25W: Reid's Final Rodeo! And a Questionable Farewell Gift + Bobby Needs a Feuding Partner

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Bobby Bones Show Episode: 25W: Reid's Final Rodeo! And a Questionable Farewell Gift + Bobby Needs a Feuding Partner
Release Date: May 1, 2025
Host: Premiere Networks

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1. Reed's Final Day on the Show

The episode opens with Bobby Bones announcing that it's Reed's last day on the show. Bobby shares a heartfelt moment from a recent golf outing with Reed and Eddie, reflecting on their time together and preparing for Reed's departure.

• Bobby Bones [01:28]: "It's Reed's last day on the show. I took Reed to play golf yesterday. It's kind of like a hey, man, farewell."

2. Reflections on Friendship and Moving Forward

As the conversation unfolds, Bobby, Reed, and Eddie delve into the dynamics of their friendships and the bittersweet feelings surrounding Reed's move. They discuss the importance of accountability and the changes that come with cohabitation and marriage.

• Bobby Bones [02:12]: "But there's gotta be that bread on the top of it too. And so that meat. He's had no accountability to anybody."

3. Marriage and Cohabitation Advice

The trio engages in a candid discussion about Reed's impending marriage and the adjustments that come with living together. They emphasize the need to "pick your battles" and the importance of understanding and supporting each other's mental health.

• Eddie [03:45]: "Did you tell them about the pick your battles. I think that's an important one."
• Bobby Bones [03:50]: "Yes. You feel like everything, especially early, is something you need to win because you've always pretty much won every battle."

4. The Prank Call TikTok Story

The conversation shifts to the topic of prank calls, particularly a viral TikTok video involving a priest being prank-called about becoming the Pope. Bobby critiques the backlash against prank callers, highlighting the fines imposed by the NFL on such actions.

• Bobby Bones [09:37]: "And so no, it's from Doghouse Underscore tv, but dawg. And so it's a priest holding his phone out... it's a prank call."

5. Reed's Fraternity Hazing Experience

Reed shares a personal story about a severe hazing incident from his fraternity days. He recounts being blindfolded, driven around in a vehicle, and left in the woods as part of his initiation, emphasizing the psychological impact rather than physical harm.

• Reed [30:38]: "Eleven students from West Hill High in Syracuse... following a severe hazing incident."

6. Farewell Gifts and Goodbyes

In a poignant farewell segment, Reed presents gifts to the team—a picture of himself with the caption "Gone But Never Forgotten." The group humorously critiques the gift while expressing their appreciation and best wishes for Reed's future endeavors.

• Reed [41:33]: "I have something for you guys to remember me by."
• Bobby Bones [42:41]: "Reed gave us a picture of him that says, gone but never forgotten. Reed. A picture of him. Beautiful."

7. Humorous Anecdotes and Final Thoughts

The episode concludes with a series of humorous stories, including Bobby and Eddie recounting a dramatic golf cart flip incident. They share laughs over past misadventures and discuss potential future feuds, highlighting the camaraderie that defines their relationships.

• Eddie [47:33]: "I almost died... the golf cart flipped over."
• Bobby Bones [49:11]: "I met Serena at a Super Bowl party in Miami. She asked me, 'Get out of here, dude.'"

Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• Bobby Bones [01:28]: "It's Reed's last day on the show. I took Reed to play golf yesterday."
• Reed [30:38]: "Eleven students from West Hill High in Syracuse... severe hazing incident."
• Eddie [03:45]: "Did you tell them about the pick your battles."
• Bobby Bones [09:37]: "It's a prank call to a kid about getting drafted to the NFL a little bit later."
• Reed [41:33]: "I have something for you guys to remember me by."
• Bobby Bones [42:41]: "Reed gave us a picture of him that says, gone but never forgotten."
• Eddie [47:33]: "I almost died... the golf cart flipped over."

Conclusion

This episode of The Bobby Bones Show serves as a heartfelt farewell to Reed, blending emotional reflections with humor and camaraderie. Listeners are treated to personal anecdotes, insightful discussions on relationships, and entertaining stories that capture the essence of the show's dynamic. Through memorable quotes and engaging dialogue, Bobby, Reed, and Eddie create an episode that resonates deeply, offering both laughter and poignant moments for their audience.

Transcript

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[Bobby Bones]

This is a podcast called 25 Whistles. Talking football. And they all wear a whistle. Yeah, it's stupid, but why did you expect. It's a podcast called 25 Whistles. 25 Whistles. Oh, whistle us up. Let's start the show. I know. That's a sad whistle.

[Eddie]

That's a sad one.

[Bobby Bones]

It's Reed's last day on the show. I took Reed to play golf yesterday. It's kind of like a hey, man, farewell. Let's get one more out of you.

[Reed]

Farewell beating.

[Eddie]

No, just YouTube.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, and the course was pretty empty. It was. It's kind of an awesome day. I'll be honest. Eddie.

[Eddie]

Really?

[Bobby Bones]

Because Eddie was gonna go and what did I say? Immediately he was like, I'm in. And then he texted me and goes, I'm out.

[Eddie]

That's usually how it goes.

[Bobby Bones]

And so we were just gonna celebrate. Reed and Eddie didn't feel like celebrating.

[Eddie]

That's not true, dude.

[Bobby Bones]

Weather was perfect. I hadn't played in like nine months and I shot at 89. So, yeah, it was a good day because even had I shot bad, I'd already made it up to my made. I was not gonna have a bad day. We're out celebrating our friend Reed.

[Eddie]

What you guys talk about, like, just the good times?

[Bobby Bones]

No, we just kind of had a good time.

[Reed]

Yeah, we just had a good time. Play golf. He did give me some marriage advice, you know.

[Eddie]

Really?

[Bobby Bones]

Mostly cohabitating advice. Yeah, because that's the bit that was habitat.

[Eddie]

And that means living with someone.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, like accountability that you don't have to have now, that you won't now have to have being married because you're now living together. He's had a long distance relationship for how long?

[Reed]

Five years.

[Bobby Bones]

So they've had their relationship and they had a relationship before that too. So they have like that, you know, the bread.

[Reed]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

This has been the meat. But there's gotta be that bread on the top of it too. And so that meat. He's had no accountability to anybody. He can go run and do whatever he wants.

[Reed]

Oh, dude, I eat in bed at like 10 o'clock at night.

[Eddie]

Like me tough.

[Bobby Bones]

And I wasn't talking about that so much. It was mostly like decisions have been made together and that's not going to be instinctually what happens because you haven't been doing that. And then I told him, I was like, I was older. So for you it's not exactly going to be the same. I said, but for me, I was so wired. I mean, I didn't mean. My wife told. I was like 38 or something. I don't know, 38. 39 maybe. 39, yeah, something like that sounds about right. So I said I was so wired and I had money. And he was like, yeah, I didn't think about that. It's gonna be hard with the money. And I was like, you don't have money, Reed. It's different. I was like, you're younger, though.

[Eddie]

I was like, you're not the same.

[Bobby Bones]

I was like, you're younger. That's not the same. Like I. So yeah, so we had a little marriage talk, but really we just have a good time.

[Eddie]

Did you tell them about the pick your battles. I think that's an important one.

[Bobby Bones]

That's a good one.

[Eddie]

Pick your battles.

[Bobby Bones]

Yes. You feel like everything, especially early, is something you need to win because you've always pretty much won every battle.

[Reed]

See, I don't really fight that much though.

[Bobby Bones]

I kind of lose living with each other also. Good point. But also you're right. You're both right. You are such a type B, go with the flow guy. But also it's going to be different when you do live with somebody.

[Reed]

Yeah, very true.

[Kevin]

You can't watch whatever you want to watch anymore. You can't play video games whenever you want to play video games anymore.

[Eddie]

You can sound like children.

[Bobby Bones]

Kevin's going through this now.

[Kevin]

And I bought in. I mean, it's only been a few months, but I bought in from day one. And, you know, I get to watch my games when I can, but if the playoffs are on and the Celtics aren't playing, I'm probably not watching every game.

[Bobby Bones]

Guys.

[Eddie]

What the.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm telling you, listen. And I always thought I got big balls. I'll do whatever I want forever. Who cares? I don't. I can't watch football all day Sunday every. Every Sunday, because I'm watching it all day Saturday. And then Sunday comes, and there's Monday night. So my wife does not say you can't watch football. But I know if I spend all day for multiple days just watching football, it's not gonna feel good for me. Like, it's just not. So there are things that you'll have to learn to give up that aren't even a battle, that you don't want to even exist because you have to think about her and her feelings and her emotions. Now, what's gonna be good for you is she's gonna work a whole lot. Cause she's a new doctor.

[Reed]

Yes, exactly. Yeah. And I like to play a lot of video games, too, so that's gonna.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, she's going to work a lot, and you don't have a job, so.

[Eddie]

You'Re going to be home all day.

[Reed]

Just play video games all day.

[Bobby Bones]

Eating in the bed all day.

[Reed]

Oh, my God.

[Kevin]

He told me the shirt on. His shirt on now because he likes to eat in bed, and he doesn't want to roll around in crumbs.

[Bobby Bones]

He wakes up with a crumb trail every morning.

[Reed]

I wake up on rice and, like, whoa.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, that's why I wore my shirt, dude.

[Reed]

Yeah, that's got to end.

[Bobby Bones]

Mission accomplished.

[Reed]

It's got to end.

[Bobby Bones]

It's going to be awesome, dude.

[Reed]

Thanks, man.

[Bobby Bones]

Sort of.

[Eddie]

You're love it.

[Bobby Bones]

It is a big sacrifice for you. Does she respect that?

[Reed]

Oh, 100%.

[Bobby Bones]

That you've really built something, not just professionally.

[Reed]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

But also personally.

[Reed]

Like, you got relationships, all that.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Reed]

She 100% understands you only get to.

[Bobby Bones]

Use that card, like, three times in a big way.

[Reed]

Oh, that's very true.

[Bobby Bones]

Because it's a card where you're there and don't waste it on. I move for you. I want to watch the game.

[Reed]

That's one. Oh, geez.

[Eddie]

You're gonna want to waste it on.

[Bobby Bones]

Yes. You're gonna want to. What? You wait. Because you get, like, three. That's it. Because it is big. Because you're moving for her now. You're moving for you guys, but you're moving for her and her job. If it's. We're all gonna go play golf somewhere in, like, South Carolina. And she's like, no, but it's my uncle's birthday. And you're like, listen, I get it, but I moved here for you. And I haven't seen my. That's one.

[Eddie]

That's it.

[Brandon]

Say it like that, too. I moved here for you.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

And those are the tough ones, too. When you get married, like a weekend away from her. That's a tough one. That's the one. You're gonna have to have a little bit of ammo.

[Reed]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Because she's gonna work a lot.

[Reed]

Yeah. For the most part. She's gonna be freer on the weekends, so that's gonna be the time we're gonna be able to spend time together. So. Yeah. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Keep it in your. Keep it in your wallet. Yeah. You mean pizza. No, no, not your penis. You mean pizza. I'm talking about. Keep your little. Your little token.

[Reed]

Oh, there you go.

[Bobby Bones]

Mash it in. When it's like, I get it, but I gave up a lot. I moved here for you. Please have the understanding that I need this for me.

[Reed]

I need this b.

[Bobby Bones]

A key word for my mental health.

[Reed]

Oh, mental health.

[Eddie]

Mental health is really.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. You can't say no to that.

[Eddie]

And she's a doctor. She'll understand that.

[Unknown]

Y.

[Bobby Bones]

And mental health manifests itself with bad physical health. And she's a doctor.

[Reed]

Oh, she's sweet, though. She needs. She knows I need the bro time.

[Bobby Bones]

And, you know, you think that before you get married.

[Reed]

Babe, I don't know anybody here. I'm all alone.

[Eddie]

They like the you guys time better than the bro time.

[Reed]

Oh, yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Okay. But it's gonna be great. We're gonna miss you.

[Reed]

I'm gonna miss you guys, so.

[Eddie]

No, no, he says he's coming back.

[Reed]

I'm gonna be back.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Reed]

I'll be back, like, once a month.

[Eddie]

No, you're not.

[Bobby Bones]

There's no chance.

[Reed]

Okay. All right.

[Bobby Bones]

No, it's not a goal. No, no. You can't prove us wrong by driving down here once a month.

[Brandon]

I told him because you get tired.

[Bobby Bones]

Of here, that's a long enough drive.

[Reed]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

That you're not just going to be able to willy nilly do it.

[Reed]

That's true.

[Bobby Bones]

But it's not so long that you can't do it if you need to.

[Reed]

That's true.

[Kevin]

Five hours Four and a half.

[Reed]

Four and a half?

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Without traffic.

[Brandon]

So once a month.

[Reed]

Yeah. Dude, okay, but for what?

[Bobby Bones]

There's not even anything for you to do once visit us out of spite.

[Reed]

Yeah, well, I have some people that want me to come down and do like monthly, like content shoots, just.

[Bobby Bones]

But that's not us.

[Reed]

No, but I would definitely come see you guys.

[Bobby Bones]

We got Brandon. We're moving on.

[Eddie]

We do. Hey, Brandon.

[Bobby Bones]

Hey. Meet our new girl.

[Reed]

I still got my FOB though. I'm just gonna show up.

[Bobby Bones]

Hey, guys.

[Brandon]

I'm read too.

[Bobby Bones]

They call me dudes.

[Reed]

I'm gonna be made fun of. I'm not even.

[Eddie]

Well, yeah, well, yeah, it's all in love.

[Bobby Bones]

Maybe, but that's already happening. That's very true when you're not around. So let's get to some stuff and then we'll come back. Cool.

[Reed]

Yeah. I got a gift for you guys.

[Bobby Bones]

He's got gifts. I don't know what that means.

[Kevin]

Surprise. Right?

[Bobby Bones]

We'll do more read at the end.

[Kevin]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. First, I got a lot of stuff I'd like to say first of all. And I'm going to use me as a perspective, but this goes for anybody. If I send you an awesome, hilarious, relatable tick tock video.

[Eddie]

Oh, shoot.

[Bobby Bones]

And you did. What's up?

[Eddie]

I have not checked.

[Bobby Bones]

I saw it and you don't respond. He knows.

[Eddie]

Well, can I. Can I defend something?

[Bobby Bones]

I've not finished my statement.

[Eddie]

Go ahead.

[Bobby Bones]

I sent the funniest tick tock to Eddie and not even a response. Not even a haha. So. And I don't think I even sent this audio. Doesn't that the call? Okay, good. I didn't send it. I have it on my phone. Only it made me think about it because I want to look and see if Eddie ever responded to it. So on TikTok, I'm gonna play for my phone.

[Reed]

Do you heard it?

[Bobby Bones]

So no, it's from Doghouse Underscore tv, but dawg. And so it's a priest and the priest is holding his phone out and he's getting a call. It's much like Shitter Sanders. And the priest gets a call to be the Pope, but it's a prank call.

[Eddie]

Oh, I saw it. I saw it.

[Bobby Bones]

Hello? Hey, Is this Father O'Malley? Yes, yes, this is him.

[Eddie]

This is him.

[Bobby Bones]

Hey, Father O'Malley.

[Kevin]

This is Archbishop Ferdinand calling Vatican City.

[Bobby Bones]

How's it going? How's it going? Good. How do you feel if we bring you in for Pope? Sound good? Yes, yes, I would love you this will be such an honor. I've been working for this for so long. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Oh, my God, I can't wait. Well, you should probably wait a little longer. What?

[Eddie]

Was that.

[Bobby Bones]

So timely with the Pope and obviously I should have repaired it. I didn't get a response from Eddie.

[Eddie]

Good job.

[Bobby Bones]

I didn't make it, but still.

[Eddie]

No, no, that's great.

[Kevin]

And it wasn't in a group chat because he never.

[Bobby Bones]

No, it was a one on one.

[Eddie]

That's not the problem. My phone goes into bed mode or something at 9:30. And you sent that at what, 9:30? 8, 9:40. So I didn't even see it till this morning and I didn't by that time. Dude, the mornings are like chaotic. I'm gotta get ready this morning. But no, but I did see it yesterday on my own. Tick tock.

[Bobby Bones]

No, we're not letting you have credit for.

[Eddie]

No, I really did see it.

[Bobby Bones]

Why didn't you send it to me? Why do you think it's funny? Have to send to me then.

[Eddie]

I wasn't gonna say that. I was gonna send you another one though, of this Mexican guy singing a Suspicious Minds.

[Reed]

Oh, my.

[Eddie]

Awesome. We can't go on together.

[Reed]

No.

[Bobby Bones]

We don't understand the context. We don't like it. No.

[Unknown]

That.

[Bobby Bones]

He sucks at that. He sucks at that.

[Eddie]

Come on.

[Bobby Bones]

So a couple things now, speaking of the shadow thing, you know me, I've been a fan of prank calls and people are acting like the dude was offered an organ to save his life and was like, oh, no kidney for you. They're really blowing this out of proportion. I think there were. There were two other people prank called though too. That didn't make the news at least.

[Kevin]

Yes, I saw something that we know that could be.

[Eddie]

Well, how do they get those numbers?

[Bobby Bones]

Who knows? Yeah, they could also call their normal phones. Who knows? But we'll do the NFL finding the Falcons and defensive coordinator Jeff Albrecht over the prank call because apparently he was on an iPad. He left the iPad out. His son got the iPad. Likely story. Who cares? 100,000 bucks to the coach, the 250 to the team. I don't feel like that's as big of a deal. Yeah, $250,000 to the Falcons. Chump change. $100,000 to an assistant coach.

[Eddie]

That's brutal.

[Bobby Bones]

That's big money. And I saw someone go, well, he makes like 1.5 a year. Okay, but let's pull taxes out of that first. So we're at like 880 now. You're taking over a tenth of a salary for this fine over a prank call about getting drafted. I'm not saying there should be no punishment, because if there's delicate information, it's not even about the prank call. It's just about them sending you information confidential, that shouldn't be out. Players get fined if their playbooks end up in other places. So I'm okay with that type of treatment. We got to stop acting like this is some sort of travesty, like national travesty where Shadora got prank called.

[Eddie]

But we can't keep doing it. That's why they're finding, like, this cannot do.

[Bobby Bones]

It's only happening because the Shadur. It's only happening because it became a humongous media story. Otherwise. Nope. It had just been kind of funny. And the other guys got pranked and.

[Kevin]

The kid was an idiot for filming it.

[Bobby Bones]

And it wasn't. The kid wasn't even doing the prank himself. He was sitting in the background. He has buddy do it for him.

[Eddie]

And you know, it's crazy, too, now that Shador, where he released the video to his side of it.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

So they didn't.

[Bobby Bones]

First.

[Eddie]

They didn't even need to shoot their own video.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, they want a credit.

[Eddie]

What's that?

[Bobby Bones]

What do you mean, they want to credit.

[Kevin]

Yeah, you know.

[Eddie]

Well, yeah, I know, but you can always say, like, that's me. And then people that, you know, like, that's your credit.

[Reed]

Now.

[Bobby Bones]

That doesn't count. That's me. No, you want to post it on yours and go, I did it.

[Kevin]

Because they were live streaming right. When they called them.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't know.

[Eddie]

I mean, you want to post it on yours. But that's it. That's your giveaway. Like, that's your just take me to jail.

[Bobby Bones]

But you don't think you're going to get in trouble. You're going to think the positive you're going to get from it is going to way outweigh the negative. It wouldn't have become this massive story had it not been shitter and everybody reacting to it like somebody got stabbed. Had it happened just as it did, it had been fine, but all the reactions created a wave that created a wave that created this fine. Yeah, it's a prank call. Get over yourselves, everybody. It's a prank call to a kid about getting drafted to the NFL a little bit later, Right?

[Unknown]

Exactly.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

But he didn't know that then.

[Bobby Bones]

No, no. But. Doesn't matter. You're gonna get. He's gonna get drafted or he's gonna go as a free agent. It doesn't matter. It's a prank call. That your draft position is delayed. Now you're gonna find a coach. $100,000 because it got to be a big media story. It's insane how people are acting over this call. Yeah. I love prank calls.

[Eddie]

I do, too.

[Bobby Bones]

Jerky boys. Freaking hilarious. R.D.

[Eddie]

Mercer.

[Bobby Bones]

Roy D. Mercer. Just died. Just died.

[Eddie]

I know.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Hilarious. Me doing them as a kid. I used to call 1037 the buzz. How many times can I fit the word penis into a call? Hilarious.

[Kevin]

Funny. Remember they kicked your dog one back in the day? I don't think you showed up in my yard and you kicked my dog. You guys don't remember that?

[Eddie]

No.

[Bobby Bones]

What?

[Kevin]

Never mind. I guess I'm about to find this one. Yeah.

[Eddie]

So. So what do you. Is dad. Is dad pissed?

[Bobby Bones]

Like, it depends. I want to say yes. Unless the dad gave him the number. Then he's like, I'm not saying prank call him, but the dad, if he just left it out and up, even then you don't prank on. So I'm gonna say yes.

[Eddie]

But then he got fine on top of it.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't know the level of it, though.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

But yeah, I'm gonna say yeah, because.

[Eddie]

You would think at the beginning, right? Like, when all this was happening and the. The he's upset, so he makes him apologize. He makes the kid apologize, like, publicly. You have to do that. And he did.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. That should be enough.

[Eddie]

Then you get fined by the NFL. You're like, you son of a. I.

[Bobby Bones]

Don'T mind the NFL finding the Falcons because, again, if there's confidential information, you have to protect it. And that is an organizational priority to protect confidential information. I don't mind the fine for that, but they're just going. Because everybody cried about it like it was something bad. It wasn't. But again, I saw two other guys get prank called as well. And you know what? Their stories weren't stories because everybody wasn't crying over it.

[Kevin]

And top picks.

[Bobby Bones]

And because they didn't have full camera crew. No, not yet. Okay. And because they have full camera crews with them, like Shigur did had a full camera, so everybody needs to shut up.

[Eddie]

You're gonna have to find them, too, though, right? If you find out those. Whoever prank called, the issue is Thousand dollar.

[Bobby Bones]

The issue is it depends what phone number they called. So the NFL sent out specific phones that nobody had the number to. Not everybody used the specific phone. Some people just use their phones. So if you're getting. If You NFL sends me a phone, but I'm like, no, no, just call me on mine. I'll answer it. And then you prank call me on mine. That's not the NFL's fault. There's a lot of people have my number anyway. People are acting crazy. Even Shadur is not even that mad about it.

[Kevin]

No. I'd be annoyed if I were him.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, guys, okay, it's not a story.

[Kevin]

We're done.

[Bobby Bones]

Yes.

[Brandon]

It's fine.

[Bobby Bones]

So, yeah, can't find 100,000 bucks. The other call, which was so funny. I like Will Wade. Now, Will Wade, you may remember, was a really good basketball coach at lsu. Got in the scandal, like, paying players type scandal shoes. Vegas recorded mc. Basically, he was doing then what people do now. It just wasn't legal then. Yeah. So should he have been penalized? Yes. Because it wasn't within the rules. But was everybody doing it already? Yeah, but he got caught. And is everybody doing it? Yeah. Yeah. Do it now. Yeah. So. But I liked Will Wade. And then he just won. First he was out for a bit, and he just took the NC State job because he won. Did he win two games in tournament or one game this year before he left?

[Kevin]

One at McNeese.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Kevin]

Yeah, one.

[Bobby Bones]

And so he goes and he's at NC State. He's going to be a great coach. I was actually lobbying for him to get the job before Calipari got it at Arkansas. We didn't know Cal. I didn't know Caliper was in the mix. Nobody did. And usually I know stuff because I give enough money where they, like, will include me or they'll ask me for more money. So I was big on let's get Will Wade. I was on a call like, let's get Will Wade. And then out of nowhere, it was like, we're having drunk Al party. Like, I'll shut up. Yeah. But I like Will Wade. And what's funny, I'm gonna play a clip from TikTok here. And will Wade is calling the season ticket holders to get them to renew. It's kind of funny. The head coach is calling.

[Kevin]

Good idea.

[Bobby Bones]

And to bring excitement to the program.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

And so he's sitting in a boardroom and he's got the cell phone on speakerphone, and he's talking into the phone. And the dude that answers is so funny because he doesn't believe it's Will Wade here. Teddy. Hey, this is Will Wade from NC State men's basketball. How are you? Get out of here.

[Reed]

What's up, man?

[Bobby Bones]

Yo, yo, it's Will Wade.

[Eddie]

Get out of here, dude.

[Kevin]

I'm serious.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm calling you on the season ticket list.

[Reed]

We gotta get you renew your season tickets on the lower sideline, man.

[Bobby Bones]

Nah, man, I'm serious.

[Reed]

Huh?

[Bobby Bones]

No, dude. Who is this? It's Will Wade.

[Kevin]

All right, well, you sound like him.

[Bobby Bones]

This is absurd. It's me.

[Reed]

I'm serious. It's me.

[Kevin]

I'm calling for Patrick in the ticket office's phone.

[Bobby Bones]

Dude, I'm so pumped that you're here. So pumped, man.

[Kevin]

We appreciate all your support and love.

[Bobby Bones]

To have you renew your season tickets.

[Kevin]

And make sure you're in Lenovo.

[Bobby Bones]

Ready to roll. All right. Yep. Let's.

[Eddie]

Let's roll, man.

[Bobby Bones]

You closed it.

[Reed]

Let's. Let's get it done.

[Bobby Bones]

I look forward to meeting you soon, brother.

[Eddie]

Yeah, I look forward to seeing you, man.

[Bobby Bones]

Hopefully you settle in Raleigh.

[Eddie]

All right.

[Reed]

We're. We're all happy you're here.

[Bobby Bones]

Really appreciate you coming up here, man. It's gonna be awesome. I appreciate you, Teddy. Thanks, man.

[Reed]

Thanks, Will.

[Bobby Bones]

It's funny, two things. One, doesn't believe. Doesn't believe. And there's a. In a. In a split second, he believes, and it's just like, this is so cool. Like, immediate. He's like, no way. Who the f is. This is so cool.

[Eddie]

Then he ends up with like, thanks, coach.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, first he goes. He goes, thanks, Will. And then he's like, nope, thanks, Coach.

[Eddie]

He's like, yes.

[Bobby Bones]

So that was really cool. We should go. You should reach out North Carolina State.

[Kevin]

Good idea.

[Bobby Bones]

I would go over there because one, Raleigh's awesome, and we. There's. We could probably do a few things over there. But two, we should go shoot, see if they'll have us over the basketball and talk to Coach.

[Eddie]

Coach, Coach.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, because they grasp for air over there. Raleigh, Durham. Because think about it. North Carolina and Duke and NC State, they're fighting for oxygen over there. I would do a show. I did a show once at Durham Theater, and Duke and North Carolina were playing in the AC Championship game the same night. And I knew people wanted to watch it on their phone. You were there. Were you there?

[Brandon]

I was there.

[Bobby Bones]

And so I didn't even go out. I came out. I was like, guys, I'm gonna let you watch the game. And so I let. They. I went on later. I never.

[Eddie]

So you got on stage and then you walk back.

[Bobby Bones]

Funny, because I. Their phones. A lot of people are watching their phones. I never want to be late. However, I did want to respect that they were all in that Town. Those two teams from that town, relatively the triangle, were playing each other. And I was like, I'll be back after the game.

[Brandon]

But we also wanted to watch it too.

[Bobby Bones]

We did, but I didn't. I didn't care as much because I had a show. But it was. And so I waited, but then went out. And the worst thing to do is to mention a sports team on stage. And I've done it. Even like Tuscaloosa, if I'm like, hey, Alabama, down the road, you get, like, seven people to go War Eagle. And they start screaming each other and not fighting. But then it turns into, like a shouting match. Yeah. Of like, let's represent. So I never do that. But I made the mistake of mentioning again when I was on stage. And then someone goes, wolf pack. And then here we go. Tar. But it was like two wolf packs versus, like, all the rest. Tar Heels and Blue Devils.

[Eddie]

Not much.

[Bobby Bones]

So they're fighting for oxygen up there. That'd be cool. We should go over there.

[Kevin]

That'd be awesome.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, so that was that. We should put this up. We usually record this on. On Thursday afternoon, which is kind of where we are now. We could put this up same day. Can we? Because I want to talk about the playoffs last night a little bit.

[Unknown]

Oh, yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Because it would be. If we did it Friday and even leave this up. But the Lakers lost. That sucks. It's also good, but it sucks.

[Eddie]

There went that.

[Bobby Bones]

I like the star power and also bet on the Lakers. Not a ton, but right when Luca went over. Can someone answer me the question I think has been asked a thousand times? How do you play basketball all the time, run up and down the court all the time and still have, like, an extra £15 on.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Kevin]

Diet.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. But you would think you would need the right fuel to run up and down the court.

[Kevin]

I agree.

[Unknown]

Nico Harrison was onto something. Right.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm not even hating. I'm just. I don't understand how that happens.

[Eddie]

Could it be genetics? It's just kind of your way, your body.

[Unknown]

Eastern European guys are a little.

[Bobby Bones]

And we're talking about Luca. But to be a professional athlete.

[Brandon]

Cardio man.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, I look at Luca.

[Eddie]

You weren't talking about LeBron.

[Bobby Bones]

No.

[Eddie]

Got it.

[Kevin]

Total opposite.

[Bobby Bones]

Even my body, if running up and down, I would have no choice but to be in really great shape. I'm just surprised his body is not in great shape. Even if he has terrible habits outward, you would need to have somewhat decent habits inward just to give you the fuel to be able to compete, which he does. And hard. Is it so genetic?

[Unknown]

I mean, he doesn't play defense, so I guess maybe that's why it's crazy.

[Kevin]

But even like Jokic, you think there's a big difference between him and Jokic as far as body type goes.

[Bobby Bones]

Y is bigger, I would say. Yo. One joke, it just taller. And the position Jokic plays, even though they're running back and forth.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Luka has to move around a bit more.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Than Jokic does. I mean, Jokic is a center or A4. And not that they don't have the same court to run down, but. But I do think it's different, but. Yeah, but that's a great example.

[Kevin]

Jokic looks tired from the tip though, every game, but he's just out there balling.

[Bobby Bones]

He's awesome.

[Eddie]

He just throws the ball up and it goes in like back, like over his head.

[Kevin]

He's like.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you see Steph's thumb?

[Kevin]

No.

[Unknown]

Oh, yeah. Crazy, right?

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, my gosh. So Houston ended up winning the game. So three, two, as. As of right now. But Steph's thumb looks like an elbow.

[Eddie]

Oh, no.

[Unknown]

Yeah. It's like a whole other appendage.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Is that his left or right?

[Unknown]

I'm not sure.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't know. I just saw a picture of it and I was asleep when the game ended, so that was an early one.

[Kevin]

I think it's the right hand.

[Bobby Bones]

I think it's right. It is. It's right.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

Dude. I try to fall asleep early.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Started seven, didn't it?

[Eddie]

No, I think that was the one that ended around 8.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, then I was probably awake. I just assumed because it was Houston and Golden State. It was a late game.

[Eddie]

Yeah, no, LA was.

[Bobby Bones]

I didn't even try. I didn't even try.

[Kevin]

What was that for sure.

[Bobby Bones]

Didn't see the Lakers either. I just saw it this morning.

[Kevin]

The game the other night. Oh, Denver. That was like 9:00 it started.

[Unknown]

Same thing with the Lakers one. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Those are brutal. It's weird because the Bucks are out and so now Jan is probably not going to be a buck next year.

[Unknown]

How about all the altercations and stuff like that?

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

What happened?

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, yeah. With Halliburton's dad.

[Kevin]

So dumb.

[Bobby Bones]

And even Halliburton I liked. I like how. And Halliburton, I can see how he can grind on people. But he plays for the Pacers, which nobody hates the Pacers. So even if the most hated player on the team. That's not hated. Isn't that hated?

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

And they're not on national TV a whole lot, because it's not as. Even though they're really good. And I think they're going to push Cleveland, but Cleveland's awesome. But Halliburton's. Doesn't seem like. I'd probably be friends with him, but he probably definitely wouldn't be friends with me. Look at me. But afterward in the press conferences two days ago, he's like, yeah, my dad was wrong.

[Eddie]

He was.

[Bobby Bones]

He was like, my dad was wrong, and I'm gonna have a talk with him. And I was like, respect.

[Kevin]

Dang.

[Bobby Bones]

But also, it'd have been cool if that. He got to have a little feud, you know, that rolled over. Because I like feuds. Like, remember Harden and Giannis?

[Unknown]

Oh, yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

When Harden was like, he's big. Of course he can do it. And, yeah, like, no, I'm skilled, too, but I like feuds. Remember Zach Brown and Luke Bryan way back in the day?

[Eddie]

What? Yeah, country.

[Unknown]

Why do they beef?

[Bobby Bones]

I think Zach Brown, like, stealing his.

[Unknown]

Image kind of thing.

[Bobby Bones]

No, I think Zach Brown was making steal. Making fun of his, like, his music or something.

[Brandon]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, something like, it's been a long time, but I like a little.

[Brandon]

We need more of that.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Kevin]

Who doesn't?

[Bobby Bones]

I want to do one, but I would like to find somebody to feud with that can actually. They can play the game. I don't.

[Eddie]

We tried, dude. We tried that listener play.

[Bobby Bones]

No, no, no. There's a difference. I would.

[Kevin]

Sweeney.

[Bobby Bones]

I wouldn't even mind who Dabo. Here's the thing. I wouldn't even mind it being set up and talking about it on this show and letting our guys here that listen to this be insiders on it. Like, we're about to set this feud up. It's not going to be real. But play along, right? Because we know Jake Paul doesn't really hate the people he's boxed. We know boxers, MMA fighters don't really hate the person they're playing against. But I wish there were somebody that could take. Almost, like, take a joke, because I wouldn't go jugular. The problem that I have, if it's real, I get really mean, really competitive. All my energy goes into it, and I don't stop until they die. Right. It's very unhealthy.

[Brandon]

It's been a lot of. A lot of people die.

[Bobby Bones]

Yes. Like, yeah, I hate my enemies. I don't really have any right now. I don't want. I don't. I don't really want any. I don't want any because it's It's. I'm not healthy. I'm not healthy about it.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

But I would love to have somebody that could play that part. And I could go in, like, 60 on them and we go at each other, because I can take it. But who would that be?

[Kevin]

Are you talking athlete or.

[Bobby Bones]

No, somebody would do it back. Like an artist or somebody. But it has to be somebody coming on the same level. I don't want to punch down, and if I punch so far up, they're not going to respond.

[Eddie]

I got it.

[Bobby Bones]

Who?

[Eddie]

Jelly Roll. Jelly Roll.

[Bobby Bones]

I wouldn't go after Jelly Roll, though. He's so beloved. I would just get crushed. Right.

[Brandon]

That would make you the villain. Could you.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Kevin]

The Swifties would come after you. The Jelly Roll Swifties come out to you.

[Bobby Bones]

I would love to have a good feud because they're fun for everybody.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Including myself. I just don't have the person that I would even feel comfortable calling up and being like, hey, you want to do this? Like, let's just go at each other a little bit. Get people talking about it. There are two ways to get talked about. One, date or marry somebody famous. Like a couple. We've seen artists do that. Or have a few with somebody, because those are the stories people love.

[Kevin]

What about, like. I don't know why it's popping my head. Like, Lee Bryce.

[Bobby Bones]

I already had a real one with him.

[Eddie]

We can't go down that road.

[Bobby Bones]

I have to, like, not hate Lee. Oh, it wasn't his fault. But he could have, like, stepped in and stopped his band member from being a douche.

[Brandon]

Yeah, we can't talk about that.

[Kevin]

Okay. Sorry. This is before my time.

[Eddie]

There's history there, man.

[Bobby Bones]

I've had to drop that one.

[Kevin]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

So it doesn't exist in me. It started to poke his head out right then. It doesn't exist in me because I. It's not a Lee thing. But I do think Lee could have, like, told his bassist to shut up and stop trying to kick us off the stage. We're playing in St. Louis at a festival together.

[Reed]

Hey, St. Louis, baby.

[Bobby Bones]

Was it guitars? He's being a total like.

[Eddie]

And it might. It might have even been the tech. Really? Not even whomever it was.

[Bobby Bones]

Funny you say that, because I think. Yeah.

[Kevin]

I have no idea. Seriously, you know about this?

[Bobby Bones]

I think I likely. Because people I like. Likely. And Lee didn't do it. But Lee also never stepped in to be like, oh, I'm sorry my dad tried to beat you up there. You know what I mean?

[Eddie]

I'll have a Talk with him.

[Bobby Bones]

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[Eddie]

Good job, dude.

[Bobby Bones]

Thank you. You love when a white guy can say something totally white. The light up New York City. I'm assuming Teofimo Lopez is a Hispanic feller.

[Eddie]

I think he is. I think he is Garcia too.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, Garcia though. Doesn't have to be. It can't. I mean, I assume but not like he's first name and last name like.

[Eddie]

Sergio, I guess is not. I know he is. He's Spanish.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, he's Spanish. Yeah.

[Eddie]

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[Bobby Bones]

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[Bobby Bones]

How many of you guys by show of I saw the hazing lacrosse story.

[Eddie]

I just me.

[Bobby Bones]

So two of you boys that haven't heard the story, brace yourselves.

[Eddie]

Reed, you haven't heard the story.

[Reed]

No, man.

[Bobby Bones]

Reed, especially you. Set up tall and straight. There you go. Eleven students from West Hill High in Syracuse, New York have surrendered to authorities following a severe hazing incident involving younger members of the school's boys lacrosse team. The students were given a 48 hour ultimatum by Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick to turn themselves in for felony kidnapping charges. They were going to have to face felony kidnapping charges. All have since been charged with misdemeanor unlawful imprisonment. He condemned the act as hazing on steroids. So. And this isn't part of the story, so I'm gonna have to go from memory here from CBS News, what had happened was they took the younger kids, told them they were going to a fast food restaurant, maybe McDonald's.

[Unknown]

McDonald's, yeah. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

And said, hey, we're gonna go. On the way, the driver started acting lost, and as they were lost, they, like, pulled over and all the other guys from the team came out from, like, the woods or the sides of the road and, like, guns, knives, kidnapped them. Yeah.

[Unknown]

Upstate New York, baby.

[Brandon]

I was going to say, way to go, Casey.

[Kevin]

And guns and knives.

[Bobby Bones]

Now, I don't know if the. How real the guns were. It could have been fake. Didn't matter.

[Eddie]

Maybe they were fake guns.

[Bobby Bones]

You're being. You're still being held at gunpoint.

[Reed]

Yeah.

[Kevin]

You don't know.

[Bobby Bones]

They were hazing the younger kids on.

[Eddie]

The team, and didn't they take him to the woods as well? Like.

[Bobby Bones]

I think so. Yeah.

[Eddie]

And then leave them there.

[Bobby Bones]

So two things. One, one for Reed. Bad decision by these kids. We hope it doesn't affect their whole life because this is a bad decision that you can't do. And hopefully there'll be a couple of the older kids step in and go, no, we shouldn't do this with the fake guns and stuff. They did it. I don't think this should be. Like, there's no such thing as a permanent record, but on their permanent record forever, because nobody really got hurt. I don't think it just scared the crap out of them forever.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

So they'll get their punishment. I hope. It's crazy and it's wild to talk about, but I hope it does not follow them forever and, like, keep them out of colleges, that kind of thing. I hope their dad doesn't get $500,000 for the NFL. I was saying.

[Eddie]

Yes, that'd be terrible.

[Brandon]

We should have. Should have hear about this.

[Bobby Bones]

Yes.

[Kevin]

Other than.

[Bobby Bones]

So, but Reed. This happened to Reed.

[Reed]

Not the guns and knives part, but. But yes, I did get left in the woods.

[Bobby Bones]

So take it from the beginning.

[Reed]

Whoa, the beginning? Yeah. Oh, man.

[Bobby Bones]

I was born in Cross at Arkansas, man.

[Reed]

Well, I woke up and I knew.

[Bobby Bones]

It was a frat.

[Reed]

It was a frat.

[Bobby Bones]

You're pledging.

[Reed]

I Was pledging for the second time because I went through and got cut the first time. Like, all the way at the end, too.

[Eddie]

This is terrible.

[Reed]

Yeah, the older dudes didn't like me very much. I was doing a lot of music, and they're like, this John Mayer dude. What is he gonna do? Coming here.

[Kevin]

Nice.

[Reed]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Look at you now.

[Reed]

I know, man. Anyway. Yes, I knew. I knew we were doing something that night. Didn't know what it was.

[Bobby Bones]

What did you think it could be? Like? Did you think it's gonna be a hazing thing?

[Reed]

It's always. It's always something. It's always, like, a learning thing to where it's like we don't know what we're doing, but we just all have to line up, and then we. We have to get blindfolded and go in, and then the rest.

[Bobby Bones]

Something happens.

[Reed]

Something happens. We don't know for the most part. I mean, it's. It's all, like, learning stuff.

[Eddie]

Like, learning stuff. Like it's a lesson.

[Reed]

Yeah. It's not like they don't, like, freaking whip you or, you know, you think. Yeah, okay. Yeah. So, yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

You thought you were gonna go into a room and they were gonna teach you about the history of the frat, scare you, and then teach you about history.

[Reed]

Exactly. And this was the scariest one because it was a lesson. So we did get. We. We got in a vehicle. We were blindfolded.

[Bobby Bones]

And how do they get you in the vehicle? We're.

[Reed]

We're on a line, and then we basically just have to stay behind, like, the dude that's in front of us.

[Eddie]

If you're blindfolded, how do you know where the dude in front of you?

[Reed]

We're like. We're, like, holding.

[Eddie]

Got it.

[Bobby Bones]

You know, so you're blindfolded and put into a line.

[Reed]

Yeah, put into a line.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you have your clothes on?

[Reed]

I got my clothes on.

[Eddie]

And you're holding waist. Right. That's it.

[Bobby Bones]

Just like the conga line.

[Reed]

Exactly. It's. It's a. Yeah, it's a large conga line.

[Bobby Bones]

Go ahead.

[Reed]

Exactly. So then we get split up. Some people get put in one vehicle. Others get put in the other. We get in there, and then they start blaring music. And that's when you know, here comes the rooster.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Reed]

And that's, like, going on for, like, 45 minutes, dude. And they essentially do.

[Bobby Bones]

You know that song, Kevin?

[Reed]

Yeah.

[Kevin]

Oh, yeah.

[Reed]

Yeah. So I'm like, dude, I'm about to die. I'm literally about to die. We're driving it's like, it's at this point, it's probably 9, 10 o'clock at night. And they actually have just been driving us in circles for 45 minutes. So it feels like we're just going so far off campus that we're just like.

[Brandon]

Did you ever think to take to look or were they watching your blindfold?

[Bobby Bones]

No, it.

[Reed]

Well, they were bags. They weren't.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, yeah.

[Kevin]

What do you mean, bags?

[Bobby Bones]

Like they do in like the FBI, CIA. When they put a bag over your head. Wow.

[Brandon]

Could you breathe?

[Reed]

Yeah, you could breathe. Holes, like your mouth, a little net? No, there's no holes. No.

[Bobby Bones]

So you couldn't see. You couldn't cheat.

[Reed]

You couldn't cheat. Go ahead and cheat. Yeah. So for 45 minutes, I was like, this is it, man. I mean, I'm. I don't know what. What to expect. So anyway, we end up getting out.

[Bobby Bones]

Are there other dudes next to you? Can you still touch them? Are they neck like, you know, you're.

[Reed]

I know. There's one dude next to me.

[Bobby Bones]

Got it.

[Reed]

Yeah. I'm like, we're in this together, man. And so we finally come to a stop and they take us out and we get in a line again. You know, I get in line and they take us out into the woods. And I can. I can. I can tell we're in the woods because you're crumpling on, you know, leaves and whatnot. You can smell the woods.

[Bobby Bones]

It's not a ghost story, bro. Just tell it.

[Reed]

Yeah, yeah.

[Eddie]

Anyway, I'm in it.

[Reed]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Brandon]

What happens next?

[Kevin]

We want a book.

[Bobby Bones]

He pulls out a flashlight and puts it under his chin. You'll never guess what happened next.

[Eddie]

It was a night just like this.

[Reed]

Literally. That's what it was. Yeah. We walk out and then all of a sudden they're like, okay, stay for just a little bit longer. Count to 50. Like, okay, what's about to happen here?

[Eddie]

Random number.

[Reed]

I know. Or whatever, whatever. Count to 100. It wasn't 51.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

Backward. Go ahead.

[Reed]

And so we did. And then at that point, I realized that I heard a bunch of footsteps around me just dissipate into the woods. And I knew there's no one left, you know, to the left of me, no one to the right to me, whatever. And so I count. I get to the end, I take. I take the deal off. And I'm like, it's exactly, exactly what I figured would happen. I'm. It's dark, I'm in the middle of the woods and I've got No idea where I'm at. So this is fantastic.

[Brandon]

So they just left you?

[Reed]

Well, they. They did it to everyone, but they. They scattered us around. Okay. Yeah. And so at that point, I'm just like, well, I don't have my phone. I'm just gonna start walking. So I just start walking in one direction, and I see this little light out in the middle of the woods, and then I go to it, and then, yes, I see this light out in the middle of the woods. So I get closer and closer, and I slowly start to see a silhouette of a man standing beside the light. So I get closer and closer and closer, and it's my pledge brother.

[Eddie]

Okay, that's good.

[Reed]

And they actually have. They actually have, like, dudes that are standing out there with, like, little signs that. And basically, at that point, we realize it's a learning lesson. We have to follow this trail. And there's, like, little signs, and they have, like, stories with them and stuff that goes back to the history of the fraternity and all that. So it's. It wasn't as. It wasn't as bad as you would think.

[Bobby Bones]

So did you join the frat?

[Reed]

Yeah, I made it through.

[Eddie]

Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

But did you join?

[Reed]

I joined. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Huh.

[Reed]

I got initiated, I guess.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't think he was a frat guy.

[Reed]

Yeah, man.

[Bobby Bones]

Because you never talk about it, and usually people I know that were in frats, it comes up at some point. It's like, if you do CrossFit or you're a vegan, at some point, those come up in the conversation.

[Reed]

Yeah.

[Brandon]

What do they do to you? You can talk.

[Bobby Bones]

I drew a stick, man, on this page. Point to where they touched you.

[Reed]

Oh, my God.

[Brandon]

This is safe space, buddy. Did they touch your.

[Bobby Bones]

No. No school.

[Reed]

No, dude. We didn't really have any, like, actual. Like, there was no physical hazing, none of that stuff. It was just all psychological stuff, so. Which. Which for me is worse, like, I.

[Brandon]

Could never go in the woods again.

[Reed]

A lot of stuff. Like, you know, pretending, you know, everyone's pissed at you and the whole frat hates you. Like, that stuff. And for me, being a people pleaser, I'm like. Like, I'm just gonna go freaking kill myself or something.

[Bobby Bones]

What did I do? Dang, dude, you went real dark there.

[Reed]

I know, dude.

[Bobby Bones]

I. I wasn't in a frat. I wasn't cool enough. I had to work. I'm not. And I wasn't anti. I just was never part of the world I was able to be in. I didn't. I didn't do any of that. I also didn't drink, and that was really.

[Unknown]

That's a big.

[Bobby Bones]

What lured people to want to do. It was like, you're college, and it's like 18 let me drink. So I didn't drink. So I was never even drawn to want to be in a frat, but I wasn't like, anti. Because I had friends in them. But so a no from me. Brandon Weiner, Frat. Kevin.

[Kevin]

No.

[Bobby Bones]

Casey.

[Unknown]

I was. Yeah. Oh, similar stories. Yeah. Oh, wow.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. Can I ask you two a question? I'd always heard the legend of the elephant walk.

[Unknown]

No elephant walk.

[Bobby Bones]

That's not a real thing.

[Unknown]

I heard that a fraternity, a neighboring fraternity did the elephant walk.

[Bobby Bones]

Are you familiar? Eddie?

[Eddie]

Of course I know the elephant walk.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay.

[Eddie]

That's what I thought he was talking about when he said they were following each other.

[Reed]

No, I think that you guys can.

[Bobby Bones]

Play with the elephant walk.

[Kevin]

What is that?

[Bobby Bones]

So if. Let's say we all were. They put us in a circle or conga line, whatever, we're all naked. You have to reach through the guy in front of you's legs and grab his trunk and then walk like that.

[Eddie]

And then you all just walking along walk.

[Bobby Bones]

That's called the elephant walk. And I don't know if that's real or just made up.

[Brandon]

And we're not doing that today, are we?

[Bobby Bones]

We are.

[Brandon]

Okay.

[Kevin]

Brandon.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, Jesus. Reed has submitted three things you'd like to do before he leaves.

[Reed]

Oh, my God. I never got to do this, so.

[Bobby Bones]

I really wanted to buckle up. Okay.

[Kevin]

I always just think of old school with a pledge where they throw the weights off the top. That's what I think when it comes to initiation.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, that's. That one sucks. Yeah, that hurts. Think about what you want to read. Thought of that one. Okay, Reed, it's your last day. I don't know what you want to do. I don't know what gifts you have. I have no idea. So what do you want to do?

[Reed]

Well, first, I just want to say I appreciate every single one of you, and I'm going to miss you and Bobby. You have done so much for me. I come into Nashville, like, I obviously love to do photo films, stuff like that. The magnitude of what I've gotten to do here is insane, and it's all thanks to you. So I appreciate you and everything you're gonna still continue to do for me because you're a good guy.

[Bobby Bones]

Wait, no, wait.

[Reed]

That's a weird thing to do. Yeah, man. You're our friendship. Our friendship.

[Bobby Bones]

I mean, I Was gonna say I.

[Brandon]

Respect the plan, everything you promised.

[Bobby Bones]

You've been so great, and I can't wait to see what else you're gonna think for me.

[Reed]

Please. It's gonna be awesome. I do have something for you guys to remember me by.

[Bobby Bones]

Is it all separate or different?

[Reed]

No, it's all the same thing.

[Bobby Bones]

So it's the same for everybody?

[Reed]

Same for everybody.

[Bobby Bones]

Should we blind bags over our head?

[Eddie]

Oh, no. Play the rooster.

[Reed]

Yeah. Close your eyes. Close your eyes.

[Bobby Bones]

Close your face while we will. Yeah, nobody look until Reed says it's okay.

[Reed]

Okay, hold on one second, guys.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, so we all have our eyes closed.

[Eddie]

Put the camera on Bobby.

[Bobby Bones]

I am now walking in the woods, crumpling leaves.

[Unknown]

I smell the woods.

[Bobby Bones]

Reed, what are you doing? We got to describe what's happening because I can't see anything. All right?

[Reed]

So I'm taking it out of the bag, and I'm about to go set it on each one of you's desk.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay?

[Reed]

Yeah, one second.

[Eddie]

I feel like he's gonna do something bad to us.

[Bobby Bones]

How many do you have?

[Kevin]

I got four.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, so I got five.

[Reed]

I lost one of them.

[Eddie]

So who doesn't get.

[Kevin]

Who doesn't get?

[Bobby Bones]

Well, Brandon's the newest, so. Probably not Brandon.

[Brandon]

Yeah, probably not me. We don't. Do we have to be naked?

[Unknown]

Drop your.

[Brandon]

Just in case.

[Reed]

All right, I'm almost done. Hold on.

[Eddie]

This is weird.

[Kevin]

I don't even hear him.

[Reed]

Or if you feel something, just.

[Eddie]

Oh, Reed.

[Unknown]

Ouch.

[Eddie]

Here comes the rooster.

[Bobby Bones]

You can open, open, open. It's a picture.

[Reed]

Come on, guys.

[Bobby Bones]

Reed gave us a picture of him that says, gone but never forgotten. Reed. A picture of him. Beautiful.

[Brandon]

Look, dude, his face.

[Bobby Bones]

It's hilarious.

[Reed]

Come on, guys.

[Bobby Bones]

Reed. You know what's funny?

[Reed]

I'll be back.

[Bobby Bones]

This is a terrible picture of you. And I think you've lost, like £15 since this picture.

[Kevin]

For sure.

[Reed]

Yeah, 100.

[Bobby Bones]

Why you picked this picture? I don't know. I just lost a bunch of weight. You worked hard.

[Reed]

I thought it just. It really expressed who I am.

[Eddie]

No, that means you didn't put a lot of. You didn't get it. What do you mean?

[Reed]

Look at the graphics on it, dude.

[Bobby Bones]

First of all, I got two things to say. Number one, you gave us a picture of you as our gift.

[Reed]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Kind of sucks. I was hoping for chocolate. I'll be honest with you.

[Eddie]

Chocolate would have been nice.

[Bobby Bones]

Number two, Eddie's hating on you right now for this picture. Ask Eddie what he got me for my birthday. Oh, oh, ask Eddie. Ask him.

[Eddie]

He Knows. He knows what I got.

[Bobby Bones]

Asking out loud.

[Reed]

Oh. Yep.

[Bobby Bones]

Make him say it.

[Reed]

Yeah, yeah, I know what you got.

[Bobby Bones]

You gotta ask him.

[Reed]

Yeah. What'd you get? What'd you get him?

[Eddie]

I got Bobby a picture of Joe Burrow. And Bobby, a memorable moment.

[Bobby Bones]

He just printed it out. It's not a real picture. He just printed it out like this. So don't let him hate on you for just printing out a picture.

[Eddie]

No, I'm saying he just picked. What picture can I throw on that? Obviously it's an old picture, but it.

[Bobby Bones]

Says gone but never forgotten. An honorary Whistler. You're not honorary. You're literal.

[Eddie]

You're a Whistler.

[Reed]

Yeah.

[Kevin]

And you're still alive, man.

[Reed]

I just don't want you guys to forget me, all right?

[Eddie]

We won't. I honestly don't think we can ever, ever forget.

[Bobby Bones]

It is a terrible gift though. Like, you really built it up. Made us shut our eyes and everything.

[Eddie]

But you know what? These frames, they're not cheap. Solid one you can.

[Reed]

You could take. You put whatever you want in there.

[Kevin]

He changes it out.

[Bobby Bones]

That's a great point. A little.

[Eddie]

Okay on that.

[Bobby Bones]

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[Bobby Bones]

Your final show, man. It's. That's. It. We're done. I'm sure you'll be back every month, so we'll see you on.

[Eddie]

That's what he says.

[Reed]

Yeah, man. I'm just gonna show up. I got my FOB and everything, so.

[Bobby Bones]

So you're moving, though. Your first. We'll turn that thing off. But your first week there, you're by yourself. You're. Your fiance's not even there?

[Reed]

No, she's not even there.

[Eddie]

You're gonna be at the loo by yourself?

[Reed]

I'm gonna be at the loo by myself. I'm just gonna be setting studio stuff, so.

[Bobby Bones]

And you have a. Do you have an office in your house? Your apartment?

[Reed]

Yeah, we got a two bedroom, just so that I have a. I have an office. You know how it is.

[Eddie]

And that'll be the baby's room soon.

[Reed]

Heck, no. Yeah. Heck no, dude. Baby's going somewhere else.

[Bobby Bones]

Wait, what?

[Reed]

Daddy needs to work.

[Bobby Bones]

That's not the answer. I thought. I thought the answer would be we're gonna. Wait a minute.

[Brandon]

Baby gonna go somewhere.

[Eddie]

Baby's not living with us.

[Brandon]

He's gonna be on the balcony.

[Reed]

Oh, man.

[Bobby Bones]

Are you gonna let her finish the three years or whatever first before you have a baby?

[Reed]

That's a good question. We. I mean, dude, we're just rolling.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. Just roll.

[Reed]

Who knows?

[Bobby Bones]

Just roll.

[Eddie]

Let the good times roll.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you see John Elway's agent and business partner?

[Unknown]

Like, what happened?

[Bobby Bones]

So I thought at first it was on a golf course because they just fell off a golf cart, but it sounds like they were out. They were. What's the festival?

[Unknown]

Picking up beer?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, I think it may have been like Stagecoach or Coachella, whatever. But they were all four on a golf cart and they weren't playing golf. They were, like, just driving the golf cart back to a place.

[Kevin]

I'm sure it's like one of those nice souped up golf carts.

[Eddie]

Yeah. Because they were in. What's it called? Palm Springs over there.

[Bobby Bones]

So my story, I think there was a mess up here in the printing because it says John Elway's longtime business partner and agent died from golf cart injuries. And then it says the Cleveland Cavaliers138.83 win over the Miami Heat forced their play. So I have two stories.

[Unknown]

Go Cats.

[Eddie]

That's part of the same story.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, but I think.

[Eddie]

Gosh, that's.

[Bobby Bones]

So maybe he was standing on the back of it or something like that. Or.

[Unknown]

But like, how fast do you have to go to.

[Eddie]

Well, they did say that there was nothing reckless. Well, so far the investigation has shown that there was no. No reckless driving on John Elway's park. So I don't know.

[Unknown]

Wild. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

You flipped in a golf cart once.

[Eddie]

I did.

[Kevin]

Really?

[Bobby Bones]

Almost died. Hilarious. Because he didn't. It's the craziest thing I've ever seen in my life because I've never seen a golf cart go tumbling and flipping, and Eddie was in it.

[Eddie]

To this day, I won't drive a golf cart. I play a lot of golf, but I won't drive.

[Unknown]

Dang.

[Eddie]

Sorry.

[Bobby Bones]

He was going down a hill real fast. Our buddies.

[Eddie]

Let me tell the story. I was going down a hill real fast, and my buddy. Our buddy was on the. In the passenger side. He's a bigger fellow. And we were. We got a lot of speed, and the governor wasn't working. There was no slowing down. We were flying down the hill. And I initially did it to scare him, because he's like, slow down. I'm like, yeah, we're going fast. And then I thought, like, okay, there's. There's no slowing down, because every time I hit the gas pedal, it was sticking. So I was like, if I hit the gas, we're gonna slide, spin, probably flip over. So I thought it'd be a better idea to kind of slow roll into the grass and let the grass slow us down, and then we would slowly kind of just end up stopping. What I didn't see was there was tall grass, and underneath the tall grass was a ditch that was probably two, three feet deep. And so when the golf cart hit it, it hit the ditch, flipped over.

[Kevin]

Oh.

[Eddie]

And all I remember, man, I was on the floorboard. The golf cart was on our buddy Steve. On top of our buddy.

[Bobby Bones]

It, like, cut Steve in half. Like, it landed on him.

[Eddie]

Yeah, he's no longer with us.

[Reed]

What?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, he. No, he's alive.

[Reed]

I thought I met Steve.

[Bobby Bones]

Eddie was in the floorboard that he had stayed. The momentum kept him in the cart on the floorboard.

[Unknown]

Jeez, man.

[Eddie]

And then Bobby. And then Bobby, like, comes up. He's like, oh, my gosh. What's going on, guys?

[Bobby Bones]

I was scared for a second.

[Eddie]

And other carts come up, too, to just check on everyone. And then this guy goes, hey, are you Bobby bones?

[Reed]

Oh, my God.

[Eddie]

And then Bobby's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, man. He's like, I love your radio show. And Bobby started talking to the fan, and, like, he took pictures with the fan.

[Kevin]

That's awesome.

[Eddie]

We're trying to get the golf cart off of us.

[Bobby Bones]

I took pictures of them, and they were like. They were pissed. Not at me. At first they were just scared and mad.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

And they were like, stop taking pictures. I'm like, you guys will. You'll appreciate this in like two years. I promise. I'm just taking pictures the whole time. But you could have died.

[Unknown]

Did you break anything?

[Eddie]

No, no.

[Bobby Bones]

We were.

[Eddie]

We're good.

[Unknown]

Wow.

[Eddie]

I can't play golf on that golf course anymore.

[Unknown]

I'm pretty sure traumatized.

[Bobby Bones]

So what happened? It may have the story. Because my story was copy and pasted wrong.

[Kevin]

It just says that it happened Saturday night and then went to the hospital. But I can't see anything as far as is in La Quinta.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, but isn't that work? Weren't they at Coachella? Stagecoach. I mean, that'd be Stagecoach. This. This last weekend.

[Reed]

Yeah.

[Brandon]

Was that Palm?

[Eddie]

I read Palm Springs.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, maybe not.

[Reed]

Yeah, it's the same.

[Kevin]

I mean, Palm Springs and it's all right there. Yes. Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

That sucks. Yeah. We leave it in an after party of Stagecoach. Yep. Oh, dang. That sucks.

[Eddie]

I. I too thought they were playing golf.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, so did I. And reading our playing yesterday and I told you, I was like, hey, we got to be careful, John Elway. Like, this just happened. I thought that I just fell out of the golf cart playing golf. Okay, Reed, that's it, buddy.

[Eddie]

We're gonna miss you, Reed.

[Bobby Bones]

I guess so. I'm gonna see you later today.

[Reed]

Yeah, you will. Yeah, yeah. 3:00.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. So this ain't. This ain't the end for me and you, but no, the last time you see these guys.

[Reed]

But all seriousness, I really do appreciate.

[Bobby Bones]

Did you ever watch Rudy? That was your one.

[Reed]

Oh, dang, dude. I didn't watch Rudy.

[Kevin]

Well, he doesn't have a job anymore.

[Eddie]

You know why, though? Reed had major senioritis. Like, big time. Like, he didn't come to our last workouts. We probably had what, four work? Three. Fair.

[Bobby Bones]

He's been producing the ACM special like crazy.

[Eddie]

I know. But it's almost like he was like, I'm just done.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm telling you, watch Rudy. He's been dying more than ever before because this ACM special and Rudy to say that I got you. Read on this one.

[Brandon]

I've been watching this dude work his hammer for sure. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Hey, Hammer and nail. Stacking them bales, Reed.

[Eddie]

Going to miss you, man.

[Bobby Bones]

We're going to miss you, buddy.

[Reed]

Thank you.

[Brandon]

Elephant walk, everybody. Let's go.

[Bobby Bones]

Let's get out of here.

[Eddie]

Good luck with everything, Reed.

[Reed]

Thanks, man. I appreciate it.

[Bobby Bones]

Andre Agsi played in the professional pickleball tournament they dominate. He won his debut match. Yeah.

[Unknown]

All right.

[Brandon]

I mean, I hope so.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, it's not the same. He's older though, too, right? He's playing against 22 year old, like, tennis reunion.

[Unknown]

Maybe in pickleball. That'd be kind of cool.

[Bobby Bones]

He played Andy Roddick. They play each other in the tournament where they played singles and they did doubles. Yeah. It's not as easy as, like, you were good at tennis because if you're older, you're playing against like, 22 year old collegiate tennis players that have decided to play pickleball. But he won us first.

[Eddie]

That's awesome.

[Bobby Bones]

And so it really, you know, pushes me to get better.

[Eddie]

Maybe you can feud with him.

[Bobby Bones]

I got a tournament coming up.

[Kevin]

Oh, there we go. Eddie.

[Bobby Bones]

Dang, I get killed.

[Eddie]

Do you know, have you ever met him?

[Bobby Bones]

No, but he's like Andy's hero, and so I feel like I know him through Andy, but I've never been to Vegas for any of this stuff. No, I don't think so. I've met a lot of those people, but I don't think I met him. I met Sampras. No, you met Pete. I met Federer. Nicest guy ever.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Met Nadal. A little quirky, Little weird.

[Unknown]

Quirky?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

You ever meet Serena?

[Bobby Bones]

Yes.

[Eddie]

Really?

[Bobby Bones]

At a party, a Super bowl party in Miami. I met Serena and he asked me. Get out of here, dude.

[Reed]

No, that's sick.

[Bobby Bones]

You know what?

[Eddie]

Just head into the league.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, yeah.

[Reed]

That wasn't like a Uber flex. It was like a. Hey, flex, man. Come on.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, I did. I met her the same night. Roger Goodell. Hardest handshake ever experienced, Serena. All right, thank you, guys. We will see you Monday. We'll be readless and love you guys. Watch Rudy and we'll call you on the phone, okay? At some point, I will put you on. All right, Eddie boy. All right, see you guys. Theme song written by Bobby Bones. That's me. Amperfection performed by Brandon Ray. Follow Brandon on socials at Brandon Ray Music. You can follow the show on Instagram @BobbyBonesports. Thanks to our crew, co host @Producer Eddie, segment producer at Kickoff Kevin, video producer at Reed Yarberry, and executive producer at Mike Diestro. But most importantly, thank you for listening. I'm Bobby Bones. We'll talk to you next time here on 25 Whistles.