Jake Storieli (57:59)
Yeah. And they like, you know, I think we had the picture up on talking baseball or, or somewhere and you know, it was a nice pick. It's Trav Whitworth, the Staffords and like Trevin, you know, Trevin Stafford now or guy guys that. I was like, you know, there's some Whitworth ripple effect here, right? Walk up to Whitworth, one of the biggest humans you've ever seen. You know, slimmed down, looks good, but just a big frame. I was like, oh, John boy media, we do baseball stuff. Trevor Plouffe is kind of boys. It's after now. And he just gave me like, okay, it's like, all right. So that's, that's not going to lead to any follow ups. That's bad. Leaving the Whitworth conversation, Panick saw it as his window to go in. Panic bowls me over. On the way to Whitworth, my foot got stuck under like something. I basically go down is a tough scene. Panic apologized to me after, but it was like, okay, we're probably out on Whitworth to today. I don't think it's happening. We're on like the empty float not moving for a while. Parade's supposed to start at 10. It's like 10:30. We haven't moved. Oo's kind of in the front, you know, just casual. Hey, how are you? We're back there with Rob Riggle kind of hanging out. He was cool. Not a, not a ton of, not a ton of back and forth, but he, he was cool. And then the parade started and it was kind of nervous. You're like, okay, are we throwing beads? Are you hitting people? Do you need to like, what are the rules of engage here? Is this parade going to be a mess? Is it going to be fun? Like what is it going to be a show? It was a blast. It was a blast. You throw first couple beads. And I was like, okay, people signed up for this. And there's a couple turns where people were going crazy. It was crazy to see how excited people were for Rob Riggle and you know, got, got some love myself, love the podcast. There is a. My favorite moment. There is a Mets. I mean once he got into a rhythm, like you had a game plan and if people were calling for him, you're kind of trying to shoot. I mean, two hours I was just tossing beats non stop, non. I didn't. I Took one break to post something on social media because I was like, I should. But that was it. There is. This is bro in like a Mets jersey. That was like Rob Riggle. He took out his phone, he was all excited. And I was like, I'm going to crack this kid. Cracked it. Dropped it right in the bucket. He turns, he looks at me, he's like, John Boy. So I was like, that was. That was a perfect situation. It was crazy. I mean, New Orleans knows how to do a parade. And yeah, we were kings for a little bit. Just hucking beads, kind of no rules. You're making people's day. Like just that feeling of being in the crowd and someone's like, yeah, and then you hit him with the beads. You're great. Part of our society. So that was good. That. But again, that was just two hours locked in. We get off the float, get lunch at the closest place just because like our brains weren't working yet. Chris Rose was in the area, met up with him, walked around with him a little bit and his wife Michelle. Great to see them. And then, yeah, we had to go back to Bourbon street to kind of finish off some of the shorts we were recording. Bourbon street had multiplied and become pure chaos. Just pure chaos. And we weren't there. Like we. We had come down from the parade like eight lunch come down that. Now we're back in Bourbon street. It's hot, it's 80, it's steamy out. People are drunk. It's all football fans from all over. It's Bourbon Street. That. That was a bad time. I kind of had a dip where I was like, oh my God. Like, we gotta. Let's film a couple things and get out of here because we have to go to the Captain Morgan party in a couple hours. So we did that. We go. We reset. Me and panic are panicking a little bit because we planned outfits with jackets and we just got cooked by the sun. Captain Morgan party starts at 7. So the sun would be down, but it's Bourbon Street. Temperature came down enough that we were good and then went to the Captain Morgan party. T Pain supposed to be playing. Makes sense now. But they only had Captain Morgan drinks. So you're like, okay, so we're gonna going to be having Captain Morgan. We found a safe place to establish ourselves. Little second floor table. VIP ish area that it was like, all right, let's get some space. Let's get comfortable. We did that place was when we got there, place was kind of empty. Starts getting packed, packed, happy. We had Our side table. It's good to have a home base. And then, yeah, it starts getting close to T Pain time, and it's packed, and he was playing on the first floor, so we could. We could kind of poke our heads and get it. Get in there. But if you really want to see T Pain, you had to. You had to wrestle. We didn't do a ton of wrestling, but we were there. We had a good time. Towards the end of T Pain, there's four floors. The top two floors, you couldn't see T pain. We went up there. There's just space. We had an area. And then basically, same thing that got. That got packed. And we were like, all right, we've been. We've been at this Captain Morgan party for four and a half hours. So we went back on Bourbon street, walked around half crazy, half not crazy. Everyone's on a different timeline, especially with Super Bowl. Like, you know, some people are getting their night started at midnight. Some people have been dead zombies for four hours. Like, full mix that. We walked around a little bit, nothing super calling our name, and we. We had to fly out the next day. Panic's not a drinker. So, you know, that's. However many hours we were on Bourbon street of him being sober. That's a tough. That's a tough ask for anyone not putting the blame on him, because we were. We were coming up against it, too. But, yeah, the city was on one. It's a city that's normally on one. The super bowl, an absolute chaos multiplier. And, yeah, I think the city. The city has some different dynamics between its waterfront and the French Quarter. That, again, the afternoon on Bourbon street, that was brutal. Everything else was okay. Even that Saturday night, because I think there was enough different events spread out that it's like there's. There's a reason that they were having their 11th Super bowl in New Orleans. 11th or 12th. So, yeah, it was cool to see. Kind of would have been fun to go to the game. I. That was an interesting question Jess asked me when I got home. She was like, were a lot of people going to the games? And I guess I was like, if they were. If I met someone who was a Phillies fan or Eagles fan, they were going to the game. So, yeah, I think it becomes an equation because there are all these, like, work companies and stuff that goes. That I think by the time tickets get sorted, it's like, if you're. If you're a fan of that team, you figure it out. Like, if you're an Eagles fan, that works for DraftKings. I think you, however, probably however you have to land. Well, if you work for DraftKings and you're not an Eagles fan, you're like, well, I don't have to go. It'd be sick if a ticket is offered, but if not. So that's kind of how that sorted out. Okay. Flight home. I'm trying to think what other other good celeb Greg Olson was in the airport, didn't say hi, had a little hip wiggle to his walk that it was like, wow, you probably got hit by the strongest men in the world for like a decade. Good looking guy, also thinned out trying to think what else. No, it was, it was a good trip. It was, it was kind of grindy. Just because like we're on Bourbon street having to do work. It's kind of the opposite for everyone else. It's a weird feeling. It's man on the street, just not my strength.
