The Bobby Bones Show - SORE LOSERS: The Box Family Holiday Adventures!

Episode Date: January 9, 2026

In this episode we hear all about Lunchbox's trip to Texas for the Holidays. When you travel with the Box family you have to expect some form of chaos and few trips to the doctor. Plus Lunchbox got challenged to a one on one fight in the woods to find out who is tougher and the reason the Box family had to get a hotel on their way to Austin. We find out why Batters Box refused to watch the Bears vs 49ers with Lunchbox and Ray has turned a little bit Jamaican after his trip over the holidays. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Is it already going? Yeah. Okay. Here we are, man. Oh, man. Did you listen to the Box family episode? No. I need to.

I want to. Do you think we should start recording? I thought you already did. No, the record, record with video. Well, here's the problem. Did we ever get the audio fixed? Because we did, you know, tease all these people and say, we got video, we got video. Then we listened back to the video and it was so overmodulated that you couldn't even enjoy the video.

There was no chance. And then I don't even know if I'm in screen or if I'm in frame because, and it's not even switching. I'm talking. Oh, maybe you should talk. Yo, yo, yo, check out my levity. I want to live good. No, then goes to three. It's not even on me.

Well, no, because slap idiots, screwed with the cameras. These people that come in the studio, there's no need for them to mess with the camera. Just leave the camera where it is. If you're not recording, it doesn't matter. All right. I don't want the cameras to affect your stories today. Go. I'll tell my stories in February.

No, no, no, no. No, but you've been gone for a whole month. I've been gone for an entire month. Right. So you guys, I'm going to talk about Jamaica Man in March, March 8th. Make a note. Put it on your calendar, March 8th. Ray comes back from Jamaica, Ma.

Hey, man, man, man. Oh, man, man, do, do, do, do. Oh, man, it feels good to be back, though. Not really. Not really. Everybody says, oh, man, feels good to be back. Does it really? It feels terrible to be back.

It feels good to be back, Ma'an. Feels good. I would stay gone for months if you let me. But the stories that I found out, Mon, one love, man, would make you feel blessed that you're able to live this life, Mon. So you're coming back to work. You're able to come to work as easily as you did. Some of the stories, Ma'an, that I heard, Ma'am.

They would change your life, Ma'am. So that is why we're here. That is why I'm here. I get you can stay in Texas for a month. I can't wait to hear your stories on March 8th about how we should be appreciative and how your life has changed and how in Jamaica it's different, Ma'an. But here in America, everybody, oh, I'm so glad to get back, man. Stop.

Who is glad to get back? I mean, I would like to say, I'm glad to do this podcast again. It's cool. But, man, to give me another week off, I would take another week off if I could. And a lot of those people hate their families, Ma'am. That's true. They don't like spending time with their families. So we should start the show because then we're going to start a journey as we hit the open road for Texas.

Nashville to Austin to Houston and back. Down to the equator, man. I don't know where the equator is. Jamaica, man. Is it really down there? It's close. It's above it, but close. Where are we?

We're above it. We're above it, yeah. Way above it? We're pretty above it. Weird stuff happens at the equator, man. No idea. Northern hemisphere, Southern hemisphere, man.

Do you know any? cities. Could you name me one place that is on the equator? I want to say Ocerica below. I mean, it's got to be South America for sure is on the equator. I'm no, like I literally have no, no, no, we don't Google. We don't worry about it. Well, someone will email us. I don't care. I don't know. Never even thought about it. And does it really feel different around the equator?

Or is it just an imaginary line? Like what? It isn't imaginary. It's going to blow your mind. I believe we don't Google on this show, but I believe that's what flips summer and winter. So if you're below the equator, then their weather is opposite ours. If you're above the equator, it's opposite below the equator. Okay, so that's the only significance is the seasons are different

but low and above. Correct, because it's the earth, the globe is a circle sphere. Half of it. Allegedly. Allegedly. Once it rotates, that's when the weather changes. Okay. So like when I was in Costa Rica,

it was during the summer and it was our summer, it was almost their like, it was rainy season. So it was a different, because it's below the, so Costa Rica actually might be very close to the equator. Okay. I just really had no idea the significance of the equator

because everybody was like talking about the equator. And I just never knew. And maybe I did in school, but now I just have no idea what the equator does. But now you know now. Now I know. Thank you. Well.

Okay. Cool. So if somebody says like, I was in South America, you're like, holy crap, you had a completely different weather pattern. They would have summer now. Ah. So like Australia is in summer now. Yes.

And then when we're in summer, they're in winter. Okay. What about China? I believe it's above the equator. So they're with us. They're with us. But then where it gets kind of confusing is Miami's always hot. we flip-flop.

Michigan's cold. Yeah. And we're nowhere near the equator. Yeah. Texas was hot the whole time. They're below the equator. It was fantastic. I'm telling you, man.

When we were packing for the trip and I looked and it was going to be 75 the whole time, I said, boys, put away the pants. Grab your shorts. We're going to Texas. I mean, it was, there was no need to bring pantalones. Come. And the boys, they said to me, 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'll give the sports facts, my sports opinions, because I'm pretty much a sports genius. What up, y'all. It is Sizz. I'm from the north. I'm an alpha male.

I live on the north side of Nashville with Beezer above the equator. We do have 2.333 acres. We got two kids at Vanderbilt probably defrosted. They need to be checked on. Justin's been in Michigan for the past month. And yeah, we are now back at work finally. After vacating for, oh, yeah, five days. That was it.

I actually had to do crap around here over the holidays. So don't get me started. Over to you, ma'am. Well, if it makes you feel better, the baby boxes, they did make an appearance on the family episode. So if you did have a chance to tune in, you will hear them in that episode. Not as good, not as much airtime as they do when they come in here one-on-one.

but they did make an appearance. Let me just tell you, man. So we decided last minute to go to Texas before Christmas. The plan originally was my wife was like, I really want the kids to wake up in their bed on Christmas and, you know, Santa to visit our house, and then we'll leave on the 26. I said, if we leave on the 26, we are rushing down, rushing back.

There's not much relaxation time. Whoa. Since when are you rushing? Ha! Gotcha. Well done. Well done. So we talked about it and she was like, you know what, you're right. We just never did that as kids. We always stayed home for Christmas. I said, we traveled maybe once every four years to go see Grandma and Grandpa on Christmas. And I said, those memories, the road trips waking up and Grandma and Grandpa being there when you open presents and Santa has visited. Those were just as memorable as the ones as at our house. You get to have cousin time. She was like, all right, I guess we can do that. So it starts off with we could leave that Friday. Right when we get off work, let's go.

Because as kids have a half day on that Friday, we get in the car and we hit the road. And she's, oh, okay, all right, that's what we'll do. And then we started looking at it, neighborhood Christmas party that night. So we can't leave on Friday. What, they have a half day at the learning center? No, at the elementary school. Got it. And so it's half day.

So all right, cool. So we go to the neighborhood Christmas party. was it fun, was it great? Could I skip it altogether? 100%. Didn't need to be there. Didn't, and you want to know who I talked to at that party? Usual suspects?

The exact same families that I already know. Three different families. We all stood in the upstairs of this party. Ginky. Talk to each other and talked to no new families. Didn't talk to anybody new at all. Why branch out? Why?

Why meet new people? What was the point? We already know these folks. We're comfortable with these folks. Let's just have a conversation with them. And that's exactly what we did. And we didn't drink a lot. You know why?

Because we got to wake up on Saturday and hit the road. Got to hit the open road. That'd be the worst. And we decided we're going to try to do the entire 12-hour drive in one day. We are going to hit the road at 8 a.m. And make it to Austin in one day. And we said we were going to pack the car the night before. Did that happen?

No. Right. So we had to wake up Saturday morning, start packing the car. We were going to be on the road by 8 o'clock. 9.30, we're finally rolling out. Dude, I would never marry you. That would not fly with me. Hold on.

Don't act like it was me that you were waiting on. Let's not act like I was the one that slowed us up. Bro, we didn't have to be to the airport until 5 a.m. We left at 2.30 a.m. I would never marry you. That wouldn't fly with me. I may be a little off in those times if Bayes or listens to this, but you get my point. There is no way I would be married to you.

That would not fly in my household. We're at the airport two and a half hours early. That's stupid. That's absolutely stupid. That's how we both roll, though. That is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard in my life. Continue. Anyway, so we get in the car and we drive, and we are going to make it in one day.

We are four hours from Austin, Texas. When Baby Box 2 says, hey, I got to go poop. And I said, no problem. We'll pull over at the next gas station. So we hit the exit. We take a right. We pull into the parking lot of the gas station. And blah, he vomits all over the car.

He didn't mention that he needed to throw up. He just said, Dad, I need to go poop. So I thought we were just pulling over to go poop. He never said, hey, hurry up, I'm about to throw up. So he throws up all over the car. So we got to sit there and clean it. We go in. He does go poop.

And we decide, is he car sick? I'm not sure. Is he sick sick? I'm not sure. But let's go ahead and get a hotel. That way he can rest, get a full night sleep. If he has germs, it gives another 12 to 16 hours. So Granny and Grandpa hopefully don't get sick.

Leave it for the cleaning ladies. And so we get a hotel room when we only had four hours to go. Four hours. But the good news is now I can sit down in the hotel room. Have a beer. And watch the Green Bay Packers come to Soldier Field and take off. my Chicago Bears. Oh, you had two big games

over break. Two big games over break. Couldn't tell you that one because they don't have cable in Jamaica. So, I'm so excited. So we get in the hotel room and eating good in the neighborhood is right next door so we order some to go food

and we bring it up to the room. They didn't give us utensils so I had to eat my chicken bowl with just my fingers. You can go downstairs. to the complimentary breakfast. No, no, this is at night. Okay.

This is dinner time, don't? Oh, you're right. You really probably didn't have anything to eat with. And so I'm like, do I really want to go down the elevator, across the parking line, over the hill to the eating good in the neighborhood and get somewhere? No, I'll just eat it with my face. Don't worry about it. And I'm like, all right, cool kids.

Let's get ready for bed. You guys, you know, night, night. Let me turn on the Bears game. It says it's on Fox. Okay. Let me just go through these channels here. Free HBO, a couple of smut channels. Hold on, all right.

Well, that girl doesn't have a top on. There's CBS. You kids never saw that. There's ABC. Huh. I don't know. Let me call the front desk. Yeah, I'm trying to find Fox.

Like, just regular Fox. Do you know what channel that is on your TV guide? Yeah, we got Foxy Ladies on 287 and then a little bit lower some Puerto Rican. And I was like, Yeah, you got any of these channels that speak English? We just changed to Starlight. Yeah, we'll call Elon. So I'm not sure what channel is what.

We don't have all the channels figured out yet. Sorry about that. Needless to say they didn't have Fox. That's a bad beat. So I can't even watch the Bears Packers. Another reason for you to get YouTube TV except it doesn't work in Jamaica. It's not available in other countries. So, well, I wasn't even in Jamaica, man.

I was just, whoa, you said man. I know. Not even on purpose. I was just an hour outside of Dallas. Maybe Sulper Springs, something like that. I don't even know where we were. Derry World. But they don't even have the dang game.

So I can't watch the game. So you know what? might as well get me some shut-eye and I go to bed. And I wake up in the morning because I said, listen, we are not wasting another day. We're not sleeping in. We're not going down to the free continental breakfast downstairs. We are getting on the road.

We're hitting Chick-fil-A and we're eating as we drive. We are four hours away from granny and grandpas. We can be there by noon. I'll see you kids at the crack of 11 a.m. And so I said, we are setting that alarm for 6 a.m. We're on the road by 8. Well, it didn't work out that way. I would never father those kids.

If they ain't up when dad says so. So, well, I don't know. We were going to be on the road by seven was really what it was. And so we wake up and I wake up to a text. Morning corny. I wake up a text from a text from batters box. Oh, Caleb doesn't have it. And then miss phone call, then you're not even watching.

I don't know who you are. Did they win or lose? They won in overtime. Apparently Caleb had an amazing comeback. We were awesome. It was great. And as we're driving to Chick-fil-A, my wife looks at me and goes, isn't today's Sunday? Oh, crap.

We already checked out of the hotel, skipped the continental breakfast, and we were on our way to Chick-fil-A. Did you think something was up when we were the only car in line? No, no, we were a block away, but we realized it. And I was like, ah, we'll just go in here to the McDonald's. We hit the drive-through of the McDonald's, got them hot cakes and sausage for breakfast, hand them out in the car. and we're pulling out of the drive-thru and Baby Box 1 is like, I lost my pancakes.

What? I literally, I guess you didn't give me one. It's been eight seconds since I handed it back there. Oh my gosh, this is what it's like to have kids? And I'm like, what do you mean? He's like, I don't have pancakes. So you're telling me pancakes disappeared out of thin air.

I'm like, are you joking? Like, it's not playtime. Like it is 7.30. We were supposed to be on the road at 7. He's like, Dad, I don't have pancakes. You got to beat me. So we had the vomit yesterday. Now we can't find pancakes today.

This vacation is going excellent. Excellent. So we pull over in the parking lot, get out, can't find them anywhere. Have him get out of his sea, everything. And then you look and he had. dropped them on the floor and they had slid underneath the brother's seat. So he did have the pancakes. He did have the pancakes.

So hand on the pancakes and we hit the road. And I mean, we drive and we drive and we pull up to granny and grandpa's at 1136 a.m. On that Sunday, let's go. We didn't waste the whole day. We didn't waste the whole day sleeping in eating that con. on breakfast. We are great. And Granny had called us 20 minutes before that. How's it going? You guys getting out of bed yet? And I was like, yeah, we're just eating breakfast because the kids wanted to surprise Granny.

We're still in the drive-thru, driving through Dallas. And we pull up and the kids want to go surprise them. So we park next to their house and they run up there and they knock on the door. Dad comes with a shotgun. And Granny opens a door, sees them, and goes, ah! And slay. and slams the door shut and locks it. What? And I'm like, what the hell is going on around here? Crime.

And they're like, Granny slam the door on us. And then they're saying, let us in, let us in, let us in. She thinks she was getting fleeced. And then grandpa comes walking around the side of the house. He's like,

what are you guys doing here already? Well, we're supposed to be here. Dad, have you lost it already? Are you senile or what? and like five minutes later, Graney comes out, goes, I was rapping presents. You guys told me you just left the hotel. I had to throw them all in the closet.

Makes sense. Tushay. Tushay. And then Grandpa brings one of his new dogs out, you know, he brings Harry out there to meet Chase and they're meeting each other, growling at each other. So we go on a walk around the block

and we get back to the house and we let them run wild in the backyard. You said your dog's name. Chase. Okay. That's okay. And Harry's by dad's dog. And he has Harry and Sally.

Sally is on heartworm medication. Can't get excited. It's not allowed to play. So she has to stay inside on the leash. So they're running around the backyard. I heard if you've got to sleep at night, you take a couple of those heartworm pills. That'll make it. They drowsy.

They drowsy the dog. And we are there for, I mean, we've been in Austin for 45 minutes. Yeah, real. Harry and Chase are playing running around, running around. And then it happens. You got to tell us after the break. Then it happens, man. You got to tell us after the break.

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And, uh, down goes chase. There we go. Down goes chase. Dad still hasn't built the fence he was supposed to build in 1980? Nope. Down goes chase. She was trying, he was trying to take a shortcut to cut Harry off at the pass. He didn't see the bird bath.

Oh, I thought it was a car. He didn't see the concrete bird bath. Concrete's a different story. He shattered it with his leg. That was probably 200 on Amazon. We'd been there 45 minutes and Chase can't walk. Chase is yelping in pain. So it's time to go to the emergency vet.

For a bird bath? He won't walk on his leg and he's, I mean, I had Planner Fast. Citis. It heals itself with a little ice. So I'm thinking shattered leg, something, fracture, I don't know, scoop them up, put them in the car, whisk them into the emergency vet. Oh, what brings you in today? Well, we've been here 45 minutes. He's shattered a bird bath with his leg. All right, let's have a look. They do some poking and prodding. They're like, oh, here's some just pain meds. I think he's going to be fine. No breaks.

care if I take some of these holidays. And the next day, Chase was as good as new. There you go. Told you. As good as new. Sister-in-laws of that. I knew. Dude, you shatter a concrete bird bath?

Hit me with a text next time. You ain't got to go to the Minute Clinic? St. COVID, the coronavirus. Well, they said, but we can do x-rays. You know what I mean? It's 300 without the x-rays. But if you want to do x-rays, it's 850. It wasn't the bird flu.

It was bird bath, dude. And I said, we'll pass on next race. We'll save the 500. My dad's got a bright light. Take it in the bathroom. Sometimes you can see inside of them. I got a flashlight.

I'll just stick it right up close to his skin, see if I can see through there. Some of those mag lights that were floating around for Christmas time, if you hold them up, they can show a whole mountainside. Might want to consider that for the next. I will. I will have to check into that.

That's pretty good stuff. Maybe for your dad, big electrician guy or contractor. Yeah, contractor retired, though. He is retired now. Right, but those guys always find. a reason to use a mag light. You kidding me? Every time I talk to my father-in-law, he's got a maglite or a hammer on his tool belt.

Yeah. Then what else do we do? So then that was good. That was great. And then... Yeah, anything positive? Well, see, that's what I'm saying. This vacation's off to a great start, right?

Great start. Next day, my dad and I decide we're going to go get some breakfast tacos. Just you and dad at one and a million? No, it's just a trailer right by the house, you know? I've never told you this before, but I love you, man. And so... Dad, we pass a salsa. Come here, son.

Let's both start on and end to this little talkerita and eat it down. It's got some eggs and bakey. Merry Christmas, Dad. Merry Christmas, son. So then we... Dad, I ain't got a utensils. Would you want to finish this one together without them? I will.

One in a million. Did you go to one in a million? No, man. That's too far from the house, man. far from the house. But I will say, I forgot to tell you, when I went to go pick up the food at the, you know, the Applebee's eating good in the neighborhood. I mean, you want to- jumping back to Arkansas or wherever the hell are you in Texas. But you want to talk about people loving each other. They all sitting at the bar just yelling, hey, man, what's going

on over there? You know, I've just been out traveling. You know, I've been working up in North Dakota. I just back for the holiday. Oh, yeah, tell your old lady, I said hello. So it was a neighborhood. It was a neighborhood apple bees and the guys just sitting at the bar yelling across each other like, man, you guys see that on the news last night? Oh, I saw it, Harry. I saw it. What in the hell is going on? Same story I'm going to tell on Wednesday's podcast, but not the neighborhood and not eating good. It's O. Belly laughing at O. Charlie's. And that story will be Wednesday. Then it's like, that's a deep tease. Man, what do you think I should do? You think I should go back out of the holidays? You think I should

look for work around here? Well, Billy, I got to tell you, man. I mean, I bet your family misses you, I don't know if it's worth it going back up there. You're not considered doing workup in Arkadelphia? Oh, I heard the women are fast and the money's clean, brother. Find you some good old lot lizards. Any of those try to stick on or you can just leave them in the pocket of that, boy? Yeah, and then so I get back to the hotel room after that, and I had to go to Walgreens, get medicine. Hell of a plug.

For the sick kid, you know, corner healthy and happy. and me and this old dude are just... The sick kid? The one that threw up. We thought maybe he needs medicine. He ain't sick. That's a little food poisoning, boy. You shouldn't have got him those Taco Bell chip or those truck stop chips.

So we're at the Walgreens and we're just sitting there at the cashier. One minute, two minute, three minute, four minutes, five minutes there is not a dang worker in sight. We experienced it myself. So this 80-year-old man just starts yelling, knock knock! Who's there? Knock knock. Knock knock.

And then no one comes. Knock, knock, knock. That's how they used to do it back in the day. And finally this lady comes up. And he goes, knock, knock. And she goes, well, sir, right there it says you can press the button if you need help. He goes, oh, I'm sorry about that, ma'am. We got to respect.

it's great. But anyway, let me get back to the taco truck in Austin. I forgot that. Now I've got to go to the taco truck. We go up and we order the tacos for me, my dad, my mom, my wife, my kids, all, you know, we order all these tacos and we're sitting down to the picnic table talking. This guy comes walking up. He sits down.

I assume he's waiting for his order. I figure he went over to the gas station, got a Coke, came back. And he just turns to me and he looks at me and goes, oh, you think you're tough. Oh, boy. You think you're tough? We'll find out who's tough. Let's go right over here. Right in the woods.

Me and you. One-on-one, no cops. And I look around. I'm like, he goes, oh, don't look around. I'm talking to you right there. Oh, my gosh, dude. What part of town do your parents live? He goes, you think it's some funny stuff, huh?

No, man, not funny. Just tired. He goes, you guys think y'all laughing. You boys won't be laughing. Let's go. Right now. Belt to ass. One-on-one.

You think you're tough? Let's go. One-on-one in the woods. We'll find out who's tough. No cops. Please tell me he took his belt off. And I was like, and I looked at my dad says, he's talking to me. He goes, he goes, yes, I'm talking to you.

And we're like, we're just talking to each other. And he goes, all right, I'll be over there if you want it. One on one, no cops. What world were you in? Northside, Austin, Texas. That was in one love, bro. I was like, wow, man. That was interesting.

So we're sitting there waiting for our tacos. And the lady, the family that owns it, their little daughter comes out of the taco trailer, and she's got a little rocking horse set up out front. So she gets on the rocking horse, starts rocking back and forth. Wee, we, we, we, we, we're like, whoa, whoa, whoa. Here comes our boy. He comes back.

He might have been boozing. And we're going, woo, we're lambing. Whoa, whoa, whoa. And he goes, whoa, whoa, whoa, my ball's in your MF and mouth. actually a pretty good good one I was like gotta give him that was a solid one man

I was like that was so solid man like out of nowhere he comes with the whoa wow wow my balls in your mouth dude we gotta get him for the convention

oh dude he was all he was great and then he walks up to the window and he says where's my stuff and the lady's like and he goes you gotta hurry out

my son's coming I need what you owe me my son is coming and she goes, Derek, get out of here. Just get out of here, Derek. And then she looks at us. She goes, don't listen to anything he says. He lives over there in the woods.

Said, all right, cool, man, but that was awkward, man. So that was my trip to the taco stand, man. Austin was very welcoming. Homeless dude? Yeah, it turns out. Or family member of the food truck? No, it turns out he was a homeless dude, man. But he was ready to find out who's tough or not.

you know when your dad couldn't roll this dude when your dad were afraid of alcoholic Derek who hasn't eaten in three days you guys had two verse one dude hold on no he only challenged pop's belt to ass he didn't challenge both of us he just challenged one of us he didn't say hey both you guys want to find out if you're tough your dad's like he was talking to you

he's like no my dad goes well go do it Well, go find out of your tough, man. I'm like, what in the hell is going? What is going on? That's bizarre. It was crazy. Oh, man, it was great time.

We'll take a break. I got more. You want more? I want more. Good. I'll give you more right after this. Me, me in the woods. The 2026 NFL draft is here, and the NFL Daily podcast has it covered from all angles.

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See, and the reason that's not social media, that's in IRL, in real life you got called out. Social media is one thing. It wasn't no keyboard warrior, dude. He wanted to find out if I was tough. for not. And I'm like, wow. I mean, I literally didn't say anything to the dude. Even when I turned down the people at the gas station every morning for money, they still don't try to fight me. That is wild. A dude tried to fight you. Cold turkey. Cold called you. He cold called me hard, dude. He didn't even want to rob you. He just wanted to fight you.

Yeah, with no cops. Then the fact that he circled back. Like, he came back. She used to let me know my balls. His balls were in my mouth. You're trying to tell your dad how you're doing well for yourself and you're getting called out by a homeless guy? Oh my God, Dad, I'm just so happy to be back, man. This brings back so many memories. Oh, memories of my balls in your mouth. I'll be doing in front of pops. Oh, and my dad did say, he goes, I thought you were tougher than that. Why did you take that guy? No, dad, I'm good, man. I'm good. So weird. So weird. One love, man. We don't average. We don't No, we really don't. We don't advocate fighting. And I don't know if he was on Crystal

Mets. I don't know if he was on Angel Dess. I don't know what was wrong with the dude. And so far a convention without a fight? One love, man. One love. I mean, we got another convention in two weeks. Hopefully we go number five with no fights. Soor losers.com tickets still available? Oh, still available. We still got room. We still would love to see you here. Last minute. You know what happens best things in life? Last minute. And also that big games. What happened in locks? Is he coming? Does he come? Does he live? Listen. Went to a couple of them.

He moved away. He's in a different state now. It doesn't matter. They have airplanes, trains, automobiles, everything. The big game show at the mall. Yeah. I forgot how amazing that mall is. We might lose some people in that mall in the whole.

Well, they're going to want to get back, though, right? They may want to go shopping, dude. Some people like to shop. And I also found an IV station. You can go in there, get some B-12. You can get the stuff that makes you feel not as hungover. The lady said, licky split. She'll get you in and out.

10 minutes. I got a brochure and everything. That's good. I can put it on the website. Unless they want to be part of the convention, we don't get, let's not put on the website. Ray, why would we advertise them for free? Yeah, why would we? Why would we do that?

But anyway, back to over at Graney and Grandpa's, dude, let me tell you, we had pure pandemonium. I thought it already was. Seven kids. Because you got my sister's three kids, my brother's son, all running around just being nutso. Batters Box has a kid? You didn't know that? I mean, I figured that he has an offspring? You thought he was celibate?

Is it 49ers? Yes, the kid loves the 49ers. And his two bonus children, they also love the 49ers. What the Chris Jansen? Yes. Does everybody call it bonus children? No, I just said it because of Chris Jansen. I don't know what my brother calls it, but he does have two step sons.

But I don't know if he calls them bonus kids or if he, I don't know what he calls them. I just was saying bonus kids because Chris Jansen does, and I find it funny. Anyway, so they're just running around. I mean, it's just pure chaos all the time, dude. It was so loud and crazy. And then we decided we're going to have a slumber party. All seven of them over there staying up till 1230 at night. Sheesh.

Gave him root beer floats and we're like, oh, we'll put on a movie. They'll fall asleep. They watch the whole damn day. Parents are the ones clinging to life. Then I'm like, go to bed. can you please fall asleep? As a kid, that's impressive. They stayed up through a movie.

Yes. Because I remember we'd go over to friends houses. You could do one. Boom, out. But you could do one. That second one, it was impossible to stay up for. You'd be out like a light. No, no.

We didn't start the movie until 10.30. Thinking they would fall asleep. 12.30 and smash cut, they're all in my parents' room, spread out all across the room. My sister passed out on the floor. Dad, they're about to go into the diamond. Dinosaurs layer. And I mean, from four-year-old to nine-year-olds, they all stayed up until 1230. Watching the movie.

Can't beat it. That was a great time. Great memory. Great memory. Then we have Christmas, dude. Let me tell you. Christmas was awesome. What are you guys doing while they're watching the movie?

Are you sipping on some of some cough medicine? No, I'm, I watched a little bit of the movie. Then I'm just cleaning up and then, you know, just doing all sorts of stuff. Hanging out with my mom and dad. You know why the kids are watching the movie. You know, we're just talking, chatting, living life. So how are you guys doing? Am I a part of the will?

But then let me tell you, Christmas Eve, we made the mistake, man. Let me tell you. We had all those nights that we were there. We got there Sunday. So we had Sunday night, Monday night, Tuesday night, Wednesday night. Four nights to wrap presents. Christmas was Thursday. Yes, Christmas was Thursday.

You have four nights to wrap presents. Got to do it the first night. Just wrap three a night. And you're going to be done by Christmas. Easily. No. What do we do? 9.30 p.m. Christmas Eve.

Well, I guess we better start wrapping presents. God. Oh, my. Where's grandpa's liquor cabinet? Um, Graney and grandpa don't have a liquor cabinet. I need to meet three of my friends in the alley. Jim Jack and Jim Beam. They don't have a liquor cabinet.

And we just sit there and wrap and wrap and wrap. And I mean, by the time you get in bed, it's midnight. You're exhausted. And you know who's waking up at 6 a.m. Those excited kids. But we did do a practice because baby box, he was sleeping on the bed by the window. And the other two, baby box two and three, were on the floor on an air mattress. And I was like, all right, but if you hear Santa, what are you going to do? Air mattress. I guess seven kids. Yeah, well, these were just three. This is just my three. They spent the night at Grin and Grandpa's. The other ones went home for Christmas Eve.

Your parents don't have a spare bed? They do. Baby box was in the spare bed. It can only fit one. It's a twin-sized bed. Got it. And he goes, I'm going to stand up and I'll yell. Ah!

And then if I don't, if you guys don't wake up, I'll jump on my brothers, then I'll run in you and mom's room. I'll jump on you guys. Then we'll run in and jump on Granny and Grandpa. Be careful. Knock first. You know the drill. So we did do a routine. We did a video where we practiced.

And if mommy's in something pink, knock four times. well, no, if you see pink on the floor, that's when you need to knock four times. If she still has it on, you can just come right in. And if it looks like the remote stuck under the sheets, remember, knock a couple times, yell out loud, and then come jump on daddy. And so he told me all this stories about what he was going to do. Well, he didn't ever hear Santa. And in the morning, he comes in our room and he's like, Mom, Dad, Santa came, Santa came. I'm like, what?

He's like, I went downstairs and looked. He came. I'm like, wait, you went down without us? You're not supposed to go down without us. We want to see your reaction to what Santa brought. He was like, but he really came. He really came. We got to go down there.

We got to go down there. I'm like, oh, okay. So we got up, went down. And you know what they got for Christmas, man? Fart guns. They all wanted fart guns and Santa delivered with fart guns. They were happier in the clam. Worth?

I mean, are they worth a crap? They are worth a crap. They, and they shoot out smoke. Oh, they shoot out poop? Now, just smoke. Smelly smoke. Poop particles. Poop particles.

They loved it. They were so excited. And so then we had bubble bread and we opened presents that were from granny and grandpa and from mom and dad. Then we had to wait until the afternoon for the cousins to come over. Batters box doesn't get up till the crack of two. It's about right. 2 p.m. They roll over. That's about what time.

He got there about 2.30. The Niners were playing. What up, everybody? That's the batters box here. Better watch out for them. Niners in the playoffs. Oh, I got a story about the Niners. I thought they were supposed to be playing Carolina.

Now all of a sudden they got the Eagles, so maybe don't watch out for them. Carolina made the playoffs. Continue, man. I'm sorry. Stupid Carolina. Continue. Anyway, so we, I mean, what else did we do? We played so many games.

Granny had game after game after game that she created. Oh, one was she had 25 different stickers and you wrote numbers on them and we hit them throughout the house. And the kids had to go find all 25 and come and put them back on the wall. And I thought, oh my gosh, this is not going to work. And they kept walking around. Oh, we already see the stickers. We know where all they all are.

And she's like, well, you know, I hit them. And she was like, well, you're not a very good hider. and I was like, okay, you guys want to talk trash about me being a good hider? You want to talk about me being a bad hider? So I started hiding them hard. I misplaced the six, seven. Dude, there's ones I forgot and I'd be like an hour later. Oh, guys, actually, there might be one more out there.

There might be one more out there. But I thought it's all the numbers so they could tell if one was missing. Well, a couple I forgot where they were and I couldn't find them when they were. I was looking for them to make sure they didn't move them. So I put question marks and just said, oh, here, this number was missing. So put it out. It was great. fun. Then we did the rolling derby.

It's like you put a rolling sheet, a sheet on the, it's like a tablecloth and it's different squares and you put prizes along it and you get a bottled water and you roll it. And wherever it lands, you get that prize. That's awesome. Do do, do kids, we're

loving it. Seen that one. Loved it. Then we're going to close the night out with a family photo. And granny and grandpa had spent hours. hot gluing together shirts and when you put your arms over your head Ray what do you form we are what wreaths we are a big family of Reese dude and we all get in front of the

Christmas tree and we're all Reese you have got to be kidding me that's that's Christmas That is Christmas. But what happened? Scary stuff right after this. The 2026 NFL draft is here and the NFL Daily podcast has it covered from all angles. Join me, Greg Rosenthal, and Jordan Roderig after night one on Thursday. Nick Shook joins me night two Friday and then Sunday to recap everything that went down over the three days in Pittsburgh. We'll tell you who won the draft and which players.

were my favorite picks. Listen to NFL Daily with Greg Rosenthal on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. A win is a win. A win is a win. I don't care what you're saying. Yep, that's me, Clifford Taylor the 4th.

You might have seen the skits, the reactions, my journey from basketball to college football, or my career in sports media. Well, somewhere along the way, this platform became bigger than I ever imagined. And now I'm bringing all of that excitement to my brand new podcast, The Clifford Show. This is a place for raw, unfiltered conversations with some of your favorite athletes,

creators, and voices that not only deserve to be heard, but celebrated. One week, I'll take you behind the scenes of the biggest moments in sports and entertainment, and the next we'll talk about life, mental health, purpose, and even music. The Clifford Show isn't just a podcast. It's a space for honest conversations, stories that don't always get told, and for people who are chasing something bigger. So, if you've ever supported me or you're just chasing down a dream, this is right where you need to be.

Listen to the Clifford show on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. And for more behind the scenes, follow at Clifford and at TikTok Podcast Network on TikTok. You can have opinions. You can have like a strong stance. And then there's your body having its own program. I'm Dr. Maya Shunker, a cognitive scientist and hosts of the podcast, a slight change of plans, a show about who we are and who we become. life makes other plans. We share stories and scientific insights to help us all better navigate

these periods of turbulence and transformation. There is one finding that is consistent, and that is that our resilience rests on our relationships. I wish that I hadn't resisted for so long the need to change. We have to be willing to live with a kind of uncertainty that none of us Lyslikes. Listen to a slight change of plans on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ray, so my wife, when she raised her arms, it kind of was see-through. Now, right as we're about to take the picture, we're getting our sweatshirts on, baby box two is eating a push pop. And we're not talking about the ice cream push pop, the little hard candy.

All right, hey, bud, you got to put that down. Baby Box 3, you got to put that down. We're going to take a picture. Starts coughing. But are you okay? You want to drink of water? Are you choking on a piece of candy? Did a piece of candy drink some water?

Okay. Well, his hands are already above his head for the wreath. We do the picture and he's like, I'm ready for bed. I want to go night night. It's already 9 o'clock at night. We've been going at it for a long time. Maybe it's 10 o'clock. I don't remember.

So we put him to bed. Everybody says their goodbyes. They leave 12.30 at night. He wakes up. Unconsolable. Coughing, crying, coughing, coughing, crying, coughing, crying. Can't barely, is struggling to breathe. What?

And I'm like, we bring him in our room. Here, here, let's watch some grizzy. Let's watch some grizzy. Because grizzy and the lemmings, they usually calms them down. Wouldn't even watch it. I'll look at my wife. I said, we got to go. We got to go.

We got to go. You guys need a bogo at the minute clinic. We ain't going minute clinic. We're going ER. All right. We're going ER. Like, we don't have time. And I'm in my days.

It's 12.30. I've been asleep for like an hour. Call my sister. Hello. Hey, what's the best children's hospital? Del? All right, cool. We're on our way. Wake up, Granny, he said, hey, if the boys wake up, we're going to the hospital. Is everything okay? Yeah. Yeah. So we throw them in the car, buckle them up, and we are going.

And I mean, we are hitting 183 and I'm going 95. Speed limit probably 55. 95 and a 55. Yeah, I'm hauling. That's reckless driving. Oh, it's reckless. But, dude, there are times when he's on 183, my wife keeps going, hey, bud, hey bud, are you okay? Can you breathe for me? because there was a couple times it felt like he stopped breathing. What? Like it was absolutely terror-filled drive. Happy holidays?

And I ran four red lights on the way there because I'd stop, look, go. Like we ain't got time. I do that coming to work. We ain't got time. We ain't got time. And then you pull up what looks like the main entrance and it's closed. Nope. You got to circle the place five times.

Sometimes it's parking. Sometimes you don't know if it's ER. Sometimes I just drop Bayzer off here outside. One time I'd take a buddy to it. You pull in the exit. You get told to go around the other way, even though it's an emergency room. You can't just enter it in any direction. You have to go around the loop and then into the emergency

because the ambulances have to pull in a certain way. Trust me. I know. Oh, trust me. It said main entrance. We followed the signs. Oh, the main entrance is closed. Please follow these footprints to the other entrance.

Because they have footprints along the sidewalk. Well, are the footprints running? Well, I'm sorry that I'm in a panic mode and I don't want to play fun games where I follow the freaking footprints. So I rip him out of the car. And if you don't mind, my feet are bigger than those. I got it. And I run through the metal detector and I get to the front desk and he's like, oh, can you fill out that slip of paper please? No.

And I'm like, does it look like I need to fill out a slip paper? Bro is hardly breathing here. He's struggling to breathe. Have AI fill it out. And it's like name, patient's name, date of birth. reason for a visit. I mean, is that really, you really need me to fill that out? Like, why can't we get back there and you diagnose me? Like, dude is hardly breathing. What's your wife been doing some Heinleck? No, she's just like, hey, bud, can you breathe? Are you okay? Hey, bud, hey, don't fall asleep.

Don't fall asleep. Um, and then she's like, okay, now that you have this, you can just step right over to this lady over here. And I'm like, holding him and I'm trying to fill this out. And the lady's like, okay, does everything look correct? And I'm like, no, I wrote down the wrong birthday. I'm sorry, that's not his birthday. I wrote down Christmas. I'm sorry, I'm a big fan. And they're like, oh, can you have him please stand up? 12, 25, 25.

I'm like, wait, wait, wait. He's struggling to breathe and you're going to make me like make him stand? Like, what the hell does he need to stand for? Like, why can't I still hold him? So I make him stand on him. All right, put a mask on him. All right, just sit right over here. Someone will be right with you.

What do you mean someone will be right with me? My son is barely breathing. He's struggling to freaking breathe. Dude, what was this rest of? rescue Nashville 911? Dude, that's what it felt like. You guys are ready for the new season. Dude, I mean, I was like, what are we doing?

And then she gets on the phone. And I'm like, okay, now she knows it's serious. She came over, looked down and got on the phone. So a nurse is going to be coming quick, quick. Nurse comes like, I'm going to go get this other family. Then I'll get you and we'll go on back. And I'm like, no, no, we don't have time for another family. What are we doing?

Two families? No, no, just take me back. And they take us back. All right, you're going to be right here in room number three. and the nurse comes in, he's a new nurse, new dude, he comes in, he's like, what's going on? And he looks at me, goes, yeah, sounds like he's got croup. Like, what? And he explains us all about this thing called croup.

It's a bacterial infection. It's a virus. And it comes on like that. No warning. And it can be very sometimes alarming and scared. And that's when they wake up in the middle of night when they're having a hard time breathing because their throat is swollen. and it can be very traumatizing. That's why they can't be consoled.

It's because they're having a hard time breathing, catching their breath. Dude, the nurses at Dell were fantastic. The dude was so cool. He had a Cubs hat on. And I told him, like, I was like, hey, do you see what kind of hat he has on? He goes, Cubs. And we start talking about the Cubs.

And they, you know, just like made you feel so welcome. Great hat. What do you think about our playoff chances? is maybe the pennant this year? Thanks, Doc. And they explained everything that we were going to do, and they were going to do a breathing treatment. They gave him a steroid, and this breathing treatment.

They put this mask over his face. He has to wear it for five minutes. And the whole time he's screaming, get this mask off me. And they said, you hear that look like when we came in, they said, you hear the low wheezing. That's when it's problem. That's when it's good that you came to us.

What do you think about Pete Crowe Armstrong? Pretty good little hitter. So we do that. the breathing treatment crying the whole time about get the mask off me get the mask off me dude we got that mask off he was better so the mask healed him the breathing treatment did everything got it it was unbelievable and they said he'll have that cough a little bit for two weeks good public service that's a good PSA so they do the breathing treatment then they have to observe him for two hours so we had to stay there for two hours longer after the breathing treatment just to make sure it doesn't flare back up

but if it does flare back up when you're back at home, let your stick your kid's head in the freezer because the cold air, give him a popsicle, things like that are what help it when you have croup. Let him watch a movie. Just in case you guys. Real beer float. You guys have croup out there.

Let me tell you, it's the scariest thing in the world. It was terrifying. I thought he was dying. Well, maybe we don't do kid wreath games, you know. Well, I thought he was choking on a piece of candy, but it turned out of it was croup. Well, maybe we don't wrap a wreath around a kid's head, gramps. And so we rolled back to mom and dad's house

and we pulled up in front of their house 5 a.m. They're still standing there for the picture? No, they don't laugh. The picture was hope. So we didn't get any sleep after being up at 6 a.m. on Christmas. We stayed up all night until 5 a.m. the next day at the hospital, man.

Let's be real. You slept once he was okay at the hospital for a little while. No. You just sat there and played tiddly wings for two hours? I sat there and looked at him. And watched him. But you said he was better. Well, I felt like he was better. Right.

The masks off nap time. Dude, I'm sitting in a chair that doesn't fold. It is a plastic chair against the wall. I would have been lights out. I would have loved to crawl in the bed with him and falling asleep. But I didn't. He was awake the whole time. And then like 20 minutes where we're going to leave, he falls asleep.

Could I possibly get a bed, sir? And so we roll back home at 5 a.m. 5 a.m. Merry Christmas, dude. So we've been to the doggy emergency. We've been trying to fight in the woods. Human emergency. The human emergency.

And I didn't even tell you that we took the kids to urgent care because once the dog got back from the doctor, I was like, man, what if the kids have the flu? I don't want to get granny and grandpa the flu, but I had to get a hotel. So I took them to the CBS Minute Clinic to do the, you know, the test of the flu. And the thing says it closes at 6 o'clock. And we get there at 515 and the lady sticks. her head out and goes, sorry, I'm seeing my last patient for today. Like, what do you mean?

That's America. Like, what do you mean? It says you close at six. It's 5.15. That examination is not going to take 45 minutes. That's when you point to TripAdvisor. I'll be filling one out, even if this isn't a destination. So then we go to Care Now or urgent, whatever the hell it was.

It's on our insurance when we're in Nashville. And we go there and they're like, oh, yeah, Care Now, Texas is not on your insurance. Oh, you get ready for a $3,000 deductible. And I'm like, what? I'm like, what do you mean? They're like, yeah, care now and your state is on it, but when you leave the state, sometimes they're not on it. So I paid $180. It looks like you don't care now, huh?

Because I don't care. So I pay $180 for this, to get my, to get tested, just one of them. I was going to have all three tests. I said, no, just one. Because if he's not positive, then that's good. I mean, while they're doing that, why don't you have them, test you run something up your ass. They might as well have, dude.

So yeah, so we come back and we celebrate for a couple more days with my family. And then it's the big Niners versus the Bears football game. That was that weekend? It was that Sunday. Sunday night football. Saw the score. Sunday night football. Tell you all about it right after this.

The 2026 NFL draft is here and the NFL Daily podcast has it covered from all angles. Greg Rosenthal and Jordan Roderig after night one on Thursday. Nick Shook joins me night two Friday and then Sunday to recap everything that went down over the three days in Pittsburgh. We'll tell you who won the draft and which players were my favorite picks.

Listen to NFL Daily with Greg Rosenthal on the IHeart Radio app Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcast. A win is a win. A win is a win. I don't care what I'm saying. Yep, that's me. Clifford Taylor the 4th. You might have seen the skisking.

hits, the reactions, my journey from basketball to college football, or my career in sports media. Well, somewhere along the way, this platform became bigger than I ever imagined. And now I'm bringing all of that excitement to my brand new podcast, The Clifford Show. This is a place for raw, unfiltered conversations with some of your favorite athletes, creators, and voices that not only deserve to be heard, but celebrated. One week, I'll take you behind the scenes of the biggest moments in sports and entertainment, and the next we'll talk about life, mental health, purpose, and even music. The Clifford Show isn't just a podcast. It's a space for honest conversations, stories that don't always get told, and for people who are chasing something bigger.

So if you've ever supported me or you're just chasing down a dream, this is right where you need to be. Listen to The Clifford show on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. And for more behind the scenes, follow at Clifford and at TikTok Podcast Network on TikTok. You can have opinions. You can have like a strong stance. And then there's your body having its own program. I'm Dr. Maya Shunker, a cognitive scientist and host of the podcast, a slight change of plans, a show about who we are and who we become when life makes other plans. We share stories and scientific insights to help us all better navigate these periods of turbulence and transformation.

There is one finding that is consistent, and that is that our resilience rests on our relationships. I wish that I hadn't resisted for so long the need to change. We have to be willing to live with a kind of uncertainty that none of us likes. Listen to a slight change of plans on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Wait, but they already know what happened. Dude. Of course. No teeth Keith.

Kid. I don't got cable. You guys got an extra chair? There's nothing finer than. being a 49er. This is our year with Purdy back and Pertle, he's still hurt. Batters box?

Oh my gosh. Yeah. So I'm going to engulf with Garrett, Greg, Jacob on Sunday. We played over at Roy Kaiser. Of course, I didn't watch football a day, but we're going to head over to Batters Box House for the game. He's got enough seating for all the boys.

It's the last night in town. We're going to Houston the next day. So I assume we are going to Batters Box house, bringing my family, bringing my sister's family. Everybody's going over there. My dad is going to bring no teeth, Keith. He doesn't. He can't drive. Well, his car broke down.

That's the problem. Batters box. What up, everybody? It's Batters box. And I'm having people over for the game. And he's like, Battersbox is like, well, I thought it was just going to be you and dad and Keith. See, I knew he didn't have the seating for the whole boys. I said, yeah, but the kids can run around, you know, to be just fun.

We'll bring, you know, mom will come that way. It's our last night, you know, we can all hang out. And he's like, it might be better if they go to grannies. Like, what do you mean? Because the kids go to grannies and you guys come over. It's a good uncle. And I said, well, I kind of want to hang out with everybody. It's my last night.

I kind of, you know, kind of have fun. And, you know, Keith will be there. He goes, well, we've got to have our routine. So, I mean, if you and dad and Keith want to come, but. everybody else go to grannies. What the Scarlet Letter? And so I was like, well, I guess I'm not coming over. So it was me, my dad, Keith, my mom, my sister, my wife.

You turn it out of the middle of the road? Yeah. And we were over at the house and we didn't even get to watch it with Batters Box. Hell of a game, though. Hell of a game. Oh my gosh, they pick six right off the bat. And my mom, who doesn't give two craps about. football calls batters box.

And of course, it's during a Niners game, so he's not allowed to even touch the phone or answer it or respond. And she's like, uh-oh, looking like a little trouble. And she just starts laughing, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Because she's a Bears fan. I mean, not really. She doesn't really care, but she grew up in Chicago. And he doesn't respond all game until the end. We get a video. how do you like that? How do you like them Niners? In your mouth.

How do you like that? Go Niners. Woo. What was it, 4238? Something like that. I thought I saw that the next day. They literally don't do cable in Jamaica, Mon. Man, it was a fantastic football game.

They do, but there's about a second delay in between each video clip, enough to annoy the crap out of you. And half the channels are in oddly in Spanish, even though they don't speak Spanish there. So, yeah, there's no watching TV in Jamaica. Over to you, Mon. Yeah, so then everybody came over the next morning. to say goodbye. Batters box came over. We hung out. Kids ran around.

And then we drove to Houston, man. We go to see the in-laws. Let me tell you, the exact opposite experience at the in-laws that it is at my parents. I think you've said enough. It's pure chaos at my parents' house. At the in-laws, it's just like everybody sits there quietly. I'll go over there. Give me away from the chaos. Not much going on. A lot of just sitting. And I get antsy with sitting. I don't like sitting. Kids not touching walls.

I'm all for it. Yeah, kids aren't breaking things. Kids aren't running through things. Like, it's just like, oh, okay, yeah. So we ended up going to the zoo in Houston. That was cool. Met up with some friends and have two kids. We went to the zoo with them.

Went to their place for dinner. And we just hung out with my in-laws for a couple days. And then, like, New Year's Eve, man. And we're sitting down for dinner. Well, it was earlier in the afternoon. We were playing in the leaves in the backyard. I saw the video. Ah, we had made big piles of leaves with the leaf blower playing in them.

And Baby Box 2 is talking like this. Hey, that's coming. I'm like, oh, my gosh. You know what that means? Strep voice. Oh, I thought it was Krupp. Nope, no, no, no. That's strep voice.

Ray Krupp will come on set during wreath making. And I'm like, that's definitely strep voice. voice. That is great. And as we're sitting down for dinner, I'm trying to tell my wife, hey, I think he's got strep. And before I can get it out of my mouth, he goes, mom, anytime I swallow my throat hurts. I'm like, I was going to tell you a strep voice, but I didn't want to scare your parents. But he's got strep.

He's got strep for sure. Let me try to make an appointment of urgent care. New Year's Eve. They all close at five, though, so we've already missed the window. So I'm like, all right, I'm going to make the first appointment, New Year's Day. I'm going to make the appointment first thing. We can get the medicine, he'll feel better. So I find an urgent care with insurance.

9 a.m. I booked the appointment. Smash cut 9 a.m. comes around. Guess what? Baby Box 2 is still sleeping. He never sleeps that late. So I'm just going to let him get his rest because he's sick. We'll find a different urgent care.

And I get a text from that urgent care says, hey, we see you're running a little late. We rescheduled you for our next available appointment, which is 1045. Boom. Kid gets up at 9.4. have a little breakfast. Thank you for being so accommodating.

Exactly. We drive over there for the 1045 appointment, 22 minutes from the in-laws house, pulling the parking lot, walk up, and... Oh, they're not open. They're not open. How the hell are you going to let me make an appointment and reschedule my ass and not even be open? You were getting texts from AI? I was getting text.

from AI. I was talking back how polite they were. It was AI. I was so impressed. Well, thank you very much for your customer service. I was so impressed with their freaking ability to reschedule me. Automatically, I was like, that is customer service at the best, at its finest. You were talking to an AI bot in a farm.

I didn't even talk to anybody. One of those AI farms. I didn't even talk. They sent me the text and said, would you like to? 1045, that's our next available appointment. What are you wearing? And so then I'm like, fine. I'll just go to the CVS Minute Clinic.

We just saw one right down the road. We'll go there. We'll get tested and we'll go home. We drive to the CVS. This location does not have a Minute Clinic. Some don't. My God, I thought they all had them. No, not their problem. The one Vandy does, not all of them do.

So then I'm like, fine. Let me Google Minute Clinic. Okay, find one that is 25 minutes away. Get in the car and it closes at one. Remember, this is 1045, so now we're at 11.30. So we show up to the other one at noon. And I start filling it out, you know, walk in. Sorry, we have no more walk-in appointments available today.

I miss New Year's Day. You've got to be kidding me. You've got to be kidding me. So my wife is going to see her old roommate and hang out, and I call her, said, Listen, you've got to find me an urgent care. Yeah, cancel that crap. We don't care if she's going to hang out with Javier. And so her friend Ashley comes through in the clutch with like,

oh, we go to this place all the time, and it seems to work out well. So we drive 18 minutes to that place. Why does Ashley go there all the time? She has two kids. Oh, I thought of her dude. Maybe she has three kids. I don't remember. What does he have?

Anyway, so he's an Eagles fan. Anyway, we drive over there. Have you guys recently had some sort of transmittable diseases? So we drive over there, fill it out, and we get right in. It's beautiful. Oh, my gosh, they got a nice fig tree, little fig tree, miniature fig tree in their lobby. They're so friendly. We get right in the room.

What the, does that have to do with anything? I'm just giving you some details, man. Ambience. Ray, they had a painting up there on the wall of money, leaving my wallet. And they were so nice. They get us in a room. We only waited about 15 minutes. They come in, and the lady asks us what's going on.

she swabs his throat, and then she leaves a little test right there on the counter so we can see it. And you see the double red line strep throat positive. Only problem is they didn't come back in the room for over an hour. We sat in there and we were making so much noise. We stuck our head out twice. We went to the bathroom twice. And we sat there for a freaking hour. Dude, it was supposed to be a quick little trip for a strep test.

And they find the doctor finally comes. something's like, oh, you know, yeah, it looks like you're positive. I'll call it in your medication. Sorry for the weight. The weight was forever. Was she hot? No. Not.

And so what was supposed to be like a little 20-minute endeavor? We drove to the H-EB, we got the medication, we got home. We were gone for three and a half hours for a strep test. Not worth it. It was brutal. Not worth it, man. Brutal, man. And then we got the medicine

and the next day, January 2nd, we got in the car and we drove back to Nashville and that was the end of our vacation. Yeah, mom. Until we woke up on Saturday morning and Baby Box 3 is like, my throat hurts. And we made an appointment with our pediatrician that Saturday morning.

And we went in and he goes, oh, I see you guys went in for Kroop. He goes, as a parent, that is one of the two scariest things you can experience is Kroop. and Baby Box 3, positive for strep. Congratulations. That was my vacation.

Come on. That was a lot. Dude, I'm telling you, you go on vacation with us, something bad's going to happen. Oh, no, no, no. I won't. Something bad is going to happen. Bray, you're going to trip over a bird feeder.

You're going to get crooped. You're going to have to make a wreath neck, or you're going to get strep. Or sit in a waiting room for five hours. Brutal, man. Happy holidays. Happy holidays, everybody. That was good, man. That was good. Wednesday, I got a story from O'Reilly's. Let's just call it. I believe it's also called O'Charly's. It's a good one. It's a good one. It's a good one. Man, I didn't mean to take all your time, man. I just... No, I said I'll be prepared to share stories from Jamaica, March 8th. March 8th, man. But the Wednesday, I can share a story from O'Reilly's.

Oh, man. It is about the elderly community. Hopefully those stories were good, man. I think they were. A lot of people drive and listen to us. When people, I was at the pool, people were listening to this crap. Anything works now. You basically had fart into a microphone and people listen to it. Yeah. It is rough, man. That case, right?

Hey, now that you said that, I'll just bring the fart guns in on Wednesday and we'll just do fart guns all day. Gosh, let's go. Sorry, that was so long, dude. I know that's not what you want to do. Your first day back. Stay here so late. Let's get out of here. Oh, yeah, Batters Box. Couldn't even watch the game with me, man. Couldn't even watch the game with me. Superstitious.

You know what he texted me this weekend when they were playing the Seahawks? He goes, man, I don't like us wearing special uniforms for this game. Just wear the classic. I thought the exact same thing. I did love, what was the good vibe that I liked from them? The Texans. No. No, who'd they play?

Who? The Niners, the Seahawks. Niners. Nineers, Seahawks. Right, so I went to bed and woke up, and they had possessions where they could have scored. Yep, but they didn't. See, because I think they're sneaky good. I did not like that jersey choice.

I'm with Batter's Box on that. Why did we go coloring book? Why not go old school kid? Where the whites if you're going to bring home the win in battle, kid? Go classics. Why are we doing color rush on an important Sunday night game? I didn't like the color rush either. I'm with Batters Box.

I woke up in the morning of sports and I said, what the hell were they wearing? Because I'm against the Seattle team. That's a weird team, man. A lot of weird stuff happened up there in the Pacific Northwest. I mean, that Niners game came on the TV, and I'm proud of baby box. He goes, Dad, I don't think I've ever seen the Niners wear those uniforms. This kid's paying attention, man.

He is paying attention. Go Titans, right, man? Yeah. Go Bears. Good job yesterday. Idiots. Everybody's team in the building made the playoffs except for me in Pits, Chiefs and Titans. Everybody else made it.

And the guy that used to be on this podcast is... Cowboys. They didn't make it. Carolina Panthers, Brits, Bears, Packers, Broncos, Pittsburgh. That's it, yeah. That's it, that's it, man.

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