The Bobby Bones Show - SORE LOSERS: Is Lunchbox Becoming a Hated Little League Dad?

Episode Date: April 17, 2026

In this episode Lunchbox explains why he's becoming one of those Little League Dad's everyone hates. We check in on Ray's cat Piper to see if she won the magazine contest that came with a cover shoot and $20,000 grand prize. Plus Ray is still wanting his flowers for doing a solo podcast because he was stressing out we would get in trouble for missing commercials. Also we read some emails and go over our weekend plans. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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We have a podcast. Oh, going back to the good old days. The good old days. And I'm going to do this. I actually want to. So I've been listening to some other podcasts. Oh. And there's a couple things I want to do with sounds that I want to bring.

to this. And then I think, and then we need a goodbye because some of these podcasts I've been listening to, if it's a memorable goodbye, it leaves people like, dang, what are they going to do, man? Oh, my friends are leaving. You and me just don't ever say goodbye. We just like hang up the phone. No, we don't we say, eh, that's kind of hanging up the phone. That's just rude. Like, I don't, I hate that sound. We do a sound people hate. Like, we need to leave people like, damn. like truckers that are sitting in their truck and they're like, damn, my friends are leaving me, man. All right, let's go find a lizard. We leave them with and then don't even say goodbye and hang up on them.

Yeah, the HR people are like, man, my friends are leaving. Let's go find someone doing something salacious at our office. Let's go see if Rabel and Rusini are around here. Hell of a segue, man. And you guys don't know this. This is a little inside baseball. We actually recorded that episode days ahead of time. And in that episode earlier this week, I said she was going to get fired.

And I said if Rable goes 0 for 4, he's going to get fired. So I actually predicted her getting fired from the F. She didn't get fired. She resigned. Thank you. Before it happened. Correct. So, but you guys wouldn't know that.

That's a little inside baseball. But I'm never right. Let's not change that narrative, guys. Don't let the facts get in the way of the truth. Don't let the truth get in the way of your opinion. But Vrable's going nowhere. If they go O for 4. It doesn't matter.

Him sleeping with a. reporter does not affect his job whatever at all the reporter sleeping with the coach to get information that is a conflict of interest the coach he ain't getting information from her what's he going to get oh why they're in bed so what did you say the bills are going to run the bills are going to run the slot x-o oh okay thank you honey well and clay Travis wrote an amazing piece do you guys yes on this and he out kick the coverage and he basically said well What we learn about the contracts and coaches and player trades is always going to come out in the news regardless of an insider. An insider just gets it to us about an hour early or something, but it's always going to come out because it has to.

And he goes, so basically the insider, we're not repeating this episode. So he goes, basically the insider is sucking a to get us information an hour early. We're fine. We don't need the insiders. Just let it come out in the news. I'll 100% agree with you. Like the fact that Adam Schaefter is so busy with two or three cell phones and is always on them trying to get inside information, literally it is going to come out at some point. On a newswire.

Newswire. Something is going to, oh, there's a trade going down. Oh, I'm getting worried. There's a trade. If you would just wait five minutes at the draft, they would announce it when they go to the podium. And they're legally supposed to you can't just secret. have a player come to your team. They have to tell the press. They have to tell people. So it was going to come in a newspaper form or on a website or at a PR site for the NFL.

Eventually, you're just getting it from the Rusini's an hour early. Yeah. But there was one where they did the quotes. Like, I guess Rusini got literal quotes from a coach one time. And they're like, how did she get actual quotes from a coach and a player secretly? Like, nobody else had this. And it was showing how she got. quote unquote. And they're like, how did she get this information? They're pulling up old tweets that she's done.

Well, I saw Michelle Beatle. She had an interesting angle on it. She was like, you guys need to back off Rusini. All these other female reporters, you know, gloating in her, like, demise and whatever happened. She goes, I know about you too. And I will write a book one day. So I would keep your mouth shut.

She goes, look, I made my mistakes. But luckily, I did it before social media was big. luckily I didn't you know and she was like so I've done it too she didn't say what she'd done but she insinuated that she had made mistakes in that realm of her career and she was yelling at all the other women reporters that were coming out to Rusini saying listen I will write a book one day so I am taking note of everybody that is saying something and I will spill your secrets because I know what you've done too and I'm like dang girl I love love the people that go after each other. Chicken fry, Alex Earl and Alex Cooper,

go at it, girls. But chicken fry and Cooper were together, right? They were the, they were what, that podcast? Oh my gosh. No. No. You're not going to want me to explain this because the truckers don't even know no, no, no. Chicken fry in this other large girl had a podcast together. Okay. Chicken fry and the large girl broke up. Got it. So then the large girl went to Alex Cooper's podcast network. Got it. But wait. So that's why Chicken Fry hates Alex Cooper. And then Alex

Earl used to be on the same network as Alex Cooper and they had a falling out. We're still trying to figure out that falling out. And so now they don't like each other. Got it. But who was Alice Cooper with? Alex Cooper did it with some other girl that just disappeared. That she fell out with. Yeah. And so what is that other girl doing?

She started a podcast. Is it working? They were amazing together on Caller Daddy. If you listen to early episodes of our show, we were all over it. It was a great show. But no, it's neither one is what it used to be together. Take note of that. Dang. Oh, interesting, Ray.

Oh, crap. I was about to tell you that I'm about to go do a podcast of Pits, man. Yeah, that falling out, you know, when you tell me, oh, I want to do this long and I want this many commercial breaks, you're very demanding. And it's really getting on my nerves. Oh, yeah, it was very demanding when I told you, hey, I know you're sick. we need to do a podcast for the commercials. I couldn't do one. I got props to everybody on that one.

They're all over us when we're on vacation. But I mean, if that wasn't for me, commercials would have missed. There would have been missing inventory, and I guarantee you the bottom line would have been affected. But that was me, taking it upon myself. I appreciate you stepping up for the brand. I understand it is very hard to step up for the brand every once in a while when I miraculously get sick for an entire week.

I can't help that. That is nature. Nature took its course. Nature got in my body. Nature messed with me. And nature was saying, hey, you need to slow down a little bit. And I appreciate you having my back and doing one pod. And yes, you needed to slow it down a lot of bit.

I've been telling you you're done with the soccer stuff. If your body hasn't told you now you know, you know. No, no. I'm not done with the soccer stuff. that and it's the stuff I love your involvement with the kids pull back a little bit man you don't have to go riding bikes at 9 p.m. when it's 60 degrees out the other day you rode your bike to work yeah drive a car riding your bike to work is good it gets the blood flowing in the morning gets you kind of like wow I'm awake it makes you feel good there's no award at the end of the

rainbow for best dad in the world no no I never said I was best dad. I'm just saying it's just being active. I like to be active. I don't like, I'm not good at sitting around. But I'm, but I'm saying, I get antsy. If your kids are a little sniffly, Ed, I'm not feeling good. You don't got to play catch with them. It's okay. You can take a day off of playing soccer with the kids. So what you're saying is I shouldn't give them a hug when they're sniffly. Hey guys, stay on the other side of the room. Me and Bayer. If one of us is sick, oh, she's going to the girl cave. I'm going to the man cave. So who takes Pablo? Piper.

But Piper just takes care of herself. It's a cat. I don't know. But who does, does Piper pick sides in that? Does Piper go to your room or Beezer's room? Bezor. Oh. And also, I mean, dude, my own nephew almost didn't go to our wedding because of COVID.

So, I mean, sometimes you get, like, your kids, if they're sick, put them in a room. I understand that. Right. It's illegal. No, I get it. I should stick them in a room. I'm saying put them in a cage. I know.

You're just saying put them in a room. Totally understand. I want to be involved, Dad. I get it. And I messed up. And so I appreciate it. I mean, I don't want to go Alex Earle, Alex Cooper route. Alex chicken fry. I don't want to do that. And then everybody's waiting for Alex Earl to speak up because Alex Earl says, wait till my time in the sun. I got stuff to say. And people are like, it's sunny out. What do you have to say? Question. Do people really care? No, but it's fun watching other people fight. Because guys, how pointless is that on this earth? That fight in the realm of the world. grand scheme, it doesn't matter. They're doing it for just a small percentage of people that care. It's making them look like bad people. It was probably over a dude.

But it's not even a fight because they haven't said anything. All they said is, I'm mad at you. They don't say why. So what is the fight? If there was actual drama where it's like, because you did this, this, this and this, and you had some bullet points, I get being interested. But if I just went on the internet and I said,

Hey, I'm mad at Sisson Raimundo. That's it. Well, that is no drama because no one knows why. Right, but what we're learning is there's really no time for drama. The fact that they've wasted now two weeks of their own lives with this drama, you're never getting those back. But yeah, yeah, I really don't care. I mean, unless it's they've slept with each other's dudes and it got a little messy, that'd be awesome. That would be right.

Show me it. Tell me it. But it's not. It's going to be a contract thing. She felt like she was screw. screwed out of some money or that she was tricked at a young age, Alex Earl, because she was just out of college when she signed her podcast deal with Hot Mess. So maybe it was something like that contract type stuff.

But they're both like, and also when I watched it, I watched their first podcast. It felt like Alex Cooper was getting the older woman. And she's now looking at her younger self, Alex Earl. So she was for sure jealous. But she was like, hey, how do you do this? So what do you do with that? Alex Cooper was like, oh, let me pick up a couple tricks. man, I'm an old lady.

Huh. Man, you want to talk about kids sports, or do you want to talk more about Alex DB Cooper? Well, D.B. Cooper, man. That's one for another day. Yeah, what's your theory on that, man? I don't care.

We got to do it live. Pottie? Potty. All right. We're going to do it live. We are the one, two, three. So losers. What? up everybody. I am lunchbox. I know the most about sports. I give you the sports facts. My

sports opinions because I'm pretty much a sports genius. Y'all, it is Sisson from the North Alpha Mail. I love on the north side of Nashville with Beezer. 2.3 acres just got mowed. Fert in the dirt. Didn't have to pay for the dandelion spray. Absolutely amazing. Love Jose for that is honesty. Genuine guy. And he said, I don't want the money. He said it in Spanish. And he said, I'll do in the fall. I'm not taking your money. I'm not taking your pesos. Thank you very much, Jose. Yard looks great, and especially after that storm last night, more rain in the dirt. Furt and the dirt is now really in the dirt. Man, it's great to be in Nashville, Tennessee. Over to you. Didn't see that storm coming. Did that pop up out of nowhere? I got to tell you, being the weather

man that I am, caught me by surprise with my pants down as well. Yeah. Literally. Yeah, we did a bad job because we had the art show last night at the kid's school. The painting's now blank. Well, No, the art shows where you going, I thought we were going to see the art that they had been working on all year, every piece of art they've done. Dad, I taped the banana to the wall. And it was from 5 to 6 p.m. So I was like, man, we got to get there early. We got to get there right at 5. That way we can see all the art.

We can walk the whole school, see everything they've done. Dude, what is your kid? Can bansi? Well, there's two kids going to one school. They've been in school since August, and now it is April. So that's a lot of months. If you do the math, not going to do it in my head, but it's about 12 months. So I go, and you know what they have?

They have one piece of art that you look at. Mom, can I draw you like a French girl? So the kindergartners, they have a self-portrait where they drew their face and then they have their brain that's open. And they drew a bunch of little pictures in their brain what's on their mind. And I was like, oh, that's cool. And my kindergarten and I walked up and I was like, dude, I found yours. Baby Box 2, I found yours because it had his name in the brain.

He goes, that's not mine, Dad. What do you mean? It's not yours? He goes, mine's right there. Oh. And then here comes this chick walking up. She goes, look, here's mine. She's the one that has my son's name on her brain. Oh, she wants him?

She wants him, I guess. I mean, she runs up, gives him a big old hug, but there's his name all across her brain. Who the hell is this girl? And I was like, what's going on here? her parents were quite embarrassed. I'm shocked they actually drew it. Figured AI would nowadays.

No, no, they drew it. And then my son, my first grader, Baby Box 1, you go to the first grade section, and they made ice cream Sundays. What the Picasso? Yeah. So they cut out some circles of different colors, put them on there, put a little dollop of white whipped cream on there, and then put a red cherry on top.

And that was their big art project for the year. I was going to say two things we're lacking on in this country. soccer, we're horrible as a country at soccer and paintings and art. Italy kills us every year, year after year. All of it's over there, not here. You ever seen a kid paint starry night? I don't think so.

That was Vincent Van Gogh. No, I've never seen it, and I didn't see it last night. And so that was the end of the art show. It was one piece of art per person. And I was like, wow. So then I had to go to an event. It was a charity event for kid power, and my wife stayed at the school

that the kids play outside, and then I guess they went to dinner. And the only problem is we left the dog in the backyard. No, what happened last night? It escaped. No, the storm blew in. The storm blew in. And we didn't know the storm was coming. The dog was in the backyard.

And so he was out there in the middle of the storm. I guess he started freaking out and he was able to knock the back. door open. He came inside, but the bad news is the back door was open. It was storming. There was a puddle of water by the back door when they got home from dinner. I mean, who stole my lightning strike sound effect? We had no idea that storm was coming. We wouldn't have left the dog in the backyard. The back door would not have been able to be knocked open and we wouldn't have water all over the back of the house. What was that they just played? Do you hear it?

No, I didn't. I did hear it, but I don't know what that was. I don't know what that is. It says lightnings, right? Does it sound lightnings? Well, the storm was apparently in certain parts. It blew over stuff in green hills. There was tons of water inside the parking garage,

so I think it hit this skyscraper from the north-southwest. And then by us, yeah, the trees, I mean, they were, a good thing they're limber because they were almost horizontal. Yeah, I mean, I got a text from scuba. saying, hey, what's the weather's guys Twitter? I need to follow them. I need to know what's going on. And then we got a message from Baby Box 3 school. The transformer was knocked down.

No electricity. They would try to have it fixed by the morning. Here we are Friday morning. They sent us a message. Still no electricity. Pre-K canceled. Man. So he's got the day off today, man.

And it also makes me appreciate our job because the storm and everything. It just weirded me out. I didn't, because I didn't know about it. So I really didn't have a chance to see it coming along, see the damage it did in other places. It didn't do any damage. It was just a lot of leaves down, a lot of rain. Yeah. Wind, you know, I brought the American flag in.

Baby Box 2, Baby Box 3, bikes, absolutely drenched, left out in the rain. Chairs whipped a little bit, not enough to go fully off the patio so that you're able to know the speed. It never knocks over my golf ball basket, though. It's almost like the wind goes through the golf balls. It's crazy how the wind is. but it'll knock everything else over, except for those golf balls. It's those dimples, man.

The dimples make the difference. That's wild. And so I fell asleep in my sweatshirt, long story short, and I woke up and came to work in the same sweatshirt. Wow. I was like, storm hit, no need to change. Let's just sleep in our stuff and then go to work in the same stuff.

That's really deep, man. And Beezer came in. You don't even have the fan on. Do you just fall asleep to the storm? I kind of did. It was actually soothing. I didn't realize how bad it had stormed until I got out of the charity event because it was in a big old like room and I couldn't hear the I heard the little bit of rain but then I got outside and I'm like

whoa there's leaves everywhere there's puddles everywhere it must have really come down yeah and her parents are in a different city than us and her mom acted like it was a tornado tornatic that's what scuba was nervous about that's what I'm saying and I was like it really wasn't tornado level threat, but there was lightning, not really a lot of thunder, and then the rain, there was big drops of rain and the wind, maybe 40 miles an hour, but I was out in it. I want to feel it. That's how I'm able to really judge it. So I knew it wasn't a threat and went to bed. Good. And we'll take a break and we'll be right back. Happy Pride Month, Toronto. Pride is an opportunity for you to create your own space,

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to you listen to. to your podcast. You know, I don't want to be that dad. I don't want to be that dad in youth sports, but I'm becoming that dad in you sports. Because my oldest one, baby box, he's on a baseball team. It's coach pitch.

We're learning the game of baseball. He's loving the game of baseball. But game number one, show up, look at the lineup, and they got him batting last. Okay, okay. Sounds like me at the Celebrity Softball game. Thanks.

I'll never come back. Always love hitting 15th. Didn't even know that was possible. And they just, at this age, they just stuck them in left field. Oh, Kane Brown won. Lauren Aleta, 14. 15 is some girl named Sarah. 16 is the dog.

That's also a bad dog. 17 is me. All right, great. I will never come back to your celebrity. softball game. Thanks for having me. Cool. That first game he gets up. He only gets about one time. He strikes out.

Plays in left field the entire game. Not one ball goes to left field because they can't hit it that far as young. All right, cool. I'm thinking, you know, every inning you'll switch positions, you know what I mean? Move them around. Get some more playing time. No, no. Just stuck in left field. Okay. All right. That's cool. All right. Second game. New week, new week. All right. Here we go. Here we go.

Let's check that batting order. Maybe box. Maybe box. Batting last. Why is he small? Is he not a good bunter? I'm not sure. I'm not sure.

Right. It's because he's got my last name. No, I may be. It may be. Maybe there's animosity. I don't know. I don't know. You're telling me it's politics already at that age?

Yeah, there's politics everywhere, man. It never stopped. I know. It starts in T-ball when you request to be the Cubs. You're the first coach to request the Cubs, and you don't get Cubs. Starts at the fast food line. Hi, I'll take some French fries.

You mean American fries? Yes. Freedom fries. That's what I want. So I want some freedom toast, please. Freedom toast. With syrup on top. Yes, I'll take an American muffin opposed to an English muffin.

Thank you very much. Anyway, he's batting last again. I'm like, I don't really understand this. And he strikes out two times. He bats twice, strikes out twice. So now we have two games in, three strikeouts, and I'm feeling guilty. One more is the sombrero. Four strikeouts is the golden sombrero.

Yeah, and I'm feeling guilty now because we went and got a new bat because he is, he's had the same bat since T-ball. So three years ago he got a bat and he's a little bit bigger now. It's starting to get a bigger bat. Where'd you guys go, Dicks? No, we played against sports. Go get a used bat. We don't need a brand new bat. We need a $15 bat. And I feel like I got him a bat that's a little

too heavy. That's on you. I know it was on me, but I tried to get him to get the 26 inch, which was a few ounces lighter, swing it better. He's like, no, dad, I really like this bat. I really like this bat. And me being the pushover, dad, I am. I let him get the 27 incher. And I feel like he's just a little slow getting that bat around. It's all about bat speed. It's all about bat speed. And I keep trying to tell him. So we haven't got a hit. And I'm like, hey, bud, why don't we try a lighter bat?

Why don't we try your brother's bat? No, no, dad, it's not a good bat. I'm like, well, let's just try. And we go out and we get a bucket of balls and whack, whack, whack, whack. He's hitting it with the brother's bat. What the Otani? And then he goes, Dad, this bat's no good. Tosses its side, picks up his bat.

Swinging a mess. Swinging a miss. Swinging a miss. Swinging a miss. And I'm like, oh, man. Oh, man. He's like, see, I'm just so much better with this bat. I said, do you do understand the object of this game when you're standing up there is to hit the ball in front of you, not behind you?

Yeah, dad, I'm just, this bat is it. This is the bat. All right, man. All right, cool, cool, cool. So let's go to the third game. We show up to the third game. He's batting last again. tough to see yeah i'd hate to see it hate to see it but they there's run how do you know do you go peek around the dugout and see the lineup hung up no no i just once they start the game i start realizing okay that that's number eight hitter you're watching it play out like that i'm watching it play out

in real time honey what are we on six nine damn it dang man well it's been it's been two and a half innings. He hadn't batted yet. This isn't a good sign. Okay. He'll get up eventually. But I will say he's playing third base. And they finally started moving positions. They started every inning switching positions, letting them play all the positions, every player.

That's great. Way to go, coach. And he's playing third base. Good on you, coach. And it's first and second. This guy hits a piss rod. One hopper right to him. He gets right in front of it. Boom. In the glove. Jogs it over to third. Steps on the bag.

gets out. What is he, Troy Toulouitzky? And I was like, okay, Nolan Ariano, you know what I mean? Look at that glove. Flashing the leather down there at third. Good play Alex Rodriguez when Jeter moved to short. Okay, Scott rolling over there. Yeah, we really like the way you're digging that ball out of the dirt. Hell of a play Vinnie Castia. Oh, way to go, Chris Sabo, you know what I'm saying? Just amazing. I'm like, all right, there we go. Matt Williams. What do you say now? Good play, Max Muncie. Yeah, Monty. Does he play first? Yeah, he plays first. Pages? Podge plays outfield. I think Matt Williams

played third. I may be wrong. He'll play Mooky when they move him over to third. Good player, Ramos Ramirez. You know what I'm saying? Down there third? Good pick. Anyway.

So he comes to the play. You think I'm watching what guys play in the field? I just watch if they get a hit for beat the streak. I don't give a crap where they play in the field. I'm just named you over my child. Way to go, Wade Boggs. Hey, way to pick it. Oh, yeah.

Bagpipes. Jeff Bagwell. He didn't play third. Oh, first? Yeah. He may move to first. Maybe he didn't start at first, but I know he played first. Anyway, he comes to the plate and he strikes out.

Comes to the plate later in the game, he strikes out. Golden Sombrero. Hate to see it. Yeah, we're, this many games in, he ain't got a hit. It's three games in, and he's striking out every time. And now I will say, I will say, the pitching on the team is not the best. Tell him to use ABS. Challenge that.

I will say the pitching is not the best on the team. But I still think it's the bat. And so I say, hey, man. Bring me the bat. I'll bring you the bat. So you can throw it over the balcony. No, I want to see if we can hit with it. We still strike out with it.

So, yeah. We got to get a piece of paper, you, me, and McKitty and see if anybody can hit with the kid's bat. You and me are striking out and crap. We're like, I don't know if it's the bat or we just suck. Or we're just old. man, our back herds. We can't swing it as fast. And I tell him, I said, hey, bud, I really think it's the bat.

You're not getting through there quick enough. You got to, it's got to be, whek, he goes, I'll just swing harder. Tell your son I went with a woman's putter. He goes, I'll swing harder. And I'm like, it's not about swinging harder. It's quicker. Yes. You're quicker.

He's like, no, dad, I'm good. I'm good with the bat. All right. Cool, cool. So last Saturday, Baby Box 2 has a game early in the morning. and Baby Box one has one later in the afternoon. So in between games, he's like, Dad, can we hit balls? So we hit three buckets of balls.

And he's whack, whack, whack, he's hitting it. And I'm like, okay, we got this. We got this. We go into the game last Saturday. Because you guys practiced. Well, we've been practice every week. Right. In the yard?

In the yard? We go to the park. We go everywhere. So you can just play at a park with hard balls? Yeah. You just go out in the grass. and where there's no people and just hit. There's a school.

You can go play in the field at the school after school gets out. That's how you put out windows. Well, we don't go near the school. But you got to have a home run fence. That's true, so he knows how far he hit it. So we go into the game last week, and the coach has this big speech before the game. He's like, hey, guys, just so you know, I changed up the batting order. And that way more, you know, some of you have more opportunities to get up there at the plate and, you know, hit the ball.

And I'm like, oh, and you can hear him saying this. I'm like, good. He switched up the order. Let's go. Yep, here we go. That's my boy. That's what I like to hear. Are you yelling? No, no, no, no. You're quiet at the games? Got to be quiet. No one to put the pressure on the kids.

I read it in a parenting book. No, I just think the kids have a lot going on in their head. And if you're yelling at them, it just adds to it, adds the pressure, the stress, things like that. So you like yell under your breath. Like, you're definitely like, oh. Yeah, oh, for sure. I am tense. I am tense inside. I am, it's eating me up.

I feel bad for him that he hadn't got a hit. And the coach gives this big speech about how he's changed up the lineup. You know, everybody, you know, people are going to have better opportunity to contribute. And I'm like, that is what I'm talking about. My son's still batten last. Is the coach wearing a coach sweatshirt? A t-shirt. You got to get him one.

And so, oh, yeah, you're right. Shop Forward. Soarlosers.com. Um, he switched up the lineup, all right. A lot of kids bat in different places. Not my kid. Not my kid. Wow.

The entire city, your kid bats nine? Yeah. And I'm a little hurt. I'm a little hurt. But I'm not going to be that dad that goes and says something, right? But I mean, he's been striking out. So he proved the coach correct. Well, let's not blame it all on my kid.

Whoa. Let's say that it is coach pitch. And I would say our pitcher is not the. best. Is it underhand? No. Okay, so there is definitely some wiggle room in him not being good. Yes. And it being tough to hit off. Yes. Yes.

And I mean, I swear my dad would throw it to us faster. I'm like, thanks, Dad. So he gets up there and you get five pitches. Do the coaches pitch to both teams or just one? You pitch to your team and other coach pitches their team. Like, okay. Because my dad, we would go and there'd be a woman coach and she sucked so bad.

Not sexist, just saying. And my dad would pitch to both teams. Okay. I like that. It was like his thing. Yeah, well, he was a professional pitcher, so he's pretty good. So you get five pitches, but you get three strikes. If you swing at three, you're out.

Yeah, I've watched a game before. No, no, but this is, I'm just telling you how it works. ABS, can they challenge? No challenge. They got to tap the hat. There's kids that want to tap the hat, but they don't. I mean, one kid did this. to go the other day. Well, I mean, that was four balls. I should walk. And I was like, well,

that's not how it works, man. You got to hit the ball. So he gets up that first play to pingerance. First pitch, swing and a miss. Second pitch, swinging a miss. Still got one more, kid. And this is where I am tight, wound up, like, oh my gosh, what's going to happen? You sure that ain't you're testy? Next pitch. He just lets it go by. Perfect pitch, right down the middle. Good eye. Right down the middle. Right in the wheel. That should have been a smack. Next pitch. He just watches it.

It was inside. Good eye. Good eye. But now we're down to the last pitch. No matter where it is, you have to swing. Fifth pitch. Got to swing. Fifth pitch comes in.

Fow ball. All right. Stay in a life. So you can keep fouling them off. You can keep fouling them off. Next pitch. Fow ball. Okay.

Okay. All right. All right. Next pitch. Fowball. Yes, go. Oh, my gosh. You're right on him, kid.

All right. Next pitch. Your wife yelling at him? No. No. Next pitch. Line drive between short and third. Base hit.

Base hit. And I am feeling amazing. Which bat? The heavy bat. Okay. The heavy bat. And the monkey is off his back. I'm feeling great.

And I'm like, all right. I cannot wait until he gets up to the bat. again so I can see, you know, maybe this is the thing he needed to happen to feel his confidence. And now he's just going to rip the ball. What did he do? Did he pimp it a little bit? Was he doing it? No, no, he ran.

He just ran hard. The kids now they're slamming the bats. Yeah, he's not a bat slamer because it was his first end of the season. Don't pimp it, son, run it out. It felt great. It felt great. Did he go to the outfield? Yeah.

Wow. I mean, after the hop. But that's still good. Yeah. And I'm feeling good. I'm feeling good. So I'm like, all right, second time I'm out to play it. Let's see, let's see what happens.

Oh, wait. I never got to see him hit a second time because he's batting last. Me, it's a softball game. I batted like once. Thanks, Rick. Really appreciate you put me on the celebrity softball team as a one hit guy. Everybody else hit five times. So 55 minutes into the game, I had to leave because Baby Box 3 had a T-ball game.

So I didn't get to see him hit a second time because he's still batting last in the lineup. That's why I beat the streak. you always picked the lead off guy. Number nine hit her, you'll see him like three times. And so I immediately, right when I get to the tee ball game, I text the wife. And I say, how did the second at back go? She was talking. And she goes, oh, fantastic. Smacked it right back up the middle. Two for two? Two for two. She goes, and he got up a third time. He hit a little dinker in front of the plate, got to first base. It wasn't a great hit, but he made contact.

and I was just like, wow. And he came to me when he got to the tee ball game. He's like, Dad, Dad, did you see my first hit of the season? So that lets me know he was keeping track in his head. He knew what was going on that he hadn't had a hit. Wow, what a Mensa member. So three for three, feeling good. That's worthy of ice cream.

So now I don't want to be that dad. But tomorrow we have a baseball game. Hell of a tease. And my son better not be batting last. He better not be batting last for the fifth game in a row. Then I don't know if I talk to the coach or not, but I will let you know on Monday. That is a hell of a buildup that only the best podcast do. Will he bat last?

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A soccer game is a festival. It's not just a game. It's your culture. I took an elbow to my head, which cracked my skull. It is an American game. The Brazilians don't like hearing that, though. Are they the only ones that don't like that? Nobody likes that.

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And we've had some incredible guests so far. And now our good friend, Nile Horn, is joining the show. How's it going, boys? Hey, Niall. It's the same thing with Slow Hands. Slow Hands is not about anything else, really, is it? You know, or taste so good can't be about food. You do the same, Nick, with some of the stuff that you've done.

You too, Joe. Drop what you're doing and listen to Hey Jonas on the IHeart app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Ray. Yeah, I'm here, man. I don't know. I don't like what you've done to our listeners. There we go. I don't like how you've strong the listeners along.

This ain't on me. It's on you. It's on the other guy as much as anybody else. No, no, no. This ain't on me. You came in here. I gave. And for like, cherry $300 for a party bus. I treat our listeners like they're my own. You do.

You've dropped Cappy on his head. I love that man like he's a brother. I pushed him all over Nashville. Don't say I'm not there for our listeners. That's true. That old guy from Florida, you've been nice to him too. Joe? Yeah.

You've been nice to the listeners, but you've also strung the listeners along. Because you came on here. You've been on the Facebook page, and you've been begging them. you've been reeking of desperation. Hey, vote for Piper. Vote for Piper. Hey, Piper's going to win this contest. Piper's going to win me $20,000 and be in a cat magazine.

I just need you to vote 50 times per day. And we heard about this Piper contest for a month. And oh, Piper's moved up to third place. Help me get Piper to the next round. And then it's radio silence. And at this outset, I said, Ray, that's not a real contest. Piper has zero shot of winning. And you were like, I may have paid $50 to get extra Piper votes yesterday.

And I said, you're just wasting your money. There is no shot for Piper to win. Those contests aren't real. I tried to explain it to you. But you kept begging and pleading and voting and posting on the Facebook page. on the Instagram story. Hey, go vote for Piper. Get your point. Piper for president. Ray, what the hell happened to Piper? Did Piper win? Yeah, we got got. Yeah, they pulled the old wool in front

of our eyes, ma'am. Pulled the rug. It was a scam. It was a weird. It was a, it wasn't a scam. It was just a way for them to make money for animal charities, which is great. I paid $75 in three different transactions all on Friday. nights after a couple beers. It had Jenny McCarthy, and I believe it was Jenny McCarthy. So it was legit, but the way they

get you is it's a huge, it's a Ponzi scheme. It's a huge Facebook thing. And they say, hey, keep the voting up until Friday you want to be top three. And so you're like, perfect. Top three in the nation? Holy crap, I'm about to win money. Then they say you're top three in your group. And then the next week,

keep voting, you'll be top three. Holy crap, top three in the world. Top three in your county. Then after that, it's top three in your city. Top three in your state. Top three in the name. We never made it even to state. She was top three three times,

and I don't think she made it out of a, like, it was like, it went from group to like, it was never county. It was like area, area. And then it was, network bro so it was just this huge network a huge web of all these people trying to get their pets

into the top three all the while you're thinking your cat dog is pretty cat I believe it was was pretty close to top three it must have gone on for months they keep stringing these people along and then finally there's some top three but yeah Piper lost out she was top five

and Beezer said it's done we're not doing anymore it's not a scam but it's pretty dang close she was she was like top three on our street i got scammed out of seventy five dollars dude yes and they got seventy five dollars from you they got probably hundreds of dollars from other people and that's why i tried i'm sad that piper lost i'm sorry for your loss man i was cheering for you guys from the sidelines i never voted i refused to vote but i just wanted to give an update because people have been saying did piper win we've got an email after email after email at her email after email saying, hey, is Piper a champion?

Where can I get that Piper magazine? Yeah. And I didn't know the answer. The final straw was when we saw, you would scroll down. It would say in your, let's just say region, even though that's not the terminology they used. They used other stuff that always made you think you were closer. And so me and Baines were like, holy crap, this is actually winding down. And then we scrolled down and there was only X's through 20 of the cats.

and there was like 90 of them, and then that was your specific, but we didn't know what was after region. Like after region, what was that? Territory. Then after that, it was combined regional states. Then it was your nation. Then it was your world. Then it was your globe.

Then it was your Earth, Universe, Milky Way. It kept going. They got us for like three straight weeks, though. Because I made three separate payments, three separate weeks. A 50, a 30, or a, I think it was all 25s. that's why I feel bad for people. But it definitely gets older people on Facebook. And I went to a charity.

So that's why it's not 100% scam. But damn, it's close. It feels so gross and so dirty. And that's why I never participate in those voting things. Because I don't believe they're ever real. And I don't think you can ever really win. And so that's why I want to apologize. I don't know the guy's name, but his wife and him listen to the pod.

And she loves the Chicago Cubs. And she was up for some vote for her and she can be the teacher of this. And I just immediately said, man, that's the same thing that happened to Piper. They're going to string these poor people along, acting like she's up for some award in some magazine when she's never going to win that award. And so I never repost those. Because I repost one. I got to repost all of them. And I got to buy into this scheme, this Ponzi scheme, this scam that is the stupid.

been voting things that there is no real winner. Multi-level marketing. Multi-level marketing. Oh, look, my kid has a chance to be the Oreo dipper. Like, what? No, that's not real, guys. I just can't help, but no. So to that,

the sore losers, that his wife was up for the teacher thing, let me know if she won. Let me know she advanced to the next round. Did you ever get to the end and realize, man, this is a Ponzi scheme that I just got taken to the cleaners, and it was never going to happen, or did she really win?

Because maybe that was a real award at your school. But when it's one of these on the internet, oh, I nominated my cat, my dog, my neighbor, they're just not real. But sore losers fantasy is 100% real. 100% real. Except for the year you snuck your dad and chest day in. That was one year. That was one year.

Relax. And it was with the other guy. So, I mean, those were already muddied waters. But they at least fill out a lineup every week. you know you let other people in they don't fill out of the lineup at least they care and they're passionate about it well and see we've already kind of screwed up on that people have brought up great points on the cruise they said we should have given out a couple golden tickets for people to join the fantasy football why would we i don't know that wasn't our cruise i had a couple martinis but also they said when we do

the convention we should give out a couple golden tickets that is true that's what i'm saying we've missed out on a couple because bro and one of the it was batters box division there was like 11 women and seven of them check their team. That is true. We should at some point if you buy a ticket to the convention your inner, you get, one of the people at the convention is automatically drawn into the league. That's genius. Whoever came up with that idea, you'll never make a dollar, but we stole the IP

to that idea and it's gene. You didn't come up with it. What? It was the listeners. It was probably the St. Louis couple and they go, hey, you really should. Yeah, they're like, you should just announce it. Hey, if you came here, you're going to do a drawing. couple people making into fantasy football for coming to our stupid live podcast. It could have been Randy a tour, but I don't think he's that smart. I don't think he could have come up with that. Cappy?

No, definitely not Cappy. Who else could it have been? You don't think, uh, no, no, it wasn't Callaway for sure. For sure wasn't Calloway. It could have been day ones. They're pretty smart. Yeah. It's not Jesse Calderon.

No, he couldn't have done it. I don't know. I don't know, but I got an email. Ray, your solo podcast was great. love the investing segment. I'm glad you did it. You guys need to get nastier. F it. Don't be a P lunch. What? Thanks, Craig. Yeah, we're the only ones that don't swear. I listen to all these other podcasts. Dude, they just rip. But I don't know what I'm being a P for. How am I being a P? I was sick. There's nothing I can do about it. I tried to come back on Wednesday and was

told no. It wasn't like I wasn't trying to be here. I was trying to be here. But I don't think you realize, but also we should swear more. Because if you watch a TV show, you don't realize how much they're swearing. I just think it holds us back from saying how we truly feel about things. When you're like, ah, I don't, you just say an F word, because then that'll help you get to your next thought. Okay, when we come back from this commercial break, I'm going to start cussing over and over again.

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We go beyond the game to the people and the stories that make it great. A soccer game is a festival. It's not just a game. It's your culture. I took an elbow to my head which cracked my skull. It is an American game.

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It's the same thing with Slow Hands. Slow Hands is not about anything else, really, is it? You know, or taste so good can't be about food. You do the same, Nick, with some of the stuff that you've done. You too, Joe. Drop what you're doing and listen to Hey Jonas on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your podcast. You may have to do this one on your own.

Hey, what the, are you doing this weekend? Are you... Getting nothing. It's going to be me, Beezer, and Piper. And hopefully there's no fucking storms because it scared us out of us. And then we do have a church gathering on Sunday. The nephew is doing something at the Catholic Church. So looking forward to that, it's a huge day in a Catholic boy's life.

So I'm kind of new to that. So that'll be interesting. But it's just a totally chill, relaxing weekend. because I believe it's i heart in a couple weekends, which means I'm going to Charleston. So we're getting up for that, Airbnb, a couple good restaurants, making sure the Airbnb checks out, seeing where we are address-wise, are we shopping, are we going to do a beach day? Are we going to meet up with our friend Katie? She's always a vibe.

So there's some things that need to be sorted out. But yeah, dude, I love it. We're wide open. Yeah, well, let me tell you what I got. I got baseball game tomorrow at 10 a.m. another baseball game at 11.30 a.m. and then the other baseball game at 12 p.m. So that's my day tomorrow.

There you go. All right, ma'am. That's what I'm going to be doing, man. And I'm going to go see Shane Gillis tonight. Down at the Bridgestone, man. You got to end it on your own. But make it a good goodbye. Hey, you guys have a great weekend.

We're out of here. And, uh, I don't, I, what was that? I thought we were going to do like a real nice goodbye, dude. Did you really? And when he texted me, he had to go to the bathroom. He really had to go to the bathroom. That's awkward.

Uh, yeah, you guys have a great weekend, man. Let me see if I got any other emails I want to read. Ah, man. So to all our friends out there, you know what I mean? Be safe. Be kind. Be loving. I don't know what the heck that says.

I don't know. I don't know what goodbye he wanted me to do, but, you know. Uh, yep. All right. Here we go. Uh, yeah. Where did he go? He really went to the bathroom.

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We're here, since everyone has a podcast, we wanted to as well. And we've had some incredible guests so far. And now our good friend, Nile Horn, is joining the show. How's it going, boys? Hey, Niall. It's the same thing with Slow Hands. Slow Hands is not about anything else, really, is it? You know, or taste so good can't be about food.

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