Portnoy Pulling A Ron Burgundy On The Rundown Was Incredible

Incredible moment yesterday on the Rundown. November 22nd and Portnoy starts us off with a shout out to August 3rd. Straight up Ron Burgundy’d it. Let me just explain a little behind the scenes action for you when it comes to the Rundown and rant for a moment here.

There are 2 things in this world that drive me absolutely fucking INSANE more than anything else. The first is when you go to Rite Aid/CVS/Duane Reade and there are 6 cash registers with only 1 employee actually ringing people up on 1 open register. There’s 8 people waiting on line behind them. Everyone is there to just buy a couple things they need for around the house and it takes like 30 fucking minutes to just buy your shit and go. Every single goddam time I’m there I wait on line and then they call for back up. Legit EVERY time. If you have to call for back up 100% of the time it shouldnt be back up. There should just be a second or third person working the register the whole goddam day because CLEARLY there are more customers that need attention. Ultimately it just takes a few extra minutes but I cannot take the fact that theres someone out there, allegedly with a brain, thinking that this is the most logical way to conduct business at their pharmacy. One of these days I’m gonna burn down that store.

The second thing that drives me certifiably insane is when we are doing the Rundown at Barstool Sports dot com. For some completely ridiculous reason, Dave insists that he has to filmed using an actual camera in an office while Dan and I are on our Skype cameras. Yesterday Dave sat in an hour with of traffic driving into the office so that he could be filmed with that camera in the shitty office with a big wire cutting right across the screen. We were supposed to record at 2:30 and Dan and I sat by our computer waiting for the call until 3:30 because we needed it to look like this:

Its Banana Planet. Dave gets up from his hotel room where he has his computer and a perfectly functioning Skype camera that provides the exact same sort of shot, gets in the car, sits in traffic, and delays the whole operation. It doesnt actually matter because I’m sitting in front of a computer all day anyway, but the logic behind it makes me so fucking crazy I cant take it. I cant even comprehend how someone’s brain thinks this is the smoothest, best way to record a rundown. Its like the fucking cashiers calling for back up. WHY ARE YOU DOING IT THIS WAY???

So anyway, long story short, by the time we start this whole recording, Dan and I are barely even listening. Which is how someone can announce that its August 3rd when its really November 22nd and nobody even flinches. At least we had that special camera angle though.