June 12, 2020 • 46 mins
Maybe it’s just the Hawaiian way, but nothing really rattles Jordan Yamamoto. Need proof? How about starting his major league career last season by setting a Miami Marlins franchise record of 14 scoreless innings over two starts. Oh, and a rotation best WHIP of 1.144 and 82 strikeouts in under 79 innings to finish the season. Now, that’s Aloha. The Marlins pitcher talks to Jensen about how he maintains a positive mindset during slumps, his growing relationship with Marlins CEO Derek Jeter and why in the end, Christian Yelich won’t be the only name you remember from that trade. They also talk about Jordan’s skills with a shaver, a Rubik’s Cube and just about anything else you throw his way. Then, Jensen chats with Barstool Sports’ funnyman and battle rap champion, Adam “Rone” Ferrone about making sports content in a pandemic and breaking down the drama over at “Call Me Daddy”. This episode and series supports FeedingAmerica.org. For more of The No-Sports Report, visit treefort.fm/the-no-sports-report
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome to the No Sports Report, a production of I
Heart Radio entry Fork Media. Small note this episode was
recorded prior to the murder of George Floyd and the
resulting global reaction in protests, which is the only reason
it's not mentioned. Something to keep in mind while listening.
My name is Jensen Carp and I'm a sports fan who,
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right now, without any actual competition on an American field,
has had to, for lack of a better pun, move
the goalposts. You see, the only sport I'm watching right
now live is Holy Moldy. Yeah, it's Steph Curry's Extreme
Mini Golf Show, and it's as close as any of
us are getting to actual sports, so no need to
roll your eyes. There are chipping Dale's, they light one
of the contestants on fire, there's electric cutions, and since
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it's in its second season, this is how they're able
to advertise it totally to the sequel The Balls Drop,
So yeah, it's super classy. Please Sports come back soon,
because in the meanwhile, I'm talking to athletes and sports
industry professionals about what they're doing in quarantine, hoping to
figure out if famous competing as much as I miss
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watching it. This is the No Sports Report Hawaii native
in Miami Marlin's picture. Jordan Yamamota was someone you once
knew only as an afterthought. He was one of the
four unknown prospects traded to the Brewers for All Star
slugger Christian Yellich, and at one time it was seen
by fans as a true fire sale, a tradition known
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way too well in Florida when superstars might get a
little too expensive and ownership hadn't cared about the product
on the field for years. But ownership had changed thanks
to new CEO Derek Jeter, and baseball insiders knew better
than to chalk this up to tanking, especially when it
came to Jordan's and the entire world realized that last
year when he was called up to the majors and
set a franchise record with fourteen scoreless innings over two
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starts to begin his career. He didn't even lose until
his sixth appearance. Things evened out a bit over the season,
but he still ended up with the rotation's best whip
at one point one four four and had eight you
strikeouts in just under seventy nine innings. The dude was
throwing and even with a talented, crowded pool of arms
in Miami. Things looked even better this spring training for
Jordan's and he's currently seen as a favorite to make
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the heavily contested starting rotation, and he knows how to
cut hair, so they better keep him happy in case
of Barbara isn't allowed to join the team. We talked
about his skills with a shaver, staying level headed through
professional ups and downs, and solving a Rubik's cube. And
in another installment of Pandemic, I talked to barstool funny
man and Battle Rap champion Adam Roan Farron about making
sports content in a pandemic. This is a new episode
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of the No Sports Report from Yamamode to accept Press one.
Jordan's Yes, how's it going? I wanted to know how
where you're currently quarantined. I'm actually right now, okay, Jupiter,
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because I spoke with Colton long recently and I'm still
trying to figure out that if you were quarantined in
the heaven that is Hawaii, if that's a good or
bad thing. No, I'm actually not home right now, but
but um we'll get back there sooner or later because
I wonder, like it seems good because it's Hawaii, but
then you're stuck inside just staring at the wonderful ocean
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and and the surroundings around. It's like I feel like
maybe it's more of a torture. Um. Yeah, I mean
both places right now. You know, the water is very
nice on both places, beaches are nice. So it's kind
of like it's still still kind of torture over here too,
where I can't go to the beaches, peaches are still closed. Um,
so I kind of wait it out. You know, we're
trying to keep myself occupied totally. I assumed you were
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quarantined with your fiance Madison. Does this pandemic mess Does
it mess with your wedding plans at all? I mean
right now, no, because our our wedding is in late November,
so almost into Decembers. I mean unless this runs to
the day, then we're not going to change it. Um.
I mean everybody got their plans. Like I said, it's
it's not going to run into our day because it's
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totally I mean hopefully. Yeah. That's very lucky though, but
it is sort of one of those things that I'm
sure you're just like refreshing, being like, Okay, are they
closing the venue? I got married, what now, two years ago,
and I feel like there's so much preparation that goes
into it. It's like you can't really stop the momentum
unless unless it's really over. Yeah, exactly. You know, we
un lucky because when we did the wedding, it was
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more of a package deal. So we got a wedding
funder involved. Because it's so far away, it's hard to
kind of plan a wedding from being six thousand all
of the way, So we just decided to hire a
wedding fund to kind of do everything on the whole
lot of you side um, and then from there we
just figure it out on this how she was asked
this question, will hey, you want this or that? And
then you say yes or no, it makes a lot easier. Yeah,
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would you get married? Because I was thinking of this myself,
like if my reception was canceled and I couldn't have
my whole family there, I would still probably go to
city hall get that part done and then just wait
for the pandemic to pass to have a party for everyone.
Does that seem I mean that seems right not to
when people are doing nowadays. Um, I mean this as hard,
you know, like because it was funny when when it's
hoping started, Um, Madison actually was talking about Elope, you know,
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and still having a reception. But it's just like we're
not gonna be affected by it, least we don't think
we will be affected, you know. So it's kind of
like we'll just stay the course and it's happy that happens.
If it doesn't, well we'll figure it out and when
that time comes. Totally. She is a kindergarten teacher, which
is the least selfish thing she can be. I'm sure
her leaving her class in the middle of this whole
thing was not easy. Um. Yeah, that definitely wasn't you know.
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But but she is working every day from home. She
does a lot for the kid, you know, but she's
actually building um goody vantage for them for the end
of the year. So it's actually kind of cute. Um,
she had her and she had all their names become
of bags and everything, so we have to go go
deliver them soon. And uh, I know all about Piper,
you like, millions of other people were kind enough to
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adopt a dog during the pandemic. Tell me about the
decision to do that. Um, I've been wanting a dog
for a while. Um, it was funny because I've been
wanting a dog for a lot of year. Now, you know,
my own she's been really good. You're actually speaking right now,
which is really helpful for both of us because matters
is finally, um nail salon opened up, so she's gonna
go get her nails on and I'm just signing cards.
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So it's's kind of like it's perfect time and no pertly. Yeah,
my my wife is gonna be extremely jealous when she
finds out the nail salon has opened in Jupiter, Florida.
That that is, it has become quite She's tried to
do it herself. She just isn't as good at it.
She actually, which we'll get into with you in a
little bit, she cut my hair and did an incredible job.
So I feel like it's just weird. It's the one
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talent she doesn't have is her is doing her nails.
That's funny. I actually haven't really cut here too much
during this time either. Yeah, I assumed you also made
a great point on Instagram about people who are adopting
these pets right now and that when we go back
to our normal lives that we have to make sure
not to neglect them just because we won't be home
the entire time. Yeah, you know, like like that was
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the first thing. I like, we said, so I'm lucky,
I got madicine, you know who, we don't know what's
gonna have. This whole thing was teaching everything that she
possibly could be home, my shaving at shortes. So we
really with the dolls um pretty often, you know. But
it's just it just sucks, you know when people go,
I can get a dog now because because I'm home,
But when I go back to work, when they do
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like an impulse buy and they go, okay, I can
get a dog in and once that rolls around where um,
work comes back into player where they're not where they're
where they're gone for eight hours a day. It's not
what s in the kennel all day long. You know.
I don't want to see the dollars go go go
get it. It's such things dolls, the tent to shelters
and all that stuff, you know. So I just want
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people to realize what they're doing and it's in it
for the long run and not in it just because
it's it's convenied right now, agreed. Also, like millions of
other people during the pandemic, you you gave into the
pressure and you opened the TikTok account. How do you
feel on the app? I have been vocal here on
this podcast that I have never felt older. I'm forty
years old. On TikTok, I feel a hundred and forty.
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How have you been getting along with the app all time?
Post the video here and there? You want one of
the videos of Piper kind of blew up. But other
than that, I'm I don't really go on because it's
a younger generation of kids who are thirteenth or fifteen
years old, um where they're doing something. Impersonally, I'm not
a big fan of a lot of stuff to down
the book. There is funny content on it, so I
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kind of like to watch between me, my fiance and
her brothers, like we send each other videos of the
funny stuff that goes around, you know, not so much
of all the ticktoff famous girls. It's more of the
funny pranks that go on or just a home videos
that are played on a couple of theres. So those
are the views I like to watch them. Couple up
of my feet. Yeah. I am a big fan of
that one challenge where it's like and you move an
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arm and then an arm and then a leg and
then you run after your dog. Yeah. Yeah, I haven't
tried that with Piper. Yes, she's kind of like he
doesn't really get scared or skittish. She's more like, okay,
well you're playing, I'm much are biting you. So I
don't really want to do that because, yeah, we are
already have enough time with her biting us, so we
kindly kind of try to limit that. That's true, it
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could end poorly. You also celebrated a birthday in quarantine.
I'm sorry to hear that. It must have been just you, Madison,
and Piper, But how did you celebrate? Well, now, the
sound it's actually come from the Tupid area too, So
we've kind of been quarantine with them where we have
our house over here, but we go there often to
kind of hang out. You know, they have a pool
over there, so we'll jump in the pool, we'll play
the dogs, and because we have two dogs over there,
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so we're trying to get Piper afflimated to the two dogs.
So we hung out over there. For a little while. Uh,
and then we also had dinner. The night before that,
I started working on my truck. I work on my
truck all day pretty much, because that was what I
wanted to do. I got lights for my birthday for
my truck, and I put those in. But we hung
out and we also jove up to to the beach,
sat inside the back of my truck and watch the sunset.
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So it's kind of cool. I love that. I know
you're a big car guy. What what truck are you
building out? What are you working on? How have my
silver rattle that I've been building for a while. Um?
I got it when it was pretty much fully stopped
um and white, but now it's black with other stuff
done to it. You know. It's fun because every other
week I get I order something. And when Magic, I
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was like, oh, another thing for your trucks. Another thing,
pretty truck, you know, but I love my trucks. My
truck is like, uh, it is my bayby show. I
got to take care of her. So beyond these things,
how have you been able to stay in shape and
mentally prepared for a season that looks like it's kind
of on the brink. But but how have you stayed
Have you stayed active? Right before this whole quarantine shut down,
we kind of got a win from it that we
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were about to go in to shut down and everything
like about a week and a half two before it
actually happened. So what I did is I kept searching
online for a weight set anything. I got lucky that
did down in thirty minutes away. He had like a
warehouse full of full of weights for that that I
bought a whole set from like an Olympic weight set
um from him, and then I also ordered one of Amazon,
which came in a month after. So it was definitely
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a perfect timing. I got lucky with the weight So
that's why I keep it at my fiancee's mom's house.
So we worked out almost four times a week. You know,
throw every day to the Spade shape. You know, it's
kind of like you don't want to be not ready,
and they go, Okay, you have to be backed by
this time, you know, so and be ready for the season. Yeah,
that is super lucky because a lot of people I've
spoken to were like racing to get to get equipment
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at the last minute. Have you been able to throw? Yeah,
it's hard. To long thought turning because all the parks
are closed and everything, but um, we just don't have
the street. And then also have this indoor facility where
I got lucky with again in Jupiter, and it's like
you indoor preasility where has a mounditus. I go there
once a week and I felt bullpens with a cattut
that I've known for a little while. A good time
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spread about my fianto them. So I got kind of
lucky in this area during this time. Absolutely last season,
you got called up to the bigs all after a
very high profile trade, you face the pressure head on.
Had a tremendous start, it seemed reading it all again
as for research, I knew it when had happened, but
reading it it made me it's almost like inhuman how
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do you think you were able to overcome those nerves
and the tension of the first few games. How did
it not get to you? It's all in God's time.
But at the same time, you know, it's that competitive
side of every athlete. You know. The day I called
up and I had the most nerves you can imagine.
You know, I couldn't sleep. I was just I was
just ready to go and I just wanted to play.
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But once I do that first pitch, you know, everything
calmed down. I just held everything just like kind of left.
All the nerves left, and it was like, Okay, I
got my first pitch, and I'll let's go. It's the
same game. It's the same distance from home to to
the mountain. You know, it's it's kind of like, I
just gotta pitch. How I know how um be the
person I am that got me here. So all the
nerves went away, and over time, you know, you still
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get the genes of being the big league. You will
never get used to that, but just the competitive side
of kicks in during during the game. So it was
actually kind kind of cool. Yeah, it was incredible to watch.
You had a really strong spring before everything was postponed,
and you appear to be set for the starting rotation
in a battle that a lot of baseball was watching.
What hurdles do you think now you'll face once you
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guys all get back into action. Are are there certain
things for a guy who started his professional career without
any fear? It looked like from afar, what are you
fearful of? If baseball were to start again pretty soon? Honestly,
I'm not really fearful and much because to me, it's
hitching God's fun, It's hitching God's home. You know, what
he wants is going to happen. And if, by chance
to anything that like happened, that that's that's negative in
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my life. You know, it's just like, Okay, it happened.
You know what am I gonna do? How How do
I look at it as a positive? Alcome? You know,
how can I spend this to be positive? And my
thing is life too short to be negative? So you'll
you'll rarely hear me ever be negative. Um. I always
like to look at the positive leaf, and right now
there's a pretty good positive. You know that we will
have a baseball season, that we will be able to
play again. You know, I don't know where, I don't
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know when, but for the most right now, just being
lucky to even put on the uniform is just good
enough for me. Yeah. I was looking through some of
your social media, and you know, obviously with the extremely
hot start that you had, you started to even out
afterwards a bit and when people would kind of get
on your case about it. I was super impressed with
your response to a lot of the tweets if you
just being like, yeah, man, it's baseball. There's ups and downs,
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which I don't think is a very common answer. I
think sometimes people get in a slump, especially after being
such an amazing, hot rookie start. It's like you definitely
have a really tepid mind about those kind of things,
and where where did you start to get that? Like
how are you not getting down on yourself? If if
you're not living up to the expectations you have set
for yourself. It's a supportive to you know. It's it's
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your family, it's your friends. It's not Beyonce, it's everybody
back home in Hawi. You know, no matter how I do,
no matter what the outcome is, I'm always gonna getting
Tex lessons after the game, you know, like hey, if
it feels good, like hey, congratulation like that the great
outy it feels bad, you know where it was just
like hey, it's all good. It's baseball, you know. So
you're done in yourself, like you'll you'll come back the
next out, and so it's just a support the stem.
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The more you mean on them is the more you'll
have success, because the more you start meeting on the
people who would probays do down there time and you've
got negative bodes is what you're gonna go to, you know,
So tell me it's like I said earlier, a positive bodges.
What is positive outcomes? You know? So you some people
don't understand that. People don't understand it's getting always ye
is numbers and always he is figure on TV. And
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if we lose their money and say Fantasy Baseball, they
thin getting mad at us, you know. But at the
same time, I'm a human ding, I'm a person. So
they are achieving, people making mistakes, people talking about things
that that they're passionate about. And if they're passionate about
their money, meaning that they're like a gamble um, hey,
so be it. But I'm not gonna judge them. And
I'm not gonna get to an argument over something I
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can't can show you know that that I know I
did my best at that I know I prepare for,
you know, and it just didn't go my way. So
there's no point in arguing there, says No. There's really
no pointing arguments. More to take the high road, you know,
kind of spread love, and that's spread law, and that's
how I live. Derek Deeter is an owner of the Marlins.
I'm asking you, are you guys text friends? No? No, No,
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he just keeps professional. I've never texted in and I'm
talking in person all the time whenever I see him.
But that's just that, that's what they say. You know,
he's my boss, you know, as much as I'm a
fan of him and growing up was a fan of him,
you know, you got to keep on a professional basis.
So whenever I see him, I said, Hi, shake his hand.
You know, I have a little conversation. But that's to
the extent I have with him, you know, and if
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I meet anything, you know, he's open to kind of
advice where he can help us out, you know. But
at the same time, he has his work cut out
for him. I have mind, so I cannot be bothering
him every single day there but Christmas card, uh, I
mean I had one of these things where I kind
of I kind of uh made a fool of myself.
You know, we were at this um we have fan
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fest there this past spring training and we were at
top Golf. But we had all the sponsors of the Martins,
you know that each had a boots of their own.
We had our communications guys who was giving out the
like where which boots we belong to? So each play
I have to get a different boots and everything, and
I don't know where I'm going. They didn't tell me
at the front door. So I'm gonna trying to find
a guy running around and everything, and I see in
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my spot of so I started running towards him. I
get caught behind somebody and I feel someone poked me,
like jab me from the back. Turned around and they're
your folks are here, what's helping that all? I'm so
sorry I did not see you there. I was going
to mission, like, I'm so I had a conversation with
him myself bad because I walked right past and you know,
not not even realizing he was there. So I felt
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kind of like a fool of that moment. But he
started laughing and he's like, okay, as long as you're
doing something, you know. So it was definitely fun. That's great.
I mean his gambles. You know a lot of people
looked at stuff like the trade for for you with
Christian getting sent away. I mean, this was the year
it was supposed to pay off for him. So I
kind of I'm I'm excited just for his redemption of Yeah,
you know a lot of people um felt what up
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Mormons are doing. But you kind of you kind of
expect change right away, you know, like what they say,
rebial takes time. And then if you expect like the
trade just instantly magically worked, it's not gonna happen. You know,
we're on the fourth place in that Yellow trade has
never been to the big league. You know, now a
three of the whole are in the big leagues. You
got the fourth one former version of all being on
the continue the big league. So so knowledge to the tape.
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He let it play out, give it time to kind
of develop and then and then you make your judgment.
You know, like not not everything is supposed to be
right then and there, you know, instantly happened. So it's
kind of fun to talk to people about it when
they find I'm part of the Yellows trade, because I
probably like, hey, they're great players, Yellows with Muto umor everybody.
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All those guys were here stanton. You know, they were
all unbelievable players. But at the same time you look
at it and go, hey, when they were there in Miami,
what could they do? You know, So you kind of
have to look at it that way and just and
just trust the process that the Mars are doing something
to change something up to try to win. You know,
I'm trying to chase something up to that he gives
him a new opportunity to start a fresh start of everything,
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you know. So that's why I guess that they brought
everybody in to kind of get new players in there,
um to set a new a new way of of
the mare. Sure, and I'm excited for it. Other than Jeter,
you brought him up? Who else were your players growing up? Actually?
Like the Red Sox so Jeter were all the big
kind of Jeter, but you know all the big Red
Sox stands, yeah yeah, and so who are your Red Sox?
It was funny because growing up was always Jason's air texts,
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um you know jd Drew that did the whole two
thousand seven UM World Series. Tame was it was a
team that when I was in Little league, was that
we all used to sitting in the living and watched
that season and that's one that I detally were playing
and then watched over and over. So like that was
when I initially probably became a Red Sox fan. Now
you decided to take on hair cutting as a hobby.
I think a few years back, did you ever think
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it would be such a hot commodity in our country
to know how to cut hair? Um? No, I did.
And you know, it's crazy because I grew up drawing that,
I grew up painting, you know, doing art. So I figured, hey,
hair cuttings and art, why am I tried? You know?
And so I bought my first clippers back in twos fifteen.
I believe we were in the basement of our whole
family in Helen and Montana. I thought it was that
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that same night I got that, I I cut my roommate's
hair and everything, and slowly, you know, um, they started
cutting for free. You started cutting out in practicing, having
the guys be like, hey, yeah, I thought the painting,
as long as you let me practice on your guys hair.
A lot of guys are like, you know what, we
wear hats a living, why not? So they let me
do that and everything. And over time I became the
team barber, you know, and people started trusting me more
and more to cut their hair. So it's it's kind
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of a good thing. It's awesome. I mean, our teammates
just texting you like see you soon with a question mark. Yeah, definitely, No,
I don't bund the guys text me. Um right when
the quarantine thing started after baseball is kind of shut
down because the original Barbara Juice, he's done in mind
and who's actually the barber of our team. Um, he
has a barbershop inside the stadium and everything. Um, he
didn't want to drive up here every single day to
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kind of cut people hair. So the guys who live
up here and Drew Gray, they kind of called me,
was like, hey, canna get a hair cut? You know.
So at first I started cutting hair during the quarantine,
but after a while I was like, you know my feelings.
Grandma is is the higherst patient too. It's COVID. So
I was like, hey, guys that I gotta understand that
I have I feel to grandmother, you know, because of
his hand. So ever since his whole quarantine started, I
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haven't been cut cutting hair with which is kind of drunk,
but it is what it is generally helping and he's
gotta just wait for this whole thing is over. I
love it, man, I love I love how good of
a barber you are makes me very excited. We like
to end this on a bit of a positive note.
Is there anything that you think we've adapted during COVID
nineteen that you hope sticks around, Something that when we're
all better, we're walking out of our houses, maybe we
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we keep in our arsenal um people you see out so,
like Likelyn, like, we've seen a lot of people walking,
riding their bikes, spending family times together, you know, to
think outside being active rather than inside and all the
iPads or whing TV all the time, you know. So
that's something that I think should continue to happen after
this is all done, because it's nice seeing people out.
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It's nice seeing people interact pub with other people, you know,
and be a little bit more kind out day, you know.
Kind of It's just one of those things that I
like to buy that have being going on because people
want to be outside and not stuff in their house. Seven. Yeah,
I agreed. I I walk around my area and it
feels like it's like the sixties, like what I used
to hear about people just biking, and I even see rollerblades,
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like it's literally toably the full families on bikes. It's
really great to see it is, all right, So I'm
gonna get you some suggestions. We're gonna round down now
with some ideas I have for you in quarantine. Sounds
like you and Madison and Piper are busy, but still
I'm going to give you some ideas things you could
take on as we seem to be in our houses.
At least here in l A. They they pushed are
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in home until the end of July, which is crazy.
I know it's a lot different in Florida. I know.
Here are some suggestions. I think it's time for me,
or you, or really anyone listening to learn how to
solve a Rubik's cube. I know how to do that already,
you do, got it? How did you learn? I learned
back in high school. Back this time, I've ever done
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it a minute forty seconds. I mean, I don't want
to tell you what the world record is, but but
there are so many YouTube videos seconds. But yeah, to
do it in less than two minutes, yeah, the record
is now four point two to one seconds. Yeah, that's
that's too much. I don't I don't have that much time. No,
Now I feel like the only guy who doesn't know
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how to do it? Did you? Did you ever look
anything up? Or you just kept doing it to learn it? Um? No,
I have to leave from the other YouTube is is key?
YouTube taught me and then ever since then, you know,
you kind of just have the algoris of his down
and then you just play with it. Hair cuts, baseball.
Is there anything Yamamoto can't do? Unbelievable? Okay, moving on.
It was funny because actually just remodeled her mom's house.
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They have like a rental department called Bigger Rogers, So
a good quarantry project was we remodeled the whole thing.
Oh my god, you're so active. Yeah. I took construction
in office in the minor league. You know, when you
don't get paid off these you make six cards and
laws a year, you gotta find a way to kind
of offsets yere, uh, financing in the off season. So
now that's where I took up, and that's where I
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learned how to remodel things. Amazing, all right, I feel
like this is all going to be a letdown. Second, Uh,
do you know anything about the tops Baseball Card project?
Baseball Card Project? What is that? It's it's not a
sponsor of the show, but I will gladly trade cards
for a sponsorship. This is a collection from the Tops,
which we all know, the world famous card company, where
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they took twenty iconic twenty iconic players including Sandy Kofax,
Jackie Robinson, Each Row, Mike Trout, and even your coach
Don Mattingly. They took these iconic cards right from these
players from certain years and then they matched them up
with popular artists, which you must like because you said
you got into art at an early age, and they
had those artists reimagine what those cards would look like
(24:21):
if they created them, like the cartoon. Yes, so Mr
Cartoon is one of them. Josh Vitti's Don c Matt Taylor,
Ben Baller the jewelry Artist, and Ermsy who I love. Uh.
They all have released cards and they're gonna do twenty
each obviously, and they're available for just forty eight hours
at a time and they're limited. They and then they
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also released yeah, they released one that's like only out
of twenty, but those sell out in literally seconds. But
my favorites have been so far, Arms is Dwight Gooden
and Matt Taylor's Derek Jeter. But I'm now scouring eBay.
There's new ones that get released every day on their site.
But anyway, I thought it was pretty cool. Yeah, that's
definitely cool because I followed tops actually just finished the
one of like signing some of their cards, but I
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sat on a couple of the Instagram pays them what
is this? You know? And then now your explay and
I kind of I'm just kind of a little better now. Yeah,
and Mr Cartoon, I'm sure we're both both obviously fans
of his, but I mean it's uh, it's really cool.
All right. Lastly, this one I have put a lot
of work into. I'm very scared about this one. You're
into country music, right, Okay, alright, so this is my thing.
(25:24):
I'm thinking this will work out perfectly. I think that
you should write a country song called the Quarantine Blues.
I'm not very good at any instruments, and I'm not
very good at singing. Okay, I think I'm going to
see you in the shower. But other than that, yeah,
and I'm not very good at singing. Well, so much
of country music is about hard times, and what's harder
than right now? I wrote you a few lines if
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you'd be willing to just listen to them. Maybe maybe
you'd be into it, and then you can have a song. Okay, Okay,
here we go. I've worn the same pajama pants for
a week or two. That, my friend, is the quarantine blues.
M hm hm. Pretty good. Okay, all right, here's here's
another one. I guess I'll never be able to take
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a cruise. That's what we call the quarantine blues. Mhm hm.
That's pretty all right. Last one, I cut hair, but
it's useless if I can't see my dudes. That's what
we call the quarantine blues. That's good. That's that's pretty good.
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All right. I'll send you the lyrics. I'll email them
to you just in case you feel like you want
to write a song. Okay, sounds good to me. They'll
definitely look into it. Well, thank you for talking to
me today. And I stay healthy with Madison and Piper
and the whole family, and and and I'm so excited
to see you back on the field for a great
follow up season. And please be safe. Thank you for
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having me. Ye after this my pandemic chat with Barstool
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backslash COVID nineteen and now I check in with Barstool
Sports Rowan in our latest installment of Pandemic. Hello Rowan,
I'm doing all right. I'm I feel like we're hitting
a bit of the end. But then I assume everyone
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who's going out to the beach is going to get
very sick and die. But that's what I'm Where have
people been How long have people been going out to
the beach? Have they going out and then going out
for enough of a cycle where we should be seeing
this new spike. I think we have two weeks. Do
you think so like this is like the this past
weekend was the two weeks and now we're going to
be back into it. Maybe, I mean that would make sense.
I mean Memorial Day would clearly be a spike. That
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would make sense because some people went out, hung out,
got sick. I mean I saw like a video of
the Jersey Shore and people were like straight up coughing
on each other for fun. Yeah, that's like the new
beach game. It's replaced ball. I do. I didn't see
in any of those videos where people are like, check
this out. I haven't seen one face mask at all.
(28:41):
But then there's yeah, like people are like, uh, but
it can't live outside. I don't know. I've gotten a
lot of a lot of misinformation, a lot of incorrect information. Well,
I'm still weary of five G dude. I know, I
knew it was my phone. It's high time, but somehow
my addiction prevails that just gonna I'm gonna take the
(29:01):
five G and and just die. Well, people might know
you Adam for own from your time right now with
Barstool Sports killing it. What do you do when you
work at a website? With sports in its name, and
you find yourself without sports. It's so it's so weird. Honestly,
I'm like a I did a rod dog who like
can't run, and it's just being like put in the house.
(29:23):
Like my like purpose as a human being is skewed
right now because like I don't I don't know what
to do with my energy. And luckily I have like
other hobbies and stuff like that, and I'll try and
like you know, write some raps or like make some
videos that aren't really fully about sports. But there's part
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of me that I feel like is missing right now.
Are you going through any of that that same vibe? Well,
I have to deal with sports every day for this podcast,
so it's a little easier for me because I get
to research and look up stuff and wonder when golf
is coming back because I'm interviewing someone like that stuff
does kind to scratch the itch a little bit. But
I I feel like the TV stuff is what's killing
(30:05):
me because I can't watch any NBA playoffs, which hurts
or you know, and Sports Center is just painful dudes
talking to each other at this point, right, That's what
I mean. I can't believe that they're just continuing to
fulfill these hours of programming on ESPN and stuff like that,
like that they're just talking about like about nothing like
(30:25):
but somehow they're finding a way to still find Lebron
versus m J debates, Like people are just it's it's
showing our like crackhead and nature as sports fans that
everybody is kind of folding back into these like debates
that are supposed to be comforting to us because like, oh,
everything is normal, but you just know it's not normal.
(30:45):
It's like, even when I want to be I can't
watch every second of sports, but even it's like a
soothing background noise. It's like my like white noise of
like if I'm on the couch, I'm just throwing on
the games. I might even put on a baseball game, gents.
And that's how fucking stroggy I feel. That that's how
crazy I feel. I'm a baseball guy, but I understand
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it's crazy. It's so hard to root for baseball. I mean,
going to a baseball game is always an elite activity,
but watching a baseball team that you don't care about,
like it's not your like home team or the team
you root for is like, uh, one of the more
excruciating asks in the world of sports. I'm gonna assume
(31:26):
you're not watching the kb O then I mean I'm
I'm watching people who watch it and like their sense
of normalcy is comforting to me. But I can't. I
can't like bring myself to the hours of watching it
or like the learning these new players. I've spent so
much time in the worlds of these sports. It's almost
(31:48):
like with like wrestling, like you learn everybody's backstory, like
these are the guys I like, these are the people
I don't like, And it's almost like you're just rooting
for like the Colors at some point, the gang size
of it. And then you get into like this new
these new baseball leagues. I have to learn a whole
new ecosystem of sports to have to watch. I'm not
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I'm not prepared for it. It's a bit too much.
I do want to know, Like with you, you're out
of your out of New York, same place where bar
stool is. Is there a sort of pressure around the
office to find the extraordinary out of the mundane right now,
like trying to create content. I think that there is
it that it's not it's more of an internal pressure.
(32:30):
I feel definitely an internal pressure and restlessness to like
make content, and I don't want to do a single
thing to make this worse for anybody. But at the
same time, like when you see absurdity going on in
the world, like and you see like people are getting
these these these sound bites, these vinral videos from it,
(32:50):
like you want to be a part of that. It's
just like instinctual to want to try and make content
from it. So it's like, how do I how do
I make content from this like historic time that we're
living in while also like not being part of the
bad wrinkle of history of it. I think you figured
(33:10):
it out in a great way starting upon and being
able to talk to people. And it's just I don't know,
I don't know what the right answer is. I don't know.
It's funny because like the way like a time line
of viral goes is it's always like, oh, that's funny,
that's interesting, and then three or weeks in you have
like some ship bag like logan Paul laughing at a cemetery,
you know what I mean, Like there's there's a weird
(33:32):
way of making it funny. And then after a long
time you're like, oh, this is just morbid, Like this
isn't there's no real joke here anymore. And you did
a great job. We'll play a clip right now from it.
You did a great job of battling household items. What
a swivel chair? I didn't see you sitting there. Well,
you're about to get killed in here once I gravel
(33:54):
the silver were the stuff and out there's nothing like
a fucking bull the bear. I'm on the edge of
my seat when no one's ever heard of you looking
like a baseball glove from nineteen thirty two? What's your
life like that of blubber that from one distantch Burt
Switch s and number I'm doing soul now shows. So
(34:16):
how does this dude go compare? I'd say, because switch seats.
But you've never been a musical chair, and so that
was you just battling your sofa. Yeah, that chair was
looking at me wrong, dude. Every day I sit down
and this chair is just staring at me, or worse,
some days it turns its back to me. It's a
swivel chair. So but I mean, that's like, that's like
(34:39):
what I had to get to it and like in
some ways is like a good creative outlet for me
to be able to rap battle somebody without hurting their
feelings or more importantly, without me getting my feelings hurt.
But also in some ways it just like illustrates the
uh like desperation in like the vacuum of creativity. You
(35:02):
are a former King of the Dot champion, a rap
battle monster. I mean that industry is gonna see itself
be a lot different post pandemic. Yeah, like rap battle.
There was a time on a fight club where rat
battles were taking place with a pool table between the
two people as like a motive come to stop people
from like fighting each other. But now like we might
(35:25):
need people in bubble boys who's battle rapping with one another. Um.
But at the same time, like how tough can you
look like like with if if you're like, you know,
scared of a virus, part of battle rap is bravado
and you have to look like a hardass dude who
doesn't give a funk about anything. So it's like, I
don't know, how can we be smart about this and
(35:47):
like save the essence of battle rap And I think
we just need herd immunity and battle rap. I think
all these battle rappers that need to kiss each other
on the mouth and get it over with you, And
I've been saying that for years that just start each
battle with French guessing. Now we finally have a reason
exactly best kisser gets to go first for a second?
Best who goes first or second? You do make me
(36:10):
think that in a battle someone could say, you know,
I'm a tough guy. That's what I'm about. Just to
prove that, go ahead and spit in my mouth. It's
a very easy way to be a pervert but also
be very good at battle rap. Yeah, it's it's a
cheat code. Honestly, at the end of the day, like
forcing somebody to to swap spit with you would be
(36:31):
the ultimate act of male dominant. I agree with you,
total Alpha. What do you miss most with sports gone? Like?
What do you see yourself fiending for the most? Like?
What what bothers you that's gone? Um? So I am
not a huge gambling guy. I know that a lot
of people with whom my work are gambling people. And uh,
if they were offered sports can be back, you can watch,
(36:55):
but you can't gamble on it, they would say, I
don't even want sports back. I only wanted for the
gambling aspect. For me, it's like, uh, it's it's been
like normalcy of like having something to go do. Like
for a lot of people who are super into sports,
like a lot of their weekend will hinge around it,
(37:16):
like in a football season. My Sunday is all about sports,
and so it's like having that like peg to hang
my hat on. Every day. It's just like, ah, like
days over, I can sit down and watch like the
slate of NBA games from like nine o'clock until twelve
o'clock and turn my brain off for a little bit.
I'm watching the Great British Bakeoff to just have some
(37:38):
type of like competition in my life, just to like
feel like somebody is going against somebody or like they're
trying and failing. Like I just need that to kind
of end my day. So I can just watch instead
of participating in the rat race. Yeah, you you have
a radio show through Barstool that you guys have been
keeping up from your house. I think, right, yeah, we've
(37:58):
been doing it most days. It's kind of remotely from Brooklyn.
It's been preposterous. My neighbor's pets to keep on wandering
through that on Instagram you have you've basically adopted a cat. Yeah,
cat named h I don't know what the cat's name.
We call it garbage, but we I don't even think
I shouldn't learn its name. I don't even want to
know from my neighbors. But we have like a shared
(38:19):
balcony situation. So this cat just kind of wanders into
my house every single day while we're recording radio, while
we're doing video, or just like in the middle of
the day, and it won't it just won't leave. I
think maybe it enjoys my aesthetics more. Maybe it's parents
are are I think it's one of its. It's like
mom is like some kind of soul cycle online instructor.
(38:41):
So I'll always hear her like barking through the door,
like come on, go harder. So maybe we just have
a peaceful, uh living environment. Because I'm not exercising at all.
I hope that's exercise. What I have been enjoying is
your your fit ticks. Every single day you've been you've
been You've been crushing it. I've been wishing it. I've
I've realized that for two months I've dressed like Adam Sandler.
(39:04):
You really have, Like, who is more happy than Adam
Sandler that his way of dressing is completely normalized now,
No one, We've all we've all become house painters. Dude.
I've I have a gift that I bought for you
maybe two years ago, and I've never had like the
reason to send it to you, but it would be
the perfect thing for you to be wearing right now.
(39:25):
It's a sweatshirt with Michael Jordan's crossing over Michael Jackson
on it. I don't even think I've ever opened it,
but I I've purchased it for you, and I've just
never had the situation to send it to you. But
it's just burning a hole in my house. And you
know what the best part is, over the last two years,
it's aged super well because it's true that we would
(39:46):
all root for Michael Jordan to cross over Michael Jackson.
Nothing has changed. It's all still the same kind of
lokenus exactly. No, it's the perfect situation. The power dynamics
are exactly where they need to be for us who
are maybe bar stool novices or guys who kind of
like me, you know, Listen to a couple of shows
I need to have the one oh one on the
(40:06):
Call Me Daddy or whatever it is drama that is
going on. It's it's caught, i think, the attention of
a lot of people because we're all just fiending for
anything where people are mad at each other. But tell me,
tell me what is happening between these two girls. So yeah,
this has kind of captured the attention of America right now,
which is like maybe some of the biggest podcaster drama
(40:29):
that's ever arisen. But these two women have a wildly
successful show hosted by Barstool Sports called Call Her Daddy,
where they give relationship advice, empowering advice to two young
women everywhere that definitely excus towards the sexual side. Um,
(40:50):
but it's a salacious show and it just crushes like
it does incredible numbers. Young women everywhere love them and
identify with them. Over the last couple of months, that
kind of stopped doing their show, and they kind of
stopped putting out episodes. They weren't fulfilling their asks with advertisers,
and no one knew why, No one was no one
(41:12):
could figure out why, And it kind of came out
that they wanted a new contract, and then they it
kind of came out more that they were negotiating in
bad faith because one of these women was dating an
executive from HBO who was who was negotiating a new
deal for them, So they were under contract with Barstool.
He was negotiating a deal with one dree for them,
(41:36):
and they were trying to keep their intellectual property, which
is like an interesting question in the in the podcasting world,
like you know, it's it's gonna I guess kind of
be like the music world as far as like who
owns someone's catalog, who owns somebody's intellectual property? Um. And
so it shook out that the one who was dating
the HBO executive, she wouldn't take any deal that bar
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Stool offered, So she is out. Barstool is retaining the
I P of Call Her Daddy, and the other co host,
young lady named Alex Cooper, will be hosting the show
on her loan sum and uh that's the latest in
in the uh they call her Daddy drama. So I
here's my thoughts. One, you guys are definitely going to
(42:21):
do a bar Stool search for the co host. I
feel like that is a given God to God to
that seems very easy. And also for people who are
listening to this show and don't know, this isn't just
like small time podcast. This is like listen the top
five of all podcasts. This is like a Joe Rogan
level of listenership. Yeah that when Joe Rogan was uh
(42:41):
when he signed to deal with Spotify last week, like
the New York Times article had to cite him as
the number two podcast on the charts at that point,
behind Call Her Daddy. Just because the nature of the controversy,
more people want to listen, but they're still pretty consistently
like a top ten podcast, which the testament to how
well these girls talk about the move they have is
(43:03):
called the gluck Gluck nine thousand, which you can use
your imagination. We'll guess what the gluck is, Yes, exactly. Again,
without sports, we have to just we have to gravitate
towards these things because nothing else is going on. So
I'm happy that Barstool, as always has found drama in
the podcast world. That's what we like about them. It's
honestly fascinated from like a creator's perspective, It's like, what
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is the best way to get in front of people,
like what are people sitting in front of and what
do they have the bandwidth for? And I think that
we're all finding well, barstool is in a great position
for that because you guys have like a dome. You know,
you live in this sort of world where there's you know,
storylines within yourself and people want to support you guys.
And I think that's the future of all this stuff
is is just people supporting their favorite creators, you know, directly,
(43:50):
and and you guys have that business model set, so
that's nice. Well, big Cat says, uh, he said to
say hi right before I came in. I told told
him that I was hopping on with you. He said,
to send your best. You crushed it on that that
part of my take video. Yeah, I love that, dude,
excited to have went on. Uh well, thank you Rohan
for talking to me, and you know, I wish you
the best and stay safe. Is the wedding postponed and canceled?
(44:12):
What's going on in your in your life of almost
being a groom? I think it's still it's it's on
for next summer, so it was always going to be
a next summer thing anyway. The proposal being around like
the holiday season. She didn't want like a short runway.
So it kind of worked out that not that many
things are having to get uh rearranged luckily. I do
(44:34):
still think it's super weird that you set up a
whole pandemic to push it off. So now it was
it was what I had to do to get those
cheaper prices. You know. It's just you have to do
what you have to do at the end of the
day to help those pockets. Got to get that flight
off season. Well, thank you, brother, and we'll talk soon.
I appreciate you, thanks so much. The No Sports Are
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My name is Jensen Carp and I'm a sports fan who,
(00:25):
right now, without any actual competition on an American field,
has had to, for lack of a better pun, move
the goalposts. You see, the only sport I'm watching right
now live is Holy Moldy. Yeah, it's Steph Curry's Extreme
Mini Golf Show, and it's as close as any of
us are getting to actual sports, so no need to
roll your eyes. There are chipping Dale's, they light one
of the contestants on fire, there's electric cutions, and since
(00:47):
it's in its second season, this is how they're able
to advertise it totally to the sequel The Balls Drop,
So yeah, it's super classy. Please Sports come back soon,
because in the meanwhile, I'm talking to athletes and sports
industry professionals about what they're doing in quarantine, hoping to
figure out if famous competing as much as I miss
(01:08):
watching it. This is the No Sports Report Hawaii native
in Miami Marlin's picture. Jordan Yamamota was someone you once
knew only as an afterthought. He was one of the
four unknown prospects traded to the Brewers for All Star
slugger Christian Yellich, and at one time it was seen
by fans as a true fire sale, a tradition known
(01:29):
way too well in Florida when superstars might get a
little too expensive and ownership hadn't cared about the product
on the field for years. But ownership had changed thanks
to new CEO Derek Jeter, and baseball insiders knew better
than to chalk this up to tanking, especially when it
came to Jordan's and the entire world realized that last
year when he was called up to the majors and
set a franchise record with fourteen scoreless innings over two
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starts to begin his career. He didn't even lose until
his sixth appearance. Things evened out a bit over the season,
but he still ended up with the rotation's best whip
at one point one four four and had eight you
strikeouts in just under seventy nine innings. The dude was
throwing and even with a talented, crowded pool of arms
in Miami. Things looked even better this spring training for
Jordan's and he's currently seen as a favorite to make
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the heavily contested starting rotation, and he knows how to
cut hair, so they better keep him happy in case
of Barbara isn't allowed to join the team. We talked
about his skills with a shaver, staying level headed through
professional ups and downs, and solving a Rubik's cube. And
in another installment of Pandemic, I talked to barstool funny
man and Battle Rap champion Adam Roan Farron about making
sports content in a pandemic. This is a new episode
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of the No Sports Report from Yamamode to accept Press one.
Jordan's Yes, how's it going? I wanted to know how
where you're currently quarantined. I'm actually right now, okay, Jupiter,
(02:58):
because I spoke with Colton long recently and I'm still
trying to figure out that if you were quarantined in
the heaven that is Hawaii, if that's a good or
bad thing. No, I'm actually not home right now, but
but um we'll get back there sooner or later because
I wonder, like it seems good because it's Hawaii, but
then you're stuck inside just staring at the wonderful ocean
(03:20):
and and the surroundings around. It's like I feel like
maybe it's more of a torture. Um. Yeah, I mean
both places right now. You know, the water is very
nice on both places, beaches are nice. So it's kind
of like it's still still kind of torture over here too,
where I can't go to the beaches, peaches are still closed. Um,
so I kind of wait it out. You know, we're
trying to keep myself occupied totally. I assumed you were
(03:40):
quarantined with your fiance Madison. Does this pandemic mess Does
it mess with your wedding plans at all? I mean
right now, no, because our our wedding is in late November,
so almost into Decembers. I mean unless this runs to
the day, then we're not going to change it. Um.
I mean everybody got their plans. Like I said, it's
it's not going to run into our day because it's
(04:01):
totally I mean hopefully. Yeah. That's very lucky though, but
it is sort of one of those things that I'm
sure you're just like refreshing, being like, Okay, are they
closing the venue? I got married, what now, two years ago,
and I feel like there's so much preparation that goes
into it. It's like you can't really stop the momentum
unless unless it's really over. Yeah, exactly. You know, we
un lucky because when we did the wedding, it was
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more of a package deal. So we got a wedding
funder involved. Because it's so far away, it's hard to
kind of plan a wedding from being six thousand all
of the way, So we just decided to hire a
wedding fund to kind of do everything on the whole
lot of you side um, and then from there we
just figure it out on this how she was asked
this question, will hey, you want this or that? And
then you say yes or no, it makes a lot easier. Yeah,
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would you get married? Because I was thinking of this myself,
like if my reception was canceled and I couldn't have
my whole family there, I would still probably go to
city hall get that part done and then just wait
for the pandemic to pass to have a party for everyone.
Does that seem I mean that seems right not to
when people are doing nowadays. Um, I mean this as hard,
you know, like because it was funny when when it's
hoping started, Um, Madison actually was talking about Elope, you know,
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and still having a reception. But it's just like we're
not gonna be affected by it, least we don't think
we will be affected, you know. So it's kind of
like we'll just stay the course and it's happy that happens.
If it doesn't, well we'll figure it out and when
that time comes. Totally. She is a kindergarten teacher, which
is the least selfish thing she can be. I'm sure
her leaving her class in the middle of this whole
thing was not easy. Um. Yeah, that definitely wasn't you know.
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But but she is working every day from home. She
does a lot for the kid, you know, but she's
actually building um goody vantage for them for the end
of the year. So it's actually kind of cute. Um,
she had her and she had all their names become
of bags and everything, so we have to go go
deliver them soon. And uh, I know all about Piper,
you like, millions of other people were kind enough to
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adopt a dog during the pandemic. Tell me about the
decision to do that. Um, I've been wanting a dog
for a while. Um, it was funny because I've been
wanting a dog for a lot of year. Now, you know,
my own she's been really good. You're actually speaking right now,
which is really helpful for both of us because matters
is finally, um nail salon opened up, so she's gonna
go get her nails on and I'm just signing cards.
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So it's's kind of like it's perfect time and no pertly. Yeah,
my my wife is gonna be extremely jealous when she
finds out the nail salon has opened in Jupiter, Florida.
That that is, it has become quite She's tried to
do it herself. She just isn't as good at it.
She actually, which we'll get into with you in a
little bit, she cut my hair and did an incredible job.
So I feel like it's just weird. It's the one
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talent she doesn't have is her is doing her nails.
That's funny. I actually haven't really cut here too much
during this time either. Yeah, I assumed you also made
a great point on Instagram about people who are adopting
these pets right now and that when we go back
to our normal lives that we have to make sure
not to neglect them just because we won't be home
the entire time. Yeah, you know, like like that was
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the first thing. I like, we said, so I'm lucky,
I got madicine, you know who, we don't know what's
gonna have. This whole thing was teaching everything that she
possibly could be home, my shaving at shortes. So we
really with the dolls um pretty often, you know. But
it's just it just sucks, you know when people go,
I can get a dog now because because I'm home,
But when I go back to work, when they do
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like an impulse buy and they go, okay, I can
get a dog in and once that rolls around where um,
work comes back into player where they're not where they're
where they're gone for eight hours a day. It's not
what s in the kennel all day long. You know.
I don't want to see the dollars go go go
get it. It's such things dolls, the tent to shelters
and all that stuff, you know. So I just want
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people to realize what they're doing and it's in it
for the long run and not in it just because
it's it's convenied right now, agreed. Also, like millions of
other people during the pandemic, you you gave into the
pressure and you opened the TikTok account. How do you
feel on the app? I have been vocal here on
this podcast that I have never felt older. I'm forty
years old. On TikTok, I feel a hundred and forty.
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How have you been getting along with the app all time?
Post the video here and there? You want one of
the videos of Piper kind of blew up. But other
than that, I'm I don't really go on because it's
a younger generation of kids who are thirteenth or fifteen
years old, um where they're doing something. Impersonally, I'm not
a big fan of a lot of stuff to down
the book. There is funny content on it, so I
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kind of like to watch between me, my fiance and
her brothers, like we send each other videos of the
funny stuff that goes around, you know, not so much
of all the ticktoff famous girls. It's more of the
funny pranks that go on or just a home videos
that are played on a couple of theres. So those
are the views I like to watch them. Couple up
of my feet. Yeah. I am a big fan of
that one challenge where it's like and you move an
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arm and then an arm and then a leg and
then you run after your dog. Yeah. Yeah, I haven't
tried that with Piper. Yes, she's kind of like he
doesn't really get scared or skittish. She's more like, okay,
well you're playing, I'm much are biting you. So I
don't really want to do that because, yeah, we are
already have enough time with her biting us, so we
kindly kind of try to limit that. That's true, it
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could end poorly. You also celebrated a birthday in quarantine.
I'm sorry to hear that. It must have been just you, Madison,
and Piper, But how did you celebrate? Well, now, the
sound it's actually come from the Tupid area too, So
we've kind of been quarantine with them where we have
our house over here, but we go there often to
kind of hang out. You know, they have a pool
over there, so we'll jump in the pool, we'll play
the dogs, and because we have two dogs over there,
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so we're trying to get Piper afflimated to the two dogs.
So we hung out over there. For a little while. Uh,
and then we also had dinner. The night before that,
I started working on my truck. I work on my
truck all day pretty much, because that was what I
wanted to do. I got lights for my birthday for
my truck, and I put those in. But we hung
out and we also jove up to to the beach,
sat inside the back of my truck and watch the sunset.
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So it's kind of cool. I love that. I know
you're a big car guy. What what truck are you
building out? What are you working on? How have my
silver rattle that I've been building for a while. Um?
I got it when it was pretty much fully stopped
um and white, but now it's black with other stuff
done to it. You know. It's fun because every other
week I get I order something. And when Magic, I
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was like, oh, another thing for your trucks. Another thing,
pretty truck, you know, but I love my trucks. My
truck is like, uh, it is my bayby show. I
got to take care of her. So beyond these things,
how have you been able to stay in shape and
mentally prepared for a season that looks like it's kind
of on the brink. But but how have you stayed
Have you stayed active? Right before this whole quarantine shut down,
we kind of got a win from it that we
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were about to go in to shut down and everything
like about a week and a half two before it
actually happened. So what I did is I kept searching
online for a weight set anything. I got lucky that
did down in thirty minutes away. He had like a
warehouse full of full of weights for that that I
bought a whole set from like an Olympic weight set
um from him, and then I also ordered one of Amazon,
which came in a month after. So it was definitely
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a perfect timing. I got lucky with the weight So
that's why I keep it at my fiancee's mom's house.
So we worked out almost four times a week. You know,
throw every day to the Spade shape. You know, it's
kind of like you don't want to be not ready,
and they go, Okay, you have to be backed by
this time, you know, so and be ready for the season. Yeah,
that is super lucky because a lot of people I've
spoken to were like racing to get to get equipment
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at the last minute. Have you been able to throw? Yeah,
it's hard. To long thought turning because all the parks
are closed and everything, but um, we just don't have
the street. And then also have this indoor facility where
I got lucky with again in Jupiter, and it's like
you indoor preasility where has a mounditus. I go there
once a week and I felt bullpens with a cattut
that I've known for a little while. A good time
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spread about my fianto them. So I got kind of
lucky in this area during this time. Absolutely last season,
you got called up to the bigs all after a
very high profile trade, you face the pressure head on.
Had a tremendous start, it seemed reading it all again
as for research, I knew it when had happened, but
reading it it made me it's almost like inhuman how
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do you think you were able to overcome those nerves
and the tension of the first few games. How did
it not get to you? It's all in God's time.
But at the same time, you know, it's that competitive
side of every athlete. You know. The day I called
up and I had the most nerves you can imagine.
You know, I couldn't sleep. I was just I was
just ready to go and I just wanted to play.
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But once I do that first pitch, you know, everything
calmed down. I just held everything just like kind of left.
All the nerves left, and it was like, Okay, I
got my first pitch, and I'll let's go. It's the
same game. It's the same distance from home to to
the mountain. You know, it's it's kind of like, I
just gotta pitch. How I know how um be the
person I am that got me here. So all the
nerves went away, and over time, you know, you still
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get the genes of being the big league. You will
never get used to that, but just the competitive side
of kicks in during during the game. So it was
actually kind kind of cool. Yeah, it was incredible to watch.
You had a really strong spring before everything was postponed,
and you appear to be set for the starting rotation
in a battle that a lot of baseball was watching.
What hurdles do you think now you'll face once you
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guys all get back into action. Are are there certain
things for a guy who started his professional career without
any fear? It looked like from afar, what are you
fearful of? If baseball were to start again pretty soon? Honestly,
I'm not really fearful and much because to me, it's
hitching God's fun, It's hitching God's home. You know, what
he wants is going to happen. And if, by chance
to anything that like happened, that that's that's negative in
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my life. You know, it's just like, Okay, it happened.
You know what am I gonna do? How How do
I look at it as a positive? Alcome? You know,
how can I spend this to be positive? And my
thing is life too short to be negative? So you'll
you'll rarely hear me ever be negative. Um. I always
like to look at the positive leaf, and right now
there's a pretty good positive. You know that we will
have a baseball season, that we will be able to
play again. You know, I don't know where, I don't
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know when, but for the most right now, just being
lucky to even put on the uniform is just good
enough for me. Yeah. I was looking through some of
your social media, and you know, obviously with the extremely
hot start that you had, you started to even out
afterwards a bit and when people would kind of get
on your case about it. I was super impressed with
your response to a lot of the tweets if you
just being like, yeah, man, it's baseball. There's ups and downs,
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which I don't think is a very common answer. I
think sometimes people get in a slump, especially after being
such an amazing, hot rookie start. It's like you definitely
have a really tepid mind about those kind of things,
and where where did you start to get that? Like
how are you not getting down on yourself? If if
you're not living up to the expectations you have set
for yourself. It's a supportive to you know. It's it's
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your family, it's your friends. It's not Beyonce, it's everybody
back home in Hawi. You know, no matter how I do,
no matter what the outcome is, I'm always gonna getting
Tex lessons after the game, you know, like hey, if
it feels good, like hey, congratulation like that the great
outy it feels bad, you know where it was just
like hey, it's all good. It's baseball, you know. So
you're done in yourself, like you'll you'll come back the
next out, and so it's just a support the stem.
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The more you mean on them is the more you'll
have success, because the more you start meeting on the
people who would probays do down there time and you've
got negative bodes is what you're gonna go to, you know,
So tell me it's like I said earlier, a positive bodges.
What is positive outcomes? You know? So you some people
don't understand that. People don't understand it's getting always ye
is numbers and always he is figure on TV. And
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if we lose their money and say Fantasy Baseball, they
thin getting mad at us, you know. But at the
same time, I'm a human ding, I'm a person. So
they are achieving, people making mistakes, people talking about things
that that they're passionate about. And if they're passionate about
their money, meaning that they're like a gamble um, hey,
so be it. But I'm not gonna judge them. And
I'm not gonna get to an argument over something I
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can't can show you know that that I know I
did my best at that I know I prepare for,
you know, and it just didn't go my way. So
there's no point in arguing there, says No. There's really
no pointing arguments. More to take the high road, you know,
kind of spread love, and that's spread law, and that's
how I live. Derek Deeter is an owner of the Marlins.
I'm asking you, are you guys text friends? No? No, No,
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he just keeps professional. I've never texted in and I'm
talking in person all the time whenever I see him.
But that's just that, that's what they say. You know,
he's my boss, you know, as much as I'm a
fan of him and growing up was a fan of him,
you know, you got to keep on a professional basis.
So whenever I see him, I said, Hi, shake his hand.
You know, I have a little conversation. But that's to
the extent I have with him, you know, and if
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I meet anything, you know, he's open to kind of
advice where he can help us out, you know. But
at the same time, he has his work cut out
for him. I have mind, so I cannot be bothering
him every single day there but Christmas card, uh, I
mean I had one of these things where I kind
of I kind of uh made a fool of myself.
You know, we were at this um we have fan
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fest there this past spring training and we were at
top Golf. But we had all the sponsors of the Martins,
you know that each had a boots of their own.
We had our communications guys who was giving out the
like where which boots we belong to? So each play
I have to get a different boots and everything, and
I don't know where I'm going. They didn't tell me
at the front door. So I'm gonna trying to find
a guy running around and everything, and I see in
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my spot of so I started running towards him. I
get caught behind somebody and I feel someone poked me,
like jab me from the back. Turned around and they're
your folks are here, what's helping that all? I'm so
sorry I did not see you there. I was going
to mission, like, I'm so I had a conversation with
him myself bad because I walked right past and you know,
not not even realizing he was there. So I felt
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kind of like a fool of that moment. But he
started laughing and he's like, okay, as long as you're
doing something, you know. So it was definitely fun. That's great.
I mean his gambles. You know a lot of people
looked at stuff like the trade for for you with
Christian getting sent away. I mean, this was the year
it was supposed to pay off for him. So I
kind of I'm I'm excited just for his redemption of Yeah,
you know a lot of people um felt what up
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Mormons are doing. But you kind of you kind of
expect change right away, you know, like what they say,
rebial takes time. And then if you expect like the
trade just instantly magically worked, it's not gonna happen. You know,
we're on the fourth place in that Yellow trade has
never been to the big league. You know, now a
three of the whole are in the big leagues. You
got the fourth one former version of all being on
the continue the big league. So so knowledge to the tape.
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He let it play out, give it time to kind
of develop and then and then you make your judgment.
You know, like not not everything is supposed to be
right then and there, you know, instantly happened. So it's
kind of fun to talk to people about it when
they find I'm part of the Yellows trade, because I
probably like, hey, they're great players, Yellows with Muto umor everybody.
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All those guys were here stanton. You know, they were
all unbelievable players. But at the same time you look
at it and go, hey, when they were there in Miami,
what could they do? You know, So you kind of
have to look at it that way and just and
just trust the process that the Mars are doing something
to change something up to try to win. You know,
I'm trying to chase something up to that he gives
him a new opportunity to start a fresh start of everything,
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you know. So that's why I guess that they brought
everybody in to kind of get new players in there,
um to set a new a new way of of
the mare. Sure, and I'm excited for it. Other than Jeter,
you brought him up? Who else were your players growing up? Actually?
Like the Red Sox so Jeter were all the big
kind of Jeter, but you know all the big Red
Sox stands, yeah yeah, and so who are your Red Sox?
It was funny because growing up was always Jason's air texts,
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um you know jd Drew that did the whole two
thousand seven UM World Series. Tame was it was a
team that when I was in Little league, was that
we all used to sitting in the living and watched
that season and that's one that I detally were playing
and then watched over and over. So like that was
when I initially probably became a Red Sox fan. Now
you decided to take on hair cutting as a hobby.
I think a few years back, did you ever think
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it would be such a hot commodity in our country
to know how to cut hair? Um? No, I did.
And you know, it's crazy because I grew up drawing that,
I grew up painting, you know, doing art. So I figured, hey,
hair cuttings and art, why am I tried? You know?
And so I bought my first clippers back in twos fifteen.
I believe we were in the basement of our whole
family in Helen and Montana. I thought it was that
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that same night I got that, I I cut my roommate's
hair and everything, and slowly, you know, um, they started
cutting for free. You started cutting out in practicing, having
the guys be like, hey, yeah, I thought the painting,
as long as you let me practice on your guys hair.
A lot of guys are like, you know what, we
wear hats a living, why not? So they let me
do that and everything. And over time I became the
team barber, you know, and people started trusting me more
and more to cut their hair. So it's it's kind
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of a good thing. It's awesome. I mean, our teammates
just texting you like see you soon with a question mark. Yeah, definitely, No,
I don't bund the guys text me. Um right when
the quarantine thing started after baseball is kind of shut
down because the original Barbara Juice, he's done in mind
and who's actually the barber of our team. Um, he
has a barbershop inside the stadium and everything. Um, he
didn't want to drive up here every single day to
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kind of cut people hair. So the guys who live
up here and Drew Gray, they kind of called me,
was like, hey, canna get a hair cut? You know.
So at first I started cutting hair during the quarantine,
but after a while I was like, you know my feelings.
Grandma is is the higherst patient too. It's COVID. So
I was like, hey, guys that I gotta understand that
I have I feel to grandmother, you know, because of
his hand. So ever since his whole quarantine started, I
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haven't been cut cutting hair with which is kind of drunk,
but it is what it is generally helping and he's
gotta just wait for this whole thing is over. I
love it, man, I love I love how good of
a barber you are makes me very excited. We like
to end this on a bit of a positive note.
Is there anything that you think we've adapted during COVID
nineteen that you hope sticks around, Something that when we're
all better, we're walking out of our houses, maybe we
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we keep in our arsenal um people you see out so,
like Likelyn, like, we've seen a lot of people walking,
riding their bikes, spending family times together, you know, to
think outside being active rather than inside and all the
iPads or whing TV all the time, you know. So
that's something that I think should continue to happen after
this is all done, because it's nice seeing people out.
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It's nice seeing people interact pub with other people, you know,
and be a little bit more kind out day, you know.
Kind of It's just one of those things that I
like to buy that have being going on because people
want to be outside and not stuff in their house. Seven. Yeah,
I agreed. I I walk around my area and it
feels like it's like the sixties, like what I used
to hear about people just biking, and I even see rollerblades,
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like it's literally toably the full families on bikes. It's
really great to see it is, all right, So I'm
gonna get you some suggestions. We're gonna round down now
with some ideas I have for you in quarantine. Sounds
like you and Madison and Piper are busy, but still
I'm going to give you some ideas things you could
take on as we seem to be in our houses.
At least here in l A. They they pushed are
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in home until the end of July, which is crazy.
I know it's a lot different in Florida. I know.
Here are some suggestions. I think it's time for me,
or you, or really anyone listening to learn how to
solve a Rubik's cube. I know how to do that already,
you do, got it? How did you learn? I learned
back in high school. Back this time, I've ever done
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it a minute forty seconds. I mean, I don't want
to tell you what the world record is, but but
there are so many YouTube videos seconds. But yeah, to
do it in less than two minutes, yeah, the record
is now four point two to one seconds. Yeah, that's
that's too much. I don't I don't have that much time. No,
Now I feel like the only guy who doesn't know
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how to do it? Did you? Did you ever look
anything up? Or you just kept doing it to learn it? Um? No,
I have to leave from the other YouTube is is key?
YouTube taught me and then ever since then, you know,
you kind of just have the algoris of his down
and then you just play with it. Hair cuts, baseball.
Is there anything Yamamoto can't do? Unbelievable? Okay, moving on.
It was funny because actually just remodeled her mom's house.
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They have like a rental department called Bigger Rogers, So
a good quarantry project was we remodeled the whole thing.
Oh my god, you're so active. Yeah. I took construction
in office in the minor league. You know, when you
don't get paid off these you make six cards and
laws a year, you gotta find a way to kind
of offsets yere, uh, financing in the off season. So
now that's where I took up, and that's where I
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learned how to remodel things. Amazing, all right, I feel
like this is all going to be a letdown. Second, Uh,
do you know anything about the tops Baseball Card project?
Baseball Card Project? What is that? It's it's not a
sponsor of the show, but I will gladly trade cards
for a sponsorship. This is a collection from the Tops,
which we all know, the world famous card company, where
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they took twenty iconic twenty iconic players including Sandy Kofax,
Jackie Robinson, Each Row, Mike Trout, and even your coach
Don Mattingly. They took these iconic cards right from these
players from certain years and then they matched them up
with popular artists, which you must like because you said
you got into art at an early age, and they
had those artists reimagine what those cards would look like
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if they created them, like the cartoon. Yes, so Mr
Cartoon is one of them. Josh Vitti's Don c Matt Taylor,
Ben Baller the jewelry Artist, and Ermsy who I love. Uh.
They all have released cards and they're gonna do twenty
each obviously, and they're available for just forty eight hours
at a time and they're limited. They and then they
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also released yeah, they released one that's like only out
of twenty, but those sell out in literally seconds. But
my favorites have been so far, Arms is Dwight Gooden
and Matt Taylor's Derek Jeter. But I'm now scouring eBay.
There's new ones that get released every day on their site.
But anyway, I thought it was pretty cool. Yeah, that's
definitely cool because I followed tops actually just finished the
one of like signing some of their cards, but I
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sat on a couple of the Instagram pays them what
is this? You know? And then now your explay and
I kind of I'm just kind of a little better now. Yeah,
and Mr Cartoon, I'm sure we're both both obviously fans
of his, but I mean it's uh, it's really cool.
All right. Lastly, this one I have put a lot
of work into. I'm very scared about this one. You're
into country music, right, Okay, alright, so this is my thing.
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I'm thinking this will work out perfectly. I think that
you should write a country song called the Quarantine Blues.
I'm not very good at any instruments, and I'm not
very good at singing. Okay, I think I'm going to
see you in the shower. But other than that, yeah,
and I'm not very good at singing. Well, so much
of country music is about hard times, and what's harder
than right now? I wrote you a few lines if
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you'd be willing to just listen to them. Maybe maybe
you'd be into it, and then you can have a song. Okay, Okay,
here we go. I've worn the same pajama pants for
a week or two. That, my friend, is the quarantine blues.
M hm hm. Pretty good. Okay, all right, here's here's
another one. I guess I'll never be able to take
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a cruise. That's what we call the quarantine blues. Mhm hm.
That's pretty all right. Last one, I cut hair, but
it's useless if I can't see my dudes. That's what
we call the quarantine blues. That's good. That's that's pretty good.
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All right. I'll send you the lyrics. I'll email them
to you just in case you feel like you want
to write a song. Okay, sounds good to me. They'll
definitely look into it. Well, thank you for talking to
me today. And I stay healthy with Madison and Piper
and the whole family, and and and I'm so excited
to see you back on the field for a great
follow up season. And please be safe. Thank you for
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having me. Ye after this my pandemic chat with Barstool
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backslash COVID nineteen and now I check in with Barstool
Sports Rowan in our latest installment of Pandemic. Hello Rowan,
I'm doing all right. I'm I feel like we're hitting
a bit of the end. But then I assume everyone
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who's going out to the beach is going to get
very sick and die. But that's what I'm Where have
people been How long have people been going out to
the beach? Have they going out and then going out
for enough of a cycle where we should be seeing
this new spike. I think we have two weeks. Do
you think so like this is like the this past
weekend was the two weeks and now we're going to
be back into it. Maybe, I mean that would make sense.
I mean Memorial Day would clearly be a spike. That
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would make sense because some people went out, hung out,
got sick. I mean I saw like a video of
the Jersey Shore and people were like straight up coughing
on each other for fun. Yeah, that's like the new
beach game. It's replaced ball. I do. I didn't see
in any of those videos where people are like, check
this out. I haven't seen one face mask at all.
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But then there's yeah, like people are like, uh, but
it can't live outside. I don't know. I've gotten a
lot of a lot of misinformation, a lot of incorrect information. Well,
I'm still weary of five G dude. I know, I
knew it was my phone. It's high time, but somehow
my addiction prevails that just gonna I'm gonna take the
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five G and and just die. Well, people might know
you Adam for own from your time right now with
Barstool Sports killing it. What do you do when you
work at a website? With sports in its name, and
you find yourself without sports. It's so it's so weird. Honestly,
I'm like a I did a rod dog who like
can't run, and it's just being like put in the house.
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Like my like purpose as a human being is skewed
right now because like I don't I don't know what
to do with my energy. And luckily I have like
other hobbies and stuff like that, and I'll try and
like you know, write some raps or like make some
videos that aren't really fully about sports. But there's part
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of me that I feel like is missing right now.
Are you going through any of that that same vibe? Well,
I have to deal with sports every day for this podcast,
so it's a little easier for me because I get
to research and look up stuff and wonder when golf
is coming back because I'm interviewing someone like that stuff
does kind to scratch the itch a little bit. But
I I feel like the TV stuff is what's killing
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me because I can't watch any NBA playoffs, which hurts
or you know, and Sports Center is just painful dudes
talking to each other at this point, right, That's what
I mean. I can't believe that they're just continuing to
fulfill these hours of programming on ESPN and stuff like that,
like that they're just talking about like about nothing like
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but somehow they're finding a way to still find Lebron
versus m J debates, Like people are just it's it's
showing our like crackhead and nature as sports fans that
everybody is kind of folding back into these like debates
that are supposed to be comforting to us because like, oh,
everything is normal, but you just know it's not normal.
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It's like, even when I want to be I can't
watch every second of sports, but even it's like a
soothing background noise. It's like my like white noise of
like if I'm on the couch, I'm just throwing on
the games. I might even put on a baseball game, gents.
And that's how fucking stroggy I feel. That that's how
crazy I feel. I'm a baseball guy, but I understand
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it's crazy. It's so hard to root for baseball. I mean,
going to a baseball game is always an elite activity,
but watching a baseball team that you don't care about,
like it's not your like home team or the team
you root for is like, uh, one of the more
excruciating asks in the world of sports. I'm gonna assume
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you're not watching the kb O then I mean I'm
I'm watching people who watch it and like their sense
of normalcy is comforting to me. But I can't. I
can't like bring myself to the hours of watching it
or like the learning these new players. I've spent so
much time in the worlds of these sports. It's almost
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like with like wrestling, like you learn everybody's backstory, like
these are the guys I like, these are the people
I don't like, And it's almost like you're just rooting
for like the Colors at some point, the gang size
of it. And then you get into like this new
these new baseball leagues. I have to learn a whole
new ecosystem of sports to have to watch. I'm not
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I'm not prepared for it. It's a bit too much.
I do want to know, Like with you, you're out
of your out of New York, same place where bar
stool is. Is there a sort of pressure around the
office to find the extraordinary out of the mundane right now,
like trying to create content. I think that there is
it that it's not it's more of an internal pressure.
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I feel definitely an internal pressure and restlessness to like
make content, and I don't want to do a single
thing to make this worse for anybody. But at the
same time, like when you see absurdity going on in
the world, like and you see like people are getting
these these these sound bites, these vinral videos from it,
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like you want to be a part of that. It's
just like instinctual to want to try and make content
from it. So it's like, how do I how do
I make content from this like historic time that we're
living in while also like not being part of the
bad wrinkle of history of it. I think you figured
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it out in a great way starting upon and being
able to talk to people. And it's just I don't know,
I don't know what the right answer is. I don't know.
It's funny because like the way like a time line
of viral goes is it's always like, oh, that's funny,
that's interesting, and then three or weeks in you have
like some ship bag like logan Paul laughing at a cemetery,
you know what I mean, Like there's there's a weird
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way of making it funny. And then after a long
time you're like, oh, this is just morbid, Like this
isn't there's no real joke here anymore. And you did
a great job. We'll play a clip right now from it.
You did a great job of battling household items. What
a swivel chair? I didn't see you sitting there. Well,
you're about to get killed in here once I gravel
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the silver were the stuff and out there's nothing like
a fucking bull the bear. I'm on the edge of
my seat when no one's ever heard of you looking
like a baseball glove from nineteen thirty two? What's your
life like that of blubber that from one distantch Burt
Switch s and number I'm doing soul now shows. So
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how does this dude go compare? I'd say, because switch seats.
But you've never been a musical chair, and so that
was you just battling your sofa. Yeah, that chair was
looking at me wrong, dude. Every day I sit down
and this chair is just staring at me, or worse,
some days it turns its back to me. It's a
swivel chair. So but I mean, that's like, that's like
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what I had to get to it and like in
some ways is like a good creative outlet for me
to be able to rap battle somebody without hurting their
feelings or more importantly, without me getting my feelings hurt.
But also in some ways it just like illustrates the
uh like desperation in like the vacuum of creativity. You
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are a former King of the Dot champion, a rap
battle monster. I mean that industry is gonna see itself
be a lot different post pandemic. Yeah, like rap battle.
There was a time on a fight club where rat
battles were taking place with a pool table between the
two people as like a motive come to stop people
from like fighting each other. But now like we might
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need people in bubble boys who's battle rapping with one another. Um.
But at the same time, like how tough can you
look like like with if if you're like, you know,
scared of a virus, part of battle rap is bravado
and you have to look like a hardass dude who
doesn't give a funk about anything. So it's like, I
don't know, how can we be smart about this and
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like save the essence of battle rap And I think
we just need herd immunity and battle rap. I think
all these battle rappers that need to kiss each other
on the mouth and get it over with you, And
I've been saying that for years that just start each
battle with French guessing. Now we finally have a reason
exactly best kisser gets to go first for a second?
Best who goes first or second? You do make me
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think that in a battle someone could say, you know,
I'm a tough guy. That's what I'm about. Just to
prove that, go ahead and spit in my mouth. It's
a very easy way to be a pervert but also
be very good at battle rap. Yeah, it's it's a
cheat code. Honestly, at the end of the day, like
forcing somebody to to swap spit with you would be
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the ultimate act of male dominant. I agree with you,
total Alpha. What do you miss most with sports gone? Like?
What do you see yourself fiending for the most? Like?
What what bothers you that's gone? Um? So I am
not a huge gambling guy. I know that a lot
of people with whom my work are gambling people. And uh,
if they were offered sports can be back, you can watch,
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but you can't gamble on it, they would say, I
don't even want sports back. I only wanted for the
gambling aspect. For me, it's like, uh, it's it's been
like normalcy of like having something to go do. Like
for a lot of people who are super into sports,
like a lot of their weekend will hinge around it,
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like in a football season. My Sunday is all about sports,
and so it's like having that like peg to hang
my hat on. Every day. It's just like, ah, like
days over, I can sit down and watch like the
slate of NBA games from like nine o'clock until twelve
o'clock and turn my brain off for a little bit.
I'm watching the Great British Bakeoff to just have some
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type of like competition in my life, just to like
feel like somebody is going against somebody or like they're
trying and failing. Like I just need that to kind
of end my day. So I can just watch instead
of participating in the rat race. Yeah, you you have
a radio show through Barstool that you guys have been
keeping up from your house. I think, right, yeah, we've
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been doing it most days. It's kind of remotely from Brooklyn.
It's been preposterous. My neighbor's pets to keep on wandering
through that on Instagram you have you've basically adopted a cat. Yeah,
cat named h I don't know what the cat's name.
We call it garbage, but we I don't even think
I shouldn't learn its name. I don't even want to
know from my neighbors. But we have like a shared
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balcony situation. So this cat just kind of wanders into
my house every single day while we're recording radio, while
we're doing video, or just like in the middle of
the day, and it won't it just won't leave. I
think maybe it enjoys my aesthetics more. Maybe it's parents
are are I think it's one of its. It's like
mom is like some kind of soul cycle online instructor.
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So I'll always hear her like barking through the door,
like come on, go harder. So maybe we just have
a peaceful, uh living environment. Because I'm not exercising at all.
I hope that's exercise. What I have been enjoying is
your your fit ticks. Every single day you've been you've
been You've been crushing it. I've been wishing it. I've
I've realized that for two months I've dressed like Adam Sandler.
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You really have, Like, who is more happy than Adam
Sandler that his way of dressing is completely normalized now,
No one, We've all we've all become house painters. Dude.
I've I have a gift that I bought for you
maybe two years ago, and I've never had like the
reason to send it to you, but it would be
the perfect thing for you to be wearing right now.
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It's a sweatshirt with Michael Jordan's crossing over Michael Jackson
on it. I don't even think I've ever opened it,
but I I've purchased it for you, and I've just
never had the situation to send it to you. But
it's just burning a hole in my house. And you
know what the best part is, over the last two years,
it's aged super well because it's true that we would
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all root for Michael Jordan to cross over Michael Jackson.
Nothing has changed. It's all still the same kind of
lokenus exactly. No, it's the perfect situation. The power dynamics
are exactly where they need to be for us who
are maybe bar stool novices or guys who kind of
like me, you know, Listen to a couple of shows
I need to have the one oh one on the
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Call Me Daddy or whatever it is drama that is
going on. It's it's caught, i think, the attention of
a lot of people because we're all just fiending for
anything where people are mad at each other. But tell me,
tell me what is happening between these two girls. So yeah,
this has kind of captured the attention of America right now,
which is like maybe some of the biggest podcaster drama
(40:29):
that's ever arisen. But these two women have a wildly
successful show hosted by Barstool Sports called Call Her Daddy,
where they give relationship advice, empowering advice to two young
women everywhere that definitely excus towards the sexual side. Um,
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but it's a salacious show and it just crushes like
it does incredible numbers. Young women everywhere love them and
identify with them. Over the last couple of months, that
kind of stopped doing their show, and they kind of
stopped putting out episodes. They weren't fulfilling their asks with advertisers,
and no one knew why, No one was no one
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could figure out why, And it kind of came out
that they wanted a new contract, and then they it
kind of came out more that they were negotiating in
bad faith because one of these women was dating an
executive from HBO who was who was negotiating a new
deal for them, So they were under contract with Barstool.
He was negotiating a deal with one dree for them,
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and they were trying to keep their intellectual property, which
is like an interesting question in the in the podcasting world,
like you know, it's it's gonna I guess kind of
be like the music world as far as like who
owns someone's catalog, who owns somebody's intellectual property? Um. And
so it shook out that the one who was dating
the HBO executive, she wouldn't take any deal that bar
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Stool offered, So she is out. Barstool is retaining the
I P of Call Her Daddy, and the other co host,
young lady named Alex Cooper, will be hosting the show
on her loan sum and uh that's the latest in
in the uh they call her Daddy drama. So I
here's my thoughts. One, you guys are definitely going to
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do a bar Stool search for the co host. I
feel like that is a given God to God to
that seems very easy. And also for people who are
listening to this show and don't know, this isn't just
like small time podcast. This is like listen the top
five of all podcasts. This is like a Joe Rogan
level of listenership. Yeah that when Joe Rogan was uh
(42:41):
when he signed to deal with Spotify last week, like
the New York Times article had to cite him as
the number two podcast on the charts at that point,
behind Call Her Daddy. Just because the nature of the controversy,
more people want to listen, but they're still pretty consistently
like a top ten podcast, which the testament to how
well these girls talk about the move they have is
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called the gluck Gluck nine thousand, which you can use
your imagination. We'll guess what the gluck is, Yes, exactly. Again,
without sports, we have to just we have to gravitate
towards these things because nothing else is going on. So
I'm happy that Barstool, as always has found drama in
the podcast world. That's what we like about them. It's
honestly fascinated from like a creator's perspective, It's like, what
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is the best way to get in front of people,
like what are people sitting in front of and what
do they have the bandwidth for? And I think that
we're all finding well, barstool is in a great position
for that because you guys have like a dome. You know,
you live in this sort of world where there's you know,
storylines within yourself and people want to support you guys.
And I think that's the future of all this stuff
is is just people supporting their favorite creators, you know, directly,
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and and you guys have that business model set, so
that's nice. Well, big Cat says, uh, he said to
say hi right before I came in. I told told
him that I was hopping on with you. He said,
to send your best. You crushed it on that that
part of my take video. Yeah, I love that, dude,
excited to have went on. Uh well, thank you Rohan
for talking to me, and you know, I wish you
the best and stay safe. Is the wedding postponed and canceled?
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What's going on in your in your life of almost
being a groom? I think it's still it's it's on
for next summer, so it was always going to be
a next summer thing anyway. The proposal being around like
the holiday season. She didn't want like a short runway.
So it kind of worked out that not that many
things are having to get uh rearranged luckily. I do
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still think it's super weird that you set up a
whole pandemic to push it off. So now it was
it was what I had to do to get those
cheaper prices. You know. It's just you have to do
what you have to do at the end of the
day to help those pockets. Got to get that flight
off season. Well, thank you, brother, and we'll talk soon.
I appreciate you, thanks so much. The No Sports Are
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