FRI PT 2: Did Bobby Buy A Billboard Again???

Summary

Podcast Summary: "FRI PT 2: Did Bobby Buy A Billboard Again???" – The Bobby Bones Show

Release Date: January 31, 2025

In this engaging episode of "The Bobby Bones Show," hosts Bobby Bones, Arturo Castro, and Eddie delve into a variety of intriguing topics ranging from aviation mishaps and media portrayals to personal anecdotes and health discussions. Below is a detailed summary capturing the key points, discussions, insights, and memorable quotes from the episode.

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1. Helicopter Crash and Airspace Regulations

Timestamp: [02:32] – [17:10]

The episode kicks off with a serious discussion about a recent helicopter crash involving a Blackhawk helicopter and a passenger plane near Reagan National Airport. The trio explores the complexities surrounding airspace regulations, pilot experience, and potential malfunctions.

• Arturo Castro raises concerns about disinformation:
  "There's so much disinformation out there... they left out the part that wasn't the pilot with the most hours in the helicopter."
  [05:39]

• Eddie expresses frustration with social media's handling of sensitive events:
  "Why is there not a warning or a countdown before showing something like that?"
  [03:03]

• Arturo compares public and social media regulations:
  "To be on television which is publicly owned, they have to say, we're gonna show you this. But there's no rules on social media."
  [03:24]

The hosts dissect the implications of flying above permitted altitudes and the mysterious circumstances surrounding the crash, questioning the adequacy of existing safety measures.

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2. Media Portrayals of Anti-Heroes and Cultural Perceptions

Timestamp: [07:04] – [12:33]

Shifting gears, the conversation turns to the portrayal of anti-heroes in media, drawing parallels between fictional characters and real-life stories.

• Arturo discusses the complexity of anti-heroes using "The Sopranos" as an example:
  "There are shows where the main person's bad... you start to bond with them. Like rooting for a mob boss."
  [10:06]

• Bobby Bones adds to the discussion by referencing famous anti-heroes:
  "Thanos guy had it."
  [10:16]

The hosts explore how nuanced character development in shows can lead audiences to empathize with traditionally "bad" characters, highlighting the thin line between villainy and relatability.

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3. Social Media Influence and International Perceptions

Timestamp: [21:00] – [24:37]

The trio delves into how social media platforms, particularly TikTok, shape perceptions of different countries, leading to stereotyping and misinformation.

• Arturo reflects on biased media portrayals:
  "Everything I thought about China was just terrible because of what we're being told."
  [20:47]

• Eddie summarizes the mutual villainization:
  "They see us as the villain, we see them as the villain."
  [22:16]

The discussion highlights the impact of viral content and algorithm-driven narratives that reinforce negative stereotypes, urging listeners to question the information presented to them.

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4. Faking Death and Personal Stories

Timestamp: [18:21] – [30:00]

A lighter yet intriguing segment covers the story of Jeffrey Bell Jr., who faked his death to evade child support obligations but was soon discovered hiding at his girlfriend's residence.

• Arturo narrates the tale:
  "If you're gonna fake your death, don't hide at your girlfriend's. He's hiding at his girlfriend's place. That's a funny one."
  [18:35]

• Bobby Bones adds humor to the situation:
  "I didn't think you were lying. People think you bought the billboards because I posted on my Instagram."
  [30:25]

The conversation underscores the complexities and challenges of maintaining a false identity, blending humor with the absurdity of Bell's predicament.

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5. Personal Health and Fitness Conversations

Timestamp: [43:49] – [49:34]

The discussion shifts to personal health updates and fitness challenges, with Arturo sharing his recent blood test results and the hosts contemplating the rigors of FBI physical requirements.

• Arturo shares his health results humorously:
  "My doctor gave me an A minus overall... your cholesterol came back a little high because you were eating candy."
  [43:54]

• Bobby Bones and Eddie engage in a playful debate about meeting FBI fitness standards:
  "I'm gonna need to get my arm better."
  [41:37]

The segment blends informative content about health with the hosts' characteristic humor, making the topic both educational and entertaining.

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6. Humorous Interactions and Anecdotes

Timestamp: [49:35] – [52:59]

Concluding the episode, the hosts share lighthearted stories about sleepovers, childhood embarrassments, and family interactions, showcasing their camaraderie and comedic timing.

• Bobby Bones reminisces about embarrassing moments:
  "I peed in his sleeping bag. It was so embarrassing."
  [50:13]

• Arturo jokes about his appearance and potential for espionage:
  "If you go just a mustache, they speak Spanish. But if you go full beard and mustache, they think you're from the Middle East. You're the perfect spy."
  [20:07]

These personal tales add a relatable and humorous dimension to the show, allowing listeners to connect with the hosts on a more intimate level.

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7. Upcoming Promotions and Shows

Timestamp: [30:55] – [52:59]

Throughout the episode, there are mentions of upcoming podcasts and promotions, including Arturo Castro's new podcast "Greatest Escapes" and Bobby Bones' "Building One." These segments encourage listeners to engage with additional content beyond the show.

• Arturo promotes his podcast:
  "Get ready for Greatest Escapes, a new comedy podcast about the wildest true escape stories in history."
  [26:08]

• Bobby Bones highlights "Building One":
  "Then tune into my podcast, Building One... Listen to Building One on the iHeartRadio app, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts."
  [52:43]

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• "They keep saying, oh, here's a new angle." – Arturo Castro
  [02:58]

• "What do you think about the helicopter thing now? Helicopter. Airplane." – Arturo Castro
  [02:29]

• "They see us as the villain, we see them as the villain." – Lunchbox
  [22:16]

• "If you're gonna fake your death, don't hide at your girlfriend's." – Arturo Castro
  [18:35]

• "I'm the perfect spy." – Bobby Bones
  [20:07]

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Conclusion

This episode of "The Bobby Bones Show" masterfully balances serious discussions with humor and personal stories, providing listeners with a well-rounded and entertaining experience. From dissecting aviation incidents and media portrayals to sharing relatable personal anecdotes, Bobby Bones and his co-hosts offer insightful commentary wrapped in their signature engaging style.

Listeners are encouraged to tune into "Lots to Say with Bobby Bones and Matt Castle" and "Greatest Escapes" for more in-depth conversations and entertaining content.

For those who missed the episode, listening to the full replay is highly recommended to capture the nuances and camaraderie of Bobby Bones and his co-hosts.

Transcript

[Ryan Seacrest]

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[Bobby Bones]

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[Arturo Castro]

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[Matt Castle]

Hi, I'm Arturo Castro and I've been lucky enough to do stuff like Broad City and Narcos and Roadhouse. And now I'm starting a podcast because honestly guys, I don't feel the space is crowded enough. Get ready for Greatest Escapes, a new comedy podcast about the wildest true escape stories in history. Each week I'll be sitting down with some of the most hilarious actors and writers and comedians. People like Ed Helms, Diane Guerrero, and Joseph Gordon Lev.

[Arturo Castro]

I love storytelling and I love you, so I can't wait.

[Matt Castle]

Listen and subscribe to Greatest escapes on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Ryan Seacrest]

It's time for the Bobby Bones Post Show.

[Arturo Castro]

Here's your host, Bobby Bones. For the record, this Will be the last time we play the post show song. Remember, Just gonna do normal. We explain, eddie, you weren't here forever and ever. Well, we're. It's just gonna be part three of the podcast.

[Bobby Bones]

So the song was good for while it lasted.

[Arturo Castro]

It was good while it lasted, but it's not. There's just stuff we want to get to on the regular show. And if you're listening to the podcast, it doesn't matter when you hear it if it's not live or not. So it'll just be part three of the show for now on. Because there are things. And I have like eight things I want to talk about, which I knew I would not have time to talk about during the regular show. What do you think about the helicopter thing now? Helicopter. Airplane. Any new thoughts? I've tried to avoid looking at anything because it's so terribly sad to watch.

[Bobby Bones]

They keep saying, oh, here's a new angle.

[Arturo Castro]

And I'm like, how many angles do we need? I don't need to see any more angles.

[Eddie]

That's what I don't understand about social. And putting up a video like that. It's like, why is there not a warning or a, like, you know, countdown? 10. Like, here we're about to show you something. Because it's not like we're watching something. It's just really difficult to process. There's humans inside of there. And this is so like, here's your answer. Okay.

[Arturo Castro]

To be on television which is publicly owned, they have to say, we're gonna show you this. But there's no rules on social media.

[Eddie]

I know.

[Arturo Castro]

I mean, so why would they. And most people want to see that. That's why they get.

[Eddie]

Do they?

[Arturo Castro]

Yes. Look at the streams they're getting. Those videos are getting millions and millions and millions of streams. Well, because it now, I mean, that's the answer is that most people are. Why? Because if they put up those videos and it gets like 10 streams, it's not going to get replicated and the videos aren't going to get stolen and use somewhere else. Like sensational videos, even if we don't agree with how they're shot or. And that is different than somebody being. Although we did see the Luigi Shoot video as well on social media. Yeah.

[Eddie]

And that was really making me mad.

[Arturo Castro]

Right. But again, you're asking why and how. There's. There aren't near as many rules on social media as there is public airwaves, which is owned by the government. There are rules there. There are no rules. People want to see These videos or they wouldn't continue to exist in so many places. So it could be weird for you, but people are drawn to that stuff. It's like a car. Car wreck. Car crash. Rubbernecking is a term because people want to see car crashes and they slow down driving by one.

[Bobby Bones]

I mean, it's a weird thing to say, though. But like, sometimes when I see a video like that, it puts. It makes it real to me. When you read it, it's kind of like, oh, wow, somebody got shot, or, oh, man, there's a plane crash. But when you see it, you're like, oh, my gosh, Visually, I don't even see it.

[Arturo Castro]

And I've avoided it too. I'm just saying this is why. And this is why it's allowed and.

[Eddie]

Why continue to post. I get it. I'm just like, on social media trying to figure out what my friends are up to. And then I'm like, oh, gosh, now I'm watching it again.

[Arturo Castro]

You can take words and go to your settings and anything says helicopter, it won't show you.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, really?

[Arturo Castro]

Yeah. There are ways to get around it. I do it during the election a lot of times because I don't want my feet to be all election stuff.

[Bobby Bones]

I somehow managed to miss that Luigi video.

[Arturo Castro]

I saw it one time and then I was able to miss it because I knew what I was looking for. So anything that's a Luigi, I don't want to see the shooting part of it. So anybody have any new theories? You see where it. And again, here's the part that gets tricky because there's so much disinformation out there. Where I was reading someone go, the pilot only had 500 hours, but that was actually the co pilot.

[Eddie]

But 500 is a lot.

[Arturo Castro]

But again, that was the co pilot. It wasn't even the main pilot who had thousands of hours, who was training the co pilot who had a lot of hours, is my point.

[Eddie]

Oh, are you talking about the helicopter pilot or the. Okay, but.

[Arturo Castro]

Okay, but that. My. Again, my point was that would be a bit of disinformation in that it's not wrong information. But they're going, this pilot only had 500 hours. Of course they were the hell. But no, they were the co pilot. And the actual pilot had over a thousand hours. So it wasn't wrong. Like the best. We'll say mistruths often have a bit of truth in them because there's just enough right about it that you're like, oh, wow, I need to spread this on social media. Because they weren't wrong. There was one of the pilots that had 500 hours and was training.

[Eddie]

And I say that. I mean, I get that 500 is on the lower end and he's training, but I guess that's when, like my ex husband who's a pilot, like, if I've ever flown with anybody else, like in any way, shape or form, or if he's ever going to get into the plane with anybody else as a pilot, he's like, I want them to at least have 500 hours. Like, that's the milestone.

[Arturo Castro]

And they were using that as. This is why. Why is this pilot here doing this when they left out the part that wasn't the pilot with the most hours in the helicopter? So there's so much disinformation that I still go, wait, what's up with all the Russians on the plane? Yeah, a lot of Russians. More than I thought. The skaters.

[Eddie]

More than just the Olympics.

[Arturo Castro]

I thought there were more than just those two.

[Eddie]

I did not know that.

[Arturo Castro]

I mean, I could be wrong.

[Eddie]

I only saw the. I mean, I don't know the full manifest, but.

[Arturo Castro]

Well, if you guys don't have any theories, I'll move on. Because then we're just like grassing.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you have a theory?

[Eddie]

I mean, I feel like I've not.

[Arturo Castro]

A good one because every time I looked on, I would see the helicopter lifted off from, like, this. The Saudi. That's that. That house owned by the Saudis. And so. And then what? So there's all of that. And so my theories would be based on, like, half information.

[Bobby Bones]

I didn't hear about that.

[Eddie]

I mean, of course I have crazy thoughts in my head, but then I'm like, it's all just. Yeah, it's from me watching too much tv.

[Arturo Castro]

Mike, what'd you see over there?

[Lunchbox]

I just see the two Russians.

[Arturo Castro]

Okay, see, there you go. If it's only two Russians, the.

[Eddie]

The ice skating Olympians. Yeah. That were married and coaches.

[Arturo Castro]

Did you ever watch Cutting Edge? No. What the heck's that?

[Bobby Bones]

Ah, it's a great movie, dude, where, like, these figure skaters, they fall in love.

[Arturo Castro]

Oh, no, no. I was thinking of Blades of Glory. No, no, no. Keri Russell's in it. The. The spies.

[Eddie]

Oh, the Americans.

[Arturo Castro]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're living in America for a long time.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Arturo Castro]

And they're spies the whole time.

[Eddie]

Of course, I had those thoughts.

[Arturo Castro]

And you root for them.

[Eddie]

You root for them in a certain feel. Certain.

[Arturo Castro]

Yeah, you bond with them. They're like anti heroes, but you start to bond with them. And root for them in that you root for their personal lives and you get to know them as people and all of a sudden you're like, dang, I kind of like them. But the story is presented that way. It's like rooting for a mob boss in the Sopranos. Like, you really wouldn't root for a mob boss in real life because he's killing people. But because of the presentation of the angle of the show, you're rooting for the Keri Russell and the Americans like you're rooting for a mob boss in the Sopranos, knowing it's fiction. But they're basically sleeper cell. And that was partly based on the true story of Russian sleeper agents who were arrested in the United States in 2010.

[Bobby Bones]

There you go.

[Arturo Castro]

Whoa. The show was inspired by the real life couple Elena Vavilova and Andrei Bezorukov. The agents were part of a spy ring called the illegals program. The agents had been living in the United States for decades, and many of them had children, friends, and neighbors who didn't know they were spies. After a prisoner exchange, the agents were returned to Moscow and awarded for their actions. Dang. They got let go because of prisoner exchange. The show was set in the 80s during the Cold war, and it is a slow show, but it's one of the slow shows. I would say as long as you know it's slow going in, you're really going to enjoy it. But you do root for them, not because they're from Russia, but because their perspective. Yeah. And you're supposed to root for them. Like, there really aren't any shows where the main person's bad and it follows only the bad people. And you're supposed to not like everything they're doing. There are shows where there are bad people that it shows their perspective. And so, like, I would say the Sopranos is a version of that. Is the anti hero, bad dude doing bad things, but because you also see the good things they do and what their heart really says and nobody really feels like they're the villain. You go, I'm really Rooting for you, Mr. Soprano. What was his name?

[Bobby Bones]

Tony.

[Eddie]

Yeah, Tony.

[Arturo Castro]

Yeah. Guys, I think the greatest anti hero of all time had the rings with all the colors.

[Bobby Bones]

Thanos guy had it.

[Arturo Castro]

Who?

[Morgan]

Avengers.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, Avengers.

[Arturo Castro]

I think Morgan very much disagrees with me on this one.

[Morgan]

On Thanos.

[Arturo Castro]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Oh, yeah. I don't like him ever.

[Arturo Castro]

You don't know his perspective.

[Morgan]

I don't think up until really Avengers endgame where you get more character from him. I don't think I rooted for him until then the end. But I still. Like, you had all the Avengers coming together. It was really hard to root for him.

[Arturo Castro]

Yes. Because you were an Avenger from the side of the Avengers. Just imagine this guy, he knew Earth was going to die because of overpopulation. And I'm not even saying that I would have chose his side, but let's just talk it out here. And please correct me if I become factually inaccurate about Thanos. For the planet to succeed, he had to basically combine the rings and half the people die. Otherwise everybody was going to die.

[Lunchbox]

They had run out of resources.

[Morgan]

Yes.

[Arturo Castro]

So he's a bad guy because he wants to kill half the people with a single push.

[Morgan]

And it's because it happened to his planet. That's where it's coming from.

[Arturo Castro]

The origin, which trauma on. And to him, he saw it, his whole planet died. And so he's here on Earth. My theory has always been, if you did the Thanos story, you. You can make the Avengers easily be the bad guys because they're the ones trying to kill all of Earth because they don't want him to take a difficult measure in order to save the planet.

[Morgan]

I think where it comes into play that it's difficult is because it was so extreme. Was there any other options considered?

[Arturo Castro]

What.

[Morgan]

You know, I think that's where everybody struggles with him, is that it was so. It was so blatantly like, we're just gonna kill half of these people.

[Arturo Castro]

They also made him ugly, which this is what movies will do, make the bad guy ugly. But even in the Penguin, and if you guys haven't watched it on hbo, it's great. And it's not superhero y. There's no superhero mafia. Yeah. It's like, yeah, if you were to just see that version of the Penguin from Batman story and Batman's not in it, you would go, penguin's bad. But when you see how he grew up, what happened, how his family died, the hard decisions he had to make because he was living in poverty, you go, oh, man. I kind of felt that. Like, that sucks. And I don't agree with this or that, but I understand where the person comes from.

[Bobby Bones]

It's like, freaking bad.

[Arturo Castro]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

That was crazy.

[Arturo Castro]

You're rooting for a freaking meth dealer who's murdering people.

[Bobby Bones]

Yep.

[Arturo Castro]

And the only reason you're not is because. The only reason you are is because at first, he's a nice teacher who has to make a tough decision.

[Bobby Bones]

He's trying to help his family.

[Arturo Castro]

So same with the Americans. Yeah. You end up rooting for them in that show and they're Russians, but you're just rooting for the show. And so on that flight, we're for sure. They're the only two.

[Lunchbox]

From what I search. Yeah, too.

[Arturo Castro]

They have any handlers? Mostly we see handlers on stuff. Yeah. That sucks. I did see a story that was from a legitimate place that. Oh, no, it was from a former Black Hop, Black Hawk pilot who worked for the government, was in the military. Said he. The helicopter, in his opinion, saw the other plane on the other side of him when they were saying, hey, do you see the plane? It was a different plane and it was the wrong. He identified the plane, but it was the wrong plane.

[Bobby Bones]

The one that was taking off, not landing.

[Arturo Castro]

Yes. And that hit him.

[Eddie]

And then what did they say about their night vision goggles? That actually could have.

[Arturo Castro]

I didn't hear anything about that.

[Eddie]

Oh, well, I guess some people are like, oh, they were wearing them. But it actually could have impacted what they could see.

[Arturo Castro]

In my heart, I hope it was not any.

[Bobby Bones]

Just an accident.

[Arturo Castro]

Yeah, yeah, you hope. It wouldn't happen at all. But it has happened. And so really. But it's that with the fires and with that. There's been a few. All the drones.

[Eddie]

New Orleans.

[Arturo Castro]

New Orleans. There's been a lot of the car that blew up outside of Vegas like.

[Eddie]

This month has been.

[Arturo Castro]

So once all this starts happening around each other, naturally, even if you're not connecting them, they're connected to you because they've all happened around the same time and you're going, another one, another one. Something must be going on. I'm sorry if I interrupted you. Were you saying something?

[Morgan]

No, it's okay. I feel like the hardest thing for me that's to grasp all this is that it was just 100% preventable. Like, this didn't have to happen. When you see all the experts talking about it and stuff like this could have been avoided. And I think that's what makes it so hard reading everything and you just. You want to come up with other ways. Because if it was preventable, then why did it happen? That's at least how it kind of feels to me when I'm seeing all of it.

[Arturo Castro]

Will you look, Mike, last thing about this helicopter, because again, I don't want to get into things we for sure don't know. Will you look and see if there is from any site that has any credibility where the helicopter lifted off from.

[Eddie]

They got the black boxes.

[Bobby Bones]

Do they know what the helicopter was doing? Like, was it trying to land at.

[Arturo Castro]

The airport, from what I know it was. They were in a training mission, and they were in a training mission in space where there were a lot of planes, because you have to train in that space because you have to often fly where there are a lot of planes.

[Bobby Bones]

You mean like the airspace? Like, what, the feet level or whatever?

[Arturo Castro]

Just in general in that spot. I don't know about elevation, altitude, whatever it is. And if there's nothing about it, Mike. All good. We'll move on from it. An army helicopter.

[Eddie]

Let's see. The top busiest airspaces in the United States. Atlanta, Dallas, Denver, L.A. chicago, and Reagan.

[Arturo Castro]

It was flying above permitted altitude.

[Eddie]

Flying above.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, I saw something.

[Arturo Castro]

The military Blackhawk helicopter that crashed into a passenger plane near Reagan National Airport, Wednesday. So this. This is a pretty current story. Appears to have been flying above the permitted altitude. Publicly available flight data analyzed by CBS News shows the data point is one of the several key mysteries. So that's kind of weird. If it's above where it's supposed to be, and you know it's above where it's supposed to be because you have the tools in front of you and nothing is wrong or messed up, that's kind of weird.

[Bobby Bones]

But I think it was above by, like, a little, like, almost kind of at that threshold level of where you can't pass this altitude. They might have been just a little bit above it.

[Arturo Castro]

Do you even get near it? I mean, if you're in congested airspace, I would think you don't even get near the ceiling.

[Bobby Bones]

And the airlines, they literally just plug in a number, and that flight path is just automatic autopilot takes them through that path to land.

[Arturo Castro]

Data from Flight Radar 24, which tracks and records aircraft data for most flights across the US showed the helicopter's last estimated altitude was about 400ft when it crashed. The jet's altitude was about 375 to 400.

[Bobby Bones]

And what's the maximum altitude?

[Arturo Castro]

200. Oh, it's double.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, so that's a lot. Wow.

[Arturo Castro]

Dang. That's the part again that hits me a little weird, is that that is so abnormal. If there is a ceiling and you know the ceiling, and you're up way above this.

[Eddie]

Okay, so what if there. And this is what Ben had texted me yesterday about. Like, what if something started to malfunction and then they don't have the tools to tell them where they are, and then they lose.

[Bobby Bones]

Then you go down. You land. You don't go further up.

[Arturo Castro]

Well, my mind then goes, what if is okay? Then why don't they have the tools? Did somebody mess with the tools?

[Eddie]

Yeah, I mean, I don't know. We're just speculating. Essay. Essay.

[Bobby Bones]

Situational awareness.

[Eddie]

Situational awareness.

[Arturo Castro]

I hear you. Essay, though, on TikTok is sexual assault. They won't say sexual assault.

[Eddie]

Oh, I know.

[Arturo Castro]

I'm just like, sa.

[Eddie]

I'm like, no, because that's what Vin texted me. He's like, yeah, yeah. There could have been malfunctioning, and crew lost SA and we were all like, what's essay? What's essay? He always speaks in, like, abbreviations. And I'm like, oh, gosh, I don't know.

[Arturo Castro]

We'll move off that because that's all we know. I don't want to be a person that's creating any conversation that may be based in disinformation. So we will move on from that. It's cops. I don't want to do this. I'm going to hold off on that one. I don't want to do anything. Let me hold off till we get to more dark stuff.

[Eddie]

Yeah, yeah.

[Arturo Castro]

A man who faked death over child support is found at his girlfriend's house.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, bro, just pay your child support. Faking a debt.

[Eddie]

It adds up.

[Arturo Castro]

Well, yeah, don't have the baby in Indiana. Well, you can't go back in time.

[Bobby Bones]

Probably didn't mean to.

[Arturo Castro]

Well, you gotta suck it up in Indiana. Jeffrey Bell Jr. Learned a hard, hard lesson. If you're gonna fake your own death, don't hide at your girlfriends. Indiana state Police Detective Travis Baker first received reports that he had passed away. Boy, you know, he thought he was up some. He's like, I got this perfect way to fake my death, but then you have to, like, maintain that the rest of your life. Yeah, man, that's a tough one.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, you got to go in hiding forever.

[Arturo Castro]

Around the same time Baker, who was also receiving reports that Bell was alive and well and shacked up with his girlfriend, he was apprehended. He allegedly told the court that he had attended his court date remotely because he had been out of state. During the video proceedings, it became clear to. To the court that Bell wasn't out of state, but was, in fact, still in his girlfriend's place. To the point the judge ordered Bell to be taken into custody. Anyway, he's hiding his girlfriend's place. That's a funny one. Eddie wants to know if we should start growing mustaches, and I don't. My answer is no, but I don't even know why.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, because everyone in country music is doing it. Riley Green's got a stash. Tucker Wetmore, Zach Top. I mean, I think Morgan Wallen probably has a stash. Everyone has a stash. So I feel like we should probably like, just kind of jump in that trend and start stashing it up.

[Arturo Castro]

I figured Eddie would have started this trend since he's the trendsetter.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, the deal is, like, the problem with me, when I grow a mustache, people start speaking to me in Spanish. Like, I did it one time and I promise at McDonald's, I ordered. And they were like, oh, see? Order. And they started speaking Spanish. I'm like, no, no, no, I speak English.

[Arturo Castro]

So if you go just a mustache, they speak Spanish. But if you go full beard and mustache, they think you're from the Middle East.

[Bobby Bones]

Middle east, yeah. But if I'm clean shaven, they speak to me in English.

[Arturo Castro]

You're the perfect spy. Think of all the places you could go and just fit right in.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, dude, I could totally fit in to some different cultures.

[Arturo Castro]

I'll watch these videos sometimes of the guys that go to Turkey to get the hair transplants, and I would think that's because a couple guys at barstool did it. And you thought about it. We talked about it, Thought about it. And so they'll pop up my. In my algorithm and they're like, I landed. And it's like this luxurious car. And then they take this luxurious car to this five star hotel and they're with these doctors. And in my mind I'm thinking everything I've read about Turkey is like, crazy. And am I just being propaganda?

[Bobby Bones]

What do you mean? Like, good crazy?

[Arturo Castro]

Yeah, like you don't want to go to the Middle East. Any reason? I saw a thing about Iraq the other day on TikTok that was. I never. I had never seen Iraq other than, like, buildings being blocked.

[Eddie]

You got a tourism.

[Arturo Castro]

Yeah. Because what happened with TikTok was they started to show a lot of the Chinese stuff, and people would come on and be like, I think we're both being propaganda against each other. Like, we're told that you do this, and we're told. And so they started comparing the two. And I started watching them, and there were Americans that are like, yeah, we live in China. We had to get. It was definitely tough to get the visa, but we live here and here's how much we pay for everything. And I'm like, wow. Everything I thought about China was just terrible because of what we're being told. And everything they think about America's terrible because of what they're being told. Right. Two countries against each other. Obviously they're using the media against us. We only believe what we see here. Read. And what we're not being told and not being shown things that are suppressed. And so I kind of got into that for a little bit, was watching that and I was like, huh? And then I saw this video about Iraq. I want to go to Iraq. But I just think of like buildings blown up.

[Bobby Bones]

War.

[Arturo Castro]

Yeah. And like they have. Their tourism looks pretty good. I don't want to go. But like it's not all blown up and they have skyscrapers and stuff. Probably not for me.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, that's interesting. Like it. From what we think about these countries based on our. Even our movies.

[Arturo Castro]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

You know, and all that stuff.

[Lunchbox]

It's like the Thanos thing. They see us as the villain, we see them as the villain.

[Arturo Castro]

Wow. Because again, that was a thing that happened when TikTok was taken down was a brief period of not only that, but on the other platforms, videos from that other app going viral. People would take them off and put them on. And it was both cultures going like, I don't think we should hate each other as much as we do because our countries are telling us to.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Oh. So this conversation made me think of a couple I heard about last year that went viral after they wanted to visit all 195 countries. And so they went to Iraq and their post about that went really, really viral. And I just pulled up one of their posts and they're like, look, be the change you wanna see in the world. The more we travel, the more we realize that countries are so much more than their governments. They're incredible people all around the world. And some of the friendliest and most hospitable people that we've ever met were in Iraq.

[Arturo Castro]

They get their heads chopped off, they.

[Bobby Bones]

Get back in time, they were never found.

[Arturo Castro]

That's what I'm saying. Like, what happened?

[Eddie]

No, they're.

[Arturo Castro]

They're back. Good for them. Woo. I'm scared.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Arturo Castro]

Cause that's what I feel.

[Bobby Bones]

They posted and then they disappeared.

[Arturo Castro]

Okay, before we break here, what about Mexico? Because everything, everything is cartel chop your head off.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Arturo Castro]

How do you guys feel about that?

[Bobby Bones]

Mike? I've been there, dude. I've had some very pleasant experiences in Mexico. But that was a long time ago.

[Eddie]

Like, which parts? Like, I'm not. We're not going to the border, but do we go to like Cancun, Mexico City?

[Bobby Bones]

Mexico City, man. I mean, it's just a big city, you know, like, are there muggins? Are there?

[Lunchbox]

I mean, Mexico City is a good example. It's just like you would go to.

[Arturo Castro]

A big city here and maybe get mugged or crime.

[Lunchbox]

There's people getting. Yeah, yeah.

[Arturo Castro]

Because if you go to, like, Philly.

[Bobby Bones]

Memphis in the wrong neighborhood, something can happen.

[Arturo Castro]

Part. Yeah.

[Mike]

Bad.

[Lunchbox]

And you also think about the terrain in Mexico. A lot of mountains. So, like people out in the mountains. There's a cartel there.

[Arturo Castro]

Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

You don't want to go there. Seem like you wouldn't want to go to remote parts of this country.

[Bobby Bones]

Now you do. There are things you do like you don't see every day, like checkpoints where you show up and everyone's got a machine gun. And like, there's stuff like that, but they're not.

[Lunchbox]

Police is more corrupt.

[Arturo Castro]

Okay. So. But I'll say this about Philly and Memphis before Ellie. There's also awesome parts of Philly in Memphis, you don't go into the wrong place. And if you don't think there's a lot of corruption around here, just in different ways. Mostly it's politicians more than it is police. There's nice places in Memphis. I'd like to see them.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, dude, I was in Memphis two weeks ago. It's awesome. I love it there.

[Eddie]

Yeah. Elvis's place.

[Arturo Castro]

Yeah. Knowing the town, like some of the suburbs, it's not.

[Bobby Bones]

It's. It's. I love Memphis.

[Eddie]

That's making me wonder what people from other countries, if they have conversations or they're like, oh, man, I would never go to Chicago.

[Arturo Castro]

Well, yeah, they say America because all the guns. There's gun violence all the time everywhere. So they're scared of us. Like we're scared of them.

[Eddie]

I know. I just want to. I just want to hear one of the conversations.

[Arturo Castro]

Well, let's tune in. Here's Iraqi 102. We're listening to their station right now. All right, we're gonna. Let's take a break here.

[Bobby Bones]

They're playing Morgan Wallet.

[Ryan Seacrest]

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[Arturo Castro]

Hey, it's Bobby Bones. Join me and former NFL quarterback Matt Castle every Wednesday for our new podcast, Lots to say with Bobby Bones and Matt Castle. Between us, we have over 17,500 passing yards, multiple New York Times bestsellers, and one mirror ball trophy from Dancing with the Stars. Where else are you gonna find a show with that much athleticism and football insight? Based in Nashville, we're more than just your basic NFL show. We talk sports, but we talk pop culture and music and a little bit of everything because we got lots to say. I. I texted you and you texted me back. Now, I don't know if you have the update, but, like, all the little thumbs up and heart and stuff, like, it's all colored. They changed it, and the heart's a little pink. It felt like I told you I loved you. I'm gonna be honest. It was a little pink. There was something sentimental when you.

[Ryan Seacrest]

When you send it, it's like, do.

[Arturo Castro]

I send the heart now? I don't like the color edition. It's extremely pink. Listen to Lots to say with Bobby Bones and Matt Castle on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Matt Castle]

Hi, I'm Arturo Castro, and I've been lucky enough to do stuff like Broad City and narcos and roadhouse and so many commercials about back pain. And now I'm starting a podcast because honestly, guys, I don't feel the space is crowded enough. Get ready for Greatest Escapes, a new comedy podcast about the wildest true escape stories in history. Each week, I'll be sitting down with some of the most hilarious actors and writers and comedians to tell them a buck wild tale from across history and time. People like Ed Helms, Diane Guerrero, Joseph Gordon Levitt and Zoe Chao.

[Bobby Bones]

Titanic, Charles Manson, Alcatraz, Assata Shakur, the.

[Arturo Castro]

Sketchy guy named Steve.

[Matt Castle]

It's giving funny true crime.

[Arturo Castro]

I love storytelling and I love you, so I can't wait.

[Matt Castle]

Listen and subscribe to Greatest escapes on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Mike]

Ever wonder what it's like to be on the phone with an NFL general manager as you finalize the biggest contract in NFL history?

[Arturo Castro]

I'm A.J.

[Mike]

Stephens, vice president of client strategy at Athletes Verse, where we've negotiated $1.4 billion in current NFL quarterback contracts. Tracks introducing the Athletes First Family podcast, the Quarterback Series. Along with my co host Brian Murphy, Athletes first CEO, we're pulling back the curtain on how these historic deals come together. You'll hear directly from the agents who shaped the NFL's financial landscape, the ones who negotiated Justin Herbert's extension and Deshaun Watson's fully guaranteed contract that sent shockwaves through the league. This isn't just about the numbers, though. It's about the untold story stories behind these massive negotiations and the relationships the NFL superstars like Dak Prescott, Tua Tungavailoa and Jordan Love have with their agents at Athletes First. For the first time ever, the agents who orchestrate these deals are sharing the details of the negotiations and everything that led up to their clients signing on the dotted line. Listen to the Athletes First Family podcast on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Arturo Castro]

A woman, 94 years old was busted for going over her age. 106 on the highway. 94 years old, going 106 miles an hour.

[Bobby Bones]

I didn't know that was possible.

[Arturo Castro]

Do you think that she just like, I don't know what my body's doing or you think she just was rocking granny? It's one of the two, right? A 94 year old woman, Elizabeth Perez, decided to take a road trip. Busted for going 106 miles an hour. She had a kid in the car.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, wow.

[Arturo Castro]

She was fined for speeding. The child not being secured and not having insurance. The child not being secured. I blame on age because even when we were kids, we weren't secured. She just lives the same way she's always lived.

[Bobby Bones]

Correct?

[Arturo Castro]

Dude, we were so not secured. We were like the chair was a jungle gym.

[Bobby Bones]

I remember my dad going over a railroad track one time and we all hit the ceiling. It was so much fun. We were like, wow, that was crazy.

[Arturo Castro]

And now you get CPS gold on you.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, for sure.

[Arturo Castro]

Amy, how do you like our sitting arrangement after like a month, two months of it?

[Eddie]

Better than it was.

[Arturo Castro]

You're farther.

[Eddie]

Yeah, but.

[Arturo Castro]

But you're directly in line.

[Eddie]

I don't have to turn my chair back and forth to see people or just like have my back to people.

[Arturo Castro]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

So that's cool.

[Bobby Bones]

That's true. Because she was always kind of looking at you and she'd never look at us.

[Arturo Castro]

And how's the camera on her? Everything's good. Like to set up in the studio. Everything feels good.

[Bobby Bones]

Feels good.

[Arturo Castro]

I'm a little. I'm a bit blind, so sometimes I got a squint to look at us. No, not you. Her.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, she's.

[Arturo Castro]

I don't even know if that's her. You could put a dummy over there with the same Hair. And I think I'd be fooled. Like those people that escape prison. You know the guy we talked about that escape prison.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Arturo Castro]

I think you could put a dummy over there with her hair, and I'd be like, amy, she's just distracted. I'll just keep going. I really couldn't tell if it was you or not.

[Eddie]

That's me.

[Arturo Castro]

I did not pay for the billboard of my comedy special.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, I was wondering that.

[Arturo Castro]

No, but it doesn't make sense because someone's like, you did this before? No, I did it before when nobody knew it was me and it wasn't even about me.

[Eddie]

Well, it was about you, but it wasn't positive.

[Arturo Castro]

No, this was, like, directly me this time. I would say I wasn't. I wasn't promoting anything on those billboards. Yeah, this is an actual promotion. So if I bought them, I'd be like, I bought them. Hope people watch the special. I didn't buy them.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, I didn't think you were lying. People think. People think you're lying about it.

[Arturo Castro]

Well, they're like, you bought the billboards Because I posted on my Instagram, hey, whoever bought these at the network or whomever, that's awesome. I don't think there's some conspiracy as to who's bought them. I think it's just somebody. They do that for shows.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. So who did buy them?

[Arturo Castro]

I do not know. I don't know. I'm sure somebody ended up at cmt.

[Bobby Bones]

That's pretty cool.

[Arturo Castro]

Or there's a budget for shows to come on. Because I'll see other shows up there, and maybe they just have like a. A buy with the billboard company for whatever they're featuring each month to put up there.

[Bobby Bones]

Good point. Like the Opry. I've seen that before, but I did.

[Arturo Castro]

I didn't buy it. That's pretty cool. I didn't know it was up. Somebody sent a picture and they're like, hey, you're up.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, you didn't see it?

[Arturo Castro]

I've only seen it through the video that I have that I posted. I haven't seen it.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, I drew. I've already driven by three times I've seen it. And every time I try to get my phone and it flips over to another one, it's like some, like, doctor's office.

[Arturo Castro]

See? And that's why I think that's probably just like, a buy that the television company has, because it's on the digital and you can just own, you know, eight hours a day, every three days on the regular and just Change it out to whatever you want. It could be the CMT Weekend countdown. It could be whatever show they're on. I just think they probably dedicated a bit of that to this if I were speculating. But I don't know. I hope I don't get charged for it. That would suck if it somehow came back to me. Yes. But yeah, the special's on Tuesday night, 9, 8 Central. We will not get to watch it live because we plan a show. It's terrible timing. Not that I need to see it anyway. I don't even want to see it. I hate it.

[Bobby Bones]

Have you seen it, like, how many times?

[Arturo Castro]

I had to edit it, so I hate it.

[Bobby Bones]

You've seen it too much.

[Arturo Castro]

I've watched everything. I hate everything about it just because I've watched.

[Eddie]

So it's good that you'll be busy.

[Arturo Castro]

Well, yeah, because otherwise I'd be there. Just self loathing.

[Bobby Bones]

That's not funny.

[Arturo Castro]

Well, and I'm not good enough to do a full hour of just straight comedy because I don't. Comedy's not been stand up, not been a thing. So there's definitely moments where, like, I pull somebody, we play a game. It's very unconventional. There's a lot of jokes and there's definitely comedy in there. But, like, Dolly's a part of the show. There's like. I don't want to say too much. I pull up a family at some point and we sit on the couch and the couch is a part of the show, so it's not super. I also just didn't want to do an hour of jokes. One because I am not good enough to do an hour of just straight jokes and have people after 40 minutes still think it's funny. I also, when I watch a Comedy Special, about 30 minutes in, I started to get kind of bored unless it's like one of my favorite favorites. So I kind of wanted to keep it moving, which means it's gonna be so weird and so clunky that it's gonna completely miss or people are gonna be like, oh, that's kind of refreshing and cool. Either way, I want it to be either awesome or terrible. Not in the middle. That way people talk about it. Okay, not from you guys.

[Bobby Bones]

You don't want us to talk about it.

[Arturo Castro]

I don't want to be terrible out loud to you guys.

[Eddie]

Well, I thought we would do the thing where we go around and we rate it.

[Arturo Castro]

No, I will not have that.

[Eddie]

We're not gonna give.

[Arturo Castro]

Oh, it'll be Wednesday reviews day.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, yeah.

[Arturo Castro]

No, no, No, I can't take that.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay.

[Arturo Castro]

I still am in the phase of hating it too much because I have to spend every second with it.

[Eddie]

Can we get a pre screening and do Tuesday reviews day with it?

[Arturo Castro]

No. Some of you guys would feel the pressure not toward me, but not to be mean.

[Bobby Bones]

And then Amy, you might spoil it.

[Arturo Castro]

That's true. Amy. Amy comes in, just gives all punchlines. That's funny.

[Morgan]

Well, so.

[Eddie]

Yeah, well actually I want to watch it because I want to give it my view. They telling views?

[Bobby Bones]

Does it work that way?

[Arturo Castro]

Yeah, I'm not really allowed to talk about that.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, don't talk about it.

[Eddie]

Well, I will. I'm going to give it a view.

[Arturo Castro]

Thank you.

[Bobby Bones]

I'll give it a view too. Well, I can. I'm going to be with you.

[Arturo Castro]

You are?

[Eddie]

But have your family on every TV anywhere.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, that's true. Good idea.

[Arturo Castro]

I'm not really allowed to talk about it. I know.

[Eddie]

I don't even know.

[Arturo Castro]

I know.

[Eddie]

I just.

[Arturo Castro]

You just what?

[Eddie]

I'll turn it on. My phone, my computer, my tv.

[Arturo Castro]

There is a test and I. I almost don't want to do it and talk about it. Cuz I know how we do stuff on this show. We're like let's do it and we never get to it cuz we still.

[Eddie]

Haven'T done Amy, like my three pointers. I know, but guess what? I was practicing so.

[Bobby Bones]

And how did you do?

[Eddie]

Not great.

[Arturo Castro]

Well, we tried to the bodybush Olympics. Eddie broke his foot. Then we tried to do this other thing where Eddie was throwing this 100 pound ball and he breaks his arm.

[Eddie]

I need, I need. I figured I need a little bit of time to get stronger. I think I've gotten weaker since the last time I did that because I don't know what's going on, but I just was not.

[Arturo Castro]

Well if you train too much though, it kind of defeats the purpose.

[Eddie]

No, I'm just saying like other parts of me just need to get stronger. Like I don't know if it's my arms, like I need to maybe just work out a little bit. My back, my legs, like.

[Arturo Castro]

But I think that's the purpose of the bit is like can you just hop in and do it and make this many in an hour? It's not trained to do it because it's like do you think you can do it? Yes, I do. Then do it. Not do you think you can train to do it in three months? You know what I mean?

[Eddie]

I know. At the time I said yes though, I just was in Better shape. So that was that long ago.

[Arturo Castro]

And I don't even remember what it was. It's been that long. I know. Even like Bobby Ocean Olympics. I thought that had been perfect. And Eddie breaks his foot.

[Bobby Bones]

That was a year ago.

[Arturo Castro]

I know there's the FBI test to even have a chance to get in the FBI. And it's like running in sit ups and oh, physical tests. And it's not that it's super hard, like wow, there's no way. But you have to do all three. And I would just be curious who could pull it off. The FBI accepts applications between age 23 and 37. So for the most part we'd all be out. Unless you're a veteran, which we're also not.

[Bobby Bones]

Not veterans.

[Arturo Castro]

But I wonder if like you have like distinguished background. Like I'm a doctor. And they'd be like, you know what, you'd be a good spy. So we're gonna, we're gonna let you fit in. You know, no one would see you as that. Besides a background check. Applicants must pass a physical fitness test. Includes sit ups, push ups, a 300 meter sprint and a 1.5 mile run. For sit ups, candidates lie on their backs with their shoulder blades touching the floor and arms cross over their chests. Fingers should be touching the shoulders. A partner holds the person's feet flat on the floor. Knees are bent at 90 degrees. Applicants raise their body until their elbows touch the mid part of their thigh and then return to the starting position. So it feels like just a very form correct sit up.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay.

[Arturo Castro]

Hips must remain in contact with the ground. Everyone gets a minute to complete as many sit ups as possible. One point is awarded to women because you want to get the point who log over 35 sit ups in a minute. And men 38. So that's how to pass the sit up test.

[Bobby Bones]

38 in one minute. That's a lot.

[Arturo Castro]

The only thing that would be a bit scary to me would be getting the form exactly right. Because I feel like if I'm crushing it, maybe I'm messed up on form. Because with form you will have to slow just a bit because I feel like I could take 38 sit ups and do that easily. But then that's me just racking them out flying. So see, I think this would be fun to do. The whole thing would be fun to do to see who could actually even have a chance to apply for the FBI. Because this is just to apply for the FBI. So that's the sit ups. Women who complete less than 30 sit ups and men who do less than 32, they can be disqualified. And you have to score points between the four events. Okay, so where's the running part of it? Can you find me the running specs as well? Because for a 1.5 mile run, I would think I could. Listen, I don't run.

[Bobby Bones]

That already hurts.

[Arturo Castro]

I run sprints a bit, but I don't run distance. Lunchwalks runs distance. He could crush the mile run. I think I could probably run a mile in seven. Like running harder than I normally would in like 7:30.

[Eddie]

That's another bit. Someone was going to race Stevenson in the mile.

[Arturo Castro]

Nobody wanted to. Oh. Cause he's our only runner. It was lunchbox.

[Eddie]

He's like five minutes something.

[Arturo Castro]

Yeah. So I think I could do like seven and a half minutes, and then it's a mile and a half. I think I could do it in 13 minutes. So I don't know what the mile and a half run is, but I think I could comfortably do that in 13 minutes. And the 300 meter sprint. I don't know what a meter is because we don't use those.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. In America, it's like three fourths of a lap.

[Arturo Castro]

Got it. So I could run. I could easily do a minute 400 now, maybe not easily. No. I could run 56 in high school, so I'm probably gonna do that now. No, because I ran 56 at a meet once on a. On a 4 by 400, and that's probably my fastest time, so I probably couldn't do that. Now. Run time. Okay, here we go.

[Lunchbox]

It doesn't say how long, but you have to do these all back to back with.

[Arturo Castro]

No, but it says timed 1.5 mile run.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, but didn't say how long.

[Arturo Castro]

10 minutes, 20 minutes.

[Bobby Bones]

So you just got to do it.

[Arturo Castro]

And they just as long as the timer doesn't.

[Bobby Bones]

All these.

[Lunchbox]

And less than five minutes of rest in between them all.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, oh.

[Arturo Castro]

So all of it's time.

[Lunchbox]

All of it.

[Bobby Bones]

I feel like that's.

[Arturo Castro]

Hold on, hold on. Say that again. What? Say it again.

[Lunchbox]

So it says you do all these events in order, and you have no more than five minutes of rest time in between them. So you're just going one after another.

[Bobby Bones]

But you can take five minutes in between them.

[Arturo Castro]

Yeah, but then you can just trot. That can't be correct. Because then you can just trot the 1.5.

[Lunchbox]

I think the overall thing is time. It doesn't have the time listed is what I'm saying.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, okay.

[Lunchbox]

It doesn't say how long it Takes. It's not in the guidelines here.

[Arturo Castro]

So we don't know how long it takes to do the whole thing.

[Lunchbox]

No, there's not.

[Arturo Castro]

That's got to exist somewhere.

[Lunchbox]

Well, I click the application guide.

[Arturo Castro]

Oh, don't do that. Because then they'll kick in the door.

[Lunchbox]

And then it says it's not.

[Bobby Bones]

I can ask my brother in law. He's an FBI agent. I'm sure he had to do it, but. But like he's old. Like he's older than me.

[Arturo Castro]

Yeah, but he probably had to do it back then.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Arturo Castro]

Not now.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. Okay, so to apply you have to be between those ages.

[Arturo Castro]

Just to apply doesn't even mean you're Apple. Just to apply. Time 300 meter sprint. Are they keeping this secret from us too? The government, they don't want us to know how long we have to run that.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, it doesn't tell you anywhere.

[Bobby Bones]

You don't want to leak that information out.

[Arturo Castro]

A run is timed. It takes place on a quarter mile oval track. The run is made up of six laps around the track. On the 1.5 mile run because four is a. Yeah, I could ask my friend too, but he's probably in the middle of doing FBI stuff, you know, I mean.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, I mean my brother in law.

[Arturo Castro]

Too, but yeah, probably doing FBI stuff.

[Bobby Bones]

Sorry to bother you.

[Arturo Castro]

Oh yeah, get him. Hey, put the alert first. Like the alert emoji. So he knows it's really important.

[Bobby Bones]

Important, yeah.

[Arturo Castro]

Sorry to bother you, but we're talking about a stupid test. Oh, here we go. Minimum fitness requirements for FBI agents.

[Bobby Bones]

Fitness.

[Arturo Castro]

Is this the same thing, Mike?

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. So it's different for every age?

[Arturo Castro]

I guess so. For 1.5 miles they would give us 13 and a half minutes. So I could do. That's somewhat quick.

[Bobby Bones]

Did you find the answer?

[Arturo Castro]

Well, I see a chart now. Okay, that 300 meters. And that's the sprint?

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, that's the sprint.

[Arturo Castro]

So they're using miles and meters, which is a. Those aren't even the same. Right. Miles and meters are two different systems. Which is 13 and a half. Can I do that? So let's say did an 8 and then 4 half of that 8 12. That's going at a relatively okay pace for a non runner. I think we should do this.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm gonna need to get my arm better, but yeah, of course.

[Arturo Castro]

It's like you needed your foot better.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm down though. Are there push ups involved too?

[Arturo Castro]

It says you should do 18. 300 meters is 72 seconds. So that's not even a lap. I Think I could probably do that. But again, I may be overestimating how fast I can run a 400 push ups. 18 and 1 minute.

[Bobby Bones]

Probably do that.

[Arturo Castro]

Probably. And then sit ups that number from earlier. See, I would. I would do that as a bit.

[Bobby Bones]

I like it.

[Arturo Castro]

We'll never do it. Now that I want to do it, we'll never do it.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Arturo Castro]

But I think that test is fun. I would like to do it at.

[Eddie]

Some point, start saying, I never want to do this. This bit stupid.

[Arturo Castro]

Then I get fired up, and I make sure we do it.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Arturo Castro]

All right, let's see what else we have here. I got a bunch of notes here. Eddie is disappointed in his sign. Ooh.

[Bobby Bones]

So disappointed.

[Arturo Castro]

Go ahead.

[Bobby Bones]

I've been having to drive his car around just because I can't drive stick. So he's got an automatic car. So I get in there, and he's not listening to our radio station. Not only does he not listen to our radio station or our show in the mornings, he's like, doesn't he have programmed to the little memory button thing? Like, that's crazy.

[Arturo Castro]

Not even a preset.

[Bobby Bones]

Not even a preset. Like, dude, your dad's on the radio. Like, I figured. I mean, I guess I didn't think I was gonna get in there and he was gonna have the show on, but, like, I'm a little disappointed that there wasn't even on his. On his memory.

[Arturo Castro]

Would you want to listen to your dad if that's what he did?

[Eddie]

No.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, I'd have it on the preset at least if, like, oh, you know what? Let's see what dad's talking about.

[Arturo Castro]

I would never want to know what dad was talking about.

[Bobby Bones]

Really? Yeah.

[Arturo Castro]

I mean, I never had a dad, so I don't know, but I feel like dad would be lame.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't think he thinks we're lame.

[Arturo Castro]

Like, okay, but it doesn't. Every parent think their kid doesn't.

[Bobby Bones]

And I'll tell you why, though, because sometimes I'm editing videos at the house, and he's, like, sitting on the couch next to me, and he'll laugh. Like, just by listening to what we're talking about, he'll be like, that's funny, dad. Play that again. Let me see that. And like, that's cool for your son to think, like, what we're talking about is funny. Or like, something Lunchbox is doing makes him laugh. Like, it's. That's cool. Yeah.

[Arturo Castro]

My wife doesn't even do that.

[Bobby Bones]

Maybe you need to edit in front of her, dude. But Play. Hey, get. Get one of our show clips and play it in front of her.

[Arturo Castro]

She'd say, put your AirPods in, buddy.

[Bobby Bones]

Turn that off.

[Arturo Castro]

I got all my physical blood results back yesterday.

[Eddie]

What are the results?

[Arturo Castro]

Which is the hardcore results. My doctor gave me an A minus overall, which is great. Listen, the reason I got a minus, I had two things that I was a bit deficient in. So he's like, your cholesterol came back a little high. He goes, but you were eating candy when I walked in the room. And I said, yeah, so what? He goes, you're supposed to fast. I said, oh, I didn't even fast. I ate breakfast. And then yeah, I was at oh.

[Eddie]

Before any blood work.

[Arturo Castro]

Who knew? That's what he said. He goes, everybody knows that.

[Bobby Bones]

I didn't know that.

[Arturo Castro]

Oh, you didn't?

[Bobby Bones]

Nope.

[Arturo Castro]

And he said, so your cholesterol is a little high. He said, but the fact that you were eating chocolate when I walked in the room makes me think that your cholesterol is fine. You just shouldn't have been eating right before.

[Bobby Bones]

What were you eating? Like a Twix bar or something?

[Arturo Castro]

No, they had candy in the bowl.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, then why are they doing that?

[Arturo Castro]

Right, exactly. I was eating, but I did have.

[Eddie]

Maybe they need to put a sign. Eat, unless you're here for blood work.

[Arturo Castro]

Yes, well, I already ate breakfast that morning too, because no one said don't eat food. That and then vitamin D. I'm a little deficient.

[Bobby Bones]

And he's like, that's cause you don't go outside.

[Arturo Castro]

He's like, nobody sees the sun right now, so take vitamin D until summer and if we still have an issue, we'll hit it.

[Bobby Bones]

No, no, no. You never see the sun.

[Arturo Castro]

I do. Playing pickleball a little bit.

[Bobby Bones]

That's true. It's shaded out there, dude. Oh, my brother in law texted.

[Arturo Castro]

Okay, good.

[Bobby Bones]

He says he remembers doing that. In fact, we still have to do it every year.

[Arturo Castro]

Oh, really?

[Bobby Bones]

Wow, that's crazy.

[Arturo Castro]

Makes makes sense. They still have to probably do stuff.

[Bobby Bones]

He said, it's challenging, but it's not super tough. I can give you the requirements and the scoring metrics if you want.

[Arturo Castro]

Yeah, haven't sent them over.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Okay.

[Arturo Castro]

My testosterone. You want to hear what I was? I was like, I'm getting older. So adult male reference interval is based on a population of healthy non obese males between 19 and 39 years old. In that my testosterone was in the top 20% of 19 to 39 year olds. I'm even above that. I should be talking like lunchbox. So testosterone was good, prostate was good. Vitamin D. Vitamin D down a little bit. My lipoprotein, I don't know if that is good lipo. Yeah, yeah. I don't know if it isn't it.

[Bobby Bones]

Lipo because they do liposuction.

[Eddie]

I don't know.

[Arturo Castro]

They suck the lipoprotein out of you.

[Eddie]

I don't know. I have no idea.

[Arturo Castro]

Yeah, I was really happy with it. I got it. He said a minus only because my cholesterol was a little high and that my vitamin D was low. But I always worry about it when they do the hardcore ones. And I'm going to get some terrible news because people get terrible news all the time and I feel like sometimes it's just my turn, but everything else is rocking.

[Bobby Bones]

Good job, man. Because it's tough to take care of your body at our age.

[Arturo Castro]

He thinks that my testosterone is good. Not because of anything other than lifting heavy weights. No, not that, like legs, like that's the way to keep your testosterone as you get older is weightlifting with your primary muscles. That's natural testosterone. So let's go squats all day last night.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, man.

[Arturo Castro]

Squats all day. Every day. Every day's like day for me.

[Bobby Bones]

So like if we continue to do that, we're gonna have great testosterone.

[Arturo Castro]

Our nads are gonna be six feet tall.

[Eddie]

Yeah, yeah.

[Arturo Castro]

Lipo, what does it even mean?

[Eddie]

I don't know. A type of liquid or fat in the body that contains and is similar to the structure of the low density ldl, which is the lipoprotein.

[Arturo Castro]

I, I take care of myself so I'm pretty happy with those results. And there are people that take care of them better than I that aren't as fortunate to get those results. I'm very happy with that. But man, that gave a lot of blood.

[Bobby Bones]

Really?

[Arturo Castro]

Yeah, there's like tube after tube and then apparently there was chocolate in the blood. So a little high there. What's that? What, what's la la la?

[Eddie]

I don't know. I'm just trying to learn, just distracted how to pronounce, pronounce things because then I've cuz like what's lipid? Because I felt like I've heard that I'm just over here doing pre med.

[Arturo Castro]

Good for you.

[Eddie]

Don't worry about me.

[Arturo Castro]

They sent me a letter I just now read for the first time. It was so nice.

[Eddie]

The doctor.

[Arturo Castro]

Yeah, I never read the letter, I just read the results. Oh, your vitamin D level was slightly low because it can be hard to build the Dose back up in the winter. I suggest you take a 2000 LU tablet daily that you buy over the counter. Four to five months. Your blood counts are normal. This shows a normal white blood cell, red blood cell, and platelet counts. You are hung like a horse.

[Bobby Bones]

He did not say that.

[Arturo Castro]

No, he didn't. Amy's the one that brought that up the other day. I haven't even thought about it.

[Eddie]

I didn't just bring it up out of nowhere. I don't remember, but.

[Arturo Castro]

But we were all like, what?

[Eddie]

No.

[Arturo Castro]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Arturo Castro]

Weekend. What's going on?

[Eddie]

Amy, it's the weekend. Oh, I don't know. I have my kids this weekend, but one of them be at a church thing, like, all day, but they come and spend the night. So, like, I think a bunch of friends are spending the night at our house, like, in between. Like, they'll get home at 10pm and then back at the church at 9am or something. But then my son, he was invited to spend the night at this other kid's house. And then that kid, his dad has the flu now, and so that got canceled. And so I was like, oh, well, I'm gonna try to register him for the church thing, but now that's full. And so now he's gonna be like, what? So she gets to go, and I don't need to go, and now I can't go to my friends. But the flu that's going around.

[Arturo Castro]

Yeah, we've been sick at our house.

[Eddie]

So I'm like, yeah, well, yesterday I couldn't even function.

[Arturo Castro]

I can't even see straight. Like, I'll option those rides at Disney at some point.

[Eddie]

So we're probably just gonna stay home and not get the flu.

[Bobby Bones]

That's a good idea.

[Eddie]

That's my plan.

[Arturo Castro]

What about you?

[Bobby Bones]

When are we gonna stop doing sleepovers? Like. Like teenagers?

[Arturo Castro]

I don't do that.

[Eddie]

Never.

[Bobby Bones]

I just feel like my. Like, my. Sometimes my teenagers, like, I don't do. We're just sleepover. I'm like, why? Like, what do you guys.

[Eddie]

It's fun.

[Bobby Bones]

What? Like, what's fun?

[Eddie]

Oh, my gosh. You don't think. Sleepovers. You don't remember being a kid?

[Arturo Castro]

They were the best thing in the world.

[Morgan]

I hate them.

[Arturo Castro]

I never really did sleepovers. I never did them. I never felt like I wanted to be anywhere in my own house.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. I'm like, you're just sleeping at somebody's house and you to, like, use their bathroom. I don't know. I just.

[Arturo Castro]

What, do I pee the bed? How do I escape that's the thing.

[Eddie]

Well, I mean, yeah, that's the thing, but you didn't wear. Take a pull up.

[Arturo Castro]

Dude, I was like, 12. Yeah, I got made fun of more for wearing a pull up than the.

[Eddie]

Bed 12 year olds.

[Arturo Castro]

Because if I peed the bed, I would have blamed it on somebody else and escaped and never went back to that school again.

[Bobby Bones]

Dude, when I was at Boy Scouts, I had to borrow somebody's sleeping bag, and this kid was like, oh, you can use mine, no problem. And I peed in it. Dude, it was so embarrassing.

[Arturo Castro]

Did you get blame for it?

[Bobby Bones]

Well, yeah, I had to be like, dude, I'm so sorry I peed in your.

[Arturo Castro]

I found a way out of it.

[Eddie]

And he was like, what would you have done? Been like, went and got an animal and been like, this animal just peed.

[Bobby Bones]

Raccoon.

[Arturo Castro]

Could have been anything. I'd have found a way. I'm a survivor. As Reba said, I'm a survivor. We're done.

[Eddie]

Sleepover Eddie let your kids have sleepovers?

[Bobby Bones]

No, he does it all the time. Just like, dude, you're like, 17. Like, stop sleeping over.

[Eddie]

Your daughter, 17 and two of her friends are spending the night.

[Bobby Bones]

They're not staying home. They're just doing. They're like, whatever they're doing is not.

[Arturo Castro]

Like the COVID Yeah, it's like, you.

[Eddie]

Guys, they're going to church and then they're coming home.

[Arturo Castro]

Yeah, perfect cover.

[Eddie]

No, no, I. I registered for them. We paid for everything. They better check in.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Arturo Castro]

All right, thank you, guys. We'll see you on Monday. Goodbye, everybody.

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[Arturo Castro]

Hey, it's Bobby Bones. Join me and former NFL quarterback Matt Castle every Wednesday for our new podcast, Lots to say. With Bobby Bones and Matt Castle. Between us, we have over 17,500 passing yards, multiple New York Times bestsellers, and one mirrorball trophy from Dancing with the Star. So where else are you going to find a show with that much athleticism and football insight? We talk sports, but we talk pop culture and music. And a little bit of everything. Listen to Lots to say with Bobby Bones and Matt Castle on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Matt Castle]

Hi, I'm Arturo Castro, and I've been lucky enough to do stuff like Broad City and Narcos and Roadhouse. And now I'm starting a podcast because honestly, guys, I don't feel the space is crowded enough. Get ready for Greatest Escapes, a new comedy podcast about the wildest true escape stories in history. Each week I'll be sitting down with some of the most hilarious actors and writers and comedians. People like Ed Helms, Diane Guerrero, and Joseph Gordon Levitt.

[Arturo Castro]

I love storytelling and I love you. So I can't wait.

[Matt Castle]

Listen and subscribe to Greatest escapes on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Tomer Cohen, LinkedIn's chief product officer. If you're just as curious as I am about the way things are built.

[Bobby Bones]

Then tune into my podcast, BuildingOne.

[Arturo Castro]

I speak with some of the best product builders out there.

[Bobby Bones]

I've always been inspired by frustration. It came back to my own personal.

[Eddie]

Pain point, so we had to go.

[Arturo Castro]

Out to farmers and convince them.

[Bobby Bones]

Following that curiosity is a superpower. You have to be obsessed with the human condition.

[Arturo Castro]

Listen to Building One on the iHeartRadio app, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts.