Nicky Smokes Almost Got Engaged Before Barstool

The new episode of Drawn Together with Nicky Smokes came out Monday. The line people are passing around isn't a sketch or a bit. It's Nicky casually saying his life almost went a very different way right before he got hired: he says he was about to put a ring on it.

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“I was actually gonna get engaged before I came to Barstool” -Nicky Smokes

That's the whole reveal in the clip, and it lands. Anyone who has followed Nicky's run at Barstool Chicago knows his personal life has been content before, and his relationship drama has spilled onto the company's shows more than once. So hearing that an engagement was on the table right before he showed up adds a new wrinkle to all of it. He doesn't say who it was with, and we're not going to guess.

The format helps. Drawn Together sits 2 people in leather armchairs with sketch easels on their laps, so the conversation stays loose while they draw, and loose is where a line like this slips out. The full episode is out now for anyone who wants the rest of the story.

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New Drawn Together with @nickysmokess out now! t.co/mUjsGp8ezx

The loudest reaction came from Captain Cons, and he's all in on Nicky not going through with it. Cons says waiting was the smartest thing Nicky ever did, then zooms out into a full marriage thesis: guys should wait until they're truly ready, and he'd bet 90% of 23-year-old guys aren't.

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@VivaLaStool @StooliesClub @oonacm @nickysmokess @barstoolsports Wow this was the smartest thing you ever did @nickysmokess I stand firm that so many divorces would be avoided if guys waited until they were truly ready to be married. I’d venture that 90% of 23 year old guys are not ready

That's a hot take, and it's also what an older married guy has been saying at bachelor parties forever. The stat is Cons riffing, not research, but the point isn't crazy. Picture a version of Nicky who got engaged, moved to Chicago, and then had his dating life become a recurring Barstool storyline. That's a much uglier timeline than the one we got.

What's next is simple: someone at Barstool Chicago asks him the follow-up on air. He only gave a teaser on Drawn Together, and once a Barstool personality admits there was almost a fiancée, the office isn't going to let it go. Expect the name, the timeline, and how close he actually came to come out one show at a time.