The IrishFran | Son of a Boy Dad #406

Summary

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Son of a Boy Dad #406: “The IrishFran”

Date: June 2, 2026
Hosts: Rone, Lil Sasquatch, Producer: Francis
Special Theme: Francis’ European adventures, Irish culture, golf, masculinity, travel stories, and prepping for the Barstool Internet Invitational.

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Episode Overview

This week’s episode centers around Francis’ epic two-week Eurotrip—Paris, Ireland, and Martha’s Vineyard—and the wild tales, cultural observations, and life lessons that ensued. The boys dissect Irish drinking culture, surreal bar encounters, nuanced differences between French and Irish hospitality, and the coming Barstool Internet Invitational golf event. Through fascinating, often hilarious storytelling, the hosts reflect on worldview, adulthood, and how travel shapes who you are.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Francis’ Return and Epic Travels

• Welcome Back & Travels Recap
  • Francis returns after a month, sharing whirlwind adventures through France, Ireland, and a brief stop in Martha’s Vineyard (02:12–02:58).
  • Ranks Ireland highest: “Ireland was number one. I had a great time in Paris and then Martha’s Vineyard was great, but I just didn’t experience it to the degree that I had the others.” (02:58–03:18)
• The “White Guy's Bucket List”: jokes about Francis’ destinations being stereotypically WASPy (02:34).

2. Irish Drinking Culture & Pub Encounters

• Why Irish Guinness Hits Different

  • Francis describes Guinness in Ireland as far superior: “It was a completely different drink.” (03:35–03:46)
  • 75% of drinks sold are Guinness: “...and then they’d be like, 20% is Coors Light, 5% is the 19 other beers we have.” (04:40–04:49)

• Overestimating the Tolerance

  • Francis’ drinking tally: “Over a hundred. Let’s think about it. Like 16 days, you’re talking...” (05:42–05:47)
  • Rough end: “The last night that I was in Ireland, I woke up at 1 in the morning and ran to the toilet and threw up all over the back of the seat.” (05:54–06:04)

• Nightlife in Killarney & Wild Bar Stories

  • Intense drunkenness: “There were guys so drunk I was like, why isn’t someone kicking them out?” (12:01–12:11)
  • Aggression and confrontation:
    • “We don’t find that funny in America.”—Booze confronting an aggressive Irish patron after an altercation (15:41)
    • Host reactions: “I’m like, bro, we are not America here. Let’s keep it down. Let’s keep below profile.” (16:46)

• Masculinity, Touchiness, and Irish Men

  • “It’s really gay and intimate. And they’re so touchy with each other, and they’re all doing it. There isn’t a single woman in the entire pub.” (13:22–13:46)

3. Irish Food Evolution

• “I went in expecting it to be horrid… It’s come a long way.” (07:08–07:19)
• “At one point I tried to order a side of seasonal vegetables—they were like, we don’t have any vegetables.” (07:26–07:36)
• Cabbage is king; weather and soil limitations impact what grows (08:06–08:17)
• Praise for Irish beef and improvement in Dublin’s food scene (09:14–09:34).

4. Cultural/Linguistic Observations

• Irish Word Habits:

  • “They use the word wee for everything.” (22:08)
  • Cute quirk examples: “I just need a wee signature.”

• French Rudeness vs. Irish Kindness

  • “In Paris, it was unusually annoying how fucking dickish they were.” (22:50)
  • “When I got off in Ireland, I felt like I had gone from North Korea to South Korea.” (31:07)
  • Charles de Gaulle airport described as “a disaster...looks like an ant farm.” (23:25)

• Language and Local Interactions

  • Attempts at French not well received: “I can’t abide that it’s just ‘that’s how they are.’” (32:10)
  • Discusses how American tourists are treated differently based on language use.

5. Internet Invitational Golf Tournament

• Massive Stakes, Big Stars Arriving

  • $4 million prize pool announced: “Four million bucks.” (44:53)
  • Francis’ realistic take: “It’s even less likely that I win at this time because there’s a bigger field.” (45:24)
  • They discuss the scale, sponsorship, and viral impact: “It’s truly, like, the best thing you could sponsor.” (46:28)

• Strategy & Mathematical Calculations

  • Side bets and Dave Portnoy’s potential new “early buyout” options (51:41–54:45)
  • “There is a number where you’re supposed to accept that early bid.” (52:44)

• Wild Field, Potential for Pros

  • Some entrants are near-pros: “There’s some guy named Ruffles, I think, who made the cut at a PGA tour event recently.” (55:55)

6. Barstool Community, Backstage and Team Dynamics

• Trent’s Unwavering Zen
  • Stories about Frankie's drinking, Trent ordering Domino’s in his hotel: “He’s so positive. He’s so fun. And he also just is a man who will not suffer any sort of disruption of what he wants to do.” (57:29–57:40)
• Travel Frustrations, Living in NYC
  • Debates over the pain of commuting, Ubering, and the trade-offs of city life.

7. Miscellaneous Life & Urban Observations

• French Trends Outdated: “They adopt things from America that have fallen out of style... They heard me and they went, ‘6, 7, 6, 7.’” (72:13–72:44)
• Panini (or Not) & Getting Zelle’d
  • Hilarious sandwich/payments story: “Cash or Zell?” “Guy comes over with a phone number written on a napkin.” (77:37–78:07)
• Meta Security Breach
  • “Meta changed all of their customer service to AI... anyone’s Instagram is kind of just free for the taking.” (79:11–79:54)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Irish Guinness Quality
  “I would equate [the difference in Guinness quality] to like having a Bud Light of like 10 degree temperature changes.” —Francis (03:46)

• On Irish Bar Chaos
  “You feel like you’re in the hold of a ship and it’s like, you know, these pirates.” —Francis (13:46)

• On French Hospitality
  “In Paris, it was unusually annoying how fucking dickish they were.” —Francis (22:50)

• On National Stereotypes
  “The men of Ireland, they earned their stereotype. They got real problems.” —Francis (11:46)

• On Barstool’s Golf Tournament
  “It’s truly, like, the best thing you could sponsor at least in that space of anything ever.” —Francis (46:28)

• On Worldviews and Video Gamers
  “If you have found a way to make a living playing video games...there’s no reason to think that the world is ever gonna be hard.” —Francis (39:45)

• On Confronting the French Tax System
  “I got back in line to tell her she was wrong.” —Francis (26:53)

• On Masters-Cheesecake in Ireland
  “He went on a cheesecake tear.” —Francis (59:58)

• On Drawing Boundaries, Trent Style
  “He’s just not going to come. And it’s like...nobody’s even mad about it. I suffer so much from the guilt of saying no to people.” —Francis (58:20)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

| Topic | Timestamp | |----------------------------------|---------------------| | Francis returns / travel recap | 01:58–03:18 | | Ranking Ireland, Paris, MV | 02:58–03:18 | | The Guinness experience | 03:35–04:49 | | Irish pubs: eating, drinking | 07:04–09:34 | | Wild Killarney pub encounter | 12:01–16:46 | | Irish “touchy” masculinity | 13:22–13:46 | | Discussing racism & cab drivers | 09:42–10:19 | | The Troubles, Irish identity | 10:41–11:33 | | Ireland vs Northern Ireland | 11:04–11:33 | | Nightlife, drinking stereotypes | 11:33–12:57 | | French rudeness vs Irish warmth | 22:50–23:22 | | Language / tourist stories | 31:07–33:36 | | Barstool Internet Invitational | 44:38–54:53 | | Side bet philosophy | 51:41–54:45 | | Who’s invited to the Invitational| 48:05–56:42 | | Trent’s steadfast independence | 57:28–58:48 | | NYC living/commuting debate | 64:13–68:03 | | French trends, Zelle incident | 72:13–78:07 | | Meta account security flaw | 79:11–79:54 |

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Tone and Style

The conversation is quick, candid, and alternates between laughs, profound moments, and hot takes. Most stories are layered with irreverence, gentle jabs, and a real curiosity about the world, reflecting the show’s central focus: what it means to be a man, have adventures, and stay grounded (or not) when everything seems up for grabs.

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For the Uninitiated

If you’ve never listened to Son of a Boy Dad, this episode delivers funny, self-aware commentary on travel, masculinity, Irish (and French) quirks, group dynamics, and a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to grow up and forge a worldview—even when you’re learning by trial and error and drinking a bit too much Guinness along the way.

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[End of Summary]

Transcript

[Host 1]

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[Francis]

All right.

[Host 2]

All righty. Welcome back to the Son of a Boy dad podcast. Today it is June 1st. Pride Month. It is 1 or 12pm it is just. Afternoon, fellas. How are we doing? Welcome back.

[Host 1]

Welcome back, Francis.

[Francis]

Yeah. Good to see you guys again. I've been.

[Host 1]

Yeah, it's been a long gangbuster.

[Francis]

I'm sorry that I was away for so long. Feels like a bit.

[Host 2]

It's been like a month.

[Francis]

I know.

[Host 1]

Damn near crazy.

[Host 2]

When did you get back? Yesterday.

[Francis]

I got back on Friday night for.

[Host 2]

Oh, yeah.

[Francis]

Like one evening and then left Saturday morning for a wedding and then got back yesterday. That's afternoon.

[Host 1]

France, Ireland, Martha's Vineyard. That's. That's a lot.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Host 2]

That's a big white guy week.

[Francis]

Two weeks.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

This is a Two weeks.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Host 2]

Like tie in the vineyard into that at the end.

[Host 1]

That's a white guy's bucket list.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Host 1]

It's like before I die, I gotta hit.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Host 2]

Just get out to act for a little bit.

[Francis]

No, no, I didn't. I didn't.

[Host 1]

How was it? What was the. If you had to sum up those all your travels into like one big highlight or what? What was the. What was your shining moment? Your shining moment Rank those three.

[Francis]

Good question. I mean, they were so different. I. I really didn't spend much time in Martha's Vineyard. I was only there for less than 24 hours. But based on my overall experience, I would say Ireland was number one. I had a great time in Paris and then Mars vineyard was great, but I just didn't experience it to the degree that I had the others.

[Host 2]

Yeah, it makes sense.

[Host 1]

Rank your top 18 R D's months.

[Francis]

I really liked the 11th. I spent a lot of time in the 11th. It's cool.

[Host 2]

Best Guinness.

[Francis]

Best Guinness I had was at the halfway house at golf course. Hard glass. Yeah.

[Host 2]

We were talking about.

[Francis]

Crazy how good it was.

[Host 1]

The plastic pint glass.

[Host 2]

We were having lots of debates about if it actually is different or not. I was on the side of. It's very different. I've never had it, though, but everyone says it's like a completely different drink.

[Francis]

Yeah. I mean, I would equate it to, like, having a Bud light of like 10 degree temperature changes.

[Host 2]

Oh, really?

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Host 1]

Wait, what do you mean by that?

[Francis]

Like, if you had one that was like ice cold, and then you had one that was like room temp, and then you had one that was like. That was the. The level of taste difference. And I'm not really. I'm not a Guinness guy. I don't really drink much Guinness. So going in, I didn't have this, like, attuned palate for it.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

And very quickly you could tell. Well, we had. I had a lot of them.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

At so many different places.

[Host 2]

Is it just everywhere you go, they're like. You got.

[Francis]

It's all you drink. It's all you drink.

[Host 2]

It sounds great. Was your shit black?

[Francis]

Every bar we went to, I mean, not everywhere, but we would ask, like, what percentage of your overall sales are Guinness?

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

And they'd be like, 75%.

[Host 1]

God.

[Francis]

And then. And they have like 30 beers on tap.

[Host 2]

Yeah, yeah, of course.

[Francis]

And then you'd say, like, okay, and then what? And then they'd be like, 20% is Coors Light.

[Host 2]

Really?

[Francis]

5% is the 19 other beers that we have.

[Host 2]

Guinness Extra Stout.

[Francis]

Coors Light is enormous over there.

[Host 2]

That's. That's great.

[Francis]

Love to go. That's the only American Pilsner or whatever that anyone drinks.

[Host 1]

Really?

[Host 2]

Yeah, that's the. That's. That's. That's a great choice.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Host 2]

Mountains are blue.

[Host 1]

What about a nice Killian's Irish Red?

[Francis]

Yeah, I had one of those. That was pretty good. I didn't mind that.

[Host 1]

A red is a. That's like a nice change of pace. It's like when you're in Europe drinking red wine all day and then you're like, I'm gonna have a white wine.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Host 1]

Something a little bit different. Yeah, that's beautiful. How so? You were gone for what, 16 days?

[Francis]

I don't know.

[Host 1]

Fewer. Can I put it over under on the amount of drinks that you had at 101.5.

[Host 2]

Yeah,

[Francis]

I would go over on that.

[Host 1]

Wow.

[Francis]

A hundred. Over a hundred. Let's think about it. Like 16 days you're talking.

[Host 2]

You must be dead.

[Francis]

No, then it would be. Yeah, not.

[Host 2]

Well, you must be a shell of a man right now.

[Francis]

The last night that I was in Ireland, I Woke up at 1. I woke up at 1 in the morning and ran to the toilet and threw up all over the back of the seat.

[Host 1]

Oh, I know.

[Francis]

You're back at the front of the lid.

[Host 2]

Yeah, I know.

[Host 1]

Your throw up look like ven. It was like crawling out of itself.

[Francis]

It just sprayed into words. Stop drinking.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Host 1]

That's insane.

[Host 2]

So were you getting like banged up or was it just the consistency?

[Francis]

I didn't get banged up.

[Host 2]

I mean it's just the drinking all day.

[Francis]

Yeah, yeah. Not all day. Not all day. Every like every night we finish.

[Host 2]

Not like, not like the second you wake up.

[Francis]

But no, dude, the other part was like we would have our tea times. They would put us off late because we were slow.

[Host 2]

Yeah. Because you're filming and we're.

[Francis]

Yeah. So we go out at like 3:30. By the way. It stays light there till 10pm Oh,

[Host 2]

I didn't even think about that especially.

[Francis]

And then, and then that was in Ireland proper. And then in Northern Ireland at the top we would be like till 10:30.

[Host 2]

Damn.

[Francis]

And so we'd come off the course at like 9. All the restaurants would be closed. We'd have to eat at the clubhouse a lot of the time and which is probably great.

[Host 1]

Oh really?

[Host 2]

I don't know. How's the food? I don't even know how is the food out there.

[Francis]

I went in expecting it to be horrid because I was there nine years ago with my dad and the food was inedible.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

It's come a long way to their credit.

[Host 2]

Love that.

[Francis]

It really has.

[Host 2]

Love that.

[Francis]

They've made major improvements. I attribute that to a degree to the influx of wealthy American golf tourists.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

Who are like, why isn't there a single salad on the menu, bro? They, they. At one point I tried to order a side of seasonal vegetables and they were like we don't have any veg vegetables.

[Host 1]

We have smaller potatoes.

[Francis]

They were like, we've run out of vegetables. I'm like, I've never heard that from a restaurant.

[Host 1]

And especially like the greenest country ever. Like, you look out the window and it's all green.

[Francis]

But I don't think they can grow vegetables that easily because it rains too much.

[Host 2]

Oh, does it really?

[Francis]

Tomatoes need a ton of sunlight. Right.

[Host 1]

And isn't it all like bogs and like, like rocks? Like all the fences that are built around each one of the properties is just like rocks that they found in the ground. There's.

[Francis]

Yeah, yeah. And it's just, I mean, it's just wet all the time. So you can't, you know, a lot of crops wouldn't survive. That's why the only thing you can consistently eat by way of a vegetable is cabbage.

[Host 2]

Oh, wow. Thought about that. Always eating cabbage out there.

[Francis]

Cabbage is hard.

[Host 2]

Yeah, cabbage is the worst.

[Host 1]

Yeah, it's really bad unless you pickle it. But they haven't even got to. They haven't even got to the kimchi

[Host 2]

stage of it, to be honest. It's not really great if you pickle

[Host 1]

it either, but at least it's good for your gut. But then I heard that over consumption, chi is causing colon cancer. Have you heard this? Have you seen this?

[Host 2]

Have you heard about this? No, but I don't really know how someone could possibly be over consuming kimchi. Like, it's so bad. How are you overdoing?

[Host 1]

I can't believe that kimchi goes bad. I had to throw out some kimchi because it was past the expiration date. Isn't the point of it that it's bad? It's like already bad. Like, that's the. That's why we're consuming it.

[Host 2]

So mgk. That was like, yeah, I just smoke cigarettes and have kimchi. It's like, that's not good. That's not good for you.

[Host 1]

Yeah, that's why it's concerning. It's not tattoos. So you had no good meals? What about like.

[Francis]

No, we had some good meals.

[Host 1]

We did steaks, hamburgers.

[Francis]

Yeah, their beef is good because the cows eat all the grass and the grass is really plentiful.

[Host 2]

Yeah, that makes sense.

[Francis]

So they have high caliber beef. We had a couple decent meals in Dublin. The Dublin seems to be a pretty good food center. And I think there's a very prominent, like, cooking school there.

[Host 2]

Oh, really?

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Host 2]

Is it like, what do they eat? Do they eat a lot of like, fish? Like fish and chips?

[Francis]

A Lot of beef. Lot of beef. There's beef everywhere on the menu. Yeah.

[Host 1]

Do you respect that? Did you run into any racist cab drivers? They had a question. Best racist cab.

[Francis]

We were driven everywhere by our lovely driver, this guy Martin, who was the nicest guy ever. Also. I don't. I didn't see a single person of. I didn't see a single minority the whole time I was in Ireland.

[Host 1]

And that's the way we like it.

[Host 2]

Yeah. It's a. It's a very white, white country.

[Francis]

Yeah. I think minorities were like, oh, they're still fighting with themselves.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

As recently as, like, 93. They're like, we'll stay away.

[Host 1]

Yeah. That is true. And you said you went to Northern Ireland. Racial breakdown of Ireland. White Irish, 77% other Irish, 10%.

[Host 2]

Any other white background?

[Host 1]

10.1.5 black. Wow. Interesting. Did. So did you get into the Troubles at all? Did you. Did you chop it up with anybody about the Raw?

[Francis]

A little bit. A little bit. Our driver talked to us. I mean, we drove. We sort of circumnavigated Belfast. And he pointed out a hotel that apparently was the most bombed out hotel in Europe.

[Host 2]

Damn.

[Francis]

Which is hard to believe because that Europe includes, like.

[Host 2]

Yeah, a lot of places.

[Francis]

Fucking. Yeah. Former Soviet, you know, Bosnia type places.

[Host 1]

Or like World War II. Like full cities got bomb tissue.

[Francis]

Maybe he meant during the trouble, but I don't know. I preferred Ireland to Northern Ireland. I thought that Ireland had a stronger identity and sort of sense of self. And we went out in this great town, Killarney, and there were all these Irish musicians, folk musicians, singing, this is our country, blah, blah, blah. Like all these, you know, nationalistic songs.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

And then I will say that the men of Ireland, when they.

[Host 2]

You.

[Francis]

I saw this clip of you saying that they don't drink that much. Wrong.

[Host 2]

I got. I got it from everybody. Already know. They're.

[Francis]

They're. They earned their stereotype. They got. They got real problems.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

I started to fall into it.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

Yeah. I was like, I can't be here anymore.

[Host 2]

Like, so. So I was completely wrong.

[Francis]

Yeah, man.

[Host 2]

Yeah. All right. I can take that. I was. I had a feeling.

[Francis]

We went to this pub in. In Killarney and there were guys so drunk that, like, I was like, why isn't someone kicking them out?

[Host 2]

So, yeah, it's like, these people are ill.

[Francis]

There was a guy who was like, you. You. I thought it was anyone's guess was this was just gonna topple over. And he's standing at the bar, like, trying to get their attention to get another drink. And they're just ignoring him. But they weren't being like, hey, man, you gotta go home.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

And he's like, knocking, shit. He's walking by the tables, knocking people's drinks over.

[Host 2]

Was this in. This was in Dublin or this was in Northern Ireland.

[Francis]

In Ireland, but on the west coast.

[Host 2]

Got it.

[Francis]

South of Galway.

[Host 2]

Got it.

[Francis]

Killarney is a pretty big town. And they were doing, like, a hurling match, a big hurling match there on Saturday. So I think a lot of people had come in for that. And then. And everyone was out. And the pubs were packed.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

And we were sitting at a table and kind of trying to just keep a little bit of a low profile, but, like, every once in a while, some guy would sit down, just like, shove us into the booth.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

And make space for himself. Be like, you're a fucking couple of Yanks, aren't you? How could he tell? You know? And then. And then they do this thing where, like, the men, they put. They put an arm around you, and then they.

[Host 2]

They.

[Francis]

They're talking so close to your ear, and they're like, hot breath is wet on your cheek. And it's. It's really gay.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

And intimate. And they're so touchy with each other, and they're all doing it. There isn't a single woman in the entire pub. Not one. Not a single woman. It's just me.

[Host 1]

Like, where are the girls at?

[Francis]

You feel like you're in the hold of a ship and it's like, you know these pirates.

[Host 1]

Yeah.

[Francis]

And. And at one point. Oh, my God. So this one guy who was really, really drunk and really obnoxious, he bought. He was trying to talk to booze. Booze was with us.

[Host 2]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Francis]

And I don't think booze was giving him a whole lot because he was being so annoying.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

So after a while, he got up and left. And then, like 20 minutes went by and he came over. Pint of. Of. Not Guinness, but of, like, Heineken or something. And he slammed it onto the table, almost spiked it onto the table with such force that all the beer came out of the top of it and got all over booze and Brendan Jones.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

And I watched booze kind of like turtle a little bit. You know, he shrunk into himself.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

Because this was an aggressive affront of thing that this guy had done. And you could tell he was pissed and kind of looking. Conflict or whatever.

[Host 2]

The Irish guy was pissed. Okay.

[Francis]

Got it. Yeah. He was annoyed that, like, that we do, you guys. We were nicer to him or something. And it. But he was, like, annoying everybody. It felt like we were being hit on by an extremely drunk, aggressive man, and all of us were dating other people. It was kind of that type of energy.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

And he slammed the drink down and started saying some like. Or whatever. And I watched Booze do this, and I'm like, oh, fuck, here we go. Like, this is gonna be bad. And. But I saw him shrink, and I felt so bad for Booze. And next thing you know, the guy stops talking. And all I heard booze go was. He goes, we don't find that funny in America.

[Host 2]

I was gonna say. I was like, I feel like Booze would say something.

[Francis]

He said that. And I was like, oh, my God, no. Why would you do that, man? What a thing to say. We don't find that funny in America.

[Host 2]

And what did the guy say?

[Francis]

I mean, he.

[Host 2]

I'm surprised this didn't erupt into.

[Francis]

Me too.

[Host 2]

Brawl.

[Francis]

Me too.

[Host 2]

That's. Those are fighting words.

[Francis]

I think very quickly after that, one of the big bartenders had seen and heard him slam the drink down, and that was a bridge too far. And he came over and grabbed him and, like, gently escorted him out of the bar. So that. That did it. Because this guy was getting violent.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

I mean, he's on the verge of violence.

[Host 2]

Yeah. You can't have a guy in the bar like that.

[Francis]

But for Booze to say that, because I thought he had been. Was just cowering and was going to take it, and then he fucking.

[Host 2]

Yeah, he doesn't seem like the kind

[Host 1]

of guy that wherever you're from, maybe that's cool, but not in America. This table. America.

[Francis]

I'm like, bro, we are not America here. Yeah, fucking burn your passport right now. Let's keep it down. Let's keep below profile.

[Host 1]

This guy wasn't, like, like, ironic or, like, sarcastic about it? Like, oh, America.

[Francis]

No, I think he. Well, he knew we were Americans and had. Had decided he didn't like us.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

The beer thing was more. It sounds ridiculous because it sounds like a peace offering, but it was. He might as well have dumped it on.

[Host 2]

Yeah. I mean, if you slam it down that hard. Yes. That's quite the scene.

[Host 1]

Who was the mouthpiece for your group in a situation like that?

[Francis]

To be honest with you, when I saw Booze, like, kind of getting nervous like that, I felt really bad. And there was a guy that this dude was with, and I yelled across to that guy straight into the path of the mean guy. And I went, are you with this Guy.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

I went, are you. Are you with him? And the guy was like, what? And I was like, are you with him? Meaning, like, take your guy.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

This is a fucking problem developing. And it turned out that that guy was his brother.

[Host 2]

He didn't give a fuck.

[Francis]

No, not only that, but I probably insulted him or is like.

[Host 1]

Like, you fucking deal with him.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Host 1]

Oh, my God, that's hilarious. How are the other foreplay boys at the. At the pubs? Like, I know that, like, I've. I've had a drink or two with Frankie, but last time I was out with. With Trent, like, he wasn't really much of a drinker.

[Francis]

Does he drink on this evening? I mean, we all. We all, you know, drank the Kool Aid, so to speak. We all got into the spirit of. Of Guinness and. And, you know, this was the one weekend that we had there.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

So it was a Friday. It was early in the trip. None of us were so shattered yet. And we. We knew, like, that's the tourist that's sightseeing in Ireland is going drinking at a pub and listening to live Irish folk.

[Host 2]

Yeah, definitely.

[Francis]

And so we did that and. And everyone was on board. It was really fun.

[Host 2]

I want to hear more about when. When people started breaking. When people started getting shattered. Yeah, I want to hear more. I want to get more into this.

[Francis]

Yeah. I mean, the thing.

[Host 2]

You definitely got a little bit. A little bit of a shattered vibe right now.

[Francis]

Yeah, Just.

[Host 2]

Just a hint.

[Host 1]

You've been to war.

[Francis]

I just, like, you know, I'm. My sleep is a disaster, and I don't love eating that way and drinking that way for as long as I do.

[Host 2]

Yeah. Weeks. A long time.

[Francis]

Yeah, two weeks.

[Host 2]

Two weeks is, bro.

[Francis]

It was. It wasn't as if I was, like, taking it easy in Paris. I went from, like, croissants and cheese and red wine to black Guinness and, like, potatoes and meat.

[Host 1]

Yeah, that's like putting your. Having your body run on, like, premium fuel down to, like, just regular gasoline.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Host 1]

You're just, like, sputtering on the road.

[Host 2]

And then you had a wedding in the. In Martha's Vineyard.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Host 2]

Back to the cocktails for that. Yeah.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Host 2]

I was.

[Francis]

I just went straight tequila at that point. With ice.

[Host 1]

Yeah.

[Francis]

They're so the. It's impossible to find ice in Europe period.

[Host 2]

Oh, yeah. They don't like it. They don't like.

[Francis]

They look at you like you're asking for some sort of rare antidote.

[Host 2]

Yeah, they gotta. They gotta get rid of their, like, stubborn ways with that. They're just doing everything wrong.

[Francis]

I had so many conversations with people about the ICE issue.

[Host 2]

Did you guys talk about, like, do they have the same AC issue that.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Host 2]

Their ACs that England has, or is it, like, not as bad?

[Francis]

Well, I don't know what the issue

[Host 2]

is over there in England. They just. They don't have air conditioning, so it's like. But they were also, like. They refuse to get it.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Host 2]

Like, It'll be like, 70, and they're like, england's facing the worst heat wave they've faced in 60 years.

[Francis]

Yeah. You know, in Ireland, it's. It's warm for five days of the year.

[Host 2]

Yeah, true.

[Francis]

And by the way, one of those days, we. We caught a record day in Ireland.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

While we were there.

[Host 2]

How was it?

[Francis]

I don't know. It's probably 80 in Northern Ireland. The day we played Royal County Down.

[Host 2]

Which is the number one. Feel like 80, or does it feel like a different. Like, hotter than. They make it sound like it. When it's 80 there, it's actually 200.

[Francis]

I know. I mean, it was beautiful, and there was a little bit of a sea breeze, and it was amazing. But to your point, being in the hotel room was, you know, the AC, it's like, it doesn't go below.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

19.

[Host 1]

They act like they have to wear a sweater every day.

[Francis]

Yeah. Full wool.

[Host 1]

Throwing some shorts, buddy.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Host 1]

Damn. What? Did you pick up any good lingo while you were over there? Any good?

[Francis]

Yeah, there were a number of things that I heard put us on to some.

[Host 1]

What, the Irish brothers.

[Francis]

Well, they end a lot of sentences with, like, meaning.

[Host 1]

An example.

[Francis]

Okay, so. Oh, Harry's had a sip. Like, you know, interesting, you know, or. I don't. I don't know exactly how to. It's just this weird little cute word that they throw onto the end of everything. They also refer to everything. They use the word we for everything.

[Host 1]

The royal we.

[Francis]

Yeah. They'll know, like, W, E, E. Oh,

[Host 1]

like a wee lad.

[Francis]

Yeah. And they'll just be like, I just need a wee signature. It's like. Well, I'm not going to write it small. Who are you to tell me the size of my signature?

[Host 1]

I'm gonna John Hancock.

[Francis]

Yeah, right.

[Host 1]

Oh, that's funny.

[Francis]

But I will say that they were incredibly friendly. The Irish were super, super friendly. And going from France to Ireland. I said this on the foreplay pod. I did. But I went. Paris was, like, unusually annoying. How fucking dickish they were.

[Host 2]

Oh, yeah, the French.

[Francis]

I don't know what's going on over There if there's like a labor shortage or a work shortage or something, or they're just pissed off about their leadership or what the fuck is happening. But everyone over there was in a dickish mood.

[Host 2]

Was it like, do you think people just aren't, don't like Americans right now, or was it not at you?

[Francis]

No, man, I saw them be me. I saw them be mean to everyone, including the French. I'll give you an example. Charles de Gaulle airport is a disaster. Yeah, it's a fucking disaster.

[Host 2]

I've only been there once and I

[Host 1]

just built like a video game.

[Francis]

It looks like an ant farm.

[Host 1]

They like built it inside out where like all the conveyor belts where like the bags should go, the people have to ride.

[Host 2]

Yes, yes.

[Francis]

They have those slanted. Slanted conveyors later and they all kind of. They look like ant farm tunnels.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

And it's old and it's out of date and it's gross and. And the customs situation was a mess. And we. I got there plenty early.

[Host 2]

First of all, do they have the people walking around with like the, the biggest guns you've ever seen in your entire life? Shit that looks like it's out of like Halo.

[Francis]

Correct. Absolutely.

[Host 2]

It's. That was the one thing I remember from being there was like, yeah, they got, we have, the cops here have guns. But it's not like just a pick your own, like, pick your own adventure.

[Host 1]

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[Francis]

I got there early. I had bought some things in Paris, so I had the VAT return thing.

[Host 1]

The little. Like, you get your little tax money back. Yeah.

[Francis]

But it's 12%.

[Host 1]

Oh.

[Francis]

So it's significant. And I wanted to do it.

[Host 1]

$20,000.

[Francis]

I didn't spend that much, but I spent a good amount. And I. I went to the thing and, you know, put my receipts under. The machine wasn't working. Went to the window. And the woman was like, none of these. And we're speaking in French. And my French is good.

[Host 2]

Yeah, yeah.

[Francis]

So I'm like, you know, explaining. I'm like, the machine wasn't working. She was looking. Takes the forms. And she's like, none of these forms have been designated to have credit card returns. You needed to have that done at the store. And I was like, well, the people at the store said everything was fine and that this was all I needed for the forms. And she was like. She was acting as if I was a fucking moron.

[Host 2]

Yeah. Yeah, right.

[Francis]

And I'm like, I don't know what to tell you. She was like, well, now that you haven't designated that, at best you'll get cash returns in euros, so you need to go to the cash window. And I was like, fine. So then I went to the cash window, and the guy was like, no, you're all set. You've scanned the forms. You'll get it back on your credit card statement within two weeks. And I was like, that woman at that other thing said that. And he was like, she doesn't know what she's talking about. So then I walked out, and I couldn't resist.

[Host 2]

You went back?

[Francis]

I got in line. I got back in line to tell her she was wrong.

[Host 2]

That's crazy. I waited. Yeah.

[Francis]

For the moment to be like, by the way, I spoke to that guy. And he was like, you don't know

[Host 1]

what the fuck you're talking about in French.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

And she goes. I remember. She was like, well, I'll agree to disagree with him. She said it in French.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

And I was like, you work together. You are colleagues also.

[Host 2]

It doesn't seem like it's something that you could disagree with. Like, it seems like there's just a right answer and a wrong answer.

[Francis]

Okay. But here's what's happened.

[Host 2]

So she was right.

[Francis]

Hold on. Oh, No, I had four receipts. I've gotten the VAT back for one of them so far. Oh, my God.

[Host 2]

Brutal.

[Host 1]

That's such a.

[Host 2]

Having to do that at the airport.

[Francis]

It was annoying. And the airport was a mess. And then. And then.

[Host 2]

They don't got clear or sky priority over there.

[Host 1]

Do they probably have sky priority?

[Francis]

They had something or.

[Host 1]

But you're flying Ryanair. I was flying the worst airline known to man.

[Francis]

I flew Aer Lingus. Okay, okay. Because I just couldn't bear to. I had golf club. I had all kinds of to bring. I didn't actually have money.

[Host 1]

You fly Ryanair, they'll like, give you your golf clubs back in knots,

[Francis]

melt it down into a block.

[Host 2]

Yeah, Ryanair, like, they, like. Like, they.

[Host 1]

Yeah, they take pride in being.

[Host 2]

That's the problem is, like, even if something bad happens, like, they make, like, jokes about it online, right?

[Host 1]

They own it.

[Host 2]

Like, they get in, like, a plane crash and they're like, what did you think you were flying with Ryan? It's like, all right, well, there's a

[Francis]

coin slot to unlock the lavatory. I remember one time you had to pay to use the bathroom.

[Host 2]

Oh, that's. That's serious. Like, you're joking.

[Francis]

No, I was not. That's insane.

[Host 1]

But I think, weirdly, they have, like, one of the highest profit margins or like, they. They make, like, not surprised.

[Host 2]

Go to the bathroom.

[Francis]

That's crazy.

[Host 2]

I mean, you got to pay to go to the bathroom in Europe, though, right? At a lot of those bathrooms.

[Francis]

I didn't see that.

[Host 2]

I feel like I. When I went there, there was, like, nothing was public. Like, you got to buy something.

[Francis]

Oh, maybe in cafes. True. Yeah.

[Host 2]

Also, they have. The bathrooms are co ed, right. At a lot of places, like, taking a shit next to a girl taking a shit. Oh, yeah.

[Francis]

Well, what I did see is that every, like, large men's bathroom that I went into, every single one, there was a woman from Thailand, like, mopping.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Host 2]

Not.

[Francis]

Not like, hello.

[Host 2]

Yeah, just in there.

[Francis]

Is there anyone in here? Like, she's just in there while you're just, like, pissing on the floor.

[Host 2]

Yeah. That's crazy. So do you pay for no ice, though, or ac.

[Host 1]

That's so insane. When have ice in the.

[Francis]

In the security line. The. There was a guy, an older man. There was a man in a suit. A full suit. Suit and tie designating that there were security lines to go to.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

And he was just pointing, like, go to that one, Go to this one. Go to that one, go to this one. And in Front of me, an older couple, old woman and an old man, 70s woman, goes to the far line. And then he points for the man to go to the near line, but he ignored it and went to the far line.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

And they're French. And the guy in the suit went like this. He was like. And then he goes over and puts his hand on the man's shoulder.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

And he's like, I told you to get in that line. And the old man was like, well, that's my wife. I want to travel with her.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

And the guy goes, de mondez. Which means you need to ask. And I was like, are you fucking kidding me? You're treating like a French passenger. Like he's a kindergartner over line allocation and he wants to just travel with his wife? I thought that was really patronizing and

[Host 1]

just telling about how their. Their culture is.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

They were just dicks. So when I got on the flight to Ireland and then got off in Ireland, I felt like I had gone from North Korea to South Korea.

[Host 2]

You were like, in, like, Argo, when he's. Yeah.

[Francis]

Yes.

[Host 2]

He enters Turkey. Yeah. And they're like, they're serving booze now.

[Francis]

Yeah, exactly. It was so nice in Ireland. So kind, so welcoming. Speaking English now, you know, that's great. It was cool.

[Host 1]

So the last two times ago I went to France, I was like, I would try to use a little bit of French and people were, I felt, were dicks to me. And then the most recent time, I didn't speak a fucking word of French. And I thought I got way more respect.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Host 1]

That just, like, expecting them to speak English and just being like, yeah, I don't know. Like, I'm visiting. I don't know why that throw your worst at me. Like, I'm. I'm here to have a good time and spend money.

[Host 2]

Yeah. I don't know why that would be something that they would care about. Like, they say that, like, in some countries, like, people, like, if you try to use their language, they get annoyed. But it's like, wouldn't you be like, I was walking down the street and someone came up to me speaking Spanish. I would just keep walking. I'd be like, I don't know.

[Host 1]

Well, I just know that, like, I live in a touristy area and if somebody is trying their best to speak with me, I'm going to be very nice to them.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Host 1]

And I. So I just, like, can't, like, let it abide that. It's just like. Yeah, like, that's just how they Are like, you just have to be rude to someone who tries to speak your. Your language.

[Host 2]

Yeah. I just feel like they're going this step to try to make it easier for you. Like, if you're going up to someone trying to speak their native language.

[Host 1]

Yes.

[Host 2]

It's like, more of, like, them trying to help you out.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Host 2]

While asking a question.

[Host 1]

Now, if it's rather than going up

[Host 2]

and being like, yo, where. Where is the louvat?

[Host 1]

And you're like, oh, you idiot. No, you have to ask.

[Francis]

But. But conversely, imagine if someone from, like, Mexico came up to you in the streets of Brooklyn.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

And was, like, speaking to you in Spanish, asking for directions.

[Host 2]

Yeah. I would be like, I don't know.

[Francis]

Yeah, I know, but if you did that, if someone. That's. We're more likely to be annoyed in America. If someone spoke to us in another language, we get mad about that.

[Host 2]

Yeah. I guess that is true.

[Francis]

It's like, we don't speak that here.

[Host 1]

At Gino's Cheesesteaks in Philly, it used to be, like, order in English only. Big sign on the. But I think the French, especially in, like, touristy areas, like, pride themselves on being able to speak English.

[Francis]

That's my point, though. It's the opposite.

[Host 1]

Yes, yes, yes, exactly.

[Francis]

It's like, don't speak the native language.

[Host 1]

Right. Don't assume that we're too dumb to understand what your dumb ass is saying.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Host 1]

Did.

[Host 2]

French is sacred.

[Host 1]

I really.

[Francis]

That's how they feel. That's how they feel.

[Host 1]

Yeah. Like, you probably speak beautiful French, and they hear, like. Like the. The lightest American accent, and they're like,

[Francis]

dude, I'm telling you, it's not even the. The. It's just the fact that I have red hair and I'm clearly not French.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

That makes them annoyed that I'm around.

[Host 2]

Yeah. It's crazy.

[Host 1]

Like, cigarettes have, like, a sunken chest.

[Host 2]

Like, it's such a big city.

[Francis]

Why would they be the most touristy city I've ever been to? So maybe that's part of the problem. I don't know.

[Host 2]

I just can't imagine. That's, like, moving to New York and going to Times Square and being like, what the happened to this city?

[Host 1]

There's a Elmo.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Host 2]

Transplants everywhere.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Host 2]

It's like. Yeah.

[Host 1]

But also, like, from eight years ago when France won the World cup, we were over there. And, like, as they're winning, they're, like, driving through the streets like, the Wild Boys and everybody hanging out of the cars. None of them are, like, white native no, like French people.

[Host 2]

No, not at all.

[Host 1]

France is like, especially right now. Like, there's an influx of all different types of, like, cultures in France, but

[Francis]

they don't like that. There's. They're, they're the most racist towards, like, Algerian immigrants of any country. I believe they're pretty up there. They have like full blown race wars in the streets. Yeah. And. And it's all, you know. Yeah, it's all like their former colonies.

[Host 2]

Yeah, Makes sense.

[Host 1]

Yeah. We taught you how to speak France and now you're coming to speak France here.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Host 1]

What did, what did you eat and what did you buy over there? Did you cop a suit for the Martha's Vineyard wedding? I know you were thinking about getting something custom.

[Francis]

No, I couldn't, I couldn't. I went into a custom shirt shop called. Well, I can't remember. Yeah, it's like very famous, but I can't remember exactly what it was called. But the guy was like, yeah, you know, if we were to do a custom shirt, you have to come in four times through the process of building it in order for us to make

[Host 2]

sure it's too many.

[Francis]

Molding correctly over. And this would take like eight weeks.

[Host 1]

My body would look different over.

[Francis]

I'm telling you, I am. That's the other thing. I was like, I can't get fit for a fucking suit right now.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

I'm not going to look this way in a year or two. Right now, my shoulders and my. I'm just bigger than I've ever been.

[Host 2]

So you think you're gonna lose weight, I'll lose muscle.

[Francis]

I'm gonna, I'm gonna fall apart, I'll get injured, and then I'll be like, get injured? You're gonna get injured, Start riding a peloton. And then I'm gonna just shrink. That's what's gonna happen. That's what always happens.

[Host 2]

That is really what happens to people.

[Francis]

It's what always happens. Yeah. I have to resort to cardio to get my exercise and I feel like

[Host 2]

that happens to every. Like so many people, they get big and then they get hurt and then they just start run.

[Francis]

I've been through this many times. This is what's going to happen.

[Host 2]

Stop. Well, what do you think the injury is going to be?

[Francis]

Shoulders.

[Host 2]

Well, just take it easy on the shoulders then.

[Francis]

Can't.

[Host 1]

Can't.

[Host 2]

Like, the shoulders are pretty big. That's a bad injury.

[Francis]

Every day is boulder shoulder day, and

[Host 2]

then you're definitely going to get injured.

[Francis]

I can't ignore boulder shoulders.

[Host 1]

I know you're bailing hay out in fucking France.

[Francis]

Yeah, that's it.

[Host 2]

Yeah. What were the workouts like out there?

[Francis]

Well, in Paris, I got a couple of my hotel done. They didn't have. They even have kettlebells, so I was just throwing dumbbells around, like cleaning dumbbells and stuff. But I did. I did manage to complete the Rogan kettlebell workout Saturday morning before I went to Martha's Vineyard with 53s, which I was pretty excited about.

[Host 1]

That's insane.

[Francis]

That's two. That was. I did it with two Rogans, one in each hand. Damn.

[Host 2]

That's crazy.

[Francis]

Wait. No, it's not. It's not simultaneous. I'm sorry. I. I just had 153. But you're doing well. You do the renegade rose with them anyway.

[Host 2]

The renegade rose.

[Host 1]

That's insane.

[Host 2]

The Rogan's heavy. I can't imagine doing two.

[Host 1]

What did you.

[Host 2]

Can't imagine doing one, to be honest.

[Francis]

Let's shift.

[Host 1]

What'd you eat and where'd you stay? No, I'm not done. Yeah, I need to live a bit. Vibe.

[Francis]

I feel like I have you guys.

[Host 1]

I don't get to travel.

[Francis]

I saw so many things.

[Host 2]

Literally, not a single thing in my life has changed since the last time you saw me.

[Host 1]

He got a new. A new shirt.

[Francis]

I haven't seen you since you won. Since fucking Bush won.

[Host 2]

Yeah. We're on to Paris now, unfortunately.

[Host 1]

Yeah, he's about to be in Paris.

[Francis]

Are you going to go? No.

[Host 2]

No.

[Francis]

Why not?

[Host 2]

Too expensive for you, for everybody.

[Host 1]

Not for you.

[Francis]

The team can't go.

[Host 2]

No, the team will go, but they'll go by themselves. We'll send them there and put them in, like, a hotel.

[Francis]

Somebody needs to be there.

[Host 2]

We're going to. We're thinking about sending one of our guys to go and just like, cover everything and make sure that the boys are behaving.

[Francis]

Why don't I go?

[Host 2]

It's a great.

[Francis]

Because I can translate for them.

[Host 2]

It's a great idea. I mean, we'd be. We'd be thrilled.

[Francis]

I saw some of them, the way they speak, they weren't as sort of monosyllabic as I thought.

[Host 1]

Well, they're all natural.

[Francis]

Better spoken than you led me to believe.

[Host 2]

Where did you see them speak again?

[Francis]

Like, it was in the clip. The. The video you put out.

[Host 2]

Like the. Yes, like the interviews of them and stuff. Yeah, yeah. You got to hear them talk, just like in a casual conversation, because you want. You would. You would not be able to understand a word they were saying, really? Yeah.

[Host 1]

Like the way they translators want to translate to you.

[Host 2]

That's a good idea. Yeah, yeah. The way they talk, the things that they like, the way the words they use. It's like a foreign language.

[Host 1]

What words did you pick up similar to him talking about like and we.

[Host 2]

I mean the biggest thing is like they just say that they're checked. That's the biggest one.

[Francis]

Jacked.

[Host 2]

Checked.

[Francis]

Checked. That means tired.

[Host 2]

Yeah. It just means they give up.

[Francis]

Oh.

[Host 2]

Like they're done. I'm checked. Man. They're very sensitive.

[Francis]

They are.

[Host 2]

You got to treat them like. You got to make sure they don't get checked.

[Francis]

Oh man, that would.

[Host 2]

But they get checked at the littlest things. You could ask them the wrong question and they're like, that just checked me out for the whole day. And you're like, oh my God, I don't know what I did.

[Francis]

Damn, that sucks.

[Host 2]

Yeah. Yeah. So just kind of walk on eggshells.

[Francis]

But then again, I think there is something to be said that if you are. If you have found a way to make a living playing video games.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

There's no reason to think that the world is ever gonna be hard.

[Host 2]

Yeah. Well, I mean, I think they like, they all like, they have made a living playing video games, but they all want to get to the pro league so they can actually make like a real living playing video games.

[Francis]

I get that. But they're not going to be willing. Like, like they're on the track.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

To the point where like if someone was like, hey man, you need to take out the trash. They'd be like, I'm, I'm too checked for that.

[Host 2]

Yeah. No, that doesn't get done.

[Host 1]

It's like a six. Six dude who like is like on a track to make the NBA. He was like a top prospect or something. It's like, yeah, you're going to probably make the NBA and you can have people do stuff for you.

[Host 2]

Yeah. They also just don't know anything. Like they, they only know cod. They only know the game.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Host 2]

But I mean it makes sense. Like they've. The whole entire life they've been like, they. To write today. They're probably playing the game for like 12 hours today. So it's like there's not really much other opportunity to know other stuff.

[Francis]

Exactly.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Host 2]

You've.

[Francis]

But you've. The world has forced them into a chair.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

And to face a screen devoid of human interaction.

[Host 2]

Yeah. I mean they're interacting. I mean they talk to each other non stop, but it's not very about cod. No, they talk about. I mean, they're in their discord the entire day. Oh, just chopping it up.

[Francis]

Okay.

[Host 2]

But you know, then something will happen and they'll get checked and then. Yeah, time to reset.

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I would have traded a lot of personal organs to have a Tempo meal while I was in Ireland.

[Host 1]

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[Francis]

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[Francis]

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[Host 2]

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[Francis]

Yeah.

[Host 1]

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[Francis]

Over.

[Host 2]

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[Francis]

I want the Knicks to win, but I think that given how much hype and glamour there is around the kn, I think the spurs are quietly going to.

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[Host 1]

Honestly, I need to get into the Internet Invitational. Ever since they said that that prize pool was 4 million.

[Host 2]

4 million. No. Yeah.

[Francis]

Are you with me that you didn't see that?

[Host 2]

No. Four million.

[Francis]

Four million bucks.

[Host 2]

Oh, my God.

[Francis]

Yeah, I did the math already. I presume it's gonna be similar format and split. You would walk away with what, like 700,000 after taxes? Yeah, I need to be 866.

[Host 2]

Oh, my God. You got to just stop. Quit the podcast, bro. This is your last episode on board. We're putting all of your funds into golf.

[Francis]

I know, I know.

[Host 1]

We will, like, go to the course and like. Yeah, whatever you need, coach. You. We don't want you to be checked. We just want to make sure that you're, like, dialed.

[Host 2]

Yeah. You're on the bush schedule now.

[Francis]

The thing is, is that I think we're going to have unreal, unrealistic expectations given that I won it last year. I think. Think it's. It's even less likely that I win at this time because there's a bigger field.

[Host 2]

Yeah, that's. I mean, is. How did they get 4 million? Is it Dave putting it in or is it like, do they have a bigger sponsor attached to it or what the.

[Francis]

The.

[Host 2]

You like or I guess the views last year. You.

[Francis]

The what?

[Host 1]

You got this.

[Francis]

What a brand should pay to sponsor this thing. I don't know that there's a high enough number.

[Host 2]

I mean it's like a real imagine event.

[Francis]

Imagine if you put, put like 50 of the biggest influencers in a field in, in one room.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

And then filmed the main product and then every single one of them individually posted in this. Sort of creating this spider web of.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

Like viral never ending fucking promotion. All of which has images and stamps of brands on it.

[Host 1]

4 mil might be light.

[Francis]

It's. It's truly like the best thing you could sponsor at least in that space of anything ever.

[Host 2]

Yeah, definitely. I mean that's like that like we looked up what was the Masters payout.

[Francis]

Well, the, the whole pool for the Masters is like I think 17 or something. Yeah. Goes. It gets like 3.7 or 4ish. I don't know something like that.

[Host 2]

I mean that's like you're almost winner

[Host 1]

gets four and a half but not,

[Host 2]

not too far off.

[Host 1]

Or like it's like come in, come in six in the Masters or like when the Internet invitation.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Host 1]

And aren't there. It's like more, it pays more than like every Asian tour stop or something like that. Or like there's like, there's several pro things that it eclipses fully. Which is amazing. Yeah. Don't you wish like, like you have a good golf swing. You used to play golf and like all you did was stop.

[Host 2]

Yeah. But the, the, the upping the prize to 4 million. Like the competition is going to go up.

[Host 1]

They don't have enough beta blockers.

[Francis]

There are. There will still be people of your caliber in the tournament though towards the end.

[Host 2]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Francis]

The semifinals last year had, you know, Josh Richards who actually played quite well but was very new to golf.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

As well as a couple of other people who, you know, it was. It's not the way it works in the team building and stuff like that. There's necessarily going to be lower players that are making it to the end.

[Host 2]

Yeah. I mean I'm mind, I'm mind blown by that.

[Francis]

Yeah, I know it's pretty.

[Host 2]

That is insane. I was the first. I haven't really been on online much this weekend but that, that is insane.

[Host 1]

How much of the field did you guys talk a lot about what the field is while you were over there? Like who's going to be in it? Because I would like you to guess about it but if you know, I don't want to spoil it it.

[Francis]

Oh, what.

[Host 2]

Who's going to be in the invitation?

[Host 1]

Be in it?

[Host 2]

Like what doesn't that Come out today?

[Host 1]

Well, Jason Williams got his invite last week.

[Host 2]

Yeah. But doesn't, like, has it been released? Who's, like, playing?

[Francis]

I don't know.

[Host 2]

I want to say it comes out today. Right. The whole list will come out today. But, like, some people have said it early. Got it. So we can talk about this.

[Francis]

Yeah. I mean, people have been showing their. Their imitations, so I presume imitations are sick.

[Host 1]

A dove flies out of a box.

[Host 2]

I mean, it's not far off.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Host 1]

So is there anybody that's like, whoa, like, he's doing it?

[Francis]

I mean, in truth, I don't actually know a lot of the people that they added.

[Host 1]

Is LeBron doing it?

[Host 2]

That's the big question.

[Host 1]

Is LeBron.

[Francis]

LeBron's not doing it.

[Host 2]

Not enough money for him, or he's

[Host 1]

just not good enough? He probably just didn't make the cut.

[Francis]

Dude, I bet LeBron makes $866,000 a day.

[Host 2]

You don't want another. You want to double that in a day?

[Francis]

If it took him a full week to make that?

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

He'd be like, I'm losing money right now.

[Host 1]

Yeah. But he loves golf, though. I'm.

[Francis]

I'm costing my enterprise.

[Host 2]

I mean. Yeah. This will be the closest that anyone in this. I mean, obviously, outside of people that are actually pros. Well, this is the closest you'll get to playing in, like, a real, like, PGA tournament. I mean, there's no other tournament on the planet that is paying this much for the people that are in it.

[Francis]

Correct.

[Host 2]

It's crazy.

[Host 1]

And. Well, the same people, like, what do you think that Gruden and Wit, like, and all of them will be back?

[Francis]

I think so.

[Host 1]

So no one's gonna get really, like, classed out of it from the barstool side?

[Francis]

I don't think so.

[Host 1]

You know what I mean?

[Host 2]

I mean, this is gonna, like. This has, like, you. You must be thinking about, like, training already.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Host 2]

Like, I feel like this is gonna up the stakes.

[Francis]

I' Now I'm. I'm way worse right now than I was when I played in it last year.

[Host 2]

Yeah, we're going to.

[Francis]

It takes me. It takes me the summer to, like, work on my short game and to

[Host 2]

move upstate for the summer so we can all just, like, get you in the right head space.

[Host 1]

I'll bring my family.

[Host 2]

Yeah, I'm fully. I'm up totally fine just packing it up and moving up there.

[Francis]

No, no, no, no.

[Host 1]

Do you think any.

[Host 2]

Anybody needs you close to the course?

[Francis]

I know. I. I'm going to be working on It. I'm going to be dedicated neighbors.

[Host 1]

Could we maybe like sublet their place for the summer and just like kind of have like a home based training facility? You know, like diet. Dietitian, stretching, pliability, mobility. All the stuff that I'm going to take to win this.

[Francis]

I should probably lay off the shoulder stuff because I think that's actually affecting my flexibility and my swing.

[Host 2]

We're putting an end to that immediately.

[Francis]

My shoulders are getting in the way of my golf.

[Host 1]

We're going to have you podcasting from a peloton.

[Host 2]

Yeah. With like the wires all attached to you. Sticky.

[Francis]

Oxygen deprivation. That's great.

[Host 1]

And what course is it at? Where is it again?

[Francis]

It's at Big Cedar again. Same place.

[Host 1]

Which was what state?

[Francis]

It's in Missouri.

[Host 2]

Damn.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Host 1]

That's gonna be salivating. What kind of sponsors are we talking to? Maybe we could grease the wheels. Like how could we cheat?

[Host 2]

There's gotta be a way to cheat or at least get like a better team.

[Host 1]

Rangefinders.

[Francis]

You know, what I'm interested in is this. So last year Dave had all those sort of side bet propositions that everyone turned down.

[Host 1]

Yeah.

[Francis]

But the truth is that as you're playing there should be moments where the like value proposition of that outweighs not taking it it and vying for the ultimate prize.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

Like, let's put it this way.

[Host 2]

If there's a scenario. Another way.

[Francis]

Mathematically, I'm not good at math, but I know for the. That it should be the case that if. Date. If there's like whatever, say 16 players left.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

And you win a match and you knock. I don't know, Tiger, two players out of it or like four players out of. Or something like that. And then Dave says, okay, like you can go on to the final 12 or you can replay a whole winner gets 250 grand. There's a scenario where you're supposed to take that.

[Host 2]

Oh, I see what you mean.

[Francis]

Because you have a 50. 50 shot at winning 250 grand or you have like a 1 in 6 of making 866. I don't know exactly where. You know, hopefully someone can elucidate the proper way of looking at that. But there is a number where you're supposed to accept that early bid.

[Host 2]

Yeah. So it's. So what you're saying is like, is that they didn't do that last year and people should do that this year.

[Francis]

We should consider it more. I think that the way he offered it last year, I don't know that any of those Offers actually were like, worth it. Worth it. But. But I suspect that this year they will be. I'm sure he's got a. I want to know the. I want to know the calculus so that I can convince my teammates, like, we are supposed to take this and then watch us lose and have them be furious with me.

[Host 2]

Let's make that clear right now. Dude, if you're not taking anything, you're taking the four. If you.

[Francis]

If you have. If it's you and like a teammate, right. And you've won your match and you are going on to the final 32 players.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

And Dave's like, okay, you can do that or you can replay this hole against that team for $100,000. You're supposed to take that. I'm pretty sure you have a 50. 50 at 50 grand, 100 grand. If it's two, I don't know. You're supposed to take that.

[Host 2]

Yeah, I guess.

[Francis]

As opposed to what, a 1, a 3 and 32 of 866 of 1.7.

[Host 1]

But people also have the diluted self confidence that they're gonna. Or you want to play for the big prize. You know, nobody wants to take. It's like deal or no deal? Like, you don't want to take the consolation prize. You're like, I want to get the big money. Big money.

[Francis]

But you're forgetting that you could still win that $200,000 and keep going on.

[Host 1]

Yes. Oh.

[Host 2]

So if you win, you keep going

[Francis]

and you get the money.

[Host 2]

Yeah, definitely take that.

[Francis]

Yeah. But nobody did because everyone thought we've worked hard to. To put ourselves through. Yeah, we're not going to put that at risk now. But it's just another hole.

[Host 1]

Just another hole.

[Host 2]

Was it like, was it like a. Somewhat of like a miracle last year that someone from that you won like a bar stool person won.

[Host 1]

It was him, Beef and Frankie in the final. So it was like.

[Host 2]

But like, would it. Was there a chance that this year, like, would there. Is there a chance that like some random.

[Francis]

For sure.

[Host 1]

Because none of the Bob does guys,

[Host 2]

Cold cuts might be walking away with fucking 4 mil in the pocket.

[Francis]

To be honest with you. I hope that he does. I want there to be more like Bob does guys. One of the big problems last year was that all of the Bob does guys were on one side and all of the barstool guys were on the other side. So on the first day, all the Bob does guys were eliminated.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

And you want to hold their audience in the tournament as long as you can.

[Host 2]

Yeah, they should Split that up.

[Francis]

But dude, there's. I mean, there's gigantic stars. Even since last year, like Grant Horvat has grown hugely. Like all these people have become bigger and bigger and bigger.

[Host 2]

So is there like, who. Who would you say is like the biggest addition or. You don't know?

[Francis]

That's the problem. There's all. There's like a couple guys from like South Africa, Korea that are huge stars. There's some guy named Ruffles, I think, who, who made the cut at a PGA tour event recently. Like, he's a legitimate fucking pro.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

And you're like, well, okay, well then

[Host 1]

why are you named after a bag of chips if you're a pro, why are you. Joey Cole cuts Ruffles.

[Francis]

I think he'll be better than Brad Dahlke.

[Host 2]

Yeah, that's kind of weird. I don't know how I feel about that.

[Francis]

Well, he's a YouTuber and went into one of the tournaments and then did well. So he's not technically a. A tour pro. Brad's like.

[Host 2]

He was like, just like, just like on the tour. And he's like, I'm gonna go just win this 4 mil real quick.

[Francis]

And I think he got a sponsors exemption, but Brad's also gotten one of those for a tournament coming up.

[Host 2]

Damn, that's crazy.

[Host 1]

Yeah, that's going to be so awesome.

[Host 2]

Yeah, that's going to be really, really good.

[Francis]

Do we want to plug neighbors? What's going on here?

[Host 1]

They gave us hats.

[Francis]

Awesome Shout out neighbors.

[Host 1]

That's what Harry's new favorite hat team. What's the shirt?

[Host 2]

Team spirit.

[Host 1]

Holy counter strike.

[Francis]

Oh, nice shout out, Donk.

[Host 2]

Cool the goat.

[Host 1]

Trent just showed up at the office. Barcelonal. Trent.

[Francis]

Did he?

[Host 1]

He's here?

[Host 2]

I don't know. Did you get like an email guy?

[Host 1]

I just got a text like breaking news. I thought someone got shot or something like that.

[Host 2]

Is that a big deal? I feel like Trent see are a decent amount. I mean, not ever here see him once in a while.

[Host 1]

You don't.

[Francis]

I had an awesome time with Trent.

[Host 2]

Oh, of course.

[Francis]

I loved hanging out with him. Yeah.

[Host 2]

Trent's the man.

[Francis]

He's so positive. He's so fun. And he also just is a man who will not suffer any sort of disruption of what he wants to do. But he's not annoying about it.

[Host 1]

No, like, what do you mean?

[Francis]

It's like, hey, we're all going out to dinner.

[Host 2]

He's like, go.

[Francis]

No.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

And he just orders domino's and eats

[Host 2]

it in his room.

[Host 1]

Dominoes. Irish dominoes.

[Francis]

He had it a couple times, probably.

[Host 2]

Great.

[Francis]

And it's like, nobody's gonna give him a. A hard time about it because we all know he's an immovable object.

[Host 2]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Francis]

I found it inspiring.

[Host 2]

Yeah. He's told me about. He told us about that when we were in Florida, that he does that.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Host 2]

He, like, doesn't. Like, they'll be like, we're going out. He's like, I'm not going. Yeah.

[Francis]

I'm not, period. I'm not.

[Host 2]

I mean.

[Francis]

No, he's just not going to come.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

And it's like. Yeah. Nobody's even mad about it. I suffer so much from the guilt of saying no to people.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

About things. And I think that you have to just push through a few layers of making people upset until you reach that cruising altitude of not being reliable.

[Host 2]

That's me.

[Francis]

Yes.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

Well, I still get frustrated with you.

[Host 2]

Yeah. But that's because I have to be reliable now.

[Host 1]

You wish you were Trent. You don't have that.

[Host 2]

I don't think I've reached that level of that aura.

[Francis]

It's almost charming.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

No, don't. Don't bother him.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

He needs to go eat Domino's.

[Host 1]

But.

[Host 2]

So did he go out at all with you guys? Like, did he go out and drink at all?

[Francis]

He did a few times. But here's an example. That night we went out in Killarney where we had all those fucking crazy experiences. I was so tired that I went back to my hotel room and napped. And all of them went out and I texted them. I was like, I'm gonna take a power nap. This was at, like, 8:45pm that I went to sleep, and I set an alarm for 25 minutes. And they all took bets. They were like, there's no chance Francis makes it out.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

And Riggs, to his credit, was like, he's gonna be here. And I set my alarm, it went off. I woke up. I was delirious. But I was like, I think all of them made it out. I have to go.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

Showered, showed up. They were all so pumped. Wow.

[Host 1]

He's here.

[Francis]

And we had a great night.

[Host 1]

Trent.

[Francis]

Trent was there.

[Host 1]

Wow. He fought through.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Host 1]

What an absolute beast.

[Francis]

We ate a lot of ice cream. We went out.

[Host 1]

I was gonna ask what the desserts were over there, because I know that he is a dessert fiend. Yeah.

[Francis]

He found cheesecake. He got on. He went on a cheesecake tear.

[Host 1]

Found cheesecake like, it's a precious stone. Yeah.

[Francis]

He started finding, like, that. That they made cheesecake a lot of places. And that was what he was going for.

[Host 2]

Is it good?

[Francis]

I didn't end up. I had a bite of one of his. That was very good. Yeah.

[Sponsor/Ad Voice]

Yeah.

[Francis]

The ice cream left a lot to be desired, I thought.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Host 1]

It's interesting because they have all those cows. They have the cows and the beef.

[Francis]

Yeah. They just don't make it as well as we do.

[Host 1]

We're geniuses with that.

[Host 2]

They don't got that secret sauce, corn syrup.

[Host 1]

They don't have the milk fat.

[Host 2]

Yeah, yeah.

[Host 1]

They don't have putting in it 25 milk fat. Like the creamery up at Penn State. The milk fat is so high there that it can't even be FDA approved. Not even a food. It's not even to close, classified as a food because it's so fatty. So nice.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Host 2]

Milk fat.

[Host 1]

Nothing like some nice milk fat. We gotta bang out another episode later on. So should we call this one?

[Host 2]

What are we at?

[Host 1]

Never mind.

[Host 2]

No, sir.

[Host 1]

I thought that we were over an hour.

[Host 2]

You thought wrong.

[Host 1]

Oh, Dave hit me back.

[Host 2]

What did Pred say?

[Host 1]

He said that. He said he's still trying to get Braun.

[Host 2]

Oh, really? Yeah, yeah, he's working on it.

[Host 1]

Yeah, he's still working.

[Host 2]

He's flying out to LA today. You're gonna meet up.

[Host 1]

Yeah, he's gonna pitch him, get to

[Host 2]

the bottom of it.

[Host 1]

Like he's about to sign. Sign with the Clippers.

[Host 2]

Is there any. That was my other question I was gonna ask guys. I asked, like, if there's anyone big adding it being added. Is there anyone that's not gonna be there that was there last year? That's like kind of like a big.

[Francis]

Yeah, there are people that were there last year.

[Host 2]

Second place crews gotta be second.

[Francis]

What do you mean? Axed from the first day.

[Host 1]

Paige and Frankie.

[Host 2]

Oh, maybe. Yeah.

[Francis]

Oh, the team in the final. No, no. They're all back.

[Host 2]

They're all back.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Host 2]

Love that.

[Francis]

Dal Touch is back.

[Host 2]

Love that.

[Francis]

I think that I presume that I will be knocked out early. From a karmic perspective. I won the first year. There's no chance that I'm going deep this year.

[Host 2]

Back to back drunk style.

[Francis]

I'm excited to ride around in a cart with Altush and just provide commentary on what's happening with him. Because you know that that was how he made a big name for himself. In addition to playing Apex. Apex as much as he did, he would livestream and comment as he drank heavily on tournaments.

[Host 2]

On Apex or just anything.

[Francis]

I'm not sure which game it was, but that was a Big thing.

[Host 2]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Francis]

He would get super drunk and just talk shit about whatever was happening.

[Host 1]

Well, can we do that from the Boy Dad Championship channel? If you get smoked, can we just, like, have a boy dad, have somebody follow you around and put out stuff? Put out?

[Host 2]

Sounds like this is kind of Daltushes thing, though, no?

[Host 1]

Yeah, well, like, with video games, Daltush doesn't own commenting on things. We can't just, like, crack some jokes and. And, like, follow you around and get a quick million views for the Boy Dad Channel.

[Francis]

Yeah, I'm not against it.

[Host 1]

Francis does it, and we just have, like, a crate. A wacky supercut, you know?

[Francis]

You know, we can't put it out until the whole thing comes out. Yeah, of course. Yeah.

[Host 1]

I'm not saying live just like a wacky superc.

[Francis]

Cut.

[Host 1]

Mac was supposed to shoot it last year.

[Francis]

I am totally down.

[Host 1]

He's shooting it this year.

[Francis]

You're coming, Mac?

[Host 2]

Yeah, yeah, I'll be there. I'll be with Jay Will. Oh, hell, yeah.

[Francis]

Oh, he has his own guy.

[Host 2]

Of course.

[Francis]

Well, maybe I'll. Maybe I'll be in a cart with J. Will.

[Host 2]

That would be awesome.

[Francis]

I'd like to play with him.

[Host 2]

That'd be huge.

[Francis]

I invited him to come play Bayonne with me both this week and next week, and he turned me down for both.

[Host 1]

It's because his daughter's in the lot

[Host 2]

going on with softball right now.

[Host 1]

Yeah, turn down is a turndown. I mean, like, you don't get unlimited bites at the apple. Bayonne is the one. He was cooing about Bayonne, though. He was saying how amazing and beautiful it is. He was actually pocket watching you. He was like, how much do you think it costs for Francis to be at Bayonne?

[Francis]

Whoa, whoa, whoa. I joined nine years ago. Just, like, legitimately. One third of the price of what it is now.

[Host 1]

Really?

[Host 2]

Damn. It's an investment. Can you sell your spot?

[Francis]

It used to be that way. You paid a bond like a taxi medallion. Yeah. And then when you left the club, you would get your bond back if another member joined.

[Host 2]

Oh, that's nice. Security deposit.

[Francis]

Yeah, exactly.

[Host 2]

I got my full security deposit back.

[Host 1]

Really?

[Francis]

Yep.

[Host 2]

Pretty huge.

[Francis]

How's your place?

[Host 2]

It's nice.

[Francis]

Are you feeling happy about it?

[Host 2]

Yeah, I like it. It's nice.

[Francis]

You don't feel removed?

[Host 2]

No, not at all.

[Francis]

Do you feel unmotivated to come into the city to do spots, given how far away you live now?

[Host 2]

No. The train's so easy because I was.

[Francis]

I went and looked at an apartment in the West Village.

[Host 2]

Oh, really?

[Francis]

Yesterday.

[Host 2]

Oh, was it mine? My old one? That would be hilarious.

[Francis]

Wouldn't that be funny? Yeah, just to fill it with sand. Fill it with sand?

[Host 2]

That would be devastating.

[Host 1]

Oh my God.

[Host 2]

You what? So are you gonna move to the West Village?

[Host 1]

Oh my God. You have to fill it with sand. I'll go halves on you if we can fill it with sand.

[Francis]

Yeah, I know a good sand guy.

[Host 2]

The ceilings are too tall. You guys won't be able to.

[Host 1]

No, you gotta. You have to win the invitational just so you can fill it with sand.

[Host 2]

It would probably cost the whole thing.

[Host 1]

Sign a hundred year lease and fill it.

[Host 2]

I mean, it's a lot of sand.

[Host 1]

You're about to be back in the West Village. You're leaving Brooklyn behind.

[Francis]

No.

[Host 2]

Crazy.

[Host 1]

Crazy.

[Francis]

I was.

[Host 2]

Can't imagine want to live on work island like that.

[Francis]

I thought about it because I thought to myself that being in the city would make. Would remove this barrier that I currently have of. Of going to spots that just has been so fatiguing. I can't get home after work and then going back in. It's just a nightmare.

[Host 2]

Yeah, it's awful.

[Francis]

So I end up staying in the city and like working out in a. Yeah, just blink fit. Burning money.

[Host 2]

Yeah. I'll be honest, I've kind of been on a little bit of a sabbatical since I filmed the tape. I taped the special and then we won the champs or we won the tournament.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Host 2]

I didn't do a single thing for like two weeks straight.

[Francis]

I love it.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

So I'm kind of.

[Host 2]

I've done a couple spots since I moved out there and it's not bad. Also, like the stand is not far. It's like 20 minutes away.

[Francis]

Oh, fair enough.

[Host 2]

Yeah, it's like not even that much further than my old apartment was.

[Host 1]

What are you talking about?

[Host 2]

On the train.

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[Host 2]

brother. You don't understand. You don't know how the train works.

[Host 1]

Well, I just know, like, faster than cars. I just know where your old apartment was. And, like, if it was a map, like, it's like, right here. And now you live up here and you're saying that this is the same distance as this?

[Host 2]

I mean, it's probably like. Yeah, I mean, obviously it's not the same distance. It's much further. But in terms of getting there, there was confusion. There was no way to get from my apartment to their city.

[Francis]

Bike.

[Host 2]

Yeah, I know. But no, like, there was no train or anything. So it was either Uber, which was

[Francis]

like, wait, that's not true.

[Host 2]

Yes.

[Francis]

You could have walked to 14th and taken the L across to Union Square.

[Host 2]

Yeah, but you. You would know that that is instead would be an insane thing to do. It's like a 20 minute walk from my apartment to 14th.

[Francis]

Okay, I'm just changing the narrative that there is no way for you to get across the city.

[Host 1]

Or a bus. What about a bus?

[Host 2]

I'm not taking the bus to the fucking stand.

[Francis]

How many things do we need to say for you to actually.

[Host 2]

I know the route. The route was not a realistic route, which is why I would always bike or Uber or walk.

[Francis]

Uber a lot.

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[Host 2]

No.

[Francis]

Every time I walk out of the office at the same time as you, you're getting into an Uber. I used to Uber and I'm like, wow, this guy's got it.

[Host 2]

Yeah, I used to Uber.

[Host 1]

You'll be able to fly to Paris if you didn't Uber so much.

[Host 2]

I used to Uber when I lived in the West Village because it was very inexpensive. It's like a 10 Uber to go home.

[Francis]

And I'd be like, it's also a 15 minute walk. The whole point of living in the West Village is so you can walk everywhere.

[Host 2]

Minute walk. Try 30, brother. From here to my old apartment.

[Francis]

30? You did live in the south part of Westville. Yes. Yeah, that's true. But I was. I was looking at an apartment very close to your old place.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

On Barrow Street.

[Host 2]

Oh, yeah. It's like the next street over.

[Francis]

Yeah, but honestly, it would be 20% more for me to move there for a smaller apartment.

[Host 2]

It's not worth it at all.

[Francis]

Current apartment.

[Host 1]

Think about the breakfast by salt cure that you could get every day.

[Host 2]

Yeah, you want to wait in that line like you're fucking getting Coachella tickets.

[Francis]

The lines right now. I went to one of those froyo.

[Host 1]

No, you didn't.

[Francis]

But I went on like a fucking, I don't know, Monday at noon.

[Host 1]

That's a psycho move.

[Francis]

But there were only six people in front.

[Host 1]

But also, just like out of principle, how good can frozen yogurt be?

[Francis]

I'll tell you what.

[Host 1]

No, that.

[Host 2]

I've had some really good frozen yogurt.

[Francis]

That good? It was that good. It's the one that has the pistachio kind of crunch on top. Top that. That. Now I will say if there. There's an amount of people where it's not worth it.

[Host 1]

What is that amount?

[Host 2]

7:20.

[Host 1]

So you're. You're waiting in the 18 person line for that froyo. That's how good it was.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Host 1]

Wow.

[Francis]

Yeah, I would.

[Host 1]

I bike pass that one every day and I'm like.

[Francis]

Yeah, I know.

[Host 2]

I go. I used to live next to the. What's it called? One.

[Francis]

The.

[Host 2]

The one that you just said. Salt skewer.

[Host 1]

Breakfast by salt skewer.

[Host 2]

Yeah. I used to live streets.

[Francis]

What is that?

[Host 2]

It's a breakfast breakfast.

[Host 1]

There's one on. Is it Atlantic? No, it's not Atlantic. It's like deeper into Brooklyn. But there's. But it's like, there's one right on. Incredible pancakes. Like tiny street.

[Host 2]

My old Street.

[Host 1]

Yeah.

[Host 2]

7th Avenue.

[Host 1]

It's like a la carte breakfast and you get like a bunch of different things and it's fantastic. But also there is herd of sheep.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Host 1]

Outside.

[Host 2]

Every time I used to walk, the line is literally like, no joke. It's like 50 people long. And it's not like. Like you're not waiting for one person to get froyo. You're waiting for the people in front of you. Like, you're seeing the table in front of you. Like they're going to eat a full meal.

[Francis]

Wait on a server. Yeah.

[Host 2]

Like, and then we'll move.

[Host 1]

You can get line dudes for it. You can pay $55 to have someone stand in line for you to.

[Host 2]

Yeah, it can't be that good. Nothing is it.

[Host 1]

It is really good. But it's just like.

[Host 2]

It's breakfast food.

[Host 1]

It's breakfast.

[Host 2]

Go to Waverly Diner, one block down.

[Host 1]

Make the breakfast yourself.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Host 1]

Like, half of its eggs are like a avocado with a. A drizzle of olive oil. But the pancakes are fantastic. You never went.

[Host 2]

No, not a sheep.

[Host 1]

You kind of are.

[Francis]

Not at all. He said as he went to. Where'd you go every morning to get your food? You went to. You go to cvs?

[Host 2]

Yeah. It's off the beaten path.

[Francis]

It's not exactly a mom and pop bodega. You're not exactly, like, you know, supporting.

[Host 1]

Keeping at least Breakfast by Salt Secure only has three locations.

[Host 2]

That's true.

[Host 1]

That's true.

[Host 2]

No, I used to hit Ray's. I never went to Ray and I never told him that I was moving, but I couldn't. I couldn't do it.

[Host 1]

He's gonna be worried sick. He's gonna be like, I thought you died, my friend.

[Host 2]

No, Jewel, dude.

[Francis]

The.

[Host 2]

I quit the Jewel was a tough day for him.

[Francis]

How's that going? What, you're still off the Jewel?

[Host 2]

I've been off the Jewel for a while. I dabble back into the vapes here and there.

[Host 1]

But how crazy were the night sweats when you got off of it?

[Host 2]

Non existent. Because I didn't. I didn't quit nicotine.

[Host 1]

Oh, got it.

[Host 2]

Yeah, I'm on the Lucy's now.

[Francis]

Yeah, really quick. In Paris, one thing that I noticed was that they are losers. They adopt things from America that have fallen out of style. Like, two. Two trends ago. Like, I walked by this group of, I don't know, French young people, and they saw me and they heard me speaking English, and they heard me and they went, six, seven, six, seven.

[Host 2]

Oh, that's tough.

[Francis]

And I was like, you guys are fucking lame. Yeah, that's done.

[Host 2]

Is it?

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Host 2]

I don't know any. I don't know much about it, but that's. That would, like.

[Francis]

That's tired.

[Host 2]

That would check me out. That's check. That's a good use of check.

[Francis]

That's check.

[Host 2]

Yeah. That would check me out for the full day.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Host 1]

I need a nap.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Host 1]

Yeah.

[Francis]

There was another thing, too, that happened. Happened. Oh, there was this store that was selling those AP Swatch watches that were so popular.

[Host 1]

I don't know which the ones people were lining up for.

[Francis]

Correct.

[Host 1]

For like, five days.

[Francis]

Dude, these guys were sleeping in soccer mom sideline chairs against a brick wall for days.

[Host 2]

How much of the washes?

[Host 1]

I mean, they're APs.

[Francis]

No, but they're. That's. The whole point is, like, I think they retailed for, like 300 bucks, but

[Host 1]

the resale is probably 1600.

[Francis]

I don't know what they were reselling for APS. It's a collab with Swatch that made it affordable.

[Host 2]

Damn.

[Francis]

But also, how many saw what those looked like.

[Host 1]

I'm also curious how many they sold at every location. Because, like, if they're only selling eight per location and then there's like, 80 people outside.

[Host 2]

Tell me people weren't sleeping outside for

[Host 1]

this, for this Pocket watch. Yeah.

[Host 2]

Looks like a roulette table.

[Host 1]

Yeah, this looks like pretty weak, something out of the Wiggles.

[Francis]

But yeah, I mean, you know, they were, they were all lining. It was a huge line for that cheap. One other thing that really annoyed me, I went, I walked really far to go to this cool coffee shop. And I got my coffee from them, I talked to them for a while. It was cool. And then I'm like, kind of bonded with them. I showed them my coffee machine.

[Host 2]

You tell them about your coffee maker?

[Francis]

Yeah, of course. And it was fun. Also. I do all this.

[Host 2]

You're definitely like. I can imagine you walking down the road, like getting the photos right.

[Francis]

Ready? No, Once I had, I had sought this place out because it was like a highly reviewed elite.

[Host 1]

What was it called?

[Francis]

Recto. Recto Verso. I think it's in the Marais. Anyway, it was good, but I went out and then there was a cafe right next door that had, you know, bakery shit.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

Croissants and all that. And I bought like three or four different things to have a sampling. And then I took those in a bag and I went and sat back down at the. One of the tables outside of the coffee shop and I took a bite. And within one bite, the same guy who had been so nice to me and talked to me about coffee came out and he was like, I'm sorry, you can't sit here and eat outside. Food, food. And I was like, but I'm drinking the coffee that I bought from you. And he was like, yet you didn't buy that croissant here? And I was like, I understand your position, but surely I would have. I, I didn't fight him on it.

[Host 2]

I'm joking.

[Francis]

But like, they wouldn't. Even though I. I would understand if I had bought something only from another place.

[Host 2]

Yeah, yeah, definitely.

[Francis]

But I had frequented their establishment and

[Host 1]

you had a nice conversation. You'd built the social cache and they

[Francis]

didn't sell croissants at the coffee shop. So it's bringing something over that they didn't have.

[Host 2]

Yeah. That's insane. That's crazy.

[Host 1]

Anyway, I saw some nasty propaganda about croissants this past weekend that they have the lowest satiety. How do you say that? Like satiation, satiety rate of any food.

[Francis]

Wow.

[Host 1]

That like you get the least full from croissants of any food.

[Francis]

Well, that's crazy because I had three of them and I felt safe, sick all day. I Had one of those. I had a pano chocolate, and I had a. A Swiss one that had the raisins in it. And I. I was planning to just eat a couple bites of each and throw it all away or give it to the pigeons. That's a big thing there. But I ended up eating them all because they were all so good.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Francis]

And then I felt truly ill. Yeah.

[Host 2]

I. I feel like I've. I mean, I've. I used to eat croissants, like, every single morning.

[Host 1]

And you'd feel full.

[Host 2]

I wouldn't feel full, but I wouldn't feel hungry.

[Host 1]

Like, they said that 100 calories of a potato versus 100 calories of a croissant gives you four times the satiety. You'll be four times more full. And this is just statistics that I'm regurgitating. This isn't my research.

[Host 2]

I believe you. I don't. I think you're lying.

[Host 1]

They also just put a stick of butter into.

[Francis]

It's all butter. Yeah, it's all butter. Yeah.

[Host 2]

While we're on the food topic, I guess I'll bang this one out. But the. I went. Yesterday, I went out, like, went out. I went to get a. I went and got a panini. And quickly I real. I realized this is not a real restaurant. This is definitely like a front for something.

[Host 1]

In Queens.

[Host 2]

In Queens, they. They. I, like, get the food, you know? No. No. Cash or credit? Cash or. Zell

[Host 1]

Zell is like. That was the number one.

[Host 2]

I paid with.

[Host 1]

Zell Zell is like, there. Yeah.

[Host 2]

For a panini that's straight from my bank account. Guy comes over with a phone number written on a napkin. I was like, what is this?

[Francis]

What.

[Host 1]

What was the storefront looking like? Did it look like it has had

[Host 2]

a massive sign that said, like, paninis go in. They weren't panini. Paninis. It was a sandwich that.

[Francis]

They use a panini press on paninis and Oriental massage.

[Host 2]

Yeah. Whatever you were looking for.

[Host 1]

But you said it's not paninis. You said it's a sandwich that they use a panini press on.

[Host 2]

It was like a. It was like a hoagie.

[Host 1]

But isn't that what a panini is? Any. Any type of pressed sandwich?

[Francis]

No, no, no, no, no.

[Host 2]

The panini is the panini that you walk in. It's flat.

[Host 1]

But if you use a panini press on anything, you can make a panini.

[Host 2]

But you wouldn't use like a. Like a.

[Francis]

A.

[Host 2]

A role or like a. A hero for a panini.

[Host 1]

I Feel like I've seen hero Paninis, but I mean, Panini. I want to be on your side in this, so I'm gonna. I'm gonna drop my debate.

[Host 2]

I mean, it's Panini, like, but it's definitely not Panini.

[Francis]

But, yeah, I'm away one week and it's. It's YouTube.

[Host 2]

Yeah. Well, the moral of the story was that I had to pay for a sandwich with Zell, which I've never done. I've never even heard of that being a thing.

[Host 1]

You should check your bank. They might have stolen your identity.

[Host 2]

Could be empty.

[Host 1]

Yeah, they might have gotten to the fucking bottom of it.

[Host 2]

Have you guys heard about this? This, like, Meta Security thing that happened? That's happening. So Meta changed all of their customer service to AI. So people found out this. I'm assuming they probably have fixed it. It happened, like, today, but they found out that you can go. You can just message any, like, meta support and be like, I got locked out of my account. And then just send a photo of the person that. That I could send a. I could message meta. Send a photo of you. Say, I got locked out of my account. And they let you change the password because they use, like, facial recognition.

[Francis]

Oh, wow.

[Host 2]

Pretty big, like, lapse in judgment there.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Host 1]

Clowns. Clown operation over there.

[Host 2]

So I think, like, as of right now, like, anyone's Instagram is kind of just free for the taking.

[Host 1]

Really. Yeah, I gotta get into that. Was there you wanted to talk about that documentary?

[Host 2]

Oh, let's save that for.

[Francis]

Yeah, we'll save that. Yeah.

[Host 1]

Because I wasn't that. That girl, Like. Like, I don't know if it's the same thing.

[Host 2]

Too much.

[Francis]

Okay. Yeah.

[Host 1]

Did she want her mom to change her?

[Host 2]

I don't know.

[Francis]

I don't know.

[Host 2]

That's a good.

[Francis]

A good tease.

[Host 2]

We'll save that one for the Thursday episode.

[Host 1]

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Miles Garrett.

[Host 2]

Where?

[Host 1]

Oh, to the Rams. Oh, my God.

[Host 2]

All right. Yeah, I saw that. That.

[Francis]

Whoa.

[Host 2]

Yeah, it doesn't. That doesn't do much for me. Yeah. All right, we'll be back on Thursday. Thank you for listening. Goodbye.