Jordan Yamamoto / Adam Ferrone

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 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 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 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 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 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 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, 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

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 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 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 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,

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,

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.

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 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. 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 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 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 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 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. 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 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 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

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, 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. 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 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 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 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 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 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 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. 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 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 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 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 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, 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 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. 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 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 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, 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 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 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

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

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

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.

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. 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,

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, 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 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 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 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 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 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 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. 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, 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 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 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 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.

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 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 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 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 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 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. 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 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

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. 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

having me. Ye after this my pandemic chat with Barstool Sports Adam Farron a k A Rome Right now, Feeding America is working tirelessly to ensure our most vulnerable populations, like students who are out of school, the elderly individuals whose jobs are impacted, and low income families continue to have access to food and other needed resources during the

COVID nineteen pandemic. The Feeding America Food Bank Network is committed to serving communities and people facing hunger in America, and their greatest need is donations and support of local food banks. This podcast is committed to donating a portion of the proceeds from the show to Feeding America and we hope that you can join us in this effort to find out how you can help Feeding America dot org, 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 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 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. 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

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. 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 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 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 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. 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

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 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 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 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.

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, 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 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 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 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

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 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 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

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 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 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 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, 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,

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 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 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 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. 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. 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.

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 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 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 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, 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 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, 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

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 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 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 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 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, 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? 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 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 Report is produced and distributed by tree Fort Media. The show is executive produced by Kelly Garner, Lisa Ammerman, Matthew Coogler, and me Jensen Carr. Tom Monahan is our senior audio engineer and sound supervisor, with production and editing by Jasper Leak additional production help from Tim Shower, June Rosen, and

Hayley Mandelberg. Our theme music is composed by Spilkis. If you've enjoyed what you've heard, please subscribe, rate us, and review us on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you listen to podcasts, and please visit Feeding America dot org if you're able to make a donation, any amount makes a difference, and you can learn more

about other ways you can help on their website. For more information on the No Sports Report, links to the socials, and for show transcripts for our hearing impaired listeners, go to tree Fort dot fm. Be Safe and be Well. The No Sports Report is a production of I Heart Radio and tree Fort Media. For more podcasts from my Heart Radio, visit the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.