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00:00All right, this man doesn't need an introduction.
00:02He's L President of the day, Dave Portnoy, the boss of bosses.
00:06He runs the whole show, and of course, this episode's brought to you by Body Armor Flash IV.
00:12Get hydrated super fast.
00:14I wish I had one right now, because I could use some hydration.
00:17But let's go for a walk.
00:19Let's do it, year three.
00:20Frank.
00:21Frank.
00:24Frank walks.
00:26Frank walks.
00:27It's time.
00:28Frank walks.
00:30Frank talks while Frank walks.
00:33It's time for Frank walks.
00:38Super Bowl tradition.
00:39It's year three, and it's the biggest one for you yet.
00:42The Patriots are back in it.
00:45Incredible turnaround.
00:47Yeah, well, it feels like old times.
00:51Frank, you weren't with us when we were enjoying the glory days, but they feel like they're here again.
00:55And this is a big one, because as you see them wearing all the rings, seven, as you know, would put us by ourselves, the most Super Bowls in the history of the league.
01:04So it's very important that we get this one, and I think we will.
01:07You know, it's incredible that Robert Kraft did not get in the Hall of Fame.
01:12I mean, does anyone remember what the Patriots were like in 1993?
01:19It's crazy.
01:20People don't remember that, actually.
01:22And none of that, three Super Bowls with three different head coaches, absolutely unheard of.
01:29Most Super Bowls in the history of the league.
01:31And he stopped like the work stoppage.
01:34So, listen, I've learned this the hard way, or the good way.
01:39Everyone wants to take what you have.
01:41Everyone wants a shot at the king.
01:43It doesn't matter to the sport.
01:45You've got a lot of people.
01:45Tony Dungy, coward, loser.
01:48Bill Polian, coward, loser.
01:51You've got a lot of people who are just jealous over the Patriots' success.
01:54And they happen to say, I don't know how they rigged this 50-person committee.
01:57It's all ex-Colts losers.
01:59I mean, it's a joke that he didn't.
02:01You see, baseball isn't a mess at it, because there's no Robert Kraft that owns major baseball teams.
02:06Frank, I texted him.
02:07I'm friends with RKK.
02:09That's what his friends call him.
02:10I texted him, and I said, it's an absolute joke that you're not in the Hall of Fame.
02:15He texted me back, I only care about number seven.
02:19So, that is absolutely what we want to hear.
02:22I mean, it's great.
02:24I mean, I did a walk with Mike Vrabel just before training camp last year.
02:28But, now, Mike Vrabel, he pulls this off.
02:32He goes to, like, the top of the top of the list of Patriot icons.
02:37You win some as a player.
02:39What do you get, three as a player?
02:40Yeah.
02:40And then you get one as a head coach.
02:42You restore this team to his glory.
02:44You're like first ballot Hall of Fame New England Patriots.
02:49Brady, Belichick, Kraft, Vrabel.
02:52What were the Titans thinking?
02:54Idiots.
02:55Absolute morons.
02:57Hey, one man's trash is another one man's treasure.
03:00Well, we wouldn't know he was a good coach.
03:01That's the crazy thing we got.
03:02That is the thing in real time.
03:04Everyone's like, what are they doing in real time?
03:07I mean, that was just dumb.
03:09It's why you have teams that just are stuck in the mud.
03:12You have, like, the Jets are the most inept franchise that you can imagine.
03:16And they're stuck in the mud.
03:18Your team, too.
03:19Oh, the Dolphins.
03:20Should have never gotten rid of Brian Flores.
03:24He's a great coach.
03:24No, he's a great coach.
03:26And now he can't get a job because he basically whistle blew on the Dolphins.
03:30Yeah, exactly.
03:30They wanted him to, the Dolphins wanted him to tank.
03:36And they put Ryan Fitzpatrick.
03:38That was a big mistake.
03:39They had Ryan Fitzpatrick starting the games.
03:42They should have just kept Josh Rosen out there.
03:44And they would have lost.
03:44We have a nice little t-shirt, knock on wood, if the Patriots win.
03:50But it's a play on Haley Steinfeld, the Patriots, and the three little sisters or whatever.
03:56And it's how many, the Patriots will have seven Super Bowls.
04:00The Dolphins have one.
04:02The Jets have.
04:03Two.
04:04The Dolphins have two?
04:05Yeah.
04:05Back-to-back, seven and eight.
04:08Oh, the Dolphins have two.
04:09The Jets have one.
04:10Bills, zero.
04:13Nothing in like, what has it been, like 30 years since you guys won a playoff game?
04:1820, 26 years now.
04:20Crazy.
04:21Crazy, crazy, crazy.
04:22It's going to be a while, because I don't think it's coming anytime soon.
04:25Who did they hire as their head coach?
04:28Jeff Halfley.
04:29I don't know nothing about him.
04:31He's like, he actually was a coach at Boston College a couple of years ago.
04:36No kidding?
04:37Yeah.
04:38There's a good, there's someone you're picking off.
04:42And he was with Green Bay last year.
04:46Defensive coordinator in Green Bay.
04:47Interesting.
04:48But I'm not confident about him.
04:50And, of course, you know, what else is going on besides the Super Bowl for Barstool in the next year?
04:57Great question.
04:58I mean, we just kind of, we've obviously had some big things.
05:02We have a big noon kickoff, our deal with Fox.
05:05We have Wake Up Barstool.
05:07Netflix just picked up some of our podcasts.
05:09Yeah, so, PMT, Chicklets, Ryan Russillo.
05:14So, it's been busy.
05:15It's been a great, great year, and hopefully we just keep growing and getting bigger.
05:18I mean, the Fox, the Fox deal, the big noon kickoff.
05:24Yep.
05:25Never thought I'd be friends with Urban Meyer, but I am.
05:29I mean, I'm going to do a walk with Freddie Quinn later today.
05:33Oh, is he here?
05:34Yeah.
05:35I was wondering if Quinn was going to be here.
05:36He's another good guy.
05:37Notre Dame, he's your guy, a Notre Dame guy.
05:40Notre Dame completely got screwed.
05:42Completely got screwed.
05:43Well, Miami did make it to the national championship.
05:49Join a conference, Frank.
05:51You guys sit here and no conference, and you complain like little babies.
05:55You got this.
05:55If we're in the top 12 thing, go play.
05:58I don't care, Frank.
05:59If you don't want to join a conference, I don't want to hear any complaining from you.
06:03It's history, though.
06:04A hundred years ago, Notre Dame tried to join the Big Ten, and the members of the Big Ten wouldn't let them join if they were a Catholic school.
06:12It was a hundred years ago we had slavery in this country, Frank.
06:15We're still talking about decisions from a hundred years ago why Notre Dame won't join a conference?
06:22What are we talking about?
06:23I like being independent.
06:26That's a new slant a hundred years ago during the days of the Civil War.
06:31They were insulted by the Big Ten.
06:33Don't join a conference.
06:35Fine.
06:35Do not complain.
06:37Your schedule next year, Frank, is a joke.
06:40You didn't beat anybody this year.
06:41Well, USC is chicken now.
06:43Yeah, I mean, USC.
06:45Fight on USC.
06:47University of Southern Chickens.
06:50That's what you call them now.
06:51You see this security guard, Mike, over here?
06:54He's on his phone.
06:55He's supposed to be watching backwards.
06:58Pat, we need a security guard to watch the other security guards.
07:02It's like...
07:03This guy is quite the thing we got going on in here, Frank.
07:10Almost knocked down an old lady.
07:12Yeah, but a big new kickoff.
07:14That was a big success.
07:16Yeah, I've enjoyed it.
07:18Of course, wake up Barstool.
07:21Yep.
07:22That's only going to grow.
07:24Yeah, and it's doing well on the internet.
07:28So, you know, Barstool, as you know, Frank, we just try things out and see what sticks,
07:32see what works.
07:34What's going on, boys?
07:36We're filming this right now.
07:38Sorry.
07:39And, of course, you know, last year, I've worked out with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
07:45Insane.
07:46Insane.
07:47And every year we do this, Frank, you've lost, like, half your body weight.
07:50I asked you, it was at Radio Row, which they credentialed me, which is nuts.
07:54I love that.
07:55And it's, the Cold War's over.
07:57Yeah.
07:58The Cold War's over.
08:00Tear down that wall.
08:01Tear down that wall.
08:01It's Gorbachev.
08:02Yeah.
08:02Yeah.
08:03Or Rocky IV.
08:04I saw a guy, where was he from?
08:07He said he ate hot dogs with you.
08:10He's like, Frank could eat a million hot dogs.
08:11I go, not anymore.
08:12I must have been before he started Frank Walks.
08:14It was.
08:15I forget who the guy was.
08:18But it's, it's amazing.
08:22And it's thanks to a lot of what Mikey Betts does, shooting a video.
08:26If you've got, and, of course, Jenks, who helps book it.
08:29You know, Jenks is, Jenks is a bulldog.
08:32He can sell.
08:33He can book things.
08:34And we're trying to.
08:35You've got a good team.
08:36We're cooking all the time.
08:38That's the greatest thing about it.
08:40We're trying to get more stuff cooked up.
08:42Of course, if we get even more, I think we can grow even bigger.
08:47Now, what weight are we trying to get down to here?
08:50Like, I mean, are you just going to waste the weight on us to nothing?
08:52I'm just losing weight.
08:54I don't have a set goal.
08:56I just have new goals every time I hit a goal.
08:58All right.
08:58I like that.
08:59My big goal was under 300.
09:02Now I'm hoping to get soon 275.
09:04And then you go to the next goal.
09:07And eventually, I'm going to probably have to have some skin removed.
09:10Yeah.
09:11Tighten it up.
09:11Yeah.
09:12Yeah.
09:12Tighten everything up.
09:13That'll probably knock off another 20, 30 pounds.
09:14That's a good problem to have.
09:16I mean, the energy, I have more energy, stamina, and ability to work out now at 50 than I had
09:26when I was 35.
09:27I'm reverse.
09:28I wish I had that.
09:29I pulled my hamstring yesterday in a race.
09:33And I get out of bed.
09:35My shoulder hurts.
09:36My hamstring, I'm falling apart.
09:38So I envy that.
09:39I definitely is the reverse.
09:41I had more energy when I was 20 than I do now.
09:44I'm trying to start to run.
09:46I'm going to try to run the 5K Tunnel to Towers event.
09:49Oh, yeah.
09:50Of course.
09:51So I've been training for that.
09:54Frank Siller.
09:54Yeah, Frank Siller.
09:55All-time guy.
09:56He's a great guy.
09:56He should be president of the United States.
09:58He's an all-time guy.
10:00You know, I think I'm going to try to do the 5K this year, of course, too.
10:04I'll probably walk it.
10:06Who cares?
10:06Get it done.
10:07It's a great event.
10:08Great event.
10:10He's one of the best.
10:13Who do you think is going to win the Super Bowl, Frank?
10:15My head tells me the Seahawks.
10:18Well, you're wrong.
10:19I think karma is on the Patriots' side.
10:22Frank, I consider you an intelligent sports fan, okay?
10:24So it hurts me that you said that, first of all.
10:28The Patriots are 17-3.
10:30They started 1-2.
10:32Do you know how hard, how good you have to be
10:35in the NFL to go 17-1?
10:39And people talk schedule.
10:40There's no such thing.
10:41The NFL, Cleveland beats Green Bay.
10:43Every bad team's winning games.
10:4617-1.
10:47They're the best team over the course of the season.
10:49Then you get in the playoffs.
10:50Oh, well, C.J. Stroud stunk.
10:53Everyone was saying that Texans defense was the Ravens.
10:56They're going to win the Super Bowl.
10:57Herbert, people say, is the best quarterback of all time.
10:59Shut him down.
11:01Herbert's so overrated.
11:01How many times has Tom Brady won a playoff game in Denver?
11:04Zero.
11:050-3.
11:06Going to Denver.
11:07Win for the first time.
11:08Nobody gives this Patriot team credit,
11:09and we're four-and-a-half-point underdogs.
11:11What are we talking about?
11:13I just love the Super Bowl defense.
11:14Did I convince you?
11:16That's what it is.
11:17But, you know, I think all this bad.
11:19I think the Kraft getting the snubs.
11:22Snubs.
11:22The Belichick snubs.
11:24I think that's going to help the Patriots.
11:26I agree.
11:27Also, Drake made people like he hasn't played well in the playoffs.
11:29Frank, are you familiar with the meteorology term, bomb genesis?
11:36Bomb genesis, yes.
11:37Yes.
11:38They call it bomb cycle now.
11:39Yes.
11:40That is what happened in Denver.
11:42We got hit by a bomb cycle storm.
11:45And they're like, why did Drake May struggle?
11:47Well, he was playing in a bomb genesis.
11:49So, I think good weather here.
11:51It's beautiful in Santa Clara.
11:52I think it's going to be a higher scoring game, but Lombardi number seven is going to come back to New England.
11:59And I am beyond words from the Patriots I grew up watching at old Foxborough Stadium.
12:07You remember Rod Rust.
12:08Of course.
12:09And Rodney Rust.
12:10Of course.
12:12And then now to be the number one franchise.
12:15I mean, you were in the throwback jacket when they were in the guy.
12:18Yeah.
12:18They were called in.
12:21Is this yours?
12:23It's a Lucy ad.
12:25Yeah, here you go.
12:28I don't know what that was.
12:30Ad?
12:31Yeah.
12:31It's a Lucy ad.
12:32Yeah.
12:33I mean, it's a fumble, Mikey.
12:38But they were as bad as the Jets are now.
12:42Were you ever a video game guy?
12:44Like Tecmo Bowl?
12:45I played a little Tecmo Bowl.
12:47I liked RBI baseball.
12:48Yeah, that's a good game.
12:49But in Tecmo Bowl, the Patriots are the worst team in the league.
12:52Them and the Colts were.
12:53Like Tony Eason, quarterback.
12:54Worst team in the league.
12:55They were really, really bad.
12:57And then, obviously, Parcells turns it around.
13:00And then, now we're here.
13:01They were on their way to St. Louis.
13:04People forget that.
13:04They were on their way to St. Louis.
13:06Whatever his name was, yeah.
13:07The question was, can football actually work in Boston?
13:11Yep.
13:12They were 28th in merchandise sales.
13:14Yep.
13:1528th in league prestige.
13:1728th in attendance.
13:18And this one, there's only 28 teams.
13:20Yeah.
13:21Yep.
13:21They were horrific.
13:22I mean, what he did is remarkable.
13:25And he's not in the Hall of Fame.
13:27It's disgusting.
13:27But anything else going on this year?
13:35No.
13:35We get through this.
13:38And then, you obviously get to March Madness.
13:40We'll have a Vegas house for the younger generation to look at.
13:44Oh, that's going to be fun.
13:45Yep.
13:47Bosco, Rego Bosco.
13:48A little breaking news.
13:49He'll be part of Vegas house.
13:51Ha, ha, ha, ha.
13:52That's a penance for stealing money from the company.
13:56Yeah, so that's what we get to look forward to early part of the year.
13:59You know, we go into the cycles.
14:01Like, we cover everything, but we're still a sports company.
14:04So, whatever sport's going on is what we're covering.
14:08And, of course, probably the last baseball season for three years coming up this year.
14:13Because of labor.
14:15That's going to be, that's going to be, that's going to be, the only way there's going to be baseball in 2027?
14:21Is if Donald Trump steps in.
14:25Yeah, I know.
14:26How's it going?
14:27Good, what's going on, man?
14:28Nice to meet you.
14:28Hey, how's it going?
14:29Appreciate it.
14:30Literally, the only way there'll be baseball is if the government steps in.
14:35And, like.
14:35Yeah, I don't see that happening, but maybe we'll have a stoppage then.
14:42What about you, Frank?
14:43What's going on in your world?
14:44Well, I'm doing the Frank List three times a week.
14:47Yeah.
14:47I got a lot of walks coming up.
14:48I got a walk coming up with Emmett Smith on Friday.
14:51I heard that.
14:52That's going to be a big one.
14:53And we're just hoping to sell.
14:55You know, one day I envision maybe going to every state, doing Frank walks, maybe meeting
15:00more fans and doing walks.
15:01I got walk 1000 coming up in June.
15:05I love that.
15:05And we're going to try to, we're going to try to make an event out of that one.
15:08Now, have you seen Forrest Gump?
15:10Yes, I have.
15:11Of course, that scene when everyone's following him through the desert, maybe we get that for
15:16the Frank walks, hundreds and hundreds of people.
15:19I mean, that would be, that would be amazing.
15:21I mean, when we had, I think walk 1000, we're going to try to turn that into some sort of
15:25major event.
15:26I love that.
15:26I love that.
15:27And I just want to get, the fans are everything.
15:30The fans help inspire me.
15:32I know we got Don, our big fan.
15:36Of course, he is battling stage four cancer.
15:41Of course, he's a big Boston guy.
15:43So he'll be out there rooting for the Patriots.
15:46And we've met with him.
15:47He's a big fan, big supporter of us.
15:51Says that we, one of the guys we inspired.
15:53We got Dan, we got Aaron, all these guys who say that they, I've inspired him, is absolutely
16:00stunning to me.
16:01It's been quite the, quite the transformation, quite the story to walk.
16:05Very proud of you, Frank.
16:06I mean, it wouldn't have been possible without you.
16:07You said, you know, 2018, 2017.
16:11Frank, it wouldn't have been possible without the, the 7 line or whatever, that subway.
16:17New Jersey Transit, yeah.
16:18Without the New Jersey Transit, we're not sitting here.
16:21I mean.
16:22Without that fateful day when you couldn't get on the bus for opening day.
16:26And I'm like, who the heck is this guy ranting like this?
16:29Oh, geez, watch your foot.
16:33I was like, who is this guy ranting and raving about missing opening day?
16:36We've got to get in touch with this guy and the rest is history.
16:39I mean.
16:40Ever think about that?
16:41Yeah.
16:41If that camera's not there at that moment to catch you.
16:45I mean, I just need the opportunity.
16:47Things happen for a certain way.
16:48And I finally, and you were able to give me that opportunity and it's incredible.
16:53I, I, I spiked up again to 420, 469 in 2020.
16:58I, I, the pandemic, of course, that wasn't easy.
17:02Yeah.
17:03I was part-time and once I forgot full-time, I was able to start the walking and, and slowly
17:10but surely got under 400 and since, uh, Frank Walk started, I've lost a hundred pounds.
17:16It's great.
17:18It's great.
17:19It's easy to see who I see are inspiring people.
17:21It's a great story.
17:22Glad we could have a little part of it.
17:25Well, thanks again for joining us.
17:27It's our annual tradition.
17:30I mean, uh, who knows, next year maybe it's going for number eight.
17:33That would be something.
17:34It probably will.
17:35To be honest, I'm so cocky and arrogant and used to the success.
17:39Once I, I've said if Drake May doesn't win four Super Bowls, his career is a disappointment.
17:44I mean, that's the Patriot life.
17:48I mean, and just think the, the owner who took them from being the Jets to being the grand,
17:56the diamond jewel franchise can't get in the Hall of Fame.
18:00It's disgusting.
18:01That is disgusting.
18:04All right.
18:05All right, Frank.
18:05Beautiful.
18:07Appreciate it.
18:08Always, always good, Frank.
18:14Always, always good, Frank.
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