
Jay's beloved Philadelphia Eagles lose to Black Lou's Cowboys and Jay seems to take it in stride. | Skankfest New Orleans was a monumental success and the guys have their favorite memories. At Skank Fights, Jason Ellis showed that he's still a lethal opponent by demolishing comedian Uncle Lazor. There was a cinematic ending during Taser Wrestling where combatants had to fight to obtain a weapon. Tim Dillon was a surprise guest as the Skanks all read excerpts from Luis J Gomez's new book. Jay tried to sing Prince's "Little Red Corvette" but got undercut by Josh Adam Meyers at the most crucial point. *To hear the full show to go www.siriusxm.com/bonfire to learn more! FOLLOW THE CREW ON SOCIAL MEDIA: @thebonfiresxm @louisjohnson @christinemevans @bigjayoakerson @robertkellylive @louwitzkee @jjbwolf
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So is Saldana.
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Sounds like my family drama.
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Bobby Lee
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Dan Soder
I don't want it. Water pussy. If you want it. Let me tell you about them whole green home green hair that he has a collard green. I'm a cowboy. Let me tell you about that country.
Bobby Lee
Congratulations, by the way. Patriots won. Kicked ass. I watched a little bit of your game. You were smoking them. Fucking, I mean, blew them out of the fucking water. It was like 20 or something.
Dan Soder
I thought I was doing a cool thing just now.
Bobby Lee
What?
Dan Soder
And now I don't like what you just did. I was doing a cool thing.
Bobby Lee
What?
Dan Soder
This song?
Bobby Lee
Yeah.
Dan Soder
This is what I was gonna acknowledge.
Bobby Lee
Okay.
Dan Soder
This song that we're listening to right now is what I learned in a strip club. In Dallas, Texas. Oh, it's my favorite memory of Dallas, Texas.
Bobby Lee
You're sticking it to learning song?
Dan Soder
No, not sticking it to him. That is my acknowledgement. Dallas played a superior game day one. Shut up, Bobby.
Bobby Lee
Dallas won.
Dan Soder
Shut up, Bobby, buddy.
Bobby Lee
I w. I was watching the game in the first quarter and it was the first.
Dan Soder
They were like 20 nothing, 21 nothing.
Bobby Lee
And they lost.
Dan Soder
Yes.
Bobby Lee
I watched my pats and they won. Close game, but they won again. I think they're number one in the league.
Dan Soder
But the thing is number one in the league.
Bobby Lee
Well, in the division. Listen, the thing is, they are number.
Dan Soder
One in the division, and I think.
Bobby Lee
Drake is probably the number one.
Dan Soder
He might be the future.
Bobby Lee
Yeah, he's the future.
Dan Soder
You know, it drove me nuts yesterday.
Bobby Lee
What's that?
Dan Soder
Did you see the thing before the Eagles game, Lou? The A.J. brown had a really good first.
Bobby Lee
First half, 20, 21 points.
Dan Soder
Well, A.J. brown, particularly the receiver.
Bobby Lee
Yeah.
Dan Soder
And they were like. Tom Brady was like, I wonder if this helped him at all. And they just show a video of before the game, Tom Brady in a suit, wearing the jacket, zipping fucking 10 yarders into his chest, back and forth. And you're like, fuck off, Tom Brady. Listen, take off the jacket, all right? You know, they're. They're tailored shirts, so they go all the way up to the armpit. So I. You could throw in a tailored shirt, a fucking suit jacket. Yeah, fuck him. The suit just flying up and he was just sending him in there and hot.
Bobby Lee
He's the golden boy, baby. Have you seen the fat guy that can throw like a 70 yard in a pocket? Just. There's like a net with holes in it for. To hit the ball. This fat tub of crap just runs. You hear him? And he throws it. Nails it. Just nails it every time.
Dan Soder
Or is it like dude perfect? I think like 7,000 ticks.
Bobby Lee
I mean, I don't think it's dude perfect because he hits 1, 2, 3, 4. Hits like six shots. That would. If it's dude perfect, that would take all day. It's just him sweating.
Dan Soder
Yeah, but.
Bobby Lee
So I'm sorry he didn't win. I didn't know that they lost. Oh, I know. They lo. They can't. That's a comeback is what they call that.
Dan Soder
No, it's called a collapse on this end. It's going to come back over there.
Bobby Lee
Oh, man.
Dan Soder
One of the greatest comebacks in franchise history. Was it really? Absolutely.
Bobby Lee
Wow. Congratulations. I'm gonna take it back from you and I'm gonna give it to you to Lou thank you. And that did rhyme. I'm gonna take it back from you and give it to Lou. Congratulations, my brother. You won a game. The greatest comeback in your sports team fame.
Elliot Kaelin
Woo.
Bobby Lee
Cowboys want it. They came back from nothing.
Dan Soder
What's up? I love. As I was looking down here at the sheet, the topic sheet.
Bobby Lee
Yeah.
Dan Soder
And we weren't in it all last week. You know, we have Skank Fest stuff to talk about. But the one. Just the wording of it. It says, jay gets Joshed again. And I said, someone's got to make us a parody song of, like, we won't get Josh again.
Bobby Lee
What sandwich should I have? I didn't know. He said he was fine.
Dan Soder
Get down on my knees and pray Everybody.
Bobby Lee
No, really. In the middle of Jay's song. Everybody get down on you.
Dan Soder
It was crazy.
Bobby Lee
Listen to me.
Dan Soder
It was.
Bobby Lee
I. I left Skank Fest.
Dan Soder
He almost did it to my slipknot song, buddy.
Bobby Lee
I left Skank Fest and I went back to the hotel, and I was like, dude, I can go to. I could just chill here, smoke a cigar.
Dan Soder
Sure.
Bobby Lee
But you were singing Little Red Corvette.
Dan Soder
Oh, we're talking about.
Bobby Lee
And here's the problem. Saturday night, I couldn't even get back. Like, the shuttle bus was. I was like. I took a ride with a fan. There was a fan. He's like, barbie, you need a ride? And I was like, yep.
Dan Soder
You seem sober.
Bobby Lee
Sure. No, he didn't. He didn't seem mentally correct.
Dan Soder
Sure.
Bobby Lee
I'm in this car, this. This ashtray of a car, coming back to Skank Fest. He dropped me off at the top. I walk all the way in, get all the way up there, get to the top. I'm literally like people I haven't seen in years. Hey, what's up? I gotta go. Jay's going on.
Dan Soder
Jay singing Little Red Corvette.
Bobby Lee
Little Red Corvette. First of all, I was very disappointed in you.
Dan Soder
Why?
Bobby Lee
Because you pussied out in the movie, you. I'm like, here it comes. Here comes.
Dan Soder
But also, you have to understand. Can I say something?
Bobby Lee
Okay, but you.
Dan Soder
If I felt like the song was going how I wanted it to go in my mind, I would have hit the dance. Josh was singing it all also, like, he doesn't know how. He didn't know how it goes. Exactly. So he's singing all over the place.
Bobby Lee
I said, video, Please send the video chat. I put video in the chat of my view.
Dan Soder
I was humiliating. I'm wearing the same outfit you really are.
Bobby Lee
I'm watching this, and I'm like, okay, this is going great. I was a little bummed out. You didn't do the side shuffle that you rehearsed in studio and promised that you were going to do. You didn't grab the microphone sexy. You didn't walk up sexy. You didn't turn, have your back towards it, and then turn to the mic at the beginning of the song.
Dan Soder
I didn't.
Bobby Lee
You just grabbed the mic and started singing. I can deal with all that because of. You got Joshed, buddy. There was. There was a thing. I'm like, he's doing it. It's wrapping up, and you can see it's the end of the song that in studio, you were so excited to see.
Dan Soder
It's the whole thing.
Bobby Lee
It's the.
Dan Soder
The verses are great, but the whole thing is the girl. You got an ass like I've never seen. Oh. And then I says, the ride is so smooth. You must be limousine. That's the big end. That's the big. And the ride is so smooth.
Elliot Kaelin
Buddy.
Bobby Lee
You brought. You.
Dan Soder
We didn't do that part. We didn't even do the limousine part.
Bobby Lee
Buddy. You. When he. When he.
Dan Soder
He just go. It was getting right to the park because it's. It builds a little bit. It's like a few measures of. No. Of just music. And then I was going to come in with the girl. You got an ass like I've never seen. And before I get, like, three seconds before I could do that, he just goes, oh, I want everybody right now to get down on the ground. We're gonna get down. And I'm like, why are you making me get down on the ground? Because next night we're doing fucking. The next night we're doing Slipknot. And it's the whole thing.
Bobby Lee
Nobody gets down on the ground.
Dan Soder
It's the whole thing that everyone's gonna get down on the ground for Slipknot. It's the whole thing. So I'm like, josh, I'm always going like, why are you making me down the ground now, Little red covet. Josh, I don't understand. What are you doing? What are you doing? You bowled over. The best part, dude.
Bobby Lee
He's like, what's that?
Dan Soder
Come on, everyone. Why aren't you getting down? Because it makes no sense to get down on the ground.
Bobby Lee
But if you could see what I saw, because I saw all these heavy people in the crowd not wanting to get down, and Josh going, come on, you got to get down.
Dan Soder
The energy. That song's not anything for this, buddy.
Bobby Lee
They got. I took video, and I have video of it. I have you whispering to him like.
Dan Soder
Putting the microwing everything.
Bobby Lee
Putting your mic over to you on your shoulder. Dude, not. What are you doing, man?
Dan Soder
Destroying everything I've worked so hard to build.
Bobby Lee
And then you see the people. The people get down and they have to get down like elephants. One knee and then to the other me. And then they're just sitting there shaking.
Dan Soder
There's no point in the song where you have to jump up for a little red Corvette.
Bobby Lee
There's no point.
Dan Soder
What are you getting down for? There's no jump up moment.
Bobby Lee
And then the point where you realize you were getting Josh and you got down on your knees. Slash tippy toes. And you were just uncomfortably on your knees to play the video. It's good to. You gotta. I. I don't know if you can see it. It came in kind of shitty. Yeah, this is right now. You're talking to Josh. He's screaming to the come on. Nobody's listening to him. Everybody's like, I don't want to get down on my knees.
Dan Soder
Nobody wants to. Why?
Bobby Lee
We want to get down on these. And you're sitting there. This video stinks. You really can't see it. Yeah, but I have. I zoom into this lady in the front row who's almost. Look at all these fat, fat motherfuckers are like, what are we doing? And there's a lady right there that's looking at her husband going, help me. And then you finally give in. You finally given.
Dan Soder
It's over.
Bobby Lee
Nobody in that crowd wanted to get down on their knees.
Dan Soder
There's no point in getting. I don't know if they wanted to get down for the Slipknot song, but they all merrily did because they know we were going to do a thing. This was building up to a thing that's planned. Josh just starts going, get on the ground. I'm like, why? Where's. What is this leading to?
Bobby Lee
You can see people discussing it going, should we? I don't want to.
Dan Soder
I wouldn't have.
Bobby Lee
I think so.
Dan Soder
I would have hard line stared right at Josh. Why are we getting down?
Bobby Lee
And he had to get down, down to get them to get down. He's begging with him now.
Dan Soder
I'm the only asshol on stage not on his knees.
Bobby Lee
Yep, you're standing. And then.
Dan Soder
So now I got to do it.
Bobby Lee
Now you do it and you do it reluctantly, of course. I was howling in the Bob.
Dan Soder
You have to understand, there's nothing left for me on that stage. He robbed the moment of the girl. You got an ass like, I've never seen the whole thing. Yeah, he robbed that moment. That moment's not coming back. So now we're all getting on our knees. I'm done. There's no more song to sing. Why are we on our knees? Why am I still up here? Bring up the next person.
Bobby Lee
I'm going to win them over because I'm good looking. I'm cute, I'm funny, I'm talented. He's standing in front of the monitor, too. I mean, it's. It's. You're still standing at the end. Everybody's on their knees. Uncomfortably on their knees, by the way.
Dan Soder
No one knows why you can hear me screaming. No one. When they got up, no one's jumping. They just stood back up. They were like, oh, thank God we can stand up.
Bobby Lee
Well, because they all have fucking torn ACLs from getting on their knees.
Dan Soder
We're singing Little Red Corvette in a song. It's not even a song anymore.
Bobby Lee
Nope.
Dan Soder
We're just saying Little Red Corvette over and over again.
Bobby Lee
Yep. Oh, I was so.
Dan Soder
He got me good.
Bobby Lee
He got you. He got Josh good.
Dan Soder
Dude, he got me real good.
Bobby Lee
Oh. And I realized it as soon as he said, everybody get down, I was like, this is the part I came for.
Dan Soder
Did you?
Bobby Lee
This is the part I came for.
Dan Soder
I'll tell you what you should have came for, buddy. Did you watch the Skank fights at all?
Bobby Lee
Yes.
Dan Soder
Did you watch all of them?
Bobby Lee
No, not all of them. I had shows because if you would have seen. Worked me like a dog.
Dan Soder
Yeah. If you would have seen the championship of the taser wrestling.
Bobby Lee
I didn't see.
Dan Soder
That is the craziest thing I've ever seen in my life. Thank God Joe List is making a documentary where he was there for that. It was a movie fight.
Bobby Lee
I don't. I saw the battle. Battle Royale, which was awesome.
Dan Soder
It was crazy.
Bobby Lee
I mean, Paco is.
Dan Soder
God bless. Papago is a gangster.
Bobby Lee
No, I don't. I'm not fucking with Paco.
Dan Soder
Paco and Drew Montana. Both of them. Paco and Drew Montana were number one and two in the Battle Royale. Boxing.
Bobby Lee
Yeah.
Dan Soder
Where every minute another person enters for 15, 16 minutes. And Paco and Drew Montana were first two in the ring.
Bobby Lee
Yeah.
Dan Soder
And Paco was down to the final five, and Drew Montana was number two.
Bobby Lee
Yeah.
Dan Soder
I talked wild, dude.
Bobby Lee
I talked to Paco about it. Who won?
Dan Soder
Jamar.
Bobby Lee
Jamar. I talked to Paco. He goes. As soon as they saw him knock out, he. I guess Jamar knocked somebody out.
Dan Soder
Exactly. What happened. Jamar knocked out term from. From Palmer Squares. The. The rappers. And he knocked him out.
Bobby Lee
And Paco just went down to his knee.
Dan Soder
Not Paco.
Bobby Lee
No, Paco. When he saw that, he was like, I'm out.
Dan Soder
Oh. And it been. So did Drew Montana.
Bobby Lee
Yeah.
Dan Soder
Drew Montana also was just like, yeah, I'm all right.
Bobby Lee
I'm out.
Dan Soder
I'm not like, I'm gonna get knocked out. Everyone was so tired.
Bobby Lee
But I talked to Paco. They were like, they. Their plan was those two big guys that went in, they jump them. They go. Would jump. We're all ganging up on those big guys. And they did. They just took them out, which was hilarious.
Dan Soder
Great.
Bobby Lee
And then they would go to each other, go, do punch me in the stomach. I'm done. Paco just punched somebody in the stomach. And they're like, I'm out. It's such a funny thing, but I didn't see the Taser.
Dan Soder
Well, the Taser, the first.
Bobby Lee
What is it? What is. What is the rules?
Dan Soder
So they put a Taser in the middle of the ring. Two guys in either in opposite corners, and they ring the bell and then rush for that taser or try to win. You know, it's just. It's whoever gives up first.
Bobby Lee
Okay.
Dan Soder
Is all. The thing is, first fight was insane. The guy. The guy went for the tape. The guy who got the Taser started, like, you know, while he's taking a second to kind of like, you know, they're like wrestling, and he's kind of figuring out how the Taser thing works. Unconscious.
Bobby Lee
Didn't have it ready to go.
Dan Soder
It was. But it probably might have got, like. Doesn't matter. You can get hit when you're doing the thing. So he just grabbed it. And this is. This fight was 10 seconds. The guy got behind him and choked him unconscious. So the guy who held the Taser never had a chance to use it. It was that fast. It was pretty awesome.
Bobby Lee
Wow. Are these professional fighters or just regular?
Dan Soder
Just ballsy, tough dudes, man. I mean, I think a lot of the people who get in these things, like, they train a little bit. Because the guy. The guy who choked him out the way, how fast he got on the guy's back was like, he knew what he was doing.
Bobby Lee
Because Jason Ellis is a pro. Professional.
Dan Soder
Jason Ellis has been professional fighter for you.
Bobby Lee
Yeah.
Dan Soder
So, you know, Uncle Laser is not.
Bobby Lee
He's not. Can I tell you?
Dan Soder
Did you watch that fight?
Bobby Lee
Yeah, I did, because a little bit of. I had to go because I had a show again.
Dan Soder
Christine, just work you to death.
Bobby Lee
Work me out. You gotta go do the Legend show. I'm kidding. You're the best. She is the best. I love her so much, actually, she's the best. Her and Rebecca are in a different place.
Dan Soder
I mean, Skank Fest is a different place. It was it impressive. Best one, definitely.
Bobby Lee
By far. They are. They are different people in my heart right now. I love them so much. They're the best. They put on the best festival ever. But can I tell you a moment I had that was. I feel, like, a little weird about. Because of the way I felt when I was asked. Sure, Jason. So we were. Oh, yeah, we were in the Dude Cigar lounge. That's where Jason was getting ready with the other guy. Laser Larry. What's his name?
Dan Soder
Uncle Laser.
Bobby Lee
Uncle. They were all, you know, in there, and I was talking to Jason, blah, blah. We talked all weekend. I really liked that guy, man. He's such a fucking great guy.
Dan Soder
And Jason.
Bobby Lee
Jason Ellis. And he came up to me, he goes, I want you to be in my corner. And I was like, I. I'll. I'll be in your corner.
Dan Soder
You were like, kaniki, I want you to be my second dude.
Bobby Lee
I felt like it.
Dan Soder
Did you guys do one of those weird like. Like, punch each other first.
Bobby Lee
Hugs, buddy. I was like, I want. I want him and his girlfriend. He's like, I want my girlfriend and you to be in my corner, Nate. And I was like, yeah, I'll be in your corner, man. And I was, like, getting ready to be in his corner. And then someone came in like, you have a show. And I was like, I'm sorry, man. I can't be in your corner. And he was like, all right, mate. It's all right. I was so sad that I wasn't because I was going to walk him out. I figured I'd be in the front, like the Gracie's, where he'd hold my shoulders, walk him out, and I get to yell shit in the ring. I was so excited.
Dan Soder
I should have did it. I should have rapped Bring the Pain as you guys. I should have walked in front of him down to the ring.
Bobby Lee
Yeah, well, he asked me.
Dan Soder
He didn't ask you to ask me to do.
Bobby Lee
He asked me to be in his corner.
Dan Soder
I should have offered to rap Bring the Pain by Method man on the way to the ring. The coolest.
Bobby Lee
He might have said no. I mean, I think it meant no to that. Well, because he. It meant something to him. We made a connection.
Dan Soder
Now you got to bring up the scene from Great White Hype. Method Man, I want to do this so bad for somebody. I don't want to fight ever, ever. But I do want to rap somebody into the ring.
Bobby Lee
What if we put sumo wrestling blow up suits on and we have a sumo fight?
Dan Soder
Oh, I would do something funny like that for sure. Yeah, that's not gonna do. I just don't want it. Here's the thing, the risk versus reward. If I go in there and get nothing, anybody gives a shit ultimately. But for me, like to get fucking stretched out by some chance in front of all our fans and I just feel like a fucking doofus, man, I hate that. Great. Oh, what a movie. Is this the great White hype? And nobody ever has Method man come out and do bring the pain in front of them. But that's what I want to do. Check it. Just how deep deep is the abyss and brothers is met. They accept it on your coat of Lee Cross.
Bobby Lee
That was when Method man wasn't jacked.
Dan Soder
No, this is original Method Man.
Bobby Lee
Imagine him coming out now with just one sleeve out.
Dan Soder
I'd love it. If you recall Jason Ellis fighting Uncle Lazer. And he and Uncle Laser, to his credit, said what happened afterwards, which I thought was great in the ring. If you heard that, be told what happened when I was commentating, David, tell Joe Lister. And at one point, Jason Ellis just didn't put his hands up. He's had him down by his waist. And Uncle Lazer got off like four shots from the shoulder, I mean, throwing into them. And then Jason, you know, didn't look like it was too bad on him. Like it looked. He was expecting it. And then he like did it again. And then Jason, I think put him down pretty quickly with a body shot afterwards or like made him stop for a second. And I was like, when he first did that and hit him those four or five times, each time I was like, uncle Laser, get out of there. It's over. Don't, don't do it anymore. Run. I would run. You're going the wrong direction.
Bobby Lee
Just lie down.
Dan Soder
And then. But he said after the fight in the microphone, he was like, he goes, he dropped his arms and he goes, touch me. And he goes. So I hit him with everything I had a couple times. And then he went, touch me again. And I was like, yo, dude, that would scare the fucking shit out of me. That would scare the shit out of me.
Bobby Lee
Fuck me up too.
Dan Soder
Anyone went down, he went over and started pretend butt fucking him on the ground. He did the thing he said he was gonna do. Like, Jesus Christ, you can't do nothing about it.
Bobby Lee
That was a great fight.
Dan Soder
I've really become friends with Jason over the years, man. I liked him a lot.
Bobby Lee
Jason is a really good guy, man. He is. I hung out with him a little bit this week that weekend. He was great. Wow. Lewis did gain weight. Holy manga. I mean, standing next to Tim Butterly, he's like, wow, he's got. He's got big Dominican hips. Look how thin you look, though, next to. What's his name?
Dan Soder
No.
Bobby Lee
Look at that guy in the crowd.
Dan Soder
Who is that, the girl?
Bobby Lee
No, the guy.
Dan Soder
Harry Turjanian.
Bobby Lee
Oh, Harry Turgeney. What a great name. All right.
Dan Soder
Yeah, it's. What is it? Armenian? Yeah, whatever. Christine is. Just found out today in a video, Lena the plug, Adam, 22's wife, that they do porn together. Armenian.
Bobby Lee
Oh, there you go. You guys are actually.
Elliot Kaelin
I'm sure family's real proud.
Dan Soder
I'm sure she didn't do porn when she was younger because she had ridiculous body hair.
Bobby Lee
She had a barber for her ass in the back. She had to go into a black barbershop once a week.
Dan Soder
Yeah, dude. Jason came out in pink fighting gear and just massacred a guy.
Bobby Lee
Yeah. He was telling me in the back what he was gonna do.
Dan Soder
He just did it. Exactly.
Bobby Lee
He did exactly what he was gonna do. I watched the fight later, the whole.
Dan Soder
Fight, and he stopped showing Butterly. It hurts Jacob too much.
Bobby Lee
It really does.
Dan Soder
It hurts him so much.
Bobby Lee
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So is Saldana.
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Dan Soder
Wait. What the.
Bobby Lee
What? What's wrong?
Elliot Kaelin
I feel like I can't get to the fight.
Dan Soder
Which fight? Uncle Laser.
Elliot Kaelin
Laser?
Dan Soder
Yeah, it's pretty quick.
Bobby Lee
What was it?
Dan Soder
Uncle Laser?
Bobby Lee
Oh, he hurt his knee or something.
Dan Soder
He said he heard Uncle Laser. Yeah, I don't know. He was not all right, though.
Bobby Lee
He said that he hurt his knee. He kept going down because of his knee. That's what Jason said. I talked to Jason after. He's like, I didn't get to the part where I really wanted to hurt him.
Dan Soder
Yeah.
Bobby Lee
Because I guess he wanted to let him hit him and then he wanted.
Dan Soder
To get, like, worked up.
Bobby Lee
To worked up. Get all whipped and then give him body shots, bring his arms down and then hurt him.
Dan Soder
Yeah.
Bobby Lee
And he. And Jason wanted to really.
Dan Soder
And he went down from the body shots.
Bobby Lee
He really. Because they were in the dude cigar lounge as the dressing room, and they. He was talking shit to Jason, buddy.
Dan Soder
I was there.
Bobby Lee
Oh, yeah, yeah. It was crazy.
Dan Soder
Jason started laughing.
Bobby Lee
He was just laughing.
Dan Soder
And I believed. If it makes sense, I believed his laugh. Do you know what I mean by that? Because I'm not saying I wouldn't do that either. If there was a guy and I still. If I wasn't sure if I. If I'd beat him or not.
Bobby Lee
Might laugh like.
Dan Soder
He might still kind of laugh like, ah, whatever, dude. Whatever. Like, Jason was genuinely laughing. He was like, oh, this guy doesn't really know what's gonna happen, does he? This guy actually thinks he's like a fighting chance in hell he's gonna do anything. I'm gonna hurt him.
Bobby Lee
Yeah. Jason was giggling like he was at a comedy show. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Dan Soder
He was just talking. He was like. He's like, look at him. Oh, that was the worst. When he goes. He goes, show me how you ball. He goes, shadow box for me. He goes, I'm Gonna show you, man. I'm not gonna give you looking at what I'm doing. And then he started shadow boxing, like, anyway. And Jason just started laughing at him. Oh, God. Oh, this is so discouraging. Uncle Laser, get out of here.
Bobby Lee
He kept saying, he's got the Philly. The Philly shoulder. That's the Philly whatever move it was. He kept doing it. He did it one time, and Jason didn't acknowledge him. He did it again, and Jason didn't acknowledge it again. It was like, ah, shit.
Dan Soder
It was so fun to watch, though. All those fights were great. And then. And then, like, the. I mean, the skank. One of the highlights. I mean, obviously, Lewis's book reading was one of the funniest things.
Bobby Lee
We've all been a part of Lewis's book reading. I had. Do you understand? I went in there thinking, I don't know why, for what reason, I don't know why that we were going to read his book.
Dan Soder
You thought it was going to be just like a nice, pleasant reading, like a Barnes and Noble.
Bobby Lee
I didn't understand. It just didn't hit me because I wasn't asked to do it. I didn't know it was happening. And then they were like, oh, Lewis was like, I want you to do the forward to the book. We're gonna do a book reading. And I was like, okay. And I didn't know who was gonna be on it. And then when I sat down, I didn't understand that you were on the left of me, Dan was on the right of me, Zach was at the end, and Dave was next to you. I didn't understand. I thought we were going.
Dan Soder
And then, let's not forget. Yeah, surprise.
Bobby Lee
Tim Dillon comes walking also, by the.
Dan Soder
Way, consider all this emotional shit going on. We're reading Lewis's book, which is written in earnest. You know, I mean, it's not a comedy book, so I'm saying it's, like, written in earnest. And so we're already there kind of making fun of it. But so Lewis is already in a. A space that's kind of a weird place to be in for that eventually. And then Tim comes in, who said he wasn't coming to the festival. So Lewis actually gets emotional about Tim showing up. Like. Like, Tim showed up for him.
Bobby Lee
Yeah.
Dan Soder
And like, when he said he wasn't coming. And so, like. And then sing that. And then tim reading the 911 chapter.
Bobby Lee
This is when I knew everything was. This is all. I had the wrong. I had the wrong read on the room because he said Read the Ford now. I was like, okay, I'm gonna read this. I wrote it. I'm gonna read it. And the first line I read, I heard. I think it was. You went, oh, God. I went, this is gonna be bad.
Dan Soder
We predicted what you were gonna write next to one of the things you did.
Bobby Lee
You actually went, what'd you write next? This. And then the next line was exactly that.
Dan Soder
He goes, lewis is a guy who's taking a lot of sh. Kept him down. And I go, he keeps on swinging. And it was like, yeah, yeah, that's the next thing. Oh, wow.
Bobby Lee
Well, because I wrote I just for my defense.
Dan Soder
I know. I know his defense.
Bobby Lee
I wrote him. He said, write the forward. I wrote him a couple paragraph forward.
Dan Soder
Funny.
Bobby Lee
That was taking some jabs, but funny, cute jabs, but pulling it all together. And then what a great guy, how hard he works, and what a great dad and a, you know, person he is at the end. And I sent it to him, and he was mad. Like, he was like, what the fuck, man? This isn't the forward of my book, man. I want you to write what you really think of me. I want. So I was like, so you want me to write some deep shit? He's like, yeah, dude. I want you to say what you feel. I really want it to be emotional. I want it to be mean. I don't want it to be this, you know, roasty, horseshit. I was like, okay, dude, I'll do that. And not knowing.
Dan Soder
Not knowing that one of these are. Read it in front of a panel of your peers.
Bobby Lee
Because if you. Because if you read it in context, if you bought the book and read it, you'd be like, this is beautiful. But if you put me on a stage with you, Dan, Tim, Dillon, Zach, and Dave, it's. Nothing in that book reads true. It all reads just like you're being a.
Dan Soder
You're being a fucking a goof. It's like you were trying to be funny and being serious.
Bobby Lee
Dude, the turtle, the two turtles is such a beautiful little story that he told about.
Dan Soder
He kills two turtles, murders two turtles because he has me. He goes, and then I didn't give a shit about turtles anymore, and they just died and rotted out to have.
Bobby Lee
All of us just smash everything. And then Tim read the 911 chapter. The 911 chapter is the best, one.
Dan Soder
Of my favorite parts. He goes, tim's reading. He goes, you know, his girlfriend's father picked her up, so she had left, and he was just in the city by himself that night after 9 11.
Bobby Lee
And he said there was no way out.
Dan Soder
He just goes, no, it wasn't that. He said. He goes, I was sitting in the hotel room, so depressed and just feeling down because my girlfriend had to go home. Tim's like, keep in mind there's people being pulled out of rubble. Pete Davidson's father, gone forever. Lewis is sad because his girlfriend had to go home for the weekend. Yeah.
Bobby Lee
Firefighters, Boeing, dead bodies from the rubble, flaming rubble, not knowing that they were breathing in toxins.
Dan Soder
Kill them 20 years from now. Cancer is being born 25 years from now.
Bobby Lee
And then when you guys. He rollerbladed back to Nyack over the. Over the. George Washington. You guys are making the. Oh, God. Dude. It was probably the funniest. Funniest podcast I've ever been a part of.
Dan Soder
But my psych. Most psychotic moment of the festival, that was like that. Breathe. Just breathed everything. Skank fest to me was the girl getting in the. We did the Miss Gang Fest pageant for the first time.
Bobby Lee
Yeah.
Dan Soder
This year I didn't get to see.
Bobby Lee
It because I had a show and.
Dan Soder
Yeah, yeah, your slave. But. So you must have heard about this because everyone was talking about. One of the girls gets in the ring and she goes, I'm so up on mushrooms right now. She's, I'll bare knuckle fight any in this place. And then you didn't know about this?
Bobby Lee
No.
Dan Soder
And then another crazy girl who was in the contest starts running back in the ring. Like, I'll just. They don't have any problem with each other at all.
Elliot Kaelin
No.
Dan Soder
They just goes, I'll fucking do it. And she gets in with anger. Like, they're angry at each other right away with no real anger. Very bad girls. Clubish. It was awesome. And so they're being separated and Zay.
Bobby Lee
Was like, no, no, no, no, no.
Dan Soder
And then someone genius threw two pairs of boxing gloves in the ring and two mouthpieces. And someone's like, you want to let him go for a minute?
Bobby Lee
And I was like, yeah.
Dan Soder
And then the girls put on the gloves and beat the shit out of each other for a minute.
Bobby Lee
Really?
Dan Soder
And then maybe hugged after. I don't even know. It was so crazy. And that girl didn't win. Neither one of them won Miss Gang Fest.
Bobby Lee
But they did win.
Dan Soder
I mean, everybody won, really.
Bobby Lee
They should have got.
Dan Soder
I love the winner of Miss Gang Fest was just the sweetest, pretty, very normal black girl. Was she really named Charmaine? She was just a sweet, like, sweet girl. Her talent was like, you know, it was Ms. Gangfest, people. My Talent. I could swallow my fists or whatever. This girl was like, here's a joke. And it was like a little cutesy joke, but everyone just loved her. So they were like, when it just came time to voting for who, it's like, she's just the sweetest girl. We also love that she was like. Because she doesn't look the part of a fan of a. And she was a big fan. Like, she knew all, like, the stuff. She's like, a huge fan of skanks and shit. So we were like, oh, hell yeah, dude.
Bobby Lee
I love that the van had to go through security, and the. The code to get in was. Was core values.
Dan Soder
I know.
Bobby Lee
And I was just. It was just so weird to see.
Dan Soder
The fucking lady would have to go, core values. Yeah.
Bobby Lee
Some black lady and a black dude going, core values. I'm like, do they know what the core values are? No, no, no, no, no. It's like, maybe you just pick skanks next time.
Dan Soder
Skanks would have worked, but someone can guess that.
Elliot Kaelin
Yeah, we will have to change it.
Dan Soder
Rattlesnake. Rattlesnake's a good one. Yeah.
Bobby Lee
If anybody.
Dan Soder
But now people will know because I said it here.
Bobby Lee
Anybody typed in Legion of Skank's core value, they could have find that real quick.
Elliot Kaelin
I think we had some janitorial staff get offended the first day.
Bobby Lee
Oh, really? Yeah. I would have met, but I'll tell you, man, what a fun. That's not me chewing, by the way.
Dan Soder
Sorry, janitorial staff.
Bobby Lee
That's old Christine jokes.
Dan Soder
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah.
Elliot Kaelin
At the 88. So, you know, it's just what.
Bobby Lee
At the theater went in, you know. Oh, really?
Elliot Kaelin
No, no, not the theater. At the. At Mardi Gras World.
Bobby Lee
Mardi Gras World, Yeah.
Elliot Kaelin
I also had one of the janitors ask me why the floor was wet. I was like, because there's a ton of people spending all the money at the bar. Floor's a little wet. It's kind of your job to mop it up.
Bobby Lee
You guys. You guys had food down. The indoor part with the food was. The food was insanely good.
Elliot Kaelin
I love that. That's Patton's Catering at Sean Patton's family, their catering company out in New Orleans. And they took the best care of us.
Bobby Lee
Green room was amazing. So big, was so open, and food and snacks and drinks everywhere. The dude, cigar lounge was.
Dan Soder
That was awesome.
Bobby Lee
Fucking awesome.
Dan Soder
Being on the water like that. It was on the water looking at it, so you can see it right there. But, I mean, it also. It was protected. It Wouldn't let everybody in, couldn't see. And most people didn't. It wasn't even feeling they were missing something because like you couldn't see tell it was. It looked like it could be like a. It might have been like not a storage, but it could have been like. Like soundboards or something. Whatever, anything.
Bobby Lee
It was. It was so awesome that hang. Cuz it was. And she made it such a tropical vibe. So when you went in there, it was just this laid back, everybody just chilling, talking, quietly hang. And then if you go up to the green room, it's loud and crazy and everybody's. It was just. I like the fact it was different vibes.
Elliot Kaelin
I like that too. I like that you guys had. I like that there's just more space. There really wasn't that many more people. But there were so many different areas to hang out, like for guests and comics. Yeah, we really loved it there.
Bobby Lee
The only thing I didn't like was the weed in the dude cigar.
Elliot Kaelin
Well, there's gonna be two tents next year. We already solved the problem.
Bobby Lee
I mean, Christine, now I can't hang.
Dan Soder
Out with my Bobby.
Elliot Kaelin
No, they'll be right next to each other.
Bobby Lee
Listen. No, listen, listen. You can smoke weed.
Elliot Kaelin
No, you can't have Jay smoking weed. Nobody else can smoke weed.
Bobby Lee
Are you?
Dan Soder
Why not?
Bobby Lee
Why not?
Elliot Kaelin
Because as soon as they smell weed, they're gonna say, think it's okay to smoke weed?
Bobby Lee
J Only this is what I just don't want. I don't want bags of weed all over the cigar lounge. Cuz I went in there one time and there was like 15 dudes. I had no idea who they were just rolling joints. And it became the weed lounge instead.
Dan Soder
Of the boot them.
Bobby Lee
I don't mind like Jay or whatever lighting up a. I don't give a.
Dan Soder
Was his Uncle Laser getting. Did you guys see this at all though?
Bobby Lee
No.
Dan Soder
I mean, he's so terrifying. Jason.
Bobby Lee
Well, you could just see he's in his underwear. Jason has professional boxing shorts on. Oh, that's a nice shot.
Dan Soder
But it's just every. Every shot he gets is him letting him.
Elliot Kaelin
Yeah, Jason's also retired and not supposed to fight.
Dan Soder
He can't. I don't think he could take dangerous.
Elliot Kaelin
Fights, but I guess this one's not that.
Bobby Lee
I'll tell you what, I'll give Uncle Lazer credit getting in there with him. Ye never do that.
Dan Soder
Hell yes.
Elliot Kaelin
Ballsy as.
Bobby Lee
Yeah.
Dan Soder
No, there's no way Jason is a pro fighter.
Bobby Lee
Yeah. I mean this Uncle Laser looks like he hunts alligators. That's his body type.
Dan Soder
But the argument would be like, he's not a pro for you. He just had pro fights. He has had pro fights. But he wasn't like a ranked fighter. I don't believe in any. No, he was never like, a ranked fighter or anything. He trains, but. He trains. But here's the thing. But here's the thing. But when Jason Ellis goes into fights that are like, this lopsided, he's fighting like Shane. Remember he fought Shane Carwin who knocked him out.
Bobby Lee
Yeah.
Dan Soder
But it's like, you know, Jason ells is crazy to jump in that fight, and he did.
Bobby Lee
Oh, wow.
Elliot Kaelin
You see Jason's also, like, standing over.
Bobby Lee
Him, bitching him out. I love that one. Has headgear and Jason doesn't.
Dan Soder
Jason anywhere. Headgear.
Bobby Lee
It's like, that would scare the out of me. Just that. Dude, you're not gonna put headgear on. No, don't need it. No.
Dan Soder
It'S just. It's just in the way.
Bobby Lee
1, 2. The commentary was hilarious, too. Look at his stomach hanging over. Oh. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
Dan Soder
No, that's him telling him to do it. That's where he just. You see, he's like, wait, back up. Is that where I say run?
Elliot Kaelin
I think so.
Dan Soder
They go, back up a little bit. Because that's hilarious. Yeah, back up.
Elliot Kaelin
Oh, God.
Dan Soder
Oh, Jesus. You backed up way too much.
Elliot Kaelin
I know how it went so far.
Bobby Lee
That's all right. Look at him. He's got his little wing wang, though. He has no cup on, so you can see his little. He's got a little heart on. Why does he have, like a little this? He's got a big piece.
Dan Soder
Turn it up so you can hear the comments here. It's like a black athlete.
Elliot Kaelin
I love the Gravitron. Guys watching.
Dan Soder
I mean, it looks terrifying. You got a feeling. So that's the first where he goes down. That's why I won't do it.
Bobby Lee
Is that Nina?
Dan Soder
Yeah.
Bobby Lee
What's worse, getting knocked out or having your book read by us?
Dan Soder
I don't know.
Elliot Kaelin
I did. Like, there's a point.
Dan Soder
I might rather fight.
Bobby Lee
Tim.
Elliot Kaelin
Read some passage of it. He goes, well, if you read that, you might think it's a real book.
Dan Soder
Yeah.
Bobby Lee
Oh, man.
Dan Soder
Yeah. Here's where I tell him to run.
Bobby Lee
He does.
Elliot Kaelin
I mean, Paco, really? Oh, my God. Oh, God.
Bobby Lee
They just lit him up.
Dan Soder
That would scare me so much.
Bobby Lee
Here we go. He.
Dan Soder
He.
Bobby Lee
He bangs him in the butt. That's it. Such a fun festival.
Dan Soder
That was fun. I go, that would scare the Living out of me. If I just gave everything I had to a guy and he just went like this. Yeah. He goes, good try. Try. My arms are so sore from punching you.
Bobby Lee
You should get Colin to go next year and do a tough crowd review.
Elliot Kaelin
You should get Colin. You and Rebecca.
Dan Soder
I'll box Colin.
Elliot Kaelin
Your friend Colin.
Dan Soder
You heard of your firm calling you out? Quinn secret. Me versus Colin Quinn, boxing ring.
Bobby Lee
He'll fight you.
Dan Soder
No, he will. I'm not fighting Colin Quinn.
Bobby Lee
Dude, that'd be great. I'm not gonna fight Colin Quinn, national treasure.
Dan Soder
I love Colin.
Bobby Lee
Are you talking about Jay being the national treasure?
Dan Soder
No, no, no. It was definitely Colin.
Bobby Lee
I didn't like that.
Dan Soder
It was Colin for sure.
Bobby Lee
My. I fought Colin in Japan. We fought. Yeah, we did. And I beat the out of him in Japan.
Dan Soder
On the beach.
Bobby Lee
No, we beat.
Dan Soder
We.
Bobby Lee
We were at a Marine base and they had the fighting pit. It was all rubber little pieces of tire. And we went in there and fought for real.
Dan Soder
And you won.
Bobby Lee
I took his shirt and I pulled it over his head and I held his arms around such a fucking hockey hooligan.
Dan Soder
I know. We have to go.
Elliot Kaelin
We should say, too, that our Skink Fest show is going to air this Wednesday.
Dan Soder
It is?
Bobby Lee
Oh, this Wednesday.
Dan Soder
This Wednesday we had a very fun show, very fun bonfire.
Bobby Lee
We're gonna do a post on it, too. We're gonna be talking about what happened, all the stuff.
Dan Soder
Maybe a pretty good.
Bobby Lee
Maybe a pre.
Dan Soder
Maybe a post. We'll see how it goes.
Elliot Kaelin
Either way, it's gonna be 40 minutes.
Dan Soder
Either way. 40 minutes of show.
Bobby Lee
It's like a trance.
Dan Soder
We'll catch you tomorrow on the bonfire. Tonight.
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Bobby Lee
Hello, podcast friends. This is Elliot Kaelin from Smartless presents Clueless, interrupting your day to tell you that season two of Clueless has just launched with special contestants Max Silvestri and Gabe Liedman of the podcast I Need U guys. In our first episode, I'm puzzling them with questions about the elements and the return of our game State of Confusion, where you use state postal abbreviations to create a word that solves a fiendish clue.
Dan Soder
Listen to the latest episode of Smartless Presents Clueless.
Bobby Lee
Wherever you get your podcasts, you will.
Dan Soder
Never forgive yourself for missing.
In this episode, comedians Big Jay Oakerson and Robert Kelly recount their wildest moments at Skank Fest, New Orleans, focusing on Jay getting “Joshed” during a karaoke performance—robbed of his big moment onstage by co-host Josh Adam Meyers. They also break down the chaos of Skank Fest’s infamous staged fights, including taser wrestling and boxing matches, and reminisce about hilarious behind-the-scenes antics. The show’s signature blend of unfiltered comedy, inside jokes, and camaraderie shines throughout, making for a lively, behind-the-curtain recap of the festival’s best/worst disasters and unexpected triumphs.
On being “Joshed” at Skank Fest Karaoke:
Dan Soder: “He just goes, ‘I want everybody right now to get down on the ground’... then robbed the moment of the big lyric. That moment’s not coming back.” [07:55, 10:56]
On professional fighting vs. festival tough guys:
Bobby Lee: “He [Jason Ellis] was giggling like he was at a comedy show...he was like, ‘This guy actually thinks he’s got a fighting chance?’” [26:05]
On the absurdity of reading Lewis’s autobiography at Skank Fest:
Bobby Lee: “If you bought the book and read it, you’d be like, this is beautiful. But if you put me on a stage with you, Dan, Tim Dillon... nothing in that book reads true. It all reads just like you’re being a goof.” [29:36]
On the mayhem of Skank Fest pageant:
Dan Soder: “One of the girls gets in the ring...I’ll bare knuckle fight any bitch...out comes another girl—beat the shit out of each other... and that girl didn’t win!” [31:54, 32:27]
The episode bursts with the classic Bonfire energy—raucous, blunt, self-mocking, and anchored in the wild authenticity of stand-up comics who’ve seen too much. The hosts freely lampoon themselves, each other, and the madness surrounding comedy festivals, with an undercurrent of affection for their peers and a reverence for the absurd. Every story is painted with sarcasm, candid frustration, and roaring laughter.
This is a must-listen if you’re interested in what happens at comedy festivals after the shows end, or enjoy inside stories from the comedy scene. Highlights include brutal honesty about live performance mishaps, real talk about the reality of new comedians trying to fight each other, and an epic, emotional roast of Lewis’s unexpectedly heartfelt book. Even if you skip the sports banter, the camaraderie and disasters of Skank Fest make it a hilarious ride.