Barstool HQ Week In Review - Soulja Boy Gonna Soulja Boy
Monday 1/14
Monday was a relatively slow start to the week. People were still coming off the highs and lows of Sunday’s playoff football games. Dave and lifelong Saints fan Riggs Bozoian were celebrating their victories, while Smitty mourned his Eagles and got ready to ship Nick Foles out of town.
I asked Smitty if there was even a little tiny percentage of him that was happy Nick Foles lost since he had been so pro-Wentz, to which he gave a classic Smitty response.
Marty Mush picked up a new sport to bet while he’s not training.
I’m sure he’ll stink at betting that too.
Pretty uneventful day otherwise. It was unbelievably cold at HQ though, like worse than usual. I’m not sure how it gets fixed. Everyone’s just like “wow it’s cold in here” and then we don’t seem to act on it at all. Hopefully the new office will have a better climate.
Tuesday 1/15
Spirits were higher than usual because we had our first payday in what felt like 6 months. It was the normal two week schedule, but with holidays and multiple weekends in between, it felt like forever.
But Tuesday was all about one person — Soulja Boy. I’ve never seen someone electrify the office quite like Soulja did.
It began with him walking off the elevator and announcing, “Soulja Boy in the building!”
It was jaw-droppingly cool.
He had the office absolutely buzzing.
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Soulja Boy then tried to go to the bathroom but both were locked. I made some small talk with him. He said “is there a key?” And I said “No Soulja, they’re just occupied.”
As he was waiting for the bathroom, he just casually rapped “Soulja Boy Tell ‘em” and made a subtle dance move to the beat. It was sick.
He then did a bunch of shows for us, except a pizza review. Dave got Soulja Boy’d.
You can watch the review that kinda sorta not really featured Soulja Boy HERE.
Later in the afternoon, Dave announced the return of the comment section, provided you have a Barstool Gold subscription. The old comment section didn’t like these blogs very much and would often comment “Barstool loooooves Barstool” or “Holy Shit no one cares” or “You guys aren’t celebrities, we don’t give a fuck.” Hopefully you guys in the new and improved comment section will like these more.
The comment section emergency press conference went out roughly 40 seconds after my much anticipated ASMR video was released.
I initially thought I was gonna get cucked by the announcement, but the ASMR video still put up big numbers I was pleased with. My vow is to only make viral bangers that hopefully end up on Saturday Night Live.
Wednesday 1/16
Personally, my day started early by doing Laces Out with Dave and Willie. Dave wanted a nickname like “Cowardly Max” for Willie, so I suggested Silly Willie. Dave loved it and proceeded to say it 64 times during the show. Willie got more mad each time. I also said “Hey Willie, you ever have trouble getting boners?” as part of an an read, and he didn’t seem to care for that. Thought he was going to punch me at some point, so escaping from the podcast room unscathed was a win to start the day.
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Later, Dave decided to join the new comment section, starting with Boozin’ Burgers.
Someone sent a bunch of pizzas and other Italian food to the office with their resume attached inside every pizza box. It was a pretty genius move to stand out as he came in for an interview the next day.
I didn’t eat anything just in case there was poison.
Now as I was typing out that part ^, Big Cat was (rudely) peering over my shoulder and watching me type. He said “That’s a lie, I saw you ate a piece of pizza!” I really did not eat a slice of pizza. I had a big lunch of two chicken Texan Tenders and a side of cheesy stuffed mashed potatoes. It was very filling! The pizza arrived shortly after and I didn’t feel like eating too unhealthy. So either The Cat is just misremembering, or doing a bit. No matter what, it’s really unbecoming of him.
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That night, KFC did his much anticipated Barstool Gold AMA.
Still time to catch up with that link if you missed it.
Thursday 1/17
I woke up Thursday knowing that the date January 17th meant something and was thinking it was someone’s birthday. I’ve been on a streak of forgetting birthdays and wanted to right the ship. Turns out it was just the birthday of Barstool Radio.
In a classic random Barstool moment around noon, Glenny Balls was just walking around the office talking to George Brett on the phone about weather.
We had a big time office guest in Howie Mandel. I love America’s Got Talent and am also a germaphobe (although not to his degree) so I’ve always admired him.
In Rough N’ Rowdy world, Marty Mush and Matt Brown both put out some pretty intense fight promos. I didn’t know Mush was capable of being so angry about anything.
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Friday 1/18
KenJac got the day off to a weird start with a bizarre but very funny video (TikTok maybe? I don’t know).
It’s always scary when KenJac asks to take a picture of you because you never know what he’s gonna cook up in the lab. He asked to take a few pictures of me and cooked this up.
Me, Dave, Frankie, and Devlin took for a Costco in New Jersey to do an Instagram story ad deal. That will be on the Barstool Instagram story around 6 tonight. It’s some must see stuff.
Later in the day, we discovered that Dave was quietly continuing his comment section tear and Erika had joined him.
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And that’s a wrap for a fairly slow week at the office. Was gonna be tough to top last week’s action. We’re on to next week.