The Bobby Bones Show - 25W: Bobby Extends His Streak to 15-0 + Which NFL Comeback Was Most Impressive? + Diamond Dallas Page (In-Studio) on How He Responds to Wrestling Haters + Our Week 2 Takeaways

Episode Date: September 19, 2022

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Download the Draft King's app and use the code Bobby Sports to get in on the action. I'm blowing us in, boys, because I'm 15 and no. Yeah! Do it! I cannot believe it.

Amazing. Wild. I cannot believe it. I hit my four-game parlay. another bet too, which is the Georgia game. But that was part of the parlay, but it's... It's just unbelievable, and I'm not saying this bragging, because I will never do this

again in my entire life, but I've given you guys 15 bets, and I've hit all 15 of them, and the greatest thing for me was Saturday night, late night, everybody tweeting and putting their receipts of their wins to me. So many people. It was awesome, and Kevin said, look at everybody

posting their bet. I had people hitting me up. Really? Yeah. And they were like, dude, I took it, blah, blah, and I'm like, Right away. I said, Kevin, did you bet? He goes, well, I bet half of it. I bet two games around. Yeah, I was half in.

I was on Georgia and Oklahoma. And Eddie and I had to miss the third one because we were at a wedding and there was no cell, so we didn't know. We watched the first half of the Alabama game. Okay. And then we left and we're like, do they cover it? Because it was 49 and a half. Yeah.

Then we drove back in, and they did. And we're like, oh my God. So we just had Texas to go. It's unbelievable. I think the craziest story of all, before we get into the warm up and the tittle tittle tittle is Reed. Could you turn on that microphone right there? there. I'm like, Reed, who works for me as my main digital video guy outside of the radio show

and is on, he makes the jingles on this show. Rita taken his profits from the other bets that I'd given him through the year. And you had how much money? I had a, uh, uh, I started with a hundred. I profited, uh, 400 from your last two bets. This guy. Yeah. And then, then I took, I took 200 out and put it in the bank. Good for you. And then I took the, the, the last, last 200 and my dad came up last weekend. So I was like, I'm just going to, I'm just going to wing it. I believe in you, Bobby. I just threw it all in there for.

You want $2,500. Unreal. Crazy, dude. That to me was nuts that he put that much money down on this bet. I mean, that's how much belief he had in you. I was like, don't. Don't have that much belief? So what did you do with the money?

Oh, it's in the bank now. Look this guy. Making money. Making money, being smart, keeping it going. Parents must be proud. Yeah. Reed said he was so invested because we had won the first three games. It was to the fourth game, the Texas game, that he didn't have Longhorn Network, so he bought it.

Oh, my. I know that feeling. Just to watch the game. So did you subscribe on your home television or your phone or what? It was through Sling. Yeah, they offered the best package for a one-day special. Hey, headphones, he's hooked. You're all in.

Were you so pumped when you won? Oh, my gosh. I was so pumped. I was, yeah. I couldn't sleep. I was like, this is amazing. It's amazing. amazing. I bet $100, I won $1,300.

And I was like, this is amazing. I couldn't sleep. I can imagine double that. Yeah, that's a lot of money. Congratulations. That's awesome. Thank you guys. So a warm-up question real quick for us three. What country makes the best food you cannot use America? What country makes the best food? Let's go to kickoff Kevin. Kevin?

I was going to say Mexico, but I'll probably say Italy. I've been there too and I've eaten it so it's fresh and seafood and everything. So I'll go with Italy. Eddie? Yeah, I got to go Mexico, dude. That's my motherland. I mean, Mexican food is everyone's go-to. What do you like?

Tacos? You love tacos. Everybody loves burritos. Everybody loves burritos. Like, Mexican food is the best. I'm also going to go with Mexican food because I just don't like anything else. I mean, I can eat the pizza. You like Chinese food?

I can eat pizza, but I like pizza. Right. And that's not Italy. Yeah, I like Chinese food. Sometimes, but I like P.F. Chang's, which is kind of a Mexican America. Not Chinese food. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I'm going, if I got to go straight into one country and I'm going to eat, it's Mexico.

All right, that's the warm up. Let's do the tittle tattle. All right, Kevin, what you got? All right, Bobby. Which comeback was the most shocking to you, the dolphins, jets, or the Cardinals? The reason it wasn't the jet. All were great, by the way. I don't want to take anything away from anybody.

The Jets, the reason it was fine. It was because it was the Browns. And so it was like two terrible teams slugging it out. That happens. Yeah. Yeah. So great comeback. It's cool to see Flacco in the locker room pumped up. It's great.

But not that one. I watched the Cardinals and the Raiders, because it was a later game. Got to watch all of that and couldn't believe it. That second two-point conversion was like an inch over the guy's finger and right into a back of the end zone. It's insane. And then Renfro fumbled twice, which also is unbelievable

because that guy's known as great hands. Great ball control. That that was crazy, but I'm still going to go with the dolphins. The fact that they came back from that far down, the fact that there are so many Tua haters, and that they beat Lamar and they just beat a really good team. And it's cool to see, it's an entire new staff in Baltimore. You know, with a guy, they're like, I don't know, is he going to, he's a little quirky.

It was awesome. And I love to see, and Waddle and Hill, they both went off, two went off, six touchdowns, two interceptions. I think that one, because of who, who they beat and how that game ended, right at the wire. But I'm going to go with that one as the most surprising. And if anybody disagrees, feel free to blow your whistle. All three were great.

Football's drunk, as they say. I'll blow my whistle. Yeah, thank you. For a simple reason. I didn't watch the Miami game. That's a good enough reason. But gosh, man, that Raiders Arizona game, and I was pissed because I was watching the Cowboys game, and the Cowboys win, they make the field goal, whatever, to win the game,

and they don't even say bye. Mo didn't say Biden. They cut right to the Raiders and the Cardinals. And I'm like, can't I just see that field goal one more time? But now I know why. Because the end of that game was nuts. Bizarre. The whole league's bizarre.

I'm going to blow the whistle on both of you. Because as much as I hate the Jets, and you're right, it was two teams, the Jets and the Browns. Like, ah, who really cares about these teams? But for the first time, since 2001, a team came back when they're down by 13 points in the final two minutes. That's 2,200. That is a great stat. 29 games. And you know who the last team was to blow that lead?

Cowboys. No. Guess. It was the Browns. Same team. Same franchise. Yeah, in 2001. All three elite, really great endings to games.

Eddie and I were on a plane streaming it, on a plane streaming it. So you know it's not that good. And it's like, hey. Give it. What was so funny, Kevin, is it would freeze right when, you know, like, Hill would get the ball. And there'd be two defenders ready to tackle him. And Bobby would play the game. We'd play the game.

Did that guy get him or did that guy get him? It just because of the frozen spring over and over again. Great, great week of games again, though. Yeah, next question. All right. Sicking with the comeback here, who proved more in their comeback? Tua or Kyler Murray? Tua!

By far! Not even close. There are so many people that are anti-TUA saying he doesn't have the arm strength. He doesn't have, list, list, list. Kyler Murray's supposed to be elite. That's why they paid him a billion dollars. He's supposed to be elite. So he's supposed to do stuff like that.

Maybe not every single time. And if that situation happens again, that first two-point conversion, golly, he ran around for 20 seconds back and forth. But Kyler is supposed to be elite. It's a big win, but it was a bigger win for Miami, a bigger comeback for Tua. And I say Tua approved more than Kyler did.

Who is that? Eddie, go ahead. I agree with you. Yeah, Miami did need this win. But Kyler Murray, after all this deal with his contract and this four hours of, game footage that he needs to watch and all that. Yeah, they obviously

believed that he wasn't, there was something missing with Kyler and Vee was going to be good. He needed to show the staff. He needed to show Arizona. He needed to show everyone that he is the man for that job, especially signing that big contract. I was happy for him. He needed that and I'm glad he played his, man,

he played his everything at the end of that game. But he's done that before. Yeah, but Tua, I think, has never done that. Right, but Tua has been hurt. So we didn't. know what Tuo could do? I still believe that Tuo was able to do that. We just need to see him healthy. So I think now that he's healthy, we can see what Tuo was always.

Kyler's really good, but also I watch a lot of clips today on TikTok where people were like, this is why Kyler needs a study film. And he missed like seven, seven blitzes coming in, missed like so. So they said, and they would show, okay, this linebacker's coming out. In this situation, you've got to tell your tackle not to, and he missed over and over again. And so, but his athleticism. He's got a really good arm. Considering he looks like he's four foot tall out there amongst giant. Yeah, he's just running around.

Do we know how tall he is? What is he? 6, 2, probably? He's 5'10. No, no, no, he's under 6. Yeah. What do they list him as? He's probably 6'1.

Wow. Yeah. So that's 5'9. I'm a big Tua guy. I always have been. And so I guess everything's to it for me. Everything's coming up to him. Because I just, I've always believed in him.

I felt like he was never getting like the fair shake. But yes, it was an awesome guy. game by Cala Mary too. All right, next up. All right. The Bengals are off to an 0 and 2 start. Would you be worried about a Super Bowl hangover if you were a fan of the Bengals? Their offensive line sucks right now.

And they have four new starting offensive linemen. This is the reason for the most part, because there's so much communication that has to happen between the two. And there's communication that has to happen in a way setting where you can't even talk. Meaning, if you've just played together a lot, you know if this linebacker comes into this gap, you can just look and go, we've. done this enough times, I know what that look means. They don't have that right now because it's for new offensive linemen.

If I'm Cincinnati, I'm not worried. You've also lost both games by a field goal. Dallas played good. Their defense played really well. Oh, yeah. This is not a Super Bowl hangover. This is half a step back to take a step forward long term. Maybe not this season, but over the next few years for sure.

But I just, I've listened to so many linemen talk about how hard it is, especially with limited preseason and limited practice, so they don't get to get the reps, and they have to get them game time. But, I mean, Burrow is still, as they say, Burrough's a dog. And I always feel like he can win the game. Do you feel like he tries to make too many big plays?

I think when he has to, he does. I don't think early he tries to cram him in as much. Near the end of the game, he was happy. He had no time to do anything. There were times when Parsons would come off the edge. He would get blocked. Because they just didn't communicate at a time. He'd come up in a blitz package,

and the tackle would block in, and parts of that I'd be like, what's happening? He runs right to him, boom, over. So yes, but I think out of necessity or even fear sometimes of getting crunched again until they get it together. Takes a lot of hits. All right, next up.

All right, your Razorbacks on Saturday. Look like they were going to be victims to a big time upset. How worried were you? I'll answer that. He was stressing. Yeah. He was stressing.

I was worried. I was worried. I was worried because Bobby Petrino is an excellent, excellent play caller. I know that because we had him. We were top five in the country with him. And it was a great game by Missouri State. They played every bit of their potential. They're a really good FCS team.

They're top five. They shouldn't have played with us. And we had two fumbles early, one on the one yard line. We don't turn the ball over often. I say we like I play for the team. You do. You do. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

But yes, I was worried. It's fourth quarter we were down 10. Yeah. I'm glad we, I think we needed this game, honestly. I'm glad we came out of it. I think we needed this game because we have A&M next. I'm glad they won and beat Miami, big for them. And a bad win for us.

There's no such things as a bad win, but a bad win as far as how you're feeling going to the next game, we're a top 10 team. And I think maybe they were like, we're a top 10 team, baby. And now it's like, okay, we're top 10, but we got to go. Like, we still got to go. So I was worried, but I'm happy now because I think you practiced a little harder head into a big week.

Did you expect to watch the game at the wedding reception? No, I thought I would never have to turn it on. What was the timing of all that, by the way? We missed the first half because we were at the wedding. Okay. And there was no cell. Game started at four, wedding started at four.

Yeah, because you were in the... And I couldn't wear my necklace because we were in the wedding. His lucky princess necklace. And then I put it on and we came back and won the game. So that's what it is. But Kevin, we're at a wedding reception. Yeah.

In California, where we traveled thousands of miles to get to, and we're all having the dinner reception, and Bobby's like, there's a big TV there, and there's nothing on it. Can we get that Arkansas? I turn it on. Yeah. And I know that is not, first of all, there were like 10 people there. Oh, okay. And it's a friend. It was a wedding reception. It's a friend that I love dearly.

However, if you know me, it would be like if I was a vegan. You know what you're going to have to feed me if I'm not a vegan. But in the same way, you know. at my core, one of the most important things to my life is Razorback Football. And so we put it on the TV. I love that. And did he mind? I don't think so. We didn't ask anybody. We just turned it on a day. He knows. He knows what's up. Yeah. And if it had been a 500 people and a big T, I would probably just put it on my phone on my knee and tried that. But I would have watched it. Did more people watch it with you? No, not really. Not really. Oh, no, nobody did. It's funny too, because the way of the dinner table was set up, you know, the TV was against

the back wall. So we, me and Bobby's wife made the joke like, hey, sit him there where his backs against the TV and he has to like sit there. He's like, no, no, no, we're not doing this. Very selfish, but you know that part of me is a very selfish part of me when it comes to Razorback Football. I love it. It wasn't selfish of me to drive an hour up a mountain to go to a wedding. Very selfless. Fly across the country. To get an Airbnb for a weekend and go out. That's what friends do. It's selfless to be a good friend. I'm right there with you. Yeah. All right, Kevin. I agree. I don't ever want to get married during football season because of that.

All right, last question. At West, USC is 3 and O in rolling. Do you think Caleb Williams is the early front runner to win the Heisman right now? I don't think he's the front runner. I think he's in the group of front running, which is Stroud and Caleb Williams and Bryce. I think because Bryce won it last year, he's kind of not getting the fairest of shakes. Yeah, can you win too? Oh, yeah, of course. Absolutely.

And so, but he's still third in odds. right now. USC doesn't really, they don't play anybody that great, honestly. And then they're also West Coast, which we don't get to see

a lot of their stuff because it's so late. But USC as a team gets put on television in pretty prime spots. Front rider, no, but front running and he'll,

if they go undefeated, absolutely. If they lose a couple games, he's not gonna have a shot. Right. But, you know, it'll be interesting if somebody else can kind of,

if Alabama gets beat, I think that's trouble for Bryce. But, But, I mean, listen, I ain't trying to get too homery. We have the number one running. We have the number leading Russia in the SEC. And he's not getting any luck at all.

I haven't even heard of him. Rocket? Rocket Sanders? Rocket? You never heard of Rock it? No. I mean, I've seen him, obviously, but I'm just saying I haven't heard anybody talk about it. That's what I'm saying.

Turn his mic off. He's in, best running back in the SEC. Leads almost everything. And so far, because he didn't get any preseason hype, it's hard to pop that. But if we're able to beat A&M and if God just blesses me with the LECD with the Alabama victory. Him and KJ both, because KJ is killing it too. All right, that's Tittle Tattle.

Let's go out of the Tiddle Taddle. No. All right around the room, one takeaway from the weekend. Eddie. Yeah, I feel really bad for Jimmy Garoppolo. Like, Trey Lance gets hurt, and they bring Jimmy G in, and it's like, everyone's just like, oh, man, you know, our starter got hurt, and we're doing. But Jimmy Garoppolo is, I mean, how awesome for the 49ers to have him still there?

I think most of the teams still wanted him to start. Because they had to go and convince the locker room to give Tray Lance a chance. I understand. You see how happy they were when he scored that? Dude, they were on. They were on it. It's awesome. It's just like, you know, he's 33 and 14, I believe, when he starts.

Like, let's give the dude some credit. Here he is. He got the win this week. And I'm so happy for him. I'm a big Jimmy G fan just because nobody, the staff doesn't believe in him. He gets tossed around in the league. Like, I love that he's now the starting. quarterback for the 49ers.

Let me blow my whistle. I don't think the staff doesn't believe in him. I think upper, we'll call it upper management. I think they drafted him in the top five picks

and now he's got to play. I think that's, and you saw the Vegas odds actually get better for San Francisco to win the Super Bowl once. Oh, did they really? Yeah, once the Garoppolo was a starter.

Also, they're fortunate to Gropolo is healed from his injury because he couldn't play in the preseason ball because he wasn't ready. He couldn't get traded because he wasn't ready.

so it's pretty cool to see him come out and play well. I don't know him. I don't know anybody who knows them. I don't know if he's a good dude or not. Oh, I don't mean personally. But am I head and hard? Like, I'm rooting for him now. Me too, man.

Oh, yeah. And I drafted Trey Lansing Fantasy way earlier than I should have as my backup quarterback. And I was like, oh, crap. But I guess still the Disney movie part of me is like, let's go, Jimmy G, you can do it. That's what I'm saying. We're going to make a movie out of this. Kevin, one takeaway. My biggest takeaway was my thankfulness for NFL Red Zone,

watching all these comebacks after that Patriot game ended and I just saw the dolphins coming back, the Jets coming back, all going on at the same time on one TV and shout out to Scott Hans on the NFL network for just putting it all on display and it was a beautiful thing to see. My takeaway is going to be that I'm rooting for the lions. I'm just rooting for the lions.

I knew I kind of liked the lions. I knew I kind of liked the coach. I knew I kind of liked golf just because he's kind of been discarded. But I'm just rooting for the lions. And they had the video after the game where Dan Skipper, he got cut this season on hard knocks. He's been in a league six years, never made a team.

They had put him back on the practice squad. They had to pull him off the practice squad because they've had so many injuries in their offensive line. And he plays guard, which he's never played until the game yesterday. Never started a game. And he played really well. Then afterward, Campbell was like, Skipper. This is our guy six years.

He started, played excellent. And the whole locker was going, Skip, skip, skip, skip. And Skipper's about to start crying, and then they sent Skipper out to the press first to talk. That's cool. And it was, it's just amazing. Like, I like what they're doing there.

Man, if Hollywood's not taking notes right now, like now's the time to start writing scripts. I also like it because he played for Arkansas. But anyway. Okay, well, there you go. Skipper player. There you go. No, it's not, but you know it's a great story.

I just didn't want to lead with that because you knew I would be. But I'm also, I'm just rooting for the lions. They look good. Amon St. Brown? Oh, amazing. That dude's playing out of his mind. Out of his mind. So I'm rooting for the lions.

You have him on fantasy? Both teams. I'm in two teams. I drafted him earlier than normal because golf said that's this guy. And I was like, I watch Hard Knocks. And that's golf's guy. I'm going to take him the fourth round.

And I did. And he's awesome. Do the lions blow it? Do they blow it? Are they going to blow it? Because I mean, what's blowing? What's blowing?

Yeah, there's a line. Like, what's the... I mean, you look at him now and you're like, okay, I mean, you root for him because it's promising. Like, do they make? make the playoffs? The commanders aren't terrible either. That's true. It's not like

they beat the Jets. That's true. I'm just saying... What's blowing it? Eight wins, nine wins, six wins, four wins? I would say blowing it would be six wins. Oh, it's right around there. It's probably where the line is, actually. Yeah, I don't remember what the line was, but I think they can win eight or nine. I think I picked them to win nine.

If they only win five games, I think that is probably them not feeling like they reach their potential. Yeah. Yeah. Agreed. Yeah, because they're... And, yeah, I remember it for him. Campbell's awesome. I mean, he would not like me at all because I'm a wimp.

He's awesome. All right, that's our one takeaway from the weekend. Appreciate that. Now, let me tell you this. As long as we're talking about draft kings here, I'm going to recap my parlay. Georgia minus 24 and a half. Oklahoma minus 11, Alabama, minus 49.5.

Texas, minus 12 and a half. I bet $100. I won $1,300 bucks. It's crazy. Yes, that's right. Thank you. Amazing, dude. I'm 15 and 0 on the season.

I'm proud to know you. You need a crown. I'm just nervous. And now I'm like, okay, how do I keep it going? But I can't think like that because I never thought. Oh, I did a four game so I would not lose, but really test it. I was like, I'm going to do four. I was about to do a five.

The other one that I had written down was Vandy plus three. That would have won two. Oh, my gosh. That would have been awesome. Because I bet that, and Eddie asked me while we're away, goes, why do you always bet Vandy? Out of all the teams, why do you bet Vandy? Because I like the coach. They're changing the culture.

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Now, are you feeling nervous now with your next parlays? And I know you don't crack under pressure. I don't, that's not really your style. I'm not feeling nervous because if I lose 15-1, baby. Yeah. Yeah, that's also great. That's a great number. Great record.

Yeah. All right. Let's go around the league. Here we go. Chargers and chiefs, we saw that one on Thursday night. You just hope that the torn rib cartilage, the crack, whatever they're diagnosing him. They're not saying rib with Herbert. They're saying rib cartilage, which is...

That's the meat between your rib? Which I didn't know you could, like, crack. Cartilage. I think a tear cart. But anyway, you hope Herbert's able to play. because the charges are really good and they should have won that game and we didn't get a chance to talk about it

but that intercession wasn't fully on Herbert he was gassed and he was like take me out of the game and then he was tired and he didn't commit to the route really good game great game great game moving on Patriots and Steelers

thought from the game is that Trubisky wasn't very good No Chubisky was Trubisky fans were calling for picket He struggled they were They were yelling for Kenny Pickett, which I think my over-under is not going to hit. Another bad two games, they'll probably play him if he's ready to go.

So, Steelers lose. Trubisky does not play well. Patriots do get a win, though. Jets and Browns, we talked about that. The Jets with a – oh, let's do them – there you go. I got to figure this out. I like that. Jets and Browns, crazy comeback.

And you saw an old quarterback and a brand-new wide receiver play pretty well. Which rookie receiver had over 100 yards, boys and girls? Gary? Who was that? Yeah, Garrett Wilson, right? Yeah, that's right. Yeah, that's right. Nobody wanted to commit, like a...

I don't know. Yes, so it was a good win for the Jets, good win for New York, because they did pretty well as a group yesterday, those two teams. Giants and Panthers, which I'll get to. Giants 19, Panthers 16. I don't know. I don't know what to say about this, except it was...

two teams that didn't really look like they deserved to play in that league. They should be like relegated down a league. What do you want to say about that, Kevin? I just want to say it looked like two teams that neither of them wanted to win. Say, no, you have the win. No, you can have the win. No, no, the hot potato of the win. Yeah, exactly. Giants are 2 and 0, though.

I know. So say what you will. The Giants are 2 and 0. Let's talk about the Bucks and the Saints. it's first time the Bucks be the Saints and a long time right? In the regular season, yeah. Yeah, and so the whole deal

was Brady was pissed at everybody early. Never really fell in love with them, but the fight was pretty interesting to watch. Yeah, Evans and Lattimore. Yeah, now they're investigating Arians and why he was on the sideline to begin with. Yeah, well, he's still, hold on, he still, he says he retired, but then he was hired right after that

to be, like, consultant to the team. It's like, what's that winning time? You know, when, like, Jerry West keeps coming up. back and forces himself on the plane. It's like that, dude, you're done. Don't show up in your Hawaiian shirt and act like you're all retired cigar in your mouth.

They probably wanted him down there. I think it's so funny to see him on the sideline. And he was chirping too. You seem sick. And he said Mike Evans. Yeah. They had it, yeah. He did.

And then Evans goes over and boom, yeah. And then the rest, he goes, that's Tom Brady. And you can't do that. But he did. But that has no weight to it. Like, you still can't do that. But you can and you have to. If somebody is...

I agree with that. If somebody's on your quarterback and you feel like it's unjust or even just, depending on the situation, you got to go stick up for your dude, and especially if it's Tom Brady, because you want him to throw you the ball.

No, I get it, but arguing that to the ref is not going to be... I don't think he was not arguing as much as like, he was like, sorry, man, that's Tom Brady. He's like, what you want me to do? Yeah, he's like, I had to do it. That's funny.

And so he'll probably get a game or two, I would think. And then Lattimore will probably get a game as well. Yeah, they hate each other. Well, then Ariens should get a game or two, Aaron's will probably get taken off the sideline. That's what I'll have in there. Jaguars 24, Colts Zero.

I don't know, do the Colts... Are they the worst team I've ever seen in my life, who I thought was going to be pretty good? Yeah. Their offensive line is struggling. Matt Ryan has no time to throw when he does. He's not throwing well. The Jaguar, I mean, they passed the ball

pretty well yesterday. Probably because their run game opened it up so well, honestly. You know, so Jaguars... win 24 over the Colts in a division where everybody's like well Colts should run away with this but they're O in two and they're not running away with it they're backpedaling quickly into the depths I do expect them to get better though I think it's another one of the situations where they're trying to patch it together for later like we talked about with the Bengals

Dolphins 42 Ravens 38 we talked about that one of the great comebacks of I'd say this season but season's only two weeks but that does work but still Cowboys 20 Bengals 17. Thank goodness. Love it. I bet I told Eddie before the game, I bet Dallas plus seven and a half. Okay. And I bet Dallas money line. And then I bet Dallas in game plus

four and a half. And it was amazing. Damn. I just believed. Nah, I just hoped. Let's be honest. Let's be honest. You didn't really believe. What do you want to say about your team, Eddie? Man, I'm so proud of them. I'm just, thank God for giving us Michael Parsons. I think he's a game changer for the Cowboys. And in this time

of terrible, terrible season with DAC out and us struggling with our receivers and everything Michael Parsons is helping us get through it the defense was amazing and then hey Cooper Cooper Rush dude keep doing what you're doing very Trent Dilfer like

yeah like play pretty good yeah but it's always got to play if your defense can play like that we'll take it like Rush didn't do anything to lose the game which is almost all you need him to do Tony Pollard what's up buddy you'd be listen yeah they need to switch those too I think

and they're switching out every series it seemed like full on. Even when Pollard caught that pass, and they said he was out at the one after like a 40 yard. Yeah. They still put Pollard back in for the goal line carry.

And I'm so glad he deserved that score. Yeah. Sure. I mean, I think you do all the legwork to get there. That's your touchdown. Yeah, unless you're tired. Well, I get it. It's one yard.

But I was pretty pumped. That's pretty pumped for the Cowboys. Yeah, dude. Me too. Broncos 16, Texans 9. Broncos are not looking like I thought the Broncos. would look and they're making a lot of coaching blunders

early on too. So that's the battle of two teams that you're just like, all right, do both of you suck? The Texans probably, but they beat the Colts last week, but the Colts also suck. Yeah. So far, were you to take away in that game? I'm still, I'm trying to be patient with the Broncos,

just like with the Bengals we were talking about. I don't know if they're trying to figure it out, but Wilson does not look good at all. He does not look good. But again, if you're not getting time. And their time management, the clock again was an issue. That's on the coaching right there. Cardinals 29 Raiders 23.

They were popping bottles in Vegas. Oh my gosh. I saw that. It was like 23-7. Just a little premature. Then they lost. I couldn't believe Renfro was the one to fumble it twice. That was crazy.

That was a good game, though. Last night, Packers 27, Bears 10. It almost was a game. It was almost a game. And that ball probably crossed the goal line, but you literally couldn't see it, and they've already established that rule in pressing. So Aaron Rogers own Chicago yet again.

Niners 27 Seahawks 7. It was cool to see Jimmy G. Yeah. You hate to see an injury. I mean, you hate it, but love seeing Jimmy G. win that game. And Rams 31 Falcons 27, this is one of those games that almost was like the other games. Yeah. It was out, the Rams had won the game. Oh, they haven't. Oh, crap. And the Falcons had a shot at the end. And I like Marriota. He's playing, he's playing pretty. good. He's playing pretty good. All right, there you go. That's the list of your NFL scores.

Hey, Eddie, what was the deal with your bet of the week? No, I think we're out of time, right? No, no, no, no, no. You did your bet your car bed of the week. What was it? Yeah, I walked to work today because I bet the Steelers plus two, and they were playing the Patriots, and they lost by three points. Just checking in on that. Thanks, dude. You should give your car to me for that. Hey, can I borrow your car for the next couple weeks? Sure, buddy. As far as NCAA, there wasn't a lot of games that actually were close and mattered. Oklahoma killed Nebraska, and I think a lot of people wondered if Nebraska would come out and play for their new assistant coach that they love, and they didn't. It's not possible. And then they fired their defensive coordinator right after the game. So you got worse.

So Oklahoma, that's another guy, Gabriel, who's in the Heisman race now, quarterback at Oklahoma. BYU and Oregon wasn't much of a game either. That was a shocker to me. I think they were just worn out from last week, maybe, against Bailey. Oregon played really well. I guess the one game that was close in two ranked teams was A&M and Miami. It was a touchdown game, and A&M changed up the quarterbacks. And so, you know, it's the kid from LSU last year,

who's now starting in college station for Texas A&M. They win 17 to 9 over Miami. I think he'll be a lot better this week against Arkansas. Second starts always when it starts to slow down for you a little bit, although he started at LSU before. But Texas A&M wins after that Apple. relation state loss. How about Abstates? Hell Mary. Oh my gosh, that game. To win the game. Hell Mary. They throw it. It's short of the goal line, but tip, the guy catches on the

backside and runs around. Crazy. Unbelievable. I saw the rankings come out. Did App State get put in the top 25? No, they did not. They didn't. They didn't. I never looked down that far if Arkansas's at 10. I look down that far. You just stop at 10. Yeah, I'm like, where are they done? Turn it off. The reason I went down that far is to look for App State and they were not on there. Okay. We're going to go now, because I think we're good, right? We're going to go Mike to the DDP interview. I was a huge wrestling fan as a kid up until my teenage years. And Diamond Dallas Page was one of the guys that I watched in WCW and then when WWE bought him and he's in the Hall of Fame. I mean, he's 65. He does not look like a 65 year old or 66. He is physically

a beast still and not big and bulky, but like tall, lean, strong. So this is Diamond Dallas Page. I hope you enjoy. He's 65, 66. He talks about how you got into wrestling. late in life. Beast. Just a really fun interview for me. So enjoy this interview with Diamond Dallas Page. I'm a big fan. I appreciate you coming.

Thank you. You know, really. Like, I guess for me, stopped being a super dedicated wrestling fan after you were done. So I got to really experience, like, you and your prime. And was just a big fan of your work as a wrestler? Thank you so much. I'm geeking out for a second because I'll get to some other stuff, but you should know that doing this is just a massive fan.

Well, thank you, man. Like Maya Angelou said, you know, they may not remember your name of what you did, but they always remember the way they made you feel. That's how I remember. That's how I feel. That's how I feel. What do your friends call you? Like, what's your name?

Well, my original name was Paige Joseph Falkenberg. I knew that was never going to draw any money in the world of professional wrestling. And I was a big Dallas Cowboy fan growing up as a kid, you know, Delangriere, Sawbock, all that stuff coming up through that. And I like the name Dallas. And when I tried to wrestle when I was 23, didn't work out for me. I had three matches.

I hurt my knee. And it was the same knee by the car when I was 12, which changed my life because I was like a football fanatic. I was going to be playing in my mind, you know, defensive end for Dallas Cowboys. But I walked out in front of that car, hit my right knee, my face bounced off the hood, and I flew 42 feet.

At 12. At 12. How did you not die? I don't know. What luckily happened? happened. God. God. I woke up in snow because it was snowing. I woke up and they wanted to get me to the hospital right away. The ambulance ever came. This was in 1968. And you remember this though? It's not like, you didn't. I remember that. I remember waking up. And seeing a woman go,

oh my God, look at his face. My nose was out to hear. Blood. I've red eyes. the thing, you know, I always say that what looks like the worst thing never happened to you can be the best. Now, they took football away from him, which crushed me. But the only thing that was left was baseball and basketball, and I sucked to both, you know. But baseball, you got to have at least someone to throw. Basketball, you can do all by yourself. And I made a team in eighth grade, but I sat on the bench. And I swore that would never happen again.

And what I learned by playing every day, all day, one of the best on the Jersey shore, I learned that work ethic equals results. Were you a big kid? How tall are you now? Six four. Six four, two, thirty right now. And when I wrestled, I was like two 55. When you were eighth, ninth grade, though, how big were you?

Six-three. Wow. So you grew quick. Yeah, I was skinny. I mean, I'm talking about 140 pounds. At six-three, I was all boats. But in sixth grade, I just made the weight because I was so, I was skinny, but I was light. In seventh grade, I just made a wait to play Pop Warner.

But by eighth grade came around ninth grade. I started growing. I was six four by the time I was a freshman. And we went undefeated in my freshman year, my sophomore year. Three of us went up the varsity. So it was like three from that undefeated team. And it was a great run. And again, it taught me like inside this Hall of Fame ring,

W.W. Hall of Fame ring, inside it, it says work ethic equals dreams, explanation point, DDP. So when you finish high school, do you try to play ball anywhere? Here's the thing about high school. I was reading at a third grade level at age of 30. Yeah, I read that in your 30s that you couldn't read that of like a six, seventh grader. Yeah. Why did that happen?

Well, ADD. I didn't know about ADD and dyslexia then. I didn't know until I was in my early 30s when my first wife, Kimberly, who's still one of my closest friends and one of my business. partners, she's like, oh my God, you're dyslexic. And go back to things like some people call me Page that I grew up with, but they all know when we go out, they call me Dallas. Why? Because it's branding, right? And then people are, oh, I want to call them page. And I'm like, no, because it confuses other people. So maybe I go by Dallas or Diamond or Dalley or Diamond D or whatever.

So I go by any of those. But, you know, back to Kim saying, oh, my God, you're dyslexic. I go, what's that? And I literally started, you know, just taking the moments that would take forever to read to try to create repetition because, you know, more reps you get, the better you get. But it was so hard for me until I was 47 and then I was at the Eris Learning Center in L.A. in Culver City and a woman who was 85 years old than a buddy of mine who had dyslexia had been five years before that, she had worked with him. She was 85. And she worked with me every Tuesday and every Thursday. And she said I took more homework than anybody ever.

That's where it really started getting. So you put that work ethic into your learning too. I had to because now was the time, you know, I was acting and all that. I wanted to get better. I just didn't want to be able to read. And I'm still not great at it. But I'm pretty good. You know, I can get away.

I got everything. My wife, Paige, she reads. Your wife's name is Paige? Yeah. Did she change her name to page? Yeah. Is that really her name? Page, Paige, Paige, Paige, now.

Yeah. But hey, her nickname, her maiden name, McMahon. Really? That's funny. No relation. That's funny. What kind of dyslexia did you have? Or do you have still?

No, it's still part of what, you know, if I have to really focus, you know, and really, like, dial in and not hear anybody. If I'm listening to classical music, I can read really well. You know, I'm not going to be listening to country and singing the song or I'm trying to read. You know, she could do that. but it's it was a challenge and once you're you're born like that but think i'll give me a list of guys who are dyslexic um j leno um tom cruise mohammed ali you know you figure out ways around it and eventually like i got with a teacher and she gave me all these little muscle games like brain games to figure stuff out then she gave me different exercises every school should because

there's so many kids that are dyslexic and ADD and ADHD that they should have these, this type of teaching in every school. But now they have it in certain schools and they charge a fortune for it. I was reading a book where they were talking about, like you listed, people that are very famous and successful now that had, that still have, but had learning disabilities as a kid, whenever the learning disabilities weren't known yet. So they weren't able to get them fixed,

but they had to, they became so talented at other things. because they were having to work around it. Right. You know, since, you know, they could, some of them had dyslexia. Since they couldn't read, they had to learn how to read people better. They had to learn, you know, how to make deals and communicate in a more effective way. What do you think your skill was that you developed instead of, because you had to somehow compensate for the ability to read? Well, I cheated.

Became an expert cheater. I had people write my stuff for me. And I learned quid pro quo as a child. You know, I'll help you, you help me. Right. And it really became part of my DNA when I heard Zig Zigler say, you can get whatever you want, as long as you help enough people get what they want. And that's my life.

And a lot of people would help me, you know, and I would help them. So I also learned to adapt that we both had very young moms. By the time I was three years old, my mom was married, divorced, and had three kids. He was 19. And when my parents split up, my brother's sister, once with my mom, I had to give them to my grandmother. And she had to move up to North Jersey,

make more money. I went to live with my dad. My dad back then, he couldn't even spell the word father, let alone be one. So this is another thing that looks like the worst thing where people get really mad, you know, they hold it in their childhood.

I bounced around from one family to another like a pinball. A lot of people will be really carry that anger. I don't because, you know, I believe that holding on the anger or the hate or the negativity is like me swallowing poison and expecting the other person to die. And I figured that out as time went on, but the really positive side about bouncing around

from one family to another became incredibly adaptable. Yeah, I think that's a skill that I have too. Like I literally can find something to bond or relate to with anybody. I've just, I've been through so much in so many places that it doesn't matter. Like, we got something in common at all times. So you finish high school. When does, because you're obviously a large, a tall guy and your athletic, when does wrestling even come into your mind as it can be something that you do? Oh, as a 10-year-old kid, it came into my mind, but you're just dreaming, you know.

But then when I became 17, it became more. And then by the time I was 23, I was with a buddy my name, John Chippley. And he'd gone to see a wrestling show, and Grilla Monsoon was there. And when he left, he was the main event. He just left all the people. He got grabbed this bag. This is an Asbury Convention Center in New Jersey. And we just went and pestered a hell out of him like any other Mark would do.

And he gave us a name. And we went up to start training him. But I could only do it most two times a week. What was your job at the time? Oh, the nightclub business. I was 17. So nightclubs was like a bounce, bartend, Matt, you know, by. By the time when I hurt my knee from wrestling,

I had three matches. I mean, I was horrible. But, you know, I had a look, even back then with a long blonde hair. And, you know, back then I was about 240 or whatever. So I had the size and the look, and a lot of the guys weren't that tall. It was really surprising to me. But I got a chance. Doctor told me take off a month, you know, let the knee rest.

And I thought, well, I got an opportunity here to run this little rock and roll joint. and then I just got swept away by the booze, the bros of the party, you know, and it was the nightclub life till I was running a huge club in Fort Myers, Florida, and Jake Roberts walks in my club. Which, not to completely jump off track, because I want to get back to it, but when you mentioned earlier, help the people that you can, like I watched, when it came out, I watched the documentary you did with Jake. Like, as soon as the day it came out, like I watched it.

And awesome and really sad. I mean, Bo, at the same time, like they were just walking together. And I was a big Jake Snake fan as a kid. Me too, bro. Jake's what made me, I was flick. Here's what happened. When wrestling blew up in the 80s with WrestleMania, I was so mad at me. And I don't get mad at me.

I just fixed up. But this is something I created. I walked away from it. It blew up. I knew I was going to, I should have been a part of that. So I stopped watching wrestling completely. because if you don't watch, it doesn't hurt as bad. Then one day I'm flicking the channels,

and I see Jesse Ventura with this bowing, crazy sunglasses and doodag. I thought he was so cool. He's talking to gorilla. That's what stopped me moving the channels. Because remember, you moved them like this back then. You became the channel changer for your grandpa, your dad. So first guy to come through the curtain,

got a bag over his shoulder, got that fool man chew, that long black hair. I'm like, who is? this cat and then I watch his work in the ring now remember wrestling and I want to spoil this for anybody it's predetermined but but back then it wasn't like known by the masses Vince McMahon didn't come out about that yet so I call up my buddy Shipley who had already done because he kept wrestling after I took I took down and it was he never got to any fame but he got the wrestle quite a bit and I called him I said bro I just saw this guy Jake to Steak Roberts on

Did I miss something? Is some of the part of this? Is some of this real? He goes, don't be a mark. He goes, of course not. I go, man, I can't see through his stuff. And then I heard him do a cut of promo. I was like, this guy's amazing.

So he, it's funny how life works, and now you guys are as far as I could be, but he is the one that kind of re-inspired you to get back into wrestling. Well, he came in my club, and that's a funny scene. I saw him on the monitor, and I wasn't sure if it was him,

but I thought it could be, so I ran around the outside of the club, got to the front door, Johnny, the guy walking here like Jake to Snake Roberts. Yeah, everybody thinks it's him. So I run in there, like the biggest mark, right? I see him and I slow down. You know, got a, can't be fanboyed on Jake Roberts, right?

So I roll over to him. I'm like, hey, man, you Jake to Snake Roberts? Who wants to know? I said, the guy who runs this place? He goes, yes. what could I do for you? So what are we drinking? So we got pie-eyed that night, you know,

and he wanted to keep going. And I knew where he wanted to go to Snowland, you know, and I'd given all that stuff up by that time. At the time, I was 31 years old. And, of course, he didn't pay for a drink. And he would tell the other guys about it. If you worked Miami one night in Tampa the next, that's 300 miles.

Fort Myers right in the middle. So it became like a place. Ted DiBiase came in, the bushwackers, all these guys. And so one night I'm looking at the video wall. It club clubs closed. And I see Captain Lou Elbano with Cindy Lopper and girls just want to have fun. And that night I just looked at that thing. And I was like, man, rock and wrestling.

I should have been a part of that. Like, I'm talking to myself. And my buddy Smokey heard me say it. When we were coming in, we're counting the money. and it just, that was a night. Like Diamond Doll's page was born in my brain. Never thinking he could turn into anything. But that was the beginning of it.

The Diamond Exchange, I'd have Diamond Dolls walking me to the ring, because I thought I was too old to be a wrestler at 31. You know, so it was just a fantasy, but it was the beginning. That's how the ideas start, you know? So were you able to talk with those guys who maybe had formed a relationship with a couple of them to have knowledge on how to meet the right people, train the right way to get a look? You know, they're all going to tell you the same thing

that I would tell somebody. Unless you can't breathe without it, forget it. Because it's the hardest thing ever to get into. Unless you look like Goldberg. You know, if you're a regular dude, look at a guy like Ray Mysterio. Would you ever think, like his,

I just watch his biography on WWE. Unbelievable. Ray is one of the coolest, greatest athletes, greatest human beings I've ever met. But there is no way he ever thought he'd have a Hall of Fame career like he has. With a size, right, being that small. Yeah, but athleticism, he changed the game. You know, so for me, I ended up making a tape because of a series of events.

And I sent a tape with me, and I made three guys wrestlers. One guy I called Big Bad John, they're all bouncers for me. One guy called Rock Hard Rick. and the other guy I called, he was a little person. I called him Teddy Bear. And he came out with the Diamond Dolls. And I make this tape, Bobby. And I sent it not to WWE or WCW.

I sent it to AWA, who was, you know, American Wrestling Association in the Midwest. They were losing all their talent, the Vince and Ted. Two weeks later, I get a call. And it's Diamond Doll's page there. I'm like, yeah. This is Rob Russell from the AWA. And we like your stuff. I want to bring you and your boys in for a tryout.

Yeah, he goes, well, we got one question. We've ever seen, no one's ever heard of you guys. Where are you working at? Well, Rob, the truth is none of those guys can wrestle. What? Why would you send us the tape? Well, it's like a secret society. No one can figure out how to get in.

Don't call us. We'll call you. And this is to me, it's like God's plan. You know, because I should have been there the first time, but probably way better I wasn't. Because I had so many other lessons to learn. So Paul, dangerously, back then, today Paul Heyman, one of the biggest stars in WWE as a manager spot. He left the AWA and went to Ted. and I get another call from the AWA.

At WCW. Ted at WCW. Yes, Ted Turner's World Championship wrestling. So we left a huge void for a young guy to get talk. next thing you know, we're going to give you a tryout. Bring all those crazy clothes. A couple of those hot diamond dolls. And we're going to give you a shot.

Next thing you know, I'm on ESP headmatch. Wow. You know, and making no money. You know, my next big break came from Florida Championship Wrestling. They made me a manager and a color commentator. Dusty Rhodes is in charge of time. Without Dusty Roads, there is no diamond dials page because he taught me so much.

and he brought me into the production end of it. It's why you would understand the interviewing and all the storytelling that went behind it. And we weren't making any money. I'm still running my nightclub, though. So I'm making good money because I'm not leaving my day job. So he leaves, and I'm there for another two years. He went to WWF, and then they called them back to WCW to run the whole show.

And because of that relationship, because of that relationship, next thing you know, I'm on WCW. That's crazy. I tell people all the time, and you know this, because this is a business of who you know and who knows you, but what it really comes down to, and you understand this, it comes down to real relationships.

It's not about who knows you. It's about who's willing to say they know you. Who's willing to pick up the phone and make a call for you? Who's willing to put their name on the line for you? That's what does they do for me. At the show, Ted Turner's World Championship, wrestling. And the crazy part, how I become a wrestler is, it took me four months to get a contract, and I finally got a contract. And going into my fifth month, I've got the fabulous freebirds,

future Hall of Famers. Scott Hall, who's the Diamond Stud back then, he's a two-time Hall of of Famer. I'm living, I'm living a dream. And then Magnum T.A. pulls me into his office. He says, listen, Dusty asked me to do this because he can't do it. He said, he loves what you're doing with the, you know, any of the color commentating, but we can't let you manage you anymore. I go, why? What did I do wrong? He goes, well, you really didn't.

It's not your fault. I go, well, it's not my fault. We can fix it. He goes, not really. I go, why not? He goes, because it's you. It's the hair, the clothes, the bling, the rap, the dolls. No one's paying attention to the boys out there.

When you're out there, you're taking, it's not your, fault. We should have done to put you in a pair of tights and boots and see if you could do this. And I was crushed, you know, and again, what looks like the worst thing can happen to you can be the best. Now, the Freebirds, those guys were Michael PSA's at Jimmy Jam Garvin. They were like big brothers to me, even though they were younger, well, Michael was younger to me. But they've been in a business for 15 years since they were kids and they would rib me. Oh my God. They would I'll play joke, practical joke after practical joke on the rookie, right? Who finally made it there.

That day, though, they were super empathetic. They were like, man, sorry, bro. Because I got to walk them to the ring for the last time. And I'm like, by this time, I've flipped. Like you said, adapt with dyslexia. I said, you know what? I'm not worried about it. And they're like, what do you mean?

I go, I got seven months left of my contract. I'm going to learn how to be a professional wrestler. and they looked at each other and bursted out laughing so hard that Michael literally like falls to the ground holding on the Jimmy laughing. I gave them both the year and the number one sign and so I'll see you in the ring. And the greatest, one of the greatest moments of my life, that was in 91 and 96. I have this vision, you know, it's inside out. You have to see it, you know, before.

you believe it. A lot of people say, I'll believe it when I see it. No, you've got to see it. Then you'll believe it. And you've got to put the work in. It's not just going to happen. So I'm at that spot where I'm in a mid-card guy. And I've worked my way up from the bottom of the bottom. And I'm just like, I just need that one break. And one night they booked me with sting. On a night trow. Blonde sting? Blond sting. That's my favorite. That's my favorite sting. That's old school That's my favorite sting

I'll tell you what Sting love me He loved my work ethic He says What do you want to do tonight Like this guy's the franchise He's asking me And I laid some stuff out

He goes I like it We went out there Tore it down I come through the curtain I got a standing ovation From the boys Like that never happened Back through the curtain

Back to the locker room The really amazing part was the next day, when I'd go home, I called it Humpty Dumpty Day. I get all the King's horses and all the Kingsmen to try to put DDP back together again. Because I'm about to turn 40 at this point. And my run hasn't started yet. And so I'm going to go see my chiropractor, glyceticologist, muscle relax, yo therapy, deep muscle tissue therapy. I got to go home.

I forgot something. And I'm so glad. I go home, I grab my stuff, I'm walking out the door, answer machine picks up, page, P.S. It's Michael P.S. Hey, he's now he's the writer at WWF at the time, now at WWE. And he's P.S. Mike, hey, bro, man, I haven't talked to you and no, man. How you doing?

Damn, someone, mother. Mike, Mike, what's the matter? What's the matter? Page, you know how sometimes you're calling the middle of the afternoon because you don't want to hear the person's voice? You want to leave my message? I said, yeah, you want me to hang up so you can call back and leave a message? No, no. Page, I got to be honest.

Saw your match last night. We all did. I got to be honest. I have never been so happy to eat crow in all my life. Great job, kid. Any hug up with me? So that was your first big, big break in time? That was my first moment that said, maybe this guy can really do this.

This is January of 96. By the time end of 96 happens, I beat Eddie Guerrero because he, I'm not supposed to beat him in Halloween Avenue. We have an unbelievable match. He tears something in his rib and he kept going. During the match? During the match.

Is that communicated to you? Not till the end. When I'm waiting from Ducson, I'm going to pick him up, he goes, diamond cutter. I go, no, a diamond cutter. I'm not going to argue with you. But you're supposed to win in this match. It was a really big win.

for me and I'm still a bad guy and that but I'm still not getting the break and I'm ready to ask for my release and that's what I come up with the NWO me and the NWO because I had real relationships Scott Hall talk about helping people he was in Germany he came back he's just big Scott Hall back then he sees me managing the freebirds he calls me up he says day you I would love to be that idea you had called the diamond stud. So I said, okay, I said, let me see if I can get them to go for it. So I call up Magnum T.A. And I ask him, you know, about Scott, I always like Scott.

Let me ask Dusty. Gets back on the phone, and he goes, Dusty said he's going to pass. He really loves Scott, but he's had two tries and didn't get over. I said, what if I could change what he looks like? He goes, what do you mean? I go, what if you don't recognize him? He said, well, let me think about it. that. So I call Scott up. I go,

we got to change your look. We got to dye your hair, dye your hair jet black, you know, um, motch, uh, not motch, but, um, hockey talk. So anyone got really like that blue black hair back then, right? Everybody's got blonde hair or brown hair. And I said, we change your hair like that.

Okay, okay. I'm watching MTV later that night. I see George Michael and he's got the, uh, the, uh, five o'clock shadow. And, uh, I'm like, oh, my God, that's Scott. So I call him up at 2 o'clock in the morning. Dally, what are you doing?

My wife's pregnant. I go, dude, you got to get rid of that mustache. What? I've had it since I was 15. I go, that's another reason why you got to get rid of that mustache. Well, he showed up at my place where I was staying because I just moved up there eight months, nine months ago. And he looked like a movie star, man.

But he didn't do the jet black hair, so I took him, got that done by a girl. That is hair. I brought him in TV. No one record. We're going to pause this interview for a second. Let's talk about Draft King. The NFL actions in full swing at Draft King Sportsbook, an official sports betting partner of the NFL. We're talking touchdowns, big plays, big, big wins. New customers can bet just $5 on any NFL team.

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Gambling problem. Call 1-800 gambler in Tennessee. Call or text Tennessee Redline 800, 8889-9-9-7-8-8-8-8-8-8-Hope-N-Y or text Hope-N-Y 4-6-7-36-9. All right, back to the interview with Diamond Dallas Page. What do you consider your one match, your biggest match? It doesn't have to be your third championship.

It doesn't have to be a championship match at all. What's your one match that you would like someone to see? If they're like, hey, show me what DDP is all about. Either the Goldberg match where I lost. the world title, or when I was the world champion, the Nitro match where I wrestled Sting and lost the title to him. So both losses? Yes, but they were great matches.

Hold that microphone up a little bit. They were great matches, especially the Sting match is special. Sting match is special because, you know, you have 15, 17 minutes. You know your time. And I knew how to do that. And I would get cues from the rep. So when we're going home, that means we're finishing up a match, right?

So we're going home. Big got about a minute left. And the refuses me and he goes, D, five more minutes. Five more minutes? So Sting's walking at me. I just grab him. I go, go outside.

He's like, what? Now, he's thinking at the time, he knows me, but he's thinking, is he trying to take advantage of me? So to move him now, Now is in a dance. It's like he's a brick. So you'll see me choke him there.

And I go, we got five more minutes. And I chop the hell out. Throw him in. And it was everybody who was close to me would be. They would compare everything to that match. Was Goldberg stiff to work with? Because that's what I've heard that he was so stiff. I'll tell you, he was a great athlete.

Phenomenal athlete. Play football at Georgia. Yeah. I mean, I met. Billy years before and said, you need to come and be with us. And took him four years, but he wanted to play out his football dream, you know. And, but he was so strong and so snug. You know, you had to give it back to him as hard as you could.

Like, wrestling matches are worse than any fight I have ever been in. Even though we're trying not to hurt each other, you know, we go out there and especially if it's your buddy, you can really lay it in, you know, because don't, Make it look weak, you know. Do you go harder on your friends than you do? Yeah, sometimes, you know, sometimes. Because you trust? Because there's a trust.

Yeah, they know I'm not going to hurt him, you know. And Billy, you know, he never wanted to hurt anybody. But to him, to Bill, it had to be real. And that's what got him so. I mean, there was a picture one time I saw in USA Today. You know, he used to do the cartoon thing. And it was a picture of Michael Jordan that they, had taken off the wall and sitting in the garbage and Bill Goldberg's picture was going up there.

I was like, oh, my God. But that's like wrestling is so, it changes, you know, the way people do things. Look at the NFL. Was there ever, was there ever any fireworks ever in the NFL before Nitro and Raw started kicking their ass on the ratings? They made, they changed. So you know, we're hearing all these storylines about these players. You've got to care about the characters. And for people to care about sport entertainment,

because, you know, it's still sports. It's athletics. But, you know, it's predetermined. It's a story. I was being interviewed for Ready to Rumble. And everybody's being so cool. The New York City, the big premiere is coming out. And there's this one guy I could just tell, you know,

he don't respect what we do. So I asked him. I said, can I ask you a question? He said, sure. I said, you don't respect what we do, do you? I said, honestly. I said, not really. I said, well, let me ask you a question.

I said, do you like Broadway? Of course. I go, what's your favorite play? It was fandom of the opera. I said, I don't want to spoil this for you, but the guy doesn't really get burnt with the oil. You know, and I mean, the crew burst out laughing. And that's not near as athletic. Yeah, he's not even understanding the sport.

We're running out of time. I got a few questions. I want to talk about your yoga and your podcast. But just quick answers, because I know I would be here for three hours with you. Otherwise, do you get to keep the belts once you win them? Yes. So do you have three World Championship belts? No, you get to keep the first one.

Okay. And then they just make another one? Yeah. Well, they're always constantly making them. The only way you'll know the real big gold, WCW big gold, the top is bent. And I don't know how that thing ever got bent, because it's bronze and gold-plated.

It's like, I don't know how it got bent, but that's how you know what the real one is. Do you ever, did you ever run into fans, and they were so over the top and so just out of their minds, enthusiastic, that you're like, bro, chill out. Like, we're actors and athletes,

but I'm not actually going to kill this person. Today, people look at me, like their uncle that they loved that that they grew up with that was there for them that's how people treat me and uh i do get people that are overzealous yeah i can still 25 years later you know you're like chill dude we're just normal people here yeah um the documentary i want you talk about that for a second because again i watched it the resurrection of resurrection of jake the snake and just from the human element aside from the wrestling like i was so moved by it So what inspired you to take this and actually want to take that message and take it public?

Without Jake's guidance, Dusty was my business sense and my brother. Jake was, he's the first guy to ever believe in me. I always tell people never underestimate the power someone gives you by believing in you. And he believed in me. And that is one of the greatest ever, you know, greatest psychologist ever that he believes me. He thinks I can be a top guy and I don't see it yet. But eventually, like I said, you've got to come from the inside out. Eventually, I did see it.

And then I knew I was going to achieve it and get that spot. But without Jake, I couldn't have been there. I tried to help him so many times, but he just wouldn't listen. But that day that I called him, and I sent him the disabled veteran, you've seen that video of Arthur Borman. That video, it's probably got a billion views on it between my stuff and everything. I changed one guy's life. I inspired one guy.

He's inspired millions and millions of people. So I sent that to Jake. That was like my proving ground. And Jake agreed. And I said, listen, you're over 300 pounds now. If you can lose 20 pounds, I will take care of everything. I will move you to Atlanta. I will take care of all your bills.

I'll take care of everything. And we're going to rebrand you. Back then, Jake was making like 500 bucks a night. Now he makes $5,000. You know, he's living his best life at 67. Now, do we have a lot of hurdles along the way? Oh, yeah. But when we finally got to it, like the day we left,

that's the first day of film, me and Steve, you said, so what do you think? I said, I don't think I'm ever going to be able to have a real conversation with my buddy again. The fog, when you're booze, pills, coke, and crack, the fog on your brain, it takes years to lift. today, me and Jake do a DDP Snake Pit, a podcast, and I love being there with him.

We just went and saw Aerosmith. We flew in the Boston just for the night. He's back with his wife, Cheryl, from back in the Rick Rood days. You know, I mean, that to me is, that's God's work, too. And I was going to mention that. The DDP Snake Pit podcast is you and Jake. I mean, it all comes back. It's like circled twice.

It's not even full circle. It's like circled twice at this point. I do want to mention Relentless because all that you're talking about is in Relentless. I mean, it's you going, hey, I've had people that have helped me. Let me see how many people I can help now. I think people should check out Relentless. If they want to watch Relentless, where do they go? Amazon Prime.

They're both, Resurrection Jake the Snake and Amazon Prime. I'll tell you one thing, Bobby, I'd love to come back and talk to you when it's ready to come out. But I've been filming and with my business partner, Steve You, who is the greatest storyteller ever. He's the director of both of those Relateless Sand Resurrection Jake to Snake and the Arthur video among others. But we'd started, we finished filming a month ago, change or die? It's a docu-series, right? Doctu-series.

It's going to be powerful. Is Buff Bagwell involved in that? Yes, he is. I've seen some stuff about that. I'm a big fan. Like when I say I'm a big fan, I'm not lying. No, I can tell. I can tell.

You're knowledgeable. You know about it. And I've seen, And we can end on this. I've seen you doing interviews about how yoga has changed your life. And was it Atlanta or Florida? Where are you doing yoga for the moment? Where did it start?

Let me only clear. See what that says? DDPY. Right. And then why am I branding a Diamond Dile Beeges Yoga? DDP yoga. I'm branding a DDPY now because I want people understand it's not just yoga. Like maybe 25% yoga.

But it was a hook in the beginning to get people to go, wait a minute. He's doing yoga. Just as like, what's the anticipation? of a yogi, I don't know, a wrestler, you know, but the bottom line is, is that this is a fusion that is the fountain of youth. Like, you see, I've been sitting here for 30 minutes with you. At any point in time, my flexibility, my back is about here. Yeah. This is cold. Wow, you can, he's, he's putting his head under his, I can't touch my feet, my ankles now. Wow. Wow. Yeah. It's tried so big. You can start it. You got to take it out. Okay, now he's doing.

he's lifting his foot up to his hip and now he's doing a thing I've only seen girls doing yoga wow that's I mean that's flexible women I can't do that that's called core strength that's called I can never do that and I'm always jealous the girls who can

and yoga when I go so if anything this is yoga for people who wouldn't be caught dead doing yoga and I used to feel like that because I was like yoga who goes to yoga but then I would do some of these classes

and how do people because you can do your You have like, I read like 70,000 subscribers. Yes. How would someone subscribe if they don't live? Anywhere, anywhere in the world. We have people all over the world. And you can get it for free for seven days to try it.

And the biggest thing I have on there, and it's the yellow brick road. It's called the list. If you pull up the app, the first thing it's going to come up is the list. And what's the app listed as though? Because I'm seeing Diamond Dallas Page Fitness. I'm seeing Diamond Dallas Page Yoga. If you put if you just pull up on your, on your app, I would tell go to DDPyoga.com or DDPY.com because that's where the best prices are.

We have to raise the prices on iTunes because they gouge everybody. You know, Amazon and iTunes, they gouge the people for what their price is. So we have to raise it. If you go to DDPY.com, you get seven days free and you can get it for like 30% off of what the regular price is. I can't believe how flexible you are. I mean, that's unbelievable. How old are you now? I'll be 67.

That is crazy. That is crazy. His foot was in the air. Not even just at your, like your presentation, how you look. You're as fit as anybody that comes in here. Yeah. I can't believe you're 67. I can smoke anybody.

And I mean, anybody who's with the Titans, if they do my workout with me, they can't keep up with a close to 67-year-old cat. And if I was a player who played for, any of the NFL, NBA, I don't care what, I got so many guys who do it in WWE and AEW. Like so many independent guys,

I'll give the greatest example would be A.J. Stiles. He's 45 right now. And if anybody's ever seen that cat work, he springs off the rope, flies 25 feet in the air, comes crashing down on cats. He is probably one of the toughest cats,

pound for pound on the planet. But he does my stuff five days. a week so he can still live the dream. If I was going to be in the NFL, knowing your one injury away from your career is over, you know, unless you got the monster money like Dak or any of those guys who had the big money, they get hurt, they get to come back. The other guys, they get let go. And they're only going to let you get hurt so many times.

I look at Jericho. When Jericho blew his back out at 41, they said his career was over. Three months with my program, he's back in a. ring and headline WrestleMania with punk. And today he's 51. He just signed another three-year multi-million dollar deal.

So if I do it, I can be a WWE champion. That's what I heard. This is it. I just heard it. I'm thinking it. I'm dreaming it. I'm seeing it.

Listen, Diamond or Page, I don't know what to call you. Call me Dallas. Dallas. Big, we've spent 45 minutes here. Again, I could do

two hours easily. Just talking, just chopping it up. Come back. I would love to. Come back. I'm a massive fan. You are extremely inspiring in your story and the way that you give back because of your story and the way that you move forward. So in all three ways, from what you've done, what you're doing, and the way you're moving forward and helping others.

So I'm very inspired by you. It's been an honor for me. You guys can follow on Instagram is Diamond Dallas Page. One of the greats. There's a reason you're in the Hall of Fame. And not at W.D. beat my heart, Hall of Fame of my heart too. You're in the heart.

Bobby said one last thing. Don't listen to a word I said about any of my program what Bobby said. Just go on Facebook. Everybody's got Facebook. DDP yoga. One word. It's not mine.

It's a member site. There's over 74,000 people there, and you just won't believe the stories in the way that everybody helps everybody. That's the strongest thing. It's a zigzigler thing. You can get whatever you want, as long as you help and help people get what they want.

There he is. My hero and yours, Diamond Dallas Page. Thank you, brother. That's awesome, man. That's awesome. All right, hope you love the interview. I did. You can watch the video up on the YouTube channel. You have to watch it because you can see him put his foot over his head.

He's so flexible. Next. He really is. He does yoga. It's amazing. He does yoga. It's 66. It's like, check it.

In jeans. In jeans. It's crazy. In jeans. So on Friday's show, Rich Eisen will be on with us. SportsCenter anchor, Rich Eisen's show, NFL Network. So pretty pumped that Rich Eisen's going to be on Friday show. Other than that, Mikey, I think that's it.

That is it. I think that's it. So let's go around the room here. Final thought as we play our song that sounds almost like Leonard Skinner. But it's not. But isn't. Complicated man. I love that.

Yes. Eddie, final thought. Man, you know my final thought. It's a great day to day. And the rest of the week's great because the Cowboys finally got a win. And I'm so happy, man. And I got to watch it with my father-in-law, who was in town. And when I got home, I got home right on time to watch the game, he says, we're really going to watch this crap. And he's a Cowboys fan. I said, yes, let's just see, let's just see

what happens. And after the first quarter, he's like, hey, we got a game. I'm so glad you turned this on. And sure enough, we got the win. So happy, Bones. Thanks for bringing that up. That's cool, buddy. Yeah. I told Eddie, too, we're getting the early flight and we're just going to act like we have to get home. You're going to say that? Our wives don't listen to this. They might. They won't. He said, we're getting the early flight, and so we can get home for 3.30 games. We're never going to address that publicly. We're going to act like it's the only flight there is.

And so we got home. It worked out. And it worked out just fine. We got to watch the full game, right? We got home right in time. Final thought, kick off Kevin. My final thought is I'm going to change my team. Oh, he's changing his team.

Oh! Have you, how much money are you in for? Just the one on a collegiate team. Okay, who are you going? I'm going with Georgia. I'm switching from Bama. Nobody has. Georgia? No. I have Georgia.

Oh, you can't change, dude. Can't change. Mike, you want to change? I do not. I wouldn't either. You've been going to change, huh? Yeah, man. Yeah, because Georgia's... They're awesome. Awesome. And right number one. It's the stud, Brock Bauer. They are rolling right now. Well, I'm sorry, sorry you couldn't change.

That was fun while it last time. Who's my NFL team now? Can't City? You have... Yep. Ken City. Am I the only one? Yep. Nice. I love it. And then my college team is still Arkansas. All right. Yep. Yeah, yeah. You like that? You want to change it?

I do not. Okay. Anybody else want to change their teams? No. I'm sitting good right now. Speaking of Kansas City, my final thought is a lot of people making fun of this guy, Kurt, but not me. I think he's pretty cool dude. Kurt's got the world record for Chief's memorabilia. His collection of Chief's memorabilia consists of 1,110 different pieces,

enough to get him certified. He had to individually count each item with three people's witnesses, an elected official, a police officer, and a Chief's subject matter expert. And he has the most memorabilia, Chief Memberbillian. Oh, good for him. I got a lot of Arkansas stuff. Close to that? Nah.

Can't have the cops come over and count them for it. Hey, I wonder if he has Chief's Barbie. Well, I don't know, but I got Arkansas Barbie right next to my right. That's right shoulder. That's from Fox 4, Kansas City. So as far as the Chiefs go, Wu Chief or whatever they say. What are they saying, Chiefs? Is it Hale?

Is it Hale? No, the health to the Chief is what they say? of the president. That's not what the chiefs say. They just do the chop, I don't know. Do they do Tomahawk chop, though? Go chiefs. Yeah.

I should know since I'm the biggest fan. I'm the biggest Cowboys fan too. Yeah, you are. They didn't cost me any money this last week. Dude, see? Thank you guys again, Rich Eisen on Friday. And we're going to say,

we're going to do little things, too, that will not be on the Bobby Bone Show feed. So if you're not subscribed to the 25 whistles feed, you may miss some stuff. And this show comes up on two different feeds right now. So subscribe with the 25 whistles feed, and you'll get all the content. This is up on YouTube. This is on podcast.

I think that's it, huh? I think you're just stretching for no reason. Well, I'm blowing us out because I'm 15 and no, suckas. Yeah. So that is the end of the show. Show's over. See you next time, everybody. Theme song written by me, Bobby Bones, and performed by Brandon Ray.

Brandon's an awesome artist. Follow Brandon on socials at Brandon Ray Music. Thanks to our guests and thanks to our crew. My co-host, Adam Hambrick, at Adam Hambrick, our segment producer at Kickoff Kevin, our video producer at producer at producer Eddie, head producer at Mike Deistro. Most importantly, thank you for listening. I'm Bobby Bones and we will talk to you next week on 25 whistles.