- 6/20/2025
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00:00I gotta talk to my colleagues sometimes you know we got Rhone here today and you
00:04know of course Rhone it knows the greatness of body armor the best I mean
00:08all natural no dyes everything in here is real not figazi you know and it's
00:17just better you know that's why you have to choose better choose body armor well
00:22when you're walking as much as you oh yeah definitely one of the keys
00:25especially when the summer is getting in here you guys you might need a double
00:29fistos bottles well finally it's nice out I heard there hasn't been a sunny
00:33weekend in the New York metropolitan area but you know it's coming up 1960 4th of
00:38July we got these new shirts and I got a little present for you what the heck oh
00:44whoa perfect for your 4th of July picnic going to the beach I mean look at this
00:51it's it this is the look for summer the new Frank walks t-shirt celebrating
00:58America celebrating the 4th of July look at that I'm carrying the American flag
01:02I got my hot dog hat on I got my winter coat on but it's all seasons because I
01:07walk all seasons what a great gift thank you so much you guys better get one
01:11today store dot barstool sports dot com barstool store dot com yes
01:15what's the sports dot the sport dot com there we go let's go
01:19Frank Walsh Frank Walsh Frank Walsh it's time Frank Walsh all right it's nice day in New York
01:30and uh well you're a new father you're a new father for the first time I know
01:38oh my gosh it's pretty wild man uh having these two kids is it's not zero to 60 it's zero to 120
01:45I mean uh I think about our boy Mikey Betts who uh uh he has his his his little girl baby
01:53Betts there and uh you know one is tough one's a lot two you had twins
02:01two is so hard that it's almost like I don't know what I'm thinking about when someone has one
02:08and they go to two they have a baseline my baseline is already just shit and I mean that literally
02:14these babies have pooped on me but you sent some very nice messages when they we first uh oh yeah
02:19dad you got the uh the uh prison guards didn't you the prison outfits yeah yeah that was so nice
02:24thank you so much that was uh I always like that I just did nine months on the inside
02:29yeah that's hilarious so thank you so much that was uh above and beyond my wife and I really
02:35appreciate that Frank good guy great gifter people don't know that about Frank a great gifter but
02:41yeah two kids I'm trying to think of some great father son sport duos that I can try and emulate
02:49now the dad's not going to be as good but hopefully son will be as good
02:53in hockey you got the Hulls the Hulls and that's a whole family affair
02:57well Bobby and Brett were both great now who would you say is a better baseball father son duo
03:03the Bonses or the Griffys Bonses really now it's not it's not far off yeah that's actually
03:11it's not it's not far off but uh Bobby Bons narrowly missed becoming the first player to have
03:20uh a 40-40 season in the 70s really yeah so so of the dads who was better Bobby Bons or Ken Griffey
03:27Sr. Bobby Bons was he really yeah see I didn't even know that because um of the generation of
03:35where Ken Griffey Jr. was kind of my first crack yeah Ken Griffey Sr. was a good player
03:39a good fielder who won an all-star game MVP and what about longevity wise which one of them played
03:46longer I know Griffey Sr. was there long enough to uh to play against his uh his son both had
03:54both had significantly long careers interesting like well like uh Bobby Bons uh was playing in the
04:0360s into the early 80s and uh Griffey Sr. played uh uh about from the 70s up into the early 90s
04:11Jesus Christ so good longevity uh Bobby Bons was actually a guy who uh bounced around at the end
04:18of his career but he played for a lot of teams and he had like multiple dirty dirty seasons
04:24also multiple gold gloves so Bobby Bons was a very good baseball player who could have been even
04:35better Griffey he was a good baseball player who maximized his talent as a leadoff hitter
04:43on the uh big red machine I forgot that he was a red he knew his son was a red
04:50I forgot that he was a red uh Griffey Sr.'s best years were at the reds and of course he played
04:58for the Yankees too which uh which is uh and when he was with the Yankees uh Junior was about 13 years
05:09old and was playing on the field and he got kicked off the field as a 13 year old and the rest of his
05:15career held a grudge against the Yankees really yep he actually said if uh if the Yankees uh traded
05:21for me I would rather retire I would he had a no specific no trade calls to the Yankees he said he
05:28would never play for the Yankees if you're the only team available he would never even retire
05:33just because of that one incident yeah and also his father had it was with the Yankees uh under the
05:39some of the worst George Steinbrenner years where basically like if they lost the game he like
05:44could snap I couldn't imagine what that's like
05:47I couldn't imagine what it's like to deal with a guy like that and he's the owner
05:58yeah it would basically be like if uh you owned a team if I owned a team yes
06:03yeah you have to have a kindred spirit kind of with with uh Steinbrenner you and he have to
06:09so you you look at him and be like hey that's how I would have done it doesn't that make you like
06:13him a little bit more a little bit but at the same time that's a rival for life yeah well yeah
06:18yeah he has an an extreme he had an extreme like hatred and uh jealousy and resentment for the
06:26Mets especially the 86 Mets because at the time the Mets took overtook the town
06:29yeah he doesn't want that happening again yeah got news for him yeah could be coming
06:36so uh when we look at other father sons what about in the NFL I know that we're kind of at a point
06:44where guys who I watched play when I was growing up now their sons are in the league guys like
06:50asante samuel or even coach yeah um the matthews family yes bruce matthews uh clay matthews
06:59clay matthews clay matthews junior and clay matthews the third wow yes bruce matthews and clay
07:07matthews father also played in the NFL that's actually a three-generation family the boons
07:13that's a uh multiple generational family in uh baseball okay and related by the way did you
07:20notice yankee manager aaron boone his father was bob boone catcher for the 1980 phillies
07:27really you didn't know that no i don't think i knew that or maybe i just had to put two and two
07:32together but that was the boon from the phillies i was born in 88 so i'm a little bit behind i only
07:38called lore of that team well aaron boone's a big eagle fan is he really yes i'd love to hear that he
07:44must have been a great uh a great winter for him as we took care so uh but uh and her father
07:52grandfather ray boone played really and bob yeah bob boone was a was the catcher of the 80 phillies
07:59when they won their first world series and that's a three-generational family and brett boone is
08:05aaron boone's brother and they're related did you know this to legendary uh frontiersman
08:12no daniel boone they are directly related they are like great great great great great i don't know
08:20how many greats you could put in their grandson of daniel boone put a boon to their family that's
08:25fantastic wow i had no idea that there was so much lore involved go yankees go
08:29you know what sport hasn't had really great father sons is uh there hasn't been that except for
08:36maybe the chaise dolphin danny chaise but there's been like i mean tim hardaway jr is not that good
08:44i mean bronson's well but but rick though rick was uh rick was a benchwarmer
08:52lebron and brawny i guess brawny's a benchwarmer barely so here's what well this is where basketball
09:01gets interesting for me because i think basketball is a sport where twins have recently yes the most
09:08the lopez twins i have twins myself so the lopez twins have done really well the marquis and marcus
09:15morris twins uh the grants big oh or course and harvey were twins yes they were i didn't realize
09:21those are twins uh other twins uh nfl the mccourty twins oh yes the mccourty twins don't they what do
09:29they have a podcast together now yeah and uh they're gonna be uh a possible uh frank guest walk soon
09:36really yes thank you that's a good promo yes it is and now there's the thompson twins the uh
09:43soar and amen thompson from uh the rockets and the pistols the greatest twins of all time
09:50hockey henrik and daniel sedin and uh what's great is their stats are almost identical that's insane
10:02they are both hall of famers they are the uh the canucks got the second and third draft pick in 1999
10:09and picked them second and third that's so amazing they are basically identical career stats
10:16a little bit here a little bit there but they're almost identical and both are in the hall of fame
10:21both played their entire career with the vancouver canucks retired at the same time
10:26and win the hall of fame at the same time somehow that makes more sense to me than when twins are
10:32completely separate separate and one is way better than the other like how brooke lopez has had a
10:38longer career than robin lopez for how marcus morris and marquise morris have vastly different stats
10:44shouldn't they have like basically the same skills qualities they train together how is one better
10:50well you know uh you know who had a twin don't you who's that uh former rough and rowdy uh boxer
10:56yes uh jose and ozzy kinsenko and uh oh i thought you were talking about the able brothers
11:02oh no well with them too but they're dirty unable brothers i'm talking about jose and ozzy kinsenko
11:11where jose became uh mvp all-star ozzy didn't use the steroids and uh well didn't
11:19i mean that's basically you gotta laugh at that guy but that's basically a case study
11:24on what steroids can or won't do for somebody you know if you put both of them in it's like
11:30a double blind study one of them is a hall of famer who has anger management issues and the
11:36other one we kind of forget about so frank let me throw out a prompt when you might cut my voice out
11:40what's your earliest memory of working with rone and what has it been like seeing him blossom the way
11:46he has in his career well rone was blossoming before i even started at barstool so so he has
11:51always been there but he uh he is one of the people who like welcomed me into barstool when i came full
11:57time he did some of my uh shooting of my soda reviews which are kind of like semi-retired you might see
12:05one pop up every now and then but uh i think i've made the uh reached the limit on those i think that
12:11that was like almost i wouldn't want to say training wheels content yeah but it was like
12:16structural content where it's just like okay let's just get numbers on the board yep and i feel like
12:21when you first started working at barstool dave was like all right i i want frank here but i want him
12:28on a pitch pound and dave is very rarely wrong but i think that from the beginning i kind of thought
12:35like no frank's a guy that you want in here every day and i think that dave has even said like you
12:41know what i was wrong frank's a way bigger star they thought it was going to be the nj transit video
12:47every day at the office and maybe it is at some points but i think that there is uh an intentionality
12:54that you kind of bring to the table with the way that you make content in that you really want
13:00your output to be high do you think that there's a strategy behind that or what can people learn
13:05from that uh consistency if you put something out there consistently and uh something for people
13:11to go to they know that hey he's gonna have something today and i think that's important to
13:17me what is an idea that you have thought would get really big that didn't and one is what's an idea
13:23that you thought maybe wasn't a crazy idea that you've seen really work for you
13:27well frank walks that's really blown up i gotta say uh one thing i thought would be uh better
13:33and uh i'm trying to get it really trying to get it up a little bit better is the stadium
13:40tours okay yeah that's definitely something i enjoy seeing but yeah want to see more of
13:47yeah one of the things i appreciate about your content though is uh that you will i mean tank cook
13:53that's something that's that's it's gone wild and what's crazy is sometimes i think uh like just
14:00cutting an onion people think i'm going to cut my finger off i know what the heck why do people
14:05believe in you people were worried about it i mean i mean i mean i got close but hey
14:13i cut the onion didn't i remember on the first soda reviews that i filmed for you there were kind
14:22of uh obviously we have oh leicesters yes the leicester fixings the disgusting sodas the
14:31disgusting were part of it but even the way that i filmed i think i was just trying stuff out because
14:37i was trying to learn about as a content creator too sometimes i'd be zooming in and it was just
14:42with a gopro type of camera that didn't have any zoom so sometimes i'd be getting like you know
14:46three inches from your face and you'd have to be like hey back it up a little bit and then we uh
14:51and now you got your owning roan.com you got your battle rap going yeah we have the roan.com going
14:58we're just trying to make content every week uh for the people and i think that you and i are of the
15:04same mind when it comes to that like i want to be consistent i want to have a stream that i put out
15:10every week and i want to have at least one video that's curated that's coming out and that's along
15:17with son of a boy dad that's along with the pat bev stuff that's along with all the you know pat
15:22bev we got to get him on a walk got to get him and we would we would we ought to do now is we want
15:28to try to get pat bev and we want to take him to rucker park walk on rucker park and play on rucker
15:36park oh my gosh that would be incredible i mean the other you know the legends have played at
15:42rucker park right i love watching the old videos of rucker park who do you think the biggest legend
15:47to ever play there is kareem kareem played there yeah when he was like growing up he played there
15:56dr jay played there you name it they played there my dad went to high school at la salle
16:04high school on second and second second avenue and second street and he said that he used to go into
16:10school and the athletic director would always be screaming about this kid lou alcindor and he was
16:18saying this guy alcindor can't be in high school he's too big to be in high school he was positive that
16:24he was this he was cheating somehow that it wasn't danny almonte yeah well and then when i was a
16:30kid i was like who's lou alcindor he was like that that was kareem abdul-jabbar who were playing
16:34against him yeah well kareem let me tell you something about kareem they banned dunking in the
16:39nba in the ncaa because he was so good they banned dunking while in the when he came to ucla
16:47they banned dunking they still couldn't stop him they couldn't stop him he made that that day you
16:53know they're gonna talk i mean i think jordan's the goat of course but then they go oh well
17:00he didn't lebron did a close second no kareem kareem is forgotten to the change of time i mean
17:08people forget how great kareem was and i and i hate the lakers but he wanted every level
17:15he dominated every level yeah kareem took care of business he was incredible and the fact that
17:22they banned dunking is a mark in his favor which is why i wanted them to ban the tush push because
17:29that would have solidified the eagles as one of the most dominant teams of all time because whenever
17:34you have to change a rule for somebody that means that they've done something that nobody could
17:39stop the trapezoid the hockey trapezoid what was that you ever go to a hockey game you see that
17:46behind the goal net they have this trapezoid yeah yeah where the goalie cannot skate the puck
17:51around that trapezoid and skate it out why'd they change that because martin brodeur was almost like
17:56a extra skater on the ice because the way he would get the puck skate it around and fire up the door for
18:02the devil's uh the offense he was so so good at stick handling and puck handling that they created
18:09a trapezoid to stop martin brodeur's advantage on the devils and isn't that a mark of how great
18:16martin brodeur is he's the greatest goalie ever not even close greatest of all time i i mean martin brodeur
18:22like the last five years i watched this is every game you watch me just go this guy's just the best
18:28ever this is like the best ever and it just i miss watching martin brodeur play you know it just
18:35every save he made i just like every day every game he was in he made like some save that just
18:39impossible to make do you think that you were aware of how great he was while he was doing it or did
18:46it take for him being gone for you to be like wow marty no i knew i knew especially when i especially
18:52after the potential center opened and you're watching his like last five years his last five six
18:58years something like this again yeah and what are some players playing today that you're like
19:02okay this guy might be one of the best of all time we're witnessing greatness let's soak it up right
19:07now uh you know i i uh conor mcdavid wow he's he's he's special uh going into uh baseball
19:20we're watching something special with that guy judge i mean he's flirting with 400
19:38he has like 23 home runs already and already he's he's gonna hit 40 50 home runs and he's flirting with
19:48400. that'd be one of the better seasons of all time if he were able to i i mean he he's
19:54uh yeah he's up there i think basketball is kind of like in a little bit of a transition a transition
20:02period because you know got lebron retiring soon he's past his prime i mean lebron had his great
20:08years these great moments but i think right now basketball but lebron's def kd that's kind of the
20:14yeah they're yeah they're washed up they're still very yeah they're good players but
20:21this the league wants someone new you know the league wants new players i think patrick mahomes is a
20:28very exciting player uh where he's just like ability to just like
20:33uh create more plays out of nowhere the way he's able to like improvise oh yeah it's something uh
20:44uncanny about the way that he can move his body but what put on basketball real quick uh about new
20:50stars i have a question for you which one is closer to being the greatest of all time on their team
20:58shea gilgis alexander or tyrese halibur the greatest thunder of all time or the greatest pacer of all
21:08time who's closer to doing it and what i mean a title makes either one of them the greatest of all
21:14of all time on their team right uh not necessarily i think cal burn's got a ways to go to catch reggie
21:20miller well if he wins a championship he's not the best pacer he's not a better pacer of all time than reggie
21:25miller i wouldn't say that yet and uh shea gilgis i mean durant had some of his best years in okc
21:37so who's closer to becoming the best of all time on there i might lean towards uh uh shea gilgis okay
21:47he has the mvp yeah and russ and kd also won mvps there but then they went to other cities so
21:58their kind of mark their indelible mark on the thunder isn't as strong hold on a second
22:06everything good blood sugar low
22:08i think that's what that is or is in the lost communication
22:17uh yes single loss i hate when this thing happens all right i'll fix it when i get shut up
22:30everything good yep for some reason it loses my uh my glucose monitor loses uh contact and it annoys me
22:38well it's crazy that it's the same sound as blood sugar low and lost contact yes those should be
22:44different sounds they should be that doesn't make any because then you're panicking going crazy thinking
22:48that your sugar's low and it just turns out that you know that that the watch i've had to i've had to
22:55cut my uh my truceba i was yeah i had to cut it well i'm still using it i but i was like uh a higher dose
23:04now i had to take a lower dose because of just how i guess it's normalizing my blood sugar let me
23:12ask you this frank how great do you feel when you compare how your every day is now to before you
23:20started walking oh yeah it's it's a hundred percent better a hundred percent better do you
23:27worry that you become such like a calm and active person that it takes away some of the secret sauce
23:33of angry frank that got you hired no first place angry frank's always in it's always there it's it's
23:41it's like bruce banner you won't like it's like it's like bruce banner
23:49yeah i got a whole cup every now and then but is that manufactured hulking or is that natural hole
23:55oh it's natural okay so that's not the hose i can say go hulking that's regular hulking yes
24:01well it really is inspiring to to see can you explain some of the ways where you're how you feel
24:07better like uh whether it's mentally more energy more energy uh a lot was made that i used to say
24:14that i used to have the sleep shift right that's because i was tired all the time uh that doesn't
24:20happen anymore i used to take a a three hour nap or two three hour nap every day i don't do that
24:26anymore what do you think that was due to that you were taking a nap just like you're burning more
24:31calories just like moving around in general just had like no energy i i i when i was over 500 pounds i
24:39couldn't walk a hundred feet without getting winded now i'm walking the close to 10 miles a day
24:47yeah man it's uh it's inspiring to to watch it seems like it's inspired a lot of people what does it
24:54feel like when someone comes up to you in your life now what big projects do you have coming up this
24:58summer i'm working on uh something called the nicest which is rap battles but everybody's nice to each
25:05you ever see the uh you ever see that there's a video of a rap battle where it turns into a brawl
25:20and and they have like the uh translated like the uh now even though i have like no proof whatsoever
25:28i am accusing you of being a homosexual yes i know the actual guys who are in that video i know
25:34them personally yeah it's like they're like they're gonna go i performed i i met your mother and she
25:39performed the art of felixio it's like very eloquent yeah almost shakespearean and it's a funny video
25:48and then they all start like fighting yeah that is a timeless one i remember being in college and
25:55they showed that in my public speaking class and when i was in public speaking i didn't take it that
26:02seriously because i was already doing rat battles and i would speak in front of a room of 400 500
26:08people and i knew i did well so when it came to public speaking and having a professor tell me i could
26:13do well or not well i really didn't care so i didn't apply myself in the 18 person class and because
26:20of that i got a d in public speaking while i was in college but at the same time every weekend i was
26:26going off to new york to do rap battles a room full of people so that maybe you know the grades don't
26:32matter as much yeah real world experience is always better than what you do in the classroom exactly
26:39well uh good luck and hopefully uh it's gonna be a great summer and uh thank you for joining us all right
26:45keep on walking i'm gonna send pat bev your way as soon as possible but you've been an inspiration
26:50yeah we'd love to get him to rucker park you're the man appreciate you my brother
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