Tommy denies any grudge with Rone, but Marty admits he had his own beef too. Rone now says their relationship hasn't recovered since the brawl.
NY office reportedly fumes over Francis's lobby brawl clip. Word out of the New York office is that a clip from Son of a Boy Dad did not sit well, with Francis squarely at the center of it. Nobody's saying yet exactly what set people off, but this is where the fallout starts — and Rone is about to add his own two cents on the exact same subject.
Apparently people in the New York office were not happy with Francis after seeing this clip
Rone puts a rule on the record: don't film me getting jumped. A day after the office backlash broke, Rone's own words land with a lot more edge than a throwaway line. He never says Francis's name, but the timing makes it read like commentary on the exact thing that got the New York office riled up in the first place — help the guy, don't just film him.
“If I was getting the shit beat out of me and I saw you filming it happen… Please don’t film me if I’m getting the shit beat out me” -Rone
Francis finally explains why he didn't jump in on the brawl. Two days after the clip surfaced and with Rone's jab landed in between, Francis addresses it directly on the show for the first time. It's the first explanation in his own words for what happened in that lobby, closing the loop the New York office opened.
Francis explains why he didn’t jump in on the brawl in the lobby
Rone and Francis discuss season 5 of Surviving Barstool. Rone and Francis reflect on the stakes and glory of winning season 5 of Surviving Barstool on Son of a Boy Dad.
“Which is bigger? See, obviously. Which is more important? Which is more of an honor?”
Tommy books time with Rone, after saying last week he wouldn't. Rone tells a fan that as of last week Tommy said he wasn't coming on. Tommy pushes back, saying he's doing the main rehash today on his own shows, Apartment Show and Out and About, but he'll come on Son of a Boy Dad tomorrow too if there's still more to hash out with Rone.
Rone says he and Francis still aren't fully square after the brawl. Rone tells Sasquatch that edits to Francis's on-air speech cut even more material calling Rone the bad guy in the fight, and that Francis has had to move his desk since. He says he's chosen to stay friendly and the ball is in Francis's court, but by his own account it isn't settled.
“They also cut a lot out of his speech” -Rone “Like what?” -Sas “He was just talking about more stuff about how I was a bad guy” -Rone “Are you guys back on good terms now?” -Sas “He’s still upset about it” -Rone #StoneColdKiller #SurvivingBarstool
Tommy brings his Surviving Barstool grudge onto the Son of a Boy Dad couch. Tommy Smokes sits down with Rone on the show's own set and airs a grudge that goes back to Rone's confessional promise to manipulate personal friendships in the game. Rone pushes back on-air, arguing Tommy can't be mad about a game plan he'd already admitted to using himself. It's the second guest to bring outside drama onto the show this stretch, after Francis and the lobby brawl.
Tommy held a grudge against Rone after saying he was going to be “manipulating personal friendships” and betraying Rone in the ring of fire #SurvivingBarstool
Asked to vouch for Rone, Sasquatch brings receipts instead. Rone goes fishing for a character reference and gets a fantasy football origin story instead. Sas dredges up a draft-day beef — told not to take a quarterback early, then watched Rone grab one 2nd overall anyway — as his go-to evidence against him. Funny follow-up to yesterday's line about the two of them never having to screw each other over.
“Sas, do you have anything to say about me being a good person?” -Rone “I have more things to say about you being a bad guy than a good guy… He told me not to draft quarterbacks in fantasy early… And then we had our draft and Rone picked a quarterback 2nd overall” -Sas
Rone: signing my Barstool contract already makes me a champion. Rone spends the episode razzing his guest about Internet Invitational wins, then pivots to the real prize: he already won the moment he signed his Barstool contract. It's a cocky aside dropped right after the Surviving Barstool season 5 chatter with Francis, waving off the whole grudge-and-brawl stretch as small stuff next to his real trophy.
Pod like a champion today @highnoonsunsips
Sasquatch: unlike Rone and Tommy, we never had to screw each other over. Sasquatch reflects on the chemistry that makes Son of a Boy Dad work, drawing a direct line to the visible friction between Rone and Tommy now camped on the couch. He half-jokes he'd 'cut both of your guys throats' if he and Rone ever had that kind of tension, turning what's playing elsewhere as drama into an endorsement of his own partnership.
“I would cut both of your guys throats. Wouldn’t even think about it” -@lilsamsquanch66
Tommy shoots down the grudge talk himself. Tommy pushes back on the story the show has been building around him, listing off the shared trivia team, the shows they do together, daily office run-ins and recent dinners as proof there's no real beef with Rone. It's the first time either side has stepped outside the bit to say, plainly, that the grudge is mostly for laughs.
Me and Rone talked for hours that night and a bunch since. We do a show together, are on the same trivia team, talk in the office every day, have been to dinners in the past few months. I’ll make jokes about it to him but idea that I’m still actively mad at and hating him is crazy and just not true
Rone says he and Tommy aren't as close as they used to be. Caroline puts it to Rone straight on The Apartment: are you two back to where you were? Rone doesn't dress it up, saying the consensus is no. It's a quieter admission than Tommy's own insistence hours earlier that nothing's wrong between them, and it leaves both sides describing the same friendship differently.
“Do you guys feel like you guys are as close as before”-Caroline “I think the consensus was no”-Rone
Tommy denies any grudge with Rone; Pat says the tape says otherwise. Pat gets Tommy and Rone on Out and About together and Tommy pushes back hard on the grudge talk: they run a trivia team together, talk in the office every day, and have been to dinner since the brawl blew up. That's a direct answer to Rone saying the two aren't as close as they used to be, and Pat isn't taking the denial at face value — he's teasing tonight's episode as proof the hatred is still real.
To me, this seems patently untrue . Had these two on @OutandAboutpod an hour ago and the hatred is real. EP drops tonight. You be the judge
Me and Rone talked for hours that night and a bunch since. We do a show together, are on the same trivia team, talk in the office every day, have been to dinners in the past few months. I’ll make jokes about it to him but idea that I’m still actively mad at and hating him is crazy and just not true
Marty says he's had his own beef with Rone, muddying Tommy's denial. Tommy just told the office there's no grudge, but the round table Marty dropped puts a second guy on record admitting the same tension. Marty doesn't stop at himself either — he presses Tommy on three months of dinners and apartment hangs, asking if Tommy really thinks it was all fake. It's not proof Tommy and Rone are still beefing, but it means the 'nobody's mad' line just got harder to sell with a straight face.
New surviving round table is out now! Nicky smokes, Tommy, Rone, Dante, Dana, Tate, Jeff D Lowe and I all sat down to just air out all of our grievances and behind the scenes of the show
Rone calls Tommy's 'we're fine' talk disingenuous. Rone isn't buying the lighthearted-jabs framing Tommy gave The Yak. He says Tommy still takes shots at him and that pretending things are back to normal after the game is dishonest. It's a direct rebuttal that keeps the grudge alive right after Marty's admission muddied Tommy's denial.
“I think it would be disingenuous for you to act like our relationship is where it was before the game” -Rone
