E429 Dave Portnoy

**Theo Von** (0:00)
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He has a unique ability. He makes you feel like anything is possible. And I'm grateful to have him here today. Today's guest is Dave Portnoy. No way.

**Dave Portnoy** (3:35)
We hired, I mean, I hired a guy strictly because he's really blind. But it was like, yeah, it was like in the, like he interviewed, it was a, it was a wallpaper. I mean, he was so boring. But he knew me, he's like, I have one thing that may sway you, like, in my favor. It's like, what? He's like, well, I'm legally blind. I'm like, well, like, can I make fun of you for it? Like, is it open game? He's like, yeah. So we hired him. Oh, wow. He's still like, he's still with us in a way. Like, to the point, we thought he was faking it, because, like, he knew that would get me. So one day, we just, and a bunch of people thought he was faking it. So we called him up. I'm like, I'm just going to toss my wallet to him to see if he reacts, smacked him right in the face. The only time, I felt bad. So he was literally blind, but he'd sit at his computer, like what you were saying, with this huge magnifying glass. You tell him to do something, it took him four hours.

**Theo Von** (4:27)
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

**Dave Portnoy** (4:29)
It was kind of a gimmick, but not the most productive guy to ever come down the street.

**Theo Von** (4:33)
Yeah, we interviewed a blind woman one time, and it was pretty fascinating. She said she almost feels like a computer sometimes, how she would remember the way she would walk to school and stuff like that.

**Dave Portnoy** (4:46)
So she lost her sight?

**Theo Von** (4:48)
Yeah, she had some sight when she was young, and it wasn't a lot, and then she lost it completely.

**Dave Portnoy** (4:52)
Yeah.

**Theo Von** (4:52)
And so then she said she started to feel like a computer, and the only animal she didn't like, she said, was a snake. She said a snake doesn't give any feedback. She's like, it just feels like a piece of Satan, I guess.