Polly Feitelberg Is The Reason John is at Barstool Sports - Full Interview

oh e coli christmas was as uh like just nobody wanted to stay with him well truth be told i knew it was bad meat when i cooked subscribe to the podcast kfc radio on youtube bang all right i said this is the most nervous i've been for an interview what are your nervous levels i'm i'm you know because i know you're your mom you're just running this like okay i got i got nothing but but it's got to be a little different for you right it's of course is very different yeah okay are you nervous uh yeah yeah yeah i'm gonna loosen up though i'm i'm preparing okay yeah we can get the whiskey um well i said i'm nervous almost because it's like it's such a highly anticipated interview okay let's not do that i'm just like i i don't wanna i don't wanna forget anything or miss anything like i don't want it to come out and people will be like how could you not bring up this or that which is so much definitely well there's just so much history we'd have to have like a 10-hour interview to get everything who's history are we going over well i guess we can go over everybody who knows no but i mean well you know we this is in june will be our 10th year doing this and i always joke crazy crazy right i mean i can't even count the episodes it's got to be in the thousands and i always joke that like once a week he'll tell me a story that i'm like how the hell have you not told me that story yet like 10 years in you just dropped this on me and it's just because it sounds like he has led one of the weirdest lives ever no you guys were that's our normal well i guess that's the question is it normal like like um well first of all do you ever you ever listen to the show did you ever like beginning i have not you never even did no okay yeah my my my that was that was what i said when i first started like i got like the internship and i was like never read anything never look at anything we're the same ones they're pretty good i never listened to my dad tell me not to listen i don't think well dads are different yeah you didn't give it to him like you gave it to me no you were i i vividly remember telling you i was sitting at the top of the stairs in the kitchen at the old house and you were like putting dishes away or something and i was like so i'm gonna be an intern at barstool never ever look at anything ever yeah and i probably didn't give it to him as clearly yeah but he's he's violated that yeah i i don't know if it's i don't know what it is but like people from our generation of barstool all were the same way like didn't want parents sisters girlfriends reading it that's why we used anonymous names at first i was i remember you getting mad at me about no you never did i know yeah what the hell yeah that was on me it's like you know your name isn't whatever it's a smith yeah yeah well that's why so when we started i said you can have a job but you have to use you have to use your why did you say that because at the time everybody assumed that feidelberg was a jewish last name and at that point i was the only non-jewish guy so i was the only girl here was the only gentleman you did it for yourself oh yeah definitely because at that point it was almost like a little story line that it was like i was the only christian it was it was a boston catholic guy but a new york a new york catholic guy but a boston jewish guy like it should have all been reversed yeah yeah and so i just thought it would be a funny storyline that now i have a jewish guy working uh under me and he just he emailed me back and was like well i'll use my name but i'm i'm not doing it and it makes sense once you realize that german and you know a lot of those which would be he still thinks he's a lie like like says he's not jewish well because you are well like heritage sure like back uh ages ago not ages what like well i was not raised jewish wait was that completely made up or are there jewish people in your family of course yeah yes it's just yeah wreath on the door like you're no longer and then right then the catholic came in hard then that's [Laughter] uh but yeah so i actually didn't even think of that until like things really started getting like barcelona started cooking and i was like oh yeah like you know and you're done like you're fighting that's it this is this better work it was chaos i never i never know yeah and [Laughter] yeah and everyone on the other end wasn't allowed to look or see or read was like why is he the only one who says yeah yeah well luckily it all did work out but it would have been interesting if it didn't no it's kind of fun um but it is funny that like uh uh i feel like if somebody you know i'm thinking about my own kids now getting older if they got a job and told me like don't look at this i'd be like you look absolutely yeah it's not fun though right because there's a reason you're saying don't yeah yeah but i also [Laughter] my mom has been kind of similar like as long as you're happy and making money and good like whatever yourself right but also i don't know i've always thought like boy if she knew some of the things i don't know if she would love it so or were you just are you the same way like if if he's good you're good totally yeah yeah that's number one if he's good i'm but also like he has his own history he's making his own way he's you know he's not seventeen although how old were you ten years ago twenty-three you know no i was twenty-one when i was twenty-one yeah yeah and i'm sure you've heard the story he's only here because of me his father had like no way you are not going he's not doing this we had a little yeah oh yeah yeah he cannot go he cannot do that was it like he's this wasn't i wasn't privy to this i learned this fairly recently yeah i wasn't part of the interesting okay so tell me about that was he gonna do like the family business is that what you're [Laughter] you know not like i had all the any of the answers really but hey he's going to follow his dream he'll fail or he won't and and then maybe then we can direct plan b right yeah well it does because you can't not do something or you will forever think i didn't do something thousand percent so i mean could you imagine if all this happened and you were just like oh i gave it up no i can't i thought about it for a second there no i would that would be tough and then super suicidal someone remember when yeah even more so now i'm like kind of [Laughter] was it um was it like did it take a lot of convincing or was he like you just said like you know john yeah i guess so right yeah yeah i took a stupid question but now he thinks that because he agreed he's the hero and that's okay i mean it did take a little while to probably uh think it was worth it i mean the first few what how how long were you getting paid like a couple hundred dollars a month is that like the first couple years so yeah and and then it was well you got to get a part-time job you got to do something else well that's when kevin got yeah and it's like what well because also you remember when i was in many colleges you uh had to back up to college you wouldn't let me there were two jobs but basically two jobs a college kid can have oh yeah delivery and uh bar back bar back so she did have some input on what job you can what if his dream was to be a bar back that dream was not allowed i guess there was yeah i remember i got him a bartending job a guest bartending job oh my god and you're into it you had to like make a drink or something was that you well no no no not i mean it was it was the worst bar in the well it was the funnest bar but it was fun because it was a it was a [ __ ] hole and so the only thing they said they asked like can you just wear black and i don't think you had like you had to go by i had to go buy black pants in a black shirt i mean maybe i didn't have to i'm sure i thought something i could have thrown together i ended up losing money right had to buy clothes and then nobody came i thought i thought it was because i loved barstool so much at the time that i thought like oh one post and like the bar is gonna be slammed so did i brother i was like [ __ ] we got some work to do yeah and and then kevin kevin showed up and there was literally no one else it was like just us and then kevin just left like a 200 tip but even that was too much i got either i'd spent more on the black pants in the black shirt so i lost money that on that bar got some good duds yeah yeah but so so anyway a couple years in it starts to like work a little more and i guess it was probably a little bit easier to swallow at that point where it was everybody everybody's happy yeah yeah do what you do you know but well one of the things we always talk about here is the college experience of john because we have like half and half now are people who graduated and didn't graduate and he's captain of of the non-degree team and it was what six six colleges right and did not we we i think we we it's so same mike's umass dartmouth fsu i want to make sure you don't forget you haven't forgotten yeah back to umass dartmouth a little bit and then um pc yeah and then nyu when i first came here yeah but there's another one there's another there's another one yeah i always think i forget one i know there's that nobody says she's gonna unlock some stories i always think that there was like one other that i forget i don't think i ever did bcc i think it's just those ones yeah but i always do feel like i forgot one yeah i do too oh well you are i you had oh yeah but you are i was from i was in spain yeah but that was in college but you got college credit for you all right and that's why i keep saying get all of those credits they're going to add up yeah no i probably have two degrees i've asked him before i mean if he if we found out that he was only like a couple credits short and he went back to school it would be one of the greatest videos despite six years it's the only thing i've ever heard and be like no you know anything else he's like i'm down to try it i'm like why don't you go back to school well film it no no he's like no i hated it that much but if no you didn't i think you would be talking about different just just like this past week he said uh what's the line you know that wherever you go you go yeah yeah yeah yeah so you're there common denominator there uh to my mother but from john lennon oh okay got it i got it uh yeah it's funny my my mom's uh my mom's the thing she was passed down from her mom to me now is don't ever punish yourself because we never got grounded and she was like i don't i didn't want you in the house more i'm not going to punch myself don't everybody just tell them that was one of john's punishments just go run around the house outside and then we'll lock the doors and count i i always give you credit for the uh it's about the not being a punisher which you weren't um but you were also like the invented mental health days yeah what about the mondays off the monday's off kid yes yeah i you know you lose track right like is it the third monday or is it the fourth monday and then it was really bad what what do you think the number was i think i usually call it i think i usually call it somewhere between seven and eleven but i've heard you go so was i as high as 18. it's as high as it has to be reported to the state like first of all who is the state and and like to the point where the principal said just pull up and beep i'll come out and get him i'm like no i can't do that i'm like that that's weird that's embarrassing report me to the state will i go to court over this but i'm not going to be embarrassed by my husband officer will come to you just like kicking and screaming like he just wouldn't go or what like what what happened when you would get to the school we wouldn't even go so what happened at home he was just like i'm not getting in the car yeah did you try to like grab him by the ear pull him by the hair like you were just like no all right it's not today not today i'm kind of i'm starting to feel that with teagan already because he's stubborn as [ __ ] and sometimes i'm just like well i guess we're not doing this like you're not eating dinner or you're not you know like well then you'll have you know you'll have a consequence i don't know what it will be still figuring that one out yeah you'll probably fail third grade he's not going to care about that one yeah second grade second grade right right because it was mrs taylor so we're talking you know let's split in the middle and say 15 mondays off which is what roughly four months honestly i was like how many really you're sure can we go back like one of them was a holiday right one of them is not a monday everybody had that monday columbus day or something like that um and what was the conclusion of that like did he like did in third grade like the summer rolls around and the next year starts and he just he was okay going that year i think the principal and he had a chat i was in privy too but no the reason you didn't go is because a friend was was taken from the classroom he was in special needs yeah and john wanted to be special if he was if he wasn't there i wouldn't go and i was like i want to go to class with him i don't know if i knew that or not that's funny he couldn't read and i was like i'll dumb it down but you didn't know why he was so one kid it was just a peaceful protest is what it is no he wasn't cutting he was like the teacher comes in and calls for the special teacher yeah comes in and calls for the kid who needs a little assistance to help yeah and you know the only person that notices is john and he's like he's gone i'm gone i'm like where does he go where does he go i want to go next thing you know he would have been enrolled in the special classes just had friends said yeah i can read i can do that sorry i started breaking dyslexia in second grade yeah that was that was interesting so that was one of his big that's that's one of the like that sets the tone a lot of times when i'm like yeah well you know he just didn't even go to school just one day just one day it was second grade what do you need to go to second grade they didn't get anything for perfect attendance then you know yeah no i i remember first hearing it kind of being like wow like i don't i don't know i feel like you should make sure the kids go to school and now that i have kids i'm like yeah i barely want to send them ever they make you get up so early you need to put on this uniform and it's a whole thing like it's okay baby so i definitely after having my own kids could see you know if it was up to me they'd probably go like twice a week yeah that's all i mean that's all you need until high school right like so also what do you think second grade he's he's kind of given a hard time about you know getting up and going and there's three more right he's like no way i'm not putting everybody in the car listening to this this is not fun i much prefer like let's make more cookies and watch sesame street i'm just stunned that the the rest of the kids weren't like they weren't in school yet so they didn't have to go anywhere oh there's that one is there's two years between johnson hannah's in kindergarten she probably went with a friend hannah was always your friend someone picked her up did they go to school when they were like two no like everyone does now it's crazy i know i had no i was not prepared for that as a parent at all no they were like she was two i mean i know it is good but it's also it's always it's it's only good yeah how are you saying it's a good thing you know we'd make cookies and watch sesame street but no it's good that they're going to i definitely think shea you know is like smarter and whatever but like if none of the it's all even you know if none of the kids go like the only reason i i agreed to like really do it was like she can't be the only one because then she's gonna be like the dumb yeah yeah yeah but when i heard she was two and and i'm getting tuition bills i was like this is insanity okay so that there wasn't any there was a little like a little preschool before kindergarten for like two hours where you'd like drop them off and go to the market right basically yeah so the other kids aren't making a stink and then by the time they're in school he's he's going five days okay so it's just a quick yeah like 18 blips on the radar unbelievable we're all learning you know yeah i didn't know how important school was i didn't know that was going to say he's never going to finish college that was one of my all-time favorite lines when we were at my sister's graduation um my my older sister she's the older of the sisters but she's younger than me and uh we were at her graduation and i had gone to six schools hannah had just stayed in the one ben had changed to two neely had done two so that was like 12 schools and one diploma i was so proud i got four kids 12 colleges and one diploma that is funny that was funny and i know and i'm sure though the bank accounts are even funnier that's what schools they went to not what schools we visited to go to but after doing all of that like college touring bologna and you know over and over and over and over again i was like i should get an honorary yeah yeah you're like a professor now yeah almost except i only learned about the gyms and the um cafeterias that's all they freaking talk about when you go to a school we have a lovely gym in the best cafeteria okay that's why we come here right i cook pretty good we have a nice backyard so i guess we can do this at home a lot of money you've done good by the way you just you said freaking and baloney you said you weren't going to swear on the show i don't know why that's the rule but okay i don't know who's listening i didn't tell anybody they couldn't listen whenever this happens i don't even know if it's happening i don't know what's going on uh one of the other things that that always jumps out is um his maybe like the first real like feidelberg story that like took off is the uh chris the e coli christmas which which is so crazy that people are like there's no way this is real this couldn't have happened i think we need to call jonathan you need some backup and not so much backup i mean like i think he needs to have this conversation oh it's very real your unlicensed sister must drive you to cvs to get the worst medicine for you at this time for your condition but we think it's right what was it pepto-bismol just your belly hurts there you go and that's the last thing you should do for e coli apparently you're like what did you give him wait no no that's a that's a different christmas oh oh you were you were a young boy for e coli that was that was my appendectomy that's right i've been to the hospital twice on christmas um when you had your broken ankle or wrist or something and and you didn't go for like knuckles no broken knuckles for like he had like broken bones for like a week before he went somewhere and what's wrong with those like i can't close my knuckles my mom says just have a glass of milk all right strengthen your bones you gotta start shattering yeah maybe the milk will put them back don't jump right to the hard stuff right you gotta you gotta take a step that could fix it yeah between the the broken bones the e coli and the appendectomy it seems like it was always putting off the hospital oh yeah yeah you don't need them you don't need them you're gonna be fine so e coli christmas was as uh like just nobody wanted to stay with him well truth be told i knew it was bad meat when i cooked but i didn't have anything else which is another thing i would have said in the past like how could she do that and now i'm smelling the milk like right right you shake it you shake it yeah it just paints a little bit it's not sour anymore was he almost this way he pukes like five times a week was he always this way what's wrong with you every time we bring up anything he pukes he pukes like twice a week well actually that's interesting too because hannah's bedroom was next to his and she's like my he makes him weird well there's the normal there's the normal i don't know when it started but now obviously with a few a few miles on the car every time you get up it's like ground groaning and all that but every time anybody brings up anything remotely gross maybe i feel like it has gotten worse over the years that could be deep maybe that's what it is bad meat sour milk well i remember you cook the bad meat i remember that thing i could cook it out it makes sense one of the doctors being like when they're trying to figure out what's wrong with me if you were like they were like now like is there any chance you could have eaten some rotten meat and i was like no and then in the middle of you saying no you go yeah yeah oh yeah absolutely that's not even the chance it's 100 confirmed [Laughter] all right so he's sick you take him to the hospital and and it's christmas like eve christmas eve i think no no eve day right even today well that one might have been a little earlier that the happened after me was definitely christmas eve day um i feel like the e coli might have been like two days earlier and i stayed through i forget exactly but he's forgetting one other christmas hospital that he was too young to know that he didn't what's that one so my mom and john both john's grandmothers between the two of them had uh 13 kids right so my mom and my mom and seven john's mom had six and one christmas john's on the couch like as white as this and this is you you you and you're young you're because probably just you and hannah so you're probably three four and you know like when they can't breathe and your bellies are going in like really deep and you're like it's getting thin right before my eyes he's wasting away i don't know this at all okay all right so bad shallow breathing so both both grandmothers right who say hey we've got 13 years of 13 kids experience between us what's going on with john like i was fine like no no he's not fine he's not breathing right i'm like what do you mean he's not breathing right and i'll never forget it they like lie you on the couch and then look both of them like hmm again 13 kids we've never seen this and i don't even remember who suggested it do you want to call the pediatrician like you should it's christmas who's working we can't possibly bother them so we did and we went through the whole thing and you know did the hot shower get the air you know open up his airways yeah yeah he had asthma but oh as well it wasn't horrible but it was that like an asthma attack for a three-year-old you literally couldn't breathe no he's fine we're having christmas like this yeah yeah he's not even adding into the conversation and it was so funny because like he doesn't even want his presents he doesn't want any cake he doesn't want anything i'm like that's john and honestly i told him yeah checks out not that he's slowly losing the brain is shutting down so we've had asthma attack appendectomy e coli and those are the three christmases the three christmases three christmases that should be the title and so so i'm kind of liking this see it's funny so for the um for the uh the last one the appendectomy how you were at fsu uh no i just got kicked out of the same mics oh okay so were you silly me that's that that was the problem we didn't care that he was sick we didn't know that he got kicked out of st mike's but we knew something was bad right and you know his friends are everyone's home from college first christmas blah blah blah and john's kind of retreating a bit what's up john the father do you see his grades i'm like no i haven't seen his grades when you see his grades i'm like i think that's the problem you thought i was faking it i thought you were you guys i remember that you were doing everything you could to possibly not show us your grades and we were so bloody stupid like we didn't have like we didn't do the parent thing where we had access to his grades or you know because you're 18. right you're an adult the day before you go like you have to do everything for him yeah after and then after that like you have no rights okay fine so yeah he'll do the right thing absolutely so you think that he's he's this is all grade related and he's just like he's just stressed out he's just whatever he'll figure it out and again his dad we got to see his grades we got this he was great so you remember dad called you into our bedroom and you had like the living room wrench in second grade he was over and um they're all in the living room chit-chatting all the eliza and a bunch of kids a bunch of friends and um dad calls you in he's like i want to shoot your grades right now and you're like nope no i don't remember this i don't know how you make people do things i've never i've never been able to do that they wanted to kill you and i'm like just let them go out let them go out and then you were out and then you came in the next morning you were dead you were like we went to that movies and i remember we were playing sully was playing uh like deer hunter one of those games and i was like guys i gotta go home like i really don't feel good and they they they played a few more games but then they brought me home i went right upstairs went to bed woke up in the morning like couldn't stand up and dad i remember dad being like i've had a hangover before congratulations yeah welcome back no look i went to the movies last night dude like it's not a hangover i've had hangovers you're right like i've been to college he's like suck it up but then it's christmas your mother's downstairs making cookies i don't make cookies often but at christmas time i like to make cookies so anyway yeah then you came down the stairs and then i think you kept the hole in the wall that christmas kicked a hole was out of stress yeah yeah you know that you're right i punched a hole in the wall here just yesterday and sometimes it's just not the right wall it's just really really weak i didn't really like it i didn't wind up or anything was there was there did something specific happen or just christmas stress loaded up and you're just like yeah yeah yeah we like hung a wreath over it not a wreath a soldier that had a velvet uh shorts that put candy in it excuse me it was like crazy like what the hell this is perverted but that'll work it was like gay [Laughter] just watching him hit the break the wall why did you do that it was it wasn't that you know it runs so and then but the e coli christmas he's in the hospital and and we're people just kind of coming and going like we got christmas stuff to do of course he was well taken care of [Laughter] i remember you guys being like you stopped in before you went to joann's and you're like i was like all right christmas eve parents are here and they're like you guys are like all right so you're all set did they give you a popsicle done yeah do you want a purple or a red popsicle i'll get that for you and then i gotta go got your popsicle problem i don't know what you're complaining about man i don't i don't get the big fuss what about um the babysitters of the family he's he's tortured some babysitters along the way were you privy to all that um as it was happening either or yeah well they you know all about it now oh yeah yeah yeah but when it was happening i know about our five-year rule yes yes which is one of my favorite things ever i didn't know about the five years and the five-year rule was like just like thrown upon you well was it the mushroom how did it yeah it was better that is one of my i've said we need to write a tv show one day just to have that what like an episode be that like write seasons of material just to have one episode where that happens because it is it's almost too preposterous to even be real well john henry tried it on us last night he was john and i are you five ruled him hi five-year-old yeah yeah last night so he's telling us his story but but you could tell you didn't have your story down and it's like um what was it the layover or something to the airport and i'm like this is a weird story when was this this is the xanax story like when i took xanax it's not really it's like a great story no the the part about the story i'm telling is that all of a sudden you're like it was [ __ ] because i guess ben had done something with john and whatever created some nonsense but john and i are like what is the story instrument he says five-year-old girl yeah then i don't even have to figure it out when i was in jamaica my brother just handed me a pill and i took it no no no no five years i know five years that's right that's right i don't make the same mistakes he does but that was that one was we were at top of the hub we were at was it was eastern easter it was easter easter it was i think it was the first time you guys had met my girlfriend at the time yeah yeah and and we were telling stories or whatever and then we were talking about five year old and better had a couple drinks and he's like oh yeah and he's like when when gramps died i i had taken well well you you tell him yeah how does how does the backstory come across so it's uh nine years ago so it's way past the five year old now so we're john and i go to the vineyard we get on the ferry my dad's really sick but not like he's just in the hospital sick but anyway okay so that's all part of it and so we're going to go because you know we don't really visit people in the hospital so he's there and everyone in my i'm one of seven as i said everyone's there but we're going to leave and my father insisted god go ahead go to the vineyard have a good time okay great so we're on the boat we're literally like between new bedford and martha's vineyard halfway away yeah and my brother calls you got to come back this is tough so okay we get we get back now of course ben is aware that we're going away so ben does his thing yeah yeah 20 years old 21 years old he's doing his thing i i didn't even know he was out in the woods somewhere he but the funny part is he calls my brother because i guess the word gets out perhaps died so we're all going to come back home and um so ben calls one of my brothers to come get him and um to this to that story like when i heard the story until very recently i thought my brother was the culprit of the the things that ben and his cousin did so i'm like oh my brother's a real [ __ ] holy [ __ ] i can't believe he would do that like where away i mean he's 50 years old and he's part of this party thing right and he's feeding these guys this [ __ ] it was hysterical and i remember like telling my sister like i can't believe i can't believe he would do that and she's like you better check the facts it doesn't sound like him at all so the five-year rule was obviously not followed and the facts weren't given out all that well so right that's a long story a little too long there but were you were you aware of when he um locked uh i think consuela is here [Laughter] not when he did it but yeah yeah i know that's fun she didn't want to say anything to you like she quit i was no no no she she got fired not by me i don't do that either they're gonna show up they're gonna stay yeah yeah that was funny yeah he did a lot of it i thought that's better i locked her in the basement and i fed her i fed her cheese i think give her her freedom back she was i don't know i honestly don't know what she'd done to deserve to be locked in there's yes there's some things you can do to get locked to deserve being locked in a basement nothing that a babysitter would be doing so um so there's the babysitters there's oh one of our favorites is that weird guy who coached his baseball team oh my god freaky yeah yeah so weird came out of the woods stood at the end of our driver we had a slightly steep driveway not crazy but you know he'd just stand there and i'm like now why would i say john henry your coach is here i should have gone on like what are you doing here yeah but i'm like hey johnny like he was his friend your coach that calls all of you [ __ ] at one time after you lose the game you're seven eight maybe that was insane [Laughter] and you would come and just play catch them i don't know what do you want [Laughter] and then his father comes home and was like what the [ __ ] going on oh yeah like yeah get this guy out of here yeah i don't like to not be nice so i'm just like it's crazy the amount of parallels i don't fire people i i i don't wanna yep a lot a lot of things were passed on i can see that for sure it's in the dna yeah like i figured you know he's probably not a horrible person just a little creepy you know he doesn't see that he's blind he's just a little creepy i'll let my seven-year-old go to the woods let him figure it out you report back i like to do that yeah i think you can figure this out and all the while our the rest of the kids um like are they they're better yeah they're they're better there were others a little different yeah i can't explain why a little different yeah they all turned out a little different i was the first one the first one to experiment yeah that's true that is true everybody's learning everybody's learning [Laughter] so all right so then like through college so you know he's i guess what you're playing hockey growing up right that's a big part of of the child you don't do much hockey though never no no that's something else you don't do yeah i wanted john to play basketball easy easy normal time i know it i he doesn't play basketball well no he plays basketball like a hockey player he just hits you and pushing i remember you trying to break in the rules that it was like giannis plays like a football player [Laughter] i mean he's awesome but he's not too good playing the right game what was my first doctor's name dr delaney dr delaney you guys first wake you went to you [Laughter] how old uh probably 12. the doctor's dead let's go look at that yeah yeah crazy that is crazy he was my doctor he was john's pediatrician like we had this huge connection to dr delaney and johnny i'm like johnny dr delaney dad we must go to the week okay mom we got a family doctor that has done enough for the family over the years we might know how to show up like it was a little loose with the prescription bent some of the rules for us we'd probably always do them yes the uh another one the i think when i originally told i thought it was mem's funeral but it wasn't mem's it was uh barbara's when you made us take our christmas card we were all like crying that was so funny the christmas family that's just that's just economical parenting right right now i'm not gonna fight about putting on your plaid for christmas like right you gotta do it now take the picture wait that's actually a great life hack is that make sure every wedding or every funeral is like you wear red and green yeah yeah right right why are we dressed like that's right right you just pull that card out you get nine months in the year you're like hey someone died great let's go you got your clothes on great now smile that was funny anything else that like um like stood out about him like when he was you know like before the college years because then the college years go right into like the barstool years really but was there anything in the like when you see what he's doing now was there any was there ever a moment where you like are like oh yeah we kind of knew he would do you would be creative or come up with these ideas or do stuff like this do you remember your art teacher at the y no it's probably the first trans person you ever met but we didn't know and his name was karen and he was awesome he was he was truly he was really really talented and you could really draw with him and but john's a pretty good drawer too so that was a cr i have no creative skill set at all creative with your parenting yeah yeah um right no tangible creative talent and yeah so yeah john always had a creative side because i mean when once you know like saturday's if the boys and and sad boy season some of the ideas he has like i do think his brain just works differently differently yeah we've been trying some good and some bad but it's certainly different but there was nothing like when uh you know from like middle school and high school years that was like stood out or was different it was just regular regular yeah pretty regular pretty average yeah yeah just be the normal guy yet at the same time the most unnormal person one of the things that this came up very recently when you're like how did you talk about that uh a formative thing was the fact that you used to take me to the dentist and get my teeth ripped out what the what what did i say what my baby teeth how they didn't have enamel oh yeah yeah yeah yes and he was also another good doctor actually it's really interesting pediatric dentists have the highest rate of suicide because they create they cause pain to such an innocent whatever and this guy was awesome he was really cool really calm he used to play those little games when he was in your mouth let's rephrase that i told you he was molested i think i was reading something in the waiting room like i think i'd probably just stop being a dentist before i killed myself yeah yeah yeah it's really money's good though yeah but i love podcasting all the time podcasting will soon be the highest suicidal but yeah so what his teeth were not the enamel was not correct or right so we just yanked them yeah baby teeth no enamel i don't know why probably some genetic thing not just the cigarettes and the booze during the pregnancy i don't know could have been gonna be my brother's mushrooms i'm not sure i'm not really sure what happened there something happened and what i mean it was hot it was like relatively time for his adult teeth to come in or did you walk around toothless apparently you must have to look at some old pictures yeah i mean they were like like like a ton of teeth we're not talking a couple we're talking about johnny i don't know how many babies put them under the pillow yeah they ripped a lot out i forgot about that that was the freakiest how old is that that was young because i remember you were so he was just toothless for all these years well your teeth come in like what are you like you must have been like i think it was before you went to school do you like four or five you get how many rounds do you get multiple rounds of baby teeth no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no so you gotta wait so he so he's young he'd come in yeah yanks him out and then he's good hang on you gotta hang on they're coming faster if there's nothing that could be that could be yeah i didn't ask any questions that's what you need to do doc get it done no i think about it it was a teaching school no seriously he was probably like it was a practice get rid of them you get a second set it was a teaching hospital we'll just uh just get rid of them yeah those come in eventually eight years from now when you get your i had braces but very briefly like six months but senior year high school so it was like the worst time to have them did you have to wear a retainer afterwards i was supposed to yeah they never moved my mom i used to break my wires because i only had the first four so then there was like all the whole way back was wire without brackets yeah yeah so if i hit it with my tongue or whatever there was so much room for it to break and i would break them and i'd be like that's broken and i would just never say anything and then like we go to the doctor or the dentist and he'd be like well you know this is broken and these teeth have completely moved and it's like all over here like this must have been broken like judged by judging by the movement like at least like three weeks and i was like no way it must have just happened yesterday um okay so then then we get to the barstool years and well i guess in between is the party years so so there's some partnerships that i don't know that you ever shared which was probably my um i don't know you may have shared i don't know i don't listen remember um when so another thing you told no i said to you you were home from st michaels and you were going back and you were going to take you you came home on some 18 wheeler with some person like in a truck through canada no i don't know if you went through canada you did you did yeah you say that all the time i've told you this and sometimes you're right a lot of times you're not i'm like i would remember that [ __ ] so so he's so he's leaving to go back and it's it's never nice when he comes home and it's never nice when he leaves it's that feeling of like oh [ __ ] something's amiss here but we don't know what that is so we keep going and and he's going back to school now and i don't know again you're getting on some i don't know how you're getting anywhere but you went [Laughter] no car no nothing i don't know i don't even know if he got to a bus or what i had nothing to do with it so he just walks out the door and i just said yeah bye and i said i'm resourceful i'm restored don't call me till you get back now why i said that i don't know but it took him three days to get back so i and apparently it's like call me when you're safe yeah do not do nothing until you get back it's different i'll never forget it because like one day went by another day when i'm talking to a good friend and i'm like ian i don't know what happened he hasn't called and she's like how many days and i'm like two she's like that's too many yeah but i said that's why you could legally call someone missing two days that's where the police will start work i'm like super literal and i said but ann i said don't don't call me so he's not back so he's somewhere he went somewhere i'm assuming he went somewhere else right so the third day he calls and i was like where have you been he's like you said don't quote me i got off at the wrong exit remember you slept on a on a bench park bench and oh is this montpelier this is yeah yeah yeah yeah all right so yeah yes yes so that was one of the ones where like i stopped in toronto yeah that was a story that people were like no way this is true it was so true a cop who woke me up came to our show get out of here yeah yeah yeah he was the one who uh or like his son found us at our live show in new york and was like my dad wanted you to have this shirt from the police department yeah there's like a man wanting a police hat there's a sweatshirt around he was like anybody who says that's not fake uh that's not real like yeah well and he had oh yeah he gave a note anyone who says it's not real like a little or yeah but you took the wrong exit you got off i got it it was a boss yeah yeah yeah in the wrong at the wrong exit in vermont like not your school exit yeah but because i told the woman so you said i said why didn't you call me and you said because you said don't call me i get and i didn't get back till just now and then you told me like i went here here here that's interesting and guess what he didn't go to school monday told you that one was going yeah yeah right no i'm just thinking it through and i'm like patterns patterns yeah i i i people ask me a lot about bars to when they're like what does your family think of of like the rest of the job like not him at barstool but just like barstool in general did you know about barcelona just like i feel like up in new england like everybody kind of knew what it was but did it translate to parents and stuff like that yeah yeah yeah yeah so you mean when you first started father though did your dad know about like what before my dad i'm sure i before we just yeah because i i read it before i started obviously and so i'm sure i shared something with mike you did yes like i was just like what is this right he told me i don't need to know so i'm not going to go looking so and yeah i have to go like this i truly haven't gone yeah i mean now it's such it's become it probably is more of a thing that parents and people know about but then so much smaller but in new england it felt like maybe it was something like everybody knew yeah it was it is and it was like weird like people would know like your son is who your son does oh yeah that always weird my parents out they're always like but my father had the best line um so my gran my grandson is a pornographer emails of women in bathing suits this is a job and my father said so my grandson is a pornographer he took it in stride then because he never brought it up with me i'm sure he was like hell yeah brother yeah that was those days were uh yeah those are the days just like connected to the computer at all times yeah my mom used to always hate how much i like literally had she jokes that the laptop was like connected to my arm because we had the blog every single moment she was pretty cool about it too but i know your phone connected to your arm now yeah well right intrusive that's the thing yeah yeah you know it's rude enough to be like on your phone but when you're at you know i'm coming home from school and you know i'm looking at the big screen and everything so they all used to hate that but i don't know so what was your first interest how did you first approach barstool i had started i was out of school i thought i was going to do like finance stuff and i had a shitty job it was a good job but i hated it so um i was reading barstool just like past the time and just by chance um well i started my own site just for fun because i was like i need something fun to do but by chance that was right when dave was looking to start to expand to other cities so i just i blogged for fun for like six months and then he was like if you're from new york and you're a writer let me know and i just submitted that and kind of got lucky um but yeah like just totally you've always been a great place right oh yeah yeah yeah i've been new york through and through um i just i thank the guy who uh who i worked at deloitte and he was like we were both so miserable and i was just trying to kill time and he was like do you know this site you know that we shared like websites to kill time and he was the one who introduced me to do it to just read it but yeah i just totally got lucky um but yeah that was i had like a good job good benefits good salary but my parents were pretty cool about it too they were like and similar my dad um not owned a company but like he was in property management forever and i had done a couple summer jobs with him and my brother went that route and i think they just assumed i would too and um but that assumption is truly out of just convenience it's like this this might be a little easy for you kind of you know like the road is paved a little bit yeah if you want if you want to get on it if you don't well i remember my so i i didn't end up doing it um but my brother did and he did it probably for like 10 years and then when barstool got big enough and chernin came along and they were offering salaries i uh brought my brother on full-time but he was nervous to tell my dad because my dad had gotten him so many interviews and so many legs up and got on the job and he was like nervous and he told my dad and he was like are you kidding me like oh yeah yeah and you get to do like radio and podcasts and all that stuff i did this for you don't do it for me yeah right right that's the whole point right um is your brother still here yeah well he's he lives in california but he's still working with us oh cool i didn't know that so yeah now it's the new family yeah yeah yeah um and you like it you like what you do yeah yeah i mean i love what we do the place is getting out of control it's it's just bar stools it's growing so big and becoming so absurd that it's like there's there was a lot of drama this past week that had me being like what is going on here like when i i came home and i'm telling my sister and friends and they're like this is ridiculous dude like this is this is your career this is your life i was like yeah yeah yes it is and i love it i don't do you guys like understand understand the full scope of like what he's done what he's done yeah like i i mean i know that he's so like he's so self-deprecating about it and i don't like if you don't follow and don't know but like i mean coming up saturdays are for the boys like saved barstool sports like we were gonna go we were gonna go on johnny well congratulations dave unfortunately yeah well i hope dave said congratulations johnny that's about all he did yeah i said uh maybe gotta thank you probably not even that [Laughter] this is the new slogan but yeah we were like um it was after the after the blackout tour which was our like techno did you know about that yeah yeah i gave you a few rides to the truck and randolph yeah yeah yeah yeah gaza's dad's uh again another time like behind the industrial park kind of thing like bye johnny i don't know where you're going nobody here this is where you told me to drop you off okay did you even know like with the blackout tour was like pure insanity it was just like cops yeah because like hannah went his sister went i mean they like when you were in dc like i definitely i had a i had my ear to it but just with enough distance right right okay well that had that was a good money that was a good source of revenue they kept the lights on for a while but then that died out and like i don't think we knew what was next i think we were talking about like maybe contracting some of the cities and all that and then saturdays of the boys just like exploded and i think they paid for our first office here so which which so what is that story i know what i know of it is just like you said like you heard somebody say something about friday night o'brien he's a newport yeah fridays are the men's house of the boys [Laughter] right so simple but like he took it and ran with it and did it like everything we did like yeah every saturday we would do like uh i think there were four saturdays in a row that was lou helped a lot with that too uh like lou i don't know where he got it we got a yacht one day yeah he went to the yacht and took pictures that was it was always like you have to get a picture or a video doing something really awesome on saturday to like encourage people skydiving you did the yacht you did the helicopter yeah so like every week there was something and then that you know that's another good story about just timing because that's when like well this might sound stupid maybe i'm wrong here but for me that's when like gifts were becoming real yeah yeah yeah yeah popular to use these little like animated pictures so every night at midnight when it became saturday everybody sets out as if the voice and like it was trending on on social media it became like a huge thing and um and then it made that was that was i really i think the first saturday ever i just sat like i didn't do anything i didn't do anything exciting i it was actually the anti-silence of the boys right i just sat on the couch i guess i drank i just got to drink but the boys do too and just retweeted guests yeah and they were just out loud like now now that's just so commonplace but in that moment it was like oh did you see the one with like ac slater yeah yeah yeah [Laughter] um but that made i mean if if is it known in the family that john is not the uh the most shrewd businessman it's not exactly like a shark when it comes to the negotiation table i'd rather just be nice where'd you get that because he's very non-confrontational yeah here is that is that is he non-confrontational at home i would not say that really really i would not say that you're confrontational but um opinionated which is what sometimes creates a confrontation you definitely want to make your opinion maybe not a personal opinion but your opinion of any topic known yeah yeah i i see that too because i mean that sounds contradictory but it's not like you'll get you don't like go get involved with like drama or seek it out but if someone is saying something that you think is wrong you'll rarely just like go with it like in you know totally never that's true to an extent probably probably more so at home totally never i think around here like there are times if someone is saying something that i know is wrong but it's not a big deal i'm just kind of like oh that's hard to let go huh yeah i'll sit there and it's like it's like you you don't understand whatever but i think you you know you'll you'll stand up you know and you'll say what you what you think yeah i guess so yeah and i could see that at home though being more of like when you're saying it to a brother or a sister or yeah whatever it's like you know it becomes like a thing so so as to like as i think john takes care of himself like i don't think he's like you don't walk all over him but he might not be like you know i'm gonna take care of this because like like saturday's for the boys was you know like his invention and or creation or whatever you call that i don't know do you invent saturday night it's like whatever you know whatever it is and you know should be like millions upon millions upon millions for him it's a job i did i did work at my job that's what he always says and he's always just like i'm cool with it but you know if he had like patented it or i mean it would have been the whole thing you would have to like go to court with dave you know what i mean he would have been like well you i'm very comfortable i do okay and that's basically you know he's always just like nah i do i don't need i don't need that stress in my life i'll tell you that well yeah that is certainly yeah we see how that goes right um but you know by the way the rest of the world works if you come up with a slogan and a logo when it's on clothes and it's on i i honestly i think i think it's i i like i genuinely don't think that i would get that i i i i really believe like i did work at my job that my job is like like maybe now but like back then i don't know if we had the same like contracts did we oh [ __ ] no yeah like like right now if you do something it says like it is underneath our umbrella it's ours yeah but back then you probably would have had a fact that i don't know you didn't have confidence yeah you would have had a claim you know other you know dave would have just been like no it's mine and but if you want i i i don't think it is i don't think like the business people of the world would call it silly i i mean like literally our job is to be interesting and make popular things but to your point to your point it's it is what it is what's overused expression but it only started and cr and built on something like now it's easy to look back and go gee if i own if i tag that or coin that or did anything would it follow the same track who knows right probably not right because who knows so organic like if you want to make your own oh yeah yeah yeah so you have to then you just hope it builds a relationship yeah with whomever yeah or whatever it probably what would have been yeah because you stayed if you had become you know this millionaire trademark [ __ ] marketing guy or whatever it wouldn't just be like saturday's you know one of the boys hanging out but you know you could have still what it should have done is like what she said like it grew organically and then you probably should have been rewarded dude i remember we did it we like we we uh lou and i like i think we maybe opened the the website to like look into it yeah it's just honestly actually i don't even know if we got that far i think i think that far i got with sad boy and i was like yeah this is the pain in the ass never mind uh you didn't do [Laughter] i mean it was um yeah like you also would have had to like you would have maybe owned that but you would have been like done with barstow because dave would have fought for it and yeah it would have become the whole thing no and it's still your creation so it's like you know did i create it for cash did i create it for an idea did i create it yeah for it's one of the purest is one of the purest least like bastard well no it eventually got bastardized but not by you yeah that was when yeah corporation got their claws out yes yeah yeah they they they said yeah not quite i stayed on for a little bit but we got to pump it a little bit yeah yeah yeah we got to get some of that some of that bonus money i bastardized it but i bailed before it got super lame right right i do think it's right for a yeah it's been long enough that it might be like uh retro yeah do you think about where um where this goes long term i mean it's already been pretty long term but do you uh think far ahead in the future yeah i didn't think so it wasn't the vibe i pick up from you but do i think about his future yeah just well i think about it a lot i'm like are we gonna do this when we're like you know 40 50 60 years old do we just keep doing this or because no one's really done that yet there's been radio hosts and stuff like that right but not what we do we're kind of like the first people to do it so it's like we're writing the blueprint of like do you retire when you're i i'm 45 because now you start to sound like lame you know or do you just keep going because everyone's aging with you right i mean we found out the other day that 40 of our audience are parents which when we started obviously you know zero percent work not sure about that you don't think so no so to the point the question you asked before about like what does your family say or know or do or whatever and another a different brother had said to me once do you have any idea what this is and i said no i don't actually and he said i said yeah a bunch of college kids or whatever and he's like no no no it's just the others haven't come out yet about it he said there's he said he had a buddy he has a buddy who is a boston firefighter he's like they live it they live in bali it's it's it's real it's it's it's taking off and that was when you i thought it was just like a college-based whether it was the blackout tours or whatever which were geared to college kids but the site itself or the the banter or whatever it is um definitely you're saying you think it's higher than 40 no weights no i'm thinking it would just have been a long time oh yeah like i was thinking now because i've aged oh to put a lame spin on things because that's what i kind of do um it's it's it's sad because parents kind of live in like living with their kids not not not physically with their kids but they like you know like oh you like boston i like bar stool yeah it's that's lame i'm sorry yeah i don't care what it is i'm with you yeah yeah yeah yeah you like to drink this i like to drink that like oh rosie's hot i'm going to drink rose great i'm a cool mom yeah yeah yeah yeah so not cool so so that's where i think like the adults that know it want to know it because their kids know it yeah they you know their college age kids right kind of bridge the gap between them yeah yeah yeah well it's one not a good idea i don't mind you know if you know if you like outwardly are like living it i think it's that's the difference yeah yeah you know about it whatever but yeah you should know like what's out there but but yeah living it i mean specifically and there's a lot of people yeah does that weird you out ever you ever think like i love the guy last night who was who came through with his camera one yeah that was weird yeah but he looked like a nice guy sometimes some people that approached it the guy coming out of the woods yes the doctor is dead totally visual but yeah he he seemed like like sometimes people come up to you and i was like that's not nice i know i didn't mean like that this is your fan base like spoiled milk but no it's it's it's it's um it's fun it's fun watching this ride yeah through him with him whatever threw him with him and in him yeah yeah yeah well yeah i mean it's it's probably been a weird road to get here but to literally get here this is really weird when i said when i said to john you want to go to a place yesterday whatever and he's like yeah you're going to come to new york and i'm like yeah he's like remember what you said well i i i was telling them off camera that my mom when i told her we were interviewing you today she went do you want to do this and she was like well can i have notes and i was like i mean i guess so but we're not gonna like quiz you or anything so now she said she's in she also she has um these new fake eyelashes that she likes yeah yeah yeah and so she i said to her she wants a video made don't worry like if you want to do it like she didn't do camera either and she was like well i've got my eyelashes and i was like okay well then i don't like that so it will film a version that you can watch but nobody else we're not playing that [ __ ] game wow uh one way or another through through whatever uh mondays off and five year rules and all that stuff he's been unbelievable to me like my whole career that's nice ride or die from uh day one so thanks for creating it and he's and and honestly i'm just riding his his coattails with these stories there's like every day i'm like press record let's hear what happened uh 12 years ago today so um i thank you for that and your family's always been great to me too so and thanks for doing this because oddly enough i don't know of you do you get how excited people are going to be for this it's so silly it's crazy i mean we've literally had a-list celebrities i got a text good luck on your interview yeah i mean this is gonna be we always joke and we kind of uh we butt heads with people sometimes because our booking group and and marketing and stuff they want to hear from like you know uh 90s actor or something and it's like yeah we love them and we love their movies and stuff but people don't want to hear that stuff on a podcast they want to hear things like this for whatever reason right so that could kind of be to that to the common man theme like it's like yeah that's a great show that's a great actor that's a great book or whatever it is but like who's really living that that one person right like everyone's everyone my mom was an idiot or my mom didn't do so great or my mom my mom kept trying that's my motto my mom keeps trying i like that that could be the biography my mom trying to love it all right so we'll you know the response is going to be a wild one so i may i may ask am i allowed to read the comments because that's going to make me no no no i want to talk about this i know that's why i think the comments will be will be great on this it's just you know you're gonna have to run into also some horrifically i like offensive ones that's the one you're gonna comment back on you guys are like so cut from the same claws in so many ways but on that one they are dimensionally opposed but uh all right thank you very much thank you very much fun fun everything i hope more and more make sure you subscribe to kfc radio on youtube to get all the video content uh subscribe comment like and make sure you turn on the bell notifications so you know whenever new video content drops i want to say something but the videos that's it

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Length: 66min 15sec (3975 seconds)

Published: Tue May 17 2022