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Welcome back to the basement.
Welcome back to the basement yard.
You're flashing your tits?
That was flashing my titties.
Okay. You wanna flash your tits?
Nah, that'd be cool. You wanna flash your fucking tits?
Why are you getting mad at me?
I don't know, that's a good question. That is a good question. You remember those fu-- oh, well, welcome back, basement yard. Uh, you remember those like... Ooh, I don't know if I can bring it up, actually, because I think they got in trouble. Remember those commercials, like, Girls Gone Wild, years ago?
Yeah, we talked about this.
They got in trouble, right?
The dudes who...
Yeah.
Of course.
No, because I think, like, they had someone underage in one of their videos.
Oh, yeah. Well, I just thought they got in trouble because it's like, it's kind of a douche-y thing.
Well, yeah, they're douchebags. They're pieces of shit.
It's Mardi Gras.
Yeah, it's like, "Welcome, Girls Gone Wild!", like... You're a loser, dude. You've never seen... That's the...
Act like you've seen a boob.
Exactly.
But... They're great.
I'm never gonna argue against that.
Yep.
But, like, you know how, like, they say, like, you know, when an athlete wins a championship, and they're just like, "Act like you've been here before."
Well, it's the championship. If you're gonna win a regular season and you're gonna pop champagne, then you gotta act like you've been there before.
Yeah, I do, honestly, like... I do sometimes feel a way about that. I know that there's so much hard work that goes into, like, winning the division or winning the conference or something like that.
You don't like champagne? I meant, like, champagne at celebrations.
If I am...
The New York Yankees.
Not a player. If I'm like in the front office and they like win because they like got in because another team lost, not because like they like won the division. You know what I mean? Like remember a couple of years ago where like, I think it was last year, the Mets lost because the Reds won a game like across the fucking country or something like that? If you win under those pretenses, I'm like, you don't deserve to pop champagne for that.
Um, I mean, you play the whole year. They play 180 games.
I know, but if your hand, like your fate is in the hands of another team's success or failure, for me, that is like.
I mean, that's always the case, though.
Not necessarily.
I mean, you could win 80 games and in that last game, well, whatever.
That is the exact situation where I'm saying, I don't know if that is pop champagne worthy.
I, I mean, I understand what you're saying. If it's like you, like if you win the first round of the playoffs, popping champagne is probably a little crazy.
I'm not even saying the first round of the playoffs. I honestly almost, I believe, I think it's fine the deeper you get into the playoffs, especially the first round.
I think it's fine if you win the thing, the whole thing.
Also, like you don't think like if you win the championship, like the division series that like popping champagne is like cool?
I don't know. I don't know. Like, it can't mirror, like, it can't mirror the finals or the World Series. You know what I'm saying? Like if it looks the same, then why would we do that?
That's a great point. Honestly, you're more now on my side.
Well, well, yeah. I'm like, I'm, I'm thinking like if you're gonna celebrate, how the fuck are we talking about this? Why are we being so?
I don't know. Cause I was showing you my tits.
And when does that come into the celebration?
Well, have you seen the, like the thing that people are doing at baseball games now? The tarps off?
No.
You haven't seen tarps off?
No, I mean, I, I know what tarps off is.
I mean, two and two together, baby. Just put them together.
Tarp, get off of me.
Is it because it's really hot out?
You know, I don't know the, the reason they started doing it, but like, Ant, pull up a.
Wait, people are dumping their boobs out at baseball games?
I don't think it's tits. It's like, the male fans.
Male nipple.
Are going to games and like, it's, maybe it's a rally thing.
They're popping top?
They're just taking their shirts off to the point where like mascots are doing it now.
Mascots got their tits out?
Yeah. Like I saw one for the White Sox that like, the White Sox, I forgot what their mascot is, but it's taken, it's tarps off.
Okay.
And like mascot tits are out.
It's got anything good under there?
It's like
Just hair, fur?
It's like fuzzy, like Elmo, you know what I mean? Like, it's nothing to-
I mean, I'm not against that.
You're not against Elmo's tits?
No, I meant like furry. Well, not like fur- not like a fur- not-
Back up.
Not like fuzzy. But like, you know what I'm saying?
Do they have-
Did you ever have a pair of fuzzy handcuffs growing up? That's such a Frankie thing.
Mmm.
Shut the fuck up, you definitely did.
I don't think so.
You carried it around in a string backpack with your Axe body spray, say it.
No, I- I remember, I-
Back up!
Okay? I definitely had the string backpack with like, things in it that I guarded with my life. Axe body spray was definitely in there.
Obviously a Swiss Army knife.
A Swiss Army knife. It wasn't a Swi- it was just a switchblade knife. Like-
Not a switchblade?
Like, I was fucking like-
Yeah, who are you?
A greaser. It was just like, one of those like knives that like, you go like this and it just like, opens up.
I believe that's called a switchblade.
Is it? No, because a switchblade is like, s- spring-loaded, which those are illegal.
Because it's spring-loaded?
Yeah. Uh, but, I don't think I ever had, I- I'm- maybe I have and I don't remember.
Fuzzy handcuffs.
I remember I was once gifted like, gummy handcuffs. And I was like, the-
These are gonna get eaten.
So antithetical to what they're supposed to be.
Like, you think I can't break out of gummies?
I'm gonna eat these things. But also, uh, I've gotten fuzzy handcuffs, I don't know if I've used them, maybe. As like a, as like a, you know, because you get them as a gift.
I remember we had a-
Remember the dice? You get dice-
The dice are like, yeah, suck nipple.
Yeah, yeah.
Rub neck. Pinch inner thigh.
Sex dice are the dumbest things on the planet. It's like, they have a couple of dice, the first one says like, suck, lick, tickle, rub, or whatever. And then the next one's like, neck, knees, thighs. But it's never like-
It's never like the things that you wanna-
Suck sip, nipple tug, tug.
You know?
It's one of the things you wanna nibble on.
It's always like, rub knee. I'm like, what are we doing here?
Thinking the ideas like it's supposed to like walk you to the front door of the party.
It's like, ooh, four play dice.
It grabs your hand and it's just like, here's the front door, walk on in.
Bro, if you're a person out there and you and your significant other are getting in the heat of the moment because of-
I mean, dice!
I don't, but like-
Dice!
You know, uh, hold on, back up. I am going to-
Playin' Yahtzee!
First of all, fuck Yahtzee. Second of all-
I love Yahtzee. What the hell are you talking about?
You don't like Yahtzee?
Do me a favor. You need me to change your diaper, you geriatric old bastard? You love Yahtzee? What did you also, your next favorite game, Parcheesi? Fuck you!
Dude, you love like Trouble or Risk?
Who doesn't love Trouble? And I've never played Risk.
Trouble!
Trouble, uh- Who doesn't love Trouble?
There's no Trouble!
There is Trouble when you get into Trouble because it's like, oops, you're going back.
That's every game!
Trouble and Sorry are basically the same thing, but one of them has a super cool poppy dicey thing in the middle. Don't talk shit on Trouble.
I don't, I don't hate Trouble.
Hear me out. Cause how board games are all like rebranding and stuff. There's like 40 different versions of Uno out there. I know. If it's like Trouble, but it's with sex dice. Worse!
Now that I'm saying it, it sucks. You're gonna pop this thing and it's gonna be like, suck teeth.
Suck teeth, go four spaces.
You know? Um, but, uh, what was I gonna say? Yeah, Yahtzee sucks. I, I think that-
Have you ever hit a Yahtzee? Like a real Yahtzee?
Dude, I haven't played Yahtzee or Boggle in not even a joke 25 years.
Is Boggle the words?
Boggle is the one where it's just like, let's get a word in this cup.
Yeah, yeah, I'm good.
So stupid, dude.
Yahtzee's cool though because you'll five dice landing on one thing.
The idea-
Bro!
The idea of like rattling together five dice sounds cool. I wish I could do it in my mouth though. Like the idea of like-
You wanna bounce around five dice in your mouth?
Kinda.
Time to grow up, Peter Pan. What the hell is that? Fantasy.
You think they don't know?
Yeah, what are you talking about?
I don't know. It's, it's just like, like the idea of like-
You want a bunch of marbles in your mouth?
Oh, I do want marbles in my mouth. I'm not gonna lie.
Okay, I want that too.
I'm not gonna lie about that.
I feel like it would definitely fuck up your teeth, but I would do it.
I understand sex dice. Not everyone is so confident in like being able to like in- Gage and like foreplay so like maybe it helps them maybe maybe it like I think it's more of a crutch than it is like a tool.
What about the other things where it's like here's this lube and it tastes like strawberry lemonade I'm like who needs that?
We did a full episode trying stuff like that do you remember?
Didn't we like chew you chewed on a condom?
I broke I don't remember doing that I I remember breaking a pair of fuzzy handcuffs though like I was
Yeah you blasted like first of all they were fuzzy but they were also like leather and you blasted them.
Yo I fucking absolutely like Superman through those things.
Yeah it was like the Hulk but like horny.
Quite impressive I'm also on a streak I mean I don't want to spoil it maybe we'll get into it. I I I showed my my strength.
Yesterday I shady strong guy.
We'll say this Frank limber.
And also there's there's a lot of power in the legs.
Show the tarps off going back show the tarps off before I argue about how fucking dog shit uh what's it called Yahtzee is. But like I'm not gonna do it because I'm definitely not that confident in my body. But if I went to a game and I saw this I would be hyped dude.
Dude.
That's a weird thing to say oh hold on let me back up.
All those kids are.
If I was that age.
Eighteen nineteen?
Hold on can you pick up the phone for a sec?
Clarify that the idea of nineteen year old boys doesn't get with their shirts off gets me excited I didn't mean.
But I already wrote that down.
Okay no no.
Oh nevermind it's already written down.
No fuck. If I was like if us and all of our friends went to a game and this was like a trend I would be pumped.
Well it was a thing that you would like paint your chest.
I never did that because I didn't go to a fucking school that was in a nineteen nineties like rom com teen rom com movie.
But like it's not like a thing anymore but like back in the day people would go to games and all the big fans I mean they still do it like Oakland like they'll have well not RIP. But the Raiders they like Las Vegas.
Las Vegas they like paint their faces.
I know that is a level of that's a level of fandom that I am not.
For like my biggest fandom I am not there.
But if you were in the MLB like I think I would.
Show up with like a couple of our friends and I would paint like a big F and then like get an R and A. You know what I mean?
Yeah, they're they're.
Like it'd be funny for a time.
There were people in my college, they did that, but I was like, at the time, because they recently have gone D1, guess this is a cool plug for a school I'm no longer at.
But they were D3 at the time and I remember being like, this does not match the level of skill this team has.
What, painting your chest?
Yeah, they were, they called themselves like the big blue wrecking crew and I was like, this is a D3 football stadium.
Yeah, but you.
Stadium, it was some bleachers.
I think that if you're in college and there's enough beer involved, go nuts. Paint your face.
I, yeah, you know, I guess.
I'm not gonna.
I'm not gonna either, definitely not confident. Good for the people that are to do that. Not me.
You would have, you've painted your face before? Such a Frankie thing. I mean, what are we doing?
I mean, have I painted my face for like birthday parties? I can't think of like outside of a birthday party, painting my face.
But above the age of 14. Painting your face.
I used eye black in a non racially insensitive way, like a single line or like that.
What?
And.
Yeah, you didn't, when you played rugby, you didn't use eye black?
No, I never used eye black. Honestly, I did, it didn't look like it did anything. Oh, I used it once and then I sweat and it came down my whole face.
First of all, that's the best part. Dude, I used it for football. I remember doing it and then being like, you do like the fig rub down and it just looked fucking mean, dude. Yeah, that shit was cool.
That's the whole point of it. It's not because of the sun. Who cares about the sun? This is for looking cool.
I mean.
Joe looked like the guy that put like a cross on it or something like.
Yeah, no, no, Joe, I know exactly what Joey would do. He would do the cross on one side and then his number on the other. Like, because he was, by the way, you know what his fucking numbers were? Do you know this? I know you know this. One of them was 22, which is a legitimate number. Why? Because he liked Clyde the Glide. Clyde Drexler.
No, it was my brother's number.
Also, you like Clyde Drexler. You openly used to say that.
Ah, okay.
Which I can guarantee your dad liked Clyde Drexler and you had no idea who this person was and he was just like, I like Clyde Drexler.
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, and too, you know what his football number was, brother? Well, first of all, when you played for your school, I believe your number was 92.
No, no, no.
But.
It's not a tight end?
No, no, no. So my, my, uh. Sophomore year, I joined the team like late, like I didn't do uh camp, but I joined late. And I was given 92 because there was no more numbers left, but then I got 18. Yes, which is a fine number. What do you think his like, I can pick my number, football number wise? Dude, it is the most like attention seeking number on the planet.
Attention seeking number, well it can't be 69, right?
It's not that kind of guy.
Also depending on what is just one, number one?
It was zero.
Yeah, that's the second one. That's the second worst.
And he would call himself Agent Zero.
Because Gilbert Arenas would call himself that.
Gilbert Arenas. That sucks. What are you writing down?
I'm gonna.
Piece of shit.
Don't worry about it.
Don't write it, don't write it down.
They're gonna see it.
Don't do it. Uh, but it was. I forgot how we got there. Oh, the tarps off thing. The tarps off thing. You wouldn't, you wouldn't partake? I'd pop it. If it was hot enough, bro, when I went to the fucking baseball game with him, it was scorching. I could have used a pop of the top of the tarp and the bottom tarp. If anything, that would do you more harm than good.
Yeah, I would have, I would have burnt this body off. But if I covered myself in screen.
Uh, yeah, uh, no, you wouldn't. And I wouldn't allow you to, honestly.
To pop?
If I was with you at a baseball game and you were like, I'm taking my shirt off, I would say, please don't.
What if I was painted?
That makes it somehow worse because you're a grown man.
But what if you got free tickets for being painted?
Where are the tickets?
Wherever you want.
Anywhere I want?
Not anywhere, but like within rea- no, they're anywhere.
But you, but there have to be a seat. Like you can't sit.
I'm not, again, I, I just, I don't like, if, if you got the tickets because you painted and I can keep my shirt on, I'll be fine.
No, what if it was like, there was like a brand deal came in, it's like, yo, you can go to, you know, the Knicks finals game, but you guys gotta, you're gonna be on TV and you're gonna be popped and you're gonna be fucking painted.
For the ti- I mean dude, the tickets are out. I don't care. I'm not comfortable taking my shirt off and putting that on fucking the internet.
For the finals? What if it was game seven?
Oh Frankie.
But here's the thing.
You popping?
I would do it for-
Uh, game seven, I'll pop.
Game seven, I'm not there. I would do it for game five, they're up 3-1. Because if it's game seven and they lose. Okay, now you're just going home a loser. No, going home with a painted fucking- That's a good point. You know what I mean? Like, if it's game five, they're up 3-1, then, then, for the right price, maybe. Okay. Maybe, but like, I'm seriously not confident enough to allow that to happen. So like, the price would need to be, like, there has to be like a plus confidence rate, you know what I mean? Okay. But like- Plus confidence. Game seven is tough because if they lose, that's winner take all, you know? Yeah. You can't go home a loser covered in paint, that sucks.
But aren't you a good, like, price per value guy? A game seven ticket is worth so much more.
But the price of me to, like, the price that I would have to, it would cost me more if they lost than it would for me to go to the game.
Because of what? Now they fucking lost. Now they lost. TV being fucking painted. I look like this, and now the image of me like this is all over the fucking internet. Then you gotta go home and wash it off. And, and you're a loser too. Like, and like with like a loofah, like, yeah, like, yo, we just lost in the finals and now I'm covered in blue and orange. That would be tough. Yeah, that would be rough. That would be really, really rough.
Lost mental units that day.
Bro, also, not for no- speaking of tickets! Ah! Sorry.
So sorry. People are certainly deaf at the moment now. I'm so sorry. And being one of them. And, can I scream again for you?
We want people to know what's about to happen.
Oh, well, the scream is gonna get them, they'll see the spike in the audio and they'll be like, what happened there? That's- That's not- Now you're thinking. Now- I don't know that people see the audio levels though.
Yeah, they don't see that.
The audio only listeners scan through and they're just like, we need to check for any spikes. What the fuck is going on here? Well, listen, the boys are coming back on the road! Ah!
I didn't want to scream. The farts. I didn't want to scream. I think whoever edits this, can you put like-
No, no.
No?
Keep whatever you had.
Really?
The farts are staying.
Oh, well, we have been talking about it. We announced when we did Late Night with Seth Meyers and we said we weren't gonna be doing shows toward the end of the year and we got them, bitches.
Yeah, listen, we, we, we did at a certain point say that we were gonna do shows this year. After MSG, we were like, ooh, shouldn't have said that.
Shouldn't have said that.
Um, but yeah, we're gonna be heading out on the road. Frank, and also the return of Greg printouts.
We haven't had a Greg printout in quite a while.
I'm gonna read this word for word so I don't get in trouble because there is parentheses that says, "Don't fuck this up." Exclamation point.
And it's bolded and underlined.
And he doesn't get the opportunity to do printouts like this, so you know he was pumped. And I don't blame him, honestly. It's pretty fun.
Listen, this is coming up, alright? So we have the pre-sale starts Wednesday, June 17th at 12:00 PM Eastern, that's noon, uh, through June 18th midnight.
There is one person you had to specify that for. The only person we know that didn't know that noon was 12:00 PM.
I bet.
Yes.
There you go.
Well, just again, Wednesday, June 17th at 12:00 PM Eastern, so if you are anywhere that is outside of the Eastern timezone in the United States-
Do the conversion.
You need to do the conversion, okay?
Pre-sale code, duh, basement.
Easy.
Gonna be basement.
Where, you know, it's been the same pre-sale code for every other fucking show we've did, idiots.
Also-
Sorry, that was too much.
Also, it's at thebasementyard.com, as always. So thebasementyard.com, the pre-sale starts Wednesday, June 17th at noon, okay? Eastern. Uh, and it's gonna run through June 18th midnight, by the way.
Technically, through 11:59 PM. Greg, you fucked this up.
Yeah, it's a little confusing.
Whatever.
Uh, but the pre-sale, just for everyone who, like, cause I know that people are- Like what the fuck is going on here? The pre-sale is when you want to buy tickets, okay? So, we put these things up, there's the pre-sale code basement, you have the first dibs on the tickets, you're gonna buy for those. You go to thebasementyard.com, you'll have all the links there to each show in every city, and we're gonna go through that right after this. But you go to the basement yard, you put in, uh, you know, you click on the show you want, then you put in the code basement, then you could buy your tickets. The general sale is whatever's left after the pre-sale, basically. And sometimes, there's a, they release a little bit more tickets on the general sale, cause so if you couldn't get a ticket on the general, uh, on the pre-sale, sometimes there will be tickets, but those are much harder to get, cause there's not a lot left there, usually.
Let me just say this, too. We don't control that.
We don't, just so everyone is clear, like, I, I, I, I, the misconception that it's just like, "You could do whatever you want with the tickets."
Yeah, and also, if it was up to us, we would just release the tickets, and that would be that. But pre-sale, uh, this is why we push everyone to go to the pre-sale and get the tickets. Uh, our shows have sold out a lot in the past, so, uh, I would be quick with it, um, but-
Quick with it! Sorry, they're completely unnecessary, completely unnecessary.
You have a question?
Question, uh, "Pre-code basement," all caps?
Doesn't matter.
There is not-
Just put in basement, it works.
It is not case-sensitive.
Perfect, perfect.
Wednesday, June 17th, at noon, eastern, uh, that's when the pre-sale starts, okay?
Also, basement is one word, for those of you that may not know that.
Yes, it is. Thebasementyard.com.
Okay, let's go to the shows.
Alright.
This is what the people want!
September 10th. Whoa, wait, hold on. We should also specify,
this is the first batch of shows.
I was getting there, yeah.
I got there first.
Well, okay, yeah, so there, there's gonna be like more to come, we're probably gonna space them out a lot more, uh, and just kinda keep a trickle of stuff, but, we have a decent amount here going into 2027, but these are in 2026, so September 10th, 2026, we're starting in Durham, North Carolina!
Why are you pointing at me?
Do Durham.
Do Durham?
Do it.
Oh, like an accent? I feel like North Carolina is like here. Like a North Carolina?
Well, we're gonna have to show up and do that show because, so that Frank can learn how the people sound. Cause I'm sure that's not it. Also, wait, before we even get to the rest-
Okay, the rest, but like the people right now in Durham are just like-
Ooh, got one. This is a brand new show. Also, we're getting rid of a bunch of the, uh, like, this is not even gonna be similar to the other shows. It's gonna be a lot more fun.
Ooh.
Uh, it's gonna be interactive. We're gonna get some people on stage, props, we're gonna interact with you guys in the crowd.
Point your finger if you're gonna do nudity.
Point my finger.
No, I'm not doing nudity, so there will be none of that.
Joe's gonna have fucking tarps off, basement out.
That one I can't.
Basement out.
No, no, no, we're not, it's not, it's not, it's not.
Um, but yeah, it's gonna be a brand new show.
Uh, we have, obviously now, two years of experience of being on stage, we're a lot more comfortable doing it. So it's gonna be a lot more fun. And we just want this, this round to be super like interactive and just like a fucking great time. So we're very excited to do this and like I said-
Excited.
Fuck you. September 10th, Durham, we're-
Durham!
We're starting off with Durham. Have you ever been to Durham?
Let me answer that for you. September 12th, where are we Frank?
Charlotte, North Carolina.
Two shows in North Carolina, I've never even been to North Carolina.
Charlotte, the city's so nice that they gave it a name with two Ts in it. I don't know, I, I've never been, I, I think I've driven through it. That should be fun.
You know, and then, oh, after that, couple weeks later, September 24th.
Minneapolis, Minnesota.
We're back!
We're back.
We did Minneapolis last year, Mall of America, what's up? Gonna go back to that.
You think so?
Why not?
They have a Rainforest Cafe there.
They do, you went there.
We should go, just so I can see it, and see what you love.
I would go there so I could piss in the corner.
You'd probably get kicked out.
September 26th, from Minneapolis over to the other police, we're going to Indianapolis.
Indianapolis.
Two Ap- Ap- Apolises.
I know, I mean, I thought one was gonna be too much. Now we have two.
Now we have two Apolises. Uh, Minneapolis, uh, the Minnesota. Minnesota, they're here, right? Oh, Minnesota.
Why are you saying Minnesota?
Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Oh, but you said Indianapolis.
I said Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Oh, okay.
Indianapolis. In- Indiana? I don't know. I have no idea.
Okay, let's go over the dates we have so far because I feel like we're a lot of time in between. September 10th, Durham, North Carolina. September 12th, Charlotte, North Carolina. September 24th, Minneapolis. September 26th, Indianapolis. October 2nd, we're going to Charleston, South Carolina.
That's where, did... I'm so, I'm so sorry.
It's okay.
I'm so sorry. I mean, Charleston, South Carolina. That's where we're getting into the like, the, you know, like...
The Bible Bill, Minne- like, it's melting out.
Molasses spewing out your mouth. The office. Uh, but yeah, so October 2nd, Charleston, South Carolina. October 3rd, ATL JoJo, what it do, fo ya?
We coming back, baby, we coming back.
Back in D- A. The boys are back in Atlanta, Georgia. And, uh, maybe the ATL JoJo line will hit this time.
I'm sure it will now.
October 16th, we're going to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. There's a... yeah, Bethlehem.
The Bethlehem. Bethlehem, I believe it's Wind Creek?
Is the casino in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
And then, November 7th.
This was a, this was... And I'm kind of excited about this one.
This was one that people have asked for. Buffalo, New York. Listen, no one moves their herd.
Circles the wagon.
No one circles the wagon like the Buffalo Basement Yard fans.
What'd you say? No one moves the herd. No one moves the herd in Buffalo.
Buffalo, New York, November 7th. Uh, we're, one that we haven't done.
We have to jump through a table at some point.
Yes. Holy shit.
We have to.
We have, do we officially join the Bills mafia? I'm a Jet fan, though. I feel like that's like sacrilege.
That is pretty bad, but they're not even there that weekend. I'm so fucking angry.
Yeah. So, uh, and then, uh, another, the next show after November 7th, Buffalo, New York, December 5th, Baltimore, Maryland.
Going down for some crab cakes, some oysters. How you doing? Uh, and then a couple of days after that, we're doing a leg back in Texas. This is Texas, or this ain't Tex- I'm just gonna.
Yeah, it's, but it is Texas.
December 10th, we're getting weird again over in Austin. December 11th, Dallas, Texas, and then December 13th, ending in quite possibly...
I'm not gonna offend them, because I want you guys to buy tickets.
Houston, Texas.
We're going back to Houston, Texas. That's all we're doing for 2026.
Yeah, because of holidays. Grow up, guys.
But we're not done, bitch.
Huh!
Also, January 15th, we're going to Frank's back- not really.
It's still closer, no? It's closer.
Newark, New Jersey.
Woo!
Okay, we'll be in Newark.
Now.
Our first ever show was in New Jersey. We're coming back and doing Newark, alright?
And guess what? We love New Jersey so much that after the January 15th show, the next show we have, February 5th, that's my backyard, baby.
There it is.
Red Bank, New Jersey, Count Basie Theater. I, I'm excited for you guys to see Red Bank.
Is it Count Basie Theater? I don't even know.
I believe so, but.
It's a crazy thing to say and we don't know.
I'm pretty sure you will love Red Bank. It's fucking awesome.
We're gonna check it out. Then, now this is my birthday trip that we're going on here.
Oh, yeah.
February 23rd and February 24th.
Vancouver, we're coming back. We did Just for Laughs out there. We had two amazing shows there that kicked off our last tour. So we are coming back for that and we're coming back for my birthday. So those are gonna be my birthday shows. My birthday is February 25th. So February 23rd and February 24th in Vancouver. And then February 26th, we're gonna be in Los Angeles.
LA.
California love.
Right?
Just give me that, please. And then, March 12th.
Coming back to Chicago Theater.
Oh, you know, what a time, what a theater.
Back to the bean.
Back to the bean. Joe's gonna flick it.
If he could ever find it.
Bastard. But yeah, so those are the shows that we have booked for now. Just to run through them again. September 10th, Durham, North Carolina. September 12th, Charlotte, North Carolina. September 24th, Minneapolis, Minnesota. September 26th, Indianapolis. October 2nd, Charleston. October 3rd, Atlanta. October 16th, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. November 7th, Buffalo. December 5th, Baltimore. December 10th, Austin. December 11th, Dallas. December 13th, Houston. January 15th, Newark. February 5th, Red Bank, New Jersey. February 23rd and 24th in Vancouver. The 26th in LA and March 12th in Chicago, okay? Like Frank said earlier, these are just the beginning. We're going to be spreading
this out over the course of the next year too in 2027. So there will be more shows booked. I can't guarantee where those are gonna be or when they're gonna be. But, you know, we also, you know, there will be more shows added. It is what it is.
I don't know why I kept laughing when you were saying my birthday, because I was thinking of that TikTok where he's just like, "It's my birthday and I want to show you my girlfriend." You remember that? And like a bunch of people kept quoting it and it was like showing the dude's hand and it looked like the girl's like tied up or something like.
Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes. That was an old school one.
We're very, very excited. We have done a lot of, you know, kind of conversations on our end on what we can do to make this show entirely new and entirely fresh and like give people something so like there is not the feeling of like, "Oh, I just saw them." Like this will be new. This will be tailored to make it the most interactive, fun.
Borderline crazy experience that it could be. And I'm excited, I know you're excited, and don't care how you feel about it.
But, you know, you guys were so incredibly supportive and fucking unbelievably like passionate during our first round of shows that we're just beyond elated at what this could be.
I do want to say that truly, every time, like, because of your support, we are able to kind of like
brag in some sort of way of like, "Yeah, we've like done these places and all these people show up for us and it's like this awesome thing." So you guys have like literally blown this out of proportion and now we have a legitimate like touring career because of all you guys. And we truly didn't think that we were gonna do shows this year because we didn't know, we thought that like, "Ah, they're gonna be like kinda sick of it." But the support has only gotten more and more crazy and-
Yeah, we could, we could talk that shit, baby.
Well, I'm just saying, like-
Talk that shit, baby!
I feel like we got nervous of being like, you know, we've done it for two years, people have already seen us, like, I think they get it or kinda that thing, but-
I'll tell you this, I don't know if this is like too baby girl of me though, but like the feeling of like, maybe people won't come is still there, you know what I mean?
Frank, I'm panicking over you.
But like, it's just like, it is such an honor, I know that's a weird, like, I hope that doesn't sound like dramatic to say that, but like, it is such a privilege and honor to get to do this stuff, that like, it's not lost on me that like, "People may not show up."
You know what I mean? So like, when, you know, I can speak for myself here, and I think I could speak for Joey, but like, every show that we've done, the day that the tickets have went on sale, it's a-
I don't love it, I'm scared.
Like, it is, it is crazy, so you guys have put us in the position to get that opportunity to- Explore a talent and a skill and the opportunity to try to make you guys happy and laugh and.
And this shit is so fucking fun too and you know, I think you know, we just, we just really appreciate being able to do this shit. And like I said, we, we told ourselves we weren't going to do any shows this year. Um, but there just has been like a lot of growth and we're having a lot of discussions internally about like, we really want to see how far we can push this and see, you know, if we can create another show, like a brand new show from scratch. That is like even better than the last one. So we can create an experience for people that have been to shows before that they're like, holy shit, that was like so much better. We like to believe that the first round of shows and the second year of shows were very different as far as like how good we, we felt about them. So this one is going to be definitely like, obviously the best work that we could possibly put out.
But again, Wednesday, June 17th at noon Eastern, uh, go to thebasementyard.com. The pre-sale code is basement. Get those tickets. Uh, I would be ready for them because like I said, uh, you know, last time, like a lot of people were buying tickets immediately at that time. So that is the pre-sale. The general sale starts on, uh, Friday, June 19th. Um, but again, I would get to the pre-sale, but we're going back on the road. Please God help us.
Two Apolises.
You never fucking know.
Bro, we're doing back to back Apolis. Back to back lips.
That's gotta be a shirt. That's gotta be a shirt, right?
It's the back to back lips.
The back to back lips.
The, the.
Apolis. Apolis.
It's not apocalypse.
It's the apple apocalypse.
No, it's the back to back a list. Apolis. Back to back a lips.
No, not lips. Palis.
It's the back a lap.
Apolis.
Back to back.
Oh, palis. No.
Back to back a list. Back to bappalas.
There's gotta be a P.
Oh, I'm gonna have a heart attack.
Oh, back to back.
Back to bappalas.
That, no, it's gotta be the K. Back to back.
It could be mini.
It, maybe don't put indie. Uh, is that like a bad thing?
It's a whole genre of music, Frank.
Oh, cool. Um, I don't know. You know, I'm not as chronically online.
Indie music?
I don't know.
It's a, it's a music.
But like, it could be like Apolis.
Just do me a favor.
Move on.
Take your fist and ball it up. Hit me repeatedly in this fucking square inch of my face. Do the ads! And then I have a question for you, a legitimate question for you. Not a compared to a fake question.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, most of this show is fake questions anyway.
Fuck you. Sorry.
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I had a question since we're hot on the tails. Off the tails? Hot on the trail? Off the tails? Since we're hot.
Off the heels?
Off the heels. On the heels? It doesn't matter.
Wearing heels.
Sure.
Hot wearing heels.
If you could go and re-watch a video of our very first show, would you?
You know I can do that.
How?
The episode exists. What are you talking about?
Oh, our first live show.
Live show, brother.
Oh.
I was like, "Bro, it exists."
Live show, live show. Um, would I watch it?
I'd attempt to.
And?
Hell.
Yeah, I don't know. I don't know.
You think it would be uncomfortable for you?
I mean, all of that is uncomfortable for me.
It is. I don't watch any of this stuff back. It's uncomfortable for me.
You know when you hear actors in interviews and they're like, "Yeah, I never watch any of my movies." Like, part of me thinks that's weird, but then at the same time, I'm like, "Yeah, I don't."
I get it completely, yeah.
I wouldn't want to watch that either.
Because I, I, I have...
I want to watch parts.
I have been, I see clips and I'll like, I'll be like, if I see a clip and I don't remember the context or what it is or what's coming next, then I'll see, I'll be like, "Oh, yeah."
But I get the thing of like, I see it and I'm like, "Who's that? That's not me." I don't, I don't, you know what I mean? Like that, I guess, imposter syndrome.
But I think, like, the first show is, it would be tough because I just know how fucking nervous I was. Like, I just know how, like, I wasn't fully comfortable yet with that, so I was just kind of like, trying really hard.
I just, I think, I, I, I don't want to bury us, but like, I just think that we were just not good at what we were trying to do.
It's our first try!
We were not good at what we were trying to do yet.
And then...
That's why it's so exciting to do these shows, because now it feels like, okay, we've gotten to a place where we're a lot more comfortable on stage, so now it feels like we could really just have fun doing it. Like, now I'm just like, looking forward to doing it.
Also, couldn't hear you during that first, that first one.
Yeah, I couldn't.
I could, it was like, very difficult.
I think I came out and the first thing I said is like, "Oh my god, you guys are so close to the stage, I could pee on you." I was so nervous.
Yeah, it's alright. We accepted an award and I said I was gonna piss my pants. What's, what's, what's with us and urine?
I mean, it's just one of the things that happens to a body.
It do- it doesn't happen to a body, it happens because of-
Through a body.
Because of a body.
True.
But, um, I see you got something there. And I'm afraid because it's a box with a hot dog on it.
But it doesn't look like a hot dog's in it.
I have a box here that says, "Eau de weiner."
Is that how you say that?
Can you pronounce it one more time?
Eau-
I think it's like, "Eau."
Eau de weiner?
It's so French.
Eau de toilette, like, "Eau, eau de-"
E-A-U, first of all, all vowels, so how does that work?
Or is it like, "Ooh, the weiner."
Frank, it's, I can almost guarantee it's not that. Um-
You doing pronunciation?
Um, how do you spell it? E-A-U? It's pronounced exactly like the letter, the letter O.
O.
Uh, oh.
Eau de, eau de weiner.
Eau de weiner.
Oh, the weiner.
Oh, yeah, those stupid French people.
This- I think it's eh. O, eh.
But no, it just said it's pronounced like the letter O.
Well, like phonetically, like, uh.
Oh. Eau de weiner?
Is that how you say it?
Eau de we-
Yeah, Frank wants, what do you want, "all the weiner"?
No, stop it.
That's what I heard, I think.
You remember, uh, remember that like mid 2000's Pink Panther movie, the clip of fucking Steve Martin, like, "Oh, that bogo."
Yeah, that's, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Um, clearly French. Wait, what the fuck is that?
Right, so this is hot dog cologne.
Shut the fuck up.
Alright, you gotta-
I mean, I gather that- Have you smelled it? You stink it?
I've, I've stunk a little bit of it.
You stinked it, did?
So, this is for you, ready? Oh, for me? I think you'd be fine.
I don't throw it over the camera, dude. That camera's like forty thousand million dollars. It certainly is not.
Yeah, that was a perfect throw, by the way.
That was. I love the box.
Frankie, I want Frankie to just like, "Taste, taste, taste."
Well, first of all, you know I'm not doing that. It's gotta be a cool bottle, if it's not a cool bottle, I'm gonna be so pissed off if it's not a cool bottle. It's not- That sucks. I'll tell you what, it looks like dehydrated pee. It does look like pee, it does, I've pissed that before.
Am I gonna vom, am I gonna vom my little pants?
I think you need to, you need to, you need to-
I'll do this, I think you'll be surprised. In a good? That's up to you.
You?
I think go
I'm not gonna spray it on my body.
I mean, I don't, but like
I'm gonna spray it in the air.
No, that's worse. Then the mist will get on your body. Direct the spray at your at your, at your arm.
No. I'm gonna go in the air.
It's gonna get on you, brother.
I know.
That's bad.
You're, you're, you're saying, put it on me.
Yeah, but like, that's gonna get more on you than that. If I, if I limit it to there.
Your brain is an interesting place.
Wow.
What the Santa Claus fuck was that?
Why is it burnt? It's a burnt.
Oh, I love burnt dogs.
How's it feel?
Toss that.
I feel toof.
Here.
That was the most dangerous way because look at how it landed.
That could've hit you right in the face.
If that would've hit me in the fudge.
That could've hit you right in the teeth.
Alright, I'm gonna, I'm gonna do it the way I said you should.
Oh, wow.
You're not supposed to rub cologne.
This fucking guy.
Well, how weird is that?
What is that?
It stinks like suck. Yo, it's not off.
Look at how he's smelling this thing. Can you go back to smelling it? It's like a smell vortex.
Yo, it smells like a, honestly, it smells more like the like
Burnt.
The burnt pretzels that they have at the dog stands.
Ooh, but old.
I'm not getting weener.
I'm getting, I'm getting more like, like city street pretzel.
Burnt pretzel than I am dog.
And dirty shoe. I'm getting dirty shoe.
I feel like it's
But there's a scent of like, something in there.
It was a little sweet, wasn't it?
Yeah, for a second.
Sweet.
I think after a little bit, it starts to smell like dog.
I feel like you doing that is completely unnecessary to the, to smelling.
So.
No, it doesn't smell like hot dog at all.
Maybe you didn't put enough.
It's by Shynasty? Shynasty? Shines- Shynasty?
I have a question. I have a question. Yeah, what if it tastes like hot dog?
Nice try.
Yeah, you're not fucking doing that.
Double dog dare him though.
How about that? No, how about you do it?
Double dog dare you.
How about you do it?
No, just spray a little and then go like...
You didn't get any.
You didn't get any. It tastes like Frankie.
No, you faked it.
That'd be crazy dude.
That was fake. It was prank.
I know, we're old. You can't prank us, we're not children.
It doesn't taste like any, it tastes like my skin.
Well, I think you didn't get any, that's why.
Nice fucking try!
So you're just tasting skin?
Nice fucking try. It does say, "Warning, to be sniffed in spritz, not sipped," which is fair.
Damn it.
Yeah, I'm glad they specified that because you know that there's someone that did that. A good novelty, a novelty thing, does not smell... More times. Like a hot dog in any capacity.
And they also fucked up by not making this hot dog shaped.
Yeah, make it a fucking glizzy shape.
I'm sure that costs a lot and for a novelty thing like this, like, they need to think of...
Oh, you're getting the stink coming over here now.
Yeah, now you're gonna burnt, cocks! Watch this.
Oh, I can smell it on its way.
I think it's passing you.
Smell it on its way to you.
Here it comes.
Big bad Frankie over there.
Yeah, Jesus.
Yeah, no.
It blows house down, Frank.
Oh, there it is.
You got it?
Wow, took a little pass.
It doesn't smell like a-
It doesn't?
It's like sweet wood.
It's not like bad, it's just something.
I think you expected us to be gag boys.
Frank.
Really? Sorry. I didn't mean to.
Take out the fucking gag boys.
That was a legitimate-
My mom watches this show.
That was a legitimate, like, mistake.
Here, you can take this back. I- I never- I wanna-
I wanna get one of those like, have you smelled the ones that are like farts?
Yeah, yeah, fart sprays.
I remember fart bags.
Do you remember when the first time you came to my home?
It was right after I did it on an episode, yeah.
Oh, you threw a fart bag? Th- one.
Yeah, it was like three, I think.
He threw three at once, so by the time you gathered two, one of them's gonna go off.
Yeah. I, I mean, they're, they, they just stink like a butt, like, it's just like-
Yeah, that's the part that sucks.
I remember I did it in the studio.
And then I broke a mug on my fucking wall.
Yeah, that was a crazy episode.
First of all, the studio at that time, my apartment. So you fart bagged my apartment.
But it was one room that was far enough away from like the rest of your apartment.
Let me ask you, do you know how wind works? How you work, you know, air, how things spread via air?
Yeah, I don't think that was like a big concern.
It was a small room, the place stunk like ash.
I honestly don't remember.
It was at the beginning of the episode as well.
I remember doing it, yeah, and I remember throwing it, we like, fucking like threw it back and forth and then it popped on the floor.
Those things are, they smell.
And they pop.
They smell. Have you ever seen the glass ones?
Glass?
The glass stink bombs?
They come in like a little glass vial. I had one in middle school and I broke it on the ground and, boy, that smells.
It's not like a big poop of shit?
That is a rough one. Like a tough one. Oh, it's starting to get ya?
Goddamn, it's like it's your breath now.
Wow, he says your breath stinks.
No, it's cause every time he breathes, more air comes this way and I'm getting it.
Oh, wow. I mean, I don't think I have that strong of a breath that it's gonna reach you.
If you could smell his breath from there.
Big trouble.
No, I'm not smelling his breath, it's just the wind.
I think it's just the circulation.
It just smells like a, like a-
You're also, like, look. That is gonna, they can't see it, but like, that's gonna blow it right at ya.
It smells like a corner in Manhattan right now.
It really, it absolutely, it smells like the corner of like 34th and 9th Avenue.
Like, it's just like right outside of the garden. And you're getting the fucking like hot dog cart smell.
Hot dog!
Hot dog! I mean, they don't shout at you anymore.
Well, it's the people at stadiums and arenas that shout at you.
You ever see that one guy at like Cubs games?
Hot dogs!
Where he goes, "Hot dogs!" And it scares the shit out of everyone here?
That's a guy dedicated to his job, dude. I fuck with that.
I mean, that's how, and especially in the like today's world, that's gonna go viral. But that's not gonna do anything. They're not gonna like give him a boost like, "Hey, good job. Here's an extra couple bucks."
Do you think that maybe those people get paid based on how many they sell?
So what's the incentive to like go so hard? I guess just like enjoying your job?
I mean, yeah, it's just like you might as well have fun doing it.
I think it doesn't look good if they sell none.
Right. I mean, yeah, I'm sure, correct.
I mean, I'd just be eating those bitches then. If I went up a whole section and no one bought, I'd be like, "All right, I'm popping one."
I mean, but then you need to pay for it.
Nah, no shot.
So then they'll say, "You have sold none, but there are three missing."
They're not gonna count the hot dogs.
I, I'm sure.
It's food.
Brother, I can almost guarantee they-
They don't have inventory!
I can guarantee that they will to some degree.
No, there's breakage.
Bro, they count in everything.
Bro, I'll make up another lie then. "I was punched in the eye and someone stole a hot dog."
There's hundreds of cameras in these places.
This was a silent assassin, Frank.
But the cameras are still capturing the video.
I had to test the fucking hot dog to make sure a lady wouldn't buy.
Okay, why three then?
Why did I eat three?
Yeah, Joe, you know what? This is a great, I'll be the boss.
Why are there three missing hot dogs from your hot bag?
There is three? Missing?
There's three missing. You went, we, we, we clocked you at going out there with 20 and there's 17 in here now.
I mean, I sold all of them. Maybe there was like something with the transaction.
You sold, because your transactions say you've done no transactions.
Maybe it's something with the reader. I sold all the, what do you think, I ate three hot dogs?
Where did you sell them?
To the people.
What, what section? Because you're working this section. You're working section 112.
Which specific section?
I was, I was, I was, I mean, I'm in 108, 109, and 110, so in there.
Okay, do you mind if we pull up the video?
Pull up the video?
All right, let's look at the video.
It shows you eating the hot dog.
Well, yeah, I had a hot dog.
You had three?
No, uh...
Here's the video of you having a first hot dog.
A minute later, having the second one.
I'm allowed to eat the hot dog, right?
Not ours.
Who's am I allowed to eat? You can take it out of my paycheck, I guess.
Okay, we will be docking your pay. And also, you're fired for eating on the job that's not yours.
First of all...
That's theft.
First of all, I...
One hot dog?
Theft.
Theft?
I'm an employee here, I need to eat, I'm starving, I had a headache, I was gonna fall down.
That's why you have a break.
I'm walking up and downstairs all day long, I have one hot dog, and now you're gonna fire me?
Yes, that is theft.
Sue him. This is absolutely ridiculous. So what if I, what if I get so hungry that I get a headache and I fall down? Because those things are very heavy, I don't know if you've carried one of those before.
If you have a medical condition, we hope that you would have shared that with HR.
It's not a medical condition, people just get hungry on the job, I'm working hard, and it's hot out.
That's why you have an allotted break period where you can eat on your allotted break time. The expectation is that during work time, you are working, not eating, Joey.
It was a long inning, and they told me to go out during the inning, I had to go out in the third inning twice.
So you cannot go an inning without eating? Then you're in the wrong line of work, which I am doing you a favor by firing you.
So medically, you're firing me because now you're my doctor?
No, I am firing you because what you did is theft, period, end of story. You will be docked, and you will also be...
If you're gonna dock my pay, it's not theft.
But if I dock your pay this time, then the next time, you will do it again, and just be like, dock my pay? And that's setting a standard that is not good for the company culture.
You will be fired, you need to be an example.
And guess what? We're gonna murder you in front of your coworkers.
If this is the type of company that you're worried about one hot dog from one of your employees who ate because of a medical condition, you're going to fire me because of that? I don't even wanna fucking work here, there's millions of dollars being generated here, and all of us are working really hard, and we don't get paid that much, I ate one hot dog, and now you're gonna fire me? Wrong, I quit, fuck this club.
Fine, no severance.
Severance.
You were getting severance for your hot dog theft. You were being fired with cause and we would have given you severance. Now, you idiot.
Fuck, I don't need the job.
Now you get nothing.
Fuck you.
You get nothing.
I get another per- I get a pair of fucking socks for cheaper off the street to sling hot dogs.
You get nothing out of life. You're worried about hot dogs. It's $12. You put down the P and L sheet. You'll be fine. It's a fucking baseball team.
My job requires me to care about this.
It's a baseball team.
Guess what I have? A job. Guess what you have? Nothing and a fucking higher cholesterol for it now. You have nothing.
Cause you've never eaten a hot dog.
You have nothing to show.
You think that you're gonna start some fucking movement of the masses? Where you stood up to the big fucking, big team? Because you ate a hot dog. You really stuck it to the man. You're out of a job. You are nothing. You are the lowest of the low now and you're unemployed, you fucking idiot.
You're gonna die early. You'll die before me because you ate three hot dogs in a 10 minute span.
First of all, it wasn't a 10 minute span. It was the length of the game and I also didn't eat three hot dogs. I ate one hot dog.
Where'd the other two go?
Logic stands to reason that if you lied initially about eating the first hot dog, you're probably lying about the other two that are missing.
What does it say about this company that I have to lie about eating a hot dog? I'm so scared of my superiors that I eat a hot dog and I have to lie about it because I can't even eat a hot dog. Just feed us.
If you're trying to tackle company culture, do it on your-
Tackle company culture?
Do it with a lawyer on your unemployed time. You're not gonna do it now.
You're done, dude. And you quit. So now, we have no reason to give you severance. Who are you calling?
No, I was recording our conversation. So explain that to the fucking papers, you bitch. I got you and you're going down. It's over. You've never talked to an employee like that and I don't give a fuck if you fire me because guess what? Fuck the $13 you're taking out of my pay for the hot dog. Which by the way, now it's not theft.
I'm coming for all of it, you fucking bitch.
You're getting fired.
Guess what? I work and live in the state of New York. I understand that you need two-party consent in order to record someone. And you didn't inform me that I was being recorded. So that is inadmissible in court. Now that's inadmissible. Call up the Legal Eagle. You're fucking done, idiot. You think you played Perry Mason gotcha on me? You don't even know. I know about recording. I record people all the time.
Another admission. You're fired.
Inadmissible in court.
But the papers will hear about it. And you will be fired.
The papers. You think I'm real worried about the fucking New York Times hearing about Joe Santagato got fired for eating a hot dog on the fucking job? They're gonna be like, what an idiot. He should've just not ate the hot dog.
No one's gonna think that way.
Yes, they will. Who are you fighting for? The common man?
You're a fraud. You got caught red-handed, red-glizzied down your throat. And now you wanna try to be some fucking, some martyr for a movement?
I work at this ballpark.
Not anymore.
I worked at this ball, this, this big bowl of shit. This place. I did work here. And I got paid minimum wage to sling hot dogs for you guys, which I did. I ate one hot dog. And now you, in a senior position, are not only firing me, but stepping on my head on the way out the door. And which means you're stepping on the heads of all the employees who work on the same level as me. And I have you on tape doing that?
You're done, buddy. Guess what? Guess what? If you had been honest? If you had been honest from the jump? This is now no longer about the theft. It is about the character. If you had been honest at the front-
I'm sure you care about that.
You know what? I ate the hot dog because I was hungry. We would've had a separate conversation. But you, you completely-
Absolutely.
So it's not about money?
Absolutely, it's a character thing.
Because if you're lying, and no, no, it is theft. But if you now, on top of it, you're lying about eating the hot dog. Now it's, it's like, okay, what else is he gonna lie? I gave him, you the opportunity to be honest about it. And he lied to my face. Stone cold. Look at the video. Look who you eating in that fucking video.
You're a sick man.
I'm sick.
You're a sicko.
You're sick.
You know what I am, though? I might be sick, but I'm employed.
Yeah, not for long, you jerk.
End scene.
End scene. Great job, dude.
Great to work with.
Really, really nice, really fun job working with. I love what you did there. I really, really appreciated the passion.
I love your choices.
It felt like I was arguing with the movement.
I was in the ballpark and I felt like you were there. I could see your suit. I could just feel the-
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I could taste the hot dog on your breath. That's how real it was.
And because of the smell, I was there. I was smelling the whole part.
Yes, 100%. Yeah, you actually helped us set the scene. Thank you so much.
You're welcome.
But really, class act. Really enjoyed working with you. Thank you so much. If you ever want to work together in the future, no hesitation, please.
Yeah, it really, yes.
Joe versus the state of hot dogs. Case closed.
Well, it's a kind of a cliffhanger. We don't know what's going to happen to these characters.
That's 100% right. We don't know if it actually will be held up in court.
It is actually art, so it can be interpreted in any way that anyone wants to interpret it.
Blade Runner. You know, the ending of Citizen Kane, the ending of this argument. You don't know. There's no clear answer as to what happened.
You ever see the end of Inception? We don't know if that thing's going to topple over or not. It's kind of the same deal here.
Christopher Nolan, fucking Stanley Kubrick, Joe and Frank from the basement yard.
What are you gonna do? Someone better fucking hire us after that.
After that?
We are really good.
At what, improv?
I like just being-
Oh, if it involves yelling at each other, forget about it.
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Love that for us.
Um, what was the thing with the cruise line? You said, you brought that up before?
I saw something that a cruise line, I believe in Europe, is starting to find people that bring food from the, like, from the cruise back to their rooms. Have you been on a cruise? Are you insane? Cruise, cruise, I'm thinking, I'm thinking Tom Cruise.
I've never been on a cruise.
Not my thing.
I don't like being trapped.
You seem like you're a big cruise guy.
Like a Disney cruise?
Oh, you would, you goon.
He's like, no, I would hate a cruise. You put Mickey Mouse on that bitch though.
He's goonin' for cruisin'.
Yeah, are you?
Have you been on a cruise?
Just once. It's where my dad won Mr. Sexy Legs, famously.
Mr. Sexy Legs?
Yes, we've talked about this.
I, I, you dad's a good-looking guy.
I've never seen his legs.
I don't know if I've seen his legs to confirm that they're sexy.
He has to hide his legs, cuz.
They're so sexy.
He's got, he's got sexy legs for real.
Apparently.
He's got big calves or something?
Can you, can you pull up a picture of your dad's legs?
Not sure how I would.
Does he, uh?
Do you have a picture of your dad in shorts?
He's got ankles? Like, nice ones?
I love ankles.
What makes a leg sexy?
Um...
And, and obviously, talking about male legs, because...
Oh, we're talking about male legs?
Well, your, his Mr. Sexy Legs.
Right, my father.
I think like a tanned, muscular leg.
Your dad's not tan.
Well, he was, he was dead of winter when you saw him, but...
He gets tanned?
Yeah, he's Italian. Not all Italians get tanned.
I mean, is he full Italian?
Yeah, they get tanned. He could, he could, he could olive.
It depends on where they're from in Italy.
I mean, he tans with the best of them. He's out there. He can olive it up.
Uh, I guess, what, but like, what, like... So you were on the cruise. You saw him win Mr. Sexy Legs?
I did, indeed.
How old were you?
Oh, man, I might have been like, seven.
So you know nothing about it.
I didn't know what was going on. I just know he got a ribbon.
Does he still have it?
There's no way he's...
Did he give him like a margarita or something?
What did, yeah, what did he win for being Mr. Sexy Legs?
He got, he got like a, a s- s-
Just a sash.
Sash, is that what it's called?
Oh, that's kinda dope though.
But it was in view of the whole cruise.
Would you, honestly, from what you know about your father, would you say his legs are sexy?
He's the reigning champ, I mean...
I mean, when you were seven, brother, this was 15 years ago. I don't know how old you are.
Probably, he might be out of his sexy legs prime, but...
You ever walk around your dad and be like, "Damn, he's got some fucking good, good legs on him"?
Yeah, probably.
That's fire.
I, I just don't know...
What are your dad's legs like?
Yeah, shit.
We comparing dad legs?
My dad, well, he, he got his knees replaced.
Both?
Yeah. Good, my dad walked around like a, like so, I've made this joke before. It looks like someone took a bat, put it in between his legs, and just fucking went like that.
Bro, now that I think about it-
Yo, his knees look like dog shit.
I don't really know your dad's knees, cuz I feel like when I, when he does wear shorts, they're below the knee, so I don't really see that.
My, yeah, my dad does.
I feel like that generation, it was like, no one's gonna see my thighs.
My dad doesn't wear capris, he just wears long shorts.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then I feel like I've only seen your dad in sandals. Like, literally everywhere.
He's either wearing sandals or Pumas. Nothing in between. He had like, at one point, like, five pairs of Pumas. Like, those like, Pumas that like Ralph used to wear, you know what's one of those-
Italian dude.
The like, ones that like, they are meant for athletes. But my dad is not an athlete, famously in fifty years. Very, I, very make, I wanna make sure I make that very clear.
Did your dad play sports?
Yeah, he said he was, uh, soccer, and, uh, he was big into handball.
Handball?
Yeah, like, handball, like-
I know what handball is.
Uh, I just wanna make sure, not everyone that knows-
I was confused that it would be handball.
Well, it's like a very New York City Hispanic kid thing to play.
Which, he probably could've went pro, but-
In handball?
He was playing handball every day, for like, ten hours.
What is professional handball?
It's a thing.
Is it?
Yeah, dude.
There's like, pro leagues of handball?
Bro, our high school was mad good at handball.
On my-
Mad good. Mad good.
You guys had white preppy kids, our-
We had, it was strictly Asian kids, bro.
No, there was one, there was one, there was one star white-
Our shit was heavily Asian and they were nasty at handball.
Bro, my high school, it was like, the Hispanics-
They were good?
They were. I think they were like, the city champs.
Bro, these Asian kids would've whooped their ass.
Bro, they were like, back to back to back champs.
Your, your Saint Francis prep handball team wouldn't even fucking sniff a candle-
I guarantee.
-against any one of the fucking like-
Bro.
Hispanics, Puerto Ricans, that lived in the Ravenswood Projects at Bryant High School. Sorry dude, you guys might've had fucking us beating everything else.
No, bro.
Definitely not handball.
Bro, I'm telling you, these Asian kids were savages at handball.
I, I know. They're not beating, because they're, like, they're playing, like, they're not beating like, inner-city, public park, handball kids.
I don't know, bro. They were good.
They might have been good. They're not. They're not.
I would love to go back in time and really put these two together.
You take your, your best player, put it up against a Bryan High School Puerto Rican.
Those are your dad's legs.
Yo, honestly.
At the time, I think, I think this is at the time he won it. These are my dad's legs.
I gotta be honest, dude.
Damn, those are your dad's legs?
Those are some fucking like.
Your dad's legs are like Pierce Brosnan's.
Yeah, I'm not even kidding. I was thinking James Bond.
Yeah, yeah. Dude, your dad's got fucking legs on him.
That's Mr. Sexy Legs right there.
Damn, what beach is this?
It's a great question. I have no idea.
That is a nice beach.
Honestly, the water looks gorgeous.
Those are really good legs.
See, and those are tan legs.
Those are tanned legs.
Chill.
See, the guy's super fucking. You know there's a big pair of balls right up the top of those things.
Oh my god, yeah, you just know.
You know it, because this guy talks about his giant balls.
I know. The yellow shorts.
He was probably in pain by the time he walked back from the water.
Yeah, he's getting out the water and he's just like.
He's gonna hate I did this. He's gonna hate it.
Well, they're not seeing his face, so like.
No, I know.
No one's gonna be able to put the.
His alleged legs. We don't know.
Alleged legs, yeah.
They're not gonna be able to put a name to the legs.
A face to the legs.
Yeah, that's Mr. Sexy Legs.
But, yeah, I'm not a cru- I don't know if I'm a cruise guy. I open, I've been very public in my disdain for the open ocean.
Yeah, it's not great. Also, if I'm on a cruise and you're telling me I can't go back to my room with food, the fuck are you gonna do?
Like, what are you gonna do realistically?
I also imagine it's like. No, you also have to, I've never been on a cruise. I imagine it's not the greatest quality food. So like, you're gonna be like, you're not taking this food back to your room. Like, you should be fucking thankful that I'm taking this dogshit burger.
I think that cruises probably go out of their way to make sure the food's good.
I mean, I'm sure at a certain level, but like.
Like the restaurants.
Like at a certain, because there are obviously tiers.
Wait, there's no room service on a cruise? I thought it was like a hotel.
Ooh, that's a good question.
I can't bring food into my home, fucking, where am I gonna?
No, I think they're saying like if you take it from the restaurant or the buffet or something and bring it back to your room.
I guess because it's all-inclusive.
There are different tiers to like cruises, right?
Wait, all-inclusive, you can't get room service?
I don't... Oh, that would drive me nuts.
Do me a favor. I mean, look it up right now. Look up all-inclusive cruises and see what it includes. If it specifies that there's no room service, I'm gonna be angry.
Those are two different searches. Yeah, just ask if cruises have room service.
If it's all-inclusive, everything better be included. It's in the name.
All-inclusive... Shoot me with a gun.
What does it say?
He's panicking right now. He's panicking right now. I saw a video recently of someone taking like a bucket of something and dumping it over a cruise ship, and you just see what's around, and it's like terrifying, dude.
What does that, what does that mean? Bucket of what?
Food, chum, I don't know.
Bro, that could have meant anything. I don't know what you're talking about.
What, you think I'm talking about they're dumping a bucket of like, uh, human hair?
No, I just didn't know what you meant. But they were dumping stuff to like attract animals.
And it showed you like what fucking god after it.
That's terrifying.
It says there's room service, but not, not all items could be free, even in the all-inclusive. It depends per cruise line. I think it's just more how you get charged extra if you have meat, even on like the Korean, like barbecue spots sometimes, you know?
You have, when you have meat at the Korean barbecue spot, you get charged?
Like you get charged extra if you, if you order more meat, and, but you didn't eat it because it's like...
Oh, I see what you're saying.
A buffet style. I think it's just kinda like that.
Brother, if I'm going to an all-inclusive, and I get charged for anything extra, I'm burning that place to the ground.
Yeah, I know. Are you, uh, like, uh, when you go to hotels, do you take stuff? Yeah.
Take what?
You take stuff?
Take what? Take what?
Like soaps?
It depend, like, so when we were doing our, our, our last two rounds of shows, when we would go from like a hotel to an Airbnb, I would take soap because sometimes they're not well-stocked. And if it was like a, or if we were going from a hotel to another hotel, because hotels that give you this much body walks? Body walk?
Body walk?
Come on. Um, but like, it depends, like, when we went to the, in Toronto, the Nobu, they left like a thing of chocolate. I took that to bring it home. You know, like, I take, I take little trinkets to memorialize.
Hotel chocolates ass.
I don't know if I've ever actually eaten it.
I've, I've, I've eaten it sometimes and it's like, ah.
That place in particular gave me a, a fucking edible zen garden.
I, bro, that was actually delicious.
I was eating sand and raking it at the same time.
So when I went back for the World Series for a day, the zen garden was there. Cause they, they have, they, oh, cause Greg was like talking to that hotel via email. It was like a new hotel at the time. So that person hit up Greg and was like, we saw Joe's video. Cause I talked about the zen garden. I, I thought it was a legit zen garden. And then I found out in the video and I was eating it.
Oh, they told me, cause like, it came with a card that said what it was. You don't read. You just, just like, I, I'm not even kidding. It might've taken me seven seconds to figure it out.
The issue that I have with reading is if there's a picture, I'm just gonna go off of that. And it looked like a rake.
It, yeah.
Like they gave me a rake, so what am I to believe?
What was it?
It was, it was like.
What does that mean?
It was like graham cracker crumbs.
I know, I know the zen garden is, I'm saying.
It was like graham cracker crumbs and like, there was like a, like a thing of like, you know, like a cream, not a cream cheese, but like a creme fraiche almost and like.
Interesting.
And the rocks looked like real rocks, but they were chocolate.
Did it not look any form of edible?
Bro, it looked mad real.
It looked very real. I think I could find a picture of it. So they give you, and they give you a little rake and I tried to rake it and then I was like, this isn't rakeable. Cause I thought it was just gonna be sand. So then I was like, oh, it's edible. Then I started reading. I was like, oh, shit is edible. And then I started eating it and, cause, cause there was a spoon. Now that I think about it and I just kind of ignored that. I was like, that's weird. Maybe they want me to dig a hole in this thing.
Someone left a spoon.
I thought it was because the whole place is like, very, um, like it's like wood. And it's like Nobu. So I, I thought it was just kind of like a, I don't know, some like over the top luxurious little thing. And I was like, that's kind of ridiculous that I'm gonna sit here and like play in the sand. But it was edible and it was mad good.
Trying to airdrop it to you, but it just says waiting.
Just slack, why didn't you?
But it was good. But yeah, whenever I go to a hotel and they like leave a bit of chocolate on like your nightstand or your pillow, that chocolate is usually ass. Also, chocolate on planes? Disgusting. When I was in Switzerland though, that was good chocolate. That was good chocolate.
This is taking too long. The payoff is not actually, it's not gonna be worth it.
Honestly, I think you've ruined it. The Swiss chocolate was good though.
Dude, the Swiss know what they're doing with their chocolate.
Oh yeah.
And, uh, nah, not crazy. Swiss cheese isn't my favorite.
I can't remember the last time I had Swiss cheese.
Yeah, I had a, I told you this. I told you, I had a Gouda recently that just completely like, it was like aged.
I still got some home. I'll have a piece. What are you gonna do about it?
Me? Nothing.
Damn right, you're not.
Why am I being threatened?
Yeah, if, if I was on a cruise and they said they were taking extra money because I took food back to my room, I am...
Now that I think about it, if, if I'm somewhere on a ship and I'm getting food and I take that back to my room, what am I doing?
Like why, what am I gonna bring my plate up there?
I mean, sometimes people will and they'll eat the food, like they'll put it in their little fridge and like save it for later.
But would you do that?
Brother, that's a fucking, look at that.
I know. It doesn't not look tasty.
Bro, it was tasty. It was really good. It was like, so like, it's like that crumble and then underneath it was like a cream cheese almost. And that little sign where it says Nobu Hotel, that's edible.
Wow, that's crazy.
I know. They know what they're doing.
Look at that. We're, we're really giving a promo shout here.
If we do, if we do more...
A little bit, sorry, my bad.
If we do more Toronto shows, we gotta stay there.
Uh, well, I mean, if they hear this, that'd be great. A little discount would be nice.
Yeah, because some of the people that stayed there with us.
Oh yeah, the room service there.
It is a very nice hotel though. Um, but, what were we talking about?
Remember that bath?
Deep fucker.
Dude, it was like a wooden box.
Yeah, I was slight, my ass slid.
It took like an hour for the water to fill up. It was, I'm like, not, that is not in the quality of the spout or the water flow, just how big it was.
It was a big fucking tub. You ever been in those rooms where there's a hot tub kind of just in the middle of it?
When we were in, um-
Like a honeymoon suite at a motel? Not really, but like, sorta.
The, the, the, what's it called? The hotel we stayed at when we did the Vegas show? It had-
It had like, so like, the bed was here, it was like, the TV, and then it was like, a half wall, and behind it was a tub.
And, but like, it wasn't a tub, it was like-
A square.
Square, but it went down, like, far. It was like, four and a half feet deep.
It was ve- it was very horny setup.
It was weird.
It was a very horny setup. Like, literally, like, you're facing the wall, and there's a section that's just open, and you can see, like, part of the tub. So it's like- Mm-hmm. You know, someone could take a bath, and you're watching TV, and you're watching someone put soap on their boobs.
Yeah, it was weird.
Lovely.
It-
It's Vegas.
You two seem like the type that you would get caught in a situation where, well, the only upgrade is the honeymoon suite.
Has that ever happened?
To me? No. That, that happens in like, movies in the eighties.
That's what I'm saying.
All we have left is the honeymoon suite. You get there, and the whole bed's a heart shape or something?
Like, you look up, and it's the, the mirror, the heart-shaped mirror.
I honestly think that, uh, if I were to walk into a hotel room, and it was like, a honeymoon suite, I'd be like, this place is covered in juice. Like, I wouldn't-
I wouldn't want to live there.
One hundred percent, yes.
When you really think about hotel rooms, ugh.
That's why I don't.
You don't think about them?
I don't think about it.
But it's like, anywhere, that's not your place.
Yeah. That's why I don't think about it.
It's kind of funny.
We've been to Airbnbs, and, and like, there was one time where I was just like, oh, something happened.
This is someone's bed.
Something happened in here.
When I, when I was in London, recently, uh-
I can't get the stink out of my fucking-
Uh, it smells like burnt hot dog in here.
It's crazy.
But when I was in London recently, the, the room that I was staying in, there was like, pictures all over the wall, and it was like, this girl who looked like she was eighteen years old, and I'm like, am I laying in this girl's bed? Like, this is weird.
Like, I'm in her bedroom! Oh, an Airbnb. It was an Airbnb. Yeah. But, I believe, they looked American. Like, I think they were American, and they had, having a place in London, and you're American?
Flex.
These people got money.
But I was like, this is so weird. I'm in someone's bed.
You, you'll have it soon enough.
A place in London?
You're a big enough Ar- Arsenal fan that you'll have a place in London.
Oh, he's-
You'll have a flat.
I got a flat.
Flat. And then you'll be like, oh, well, now I have to go at least three, four times a year to justify it.
Ooh, whoops.
I really liked it.
I could see it. I could see Joey Hav in a place like that. I might. Fuck it! I won't.
I definitely won't.
Why not? Let's do it together. Let's go Habsies on it. We split. Habsies is two.
I could, we could three Z's.
There's no, there is no word for three people. It's Habsies, or...
Three Z's.
There. I'll go three Z's. I'll go two and a half Z's.
He's gonna take, he's gonna take Mr. Sexy Legs' money. That's what he's gonna do.
Oh wow.
That's what he's gonna do.
It wasn't a, it wasn't a cash prize. He just said you're gonna take your dad's money because you're broke. That was crazy.
I didn't say that. I, I was just trying...
You heard that, right?
First of all, I didn't say that. Second of all, don't fucking point at me.
Alright, so now it's just, now it's just Habsies. He's out. Wow.
Yeah, do it. Do it.
I'll go, I'll go...
Do it and see what happens. What's gonna happen? I won't show up to a single one of these live shows that we're doing. And which show? Maybe I won't show up to the September 2010. September 10th Durham, North Carolina. Maybe I won't show up to the September 12th Charlotte, North Carolina. Or maybe the September 24th Minneapolis, Minnesota. Or the September 26th Indianapolis, Indiana.
What about the October 2nd show in, uh, in fucking, uh, Charleston, South Carolina?
I don't know. What other one is next to that?
Uh, October 3rd I think is Atlanta.
That's so tough, but I'm really feeling like I'm in like a spiritual mood, so... How about maybe I don't show up to the October 16th in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania?
Well, you can't miss November 7th in Buffalo. What about that one?
Oh, I don't know. I, I think at that time, I might be down south a couple of weeks later at Balt- December 5th in Baltimore, Maryland.
Alright, but then you're gonna, it's gonna be cold down there at that time. Maybe you wanna heat it up a little bit and go to, uh, Austin, Texas on December 10th.
That's a good idea, but on the drive, maybe we can hit a Buc-E's going to December 11th Dallas, Texas.
And then we could also hit another Buc-E's, or two more Buc-E's on the way to Houston on December 13th.
That's not a bad idea, but you know what? That's a lot of traveling. I don't wanna do all that. I'd rather just do January 15th Newark, New Jersey.
Well, if you wanna get real close to your house, then maybe we can go to February 5th, we go to Red Bank, New Jersey.
Not a bad idea, but you know what? I am feeling a little like, uh...
Outdoorsy?
Yeah! So like, February 23rd and 24th in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
B, C, baby. That could be cool. The day after my birthday, though, we're gonna have to go somewhere nice and warm. February 26th, maybe we go to LA?
Yeah, that's not a bad idea, but you know what? That's all fun, but what's been really kind to us has been Chicago, Illinois on March 12th.
Yeah, yeah, that's true.
At the Chicago Theater.
And if you guys wanna go, you guys can just go to thebasementyard.com on Wednesday, June 17th at 12:00 PM, noon Eastern.
Oh, man.
And the pre-sale code is basement.
I was just so worried that I was gonna think that there was no pre-sale code, but there isn't. It's basement.
It's basement.
It is basement, okay.
So Wednesday, June 17th at noon, Eastern.
You know what, though? I'm afraid that it's just gonna be the same old show.
It's not the same old show, Frank. Actually, it's gonna be a brand-new show and a lot more fun.
Brand-new show?
Wow!
Yeah!
Yeah! Yeah!
The Newark one is my birthday show.
I'm January 16th, thus January 15th.
Oh, no one cares.
No, that'll be fun.
No birthday show for one of us.
Nerd.
You already had two birthdays.
Oh, wait, no, you did. Yeah, you did. You had one?
I was there.
We say happy birthday to you at the Vancouver show the second year?
I wasn't there.
Did we?
Yeah. You don't remember? It was a picture of you turning 40. It was like you with a cane and you were an old bastard.
Got it. I remember that now, yeah. Well, there you have it, folks. But yeah, we're going back on tour. Really hope to see you guys out there. We're super excited. But like I said, Wednesday, June 17th, noon, Eastern, thebasementyard.com.
So fucking awesome. Thank you guys so much for always being supportive through Patreon, through watching this show. And, you know, hopefully we'll see you out there at our live shows. We're really excited to put on a good show for you guys, so... Thank you so much. Frank?
Where can they find you?
F Alvarez? No. I was gonna say my email. The Frank Alvarez on social media.
What about you, Ant?
I'm @AntPrisco on Instagram.
And you guys can follow me at Joe Santagato and go follow the show at The Basement Yard on all forms of social media. And that is all. See ya out there on tour.
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