Sports Rowan in our latest installment of Pandemic. Hello Rowan,
Speaker 1: I'm doing all right. I'm I feel like we're hitting
Speaker 1: a bit of the end. But then I assume everyone
Speaker 1: who's going out to the beach is going to get
Speaker 1: very sick and die. But that's what I'm Where have
Speaker 1: people been How long have people been going out to
Speaker 1: the beach? Have they going out and then going out
Speaker 1: for enough of a cycle where we should be seeing
Speaker 1: this new spike. I think we have two weeks. Do
Speaker 1: you think so like this is like the this past
Speaker 1: weekend was the two weeks and now we're going to
Speaker 1: be back into it. Maybe, I mean that would make sense.
Speaker 1: I mean Memorial Day would clearly be a spike. That
Speaker 1: would make sense because some people went out, hung out,
Speaker 1: got sick. I mean I saw like a video of
Speaker 1: the Jersey Shore and people were like straight up coughing
Speaker 1: on each other for fun. Yeah, that's like the new
Speaker 1: beach game. It's replaced ball. I do. I didn't see
Speaker 1: in any of those videos where people are like, check
Speaker 1: this out. I haven't seen one face mask at all.
Speaker 1: But then there's yeah, like people are like, uh, but
Speaker 1: it can't live outside. I don't know. I've gotten a
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of misinformation, a lot of incorrect information. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm still weary of five G dude. I know, I
Speaker 1: knew it was my phone. It's high time, but somehow
Speaker 1: my addiction prevails that just gonna I'm gonna take the
Speaker 1: five G and and just die. Well, people might know
Speaker 1: you Adam for own from your time right now with
Speaker 1: Barstool Sports killing it. What do you do when you
Speaker 1: work at a website? With sports in its name, and
Speaker 1: you find yourself without sports. It's so it's so weird. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I'm like a I did a rod dog who like
Speaker 1: can't run, and it's just being like put in the house.
Speaker 1: Like my like purpose as a human being is skewed
Speaker 1: right now because like I don't I don't know what
Speaker 1: to do with my energy. And luckily I have like
Speaker 1: other hobbies and stuff like that, and I'll try and
Speaker 1: like you know, write some raps or like make some
Speaker 1: videos that aren't really fully about sports. But there's part
Speaker 1: of me that I feel like is missing right now.
Speaker 1: Are you going through any of that that same vibe? Well,
Speaker 1: I have to deal with sports every day for this podcast,
Speaker 1: so it's a little easier for me because I get
Speaker 1: to research and look up stuff and wonder when golf
Speaker 1: is coming back because I'm interviewing someone like that stuff
Speaker 1: does kind to scratch the itch a little bit. But
Speaker 1: I I feel like the TV stuff is what's killing
Speaker 1: me because I can't watch any NBA playoffs, which hurts
Speaker 1: or you know, and Sports Center is just painful dudes
Speaker 1: talking to each other at this point, right, That's what
Speaker 1: I mean. I can't believe that they're just continuing to
Speaker 1: fulfill these hours of programming on ESPN and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: like that they're just talking about like about nothing like
Speaker 1: but somehow they're finding a way to still find Lebron
Speaker 1: versus m J debates, Like people are just it's it's
Speaker 1: showing our like crackhead and nature as sports fans that
Speaker 1: everybody is kind of folding back into these like debates
Speaker 1: that are supposed to be comforting to us because like, oh,
Speaker 1: everything is normal, but you just know it's not normal.
Speaker 1: It's like, even when I want to be I can't
Speaker 1: watch every second of sports, but even it's like a
Speaker 1: soothing background noise. It's like my like white noise of
Speaker 1: like if I'm on the couch, I'm just throwing on
Speaker 1: the games. I might even put on a baseball game, gents.
Speaker 1: And that's how fucking stroggy I feel. That that's how
Speaker 1: crazy I feel. I'm a baseball guy, but I understand
Speaker 1: it's crazy. It's so hard to root for baseball. I mean,
Speaker 1: going to a baseball game is always an elite activity,
Speaker 1: but watching a baseball team that you don't care about,
Speaker 1: like it's not your like home team or the team
Speaker 1: you root for is like, uh, one of the more
Speaker 1: excruciating asks in the world of sports. I'm gonna assume
Speaker 1: you're not watching the kb O then I mean I'm
Speaker 1: I'm watching people who watch it and like their sense
Speaker 1: of normalcy is comforting to me. But I can't. I
Speaker 1: can't like bring myself to the hours of watching it
Speaker 1: or like the learning these new players. I've spent so
Speaker 1: much time in the worlds of these sports. It's almost
Speaker 1: like with like wrestling, like you learn everybody's backstory, like
Speaker 1: these are the guys I like, these are the people
Speaker 1: I don't like, And it's almost like you're just rooting
Speaker 1: for like the Colors at some point, the gang size
Speaker 1: of it. And then you get into like this new
Speaker 1: these new baseball leagues. I have to learn a whole
Speaker 1: new ecosystem of sports to have to watch. I'm not
Speaker 1: I'm not prepared for it. It's a bit too much.
Speaker 1: I do want to know, Like with you, you're out
Speaker 1: of your out of New York, same place where bar
Speaker 1: stool is. Is there a sort of pressure around the
Speaker 1: office to find the extraordinary out of the mundane right now,
Speaker 1: like trying to create content. I think that there is
Speaker 1: it that it's not it's more of an internal pressure.
Speaker 1: I feel definitely an internal pressure and restlessness to like
Speaker 1: make content, and I don't want to do a single
Speaker 1: thing to make this worse for anybody. But at the
Speaker 1: same time, like when you see absurdity going on in
Speaker 1: the world, like and you see like people are getting
Speaker 1: these these these sound bites, these vinral videos from it,
Speaker 1: like you want to be a part of that. It's
Speaker 1: just like instinctual to want to try and make content
Speaker 1: from it. So it's like, how do I how do
Speaker 1: I make content from this like historic time that we're
Speaker 1: living in while also like not being part of the
Speaker 1: bad wrinkle of history of it. I think you figured
Speaker 1: it out in a great way starting upon and being
Speaker 1: able to talk to people. And it's just I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know what the right answer is. I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's funny because like the way like a time line
Speaker 1: of viral goes is it's always like, oh, that's funny,
Speaker 1: that's interesting, and then three or weeks in you have
Speaker 1: like some ship bag like logan Paul laughing at a cemetery,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like there's there's a weird
Speaker 1: way of making it funny. And then after a long
Speaker 1: time you're like, oh, this is just morbid, Like this
Speaker 1: isn't there's no real joke here anymore. And you did
Speaker 1: a great job. We'll play a clip right now from it.
Speaker 1: You did a great job of battling household items. What
Speaker 1: a swivel chair? I didn't see you sitting there. Well,
Speaker 1: you're about to get killed in here once I gravel
Speaker 1: the silver were the stuff and out there's nothing like
Speaker 1: a fucking bull the bear. I'm on the edge of
Speaker 1: my seat when no one's ever heard of you looking
Speaker 1: like a baseball glove from nineteen thirty two? What's your
Speaker 1: life like that of blubber that from one distantch Burt
Speaker 1: Switch s and number I'm doing soul now shows. So
Speaker 1: how does this dude go compare? I'd say, because switch seats.
Speaker 1: But you've never been a musical chair, and so that
Speaker 1: was you just battling your sofa. Yeah, that chair was
Speaker 1: looking at me wrong, dude. Every day I sit down
Speaker 1: and this chair is just staring at me, or worse,
Speaker 1: some days it turns its back to me. It's a
Speaker 1: swivel chair. So but I mean, that's like, that's like
Speaker 1: what I had to get to it and like in
Speaker 1: some ways is like a good creative outlet for me
Speaker 1: to be able to rap battle somebody without hurting their
Speaker 1: feelings or more importantly, without me getting my feelings hurt.
Speaker 1: But also in some ways it just like illustrates the
Speaker 1: uh like desperation in like the vacuum of creativity. You
Speaker 1: are a former King of the Dot champion, a rap
Speaker 1: battle monster. I mean that industry is gonna see itself
Speaker 1: be a lot different post pandemic. Yeah, like rap battle.
Speaker 1: There was a time on a fight club where rat
Speaker 1: battles were taking place with a pool table between the
Speaker 1: two people as like a motive come to stop people
Speaker 1: from like fighting each other. But now like we might
Speaker 1: need people in bubble boys who's battle rapping with one another. Um.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, like how tough can you
Speaker 1: look like like with if if you're like, you know,
Speaker 1: scared of a virus, part of battle rap is bravado
Speaker 1: and you have to look like a hardass dude who
Speaker 1: doesn't give a funk about anything. So it's like, I
Speaker 1: don't know, how can we be smart about this and
Speaker 1: like save the essence of battle rap And I think
Speaker 1: we just need herd immunity and battle rap. I think
Speaker 1: all these battle rappers that need to kiss each other
Speaker 1: on the mouth and get it over with you, And
Speaker 1: I've been saying that for years that just start each
Speaker 1: battle with French guessing. Now we finally have a reason
Speaker 1: exactly best kisser gets to go first for a second?
Speaker 1: Best who goes first or second? You do make me
Speaker 1: think that in a battle someone could say, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm a tough guy. That's what I'm about. Just to
Speaker 1: prove that, go ahead and spit in my mouth. It's
Speaker 1: a very easy way to be a pervert but also
Speaker 1: be very good at battle rap. Yeah, it's it's a
Speaker 1: cheat code. Honestly, at the end of the day, like
Speaker 1: forcing somebody to to swap spit with you would be
Speaker 1: the ultimate act of male dominant. I agree with you,
Speaker 1: total Alpha. What do you miss most with sports gone? Like?
Speaker 1: What do you see yourself fiending for the most? Like?
Speaker 1: What what bothers you that's gone? Um? So I am
Speaker 1: not a huge gambling guy. I know that a lot
Speaker 1: of people with whom my work are gambling people. And uh,
Speaker 1: if they were offered sports can be back, you can watch,
Speaker 1: but you can't gamble on it, they would say, I
Speaker 1: don't even want sports back. I only wanted for the
Speaker 1: gambling aspect. For me, it's like, uh, it's it's been
Speaker 1: like normalcy of like having something to go do. Like
Speaker 1: for a lot of people who are super into sports,
Speaker 1: like a lot of their weekend will hinge around it,
Speaker 1: like in a football season. My Sunday is all about sports,
Speaker 1: and so it's like having that like peg to hang
Speaker 1: my hat on. Every day. It's just like, ah, like
Speaker 1: days over, I can sit down and watch like the
Speaker 1: slate of NBA games from like nine o'clock until twelve
Speaker 1: o'clock and turn my brain off for a little bit.
Speaker 1: I'm watching the Great British Bakeoff to just have some
Speaker 1: type of like competition in my life, just to like
Speaker 1: feel like somebody is going against somebody or like they're
Speaker 1: trying and failing. Like I just need that to kind
Speaker 1: of end my day. So I can just watch instead
Speaker 1: of participating in the rat race. Yeah, you you have
Speaker 1: a radio show through Barstool that you guys have been
Speaker 1: keeping up from your house. I think, right, yeah, we've
Speaker 1: been doing it most days. It's kind of remotely from Brooklyn.
Speaker 1: It's been preposterous. My neighbor's pets to keep on wandering
Speaker 1: through that on Instagram you have you've basically adopted a cat. Yeah,
Speaker 1: cat named h I don't know what the cat's name.
Speaker 1: We call it garbage, but we I don't even think
Speaker 1: I shouldn't learn its name. I don't even want to
Speaker 1: know from my neighbors. But we have like a shared
Speaker 1: balcony situation. So this cat just kind of wanders into
Speaker 1: my house every single day while we're recording radio, while
Speaker 1: we're doing video, or just like in the middle of
Speaker 1: the day, and it won't it just won't leave. I
Speaker 1: think maybe it enjoys my aesthetics more. Maybe it's parents
Speaker 1: are are I think it's one of its. It's like
Speaker 1: mom is like some kind of soul cycle online instructor.
Speaker 1: So I'll always hear her like barking through the door,
Speaker 1: like come on, go harder. So maybe we just have
Speaker 1: a peaceful, uh living environment. Because I'm not exercising at all.
Speaker 1: I hope that's exercise. What I have been enjoying is
Speaker 1: your your fit ticks. Every single day you've been you've
Speaker 1: been You've been crushing it. I've been wishing it. I've
Speaker 1: I've realized that for two months I've dressed like Adam Sandler.
Speaker 1: You really have, Like, who is more happy than Adam
Speaker 1: Sandler that his way of dressing is completely normalized now,
Speaker 1: No one, We've all we've all become house painters. Dude.
Speaker 1: I've I have a gift that I bought for you
Speaker 1: maybe two years ago, and I've never had like the
Speaker 1: reason to send it to you, but it would be
Speaker 1: the perfect thing for you to be wearing right now.
Speaker 1: It's a sweatshirt with Michael Jordan's crossing over Michael Jackson
Speaker 1: on it. I don't even think I've ever opened it,
Speaker 1: but I I've purchased it for you, and I've just
Speaker 1: never had the situation to send it to you. But
Speaker 1: it's just burning a hole in my house. And you
Speaker 1: know what the best part is, over the last two years,
Speaker 1: it's aged super well because it's true that we would
Speaker 1: all root for Michael Jordan to cross over Michael Jackson.
Speaker 1: Nothing has changed. It's all still the same kind of
Speaker 1: lokenus exactly. No, it's the perfect situation. The power dynamics
Speaker 1: are exactly where they need to be for us who
Speaker 1: are maybe bar stool novices or guys who kind of
Speaker 1: like me, you know, Listen to a couple of shows
Speaker 1: I need to have the one oh one on the
Speaker 1: Call Me Daddy or whatever it is drama that is
Speaker 1: going on. It's it's caught, i think, the attention of
Speaker 1: a lot of people because we're all just fiending for
Speaker 1: anything where people are mad at each other. But tell me,
Speaker 1: tell me what is happening between these two girls. So yeah,
Speaker 1: this has kind of captured the attention of America right now,
Speaker 1: which is like maybe some of the biggest podcaster drama
Speaker 1: that's ever arisen. But these two women have a wildly
Speaker 1: successful show hosted by Barstool Sports called Call Her Daddy,
Speaker 1: where they give relationship advice, empowering advice to two young
Speaker 1: women everywhere that definitely excus towards the sexual side. Um,
Speaker 1: but it's a salacious show and it just crushes like
Speaker 1: it does incredible numbers. Young women everywhere love them and
Speaker 1: identify with them. Over the last couple of months, that
Speaker 1: kind of stopped doing their show, and they kind of
Speaker 1: stopped putting out episodes. They weren't fulfilling their asks with advertisers,
Speaker 1: and no one knew why, No one was no one
Speaker 1: could figure out why, And it kind of came out
Speaker 1: that they wanted a new contract, and then they it
Speaker 1: kind of came out more that they were negotiating in
Speaker 1: bad faith because one of these women was dating an
Speaker 1: executive from HBO who was who was negotiating a new
Speaker 1: deal for them, So they were under contract with Barstool.
Speaker 1: He was negotiating a deal with one dree for them,
Speaker 1: and they were trying to keep their intellectual property, which
Speaker 1: is like an interesting question in the in the podcasting world,
Speaker 1: like you know, it's it's gonna I guess kind of
Speaker 1: be like the music world as far as like who
Speaker 1: owns someone's catalog, who owns somebody's intellectual property? Um. And
Speaker 1: so it shook out that the one who was dating
Speaker 1: the HBO executive, she wouldn't take any deal that bar
Speaker 1: Stool offered, So she is out. Barstool is retaining the
Speaker 1: I P of Call Her Daddy, and the other co host,
Speaker 1: young lady named Alex Cooper, will be hosting the show
Speaker 1: on her loan sum and uh that's the latest in
Speaker 1: in the uh they call her Daddy drama. So I
Speaker 1: here's my thoughts. One, you guys are definitely going to
Speaker 1: do a bar Stool search for the co host. I
Speaker 1: feel like that is a given God to God to
Speaker 1: that seems very easy. And also for people who are
Speaker 1: listening to this show and don't know, this isn't just
Speaker 1: like small time podcast. This is like listen the top
Speaker 1: five of all podcasts. This is like a Joe Rogan
Speaker 1: level of listenership. Yeah that when Joe Rogan was uh
Speaker 1: when he signed to deal with Spotify last week, like
Speaker 1: the New York Times article had to cite him as
Speaker 1: the number two podcast on the charts at that point,
Speaker 1: behind Call Her Daddy. Just because the nature of the controversy,
Speaker 1: more people want to listen, but they're still pretty consistently
Speaker 1: like a top ten podcast, which the testament to how
Speaker 1: well these girls talk about the move they have is
Speaker 1: called the gluck Gluck nine thousand, which you can use
Speaker 1: your imagination. We'll guess what the gluck is, Yes, exactly. Again,
Speaker 1: without sports, we have to just we have to gravitate
Speaker 1: towards these things because nothing else is going on. So
Speaker 1: I'm happy that Barstool, as always has found drama in
Speaker 1: the podcast world. That's what we like about them. It's
Speaker 1: honestly fascinated from like a creator's perspective, It's like, what
Speaker 1: is the best way to get in front of people,
Speaker 1: like what are people sitting in front of and what
Speaker 1: do they have the bandwidth for? And I think that
Speaker 1: we're all finding well, barstool is in a great position
Speaker 1: for that because you guys have like a dome. You know,
Speaker 1: you live in this sort of world where there's you know,
Speaker 1: storylines within yourself and people want to support you guys.
Speaker 1: And I think that's the future of all this stuff
Speaker 1: is is just people supporting their favorite creators, you know, directly,
Speaker 1: and and you guys have that business model set, so
Speaker 1: that's nice. Well, big Cat says, uh, he said to
Speaker 1: say hi right before I came in. I told told
Speaker 1: him that I was hopping on with you. He said,
Speaker 1: to send your best. You crushed it on that that
Speaker 1: part of my take video. Yeah, I love that, dude,
Speaker 1: excited to have went on. Uh well, thank you Rohan
Speaker 1: for talking to me, and you know, I wish you
Speaker 1: the best and stay safe. Is the wedding postponed and canceled?
Speaker 1: What's going on in your in your life of almost
Speaker 1: being a groom? I think it's still it's it's on
Speaker 1: for next summer, so it was always going to be
Speaker 1: a next summer thing anyway. The proposal being around like
Speaker 1: the holiday season. She didn't want like a short runway.
Speaker 1: So it kind of worked out that not that many
Speaker 1: things are having to get uh rearranged luckily. I do
Speaker 1: still think it's super weird that you set up a
Speaker 1: whole pandemic to push it off. So now it was
Speaker 1: it was what I had to do to get those
Speaker 1: cheaper prices. You know. It's just you have to do
Speaker 1: what you have to do at the end of the
Speaker 1: day to help those pockets. Got to get that flight
Speaker 1: off season. Well, thank you, brother, and we'll talk soon.
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