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What is up everyone? Welcome back to our new podcast. Welcome back for the first time. I always do that. Welcome to, welcome to our new podcast. Mean girl. Not mean girls. Just mean girl. Yeah. Don't put an S on the end of it. No. With, uh, there are two of us, but whatever. But, but it was always said as mean girl. Correct. You're a mean girl. Okay. That's my bad. Alex Bennett, Rudy. John. Hello.
Is it? I always forget. Is it Janda? Janda? It's Janda. Janda. It's exactly how it's spelled, but people get confused for some reason with J's. Okay. So it's Rudy Janda. Rudy Janda. He's the producer. Yes. He's the producer. Uh-huh. Very good at his job. I thought you were going to say. Not true at all.
Never produced a podcast in my life. This is Rudy's first time producing a podcast. This is my, I'm Jordan Woodruff, by the way. Um, this is my first time doing a podcast. Should we do that again? No, I thought it was good. Okay. Keep going. Keep going. Don't even cut that. And then you,
You're you this is the first time you're doing for this is the first time you've done content with someone your own age. Yes Wanted a quick intro yourself? forgive Jordan and I for like a little bit brain dead we Just we've been mentally emotionally physically not physically. We've been mentally emotionally abused this week Not abused we love our job. Yes, the only place we wanted to work. Yes, it still is No, I would we would like to give okay, I would die for this duel. Yes, I
Barstool. Viva. This podcast is brought to you by Barstool Sports. We all three work here. Despite what anybody tells you, we are employees of Barstool. And we love it here. We like our home. We've all pretty much lived here this past week. Is it Stockholm Syndrome where you're a captor? Have you heard of that? Yeah. Where you fall. You think my eyes are this big for no reason? Yeah. Stockholm Syndrome. Ooh, I think we all have Stockholm Syndrome.
Yeah, Rudy's nodding. Okay, we got a quick intro ourself though. Alex, who are you? My name is Alex Bennett, born and raised in Oklahoma City, 46th state. I'm obsessed with Oklahoma. I make content with my mom, started on TikTok, applied at Barstool back in July, started in late August, early September, moved full-time to New York City, and I am the co-host of Cuz I Said So podcast with my mama. Rudy, who are you? I'm Rudy Junda.
I do a lot of different things here at Barstool. I pretty much just do everything. I do stool scenes. I do the dozen trivia. I do content here and there. Now I produce podcasts.
What podcast do you produce? Mean Girl. He did not put an S on the end of that. Nope. He knows. Rudy gets a stick. I know my shit. All right. Respect. Jordan, who are you? Yeah. Jordan Woodruff. Born and raised in Minnesota. Moved to New York in September. Started at Barstool in October. I am the pop culture guru at Barstool Sports. I only talk about pop culture unless I'm in this room with Alex and Rudy doing Mean Girl shit. Okay. Wow. Where did Mean Girl come from? So Mean Girl came...
Mean Girl was born on Tuesday, January 22. So Mean Girl was born on Tuesday, January 25th at 1.25 p.m. in the afternoon. Read it and weep. Yeah. When we were recording the Dave Portnoy show publicly broadcast.
We were Mean Girls at like 8.30 p.m. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we were called continuously Mean Girl, Mean Girl, Mean Girl. Yeah. Mainly Alex, but I took the he afterwards. Yeah. So I'm like Mean Girl. You're Mean Girl number one. It was termed, coined Resident Mean Girl on Twitter. We'll take it. We love it. We're in. And herein lies the podcast. Actually, you were the only Mean Girl actually up until Thursday, March.
When a viral Twitter video was released. And then Dave coined me second mean girl. Because he never had called me a mean girl up until that Twitter video. And then he was like, Alex Bennett, Jordan Woodruff, you're the fucking mean girls. No, we were mean girled. Our heads were photoshopped on mean girls Tuesday. Oh, I forgot about that. We were mean girled. We are the mean girls. We are the mean girls of Barstool. So we made a video. So Dave put out the Dave Portnoy show. And then Jordan and I put out a video kind of explaining...
What happened on the show and like not not our side because it's all the same. It's all the same story. We just keep reiterating it basically. And Gaz was like, that's that's some good chemistry. Like maybe you guys could do something together. So here we are with the Mean Girl podcast. Yeah. Also, like whatever Dave tells us to do, we do. He says we're Mean Girls. We're Mean Girls.
He says jump. We're like, how high? Five inches or like 32 feet. He says work, don't sleep. We stay up all night long. Like we have this whole week. I've had no sleep. You haven't? No. Why not? Because I've been mentally and emotionally abused on Twitter. Have you been physically abused? No. Well, no. Okay. Okay, good. So what's the Mean Girl pod going to be, Jordan?
So since Dave told Alex and I were mean girls, we're going to embrace it. We are mean. I'm a fucking asshole now. Alex is an asshole and a scumbag. I'm just an asshole nobody. And we're going to take that narrative and we're going to run with it with this new pod. And we're pretty much just going to be assholes from here on out because that's what Dave Portnoy coined us as. So who do you want to start in on? Like who do you want to like completely destroy and annihilate and rip apart and ruin their life first? Give me a name. Oh, I want to with Dave, but I just.
I don't know. I was completely kidding. We were never going to do that. Yeah, he cut your checks. Yeah, I was here for it, but... This is like the... So, yeah, he cut our checks. We're fired. This is the last day of employment. So we were like... Don't even put that in his head. Let's just put one episode... Let's just put one episode out and then, you know, don't let the door hit you on your way out. No, but I think, like, with this podcast, we are going to be unraveling, like, the bullshit that goes on in this office. Like, you guys obviously know a lot of drama goes down at Barstool. A lot of BS. Like, every day people are just, like,
being fake and we're just gonna debunk it we're gonna unwrap like we're gonna show everyone's true colors are you gonna be in here calling people out yeah how about this how about you guys get one complaint about dave and then you can move on okay you can you can be anything just one quick little one just one little jab fine okay um and i didn't know you were gonna say that you can go first jordan okay my one complaint is uh the hashtag i made up today on twitter um
What was it? Hashtag won't drop it Dave. And him unfollowing me on Twitter because of that hashtag. Oh. Yeah. I was unfollowed because I'm a nobody. And the reason why I'm a nobody is because he said that multiple times on the Kirk Minahan show. So he ran with that narrative hard and he literally called made me a nobody by unfollowing me. Okay. That's my complaint. All right. I have the Kirk Minahan show that I think this is my complaint.
Oh, hold on. You treat women differently than men, and now you're calling a woman an asshole and a scumbag. What she did was. No, no, no. You called her an asshole and a scumbag. Me. She acted like an asshole and a scumbag. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You called her an asshole. Right, yes. Is she an asshole and she's a scumbag? Okay. I don't think it's mean. That's it. So you're with Kirk. So your complaint with Dave is that what?
Okay, I guess I need to get some context right before that. He said you treat women and men differently.
And that you kind of treat women a little nicer. And then you can kind of get in the doghouse with the guys. And then he's like, she's an asshole and a scumbag. And Kurt's like, is she being one or she is one? And he's like, she is one. And Kurt's like, but you just said not to do that to the girls. And he's like, no, but she is one. So I'm like, wait, I'm like, wait, what? Okay. If that's what the girl is, can I sign up to be a guy? Yeah.
Yeah. Like my name's Alex. I guess it could kind of be unisex. You can transition if you want. I mean, that's possible in this today's day and age. Yeah. I think I just rather do that. Okay. Yeah. Um, I think we all should, should quick talk about what this week taught us and what Dave taught us. Cause like at the end of the day, we learned a lot. Oh my gosh. It was the most probably beneficial week. I think of my life. I would agree with this. Honestly, like I hate to say it, but this was one of the best weeks of my life.
It was an emotional roller coaster. But it was one of the best weeks of my life because for the first time, granted, you and I have only both have worked here under six months. I feel like it was like an initiation to be truly like a barstool employee. Yeah, I do feel I feel full, not fully initiated. No, not fully. Only time can do that. But it was like the first step. Yep. Step one into being like a barstool employee. Get roasted.
By Dave Portnoy. It's what you sign up for. Yeah. And it's beautiful. And I love it. It's a beautiful disaster. And also, I feel like if Dave's going to take the time to roast you, like, that means a lot. I'm going to be honest. Like, that means a lot if he's going to take the time to roast you. Are you flattered? I am flattered. Okay. But I also have a little bit of... We don't know how we feel. Like, just forgive us. Because I'm like, uh... I am flattered, though. At one token of the day, I'm angry. And at the other token of the day, I'm like, oh, this is awesome. At one token of the day, I'm like...
I can't cry, but I could maybe think about it. I will say this is the one thing that's like been pretty traumatic that hasn't made me cry. I didn't cry this week. No, me either. You can't cry. I cried last week. You can't cry. This, this is like, um, we keep describing it as going to the gym. So it's like today was like our first day with a personal trainer and they like
really worked you out hard and you're like, I'm sore and it hurts, but I'm in. I'm not leaving. It's like training for a marathon. Yes. Yeah. We just started. We just started. Like, I mean, Barstool truly is a marathon. We,
We've been here for, what did he say, like a minute or week and a half? I think a combined week and a half. Combined, yeah. Accurate. Yeah. I mean, in the scheme of things, and I don't knock on that at all. I'm so down for that. Same. I mean, I've literally only been here like 100 days.
Yeah, I'm like, coach, put me in. Yeah, no, seriously. Like, that's fine. Yeah. So ultimately, I think we chalk it up to, because here's the thing. Like, we can go back and talk about what happened all day long until we're blue in the face. It's a beautiful disagreement. It is. If we throw another stone, we're going to get one stone thrown back. I mean, we are going to be in this thing until we're all dead. Yeah. Instead, it's like, oh, hold on.
Let's just do a Mean Girl podcast. Yeah. And I think Dave taught us a lot of valuable lessons, like how to honestly fight harder, have thicker skin. Yeah, I don't feel like fight harder. I feel like it's just like, here's another shell for that skin. Oh, not fight harder at Dave. Just like fight harder, honestly, like in life. Yeah. Like, I feel like I am a stronger person coming from this, and I feel like I have more of a backbone coming out of this. Be afraid of nothing. Yes. Which is, it's actually kind of refreshing. Yeah. Especially walking around this office like,
Everybody had their own opinion about what happened. And then it took you like an hour to realize nobody's in it, but who cares? Also, I love how everyone tried to give us their thoughts on our experience. Yeah. And like, that's fine. No, it's not. Okay. Talk about that. I don't want anyone's opinions on my experiences besides myself, who's experienced it every single day. What about me? Well, you experienced it. I'm just kidding. You can't.
You're the only person. I'm the only one whose opinion matters to you? Yes, but also at the end of the day, we did have conflicting opinions. We did. Some days I was like, let's fight. You were like, no. And some days you were like, let's fight. And I was like, no. Yeah. But that was a good, it was a good balance. We always stuck together. We stuck together, but we also weren't afraid to do our own thing. 100%. Which was nice. And voice our opinions to one another. I have to address the opinion. Oh-pinion? Oh, God. Yeah.
Every time I say opinion. Try opinion and just see what happens. Alex, how do you spell opinion? I'm not spelling it because I know you're right. So just try opinion and see. No. You're like a mini Dave right now. Shut up. I'm the one who wanted an arguing show. We're not doing that because opinion is spelled O-P, not A-P. Spell open. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Backfire. Backfire. Rudy, spell. Say opinion. Opinion.
He said opinion. He said opinion. I think I said opinion. U-H, right? Yeah. Opinion. Tomato, tomato. I'm right. You're wrong. Yeah. No, that's just that Minnesota. Minnesota. Yeah. Minnesota. Minnesota.
Rudy's from Colorado. No, I'm not going to mansplain accents to Jordan. She can say it. Thank you, Rudy. Yeah. I feel like I'm going to end up just being like Peacemaker. Oh, we knew. You and I just are fighting. Yeah. The Mean Girl pod becomes about fighting. Okay, let's talk about this. We just got our logo like 10 minutes ago. We have to finish the lessons we learned because what was the other lesson we learned?
I forgot. You tell me. You can't trust anybody. Oh, yeah. I don't even trust you. I hate you. I don't hate you and Rudy, but I don't trust either of you. I don't trust either of you either. I now view the whole entire world on islands by themselves. And nobody's coming onto my island. I'll kick you off. What about Graham? Yeah. Graham can be on my island. Okay. Nobody's on my island. No. Get them off your island. Yeah. It's every man for themselves in this world. I don't know why it took me so long to realize that. Yeah.
Like Alex and I are laughing in a conference room about how we can't trust anyone. I'm like, bitch, I don't trust you. I'm like, good. Don't. Because if I say like, no, you can trust me. Something's going to happen in an hour where it's going to be like, okay, actually don't. I told you like, don't trust me. Do your own thing. Like fight for yourself. I told this to my other producer, that story. And she goes, don't even trust me. And I was like,
You know what I appreciate the honesty No that's the only I feel like people That have been here a long time Know that And you have to learn it On your own time Yeah But we learned it this week Like I watched a bunch Of different shows Bunch of different opinions Oh god And
And the thing that was so funny is, like, I think people sometimes forget that we listen to their show. So one person saying something to our face, but then they say this on their show. And I'm like, I'm keeping tabs. But it's good. Oh, yeah. But that's what I want. Like, like KFC said, once you're on my bad side, there's no coming back. Like, I keep tabs. Yeah. OK. So you never forget what you're telling us. I never forget. OK. And if you're on my bad side, never.
It's almost impossible to go on to my good side. So once you cross the line, it's over. Yes. But I'll never tell you if you cross the line. Oh, never know if you've crossed the line or not. That's scaring me. Wait. So what? We're just how are we going to know? Oh, you'll know. Well, but you won't tell us what you show us with your actions. Maybe you just what does that mean? All it means is if I don't like you, it's not fun to be around me. OK. Are you going to be giving us the cold shoulder? No.
Or you should be making like little one liners. I like you. So you'll never have. You don't have to worry about it right now. OK. I mean, I know I'm not going to say that you're never going to not like me because as we've learned, trust we trust nobody, which is fine. I like you and I like Rudy. That's all that matters right now. OK. And how do we know when you don't believe you? Yeah.
Are you going to give us a cold shoulder? Yeah. You said that you're like, we won't know. So I won't tell you. Yeah. That's how I am too, Jordan. Wait, what? So both of you are just going to like decide one day you don't like one of us and you're not going to tell us. Why wouldn't you just tell us? I don't know. I, I, yeah, I just, if I don't, if you upset me, I just, yeah, yeah. I erase you from my life. Like I don't even confront you. A hundred percent. Okay. Well, that'll be an interesting dynamic with the three of us. Yeah. One day we're going to schedule this pod and me and Jordan just aren't going to show. Yeah. You guys are going to be like,
We're going to be pod number one making our own podcast. Yeah, you're going to be like, and now this is the mean girl and boy pod. And Alex is out filming mean girl pod by herself. It'll be mean gal. Mean gal, yeah, or the opinion pod. The opinion pod. If I'm mad at you, you'll know. Yeah. It will be told to your face directly. But isn't that funny how KFC kind of hit that spot on? He pretty much was like, yeah, Bennett the butcher, she scares me, but like...
I'll know if she's mad. Like, we'll get over it. But then he was like, Jordan scares the shit out of me. Once you cross her, it's done. Yeah. Those eyes are always up to something. Right. Let's keep intense. Are you crazy eyes? No, I don't have crazy eyes. No, but are you like, those eyes are always up to something like crazy eyes. Do you have crazy eyes? Sure. I don't know. I guess I'll just cross this bridge when I come to and I'll let you guys know. I just don't forget anything. I can't wait for our first fight. What do you think it'll be? No, you should welcome it.
I know, but like, I don't like fighting with people because I'm like you and I get nasty. I know you're a nasty fighter. I know for a fact. No, I'm a very true fighter. No, you're not, Alex. Yes, I am. I saw you on the Dave Portnoy show. Those were facts. You're nasty. I'm not like a scrappy fighter, though. I'm very much so like, I'll just tell you. You're a mean girl. Yeah. God. God. Okay, Dave, I'm going to your side.
Hi everybody, welcome to the Mean Girl Podcast. I'm your host Alex Bennett and it's just my show now. Bye Jordan! No, I don't want to fight with you. Why? I'll just, if we do fight, I'll just be brutally honest and you'll know why I'm mad. Okay, we have to, us three have to make a truce. Or not a truce, a pact. Okay. If we fight... What? I don't know. If we fight, I'll be telling you why I'm mad at you and you'll be like ignoring me and have like blocked my number.
So it won't be like a very successful fight. If I don't like either of you two, I will make the exception to letting you know. Thank you. It's an honor. Rudy, you too. Rudy, you have to do that back to us. Sure. You said you fought like Jordan did. No, I'll let you know. Okay. Rudy scares me. He doesn't scare me.
That's why I wanted him to do this. You should be scared. Not scared of, like, intimidation. Scared of, like, I feel like he can, like, he knows a lot about people and can just, like, end some people's careers easily. That's a lot of power you escape, Rudy. He does stool scenes. He should be fucking terrified. Yeah. Wow. He sits next to Dave's office. All those guys who sit next to Dave's office are not trustworthy. I could be a sleeper solved by Dave. Yeah.
I didn't think about that. That's fine, though. Yeah. I feel like there's nothing that's not out there at this point. That's true. I'm an open book. Ask me anything. I'll tell you I don't care. I have nothing to lose at this point. What do you want to ask her right now when she just said that? You have nothing to lose? Yeah, she said you can ask her anything and she'll answer it. You have a lot to lose. Dave Portnoy literally told me to fuck off on, let's say national television, on Twitter. National Twitter. Which is pretty much national television to the stoolies. I have nothing to lose. Well, I'll say this. He tells people to fuck off.
On a weekly basis. It's a compliment. You've only entered a list of a long line of people. Maybe I'm on like that. Doesn't he have like a plaque where he writes he hates people? Oh, you're not even close to that. No, yeah. You don't want to enter that stratosphere. We can get there, though. We can get there. We have to ramp up this podcast if we do. I don't have anything to lose just because I truly live my life by...
it not being that serious so is that your motto it's just not that serious yeah it's not that serious like chill a little bit we have the um company holiday party next week what's your motto for that two drinks and two drinks only wait why is that your motto because I don't want to be an Alex Bennett at the live yak show did okay I'm gonna I'm gonna take a live poll when this comes out if I deserved that or not if I you know what I also want I want
I want more punches before the week's over. So like what else you got? Just get it out now.
I had a lot of margaritas. My mom. Okay. So hold on. And Adderall. So the, the day port and my show comes out and it's just a complete explosion of life and barstool and every like a lot of the podcasts are talking about it. And my mother calls me. Oh, she calls you. She calls me at like midnight on Tuesday. And you and I have just left the office. She's like, Alex. And I'm like, Oh boy. And she's like, why he makes an Adderall and alcohol. And I'm like, of all,
all 40 minutes of that. You want to know why I'm mixing Adderall and alcohol?
She's like, yeah, no, the rest of it's fine. Anyway, it's about the Photoshop thing. Not a big deal. But so was it a work event that you passed out at? I'm like, this is awesome. Yes, it was. Sorry about that. I actually love how when people hear things like the things they take away from that. Right. Like you were literally being bullied by the president of this company. All your mom says is margaritas and Andrew Alex. Really? Yeah. She's like, you can handle the first part, but I'm not OK with the second part. I'm like, oh, yeah.
That's my bad, mom. That's funny. But yeah, no, she has a point. Marguerite doesn't matter at all. Alex Bennett. And the thing that makes me sad is like, we are good friends. I didn't know any of that happened. I knew you fell into, what are those called? Okay, okay, okay. Okay, Jordan, that was the night before. Could you not? Damn, you're on a bender? Alex what? Alex Bennett the bender. Alex.
No, Bennett the Bender. Blackout Bennett. That's what I was glad that they didn't coin me. I was glad to get Bennett the Butcher. What are those called, though, that are around a tree? What goes around trees in New York and they have cages?
That's just so dogs don't piss on them? Yes, that. I got out of the Uber and fell into that. And then who picked you up? You could fall into those things sober, though. They're very trippable. They're very trippable. I have bruises. But Alex wasn't sober. That's the thing. She's blackout, eating popcorn on the floor of an Uber. Jordan! Something's off limits. No, I didn't say that. You did. You did.
Yeah, I think that's something that hasn't been brought up enough about this entire thing is that if you have a drinking problem. Oh, yeah. If you don't reach for the bottle, none of this happens. Actually, that's not true. No, the Photoshop thing still happens. Yeah, the Photoshop thing still happens. Never mind. Were you drinking when you commented Photoshop? No, it's funny. So I, like, don't drink, like, never at home. You know what I mean? Like, I'm not, like, a Monday night glass of wine girl at all. Like, I just...
So it's for me. And we're not drinking right now either. Yeah, and I like would never taste a Mimitas like while I was recording just to know if they were good. Like the lime flavor specifically with a cup of ice would not happen. Especially on a Friday. It's more of like a all, it's like I'm going out or I'm like,
Doing yoga meditating Jesus Christ I said this to Rudy I said this to every single person I talked to Barstool is a bunch of people Zero to a hundred personalities Yeah yeah It's like I'm taking I'm getting in bed Watching a movie Yeah Or if it's a Friday If it's a Friday Saturday It doesn't matter anymore I'll go It's either I'm out Or I'm in bed I'm the same way I don't just casually drink It's either All in or all Either zero or a hundred
Yeah, yeah. Okay, since all you've done today is call me out, I'll call you out. Yesterday you had one glass of wine. That was work purposes, though. Yeah, and I was on the receiving end of that, and you're a chatty wine girl. She's like, hi, wait. We had to call Gaz, and she's like, hi, Gaz, how are you? And Gaz is like, what is the point of the phone call? Yo, not good. Bullet points. Wine and me don't mix.
So good to know Okay so I didn't know Jordan That well before Starting this podcast Like I didn't know Like you never know How you're gonna be With somebody When we put out The video Blocked video And the video That we put out On Tuesday Those were very serious Like those were Under pressure times When we had a topic To talk about So when you go Into a podcast You're just like riffing You never know How somebody's gonna act But now that I know That you're open To roasting me I'm going to be Collecting lots of things To just roast you back You better You're mean
Every single day. Okay. I have to re rewire my brain because when you said, I mean, I wanted to say, no, I'm not. But now I need to say you're right. That's right.
You made this. Mean Girl hot. You're the reason we have this. I'm the reason for the smiley face with the tongue out. You are Mean Girl number one. I'm just number two. Thank you, Dave, for calling us that. I don't know how. We should write him a letter or something. You are the token Mean Girl barstool. Resident Mean Girl. Resident Mean Girl. You're the president. I'm the vice president. So what am I, Regina? You're Regina. I'm Gretchen.
Who are the other two? Who does the weather? Who's like the one that kills her boobs? She's like, it's 90% or it's 100% chance raining. Karen. Karen, yeah. Karen, God, what a name. And then Katty. Wait, so is Rudy Regina's mom? I'm Lindsay Lohan. Yeah, he's Katie. Oh, yeah, Katty. Katty Heron. Yeah, it's a Katty or Katie. Katie Heron. In any situation in life, I'm Lindsay Lohan. Yeah. Is that like a thing? I just love Lindsay Lohan. Perfect. Like present day or like past tense? All forms of Lindsay. How do you feel about Britney Spears?
No. She's scared. I'm just wondering. Wait, what's the one rule we have for this show? No pop culture. What are you doing? Asking him how he feels about Britney. Who is?
A pop icon. True. Exactly. I want you guys, though, could you do me a favor and walk me through the phone call with Gaz? Like, what's the phone call with Gaz like when he's, like, start a podcast? Please digest that if you could. He went through Jordan. Yeah. Apparently, Gaz and I are BFFs after this. He just calls me with all these crazy ideas but doesn't give us any structure.
We're not into structure. No, that's true. No, so I have a weekly check-in. So Alex's weekly check-in is on Wednesday. I have weekly check-ins on Thursday with Gaz and Jen and some other people at Barstool. Gaz and Jen are? Oh, sorry. So Jen is head of production. Gaz is head of social. I also have a meeting with Logan. I don't want to leave him out of this. He's also a senior producer. Look at you, me girl, being inclusive to everybody in the meeting. Inclusive to all genders here because we don't have double standards here. Or do we?
We don't even know. Yeah, we don't know. Anyways, Alex has her checking on Wednesday after this, like, imploded. So she was more, they had more of a serious conversation. And then the next day, Gaz was like, oh, Jordan, by the way, I forgot to mention this to Alex. But, like, you guys had really good chemistry. I, like, I think you should try something else. Like, think about, like, what could you and Alex do together? Because it's where we see good chemistry, like, and I saw it and I liked what I saw.
And obviously we respect Gaz's opinion. We're like, oh my God, Gaz? I literally ran to Alex. I was like, Alex, Gaz said that he likes your chemistry. We got to go. No, Jordan said, Alex, I got to talk to you. And let me tell you what, this week when somebody said they have to talk to me, it's been like, can we please? I'd just rather not talk. So that happened. So Alex and I were like, we're going to make a Mean Girl pod. We got Jen and Gaz's approval. They loved it. And then this morning, so we were supposed to record this on Sunday. This morning, Gaz calls me and goes, is there any way you can make this happen like now?
So then one hour later, here we are. Yes. That's why we're all over the place because we thought we were going to get until Sunday. We were going to prep for Sunday night to be able to do it. And now here we are.
Friday. What time is it? It's Friday at 3.44 p.m. Here's the thing. Right when we're done with this, we're pretty much going to submit it. It just takes like 24 to 48 hours for Apple and Spotify. Do you think they can hear that? No, they can't because when I was listening to a different podcast in this room, they were saying the same thing and I couldn't hear anything they were talking about. The heater's like banging and there's a siren outside because we're in New York. It's crazy. And this... Never mind. Um...
So that was, that was the skinny on that. Um, also something I realized is I know we said this was only going to be 30 to 45 minutes, but like the thing with you is I could talk to you all day and Rudy, I could talk to you guys both all day. What was your first impression of me? Oh, that's good. Um, let me think, let me go back. I I'll just be honest. I didn't know what to make of you.
Like you I remember the very first time I ever saw you You were standing at the front desk And you had on like really cool Nikes And we like hugged Because we're Are you from the Is that the Midwest? Yeah Okay So all three of us are from the Midwest Um
And I was like, okay, like, I don't really know what you're going to do. Like, cause I didn't know what you did. You probably didn't know what I did type thing. Oh, I did. I followed you. Oh, okay. That's so nice of you. So yeah. So then I see, so then I just didn't know. Cause like the more I got to know you, I was like, she's either really nice or she's really fake. Yeah. I get that all the time. And then I was like, I don't know. And then I didn't think about it. And then this week I was like, wow.
What if I fake? When I go to war, I'm going to want Jordan. Yes. Yeah. See, that's like the biggest issue I battle with in my daily life is I, everyone, so that's what everyone says. They're like, I can't tell if you're nice or you're fake. And the thing is like, I'm not nice. I'm kind. Okay. So when I meet a stranger, I'm going to be like kind, but like,
If you ask any of my close friends if I'm nice, not one of them will say yes. Okay, cool. I like that. But if you ask any stranger, they're going to say yes because I'm not ever going to go out of my way to be a bitch. But when I truly love and care for someone, I will be hard on you. Okay, that's cool. You want the best for that person. I would take a bullet for any of them. I don't have a lot.
Before shiny quarters, not a hundred dull pennies in my life. And I will take a bullet for any of those quarters. I think the thing is when you get into this office, you don't know. It takes for you. You can't expedite getting to know somebody. That's time. Like you just have to give you my first question. Okay. Sorry. Yeah. What? But sorry. Finish your thought. I didn't mean to interrupt you. That's that's mean to interrupt. That's super mean. So it's welcomed. Well, it's fine though. I don't want to interrupt. Okay. Well, I just think that time it takes time. Um, I had,
So it was weird because I knew you before I came into this office. I found you on TikTok and I thought you were relatively funny. You can't hurt my feelings. No, I liked your content. I was actually more envious of you because I was like, she works at Barstool. I want to work at Barstool. So I followed you because I was like, I want to work at Barstool. But I found it intriguing because you lived in a hotel and that was so strange to me. Yeah, I couldn't find a place to live for 45 days. Yeah, I was like, what?
Because COVID had ended and then like everyone was moving back and then people were overpaying for apartments. She's sorry. Yeah. Sorry for living in a hotel. So you were that person that I knew on TikTok, but I didn't want to follow up first because I was like envious. I was like, she has my dream job. Mean girl stuff. Literally. I was like, I'm not going to follow you. But then you kept popping up and I was like, she's kind of funny. So I followed you and then I met you and you're actually one of the first people to talk to in a barstool. So I was like, she's really nice. But I also kind of had the same opinion as you. I was like, I can't tell if she's nice or not.
and gets everything she wants or if she's secretly like gonna stab me in the back I can't tell I have the exact same thought that's fine I think it's cool I think it's better to not quickly trust somebody anyways how can you it's the content world trust we'll say we've said it before and we'll say it again trust nobody but in a good way yeah like I don't I've decided that that's completely the way it should be I don't trust anybody at this company yeah it's less to worry it's less to worry about Rudy what was your first impressions of Alex and I
I remember my first impression of Rudy. I don't know. I don't have a memory like you guys do. I just... That means he hated us. I don't remember. I don't remember my very first impression, to be honest. Like, I don't know how you guys remember that kind of shit. I actually don't really remember seeing you for the first time. I remember interacting with you when we went and played. Like, I've obviously seen you way before we went and did... What's it called?
Oh, good beer games. Oh, yeah. That was probably my first day really kicking it with you guys. Yeah, like hanging out with you. Yeah, that was fun. Yeah, it was fun. We went to Queens and we played a bunch of sports games. That's our job. You guys were good sports. My first impression of both you guys is that you were good sports and you were down with it. Usually when people come to Barstool, it's a really quick...
read on if they're like with it and they're like not full of themselves or they're incredibly full of themselves and it goes ones of two ways either they get humbled incredibly fast or they just stay arrogant forever and uh both of them both can work but i realized i realized immediately that you guys weren't arrogant that was my first impression i feel like you just cannot you're you're i feel like
I'm not this is a weird thing to say because I feel like I'm about to agree with you that I'm not arrogant which could be arrogant which makes me not want to say it but it is the mean girl podcast so I'll just go ahead and I guess assume that it's yeah I don't know what to say about that other than I do feel like if you brought an ego you would get humbled so quickly 100% yeah what was your guys impression of me though you're about to say that yeah what the fuck what was that what the fuck was that
What was that? Why are you guys laughing? Jordan and I have offlined on our impressions of Rudy, even with my husband, so it's not as weird. What the fuck? Why did you guys laugh like that? I do not like that. Alex and I can read each other's... We just, like, tuned into the sixth sense. We're like, change the subject before Rudy can ask us what we think of him. What the fuck? What the hell is that? I'll let Alex start this. We'll just put up a photo of Rudy online to everyone on the mail. Okay. Most liked person at Barstool.
Wow. Okay. I didn't expect that. Rudy's easy on the eyes. Yeah. Physically and. Oh, okay. Thank you. Mentally. He's funny. Rudy's funny. Like he's a good follow, but like, so Jordan's single, but I'm married in the, this is like another good thing about Rudy. It's like when my husband met him, he was like, oh wait, he's like, cool.
So you've got good energy. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Rudy's hands down one of my favorite people at the office. I mean, my mom met him, and all of my mom's friends were texting her and were like, wait, he's so cute. I love Kim. Love me some Kim. All of my friends literally go...
Like when they like, they all stop like people I work with and Rudy's everyone's number one. Yeah. Like, okay. So that would be our, so our first impression of you was probably that you were cute. Thanks. Wow. I didn't, I, when you laugh, I thought that it was because you were going to like make fun of me for something. Oh my God.
Oh my god, no, we're not that mean. I mean, we are. We will be if we need to be for the podcast. Don't get an ego, okay? Yeah. We will humble you in a second. We will humble the shit out of you. Mans like me would never get an ego. That's crazy. I'm trying to remember the first moment I met Rudy because you, it's easy because you came up to me physically and was like, hug me. Yeah. I don't remember. I think...
I think I was right Tommy's desk I remember I was like in the middle of a conversation and I pulled the move where I was like in a conversation with someone else and then I knew that I was going to pull a move where I was like oh by the way I don't think we met yet that's what I did to you I think you're right yeah and I think then I fucking perfect that move
That's a major move. Like, oh my God, wait, I haven't met you. Yeah, you engage in a conversation with someone else for 30 seconds. On purpose. And then you look to the right and you're like, oh, by the way, I don't think we met yet. After you just showed off your voice and your social skills. I do that a lot. It's awkward too because it's like, that's powerfully calculated. To show off your social skills by talking to a second person, insinuating you have a lot of friends around. And then that's a power play. So Rudy just lied. So he does remember the first moment he met me.
at me well it kind of came back to me I take a long time to buffer my my software isn't like updated that well so like it takes me like a while for like the memories to come back
buffering because like at barstool a lot of people know who you are before you walk into the door so it's weird to meet someone you already know so for example it was nice that you came out to me because i was like i know alex like it's gonna be weird be like nice to meet you actually i've been following you on tiktok and instagram for the past month instead of having to be like i'm alex you just kind of want to honestly want to be like hey alex yeah like you know type thing you told me you liked my voice i do like your voice and that was like the nicest thing you said like i've never said i know and then i was like i think i'm
gonna like her it's why it's the only reason i agree to do this i was like fine if she's a good voice i guess i can do it it is a podcast that actually makes a ton of sense doesn't it like you need to like people's voice you have a good voice too i think i have no idea if i hear my voice i fucking hit no it's good it's good i just closed my eyes i closed my eyes too okay you guys closing your eyes no i'd like a list of the best voices in the office in your top five dude that's weird no i'm a voice person that rudy's top five for voices
In the office? Who are the other four? For like radio voices? Yeah. Oh, that's easy. Didn't think it'd be easy. I'm trying to like... If it's on a list, spit it out. No, it is, but I don't want people to think I'm going from one to five. Okay, so in no order. In no order. So I think Rudy, Roan, Nick, Sass, kind of.
Big Cat. Sass's laugh, I think, hurts him a lot. Yeah. Was that five? Yeah, that was five. That's the top. So yeah, so Big Cat, Rudy, Sass, Ronan, Nick. Girl power. Love that. I love that list. Yeah, that's really beautifully feminine. Do you just want to throw a six up just for shits and giggles? Oh, yes, yes, yes. I forgot the females in this office. Oh, no, no. Don't start now. No, there's no female voices I enjoy listening to. I'm going to be honest here.
I have a thing for voices and female voices just don't do it for me. Okay. What if I talked like this? Fuck no. Worse? Worse. I actually love that you have a deeper voice. Oh, stop. I do too. Alex, I do too. I have a deep voice. Even production told me that. That's your opinion.
You have a deep voice. I have a deep voice. I do blocked, and we had an issue with me doing blocked with females other than you because our voices are deep. Other female voices are soft. And our names are Jordan and Alex. Yeah. That's very – what is that, unisex? Is that the correct – like what's the – is it unisex? Yeah, that's unisex name. Yeah. Like Casey. Like that's fair though. Is Rudy? No. No. That's very masculine. It could be.
I'm sure there are a couple, maybe a couple of Rudy girls. Rudolph. Yeah. I've never met one. Ruby. Ruby. There's a lot of Rubies. Yeah. There's a lot more dogs named Rudy, which pisses me off. Oh, I thought you meant like D-O or D-A-W-G's. No. Dog. A lot of like my dogs are named Rudy, but not like a whole lot. No, there's a lot of canines named Rudy. Oh,
Also, can I just say something? Dogs are stupid. Don't say that. No. Can I say something? Yeah. I feel like something in this office or something that a lot of podcasts do in this office, which I don't understand, never speak of other people in the office. And I'm okay. It's all they do. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. This week, this week's different. But I mean, like usually a lot of podcasts, like never talk about other people like of the opposite gender in this office.
Explain it. Are you saying that they don't talk about office personalities or that guys don't talk about girls? Maybe it's guys don't talk about girls. Like in general? In general. I don't know. You don't listen to anything. I don't follow anybody. You don't listen to anyone's podcast. I'm under a rock. You do, but that's fine. That's why I love you because I like that you don't know the things that I'm interested in. I agree with that. Name your top two hobbies, everybody.
Pop culture and working out. And wine. That's three. Just two. What do you want to put in your top two? Pop culture and... Ooh, the workout or the wine. This is really going to define you as a person. This is huge. This might make or break us. I mean, at the end of the day, I think if I had to pick between the two, I think I'd have to go with the wine. Okay. I didn't know what you were going to do there.
Pop culture and wine. Yeah, I like love wine. Like I'm like a wine connoisseur. Like I like to go to classes for wine. Like I like the experience of wine. I like to pair my wine with food. Oh gosh. Somalia. Holy cow. I'm not a Somalia. That's insult to Somalias everywhere. I'm sorry. I just like wine. Yeah, it's a hard certificate to get. Yeah. How do you feel about boxed wine? It's an insult to the craft or like who cares? It depends. I... There are some really good boxed wines. But...
But I'm more of that person where, like you and I talked about, I'm not going to drink every day of the week. No. So I don't need a box of wine sitting around. I'm cool with a bottle because I'll finish it on a Saturday and then I'm good for the next Friday. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I think boxes are for people who like to casually drink throughout the week. Yeah. Boxes are for losers. That's not me. Okay. Go. My top two hobbies? Yeah. I don't know them yet. Rudy, go. It's hard for me. My top two hobbies, I would say playing video games. Yeah.
YouTube. Like YouTube videos. Okay. I just like watching YouTube a lot. Same. Who's your favorite YouTuber? There's this dude that I followed recently that basically like visually describes old battles from World War II. That dude fucking rocks. That's sick actually. Yeah. I like that. That's cool. That's like my most recent one that I like a lot. That's niche. He basically like
visually like a powerpoint presentation of how battles went down tactically like the soldiers went this way and then the commander like said to go here and then these people came here it's like all 22 that's like football film yes battles that's cool so that's my that's my latest that's like my new thing but i go like on youtube i'll go in like that region and i'll go to like space stuff yeah that's my that's my that's my hobby that and we don't use s word
Space? No. You don't fuck with space? No. What? What do you mean? Are you one of those people that's scared of space? Yeah, I give the anxiety. What? Oh, really? Yeah. Damn. No. Yes. That's funny. You're going to draw the line at space? There's a lot of people that do have phobias of space because it's like too grand for them to compute in their head. Space and death are two things I can't talk about. No, I'm down for no death. Yeah. Okay, we'll cut space. Just let's make a blacklist. Yeah. Space, death.
I guess we'll keep it going. Do you know your hobbies yet? Yeah. Socializing. I love to talk and go. I like to go out with friends. Are you an extrovert? That's a complicated answer. I'm a little bit of both. Okay. But I fired my therapist before I did that. He told me that the only way my brain can rest is if I'm out. Like socializing. Yeah. So I love socializing and I also love reading and writing. That's three. Okay.
Okay, I thought that those two could be combined. If I have to pick between reading and writing, I'm picking writing. It's nothing beautiful. It's just a mind dump. Can I change mine? No. I decided pop culture's work now, though. I literally was thinking it was stupid of you not to throw out pop culture and keep work out in wine because what a cool balance. Okay, wine and... Oh, we're going to add a fourth. Beauty skincare. Oh, my God. Okay.
That's a true hobby. It's not a hobby. On the weekends, I go to Sephora just to browse. That's bullshit. No, it's not. You don't go every weekend just to browse. I don't go every weekend. True or false, you go to the gym every day. Yeah. That's your hobby that you like that makes you happy.
Yes, that's more of a hobby for you than skin care. Yeah, but it's more of like an addiction and unhealthy addiction. Oh, okay. So you're addicted to working out and your hobbies are, okay, your job is pop culture. You're addicted to working out and your hobbies are skin care and wine. No, my hobbies are actually, no, my hobby is I love going to new restaurants, like trying new food and wine.
Do you want to add, do you want to go ahead and just like make a list of 10 hobbies? Since you can't narrow it down to two. TikTok? Okay. No, fuck off. All right. Okay. That's it. So seven. Cool. Nice. Rudy and I did two and you did seven. That's awesome. Let us know if you want to change it. Rudy, how long have we been recording? We've been going for 54 minutes. Okay. Oh shit. So much for the...
30 minute episodes No I think that's a good length My only question to be Is what can people Expect going forward From this podcast That's a really great question Rudy This is why we hired you Okay moving forward This The Mean Girl pod Is about anything
Now that you might think, wow, that's stupid. So let's tell you what it's not about. It will never be about pop culture. Or giving advice. Or giving advice. What are you going to gain from this? Just happiness and mindlessness. This is what you put in your ears when you're getting ready, when you're commuting to work, when you want to laugh, when you're just like, I'm cleaning the house and I'm bored, but music doesn't sound good. Put in the mean girl pod. Or you need a friend. You're lonely. Listen to us because I'm fucking lonely all the time. Okay. Okay. So Jordan's not depressed, but lonely. Yeah.
And that's insane. Also, I think it's a great way to start your Monday. And I also think like I am so sick and tired of my ears being filled with like people telling me to do stuff. Like I like to fill my time with nonsense. So my favorite podcasts are very nonsense podcasts. So I like to just spew my nonsense. And have you listened to my nonsense? Oh, good.
I'm happy to receive your nonsense. The nonsense. I think it's cool. I do think this, though. I think the way that this podcast came about is very cool. I think that things happen organically. And it happens for a reason. It definitely happens for a reason. Jordan and I had a crazy week, a week that I wouldn't trade for the world. Learned a lot, laughed a lot, got shook up a lot. It was pretty cool. It's what we signed up for, which is the best part. Yeah. And the only way out is through. So here we are. I like that.
like that yeah and I honestly I'm cool being mean because I feel like those are kind of are my true colors that's so interesting holy shit what color is that black pink oh pink and black and white
like my one of my my new year's resolutions is stop being nice and be more kind like be be nice be kind to all but nice to few or is it the opposite i don't know i can't remember it's in my notebook okay i like that i'm actually gonna pull it up yeah please pull it up i don't want to screw this up and if there's ever any office drama we will definitely like this week if this was a working podcast we probably would have dropped an episode every day um
We're not afraid to do things like this. Okay, so traditionally we will record Sunday nights and the episode will come out Monday morning, 7 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. Therefore, by the time that your precious eyeballs open, it will be out and about and you can press play. Don't say out and about ever again. That's the name of Pat's podcast. Don't even give them clout. You don't like it? What the heck? No, I love them. What's happening? You mean girl. Oh, I was like, wait, we like...
I love Pat and Joey. That's what's being mean. You nice girl. Out and about the podcast. Pat and Joey are, they're gay. They're hilarious. No, stop. We're not going to give anyone free clout. Yeah, we'll bleep that. Yeah, like, can you, yeah, could you just delete that? I'm sorry. That was like ridiculous. No free clout. Actually, bleep everyone's name. Not even talk, like anyone, every time we talk about Barstool, bleep, bleep it out. Unless it's negative.
Hell yeah. Yeah, if you want to start your Monday morning out just completely scathing and foaming at the mouth, put Mean Girl Pod in your ears and press play. And be kind to everyone, but only nice to a few. And remember that we love you and hope you have a wonderful, beautiful, uplifting day. And this might be coming out on Sunday, so have a great Sunday. But going forward, it's always going to be on Monday.
Dude, we don't know when it's coming out. It could come out tomorrow. It could come out tomorrow at 5 a.m. It's up to Apple and Spotify at this point. We're just going to press upload and then anything can happen. Why is everyone controlling our own, our narrative, but our own self? Why do you keep saying that? The narrative? Yes. Wait, do you actually not get it? No, I do get it. I don't think it makes sense. I told you that walking into here. Yeah. Okay. There. Perfect. Nobody can see you unless you're on YouTube. You don't see the look she just gave me. I don't even need to explain myself to you.
We are Jordan, Alex, and Rudy, and this is the Mean Girl Pod. AJR. Jordan. RJ. Raj. I have to be in the middle because I'm the, what's that, wait. Jar. Jar. Jar. Rudy's like, Jesus, it's jar. You idiot. I actually love that. We're jar. Wait, what's A? A vowel? Yeah. Consonant. And the rest are consonants.
No, it's A's a vowel. A's a vowel. The rest are consonants. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, cool. We're jar. If you take anything away from it, let it be that. We're jar. This is jar. Over and out. C.