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00:00Joel Embiid is a joke.
00:02Embiid is never playing a back-to-back again.
00:07All right.
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01:00Um, Frank, happy birthday.
01:02Well, thanks.
01:02Happy birthday, Frank.
01:0349, huh?
01:04Yes, 49. One, uh, one year from today, I'll be 50.
01:07That's how it works.
01:08I mean, it's gonna, it's gonna be, uh, I gotta figure out what I'm doing for 50.
01:11I think I should do something really special.
01:13Did you do anything good for 49?
01:14Uh, well, I spent the morning, uh, walking around the campus of, uh,
01:19West Point there with a couple of players from the Army football team.
01:22Oh, what was that?
01:23What was West Point like?
01:24I've never been there.
01:24That campus is, is breathtaking.
01:26It looks like a castle and with the fort and everything and the ground and you can feel
01:31the history and then you got the mountains and the, the Hudson Valley.
01:34It's, it's, it's, it is an incredible campus.
01:38How far is West Point from here?
01:40From the city?
01:42Maybe about a little over, a little under an hour and a half.
01:44Oh, that's not too bad.
01:45Oh, that's it?
01:45I thought it was like, I know.
01:46Me too.
01:47No, no, no, no.
01:48It's just, it's just on the other side of the Hudson River and upstate New York from,
01:52uh, like the Hudson Valley is over there.
01:56So it's not too far.
01:58All right.
01:59Um, topic today, uh, Eric Spolstra, Miami Heat coach.
02:05He had an imaginary timeout that cost the Heat a win.
02:07What do you think about this Frank?
02:08You're already laughing.
02:10The best part about this is, is Jalen Rose is at the game and the camera cut to him.
02:17And you can almost see, like, like the, you almost hear the, like the, the,
02:21the flashbacks going through his head.
02:27Funny commuter.
02:28That's unreal.
02:29I mean, I mean, the things that might even go through his mind.
02:33I think, I think every noise is going through his head.
02:37This almost looks like someone just going through just outer flashbacks and nightmares of just
02:44going on in his head.
02:46That's tough.
02:47Yeah.
02:48So, uh, he, we're in this game over time.
02:49I believe, uh, Spolstra, uh, called and tried to call a timeout.
02:54Didn't have any left.
02:55And, uh, and it cost the Heat.
02:57And this is one of these, uh, you know, the games where they're fighting for this, uh,
03:00mid-season tournament here.
03:01So the court looking all crazy.
03:03I hate that.
03:04I couldn't even watch.
03:06These courts are ridiculous.
03:08I mean, it's, it's like, it really is like they designed this for fourth graders.
03:13So, okay.
03:14So let's take the other side of it.
03:15Probably devil's advocate for a second.
03:16So who cares about the NBA in November?
03:19This gets people talking about the NBA.
03:20It's something, do you have any positivity on that end?
03:23At least Frank, can you understand why they're trying to do this?
03:26No, it's, it's fake.
03:27It's fugazi.
03:28What is this mid-season tournament?
03:30It's, it's a thing.
03:30Just drop attention when football is on.
03:32Honestly, it's like, it doesn't, it's like still, it's just regular games.
03:35And they basically just bracket it out.
03:37Oh, it's a tournament.
03:38And then they, then they take the four teams at the end who had the best record.
03:41They play a little bit of a tournament in, uh, in Las Vegas in December.
03:46And then the, uh, the Lakers actually won it last year.
03:49And, uh, but it's just structured within the regular season schedule.
03:52So it's not like any like separate entity.
03:54It's just still your, goes towards your regular record and everything.
03:56Yeah.
03:56Even the last games in two, right, Frank?
03:58No, no.
03:58The last one's the final four dozen, right?
04:00The final four dozens.
04:01And then they put the Lakers who have won.
04:0417 NBA championships actually put this silly looking banner up.
04:09That's embarrassing.
04:10I mean, it's terrible, but you know what?
04:14Joel Embiid returned last night and after five minutes, he needed a breather, you know,
04:21and tonight he's back to back on his load management schedule.
04:26He's a fucking joke.
04:27No way.
04:28Joel Embiid is a joke.
04:32Embiid is never playing a back-to-back again.
04:34I mean, I think Joel Embiid wants every game reduced to 40 minutes with each period having
04:41a five minute break in between.
04:43And the playoffs being just like single elimination.
04:48I mean, this guy just, this guy just doesn't want to play.
04:51Is it him or is it his coaches?
04:52No, it's him.
04:53But his coaches are afraid to be like, get your big ass in the game.
04:56He's, he runs that team.
04:58And Shaq took him to task last night.
04:59He did?
05:00Yeah.
05:00Shaq took him to task and said, the Sixers are never going to win a championship with
05:04Embiid.
05:04His attitude doesn't write, his commitment doesn't write.
05:07I mean, he's out of shape.
05:08He's coming in there.
05:09It's embarrassing.
05:11Now, Ted, you're a Knicks fan now.
05:13You were a longtime Knicks fan.
05:14You jumped over the Knicks.
05:14What do you think?
05:15Not off to the best start.
05:16What's taken the Knicks so far?
05:18I think they definitely need Mitch Robinson back.
05:22Carl Anthony Towns, he, I mean.
05:25Cat.
05:25I'm surprised he actually was able to play.
05:27I'd say the whole floor is paint.
05:29That's true.
05:29I mean, Carl Anthony Towns is actually literally afraid of the paint.
05:34I mean, he's on the wings.
05:36For a seven foot guy, he plays, he plays awful soft.
05:40And he regrets about leaving the Knicks fandom.
05:42No.
05:43What if they get Giannis?
05:44They don't fuck that up.
05:46They always do.
05:47You officially are done with the Nets?
05:49A hundred percent.
05:50A hundred percent done.
05:51Why?
05:52It's just everything.
05:53And then you got that arena.
05:54That arena sucks.
05:55Yeah, it's weird.
05:56It's not a good arena.
05:57It's very dark in there.
05:58It's very bizarre.
05:58Yeah, very, very like vibe.
06:00There's no vibe.
06:01Yeah, it's a strange.
06:02It's corporate.
06:02It's a corporate arena.
06:03They did leave New Jersey.
06:04So I understand why Frank would take Umbridge.
06:07Although I think Frank should leave New Jersey.
06:08Wait, where does Kenyon Martin's son play?
06:11Isn't Kenyon Martin's son on it?
06:13Yeah.
06:14I saw him like, I don't know.
06:15He was like skying it up there.
06:16I can't remember what it was.
06:17Where does Kenyon Martin's son play?
06:19I'm not sure.
06:20Kenyon Martin's son?
06:22I don't know.
06:23Oh, Sixers.
06:24Son of Sixers.
06:24I was like shocked because they kept cutting to Kenyon Martin.
06:27Well, I only know him NBA 2K6.
06:29Shout out Kenyon Martin.
06:30He's great all the time.
06:31The little, the shot block and the ankle thing.
06:33The Achilles thing.
06:34They kept cutting to Kenyon Martin more than they did his son.
06:37But I guess he's not too bad.
06:38Not that that has anything to do with what we were talking about.
06:40Intrusive thoughts.
06:41Kenyon Martin, intrusive thoughts.
06:43Do you have any other intrusive thoughts about Kenyon Martin or just basketball?
06:45I just, my like deep basketball knowledge.
06:48Okay.
06:49Outside of the Celtics probably stops in 2006 because that's when I stopped playing 2K.
06:54And I guess he was there with the Nets two runs of the NBA finals out of the...
06:59That's true.
07:00Jason Kidd.
07:01Richard Jefferson was on the team, right?
07:03The East was...
07:04Was Van Horn on one of those?
07:06Keith Van Horn.
07:07He played against him, right?
07:07That was Sixers, right?
07:08They got rid of Van Horn.
07:10They got rid of Van Horn just before all this run started.
07:13Kaitlin Clark had something that...
07:16This is a great headline.
07:16One of us is from the blog.
07:17Kaitlin Clark goes out every golfer's biggest nightmare.
07:20I know Reeves wrote this blog.
07:21I completely agree.
07:22I am...
07:23Well, A, I'm just horrible at golf.
07:24So anytime I hit it, I don't know where the hell it's going.
07:27And this, you have a crowd of people watching you, which would be horrible anxiety.
07:30And then she smokes it right into a group of people.
07:32Do you see this?
07:33I don't get it.
07:33Does she not know how to golf and she decided, let me do this?
07:37I mean, she's probably asked to do this celebrity tournament, I'm guessing.
07:40This is a worst nightmare.
07:42That's a lot of pressure.
07:43Skonk.
07:45My thing is she didn't seem to care.
07:46Like, she's like, wouldn't you have run over to see it?
07:49No, maybe not.
07:51Very low club speed.
07:52I think there was one time...
07:54I'd be so nervous I hurt somebody.
07:56I don't...
07:57I forgot which president...
07:57It was one of the presidents that did this once.
08:01Was it Ford?
08:01I think it was Ford.
08:03I think it was Ford.
08:05Ford smoked right into some people.
08:06Ford smoked one, hit the guy in the head.
08:10Yeah, Frank, I've seen you play mini golf.
08:13That's been a disaster.
08:14How about, have you ever played real golf and had this happen?
08:16I did the pitch and putt and I've never hit anyone.
08:20Okay.
08:21My mini golf...
08:24On those launching pads we played at last year.
08:29I mean...
08:30This is Jarrett Ford here.
08:31This is tough.
08:33Remember, Ford was a great athlete when he was young.
08:35Look at the style.
08:36Damn.
08:38No, he was good.
08:40He was actually a good athlete.
08:42Remember, he fell down all the time.
08:43It's Janks.
08:44Well, you know why he fell down.
08:46You know why he fell down all the time, don't you?
08:47You know, he had bad knees.
08:49Oh, all right.
08:49And he was actually a football player.
08:51You know what?
08:52That's what I mean.
08:52He was a grandpa, yeah.
08:53He was like a lineman.
08:54He played...
08:55You go to Yale?
08:56Michigan.
08:57Michigan.
08:57Michigan, University of Michigan.
08:59In fact, I think the University of Michigan retired his number.
09:03If the NFL was more known or more...
09:06I know.
09:07Like a bigger...
09:08Yeah, a bigger entity.
09:09Back in the 30s, people who had like serious intent to be something or other
09:14didn't go into the NFL.
09:16No.
09:16They felt that professional football was for ruffians and roughnecks.
09:19Also wasn't paying anything.
09:20Yeah.
09:21It wasn't paying very much.
09:22So Ford could have possibly been a pro prospect if the NFL was actually
09:28a viable league at the time.
09:30And he was a good football player.
09:32He was...
09:33And his knees were bad.
09:35His knees were shot.
09:36Chevy Chase would always make fun of him.
09:37Fall down or anything else.
09:39A new study shows people are making their vacation plans around places with the best
09:44airports.
09:44This seems insane to me.
09:46Rico wrote a good blog about it.
09:48Although Rico, I guess, got snubbed by Matt Harvey.
09:50And he said...
09:51I guess Matt Harvey gave him kind of the cold shoulder.
09:53So I'm sure Rico's going to hate Matt Harvey forever now.
09:55But I agree with the rest of Rico's blog, which is basically saying this is insane
09:59behavior.
09:59If anything, airports are inconvenienced.
10:01Oh, I disagree.
10:03I won't fly out of JFK.
10:04I'll only fly out of LaGuardia.
10:05I won't fly out of Newark.
10:06Being in an airport that is well laid out.
10:09I don't really care about the cleanliness, but it's well laid out and easy to get around.
10:13Is...
10:13It makes your entire trip.
10:15Oh, Newark is great.
10:18Newark is well laid out.
10:19Newark has...
10:21LaGuardia was voted number one airport in the country.
10:23Which about 10 years ago, that would have been a punchline.
10:24Oh, exactly.
10:25Well, Terminal A at Newark airport was just rebuilt.
10:30It's a brand new one.
10:31It's beautiful.
10:32It's so perfect.
10:34Terminal C is kind of like...
10:37It's kind of a little antiquated.
10:38It was fixed about 20 years ago, but it's not bad.
10:40Terminal B is a mess.
10:42You won't fly out of JFK.
10:44You have to.
10:44So if you're flying to Arizona, the only direct one is from JFK.
10:47You'd rather have a layover and go to LaGuardia?
10:50I would rather like lay over for an hour in Atlanta.
10:53Because JFK is an hour and 45 minutes.
10:55It's a fucking dump.
10:57Isn't JFK the only way to the international flights though?
10:59Am I right about that?
11:00Am I wrong?
11:00Yes.
11:01It is.
11:01All right.
11:01Well, I don't go international.
11:03I got everything I need when I'm here in America.
11:04All right.
11:06Newark is...
11:07I've flown international out of Newark.
11:09It's nice.
11:09But I get like...
11:11Getting to an airport, knowing you're not going to get fucked with terrible TSA,
11:15even though most of them are terrible.
11:16You're going to have a nice...
11:17You don't have clear?
11:18I do, but now everyone is clear.
11:20So it's like half the time the line is just as long.
11:22Well, I signed up for the clear with the TSA.
11:25You got the double?
11:26Yeah.
11:27Look at that.
11:27And I fly through that.
11:30I fly.
11:31All those cameos.
11:32Yes.
11:33It pays off.
11:36That it does.
11:37Would you pick a vacation spot because of the airport?
11:39Would you like...
11:39No, no.
11:40Miami is a horrible airport.
11:41Would you not go to Miami because they have a horrible airport?
11:43I'll say this.
11:44I would choose a less ideal time to depart if the airport was better.
11:47All right.
11:48I think that's smart.
11:48That's a smart compromise.
11:50Well, I'm very smart.
11:50Fort Lauderdale is not too bad.
11:51No?
11:52I think I've been there once.
11:54I don't like this headline.
11:55The nerds predict.
11:56I think just probably people who know about stadiums and architects predict.
12:00Can you scroll up a little bit, Nate?
12:02It will cost $55 million to completely fix Tropicana Field.
12:06Tropicana Field's roof was blown off for Hurricane Milton.
12:08And the issue is they don't have a drainage system built into the stadium.
12:12So you can't have an open roof.
12:14Plus there's always rain in Florida.
12:17So this is a disaster.
12:19Also, I don't think...
12:19Am I crazy?
12:20Like that doesn't seem like that much money.
12:22$55 million for a roof?
12:25That's not that much for a stadium.
12:27Am I nuts?
12:28It seems like a lot.
12:28$55 million?
12:29Especially since they have...
12:31I feel like I hear about stadium rebuilds are in the billions.
12:34Especially since they're going to be building a new stadium...
12:36In three years.
12:37In three years anyway.
12:38So here's the best part of this.
12:40In March, so we're in November now, obviously.
12:42In March, they had a $100 million insurance policy that the city cheapened out on.
12:47Because they're going to be gone in three years anyway.
12:49It would have covered the entire roof.
12:50Wow.
12:51And because of that, now they're having to come up to try to figure out how to pay for this roof.
12:54Some of the insurance is covering the roof, but not all of it.
12:57If this hurricane had happened a year earlier, they would have been totally in the clear.
13:00But this puts the Rays in a horrible spot.
13:03I hear rumors they might play in Clearwater.
13:05It's a single A stadium.
13:07Maybe Dunedin?
13:09There's the...
13:10Major League Baseball wants them to stay in this area.
13:12So A, they can keep up their corporate sponsorships and keep up their season ticket base.
13:15But if you're a season ticket holder, do you want to drive all the way to Clearwater?
13:19The best option is...
13:21And the Yankees have to not be assholes about it.
13:24You've got to use Legends Field.
13:26I don't know if that's a better solution either.
13:28Clearwater is closer than Tampa if you're in St. Pete.
13:31But Tampa Bay is probably where most of their fans are, Tampa.
13:35That's fair.
13:35They have to cross that bridge.
13:36They have to cross that bridge.
13:37And that bridge is...
13:38That bridge is a nightmare trap.
13:40So I lived in Tampa for two years.
13:41And we would go to a bunch of games of the Trout back when they were the Devil Rays.
13:44And having to go over that bridge to go catch like a Wednesday night game was just...
13:48It wasn't bad coming home, but getting there was a shitshow.
13:51Yeah, probably because the games begin...
13:54Rush hour, nightmare.
13:56Complete disaster.
13:57So I don't know what...
13:58Right now, you have two Major League Baseball teams that are basically nomads.
14:01You have the A's are in Sacramento.
14:02But at least that is somewhat of a viable solution, I guess, for three years.
14:06And the Rays are orphans.
14:08They have nowhere to go.
14:10I mean...
14:11And the crazy thing is they're being threatened that they'll pull the funding from their ballpark
14:15if they leave the town for a year.
14:17Correct.
14:17That's the other problem.
14:18You have the city is saying that we're not going to give you anything if you even move.
14:22Because they were considering going to Montreal.
14:24The problem is they're trying to fix the Montreal Stadium in case they get expansion.
14:28And they have a layover stadium there.
14:30So they're literally a team without a home, which is wild.
14:33You know, they could maybe go to Charlotte and be the Charlotte Rays for a year.
14:37I don't think Tampa Bay would like that very much, Frank.
14:40It's your birthday today.
14:41Any plans tonight?
14:42Any crazy, wild times?
14:44You and Jenks just turn the town red?
14:46What happens?
14:46Probably going to go out and get something good to eat.
14:51I got big plans this weekend.
14:52I'll be at the UFC.
14:53Oh, shit.
14:54I'll be at the UFC pre-show at the Mustang Harry's.
14:59Oh, all right.
15:01What?
15:02Are you going to the fights?
15:03Yeah.
15:04Are you going to the fights?
15:04Are you going to the pre-show and the fights?
15:05Yeah.
15:06The pre-show is the thing we're doing, like an event.
15:09People can come see you.
15:09Yes.
15:10Yeah, what is it?
15:10Who's doing it?
15:11Yeah, it's you, Robbie.
15:12It's brought to you by New Amsterdam, right?
15:14Yep.
15:15New Amsterdam.
15:16It's going to be at five o'clock at Mustang Harry's.
15:19It's you, Robbie, and Jack Mack?
15:21I think that's who it is, yes.
15:22Robbie Fox, yeah.
15:23So if people want to come see you, they can come see you at Mustang.
15:25This will be the first time I'm ever going to a UFC event.
15:28I'm going to support Michael Chandler, who I had previously done a Frank Walks with.
15:34So I think it's going to be a good time.
15:36That's great, Frank.
15:38Mikey's even coming in for the weekend.
15:39Mikey Betts is coming in?
15:40Yes.
15:41Oh, boy.
15:42Boy, they better lock up the alcohol.
15:43And Mikey likes to knock them back.
15:46And we're also going to have Stu Feiner with us, so it's going to be-
15:48Oh, my God.
15:49You better lock him in.
15:50Frank, you got Stu coming in?
15:52Do you know if you're sitting cage side or you're up in a suite?
15:54I don't know where we're sitting.
15:55Will Stu be ready to roll?
15:56I think Mikey knows where the seats are.
15:57When is Mikey going to town?
15:58I might meet him for a drink.
16:01He's only coming in Saturday and leaving Sunday.
16:04Stu Feiner at UFC, he's going to be so RTR.
16:07I mean, and you know who else is expected to be in the building this weekend?
16:14Who else?
16:15Four-Seven?
16:17Yeah.
16:17Oh, wow.
16:19I mean, you got potentially Trump, Stu Feiner, Mikey Betts, Frank the Tank.
16:25What a crew.
16:26Stu is friends with Trump.
16:28I mean, that's going to be electric.
16:32I think they might light up the whole city for the next two years.
16:35God, I love Stu.
16:37I forgot, Stu's been in Chicago, so we haven't seen him around here in the office,
16:41but he posted a picture of me and him and this comedian Karen Feehan from like 2015 the other day.
16:46Anyway, he's going to be very RTR.
16:48I'm excited for you.
16:49I'm happy for you.
16:50That's going to be a hell of a night for you.
16:51That's a good birthday weekend.
16:52Yes, it is.
16:52Good for you.
16:54Anything else, guys?
16:54Anything else you guys want to promote?
16:56I think just 15, 1530, probably.
16:59Okay.
16:59Pretty much it.
17:00Fair.
17:00Go check out nowshewilltour.com, buy my live show tickets.
17:03Coming up in Chicago and I don't know if I'm allowed to promote.
17:06Oh, and let's not forget about Immaculate Constellation.
17:11UFO hearings today.
17:13Oh, please.
17:15I don't care.
17:16I couldn't care about anything less.
17:17Yes, I do.
17:18And it's been confirmed that they do exist today.
17:20Do you think aliens like, or just like microbes,
17:22do you think aliens like can walk and talk and tell stories?
17:24I'll tell you where the aliens are from, brother.
17:26People think I'm an alien.
17:27I think I look so weird.
17:29Well, yeah.
17:29Yes.
17:30You and Adam Silver are from the same planet.
17:34So what's going to happen?
17:34What is the actual hearing?
17:37Just saying, here are UFOs.
17:38Here's what it was, which is obviously classified military.
17:42No, they've actually found that the Pentagon is reverse engineering recovered craft.
17:50But here's the thing that I don't understand.
17:52I think UFOs are as simple as it's another government's aircraft that we don't know about.
17:57So when it lands in another country, people are like, we have an audience now.
18:01We do.
18:01So when it lands in another country, people are like, oh, this must be an alien aircraft.
18:05But it's really just like a fucking-
18:07They go too fast for the human body to absorb.
18:10All right.
18:11Well, I've proven wrong.
18:15The proof is out there.
18:16And it's getting closer and closer to the day where we're going to
18:21finally be told the entire truth.
18:23Do you think you're going to meet an alien in your life before you die?
18:25Will an alien come and say, hello, I'm, you know, his name, and you'll say, I'm Frank?
18:30Sure.
18:30I'd like that.
18:31Of course, I'm inviting any aliens.
18:35Watching in the universe.
18:37Come on down.
18:38Introduce yourself.
18:39You know, tell us about your planet.
18:41It'll be a great episode of Frank Walks.
18:43All right.
18:44All right.
18:44Well, happy birthday, Frank.
18:45And I think unless anybody else, anything else, that's the rundown.