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25W: Bobby & Eddie's Top Highlights from Pebble Beach + Brady's Retirement + The Pro Bowl? Who Really Cares + Coleman Crawley Quits His Job to Chase a Dream · 25 Whistles with Bobby Bones (A Football Podcast)

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  Speaker 1: go a little week, Yes, pro Bowl? Who cares? Pro
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: Bowl Week? Uh? So, Eddie and I are We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: throw to us because Eddie and I are in California
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  Speaker 1: on a little uh setup that we're recording out there,
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  Speaker 1: and let's throw to us now. I hope it works.
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  Speaker 1: just taken the kit with us on the road without
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  Speaker 1: Mike d and Mike DA is a savior of all
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  Speaker 1: good audio. Wait, what do you mean? No, No, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's it's working. I see, I see it moving. I
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  Speaker 1: don't trust that what you see is the reality and
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  Speaker 1: somehow it's gonna get back. But we are in pebble. Well,
• 1:10
  Speaker 1: we're in Monterey, Uh, by the sea, man, it's also
• 1:14
  Speaker 1: fancy here in every way all the towns. Well I
• 1:18
  Speaker 1: walk around to I was like, is this caramel? I
• 1:21
  Speaker 1: think you're talking about the kids. Well, I did ask
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  Speaker 1: for sweet tea at a fish seafood. No, I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: say fancy, but legit play. I don't know what do
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  Speaker 1: you call it? A very nice but it was like
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  Speaker 1: not just nice, like fancy. It wasn't even fancy. It
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  Speaker 1: was what do you call something when it's like pure real?
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  Speaker 1: What kind of rusta? Authentic? That's it? Thank you. I'm
• 1:47
  Speaker 1: so tired. Eddie and I have been on the golf
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  Speaker 1: course since six o'clock this morning for three days, and
• 1:53
  Speaker 1: it's the greatest thing ever. But I'm also tired. I've
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  Speaker 1: also been really sick um for a bit um. So
• 1:58
  Speaker 1: let me just start with a couple of things. I'm
• 2:00
  Speaker 1: mind right now. What I want to get to definitely
• 2:02
  Speaker 1: Tom Brady retirement. Also, it's the Pro Bowl this weekend,
• 2:06
  Speaker 1: so almost d g AF about football. And on my
• 2:12
  Speaker 1: Twitter feed now I get fights all the time. You
• 2:15
  Speaker 1: got on Twitter, doll, kind of not. I get videos
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  Speaker 1: of people fighting all the time. Why are you like
• 2:21
  Speaker 1: in an algorithm. I don't like watching fights because for
• 2:24
  Speaker 1: the for the most part, watch people get punched, and
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  Speaker 1: I don't like people just fighting makes me a comfortable.
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  Speaker 1: It made me a comfortable in school. I wasn't someone
• 2:32
  Speaker 1: that was like, oh fine, let's go watch but I
• 2:35
  Speaker 1: watched them and there's this account called fight Haven and
• 2:39
  Speaker 1: it pops up. I'm clicking into it now, so it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna give me them again for sure for a while.
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  Speaker 1: So you're not following them, they just don't follow them,
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  Speaker 1: but it pops up in my for you, which at
• 2:46
  Speaker 1: first I hated on Twitter because it was like, what
• 2:48
  Speaker 1: does Twitter need too for you? And it's actually pretty
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  Speaker 1: good because it's the same stuff that I followed, just
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  Speaker 1: a couple other things that are like it, and I
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  Speaker 1: like it. And so, but they keep giving me fights
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  Speaker 1: from fight Haven. And what I like about these fights
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  Speaker 1: is it's always somebody doing something mean or dumb or
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  Speaker 1: picking on and then get there butt whooped. So it's
• 3:07
  Speaker 1: almos almost like a superhero movie. Yeah, and so this guy,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't like to really watch the bodies, the
• 3:16
  Speaker 1: fists flop into the faces and that the that physical part. Man.
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  Speaker 1: But there's was one customer in a restaurant I'm watching
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  Speaker 1: right now. He goes in, he's pissed about something, and
• 3:26
  Speaker 1: he's like yelling at the store on restoring. There's probably
• 3:28
  Speaker 1: two thirds of what the customer is sizewise, and the
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  Speaker 1: storm was like, hey, man, all good, let's let's fix up.
• 3:35
  Speaker 1: And the guy starts to be real aggressive and walks
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  Speaker 1: back into the kitchen, and so the story was like, no,
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  Speaker 1: you can't go back there, and he shoves the store
• 3:43
  Speaker 1: store and he still cool, chill is shorter, skinnier, cook, chef, waiter,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. It comes back and it's like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: there's no need for this. The customer, he's huge and
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  Speaker 1: like Tommy Bahamas works and a T shirt, takes a
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  Speaker 1: big right right cross swing at him and the owner
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  Speaker 1: just takes about a half half head back and again misses. Well,
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  Speaker 1: he's just in his momentum. The owner throws him in
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  Speaker 1: like the big sink, and then the other guy comes
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  Speaker 1: in and they just start pounding this dude, and I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't talk about talking about shouldn't make a plain a
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  Speaker 1: buch of French fries being cold. But I don't like fights,
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  Speaker 1: but I like it when people get there just do. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there's always better when like they deserve it. Yes, there's
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  Speaker 1: the other one. I was watching a minute ago on
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  Speaker 1: the toilet was there was this He looked like it's
• 4:37
  Speaker 1: about fifteen, and he was about half the size as
• 4:41
  Speaker 1: When you look at that, it makes he fel like
• 4:42
  Speaker 1: we're not on, we're not do check. And so this
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  Speaker 1: guy's probably looks like a senior in high school, and
• 4:48
  Speaker 1: he's picking on the kid and he's like choking him
• 4:50
  Speaker 1: and he keeps he chokes him and shoves him back,
• 4:52
  Speaker 1: chokes him again and shoves back, and this kid it's
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  Speaker 1: like all right. So the big kid then takes him
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  Speaker 1: and shoves him to the ground hard. And this little guy,
• 5:01
  Speaker 1: I don't know what he does kickboxing wise, does some
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  Speaker 1: sort of Mortal Kombat ground spin, wipes the dude out,
• 5:09
  Speaker 1: kicks him in the face. I don't remember how to
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  Speaker 1: his hand did like the claw when he had a concussion.
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  Speaker 1: It's what happens to the big guy on the ground.
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  Speaker 1: He gets whooped and the little kid is a little fourteen,
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  Speaker 1: it's much smaller, standing over him going now, what would
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  Speaker 1: you like me to do? Now? What would you like
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  Speaker 1: me to I mean, and the big dude is out
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  Speaker 1: and so I don't like fights, but I do like justice,
• 5:31
  Speaker 1: and so they give it to me all the time.
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  Speaker 1: And I just got a bunch of more because I
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  Speaker 1: keep telling you about it and I've been on this
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  Speaker 1: one video. Um anyway, So for you page, good fight, haveing, good,
• 5:44
  Speaker 1: lots of golf, good brain, a little tired, um, But
• 5:47
  Speaker 1: we are in Pebble Beach playing golf in the Pebble
• 5:51
  Speaker 1: Beach Pro Am. We played all the practice rounds this
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  Speaker 1: week and have a lot of stories and a lot
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  Speaker 1: of notes to tell you about. And but I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: start first with Tom Brady retire tiring, which it just
• 6:01
  Speaker 1: popped up on my feet today under Fight Haven and
• 6:03
  Speaker 1: then he got beat up, but that's just Zell went
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  Speaker 1: cross body on him and I was like, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: But now he gets on and says the stuff, and
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  Speaker 1: that's it. Here's why I liked it. Nobody broke it,
• 6:19
  Speaker 1: Schefter Rapp report didn't break it. Then there wasn't speculation
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  Speaker 1: waiting for a message from him or a cryptic tweet
• 6:27
  Speaker 1: or they're not going to talk to Teddy Bruski about
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  Speaker 1: what he thinks. He's like, Hey, I'm good. Basically, it's
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  Speaker 1: been awesome. Basically owns every record. He even has the
• 6:38
  Speaker 1: most Fantasy points ever. Really that's a cool record. Yes,
• 6:42
  Speaker 1: so good for Tom Brady. I did not think he
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  Speaker 1: would retire this year. I thought he'd go one more.
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  Speaker 1: And I think, like we always do with the greatest,
• 6:53
  Speaker 1: when we live with them, we began to take them
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  Speaker 1: for granted because it's normal. Anything normal we take for
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  Speaker 1: granted because it's every day normal. Every day we start
• 7:00
  Speaker 1: to go, oh, this is every day, so it's normal.
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: You know, in five, seven, ten years, we're gonna get
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  Speaker 1: to go like I did when I was very young,
• 7:09
  Speaker 1: like you did. Oh, I watched Michael Jordan play, and
• 7:12
  Speaker 1: that would be Tom Brady twenty years from now, like
• 7:16
  Speaker 1: I watched Tom. I watched Tom Brady play, and we
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: took it for granted. For sure. Watching on all those
• 7:20
  Speaker 1: Super Bowls, we expected the Patriots to be what they were. Um,
• 7:24
  Speaker 1: you know, Brady gets hurt, and um, they're not. You know,
• 7:29
  Speaker 1: you really made winning super Bowls look easy, just even
• 7:33
  Speaker 1: getting to them. All of all of that, Yeah, you
• 7:35
  Speaker 1: just it was. There was an expectation, there was an
• 7:38
  Speaker 1: expectation of greatness that he said, yeah, and with that
• 7:42
  Speaker 1: there was an expectation that once he reproved his greatness,
• 7:47
  Speaker 1: he was gonna let you know. He wasn't expected to
• 7:49
  Speaker 1: be great based on how much you get to play
• 7:52
  Speaker 1: at Michigan where he was drafted. That picture at the
• 7:57
  Speaker 1: pre draft workout the Indianapolis Combine, thank You a little
• 8:02
  Speaker 1: brain fry where he's just no shirt in boxers and
• 8:05
  Speaker 1: it looks like the long John Silver's guy. Yeah, he
• 8:10
  Speaker 1: looked like just a dude. So all of that. So
• 8:13
  Speaker 1: it was just that cycle of he wins, he wins big,
• 8:18
  Speaker 1: he continues to win big, he reminds you he shouldn't
• 8:21
  Speaker 1: be winning big, and it's almost like, well, if Tom
• 8:25
  Speaker 1: Brady's could do it, and I don't think this is true,
• 8:29
  Speaker 1: I can do it. But it was cool to see
• 8:30
  Speaker 1: somebody drafted sole late, somebody that didn't really get a
• 8:32
  Speaker 1: big run at starting starting quarterback in Michigan. Um, it's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: So he's the best ever. I'm sure we'll do a
• 8:38
  Speaker 1: longer thing at some point as he's the best ever,
• 8:42
  Speaker 1: and what do you say? And he retired today and
• 8:44
  Speaker 1: there's no drama about it, and I can respect that
• 8:47
  Speaker 1: as well, because there was drama last time and he
• 8:52
  Speaker 1: did say that. He's like, you know, I'm not gonna
• 8:53
  Speaker 1: do it last time. You can only write off once, right,
• 8:56
  Speaker 1: and that's not true. But far brote off like nine times.
• 8:58
  Speaker 1: He I like, I like what he said, though, Like
• 9:00
  Speaker 1: I likely he just said, you know what, like the
• 9:02
  Speaker 1: all the drama behind the first time around, I'm not
• 9:05
  Speaker 1: going to do that. He did say this, you are
• 9:07
  Speaker 1: the first to know. Do you think he really meant that? Like,
• 9:11
  Speaker 1: I know schafter didn't break. I know he said that,
• 9:13
  Speaker 1: but do you really believe that? Like I want to
• 9:15
  Speaker 1: let my people know on social media, I'm gonna go
• 9:17
  Speaker 1: by the beach, sit by these condos and talk to
• 9:20
  Speaker 1: the fans, and they're gonna be the first to know.
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: At that level, if you tell anyone that has connections
• 9:27
  Speaker 1: and those connections have connections and relationships, even his agent,
• 9:32
  Speaker 1: I would be afraid that what would happen like last
• 9:34
  Speaker 1: time happens again. So this is a world built on relationships,
• 9:40
  Speaker 1: not just football, not just NFL, the world who gets
• 9:44
  Speaker 1: hired for this job? Who? And so I think he
• 9:47
  Speaker 1: probably had some people and he was like, man, I'm
• 9:49
  Speaker 1: really nearing a decision. And yes, I do think that
• 9:52
  Speaker 1: him getting on that was letting everybody know at the
• 9:55
  Speaker 1: same time, even the people that knew he was about
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  Speaker 1: to make a decision. I think people knew he was
• 9:58
  Speaker 1: about to make his decision, but don't think he wanted
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: that to happen again, because then it's just a bad look.
• 10:02
  Speaker 1: And then you remembered always for being that Brett Farve,
• 10:05
  Speaker 1: because that's our final but most distinct memory is him
• 10:13
  Speaker 1: deciding if he's coming back, him being in the airport,
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: being chased over the top by helicopters. He's going to
• 10:17
  Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings as it was like o J. It was,
• 10:22
  Speaker 1: but it was ridiculous so many times, like that's what
• 10:25
  Speaker 1: you think about now, So yes, I do. I think
• 10:29
  Speaker 1: there are people knowing he was about to make a decision,
• 10:31
  Speaker 1: and maybe they knew Eileen, but not enough to be
• 10:32
  Speaker 1: able to go and call one of the guys chef
• 10:36
  Speaker 1: to report, because they would go unnamed sources say Brady's done,
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: and you can be at a named source. But yes,
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, and there are times it happens. I'll give
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: you a story, and I don't think I've ever told
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: before similarly, and I'm not comparing the two you've retired before.
• 10:53
  Speaker 1: Seven times, Actually this week, every day. And um, so
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: one of my dearest friends was a professional tennis player.
• 11:06
  Speaker 1: His name is Andy Roddick. And Andy was number one
• 11:09
  Speaker 1: in the world for a while. He won US Open,
• 11:13
  Speaker 1: went to Wimbledon finals so many times. He was America's
• 11:18
  Speaker 1: best tennis player forever. He was like in the top
• 11:21
  Speaker 1: ten for like longer than any other player at the time.
• 11:26
  Speaker 1: What are some crazy some crazy stats, right, And there
• 11:30
  Speaker 1: wasn't really much debate as to when he was gonna retire,
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: like it's gonna happen now, it's gonna hapen in six months.
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: But he was getting a little older in the tennis world,
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: and I'm gonna speak for him, gonna be wrong in
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: some of these places, um and Andy was really strong
• 11:47
  Speaker 1: and where he could just bully people at times with
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: his strength and athleticism that way, some of the other
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: guys were getting not as strong, but they were getting strong.
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: But they also played a different style of tennis, which
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: is why and he never got far in the French
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: because you had to be able to move. Nadal was
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: always in the French because he is all over the
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: backs and that that that clay takes some of the
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: U featherball, so anyway, all the physics of tennis aside.
• 12:10
  Speaker 1: It's just a random morning. I'm just gonna assign a
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  Speaker 1: day to the story on a Monday, and to get
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: a call from Andy, who when he was in the
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: States not playing tennis all over the world, we hung
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: out a really good amount, or we made a point
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: to just see each other, because you know, I don't
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: have a huge friendship group that I keep really close,
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: and neither did he frankly, and he calls me and
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: he goes, hey, man, I'm retiring. I'm like, wait, I
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: never I didn't think you're trying. I knew in the
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: next five years. And I'm like, what do you mean
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: you're retiring. He goes, I'm retiring. I just woke up
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: this morning and I'm gonna go play the US opens
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: my final one. And I just want you to know
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: before I tell anybody else, because I'm gonna I tell
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: the media now. And I'm sure he told his mom's dad,
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: but I think I was in that first little block
• 12:57
  Speaker 1: of friends he called. He goes, hey, it would be
• 12:59
  Speaker 1: really cool if you came up and went to the
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: tournament with me or watching my fine, so obviously, and
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: then I don't even have any money. It's not like
• 13:07
  Speaker 1: now where I'm wildly loaded. You know, it's so low. Yeah,
• 13:11
  Speaker 1: so as in Austin got a flight went up and
• 13:16
  Speaker 1: they didn't tell anybody. And I don't know, maybe Tom
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: Brady also just decided, this is my point, Maybe he
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: just kind of woke up and went, yeah, I think
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: I'm done. It seemed like it. I think I'm done.
• 13:26
  Speaker 1: And because I saw that happen to Andy, who was
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: elite in his sport. So that's what makes me think.
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: I don't think that's all like a pr It could
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: be a little bit of a PR thing where he
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: doesn't want to go out remembered like that. But I
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: think it could have been him going I gotta make
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: a decision and he just wakes up and it's like
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: I don't want to do it again, and you know what,
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: like it's really good that he did that instead of
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: waiting two more seasons and having three bad seasons. But
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: I don't think he would have. I think he had
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: another couple. Listen. I think if he goes somewhere with the
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: the good offensive line where you can run play action,
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: you think you could have been good again. I you've
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: give been pretty I think you could have been a
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: top fift quarterback. It's just tough because you don't know
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: that's true, but you don't either. And there were times
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: this season when they did get their running game going,
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: because again, Brady's not mobile, never has been mobile, by
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: the way, it's not like the old age thing has
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: made him not mobile. Maybe a little less not mobile.
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: But with Brady, if you can if you don't have
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: a running game, if Blunt's not there, if they're not
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: getting four yards a pop, it does not open play action,
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: which which opens Brady's skill set completely. When Brady's running
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: play action, he's got the defense of the palm of
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: his hands because they've got to respect to run. And
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: he still had the arm. Nobody ever questioned his arm,
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: so I think he had another. But what's he gonna
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: do go to San Francisco? Not now especially, I mean
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: it's a u c L tear for a party one
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: where it's one of the u c L injuries. They're
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: they're continuing to go. Maybe by the time this comes out,
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: they'll know what's up specifically, but it could be six
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: months out, it could be less, and it's not a
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: full reconstruction. They're saying, which would be real bad and
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: he probably have to miss next season and or enough
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: of it to Matt, I think Pretty's probably the guy.
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: And I'll tell you why, because I used to say
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: he had to get to a super Bowl for sure
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: to be the guy. I think because he got hurt early.
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: And first of all, I had had a great season
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: when all those games in a row as a rookie,
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: La La. We know the story Tom Brady story, Mr Relevant.
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: The fact that he played so well and the only
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: time he didn't win is when he got injured in
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: the first six or seven plays. And then now that
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: we know how bout he came back into the game
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: with a torn knowing he was hurt, and then it's like,
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: well they're not throwing Bro's got one arm. The fact
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: that he was on that field and it shows you
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: like the dedication that he has. You know, because I
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: think you said it you saw uh McCaffrey throw up McCay.
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: When once I saw McCaffrey warming up, I'm like, this
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: is we're in trouble. You didn't you say, because again
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: I didn't get to watch all of it because we
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: were um Louis. They're listening to it out with our
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: first day here or watching it in a bar TV.
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: I didn't see him like looking at playbook pages. Oh yeah,
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: DoD They had the play the offensive coordinators had the
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: playbook out. McCaffrey was looking through it kind of almost
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: like counting two fingers, three fingers leapt, pointing to the
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: lap point of the right I mean, cramming, cramming for
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: the five plays that he was about to go in
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: and do. Crazy. I've never seen that before in my life.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: Like he's got a physics final in two hours. So
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: much bones that that that he was there were They
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: had two helmets. They had his running back helmet and
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: had his quarterback helmet, and they were literally changing the
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: face masks. I didn't know that, Yes, and they were
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: changing the face mask being like, all right, this is
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: gonna be your helmet when you go in his quarterback
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: because you're not gonna be able to see what your
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: running back helmets. Crazy and Samcisco really good team. It
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: sucks that they lost like that because they didn't even
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: have a shot. Screw San Francisco. Don't like them, but yes,
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: they didn't have sucks. So that's our football version of this.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: And I've taken a bunch of notes from over the
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: past few days. I'm gonna tell you guys first of
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: all about how we got here and exactly where we
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: are and set the scene. Um, so we're in Pebble Beach, Well,
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: the courses are in Pebble Beach, California. There's an event
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: called the A, T and T Pebble Beach Pro Am,
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: which they bring out celebrities and they team him with
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: pros and you just try to play well. And there's
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: a whole system based on what your handicap is. And
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: I don't have very good Handicap's fine, it's not good.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not what you'd say I'm a good golfer.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: I'm an average golfer. Occasionally I can play and occasionally
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: can hit hit it well, but I'm okay. And so
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: a few months ago and and everything will be out
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: by the time this comes out, so I can tell
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: the whole story. A few months ago, I was like, hey,
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: should come out and be the alternate because it was
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: way late. They had already invited everybody, but they're like,
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: we want you to come out. And Ben Rector, who's
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: a really good friend of mine, was the alternate last
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: year and he played and and so I called him
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: and I was like, hey, should be here. He's like, yes,
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: should be. It's an awesome week. You should be the
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: alternate because there's a good shot you get to play.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: And so I was like, great, So I commit. And
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: by the alternate means I'm coming out playing all the practice.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: I don't even I need a caddy at this point,
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: I'm just coming to meet Caitlin and I and so
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: I was coming out and um, we're here with staying
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: in the same house with Jake Owen and Erica because
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: they are like our close life friends. And so at
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: the checks like I'm going out. He plays in it
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: every year. Big, He's the one that got me, like
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: the connections even get here. And he's like, we'll just
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: stay in the same house and I'll show you. So whatever.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: So if Jake and Eric are gonna be there, let's go.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: So I say, yep, do some promo work for him.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: I'm super excited to get invited. We are ready to go.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: We got everything booked, we got they say. Then Jake goes, oh,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: you need a caddy and I'm like, what do you mean?
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: Like one from the clubhouse He goes, no, you should
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: bring somebody that you think would be hello, come down
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: if you want. It's like somebody the top of the stairs.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: It sounds like what everybody's upstairs. And I think everybody
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: wants to be on the podcast, but I know it'll
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: be a nine hour podcast. Eddie is like, we should
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: get Jake and I'm why does that Jake for an
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: hour in the Bobbycast. I've been with Jake for four
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: days and I know you have to be great, but
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: we had to be three hours long. Sports for sure,
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: but it'd be three hours long. Dude, Florida State right done?
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: Tom Brady, dude, yeah, for sure, he could. Um, I'm
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: losing my voice already, as you can see. So we uh,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: we were. So I say, I say to Eddie, you
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: want to go and Caddy for me? You have to
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: be gone for like six days, which you have four
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: kids and a wife, and we both knew the answer
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: was probably no. And you said, I'll ask, but I'm
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: gonna wait for the right spot to ask. You have
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: to wait for those right moments when you ask for
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: a big ass like this, and waited a couple of
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: days so much so that's a dude. Do you have
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: any it? So you like, haven't that time? Me? I
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: give me till tomorrow. I'm like all right. And then
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: you said she didn't say no, and I'm like, wow,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: those were her words. She's like, I'm not saying no.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Just give me a few days to think about it.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: So then Edie's like yeah, man. So I'm like, this
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: is amazing. So it's Eddie and I here and there's
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: celebrities everywhere. And it's not like Nashville famous, where everybody's like, hey,
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: good to see even when they don't care, and some
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: of your friends that we are but you still like nice.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: This is like people that are famous and they are
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: secure and what they do and they're just awesome. Everybody's
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: been so nice everyone because nobody feels threatened. And I
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: didn't even bad golf me. I sung to Eric Church
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: today and I was like, I got I have to leave,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: and I'll tell us for a second. He goes, oh man,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: it gets okay, suck anyway. So I told him. He goes,
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: he probably don't suck. I was like, yeah, dude, I'm
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: like a twelve or thirteen handicap, and he goes, oh man,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: I said, see he goes, No, I'm a fifteen, so
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: it was pretty funny. I I get told with him accidentally.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: So but I tell you, Eric and I talked for
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: longer as like normal people today than I've ever talked
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: to him a whole life in Nashville, because it's always
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: based around something in Nashville. Yeah, it's a different setting here,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: so and and everybody's got like a golf We're all
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: excited to like play golf at nice places because we're
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: all just kids still. So okay, So I wrote some
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: notes down. I'm gonna bring it up and then we'll
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: talk about each of them. Ron Rivera, Oh my gosh.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Ron Rivera is a large riverboat Roun Riverboat. Ron is
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: now the head football coach of the Washington Commanders. And
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: we're in this room and we all wear name tags.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter if you are Ray Romano, who's here,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: everyone knows, or if you're me who know. But everybody
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: wears them, and nobody's like, I ain't wearing a lanyard.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: It's because it's just the rule. You just wear it.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: And even the people they're working are like, I have
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: to do my job. I'm sorry, They're like, I know
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: who you are, Mr Obama, but I need to see
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: your lanyard. Okay, you're good to go, so everybody's and
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: I'll post pictures of it. He's going as lanyard and
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: I'm like, Mr Rivera, Bobby just want to say, you know,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: love how I said. I didn't say like love how
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: you coach, but I was just like, I love the
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: integrity that you that you show and what you're known
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: for and have friends that that know him a little bit.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: And he was like, oh man, wow, thank you very much.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: I appreciate that. And then he didn't ask me a question,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: which means he's not bothered by me saying because even
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: if he's bothered, he's gonna be nice. And if he
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: doesn't ask the question, he's like, oh man, thanks, yeah cool.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: And then he's waiting for you to say I gotta
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: take a picture, or he's waiting for you to leave.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: But that didn't happen. He was like, oh yeah, he's
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: where you Where do you? Where do you live? I
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: told him? And then Eddie walks up right about that time,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: and Edie want a cowboy hat, was wearing a cowboy
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: He immediately goes to Eddie's cowboy hat. He looked at
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: me almost like what the crap are you wearing? Like
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: who did you think? Did you think about that as
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: you're walking up to him? Because I didn't either, No,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: not at all. I forgot I had a cowboy's hat on.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: But he looked at me like, you know, like who
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: almost squinty eyed, like who is this guy? Funny, like
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: like who is this guy? This guy? And I got
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: and I'm just a coach. It's one of my favorite
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: things in the world to call a coach coach, like
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: you know, like I don't need to call him by
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: my name, by their name. It's like coach, good to
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: meet you. And he shakes my hand, but he shakes
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: my handbones and he just like keeps the shape going
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: and then looks at my face, looks at my hat
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: as I don't like the hat of yours, And I forgot.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: I forgot you had the hat on too. I forgot
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: I had the hat on. And I'm like, oh my gosh, yes,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: commanders cowboys. Of course he was so nice. I was
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: shocked at how much uh information he was telling you.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, so I say, hey, what do you guys
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: do about quarterback next year? Like you see and if
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: he would say, because what am I? How oft am
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: I gonna talk to him? I'm never gonna see him again.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: So I'm just like, hey, what's up the quarterback? And
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: do you know what he said? Uh? Yeah, who is he? No?
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: I don't really remember. He's talking about if I'm correct here,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Sam How And he he was like, I like how,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: we really like how Sam played last year? Let me
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: make sure it was Sam before I just started saying
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: stupid stuff. And so he was like, yeah, he looked
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: great at and I think it was Sam because Sam
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: would be the rookie quarterback. Who's I think the string? Yeah,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: and so because it was Carson Wentz, then Heineke, then
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: back to Carson Wentz. Then Sam How played the last
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: game and against Dallas. Maybe I think Sam How played?
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Did the last game? Did you not? I don't think
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: so let me check it out. But on my phone,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: so I don't have my I might be looking up.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: So I'm just like, oh, Metts as you he spends
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: them all so well, we've you know, all season, he
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: has been girling. He just starts laying it down and
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: I was record on my phone. We just played it
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: on this Yeah, I mean he was giving you the
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: insides of it. This is what I really thought about him,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: this is you know what, this is what we planned
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: to do with him. Like all of this stuff is
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: like pretty cool man, and I'm not gonna share it all.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: But let me tell you. I know, of course not
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: you do know, I know exactly what's up. Okay. So
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: if I go to the Commanders and Cowboys box score, okay,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: that that that was a wins game and not a
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: good Wins game. But what what what? Which one was
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: it that October two? So there was a later game
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: that there was a Commander Dallas game later in October two.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: I think Sam played on that one. I think it
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: could be the second game. So we're gonna keep going here.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: But he was also quite muscular for a guy who's
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: like sixties. Yeah, big dude, So that was awesome. I
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: also have just learned I just go up to people now,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: but it's okay, yeah, and like he enjoyed talking to you,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: I think. And what was funny too. Later and later
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: in the night, you know, there's some bands came up,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: like Darius Rucker was playing or whatever. So I went
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: up to kind of just to get video and I'm
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: standing right behind him. I didn't even realize I was
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: standing right behind him where he was sitting. And he
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: turns around and he looks at me again. He says,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: you're just too close to me. He says, you're too
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: close to me with that hat background. Okay, Week eighteen,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: they played, well we could tain the Cowboys and Commanders.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: That wasn't the trash game. So yeah, probably, so let's
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: see the Dallas Cowboys. I just played for Commanders. Commanders
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: one mm, yes, off at the spotlight. I still think
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: that was Heineke. Nope. Sam Hill watched the quarter Yeah,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: I'm right, dude. I've done to you twice where I
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: believed you, but now but I didn't you. Also, I
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: didn't say on Joe Montana that was stupid. Oh my god.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Watching the quarterback. Sam Hall played in his first and
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: if il started completing eleven ninete sixty nine a touchdown hit. Yeah,
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: Sam Hill, Okay, anyway, good, good job, thank you, Eddie.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: So all of that to say he was awesome, I'm
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: gonna market off my list. I'd like to tell you
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: the story about how I met Alex Smith. Now a
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: little bit of Alex Smith played football at Utah it
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: was a really good quarterback over there. I went to
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: the NFL, played for the Chiefs, had a bad bad
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: played for more more than just the Chiefs, but had
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: a bad leg injury injury people. If he'd want much,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: lets walk again much less. Play came back. We got
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: to come back. Was comeback Player of the Year. I
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: believe real inspirational story could be a Disney movie type
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: stuff like real bad Injury. Well, I see Ben Rector
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: and I was gonna go up because I wore compression.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: It's really cold up here in the morning and at night,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: really cold, and so I wore compressis like under compression
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: pants under my golf pants. So I went free. That
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: did a day one, but it was like three layers.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: It was underwear, compression pants, and then pants. So my
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: pants were a little weirdly tightened, and so I was like,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: I'm just one of the compression pants I want to wear.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Big mistake because that spot in between my inn and
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: my bag, it like rubbed it raw and cut it. It
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: It was bleeding from those compression pants rubbing it back
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: and forth. Why has he been there talking to somebody
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: who I think could be Charles Kelly or something somebody tall,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: and I walked up and I'm like, dude, I cut
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: my nuts in the middle of my nuts so bad.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: And dude turns his head and it's Alex Smith, the
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: quarterback for it. And he's like half smiling, like he
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: don't know if I'm joking or not. And I'm like, oh,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: I manna interrupt this. I'm sorry, hey, as a go
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: man of Bobby is walked off. And so I saw
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Alex again today because we were down doing this golf
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: thing and I said, hey, man, Bobby, I told you
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: about my nuts yesterday. He goes, he has a really
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: cool way to say hello, and and I said, well, dude,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: sorry about that. He goes, are you kidding? He said?
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: When you left? I was like, that's an interesting guy.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: And so but that's how I met Alex Smith. And
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: did you talk to him at all today? We talked
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: a lot today because we were and I'll get to it.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: We were in the finals of the that the holding
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: one closest to the whole championship. So, okay, Alex Smith, Austin,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: Jason Bateman. I saw Jason Bateman. No Eddie spot at
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: him first, and so there's Jason Bateman, sitting right there,
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: and I was like, yeah, by himself long his like
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: long hair come out of his had um Jason Bateman.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: He goes, yeah, oh wow, that is And if you
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: had any doubt again, he had the name tag Jason
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: Bateman whether just in case you don't know who that is.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: So I didn't go up to him then because we
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: were listening to the rules of the event and we
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: hung around. We're just talking with everybody, and we were
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: at the very front and he was talking to somebody,
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: one of the volunteers, and she went to get him something.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: I'm just standing there. You're standing there. It was like, heyres,
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: how's going man? He goes, hey, what's going on? He
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: doesn't know who I am, But he's also trying to
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: figure out if he should, like if he's met me
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: before one of these, because everybody just looks like normal
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: golfing people were all basically nerd uniforms like golf uniforms. Yes,
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: all new. Of course, it smells the first day of
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: school here. We all got a new school clothes. And
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: I'm like, hey, I'm by ownes. He's like, oh, it's
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: good to meet you, man, he says, the first time
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: here and he says, and then it just turns into
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: I say, Age, you play today and he's like, yeah,
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: he has, Eddie, how did you? How did you played it?
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: And we're just sitting there talking about golf as like
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: normal people that have played golf twenty times together or
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: have known each other. We in five minutes is a
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: long time just sitting talk. We probably talked for about
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: five minutes. And he was so nice. We're talking about anything,
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: nothing about Oz dark or I even forgot he was
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: a nos ark. I mean that's the big one that
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: I think. But yeah, no, it wasn't about what he
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: does or who he is. It was just normal conversation.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: And so he was my My wife loved Jason Bateman
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: and Will Arnette, who I hadn't met yet, but he
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: was there too. They're on the smartlest podcast together and
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: so I will learnet coming later for sure. And so
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Jason Bateman and like three or four times now we've
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: stopped and talked to each other. Oh yeah, we met
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: him the first time, and then throughout the week, throughout
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: the week like he just you see him. It's up, dude,
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: how did you guys play today? Good? Like just normal.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: It feels like camp. Yeah, yeah, camp where you're like,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: oh I met you the first day, remember, yeah, of course. Yes.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Everybody's just like in a place where they feel comfortable
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: being everybody, and so folks are just generous. And it's
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: not like even a Nashville party, like a cmapart where
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: he was looking over the shoulders se who else is here?
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: Oh no, it's not like that at all, not not
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: one bit. And there was one point I was looking
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: for my wife. I was talking to somebody, and I
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: was like, I'm not evenna look for her because I
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: don't want me to think I'm doing that. Jim Nance.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, Eddie spotted jim Nance. Edie spots everybody
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: of course, because I'm the guy looking around and I
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: can't see. Well, that's true too, and Edie's like this
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: freaking jim Nance. I'm like, oh my god, do you
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: know how I spotted jym Nace. I heard him. You
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: hear him. You hear him talking like he was probably
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: you know, fifteen yards away from us. But do you
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: hear him talking like that? He does talk like that.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: He it's not a broadcast, it's it's normal conversation. He says,
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: you know, I woke up this morning and I'm like,
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: oh my gosh, that's Jim Nance. And the first thing
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: I thought was, dang, that's a big dude. Yeah. He's
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: very tall for sure, probably six four or six, which
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: is crazy because he looks tiny next to Romo, so
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: that means Romo's humongous. So he's there. I don't know
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: how to talk to Jim Nance or if he's even
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: a nice guy. And he's not playing. He's there to
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: call the event because it's a CBS event, and so
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: he's talking, I believe, to Charles Kelly or somebody that
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: I knew. Maybe Charles walked up when we were talking.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: Later he's Jim Nance is in a conversation had just
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: started with somebody that I knew. So I just kind
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: of slid in. I'm just listening, like nod in my head.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Have you no idea what they're talking about. I'm halfway
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: through the conversation. It's not Yeah, And so this is
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: the part that blew me away. I said, Hey, how's
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: it going on, Bobby. I live in Nashville and he
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: so does he for the most part, and I was like, Hey,
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: we're over near dance. Yeah, Jim Jim Nance is like, hey, yeah,
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: it was over near your house whatever where we live,
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: and we're looking at some property over there, like land,
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: and he was like, oh yeah, and so he knew
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: I didn't was for real because I knew exactly where
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: he lived and I was looking at a piece of
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: land really close to where he was. And so but
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: when you introduced yourself though, he did say, oh, awesome,
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: your first year playing. This is great, like you already
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: knew what was up. He did his homeworks are in
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: a most awesome way. And the events on the weekend.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: This was on a Tuesday, like he did his homework
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: on a Tuesday, and the broadcast was ready to go.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: It was awesome, super kind love. Jim Nance watch told
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: me to hurry up. So I'm not gonna hurry, but
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go a little. But there's also a picture
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: of me and Charles Kelly from Lady A and Jim
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: Nance talking in like a triangle and I don't know
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: what I was same with. They're both looking at me.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: It's a great picture, dude. It's super cool. Yeah, it's
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: it's all. It's awesome. Um okay, boom. Jim Nance Paul
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: of Saul say something about him. Uh there, Oh my god.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: I mean, by the way, former Laker, former Laker pas.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: But you see him, and I didn't know who he was. Obviously,
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: I knew he was. I saw somebody really tall, that's
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: all really, but I didn't know who it was because dude,
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: like you said, in golf clothes, everyone kind of looks
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: the same. And I saw his face. I don't know
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: who that dude is. And then eventually I heard somebody
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: say like, hey, that's Posol. Oh my gosh, of course
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: it is dude. He's seven five or however tall. He
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: is gigantic, But we haven't I haven't talked to him.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: I talked to him on the driving range today for
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: a second and ask him how far something was, and
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: he was like, in an accent, it was nice, but
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: I haven't had a really. And also he's so tall.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: It's hard to just like casually get into one of
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: his conversations because it's like your slide in and you're like, hey,
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: it's like your purpose. He has to be almost too purposeful. Okay,
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: I moved that one off Ray Romano wildly famous, super funny.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: I I guess I met Ray, Did I meet him?
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: To David the first time. I think, yeah, this is
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: the first time we've seen him. It wasn't. Yeah, today
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: was the first time we've been at this all day today.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: So and it was and it was early today. Um,
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: Ray and I were on the same Part three tournament
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: team and I think we lost, but we saw writ
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: like forty bucks or whatever, and he was just super
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: funny and super nice, hilarious and I don't know, warm.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: And at one point we were joking. I was like,
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: I had this on the green. You have to get
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: a piggyback ride to the neck because I missed the
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: last green by a little bit, and he was like deal,
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: and then I didn't, and I'm like, god, damn it.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: That would have been great. Ray Romano, everybody's Raymond crazy,
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: super nice, and he's so good with people, like just
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: in the middle of the round, who's gonna win the
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: super Bowl? And just like random question because everybody was
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: with some Sanrancisco up here. He's giving him crap. Ray
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: Romano awesome. Will Learnett, who is the voice of bad
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: Man in the Lego movie, honestly famous for a lot
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: of The Fox Show. It was funny, damn Jason bademtted
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: together super funny regardless. Um so I didn't really know Will.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: I didn't talk to him as with Jason, but I
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: go and I play. They have Now we're gonna go
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: play at a different course today. And I got a
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: call like five minutes before and like, hey, don't forget.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: You're at the celebrity closest to the whole than hold
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: in one championship. And I was like, oh, craps. So
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: we jump in a van, real quick fly across five minutes,
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: We land, We get there, we jump out, time to go,
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: and Will Ornett's in the first heat. And what you
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: do is like there's like six or seven people in
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: each heat, but there are five or six heats. Uh,
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: there were five groups, so let's say there's thirty people,
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: so you have to have the six you have to
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: win yours to get to the finals. And Will on
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: that's a brigger golfer and funny, but we're down there.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: I don't really I'm not getting his way. He wins
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: his heat and he's sitting in this chair where they
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: put the winners, and so I, oh, and I hit
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: and no, pretty good and you get two shots. You
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: get two shots on the first one. My wife keeps saying,
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: I guess somebody. I guess he wants he wants to
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: go to bed, really go to bed, and so whatever,
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: why I win. I'd beat Aaron Rodgers, I beat all
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: these people. So you were the closest to the whole
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: out of your group. Amazing. I mean, Aaron Rodder's something
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: and even you know why, you know why because I
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: got the vaccine, okay, but even even Jim Nance is
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: like Bobby Bones is the every dude. It's just amazing,
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: Like it's like you were playing It's like you're playing
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: the mass and there were there was there was hundreds
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: of people standing around and I'd already hit some girl
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: in the face of the ball earlier, which is on
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: my Instagram Holdinger story will learn it. And I did
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: an interview together for CBS with Amanda Balionis. Yes, and
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: we're just like he jumped in. It was funny, and
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: I was like, I'm just trying to be funny back
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: for We just go back and forth, back and forth.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: It was awesome. I couldn't hear what the interview, what
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: you guys are saying, but whatever you were saying, he
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: was laughing at and then but he was just so
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: quick and right back at me. I was like, oh god,
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: I gotta keep up. Here's awesome. I'm gonna give you
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: two more real quick um Steve Young on the Pudding
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: Green this is great and maybe no Eddie songs as usual,
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh my god, I was more starstruck
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: maybe than anybody. That's usually what happens to us. And
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: so then I just kind of walk over, slide and
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: slide in the group. He's already talking to someone, you know,
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: I'm just like just hate and so I say, hey,
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: Mr Young, I'm Bobby, a huge fan, and he goes
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: he said, I'm Bobby Bones Bones. Okay, I'm Bobby Bones
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: and he said I listen to you every morning. I'm like,
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: shut up, shut up, and then he starts like quoting bits.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: He's like, dude, the other day, you guys are talking
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: about whatever. Steve Young, Steve Steve freaking Young. And I'm like, okay,
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: we talked for a little bit, super nice. I kept
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: talking to him all day. The other story. We can
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: do some sets of stuff later. But before we left,
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: he looked at me goes, hey, do you mind if
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: I can a picture with you? And I told him,
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: I said his ashouldn't coming out was the trucker hat
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: on bringing back crazy because he lives near San Francisco
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: and we're on over there. Takes his daughter in school,
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: he says, and that's what they bought on. He's like,
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: listen O show. Um. So the final thing is I
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: have to leave now. I can't plan the tournament because
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: I have to go to the Grammys, which you may
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: have seen now and I'm covering the host in the
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: red carpet and pre show on E and other CBS,
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: R NBC properties, which is awesome. Yes, but I'm very
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: have a lot of fomo because has been amazing. A
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: T T A t T prom You should come by
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: tickets next year, go to the events. Um. We got
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: to the finals the whole of one challenge and I
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: finished third. You didn't know there was only gonna be
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: one shot and he got down to the finals, he
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: had one shot, one shot. I finished. I hit on
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: the green again, um and finished third. And it's pretty
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: proud of that dude. Michael Payne one. He's a good golfer.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: I didn't realize three handicap a really good golfer. So
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: but we have to go because that's it. Somebody needs
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: to room. Ye. Twenty five whistles over Eddie, thank you
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  Speaker 1: to Mike d Back here in the twenty five Whistles studio,
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: we're about to get into our interview with Coleman Crawley.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: He's a college basketball handicapper and mid a major basketball
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: reporter who just quit his job. He's traveling around the
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: country going to all these mid major games leading up
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: to March Madness. Bobby found him super interesting so wanted
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: to get him on the podcast. He wanted to talk
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: to him about this science project he had when he
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: was fourteen years old on sports betting that was deemed unethical.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: Coleman also made the news after he chased down Big
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: Cat from bar Stool outside of their headquarters to try
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: and get his first break into the industry. And you
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: can follow him on Twitter and TikTok at sharp Shots Select.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: Here's our interview with Coleman Crawley. Coleman, how are you,
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: Buddy Gray? How are you good? To talk to you? Eddie.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: I'm glad that you can meet Coleman. I've never met Coleman,
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: but and this is my friend, Eddie Coleman, my best friend.
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: We do the show together. I think Eddie's also going
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: to be super intrigued by you because I am. But
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: uh Coleman, I didn't want to start with this before
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: we talk about what you're doing. Now, will you talk
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: about what happened to you when you were fourteen years
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: old and you had to come up with a science
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: fair project. Yes, so I was in sixth grade. I
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: think I may back sleep in twelve UM, and I
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: had to come up with the science fair project. I
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: gotta be honest, it was actually my dad's idea, UM,
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: but I was the one who executed everything. So I
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: decided from my science fair project to see if I
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: could find trends within data to beat Vegas UM. So
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: for the first ten weeks of the college football in
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: the NFL season, I studied all thirty two NFL teams
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: in the preseason top twenty five in college football. From
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: those fifty seven teams, I took the ten biggest outliers
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: and placed fake bets on them over the course of
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: the next three weeks, and I went seventeen and six.
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: So obviously I got a very good grade on my
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: science fair project. When I went on to the regional UM,
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: they gave me third place Top two. Moved on to State.
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: They then spoke to me afterwards and said I would
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: have been the clear winner, but they felt it was
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: unethical to move the project on. This was two thousand
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: and eight, so at different times, so it's fair projects
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: on sports betting. So but your dad also, I'm maybe
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: he was a bit progressive and understood that gambling is
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: not only for degenerates. It's actually entertainment and if you're
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: good at it, you could actually do something with it. Yeah.
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: I mean, I think he just saw that I had
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: to love for math numbers being competitive, and thought he'd
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: put those two together. I don't think he saw a
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: son that, um, I guess was so competitive it would
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: it would develop into a habit. But um, that's definitely
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: what happened. He's not much of a gambler, didn't probably
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: think I would be, but ended up becoming one from it.
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: It's just funny he fought the spread at twelve years old. Yeah, Like,
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: that's the one of the funniest things I've heard forever.
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: I went over to Coleman's Twitter page and I was
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: just kind of scroll and watching some of the stuff
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: because what he's doing right now is very interesting. And
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: when I saw a Science Fair project tweet, I laughed
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: out loud. This is a kid standing with like a
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: you know, the three prong how it's like the middle
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: and it's like open, like a cardboard thing, and it's
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: him standing there next to it. See the picture. Yes,
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: that's definitely a school project twelve. It's sports, but that's awesome. So, Coleman,
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: you've always been a massive basketball guy or has it
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: been all sports all the time? No, definitely basketball has
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: been my main focus growing up. My dad was a
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: high school basketball coach, so that certainly pulled me to basketball.
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: But I love all sports for sure. So here's how
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: I got to know who Coleman was. I was sitting
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: at Caitlin's parents house. We were in Fort Gibson and
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: we were watching a Fort Gibson High school basketball game
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: because that's what her dad likes to do. And so
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: we were watching it, and what's your brother's first name, Coleman? Cooper.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: So Cooper is out and they're playing like the number
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: five team in the conference. It's like number five whomever
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: Fort Gibson, who big underdogs, and Cooper just is knocking
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: them down. It's like three point three pointer. And Cooper
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: doesn't look like this crazy athlete. He just He's like
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: a normal guy, but all of a sudden, Cooper like
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: takes over the game with a shooting and I'm like, God, damn,
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: look at this guy. I think it was brother. Coleman
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: is and does sports and sports betting, and he's driving
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: around every mid major watching every team, so he knows
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: whenever it's not from March Madness, who you should bet on.
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: And I was like, tell me more. So I learned
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: the whole thing, and I messaged Coleman and I was like, Bro,
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: you gotta tell me about this. So tell all of
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: our listeners. Now, what are you in the process of doing.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: When I talk about you're traveling around? What exactly where
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: are you traveling and why? So the goal of what
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: I'm doing is basically trying to find Cinderella before she's
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: at the ball. So what started me on this journey
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: was I didn't believe the small and mid majors were
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: getting enough coverage. You know, they make these runs. You
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: look at St. Peter's makes the under the elite eight
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: last year. In late March, um I looked up the
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: average attendance of h D one school. St. Peter's average
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: five six people at their home games, Syracuse in the
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: same state average seventeen thousand in the Carrier down They
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: didn't even make the nc A tournament. So we have
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: a high level of basketball being played that I believe
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: is not getting enough recognition, And so I knew due
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: to these low attendance numbers. Man, I can get right
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: behind the bench or right behind the goal, something like
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: that and get great footage of a really high level
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: of basketball being played and hopefully shed more light on
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: it beyond these teams in January and February before they
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: make the run in March. It's rare that someone does
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: something original in a place where there almost is no originality.
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: And that's to me, like he found a niche that
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: wasn't being focused on. And aside from just being interested,
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: I was like, it's brilliant. This kid's way smarter than
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: I am. And you're a kid. You're like what eleven? Now, like,
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: how are you? Yeah? I'm he's married though, too, right,
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: You're married? Yes, I am married. And I asked that question.
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: My wife would never let me drive to every game.
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: What does she say about this? So? Um, she's actually
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: in social media. Um. So she does social media marketing
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: for several companies, and when I originally told her idea,
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: she was like, man, this is just so original. And
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: she's known about my passion in college basketball for obviously
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: the last several years. UM. She thought this was something
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: that I couldn't not do. So she is, without a doubt,
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: my rock gives me just the most irrational confidence to
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: do something crazy like this. Um. But she's come out
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: with me on the road for four games three days already,
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: and then I actually had to come home to quit
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: my job to pursue this full time. So I took
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: a day off yesterday. I had been to games for
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: twenty seven straight days and she'll hit the road with
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: me for another week. So definitely will be great to
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: spend time with her, but incredible to have her support.
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: I couldn't do it without it. If your dad was
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: a basketball coach. And I'm gonna be very intrusive here,
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: how do you have money to even do this? Because
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: it's not like you're you're coming from uh generations of wealth? No? No,
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: definitely not. My parents both public school educators, UM. So
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: I worked in sales and UM for I was employee
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: benefits consold and working in sales and so I kind
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: of had this idea in my head. I developed it
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: back in the summer and thought, Okay, I'm gonna work
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: my butt off, try to get a decent amount of commission,
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: you know, get paid commission at the end of the year,
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: and then use that commission to then kick start these
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: next two months, and hopefully I strike up enough engagement
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: enough eyeball that someone sees that, man, I could use
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: this guy full time with his grind, his knowledge of
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: the game, things like that, what to you and this
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: would be funny because this is how it would happen,
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: you say, full time, Like what what do you feel
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: like would be good pay if someone were to hire you?
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: I mean, shoot, I don't know, like to do this
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: full time? I mean sixt k. Okay, So if I
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: once said Coleman, I got six d K, I need
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: you to travel to these games. It doesn't have to
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: be mid major. It can because that's a big part
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: of what you do, and I need you to do
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: a podcast based on it. You would go, I'm in yes, yeah,
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: especially at six K if I got expenses covered. If not,
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: it would maybe need to be a little bit more.
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: But I mean, even if this is something that I'm
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: doing for the months of college basketball season and then
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: I've got another job when it's not college basketball season.
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: I mean, I have loved this so much that I
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: want this to be a part of what I do
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: in my life. He's so legit. Yeah, just and he
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: loves it, like you could tell he loves what he's doing.
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: Like this is so inspiring. And thank you, Bobby to
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: give your in laws a shout out to be honest
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: a person that gave me the confidence to to do this.
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: With Tyler Parker, UM, I gave him a call about
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: two years ago. I was like, hey, man, I made this.
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: Uh so kind of took back to what kicks started
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: this whole thing when covid hit. I decided I'd done
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: all this work to um try to be a bracketologist
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: like Joe Lunardi basically predict what sixty eight teams will
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: be in the field. Well, when we don't get an
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: n c A tournament, I was like, man, I've just
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: done all this for nothing. I've got to put some
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: use to it. So I made a fake selection show,
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: put it out on YouTube, and then went through my
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: fake sixty eight teams who would have won had we
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: had a tournament, COVID not canceled it. So I had
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: enough people reaching out saying that, man, you've got a
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: talent in this, you should pursue this. That I called
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: Tyler and I just wanted to hear Tyler's story of
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: his come up working for the Ringer and things like that. Um.
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: And he basically gave me the confidence to be like, yeah, dude,
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: just because you're from Fort Gibson, you can do it.
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: You've got a passion for it, your knowledgeable, Just be
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: who you are and you'll find a way. Um. And
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: so he was definitely an inspiration and initially kick starting this.
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: So he's traveling around. Are you just in a car?
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: I mean you're just see in the car going Yes,
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: My Honda Accord has been very faithful to me. And
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: you did you did twenty seven days straight where you
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: didn't come home? Correct what I mean? We tour and
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: but we like we have a bus or a plane,
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: you know, and that's like five days. Yeah, this is
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: hard living and we're like, I'm so tired twenty seven
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: days and like Ramadas, you have a bunch of points
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: now for like yeah, I've been using uh no free ads,
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: I guess. But hotels dot com and so I get
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: a couple of stamps for every time I stay somewhere
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: and then eventually, after tin stamps, get a free one.
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: So that's kind of my point system. Do you notice
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: that some of these mid majors and is this your
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: first year to do this, but yes, do you feel
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: like some of the portal guys that come from bigger
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: schools and they will drop down to a mid major
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: actually makes the mid majors more competitive, especially going into
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: a season like now, because of some of the guys
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: who maybe did not get a good shot or they
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: learned that they did not take full advantage of their
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: opportunity at a bigger school. Absolutely. I I think there's
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: a misconception that the portal is hurting the small and
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: mid majors. Now for those mediocre or below average small
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: and mid majors, that they had one particular player average
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: twenty points a game and he decides, you know what,
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: this team isn't good enough. I'm going to a power six.
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: It's hurting those guys the bottom of the mid mayor
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: of mid and small major. But up at the top,
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: if you look at you know, some of the schools
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: that for example, have gotten to keep all their players.
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: No one's transferred that experience, that continuity of playing together
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: is such a huge advantage, and I think that's why
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: we're seeing more upsets even now than in the past,
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: and I think we'll continue you to see more. And
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: then to your point, you take an Iona for example,
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: it's got Rick Pattino that's able to bring in these
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: Power six guys that maybe didn't love their previous destination
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: that hey, let's dominate this small conference get to the
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: n c A tournament. UM, I definitely think there's been
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: an advantage for the top of mid major with the
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  Speaker 1: Which school have you gone to that you go down?
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: There's some real passion here and maybe not be in
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: the numbers, but just in the overall effort of the
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: student body or the town You're you're impressed by. Um.
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: East Tennessee State was really neat, So I went there.
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: They're actually having a down year. They're they're one of
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: the programs that were most impacted by COVID. They had
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: a thirty win season in We're going to get a
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: great seed and then see a tournament and then didn't
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: get to play that tournament. They're having a down year
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: this year. Um, but I gotta meet with their student section.
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: They've got a group called party Bucks and a group
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: called buck Wild. I think that it's basically trying to
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: increase student engagement. It's based around mental health awareness and
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: you mattering, having a place for someone to go um
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: and have a good time spending time with their fellow classmates.
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: So that was really neat to me to see an
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: organization like that, people going out supporting their athletic team classmates. UM.
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: And I hope things like that are being started at
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: other programs. That was a college that I was like, Man,
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: you guys are having a down year this year, but
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: you're still coming out and supporting this way. That was
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: very cool. Who is it that you've seen? And you go, dang,
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: if they were in the Big ten, Big twelve SEC,
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: they'd actually be just competing right now as is May
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: and that that's a tough question. I would maybe say Marshall.
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: So they've got a guy in taving On Kinsey that's
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: absolutely going to be a pro. He can shoot the
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: ball from the perimeter, but is ridiculously athletic as well.
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: D'Antoni is their coach. The D'Antoni is absolutely no offense.
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: They put up eighty nine points in the game that
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: I watched, um because of their scoring ability and ability
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: to get hot from the perimeter, and then they've also
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: got athleticism as well in size. I don't think anyone's
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: wanting to see them in see a tournament or would
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: even want them in their conference. Like you asked in
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: the Big Tent. I mean, the guy knows. I don't
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: even I never heard some of these schools. He's like
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: the third string guard coaches. Uncle, he played you played
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: ball back in the day. How do you feel about
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: because I know what I heard about you playing ball,
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: But how how would you define your basketball playing career? Um?
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: I was a shooter and that was about it. Um.
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: So Yeah, if if anyone needs a twenty six year
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: old that's a complete defensive liability but could spread the
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: floor a little bit on offense, then uh, I'd love
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: to keep playing some college ball. Yeah. I heard you
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: could shoot the shoot the eyes out of cat like
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: he was that kind of shooter. That's it's a pretty
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: good compliment from the Parker family over there. Well, listen, man,
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: I'm rooting for you. If you guys want to follow
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: him on Twitter? Sharp shot Select? Wait? How what? Sharp? What? Why? That? What?
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: What the heck is even that? I just like literay
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: and I don't know. Maybe it's my name Coleman Crawley.
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: I just thought, um, all right, if I and originally
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: when I made that Twitter, it was supposed to be
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: for gambling picks, so sharp shot Select I thought was catching.
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: What did your job say when you're like yo, p's uh,
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go drive watch Southern Rhode Island Cousin University. Yeah.
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: My boss is an incredible man. He's been an incredible mentor.
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: Mark Christen is his name, And I knew I could
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: just be transparent with him because he's always been nothing
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: but transparent and honest with me. He was baffled, taken
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: aback that I wanted to do this, but he's always known,
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: um that I've been very passionate about sports, basketball, in
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: particular college basketball. So as much as it stunned him,
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: he saw kind of the passion in my voice, in
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: my eyes, and um, he he allowed me to take
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: a couple of vacation weeks to pursue it and see
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: if it was having success. So I really appreciated that.
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: And then if I saw it having enough success that
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: I had to let him know, Hey, I'm hey, I'm quitting.
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: So he was upset to lose me, but I was
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: so grateful for his mentorship and allowing me to pursue
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: it um while keeping my job originally inspiring. Yeah, you
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: can ask me a question, hey, Coleman, So how many
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: how many UM pools have you on? Like, how many
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: March Madness pools have you won in your lifetime? See
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: that's the thing. I feel like I'm not great in
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: March Madness, and I feel like anyone could be great
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: and much madness. You know, you hear those stories of
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: um oh, someone's cousin one because they picked the teams
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: based on color or whatever. So on occasion, I'll have
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: a great year. But March Madness is just so unpredictable,
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: and I feel like that's why we love it so much.
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: You never know what's going to happen. So I haven't
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: won Mini Eddie all right. If he would have said
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: I want to see. It's always like Eddie's aunts Maleman
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: away my son wanted last year. I don't know what
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: he's doing. And also to like, are you a one
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: bracket guy or you do multiple brackets? No, I'm a
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: one bracket guy. To be honest, I feel like it's
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: shameful to do more than one. It's like, well, my
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: my be bracket. Yes exactly. It's like having a fantasy
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: football team, but you draft all the different players. Nobody cares.
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: I want to hear one of them is gonna work out. Yes,
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: And if I do get in more than one bracket,
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: I do the same exact bracket once, keep up with it.
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: And two because I'm not a chump. Basically, Yeah, guys
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: are passionate about this one. All right, all right, Coleman Crawley,
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: you guys go on Twitter, sharp shot, select on Instagram.
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: Coleman thirteen Crawley. That's your basketball number? Yeah, that family number? Okay,
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: family number. Uh. Look, well, we'd love to talk to
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: you again as basketball gets closer and closer to March.
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: Just man, keep grinding. That's it. A lot of people
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: were talent, but it's how they use it. And there's
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: a lot of people without a whole lot of talent
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: that use it in such a way that they're just undeniable.
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: And you're very talented, very smart guy, but just grind.
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: I like I know, right now we're talking to a guy.
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: He's gonna he's gonna be five years now, he's gonna
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: be running the thing. This is awesome, alright, Coleman. Good
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: to talk to you, and hopefully we'll talk to you
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: against somebody. Thank you so much, Bobby for this opportunity.
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: I greatly appreciate it. All right, Colman, see you, man,