We Recap the Surviving Barstool Winner Reactions + Joe Schmo Show Interview

Summary

Podcast Summary: KFC Radio – "We Recap the Surviving Barstool Winner Reactions + Joe Schmo Show Interview"

Release Date: January 21, 2025
Hosts: KFC and Yanni Feitelberg
Podcast: KFC Radio by Barstool Sports

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1. Celebrity Encounters and Serendipity

The episode kicks off with Feitelberg sharing his remarkable experiences with celebrities, highlighting spontaneous and serendipitous run-ins that left him both excited and bewildered.

• George Clooney at a Play

  • Feitelberg: “[03:07]… I went to a play Thursday night and sat next to Clooney.”
  • Discussion: Hosts marvel at the unexpected encounter, pondering the randomness of celebrity sightings and their impact on everyday life.

• Breakfast with Seinfeld and Colin Quinn

  • Feitelberg: “[03:19]… When you walk in the door, look, Seinfeld's here.”
  • Discussion: They delve into the surreal nature of meeting iconic figures like Jerry Seinfeld and Colin Quinn, emphasizing the “Survivor”-like unpredictability of such moments.

2. Congestion Pricing in New York City

A significant portion of the discussion revolves around the newly implemented congestion pricing in NYC, exploring its effects on traffic flow, commuter behavior, and financial implications for residents.

• Impact on Commutes and Finances

  • KFC: “[14:08]… if you're already paying, like, 225 and you pay $9…”
  • Feitelberg: “[15:42]… congestion pricing will cost you 30 bucks to go into Manhattan.”
  • Discussion: Hosts analyze how the pricing aims to reduce traffic congestion but also imposes additional financial burdens on low-income drivers, sparking a debate on its overall effectiveness.

• Public Reception and Adjustments

  • Feitelberg: “[16:06]… nobody out there.”
  • KFC: “[17:11]… Money will fix a lot of things one way or the other.”
  • Discussion: They discuss the mixed reactions from the public, noting initial resistance that seems to be waning as traffic issues improve, while also considering the economic strain on frequent commuters.

3. Survivor Recap and Ria's Victory

The hosts provide an in-depth recap of the latest "Survivor" season, focusing on Ria’s strategic gameplay and the ensuing reactions from the audience and other contestants.

• Ria’s Strategic Moves

  • KFC: “[27:31]… Kelly, she played a better game than the edit.”
  • Feitelberg: “[28:37]… Megan had the idol from the challenge.”
  • Discussion: They dissect Ria’s alliances, idol plays, and how her decisions led to her eventual victory, despite facing criticism for being perceived as selfish.

• Gender Dynamics and Public Perception

  • Ria: “[30:14]… Why are you having a meltdown on Twitter about the girl who’s winning?”
  • Feitelberg: “[31:04]… It was very stressful for them. It was very real for them.”
  • Discussion: The conversation shifts to gender biases in reality TV, highlighting how Ria faced additional scrutiny and backlash compared to her male counterparts, underscoring broader societal issues.

• Notable Moments and Viewer Reactions

  • KFC: “[33:37]… Ria won because she dominated.”
  • Feitelberg: “[34:52]… how people are set in their ways.”
  • Discussion: They explore key moments that defined the season, including pivotal votes and power plays, and reflect on how Ria’s dominance was both celebrated and criticized.

4. Interview with Joe Schmo Show Cast – Ben and Ahmed

In the latter part of the episode, KFC and Feitelberg interview Ben and Ahmed from the rebooted "Joe Schmo Show," a satirical reality TV series where one unsuspecting contestant is surrounded by actors in an elaborate prank.

• Concept of the Show

  • KFC: “[47:14]… Ben and Ahmed, cast members from the new reboot of 'Joe Schmo Show.'”
  • Ahmed: “[93:14]… I figured I was going to be like a little goofy dude, small-town.”
  • Discussion: They discuss the premise of the show, where Ben believes he’s competing for $100,000, unaware that his fellow contestants are actors orchestrating pranks and absurd scenarios.

• Experiences During Filming

  • Ahmed: “[99:57]… The show was, the show was so nuts.”
  • Feitelberg: “[107:08]… You have to maintain character amidst pranks.”
  • Discussion: Ben and Ahmed share their challenges in maintaining the façade, the emotional rollercoaster of deceiving and being deceived, and the surprising bond that formed despite the prankster nature of the show.

• Impact and Reflections

  • Ahmed: “[111:24]… I felt really blessed. Humbling.”
  • KFC: “[114:29]… You are the star you are.”
  • Discussion: They reflect on the personal growth and unexpected outcomes from participating in such a unique format, emphasizing the blend of humor and genuine human emotion captured by the show.

5. Listener Interaction and Stories

The episode also features engaging listener stories and questions that add a personalized touch to the conversation.

• Fun Facts and Animal Preferences

  • Caller: “[63:29]… would you rather be a mouse or a squirrel?”
  • Discussion: Hosts and callers humorously debate the merits and drawbacks of being a mouse versus a squirrel, sharing personal anecdotes and playful banter.

• Karaoke Song Choices

  • Caller: “… what song do you pick for karaoke?”
  • Ria: “[71:35]… my go-to was 'Trust and Believe' by Mo Bamba.”
  • Discussion: They share their favorite karaoke songs from their 21st year, leading to nostalgic and entertaining exchanges about memorable performances and the significance of certain tracks.

Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• Feitelberg on Serendipity: “[03:07]… today was the most serendipitous of all time.”
• KFC on Congestion Pricing: “[14:08]… a free trial on my hat in the ring…”
• Ria on Gender Bias: “[30:14]… Why are you having a meltdown on Twitter about the girl who’s winning?”
• Ahmed on Reality TV Experience: “[99:57]… The show was, the show was so nuts.”
• Ria on Emotional Challenges: “[39:07]… sometimes you just feel like you have to stay in such a slight, clear line.”

Conclusion

This episode of KFC Radio masterfully blends humor, personal anecdotes, and timely discussions, creating a rich and engaging narrative for listeners. From celebrity run-ins and the intricacies of NYC's congestion pricing to a deep dive into Survivor's latest season and an insightful interview with the "Joe Schmo Show" cast, KFC and Feitelberg deliver a comprehensive and entertaining recap. Their candid conversations, coupled with listener interactions, ensure that the episode flows naturally and remains accessible to both regular followers and new listeners alike.

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Transcript

[KFC]

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[Feidelberg]

It's Survivor, even me.

[Ria]

Yeah.

[KFC]

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[Feidelberg]

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[Feidelberg]

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[Feidelberg]

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[Feidelberg]

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[KFC]

18 or older 19 + in Nebraska, 2021 + in Arizona. Void where prohibited. Promo code required for two dollar non withdrawable credit. Prize amount may differ at time of drawings. Terms jackpocket.com tos/free-ticket-promo/right. It's another edition of KFC Radio on the barstool sports network. Feidelberg is going through. He's having a moment. Yeah, he's having like a. I don't know what it is. Luck. Serendipity. New York City vibes, man.

[Feidelberg]

Dude, today was the most serendipitous of all time.

[KFC]

Well, except for five days earlier. That was pretty serendipitous too.

[Feidelberg]

I guess we'll tell you what we're talking about.

[KFC]

Yeah, I don't know what you're talking about.

[Feidelberg]

So I. In my last 72 hours, it's the highest I can count in 24s. I don't know what. I know it's five days. I just can't get there. So 96 hours. I've had some pretty massive celebrity run ins. Just like not even run ins. Like, I haven't spoken either of them. The. I went to a play Thursday night and sat next to Clooney.

[Ahmed]

What?

[KFC]

That's the second best one. That one's like.

[Feidelberg]

Then this morning I was at breakfast, Seinfeld right there. Just like, just like. Right. So I went to breakfast with. With Mark Robert and we like, what.

[KFC]

A cute little date.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah, we do. Like, like, I don't know, we'll call it quarterly. We go on a walk and we just kind of chat. And today was too cold. So he texted me this morning. He's like. He's like, yo, it's freezing. Let's go inside. Where? You got any ideas? I recommended Madame Tussauds Wax museum. He goes, what about. What about. What about a diner? I was like. I was like, oh, I didn't know what kind of vibe you were going for.

[KFC]

In what world would a Thursday morning vibe be the wax museum?

[Feidelberg]

That's cool. That's never a vibe, dude.

[KFC]

That has never been a vibe in the history of this goddamn city.

[Feidelberg]

I forgot about that part. I know, I know. I don't know.

[Ria]

I do not think that you could go to A wax museum in the a.m. the.

[KFC]

You can't go to a wax museum unless you're like, a foreign tourist, is what.

[Feidelberg]

So he goes. He goes, it's too cold. Let's pick an indoor spot. Any ideas? I said, it's cold. Want to do Madame Tussauds? He goes. He just goes. I like the idea of a famous diner. How about. That was so. Okay, so to. I guess that does open the window to explain Mountain a little bit. We were looking in the area of his studio. So, like, we were. It was like Midtown, like, 50 something.

[KFC]

Try to explain your way out of this.

[Feidelberg]

Well, also, I really want to go to Mountain. Thank you.

[KFC]

Just say. Just say it. You're seeing real life celebrities.

[Feidelberg]

You don't just see the wax ones.

[KFC]

You are Madame Tussaud right now.

[Feidelberg]

But he. Then he came back. He said, brb. And he went and thought for a second, and he came back and he's like, what about Brooklyn Diner, which is oddly on 57th and 7th? I was like, cool, that sounds good. That's like. That makes a lot more sense than a wax museum. And so we get there. Or I get there. He gets there first, and he texts me. When you walk in the door, look, Seinfeld's here. And glide in the door, Look, Seinfeld was there. Then I saw Mark, and I was like, dude, your seat. My seat is right in the line. All I can look at is Seinfeld. Like, the whole. Like, it was the whole breakfast. All I could.

[KFC]

Was he with somebody or solo?

[Feidelberg]

It didn't know who he was with because Seinfeld was facing me. His dinner guests or brunch guests was facing the other way.

[KFC]

They probably went to Madison.

[Feidelberg]

So afterwards, at the end, he got up. It was Colin Quinn. But I couldn't. The whole time, I couldn't tell who it was until, like, that's the last 10 minutes of breakfast. Yeah, yeah.

[KFC]

Could you hear them at all?

[Feidelberg]

No.

[KFC]

I know you're not an eavesdropper. If you wanted to, could you have or.

[Feidelberg]

No, no. It was like, you know, like the glass things at a diner.

[KFC]

Yeah, yeah.

[Feidelberg]

And then he was probably, like, three seats down. So, like, it was. I could see him, but no, I couldn't.

[Ria]

Did Colin Quinn see you? That'd be cool if he was like, oh, Final Bird.

[Feidelberg]

He did not see me. I think I was talking to Mark about that. I think the only time we've had Conquen on the show was Zoom. I don't think he's ever been in studio.

[KFC]

I thought we had him a second time.

[Ria]

He has.

[KFC]

I thought we did.

[Feidelberg]

I think we.

[KFC]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure, because I think we got a picture with him. Maybe not. I don't know. He def. But either way, he's not remembering us.

[Feidelberg]

No, no, no, no, no, no. Obviously no. Should he? No, not at all. But, yeah, that was great. It was just like. It was. It was genuinely really hard to have breakfast.

[Jackie]

Yeah, we had him in.

[Ria]

Could you eavesdrop at all in the conversation?

[Feidelberg]

No, no, no. One guy went up and talked to him.

[KFC]

Oh.

[Feidelberg]

But you wonder why it was particularly crazy because Mark showed me his phone when I sat down where he was like, dude, look what I was looking up when I was looking for where we should get breakfast. Like, he was looking.

[KFC]

Seinfeld.

[Feidelberg]

He's looking for this. He saw the Seinfeld diner. Moe's Diner.

[KFC]

I guess you're going to.

[Feidelberg]

The real Seinfeld is on, like, 111.

[KFC]

Yeah.

[Feidelberg]

He's like, I wanted to go there.

[KFC]

Yeah.

[Feidelberg]

But that was too far away. So I just said, here. He's like. And just. He's actually here.

[KFC]

Dude. What?

[Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[KFC]

What a moment for, like. I don't know how that works. If just like, Larry David and producers, like, just pick that or if they liked it or whatever, or if that's a business deal. But just like, you know that Big Tom's restaurant sign was a frame of Seinfeld every single fucking episode. And it makes your career. Like, you know, it's like, I wonder if that was, like, a thing or just luck. Because if you're just running a regular diner and all of a sudden, oh, we're featured 10 times an episode on the most famous television show ever become a tourist destination.

[Feidelberg]

You know what's funny you say that, because currently in the West Village, Samantha, star of Sex and City, Carrie. Carrie Bradshaw's apartment, is petitioning, whatever, talking to the board about getting a fence. Just like. I think I actually read it, but it was like, just like a standard iron fence that they all have in front of brownstones, but they don't have that. And the report. No, wait, are we talking fictional or real?

[KFC]

Or what are you talking about, like, Sarah Jessica Parker's apartment? Or, like, the apartment from Sexton.

[Feidelberg]

The apartment from Sex in the City.

[KFC]

Got it. Got it. Because people, like, go up to it.

[Feidelberg]

Because people go up to it, and.

[KFC]

There'S really a person living there, and there's some one's.

[Feidelberg]

And it was their home. It's been their home the whole time. There are other tenants there as well. But whoever.

[KFC]

That sucks. If you're not a business that sucks.

[Feidelberg]

The woman says in the thing. She's like, I don't know, like, 30 years ago in NYU, film student told me this was perfect for their show, and if they didn't get it, they were going to lose their job. I felt bad for the film student. I said, of course you can use it. Fine. I did not know what it was going to become.

[KFC]

And you probably could get money for something like that. Normally, you think I. Or she's just saying, like, it's just.

[Feidelberg]

A pain in the ass, I think, because. No, she didn't pay in the ass because she's like. He's like, I didn't know that it would become. Yeah, obviously no one did. Not even the film.

[KFC]

Right. But I mean, I would imagine if you did try to. Try to charge or something like that, they would just, like, go next door.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[KFC]

So you probably can't do that, but yeah, that way, man.

[Feidelberg]

But she's like, now, like, people film tick tocks at all hours of the night.

[KFC]

Probably the Home Alone House in Chicago. I'm sure that's a yeah, too, you know. Yeah, that's crazy. But, yeah, I mean, Seinfeld's like the last guy in the world you want to go up to, right?

[Feidelberg]

If it's something you should have done.

[KFC]

You should have run up to him and tried to do the Kesha hug.

[Feidelberg]

Can I hug you? Someone? Did I. I guess I could. Maybe I could have eavesdropped if I wanted to. Because at the. At the very end, someone went up to him and. And I could hear the. Yeah, you know what you should have done?

[KFC]

You know what you should have done? You should have gone up to him and said, I'm a podcaster and I'm trying to do comedy. And I really. I really liked your show. Show, dude, I've seen. We love that.

[Jackie]

Did I ever tell you guys the time I ran to a famous comedian at a diner?

[Feidelberg]

No, that's the punchline.

[Jackie]

It was, like, about six months ago. It was Ari Shafir. We had him in 12 hours before, and we were sitting across from him, and my buddies were like, she's going up to me. I'm like, yeah, I know Ari. Ari knows me. We were talking throughout the show. We hung out afterwards, ran up to Ari, was like, what up, Ari? He looked at me like I was a maniac.

[Feidelberg]

I'm the guy. You just tweeted the N word from his phone.

[KFC]

Right.

[Feidelberg]

The whole day went by.

[Jackie]

None of my buddies said anything. Like, at night, they're like, yo. AR had no idea.

[KFC]

Almost as up as. As. As Ari. Just tarnishing the Felberg name for 20 minutes on his new special, Fidelberg. This guy Yanni Feitalberg. Johnny Felberg sucks.

[Feidelberg]

The if. For those who don't know, Ari's new special on Netflix America. Sweetheart, that's a great title. The closing 20 minutes. The closing 10 minutes. It's just about how this guy Feidelberg sucks straight up.

[KFC]

Which we knew has been, like, in his set for a while.

[Feidelberg]

For a while.

[KFC]

He really. He really hammered it on I.

[Feidelberg]

So you had texted him the night before and he had said the clo. I knew there was a. A bit where there was a guy named Fighter.

[KFC]

He turned. It was closer.

[Feidelberg]

And I didn't know it was. But I didn't know it was a closer. And I didn't know any of that. I had no idea what the joke was about. And I watched the special. It's incredibly funny. It's really, really. He's the.

[KFC]

He's really good.

[Feidelberg]

He's really. He's like, if Ari's the best he's ever been, which you can.

[KFC]

We were talking. I don't think you were here. We were talking about the. The task of following up Jew.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[KFC]

And like, I was saying, like, you don't want to do, like, a sequel, but it's almost like I would do Jew too, and I would just do the same candles and like, just like, that's your thing.

[Feidelberg]

Because it's.

[KFC]

You can't, you know, get better than that. And then, you know, lo and behold, some of the best comics in the world, they can do it again.

[Feidelberg]

But it was. It's great. But I didn't know. I didn't know. I had no idea what was coming. So you had texted me. It's the closer. Okay. I'm watching the closer, getting ready for it. I looked at the timestamp. I was like, about 10 minutes. Probably about closer time.

[KFC]

Yeah.

[Feidelberg]

And he's like, there was this guy Feidalberg, and I was like, oh, here it is. He sucked. And then it's like 10 minutes of them being like, he sucks. He's the worst. And I thought it was.

[KFC]

The premise, by the way, was like, like, like, what did you ever have. It was talking to his grandfather. Like, did you ever have a single good day in the concentration camp? He's like, there's this guy Feudalberg. The thought of being in a concentration camp, everything pretty much sucks.

[Feidelberg]

Be like, that guy Feidelberg.

[KFC]

Extra sucks.

[Feidelberg]

And I Like, my. My original viewing of it, I was dying laughing. I think it's the funniest thing I ever seen. And I started telling friends about it, and they were all like, is it funny? And I was like, yes, it's funny. Like, but is he being funny? I'm like, no.

[KFC]

I thought he wasn't like, you.

[Feidelberg]

Like, I know him. And then I started thinking about it, and I'm like, what if Ari's just sitting at home being like, this fucking guy can't take a hint.

[KFC]

He's running around the whole comic circle being like, this bozo's laughing about it, tweeting about it.

[Feidelberg]

It's great.

[KFC]

I fucking hate him.

[Feidelberg]

I made him the worst guy in a concentration camp. And he just. He just doesn't. Guy doesn't get it. The guy doesn't get it.

[KFC]

Like, you can't lay it on any vicar. There is nothing else you can do. That's great. One moment, man. I have. I have a villain. I. I have a villain take.

[Feidelberg]

Okay?

[KFC]

My. My. My biggest villain take since not being on the team of Luigi, that made me a villain. Not being. Being against murder made me a villain on the Internet, but I'm used to it by now. But this. This one, I. People are gonna hate me for this one. But I love congestion pricing.

[Feidelberg]

Oh, I think everyone does.

[KFC]

Oh, do they?

[Feidelberg]

I think.

[KFC]

Well, I mean, I'm sure the people who. Who are. I mean, people hate it if. If they have to drive in and.

[Feidelberg]

Pay it, I guess. I don't really know. It's what? Like, it's a toll, right?

[KFC]

Well, it's $300.

[Jackie]

It's $9 to get.

[KFC]

It's $9. I think it's $9 both ways. It's during, so it's. Look it up. Let's look it up. I don't want to. I don't want to get it wrong, but it is. It's. You know, I mean, to a lot of people, it's not a lot of money, but a lot of people it is.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[KFC]

If you're. If you're used to paying, like, 225 and you pay $9 and you're working check to check, like that's a problem.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[KFC]

You know, which is at least one of them. I know one of them goes from 225 up to nine bucks. You know, the. The. The George Washington Bridge is, like, already, like, 21 bucks. Now it's like 30. It's like 21 was probably already. People's, like, breaking points, and now you're.

[Feidelberg]

Oh, so the congestion price goes on top of that.

[KFC]

Yes.

[Feidelberg]

I thought it was like on places that didn't already have.

[KFC]

No, well, I think that is true, but then I think also they up the other ones. Okay, so let's see. Yeah, like 36 bucks for large trucks. Okay, so what's like 4 for small trucks, 15 for cars. But that, so that is anybody entering Manhattan in like any way. Right. And I do think they tacked on to other additional. Because there's no way like the George Watcher Bridge is going down. You know what I mean? So that's in addition to, so yeah, like congestion pricing will cost you 30 bucks to go into Manhattan. You think about someone who's paying 100. What like 120 for a metro card? You know, something like that. And then it's like if I ever drive in, it's a 30. You know, that can add up for people.

[Feidelberg]

But also if you, if you take it, you got a Metro card, you take the train.

[KFC]

Yeah, well that's what I. Yeah, yeah, that's, Yeah. I mean that, that you would you, you, you're definitely not ever considering driving in if you're already paying for, for something else now. But it's for rush hour really. And I usually am driving in a little bit after the morning one and a little bit before the afternoon one and there is nobody.

[Feidelberg]

I, I have seen that.

[KFC]

Nobody out there.

[Feidelberg]

I've seen like like.

[KFC]

Did you see that video the tunnel?

[Feidelberg]

No, I meant like just traffic like Google Maps of like, like well, this worked immediately, dude.

[KFC]

So I, I. The video I was talking about was somebody went from Jersey through the Holland Tunnel, Lincoln Tunnel, Friday, 4pm they got in four minutes. Really like absolutely un heard of to do that.

[Feidelberg]

Which is why I, I like, I know there was a big hullabaloo about this leading up to it and then.

[KFC]

They actually stopped it at one point. It was supposed to, right? Yeah. And then it took effect.

[Feidelberg]

But the, the hullabaloo, it seemed like everyone hated it and now it seems like everyone likes it.

[KFC]

Well, it just depends on what side you're on, if you're still driving.

[Feidelberg]

But I just mean like I don't even know who's on what's it. But the voice I hear, which is just the voice of the collective is that's good. It feels positive now. It was extremely negative a week ago. I could be wrong. Obviously it fix everyone.

[KFC]

I think maybe when you're, I mean 200,000 less vehicles a week coming into the city.

[Ria]

Wait, this might be dumb, but do they Raise the price specifically to weed people out.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah, yes.

[KFC]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. To avoid congestion. And like, it worked.

[Feidelberg]

But then, so my point is, is like. And I know the answer is, like, bureaucracy and things move slow and all that stuff, but, like, why don't we just try things instead of fighting about this for six months, why don't we just start and then if it didn't work, we get rid of it?

[KFC]

I. So a lot of people and. And I think you have to wait probably about six months to see this. Like, a lot of it is the weekend, too, oddly enough. There's that weekday rush hour is a thing. And then, like, all weekend long, if you drive into the city, I think you get charged and a lot of people are like that. You have a lot less people, like 100, you know, whatever. Tens of thousands of people. Not going to dinner, not going to shows, not going, you know, so it might, you know, over your small business, you might be like, we used to, you know, sell 500 pies of pizza, and now we're selling a fraction of that. Yeah, whatever. You know, that may be a thing and they have to look at that. But as of right now, traffic was a problem, and it ain't anymore. I mean, I'm talking like, Covid type. I used. The reason I started driving in was Covid. I could get in and out, like, 25 minutes, and then it just kept going back up and it got back to like an hour commute. And like, on days where it was raining, snowing, really, whatever. Someone's at the U.N. all these things, it would be like, you know, it could be up to an hour and a half. And now it's back down to like, 30 minutes. It is like, I feel like a lane inside, though, with no lanes. I'm driving around, cruising. I mean, it is a ghost town out there. Which is interesting because, like, I mean, you know, I'm outside of the. The congestion zone. To be honest, if I was, I probably would still pay it.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah, right.

[KFC]

I can do that. But, like, I guess a lot of people can't. It's. It's interesting to see, like, what people's breaking points are where it's like, if it was five bucks, would they have done it?

[Feidelberg]

Right?

[KFC]

Six, seven, nine? You know, they thought the. The city was probably like, it can't be 10. It can't be double edited. Yeah, let's go to nine.

[Feidelberg]

And nine was more. It is more expensive than I thought. Yeah, I was assuming it was like three bucks.

[KFC]

It adds up. You know, if you got you know, kids and you're on a hourly, you know, minimum wage and all that. It's, you know, but it's also, I can't even fathom, like, I don't want to sound like tone deaf here, but it's just like, I don't know how people live in the city at all without on like a. Working as a cashier or something like that. You know what I mean?

[Feidelberg]

I think it's, it's, it's, it's just so goddamn expensive. It is, it's, you know, like what I. Coming from me, like, it, I was never a cashier, but I've lived in different phases of life.

[KFC]

Yeah, you just kind of, you just kind of spend less. Yeah, but, but there is just some level of like, I don't know, I mean, it's got to be tough when you're, like when you're on your first salary. Right. Like, it's even still now.

[Ria]

Yeah, but like, you make it work. I mean, also, like, like it could be worse.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah. I've never, I saw something been like, I just like, be it in Boston, New York. Like, I've never been like, I'm poor. I've been not poor. But you know what it is?

[KFC]

I think like, when you are poor, it depends on if you really have like, kids. And if you have a kid's young and you're, you're not making money, I feel like you, you would really feel the pressure then if you're by yourself and you're just like, I'm gonna have tomato soup with a craft single on top of it.

[Feidelberg]

That's what lunch is.

[KFC]

I could do that right now. I was loving my cream cheese grilled cheese the other day, you know, But I, I think if you have a family and all that, it gets, it gets more pressure packed.

[Ria]

Like, I don't understand how people, like, have families.

[KFC]

Yeah, right. It's just like I, I don't know if it's true or not because, you know, it's on the Internet. But I saw something talking about inflation where it said a hundred thousand dollars today is like making 27 grand in the 80s. And.

[Feidelberg]

Really?

[KFC]

Yeah, I don't know if that's true or not.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah, you know, it's all. It also all depends on where you're living.

[KFC]

Yeah. Yeah. I think it was talking about New York City, but it was like. And you know, that's not good. But maybe.

[Feidelberg]

What? Like, I don't know.

[KFC]

I don't know what. Right, right. But, but, you know, I, I do think that we are programmed to think of certain things as six figures is like a thing, you know, and it's probably more like making 70, you know?

[Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[KFC]

And at 70, you would not be like, you're, you're okay, but you're not. Like, I made it, I'm rich. Like, whereas there's certain benchmarks I think people still think of as a thing. And if, by the way, if you're in other parts of the country. Yes, absolutely. But around here, it's like, probably not. You know what I mean? Even like some of those celebrities, they were saying, like, if you have a couple million bucks in la, it's like, you're fine, but you're not. Like, I can burn. I can burn down my house and be okay. So. But yeah, man, maybe I'm not the villain then. I don't know. I thought, I thought people were thinking of this as like, this is up. This is just like the. More money for the government, more money for the city to, you know, just stuff in their pockets and they're pricing us out. And I'm like, well, I didn't send traffic.

[Feidelberg]

Obviously, I'm not. I, I don't, I just know that's. I don't. I, I don't have like a friend who's pro congestion pricing who's been telling me it's working. Like, I don't know, it's just gotten. I've just heard from the ether, boy, people who are more pleased than not.

[KFC]

Just goes to show, like, you can, you can fix these things. Money, money will fix a lot of things one way or the other.

[Ria]

Maybe they should, like, make yourself like a little puzzle instead of, you know, weeding people out just a different way.

[KFC]

You gotta be smart to commute in.

[Ria]

Yeah.

[Feidelberg]

Gotta be top 5%.

[Ria]

Where the is my puzzle, dude?

[Feidelberg]

Well, that's what sucks. I did.

[KFC]

Wait, is it a puzzle or a fidget? Those are two different things.

[Feidelberg]

It's a fidget and it's. I, I have them and I, I don't. I was, I was going to bring him yesterday, but I was like, no, I got to give him to him on the show. And I didn't know. I, I was already on the road. I was already out of my apartment when we, I knew we're going to do this.

[KFC]

Settle down. You'll get it in like a couple days.

[Feidelberg]

You'll get.

[Ria]

But now, like, I had a dream about this puzzle.

[KFC]

You don't even know what it is.

[Feidelberg]

I know, I know. It's awesome. I, I've opened mine.

[KFC]

I hope you are 3unhype this. If this is just like, it like clicks and clacks.

[Ria]

This is like, for sure not a good idea for like. Like podcasting too. Like. Like, I'm not gonna be able to. I was like, over at a guy's house the other night. He, like, gave me a little puzzle and he was like. And like, I literally. No, no, no, no. Sorry, sorry, sorry. First of all, first of all, first of all, this was like, literally.

[Feidelberg]

Hang on. The most.

[KFC]

What a movie?

[Feidelberg]

The most?

[Ria]

No, the most like PC.

[KFC]

Like, hey, take your pants. I'll do this puzzle.

[Ria]

No, no, no. It was like. It was like a date. Like, it was not. It was literally the most PC PG thing ever.

[Feidelberg]

The puzzle.

[Ria]

But then he was like. He was like, can you, like, pay attention to me a little bit? And I was like, can I just, like, finish the puzzle real quick?

[Feidelberg]

Would he get you some apple juice too? What was this puzzle?

[Ria]

I was like, don't give me a fucking puzzle. If you want to talk to me, like, get to know me.

[Feidelberg]

It was a puzzle put up. Just put on some cartoons and shut up.

[Ria]

Can you off. It was just like a little like. Like, it's like you have to like, un. Like screw it and then put it back together.

[KFC]

We should. We should institute like a. We gotta do like a puzzle a week here. I'm gonna bring in a new puzzle every week. You better like, bring the heat.

[Ria]

They just have hobbies, guys.

[KFC]

Well, I mean, Kelly Keegs was hyping up her memory skills and then. And then she. The bed on. On Survivor with her memory challenge. You better not up on this.

[Ria]

Yeah.

[KFC]

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[Feidelberg]

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[KFC]

I think I'm going to see the Knicks. They are a very fun team right now. Awesome to watch. If you're a local, local guy in New York, I would recommend getting that. I'm taking my kids for their first time. It'll be their first pro basketball game, so I'm looking forward to that. All made possible by game time. Download the app today. Use promo code kfc. Get a ton of great deals with the new game time picks. What time is it?

[Feidelberg]

Game time. Best one so far, dude. I, I read Keegan's blog yesterday. That's up. The people who have are still like, going at Keys.

[KFC]

It's insane, honestly. The whole like, Survivor, if you don't win it, it ain't worth it. I mean, it can be a nightmare for people if you're like, what, what Ria's going through right now is insane.

[Feidelberg]

What's Ria going through there?

[KFC]

The people hating on Ria are. I, I. People are like, oh, you're caping for a chick or whatever. I'm like, shut the up. Rhea is just winning at Survivor and people are being like, Ria's being selfish. It's Survivors.

[Ria]

Yeah.

[KFC]

They're like, it's. It's all she's making all about her. It's like she's trying to win the game.

[Feidelberg]

I also, and like, I'm. I'm a bad judge of the show because I don't watch. I don't know how to watch it, you know, if that makes sense. I don't really know how to watch reality. I don't think anyone. I think it's great. I'm so, so. I don't. I like, I read Keegan's blog where she was like, I looked bad. Like, I don't think Keegs look bad.

[KFC]

I don't think so either. I think, I think what happened with Keegs was Keegs played a better game than the. That's also the edit. Edits are. You know, you got a thousand people and they're getting towards the end and you have like major people who you know that the cameras are going to focus on more. And you know, if, if, if Kelly clemmer looked bad.

[Feidelberg]

I did. I thought. I thought it was funny.

[KFC]

Clever. Was tough when he was running around being like the pizza. Pour the pizza for the pizza. You're out. If you give your name and you're like, I think I'm running the game. And then like you're the first person out and stuff. But like she, she, she first of all, to go into final five with an idol and not play it is fat sack okay. That is so bad.

[Ria]

When she said what she said so that.

[KFC]

So that's after she won. So Rico and her had an idol. Rio was like, ain't nobody voting for me. I'm not playing my idol. That takes massive stones when you're at that point in the game that you either you have, you know, your alliance is a rock solid. You know who's an idiot, you know who's a first timer to be like, I. I'm not even worried. Rico had to play his. They voted out keegs because of that. I could get into. I don't want to bore you with the details, but like that was. The voting in that one was insane. It was just like this is crazy. People just voting for like other people who were not even on the chopping block. Just like you're throwing away your vote. It was basically Ria and rico had an idol. Megan had the idol from the challenge.

[Feidelberg]

Yes.

[KFC]

And they. So they could have either forced rhea to use her idol, which is always a good thing, voted out Dave portnoy or and they voted out Kelly instead. To me and Ria could have turned around and just said, I gotta vote for Dave. I'm breaking our alliance. I'm backstabbing you. But it's only because rico won this idol. Like, I didn't want to. So, you know, you can be a bad guy but not look bad. You know what I mean? It's like they forced my hand. Dave, I'm sorry. And you would have had this monster. You know, I took out Dave, right. She was like, I don't want to do that. I want to bring Dave to the finals because I don't think people will vote for him because of money and because they all the macho. So I don't want to. I want to try to bring Dave to the final and that's. That's like, there's more than one way to do this. You know what I mean? But some people are just like, you didn't do it. Right. But so anyway, so she. She. They win that. They go through the vote. Kelly's gone, and she turns to Rico and she has the idol, like, tucked in her. In her pants, and she, like, taps it and she's like, yeah, like, I still got mine. And people were like, that was so up. Like, I can't believe she did that to Rico. And it's like, first of all, that was awesome. Second of all, if that was a dude, if that was Will and Dave or some like that when Rico spiked his. The joust on Dave.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah, it's all good.

[KFC]

But a girl does it to a guy. And, and by the way, now all of a sudden, Rico is some sympathetic figure. It's just things that are, you know, I hate to be cliche about it, but it's like, you don't like her because she's a girl.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah, they were like, you don't.

[KFC]

You're not wearing any clothes. She's wearing, like, a sports bra and, like, biker shorts. Like, okay, you lose it. Like, you're just a loser. So the. And the amount of people being like, also, listen, girls cry. I don't tell you. Girls cry.

[Ria]

Yeah, they cry. We just are more like, you're going to cry.

[KFC]

And. And if you're talking about people being like, this is just a game, why are you crying? Well, why are you having a meltdown on Twitter about the girl who's winning? The girl who won? You know, it's. It's like to me in Survivor, at the end of the day, if you win, everything was the right decision.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah, you.

[KFC]

You know. You know what I mean? Like, or maybe not the right decision, but it's like, it got me to where I went, so shut the up. But it's a girl. It's. It's also, there's. There's a couple. You know, it's tough. I know someone like, you can be like, it's just a game. And at. You know, if you. If you view it that way, it absolutely can.

[Feidelberg]

You know, I, I. I wholeheartedly, firmly believe that, but I think I noticed or I learned what the. The flip is, is it's just a game for me because I didn't go in thinking I was gonna win or planning to win.

[KFC]

Yeah.

[Feidelberg]

Like, if you're going. So I was just like, I don't know. Like. Yeah, because so I do firmly think it's just a game. And it's crazy that anyone gets too worked up about it. But, like, I just. Like. Like, it doesn't change your day. Like, it literally does it. We're just doing work. We're just at work. Well, okay, you're at work with your co workers doing the stuff you do at work.

[KFC]

I don't know about that, though. Yeah, listen, you are right on that one. And at the end of the day, we all should take it that way. But I think you're in the minority of just, like, the ability to just associate that, because from Ria's point of view, and you have to remember this happens like, you're watching for three weeks. That was six hours.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah, yeah.

[KFC]

So in one day, she had Dan come up to her and be like, you have to fake voting me out, and we're gonna do this scene, and if you don't, I'm not gonna vote for you. And she has issues with Dan. She doesn't like him from personal. So, like, already that's an awkward day at work for you.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[KFC]

A couple hours later, you have your. You have your goal. You want to win $250,000, and you have Will Compton saying, if you don't vote out Dave, we're not gonna vote for you. So now she's like, all right, if I want to win this money, I gotta listen to these guys. But if you listen to these guys, I gotta backstab this guy. And also, by the way, that is my boss, which does play into it. And that is coming just a couple hours after the Dan thing.

[Feidelberg]

Right.

[KFC]

Listen, I don't know about. You girls come up to me and be like, I was in the break room, and, like, somebody like, you know, didn't say hi to me, and I'm crying. You know what I mean? Like, girls cry about work all the time, and it's not a $250,000 here.

[Feidelberg]

To be clear, guys cry about work a lot too.

[KFC]

Everybody cries about. Everybody cries about work a lot.

[Feidelberg]

Here in particular, I. I don't think most offices in America are guys crying. They're crying.

[KFC]

But if you think about most people in America, if anything happens to you at work, you go home and you about it and complain about it. Can you believe what Steve said to me in the meeting today? It's like, yeah, that times that by, like, a billion. So listen, is it a little dramatic to be like, I'm having a panic attack? But it's like. And. And. And whether. You know, I don't think viewers will ever understand this, but it's like, for every one Feidelberg who's like, whatever, it's a game. Rhea is like, this is. I've. You know, they haven't. They've never respected me. I'm playing against the guys. These are the people who tore down me and my relationship with my future husband. Like, they're, you know, all the reasons why. Even just in general. It's like at Barcelona, there are other people who are like, there's the haves and the have nots. And Rhea has always kind of been on this side of, like, needing to fight for her. Her respect. Dave saying she's gonna be ugly in five years.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[KFC]

That kind of. When. When you get put in that camp because Dave doesn't like you or you're the. The first girl or whatever it is, every day at work feels like you're fighting for your life, you know, and she has, like, risen above all that. And chicks in the office is, you know, incredible. Like, there. She probably doesn't even need barstool anymore. She didn't want it. That was actually pretty interesting to see Dave be like, give her that treatment.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[KFC]

The. The. Like, I'm. I'm gonna not be competitive. They. Portnoy because of real life ramifications. I talked to her. I was like, you need to start acting like who the. You are. Like, I. Yeah. I can't quite put you on Alex Cooper levels because she's on a whole other stratosphere. But, like, you're right beneath that, where it's like, if Dave Portnoy is acting that way about you in the middle of Survivor with the cameras on, like, you are that.

[Feidelberg]

So that was, I thought, such an interesting moment. First of all, great for Ria, obviously, and. But also I thought of it as like, a surviving thing where it. That was kind of like, oh, it is dangerous to have Dave. Not dangerous, but, like, it's weird for the show to have Dave around because you don't. It's a hard thing at first. You don't want to vote him out because he's great ratings. Like, I don't even think. I. I think if you're gonna get Dave out, you got to get him out early because. And. But you don't want him out early because you want people to watch the show.

[KFC]

Yeah.

[Feidelberg]

And. But then once you hit the breaking point, it's like, well, now he's kind of weird in the show because it's like real boss. Like, you're not backstabbing when six of you vote him off.

[KFC]

No.

[Feidelberg]

But if maybe you are right.

[KFC]

Right away from the final and I rally the people.

[Feidelberg]

You know, that is when you're like, when you're in a tribe and I don't know, maybe surviving fans don't think that, that think of that as an equal level of backstabbing. I don't. I think it's like if you're like, look, the whole team wanted you. Oh, yeah.

[KFC]

When you go along with the group, it's just like.

[Feidelberg]

But when it's like you making the move, so you're like, well, I'm not gonna, it's. You're not pissing off the boss when it's 10 evoting them out. Right, Whatever. Like when you're flipping on the Boss with like 4 left, I can't see how that's gonna happen.

[KFC]

And then to be able to not do that and still win is like the most gangster ever.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[KFC]

Like, that to me is like she had multiple idols that she didn't play. She, she did like all the work while dragging the boss along and not, you know, work, like, to me it was like wildly impressive. But, you know, you're a chick and people just don't like you because of Hank or whatever the. And so there it's a very good example of like, no one who didn't like Ria was gonna tune in and be like, oh, I actually like her now.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah, dude, that's just.

[KFC]

People are set in their ways that, that hang.

[Feidelberg]

I, like, it's insane, bro. I, I experienced it the first time in my life. I, I, you know, like, I don't, I, I assumed it went on for that little two week window and, and I, obviously, I'm not an idiot. I knew it carried on longer than that, but I didn't think it was a thing. I didn't think anyone ever thought about it. We're doing the Thanksgiving sketch. We do it at Marty and Ria's. We finished the Thanksgiving sketch. Ria's kind enough to make his dinner. Me and Marty go pick it up. Not pick it up. We went to Whole Foods to go to buy some Penny La vodka I think she made because we're getting all the ingredients. We're in Jersey City. Some dude notices like me, comes up to me. He's like, dude, what's up? What are you doing in Jersey City? I'm standing with Marty. I'm like, oh, I'm here with Marty. Marty lives around here. And he kind of just goes, I'm team Hank and walk. And I was like, I was like that. And I, I'm I'm honestly. I've apologized to Marty for it. I'm, like, embarrassed by my response to it. I kind of just gave, like, an awkward laugh and, yeah, kept it moving. And now I wish I, like, stood up and said something, but, like, I was like, that happens to you, like, regularly, I'm sure he's like, yeah, all the time.

[KFC]

All the time.

[Feidelberg]

I mean, that's ins. That's insane.

[KFC]

Tom Brady was tweeting about them.

[Feidelberg]

But that. I. Yes, I agree. I get that. And it's all such a weird thing because I love all of them. But the like, to do it like.

[KFC]

A regular person, in person.

[Feidelberg]

In person is like.

[KFC]

It's trash. But that's where it's like. It's like that. That's why this was, like, a big deal for Ria. You know what I mean? If you were. If I was in a game against two people who made me and my wife's life miserable and. And then. But I'm, like, playing smart, so I'm like, let me align with them, but in the end, I want to beat them. Like, that is a. That's a tense and awkward and weird thing for anybody to go through, especially someone who's on camera. And everybody here, by the way. Pretty much. Pretty much, yeah. I think all of us are like.

[Feidelberg]

Or.

[KFC]

Or the top people are like, celebrities who don't have, like, publicists and PR teams and, like, you're just flying by the seat of your pants, like, I don't know what's going to happen. So a lot of this is, like, super stressful. So it's like, I don't know if you're going to be like, she's crying and that's lame or. Or whatever, then you're not. I don't know, you're not going to like it. But it's like, I don't know. I think that is. It was very stressful for them. It was very real for them. Very personal. Like, there's certain people who it is a game for. There's certain people who it's not a game for. And by the way, that's probably why she ended up winning, because she took it, like, dead ass serious.

[Ria]

You know, just, like, not to go on a feminist rant, but, like, it's so annoying. Like, tough to see as a girl because it's like, throughout the whole thing, she's, like, pretty stoic and, like, a badass, but, like, she's still kind of getting, like, chirps here and there. But, like, for the most part, nobody's saying anything. And, like, the second she shows any kind of emotion or, like, lets the game get to her a little bit, like, people are just coming at her, and it feels. It's just like, as a girl, like, sometimes you just feel like you have to stay in such a slight, clear line that, like, it feels like there's, like, vultures, like, waiting to swoop in the second you slip up a little bit.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Ria]

And it's, like, so frustrating because that's exact. Like, she, like, holds her own so well throughout the whole game. And, like, even this one, she does. And then, like, the second. And, like, the second she said man's game, I was like, I know that everyone's gonna, like, come at her. And when she said man's game, I was like.

[KFC]

Rico said that?

[Ria]

What?

[Feidelberg]

Yeah, like, that's like, re. That was Rico's line. She rubbed it back in his face. That's a perfectly good thing.

[Ria]

No, that's the other thing.

[KFC]

No, I know what you're saying, but.

[Feidelberg]

I think it's crazy anyone thought.

[Ria]

But I was like, I know that, like, people, like, the fans are going to, like, come at her for this because, like, the second you, like, go against men or, like, remind them that, like, you're a woman sometimes this is, like, really going on. But it just.

[Ahmed]

No, this.

[KFC]

You. This is 1,000%. Because raise a chick 1,000%.

[Ria]

And I just want to say, like, she's literally such a. Like, all of them. All the women in this are, like, so. I'm so proud of them. I'm so proud of them.

[Feidelberg]

But I didn't realize that's what she said when she hit her thing. She said, it's amazing.

[KFC]

Is that what it was?

[Ria]

She said, no. She said, like, I'll. I'll come back. And then later, like, right after the huddle, she was like, it's a man's game, right, Rico? It's a man's game.

[Feidelberg]

I mean, of course, it's been a theme of the whole show.

[KFC]

Like, and you know what I mean? Like, from a. Like a strategy point of view. And like a. You know, you do have to make sure people like you, like, Rico is gonna get voted out. I want him to vote for me. Like, me. I don't know if that was the right play, but in the heat of the moment, in competition, you want. It's like you. It's. That's. It's like people complaining about, like, a bad flip.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[KFC]

Or like, a touchdown celebration. It's like, I just did that, and I'm gonna Dunk on you. You know, if Ria had a moment like Dan when he was like, I did that. That's me, people would have been like, you know?

[Feidelberg]

Yeah, it's.

[KFC]

It's just. I hate to be that guy. People will say, you know, you're caping for a woman. She's not gonna. You bro all the cliches, but it's just like, that is what's going on. You don't like this because it's a girl or it's like, you. You don't like that she's beating your fan favorite.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[KFC]

I mean, the barstool audience is one that is like, they'll look past anything, as we've learned, as long as they like you. You know what I mean? They will. They will jump through hoops to be like, no, no, that's okay. No, no, don't worry about that. They. Nobody. And that's just everybody in the. In, you know, in the world. But it's like this just puts it all on display.

[Ria]

Also not saying Dave and Rico's reaction to that, Sally. Because, like, I get, like, when you're like, it was going against Rico, I'm saying about Twitter.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ria]

Reaction towards it. Not them.

[Feidelberg]

Well, you.

[KFC]

You got. You mixed it up with the boss man or the boss man mix it up with you. Jackie, what do you say? Jackie is now.

[Ria]

She just earned a new enemy.

[KFC]

So, Yeah, I mean, Dave is the number one rider. Everyone knows that Portnoy loves Rico Bosco. He's never done anything to try to tear him down. What was the exact tweet?

[Feidelberg]

Jackie made a pop. Made three powerful enemies.

[Ria]

Yeah.

[KFC]

Yep. So that's that on Survivor. It'll be interesting to see what is. What happens next, because I don't know if you can just run it back like, you know, like this. The. I, I, I'm. Maybe I'm biased. I think our season was, like, a little bit better than this season, but maybe that's just. I wasn't in it. This season was bigger and had all the stars. I don't know if you could just, like, do this again. You can mix and match and add some people and. But it's just. It's gonna be a lot of, like, the same.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[KFC]

You know, there needs to be some new rules or some differences or.

[Feidelberg]

I feel like doing it again would be like Jersey Shore, like the third. I guess they're still doing it, but.

[KFC]

I was gonna say, like, the other side of it is, I would imagine. I know. I'm pretty sure at least in the early episodes, they were the number one. Showing number one video on YouTube, like, every night. If you have a product like that, you don't just, like, stop, okay? It's probably the reason why there's season 45 of. I'm sure people said that about Survivor. We can never get better than Richard Hatch. We're never going to get better than Boston Rob. And you just keep going, keep doing it. So we'll see.

[Ria]

But I also think that people wanting to keep Dave around, I, that's also, I think, like, when you're in the game, there's so much uncertainty that, like, you kind of want to just cling to someone who, like, is certain and makes decisions.

[Feidelberg]

Well, yeah, yeah.

[Ria]

And, like, he's just somebody who makes decisions. Well, I don't, I mean, it's definitely him being the boss, but also it's just kind of like, that's why, like, a lot of, like, the, you know, like, people get weeded out first. It's just because, like, you just want.

[KFC]

To go like a White Sox. Dave, let's say. I don't know.

[Ria]

I'm just saying.

[KFC]

I, I think. Yeah, no, you're totally right. And I also, by the way, I, I think Rhea won because, like, she, she dominated. Yeah, this is gonna be. Yeah, Ria won because she dominated. That speech was unbelievable. I don't subscribe to the idea that Dave can't win because of the money. I, I think it will play into some people, but, like, if, if Dave had had outplayed Ria, Dave has to overcome the money. Dave has to overcome, like, just like, Will Compton hating him and like that. But that's part of the game. I don't think people will, will not vote him because he's too rich, though.

[Feidelberg]

I, I, I think that's a zero percent factor. Yeah, I, I think, I think we.

[KFC]

Thought zero because, like, some people, if it's like a coin flip, let's say, I think people would be like, I'll give it to the other person. But if it's like, this guy, it's him. And like, two jamokes. If it was like, I don't want to be rude, but it was him movie and, and, and, and Megan, like, people would vote for him 100. You know, it's just, but like, I.

[Feidelberg]

I think it's essentially a zero. Like, like, it's, it's maybe not quite zero, but, like, mathematically speaking, I think it's pretty much a zero factor. And every year we will start the season by going, dave can't win every Year, it will be proven out that doesn't care biz.

[KFC]

Nobody would say that about biz. No one wants to say about it. Ryan Whitney, right? Will Compton, 1, he was a professional athlete.

[Feidelberg]

All of these guys have more money than they'll ever need, right?

[KFC]

Like, there's no difference now if they. Now Dave is like, it's not that. How much money he has. It's like, how. Yeah, I'm the boss. I have all the money. If you don't like that, that's a part of the game where it's like, I don't want to. That guy's obnoxious or something like that.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah, that's.

[KFC]

But that's part of the game, not just like, we're not giving to you because of your bottom line. You know what I mean?

[Feidelberg]

Yeah, that's what I mean. Like, the money itself is a zero percent.

[KFC]

That's why I actually don't agree with the way Ria did it. But again, she won. So she's right and I'm wrong. But I. I think in that moment, if she took out Dave, she has the girl. She. She basically got all she needed out of Dave Portnoy. She could have killed him. She could have said, I didn't want to do it, but I had to do it because Rico had the idol, and now I have my alliance with the girls, which she clearly was, like, in charge of.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[KFC]

She wins the game that way, too. And she gets the. To say, like, I stabbed you. I don't know. I'll say this now. Maybe we'll take it out because I don't know if she wants it in there, but she told me that. That Dave asked her, if I voted you out, if I turned on you, would it have been, like, a thing, you know? And she was like, 10,000%.

[Feidelberg]

Yes. She said that on the show.

[KFC]

Okay.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[KFC]

I don't know, because, you know, that's. They. Dave. Dave admitted, you know, I don't want to have trouble with chicks in the office. And. And I thought this would maybe do it.

[Feidelberg]

See, that's. That is where I. I differ. Like, if I get backstabbed.

[KFC]

Yeah. You think it's, like, cool, we'll play the game?

[Feidelberg]

I don't know. I didn't expect you to do that. Yeah, I don't. I. I cannot imagine a world in which. In which I would take it seriously.

[KFC]

You never know until you are cool. But, like, the guy who said, you're gonna be ugly and not on camera one day, the guy who led a Internet crusade against you. And you're now huzz husband. Yeah, that's different.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[KFC]

You know, she's still, she's cool enough to be like, I'm cool with Dave, which I think is pretty, you know, pretty adult of her. But if she, you know, if, if she felt away about that, I think she kind of has every right to that. That with Marty is crazy.

[Feidelberg]

I mean, the fact that it still happens is.

[KFC]

And I still don't think there was ever like a. I mean I remember Dave being like, if you guys get married, then like I'm wrong and like they are. And I don't think there was ever like a Maya Culpa.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah. So I, I would imagine like there are all things that we do in the moment, almost all of the things we do. When you look back on you, like.

[KFC]

I wish I didn't do that.

[Feidelberg]

That was a little weird to me. Yeah. Yeah. I would imagine Dave and Dan look back on that. Like, I would sincerely hope that was a little strange.

[KFC]

That was great. I remember being like, what? That, that was like. I felt like Luigi Mangioni. I remember being like, I'm the only.

[Feidelberg]

What? I'm the only one here. This is crazy.

[KFC]

What else we got?

[Feidelberg]

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[Ria]

Perfect. Thank you.

[KFC]

Oh, I wanted to talk about this before we.

[Ria]

We kind of Lodged up on the same day again.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah, well, I. I lodge up all winter, man.

[KFC]

Lodged up. I tried a content experiment yesterday.

[Feidelberg]

Okay.

[KFC]

I did eight one minute mans. And I. I took it as the blog. I was like, oh, I probably would. We probably do more than that. Maybe like 10 or 12. I think you guys used to do like 15. So it's not quite the same, but I was like, I. You know, people. People call them vlogs, but that. That means like a day in the life behind the scenes. I'm talking literal video blog, you know, where it's like, this is a topic I would have blogged about. Here's what I would have said, here's what I would have written, and I'm gonna do a video of it. And. And so I did like, a couple sports ones, a couple weird Internet ones, a couple, like, major headlines. You know, like, literally how we would. We would do it all out. Yeah, it was just. It was just a cool. It was like a interesting way to like. It's something I've always, like, thought about doing, but it's hard to put into practice because, like, making eight videos is tough.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[KFC]

But it really was. When I looked at, like, the clock, it was like, no different. I was up, up. I probably started around, like, nine. I finished around, like three. You know, it's kind of like what the blog day was.

[Ria]

How long are each of the videos? One minute?

[KFC]

Yeah, I do 90 seconds. They're real. So I would do.

[Feidelberg]

What was it? What was your biggest story of the day?

[KFC]

So that's also what's interesting is the views in general. I think it generated 1.8 million over 8. And so. But it is funny. Like, you know, you used to have blogs that were hits and used to have blogs, but videos that are duds and hits are very different, you know, so, like, the biggest dud of the day was Drake, which I thought was interesting. And actually I've noticed this. My audience, I guess. I guess makes sense. They don't care about Drake. Anytime there's Drake news, the beef, the battle, the songs, the lawsuits, I always run to do a One Minute man, and it always underperforms. You think I would just stop? I can't. I want to talk about Drake. Yeah, I used to not check. Did you ever look at, like, page views?

[Feidelberg]

I don't have a clue.

[KFC]

I don't even know how to do it.

[Feidelberg]

I. I don't even know how to.

[KFC]

Look at, like, one time I used to look at Google trends.

[Feidelberg]

I literally never. Whatever I like, I don't have a clue what any page views we did. And I, I think that's an interesting, again, kind of like content experiment where it's all relative in the sense of like, size and stuff like that. But when like barstool is barstool, whatever. I want to see it. I don't think anyone knew what. No. What was doing well. And we, we honestly, it was a. It's like sports where, like, it was pre analytics. So, like, I don't know. That guy was funny. Yeah, that was funny. That guy was good.

[KFC]

I wonder though, if there was like, at the top of the page, this many page views you got in a big number, if that would have changed things.

[Feidelberg]

Of course.

[KFC]

Because I think, like, people used to view that as comment comments was kind of that thing. You just got over 100 comments, you know.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[KFC]

And that's not truly indicative, but it was indicative of like, you wrote a provocative blog. But if it was like, you always get a hundred thousand page views and this one did like 10, you'd be like, delete that or whatever. So, like right when you have the number right. On the thing.

[Feidelberg]

But I, I think, I think that what I was trying to say with that is, like, when you're trying something new, such as eight vlogs a day, like, you shouldn't even look at it.

[KFC]

I know. Yeah.

[Feidelberg]

Just think which ones. Which ones made me the most happy? Yeah. Like while I was filming.

[KFC]

And you know what the real problem is that I'm running into like, like in just my career in general is we come from an era of talk about everything a little bit and it has become such a specialized world.

[Feidelberg]

Right.

[KFC]

Just do golf, just do hockey, just do sports, just do whatever. And I can't bring myself to just, like, focus on one thing, you know, like people like, just do like Game of Thrones. I'm like, I probably could do that. I don't. I want to talk about other.

[Feidelberg]

Right.

[KFC]

But you don't. You don't become the guy for anything. But I'm also like, if I stop worrying about that and I just do 10 of these a day, and people just come to me for this reason, that reason, and they start to like me, and they realize they can get a little bit of everything from me, that will be my lane. It's not like it doesn't work towards the algorithm. It's probably making things harder on yourself. You're working a little bit, you're swimming upstream a little bit. But I don't know. That's just what I'm going to Do.

[Feidelberg]

That's the point.

[KFC]

Yeah, right.

[Feidelberg]

Like, I remember you saying something once where you were like. Like, you're talking about. I forget. We were interviewing someone, and you're, like, talking to your kids. You're talking about kids, and you were like, I just want my kids to do whatever they want. Like, you're like, I did all this. I have all this. Like, you're one of your kids.

[KFC]

Yeah, I know, I know. Just do what I want.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, just do.

[KFC]

And. And, like, that's. That. That was kind of the point of when I did it, because I was like, so, like, usually. But the other side of it is like, all right, so let's look at, like, a couple days Prior, like, everything hit 300, 000 views. This one hit 450, this one hit 680. You know, and every now and then, I have one that pops off to, like, a million. Right. And then when I did this, because it was, like, once an hour, usually I don't have anything under, like, 200K. And so some of these are, like, 120, 115. So that. But then I'm like, well, am I making this harder? You know what I mean? Yeah. It's like, you got to work smarter, not harder. But if. You know, these are all things I wanted to talk about. There was not one thing that I was like, I don't want to do this, but I'm doing it anyway.

[Feidelberg]

Right, Right. There was no caption contest.

[KFC]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. There was nothing like that, dude.

[Feidelberg]

I. I like, people obviously don't remember that. Like, it was just like, you. You just, like, threw up a picture. You're like, I don't know how you do the work for me.

[Ahmed]

I left.

[Feidelberg]

You write the joke. I'm doing. I'm cropping asses right now. I don't have time. You guys look at this picture, and, I don't know, I thought it was funny.

[Ria]

Every time I made one of my captions, the last person to comment win. This was like, wait, like, high school. I think it has, like, 400 comments.

[KFC]

Well, that's the thing. You do gimmicks correctly.

[Ria]

We should just do that for all of our captions.

[KFC]

The biggest one of the day was influencer gets her rubes ribs removed, plans to make a crown out of them, then decides to sell them for $50,000 each. This trans chick got six ribs removed. They gave them to her. She. She said, I'm gonna make a crown out of it. But then she was like, I can't find anyone who's, like, artistically capable. So I'm gonna sell them. She's like, I already have. I don't know if it's true or not. She was like, I already have guys who are offering $10,000 per rib, and I'm gonna try to sell them for 50 grand each.

[Feidelberg]

10,000 per ribs? Pretty low.

[Ria]

Yeah, right. Also, like, if you're.

[Feidelberg]

Once you've done it.

[KFC]

I mean, if you've done it and.

[Feidelberg]

You can get 10k. Oh, I hate seeing that.

[KFC]

They're, like, literal. They're like, rib. Like, once you finish eating your ribs, they're like that.

[Feidelberg]

But that. That. That. That looked too clean. I can't. I can't think it's real.

[Ria]

That was.

[Feidelberg]

That was like, cuz. Cuz like, there when I'm. I guess. I don't know. Like, I. I. I just think if someone were to remove your ribs, which I don't think is like, a regular practice.

[KFC]

It's not regular, but there are people do it.

[Feidelberg]

Are there actually people who do it? I know there's. I know there's the rumor, but Marilyn Manson himself, he's been like, no, but.

[KFC]

There'S, like, Emily Ratkowski. Like, there's people who say that about them. There's no proof, because I think you have to, like, go overseas and they'll do it here. But, like.

[Feidelberg]

But that's what I mean. So there's, like, nowhere you can get it, like, oh, yeah. Correct. You walk into a plastic surgery center, there's not a guy who's like, I'm the rib guy.

[KFC]

I don't think in America. No.

[Feidelberg]

So, like, I don't. I don't think it's real and that. Because I can't imagine. They take your rib off and then they clean the bone. That doesn't happen well. Like, a doctor would be like, what are you talking about? You want me to take all the meat off?

[Ria]

People do shady for money. Me all the time.

[KFC]

Yeah.

[Ria]

Like, I'm sure that there's got to be.

[Feidelberg]

Okay, one more time real quick. Lab Corp, like, they're not putting official stickers on it. Being like, yeah, I'm the guy who.

[Ria]

Yeah, yeah.

[Feidelberg]

Cut her rib off and shave some.

[KFC]

She did say, though, she was like, I do not. She was like, I'm sick. I can't cough. If I drink, have sodium, or do activity, it hurts. I don't recommend this. It wasn't like. She was like, this is amazing.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ria]

So kind of crazy. And then up on your crown idea, like, that fast.

[KFC]

Just because nobody's well, who's gonna make your.

[Ria]

I know, but like that if you get out your ribs with the goal of somebody making a crown for you, and then you don't actually follow through on that.

[Feidelberg]

Well, yeah. I think the crazier thing is. Yeah. I ask first.

[KFC]

Yeah.

[Feidelberg]

You go, hey, yeah.

[KFC]

Thinking about these crowns chopping my ribs off.

[Feidelberg]

Could you make it into a crown? They go, no, I shouldn't do that.

[KFC]

The crown was just a.

[Ria]

Doing it to be skinnier. Yeah.

[KFC]

But even that she was like, here's the before and after. And it was like her waist was like a little bit skinnier ear. I was like, I don't know. I would have like dieted a little bit if want my ribs. It was. Then there was also the Caitlyn Clark stalker showing up to court. Did you see that?

[Feidelberg]

Oh, what a legend.

[KFC]

That was fun. For the video, I had to be like, this guy, he should go to jail. But my. And on the inside, my take was like, this is funny. Guilty as Char the bookie at me.

[Feidelberg]

And then she was like, no, no.

[KFC]

Sir, we're not guilty. We're not pleading guilty right now.

[Feidelberg]

And then he had someone found one of his old tweets. Look, let's be honest here. It's obviously horrific and horrible and you shouldn't do it to people.

[KFC]

Yeah.

[Feidelberg]

It can also be funny sometimes.

[KFC]

Yeah. Objectively.

[Feidelberg]

And it is when he had to tweet at her. What do you say at Caitlin Clark, 22, I'm in the mood for some Italian. Do you mind if I L, I G U R P U Z Z. I.

[KFC]

Mean, that guy's like, I'm guilty, bro. Have you seen the tweet?

[Feidelberg]

Your honor, I'm guil to you, dog weaseling out of this one. I saw people quote, tweeting that with the. The Shaq meme.

[KFC]

I was not aware of your game.

[Feidelberg]

I was not familiar with your game.

[Ria]

Do you think he said the guilty has charged thing, knowing, like, specifically to make it a gift?

[Feidelberg]

I think he said the guilty is charged thing because he's mentally insane. He deserves to be locked up, probably in a padded room, but locked up somewhere. But sometimes insane people can be funny. I don't know what he's going to tell you.

[Ria]

You know what you should do? One minute I'm always so interested in. And I feel like everyone's so interested in it is the. The tart trips. I mean, Brie just went on it.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[KFC]

Shout out to breeds. What's illustrated. No joke.

[Ria]

So crazy the way that they. I mean, and Most of my information is coming from, like, the, like, only one source, the toast or whatever. But the controversy that comes from these tart trips.

[KFC]

So get all of the most, like, yeah, you know, popular and like, like, you know, paranoid girls in a room and like, let them talk about each other.

[Feidelberg]

And something happened on this one.

[Ria]

Okay, so there's just multiple things. Like, first of all, they had dropped, like, probably $2 million, like, on these trips. Like, it's an insane amount of money. Like, they don't even have that much branding throughout. They just, like, they don't tell the girls. Like, I don't really think, like, you have to post with our products X amount of time.

[KFC]

I think that's why it works, though.

[Ria]

Yeah, exactly.

[KFC]

Because then everyone's like, it's a tart trip, the tartar that just happens national and everyone.

[Ria]

There's like so much controversy because, like, it's amid the wildfires and so everyone was kind of like, they should have, like, put this off. But, like, they literally. What's a private island that you have to like, a year in advance book and obviously, like, put down a bunch of money.

[KFC]

We ain't pushing that back for no fire.

[Ria]

Pushing that back.

[KFC]

Unless that island's on fire, we're going.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah, yeah, right.

[Ria]

They made up for it. They have donated so much money to the fires, nobody gives a. And like, still there's just so much controversy, like, from all of them. Like, people cannot breathe.

[Feidelberg]

But that's, you know, like, that as one of the influencers, you have to just go into it, like, with the. In with the reality of knowing the deal. Yeah, yeah, I know how this is going to look. I don't know. It's the best of my career to keep doing this, but, like, to. To. If. If I. Again, I don't know how the. Yeah, but like, yeah, I don't know. People are going to get pissed. I get it. They're in their rights to get pissed. It doesn't. Like, what, what, what should I do? Should I stay in LA while it's on fire or should I go on this island?

[KFC]

Right, right.

[Feidelberg]

Like, everyone's leaving. I'm just going here.

[KFC]

I can tell you this much. I would make that video, it would crush. And all the comments would be, who cares about this? Guess what? So many people do it. And guess what? You do too, bro. The NFL playoffs are here. And in order to win in the playoffs, what do you got to do, John?

[Feidelberg]

Got touchdowns, you gotta score touchdowns. Yeah, score touchdowns.

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[Feidelberg]

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[KFC]

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[Feidelberg]

See DKNG co Audio Rich I ate.

[Ria]

The one the packets from beef jerky the other day. But I think it's fine. I looked it up.

[Feidelberg]

It's like fine you what?

[Ria]

I eat when the packets in the beef jerky thing, you know, like the little toxic packets.

[Feidelberg]

No, I know exactly what you mean. How'd you eat one?

[Ria]

I don't know. I just looked in the bag. Like I saw one in the bag and then I looked at the end of the bag and it wasn't there. So maybe like I threw it out without me, like subconsciously. But I, I kind of feel like I like, you know how just sometimes, you know, like. Yeah, it's kind of like knew that I ate it but then I looked it up and they're kind of like, we definitely advise against it, but you'll be fine. Which is crazy. Like I just swallowed a whole pack of poison and I'm chilling.

[Feidelberg]

I mean I, it would be hard for me to swear in a Bible that I've never eaten one.

[Ria]

Yeah, like, I feel like you definitely have. You just like it doesn't even occur.

[Feidelberg]

I've eaten a lot of beef jerky in my day. There's a chance an acid pack has slipped in.

[Ria]

I can see worldwide you're like, wait, you're not supposed to eat those, but.

[Feidelberg]

You didn't notice, like, a different taste.

[Ria]

Like, eating this. And like, I was on my phone, like, definitely wasn't the most lady, like, meal I've ever had, but. But, like, so I could see how it happened.

[Feidelberg]

But I also like how you. I'm just picturing you finishing looking in the bag. Just being like, that makes sense.

[Ria]

No, I literally was like, oh.

[Feidelberg]

Oh. What? It just said, like, you're fine, basically.

[Ria]

Yeah. It was like one website, though, and they were kind of like, definitely try not to do that again.

[Feidelberg]

Okay.

[Caller]

A couple of things that have nothing to do with each other but just popped in my brain.

[Feidelberg]

1.

[Caller]

On the first day of school, my kids told me fun facts about them. And then I told them fun facts about me, asked if they had any questions, questions. And I was talking about, literally, like, the syllabus. And they. This kid raises his hand and says, would you rather be a mouse or a squirrel? And it caught me off guard. I went with the mouse.

[KFC]

Okay.

[Caller]

I went with a mouse because I think squirrels are more likable. But squirrels are stupid. Like, I will try my best not to run over a squirrel, but I will run over a squirrel. They want to be run over. They're run out in front of you. Like, little stupid squirrels. They fall out of the trees. So I. Squirrels are stupid. They die quickly. Mice are a n. They're nuisance pet, like animals. So you don't want to be a nuisance. But I feel like mice move in silence, live in people's houses for a long time. So I went with the mouse. Thought the mouse was a smarter pig. So would you. Would you guys rather be a mice? I mean, announcer or squirrel now? Sort of squirrel. Second, what song are you picking if you're 21 years old with your very best friends in a bar, like, dive bar at the beach, like, the best vibes you could think of with just your friends. You're really drunk and you have to do karaoke. What song do you pick? Like, from when you were 21. I don't know what year that was for you guys. So I don't know, like, what the popular songs were, but, like, what was, like, your go to karaoke song when you were 21 years old. Okay, that was all.

Thank you.

[Feidelberg]

Bye. Okay, we'll go, we'll go. And we'll go in chronological order here. We'll start with mouse or squirrel.

[Ria]

Okay.

[Feidelberg]

Having had run ins that she described both this weekend, I. I had to catch a mouse and get rid of it, and I had to. Huh.

[Ria]

Did you use a jbl?

[Feidelberg]

A what?

[KFC]

Oh, yeah.

[Feidelberg]

I didn't even put that together. I did not. I used a tin bowl and then cardboard under it. And then I took it outside and threw it.

[Ria]

Okay.

[Feidelberg]

Huh.

[Ria]

Said less cool. Why not a JBL than the jbl, but cool.

[Feidelberg]

It's less cool. More humane.

[Jackie]

Yeah.

[Feidelberg]

I was like, I don't want to kill this. It was like one of those things like it was in the kitchen. And I was like, I don't want to kill it because then I have to clean up its guts and shit.

[Jackie]

Yeah.

[Feidelberg]

So it wasn't even like I was doing it to be humane. But also I guess I didn't really want to kill it either. Just a little country mouse. And so that, that was sucked because I'm terrified of mice.

[Ria]

Really?

[Feidelberg]

I did not. I mean like terrified in the sense that when I first see them I'm like, ah, yeah. And then I don't continue running.

[Jackie]

But yes, gross though, just the thought of them.

[Feidelberg]

It does. But this was in Vermont and like in, in New York, it would make me feel gross. In Vermont. I was like, he's just a little country mouse.

[Ahmed]

Yeah.

[Feidelberg]

Like, he's not that big.

[Jackie]

He isn't dirty either.

[Feidelberg]

No, he doesn't have aids. He's just like, yeah, you don't know that though. Oh, here. Hey. He might have aids, but he would have had to. He looked straight. He was like, what do you want? And I was like, all right, you probably don't have a. And I also, this is not a. This is not a squirrel by any stretch of the imagination. I was driving to get a pizza and it was the deer just in the middle of the road and he gave me. We had a full on stare off.

[Jackie]

How long?

[Feidelberg]

Like five seconds. But it felt like an eternity.

[Jackie]

Who won?

[Feidelberg]

He won. I went around him. He was just standing in the middle of the road and he's like, what are you doing? You are like, no. Fear was not that I was like flying. It was on like some old back road. But he just kind of looked at me. So I don't like hitting animals. I hate hitting. I don't even like hitting dead animals.

[Ria]

Like anybody really enjoys.

[Feidelberg]

Well, she was kind of like, I'll just hit a squirrel. I'll smoke a squirrel. I won't go way out of my way to hit it. But elsewhere I'll say, of all the.

[Ria]

Creatures, like, like they're asking for it.

[KFC]

Squirrels, squirrels, squirrels.

[Ria]

Like, they, they are so reckless. The dudes just run in front of cars. Like, you guys, you got to get it together a Little bit.

[Feidelberg]

I don't know why, but right now you're giving me very Joey energy.

[Jackie]

Kamasa. Yeah, I see that.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah. It's probably just because you look so hungover.

[Ria]

So mean to Joey. You know, I'll take that as a compliment.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah. The. The answer has got to be mouse. You just have.

[Ria]

But. But if you are a squirrel, you can scurry up a little tree. You.

[Feidelberg]

Your mouse, you can scare up a tree in your backyard because you get to live in a house.

[Ria]

That's actually a really good point. Mice, you're like really smart. That doesn't really do anything for me. Like I've kind of of come to terms with like, I don't need to be.

[Jackie]

That's smart.

[Ria]

Yeah. It's like not really got a priority of mine in life. So, like, I'm chill without that trait. But a mouse.

[Jackie]

But a mouse. You're just always being haunted.

[Ria]

Yeah. They just don't really do like a squirrel. I feel like it's like mice aren't like flying from tree to tree the way that squirrels are.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah. And you are right. Once you. Once your presence is uncovered, you know nothing but hell yeah. You're just evading traps. Yeah.

[Jackie]

And you never know if your food's got a snapper behind.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah. Like you think you kind of. At some point you gotta take personal responsibility and be like, all right, that cheese might come with a backbreaker.

[Ria]

It's like a live matter around.

[Feidelberg]

That has happened to my entire family. My bloodline is gone. They've all been killed in the same exact way. But God damn, that cheese looks good.

[Ria]

And like rat poison. It's not even like it smells like cheese and like is actually poison. It's just like it smells like rat poison and it's rat poison.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Ria]

And so it's kind of like that's on you.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah. It's a good argument. I think I'm still taking the.

[Ria]

But squirrels, like, if somebody sees you, they give you little peanuts. They give you a little treat.

[Feidelberg]

Or they chase you. Kids just chase you in the park.

[Ria]

And like, what are they gonna do? At least they're talking to like, smash you. I'm going squirrel. And I'm standing firm on that.

[Feidelberg]

You're standing firm on that.

[Ria]

Yeah.

[Feidelberg]

Okay.

[Ria]

You're either with me.

[Feidelberg]

Pals. What do you probably.

[Jackie]

Probably a mice. I think squirrels give off like squirrels kind of the same thing as being like a crackhead. Just always on the haunt for like, you're collecting nuts at all times and.

[Feidelberg]

She'S looking for copper.

[KFC]

You wake up every day with that.

[Jackie]

Task of just getting copper and then mice. You know, as long as you just avoid humans, seems like you live a pretty good life.

[Feidelberg]

And. And I, I, I see the appeal of being able to get small.

[Jackie]

Yeah.

[Feidelberg]

You know what I mean? But I saw this mouse crawl under a door, and I was like, damn, that was impressive, dude. Get under there.

[Ria]

I can see the appeal that I found him, but.

[Feidelberg]

All right. And then song.

[Jackie]

Oh, I didn't think about this one.

[Ria]

Okay. So when I was 20, my first instinct was, please, please, please. I feel like that's, like, one that's, like, just fun to sing, like, with your girls and, like, you're in a bar. When I was 21, it's funny because whenever, like, for some reason, somehow I established that, like, Mo Bamboo was mine. And whenever it would come on, like, all my friends would, like, like, it was like. It was like a, like, bird caller.

[KFC]

Yeah.

[Ria]

When, like, they would all come running.

[Feidelberg]

It was so cool.

[Ria]

Every single time. And trust and believe. It came on at every single party. So every single party, I had, like, my moment where I was like, this is my song and I am Mo Bamba. So that's, That's, I guess my answer.

[Feidelberg]

You say trust and believe. Trust and believe. Thank you, Lamar Jackson.

[Ria]

No. Is it trust?

[Feidelberg]

What was this big trust.

[Ria]

I've been really trying to. I told you, like, I wanted to keep, like, saying, like, standing on business again. Definitely. Like, the time has passed with it. It really makes me sound like I.

[Jackie]

Think big trust is your thing, though.

[Ria]

How I would say. How would I say it?

[Feidelberg]

You said trust and believe.

[Ria]

Yeah, Trust and believe.

[Feidelberg]

I'll do one of those while I say pavilters.

[Jackie]

It has to be something. Drake at 21, that's all I was consuming was Drake. Probably in my feelings.

[Feidelberg]

Drake.

[Jackie]

Yeah.

[Feidelberg]

I feel like we were very different people at 21.

[Jackie]

Yeah.

[Feidelberg]

Because mine is Jonas Brothers. Burning up was a thing.

[Ria]

Actually a great choice.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah, great choice. No, it's, It's. I've actually never done karaoke in my life.

[Jackie]

Really? No, you did.

[Ria]

You say this all the time. I've literally.

[Feidelberg]

Oh, you have a vlog out of you. Yeah, I forgot. I did it. I did it, but I never did it. I've never done it to a crowd of strangers.

[Jackie]

Okay.

[Feidelberg]

I've done it in, like. I think it was a Chiclets cup. Yeah, we did it. We had, like, our private room, which I believe is Korean karaoke versus Japanese karaoke to the public.

[Jackie]

Okay.

[Feidelberg]

I could be wrong on that. Could be flipped. Could Be just wrong. Totally. But I think something like that. That. So, yeah, I did Unwritten, which is all. So that's a.

[Ria]

That's a good one.

[Feidelberg]

That would have gone. That would have gone at 21. That would have gone. Now. Cheeseburg in Paradise. You can't go wrong with these.

[Jackie]

She's back to back episodes with Cheeseburger.

[Feidelberg]

Like, dude, anytime someone's like, you need. I need a song from you. Say Cheeseburger in Paradise. It riles people up. Dude. Everyone gets going.

[Ria]

Like, doesn't. I can't think of the song right now. I understand that. It just goes exact.

[Feidelberg]

The Cheeseburger in Paradise. I like my will Lettuce, cinnamon, fried French potato.

[Ria]

Nope, I didn't want to say that because then I knew that you were gonna go off on a hole.

[Feidelberg]

This is exactly what I was trying to.

[KFC]

All right, Iroxon Feidelberg just said, what would penises do without podcasts? And I'll tell you what they would do. They would probably be flaccid, because we are here to tell you how to get your dick up. And it's through a Roxanne, which is one of the greatest names in the history of business. Whoever came out, are you hard?

[Feidelberg]

I'm a Roxanne. That guy.

[KFC]

A raise. It. It will make yo dick. It will get rid of all your erectile dysfunction problems. Let's say, let's put it that way. 1 in 4 men, 18 years or older experience ed. Think about before all these podcasts and before a company like a Roxanne came around, just how many people out there were just like, I stink. It sucks. My dick stinks. My girlfriend's not happy. There's nothing we can do.

[Feidelberg]

And that's life now.

[KFC]

That's it. That's just how it's gonna go. And now it's like, nope, you don't have to worry because a Roxanne is here, and they've got the new ED treatment for you. It's the first of its kind. ED treatment gel with clinically proven results that can get you over. That you can get over the counter. It's a topical treatment gel, which means that you don't have to take a pill. It doesn't enter your bloodstream. It's, you know, a little more safe for you and your partner. And in order to maximize intimacy, you can use it with your partner during foreplay leading up to sex. It's clinically proven to work within 10 minutes. You just rub it on your. Your dick and. And make the experience that much more enjoyable. You can try it, you know, a few separate occasions, different times, early on, you know, maybe you put it on when you're at that level, maybe you put it on when you're at that level. Maybe you wait until you're at that level, until you're full mast and everybody's happy.

[Feidelberg]

Until you're a Rockxon baby.

[KFC]

Get a deeper connection with better outcomes. A Roxanne is the answer. E R O x o n.us a Roxon US to learn more. I'm pretty sure I've asked something like this before, so maybe, maybe that's a sign or something. Maybe that's a sign. But I've been talking to my mom lately and she's just so negative. And I'm just like, ma, you gotta have some positive energy. You gotta be positive, think positive, positive vibes. If you think negative, negative things will happen. And all this positive energy talk, it's got her thinking that I'm gay. I'm not. I think. I know, I think, but like, is being positive. Is it gay to be positive?

[Feidelberg]

Fellas, I don't know if it's gay, but like, it's not, it's not straight. It's not. Like, I've, I've. I feel like I'm more positive these days and I'm like, shut the. Every time in my head. I constantly. The voice in my head is going, shut up, dude, just shut the up. And it's, it's arguably worse than being negative because you're dealing with two clashing ideologies now where you're like, hey, man, like, it could be good and your voice in your head's going, shut up. Just shut the up. It's, it's, it's a nightmare. It's, it's a very frustrating, like, what.

[Ria]

Will you hear yourself say that you're like, shut the up.

[Feidelberg]

I don't know. I guess I just don't even really believe it.

[Ria]

Oh, my God.

[Jackie]

You don't believe in yourself being positive?

[Feidelberg]

I don't, I don't know. I don't know. I just think it's, it's excessive to.

[Jackie]

You still keeping expectations low, though.

[Feidelberg]

Lowish.

[Jackie]

Yeah. But I think you be as positive as you, as you want as long as you keep expectations low. And that's about as straight as I think.

[Ria]

Yeah. If you say like, hey, I'm like doing like this 12 step program for positive or something like that, you're like, I'm doing meditation in the morning. That's which. I am doing meditation in the morning.

[Feidelberg]

So I can Say that you're full on meditating.

[Ria]

I'm full. Well, I'm just doing like gratitude in the morning.

[Jackie]

That's gay.

[Ria]

And I literally like, guys, if you ever log on to my YouTube, it's.

[Feidelberg]

All like, mine's bad.

[Ria]

It's bad. It's like actually like affirmations for self love.

[Feidelberg]

Like, you just like watch that.

[Ria]

It, like, I'll just like have it on in the morning because, like, apparently the morning is when you like, can reprogram your brain the best. Because it's like the subconscious, like, is still from. Like, that's what controls dreams and everything. So you're still kind of in a dream state. So you can like access the self conscious. So then I just try and like do it. I don't know if it works, but I was just kind of like, you know what? But we're just gonna try it for a moment. And so. But it's also just like kind of an excuse to stay in bed for a little bit longer and I'll just have it kind of playing. So I don't know if it's a meditation, but it's something.

[Feidelberg]

I think it's a meditation.

[Ria]

Yeah, it's kind of a meditation.

[Feidelberg]

That's as close as you get to a meditation. If it's not, give me, if you.

[Ria]

See me in like six months, glowing. That's why if you don't trust and believe, I will quit that it's okay. And I literally am like, oh, my God, this second I feel, I like actually fear the day that you guys are gonna come over for, for a skit. For like a out of order skit. And you'll be like, hey, can we just throw something on you? Two minutes. Like, I'm worried about just being like.

[Feidelberg]

Dude, we're gonna write now.

[Jackie]

I clear my history every morning and not my porn history, my YouTube history.

[KFC]

Really?

[Jackie]

Because I type in motivation every, every morning and just let it play while I walk on the treadmill. It's just like David Goggins yelling at me for like, shut the.

[KFC]

It'll be like a match.

[Jackie]

That's the gayest thing possible.

[Feidelberg]

Oh, I know.

[Jackie]

I'm. How gay it is.

[Ria]

I didn't realize that you were like a little Andrew Tate.

[Feidelberg]

No, this is new.

[KFC]

This is new.

[Jackie]

This has been going on for about two months now. But, like, helps.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Jackie]

I need someone yelling at me to keep going.

[Feidelberg]

See, like, I'm, I, I, I think at least I guess I've never had it. I like, I like working out with a group. Like, like, it not, not like a crossfit, like, with my friends. I was gonna say, like, I gave like, like, like I, I. A gym I used to go to when I was much younger was a private gym. And like, I was kind of a. What do you call it? Like a physical instructor or whatever there. So I had a key. So, like, I would go work out at night with my buddies and we would have, like, blast music and just be shirtless and like, going, like, no, that's fun. Going nuts. Or I like being completely alone and, like, I don't, like, don't tell me what to do.

[Ria]

Do you don't like, like a classic.

[Feidelberg]

I got it. I got it.

[Jackie]

No, like a real person telling me what to do, I would hate.

[Feidelberg]

But I think, I think I would like a, A virtual person even less. Yeah, like, I, I, I, I don't mind working out. Like, I've worked out with, like, Corey G and stuff like that. I like working out with Corey G. Because he's an expert and knows what he's doing.

[KFC]

Yeah.

[Feidelberg]

But, like, I don't think that the guy who works at New York Sports club. No, like a 9 to 5 is, like, understandably, like, I don't think he's like. It's like, when I worked at gnc, like, I wasn't taking it that seriously. I didn't actually. You shouldn't actually listen to, like, a few things. But I'm not really going to help you if you're looking for, like, major gains. And virtual, I think would piss me off even more. Shut up.

[Ria]

But I can see, like, it's like you're talking about.

[Jackie]

Yeah, I'm not, I'm not getting, like, instructions. Like, it's like Tom Brady, like speeches and stuff like that. Like, Tom Brady will be in the compilation. Dude, I hate him. But when he comes on, we're running fast.

[Feidelberg]

Does he have the one before the.

[Jackie]

The enemies one where it's like I wanted to create as much hatred as I possibly.

[Feidelberg]

Oh, yeah. No, the one when he's talking about legacy is. Yeah, your family's honor. Yeah, your family's honor. Get up, Tom. Tell him, Tom. By the way, speaking of Tom Brady, I have been quietly all season going. Yeah, I thought he's terrible.

[Jackie]

I've been cringing heavy the entire season.

[Feidelberg]

Guess what?

[KFC]

What?

[Feidelberg]

Mr. Showtime. He was awesome.

[Jackie]

Oh, I couldn't hear it.

[Feidelberg]

Oh, for Commander's Lions. He was unbelievable. You get Tom Brady in the postseason. Yeah. He's gonna take care of business. Anyway, ultimately, positivity is pretty gay.

[Ria]

Yeah. But I Kind of. I actually kind of, like, truly think. Honestly, like, the only way to get through life is like, like playing into, like, all the. If you just don't have, like, hope.

[KFC]

Like, you literally don't have anything trust either.

[Jackie]

You're.

[Ria]

But like, I'm saying, like, I. The kind of, like, the stuff that, like, really just makes me feel like, okay, I got this. I could do. This is like all the, like, fluff. Like, not like the David Goggins necessarily, but like the girl versions of that. That's like your future is like.

[KFC]

Yeah.

[Ria]

Like you are in control. And like, all this, like that, like. I understand.

[Feidelberg]

It's delusion.

[KFC]

Dumb.

[Ria]

It is. But it's delusion that keeps you going. So it's like you kind of got to feed into that. Unless you want to be actually depressed.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah. No positivity. When it hits gay, for sure it hits right. Like when in. But it's probably one of the bigger hit or miss things where, like, when it's net. Like when someone needed it.

[KFC]

Yeah.

[Feidelberg]

And it's like. And. And either when you need it and someone provides it, or when someone else needs it and you provide it, it. It's like, that's the greatest thing that's ever happened to me. That's like 1% of the time. 99 of the time is like, shut up. I know, I know. Like, oh. You also have to be appropriately positive. Like, my positivity is like, you're gonna survive.

[Ria]

Yeah.

[Feidelberg]

I'm not promising you're gonna, like, be happy, but, like, you'll get through it.

[Jackie]

That's about as positive as you can be.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Jackie]

Where it's not gay.

[Caller]

Hey, guys, I have a question about the etiquette of ordering food to be delivered during world events. So this question was sparked because a couple months ago, I was home in New Orleans, and there was, like, a Category 2 hurricane. And it was a lot of rain, a lot of wind, but it was nothing crazy. But there were definitely some streets flooded. But my friend is like, I'm ordering food. Anyone want anything? And I was like, you're like. You're ordering, like, doordash right now. And she's like, yeah. Like, didn't even think about it. And then I made a joke, and I was like, I feel like if 911 happened today and you were back in New York, like, you would have had Shake Shack on the way before the sun set on 9 11. And she was like, no, I would definitely wait till the next day. Like, serious. And I was like, wait, I feel like I'd Wait like a week plus after 9, 11. Just based on, like, I don't know. I feel like I just can't do that. And then another one of my roommates was like, if I was back in New York right now, like, I don't think I would have ordered doordash the whole day of the. Of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare being shot. I was like, I think you can order food on that day. I don't know. So, like, what are your. What are your opinions on this? When are you drawing the line? When can you not order food in good conscience?

[Ria]

All right, bye, guys.

[Feidelberg]

It's a great question. I think the answer is it's. It's location dependent. Well, actually, in New York, I think you can order it anytime, but. Yeah, but, like, I ordered last night. It was snowing. Obviously, it's not a natural disaster. What is a natural disaster? But it's not a horrible, horrible thing. And I. I thought about it for a second. They're there anyway. Yeah, they're at work. Wouldn't you rather have something to do at work? Something that got you paid?

[Ria]

Yeah.

[Feidelberg]

Like, no one's getting called in.

[Jackie]

There's probably an upcharge, too, so they're just making more money.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah. There I. I left a big tip last night. It also wasn't even snowing that bad here, but it was snowing. I'll give a bigger tip when it snows or when it's raining or when the north tower is collapsing, but I'm gonna order. Like, that's. I think I'm gonna order no matter what.

[Jackie]

I would go. Location has a lot to do with it, but New York, no matter what, you're within a mile of whatever happens.

[Feidelberg]

Right.

[Jackie]

But if there is more than five casualties, I don't think you can see nine.

[Feidelberg]

Eleven. I was thinking. I probably wouldn't.

[Jackie]

I wouldn't. Yeah, I'm cooking that night.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Jackie]

We're having leftovers eventually.

[Feidelberg]

I'm cooking. Cooking. I'll probably. Yeah, I'll probably cook just because, like, it's gonna be awkward.

[KFC]

Yeah.

[Feidelberg]

At the bodega, just be like, what's up, man? Like, yo, we're good.

[KFC]

Like.

[Ria]

That'S gonna be a true New Yorker that you can, like, also, like, commissary with and be like, yo.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah, yeah, like, my bodega, where. I wouldn't say we're like boys. They had to walk into, like, John, but we. They know me. We don't. We haven't exchanged pleasantries. But they'll be like, oh, what's up, man. Yeah. So I think I'm good on the bodega. I probably would get a chopped cheese that night. 911. I'll get chop, chop cheese. Yeah.

[Ria]

I got such a good sandwich the other day.

[Jackie]

Where was it?

[Ria]

At my bodega.

[Feidelberg]

I heard Bradley Cooper's got a great spot.

[Jackie]

I went. I haven't told this story.

[Feidelberg]

No.

[Jackie]

Oh, my God. So Danny Coops just opened up in the East Village. The first two weeks that it was open. Line still. The line's ridiculous. It's like it opens.

[Feidelberg]

Is it a food truck or is it a store? It's a store.

[Jackie]

It's nothing in it. You can clearly tell it's gonna be gone in a couple months. And like, they didn't really like, oh.

[Feidelberg]

It is a pop up. It's a.

[Jackie]

It's a pot. Definitely a pop.

[Feidelberg]

Okay.

[Jackie]

They haven't announced that it's pop, but. But it'll be gone, so. Line out the door every single time we walked by, people. Let's say it opens up at 6. People are waiting in line at 4:30. The line's down the block at 4:30.

[Feidelberg]

Really?

[Jackie]

Yeah. And so this is the guy Bradley Cooper teamed up with his buddy from Philadelphia who I believe opened up a bunch of pizza restaurants.

[KFC]

Yeah.

[Jackie]

And he crushes. He's, you know, the guy. We're walking past there after, like going out all day at like 8:00. And it says sold out on the front. And we're like, just try to walk in. The lights are still on. Come in and they're like. We actually just found four in the back. And I'm with four guys. I'm like, this is.

[Feidelberg]

No way.

[Jackie]

Wait about 15 minutes. Bradley Cooper pops out the back with four sandwiches.

[Ria]

No way.

[Jackie]

It was incredible. And I'm like, hidden. My friend, he's.

[Feidelberg]

He's looking.

[Jackie]

I'm like. I'm like hitting him. He's like, hey, good song, Good song. He didn't say that was the only one that saw Bradley.

[Feidelberg]

Really? Yeah.

[Jackie]

And I just gave him one little figure.

[Ria]

How'd you forget to bring this up?

[Jackie]

Crazy. The sandwich was unbelievable.

[Feidelberg]

I heard it's so good.

[Jackie]

It was. I've had a lot of Philly cheesesteaks in my life. Two.

[Feidelberg]

Two?

[KFC]

Yeah.

[Feidelberg]

Damn, dude. I gotta get one of those.

[KFC]

Bad.

[Ria]

I've never had a Philly cheesesteak. And I would like, if we ever go to Philly, I would like that to be like a priority.

[Jackie]

I got five spots in New York City that are justice.

[Ria]

Really?

[KFC]

Yeah.

[Ria]

Give me your list. Well, I Guess maybe I'll go to Bradley Coopers.

[KFC]

Bradley Coopers.

[Feidelberg]

Danny and Coops is called, right?

[Jackie]

Danny Coops.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah, I, I remember, like, he's really back there cooking.

[Jackie]

It's crazy that, like, that's not for show. He's back there hustling.

[Ria]

Oh, I respect that so much. He's so cool.

[Jackie]

He's so cool. Like, dangerously handsome in person. Yeah, it's crazy.

[Feidelberg]

Who's he married to?

[Jackie]

Well, he's dating Gigi Hadid.

[Feidelberg]

Right. Was he married to or whatever her name is?

[Jackie]

I don't think he was ever married. I know he has kids.

[Feidelberg]

He has kids. Okay.

[Ria]

Yeah, he's, he's a cool celebrity. He's like one of those that's like. You don't even think of him as like one of the cooler celebrities because, like, he's so, like, obvious. He's such an obvious choice, but he's so, so cool, I think, right?

[Feidelberg]

I think he's cool. He doesn't dress particularly well, but he's cool.

[KFC]

Yeah.

[Jackie]

It's funny how he goes from making my Astro to like, like just cooking up steak and she's like, doing his best to win an Oscar. That didn't work out.

[Feidelberg]

All right, that's it. Tune in next week. Or not next week. Thursday. We'll be here. Bang.

[Ria]

Bye.

[Feidelberg]

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[Ria]

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[KFC]

All right, we're about to get into our interview with Ben from the Joe Schmo show, which is a new reality TV show that is poking fun and making taking aim at the absurdity of reality TV. It airs every Tuesday on TBS at 9pm Eastern. Ben and one of the actors on the show, Ahmed, joined us to talk about this show within a show where it's basically like a fake reality show where everyone is an actor except for the one guy who thinks he's here to win a hundred thousand dollars and he's gonna meet all these friends in the house and it turns out that they're all just actors and comedians who are pranking him and joking with him and lying to him so that he thinks he is the star. They're all in on it and it comes together for the most audacious ridiculous ruse in TV history. It's a social experiment about interacting with the hilarity of the game with the over top physical humor. It's action packed, it's hilarious. And Ben the whole time has no idea that he is the butt of one of the biggest jokes ever and takes pranks to a whole new height. We sat down with the boys, we chopped it up about the whole experience, what it was like to be the butt of the joke, what it was like to be the guy joking with them, all the interactions he had, what Happened when he found out and more. So let's get into it with Ben and Ahmed and you can check out Joe Schmo every Tuesday night, 9:00pm on TBS. All right, we got the. We got the boys from the Joe Schmo reboot. We got Ben the star himself and one of his cast mates, Ahmed. I like the jumpsuit, first of all.

[Ahmed]

Thank you.

[KFC]

I don't know if you're familiar with it, but at Barstool, the guys do something called Jumpsuit January. Every single day of the month, they wear a new jumpsuit. So you're fitting in very well with the. The personalized one.

[H]

Cold, too.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah. I was walking here today.

[KFC]

It's a cold one up there.

[Feidelberg]

I. It's. It's not even that cold though, right? Like, it's twenties.

[KFC]

Yeah.

[Feidelberg]

That's not that bad. I was teeth chattering. I was a cartoon. I was like, I don't. Like, I was. I was genuinely embarrassed. Like I was dangling.

[KFC]

I can't handle 20 degree anymore.

[Feidelberg]

I was walking with a friend and I was like, I hope he doesn't see this.

[KFC]

So, I mean, the Joe Schmo show is something that I remember from way back in the day, the original one. And that was even before reality TV really became like this whole industry that it was. And they had the foresight to like, let's make fun of this whole ridiculousness back then. I feel like now it's even better because there's just so many and all these people become famous and stars and all that. So you were kind of right for the pick. And I would imagine like doing it in 2025. Right.

[Ahmed]

I guess. I mean, if I feel like a normal dude, I don't think I'm going to be famous.

[KFC]

No, but I mean, like, going into it like reality, like back then, going into reality shows, like, I don't know, this is thing that they do now, or it's not scripted now. It's like everybody knows what it is. There are people who become famous out of it. There's many episodes, millions of viewers. Like, did you think that that was what was going to happen to you or what was your mindset going into it?

[Ahmed]

No, I mean, you know, I. I figured I was going to come on this reality show, like be like a little goofy dude, small towner.

[KFC]

Yeah.

[Ahmed]

And be off and then that'd be it. And, you know, move on with my life.

[KFC]

Right.

[Ahmed]

I mean, like, have some laughs with my friends.

[KFC]

Right.

[Ahmed]

That was about it.

[Feidelberg]

Where are you from?

[Ahmed]

Baltimore. Right Outside of Baltimore.

[KFC]

Baltimore. All right. And then and so. And then you're like, you're part of this. You know, everybody else is an actor. Right. Or a comedian or something, you know, along those lines. Yeah. And, you know, you were just like, let's. Let's just torture this guy.

[Feidelberg]

You know what I mean?

[KFC]

Like, on some level, I remember watching Jury Duty be being like, you know, there was a couple moments on jury duty where they were like, I don't.

[Feidelberg]

Know if we should do this or that.

[KFC]

Like, you know, you border on. Like, this is pretty up what we're doing here in some ways. Or was it all just kind of, like, good fun?

[H]

It seemed like it was all in good fun. Like, there were definitely some pranks that we were doing and, like, stuff that was, like, scripted, but supposed to seem not scripted, that was, like, outrageous. Like, that really kind of wouldn't happen.

[KFC]

Right.

[H]

In any reality. And he would, like, catch on to it. Just be like, yo, like, what's going on around here?

[KFC]

Did you have those moments?

[Ahmed]

Like, so I feel like the big difference between jury duty and this is that, you know, jury dude is in the confines of, like, a courtroom.

[KFC]

Yeah.

[Ahmed]

You know, I mean, only so much can happen before any normal person's like.

[KFC]

Yeah, this is great.

[Ahmed]

Wait, like, this doesn't happen in a normal courtroom.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Ahmed]

Whereas this is just like a house reality competition. So I'm like, like, you know, around a bunch of crazy characters anyways. Like, all their characters have these weird backstories.

[KFC]

Yeah.

[Ahmed]

Like, they're all. You know, it's just nuts.

[KFC]

Right?

[Ahmed]

Really?

[KFC]

Yeah. So, like, anything goes.

[Ahmed]

Anything goes. And I'm just like, okay. I mean, I guess this could happen.

[KFC]

Like, what was the moment? What was. Was there a moment where you were ever putting it together? Like, something's going on here. Or did you buy into all.

[Ahmed]

You know, there was a couple moments where they got little close. You know, they. They definitely were not leaving much on the bone there. And I was like, okay, hold on. Something. Something's going on. And then they'd have to, like, reel it back.

[H]

It was very much like, how much can we get away with. With him thinking we're just, like, crazy Hollywood people.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[H]

Like, this is just what people in LA are like. They're all weird and trying to be famous and trying to, like, have their moment.

[KFC]

Yeah.

[H]

And so we could get away with a lot just with that premise. But then sometimes it was. Wouldn't.

[KFC]

Well, I mean, some of the. That just actually does happen on reality shows is pretty outrageous when you think about some of the competitions and some of the drama. It's like, you know, I don't know what it would take for me to be like, there's no way this would ever happen on a reality show. Because. Right. You've seen it all on reality shows. Sex, fights, you know, explosions and. And sets and obstacles. You know, it's like, anything could possibly happen. So, you know, I don't know if I would ever have the, you know, foresight to be like, hang on.

[Ahmed]

This is all, yeah, no, thank you for that.

[Feidelberg]

Are you. Are you scared of that people are going to think that?

[Ahmed]

No. You know, you always have people like, how could you possibly not know?

[Feidelberg]

Right?

[Ahmed]

And I'm like, you'd have to be like a narcissist to be like, all right, hold on.

[KFC]

This is all for me. Yeah, that's true.

[Ahmed]

And then it just wouldn't happen.

[KFC]

Yeah.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah, that is a great point. That, like, I don't know. There's a million times you're like, I don't know. That's just what people told me. Bill told me I'm on a reality.

[KFC]

Show, Stranger Than Fiction sometimes, too. You really.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah, yeah.

[KFC]

It's like.

[Feidelberg]

It's like, why would you not. We had the clip, the Alonzo Morning Lonzo posted that we saw a comedian, and I thought it. Someone told me it was Alonzo morning. And I was like, okay, that's Alonzo morning. I don't really know what Alonzo. I don't follow basketball. I don't really know what Alonzo morning looks like. So. All right, they all told me, and now I think Alonzo morning's fun, funny, and after the show, I went up and talked to him, and it's not Alonzo Morning. Alonzo bottom. He's very funny, but he's not Alonzo Morning.

[KFC]

Now. But do. But is there a level of you that thinks, like, they picked me, I must be, like, more gullible than the average person or something, Right? Because they're trying. They. They definitely can't pick someone who is a narcissist who might be like, hang on. Because then this whole thing is. Right.

[H]

Well, they couldn't pick someone who wanted to be famous, like Ben Perfect. Because he's just like, I'll just do this thing, you know? Yeah, like, it sounds fun.

[KFC]

Right? Right. What was. Was like, did they talk about why you. Why they picked you? Like, were there other candidates and you won out? Because you're like, there were.

[Ahmed]

So I was told that there were some other, you know, people obviously they had lined up, and then when they saw my Interview I had come in, like, at. Towards the end of, I guess, screening, and they were like, like, Dave Kneebone, he's an executive producer, right. He's. He was just like. When I saw your clip, when I talked to you, he was like, I just knew. I was like, I just knew it was you.

[KFC]

I don't know if that's a good thing. This idiot.

[Ahmed]

That's kind of how I feel with.

[Feidelberg]

This guy for a couple months.

[KFC]

How long was the shoot?

[Ahmed]

It was, what, like two weeks.

[KFC]

Two weeks. Okay. Yeah.

[Ahmed]

No, I mean, I. I am a little gullible, I guess, you know, but I'm willing to laugh at myself. Like, I have one thing in the world, bro, Barriers, when it comes to that. Like, I don't think I'm anything special. So I think he saw that and was just like, this kid will take this joke well.

[KFC]

Yeah.

[Ahmed]

You know, he'll just roll with it.

[KFC]

Was there a prize or anything?

[Ahmed]

Yeah. We always knew that we were going in there to compete for a hundred thousand dollars.

[KFC]

Okay.

[Ahmed]

And, you know, that was like, my driving force for not wanting to go home every night.

[KFC]

Right.

[Ahmed]

Despite them making me think I was gonna go home every single night.

[Feidelberg]

Every night. You guys did it? Oh, yeah.

[H]

I mean, they're. They definitely wanted to keep him on his toes, that he could lose at any moment.

[KFC]

You know, we. We. We just had a. A reality show here. It's actually just. The finale just happened last week, and it's like Survivor style, right? Yeah. I mean, like, the viewers don't really get it, and they're like, come on, it's just a game, but the people who are in it, it's like, you know, there's money on the line and. And pride on the line and egos, and people are crying and fighting. And so, you know, those settings can get to your head. You know, it can with you a little bit.

[Ahmed]

It seems really intense.

[KFC]

Honestly.

[Ahmed]

I've been watching it.

[KFC]

Yeah.

[Ahmed]

I mean, I'd make, like, work of it, you know, but.

[KFC]

Yeah. So now are you. Now are you gonna be, you know, on the reality circuit? I mean, now.

[Ahmed]

I don't know. I mean, I'm up for it. You know, I'd like to.

[KFC]

You might. I mean, ride the wave, man.

[Ahmed]

Yeah. Who knows?

[KFC]

What if they did it to you again again, though, you know, what if you're like, all right, everybody knows me. I'm Ben from Joshmo. Now I'm on, like, blah, blah, blah. And it turns out to be, like, season two.

[Feidelberg]

Oh, my God, that. That's a billion dollar Idea.

[KFC]

Yeah.

[Feidelberg]

Like, we did it again.

[KFC]

You dumb.

[Ahmed]

Then there might be some hard feelings.

[Feidelberg]

I think you could get me again. Yeah, I think you get me again. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[KFC]

Because again, again, it's not happening twice. The only thing crazier than this happening to me once would be twice. Right. I would almost be more worried, like. Like, if you up and somehow let the cat out of the bag. I don't know, if you push it too far, you let something. Yeah. For the actors, like.

[H]

Oh, totally.

[KFC]

Oh, if they, you know, like over here, you talking, whatever. It's like, this is a, you know, however many thousand dollar event and we have and it's all out the window because, you know, Hamid was up or something like that. I would be more. I'd be. I'd be almost probably too worried to, like, push the envelope because it's like, what if he turns around and says, there's no way that was real? And the producers are like, why the did you say that? Or whatever, you know, fine line.

[H]

Totally. I mean, the audition wasn't like a normal audition. Like, I would have to, like, be in character for a while, just, like, talking to someone.

[KFC]

Right.

[H]

So they would just kind of like, make sure that you can just do that at the very least. Just like staying character for a while. But yeah, there's a lot on the line when you're there and you just have to, like, the hard part is not laughing.

[KFC]

Yeah.

[H]

You know, because some of the situations that they set up, like, we are. We're dying, like, it's so hard not to crack up. And it wouldn't make sense that the whole cast is, like, laughing.

[KFC]

Right.

[Feidelberg]

Right.

[H]

And he's like, not. So we all were just, like, definitely, like, really trying to hold it together sometimes and not laugh, which is pretty fun.

[KFC]

Was there any, like, off camera time for you guys where you were, like, able to talk about. Yeah. Like, you could be like, could you believe this?

[H]

I don't know how much I can say. But, like, every night we'd all go back to the hotel and, like, you, Ben, would go in a van and get blindfolded. Right.

[Ahmed]

They just take me back at the end of the night.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[H]

After we shoot.

[Ahmed]

Yeah. They'd just take me back. Yeah.

[KFC]

So blindfold you.

[Ahmed]

No, the blindfold only happened the original day.

[KFC]

Okay.

[H]

You were in your own van.

[KFC]

I can't see the hotel.

[H]

Like, he's in his own van and we're all in another van. And I think you thought, like, we were all doing the same thing, but he was going to his own floor at the hotel.

[KFC]

Got it.

[H]

Where he had like someone outside the door making sure he didn't leave the room.

[Ahmed]

Yeah. My boy Nigel.

[KFC]

And you just thought what, that was like security or something? Or you, you were like, I'm not allowed to leave my room ever?

[Ahmed]

No, no. I mean, he was just like a handler, you know, I just thought everybody had one, you know?

[KFC]

Got it.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah. I get why you think that. Like, I, I would too, but that would drive me insane. Be like, just like I, I. Everything I'm doing in my room, I'm like, there's a guy three feet away, right. He can hear.

[KFC]

Yeah.

[Feidelberg]

Like I can hear everything I'm doing. I'm doing all kinds of things in a hotel room. Goddamn right.

[H]

Well, he had no Internet too.

[Feidelberg]

Oh, no.

[KFC]

Then I'm not doing as much.

[Feidelberg]

Guess I'm just hanging out there. Come on in, Nigel.

[KFC]

So you're on it for two weeks, like no contact with the outside world then?

[Ahmed]

Basically, yeah, no contact.

[KFC]

But I guess that is like if a reality show said, you know, no phones, no Internet, like, I guess so.

[Feidelberg]

I don't know.

[KFC]

Seems a little extreme, but okay. Like, whatever.

[H]

Yeah, because. Well, we create the name of the show. Is the Goat that we're supposed to be on. Supposed to be this famous show.

[KFC]

Right.

[H]

So if he looked it up and it's like, wait, it doesn't exist.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah. What was it was, it was the angle, I guess that it was like a popular.

[H]

Yeah, this is the first American season. Like, it's a huge show.

[Feidelberg]

Very believable thing.

[H]

In Korea, in North Korea.

[KFC]

I mean, that, that is.

[Feidelberg]

Kim loves the show called the Goat. We're bringing it over. Yeah.

[H]

They revealed the name of the show and we're like, oh, we're on the Goat.

[Ria]

It's my dream.

[KFC]

So. So that means you signed up blind.

[Ahmed]

Well, I mean, I just signed up knowing I was going to be in a house based reality television.

[KFC]

Is that normal? Is that what people do?

[Ahmed]

Competing? What do you mean?

[KFC]

Like, like I feel like people sign up for the Bachelor or for Survivor. You. Like, there are ones that are just like.

[Ahmed]

So they told me that the, one of the, like caveats was that that we can't tell you what it's about. So then I was kind of thinking, like, what's that One Love island or whatever. Like, you know, there's kind of like an element to surprise. So I was thinking, okay, I don't know, whatever is about the show, it has some element of surprise. So I was just like, whatever.

[KFC]

Again, all believable things down for the ride. Yeah, man.

[Ahmed]

I'm just here for it. It's a reality television show. I'm trying to be on this.

[KFC]

Yeah, you're. You're the dude who, like, you know, your boys call you up and you're like, all right, we're getting in the car.

[Feidelberg]

We're.

[KFC]

You know, I got like a 30 rack, and we're driving to wherever. You're just like, okay, let's go.

[Ahmed]

Let's go.

[KFC]

Yeah.

[Feidelberg]

How old are you?

[Ahmed]

I'm 31. 31.

[KFC]

Yeah. I mean, that. That's.

[Feidelberg]

That's.

[KFC]

I mean, it's a good way to live life, so. And I'm figured that out about you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, I mean, I guess, you know, you can't. I don't want to reveal stuff, but, like, the. I guess after you, like, what was your first feeling afterwards where you're like, I'm so stupid. Or is it like, oh, this is fun money?

[Ahmed]

After, you know, everything was pulled and they told me they were actors. Yeah, I just. I think I was just laughing. Really? I was just like, okay, this is awesome. Like, yeah, like.

[KFC]

Yeah, I think I would probably be the same way. Although I'd probably go back being like, that conversation was fake or like, that was. You know, like, I thought we were friends. I thought we were, you know. Yeah.

[Ahmed]

I mean, so, you know, like, one. One of the big reasons I went on the show was because, like, I was like, all right, you know, you make a lot of friends, you know, and you always have that experience to, like, look back on trauma, like, camaraderie, you know, I like that stuff. And so, you know, the fact that they're actors kind of takes away from that.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah, absolutely.

[Ahmed]

Because I'm like, damn. Like, that person probably didn't like me that much. They just had to right in the moment. But they're all great, nice people.

[Feidelberg]

It's kind of like, you hate this guy.

[Ahmed]

Good at the job.

[KFC]

He did.

[Ahmed]

He did leave me hanging, like, right off the start. I know they showed that in some of the advertisements. But, like, right off at the beginning, I go to, like, give him a handshake, and he just leaves me hanging on purpose.

[H]

I didn't do that on purpose.

[Feidelberg]

Oh, wow.

[H]

Yeah. I finally saw the first episode, and, like, we're all take our blindfolds off, and then we're meeting each other, and he reaches his hand out. I just completely ignore it.

[Feidelberg]

What was. What was your role like? Were you a friend? You're a villain?

[H]

Yeah, yeah. We're we were, were, we were homies.

[Ahmed]

Yeah, you were Charles Michael.

[H]

I'm Charles Michael.

[Ahmed]

I'm like, here, see?

[H]

Theorists, Conspiracy theorists. I want the money to build a bunker again these days.

[Feidelberg]

Kind of believable.

[Ahmed]

A bunch of weirdos out there and I'm rolling with it. I'm like, yeah, dude, I get it.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah, let's get out of here. That would be the weirdest thing for me on like a fake reality show. Because whoever I'm talking to, I agree with you wholeheartedly.

[KFC]

Absolutely agreeable to anything in the moment.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah, dude, definitely a bunker. Something sounds rad. And, and then I'd be like, I's a lunatic. But I wouldn't like.

[KFC]

Did you have those moments? Did you have any like, confessionals where you're like this guy?

[Ahmed]

There, There are some times where I would like go home, you know, and be like thinking to myself, like, man, they are kind of, they're out there. But I'm not here to judge. I'm a weirdo too.

[KFC]

But you know, shoot anybody that you didn't like, like characters?

[Ahmed]

There was a couple of, of like beefs I had. Yeah.

[KFC]

And then. Yeah.

[Ahmed]

Jonathan Lipnicki, he played a kid. He played, he was the only one that played himself, right?

[H]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. He was in Jerry Maguire.

[KFC]

Yeah, the kid, right?

[Feidelberg]

Yeah, yeah.

[H]

So he came on.

[Ahmed]

Pretentious actor, Hollywood guy.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah, yeah.

[H]

Was he good for all this?

[Ahmed]

Yeah, he was like too good for all this.

[KFC]

Yeah. That's funny.

[Ahmed]

No, he was acting. Yeah, he's, he's pretty cool.

[Feidelberg]

That's an awesome character. Walking around being like, dude, I was in Jerry Maguire when I was six. Where's my apple?

[KFC]

I'm above you. Yeah, man, that, I mean, it's wild. Just, I, I, you know, the first one, I don't even know how long ago it was. I mean, I, I remember seeing that probably when I was in like middle school or something.

[Feidelberg]

Did you know, do you know First Joe?

[KFC]

Yeah.

[Ahmed]

Yeah. So I actually had watched it recently and I'm like, like, I'm a little disappointed cuz I didn't get to fondle a porn star.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Ahmed]

You know what I mean?

[KFC]

Was a little different.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah. They had porn stars on season one, I guess so.

[KFC]

I don't remember that.

[Feidelberg]

They don't even give you Internet in the room, huh?

[KFC]

Remember there was like a bird in the, in that one, right? Wasn't there like a. Something do with a bird? I, I thought maybe I'm mixing up my shows, but it was like, there was just so much ridiculous going, going on in there that I remember being like, yeah, I guess it's all believable. You know, anything can happen, anything goes.

[Ahmed]

Yeah. That was kind of the same with this one. It's just it. The show was, the show was so nuts. They had set up these like, you know, the, the m. The mystery behind what the goat was, was that it was like there's rules that you don't know about and like, you have to explore to find everything out about the goat and like, there's tokens left around and stuff like that. So I mean, I thought I was on this, like, high intellect.

[KFC]

Yeah. I'm a genius.

[Ahmed]

A lot of strategy behind it.

[KFC]

Right.

[Ahmed]

And like, I mean it.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Ahmed]

The way they set it up was, was good. Was.

[KFC]

That's very funny. So, so. And like, as you're. I'm assuming you didn't think you were like, you said you were just go for a couple episodes, get voted out, whatever. But as you're like making it through or you're like, holy shit. I'm like, I'm the man.

[Feidelberg]

Like, brilliant.

[Ahmed]

That part's funny. Cuz you don't. I never, I never really thought like I would, I would care about getting voted off a reality television show. And then you're on it and you're like, no, yeah, way I'm going home. I want to stay on so bad. I, I really didn't see that coming at all. But that happened.

[KFC]

Was there a moment where you, you thought, like, I, I might be going home. But then like, you didn't. Holy shit.

[Ahmed]

I was, I was thinking the other day, I was like, I think before every single voting, I like was whispering to you.

[KFC]

This is it, wasn't I? Yeah. Yeah, that's very funny.

[Ahmed]

Remember being like, I am going.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[KFC]

Because having done it myself, you almost want to, like, like, if you think you're going home, you want to be like, I know, I'm gonna go pack. I know it's coming, I'm cool with it, you know, so you want to get ahead of it.

[H]

It was fun watching him go from like, dude, I. I don't know if this is real to like, I need to win.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[H]

Like the complete shift was like, that's great. Yeah.

[Feidelberg]

How has the press tour been?

[Ahmed]

It's been good.

[Feidelberg]

Is this your early days on it?

[Ahmed]

Yeah, this is the, this is my podcast, Cherry right here.

[Feidelberg]

Oh, really?

[Ahmed]

You're doing fantastic stuff in it for me, but yeah, no, it's been great. I mean, it's nice just being pampered. Like pick you up from your house and, like, take you to, you know, the airport. You guys got, like, the sign, like, with your name on it.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah, yeah.

[KFC]

You're a star now, baby.

[Feidelberg]

Welcome to Hollywood, bro.

[KFC]

You got to take it and run with it.

[Ahmed]

Every time they try and grab my bag, I'm like, don't you dare, dude.

[Feidelberg]

I'm just a normal person.

[Ahmed]

Are you not touching his back, bro?

[Feidelberg]

When I. When I tell the guy, I'm like, I got it. I feel like I'm like, he must think I'm the nicest guy. I'm a real hero. I'm like a first responder, dude. I saw that recently with, like. I think it was a tweet or something like that. I actually thought of Jackie because I'm sure Jackie's the same way, where it's like, I'm a pick me when it comes to customer service. I'm always like, no, I'm not like those other people. Like, I'm just way too nice. And I'm like, no, I'm not worried. All I want out of this trip is that you walk away going, that guy's not an. I don't care about my refund. I don't care about my bag getting carried. Just go. That guy was all right.

[Ahmed]

Yeah.

[KFC]

I think you got to do. You got to do something, man. There, like, you know, there's all these ones now that are like. Like, I'm watching the Traders, where it's like, this guy from the show and this girl from that show. They put them all together. Now you got to ride the wave.

[Ahmed]

Yeah.

[KFC]

Do the real ones.

[Feidelberg]

Were you a reality TV guy before?

[Ahmed]

I mean, I always watched reality television show. You know, I really like it. Ironically, my freshman year in college, I was in a sociology class called reality television, and I wrote a paper. I think it was on the true life, but I mean, about how you'll.

[Feidelberg]

Never get tricked into being on.

[Ahmed]

It wasn't about that, but, no, I'm pleasant. You know, this has been great. I mean, it was. It was an experience of a lifetime, you know?

[KFC]

Yeah, absolutely.

[Ahmed]

Show with these guys and, you know, on the show, I mean, not to tooth their horn for him. Them, but, you know, you got a lot of good actors, comedians. You know, they're trained clowns, some of them. What's that guy?

[Feidelberg]

Trained clown.

[Ahmed]

He's a trained mind.

[H]

Yeah.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah. There were a lot of, like, like.

[Ahmed]

A lot of, like, really, like, different, well trained, like, performance artists, you know? So I got, you know, it's awesome. Just, like.

[KFC]

I mean, you are the Star you are. You know what I mean? It's like.

[Ahmed]

Like, now I'm just a normal guy.

[KFC]

Yeah. But I'm just saying it's like other shows, like, you have to win to. Or, like, get to the finals, like, be the guy, and it's like, you're. You're the guy. You know, people will know your name and. And you know, you're the star of the Joe Schmo show.

[Ahmed]

Yeah, yeah. Londale, he plays Braxton on the show. He made a good point. Like, after the show was all done, he was like, nah, dude, you don't realize, like, how lucky you are. Like, people come out into this industry trying to get on a show.

[KFC]

That's what I'm saying. Yeah.

[Ahmed]

Or whatever. For forever. And you just were like, be on one and then you're the star. Like.

[KFC]

Yeah.

[Ahmed]

You have no idea how lucky this is.

[KFC]

Right.

[Ahmed]

You know, so I feel really blessed.

[KFC]

And that's awesome, man.

[Ahmed]

Humbling.

[KFC]

You know, I'm sure there's so many reality TV show fans now, and I. I feel like, you know, anybody who can kind of poke fun at it and, like, you know, get a look behind the curtain and all that sort of. I think people are going to enjoy it. I mean, if you think about all the shows from, you know, like, Punked to the Jury duty, like, there's always some. There's. There's that, like, a lore of, like, getting to watch people kind of get played and prank videos on YouTube and, like, that. Like, people love that stuff.

[H]

So this show really has a ton of behind the scenes, like, how are we doing this? And, like, the whole, like, system of it is.

[KFC]

Right. So, like, even regular reality shows, it's like you still. You get to see, like, how the sausage is made. Even though this is, like, like a fake one, it's like, it's still a real one because you're getting to see how that all works, you know? Right.

[Feidelberg]

Yeah. Yeah.

[KFC]

So that should be very interesting. So that it's TBS, January 21st, 9pm weekly show.

[Ahmed]

Yep.

[KFC]

Yeah. So that's good. We're fans.

[Feidelberg]

Weekly's the way to do.

[KFC]

Yeah, weekly. You know, binging had its moment, but I feel like if you want to talk about it and have moments, discussion and all that you got.

[Ahmed]

We got to build the hype.

[KFC]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[H]

We need viewing parties, all that.

[KFC]

Yeah. All right, man. Well, we appreciate you guys coming through. Everyone go check it out. I guess. Congrats. Did you get the money in the end?

[Ahmed]

You know, can't talk about that.

[KFC]

All right, boys. Thanks a lot.

[Feidelberg]

Thank you very much, guys. Sa.