25W: Howie Mandel Challenged Bobby for $10K + Ranking NBA Cities + Why Soccer Needs Cherry Picking

Summary

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Podcast Summary: The Bobby Bones Show (25 Whistles)

Episode: Howie Mandel Challenged Bobby for $10K + Ranking NBA Cities + Why Soccer Needs Cherry Picking
Date: June 26, 2026
Host: Bobby Bones and 25 Whistles crew

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Overview

In this episode of 25 Whistles, the crew dives into a mix of sports debates and pop culture, kicking off with a heated ranking of the best and worst NBA cities to play in, recapping the NBA Draft, discussing the emotional reality for drafted athletes (especially twins), and touching on hometown sports legends. Later, they address Howie Mandel’s $10K Uno challenge to Bobby, and debate new ways to "fix" soccer with some truly wild rule changes. The crew’s playful tone, personal anecdotes, and friendly ribbing make this a fast-moving, accessible sports conversation.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. NBA Draft Reactions & Ranking NBA Cities (03:35–13:30)

• NBA Draft Structure:
  The group praises the NBA draft’s fast pace: “It’s two minutes and we’re on!” (Eddie, 03:48).
  They compare it favorably to the NFL, which is more drawn out.

• Sympathy for Draftees:
  Eddie feels bad for drafted players going to less-desired franchises:

  • “I felt bad for Acuff who played at Arkansas…he has to go play in Sacramento.” (Eddie, 04:00)

Best NBA Cities to Play In (Eddie’s rankings):

1. Miami: No state income tax, warm weather, golf (05:04)
2. Los Angeles: Great weather, endorsements, business opportunities (05:23)
3. Chicago: Big market, love for the city despite the cold (06:00)
4. Dallas: Texas lifestyle, no state tax, great facilities (06:44)
5. New York: Iconic, media hub, despite high taxes (06:59)
6. San Francisco: Highly rated by NBA players as a road city (07:46)
7. Atlanta: Entertainment, proximity to Nashville (08:14) 8-10. Houston, San Antonio: Warm climate, organizational stability

• Why Not Boston?
  Eddie says: “I don’t want to live in Boston—too cold. I don’t like green either.” (08:51)

Worst NBA Cities to Play In:

• Sacramento: Poor organizational history (09:16)

• Portland: Too isolated geographically (09:33)

• Milwaukee, Detroit, Minneapolis, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Oklahoma City, Salt Lake City: Cold climates, lack of nightlife, or organizational struggles (09:58–11:32)

  Notable quote:

  • "If I’m 23, 24…wanting to see the world for the first time, I’m not trying to live in the middle of America, period." (Eddie, 11:07)

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2. Twin Athletes in the Draft & Emotional Toll (13:30–15:13)

• The Boozer Twins:
  Only one Boozer twin is drafted third overall, the other not picked at all. Emotional scene described:

  • “I kind of felt bad for the brother in the back...dressed in black, just chilling...didn’t like how that made me feel.” (Eddie, 14:58)

• Discussion on Sibling Comparisons:
  "They're going to be compared to each other constantly their whole lives." (Co-host, 14:47)

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3. Do You Bring Your Girlfriend to the NBA Draft? (15:14–17:31)

• Debates on whether to take a girlfriend to the draft for the flex or only for serious relationships.
• Compare it to long-distance relationships entering college: “Like, you ain't staying together.” (Eddie, 16:19)

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4. Hometown Sports Legends — Did Anyone 'Make It'? (19:41–24:57)

• Nostalgic stories about local sports heroes and “the guy” everyone expected to go pro.
• Example:
  • “There was a guy that we played against in baseball...his name was J. Dar…he was that guy where everyone’s like, that’s freaking JDar.” (Eddie, 21:01)
• Reliving excitement and sometimes disappointment in looking up where these hometown legends ended up (minor leagues, coaching, etc.)

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5. Howie Mandel’s $10,000 Card Game Challenge (27:58–35:13)

• Howie Mandel’s Invite:
  Bobby was invited to play Howie Mandel in Uno for $10,000 ("...he played for $10,000 on his stream...I said okay, if I come out there we'll play." Eddie/Bobby, 28:38)
• Should Bobby Accept?
  • "Would it be worth it if I lost?" (Eddie, 29:22)
  • Consensus: Yes, for the story alone.
• Rare Cards & Collectibles:
  The crew reminisces about spending big on rare sports cards (Bobby on a $20k box, 31:02), opening rare finds, and grading cards (“I got the John F. Kennedy autograph in that.” - Eddie, 31:15).
• Memorable moment:
  “I haven’t sold that one. I’ve probably made about $8,000 back from that. And I have so many of those cards still.” (Eddie, 31:19)
• Behind-the-scenes of Showbiz:
  • “He invited me to his warehouse where he does his shows in California...he has those AI boxes where the celebrities are.” (Eddie, 29:33)

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6. Soccer Talk: USA vs. Turkey & Why Soccer Needs "Cherry Picking" (38:09–61:04)

• US Soccer’s Performance:

  • USMNT played backups in a recent match; quick early goal (38:16). Conversation shifts to the depth gap between USA's first and second string teams.

• On Youth Soccer Development:

  • “These 2, 3, 4, 5 year olds...grow up playing with a ball with their feet in their developmental stages.” (Co-host, 42:22)
  • “The really good coaches in Europe and South America...will coach the 12 to 15 year olds.” (Co-host, 43:03)

• Coaching Styles:
  USMNT coach’s style compared to a full-court basketball press—aggressive, but exhausting:

  • “That would be the equivalent—full court press the whole game...” (Co-host, 47:00).

• Soccer Rule Proposals (Banana Ball!):

  • Offside Rule Rant: “They should allow cherry pick—I've got two rules...Number one, we allow cherry picking.” (Co-host, 56:18)
  • Two Balls at End of Game: “Only one is the real ball...the longer it goes, more balls—like pinball…bonus balls in extra time!” (Co-host, 58:12)
  • "Tell me that wouldn’t be so fun." (Co-host, 57:48)

• Names & Pronunciation Fun:

  • Playful digression about how Americans pronounce country names (Turkey, Türkiye), and whether it matters (41:05).
  • “If I call myself Eddie, I would like for everyone to call me Eddie.” (Mike, 41:17)

• Soccer Field & Equipment Observations:

  • How soccer prevails in global playgrounds due to lower equipment and space needs (49:18).

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7. Sports Injuries and Aging (52:01–53:48)

• The crew tells stories of sports injuries, surgeries, and why learning to avoid risky activities is a sign of getting older.
  • “I don't like things where you can slip. You're always slipping.” (Co-host, 52:18)
  • “I tore it playing in a tournament and finished third...I did not know...Because that's hardcore.” (Co-host, 53:23)

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Memorable Quotes

• On City Preferences:
  “If I’m 23, 24…wanting to see the world for the first time, I’m not trying to live right in the middle of America, period.” (Eddie, 11:07)

• On Sibling Draft Disparity:
  “The Boozer twins…one gets drafted third overall, the other one doesn’t even go in the draft.” (Eddie, 14:12)

• On Card Collecting:
  “I made...about $8,000 back from that. And I have so many of those cards still.” (Eddie, 31:19)

• On Soccer Rule Changes:
  “We allow cherry picking. Two, instead of one ball, there’s two...but only one of them is the real ball.” (Co-host, 56:34–58:12)

• On Learning From Other Countries:
  “They put their great coaches with...developmental kids.” (Co-host, 44:13)

• On Aging as an Athlete:
  “Once I hit 30, I’m like, I gotta retire man.” (Co-host, 52:26)

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Noteworthy Timestamps

• NBA Draft City Rankings: 03:35–13:30
• Drafted Twins Discussion: 13:30–15:13
• Athletes from Hometowns: 19:41–24:57
• Howie Mandel $10k Card Game Challenge: 27:58–35:13
• Soccer & Rule Change Pitch (Cherry Picking): 38:09–61:04
• Banana Ball (Two-ball soccer proposal): 56:34–59:49

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Final Thoughts

This episode is quintessential 25 Whistles: a blend of sports-nerd debates, nostalgia, and good-natured trash talk. From the merits (and perils) of NBA destinations to outlandish soccer solutions, the team keeps things vibrant and relatable. Fans of banter, behind-the-scenes showbiz, and “what-if” sports scenarios will especially enjoy this ride.

Catch the next episode for more laughs, heated rankings, and maybe...Bobby’s $10,000 hand with Howie Mandel.

Transcript

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[Eddie]

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[Mike]

It's the rage bait.

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It feels like it's trying to divide people.

[Eddie]

We got clear facts. Maybe we could calm down a little.

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[Mike]

This is a podcast called 25 Whistles.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Talking sports. And they all wear a whistle. Get stupid. But what did you expect?

[Mike]

It's a podcast called 25 Whistles.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

25 Whistles.

[Eddie]

Hey, everybody, welcome. Blow the whistle. So I was watching the NBA draft. I have thoughts. Did you guys watch Draft at all?

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Yeah.

[Mike]

First time I've ever watched it.

[Eddie]

Ever.

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Ever.

[Eddie]

I like that it moves fast.

[Mike]

Same. I like that, too.

[Eddie]

It's two minutes and we're on.

[Mike]

And I like that they don't have a whole walk. Hallway to walk through. They just. They're right there.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Yeah.

[Mike]

You know football, it's like they go through, like all these tunnels and take a picture.

[Eddie]

And I felt bad for Acuff who played at Arkansas because he has to go play in Sacramento.

[Mike]

Saw that.

[Eddie]

Not that I don't like Sacramento, but if there's a team I don't want to play for, it's the Kings.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

They gotta be number one on the list. Right.

[Eddie]

So I do have a list.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Nice.

[Eddie]

So I thought about all of that. That's the worst team to go to. It's worse than going to Memphis to play.

[Mike]

I was gonna say Memphis. Cause, like, they drafted, like this little white guy. He's going to Memphis.

[Eddie]

Oh, you're talking about the city. I'm just talking about the organization.

[Mike]

Like, I just saw him get drafted. And I was like, man, this guy's thinking, like, dang, I'm moved to Memphis. Like, where do I even. Where do I live?

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

At least there's no state tax in Sacramento. There's a lot of state tax.

[Mike]

Yeah, yeah.

[Eddie]

So the 10 cities that I'd like to play in first. And this isn't just the city, and it's not just the organization. It's a mixture of two. Okay, Number one, Miami.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Like, number one. This is in an order, right? Not just top ten thing. Top ten cities.

[Eddie]

This is number One in order.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Okay.

[Eddie]

Number one, Miami. No state income tax. I'm not a big beach guy, but I just feel like it's warm all the time. I'm an athlete. Like I'm playing golf all the time.

[Mike]

Yeah, you're young too.

[Eddie]

Yeah. So no state tax. I'm young and I play golf all the time.

[Mike]

Yeah. And those nightclubs, man, like, it would just be awesome.

[Eddie]

Number two, Los Angeles Lakers or Clippers. The tax part sucks, but the weather's awesome. The endorsements and you're there where all of the business is happening. It's a year round lifestyle, much like Miami. That's why it's historically the number one free agent destination. Now I don't love Los Angeles, but it's because of what I've had to do when I go, I have to go sit in Ubers and go job to job talking to Purdue. If I'm playing in the NBA, I'm getting a house somewhere nice.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Yeah, up in the hills.

[Mike]

You're so rich instantly. And you're a superstar as soon as you get there.

[Eddie]

Next. It's cold and this really is difficult for me to say because of the cold, but I still, if I'm going, I'm going Chicago.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Oh, you're gonna say Boston.

[Eddie]

It's a massive market. I love Chicago. It just gets really cold. The good thing about basketball, it's not outside.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Like, I don't want to play for

[Eddie]

the Bears because it's too cold. They may build a dome though, an indoor stadium. The one that their next one.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

But I'm going Chicago at three.

[Mike]

What about their, their organization?

[Eddie]

The Bulls kind of suck.

[Mike]

Like, I forget about the Bulls sometimes.

[Eddie]

I know.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Which is crazy.

[Eddie]

I know. Next I'm going Dallas.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Wow.

[Eddie]

Two things. No state tax. I like living in Texas. Dallas has got everything outside nightlife.

[Mike]

It's a big city.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Warm.

[Mike]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Eddie]

Great facilities. So I'm going Dallas. I'm going New York. It's cold, but it's freaking New York for sure. It's the biggest media market in America.

[Mike]

Now. Are you going Knicks or Brooklyn?

[Eddie]

It's easy to say the Knicks now because they won, but they've been so terrible. Like Brooklyn's been a better team over the past 20 years, but now probably the Knicks because they are the New

[Mike]

York team and your home is Madison Square Garden. I guess so is Brooklyn's. Right. Do they play there?

[Eddie]

No, they've no.

[Mike]

Oh no, they play. Yeah, you're right.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

So the thing that sucks about New York though is the taxes.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Yes.

[Eddie]

But New York is like, where everything is too. Like where Los Angeles. Everything's there. San Francisco.

[Mike]

Love San Francisco.

[Eddie]

Bay area is cool.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Your city, dude, I love it.

[Eddie]

The warriors have won. The players. I was looking at one of those polls where they ask everybody where they like to go, and San Francisco was one of the number one away destinations. Like, they like to play there for the amenities, to visit, how they're taught. Well, it's like ball playing.

[Mike]

It's not just the city. The scooters, the waymos. The waymos.

[Eddie]

I take Atlanta.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Wow.

[Eddie]

Warm. Lot of entertainment. I can drive up to see Eddie in Nashville.

[Mike]

Yeah, I'm right there. Right down the road.

[Eddie]

Right there.

[Mike]

This is when you get drafted.

[Eddie]

Outkast.

[Co-host (possibly producer or guest)]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Usher, Tyler Perry, Zach Brown band.

[Eddie]

And then I have two other Texas cities, Houston and San Antonio.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Oof.

[Mike]

I don't know about Houston, dude.

[Eddie]

I like Houston. I like Houston. But LA traffic's as bad or worse than Houston.

[Mike]

That's true. That's true.

[Eddie]

So all of those are factoring in cities and organizations.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

How, how. How are the Celtics not on here?

[Eddie]

I don't want to live in Boston. It's too cold.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Just the organization alone, though.

[Eddie]

It's just too cold, though. It's way too cold. You picked, they'd be top 15. I don't like green either.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Dang.

[Eddie]

There's those factored in.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

I don't think I ever knew that. I wear a lot of green.

[Eddie]

Yeah. I don't like you. So bottom 10 cities to play in.

[Mike]

There we go. Now we're there.

[Eddie]

I don't want to go to Sacramento. It's better now and about like the city. I've been. I've toured in the city. The city's actually pretty great.

[Mike]

We've had fun there.

[Eddie]

But it's like that organization has never won. The only time I've ever remembered them winning is when Vladi Divock and Chris Weber played and they got cheated against the Lakers.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Mike Bibby.

[Mike]

Yeah, Bibby.

[Eddie]

I love Portland. I don't want to go play in Portland because it's so far away from everything. It is like that is just me going. I don't want to be trapped on the far left side of the country and everywhere is a trip. I love Portland. I wouldn't mind living in Portland even now, I guess. But if I'm a ball player, I gotta travel all the time. I don't wanna. Portland's not for me. Yeah, I don't wanna be in Milwaukee, and that's a really underrated city. I hate green.

[Mike]

Oh, Just the color.

[Eddie]

Well, I don't like green. It's one of the least favorite road cities. When I was reading the articles about where players don't like to go, I liked. We shot American Idol in Milwaukee. I found it to be quite nice. It's cold. It's green. They did win a championship, but they had a once in a lifetime type player.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

But they traditionally aren't that good. But I don't want to go to Milwaukee. I don't want to go to Detroit. I don't want to go to Minneapolis.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Cold. Cold. Yeah.

[Eddie]

I don't want to go to Cleveland.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Cold.

[Eddie]

I like Indianapolis. For me, I think if I'm an NBA player, I don't want to go live in Indianapolis.

[Mike]

Feels like it's in the middle of nowhere.

[Eddie]

Yep. And I don't want to go live in Oklahoma City. And I like Oklahoma City.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Dang.

[Eddie]

But there's nothing to do there. If you're an NBA player who's a multi, multi millionaire and you're 25 years old and you. I don't want to live in Oklahoma City.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Do they have, like. I guess you wouldn't do this, but, like, lakes out there that you could live.

[Co-host (possibly producer or guest)]

Oh, yeah.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

They have all that. All that.

[Eddie]

It's fantastic. I like Oklahoma City as a person.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

I'm just saying, like, for me, if I was a millionaire and I could afford a lake house at a city like that, I would buy a lake house.

[Eddie]

That's what they do.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Yeah. Okay.

[Eddie]

But if I'm 23, 24, from wanting to see the world for the first time, I'm not trying to live right in the middle of America, period.

[Co-host (possibly producer or guest)]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Chicago is big enough where it's fine

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

and cool, but I don't want to

[Eddie]

have to live somewhere where there are connecting flights. Just generally speaking, in Oklahoma City. I mean, Salt Lake City would be tough for me to live in, especially if I weren't white and Mormon.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Well, you don't drink, so they have that going for you.

[Mike]

That's true.

[Eddie]

So those would be the cities I wouldn't want to live in.

[Mike]

Wow. No. San Antonio.

[Eddie]

That was my top 10 to live in.

[Mike]

I don't.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

You said both Texas, Houston, and San Antonio.

[Mike]

Oh, I didn't hear. I saw Houston and then Dallas and. Okay, okay. Yeah. Because San Antonio is weird because it's a great city, but if you were young, I feel like you wouldn't have fun there. Like, I don't know.

[Eddie]

You ever been to Ripley's Believe it or Not Museum by the Alamo right across the Street.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Yeah.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Yes. They have a Ripley's Pieces.

[Mike]

Yes, I've been there. But it's crazy because like all of these old, like David Robinson, Duncan, all of them still live there. They never left. They wanted to stay there.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Interesting.

[Eddie]

It's the organization and the warmth that really made it for me.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Because if you miss two of the three. Weather, organization. City. Just the city in general. If it missed two or three, I couldn't pick you.

[Mike]

You've been to San Antonio, Kevin?

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

No.

[Mike]

You'd like it.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

I've only been in Dallas and Austin.

[Eddie]

I love Salt Lake City as a city. I've been a bunch of times because DJ lived there when he was coaching at Utah. We went eight times. Fantastic city. Too cold and way too white, if I were. And I guess in my fantasy I'm a black player.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

I guess not.

[NBC News Announcer]

Yeah, you are.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Well, if you're making the NBA, let's go. Yes.

[Eddie]

I don't want it. That's not where I want to live. And the Jazz don't win. They haven't won really since Karl Malone and John Stockton for the consistently.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

No. They had that short run with them.

[Eddie]

I think they're going to be good now.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Because I got Danny Angels over there running that, right?

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Oh, yeah.

[Mike]

What do you think about Orlando, Florida?

[Eddie]

I'm okay with it. The organization, Middle Disney.

[Mike]

Yeah, I got Disney.

[Eddie]

It's close enough to everything else. I get to play golf.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

The weather was a big part of it.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Yeah. Anyway, that's it. I don't want to play for Sacramento. That sucked up Saw Dairy's takeoff. And so I thought I'd make a list of 10 places. I don't want to play 10 places. I do. If I were a young black male playing basketball, I was watching Boozer after he was drafted third.

[Mike]

Memphis, Right.

[Eddie]

Yeah. And they go to the family room. And so it's him, his dad, his mom, his two brothers, including his twin brother. Imagine you're the twin.

[Mike]

I know.

[Eddie]

And it's not even that you didn't get drafted in the same spot, because we saw that with the Thompson brothers. They were both drafted in the top eight or nine picks. One went to Detroit, one went to Houston.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Oh, I was seeing Clay. I was like, clay.

[Eddie]

No, you're talking about Amen and Asar and Amin.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Amen.

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Yeah.

[Co-host (possibly producer or guest)]

Okay.

[Eddie]

They both got drafted. Lottery picks. So you go, oh, wow. Dang. That's crazy. One twin brother is looked at as better than the other three or four picks difference. That's crazy. You got the Boozer Twins. One of them gets drafted third overall. The other one doesn't even go in the draft.

[Mike]

I know. Yeah.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Yesterday it was like one of my kids was watching. He's like, the Grizzlies got Boozer. And then the other kid goes, which one, the bad one or the good one?

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Oh, no.

[Eddie]

Hey, how about Cooper Flag, though? Yeah, he's got a twin brother.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

He's playing at Maine. You're the twin and you don't.

[Mike]

And so much talk about your brother

[Eddie]

and you're the twins. And not only is it about your brother, but everybody wants to ask, hey, what's it like being the twin?

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Yeah, I worry about my kids with that.

[Eddie]

Yeah, but at least yours is one boy, one girl. Yeah, but you know, because they're not going to be on the same team.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

They're going to be compared to each other constantly their whole lives.

[Eddie]

But the Boozer twins. Yeah, they played together. Same team, same school, all of it. The Thompson brothers. Same team, same everything.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

So I kind of felt bad for the brother in the back because the brother that had been drafted was dressed in all white. His dad was on the couch. And the other brother, the guard, the smaller one, was back there in the back in a black suit, just chilling. And I didn't. I didn't like how that made me feel. I felt bad for him.

[Mike]

You know what I was thinking? Do you take your girlfriend to that with you?

[Eddie]

Because, like, there are only two ways you do. One, if it's a very serious relationship and you've been together a long time, or two, she's just starting to be your girlfriend and you want to flex so hard.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Eddie]

If it's like a new ish.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Three months,

[Eddie]

probably you can or can't. But maybe I wouldn't because I wouldn't want to put her on tv. It depends how problematic she was about it. But I think the two ways you really do it is if you're together. Together for a long time and if you're just like, wanting to convince her to be there.

[Mike]

Yeah. Because that's a super flex.

[Eddie]

Because there are certain videos, like Russell Wilson, he was drafted and his girlfriend at the time was like, ah. And the meme is when. When you think you're getting the bag,

[Mike]

but you ain't exactly.

[Eddie]

Cuz it's not the same girl.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Yeah.

[Mike]

And then you think, like, you guys tonight, your life is changing a lot. Like you're bringing your girlfriend to something that, like, is probably the reason you won't be together in the next year.

[Eddie]

It Reminds me of going to college and people coming to college that had a girlfriend already that didn't go to the same college.

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[Eddie]

Like, they graduated high school, they had a girlfriend, and they decided, we're gonna stay together. And now I'm gonna go to Arkansas and you're gonna go to Texas and we'll prom. We'll stay together for sure. Like, you ain't staying together.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

You come home the first time, you're like, yeah, dude.

[Mike]

My son's. My. My buddy's son decided to go to Auburn just because his girlfriend was at Auburn. And my buddy was like, dude, this is tough for me. Like, I just. It's hard because I know they love each other, but I don't know if they're gonna stay together. And is he making that decision just for the girl? Probably.

[Eddie]

The only thing good about that is that Auburn is a really big, cool university.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Even if it doesn't work out, you're still at a really cool place.

[Mike]

That's true.

[Eddie]

If you had the option to go to a big SEC school that had the complete college lifestyle. But your girl was going to Concordia, Sam.

[Mike]

Housing State.

[Jacob Goldstein]

Yeah.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

I'm following her to Concordia.

[Mike]

Right, right.

[Eddie]

Instead of going to Florida. That's where I think it would start to be. Oh, no, what's he doing? Do I need to step in a big school like that? You're kind of going to get the experience. Even if you break up, it's still going to be awesome.

[Mike]

Because even if it doesn't work out, there's plenty.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

You're still at Auburn, Plenty of other girls. Yes.

[Eddie]

So, any thoughts from the draft?

[Mike]

I just. It was hard for me to explain to my wife that it's okay that the cameras in front of these people haven't gotten picked yet, you know, because she was like, oh, my gosh. It's so sad that, like, they keep putting the camera in front of these guys that are just waiting to be picked and they never get picked. I'm like, that's part of it.

[Co-host (possibly producer or guest)]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

They also all know where they're probably going to fall in and they have to get invited to be there. Meaning there is an understanding and there's intelligence gathered by the NBA to know that it's fine to invite these people here because we've had so many Aaron Rodgers type situations, maybe three or four, that I can think of where the player just sits there and it's humiliating and they don't want that. So they want to make sure that does not happen. So, yeah, if you're there you're there because you're most likely going to be a lottery pick.

[Mike]

And that's what I told her. They're eventually going to get to them. They just didn't fall where they expected them to fall, so. And it could be for many reasons. Like, it could just be the team that wants them is waiting and they're in the back of the draft. Like, it's not.

[Eddie]

There weren't any guys, though. They're in the late first round. Were there Usually they only have lottery guys there.

[Mike]

No, I think she was talking about the guy from Alabama, Phylon, one of the guys from. And he was Baron file on LeBaron. He was supposed to go earlier and he didn't. He was just sitting there for like eight.

[Eddie]

So was he a projected lottery.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Guy? Yeah, I watched it all the way till Acuff was drafted. That was early seven.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

And then I flipped back over during. And I kept watching on the app. I just wanted to see what Oklahoma City would get. And they traded and they got that huge kid from Michigan.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Yeah, they got to stop Wemby Mara.

[Eddie]

So the kid that was. He's at UCLA, then transferred to Michigan. He's 7 foot 4.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

He doesn't run well, but it doesn't matter. They need big bodies.

[Mike]

So. Yeah, the spurs ended up getting a big man, too, I guess, to kind

[Eddie]

of give Wimby a break and still have. Still have a presence.

[Mike]

Yeah, yeah. The Kentucky big man.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Did you guys have anybody in your

[Eddie]

hometown that went pro

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

that we knew

[Eddie]

or that you knew of and you're like, when you were going to school. Oh, like, is there anybody that you think back when you played that was really awesome around that time that the hopes were kind of on.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

I played against and played with in the All Star Game, Ronnie Hillman, who won super bowl with the Broncos.

[Eddie]

Was he.

[Mike]

That's cool.

[Eddie]

A baller in high school?

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Oh, yeah.

[Eddie]

Was he the guy in. In your county?

[Discover Advertiser]

Yeah.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Like, he knocked us out of the playoffs. It was a great game. But they also had another running back who went to Fresno State and then and byu, who's really good, too. But he was, like, just so fast and so much better than everybody else out on that field. But he's like the nicest guy ever we played against him. I was trying to get in his head a little bit, you know, And I would just, like, say something. Just talking crap. And then he'd be like, mm. And I'm like, dang, he's just that good. Where he's like, I Don't even need to talk.

[Eddie]

So in your three, four, five years of near high school, was he the guy?

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Yes.

[Eddie]

Did you have one of those. The guys?

[Mike]

We had a guy that was really good at baseball and he ended up going to tulane. And I remember there was a lot of, like, press, newspaper people and, like, TV people coming to interview him all the time. But no, dude, we were all little Mexican dudes, you know? And, like, we didn't get anywhere. Even if our team was successful in district, once we went to the regional level or the state level, it was over.

[Eddie]

So we had a guy that we played against in baseball. He was also the quarterback on the bauxite football team, but he played baseball against us at box. His name was jdar, and I think he ended up making it to the minor leagues. But he was that guy where everyone's like, that's freaking jdar. He was a year older. He's going to the pros. He's going to the pros. And I tried to find him, and I can't even really find. I looked J, A, J, a Y, D A, H, R. I'm not even sure that's how you spell his name, but he was that guy.

[Mike]

Everyone was talking about him every.

[Eddie]

Yeah. When he pitched people from town or people from his town, the stands were

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

definitely a little more full.

[Eddie]

But I don't know how to spell J Dar.

[Mike]

I wonder if it's like j and then D A, R or maybe it's

[Eddie]

D A, R, R, J Dar. Let me take.

[Mike]

You know where he went? Did you say where he went?

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Bauxite high school.

[Mike]

No, but at the college.

[Eddie]

I think he went to the miners.

[Mike]

Straight to the miners.

[Eddie]

There's a guy named J. Dar. Remember when we found John lepley?

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

It was the first autograph ever got with the Arkansas travelers.

[Mike]

Yes. That was awesome.

[Eddie]

I would think that this guy jdar would end up being like a coach or something if I were just really doing the thing where you guess what happened in someone's life because he was such a good athlete and then he didn't make the majors.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

I found a guy on baseball reference. J. Darr from benton, Arkansas.

[Eddie]

Yeah, that's him.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

47 years old.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

You're older than me.

[Starbucks Advertiser]

That's it.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Yeah. Glen rose high school, maybe.

[Eddie]

Or bauxite is where he played football and baseball. Is he coaching it at glen rose?

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

This is just his stats.

[Eddie]

How do you spell his name?

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

J a, y. And then dar is just D A,

[Mike]

R, R. Oh, J Dar.

[Eddie]

Yeah. He was the dude, man. Minor league baseball statistics. Yeah, I'm there too. I don't even know what he's doing now.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Yeah, he got drafted by the Padres in the third round.

[Eddie]

Jdar.

[Mike]

Wow.

[Eddie]

There's someone that's a jdr That's a rental operations manager on Little Rock.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Oh, I see that.

[Mike]

I wonder if that's what he's doing now.

[Eddie]

He's a head baseball coach. Yeah, it's got to be. This has got to be the guy, huh? Yeah, he was that dude. Jdar.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

White guy.

[Eddie]

Yeah, operations manager at Caterpillar, Arkansas. He was the dude. That's crazy. If I saw him now, I'd kind of be starstruck. But like his regional manager. Jdr. Like you're freaking JDR everything we played against you guys.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

That's crazy.

[Eddie]

The whole town will talk about it.

[Mike]

Can you look up Jake? Gertrude.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Oh.

[Eddie]

Oh, good gosh.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Come on.

[Mike]

J, A, K, E. Yeah. And then I wasn't worried about the

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

first name, by the way.

[Mike]

Gertrude is like, how would you spell that?

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

G, G, E, R, T, R, U, D, E. Yeah.

[Mike]

And then a two lane baseball. Yeah.

[Eddie]

See, we know where Kevin's ended up in the pros.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Yeah, I know. That's true.

[Eddie]

Mike, do you have anybody where you're from?

[Co-host (possibly producer or guest)]

Yeah, there was a guy named Colton Kane who went on to be a

[Eddie]

relief pitcher in the mlb. That's cool.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Wow.

[Eddie]

When he was playing, was everyone. That's Colton.

[Co-host (possibly producer or guest)]

Oh, yeah. He was like bigger than everybody. He was really good. Like from like seventh grade and then. Yeah, I think he played on the Padres and then the Astros.

[Eddie]

That's really cool.

[Mike]

What a cool name too. Last name Kane is just awesome.

[Eddie]

You don't think JDAR is a cool name?

[Mike]

Yeah, no. JDAR is legit.

[Eddie]

We start to get defensive about the names.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Do you find Jake, I think played there from 99 to 2001?

[Mike]

That'd be right.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Yeah. His name is spelled G A U, T R E A U.

[Mike]

Hey, we were way off swinging a

[Eddie]

miss on that one.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Dude. He hit a career batting College World Series.344 with 58 home runs at the College World Series. No, it just says career batting. I'm not sure what referencing. I think.

[Eddie]

Dang, that's cool.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Did you ever have anybody when you guys were younger that was like the dude and like, I don't know, from second grade to like eighth grade and then everybody else just passed them up.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Size wise, at my school. Yeah. We had guys that developed really early.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

And were so fast. And then everybody caught up with them.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Yeah, I just remember those guys still to this day more than anything, just being like, dang everyone. We're so young. They were like the guy that's like

[Mike]

one of my boys, he used to score 40 points a game and now he's like, he's lucky if he scores like seven just because he's just everyone got taller than him.

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[Eddie]

I hate to say it, but I don't trust much of anything.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

It's the rage bait.

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It feels like it's trying to divide people.

[Eddie]

We got clear facts. Maybe you we could calm down a little.

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[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Do you guys think I should play

[Eddie]

Howie Mandel in cards for $10,000?

[Mike]

Uh, poker. Hold em. What do I call game?

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Uno.

[Co-host (possibly producer or guest)]

Uno.

[Mike]

Oh yeah, I think you should.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Yes.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Heck yeah.

[Mike]

Because it doesn't matter what you play, you're gonna research how to win Uno. You can do it, dude.

[Eddie]

If it's one on one. Uno.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Is it just one game? Best of.

[Eddie]

So was talking to Howie Mandel interview comes out at some point soon and he is a big streamer. And so he played not Neo because Neo has the song with Matt still. It's another singer.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Who.

[Co-host (possibly producer or guest)]

It was Neo.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Oh, it was Neo.

[Co-host (possibly producer or guest)]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Oh, that's.

[Co-host (possibly producer or guest)]

Oh, he played.

[Boost Mobile Male Voice]

Okay.

[Mike]

Okay. He played.

[Eddie]

He played for $10,000 on his stream. And so I said okay, if I come out there we'll play. But then I, yeah, I just kind

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

of BSing, you know, dude, if I

[Eddie]

could I pick any game, any card game. Skip bow.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

What the heck is that?

[Eddie]

You never played skip Bow?

[Mike]

I don't know what that is.

[Eddie]

Oh, okay.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

So yeah, pick that one.

[Eddie]

Well, no, he'd have to, you know, know how to play it too.

[Mike]

Because even if it was like hold them, dude, I think you should do that.

[Eddie]

Yeah, I'm not going to play one on one poker because if you're not a poker player, you're going to feel like you're at a disadvantage. And I think, I don't think he's a poker player. Yeah, Uno. Everybody's an uno player. Even if you're not a Nuno player.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Yes.

[Eddie]

Do you think I should take Heck yeah. Thousand dollars cash?

[Starbucks Advertiser]

Yep.

[Eddie]

Would it be worth it if I lost It.

[Co-host (possibly producer or guest)]

Yes.

[Mike]

Yeah, even. Dude, even to say that you lost it to Howie Mandel, like playing his game.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Yes, playing Uno Mike.

[Eddie]

You think he was serious?

[Co-host (possibly producer or guest)]

Oh, yeah, definitely.

[Eddie]

Because he invited me to his warehouse

[Mike]

where he does his shows in California.

[Eddie]

Yeah, he does his show and he has those AI boxes where the celebrities are. Yeah, have you seen those? Like airports. And so the celebrities pop up. It's like a hologram. But you can also use them to actually be in a place and be with someone at the same time.

[Mike]

Oh, that's cool.

[Eddie]

Like his example was Slash could actually be with a phone on him. And then if you have that box at your house, Slash could give you guitar lessons, like in real time.

[Mike]

That's cool.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Dang.

[Eddie]

But also at airports, you can just go in and they have like a hundred celebrities in there and you can just like talk to them.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

You pay for it.

[Mike]

What airport? They've never seen that.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Me neither.

[Eddie]

So. But he has part of that company and he was walking us around his warehouse showing and he's a big streamer. And he was like, I played Neo for 10,000. And I was like, oh, man. But then, like, now I gotta go,

[Mike]

dude, you have to do it. That'd be awesome.

[Co-host (possibly producer or guest)]

Yeah.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

And you can get some other stuff while you're there.

[Eddie]

I did trip and I did say, hey, if I come out, I want a big picture of Bobby's World signed by you. That Bobby's World character.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Yeah, yeah.

[Mike]

What do you say?

[NBC News Announcer]

Deal?

[Eddie]

Yeah, he was super nice. You think we could pull that off, Mike?

[Co-host (possibly producer or guest)]

I think so, yeah.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Gotta do it. I've seen you spend ten grand on crazier things for sure.

[Mike]

Like what? Oh, I have.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

First thing that comes to my mind is a big box.

[Mike]

Box of cards.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

How about it?

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Hey, you're free to talk cards, right?

[Eddie]

I don't know.

[Mike]

I don't know. I don't know if that's how much they were. Was it.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

It was 25, wasn't it?

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Oh, oh, that one.

[Eddie]

Yeah, for my birthday we open.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

20 grand. Yeah, we talked about it on the show.

[Co-host (possibly producer or guest)]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Cuz I. I called to tell my wife, hey, I'm going to spend 20 grand on this box of cars. And then we opened them and I. I made. I actually made money on that one.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Did you really?

[Eddie]

Yeah, I still have a lot of them too. I. I got the John F. Kennedy autograph in that.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

I remember. I was going to say, I remember. Like, yeah, okay. Kennedy.

[Eddie]

I still have. I haven't sold that one.

[Co-host (possibly producer or guest)]

Okay.

[Eddie]

I've probably made about $8,000 back from that. And I have so many of those cards still.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Okay.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

And I went and did a whole inventory on them because I keep everything

[Eddie]

in my notes app, sports cards right here. And so I have. This is just like the top 20

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

that I have up.

[Co-host (possibly producer or guest)]

Dang.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

From that.

[Eddie]

1500-1500-1250-1250. 1000, 1000, 1800. So this is from that one box.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Okay, good.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

A lot of boxes.

[Eddie]

I've not made my money back.

[Mike]

Okay, so you're not talking about the one where you're looking for the LeBron.

[Eddie]

So that one was.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

That was a hard.

[Eddie]

I think it's been 12, 000 on that one.

[Mike]

That was.

[Eddie]

And then made nothing.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

We were in New York for Fanatics Festival.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Yeah, I remember that, too, actually. Yep. Oh, yeah, Wait. It was the guy at the table. We had the table, right?

[Mike]

Yes, we had a table.

[Eddie]

Everyone set it up and gathered around. I didn't hit a single LeBron rookie.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Oh, I remember that now.

[Eddie]

Then there were, like, three rookies I could have hit. That would have been good. I hit nothing. And I was like, oh, it's just like playing roulette.

[Mike]

I think you got like, a Stoudemire.

[Eddie]

And I still haven't rookie. And I hate it.

[Mike]

Yeah. Because it brings back bad memories.

[Eddie]

I have it still at the house.

[Mike]

You know what you gave me, like, a while back, and, like, I just. I just have it and I never thought about it until, like, a couple days ago. You gave me two Wemby rookies.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Mike]

And I'm like, dude, I have Wimby rookies.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

That's so cool.

[Mike]

So I don't know. I'm probably going to get him graded. I think I should get him graded and then hang on to him. Right. Because if he's the best of all time in the next, you know, 20 years.

[Eddie]

Yeah. Getting them graded takes a long time. Our friend Steve sent off, like, 20 Jordans to get graded, and no tens came back. No tens, two nines, a bunch of eights. I felt so bad.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

And eight are like nothing. Right?

[Mike]

I mean, they're still.

[Eddie]

Nine is about the value you expect, maybe slightly more innate. Unless it's an old card is where it's. You've lost value on it, and that's not good. Or if it's like an autograph, that's different. Because if it's a certain kind of autograph, it doesn't really matter the condition of the card as long as it's not completely beat up. But, yeah, you don't want eights Nines are fine. You want tens? And he sent.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Let me look.

[Eddie]

I was texting with him about it.

[Mike]

Here you go.

[Eddie]

I got my 22 Jordans back from PSA. Not a single 10. And he numbered them. He has three sixes, three sevens, 14 eights, and two nines.

[Mike]

Oh, that's terrible.

[Eddie]

And it costs a bunch to get stuff graded. It takes like three months to get anything back.

[Mike]

How much too, like, for like one card.

[Eddie]

Oh, 12, 15 bucks.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Eddie]

Because I got me guessing I have

[Mike]

a handful of cards that I should get.

[Eddie]

They're taken care of.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

They've never been pulled out of a sleeve.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

If your boys ever touched them.

[Mike]

No, nobody. Nobody can touch those two I got from our little party that we went to, our tops party. It was a rod. A rod auto. You know, Anna Miguel Cabrera.

[Eddie]

Yeah. We got to go to a party in Baltimore because of that box that I bought for 20 grand.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Yeah, I forgot about that. And who. Oh, is it? Richmond? Some people.

[Eddie]

Hadley Rushman.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Yeah.

[Mike]

And who's the other guy?

[Eddie]

The other Baltimore young guy?

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

It wasn't Holiday.

[Eddie]

No, no, it was the year before Holiday.

[Mike]

Gosh, what's his name?

[Eddie]

Yeah, I know.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Gunner Henderson.

[Mike]

That's it. Gunner.

[Eddie]

That's it. That's it. Yeah. So I might go play Howie Mandel for Mike, because Mike's the one that deals with people if they'll do it. And I don't know who you talked to from that. That camp. Who did you email with?

[Co-host (possibly producer or guest)]

You know, I think it was just a PR team.

[Eddie]

Yeah, just say, hey, Howie mentioned that, you know, he'd play Bobby into around and see if he was serious about streaming for a card game for $10,000. Okay, if so, like, what?

[Mike]

Yeah, he said. He said what?

[Eddie]

If so, I'll tell you, they come

[Mike]

back, they're like, no, Howie's been trying, you know, we're trying to get him not to gamble anymore.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

He's going through a phase right now.

[Eddie]

But I should do it, right?

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Yes.

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It's the rage bait.

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We got clear facts made. Maybe we could calm down a little.

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[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

the soccer game last night?

[Mike]

I did. I did. Only because I bet over three and a half.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

It hit that, huh?

[Mike]

It hit five.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

So I saw America score quick.

[Mike]

Oh, so quick. And that's when I bet. I was like, oh, they're gonna score a lot now. Cause they scored in the first five minutes.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Then I was like, who cares anyway? We're gonna win. And not only we gonna win this game. Doesn't matter.

[Mike]

It doesn't matter. It didn't matter for anyone, really.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

So I just flipped back on espn, the app, to see where we were. Equalizer means when they even it up, right?

[Mike]

Oh, I don't know, Mike.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Is that equalizer when they even it up?

[Co-host (possibly producer or guest)]

Yeah.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Yeah. So equalizer happened 1 to 1, then Turkey scored again, 2 to 1.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Then I fell asleep, and then I woke up and saw America had scored again. The United States had.

[Mike]

Yeah. I don't think he scored, but Pulisic came back in. He not back in, but he came in. Towards the end of the game, I saw.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

I played a little bit.

[Mike]

Yeah. Which is weird. I don't know why you would do that. Maybe reps shape, stay in shape. Okay. Game shape. Don't have two weeks off or a whole.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

It'd be a month. It had been a month almost for him because he didn't play all the first game.

[Mike]

You're right. You're right.

[Co-host (possibly producer or guest)]

So.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

And then Turkey scored at the end of the game.

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[Mike]

With I think, within 30 seconds left.

[Eddie]

Oh, was it that tight?

[Co-host (possibly producer or guest)]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Dude, did you.

[Eddie]

Did you see it?

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

I did.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Were you, like. Oh, like, disappointed or not?

[Mike]

Because I knew it didn't matter. The only thing I thought was like, oh, my gosh, this could be a big deal for Turkey because they could get in. But then I did the research, and I'm like, no, they had no chance.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Didn't we play basically all the Scrubs?

[Mike]

Yeah, we played our group. We played Australia.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

No, no, no, no, no. The bench players. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was all Scrubs. Nobody with a yellow card.

[Mike]

Correct.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Even Pulisic just played for a bit.

[Mike]

Correct.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

But it was all like second string. Because what I was seeing was people talking about, hey, this looks like what we used to look like. And there's such a difference. Even now with our first and second string, it's terrible that our backups. Are you a good enough soccer watcher to know that we were worse than.

[Mike]

I mean. No, not really. When I watch soccer, I look at the field as a whole.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Right.

[Mike]

And you just kind of look at like the chess pieces move. And you can tell when you watch Argentina, Brazil, like those good teams, it's always on offense. 80% of the game is on offense on those good teams. I mean, with us, the fact that we scored so quickly, I was like, oh my gosh, with our scrubs, maybe we're better than we thought.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

What were the announcers calling? Turkey.

[Mike]

Oh, that's a good point.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Because obviously it's spelled Turkey. Turkey A. Yeah, yeah. Were they calling them that?

[Mike]

Turkey A. I don't know.

[Co-host (possibly producer or guest)]

I heard it.

[Mike]

Yeah, they say Turkey, Mike. Yeah, so, so what?

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Is that just their name though?

[Eddie]

Are we just wrong?

[Co-host (possibly producer or guest)]

I think there are a lot of countries like that that we say it a certain way, like an Americanized version, and they say it a completely different way.

[Mike]

See, that's not fair to me.

[Eddie]

But we're also having Americans say it. So why aren't the Americans saying it

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

the American way then?

[Co-host (possibly producer or guest)]

It's like, I guess the universal way. You say some of these countries names and then the way they say.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

So everybody agrees to the universal way.

[Mike]

I feel like we should call them whatever they call them, right? Like if I call myself Eddie, I would like for everyone to call me Eddie. I don't want someone else saying like Eddie.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Yeah, but we've been calling them Turkey forever. Up until this game, up until this World Cup.

[Mike]

I get it. But I mean, that's so offensive to them in it.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Like, why aren't some countries though are pronounced completely different than what we're talk talking about them anyway? Like even in their language.

[Mike]

Oh, really?

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Yeah.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Well, you want to do their accents

[Co-host (possibly producer or guest)]

too, but like Germany, they don't call themselves Germany.

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[Co-host (possibly producer or guest)]

It's Deutschland.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Oh, that's Deutschland. Yeah.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

My point is I have no idea what to call anybody. You know what? I don't give a crap how you identify. I will respect it. That's. That's my official statement.

[Co-host (possibly producer or guest)]

I.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

However you want to identify, it does not affect me at all. I respect how you identify.

[Mike]

Did you know what I've been doing is if they score a goal, I will record the Spanish broadcast and then we go to the Spanish broadcast.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Watch the goal.

[Mike]

Because my kids love hearing the Spanish broadcast of Go.

[Eddie]

They still do that?

[Co-host (possibly producer or guest)]

Oh yeah. I listen to it too. That's what I watch.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Do you watch the whole thing in Spanish?

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[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Do you know what they're saying?

[Co-host (possibly producer or guest)]

Yeah, much better commentary.

[Mike]

Oh, you can understand what they're saying.

[Co-host (possibly producer or guest)]

So exciting.

[Mike]

I can't. It's way too fast.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

I was listening to someone who. I wish I Knew the podcast because I would credit it, he was a soccer analyst talking about really why we're not good at soccer. Obviously it's not our main sport. But that these kids, these 2, 3, 4, 5 year olds, it's not that they're in leagues, but they grow up playing with a ball with their feet in their developmental stages. And so.

[Mike]

Correct.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Even before they start to play in any sort of league or team, they've spent years learning how to use their body with a ball before they actually start playing ball. Yeah. And we don't.

[Mike]

No, that's not what we do.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

There are three year olds that will swing a golf club or hit off a tee with a bat, but it's not. You put a soccer ball in front of a kid. I just thought that was really interesting. Another thing that I heard one of these experts on a different podcast, I feel like such a loser for not being able to credit who. But I've listened to a lot of people talk about it is that the really good coaches in Europe and South America, like they're really good. Almost the great ones, they won't coach the really high teams. They have such an understanding of their youth needs to be good. They will put them and have them coach the 12 to 15 year olds.

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[Mike]

To get them better earlier.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

They are paid so well to coach their 12 and 15 year olds.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Wow.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

That they want to make sure that the really good get great and that's the time to do that before they know. Like I think Messi was 16 when he started playing with his club, his adult club team.

[Mike]

He's young.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

But they have such an appreciation and they put their resources into those coaches coaching 11, 12, 13 and 14 year olds.

[Mike]

Wow. Interesting.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

I thought so too. They paid them a lot of money.

[Eddie]

Where Here.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

The younger you're coaching, the less money you're making. Period.

[Mike]

Yeah. And like 11 year olds, you got dad's coaching high school.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

A great high school coach that's doing football is making a few hundred thousand dollars a year in like Texas.

[NBC News Announcer]

Right.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

But generally high school coaches, they're doing fine. But the lower the classification, not so much. Then you go to college, it's more NFL. It's the opposite. Like the higher you are, the better. Now in these countries, the best of the best do coach the national teams and the big club teams. But they really do put their great coaches with those developmental, develop developmental kids.

[Mike]

What I thought was interesting is, was it you asking like how much the coaches. Yeah, great question. Because I feel like they don't know

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

these guys like, how much did they really impact?

[Mike]

Yeah, you're just thrown into like, all right, you're coaching the national team now and here's your squad. And then you're just like, oh, man. All right, let's get to know these guys.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

So what I also learned from that, that I think Taylor Twelfman was on with us. Now, he didn't say this specifically, but I was listening to. I know I was listening to PFT commenter talk about this, that the style that this coach that we have with the United States has is on defense. When they have the ball, pretty much our whole team runs to the ball. It is a much more cardio, running, aggressive defensive style.

[Co-host (possibly producer or guest)]

When.

[Mike]

When America's on defense.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Everybody goes to the ball.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

What he compared it to, thankfully American wise, was Tibbs, who coached the Knicks, who never took his players out. And that was his thing with the Knicks last year. Obviously he didn't win the championship, he was fired last year. But he would play those guys the whole game. They'd run a six man rotation. Like occasionally someone would sub in for one of the five. And Tibbs, his reputation was you're one of the five, you're playing the whole game. It's aggressive, but by the end of

[Eddie]

the game you're worn out.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

This coach has that same style and he would often. And I don't know which league he coached in, let's just say Premier League. It's the only Gano. When he was coaching a Premier League team, they would often peter out at the end of their seasons too because they would be just exhausted. So he's a great coach, but his style was hard. But why it works for us now is you're talking about a single tournament.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

With eight, 10 games and a week rest. Yeah, but. But his style is so much of that, which is way different than the other coach that we had and generally other coaches who. Okay, we're on defense. Get in your positions.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

And play defense accordingly.

[Mike]

So. So would it be equivalent to like a trap in basketball?

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Like if you're trapped in the. If you're. I know what it would be equivalent to is full court press the whole game.

[Mike]

Full court press.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Arkansas did 40 minutes of hell with Nolan Richardson. That's what it would be, the equivalent.

[Mike]

That's what they call the 40 minutes of hell. That's cool.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Because when the game started, it's full court press the whole game.

[Eddie]

We would kill people.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

We won national championship, know what to do.

[Eddie]

But you had to have super athletes

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

to do that and you had to be in great shape. I think that's the comparison to what we do on defense now, from what I've learned.

[Mike]

You know what's so amazing about Messi is if you watch Messi and just watch him when you're watching the game, he doesn't run a lot. Like, he really just kind of jogs a little bit, walks a lot. But when it's his time to get in position, he sprints. He's not tired when he has the ball. He hasn't been running, so he's not tired. He's got so much energy. It's almost like experience to learn that you can conserve your energy and move when you really need to instead of running the entire game.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Or is it because he plays in the midfield and he doesn't have to go very far? Or is it like a NBA player who doesn't play. Like Kyrie Irving doesn't play defense, He's a midfielder. I don't know. But Kyrie Irving is such a great offensive player, they don't want him getting tired on defense.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

So he's a weak defensive player. Yeah. Because if he plays defense so hard, he's not going to have the energy to play offense for as good as he is. So he kind of sucks at defense.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

So.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

But I. When I see that with Messi, I wonder if that's what is. He's such an elite scorer. If he's playing really hard defense, he doesn't get to be elite at what he's elite at.

[Mike]

He won't have that energy.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

What does he play? Do you know?

[Co-host (possibly producer or guest)]

He's a forward.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Okay. I don't know what that means. Is that in the middle?

[Co-host (possibly producer or guest)]

Nah, it's like in the front, isn't it?

[Mike]

Yeah, he's the. He's a scorer, so he's not really

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

having to play that much defense anyway.

[Mike]

No, not really. But I mean, yeah, you have to because you're the front line.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

But like, once it gets past you,

[Eddie]

you're not running back all the way there.

[Co-host (possibly producer or guest)]

Put your best player as a forward.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Offensive player.

[Mike]

Yeah. Offensive player. Yeah.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Yeah. I feel like it's an NBA player who's really good at offense who they don't make play that much defense and it kind of sucks. But that's the give because he's so good offensively that you don't. His job is not to play intense defense. But I know nothing.

[Mike]

Yeah, I know. I don't either. But back to what you were saying about, like, why other countries are so good. I Remember being little and we'd go to Mexico City and to go visit some friends or whatever. We probably went like 10 times when I was growing up. But I noticed that when we'd go to a playground, there weren't basketball goals. There weren't hoops. They were all soccer goals.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Oh, you notice that?

[Mike]

Yeah, I remember that because I'd be like, well, let's play basketball. And they're like, oh, we don't have. That goal's, like, you know, in another neighborhood. Because every park had a soccer goal. Do you. Do you ever notice that, Mike?

[Co-host (possibly producer or guest)]

Yeah, I guess I think about the terrain. Like, I would just go. And we be in a ranch. It'd be a dirt field, and you just play soccer. You can't play football there. You can't play basketball. It's also super cheap to play.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Yeah, it's a great point, too.

[Co-host (possibly producer or guest)]

All you need is the ball in shoes.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

It's why a lot of kids can play basketball. Now, of course, you do need a rim in the goal, but goals are pretty cheap, and you can kind of patch a goal together if you need to and have to. Where football is more expensive, baseball, you need players and equipment. A lot of players. Or basketball, you don't need that many. Then you get to the rich sport like skiing.

[Mike]

Oh, gosh.

[Eddie]

Never even done that.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

You ever skied?

[Co-host (possibly producer or guest)]

Never even seen a ski.

[Mike]

Yeah, I skied when I was in high school.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Snow.

[Mike]

One time, one time only. And we didn't understand what the diamonds were and the colors of the slopes. So my brother and I, we got up there, and we're like, all right, dude, let's go. Let's just hit the diamond. Like, that's where this thing is taking us.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

The.

[Mike]

Whatever, the snow, the. The lift or whatever. And we got out. And this is after an hour of ski school, because you're required to have ski school before you even, like, hit the slopes if you've never skied before. And so we get up there, and I remember getting off that lift and just seeing. We were on top of the mountain, and I remember seeing a huge, huge, steep slope, and at the very end, we're all like, the shops, the village, right? And so we were like, hey, dude, let's just do it. We're all the way up here, and I just almost like, you know, the Olympics, the slalom, the guy just holds the skis up under his armpits or the hand thing under his armpits, and then just go straight. That's what we did. We were idiots, dude, because that ground Just got closer and closer, closer. And I just, like. I bailed. I was like, I have to bail.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

And bail as in full.

[Mike]

I just fell backwards, almost like I'm dying. And that's because that's the only way I could stop or else I was going to run into everyone down there.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Would you want to ski now?

[Mike]

No.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Would you?

[Co-host (possibly producer or guest)]

No.

[Eddie]

To even do it once.

[Mike]

I mean, I feel like with my kids, I would have to, just because I would like to do it with.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Would you like to take them skiing?

[Mike]

Yes. I think they would love skiing.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

I have no interest.

[Eddie]

I don't.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

I don't like cold. It's not even the skin. I don't like any of that. And there's nothing about that that interests me. I didn't grow up around it. So that's a big reason.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

So nothing interests me about snow skiing. I don't like cold. I don't like snow. I don't like heights. And then I don't want to tear something. If I were 24, I think it'd be different.

[Mike]

Different.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

I think I'd want to experience it. But there's nothing about skiing that interests me.

[Mike]

What about snowboarding?

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Same.

[Mike]

Because I've never snowboarded, and I feel like if I go back, I want to snowboard.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Scotty did that, my friend, because when he moved to Utah and Colorado, said, first down, snowboard sent me an X ray, broke his wrist and two. Snapped it.

[Co-host (possibly producer or guest)]

Yeah.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Didn't even wipe out hard. Just fell back. Maybe not, but you can do that with anything. Fair. I don't like things where you can slip. You're always slipping.

[Eddie]

You're just fighting.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Slipping all the time on, dude.

[Co-host (possibly producer or guest)]

That's why I stopped skateboarding. It's like, I'm just asking for an

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

injury at this point, too, because you don't heal as fast.

[Co-host (possibly producer or guest)]

Once I hit 30, I'm like, I got to retire, man.

[Mike]

I ran into another dad a couple days ago, and he had a broken finger. Like, what happened? He's like, man, you just get old. Like, I dropped something between my seat and my console, my car, and I jammed my hand down there to get it.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

It broke his finger.

[Mike]

Broke my finger.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

I'm playing pickleball for the first time next week since my surgery in November.

[Mike]

There we go.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

I'm a little nervous. I went and worked out with Kevin Clue a couple days ago, our old trainer. My hurt ankles a little sore. I'd been running on it, so that was different than we were doing. We were doing, like, incline SWAT squats where you get on an incline. And so that's probably different, but I've not played pickleball. It's just not. Honestly, it feels like it's not worth it. I just went through six months of that sucked.

[Mike]

But you love playing the game.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

I do, but it's not. I don't love it so much. I want to have another ankle surgery.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

But I'm gonna play and see how it goes. You know, I'll be playing tournaments again in three months. I. I just. That's a little bit why I'm so annoyed that I'm even one. Because if I start it, I'm gonna be back into it.

[Co-host (possibly producer or guest)]

Just gonna do one tournament.

[Mike]

Next thing you know.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

I am proud of myself, though, because I tore it playing in a tournament and finished third in that tournament. I didn't know I tore it.

[Mike]

And that was your first tournament, right?

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Yes. I did not know it'd be different if I knew I tore it. Because that's hardcore. And that's awesome because you're playing through it. Because I. I played through pain, but I just thought, this will be fine. But I did finish third in that tournament where I tore my ankle, man.

[Mike]

That was like me when I broke my foot on the second base at the Cardinals Busch Stadium. I played through it, dude. I didn't know it was broken. Then later that night. Couldn't even walk on it. Couldn't put any pressure on it.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Yeah. You were only competing, dude.

[Mike]

Do you know how cool it is to tell people that I broke my foot?

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

That's why I didn't even want to say you weren't even competing. I took a second, I thought about what I wanted to say here.

[Mike]

Anytime any dads are together and we're talking about broken bones, I'm like, dude, let me tell you my story. They're like. They're like Bush.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Bush Picture. Bush Stadium.

[Mike]

Like where the Cardinals play. Where The Cardinals play.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

St. Louis Cardinals. Eddie said he almost died coming to the building the other day. He tried to beat a train. He tell you this, Mike?

[Mike]

Oh, yeah, Mike, what's our.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Oh, so he's told everybody this now?

[Mike]

Mike, what's our rule? What's our rule when you know we can't be late, Right?

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

If there's a train, you take a picture of it. I think that's okay.

[Mike]

That's a cop out. Can you imagine if I texted you a picture of a train? Hey, man. Stuck behind a train.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

For someone that grew up in a town that trains held everything up for half an hour, I would have actually Understood that one.

[Mike]

Dude, how crazy how long these trains are.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

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[Mike]

Like I've been stuck behind a train for like 20 minutes and you're just like, what? Like it never ends.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

You shouldn't try to beat a train.

[Mike]

But. But here's the deal. The. The bars weren't even down yet. So the bell was ringing.

[Eddie]

No, you don't go.

[Mike]

Did the bells.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Did you look both ways and you didn't see it?

[Mike]

I didn't. I saw it coming.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

I know if you see it, you can't go.

[Mike]

Plenty of room, plenty of time. And then, dude, I looked behind me as soon as I crossed the railroad tracks and those bars like came down right behind me.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

I'm glad you didn't die.

[Mike]

I do. Dude, I would have been 20 minutes late.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

That's okay, though. For a train. That's okay. One final thing.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Let's.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Let's end on soccer. Eddie and I were in the bathroom talking about the rules of soccer, which we don't know and I don't. In the NBA. Let's say you leave a player back, you go to play offense. Let's say you're playing defense, but you leave a player back cherry picking.

[Mike]

Cherry picking. Right under the basket, wide open.

[Eddie]

He's just under there.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

While you got four guys playing defense on five guys, but you got one guy back.

[Mike]

You get the rebounder, you throw it to your cherry picker. Whoa, easy to.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

NBA doesn't go offsides icing. No. You just choose to play defensively with one less person. Leave someone down there, you take the risk.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Yeah.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

In soccer they don't let you do that. They call freaking offsides. Throw the flag.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

If you want to have somebody down there, keep somebody down there.

[Mike]

Dude, how crazy is that? Guy's only job is to look at for officers. This is only job.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

They should allow cherry pick. I've got two rules that I've thought about that I would implement as an American that knows nothing about soccer and will probably be stupid. Number one, we allow cherry picking. That's it. Now you're going to have one less guy on defense. So the offense should take advantage of that.

[Mike]

Risk it.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Yeah.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

So leave.

[Eddie]

And if you don't like it, keep

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

a player back on defense to guard them. So we allow cherry picking. Two instead of one ball. There's two.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

What?

[Mike]

Now it's like pinball. You know, when that other ball comes out, you're like, it's too much. Which one do I hit?

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

But you're not. Let me finish because the field's so big. And they don't.

[Eddie]

They don't score enough.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

And a lot of times they're like, kick it back to the guy behind them. They kick it back to the guy behind them. Okay, they're resetting and then you're starting over to get to spend four minutes watching you guys kick it back to midfield again.

[Mike]

So what are they doing that other ball.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

If there were two balls now only one of the balls is the real ball, but they look exactly the same. You know how when you watch the cup challenge in a ball game and you get.

[Eddie]

And you have to see where the

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

thing is under the cup and you're like, it's cup one. It's cup one. Both balls come out and they show you which one's the real ball. At first, this is the real one, but they look exactly the same. Now the players can mix them up with their feet all they want, but only one of them is the real ball. So if you can identify which one's the fake ball, that's great. Just play that one while somebody else. But if you can't and they do the mix ups where you can't watch it anymore, you don't know which ball is the real ball.

[Mike]

You're doing circus games in the middle

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

of the real game. Tell me.

[Eddie]

That wouldn't be so fun.

[Mike]

So do we get two goalies?

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

No, just one. Everything's the same, all right? You're trying to keep your eye on the real ball. It's like that cup game where you try three car money even, but once

[Mike]

you figure out the ball the real

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

but you never really know touches the.

[Co-host (possibly producer or guest)]

The.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

The fake one, but you never really know. You think you know, but if the team's really good at switching it up, 80 of your team's probably on the real ball. But a little. You like, are we sure?

[Mike]

So when is it revealed when they kick?

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

If a ball goes in and it's the real one, it's the real one. If there's a tracker on it, like the light goes off on a basket like it when the shot clock expires. Or hockey go. If one goes in and it's not nothing. Now there's only one ball in play.

[Mike]

They're like, dang it, that's the fake one.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Or they're like, thank God that's the fake one.

[Mike]

Okay, that. Yeah, yeah. I was thinking the offense.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Yeah, yeah. Because the offense could also be confused on which one it is.

[Co-host (possibly producer or guest)]

Right, Right.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

How fun would two bad two balls be just for the last five minutes of the game? Or an extra. Extra period.

[Mike]

Ooh, extra time. I like that.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Two balls.

[Mike]

That's cool, too, because you're encouraging scoring at that point. Like, if it's a tied game, like, here we go.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

And the longer it goes, no ties. The longer it goes, more balls. It's like pinball. Like you said, they keep dropping balls down, then it's impossible to know which one's which. So now you're just trying to block all the balls.

[Mike]

And the announcer, too, can, like, really play into. It's two ball time.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Yes. Feels like Hunger Games. So, okay, this is what it would be then. Because, no, I don't like ties. Even in the group stage. So they finish, but that.

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[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

And in over. Extra time. No, extra time is like the time if they were injured or something.

[Mike]

Yeah, that's the extra. Yeah, whatever that stoppage time.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

What? Whatever the. We'll call it overtime for us Americans. Every minute that goes by, a new ball gets dropped. There are no ties.

[Mike]

So there could be, like, there could

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

be seven balls out there, and only one of them is the real one. But, you know, if they're more balls, you don't even know which one's the real one anymore.

[Mike]

Real soccer people are like, what's this guy talking about?

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Tell me. That would be fun. That's my banana soccer. I create banana ball.

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[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

You have any new rules?

[Mike]

Yeah, I would get rid of the. The fact that the only ball. The ball is the out of bounds. Like, if the ball is still touching the line, it's still inbounds.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

So what is that rule?

[Mike]

So really, that's. That's the rule that the ball is the only thing that matters. The person can step out of bounds. But. Okay, once the ball passes the line fully through, completely passes the line, then it's out.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

That's the real rule.

[Mike]

That's the. That's the real rule.

[Eddie]

What would your role be?

[Mike]

Just if the person. Like football, you know, like, if the person steps out of bounds, turnover. That's what I think. Because it's so confusing. And then sometimes, like, you have to look for the whole ball to cross. Like, that's too much.

[Eddie]

Yeah, we're very American.

[Mike]

And the field's already big enough.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Like you said, builds huge. Maybe double the field.

[Mike]

Oh, okay.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

And put four goals with two goalies and a hole in the middle that serves as a goal. A ground hole that just opens and closes. Like a mini golf hole.

[Mike]

Like soccer golf.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Yeah, that's exactly it.

[Co-host (possibly producer or guest)]

But.

[Mike]

But in the. The right in the middle half field,

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

or you Do a tall goal like mtv. When they would do those, you get more points for the MTV basketball for the high goal. That's worth two if you can get it up there, but it's much smaller.

[Mike]

I think you're on to something.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Yeah. That's my. That's my banana ball.

[Eddie]

Soccer.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

That's it. Thank you guys for listening. We hope you have a great weekend.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

I don't know.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Go usa. We don't play again till next week. We play Bosnia Herzegovina.

[Mike]

See, so. So is that just Bosnia or is that.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

No, it's Bosnia Herzegovina. And I'm not sure if that's one country or two together.

[Mike]

Okay, well, that's kind of cool. That'd be like. Eddie, Bobby, just make a team. Because we're two small countries.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

We live next door.

[Eddie]

We just create one.

[Mike]

Yeah, yeah.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Mike, do you know we play. Let me see if I'm guessing.

[Co-host (possibly producer or guest)]

Wednesday.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Wednesday.

[Co-host (possibly producer or guest)]

Wednesday at night.

[Mike]

Dang, dude.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

What time?

[Co-host (possibly producer or guest)]

7:00pm Central.

[Mike]

Cool. I like seven. 9:00 clock. Was a little too late.

[Co-host (possibly Kevin)]

Yeah.

[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

Good thing the game didn't matter.

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[Co-host (possibly Brandon Ray or Kevin)]

All right, so from all of us and all of our friends in Turkey, we hope you guys have a great weekend by everybody. Theme song written by Bobby Bones. That's me. And performed by Brandon Ray. Follow Brandon on socials at Brandon Ray Music. You can follow the show on Instagram at Bobby Bonesports. Thanks to our crew, co host at producer Eddie, segment producer at Kickoff Kevin, and executive producer at Mike Bistro. But most importantly, thank you for listening. I'm Bobby Vaughn. We'll talk to you next time here on 25 Whistles.

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