The Bobby Bones Show - SORE LOSERS: Why Are People So Creepy?

Episode Date: March 29, 2025

Ray & Lunchbox are the Sore Losers! In this episode Lunchbox had a run with a super creep at the park and the dude decided to scare the crap out of a bunch of little kids. This weekend marks the biggest moment in sports history for one Superstar athlete and we all have the chance to have a front row seat. Plus we celebrate a very special birthday and also get invited to a bachelor party in Nashville. Lunchbox predicts the death of something that we all love but we will no longer get to enjoy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hello. Got it. There you go. Now try it again. Yo, yo. Is it working? No, it's frozen for the minute. Okay.

Well, how are we going to do the intro without the music? We never do it right away anyways. I know, but this time I wanted to do it right away. I want to switch things up on you since it's Friday. I was like, do something different. And guys, check out the Instagram. Actually, it won't be posted anymore. But I did a picture of when Lunchbox and Arnold signed his internship deal for $200.

I put a picture up there on our Instagram, but it'll already have been deleted and erased. You can always repost it. True. So we'll repost it. We'll throw it up there again. It's a phenomenal picture. I'm glad that we were able to capture. People do engagement photos.

This was the moment he signed his deal. It's pretty cool. Pretty cool thing. Would you like me to tell you about how happy I am right now? Is it about Kansas? No, Kansas is like they're done. They got taken out back. They're dead.

Like it's over. Like we'll be back next year. We'll see in the fall when college basketball starts again. They're not any longer a factor. We don't need to talk about them. Let's do the intro, and I'm going to tell you about my frustration. Are you a San Antonio Spurs fan because Popovich coached at Kansas? No, I'm a San Antonio Spurs fan because everybody liked Jordan and the Bulls in the 90s when they were a kid.

But then I also worked for the San Antonio Spurs when I was in college at the University of Texas at San Antonio. And once I was around the organization, it was first class. And I was like, this is where my heart lies. How's it going, Manu? Hey, Mr. Genoblee. Hello, Mr. Dunkman, the Twin Towers. Hey, Parker, how you doing, man? You're a rookie? I'm a rookie too. My first game. Your first game? Yeah, cool. You want to play one-on-one? Cool. Eva Longoria, would you like to play this game? Pin the tail on the coyote. Yeah, that was when we moved to the AT&T Center. That was not at the Alamo Dome. Just so you know. That's when it all went down. So, Boomer was wanting to go to the Sweet 16, or is it just the final four that's in San Antonio? Antonio. Final four. So Boomer's going to go to the arena. How far is the arena from the river walk?

About a block, two blocks, three blocks. It's right down there. It is? Yeah. It depends on where on the riverwalk you are, but there's different excess points, but it's right by it. I got to tell him to walk to it. He's really going to the final four? No. They're coming back here. I was hoping you would say the sweet 16s in San Antonio. No. No. Gotcha. No, just Final Four, man. Final Four in national championship. And you can sit way up there where you can't even see if you want to sit, go to the Final Four. It's so fun. If my 17-year-old nephew was going to a Final Four before me, I would go jump off that bridge. That would suck. Do I know anybody?

I know some people that have been to a Final Four, but I can't think of anybody off top of my head. I had buddies one time in college. They go, hey, you want to go to the Big East tournament in Madison Square Garden? And I was like, no, man. I'm not a Big East fan, dude. Why would I go to that? 20 years later. Probably should have gone to that.

That'd been pretty cool. I'm an idiot. Not bad. Yeah. Grandma and grandpa went to Kempir Arena a lot to watch the Big 12 championship. I think it was Kimper Arena. I don't know where they played, but they went to the Big 12 title a lot. And I never went.

That's pretty cool. Good story. Let's start it. All right, we're going to do it live. Arnold, are you ready? Sorry, losers. Thank you, my friend. How have you been?

How was spring break? Oh, Bonnie. Did you do some plumbing for her? Yeah, so you guys heard about those 1,000 guys? I was 1001. Wow. Way to make us those plumbers proud, man. You guys stayed at that Cancun Resort, right?

Wow. That's pretty cool, man. Good thing you didn't go to Costa Rica. They're still investigating that. I know. That one's weird. I still don't understand. Are you going to start it?

Yeah, we're going to do it live, Arnold. Why did you look at me like I was crazy? Because I was thinking about if I was going to mention anything about the Costa Rica stuff, but I'm just not going to. Hey, thank you. Because three days before the 14-year-old died, Brett Gardner's son, they ate at a restaurant. It was the exact restaurant that I was trying to get Bayzer to stay at the hotel in summer. Oh. But that's not necessarily the restaurant that made him sick.

That restaurant has come out, La Mereposa, the butterfly. They have come out and said, they ate three days before the kid fell ill at our restaurant. restaurant. Get off us. The food poisoning came from another restaurant. They already came out in the public and said that. Get our name. Out your mouth. LaBerry Posa is five star beautiful views and monkeys. Let's do alarm. Arnold, are you ready? All right. We are the one, two, three. So our losers. What up, everybody. I am Lunchbox. I know the most about sports. So I give the sports facts. My sports opinions. Because I'm pretty much a sports genius.

Y'all, it's Sisson. I'm from the north. I'm from the north side of Nashville with Bayser, a Broadway girl, my wife. We have 2.2 acres. Die of a heart attack when I'm 72. White picket fence. It is golf season. It's 70 degrees, coach. It's been phenomenal. It's been awesome. It's a great time to go golfing, dude. It's so beautiful outside. And it's going to be beautiful. Except for this weekend, where it's supposed to rain tomorrow. It's supposed to rain Sunday. So don't try to go golf in on Saturday or Sunday, but that's okay. But you know, we do have tomorrow. Yeah, March Madness.

Well, we do have March Madness tomorrow, Ray, but we have something even bigger, better. More important. Day four, Major League Baseball? It would be day, well, no, it would be day five because he had two days over in Japan. Then they came back and they've played. And you know what's stupid is that today, after all the teams played yesterday, they give 90% of the teams the day off today. So dumb.

And I just want to say this, so it's on record. The Dodgers will be the greatest team in the history. of Major League Baseball. The record is 117 wins, I believe, set by the Seattle Mariners in 2003. The Dodgers will win over 117 games. Per the statistical season, they can lose two games a week. Do the math. 40 weeks.

It's less than that. 35 weeks, even less than that. They would have to go 100. It's 117 and 45 so they can lose 45 games, so there must be 20-something weeks. They can lose two games a week. Yeah, you might want to look out because Muki Betts is sick. He has not, he's been losing weight rapidly, so I don't know what is wrong with him. So that already hurts them.

They're pitching. They seem to always get hurt. So you might want to watch out for that. Kershaw's good for about three starts. Yeah, Yamamoto just called. He'll be fine. And you'll hang up and listen. Great point.

And also, they have Tescar Hernandez, Max Muncie, do Freddie Freeman, Chowy, Betts, Betts hurt. With a hurt, that doesn't matter. Will Kirby. Will Smith. Would you like me to tell you what's going on tomorrow? Yeah. Tomorrow's a big day, man. Ray, I'm getting a divorce.

Tomorrow at 9 a.m. Baby Box 3 will take the field for the first time in the history of his life for his soccer game. Kid, run out there with your wings spread. For the last three years, he's been throwing fits on the sidelines because he could never get in the game

because he wasn't old enough. He watched brothers play baseball, basketball, soccer, and he wanted to do all of them. And it is now come to the point in his life where he is three years old. And that is old enough to kick the old soccer mall around. Kid, go on the pitch. Don't be a... Keith, was he a soccer coach or just baseball? Baseball basketball.

Oh, specialized. Only one of those two sports. I was... I knew him as a baseball coach, but he used to coach basketball. Did he dabble in the running? did you become a runner? I was just a runner naturally. I don't know. Kids, I want to see those legs fly. No. I became a runner because in fifth grade, they were having a citywide competition and it was a mile race and my buddy Russell Valdez was in sixth grade and he was doing it. And the

sixth graders ran before the fifth graders and he ran and he didn't get a, he didn't get a trophy. And I was like, dude, why didn't you get a trophy? And he goes, it's harder than you think. Got to be top 10. I was like, well, I'm going to get a trophy. Kid, I'll train you on the trails. And so I went out and got top 10, got a trophy. Can I tell a top 10 running story? It's quick. Yeah. In middle school,

I never ran with a school before, but sixth grade, I said, I'll do track. Oh, I don't have to work on the weekends with my dad. And so I ran, and they said the first top 10, made me think of it, get the best jumpsuits. Get the very brand new Saratoga Middle School jumpsuits.

They just got them. They only got 10. Dude, Saratoga, those were legit back in the day. Some women, some men, they're going to be purple. They got just baggy dope. It's like, what is Drew Brand, Bieber? These are just like those. And so they told us months before. And I thought, why don't I just train for it?

I could easily finish top 10. But nobody knew I was a runner because I hadn't run younger. And so I was like, why don't I just train? So for months, I train for this. And this is when I first learned how to, what is it called? When you, is it, when you groundhog? What's the animal? dirt bag it.

I don't know what that is. Oh, sandbag, sandbag. This is when I learned a sandbag. So we'd be at school when kids would say, hey, you guys been getting ready for a track? No, man, not getting ready. Oh, did you hear top 10 gets a jumpsuit? Oh, that's nuts. Yeah, I ain't training. What do you think I'm crazy? So the whole two months, I acted like I hadn't been training. Guys, I'd been narrowing my time down. I got it from, it was a mile. So I got it from 10 minutes to 9 to 8

to 7. You're really moving. Yeah. So I improved four minutes over two months. Day came. We did the mile run. And it was through the city. So it wasn't an exact mile. It was like 1.5. Finished up top 10, probably number 8. And all the teachers blown away. Oh my gosh.

Oh, my. How did you finish top 10? Everybody in school, since when are you a runner? And that's when I learned, guys, work in silence. The stuff you put on Instagram, you don't always got to put out your workouts on Instagram. Nobody knew that I was working out for two months. And I easily finished top 10.

When were you a runner? I had been the past two months, you dumbass. I wanted that suit. Like none of y'all trained for a brand new suit? Dude, it was simple. I would crush to everybody. Yeah. What you're doing behind closed doors, that's when you're going to get better.

Going to practice with your team, that's just, that's surface level stuff. If you want to get better, you got to go in the backyard and practice. So anyway, tomorrow morning we will be out there. And as the coach, you know, I'm not going to let him go out on his first soccer game and not be the coach. And so he will be getting the start. I mean, I may be a little biased, but I will be playing him in the starting lineup. Go get him, Ronaldo. And so I decided, hey, we should have a team meetup.

You know, get to know the team. Hey, introduce each other. Hey, nice to meet you. Good to see you. What's your name? Because these kids, I don't know if they know each other. They all go to the same little school, but do they really know each other? I don't know who the parents are just so they know who I am.

Guys want to grab a drink, German town? So Tuesday night, I said, 5.30 at the park. The pub. And I told them. a week in advance and everybody's all on board. We're going to get pizzas. We'll bring pizzas. It'll be a great time.

4 o'clock Tuesday. The techs start rolling in. See you next Tuesday, Sarah. Charlie can't make it. Malcolm can't make it. Billy can't make it. Samantha's not going to be able to make it tonight. Don't like pizza?

We ended up. We have 11 kids on the roster. We had eight cancellations. It was you in the boxes? It was me and two other kids on the team. And a homeless guy? Hey, brother, you spare us lies. I always like the squares.

Thin crust, please, brother. But my whole thing is you knew all week you weren't coming. We waited until 4 o'clock, an hour and a half before saying, oh, we're not going to be able to make it. We could have just canceled it. If you didn't want to do it in the first place, just say, hey, I don't want to do it. I don't want to do the team meetup. I think it's a waste of time. And I would have totally understood.

So that's fine. But we still had pizza. we were still at the park having a good time. And that's when the weird guy shows up. I beat you to the punch. You stole my story, man. If it's a park in Nashville, trust me, you're not alone. We got the pizza over there and this guy comes over and like, man, I'd really like a piece of pizza.

Oh, man, this kid meetup couldn't have gone better. And we're like, yeah, man, you want a couple pieces of pizza? Yeah, yeah. What kind do you got? Pepperoni and cheese. I'll take pepperoni. All right, cool. And he's like, what are you guys doing?

What's the celebration? You kids stay in school, brother. Don't end up like me. And we said, oh, you know, it's a soccer team meet up. And he was like, oh, I'm not a fan of soccer. Oh, buddy, you got to play the part. You're eating their pizza. And he's like, yeah, I just, I never let my kid and his kids with him.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. There was a kid at the park with this dude? Yeah, they were both very strange. Oh, I assumed it was a vaguer. I, well, they may have been. It was a kid vagrant with his papa. Yeah, and he was like, I never let my son play soccer. And we're like, oh, that's too bad.

He goes, yeah, I'm just, I don't, I don't agree with violence against women. Well, got a point there. What's the point? I don't get it. I'm like, what? You talking about rugby? I'm like, what's he talking about domestic abuse? I'm like, well, we haven't played soccer too.

And he goes, yeah, I'm not going to do it, though. I'm not going to soccer. No, it's not used like that, right? No. And he goes, soccer. Violence against women? I'm like, oh my God. He hit you.

Wow. Dude. He went with a domestic of violence joke. I had no idea what he was talking about. And we were all just like, oh. Is your wife there? My wife's there. Love it.

Did she give him a courtesy laugh? Wife gave him the courtesy laugh. And that's when he was like, I'm in. and cousin Andrew and I said no. Andrew was there? Oh, he was there. And we went other side of the playground. How's Andrew's tickets been looking?

You're able to get him some tickets to the kids game? No. I can get him tickets that game. But the Reds game yesterday, that was all on his own. And so Andrew and I, we go to the other side of the playground. And I see the wife stuck there. And she comes up to me later. She's like, oh, my God.

He gave me five more dad jokes after that because I gave him the courtesy laugh on the soccer. and she doesn't remember the joke. She's like, I didn't try. I tried not to pay attention. I was just trying to get out of there. And you and Andrew just left me. I'm like, yeah, we saw it out. You were cornered.

We're gone. Then he's over at the monkey bars. And he's helping his kid with the monkey bars. Here's where I got to ask the question. Let me butt in. Are you allowed to play on the equipment with your kids? You can. Okay.

Do parents do that? Some. All right. You play chase, play tag, you know, run up and down. Am I allowed with Baby Boomer, Buddha Boomer, to get on the monkey bars with him? him. 100%. Okay. So it's not weird that guy, vagrant and vagrant kid are on the monkey bar.

Right. They're just having a good time. Here's where it gets really awkward. And I don't understand that this guy's like social etiquette. Ray, slap my wife's butt. He's helping his kid get on the monkey bars and Baby Box 2 goes, oh, you have a, he had a boot on. He goes, oh, you broke your foot. And he goes, no, I didn't. He goes, yeah, you got a cast on your foot. He goes, no, it's a boot. And he goes, oh, but. But then what happened to your, you know, if it's not broken, why do you wear a boot? And he goes, oh, I got a cut on my toe and it got infected and I had to have a toe amputated. Whoa.

This guy's had a bad run of it. I'm like, dude, just say you have a broken foot. Like, there's no need to let the kid like go into detail about you chopping off your toe to the kid. He doesn't need to learn about the anatomy. Right. He doesn't need to know. He's like, yeah, so they had to cut off my toe. And so then my son's freaking out.

Hey, buddy, save the AIDS talk. Hey, man, like, I understand that you didn't actually break your foot, but for a five-year-old, just say you broke your damn foot. Hey, would you not mind breaking down the COVID novel coronavirus? I'll explain that in five years. I don't need my son worried because now he's like, dad, look, I have a cut on my arm. Is that mean I got to cut my arm off? What are you going to break down? Justin's job doing electrophysiology?

Not today, vagrant. And after he told him he had to cut off his toll, I was like, guys, hey, this team meet up. Hey, it was a pleasure, guys. It was nice seeing the other two kids. We got to go. Let's pack up the pizza. Should we leave the pizza for that guy? No, let's get the hell out of here.

And so we packed up the pizza and we went home. That was the team meetup. So it was bad to start and then it got worse by the awkward dude. Why do people have to be so weird and awkward? They are. And that must be his tool belt. He has dad jokes and then he goes hardcore serious talk about a foot injury. Yeah.

Just gloss over it. Say you're wounded. Hey, kid. Let's play. That's it. I mean, hey, you got a broken foot. You don't really have a broken foot? Just say broken foot.

Don't say they had to chop off a toe, man. Well, I lost a toe drunk on Broadway. I was thrown in the drunk tank, and they said I was going to lose my whole foot or a toe. I chose the toe. Daddy, he lost his toe. Just say you like boots. Who cares?

It's a kid. And we'll be right back. The 26 NFL draft is here, and the NFL Daily podcast has it covered from all angles. Join me, Greg Rosenthal, and Jordan Rodriguez. after night one on Thursday. Nick Shook joins me night two Friday

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Listen, before we go on, I forgot to do something. Hold on. Are you hearing yourself? Yeah, you got to plug it into that headphone. jack right there. You see it? We are in a studio we've never been in. It's really weird. It's two microphones and you face the wall. So I'm not even looking at Ray. Like it's so strange. He's to my left. We don't have any music or anything. This is really weird. Like should we keep going or should we just wait?

No, it's a rocket, dude. Man, I just want to say, I should have started the show with this. But I got to say, happy 70th birthday to my father. Today, he came into this world 70 years ago. and he has been kicking butt ever since. So happy birthday, dad. I don't like the number 70. It's a little weird, but you are 70 years old, and that's freaking crazy. So happy birthday.

Happy B-Day, Pops. Thanks so much for coming to doing the podcast at times you've done it. You always give us those awkward stares. I don't know if you approve of what we're saying. You disagree with us a lot. You come in with good points, though, and you've carried the podcast at times during vacation because you do the Box family pod.

And sometimes you just look at us, probably because you can't hear us because his hearing is not the best, but you say something and you look at him and he's just like, is he looking at me because he can't hear me? Is he not saying anything because he doesn't have anything to say or he's just an idiot? I don't know. And also some people that aren't in the radio industry, that's why I don't think my dad, I think my dad would do a lot of pauses as well because he doesn't understand you always have to fill the dead air. You can do good thoughts, but you have to have filler sentences like at the end of the day. Would you ever say that in real life? No, but you say it. on a podcast because it gives you time to say your next thing. You can also say, well, lunch, the reality of it is, and you're basically saying nothing,

but that gives you two seconds to think of what your next reality is that you're going to say. When I look at it this way, that gives you time to come up with what way you're going to look at it. When I look at it from that point of view, I can see your point. I mean, it makes no sense. It's just hogwash, but it's sort of like when you have an essay for when you had a test and it was essays, if you just restate the question, you are basically getting some kind of points because you're restating what they said.

So it's obviously something to do with that. So just restate the question. You already got at least five points on the essay test. South Beach told me the exact same thing. Was it a physics? Not physics. It was when you, it's psychology. And he goes, hey, one of my buddies back in the day told me

that you just ask yourself questions when you're doing, what did I say, psychology? Yeah. Yeah, psychology. So I believe it was Aristotle and stuff. So he goes, if you ever just run out of something to say, go, is that really what it is? Is that what he was thinking? You just ask a question.

And he goes, it makes you think that you're deep and you're pondering it. And it usually did well. I have a question. I can't say it was a guaranteed A, but I didn't fail. Is Aristotle philosophy or psychology? Through it out there. I don't know. I don't know which one.

I think it's philosophy. What is that? What, you hear something? The vent is cooking. You can hear, I don't hear anything. I heard it moaning. Yeah, so anyway, I mean, I think it might be philosophy and not psychology. Because my roommate John in college.

That's what it is. It is. He changed his major from criminal justice to philosophy just because he found out criminal justice was going to take four and a half years. So he got a philosophy degree. And he would come home and have the. stupidest arguments I've ever had in my life. He would be like, hey, dude, how do you know you're not asleep right now? That's deep, chest day. No, not chest day. We'll get to chest day

in a minute. I'm disappointed in his behavior. No, he would be like, how do you know you're not dreaming right now? I'm like, that's just stupid. He goes, no, argue. Tell me how you know you're awake. He was trying to debate. He was trying to debate because he was, that's what he just learned in his philosophy class. And I was like, I don't care about your philosophy class. I don't want to sit here and argue about it. He's like, yeah, you wouldn't pass philosophy. Dude, it reminded me in my debate class in college.

I only did one because I was going to be on Big Brother. And I thought, I got to be better at debate. And one of the guys on Big Brother, Eric Barry, his name was Eric. He said he took debate. And I go, well, I got to take debate in college. Well, that young kid, Corey, that was on a couple seasons ago. He went to Vandy. He was a debate dude.

So that's what it is. And I learned a lot in debate, but the one thing I didn't do great at debate, one of my final debates, some kids in school taught me about Adderall. I'd gone my entire college career without doing Adderall. Okay. Tell me more. And the day before the debate, they said, hey, it'll really help you think, concentrate, and you'll be really intense and focused. So I just took like, we call it a noce, just a portion of an Adderall. At the time, my ex-girlfriend had a subscription, whatever you call it.

Prescription. And so I took the half of it. Adderall? Debate went well. We won. Ace the class. Everything was great. Except for after the class, I stayed after and talked to the professor for 45 minutes. I never even

talked to the guy in an entire semester. Oh, look at the time, man. That's why you never take an Adderall. Bro, I debated with bro for 45 straight minutes. I got to be bro with you. I've never had an Adderall. I've never had it.

I've never needed it. I don't think I needed it. Dude, it's, you're fine. The thing that Adderall does, you have conversations that in the moment are great. And you're great. It actually, you come up with words. You're doing all these filler words, man. You're just a genius. But the next day, eh, probably shouldn't have that conversation.

You're open to having conversations and going really in depth in conversations that you really have no business even really going into. Yeah. Well, I just wanted to make sure we said, happy birthday to my dad. And then I just got a real text that's going to really, it's really stupid. and I don't even know how to respond. Because I told you Baby Box 3 has his first soccer game tomorrow morning. We already covered that. Well, we have a group text for all the parents on the team.

And one of the parents just texted, Hey, coach, can you text me the address of where the game is? Valid. No, it's not valid. You went to the website to sign up for the league. Just go to that website and look at what the address is. Do you not realize what a coach is? A coach is a conduit to make these parents' lives.

easier. Can you give my kid a ride? Hey, two hours of child care for free. Go to practice. Great. You're just making parents' lives easier. That's them. You're being used. Yes, but I can't believe you can't look up where the game is at when it's at the same spot every week. It's the same place you signed up. You ever think back? If you had a parent, if no teeth, kid, I'll take care of all this. All the times parents use no teeth Keith. What do you mean, kid? I love doing it. The rides, the quick meals, the three hours of child care, homework, making them do it in the vehicle while they were driving. Dude, all the times, you were basically just a glorified babysitter if you're a coach.

Bray, are you serious? I thought was a good coach. I don't think that I am considered a glorified babysitter. I do see your point, though, but I don't think the parents used no teeth Keith. My dad, hundreds of thousands of dollars, he easily did for kids with gas money. Because here's the deal. Keith didn't have any money. So he wasn't buying us meals.

Kid, I'm going to bet $5. Password Willie May. It's like the one time he was like, oh, kid, we got to get to the gas station. We're going to run out of gas. Oh, kid. And we pull into the gas station. And he goes, put $2.50 in. Kid, that won't even get an ounce, kid.

I said $2.50. And he goes, yeah, I need the other $3.25 for a can of coat. Copenhagen. Hey, those are the days you remember when you're counting pennies. You remember the exact stuff you bought at a gas station. That was the funniest thing to me because I'm like, what do you mean? You're only getting $2.50. You have like $5.

He goes, yeah, kid, I got to get a can of Copenhagen. And the other time, hey, Keith picks me up. Where are we going? Don't worry about it. I'm like, well, what time are we going to be back? Quit living so white. What do you mean? He goes, don't live so white, all concerned about the time and where we're going.

Can we just not go somewhere? You're sharp edge. Kid, be smooth. And I'm like, okay, yeah, I'll just be relaxed. 30 minutes. All right, Keith, like, really, like, where are we going? Kid, just relax and enjoy the beautiful sunshine and the wind blowing it. We got the windows down.

And I'm like, what are we doing? Kid, listen to Bob Marley. Don't worry, kid. Be happy, kid. Hey, kid, don't be happy, kid. Hey, kid, don't be so white. I'll never forget him saying, don't be so white. Like, is that a white person thing that we worry about time?

Could be a white knuckle. It means you're one of those. I don't know. But we wouldn't have an apple pie. We sat down at the restaurant in Huddo and he was like, they were like, oh, do you know what you want? I was like, no. And he goes, yes, we do.

And I was like, I haven't even looked at the menu. He goes, we'll take two pieces of your warm apple pie. You always remember those exact money things, though, when it comes to change in sense and getting gas and not having that much. Do you remember the last time you spent how much you spent on gas? God, it was like $56. Okay, not that one. The time before.

Specifically. No. What about the time before that one? No. Okay, but you remember it. Dude, I remember distinctly, my change cup. I had no money when we first moved here. And I went to the gas station.

I randomly had $6 in change. The lady, bless her, counted it all out and let me get $6 in straight change of gas. At that gas station below our building right now that I'm in a high rise and I look over on. If that isn't full circle, I don't know what is. That's pretty dope. Ray, that's a hell of a story. But I don't remember the last time I got gas or the time before that or the time before that. Actually, I do because now, if I don't get a discount, we do the Kroger thing.

Oh. So we use the Kroger card all the time, only get groceries at Kroger and then a discount shell gas. So if I don't get the other day, I got a dollar off every gallon. Stop. Do the math. 20 gallons. I save $20. That's really good.

So if I don't get 50 cents or a dollar, I don't, I'll do it for 30 cents too because you end up saving $7-dollar. That's pretty good. So if it says no discount, I'll just get $2 with the gas. I'm just like, kid, just like, hey, waiting for that discount. That's like, I mean, I'm telling you, we were driving with no teeth you one time and the gas lights on. I'm like, kid, we got to get gas. That's a beacon, kid to tell you, don't worry, be happy, kid. Oh, kid, just relax.

We got plenty of gas. Keith, the gas light is on, dude. Kid, just, I mean, why are you so stressed? You can drive so far on the gaslight. You can go as far as the fumes take you. And then after, you start to huffing, kid. Keith, you got to worry, like the gas light. Kid, there is nothing to worry about.

I do this all the time. Smash cut, 10 minutes later, run out of gas. And he gets out of the car. God damn it, kid, slams the door, shatters the window. Oh, he did? It was a double whammy. Hey, it rains pours, it comes. Hey, hey, hey, well, I mean, kid, don't stress out about it.

We're stranded on the side of the road. And this before cell phones. Hey, kid, you start stressing yet. Hey, kid, you still, that guy's like, we still good, man? Like, do I need to relax now? I mean, what's going on? I mean, hilarious. And I don't know where else is it going to go.

But yeah, so should I reply to this mom? Do I respond and be like, it's easy. Just go to the website. or do I just be nice and send the address? Because I don't know the address. So that means I would have to go look it up. She can Google it just as easy as I can Google it. Right now in the world that we all Google,

you can tell the people that are just being lazy when they say specifically that. Yeah. Then you're like, oh, you're not Googling it. I get it. Like, I mean, the game's tomorrow. You have 24 hours to go ahead and look it up and see where it is. The other day, Abby had to deal with the same thing. She has people hit her up.

Hey, not for work purposes. I'm not going to get too much in the weeds. But they'll say, hey, where is this? And she goes, we're both Googling it. Why couldn't you Google it? I just, I don't even understand it. I'm like, I don't know. And I want to text my wife and be like, are these people serious?

Like, are they really serious? And I understand I may do that sometimes with my wife. Like, hey, do you know what this is? And she'll look it up. But I thought maybe she would know ahead of time like, hey, where are we going? But this is infuriating. It's three and four-year-old soccer. I am not here.

Just look it up. Look it. And it's so easy. Is it known that the way? website is the Bible. I don't know. Here's the thing. When they, the league emails you, like, hey, you've been registered or here's the, you know, whatever, your first game, your game schedule. The email has the name of the place we play. Just click on the link. It has a link to their website.

It's not that hard. Because we did CARES team, people didn't know the importance of the app. You download the app. Everything's there for you. The hours of the gym, hours of the pool, when the pool opens, when the events are, what time the events are. If there's alcohol, if there isn't alcohol, who's allowed, our dog's allowed, can you bring kids? It was all there. But the people that didn't know the app, typically the 50 and 60 year olds, we would have to explain to them. It's very simple. Make sure you download it because then they would seem very ignorant, whereas they just were ignorant about the app, not in life in general. Well, good. I don't want to be ignorant in life in general. So I'm saying they're probably 50 or 60.

That's going to be me when I have kids. Wait, do you think they're 50 or 60 with a 3-year-old? Yeah. By not knowing the Bible for whatever event or part of it, that means that they're older. Anybody our age and younger, Jen Ziers, if you have any of, I mean, they would have had kids like 16, but but what I'm saying is, we all know that's a sign of an older person. Or a lazy person.

So yeah, happy birthday, dad. Once again, happy 70th birthday. Your present is in the mail. Oh, yeah, I got you a present this year. Congratulations to me. It's really from the kids. They wanted to buy it for you, so hopefully you enjoy it. Do you still buy your parents' birthday presents? Yeah, we do. Bayser's

good about that. Like, I never really do and I realize, you know, it's kind of rude to me not to buy my parents something. It's so easy. What's something, you know, your dad, barely know your dad. He would love something construction related. Get him a hammer engraved dad of the year, grandpa of the year, a year, or how many times he has to hammer something. Thank you for not making, I thought you were about to say, when's the last time he hammered your mom? And I was like, stop. I was about to just like die. The base, you can take any basic gift, engrave it. Any simple thing, put a picture on it. A moment in time. Hey, I took

this picture of you when you were working on the toilet. You know what I did do one time on Christmas and this was a few years ago. I bought them a clock and I took pictures of all their grandkids and cut them up and put them all over the clock. Money. The only problem is you can't tell what damn time it is. Because it's like all the kids are covering the numbers and the And you're just kind of guessing like, I think it's about 520. Maybe it's 620. It's just kids faces everywhere. And the bad part is I did it before they had all their grandkids, so some of the grandkids aren't on there.

And gifts money-wise don't make a bit of damn difference. Bayser, I didn't tell her any prices of any of her Christmas gifts. I always just keep it. I just want to know. What ends up doing the best? Most expensive gift, she never used it. I never told her the price of it. But it just tells me.

Guys, price on anything, don't matter. The heartfelt stuff, the stuff that's practical, she can put in her office and actually use on a daily basis, $60, $70, that's the stuff she used. The $500 one? She's used twice, and when was Christmas? It's like kids, man. You think you got them this badass gift.

You think you got them, the Crim Day La Crem. You think, oh, my gosh, they're going to open this and be like, oh, my gosh, this is the coolest toy I've ever seen. They are more interested in the box. They are more interested in the box that you put it in. That's a cat. Than the actual toy. and they'll sit in the freaking box

look dad I'm driving dad pull me around dad push me oh I'm on the train and I'm like what about the toy that I thought was the crem della crem like that was the top of the line cool toy and you care about the box I've been getting on Boomer for gifts of mine

that I gave him that he doesn't use so I went back up north surprise Christmas real quick yeah and now yeah I realized there's a handful of hats I've given him he just has hanging on the wall and I go wait whoa whoa whoa whoa I would have worn these hats. I was being generous.

I gave him a Ryan Hurd Buffalo hat. Dope. I gave him when I had the great one company that went under, the Sisson Raymoono. Rest and peace. Yeah. I told him, here you go. I would love this stuff, but I think of you, enjoy it. I found out he's just hanging them on the wall.

Bro, I went up there. I took some of them. I brought him back down here. I was like, you don't wear it. You don't get to keep it. And so then now, when he came down and visited it, I go, I'm giving you this hat. I'm giving you this hoodie. If I don't see you post some pictures and wearing it, I'm coming and snatching it back.

How does he hang him on the wall? Does he have just like a wall of hat? Yeah. And I go, no, no, no. I didn't give you this to just work as some decor, bro. I wore this hat every day. I grabbed it, took it right back. So this time he came down with the Ryan Hurd hat on. And I was like, I knew you didn't wear that thing.

And now he's got to show me that he wears it. I love it. Hey, boomer. I hope you're doing well, man. And happy birthday, Dad. Once again, hopefully we'll see you soon. Well, probably FaceTime tonight maybe before the games because there's this thing called March Madness. MLB started yesterday.

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I know Ray, you were asleep. Oh my gosh. We're going to talk all about it right after this. We'll be right back. You don't just roll? Might as well? Yeah, because I think it will rock. Yeah, might as well.

I can talk about whatever because I watched it all. What? Yeah, highlights. I saw a 13-minute package on Texas Tech, Arkansas. That is not good enough. It is. I saw when Arkansas was up 16. I saw when it tied.

I saw the overtime. How did they lose that game? 10 minutes left they were up 16. Shee! No, no. Like four minutes left. They were up. 13.

12 or 13. Oh my gosh. Here's the thing. I'm watching that game just going, Arkansas was unconscious from three in the first half. They're not a very good shooting team. And I have a theory on how a team can come back. And they just kept shooting threes, even though they're not good at shooting threes.

And the second half, they weren't going in. The threes weren't falling. They're turning the ball over. They're taking bad shots. And Texas Tech, that coach, he out-coached John Kalapari. He said, man, we're not getting rebounds. We need to get some size in there. Their size is bothering

us. Topin? So instead of having just one big man on the floor, Topin? They brought in their other big man and they had them on the court at the same time, which they never do. And they started getting offensive rebounds. They started dominating. And it was just like, oh my God. And it reminded me watching that game was exactly like Memphis versus Kansas in the national title game.

When was that? 2008, I believe. Oh, yeah. I was in college. I saw that one. Yes. Memphis had this huge lead. Chalmers.

Yes, huge lead. And then all of a sudden Memphis couldn't hit free throws. They start turning the ball over. And Kansas has this miracle comeback. And that's exactly what happened last night. And here's my theory on it. Guys, if you really think about it, a team's up 16, so that's five possessions. The three point line has changed and evolutionized the game of basketball.

So if you get a three, then you're down four possessions. You get one stop and you're able to make it again. Then you're only down three possessions. That's a minute. If it's, you know, I get if they're going to try and run the clock, if it's at one minute. But if it's still at about three, you've got two possessions in a row where you score a three. So then you're down nine. And you have three.

all you need is five consecutive possessions. And in gambling, five rolls, five blackjack hands. That's how you win it big. Is it rare, not rare, but is it hard to do that? Yeah. All you need is five straight blackjack hands, and you're going to have a hell of a time. Same with craps. Five in a row possessions and you can overcome 15 points.

That's not a lot. No, it's a hell of a lot. And it was unbelievable. And as you're watching it going, this isn't really going to happen. and they come down, they're down by three. They shoot the three and they brick it. Arkansas gets the rebound and they foul A-Doo. And this dude against Kansas couldn't miss.

60% free throw shooters, sank them both. Goes the line one-in-one. Brick. Texas Tech grabs the rebound, starts dribbling, dribbling. What, what, what, what? Clock issue, clock issue. Got to review the clock. It didn't start in time.

That wasn't in my highlight package. Exactly. you didn't see them miss the first three and then the guy missed the free throws. That's what was huge. They had a chance to ice it. They could only include so many things in a 13-minute highlight package. And so they go over there and they get the clock right, they draw up a play, boom, boom. Three.

Oh, bananas! Bananas! It was pure pandemonium. And then overtime was... Well, before overtime, you don't think nerves get to a guy. I always love really analyzing the final shot as the buzzer. there's going up. I mean, the guy shot it so flat and so short. I don't know who their

guard is. Is it Williams or Thomas or Henry or Jimmy? Or Davis. I know it's not A-DU or the other guy. Joe. Dougner. Yeah, the third. And he shot it up and I always love to analyze it. Dude, I mean, he just got alligator arms and just shorted it and it wasn't even close. I mean,

it hit the front iron of the ring. You're right. You're right. The final shot, you don't think nerves play a factor? That guy was straight, nervous. That had no arc on it. And then overtime was great. Back and four, they go up by three. They come down hit a three. It was fantastic. Tech scores with like five seconds to go or eight seconds to go. I don't even know. And then Wagner thinks he's a hero, dude. I hate to tell you, John L. Davis was their best player. And I don't know why they weren't giving him the ball when it was crunch time.

You know, you got to have a shot to tie it to go to a double OT or to win it in the regulation. They gave it to Wagner both times. Davis was their best player. Wagner dribble straight down. Didn't look for a single pass. Right hand side. Dribble, dribble, dribble, dribble, dribble, dribble, dribble, dribble, And a bad shot. And a bad shot. And Arkansas goes home. And then, it was a fantastic game. What was with the 930 start time? Dude. What, what are we doing? What are we doing? How is that possible? And we're not even on the East Coast. That game didn't get over until 2 a.m. if you're in New York. Lord, if you're in New York, you did not see the end of that game. You went to work. You got up, hey, let's do McDonald's and go take the kids to school. I got to go to work. I mean, I texted chest day, a proud Texas Tech graduate. And I said,

Billy went there a year. Really? Yeah. Just a year? Yeah, and then he transferred to T-State. Okay. I said, earlier yesterday, I said, good luck tonight.

Hope there is a tech watch party, and it's a celebration for you boys. He said, thank you, sir, because him and Scott are big, they both went to tech. Elite, hey? And he said, thank you, sir. We are going to need it.

I'm nervous playing against John Calli Pari. Whatever. cauliflower. 11.45 p.m. I texted him. Holy ass. Nothing back. Yeah, I woke up to this. So I texted him again.

I said, if you went to bed thinking it was over, I'm going to have words for you. This morning, 7.14 a.m. Painful joy. Dude, I know I lost a stripe and I know it. That was Aristotle. That was deep. I watched three, fourths of the game. it wasn't going our way.

We were down by 12 and I went to bed. He was the lucky charm. He goes, I was so tired. I'm happy we won, but my stomach hurts right now. F, wreck him. I said, hey, man, sleep is more important. It just proves to you that Texas Tech doesn't need you to win. I said it also reminds me of that one fateful Saturday when we were down in Austin, Texas,

and we went to that bar at Burnett in 183. And I approached you. to watch Texas Tech versus Texas and football. And Texas scores a touchdown with like 30 seconds to go. Crabtree? You went crying in the bathroom. Only to come out five minutes later to realize that Texas Tech had won because Crabtree had caught a ball on the right hand side and snuck into the end zone.

And he said, thanks, man. Plus, when I woke up this morning, what exactly crossed my mind was Crabtree all over again. But he's not on the team. But he went to tech. It's the same scenario. He thought the game was over, so he left. Got it. And then watch the end. And then boom, they win.

And how close we were. Guys, I root for my friend's teams. You guys all know that. Just kidding. But how close we were to Arkansas going to the national championship? Because next game, they're going to play Auburn's dog crap. They're playing Florida. Right. I'm talking about this side of the bracket. So they'll play Florida. Florida's got a guy hurt. They're big guy. And Clayton's the stud.

Maybe other than that, Florida ain't great. So I honestly think. I will say this. Arkansas. I love about Florida. I've been watching them. They have not impressed me at all. Yeah.

Thanks, ESPN, saying, oh, Florida, the most popular pick. Why? The tall dude, I don't think he's very good. But Clayton is their most efficient player. He's damn good. And he's going to play in the league. I think Arkansas could have beat Florida. And then with Michigan State and Ole Miss, say Ole Miss wins, Michigan State,

Dunzo. And then Auburn hasn't been very that impressive. Maserati might be hurt. I hope Maserati hip is okay. I don't know. Hip pointer. So you're talking in Auburn, Arkansas. I think Arkansas could have gone on the national

championship, we dodge a bullet. I got to go, man. Really? Well, I think we might, but I'm just saying, if we're looking ahead. I'm going to tell you what, though. Bones almost had a national championship. You know what I'm ready for? Alabama Duke is going to be unbucked.

They put up 100 and 13 points. Dude, I don't bet. When did the overhead at halftime? Hey, what is happening? Here's my thing. Not only them. Duke put up 100. Arizona put up 94. I mean, there were points out the wazoo.

I warned my dad about this. I said, I know you've just been watching Big Ten, Michigan State putting up 60 a game, but there's teams out there that are rocking 100 now. Just FYI, when you put on one of these games, it's going to look like a track meet. Dude, Alabama, they said they didn't even have to make a two-pointer and they don't won the game. Well, and look at because of all the threes. Look at the stats. The only efficient guy was Sears.

He played a damn good game. He was high-20s, which efficiency-wise is through the roof. And Nelson, can you please shave the mustache? Dude, you look like a creeper. You look like an absolute peto. Guys, look at the numbers. ESPN's not going to tell you. The only efficient player was Sears, which is cause for concern.

I think Duke rolls. I don't know the line, but Duke will win. I'm going to tell you this right now, though. Sorry, Brownlee. Duke looks awesome. They are, I didn't realize, Knoppel, Knopple. Knapple.

I didn't realize how big he was. I should have paid more attention. I thought he was like 6-2. The dude's like 6-8. And they have the making. James is huge. Proctologist. The big guy.

down low is 712. He is a monster. And Cooper Flag is next level. He's Luca. He's a skinny Luca. Dude, that is so crazy. It is so, Cooper Flag is really good. Glad he's back. He's to the league, right? After this? Supposedly. What if he comes back? This is what I want to see. I would love for this dude, maybe they don't win the national title. Hopefully they don't win the national title. Please, no Duke win the national title. Oh, their side of the bracket, they got it covered. ain't stopping them. Purdue ain't stopping them. The other stuff is crap. I mean, sorry, I love the Vols, but you can't, walls, please.

Here's my thing. Duke goes the national championship. Do they beat Auburn or not is the question. I would love, unless the Spurs get the number one pick, then I do not want any of this to happen. Then we will all Wemby. Then we'll Wemby and Cooper. But what I am saying is I would love for Duke to lose and this freshman who's the overall number one pick, no doubt. Like, he's going to be number one. To say, you know what?

I don't know. Bite your tongue. when you're talking to me. Watch out for that kid out of Wisconsin. Tonjay. Stop. I just threw a name out there. He's good, though. But he's not.

What about Jason Richardson's son? Stop. Stop. What about Hunter Dickinson? What is he doing? Is he done? Dude, he's dead. Like, he signed with Costco and he is, he is a manager in training, okay?

He's in the MIT program, not MIT the school, MIT manager in training. I don't care. He said he played good final game. Stop, he did not. I showed you. Couple turnovers. No, that costs us a game. He had an efficient game.

You can't have an efficient game if you don't score a point in the second half. You can't be efficient. If you give up five offensive rebounds, you are not efficient. You're a bum. You're an absolute freaking bum. But anyway, what's your point about the draft? Spurs. I would love Cooper Flagg to be like, you know what?

I want to win a ship. I didn't win a ship. I'm coming back. He has that hunger. that desire that losing doesn't sit well with him, that the money can wait. He's going to make plenty of money in college. So wait a year and come back and play college basketball. That would be phenomenal.

But the worry is Arizona just got some big guys. Duke won't be the best thing. They just got the brawny kid and they got another top of crew. Let me tell you about Arizona. I'm never going to trust Arizona. They never, every year I picked him. They never do it. Who's a stud?

The kid they just got out of high school. Pete or Pote, Pote, Petit. I don't know. I have no idea. but phenomenal game. Duke, Alabama is going to be fantastic. I love watching Alabama because they just run non-stop. They do not slowly dribbled up the court. It doesn't matter.

They just come out run, run, run, run. Duke better be in shape because they're going to be running. Thanks for that. Auburn Duke. That's all I need to know. We got to take a break. We'll be right back. The 26 NFL draft is here and the NFL Daily Pod.

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 free IHeart Radio app. Open the app, search NFL Daily, and listen now. A win is a win. A win is a win.

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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 Podcast, 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 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 IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This has got to be our last segment. I don't like things dying, Ray, but I'm going to tell you something. your mic wasn't on. Do you have any death music? Yeah, it's playing. You have to have some kind of death music, dude, because... No, none of it's approved.

There has to be some... Any music. CrimePod. Oh, that's all you had to say. Dude, this remote doesn't work. Here we go. I'm dead serious. It doesn't work. Do you want me to take this remote's batteries? No, because then how are you going to... Well, you're going to have to do something to end the... It just'll never end.

Oh, my gosh. I don't even know if you need the death music, but I'm just going to tell you, it's the end of. Wow. All right, you're taking the battery. This is awesome. You are taking the battery out of one mouse,

putting in another mouse. So when you need to end the show, you're going to have to take the battery out of that mouse to put in the other mouse. I don't even know if this death music, and what I'm about to say, my prediction even is worth this much. But I'm just going to tell you that we have seen the death,

the end of something that we all love, is now gone. And it sucks, but it's the absolute truth. Okay, we're ready for it, man. You got it? Yeah, I just have one button that I got to click.

There it is. It worked. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children. That's true. That's a great idea. Yeah, dude. Children of all ages. Triple A's.

Oh. I'm here to announce that we're leaving. I'm not leaving radio, but the death, the end of Cinderella. We are never going to see Cinderella in March Madness again, thanks to NIL. There is going to be no team at the mid-major level that stays together four years and has that one shining moment where they upset three teams in the tournament. NIL money is too lucrative for them to stay at Hofstra,

at Colgate, at San Jose State. Those times are gone. Oral Roberts, they will not have the power to go three rounds deep. Yes, they may win a game like... Roberts. Just give me a heads up when you're going to say... Roberts? Yeah, sorry.

McKinney State, they won a game this. year, but then they got annihilated the second game. ORA? Roberts. No, the boombox guy. His name's ORA. Oh, ORA? I like him.

He's going to NC State with Will Wade. But the reason is that these teams usually could upset the big guys two, three games in a row. It's because they've been together for four years and they have that chemistry and they maintain it in the tournament where these other teams are thrown together one year, a bunch of freshmen, and they get hot. Now, at the end of every year, those mid-major guys, they're leaving their program. They're going to big schools. The guy that was on Oakland, I don't even know his name, but he's Townsend.

He was on Arizona this year. Iona. Iona. They're going somewhere else. Iona went to another school and then that guy played the school that he used to play on. Clayton. Clayton for Florida is from Iona. Is he?

Yes. That's what I mean. Iona, the Gales. The guy for the Auburn, the Miles Ken. Kelly is from George Mason. No, not Miles Kelly. The other guy. Broomey.

George, no, George Mason. Browns Kelly's from George Mason. Where was Broomey from? I don't know. Oh my gosh. Some broom school. Where Jahibbroom? Jehine, Broome, Auburn.

Auburn. You really should pull up the Facebook post that Brownlee did because it shows all the schools of the starting five in the Sweet 16 where they started at. Hey, Broom played at Moorhead State. Hey, look it up on our Facebook. It's all the schools of the Sweet 16 teams where they started at. And one of the only ones, Purdue, that has a starting five that all started at Purdue. That's pretty interesting. Duke was as well, was pretty high up there.

Yeah, they have to have some transfers, right? Yeah, some. But some of the schools, you didn't even know which school it was in the Sweet 16 because they had that many guys. Can I be honest? When I looked at the graphic, I didn't understand it. It took me a minute. That's why I'm statistical citizen. But that's what I'm saying.

This has been the most chalk, boring March madness that we've seen. And it's all, I really believe it's all because of NIL. And when you go look at the transfer portal right now, everybody from a small school is in the transfer portal. Not saying that major guys aren't leaving, but it's like, oh, I had 19 points a game at Telson. I'm transferring. I'm out of here. The only portal I'm checking out is the Dennis portal, you know? Oh, you got a dentist appointment? No, I already did. Did my mouth guard come in? Check the portal.

Nice. Oh, log on, check your medical portal, dude. Yeah, I got an appointment at CBS today because my sore throat will not go away. The freaking allergies or whatever. Hold on, kids. I'm getting in the portal. Oh, dad, you're going to another school radio station? No, kids, just a hospital appointment. Getting in the portal for old people. Portals are great. I do. I did have a.

Baser, her s used to be delayed weeks, months. Now, after an appointment, boom, she gets in. She can see her tumor markers. She can see her pressures, white blood cells, red blood cells, all of it instantaneously because of the portal. So the portal is good for that. Yeah, I mean, I got a text like, hey, your results will be available on the portal. The portal, dude. And I'm like, wow.

Check the portal. So I'm going to go portaling too, man. But yeah, it's amazing. The Cinderella is dead. That is my prediction after watching this. Season of March Madness, we will no longer see Cinderella. It's over. Goodbye. Have fun.

And there's no facts on any of this or anything I can source or quote or give you my bibliography. But they've been saying these NIL deals. There's really no. I mean, some have documentation. They do. But it's, I guess there's a gray area where some of these kids aren't getting the total amount they were promised from an NIL. Well, that's why the guy, the quarterback left you at LV. He wasn't, he wasn't getting his money.

Dude, these kids aren't getting all their money because it's some guy at a car dealership with a greasy snake oil salesman shaking a hand and he's not paying all the way. It is wild. It is wild. They said they're going to start a bunch of different stuff. They're going to be regulations and parameters. Show me how. It is the wild wild west. How are you going to rain it in? You got to have the rules in place before it started.

Now it is just boom. But if I am a coach. If you, ORA can get hold in the boom box, get to deal with BW3s and make $300,000. quarter of a million. More than the players. Yeah, it's a gross world we live in, guys. But you know what? I'm here for it.

I would do this. If I'm the head coach at Kansas, my name was Bill Self, and I'm talking to someone that I'm going to, in the transfer portal, whatever, I'm going to say, look,

I'm going to make them. They need to have contracts like they do in the NBA. They do, but there's other stuff, I'm sure, outside of it. Oh, yeah, hey, that amounts only 700,000.

We'll get you a car. No, no. And then you don't specifically say the car. Then you get down there, it's a Rav4. What I'm saying is, you are locked in here for two years, just like the NBA. You sign a two-year deal. Did we have a contract for this podcast for

years? And then you got you shouting from the rooftops. Hey, first thing I'm going to do is sign a contract. People do this stuff all the time without a contract. You just shake a couple of hands. Right. But I'm saying if you don't want them to all transfer out, if you want to keep your team together, they all sign a two-year

deal when they come to your school. Genius. That's my philosophy. Cinderella's dead. March mandons this weekend. Baby Box 3 takes the soccer field tomorrow for the first time ever. Tell you all about it. Happy birthday, Dad. Have a great weekend, guys.

Glad Mary. Start all that over again. Glad Major League Baseball is back. It is truly fascinating. I've said it once. I'll say it again. The Dodgers are going to set the all-time win record of 117 wins. They'll tie it.

They'll beat it. Are they 3-0? Yeah, they're going to have over 118 wins this year. It's going to be the greatest team on. turf. Enjoy that. March Madness is phenomenal. Going to be some wacky games tonight. You're probably going to see a Kentucky outdo the vals. Weird stuff like that. Auburn

a huge favorite. Houston a huge favorite. Houston plays Purdue. I said that wrong. I don't know how Purdue's a huge favorite. There's going to be some weird stuff because yesterday it was all 40 point wins. It's March Madness. It wasn't 40 point wins. Alabama won by 35.

Do you know what's crazy? BYU didn't even play bad. And they got blowed out. Alabama Finn to win it? That is the Alabama squad that I picked to go to the final four. I don't know if they can shoot that well against Duke. Duke is a bunch of long dudes. All their arms are about the length of a car.

I'm like shocked how big they are. I did not realize Coppel was so big. Didn't realize James was so big. Caniple. Whatever his name is. It literally is Canipal. I know. And I literally didn't understand.

I keep saying it wrong. It's the best name ever. When I heard the announcer said, I said, how are you ever going to forget that? Canipal. The guy's great. Canipal. Yeah. So, I don't know. It's going to be great. I thought Texas Tech was great. Arizona made it a game at the end. It was back in edge of your seat drama. It's great. Great basketball. This is high level stuff. Alabama Duke's going to be the game of the tournament so far. And nobody's talking about it. NBA is winding down. You got a couple weeks left. NHL is winding down. You got a couple weeks left. No one cares. No one cares. I do. I do. They've been watching NHL. Yes. Who's good?

We have a vested interest. We had the Golden Knights. We had them when they were like in third place. They're now in first. They're fighting for first. And we have the capitals to be the best team in hockey. They're up by a game. So it's all coming down to these final two weeks or else these future stuff. You can throw it out the window. Over to you, man. I'm out of here, man. Happy birthday, Dad. Love you. And we'll probably face-time me tonight, like I said earlier. Dude. It's a big weekend. Big weekend.

But it looking like rain coming in tomorrow, isn't it? Dude, I've been just chipping off the back patio. How's it looking? Good, but I just haven't taken my game to the course. You did that one day. But I'm saying I'm snake bit from that. That was, hey, that course was a little rough on you. I'm sorry.

And I saw some dude tweet the other day. Wish I knew who it was. Wish I knew his name. Wish I knew the exact source, bibliography, and quoting and citation. Guy said, when you play golf in the wind, it sucks. It totally is a misrepresentation of your golf game. Well, obviously. Then why did we play?

Well, you don't think the pros play when it's windy? outside, they just stop playing because of the wind? No, you've got to learn to adapt. You've got to adjust your game. He had a different shot. But here, we got invited to a bachelor party. Wanted me to read it real quick? Yeah, I just switched the remote over there. I don't have a battery.

What's up, coaches? Me and my boys are coming to Nashville for St. Paddy's weekend and was wondering if we could do a podcast with y'all on the 17th or 19th. Yeah. I've been a day one listener since I was 17 years old. I'm now 23, married and about to be a lawyer. You guys have gotten me through many long nights of studying through school.

If not a podcast, a shoutout would be amazing. I'll hang up the phone and listen. Sheesh. Shee. The Batch Daddy. John Bachelor. I just saw this dude. We will see you.

St. Patty's Day. What is it? 2026? I think he meant this year, man. How did I miss this? Oh, man. My bad, Batch Daddy. We should have had you come in on the pod.

Let me see. He said the 17th. What would they, that have been? That would have been a Monday. He could have come in. Dude, Mondays are our worst days. What are he talking about? Or the 19th, a Wednesday.

He was here until a Wednesday. He could have come on a Wednesday. Oh, man. When did the Australian come? I don't know. Friday. Sorry, Batch Daddy, man. Macers.

Hey, we did Mackers on a Friday. That's the best day for us is Fridays. Yeah. Oh, man. But we never know our schedule. So there's literally no way that we could even give you a window of when to come in. And I'm pretty sure that we have to let you in

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