Revisiting Dana's Beer Trip to Nashville | The Yak 2-24-26

Dana recounted his period living in Jackson, Mississippi, after the 'Zillion Beers' era. He described becoming a 'full-on southern person,' adopting local lexicon like 'y'alls' and 'ma'am,' and engaging in more prayer. He also noted being the 'most jacked' he'd ever been due to being around Dion Sanders' football program, which motivated him to stay fit.

I became a full-on southern person. My word, my lexicon became southern. And my twang, like the way I spoke. I was I was southern. I was praying a lot. I was the most jack I've ever been. Skinny. You get motivated to do to do stuff like that when you're around it.

The podcast 'Anus' was intentionally named as a troll during the 'Call Her Daddy' intellectual property dispute. Barstool fans were constantly refreshing IP websites to see who owned the 'Call Her Daddy' IP. The company decided to launch a show called 'Anus' to see if fans would try to buy its IP, ultimately getting stuck with the name.

The whole IP drama is the reason Anus is called Anus, which [__] us forever. ... fans of bar stool kept on going to like IP websites. refreshing to see who owned the IP of Call Her Daddy. So, they were searching of what IPs Barsttow owned and it wasn't on there. So, people were refreshing and we were like, 'Let's start a show called Anus to see if they'll buy the IP of Anus.' And that that happened and now we're stuck with that name.

Eddie shared an anecdote about former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, who was convicted of corruption for attempting to sell Obama's Senate seat. Blagojevich recounted a chance encounter with Donald and Melania Trump in an elevator at a boxing match, where he invited Trump to 'take a ride.' Blagojevich believed this interaction led to Trump later pardoning him, framing Trump as 'spiteful' enough to pardon someone he'd shared an elevator with.

He told a phenomenal Trump story on there where he was at a like a Klitschko boxing match at Madison Square Garden and like he was getting ushered out of there and like the security was ahead of him like clearing the elevator and they pulled a guy and a girl off the elevator. He hops on the elevator and it was Donald and Melania and he's like, 'Oh, Donald, like hop on like come take a ride. I'll come in the elevator with him.' ... And he's like, 'Thank God I did that cuz Trump pardoned him.' He's like cuz he's a spiteful [__] and he definitely went apart and kicked him off the elevator, you know.

The hosts recalled former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot's widely criticized Super Bowl party spread. Described as 'fridge residue,' the table featured a disorganized array of items like multiple bowls of olives, grapes, wheat bread, cauliflower, broccoli, and 'Lori's famous gray pickles,' giving the impression of a low-effort, unappetizing meal.

Oh, she had an awful Super Bowl spread, didn't she? It was like it was like spam or something. It was It was some crazy looking [__]. If you first glance, you'd be like, 'Oh, good.' And then you look closely at each thing on the table. You're like, 'What?' It was like a bowl of grapes. A bowl of like It was like [__] she just found in her fridge. ... Those are Lory's famous gray pickles. ... Just fridge residue.

A host revealed that the affordable Casio F91W watch has a 'controversies' section on its Wikipedia page. This section details its use by terrorists as a timer for bombs, leading to increased scrutiny and random checks for individuals wearing the watch at airports.

Well, the the one the base level Casio, the F91W is uh used. Terrorists use it to make their bombs. They're Yeah. ... If you go to the Wikipedia page for that watch, there's a section about terrorism. ... So, if you wear that watch to the airport, chances are TSA will randomly check you.

Dana recounted his infamous trip to Nashville during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. He drove 300 beers to tornado victims after seeing a viral tweet requesting beer on a damaged roof. The trip, which included meeting Mike Vrabel, occurred just before the world shut down, leading to a public apology tweet from Dana and criticism from Dave Portnoy for not social distancing.

There was tragedy uh outside of Nashville. ... It was a roof of a house that said, 'Please bring us beer or something like that, right?' ... I got like 300 beers and I brought it to these guys house. And then the next day the world shut down. ... I'm generally very sorry not practicing social distancing. ... I didn't know that tweet existed. That's amazing. ... I didn't know I I didn't know I I apologized. ... I got to meet Mike Vrabel that day, too. ... I just got like the Dave text being like, 'You're a [__] idiot. Like there's a global pandemic. You're in Nashville. Don't come to the office on Monday.' So I was like, that's when I sent the apology.