Dante gets the lights on at Backyard Stool
TLDR: Dante's Backyard Stool build hit a milestone Wednesday when the lights came on, and he spent the afternoon thanking the crew while Barstool staff stopped by and celebrated the space.
The headline moment came just before 3 p.m. ET, and Dante didn't bury it.
3 exclamation points for electricity tells you how long this has been coming. The Backyard Stool is Dante's own project, and he's been talking it up for months. He went on Friday Night Pints to explain the whole plan to the audience, and the pitch then was getting the crew back to sitting down and sharing pints out back. Light isn't the bar, but you can't pour a pint in the dark, so this is the step that makes the rest of it real. He tagged chefdonnyy and Peter Fonseca for getting it done.
He wasn't done handing out credit, either. In the same minute he gave a little extra to Sante Dybowski.
"Thank the lord" is how you talk about someone who saved you on a job, and you rarely hear it unless something was going sideways first. Dante didn't say what Sante actually handled, so we won't guess. Still, on a build like this, being the one who gets thanked twice over is the closest thing to a shoutout on the record. A minute earlier Dante had also given hqspider credit for "great lines" in a separate post.
The space also had visitors. hqspider, Dan DiOrio, thanked Stuart Feiner, hannah montoya and the rest of the group for coming by the Backyard Stool, and the visitors were clearly into it. hannah "seconded" it with a photo, and Stuart Feiner answered with a "WOOOOOO HOOOOOO" that says more than any review could.
@StuartFeiner @BSSAdvisors @hannahcmontoya @ashleytrail33 Thanks for coming by @backyardstool !
That's what makes this more than one guy's backyard renovation. A Barstool hangout people can actually show up to is a different animal from a set, and Wednesday was the first time it looked like one: staff coming through, a crew getting thanked by name and the lights working. Next up is the part Dante sold on Friday Night Pints, which is actually sitting down out there with a pint. Now that the place can stay lit after dark, that payoff looks a lot closer.
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