25W: The Time Bobby Spent Christmas in Australia with Keith Urban + Is Kickoff Kevin Making Excuses for Not Going to the Super Bowl? + Our Favorite Wrestlers of All-Time

Summary

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The Bobby Bones Show — Episode Summary

Episode: "25W: The Time Bobby Spent Christmas in Australia with Keith Urban + Is Kickoff Kevin Making Excuses for Not Going to the Super Bowl? + Our Favorite Wrestlers of All-Time"

Date: February 3, 2026
Host: Bobby Bones
Co-Hosts: Eddie, Kickoff Kevin, Mike Bistro

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EPISODE OVERVIEW

This episode weaves together three primary threads:

1. Bobby’s memories of celebrating Christmas in Australia with Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman.
2. An in-depth debate about Hall of Fame snubs, cheating in sports, and Kevin’s excuses for not staying at the Super Bowl, even though his team (the Patriots) is playing.
3. A raucous nostalgia trip through the crew’s favorite pro wrestlers of all time — new and old.

With Super Bowl 60 looming, the crew tackles football internationalization, prop bets, and the escalating costs of attending the big game. All this, plus memorable tangents, from airline beds to a viral sports romance TV show, and a peek into the world of wrestling.

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KEY DISCUSSION POINTS & SEGMENTS

1. "Mystery Helmet" Unboxing & Best NFL Helmets

02:43–06:16

• Bobby opens a mystery box: a signed Cincinnati Bengals helmet — turns out it’s Joe Burrow’s.
  • Bobby: “That’s a legit helmet, dude.” (05:12)
  • They riff on the coolest NFL helmet designs:
    • Bobby believes Bengals’ is best: “I feel like the Bengals helmet’s the best looking helmet in the NFL.” (05:26)
    • Kevin and Eddie shout out Ravens’ all-black and Jets' green.

2. Hall of Fame Debate: Belichick & Kraft — Cheaters or GOATs?

06:16–11:34

• Heated debate over Robert Kraft and Bill Belichick being snubbed from the Hall of Fame due to cheating scandals (Spygate, Deflategate).
  • Bobby: “They’re not getting first ballot because they cheated.” (07:16)
  • Kevin: Defends their legacy, says everyone was bending rules and writers have a personal vendetta.
  • Eddie: Jokes if Kraft’s “massage parlor” scandal matters (11:06), Bobby: “A lot of sleazy activities happening with athletes and owners. Just rich people.” (11:13)
  • Comparisons are drawn to Barry Bonds, Pete Rose, and cheating generally in sports.

3. Super Bowl 60 Goes International

13:58–23:00

• NFL announces nine games abroad: London, Madrid, Melbourne (Australia), Mexico City, Munich, and Paris.
  • Bobby remembers his 20-hour flight to Australia: “Dude, it’s 20 hours… I had a bed…sleeping pill phase…” (14:20–15:29)
  • Tells story of Christmas in Australia with ex-bandmate Nikita Carmen and guest appearance at Keith Urban/Nicole Kidman’s Christmas party (16:41–19:16):
    • Bobby: “We went to Keith and Nicole’s, like, two-floor apartment in downtown Sydney. …I didn’t know any of the people there. I think there were some famous Australians.” (18:05–18:26)
  • The group reacts to international expansion: mixed views on logistics, time zones, interest in which city would be best to visit.

4. Super Bowl Prop Bets & Betting Chat

23:00–26:43

• Bobby, Eddie, and Kevin crack up over the weirdest Super Bowl prop bets:
  • Gatorade color (most bet on: blue), “octopus” bet (player scores TD and two-pointer), fastest ball-carrier stats, and more.
  • Ongoing lament over betting losses and league “buy a team” pool.

5. Kevin’s Super Bowl Dilemma — Excuses, Family, and Fandom

26:40–31:56

• Kevin, a diehard Patriots fan, reveals he isn't staying for the Super Bowl despite already being in San Francisco — citing cost and wanting to watch with family.
  • Bobby and Eddie rib him mercilessly: “This may never happen again!” (27:15), “Dang. We thought you were a fan.” (29:21)
  • Debate over what constitutes real sports fandom, expenses and priorities.

6. Favorite Wrestlers — Past and Present

42:03–54:55

• The crew rehashes Royal Rumble, comments on women's attire for the event in Saudi Arabia (Power Rangers memes), and wrestling spectacle in general.
• Favorite wrestlers:
  • All-Time Favorites: Hulk Hogan (Eddie), Stone Cold (Kevin), The Rock (Mike), Sting (Bobby)
  • Current Favorites: Cody Rhodes (Eddie), Rhea Ripley (Kevin), CM Punk (Bobby & Mike)
    • Bobby: “CM Punk’s my favorite wrestler right now… and he stands up for what he believes in.” (53:46–53:59)
  • Discussion of old tag teams (Legion of Doom, Steiner Brothers) and iconic heels and faces.
  • Fun sidebar about Bobby’s dad going to school with Tito Santana.

7. Stories of Watching or Attending Wrestling

59:14–61:42

• Bobby and Eddie recall attending matches, seeing legends like Road Warriors, Ric Flair, and Russian villain teams (Bolsheviks, Nikolai Volkoff).
• More nostalgia for the wild personas and real-life drama of 1980s–2000s pro wrestling.

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MEMORABLE QUOTES & MOMENTS

• On Hall of Fame Cheating:
  • “Somebody who cheated should not get in the Hall of Fame first ballot.” — Bobby Bones (09:02)
• On Australia Flight:
  • "It was 20 hours to get there ... I had a bed, and so I slept for some. And I was in my sleeping pill phase." — Bobby (14:20–15:29)
• On Keith Urban’s Christmas Party:
  • "We went to Keith and Nicole's, like two floor apartment in downtown Sydney. ...I didn't know any of the people there. I think there were some famous Australians." — Bobby (18:05–18:26)
• On Royal Rumble in Saudi Arabia:
  • “They all look like Power Rangers.” — Bobby (42:39)
• On Favorite Tag Teams:
  • "Like, I love the Road Warriors back in the day… The Steiner Brothers were awesome." — Bobby (58:11)
• On Mattress Mack’s $2 Million Bet:
  • “Somebody needs to jump in with old Mattress Mac and stop the bleeding here.” — Bobby (63:44)

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TIMESTAMPS FOR IMPORTANT SEGMENTS

• [02:43] — Mystery NFL helmet unboxing
• [06:16–11:34] — Hall of Fame cheating debate
• [13:58–23:00] — NFL’s international games & Bobby’s Australia story
• [23:00–26:43] — Super Bowl prop bets discussion
• [26:40–31:56] — Kevin’s "Super Bowl excuses" debate
• [42:03–54:55] — Wrestling nostalgia & “all-time favorites” segment
• [59:14–61:42] — Personal wrestling stories and live event memories

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CONCLUSION

This episode offered a classic blend of humor, heated debate, and sentimental sports storytelling, full of “you had to be there” moments and inside jokes for regular listeners. From Bobby’s Christmas Down Under with Keith Urban to a deep dive into NFL globalization and wrestling’s wildest characters, it’s a quintessential Bobby Bones mix: high-energy, playful, and packed with passionate sports talk.

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Transcript

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[Eddie]

This is a podcast called 25 whistles talking football and they all wear a whistle yet stupid. But what did you expect? It's a podcast called 25 Whistles.

[Bobby Bones]

25 Whistles.

[Kevin]

Hey everybody.

[Bobby Bones]

Welcome to the show a little later than normal in the week. We're also going to go out to the super bowl and do some interviews. So you'll have that coming up later this week as well. You hit us with the whistle. Thank you very much. What I found in a big box of stuff was an old break that I had won. It is in a box. It is still. It was sealed. I don't know what's in it, so.

[Eddie]

But it's something that you won, Right. Like a long time ago.

[Bobby Bones]

A year and a half ago or so.

[Eddie]

So you don't remember.

[Bobby Bones]

It's gonna be a helmet signed by somebody. We don't know what team or we don't know what person. So we were making guesses before. We'll just pull it now. But what did you guess?

[Eddie]

Derrick Henry. But do you remember winning a Derrick Henry at any point in your life?

[Bobby Bones]

Man, I don't know.

[Eddie]

Yes. I don't know.

[Kevin]

There's a lot.

[Bobby Bones]

At one point, you.

[Kevin]

Garrett Wilson, Jets.

[Eddie]

That's solid.

[Bobby Bones]

He would have been a rookie maybe. Or after his rookie year. Yeah. Yeah. If I didn't open it, it's probably a team I don't care about and a player I didn't care about. So I would guess someone like the Seahawks and someone like. I don't want to say Jackson, Smith and Jigba.

[Eddie]

Oh, well, not.

[Bobby Bones]

You would care about that right then. Probably not. This year was his breakout year. But I'll go Seahawks. I mean, I would care about Sean Alexander.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

And Sam Darnold wasn't a Seahawks. I'll go Russell Wilson, Seahawks from a long time ago. Okay, here we go. All right.

[Eddie]

Here we go.

[Bobby Bones]

Opening it up.

[Kevin]

Dang. It's like old times. It is.

[Eddie]

And I'm not gonna look at the tag, so I'll just kind of open it.

[Mike Bistro]

Okay.

[Eddie]

Dang. This brings back memories. Okay. We were all wrong with the team.

[Kevin]

Okay.

[Eddie]

It is the Cincinnati Bengals.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, that's cool.

[Eddie]

And then do we want to guess from Cincinnati?

[Bobby Bones]

Well, okay, I'll guess T. Higgins, because that'd be the worst one that I could possibly get. Meaning T. Higgins is third. Jamar Chase will be second. Joe Burrow will be first in the order of, like, cool Bengals. The Bengals. Helmet looks cool.

[Eddie]

I'm going to go Chase Brown.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, that'd be the worst. That'd be worse than T. Higgins.

[Kevin]

I'm gonna go Joe Mixon. Cause I think he was still in team of that.

[Eddie]

That'd be solid.

[Bobby Bones]

I bet you I can identify it just by the autograph.

[Eddie]

Here you go.

[Bobby Bones]

That is a.

[Eddie]

That looks like Jamar.

[Bobby Bones]

Maybe Joe Burrow. I don't know.

[Eddie]

Is it Joe Burrow?

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, I don't know. What's it say?

[Eddie]

It's Joe Burrow.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Oh, that's a legit helmet, dude.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, that's a good one. I feel like I'm gonna get injured.

[Eddie]

Just by looking at it, having it on the table.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, yeah. Make it look good there. There we go.

[Eddie]

That's cool.

[Bobby Bones]

Hey, that is a good one.

[Eddie]

It is a real good one.

[Bobby Bones]

I feel like the Bengals helmet's the best looking helmet in the NFL.

[Kevin]

Really?

[Bobby Bones]

I think it's the coolest helmet.

[Eddie]

It is very cool. Oh, when the ice. Is it called ice out?

[Bobby Bones]

Like the white ones, the white Tiger ones.

[Eddie]

Those look cool.

[Kevin]

Yeah, those are sweet.

[Bobby Bones]

I think this helmet's the best helmet. The Tiger stripes, man.

[Eddie]

There's something about the jets little lollipop green that I love. I love that color.

[Bobby Bones]

I hate green. I think the jets have an ugly logo.

[Eddie]

The logo is stupid. It's so old.

[Bobby Bones]

But that's on the helmet, though.

[Eddie]

Yeah, I know. But I guess I like that, the way the green pops. But you're right. I think this is the coolest.

[Kevin]

I think the Raven's all black. That thing is sweet, like a matte black that they have with a purple on the logo.

[Bobby Bones]

But it's almost got to be their regular helmet.

[Eddie]

It's got to be the. The Raven on it.

[Bobby Bones]

You can't pick, like, their color.

[Kevin]

They're alternate. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Which.

[Eddie]

Which theirs is purple, Right? It's always purple with a raven on it.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't know. I think the Bengals best helmet. I did see that Robert Kraft did not make the hall of Fame.

[Kevin]

What the heck?

[Bobby Bones]

It's for cheating. The same reason Belichick didn't make it. So they're not going to be first teamers. They'll be second ballot hall of Famers. And it's for cheating. It's literally they're just getting punished a year because they cheated.

[Kevin]

Kevin, do you admit that they cheated the Spy Gate? Yes. The Deflategate is a fabricated, manufactured steel plat.

[Bobby Bones]

People were punished for it. So it was cheating.

[Kevin]

Yeah, because they had to punish somebody.

[Bobby Bones]

But Deflategate itself was massive. So, yes, they are not in the hall of Fame because they cheated.

[Kevin]

Deflategate was big. But then how many coaches have come out and said they're stupid because they got caught?

[Bobby Bones]

Spygate.

[Kevin]

Spygate. Sorry. Spygate. Because they got caught. All these coaches, Jimmy Johnson even came out last week. And, like, we all did this great. They got caught, so. Yeah, they're stupid for that.

[Bobby Bones]

They got caught cheating.

[Kevin]

Cheating or not, it's like it's the greatest coach of all time and probably the greatest owner of all time.

[Bobby Bones]

Only because he had the greatest quarterback and greatest coach fair.

[Eddie]

Which is all on him though, right?

[Bobby Bones]

Sure, yeah. But they're not getting first ballot because they cheated. So you just have to admit that they cheated and now they're being punished a year because they cheated.

[Eddie]

Yes, and it's one year, dude. Like, they're going to get.

[Kevin]

It doesn't matter how long the whole thing is. It's like the principle of it. It's like, come on.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, the principle is they cheated, but.

[Kevin]

The principle is they're the greatest of all time because they cheated, not because they cheated.

[Bobby Bones]

Championships are because they cheated.

[Kevin]

No. What about the other, what, four?

[Bobby Bones]

That's fine. That's great. But that's what make them the greatest of all time.

[Kevin]

No, I'm just a fan. No, it's just a cop out for people that are like.

[Bobby Bones]

Because I'm not a hater.

[Kevin]

It's the same thing as, like, people paying college players before it was ever a thing. It's like, we all know you did.

[Bobby Bones]

It as long as they didn't get caught, just like you said. I'm just using your own logic and your own argument that you just made.

[Kevin]

Well, they got. Yeah, they got caught. They're stupid for that, but that's it.

[Bobby Bones]

They are being punished because they cheated. Take away the titles from when they cheated. They only have four, and there's many teams owners that have four. The Steelers have four.

[Kevin]

I think. I just think these people.

[Bobby Bones]

Chuck Noll has four.

[Kevin]

They don't like Belichick and they don't like Kraft. I think they voters.

[Bobby Bones]

I think they don't want to put them in the hall of Fame first ballot because they cheated. That's the absolute reason, the only reason. I'm not a hater. I like the Patriots. I liked it when the Patriots were winning. I love a dynasty. I love sustained greatness because it's so hard. And when you do see it, it's almost like you want to bott because it comes around so slow. I am not a hater. You're a Chiefs hater because you're a Patriots lover. I'm not a Patriots hater for any reason. I'm a Patriots liker. I like Tom Brady. I'm still saying they cheated and that's why they're not in.

[Eddie]

And you say the only reason, like you think it's not the only reason?

[Kevin]

No, I don't think. I think these writers, they're a person. It's a person as these writers voting.

[Eddie]

Right.

[Kevin]

They have a personal vendetta or a personal feeling towards the ballot chance that.

[Bobby Bones]

Somebody who cheated should not get in the hall of Fame first ballot.

[Kevin]

If this was in 2010 and it was still like, whatever, five years off of all that, I would understand. But 15, 20 years later, it's just now eligible. Yeah, I know. I'm just saying, like, Barry Bonds didn't.

[Bobby Bones]

Get option to go into the Baseball hall of Fame until five years after he was out.

[Eddie]

Pete Rose.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Kevin]

I also think a little different conversation, but I also think only one year after not coaching is a little ridiculous.

[Bobby Bones]

To be the reason it's like that is because they're old. Like, when you retire from sports, you're 40 and you have an easy five years to live. When you retire as a coach, sometimes you're 70. And if you're a Hall of Fame coach, you've had a sustained career, you're in your 60s or 70s, you may not live another five years. So I'm all for the coach being a year because again, Belichick's 72.

[Kevin]

But what's crazy. Yeah, 72, 73. What's crazy is these coaches will go out for a year or two and come back. And come back.

[Bobby Bones]

Stone Cold comes back and wrestle. He wrestled in the hall of Fame. Rey Mysterio wrestled in the Royal Rumble. He is in the hall of Fame.

[Kevin]

So, yes. I can't compare Stone Cold to Bill Belichick.

[Eddie]

That's weird.

[Kevin]

That's weird to even try to do that. I know. Trying to think about it. Hey, and we love Stone Cold, but I just think these people are haters. And it's pretty embarrassing that the greatest of all time, no matter what your personal feelings are about what happened 20 years ago, you're keeping them out when they were the most. Now, what does Tom Brady not get voted the first year?

[Bobby Bones]

I think, though, again, I'll just use your logic. I don't hear you complaining every year. Barry Bonds does not get in the hall of Fame or Pete Rose did not get in the hall of Fame. They cheated, did things against the rules that weren't. And they're not in. And you're not every baseball you're going, okay, they're the best. It's because it's your team.

[Kevin]

If somebody asks me, though, I would say Barry Bonds should be in.

[Bobby Bones]

Me too. He's the greatest hitter of all time.

[Kevin]

Yeah, I agree. And a lot of people don't like him. Reporters, they say he was an a hole and all that.

[Bobby Bones]

But there are other steroid guys who have gotten in. So it's not just the steroids, it's both. But it doesn't help that Belichick was not nice. But he cheated. He will get in next year. I'm fine with it. He should get in. He's the greatest coach of all time. Yeah, but he cheated.

[Eddie]

Do you think Robert Kraft's massage parlor thing has anything to do with it?

[Kevin]

Nah, I forgot about that.

[Eddie]

I never forget about that.

[Bobby Bones]

A lot of sleazy activities happening with athletes and owners. Just rich people.

[Eddie]

Like, I see his face and that's the first thing I think of.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Kevin]

Not to take really.

[Bobby Bones]

And do 30 minutes on. But yeah, that's why I don't even think it's just bitter people. I think there are a couple bitter betties, but I think there are other people that go, I don't think they deserve to get in first ballot, the prestigious first ballot because they cheated.

[Kevin]

Then. Then there's a whole. If they don't get in first ballot, then nobody, literally nobody should ever get in.

[Bobby Bones]

No, that's. That's actually not true.

[Kevin]

Like Andy Reid, if he was first ballot this year, you would.

[Eddie]

Yeah, he would.

[Kevin]

You think he would get voted in because everyone likes him and he's a like.

[Bobby Bones]

No, because he didn't cheat. He's not. He didn't have games suspended or lost or money or draft picks lost. Because they got caught cheating.

[Kevin]

I just have a hard time.

[Bobby Bones]

Yes, because it's your turn.

[Kevin]

Because I'm a fan.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, that's.

[Kevin]

That's fair. That's a fair argument. But at the same time, like, even the Astros, that whole thing, like Altuve, will he get in? Who knows? But like, that didn't bother me. I was like.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, cuz your team doesn't.

[Kevin]

No.

[Eddie]

They'Re not your team.

[Bobby Bones]

No. Your team, the Patriots, the Red Sox were cheating too, though, in a different way. Yes, they were. They got in trouble at the same time.

[Eddie]

What were they doing?

[Bobby Bones]

Cheating.

[Eddie]

Were they trash cans?

[Bobby Bones]

Apple watches.

[Eddie]

Oh, apple. Yeah, Apple watches.

[Kevin]

There's advantages in every sport that people try to get away with.

[Bobby Bones]

No, that's called cheating. If you get caught, it's like Michigan. Okay, I'm not going to spend 10 minutes doing this. But they will. They deserve to be in the hall.

[Kevin]

Of Fame right now.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, fine. But. But they did not get it because they got caught cheating.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

If they were just Jerks. They'd have got in if they just weren't liked. They would have got in. So you can be butt hurt.

[Kevin]

They're in my hall of Fame.

[Bobby Bones]

Great. Belichick's having that party.

[Eddie]

What party?

[Bobby Bones]

He's having a party at the same time as they're having the hall of Fame party where they're throwing a big bash because he didn't get in the hall of Fame. You guys haven't seen that? No, man. You guys need to keep up with your Belichick news.

[Eddie]

Yeah, obviously, we're missing out.

[Bobby Bones]

Joe Belichick's girlfriend's planning a huge bash for him on the same day as the football hall of Fame induction ceremony.

[Eddie]

Oh, shit. Jordan's planning it. Oh, that's nice. It's nice of her. Supportive.

[Bobby Bones]

She's planning a huge bash. The eight time super bowl winning coach didn't reach the final round of voting to be inducted this year. Yes, people are upset because they deserve to be in, but also, you can't really go out and be like, no, I get it. Because then someone will go, yeah, but we. You remember when you were being a little dishonest? You can't really. From a glass house go, Brady especially. He cheated with them.

[Eddie]

Not Spygate, though. Not Spygate. Brady had nothing to do with Spygate. Just Deflategate. That was all him, you know?

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, but that is one.

[Eddie]

That is.

[Kevin]

You don't actually believe that, do you?

[Eddie]

Yes.

[Kevin]

Oh, my gosh.

[Eddie]

Brady's the one going, hey, dude, I need these a little more squishy.

[Stugatz]

Why?

[Eddie]

Because I throw it better and further.

[Kevin]

Hey, if the Cowboys that have been in the playoffs at all recently, they.

[Eddie]

Haven'T though, so shut up.

[Kevin]

Exactly.

[Bobby Bones]

All right, we'll start with that. The NFL also announced nine international games for next year. There will be three games in London. There will be a game in Madrid, Spain. There will be a game for the first time. Man, this would suck to have to go to this game. Like, to fly to this game to play, because it is so far. It's in Melbourne, Australia.

[Kevin]

Oh, my God.

[Bobby Bones]

Yes.

[Eddie]

You've done that flight.

[Bobby Bones]

Dude, it's 20 hours.

[Eddie]

Oh, my goodness. You have a bed on that flight. Like something I did. I'm assuming these guys will.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't think they have a whole jet full of beds.

[Eddie]

Maybe they take multiple. Because these guys need to rest.

[Bobby Bones]

Possibly.

[Kevin]

Oh, that's brutal.

[Bobby Bones]

That's brutal.

[Eddie]

20 hours. 20 hours in the air.

[Bobby Bones]

It was 20 hours to get there. Mike, would you look up to see what that flight is in the air? Melbourne, Australia. Mexico City.

[Eddie]

Oh, good lord.

[Bobby Bones]

So, you know you got to get to the cartel.

[Eddie]

Yeah. Good luck with that.

[Mike Bistro]

17.5 in the air.

[Kevin]

Dang connection.

[Mike Bistro]

An average of 21 hours.

[Kevin]

And how long do you take? Like, how early do you have to get there to get situated to play a football game?

[Eddie]

Oh, you have to.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, depending on the coach, some of them will fly in day of, we're not gonna adjust. And some.

[Eddie]

No way.

[Bobby Bones]

Obviously, we'll get there a week early. They should almost get two weeks off after that game.

[Kevin]

Yes.

[Eddie]

Hey, on that flight, are people just walking around everywhere?

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, yeah.

[Eddie]

Just trying to get.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. To keep blood going, keep blood circulating. I had a bed, and so I slept for some. And I was in my sleeping pill phase, so I would just take more sleeping pills and go back to sleep. But I was again, I'd always be afraid I'd wake up and be like, taking a dump on the floor or something.

[Eddie]

Stupid question. Do you have privacy on that bed? Like, could you and your girl.

[Bobby Bones]

No, she can't. She can come over there and just like, sit, but there's no chair and. No, you can from the top. You walk by, you look down, you can see them completely. And there's an open side.

[Eddie]

So no privacy.

[Kevin]

Okay. Like, they don't have a roof that.

[Bobby Bones]

You can put over.

[Kevin]

No roof.

[Bobby Bones]

Sometimes they have, like, a door you can close, but they definitely don't have a roof. I've never been on one of those flights where I've seen them on TikTok where the person goes into, like a little cabin. Mike, you ever see those?

[Kevin]

Oh, yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

I've never even seen a flight like that.

[Kevin]

What about, like, crazy rich Asians? That plane. Do you remember that movie? That's the plane. I'm like, those actually exist?

[Bobby Bones]

Is that like what he's talking about? Is that one of those.

[Kevin]

They had like a bar in the front and everything. And I was like, what the heck?

[Bobby Bones]

Do you know how much a first class seat is to Australia? You want to look that up? I have a guess because I've bought it a couple times.

[Eddie]

How much is a regular ticket?

[Bobby Bones]

Well, now you're asking me things. I don't know.

[Eddie]

Sorry. Yeah, like you would remember that.

[Mike Bistro]

First class, between 7,000 and 15,000.

[Bobby Bones]

Dang.

[Mike Bistro]

One way or both for a round trip?

[Bobby Bones]

First way. First. Oh, sorry. First class to Australia. I think they were about 10 grand.

[Kevin]

Wow.

[Eddie]

Did you like Australia? Mm, it's fine.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, it was fine. I went over with Nikita.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

I haven't already go for Christmas.

[Eddie]

Oh. And she's from there. So she kind of.

[Bobby Bones]

You saw that her family was there? Yeah, yeah, it was great. Went to Keith Urban's house for Christmas because Keith Urban's like, you're in town for Christmas? And I say, yeah. He said, are you with your family? I said, no, I'm just with a friend. And she was like, you can come back. And so we went over to his house for Christmas.

[Eddie]

I don't think we've ever talked about this. What was. What was that?

[Kevin]

Like, do they eat? Like, what do they eat?

[Bobby Bones]

Have I not talked about that?

[Eddie]

No, no, not really. I remember you saying that you were in Australia and you saw Keith and Nicole, but I don't really remember you going to their house.

[Bobby Bones]

By the way, the quick story of who Nikita is. Nikita. Carmen. Eddie and I were looking for somebody in the Raging Idiots as a female to be part of the band. And so she was living in Australia and we were like, hey, you can come be part of the band. So she moved over here and then she ended up opening for us because she was her own artist, but she played with us some as well. And then we were all really good friends. And she was like, I'm going home for Christmas. It's warm. You're welcome to come back with me. And I said, all right. And so I flew over and hung out at her house and I stayed in a hotel and then I would just go do stuff by myself.

[Eddie]

You were in Sydney?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, some. But some I was just with her and her family. It was nothing romantic at all. And so I walked up that bridge.

[Eddie]

Oh, the big one, the huge one.

[Bobby Bones]

Because there are stairs that go up it and the wind's blowing. You feel like you're going to blow off and die.

[Kevin]

Oh, really?

[Bobby Bones]

And I was over and I posted on Twitter and Keith Urban saw my tweet and he said, you're in Australia? I said, yeah. He said, for Christmas? I said, yeah, I didn't have anywhere to go. And he said, why don't you come over to me and Nicole's? We have an apartment. It was near downtown. So we went to Keith and Nicole's, like two floor apartment in downtown Sydney.

[Eddie]

That's amazing.

[Bobby Bones]

I didn't know any of the people there. I think there were some famous Australians.

[Eddie]

Oh, it was a party.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Kevin]

Oh, nice.

[Bobby Bones]

It was like a party. Yeah.

[Kevin]

Were they in like pajamas? Just got done wrapping or opening presents?

[Bobby Bones]

No, it was like a Christmas party.

[Eddie]

All adults, no kids?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Eddie]

Hugh Jackman.

[Bobby Bones]

There's not that I remember. I didn't talk To a whole lot of people. You know me. Anyway, when I get there.

[Kevin]

What'd you do when you got there?

[Bobby Bones]

Then I was like, hey, I'm Bobby. Keith told me to come because there was somebody down at the front with a clipboard. Because people were coming to the party and they were like, oh, yeah, go here. Going up to this floor. And so I go up and then it opens up and they're the only place on the floor. And so then the only door. So I walk in and he's like, bobby. And he's like, welcome. Get something to eat, whatever. And so then he shows me around and walked outside. I'd say half an hour outside.

[Eddie]

You can see all downtown area.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, yeah, what am I gonna do?

[Kevin]

That's what I was wondering.

[Bobby Bones]

I know one person, he doesn't drink. Well, two people. Keith. Well, one and a half Keith and half Nicole. Like, I know we know each other well enough that we see each other, but it's not like I have a relationship with her.

[Eddie]

That's true. Hors d', oeuvres, food.

[Kevin]

Yeah, yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

People walking around with hors d', oeuvres. Not just Nicole.

[Kevin]

Yeah. Nice. I love this champagne that you didn't drink.

[Bobby Bones]

Any non alcoholic champagne that I didn't drink. I just didn't want to be the guy to go, hey, do you have any non alcoholic beverages? I would kind of just drink the water.

[Eddie]

Did you take a gift?

[Bobby Bones]

This question has been like six. No. Because he texted me two hours before it started.

[Kevin]

Did you bring any food or wine?

[Bobby Bones]

No, I brought nothing.

[Eddie]

I just want to shut up.

[Bobby Bones]

I didn't really have clothes to go over. I just had like a collared shirt and yeah, tucked it in some pants.

[Eddie]

I bet that is cool though, for Keith. Like just somebody that I know from back to back in the States.

[Bobby Bones]

I think I was the only American there.

[Eddie]

That's cool, man. That's awesome, dude.

[Bobby Bones]

Long flight though.

[Eddie]

You've been able to do some cool stuff?

[Bobby Bones]

Some. I stopped in New Zealand on a layover. Oh, it's on the way.

[Kevin]

Like for a day or a couple days?

[Bobby Bones]

No, like four hours. Thing about European airports or Australia is you don't go to gates. You sit in a wide open room in the middle of the airport and they go, all right, this is your flight. Go. In America, we go and it's like B12. And you kind of sit at B12.

[Eddie]

They're more organized.

[Bobby Bones]

Any of the European airports I've been to or New Zealand or Australia, there's just like a big area and you Just sit there and they're like, brrrrr. If your flight did it go? And then you go, wow. Yeah. That's my Keith Urban story. But Melbourne, I'll show you. That's like a terrible game to play. Mexico City said that. Munich, Germany, another game there. A new location in Paris, France. Paris is awesome.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

That all seems kind of same area.

[Bobby Bones]

The Europe part.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Oh, yeah. Europe ones.

[Kevin]

Are you talking about Australia and Paris?

[Eddie]

No, not those two.

[Bobby Bones]

Paris is awesome.

[Eddie]

Really?

[Bobby Bones]

I've been twice. Once it was really cold and it kind of sucked because it was so cold. Still enjoyed it, but went once when it was warm. I think it's like my second favorite city ever that I've ever been to. It's so cool. Your first being Vienna, Austria.

[Eddie]

Okay. No American cities.

[Bobby Bones]

They're all normal. That's like going in your backyard.

[Eddie]

Yeah. Yeah. But I mean, to me, New York City is like pretty amazing.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. I've been there 100 times. And also it's like I can now see the bad stuff about it because I know it well enough. Yeah. And then Rio, Brazil, new location.

[Eddie]

Oh, again. No, they did that.

[Bobby Bones]

It says new location.

[Eddie]

Oh. I guess they were in Brazil, but maybe not Rio.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. So it's a lot of international games. Feels like a bit too many. And then Australia is a different. Completely different time zone.

[Eddie]

Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

Like it's not even close. Like Europe's like seven or eight hours. What's the. What's Melbourne, Australia right now?

[Mike Bistro]

6:21Am Wednesday.

[Eddie]

So that's tomorrow.

[Kevin]

15 hours.

[Eddie]

They're in another day.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. I don't even want to try to speculate when they're going to play those games.

[Eddie]

And the Mexico City one, that's our time. So, like, I'm assuming it'll be regular time.

[Bobby Bones]

Have at it. Normal.

[Eddie]

Yeah, normal time.

[Kevin]

I'll play in that one.

[Bobby Bones]

Which one would you go to, though? If you got to go to one, which one would you like to go to?

[Eddie]

Australia.

[Kevin]

And we don't know who's playing yet. Right.

[Bobby Bones]

I would want to go to the Paris, France one just because Paris is awesome. Maybe Munich, Germany.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

It's the best hot dog ever had.

[Eddie]

Really? In Munich?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, best. And a lot of hype, a lot of build up because that's what they're known for is a brat.

[Eddie]

Oh, a bratwurst. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

God. Dude, it was awesome. Melted in my mouth. And it was longer than the bun.

[Eddie]

Oh, my.

[Bobby Bones]

It was like coming out the bun.

[Eddie]

So did you eat the wiener first?

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

You have to.

[Eddie]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

You can't get to the bun unless you eat the wiener.

[Eddie]

Right, right, right.

[Bobby Bones]

You gotta go raw dog wiener before you get to that bread.

[Eddie]

Good point.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Probably Munich, Germany.

[Kevin]

I think that would be mine too.

[Bobby Bones]

Then Paris. So there you go. Let's see. Here's some prop bets for the Super Bowl. The Gatorade color. This is always one. I feel like this is the one though that you could really manipulate.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

If you're on the team.

[Eddie]

If you're the one doing the Gatorades.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. What do you think the favorite is?

[Eddie]

Green.

[Bobby Bones]

It's blue. I don't know. Why?

[Eddie]

Oh, blue.

[Bobby Bones]

Maybe people, they just use more blue Gatorade during. During games.

[Kevin]

Have anything to do with the team colors?

[Bobby Bones]

No, I mean, what are the colors? Like blue and orange.

[Eddie]

Okay. Blue, orange and.

[Bobby Bones]

And then yellows right there too. It jumps big at purple or red or water. If you dump water as the first one, you're a loser.

[Kevin]

That would be hilarious.

[Bobby Bones]

You gotta go dump.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Or the big controversy is if you dump like lemon ice and somebody bets water and. Because that's clear.

[Eddie]

Oh, right, right.

[Bobby Bones]

And then there's a big fight about what it actually was. So they have to go lick the coach to see what the taste is. Yeah. Blue is a plus 200. The quarterback to catch a pass. If you bet 100 bucks on yes. And they do, you make $1,200.

[Eddie]

Ooh.

[Bobby Bones]

So a quarterback would catch a pass in either running a trick play or their ball gets batted up and instead of them batting it down, they catch it back from the bat.

[Kevin]

Can you imagine? That's how you win. That'd be cool.

[Bobby Bones]

I just can't imagine winning anymore, guys.

[Kevin]

It's been a rough.

[Eddie]

I know, dude.

[Kevin]

Yeah. I haven't bet anything in a couple weeks now. Obviously with no. That felt like I've been past it. And then I just remember our league jersey.

[Bobby Bones]

Number of first touchdown scorer. The favorite is over ten and a half. So that would be all the wide receivers, all the running backs. Unless there's a low numbered wide receiver. But yeah, over ten and a half is a big favorite there. Total players to have a pass attempt.

[Eddie]

Okay, so like out of the whole.

[Bobby Bones]

Game, what do you think the over under is?

[Eddie]

Okay, let's see. Total players, two quarterbacks, maybe a couple of like, you know, fakes. I'd say three.

[Bobby Bones]

It's two and a half because who else is going to throw up that.

[Eddie]

Yes. Yeah, yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Unless it's a halfback pass.

[Eddie]

Sure.

[Bobby Bones]

A fake punt.

[Kevin]

Both teams run something. Yeah.

[Eddie]

But a flea flicker quarterback, Not A flea flicker. I was thinking of. What's that?

[Kevin]

Statue of Liberty or what is that.

[Eddie]

When like, you know, they hand it off and then double pass or. And they throw it. Oh, no, no. They throw it off to like the running back or whatever off the side and then the running back throws it. Don't know what double pass is that a double fast.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

Will there be an octopus? Do you know what an octopus is?

[Eddie]

Something about eight. Like, well, eight. Eight, eight or something.

[Bobby Bones]

Think about it. The odds. Yes. Are plus 1500. So if you bet 100 bucks, you make 1,500 bucks.

[Eddie]

I've seen this bet available every single time. I'm like, don't know what it is.

[Kevin]

I hit this couple years ago.

[Bobby Bones]

Think about it. What do you think an octopus is? And how would you get an octopus in a game? Because it's obviously possible.

[Eddie]

The only thing I can think of is Anything divisible by 8.

[Bobby Bones]

It is getting the 6 point for the touchdowns and then the touchdown and getting a two point conversion.

[Eddie]

Oh, that's eight points.

[Bobby Bones]

It's scoring eight points.

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[Bobby Bones]

A turbo tray.

[Eddie]

What is that? Sounds like a good snack.

[Bobby Bones]

Patriots running back Trey Henderson to record the fast to be the fastest carrier in the game. So they measure the miles per hour.

[Kevin]

Yeah, like that's like a whole next gen turbo tray.

[Bobby Bones]

What's the tray for?

[Kevin]

Is his name.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, God.

[Kevin]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, and they just have it as Trey Henderson as tray and he's a favorite.

[Kevin]

That's why they call it that a.

[Bobby Bones]

Score on the last play of the game. Is that. Yes. Is a plus 800. So that would be a midfield goal.

[Eddie]

Yeah, Yeah, I like that one. It's a close game. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

You excited for the game?

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Are you staying?

[Kevin]

Yeah, yeah. I got my dad and brother flying in actually, so we're all gonna watch it together. It's gonna be awesome.

[Bobby Bones]

Have you bought tickets?

[Kevin]

Oh, you're talking about the game.

[Bobby Bones]

Game. Yes.

[Kevin]

Oh, I think. Men. Are you staying here? Like, are you, like, are you watching it here?

[Bobby Bones]

We're going.

[Eddie]

We've talked about this hundreds of times. Are you watching?

[Bobby Bones]

We're literally going to San Francisco. That's right.

[Kevin]

We are.

[Eddie]

We are.

[Kevin]

No, I'll be in Tennessee for it.

[Bobby Bones]

So you're coming back? You're going back all the way out there.

[Eddie]

I'm shocked.

[Bobby Bones]

Your team is in the game and you're coming back.

[Eddie]

Dude, I am shocked by this.

[Kevin]

I know it was a tough decision, but I just can't afford that right now. That's a lot of money.

[Eddie]

Cards, bro.

[Kevin]

Yeah, debt, bro.

[Bobby Bones]

This may never happen again. Mike, will you see what the cheapest ticket is right now?

[Kevin]

Yeah, my buddy just got tickets. He's a Seahawks fan.

[Eddie]

And how much not cheap?

[Kevin]

Well, his old client got him for him and he paid ten grand a piece.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, it's got to be a good ticket.

[Kevin]

It's a really good ticket.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, because last year, and I think that game was in a little more demand because it was the Chiefs and the Eagles game time, tickets were down to like 2,600 bucks. And I'm not saying that's cheap, but it's cheap compared to what they announced the ticket prices are at the very beginning.

[Kevin]

Yeah, I think I checked.

[Bobby Bones]

I think you could stay and get them day of for that. But again, if you don't want to pay that, you don't want to pay that. But it's your team.

[Kevin]

I know, but you've said this before, like being at the game, it doesn't feel like a football game since we were there last year.

[Bobby Bones]

But it also wasn't your team last year.

[Kevin]

That's true. I know. I didn't care.

[Eddie]

And the fact that you're there already.

[Bobby Bones]

I know, that's the biggest part. You got a free flight out there.

[Eddie]

Like, you're already there, dude.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Kevin]

Thanks, Brandon.

[Eddie]

And then your family could just drive, right?

[Kevin]

Your dad's in like seven hours in la.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, that's a drive.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Mike, what do you got?

[Mike Bistro]

Cheapest I'm seeing is $5,000.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, it's already dropped down.

[Eddie]

It's dropping already.

[Mike Bistro]

It was like 6,6500 last time we checked it.

[Bobby Bones]

Easily.

[Kevin]

So let's just say 2,500 for a ticket. A thousand bucks for a hotel for two nights. No.

[Eddie]

Don't forget your drinks.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, the drinks are thousand dollars in drinks, but you guys could all. And also you could get an Airbnb that's an hour outside of San Francisco. That's such a massive city.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

On a budget, you just don't wonder you'd have found it. And that's why they're going to lose.

[Kevin]

Now because of me. Because I'm not there. Probably.

[Bobby Bones]

You're going all the way out there and you're not staying.

[Kevin]

Would you do it?

[Eddie]

Yeah. If I was already there.

[Kevin]

Would you go by yourself?

[Eddie]

Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's a thing with me. Like, I have four kids. It's six of us in the family. Like, yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Fede took all the kids. Super bowl.

[Eddie]

The days of all of us going to a Cadall's Cowboys Game.

[Kevin]

Yeah, but I'm saying like a buddy or a family member from Texas. Hey, meet me in San Francisco, dude. Let's go.

[Eddie]

I would ask one of you guys, you want to stay with me? Because I'm going to stay.

[Bobby Bones]

I know you would stay and I would stay, and I think you would just risk it. And if you couldn't find a ticket cheap enough. You just watched the game from the hotel?

[Eddie]

Sure, yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Dang. We thought you were a fan.

[Eddie]

Dude, I'm shocked by it.

[Bobby Bones]

Me, too.

[Kevin]

I want to. I also want to watch the first super bowl of the Twins. You know, their first Super Bowl.

[Bobby Bones]

They don't.

[Eddie]

They're not going to know what's going on.

[Kevin]

Yeah, but we can take pictures of big guys.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, what, a cop out?

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Mike, would you stay?

[Mike Bistro]

Oh, yeah, 100%.

[Eddie]

Oh, I forgot. Mike would stay with me.

[Mike Bistro]

Yeah, I wouldn't even think about it.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, me too.

[Kevin]

I don't have an extra eight grand.

[Bobby Bones]

Dude, no one said eight grand.

[Kevin]

It would be a lot.

[Eddie]

No, it wouldn't.

[Kevin]

Yeah, it would be at least five.

[Bobby Bones]

For what?

[Kevin]

For the flight. Hotel.

[Bobby Bones]

You're flown out there.

[Kevin]

But I'm not talking about on the way back, though.

[Bobby Bones]

You get a flight for 400 bucks.

[Mike Bistro]

The hardest part is already done. You're already there.

[Kevin]

No, you don't want it.

[Bobby Bones]

He doesn't want it.

[Eddie]

He doesn't want it that bad.

[Kevin]

I'm still gonna watch it with my dad and brother, and that's all I care about.

[Bobby Bones]

That's.

[Eddie]

Oh, so you're gonna stay?

[Bobby Bones]

No, he's coming back.

[Kevin]

No, they're gonna fly over here.

[Bobby Bones]

That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. You should just go to la.

[Kevin]

I would rather watch it with them than a bunch of random people in the stadium.

[Bobby Bones]

No, you wouldn't. Not about your own team playing.

[Kevin]

No, I would. I really would.

[Bobby Bones]

It's not called being with a bunch of random people. When you go to a game, that'd be any game you go to.

[Kevin]

So all Patriots fans are just random people to you? If it was in New England, a playoff game, that's a different story. But in San Francisco, for a Super.

[Bobby Bones]

Bowl, I get the money thing, but that's not the excuse you're making. You're saying you don't want to be the random people in a room?

[Kevin]

No, it's all of that. It's the money. It's. I'd rather watch it with family members.

[Bobby Bones]

Just pay for yourself.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. But even that alone, whatever.

[Eddie]

2500 bucks, that's your Life, man.

[Kevin]

A lot of money.

[Bobby Bones]

All right, so here we go. Let's build the Super Bowl 60 parlay. We're going Patriots plus four and a half.

[Eddie]

Think about that for a little bit.

[Mike Bistro]

Love it.

[Bobby Bones]

We're also a bit biased because we have the Patriots in our buy a team league, which we're down like four grand on that. Huh?

[Kevin]

45.

[Eddie]

Gosh.

[Bobby Bones]

So the best we can do is be minus 4200.

[Eddie]

That would be great. It's like charity.

[Bobby Bones]

Anything 46 or 42, that's what we're gonna be. 40.

[Kevin]

Okay. Yeah. I mean, shoot, at the start of the playoffs, we were. So that's good.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Super bowl mvp. It's going to be one of the two quarterbacks.

[Eddie]

It's tough because you're thinking, like, all right, plus four, there's a chance that the Patriots can win.

[Kevin]

Right.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm going.

[Eddie]

Drake may see by doing that, then. You really think the Patriots can pull this off?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, I'll go. So I'm not doing super bowl mvp. I'm going to pull that off. So no need to edit it out. You can just let me live in this for a second because I'm going Patriots plus four and a half. I'm going to skip Super Bowl MVP. I'm going to do Drake made, plus 230 yards passing. I'm going to do Sam Darnold plus 210 yards passing. And I'm going to do Kenneth Walker the third, plus 60 yards of rushing. So we'll build that up. But the Patriots got to be close. Yeah. Download the DraftKings sportsbook app. Use the code Bobby Sports. It's code Bobby Sports. Bet live for your share of $5 million in prizes with the code Bobby Sports in partnership with DraftKings. The crown is yours.

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[Mind Games Host]

What if Mind Control is real?

[Bobby Bones]

If you could control the behavior of anybody around you, what kind of life would you have?

[Mind Games Host]

Can you hypnotically persuade someone to buy a car?

[Kevin]

When you look at your car car.

[Bobby Bones]

You'Re going to become overwhelmed with such good feelings.

[Mind Games Host]

Can you hypnotize someone into sleeping with you?

[Eddie]

I gave her some suggestions to be sexually aroused.

[Mind Games Host]

Can you get someone to join your cult?

[Bobby Bones]

NLP was used on me to access my subconscious.

[Mind Games Host]

Nlp, AKA Neuro Linguistic Programming, is a blend of hypnosis, linguistics and psychology. Fans say it's like finally getting a user manual for your brain.

[Eddie]

Brain. It's about engineering consciousness.

[Mind Games Host]

Mind Games is the story of nlp, its crazy cast of disciples, and the fake doctor who invented it at a New Age commune and sold it to guys in suits. He stood trial for murder and got acquitted. The biggest mind game of all, NLP might actually work.

[Bobby Bones]

This is wild.

[Mind Games Host]

Listen to mind Games on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast podcasts.

[Stugatz]

Stagatz Here I have a podcast empire. It continues to grow and I have brought it here to Ivar. I'm also doing a live radio show from 3 to 5pm Eastern because my wife wanted to kick me out of the house. It's called Stugac company Live, which is available in podcast form right when the show finishes every single day. Some of the biggest names in sports, a lot of phone calls.

[Mike Bistro]

I love you guys show.

[Eddie]

It's one of my favorites.

[Stugatz]

A of lot of interaction. Guys not taking themselves too seriously. Those are Just some of the things that you can expect from Stugouts and Company and Stugots Co. Live. So listen to Stegots Co. Live and our original podcast. Please subscribe, rate and review Stugots Co. And God bless football. Taylor's livelihood depends on it. Do it today and you can check all of those out on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

[Bobby Bones]

So Eddie, got into heated rivalry yet with the show?

[Eddie]

What do you mean?

[Bobby Bones]

You should watch Heated Rivalry.

[Eddie]

Oh, no, no, no, no.

[Kevin]

Yeah, it's like, who you got beef.

[Eddie]

With, dude, I don't know. It's usually Kevin, but why?

[Bobby Bones]

It's a good sports show.

[Eddie]

Okay, I haven't watched it.

[Bobby Bones]

I think that would be the perfect. If you lost a bet, you had to watch the whole show. It's the two gay hockey guys.

[Eddie]

Oh, it's that one. I wouldn't mind watching that. I mean. Wait, so is this like a. I don't know.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't know.

[Eddie]

Is it a fictional series?

[Bobby Bones]

You haven't. It's all over pop culture.

[Eddie]

I've heard people talk about it.

[Bobby Bones]

So there's a sudden word of. There's a sudden surge of women getting into hockey. It's because of Heated Rivalry, the HBO Max series about a romance between two rival hockey players.

[Eddie]

Huh.

[Bobby Bones]

It's so popular that even adult websites are reporting a major surge in women searching for hockey themed material.

[Eddie]

Wow.

[Bobby Bones]

Since the show premiered in November, searches containing the word hockey have skyrocketed. Women in particular are driving the spike. Search terms that are popular include hockey, gay hockey locker, hockey stick.

[Kevin]

Hockey stick.

[Bobby Bones]

Who gets on a search? Hockey, gay.

[Eddie]

Hey, you know what would be funny is if, like, I just. Because my wife and I will, like, sit in bed, we're like, all right, what do you want to watch? I don't know. Let's just pick something. What if I just picked Heated Rivalry?

[Bobby Bones]

Just not tell her what it's about and say nothing. Ask her if she'll watch a sports show with you.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Usually she'll be like, yeah, I might fall asleep, but I'll start it with you.

[Bobby Bones]

But man, that's so funny. And then you don't say what it is.

[Kevin]

And then just see how long it takes for her to be like, what is this?

[Eddie]

That would be hilarious.

[Bobby Bones]

And then you can blame it on us. They told me to watch it. Eddie is going with us to the Super Bowl. That's kind of big news.

[Kevin]

Love it.

[Eddie]

Let's go. Big news, man. It's been. Yes, I'M going. Nah, dude, I don't think I can go too long. Like, dude, I can finally go.

[Bobby Bones]

To be fair, we're not staying for the game this year.

[Eddie]

I know, but it sounds so cool to tell people I'm going to the Super Bowl.

[Bobby Bones]

We are going for super bowl press, meaning we're going to go for two days and do a bunch of interviews like we did last year. So your son had a basketball game, though, for a while.

[Eddie]

So what happened was it's right during winter break. So this is where, like, you'll find out, Kevin. YouTube, obviously. Like, winter break is just this random week in the middle of winter where the kids have off. So I thought, oh, that's perfect. My wife was like, look, we're not even going to be here. I might just go to North Carolina with the kids. So if you want to go with Bobby and them to the super bowl, do it. So I said, cool, I'm in then. Well, the ice storm kind of messed all the basketball schedules up. And what would have been the championship game that probably would have been, like, last week got moved to the week that we were going to the Super Bowl. So I told Bobby, like, dude, if this game is here, then they want to go to North Carolina. I got to stay with my son and take him to his games. Like, there's just no question about it. And then now we got news that all the games got pushed.

[Kevin]

So we're back, baby.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, so.

[Eddie]

And I felt stupid being like, hey, man, it's a championship basketball game, Sixth graders. I can't go.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, no, it's more like, hey, I'm a dad.

[DraftKings Announcer]

Right?

[Bobby Bones]

And also, you went to LA with us to help those shoots. So we got it.

[Eddie]

And my wife is like, yeah, do whatever you need to do or whatever. Cause I don't tell her, like, I want to do it.

[Bobby Bones]

Of course not.

[Eddie]

I'm just like, it's just work.

[Bobby Bones]

They're really wanting me to do this.

[Eddie]

It's a lot of work. We're gonna have to go to the Super Bowl. And so she's always like, yeah, sure. But I'd ask my son, like, hey, man, is it cool, like, if. If you just don't play those games? And he was like, no, no, I've worked hard. Like, I want to play those games.

[Bobby Bones]

Before they got postmodern. Yes.

[Kevin]

See, he gets applauded for being a good dad. I'm over here, like, I want to hang out with my twins.

[Bobby Bones]

That was ninth on this.

[Kevin]

He's just over here getting applauded. And you're like, dude, that's an excuse.

[Eddie]

It's wonder where you're turning red.

[Bobby Bones]

Your twins won't have a single memory of this.

[Kevin]

No, that's why they make cameras.

[Eddie]

And then he loves those pictures of like, look guys, you're watching your first game, like they don't care.

[Bobby Bones]

You could also take that picture when you get back and say, this is us watching the game.

[Eddie]

True.

[Kevin]

No, not the same guys.

[Bobby Bones]

My algorithm feeds me now these funny bits. First of all, have you ever seen any of the segments where the guy is like a professional weightlifter but he dresses as a janitor? Love him cleaning the gym. And there are these big dudes and they're like lifting all this weight and they're struggling and he's like, excuse me, sir, you know, I need to clean this to clean floor. And they're like, I don't even know what accent he uses, but it's like a nondescript accent. And they're like, alright. He goes, I just moved the weights. And they're like, okay. And he goes whoop. And lifts it right up and then walks with it. It's so funny.

[Eddie]

He's like, oh, this is not heavy.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, you make it look very heavy. The new one that I'm getting now because I was watching so many Alex Honnold or climber videos. Pro climbers going to like these rock walls, getting an instructor who's like showing them how to climb and them acting like they're terrible and then just dominating up a wall at the end.

[Eddie]

That's awesome.

[Bobby Bones]

They're so funny.

[Eddie]

Oh wow, I gotta search those out.

[Bobby Bones]

This one climber, big dude, like pretty overweight guy. And he's telling the guy like, no, this is not what you should do. The guy's a pro climber and the guy's like, I don't know, this just feels right and I think it's the right thing to do. And he's like, that's not how to do it. And so he's struggling to get up the wall and they go through the lesson. The guy's like, I think I'm ready, I should do the. I want to do the big wall. And the guy's like, I don't do the big wall, let's do the beginner wall first. And he goes, just give me one shot. And so the instructor is like, okay, this guy's gonna fail quick. And he goes all the way up.

[Eddie]

That's awesome.

[Bobby Bones]

It's awesome. That wasn't my algorithm this week, Mike. I watched the Royal Rumble. Yeah, I give it a C plus.

[Mike Bistro]

It'S kind of boring.

[Bobby Bones]

No huge names that came out, especially in the men's. I thought the women's was better. Pound for pound, I didn't enjoy it more because I enjoy the men's more, but I thought the women's compared to baseline was better than the men's.

[Mike Bistro]

I think I'm just more interested in the women's right now over the men's. All the big stars are just better.

[Bobby Bones]

I made some notes here. So they had this guy's. The Royal Rumble in Saudi Arabia and women can't show their skin. So. And I've.

[Eddie]

Oh, forgot about that.

[Bobby Bones]

I know. So they all were coming on these full body suits. I've seen some really funny Power Rangers memes now and videos. They all look like Power Rangers.

[Eddie]

So the women wrestlers all had tights.

[Bobby Bones]

Full body suits to their wrists and to their ankles. And one after the other they'd come out in full body suits.

[Kevin]

Dang.

[Bobby Bones]

And I don't watch women's wrestling to see the skin, but they're all ripped up and some of them have very distinct wrestling gear that they wear. And they were all in full Power Rangers looking body suits.

[Eddie]

That's interesting.

[Bobby Bones]

Did you notice that, Mike?

[Mike Bistro]

No, I didn't notice that.

[Bobby Bones]

Thinking back now to you.

[Mike Bistro]

Yeah, it makes sense.

[Bobby Bones]

So. But at first I was wondering, like, why are they all dressed weird? And then it's Saudi Arabia.

[Eddie]

So what's the consequence? Like if you chop off.

[Kevin]

Yeah. Like if we go over there with the wife or something like that. Like, can they just have to put on a bunch of clothes?

[Bobby Bones]

It's not a risk I'm willing to take.

[Eddie]

No, I'm not trying that.

[Bobby Bones]

And also, if you're performing in Saudi Arabia, you obviously have rules because artists go over and they can't say certain things or curse on stage.

[Kevin]

Oh.

[Bobby Bones]

So I think there are certain standards. What are you seeing, Mike?

[Mike Bistro]

Yeah, you can get a fine.

[Bobby Bones]

And then if you're doing business over there, it's probably in the contract they had with wwe, like your women. But the dudes are all out in their frigging loincloths, Ding dongs flapping around.

[Eddie]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've seen ufc though, where the girls, like just are wearing what they normally wear.

[Kevin]

The ring girls?

[Eddie]

Yeah. No, no, not the ring girls.

[Bobby Bones]

In Saudi Arabia.

[Eddie]

Yeah, they've done Saudi Arabia before.

[Bobby Bones]

I bet you they haven't. To where they're showing their skin, because.

[Eddie]

I remember it's crazy because, like they show the audience and everyone's wearing white, you know, and they're wearing their robes or whatever, so it always looks weird to me, but I don't remember the girls wearing anything like that.

[Bobby Bones]

Their crowd kind of sucked.

[Eddie]

Yeah, they're serious.

[Bobby Bones]

They knew the big wrestlers, but they didn't really know, like, the mid and the ones that are really coming up.

[Mike Bistro]

It looks so empty, too.

[Bobby Bones]

They put lights on all the seats, and the first half of it is pretty empty. By the end, it was full, but people would show cell phone footage from there, and they put the lights up so it looks full. If it's dark, they have all the lights up on all the seats, but. But they showed some cell phone footage, and it was pretty empty at the first part of it.

[Kevin]

Is that a soccer stadium?

[Bobby Bones]

No, they built a stadium just for this.

[Kevin]

Oh, wow. Wow. Saudi money.

[Eddie]

Yeah, they've got money. So was this on ESPN Unlimited?

[Bobby Bones]

It is, and I'm gonna talk about that. So ESPN Unlimited, I didn't have. And I'm trying hard to, like, get Hulu Live, but I already have. Hulu wouldn't let me, like, upgrade. I've tried everything. And so I'm like, screw it. I go to a different computer and I just create a whole different account, and I sign up for ESPN Unlimited for, like, 30 bucks a month. And so I buy a different email address. So now I have two. It's so stupid, because I have ESPN at ESPN plus. I didn't have ESPN Unlimited.

[Eddie]

Right.

[Bobby Bones]

Why we have all these?

[Kevin]

I don't know.

[Bobby Bones]

So I'm like, okay, cool. I turn it on. And then I go, oh, I bet if I just had taken and gone from. What do you call them? I got my phone vpn. A vpn and say, I'm in Canada. And I did that, and I could watch it on Netflix for free.

[Eddie]

Oh, because.

[Bobby Bones]

Because everywhere, not in America, they were getting it on Netflix. So as soon as I paid for it, I paid for it in a year, obviously, because I'm just like, I'll pay for it all in a year. If I pay for it in a month, I'd have been okay, but I paid for the whole thing in a year. And then, because I thought, I'll watch the other ones on this too. Then I went to my VPN and I said, let me just do. I did Montreal, then went to Netflix right there. Push Play. Could watch it for free.

[Eddie]

Really? So that's so smart, though, dude. I wouldn't have never thought of that.

[Bobby Bones]

I did it too late. It didn't save me any money.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

I text Mike. And I was like, vpn?

[Eddie]

So you do have unlimited.

[Bobby Bones]

I do. No, no, I had to pay for it.

[Eddie]

Right. So you have it now for the rest of the year. So you're gonna love watching these basketball games. Dude, you can watch it from the hoop camera.

[Kevin]

The NBA?

[Eddie]

No, college. You can watch Arkansas games just from the camera above the hoop.

[Bobby Bones]

AJ Styles retired. He's 48 years old. Did you know that?

[Mike Bistro]

Yeah, I didn't know that.

[Bobby Bones]

I know he was that old.

[Kevin]

He's still wrestling.

[Bobby Bones]

Not only that, Randy Orton's 45. Randy Orton looks like a monster with muscles ripping out of him. 45 years old, my age. Most of the men wrestlers, they showed a meme they were born in. The last three people were born in, like, 80, 82, and 84. And then on the women's side, it was like, 98, 2000, 99.

[Mike Bistro]

Even Cody Rhodes is 40.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, dude.

[Kevin]

Randy Orton is jacked.

[Eddie]

He is jack.

[Stugatz]

Look at that.

[Bobby Bones]

He's 45 years old. So I had AJ Styles 48, which I thought was crazy. Randy Orton's at 45. In the royal Rumble, there were too many masked men and luchadors that came out. They had like six.

[Eddie]

Were they Mexican?

[Bobby Bones]

A lot of them were cool. No, because nobody cares. It's just people, you know, are gonna get kicked out there. Three quarters of the people that come down, you know, are gonna lose.

[Eddie]

Oh, I got you.

[Bobby Bones]

And you knew when it was like, somebody from, like, NXT or TNA or the Mexican, they have a Mexican organization. They bought WWE that they now own. Do you know what that's called?

[Mike Bistro]

I don't know.

[Bobby Bones]

But they. You knew they were gonna lose.

[Kevin]

It's like an extra in the movie. Just there to be a body.

[Bobby Bones]

More than an extra because they have storylines and some of them would last. They'd do it. The move is they're starts with two people, and then every 90 seconds, somebody new comes in. Their music plays and they come down. And as soon as you get called in, you get about 15 to 20 seconds to feature. You come out and you do a couple moves. And so the luchadors would all come in and do cool flips and athletic stuff, but you just knew they weren't gonna win. And then I would get that luchadors, the Mexican guys and the Japanese guys mixed up because they came out in masks. I don't know.

[Eddie]

Oh, are they different masks? Different style?

[Bobby Bones]

They're still in masks with a bunch of shapes on it. I don't know, like, which one's Japanese but Mexican? What do you Have.

[Mike Bistro]

I think it's called AAA Lucha Libre.

[Bobby Bones]

It is. Okay. Yeah. So that happened. Mr. Iguana came out. I don't know who Mr. Iguana is. I consider myself a bee knower in wrestling. And this guy comes out, he's goofy and he has like this fake stuffed iguana and he's fighting with it.

[Eddie]

What, it's not real?

[Bobby Bones]

No. Can you find out who Mr. Iguana is?

[Kevin]

I thought he was dressed like an iguana.

[Bobby Bones]

He is.

[Mike Bistro]

Yeah. Mexican wrestler.

[Eddie]

Did he have a mask?

[Mike Bistro]

He's painted, right.

[Bobby Bones]

He's painted like an iguana.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

And he was too skinny. Like, he didn't look like a real wrestler. And that's right when my wife came in and started watching.

[Mike Bistro]

Yeah, he's from nxt.

[Bobby Bones]

So my wife's watching and she's like, oh, I gotta watch this again. And Mr. Iguana is the first one called out.

[Eddie]

Great.

[Bobby Bones]

Is the worst of all the people to come out is Mr. Iguana. My wife's like, what is this? The guy's fighting with the stuffed iguana. This is so fake.

[Kevin]

What the heck? It's creepy looking.

[Eddie]

Yeah, he is creepy looking.

[Bobby Bones]

And then they did this thing. And this is just a beef that I have right now with the state of wrestling, because I do really enjoy where wrestling is right now. They come out and the first two people are called out. And Bron Breaker is the second guy. He's Rick Steiner's son, but he's really good and he's young and so he comes out. And he had been picked by a lot of people to win the Royal Rumble because he's definitely on a scent up. And he comes out and this masked guy from the stands jumps out. He's an all hood, all sweat, face covered. Beats the crap out of him. Bron Baker gets thrown out of the ring.

[Eddie]

The end.

[Bobby Bones]

This trope of a masked man coming out of the stands has been happening since I was eight years old. It's already happened in WWE like three times this year. Well, 2025, 2026.

[Eddie]

Does he reveal who he is at the end?

[Bobby Bones]

He always ends up getting revealed. I think the last one was Austin Theory. Who was the masked guy last, like 3 months ago, 4 months ago, but it was very similar.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Jumps out, beats him up, runs back in the stands. People are speculating. It's Jake Paul.

[Kevin]

Oh, is he a big dude?

[Bobby Bones]

Jake Paul is a. Is an awesome wrestler.

[Kevin]

Really?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, he's as good as really any of them, except for possibly the big Bigs would You agree, Mike?

[Mike Bistro]

I mean Jake or Logan.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't know the one that wrestles.

[Eddie]

Jake's the boxer.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, Logan boxed too.

[Eddie]

Oh, he does?

[Bobby Bones]

No, he did, right?

[Mike Bistro]

Yeah. Logan is the.

[Bobby Bones]

Whoever the wrestler is, is awesome.

[Eddie]

Okay, Logan, the taller brother.

[Bobby Bones]

Not the Pokemon guy?

[Eddie]

No, he is the Pokemon guy.

[Bobby Bones]

Dude, I got him confused. It's like Mexican Japanese. Paul brothers.

[Eddie]

Jake's the big beard and he's way thicker.

[Bobby Bones]

Whomever the wrestler is, Logan, the older one, he's awesome.

[Eddie]

Really?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, he's an A wrestler. He does acrobatic stuff off the top rope into the stands. He has to go extra because people don't give him the benefit of the doubt because he's a Paul. But he is as good as 95% of those professional wrestlers. Would you agree? Yeah.

[Mike Bistro]

When I went to SummerSlam, like seeing him jump from like you said in the ring to outside of the ring.

[Bobby Bones]

Best moment of the night, last year's Royal Rumble. He was going to get kicked off, but he jumped onto the table. Oh yeah, he's so good.

[Kevin]

That's right.

[Eddie]

I saw a clip of that when.

[Bobby Bones]

He was one of the final four. I thought he could win the championship and I'd be okay with it. Like he could win the Royal Rumble. I think he deserves it. In the end, Roman Reigns ended up winning it. Thought it was kind of a cop out. Like, who cares?

[Kevin]

Yeah, it's such a lame.

[Bobby Bones]

It's such a lame person to win. My favorite wrestler right now. Oh, who's your favorite wrestler ever, Eddie.

[Eddie]

Ever Hulk Hogan.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. And you don't watch enough now to know anybody? Nope. If you had to pay somebody said, who's your favorite wrestler now? Gun to your head now, Rhodes.

[Eddie]

Blond hair. Rhodes.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay.

[Eddie]

Dusty.

[Bobby Bones]

No, Randy, Dusty's dead. God dang it. Dustin was Goldust. Do you remember Goldust the wrestler? Oh yeah.

[Eddie]

He had a mask painted his face.

[Bobby Bones]

So he was Dustin Rhodes. He was a natural. Dustin Rhodes. Then he was Goldust and his younger brother was Cody. And Cody was Stardust for a while. Then Cody got kicked out, got dropped by WWE and now he's back in wwe. And he's kind. He's the biggest star now.

[Eddie]

He's the biggest one. Okay, the blonde haired one.

[Bobby Bones]

So you went with the two blonde white guys. Biggest star in the company. Who's your favorite wrestler ever?

[Kevin]

Stone Cold.

[Bobby Bones]

And now. You have to pick somebody like who.

[Kevin]

Comes out, you know, who's cool. Honestly, just because I watched that show. Is that that chick? That's like a goth looking chick.

[Mike Bistro]

Rhea Ripley.

[Bobby Bones]

Rhea. Ripley's awesome.

[Kevin]

Yeah, she's freaking sweet.

[Eddie]

She's your favorite.

[Kevin]

Yeah. Just cause she's the one I remember the most from that show.

[Bobby Bones]

She seems really cool. She seems very well liked. Did you watch Unreal?

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Mike Bistro]

Season two? Yeah, I'm a few episodes in.

[Bobby Bones]

Haven't finished it, so. Archer.

[Kevin]

That's a little.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, they love that dude. When he got fired, they were all pissed. He's also like 50 years old.

[Mike Bistro]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Our truth, I didn't know. He's in a tag team with Road Dog Jesse James back in the day.

[Mike Bistro]

I remember Road Dog, but I don't remember them being together.

[Bobby Bones]

But that was in Memphis though, right? And then they do in WWE together.

[Mike Bistro]

I think so. I think that was like after dx.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. That's a good episode.

[Eddie]

Road Dog Jesse James do the overalls.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. With a beard for a bit. No, you're thinking of Hacksaw Jim Duggan. Or you're thinking of. Or you're thinking of the Ro Duggan.

[Mike Bistro]

Oh, you didn't know.

[Bobby Bones]

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, the dear Generation X is proud to present. You remember that? Are you thinking of Hillbilly Jim?

[Eddie]

Yeah, Hillbilly Jim. He had overalls. Big old.

[Stugatz]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Big old beard. Hillbilly Jim. He was massive.

[Eddie]

Yeah, he's huge.

[Bobby Bones]

Mike, who's your all time and current.

[Mike Bistro]

All time was the Ross like when he was in like the Attitude era. That was the best to me right now. CM Punk.

[Bobby Bones]

CM Punk's my favorite right now. Yeah, CM Punk is my favorite wrestler right now.

[Mike Bistro]

He just seems like even off is like a really good guy.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. And he like stands up for what he believes. Like even out of wrestling, like is very outspoken for like human rights.

[Mike Bistro]

And his story of like walking away from WWE coming back, I just think he's the coolest.

[Kevin]

Didn't he get in trouble at one point or no. Like. Yeah. Did he get with like a girl or. No, that wasn't him thinking somebody else. Never mind.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't know about that. I don't think so.

[Kevin]

Okay. I mean, you guys would know obviously.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't know everything, man. I know a lot of people think I do.

[Kevin]

I don't.

[Eddie]

I think you do.

[Bobby Bones]

CM Punk's my favorite and Sting's my all time favorite.

[Kevin]

Oh yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Especially blonde hair.

[Eddie]

Sting.

[Bobby Bones]

That's back in the day. Still haven't met Sting and now he doesn't even wear the the paint anymore. I think he's like tna. But I think it'd be fun to interview Sting and I'M fully face painted.

[Kevin]

That would be hilarious.

[Bobby Bones]

Wouldn't that be fun?

[Kevin]

Did you dye your hair blonde or no?

[Bobby Bones]

No, because he doesn't anymore. Like he hasn't in forever. But I think to paint my face like black, like Scorpion Sting, that'd be funny would be awesome.

[Mike Bistro]

He lived in my hometown, obviously, for like a while, oddly.

[Eddie]

In your hometown?

[Mike Bistro]

Waxahachie, Just randomly.

[Bobby Bones]

Steve Borden.

[Eddie]

Yeah, that's his real name.

[Bobby Bones]

Steve Borden. His son is now a wrestler.

[Eddie]

And what's his name?

[Bobby Bones]

I think it's Steven. I think it's Stephen Borden. I believe he's wrestling by Stephen Borden. Mike can look that up for me.

[Kevin]

Is he a big dude too?

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[Eddie]

You guys remember Tito Santana?

[Bobby Bones]

Big time. He wore the bandana on his head.

[Eddie]

Yeah. My dad went to high school with him.

[Kevin]

Really?

[Eddie]

My dad had a yearbook.

[Bobby Bones]

I would have loved if he was your dad. You're like my dad, dude. That's him. Awesome.

[Eddie]

If he was my dad, I'd be huge. But no, my dad had a yearbook. And like, you know, sometimes you know when you're a kid, you kind of go look at the yearbook. Oh, look at that. And he's like, oh, look, there's Tito Santana. He went by a different game, a different name. I don't remember his real name, but he wasn't Tito.

[Bobby Bones]

Remember Superfly Jimmy Snuka.

[Eddie]

Sounds familiar.

[Bobby Bones]

He like, was allegedly murdered. Someone Mike can pull that out. Like he didn't go to jail for it. But there's like some accusations. But he was one of my favorite wrestlers because he would get up, he was island, and he would jump off the top rope and do the fingers. That's an old, old, old school.

[Eddie]

It's kind of like Ray Lewis. Huh?

[Kevin]

Huh?

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, Mike just raised his head up like he just learned something new.

[Mike Bistro]

He was charged with three degree murder back in 2015.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, he was charged then voluntary manslaughter.

[Kevin]

For the death of his girlfriend. Oh, no.

[Eddie]

His girlfriend.

[Mike Bistro]

So this is like two different things. Death of his girlfriend in 83 and then murder in 2015.

[Bobby Bones]

I think there's a pattern.

[Eddie]

Oh, boy. This is Superfly.

[Bobby Bones]

Superfly. Jimmy Snuka was legit. Oh, no.

[Mike Bistro]

The case went cold for decades. And then he was charged in 2013.

[Bobby Bones]

Really?

[Mike Bistro]

From an 80s case.

[Bobby Bones]

Wow.

[Eddie]

Oh, boy.

[Bobby Bones]

Those wrestlers, man, they traveled, they did drugs, they just banged.

[Mike Bistro]

They also don't live a long time.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Because of that, everything Bobby just said, the drugs, traveling.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Not just steroids, because I'm sure there's a lot of steroids, but also the drugs you do. Just like an artist, like. Oh, yeah. Like somebody in a band does drugs. You just have to do something to kill the time.

[Kevin]

What about tag team?

[Bobby Bones]

Like, I love the Road warriors back in the day. Ended up being the Legion of Doom honking animals. Steiner brothers were awesome. Then Scott Steiner got too big. Not too famous, but like too. He got too much juice.

[Kevin]

Unhealthy. Unhealthy.

[Bobby Bones]

I would assume it was steroids. I don't know.

[Eddie]

Juice covers all that.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Then he got too big because I liked him because he was the high flying one of the Steiner brothers. But then he became the big one because Rick Steiner was always the big one. The mean one, the dog faced gremlin. But. But Rick Steiner is really his last name. It's Rex Steiner.

[Eddie]

Oh, Rek.

[Bobby Bones]

So. And he didn't have a name. And they were like, no, no, just go by Rick Steiner because his last name was Rex Steiner.

[Eddie]

Interesting.

[Bobby Bones]

And that's also Bron Breaker's dad.

[Kevin]

These guys are monsters.

[Eddie]

The Road Warriors.

[Kevin]

Is that who that is?

[Bobby Bones]

What's crazy to me is how big Hulk Hogan really was because he was so normal, because he was so famous. But he was 6, 7, 320 pounds, huge.

[Kevin]

That's insane.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, NBA player height.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

320 pounds.

[Kevin]

That's like left tackle.

[Bobby Bones]

Built like that.

[Eddie]

How many of these fights have you seen live?

[Bobby Bones]

Four or five.

[Eddie]

Nothing crazy when you were younger?

[Mike Bistro]

No.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, when I got older.

[Eddie]

Oh, really?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. I couldn't really afford to go as a kid, and so, yeah, once I got older, I went to a couple in Austin, maybe four.

[Eddie]

Were you so into it?

[Bobby Bones]

Nah, kind of like fake. I was sitting too close.

[Eddie]

You had to act it up now.

[Bobby Bones]

Now I think I would enjoy it more. But I was so close, and it was so fake. And it was like my first time going and sitting that close. I was like, this is obviously so fake to see how they shoot it. And obviously it's fake. Everybody knows it's fake. The only thing that's not fake about it is iguana, man. That's real.

[Eddie]

No, that was real.

[Kevin]

That's a real iguana.

[Eddie]

I went to one when I was a kid and Road warriors were there. Ric Flair was there.

[Bobby Bones]

That's cool.

[Eddie]

These Russian. You're talking about tag teams.

[Bobby Bones]

Bolsheviks.

[Eddie]

Yeah, they were there.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you know that's who it was, or did you say this to something?

[Eddie]

No, no, because they were bald, right? And they had red, like. They wore red tights with, like, the sickle on it.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't know. There were a bunch of Russian folks.

[Eddie]

Oh, really?

[Bobby Bones]

May not have been the Bolsheviks. I don't know.

[Eddie]

That sounds about right.

[Bobby Bones]

But I remember Volkov was one, too. He was a Russian.

[Eddie]

I remember there was, like, one guy flew off the side of the ring, and then he, like, started crawling under, you know, and then he comes out from underneath and his face is covered in all this blood.

[Bobby Bones]

You know, we have a screen here. We should work the screen. Can you pull out the Bolsheviks just to see if.

[Eddie]

Let me see.

[Bobby Bones]

This is our first time using our screen.

[Eddie]

I'll remember what they looked like in our new studio.

[Bobby Bones]

Bolshevik wrestlers. Because Bolsheviks is the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, just generally speaking.

[Eddie]

Oh, really?

[Bobby Bones]

But I think the wrestlers end up being the Bolsheviks. And then also.

[Eddie]

That'S Iron Sheik next to him, right?

[Bobby Bones]

Nikolai Volkov.

[Eddie]

That's them. Yeah, that's them. Man, I remember seeing them. Yeah. Yeah. You see the one right there where he's bald with a beard? I guess when they take their hats off, they're bald. Yeah, yeah. I remember them specifically. Down in McAllen, Texas.

[Bobby Bones]

Look at the Bolshevik. And probably when they were out of the ring, they were just normal dudes. John and Frank.

[Eddie]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. From Arkansas.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. You're watching UFC on Paramount.

[Eddie]

Dude, it's the best thing that's ever happened to me. Like, you don't understand. I used to have to pay the pay per view. And if I was like, man, I'm really not interested in a lot of these fights, but I do want to bet on them, then I would get on TikTok and watch someone record, like, live stream their TV. And so I don't have to do that anymore. It's amazing. It's the best thing ever.

[Bobby Bones]

I had to watch the first part of Royal rumble on somebody's TikTok.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Because I couldn't get on. And I had to go and find. And they kept kicking people off. They were being pretty vigilant about making sure nobody was showing the stream. So this one girl who was watching it, she would show the screen every 50 seconds, she'd flip back to her face to change it, to change it up. It was a little too close and she flipped back. And then I was just like, I gotta get on limit, dude.

[Mike Bistro]

Yeah, it's like, my guy on TikTok, I showed you the cowboys.

[Bobby Bones]

My dude.

[Eddie]

It's just so dumb, though, because when you watch that, somebody is, like, risking their account. They're doing you a favor by. By shooting the TV screen. And then people are like, hey, can you, like, turn that vertically a little bit?

[Bobby Bones]

I was like, can you get a little closer? Because it was not in frame.

[Eddie]

You're the one.

[Bobby Bones]

No, I said, hey, I really appreciate you doing this. Is there any way you could put it better in frame? I was on the treadmill, walking, watching.

[Eddie]

The or they talk crap to the guy or the. Whoever's streaming, the guy's like, hey, man, it's your warning, man. You talk crap to me like that.

[Bobby Bones]

One more.

[Kevin]

I'm blocking you.

[Bobby Bones]

Good Mattress Mac made a two million dollar bet on the Super Bowl.

[Eddie]

He's still at it.

[Bobby Bones]

He has to have a problem, right?

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

He's not just so rich. He does it for fun. Don't we think it's a problem?

[Kevin]

Yeah, I mean, he always does.

[Bobby Bones]

He like the fame, but it's kind.

[Eddie]

Of an ad, right?

[Kevin]

Like a caveat for, like, if you buy furniture during this week at $4,000. And this is not that, though.

[Bobby Bones]

This is him just betting his own money.

[Eddie]

But how does everyone know he has to send out a press release?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, I always Feel like he loses, though.

[Eddie]

Yeah, he doesn't hit the bet.

[Bobby Bones]

The largest reported super bowl Bet so far, $2 million on the new England Patriots to a Houston furniture salesman named Mattress Mack.

[Eddie]

I used to see his commercials all the time when I lived in Huntsville.

[Bobby Bones]

Really?

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

So you knew who he is?

[Eddie]

Oh, yeah. I know exactly what he looks like.

[Bobby Bones]

Mack is hedging his bet with one of his go to promotions at his gallery furniture store, spending $4,000 on a mattress and gear. And if the Patriots beat the Seahawks, you get your money back on your purchase.

[DraftKings Announcer]

Wow.

[Eddie]

He really believes in those Patriots.

[Mike Bistro]

Does it change the fact that he's worth about $300 million?

[Bobby Bones]

Sure. I just feel like he's got a problem.

[Eddie]

Gambling problem.

[Bobby Bones]

Somebody needs to jump in with old Mattress Mac and stop the bleeding here. All right, so there's that. I think that's it. Eddie has a religious theory on why the Seahawks are going to win the super bowl, though.

[Eddie]

I don't. This guy does on Instagram. It was kind of convincing. He. He said basically that every time there's been a new Pope, the Seahawks have won 13 games in their season and have either gone to the super bowl or won the Super Bowl.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, but that means they could go to the Super Bowl. They're already in the Super Bowl.

[Eddie]

Yeah, but the last time it happened with Pope it was Benedict, was the first time they'd ever won 13 games in a season, and they made it to Super Bowl. They didn't win. But then the next pope, which was Francis, when Francis won that year, they won 13 games against.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay.

[Eddie]

And they won the Super Bowl. That was Russ Wilson and then now new Pope Leo, 2025.

[Bobby Bones]

So they've already made it, though, because it sounds like they're one and one winning it.

[Eddie]

The way the trend is going, they're probably just going to lose it.

[Bobby Bones]

If it's either they make it or they win, they've already made it. So either way, it's already happened.

[Eddie]

So you believe in the weird coincidence?

[Bobby Bones]

Like it is a weird coincidence, but belief in it? Well, yeah, because I see the.

[Kevin]

I see it.

[Bobby Bones]

But do I think there's something to it? Probably not.

[Kevin]

Are you saying it's the first year that he's a. Yeah, it's the first.

[Eddie]

Year that the Catholic Church gets a new Pope. The Seahawks, the first time they didn't win the super bowl, but they went.

[Bobby Bones]

Right, but they're already there. So it's already.

[Eddie]

It's already happened, so it's already been proved.

[Bobby Bones]

So the next time there's a Pope. You should just bet on them and make it to the Super Bowl.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Kevin]

Whenever the overrun wins or.

[Eddie]

Yeah. That's bizarre, dude. That's crazy to me. Yeah, it's pretty crazy, but I mean, I think the Seahawks are going to win anyway.

[Bobby Bones]

If it were Pope based, I would have thought the Bears were going to.

[Eddie]

Get in because he's a fan of the Bears. That's right.

[Kevin]

Right?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Anything else, Mike, from you?

[Mike Bistro]

Nah, we're good.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. So everybody, thank you for listening. You will get an episode from us from California where Kevin will not stay. My mind. You got a free trip out there.

[Kevin]

You guys are not helping right now.

[Eddie]

You're already there, man.

[Kevin]

I already told my wife, like, yeah, I'll come back home, help you with the kids and everything. I can't go now.

[Bobby Bones]

It's always this is excuse eight, guys. He's now on the eighth. Excuse. Yeah. Thank you, guys. And we will see you later on this week. All right. Blow that whistle there.

[Stugatz]

There we go.

[Bobby Bones]

All right, bye, everybody. Theme song written by Bobby Bones.

[Eddie]

That's me.

[Bobby Bones]

And performed by Brandon Ray. Follow Brandon on socials at Brandon Ray Music. You can follow the show on Instagram at Bobby Bonesports. Thanks to our crew, co host at producer Eddie, segment producer at Kickoff Kevin, and executive producer at Mike Bistro. But most importantly, thank you for listening. I'm Bobby Bones. We'll talk to you next time here on 25 Whistles. This is an iheart podcast. Guaranteed human.