25W: Soccer Over Baseball? Bobby Makes His Case + The Origin of Getting Buzzed + Eddie’s Daredevil Days Are Over

Summary

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The Bobby Bones Show: 25W - Soccer Over Baseball? + Buzzed Origins + Daredevil Days Over

Episode Date: July 10, 2026
Podcast: The Bobby Bones Show
Host: Bobby Bones (with Eddy, Kevin, Mike)

Episode Overview

This episode of "25 Whistles" dives into a spirited debate about the entertainment value of soccer compared to baseball, explores the origins and meaning of "getting buzzed," and sees Eddy reflecting on how parenthood and past injuries have tamed his daredevil spirit. The hosts also touch on topics like tennis culture, team loyalty after moving cities, and upcoming UFC fights—bringing their usual mix of humor, candid nostalgia, and friendly banter.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Soccer vs Baseball: Which Is More Entertaining?

Timestamps: 02:12 — 18:28

• Bobby's Fickle Fandom: Bobby confesses he's "out" on watching soccer now that the U.S., Mexico, and Canada are out of the tournament, but still tuned in for major moments like penalty kicks.

  "I'm out. US isn't in it... If Mexico was in, I'd be in... North America, done." — Bobby Bones (02:40)

• Penalty Kicks and Rule Changes: Bobby admits he prefers games ending in penalty kicks (despite true soccer fans hating them) and suggests wild rule changes to increase excitement, like removing players every three minutes in overtime.

  "If it's a tie, we don't end the game. We go to extra time, which is normal. But every three minutes we pull a player from both teams... at the end, it's three on three. It's freaking Ice Cube’s basketball league out there." — Bobby Bones (09:53)
  "If it's a tie and it's still one on one, everybody dies. That really motivates them." — Bobby Bones (11:27)

• Comparing the Sports for Newcomers: Bobby argues soccer might be more entertaining than baseball for someone new, stressing that deeper knowledge adds enjoyment to both.

  "If you didn't know baseball and you watch baseball for the first time, you'd go, this is the most boring sport ever." — Bobby Bones (08:05)
  "I think soccer is probably, to somebody new, more entertaining than baseball. And that's tough to say." — Bobby Bones (08:28)

• Soccer Observations: The hosts joke about watching star players just "walking" until it's time to make a move, discussing the "star player" broadcast feature.

  "When I watched just Messi, he just walks until it's time." — Eddy (06:22)

Hot Takes & Humorous Moments about Soccer

Timestamps: 13:08 — 18:28

• Offsides & Cherry Picking: Bobby wants to abolish the offside rule for more action:

  "If you want to send a player down and have them stand by the goal... I'm all for cherry-picking, especially at the... Why, when I get tired..." (12:08)

• Confusing Jerseys & Shirts vs. Skins: They joke about soccer team colors being indistinguishable—Bobby would prefer shirts vs. skins for clarity.

  "I wouldn't mind shirts and skins. I could tell a little better..." — Bobby Bones (14:05)

• Soccer Fandom Shame: Bobby notes hardcore soccer fans can be snobby or "shamy" to newcomers.

  "Soccer. Hardcore fans are a bit shamy. I don't like that... They're more shamy than other sports." — Bobby Bones (17:25/17:32)

The Origin of "Getting Buzzed"

Timestamps: 18:45 — 21:11

• NA Beer at Games: The group discusses whether it’s "lame" to drink non-alcoholic beer at baseball games. Mike shares he enjoys the experience, even without the alcohol.
• What Does "Buzzed" Mean? Bobby, a non-drinker, admits he always thought "buzzed" meant you literally heard a buzzing sound from drinking. The group clarifies it’s "just like a tingly, good mood... not drunk."

  "Do you hear a buzz? Is that why they call it that?" — Bobby Bones (19:52)
  "Buzz is like, perfect. Like, good mood." — Kevin (19:42)
  "A buzz is a sound. Feel -- a tingle is a feel. A buzz is a sound." — Bobby Bones (20:47)
  "That’d be weird, though. ‘Hey, you tingling, dude?’" — Eddy (20:51)

Tennis and the "Friend in the Game" Phenomenon

Timestamps: 21:21 — 28:41

• Personal Connection Enhances Interest: Bobby shares stories of attending tournaments with friend Andy Roddick and how knowing a player changes the whole spectator experience.

  "Tennis is fun if you know somebody playing. In your case, it was awesome." — Eddy (27:19)

• Tennis’ Cultural Gap: They agree tennis can be surprisingly exciting in person, but none are regular viewers.

Soccer & Tennis Event Vibes: Live vs. TV

Timestamps: 27:28 — 28:41

• Live Soccer Didn’t Convert Bobby: Bobby admits his one MLS match experience was lackluster—too little crowd energy in a huge stadium, though he acknowledges smaller stadiums might feel more "raucous."

  "I think a big part of experiencing soccer, if you’re not a soccer guy, is like being a part of the event, the culture... There was not that." — Bobby Bones (28:07)

• Underdogs & Small Country Support: The panel agrees small countries like Norway feel more endearing in tournaments.

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Quickfire Topics & Standout Moments

The End of the Daredevil Era for Eddy

Timestamps: 29:21 — 34:22

• Parenthood & Age Change the Game: Eddy recounts skipping a risky rock slide in Puerto Rico, a marked change from his younger "first to jump" days. Recent injuries and being a dad have made him risk-averse:

  "I'm not gonna do it, boys. I'm gonna opt out... if I take one wrong spin, hit my head, and now we're in Puerto Rico looking for an ER." — Eddy (30:14)

• Everybody Has a Story: The guys share tales of childhood injuries, dirt bikes, and skateboarding fails (and retirements).

Mailbag: Is It "OK" to Change Your Favorite Team When You Move?

Timestamps: 35:26 — 42:52

• Main Question: Listener moved to Seattle, wonders if it's legit to switch sports teams locally or if it's betrayal to his original team (Cardinals).
• Hosts' Verdicts:
  • Kevin: Stay true to your first team, but it's OK to have a "1A" and a "1B" for local rooting.
  • Eddy: Agrees—cheer for the local team but don’t disown your roots.
  • Mike: More flexible—moving cities justifies a fandom change, but it's weird to pick a random new team without a real connection.
  • Group on College Teams: Attachment without a personal tie (attending or living near the college) feels phony.

    "It's kind of phony to love a college you have no association with..." — Mike (41:15)

UFC Fandom & Upcoming Fights

Timestamps: 43:17 — 47:48

• McGregor vs. Holloway: Preview and predictions for the upcoming UFC bout; Bobby, Eddy, and Kevin weigh in on who they want to win.
• Autograph Rant: They roast modern sports autographs for being little more than a line—"so disrespectful."

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• "Soccer is more entertaining than baseball. Not to me, but to somebody new, yes.” — Bobby (08:28)
• "If it’s a tie and it’s still one-on-one, everybody dies. That really motivates them." — Bobby (11:27)
• "Why do they call it ‘buzz’? I always thought you heard a buzz when you started to feel buzzed." — Bobby (20:08)
• "I'm gonna say, like, dude, Cardnials are your team, man. Sorry, live and die with the Cardinals." — Eddy (43:05)
• "There is just something about being at the game, like, that's the culture." — Bobby (28:07)
• "I have been such a daredevil my whole life... first time in my life my kids are like, come on, Dad... and I’m like, I’m gonna opt out." — Eddy (29:41)

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Useful Timestamps for Key Segments

• Soccer vs Baseball Entertainment Debate: 02:12 – 11:27
• Rules Bobby Would Change in Soccer: 09:53 – 11:46
• Offsides & Cherry-Picking: 12:04 – 12:41
• Soccer Fandom "Shame": 17:25 – 17:53
• Definition of Buzzed: 18:45 – 21:11
• Tennis Stories & Culture: 21:21 – 28:41
• Eddy's Daredevil Days: 29:21 – 34:22
• Mailbag: Loyalty & Switching Teams: 35:26 – 42:52
• UFC Fight Discussion: 43:17 – 47:48

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Tone & Final Thoughts

The episode is packed with playful humor, slightly self-deprecating sports banter, nostalgia, and honest perspective shifts from youth to adulthood. The crew openly admits what they don’t know, pokes fun at each other’s quirks, and creates a relaxed, relatable vibe that’s both insightful for sports newcomers and entertaining for lifelong fans.
Most importantly: No matter what sport—loyalty, fun, and being part of the atmosphere matter most.

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Transcript

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[Eddy]

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[Kevin]

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[Eddy]

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[Bobby Bones]

25 Whistles everybody. All right, blow the whistle. I don't know, I don't like soccer anymore.

[Eddy]

Oh, are you done?

[Bobby Bones]

I watched the end of that Argentina Egypt game when Argentina came back because I saw they were down 2 0. Yeah, been a couple days ago and I thought oh, this is interesting to watch. Egypt beat Argentina. They scored three goals and that was cool. If I know when they're going to score, I'll turn it on.

[Eddy]

But you don't know.

[Bobby Bones]

I know.

[Eddy]

That's the problem.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm out. Us isn't in it.

[Eddy]

Oh, I'm still in It.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm out. If Mexico was in, I'd be in.

[Eddy]

Dude. All our. Canada's out. Mexico's out. We're out. North America, done.

[Kevin]

See, the ticket sales have gone way down for the. All the games because all the host cities or nations are out.

[Eddy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

If it's close at the end, I might turn it on. I love penalty kicks if I can get some penalty kicks. And actual soccer fans hate penalty kicks because they say, what a terrible way to end a game.

[Kevin]

Right?

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

But wouldn't you rather end it with penalty kicks than a tie?

[Kevin]

Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

And also, penalty kicks are fun. They should do them, like, during the hydration break, like, while everybody else is getting water. They should do three penalty kicks.

[Kevin]

Yes.

[Eddy]

I feel bad for the goalie on those things. Like, it's just all on the goalie. And then, like, you're going to get nailed. Like, the whole point.

[Bobby Bones]

You hope to get nailed.

[Eddy]

I know, but it's also going to hurt.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, I'm over it. I wouldn't be over it, but America's out.

[Eddy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't really know anybody else other than Messi. What I think is Mbappe.

[Eddy]

You know Mbappe?

[Bobby Bones]

I know he's French. I don't really know him. I don't watch him because I don't watch Premier League. Anything I see would be our. What's our version called? Mls. MLS would be that if it's on Apple and it's up because they put it up at the top of the screen sometimes and it just fires off and starts playing and I watch a little bit. Yes, that's about it.

[Kevin]

Erling Holland.

[Bobby Bones]

That guy's awesome. That's the guy. I was watching him play golf yesterday off.

[Eddy]

That's cool.

[Bobby Bones]

Somebody was recording him play golf and he's. He's a. He's six, four, you know, over £200.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

And now he pops up in my algorithm and that's why I was watching him play golf. But I was watching him kick and hit the post over and over again on purpose during practice.

[Eddy]

That's cool.

[Bobby Bones]

So hard.

[Kevin]

Really?

[Bobby Bones]

He kicks so hard.

[Mike]

Wham.

[Bobby Bones]

Wham. He's a beast. And it's fun because Norway's a bunch of little kids in him.

[Eddy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

There's like nine people that live there. I've been there. It's awesome. Love the country. And it's cold, so it's not like they have a culture of being outside playing soccer all the time because it's very cold. You got to play inside for the most part.

[Eddy]

Question about Norway. Are all the girls blonde.

[Bobby Bones]

No, really. I think traditionally there's more blonde people there. But I thought the same thing about when I went to Iceland.

[Eddy]

I would think those would all be blonde.

[Bobby Bones]

I thought everybody would be covered in ice. And it wasn't true. Because Greenland. You do think that, like, Nordic. Nordic guy.

[Eddy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

There are those folks, because he is that personified. Like, he's exactly what you think about a big, Nordic white dude.

[Kevin]

You cast him in a movie.

[Bobby Bones]

Yes. Blonde, way large. Was a Viking back in the day. A literal. But no, I didn't find that to be the case. I didn't walk around and go, sure enough, they're all blonde.

[Eddy]

Look at that.

[Bobby Bones]

Maybe there's more than normal, but I've been to a couple different cities there. But I like him. He's fun because he kicks so hard. In the videos that I watch of him, because he is a striker and I'm not sure his exact position because I'm stupid at soccer forward. But he just like, walks around, chills, ball starts coming in the play, boom, kick, goal.

[Eddy]

You know what? That is such a common thing for some of these elite forwards, these strikers. And I think when we were. So when we were in Puerto Rico, we were like, how are we going to watch these games? Because my Hulu didn't work over there. Like, my provider didn't work because I was in a. Technically in another territory or whatever. So we had to download Fox one, I believe, to watch all the World cup games. And one of the options for when you watch the game was just to watch the star player. Just the camera was just on messy. And when I watched just Messi, he

[Bobby Bones]

just walks around the middle a lot.

[Eddy]

He just walks until it's time.

[Bobby Bones]

He's older, though, him a little bit. I think it's like a baseball player that's on a pitch count because their arms hurt or they're old or they're young. Like, I feel like Messi only has so much in him.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

So he doesn't run for that.

[Eddy]

Preserves it.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. I could be wrong. I always thought there was an age thing with him.

[Eddy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

He doesn't play as forward as the Highland guy does, right?

[Eddy]

No, same position.

[Bobby Bones]

He does.

[Eddy]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't. I know nothing. So.

[Kevin]

Hey.

[Eddy]

And I just found out.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, that's a really cool camera, though.

[Eddy]

Yeah.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Star player camera.

[Eddy]

And they did that with Mbappe as well, one of the French games. And I was like, look at that. He's. He doesn't move either. Nobody moves unless it's time to, like, go and Attack.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, we're gonna talk soccer for a minute because I've got.

[Mike]

Just.

[Bobby Bones]

Because I have a lot of stuff to say. I didn't know I was even thinking about this, so I'm out. However, I did learn a lot through

[Eddy]

this round, but you are done.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Unless something's crazy.

[Kevin]

You want to watch the final.

[Bobby Bones]

Not from the beginning.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

If it's close. Near the end. Yeah.

[Eddy]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

So I'm a casual. Had a good time. I've had time of my life, so. But some stuff that I've been thinking about. Soccer is more entertaining than baseball. Not to me, but I compared the two, and a lot of Americans go, soccer is boring because they don't score. And the analogy I made is, if you didn't know baseball and you watch baseball for the first time, you'd go, this is the most boring sport ever. Heck, some people say that, and they grew up here and the had baseball the whole time. And so I put them together. Why I like baseball is when I grew up with it, I played it. I also have an understanding of all the things that are happening around, what's happening. So let's say, like, man, this guy takes forever. Pitch, pitch, pitch. But also, you're looking at what inning it is. You look at who's coming up next. Do you. How many runners are on? There's all the things that you know about the game, because you know the game, that are factoring into how bored you're not. I don't know enough about soccer to factor in. All I know is the kick. They're kicking the ball around, and they never score. If I had more knowledge about a forward, a fullback, or midfield, why they're running a certain offense, even with the NBA, like, if I just don't have enough knowledge. But I think soccer is probably, to somebody new, more entertaining than baseball. And that's tough to say.

[Kevin]

Yeah. Because it is more constant.

[Eddy]

At least constant movement.

[Kevin]

Movement, yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Baseball doesn't score a lot.

[Kevin]

No.

[Bobby Bones]

Every once in a while, but a

[Eddy]

lot of standing around. Like, if you are able to mic one of the players and talk to him, interview him during the game, that game is slow. And they do that during All Star Games.

[Bobby Bones]

I was thinking of the rules I would change during soccer, which, of course is what everybody wants me to change. Rules. Yeah, yeah, of course. I'm just a game that's. I'm an American that's got tons of ideas about a game that's been around for a thousand years. Did you know, by the way, I believe soccer was the Aztecs kicked around a skull.

[Eddy]

Yeah. Do you know that for sure? Because I thought the same thing, but I never.

[Bobby Bones]

No, I just say stuff. I did not look it up. I just.

[Eddy]

Because I've thought that same thing, and I don't know if it's from a movie, maybe Apocalypto.

[Bobby Bones]

No, I don't know. Mine wasn't from a movie. But I just think that was knowledge that I retained at some point. Even could have been false. But I see Kevin looking it up.

[Eddy]

Well, maybe it came from me because I remember going to Aztec ruins.

[Bobby Bones]

I definitely wouldn't have heard you say that and stored that in this. This is true. That's right.

[Eddy]

Yeah. That is rude. But I get it.

[Kevin]

It says, according to historical records, there are human heads and skulls, animal parts like pig bladders as well, that they would kick around. They would kick around. Yeah.

[Eddy]

So there you go.

[Bobby Bones]

The rules that I would change because it seems like hardcore soccer fans hate penalty kicks. Fair enough. Where's my camera? Here's the rule I would change in soccer. As an American who knows nothing about soccer. If it's a tie, we don't end the game. We go to extra time, which is normal. But every three minutes we pull a player from both teams. So if at the end it's one on one, it's freaking one on one.

[Eddy]

That's cool.

[Bobby Bones]

So every three minutes a player walks off. It's 11, 11. Now it's 10 on 10. You got three minutes to score. Nine on nine, eight on eight. More space. At the end, it's three on three. It's freaking ice Cubes Basketball league out there playing on that massive field. That seems fun.

[Eddy]

Do you think it would always be the goalies left?

[Bobby Bones]

I don't think it would get down to one on one. Too big a field. Yeah, but if it did, that would be so fun.

[Eddy]

That would be so cool.

[Bobby Bones]

So that would be the rule, as an American who knows nothing about soccer, that I would implement because you foreigners want ties.

[Eddy]

I don't even think, well, what does the player want? Does the player want to do extra time?

[Bobby Bones]

I mean, honestly, the player probably wants what's best for the game. And ties are fine.

[Eddy]

Ties are fine. Let's be done.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, probably. I think they do. Do they do extra time, though?

[Eddy]

No, no. They just do the extra. The stoppage time.

[Kevin]

That's it.

[Bobby Bones]

And then the game's over.

[Eddy]

And the game's over with the time.

[Kevin]

No overtime at all?

[Eddy]

Nope.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, now soccer. Stupid again. Okay, so as soon as the game's over, we Start pulling a player and we let that go every three minutes and we pull a player every time until it's three on three, two on two, one on one.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

And then if it's a tie and it's still one on one, everybody dies. That really motivates them.

[Eddy]

It's a Squid game.

[Mike]

Death. Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

Mike White.

[Mike]

There is overtime. It's like the 15 minutes they add.

[Eddy]

No, not in regular season.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Oh, in regular.

[Bobby Bones]

Like Premier League.

[Mike]

Right now.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Yeah. Right now it's 2:30 minutes.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

2:15 minutes.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. So and it. And in 2 on 2, 3 on 3, it's sudden death.

[Eddy]

And then after that, it's a real debt.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, if there's no if, it ends up in a total tie, it's real debt. So that really motivates.

[Kevin]

That'll work.

[Eddy]

You also wanted to get rid of cherry picking, Am I correct?

[Bobby Bones]

Get rid of it. I want it.

[Eddy]

I mean, get rid of the offsides. The offsides rule.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. If you want to send a player down and have them stand by the goal, that's less players do you have playing defense. And if you don't like that, then put another. Put one of the players on offense back there with him.

[Eddy]

Everyone hates the cherry picker in the NBA.

[Bobby Bones]

If you wanted to run four guys playing defense and throw a center down there, just standing outside the lane that you could do that.

[Eddy]

Yeah. Risky.

[Bobby Bones]

It'd probably be stupid, but I'm all for cherry picking, especially at the. Why When I get tired, that's you.

[Eddy]

I slow, boys. I'm over.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm just pretty slow getting back. So I'm kind of like half cherry picking.

[Kevin]

Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

So, yeah, that's good.

[Eddy]

Yeah. What about. Have you. What about pulling the goalie?

[Mike]

Do you like.

[Eddy]

Have you seen that yet? Like whenever the goalie's playing with everyone else.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. So that's like in hockey, they do that. I've seen that more because I've watched more hockey than soccer where if you need a goal so you're trying to maximize your ability to score. They even take the goalie out and put another player on. In hockey.

[Eddy]

In hockey.

[Bobby Bones]

So in soccer they can't. Because they can't substitute in the middle of a game.

[Kevin]

It takes three minutes.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Yeah. That's fun. It's fun to see people in other colors, like, other clothes out there.

[Kevin]

What do you mean, the bright orange or something?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, I like to like the bright orange guy. Run down. He's not matching anybody with big hands.

[Mike]

Yeah, he just.

[Bobby Bones]

It doesn't even match, like the Team.

[Mike]

He's just.

[Bobby Bones]

I think the goalie should match the team, though, too.

[Eddy]

You do, but you have to distinguish the difference between the goalie and everyone else.

[Bobby Bones]

But in NSync, they would all wear the same clothes, but a little different. Like, if they all wore white, you'd have one with, like, cut off, one with, like, long sleeves, one with a coat. So if everybody's wearing white, the goalie wears, like, bigger. Like, it's white, but it's the same color, but it's bigger. It's like, puffy arms or bright gloves. Just. He just needs to match the team a little bit. Because once you got a blue goalie and an orange goalie and the teams are red and green. I don't know. I'm confused.

[Kevin]

I feel like every team has looked the same during the tournament. Like, I don't know who's who every time I turn a game on. Other than maybe Mexico, they were, like, a solid green, but every team is either blue or white.

[Eddy]

Argentina is pretty unique because they're the blue and white stripes.

[Bobby Bones]

I wouldn't. I wouldn't mind shirts and skins. I could tell a little better if they did shirts and skins, because also on the screen, if you just turn it on, sometimes it doesn't match the colors that they're putting up of the team.

[Mike]

Yes.

[Eddy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

And I'm like, okay, which one's which?

[Kevin]

Yeah, like the US Game the other day, I think I was like, are they blue?

[Mike]

White?

[Eddy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

If it just turned on, I was like, okay, US or skins? I would know immediately which team were skins.

[Kevin]

Exactly.

[Bobby Bones]

So I'm kind of out on soccer.

[Eddy]

That's crazy.

[Bobby Bones]

But I'll check in.

[Eddy]

That's crazy. And this is really exciting because the games are really, really, really good.

[Bobby Bones]

Now then, who's your favorite team left?

[Eddy]

France.

[Bobby Bones]

They're the absolute best team.

[Kevin]

Yeah. Favorite.

[Eddy]

Yeah. I mean, okay.

[Bobby Bones]

Freaking. I love the Bulls in 94.

[Eddy]

I'm not even a soccer fan, but if you ask me right now, like, who is good, who you think is going to win, Like, I'm going to France.

[Bobby Bones]

I said, who are you rooting for? Not who's going to win.

[Eddy]

France.

[Kevin]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

Ah.

[Mike]

What? Opposite.

[Kevin]

Like, Steph Curry and KD and the Warriors.

[Bobby Bones]

Wow.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Eddy]

I mean, Argentina would be kind of cool because of Messi, but a second

[Bobby Bones]

in a row, huh?

[Kevin]

Yeah, that would be.

[Bobby Bones]

That would be cool. And also, the more Messi wins, the more Ronaldo loses, and I like that because Ronaldo seems like a douchebag, and

[Eddy]

Ronaldo's done, like, he's they got eliminated. He's not playing World Cups anymore. I saw a TikTok video where they compared Messi interacting with fans and Ronaldo interact. Interacting.

[Bobby Bones]

A little unfair, but yes, dude, that was great. It was like the greatest hits versus the worst hits. But yeah, Ronaldo's a kind of a douchebag.

[Kevin]

It made Ronaldo look bad, dude, really bad.

[Eddy]

A reporter goes up to Ronaldo with a microphone, and he grabs the microphone, throws it in a lake. Like, give me that. Throw it in the water.

[Bobby Bones]

And like a kid runs on the field to get a selfie with Messi. And Messi, his bodyguard comes up. Messi evaluates. It's fine. It's fine. And on the. You know, it gives him his jersey. Messi seems like a really nice guy.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

They say he doesn't speak English.

[Eddy]

Really?

[Bobby Bones]

Then I've. Yeah, because his English isn't so. Isn't that good? But every once in a while you see a club speaking English and you're like, now he's doing that game. Yeah, he didn't want to have to.

[Eddy]

Yeah, dude. I saw a. Another video of like this Mexican reporter or a Spanish speaking reporter in a wheelchair. So he was like, special needs. And he was asking all the players, like, interview, interview. And they would just kept on walking by. And there was this one player from England that stopped and said yes in an interview. I got you.

[Bobby Bones]

Harry Kane. I know his name.

[Eddy]

It wasn't Kane.

[Bobby Bones]

That's the only one I know. I knew an English player.

[Eddy]

And then the guy goes, can you do it in Spanish? He's like, see? And he did the. An English player did the interview in Spanish for this guy. So cool.

[Bobby Bones]

That's cool.

[Mike]

Bellingham Classic.

[Bobby Bones]

The other one, I was gonna.

[Mike]

Bellingham.

[Bobby Bones]

Bellingham. To watch some of these guys, I believe. What was the team from the island?

[Eddy]

Cape Verde.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Eddy]

Or Ivory Coast.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. It could be either one of those. But their goalie had like 50 million followers. He started with like 16, 000. Is he the bus driver? 50 million? I don't know.

[Eddy]

Because there was this one goalie that was. And I think it was Cape Verde.

[Kevin]

I think it was.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Eddy]

Where he's like, it's a bus driver.

[Bobby Bones]

By day I would see people shaming people because they would go, I don't. I never heard of camp. Is it Camp Verde?

[Kevin]

Cape.

[Bobby Bones]

Cape. Cape Verde. I don't know where that is, but I'm rooting for him. People like, you don't even know where Cape Verde is. You're stupid. And I'm like, I don't know where Cape Verde. I have no idea. I'm stupid then.

[Kevin]

Oh, yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, I guess I. I don't know. I didn't know where Ivory coast is either.

[Eddy]

Yeah, I don't either.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

And I'm not going. Look at me.

[Eddy]

Haha.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't. I just. I don't know. And if you said show me on a map for a thousand dollars, I would just pick somewhere.

[Kevin]

Yeah. And they're probably tiny.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. So soccer. Soccer. Hardcore fans are a bit shamy. I don't like that.

[Kevin]

People just suck.

[Bobby Bones]

There's. They're more shamy than other sports.

[Kevin]

Yeah. They're very, like, defensive about it, I

[Bobby Bones]

think maybe because it's a bit European. More so than in just America. Like, you can talk about the NFL. No one's like, you don't know crap.

[Eddy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

You should be like, you're an idiot. Not. You shouldn't talk about it because you're stupid. I don't know. It feels shamy. A little shamey.

[Eddy]

They're just so passionate, though, because, like, watching them in the crowd, they never shut up the whole game. Like, if a game is bad and, you know, I'm in a Cowboys game or whatever, the crowd doesn't keep on going even if they're losing. They're like, oh, this sucks.

[Bobby Bones]

The difference is football stops.

[Eddy]

Yeah. Soccer never.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, soccer doesn't stop unless it's a penalty or something. And they do kind of chill a little bit during those because they. But you're right. It's way more constant. But the game is way more constant.

[Eddy]

Yeah.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

But it's also an obscene amount of passion. It's cool.

[Eddy]

Did you see Eddie Vedder chug a beer?

[Bobby Bones]

I saw Eddie Vedder. I didn't see the beer thing, but I did see him in the stands.

[Kevin]

Was that his kid?

[Eddy]

That's his daughter.

[Kevin]

Yeah. Okay.

[Eddy]

That's his daughter.

[Bobby Bones]

Eddie Vedder's lead singer. Pearl Jam. Eddie's favorite band.

[Eddy]

I love Pearl Jam. And they were playing in Seattle, so obviously he'd be there. And they played alive. And the whole stadium was singing alive.

[Bobby Bones]

I have a question about beer. Do you think it's lame to drink the na Beer at baseball games?

[Eddy]

Yes.

[Kevin]

Well.

[Bobby Bones]

Well.

[Eddy]

Lame. I answered that quickly.

[Kevin]

Yeah, you did.

[Eddy]

If you have a drinking problem, like, and you're like, try not to drink. Let it rip, dude.

[Bobby Bones]

Mike was talking to me about this. You saw this where I did it. Oh, you're the one who drank the na Beer.

[Eddy]

Mike.

[Kevin]

That is terrible. He's getting.

[Mike]

We were in New York and I just needed a little something, but I'm not drinking anymore. And then the guy in front of me came back with a na Beer. And I was like, that looks kind of good. Like, I could still get that effect of having a beer at a baseball game, but I didn't want to get drunk. I didn't want to get a buzz. So my wife was like, I'll go get you one. So she brought me one, and I had a beer while watching the game.

[Bobby Bones]

Question. The effect of a beer at a baseball game. I thought the effect was to get drunk.

[Eddy]

Not always. Because like Mike said, a buzz, a buzz isn't drunk. It's just this state of, like, no worries. Yeah, that's the best way to get

[Bobby Bones]

that kind of drunkard.

[Eddy]

No, because drunk is like, I don't even. Hey, where's my car? Buzz.

[Kevin]

Buzz is like, perfect. Like, good mood. Like, no, no worries. You're just having a good time. Drunk is like, yeah, you can't really control what you're doing when you're.

[Mike]

Buzz.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you hear a buzz? Is that why they call it that?

[Mike]

Feel the buzz?

[Kevin]

No. Yes.

[Mike]

You feel it like a glow over your face?

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

So there is no actual buzz?

[Eddy]

No, no, no. A buzz Buzz, like a sound? No, there's no buzz.

[Kevin]

It's more like a lightheaded, but no buzz. But no buzz.

[Bobby Bones]

So why do they call it buzz then? I always thought you heard like a. Like.

[Eddy]

No, that would be funny.

[Bobby Bones]

No, I. I thought that. I thought you. It's like a middle ground where you start to feel like a buzz in your.

[Kevin]

In your body.

[Eddy]

No, a buzz is just the perfect.

[Bobby Bones]

But why is it called a buzz then?

[Eddy]

It's a good question.

[Kevin]

Never even thought about it because I

[Bobby Bones]

thought you would hear a buzz. Like, you would know you're starting to get too drunk once the buzz starts getting louder.

[Eddy]

You would think, like, if you drink, you're like, all right, where's my buzz? I don't hear it.

[Bobby Bones]

And when it gets to a certain point, you're like, oh, it's loud enough. I should stop. Like, it's a buzz. What do you see? Why is it called a buzz?

[Mike]

Just because it feels like a tingling. So it sounds like a buzz.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, you don't. But you don't hear a buzz?

[Mike]

No, you feel the buzz. You feel the tingle.

[Bobby Bones]

A buzz is a sound.

[Kevin]

Feel the buzz.

[Bobby Bones]

Feel. A tingle is a feel. A buzz is a sound.

[Eddy]

That'd be weird, though. Hey, you tingling, dude?

[Kevin]

We should start saying that.

[Mike]

Got a little tingly.

[Eddy]

Hey, we getting drunk Tonight? Nah, dude, I'm just gonna tingle a little bit.

[Kevin]

I'm gonna say that to my wife. Like, I'm feeling a little tingly right now.

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That's different.

[Bobby Bones]

That's very different.

[Eddy]

That's so funny. That's a good question. You never drank, so, like. That's a good question.

[Bobby Bones]

I thought you heard a buzz or something when you started to feel. Buzz. That's why they called it.

[Eddy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

So you did not. Other sports that we don't really watch is tennis. That's happening.

[Eddy]

Yeah, tennis is. It's weirdly entertaining though, right?

[Kevin]

Do you bet on it?

[Eddy]

No. No, no. Yeah, sometimes. Sometimes I will.

[Bobby Bones]

I had a season in my life where I was very, very into tennis because Roddick and I were. We still are friends, but I would, like, travel with them and go to games. I got to, like, see tennis.

[Eddy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Because I never didn't grow up with tennis at all. I don't think I was interested in tennis at all because Mountain Pine didn't have tennis. They have a tennis team.

[Eddy]

Don't have a tennis team.

[Bobby Bones]

You have a tennis court? No, we had a basketball court. They'd put up a net sometimes during, like, P.E. no. No tennis at all whatsoever.

[Eddy]

Wow.

[Bobby Bones]

So then I started to go to matches. I went to a couple, like, ATP events that he would play with him. I went to the US Open with him.

[Eddy]

What's. What's a major, like, in tennis?

[Bobby Bones]

Is it the one that I went to with him? That's when he called me the day before. And it's like, I'm retiring. I was like, what? Because, yeah, I'm done. I'm tired. I'll take a nap.

[Eddy]

Yeah, dude, get some rest.

[Bobby Bones]

What do you mean you're tired?

[Mike]

He goes.

[Bobby Bones]

He said, this is it. I'm gonna announce it later today, but you should come up. And so I was like, okay, that's crazy. And I went up and it rained the whole time. And that stadium doesn't have a roof.

[Eddy]

It's open.

[Bobby Bones]

It's Arthur Ashe Stadium. And so I would go from the city because I'd have to work. So I didn't stay with them. I had to stay near the radio station. So I stayed in a hotel. And I would go and drive from the city all the way into Flushing. I think it's Flushing, where Arthur Ashe Stadium is. And it's like a 40 minute drive. And it would rain and I would just go back to my room and so it was terrible. It was never electric because it kept raining the whole week. His final, because I went to maybe three matches. I think he played three matches overall, but it took, like, seven days for it to happen. Oh, is wild. I just kept staying and staying and saying. Because I was gonna stay until he lost, because I was there, because he's my friend. It was his last match ever, so that was cool. But everybody was just kind of exhausted of the weather holding the event out. I don't have a good. Yeah, A good relationship with going. Is it electric? It was wet, but it's cool. The ATP events are cool, but it's not a major. But I would see, like, Federer in the back. I talked to him a couple times. Really didn't really talk to. I said, hide in the doll, but he was kind of his own. Own guy by himself.

[Eddy]

But you'd see him in the flesh.

[Bobby Bones]

We're all in the same room. And tennis is weird because you're just in a room like this. Everybody just sitting around.

[Kevin]

Is it like a locker room, like golf or.

[Bobby Bones]

No, where I've been. Yeah, it's. Yes, basically.

[Kevin]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

And, like, when they do the interviews before the US Open, they're in the same locker and they walk out together.

[Eddy]

Really? And are they. What are they doing in there? Are they stretching or are they just kind of sitting around doing nothing?

[Bobby Bones]

I probably listen to music I think they've already hit. I'm not an expert on this either. I just had about four years where I went to matches and stuff with Andy.

[Eddy]

That's cool.

[Bobby Bones]

So, yeah, I don't really watch much tennis now, though.

[Eddy]

I went to one with you, and, man, that was the first time I'd ever seen professional tennis live.

[Bobby Bones]

Where do we go?

[Eddy]

It was in Austin. It was at the Irwin center, but it was like.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, it was the. It was the USA versus Davis Cup.

[Eddy]

Yeah, Davis Cup, US Versus Spain. And, dude, we're. It's almost like we're sitting half court, you know? And, like, the speed of that ball is crazy.

[Kevin]

Nuts, huh?

[Eddy]

So, like, you'd think, like, ah, it's boring. Like, they just hit a ball back and forth. Dude. There's so much action in tennis, and I didn't realize that until I saw it live. I thought that was so cool.

[Bobby Bones]

Are you watching it now? Because it's Wimbledon now, right?

[Eddy]

I will. I will once.

[Bobby Bones]

Is it happening now? Yeah, that's why Andy's doing stuff on. On camera, right?

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Eddy]

Wimbledon's happening. It's cool for us because it happens earlier in the day. It's really the only thing happening earlier in the day.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Because it's eight hours later there.

[Eddy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

That's why golf is good. Whenever it's like the Open, like the. Not the US Open, but like the British Open. But it's called the Open.

[Eddy]

Yeah, that's coming. That's coming up.

[Bobby Bones]

You get to wake. It's already going. Yeah, like, that's cool. Dennis is. I had a bunch of gear. Like, I played tennis for a little bit. Like, me and all my friends in Austin, we had like a small league, but none of us had ever played before. But we had thousands of dollars worth of free equipment.

[Kevin]

It's not cheap, right? Tennis. It was for me. It's all for you. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Because Roddick would be like, how many. How many people you want to play in your league? I was like, awesome. I don't know. There's six of us. And so he'd order like 10 rackets that were like $2,000 each. We all had, Shoot. Babylot shoes.

[Eddy]

I remember you gave me some. Some of the shirts. What was he sponsored?

[Bobby Bones]

Who was this? Cost.

[Eddy]

La.

[Bobby Bones]

Cost.

[Kevin]

Dang, dude.

[Bobby Bones]

He had a massive Lacoste sponsorship. His whole career, we would go into any Lacoste store in any city. He'd just go, get whatever you want.

[Eddy]

That's legit.

[Bobby Bones]

It's crazy.

[Kevin]

That's awesome.

[Bobby Bones]

Because that's expensive.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Eddy]

So did you get whatever you wanted?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, within reason. I'll just grab a few things.

[Kevin]

Now when somebody says that, like, do you. Like, how many things do you grab?

[Eddy]

Okay, so. So we've been in the. We were just in this situation, like when we played golf.

[Bobby Bones]

Who's we?

[Eddy]

You and me.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay.

[Eddy]

And we.

[Bobby Bones]

What thing? Oh, at the Palm in West Palm Beach.

[Eddy]

And they go. Go in the clubhouse and get whatever you want. And literally we could have gotten whatever we wanted, but we didn't. We got a box of balls and a glove.

[Bobby Bones]

Maybe I got a glove. Cause I'm left handed.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Eddy]

And that's it.

[Bobby Bones]

I guess we both needed gloves. We didn't take clubs, so we got a glove with Roddick. He wasn't my really good friend. I probably could have got 100 shirts. He'd have laughed. But I would just get a few shirts and a belt. Yeah, just stuff like that. I would never get too much. Also, at his house, he'd go like, hey, if you want any, I'm about to change out my stuff. He'd had stuff from them all the time. So he'd be like, if you want any of the clothes. He was big. Way bigger than I was. He's a big guy. I mean, he's 6, 2, 6, 3. But also, like, big.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

You don't think tennis guys are like that. But he's large, so his stuff was a little too big. So I look like I was wearing daddy's shirt to bed.

[Kevin]

Hand me downs.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But, yeah, tennis is fun if you know somebody playing.

[Eddy]

Cool. Yeah. In your case, it was awesome.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Otherwise, I don't. Not really watching Wimbledon. I think I'd rather watch tennis than soccer, though. If it's just one sport versus the next.

[Kevin]

No way.

[Bobby Bones]

Only I know more about it.

[Eddy]

Have you seen soccer live?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, I went to a MLS game here.

[Eddy]

Legit.

[Bobby Bones]

No, really. But it's not soccer's fault. They did it in Titan Stadium and the stadium was way too big. So the people.

[Mike]

We.

[Bobby Bones]

The people that were there filled up 15% of the football stadium. So there was no vibe. There's a way. So I didn't get to catch the cool vibe. You know, the stadium they have here now is much smaller and it's pretty raucous.

[Kevin]

Yeah. Geodes is legit, I think. Yeah.

[Eddy]

I think you've seen that game there.

[Kevin]

Yeah, I saw Messi play there a couple years ago.

[Eddy]

Oh, yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

I think a big part of experiencing soccer, if you're not a soccer guy, is like being a part of the event, the culture.

[Eddy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

And there was. Not that. It was like Nashville, MLS versus like Cincinnati or something. And then there were nine people there

[Eddy]

in a very oversized stadium.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. So just. It just wasn't for me. But World Cup.

[Kevin]

You have a team I'll be rooting for. Probably Norway.

[Bobby Bones]

Me too, I think, because all in for Norway too. And they have 11 people that live there.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

That guy, you and the 11. I like the smaller countries.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

I think that's cool. Smaller countries. And he's so much bigger than the rest of his team. It's just funny when he scores and they run, I'm like, daddy, you did it. Daddy, you did it. Daddy, you did it. All right, we're gonna take a break.

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[Eddy]

I gotta admit something to you guys.

[Kevin]

What's up What?

[Eddy]

Dude, it's. It's so bad because you have to understand, like, I have been, like, such a daredevil my whole life. Like, if there was a cliff and everyone's like, oh, who's gonna jump first? It was me. Like, I'm the one. Like, I'm going to jump off the cliff.

[Kevin]

I don't see you as that guy, dude.

[Eddy]

I've always been like that my whole life.

[Kevin]

Really?

[Bobby Bones]

Yes.

[Eddy]

And we were in Puerto Rico, and there's this rock slide, right? Like, there's a part of a waterfall where it's probably about 25 yards of a rock, a natural rock slide, but it's jaggedy. And I watched, like, four people go down, and, like, everybody that went down was one spin away from hitting their head. You know what I mean? Like, if they didn't put their hands in the right spot, like, they could have easily spun out, hit their head, boom, vacation's over.

[Kevin]

Now, is that true, or is that you just being a dad and you're seeing, like, the worst situation that you could find?

[Eddy]

It could have been that. But, dude, I'm. Honestly, there was the first time in my life where, like, my kids were like, come on, dad, are you gonna do it? And I'm like, I'm not gonna do it, boys. I'm gonna opt out of this because I don't feel like it's worth ruining the trip if I take one wrong spin. Hit my head. And now we're in a Puerto Rico looking for an er.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Eddy]

You know what I mean?

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Eddy]

So what would you do?

[Kevin]

Yeah, I'm with you. I mean, I'm a Little, what, my 10 years younger than you, But I'm getting there to that age now where I'm like, oh, I would have done this back in the day. My buddy sent me something on Instagram the other day, and the first thing I thought of was, like, there's no way I would do this now. And I told him that, and he's like, yeah, that's because you're 35 and you have two kids now. I'm like, dang it, you're right. I used to do this.

[Eddy]

I do wonder if it's like, I'm a parent and if we weren't parents. But see, dude, I've never broken a bone ever. No, I have.

[Mike]

Knock on wood.

[Eddy]

Oh, no, no. Until two years ago when I broke my foot. Yeah, I broke my foot doing too much access. Right?

[Kevin]

And Cardinal Stadium is pretty cool.

[Eddy]

At Cardinal Stadium. And then after that, I break my arm roller skating with My kids. So, like, I had never broken anything, and then in two years, I break two limbs or two bones. Now I'm like, dude, it's not worth it.

[Kevin]

Now.

[Eddy]

I know it's. It's possible.

[Kevin]

Mike, did you ever break anything?

[Mike]

No, I've never broken anything. Knocking on wood, that's, like, my biggest fear. Like, if I see a clip on TikTok and it's somebody breaking a bone, like, I cannot watch it. I cannot stomach that. Just the sound of a bone breaking is the worst thing ever to me.

[Eddy]

Mike, I'm shocked, dude. Because you skated, right?

[Mike]

Yeah. And that's why I retired at the age of 30. Like, once I turned 30, I realized, like, this is not worth it. If I break my ankle, if I break my arm, I'm just gonna look like an idiot. So I stopped skateboarding because I did not want to break anything.

[Kevin]

But 30 is pretty good. I thought you were gonna say 13.

[Eddy]

No, it's really good.

[Mike]

Well, the thing was, when I first started skateboarding, I was probably 12 years old, and within the first week that me and my cousin started, he broke his ankle. And my mom was like, immediately, you're not skateboarding anymore. So I didn't skateboard again until I moved out.

[Eddy]

What kind of skater were you, though? Because, like, there are, like, the dangerous tricks skater, and then there are, like, the long borders who are like, you're never going to fall. Really.

[Mike]

I was just a street skater. Like, I never did. I never dropped in. I can do that because I know immediately if I dropped in, I'm hitting the bottom. I'm hitting my face.

[Kevin]

How many stairs do you ever like? Jumps or stairs?

[Mike]

Yeah, probably like, three stairs. Okay. Nothing crazy. Like, nothing. No crazy gaps or anything.

[Eddy]

What do you mean by stairs?

[Kevin]

I can't even think of the right phrasing right now. Jump stairs.

[Mike]

Clearing a gap. Escape stairs. Yeah.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Eddy]

Okay. Okay.

[Mike]

So mainly, like, street skating, kick flips, heel flips, a little bit of grinding. Mainly just, like, going around and skating around town.

[Eddy]

Sounds dirty.

[Mike]

Little grinding.

[Eddy]

What about, like, ollies? How high could you ollie?

[Mike]

Like, a foot, Maybe one foot. That's pretty good. I could. If you gave me a skateboard now, I could still ollie. I could still ollie. I could kick, flip, but not land it.

[Eddy]

That's cool.

[Mike]

But I'm, like, six years out of. Haven't skated anymore.

[Eddy]

Yeah, that's cool. I don't know, man. I told you guys. Like, my kids, they want to skate, and part of me is just like, guys just know that you're Gonna break something because. Because they're kind of idiots.

[Kevin]

Like, they're boys.

[Eddy]

Yeah, they're boys. They're idiots. And, like, they're just like, oh, I can go down that, no problem until they bust their butt.

[Kevin]

That happened to me when I was, I think, 12. We were actually dirt biking, but I brought my regular bike. And there is these hills right where we were parked for the weekend. And each hill got a little bit higher and higher, and I kept, of course, pushing it and pushing it and pushing it. Got way up high, came all the way down, moving, hit soft sand at the very bottom of the hill that I didn't know was there. Wobble, wobble, boom. And broke my collarbone and ruined the whole trip. We had to pack up. My dad had to rush me to the hospital.

[Eddy]

That's what I'm saying.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Eddy]

It's not worth it, man.

[Kevin]

It's not. But as a kid, you got to learn somehow.

[Eddy]

Yeah. What was California growing up like? Like, I feel like if you're in California, you're like, oh, you got to surf. You got to skate. You got to, like motocross.

[Kevin]

We did all that except for surf. I never surfed. I've been surfing one time, but it wasn't even in California. It was in Hawaii. But I wasn't into surfing, but skating, I was really into, I mean, rollerblading at some point, biking, all that good stuff. I was never any, like, good at it and biking.

[Eddy]

You mean, like. Like. Like.

[Kevin]

Like bmx?

[Eddy]

Bmx, Yeah.

[Kevin]

I did have. I mean, I did have a dirt bike for probably six, seven, eight years. And then my dad realized this is a bad idea because we were. We were getting hurt, and my brother, I think, had a really bad concussion, and he's like, yeah, I'm selling these things.

[Eddy]

Mike, were you ever, like, into, like, motorcycles and stuff?

[Mike]

I wanted to be, like, we lived out kind of on the outskirts, like, where the country started, and, like, everybody out there had dirt bikes, but you kind of had to have money to have a dirt bike. So I was always envious of those kids.

[Eddy]

I was envious of the guys at three wheelers.

[Kevin]

Three wheelers?

[Eddy]

Oh, yeah. Before the four were the threes, dude.

[Kevin]

Three were the two.

[Mike]

Because the dirt bike kicks were. They were always the cool kids in school.

[Eddy]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Like, you remember that Fox brand? Oh, yeah, of course. That Fox brand shirt. Like, all these kids are cool. They come in, like, all dirty, covered in mud. I'm like, man, that kid is cool.

[Eddy]

And they know how to work on their bikes.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Eddy]

Like, in middle school, like, that's like

[Kevin]

changing oil and stuff.

[Eddy]

I'm like, what? Right?

[Mike]

Like, I just put pegs on my Huffy bike.

[Eddy]

That's funny. You want to try a mailbag?

[Mike]

Yeah, let's open up the mailbag here. We got a S25 whistles. Mailbag. Dear 25 whistles. I just moved across the country to Seattle for the first time in my life. I live in a city where the team is actually good. I grew up loving the Cardinals, but they spent the last decade disappointing me, ruining my Sundays, and making terrible TRA draft picks. But everybody here assumes I'm a fan of Seattle now, and, honestly, kind of tempting. So what's the ruling? If you move to a new city, are you allowed to adopt a local team? Can you have two teams? Is there a probation period? Or once you pick a team as a kid, are you stuck with them for life, no matter what? Signed unassigned in Seattle.

[Kevin]

Well, this is tough because if it wasn't the Seahawks, if they didn't just come off a Super bowl win and it was, say, I don't know, the Dolphins, you'd be like, yeah, dude, it's the Dolphins. Nobody really cares. But if you're going for a Super bowl champion, you can't really jump on that bandwagon now. And being a Cardinals fan, that's got to be rough.

[Eddy]

Yeah.

[Kevin]

But you got to stay faithful. I mean, I'm as spoiled as they come as a Patriots fan for the last 30 years, but Cowboys fans know, as great as you guys have been, it's been a rough 30 years for you guys.

[Eddy]

A bit.

[Kevin]

Yeah. And you have to stay with your team no matter what. I mean, through the thick and the thin, you have to stay with your team. You can kind of have, like, a second team. Like, I don't know, the Titans. I'm like, I root for the Titans since I live here now. I'm like, cool. Titans are cool. They're not really a threat or anything. So you kind of have like a 1A and a 1B in the. I guess Seahawks could be your 1B.

[Eddy]

Yeah, I was going to say the same thing because, like, we're kind of in that situation where we live in Nashville, Tennessee. But, like, unless you were born here or you've lived here for a long, long, long time, a lot of people aren't Titans fans. They all come from different places. I'm a Cowboys fan. You're a Patriots fan. Mike's a Cowboys fan. But to me, I feel like if the Titans do pretty good, say they go to the Super Bowl. I'm rooting for them.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Eddy]

And then. But I would never call them my team. Like, never.

[Kevin]

So how would you phrase that? Like, I'm a casual.

[Eddy]

I'm a casual Titans fan. I live in Nashville. So, like, they're. They're kind of my team. But, I mean, I'm a diehard Cowboys fan. That's. That's my team.

[Kevin]

That's fair.

[Eddy]

What do you think, Mike?

[Mike]

I think if you move cities, you can. You can change teams. Like, you're committing to a new city. You're living there. You're taking in the culture. I think you can adopt a new team. Now, if you're just picking a different city just because. And you're still living in a. In that city, like, you're not living there, that's different. That's lame. But if you actually move to that city and want to be a part of it, ditch your old team.

[Kevin]

Now, does your old team have anything to do with it? Like, well, yeah, if they're bad, you're right. For years, like the Cardinals.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Eddy]

If you're a Jets fan, they've done nothing for you.

[Kevin]

Nothing.

[Eddy]

I know, but, dude, that's hard because, like, my kids now, like, most of them, out of the four boys, I would say two of them are going to be die Hards, Cowboys fans. Like, they are all about it. But I have two that literally, if the. If the Ravens are good, like, they're ordering Ravens jerseys, and I'm like, stop that crap. Like, I can't stand it.

[Kevin]

That's tough.

[Eddy]

You know what I mean? Like, I picked up my son the other day from one of his summer camps, and it was Jersey Day at the summer camp. And what would you expect my son to wear? Jersey. Yeah. You know what he came out of Jameer Gibbs jersey. I'm like, who is this kid?

[Kevin]

A random.

[Eddy]

You know what I mean?

[Kevin]

Lions.

[Eddy]

Yeah. And I get it. He's a kid. Like, I get it. Jameer Gibbs was awesome. Whatever. But, like, to me, it's just, like, you have no loyalty. Like, your family is a Cowboys family. And, yes, they may give us a bunch of heartache and be terrible for so long. Whatever. Can't win in the playoffs. But they're our team.

[Kevin]

Yeah. That is true.

[Eddy]

There's something to be said about being loyal to your team. And, like, who cares if you live in Seattle?

[Kevin]

I know. As a kid, I was a Dolphins fan for a little bit. I ever tell you that?

[Eddy]

No.

[Kevin]

Yeah. You know why?

[Eddy]

The Marina? No.

[Kevin]

Because Dolphins were my favorite animal.

[Mike]

How Old were you?

[Kevin]

I was like.

[Eddy]

He's like, that was five years ago.

[Kevin]

That was post on Brady, actually.

[Eddy]

You sound like a girl. Like, that's what girls say.

[Mike]

Like.

[Kevin]

I know.

[Eddy]

I mean, I don't know. I like dolphins.

[Kevin]

They're cute. Yeah. I don't know, like 8 to, like, 10 years old. And they would obviously play the Patriots twice a year in the same division. And I remember, like, rooting against Patriots when I was, like, 8 or 9. And my dad would just. He would be so pissed, but he couldn't say anything. He's like, you're a little kid. So he's like. He's like, kevin, you'll come around one day. I'm like, thank God I did.

[Eddy]

He'll figure it out.

[Mike]

Yeah, but I also feel like these teams aren't loyal to us. Like, they could just move cities. They just move the franchise and then their new city.

[Eddy]

Dude, I don't think the players are even loyal to the team.

[Mike]

They don't care.

[Eddy]

They really do not care.

[Kevin]

You're right. Are we just stupid? Yeah. Yeah.

[Mike]

Laundry. That is true.

[Eddy]

I don't know. I don't. That's a tough one for me because I really love loyalty. But, like, baseball, I don't have a team in baseball, basketball, I'm a Spurs fan. But, like, in baseball, literally, I could care less.

[Kevin]

That's all right. I mean, college football, for me, it's kind of nice having a sport like that, though, right? Just because it doesn't ruin your day or something. Or your night.

[Eddy]

If you were to pick a college football team, though, who would you root for?

[Kevin]

It would probably be Notre Dame.

[Eddy]

That's a weird one.

[Kevin]

Why?

[Eddy]

Because what's. What's your tie to Notre Dame?

[Kevin]

I don't know. The Fighting, the Irish.

[Eddy]

Just the gold helmets.

[Mike]

The gold helmets die hard.

[Eddy]

Bulls fan.

[Bobby Bones]

Rudy.

[Eddy]

I know.

[Bobby Bones]

I thought you were a Bulls fan.

[Mike]

You had the T shirt and everything.

[Eddy]

Good job, Mike. You called him out.

[Kevin]

Dang it. I can't really back that one up.

[Mike]

Why did you even. Because you moved to Tennessee and you took in the culture.

[Kevin]

I know. I know, because I took in the culture. But it's just hard because I'm like Eddie. Where? I'm like, it's. It's hard at a. As a grown man. Like, maybe if I was a kid, it'd be easier to adapt, but as a grown man, I'm like, if I didn't grow up like that, I feel like such a phony.

[Mike]

It's kind of phony to love a college that you didn't attend to or grow up around.

[Eddy]

That's interesting. I. I would say instant reaction.

[Bobby Bones]

Yes.

[Eddy]

Because. And even do I even have a hard time watching, like, older people, like, say they went to school. Like they went to the University of Alabama when, you know, 40 years ago. And I just feel like. I don't know, it's just something in me that just when I see him in the stands, I'm like, dude, make room for the kids.

[Kevin]

Oh, man.

[Eddy]

You know, like, you're. You're 70 years old now. Especially college basketball. Like, get out of here. You're freaking. You're on the floor. You have floor seats to your college that you went to 40 years ago.

[Kevin]

That's messed up.

[Eddy]

The kids should be there.

[Kevin]

You gotta remember that when you're a Cowboys game.

[Bobby Bones]

That's Cowboys, though.

[Eddy]

That's not college.

[Kevin]

Oh, I think.

[Mike]

I think professional is different.

[Eddy]

I mean, what do you think, Mike?

[Mike]

I just think it's weird if you're so Die Hard for a college you have no association with.

[Eddy]

I agree.

[Mike]

Like, I love the University of Texas because I lived in Austin for seven years. My wife graduated from there. Big connection there. But if somebody who lives in, like, Minnesota is a diehard Texas fan, it's weird to me. And, you know, never even like, maybe visited the Texas. You just love the team for the sake of loving the team. A little weird.

[Kevin]

What if it was a player that got you into it? Like, I have a buddy who's a Texas fan, who's from Rhode island, lived in California, likes a Titan. He's all over the place.

[Eddy]

Vice Young, though, got him.

[Kevin]

But Vince Young, yeah, yeah. Was the one. And he's still a Texans or Texas fan till this day.

[Mike]

I can't be a Die Hard that way.

[Eddy]

Especially like a kid. Right? Like, he was a quarterback for how many years? Three years.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Eddy]

that school.

[Kevin]

Yeah, I know. Hey, I'm with you.

[Eddy]

I don't know. I'm kind of weird.

[Mike]

You guys tell our guy here what's our final verdict?

[Kevin]

Stick to your team, stay loyal and have a 1B.

[Eddy]

That's going to be mine, too. I'm going to say, like, dude, you're from. Cardinals are your team, man. Yeah, I'm sorry. Live and die with the Cardinals.

[Mike]

I say go Seahawks.

[Eddy]

You're the only one. You guys gonna see ufc?

[Kevin]

No.

[Eddy]

On Saturday.

[Kevin]

Is there even one going on?

[Eddy]

Conor McGregor, dude coming back.

[Kevin]

He's fighting again.

[Bobby Bones]

Yes.

[Kevin]

What the heck?

[Eddy]

Have you guys seen the. There's, like a promo for one of these. I don't know. One of These, like, betting or prediction sites or whatever. And the video is, like. It starts on all this, like, potato chips and, like, spoiled food on the. On the coffee table. And then on the couch is McGregor with a big belly.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Kevin]

I've seen a picture of it. Is that what it is? Yeah.

[Eddy]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Kevin]

Okay.

[Eddy]

Yeah. And then it goes up to McGregor, and he's just, like, fat and out of shape, and he pulls off the fake bellies, like, and he's still ripped.

[Kevin]

Really?

[Eddy]

Yeah, dude.

[Mike]

He's 37 years old.

[Kevin]

Dang.

[Eddy]

You're not gonna watch it?

[Kevin]

Wait, do I have to buy it?

[Eddy]

It's Paramount Plus. Everything's on Paramount plus now.

[Kevin]

I think I still have that for, like, another two weeks.

[Eddy]

Dude, that's funny. My. My wife, like, because I've been giving her a hard time lately about, like, we gotta cut subscriptions. Like, we gotta, like, get rid of some stuff. So she came to me and she's like, all right, let's cut subscriptions. We won't do. We need Paramount Plus. I'm like, yeah. The first one, he's like, why? I'm like, ufc. We got to keep that one.

[Kevin]

Yeah. They have good stuff on there, though, other than just ufc. Who's he fighting?

[Eddy]

Max Holloway.

[Kevin]

Okay, I know who that is too, then.

[Eddy]

And Max Holloway is, like, good. He's like. He rarely gets. I don't know if he's even been knocked out before. So it's one of those, like, he's the dude that lasts five rounds all bloody face. He can't even recognize him, but he's still standing.

[Kevin]

He had a fight within the last couple of years, right? Like a brawl. I remember him against somebody. I can't remember who off top of my head, but they were just going at it.

[Eddy]

Oh, yeah. And then I remember seeing, like, the video afterwards of both of them going in the ambulance. It was like, Rocky. Yeah, yeah.

[Kevin]

I'll watch a fight if it's like that. For sure. Obviously you don't know, but, I mean, I like McGregor, so.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Eddy]

That's crazy. You guys don't watch any UFC, like, especially if it's a big fight like this. Did you watch the White House one?

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Eddy]

Okay.

[Kevin]

It's a White House. That's cool.

[Eddy]

Yeah. Mike, did you.

[Mike]

No, I didn't watch that one.

[Eddy]

Do you watch UFC at all?

[Mike]

Not at all. Probably not since, like, maybe mid-2000s, the rainy couture days.

[Eddy]

Why?

[Mike]

I feel like, to me, like, that's when it, like, first popped off.

[Kevin]

Yeah, Rampage Jackson.

[Mike]

Yeah, Like, Chuck Liddell.

[Kevin]

Oh, he Was the best.

[Mike]

Like, that's when I was like, okay, UFC is a thing.

[Eddy]

Why'd you stop?

[Mike]

Just never really got into. I was probably more into boxing.

[Eddy]

See, boxing, to me, is so, like, nothing happens.

[Kevin]

Right.

[Eddy]

You rarely see a knockout in boxing, and then, like, I don't know. To me, it's always rigged. Like, I just feel like boxing's just always rigged.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Eddy]

Yeah.

[Kevin]

I think the last boxing match I watched was McGregor and Mayweather when, like,

[Eddy]

McGregor just tried to kick him once in a while. You're like, you can't kick, dude.

[Kevin]

I was like, this is what I don't want.

[Eddy]

So who do you think wins?

[Kevin]

I'm gonna go, McGregor. I hope he comes back and wins because he. He retired, right? And then he's coming back. Is that what it is?

[Eddy]

I mean, he never officially retired.

[Kevin]

He didn't.

[Eddy]

He just never accepted a fight.

[Kevin]

He's 37 already. Yeah. I'll go McGregor. You.

[Eddy]

I'm going to go. Holloway, the favorite. I think Max Holloway is.

[Kevin]

Okay.

[Eddy]

Yeah. What about you, Mike?

[Mike]

I'll go McGregor. Did you see him signing autographs? He was. He had, like, a stack of posters, and he basically just marks, like, one line, and that's his autograph, I guess for this fight. He was signing a bunch of things, but he's just standing there and they're just pulling them one by one, and he just, like, slices it with a marker, and that's his entire autograph.

[Eddy]

That's the. Really. When that. When we were, like, doing all those memorabilia things, those breaks and everything, we got what's. I want to act like I forgot his name. What's the dude, Our cornerback for the Cowboys. Not with us anymore. Yeah, Siobhan Diggs. He like. His was like that, too, dude. It was like a line over the number. Like, just a line. To me, that's so disrespectful.

[Mike]

I'd be so upset if I paid money for that. And it's just a line that anybody could have made.

[Eddy]

Yeah, I agree.

[Mike]

Oh, yeah.

[Kevin]

He. He's literally just like, who?

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[Kevin]

You can't see it.

[Eddy]

You're watching the video.

[Kevin]

Just made a little sound like I'm just see what it is. But, yeah, it's basically just a line. Yep.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Eddy]

All right, well, I'm going to be watching. Dude, I love ufc.

[Kevin]

I might watch with you.

[Eddy]

Do it. Mike, you should watch it, too. Let us know.

[Mike]

I'll give it a peek.

[Eddy]

Yeah.

[Kevin]

Is it late?

[Eddy]

No. The good thing about Paramount, plus, it all starts, like. I think the prelims are like 4 o'. Clock. The main events at 7. It's done by 10:30.

[Mike]

Oh, that's the one streaming service I don't have. Actually, now I think about it.

[Eddy]

That's not true.

[Mike]

That's the one. I cut Paramount plus.

[Kevin]

Hey, did your wife tell you?

[Mike]

I was like, what am I going to watch on their spongebob?

[Eddy]

That's stupid.

[Kevin]

All right, well, good luck to Connor.

[Eddy]

Good luck to Connor. I'm still going to be watching soccer.

[Kevin]

No way.

[Mike]

You guys.

[Kevin]

Wimbledon.

[Mike]

I'm still watching soccer.

[Eddy]

Yeah. Good, Mike.

[Bobby Bones]

Probably not good.

[Eddy]

All right, let me. You want me to blow it out of here? Okay, here we go. I said don't forget to blow it. That was a week. It was upside down.

[Bobby Bones]

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