July 8, 2024 • 51 mins
In this episode Lunchbox took his 3 boys to Wrigley Field for the first time to see the Cubs and it didn't go the way he had envisioned. Tears were shed, money was wasted, and Lunchbox had a very rough time at the airport. Also vacation was almost ruined when Lunchbox got a text from a friend with devastating news that changed Lunchbox's life.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Yo, Hey, welcome back, man, Yo, welcome back. We're talking
about we did pods all week. No, I know we
did pods. We were on Vaca, but I don't know
if people. I have no idea that people like the
pods that we did. I have no idea what we
talked about in the pods we did. And I do
know I did make one mistake. I messed up. Now.
I posted the pod and I talked about the new
(00:24):
merch that someone sent us, the guy from Day One's
he like sent us some like mock ups. It's Day
ones ones. And I took pictures of every single item
to post it on Facebook so people could see and
give their opinions. And I totally forgot to post it.
You've given up, No, no, no. I was on vacation and
(00:44):
I was enjoying my time and I totally forgot. And
I didn't know what day that pod went up. And
I didn't even remember it until literally this morning when
I saw on Facebook someone I was scrolling through the
old post and someone said, Man, where's that golf shirt?
I'll buy it right now, And I was like, I
never post the pictures, so yeah, they're also not for
(01:04):
sale though. No, not for sale, but they just want
to see it. I just thought they would want to
see him and as my bad. But hey, well sure
you'll see it. I'll be wearing it. Hey, welcome back, man.
Thanks dude. You ready to start it? Yeah, I mean
I'm ready to talk. I got like two hours. No no,
no, no no, I've got two hours in the bag. Well,
then you're gonna do a special.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Sore Losers post show pre show, and you're just gonna
record it on your own, and then you're gonna post
it on your own.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
I've got like two hours of materials. So sit back, relax,
this car drive. I'm gonna make it easy for you.
I'm gonna make your day so much better. Happy Monday.
It is gonna be story after story after story, and
we're not talking Trevor story. We are gonna do it live.
Arnold is still on vacation with Abby.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
They went to Italy, the Amalfi coast right in there,
I believe it's called uh Perinino is where he went.
And he said that he's trying to want to do
the pizza, to do the wine, wanted to do the
whole Italian experience.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
And he wanted to do Abby. Yep, that's always a given.
We're gonna do a lot. We oh the one, two three,
so loser? What up, everybody? I am lunchbox. I know
the most about sports, so I'll give you the sports facts,
my sports opinions, because I'm pretty much a sports genius.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Permiento, I think, is the place called No one's ever
heard of it. It's where Leo always docks his yacht. Okay,
maybe they've heard of it. I've never heard of it,
y'all at sizzle.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
I'm from the North. I'm an alpha mel.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I live on the north side of Nashville, baser farmland, countryland.
A lot of crops out there, pumpkin, strawberries, blueberries. They're
picking over to you, man, we're picking.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
There's no there's no way Leo owns a yacht. He
rents the yacht, right, I'd say he owns it, dude,
Maybe he owns it. I don't know. Ray, I'm gonna
tell you about my vacation. I know you went on vacation.
I went on vacation, but I want to start about
the drama of my vacation because we're going to Chicago
the Wind. We're gonna take the boys I'm taking them.
(03:02):
I'm gonna take them to their first trip to Wrigley Field.
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you to damn advertisement advertising, betting it is advertisement everywhere.
But that's not the whole point. Our plane leaves at
four oh five pm. My wife says, Okay, we are
(03:24):
gonna be pulling into the school at two o'clock to
pick up the kids. Close, but you can do it.
We're gonna be pulling away from school at two ten
on our way to the airport. Get to the airport
at two thirty. Get the timeline so we have plenty
of time to make our flight. Needless to say, we're
(03:45):
pulling into the school at two twenty seven pm, behind schedule,
behind schedule. Already we get the kids, we're rolling to
the airport and it is two forty three pm. We
are now an hour a little bit, an hour and
(04:05):
twenty minutes still our flight twenty minutes behind schedule, twenty
seven minutes behind schedule. And my wife says, oh crap,
I forgot their birth certificates. I bet you blowke casket. No, Ray,
I didn't blow, and gask you no rack myself because
(04:27):
half the time they don't ask for the birth certificate.
Hey bring your kids on, no proof needed. And then
other times they do ask for the birth certificate. And
I just said, I don't worry. Maybe we'll just go
get them. We'll just go to the house and get them.
She's like, we don't have time. We don't have time
because we got to check three car seats, we got
(04:49):
to check the luggage. We're not gonna have time. We're
not gonna make it impossible for you to go home
and get them. I said, don't worry, boy, We'll just
go home, hit the highway, hit that exit flying. Do
you know where they are? I think I know where
they are. I think I know exactly where they are.
Do you want me to run in or no. I'm
(05:11):
not one that likes to get to the airport early.
She likes to get to the airport early. Now this
might be cutting it a little close because check baggage
is supposed to be there. They say at least an
hour and a half, I think before they will tell you, oh,
your bags late. If you get under an hour, it
(05:31):
is no go. And I was like, listen, don't worry.
I'm gonna have to the you to the airport by
three oh five and we pull up the house. She
runs in timeline, she comes out with the birth certificates
and it's go time. I think you guys just crossed
the border at noon. It felt like it. It is
(05:52):
now two fifty three and we are leaving the house.
And if you've seen a NASCAR driver on a NASCAR track,
that is what I was to the airport.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Don't worry, We've heard about him anytime we got him
on the show.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
I am zoom zoom, zoom zoom. My wife, it's okay,
and I'm like, we're gonna be fine. Don't worry about
it now. Listen, boys, when we get out of this car,
we're gonna need you to stay right by us. There's
no deal, there's no dattle. We're gonna have to move, move, move,
because dude boarding starts at three point forty. We roll
(06:32):
up to the airport at three oh seven pm. Wow, No, no, no, Ray,
you don't understand. You still gotta take three car seats
out of the car, put him in bags and check
all this bag the bags in. Yes, I've seen an
amazing race Kid edition. So then I have because I
(06:52):
did curbside drop off. Because I was like, there's no
way we're gonna be able to go to the parking lot,
unload all this stuff, wait for a shuttle, Load it
on the shuttle, Shuttle it up to the airport, Get
it up the shuttle, get it up to the counter
in time. So I am I pull up. She goes
and gets in line at the pull up. I pull up,
pull up? Are you talking about VIP? We're gonna curbside
(07:15):
checking and the stuff right there at the thing, the counter.
But they tell you they you had to be there
a certain time. So I gave my wife a five
dollar bill and I said, hey, you go up there
and you beg him. I give a hopeless guy twenty.
I said, you go up there and you beg him
to take our bag. Do whatever beas and why you
are in line begging him, I will be ripping, don't ask,
(07:39):
don't tell, do what you need. I will be ripping
the bag, the car seats out of the car and
putting them in bags. So we pull up and she's
getting out, and I said, you know what, you better
give Hi an extra five. Here you go. So we're
up to ten ten dollars. He's gonna move the needle. Hey,
(07:59):
we're up to ten dollars bribe right now, and I'm
my go for it. And I say, listen, boys, I'm
gonna take you out of your car seats, and I
need you to say if they talked about the workers.
Now listen, boys, I'm gonna finish you off. So I
(08:21):
look at the wife, I say, what do you say.
I haven't gotten to the front yet. I'm like, all right,
I say, boys, I'm gonna need you to stand right
here on the curb. There are cars going, there's too
much traffic. Please just stand there. We need you to
be focused and not mess around. The ones I'm worried
about are the two year old and the four year old.
Five year old he can handle himself. He can stand there,
(08:41):
he knows how to stand. Two year old doesn't know
how to stand still train cats. And so I am
in the car. I'm ripping car seats out, boom in
a bag carried over the wife. She's the next person
in the line. Still don't know if curbside is gonna
accept our luggage. And she's got the two fives in
her hand, and I'm like all right. So I ripped
(09:02):
the second car seat out, get it to her. Rip
the third car seat out, boom, put it on my back.
Lug the suitcases over. And what you don't know is
kids like to bring their own suitcase, so they have
a suitcase per kid. So we have four suitcases, three
car seats going on the airplane. No wonder, we're over bud,
(09:23):
No wonder, it's overweight limit. It's not gonna make it.
And I get up and I was like, what do
you say? Said, we're good, gave me the thumbs up.
It is now three thirteen pm. Our flight leaves at
four oh five. I still gotta go park the freaking car.
I've told you about Valet. Yeah, that's really expensive. Thirty
(09:43):
a day if you have to do it, I understand.
But I'm like, I've got them through. Might be forty,
it might be forty five. I might have looked it
up and I said, I did the calculations. I'm like, God,
I don't know if I'm doing that. So I see
them getting the bags taken care of, and I'm like,
all right, And I pull out of there, pull out
(10:07):
and I go to parking lot B, and I'm like,
where is this shuttle? Where is this shuttle? Dude? You
went to the shuttle. You can park in the airport garage. Dude,
there was so much traffic in that airport. I just
found the first parking lot I could get to, the
one with the least traffic. I was like, this is
the one. It says take a right and there's a
parking lot. Good leave it in the cell phone lot.
(10:28):
Can you do that? They don't even have a cell
phone lot, much less.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
It'll be booted ten times with a E F and
orange sticker that says you're going to jail. Probably told
by the time I got back, they tried to tow
us with us in it much less you're not even
in the vehicle.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
It's a great point. Can't imagine what they do to you.
I do believe they've moved the cell phone lot like
down the street. No, it doesn't exist. Ali goes there
all the time and said it still doesn't exist. That's
how stupid our airport is. And how much thenstruction is
I think, I know. I think it's it's like off
off site. It's not on the air puts off site.
You can go wait at the preston. No. No, it's better
(11:05):
that it's off site because when you're in the cell phone, like,
guess what they text you, Hey just landed. Hey honey, No,
it takes that home text. It takes him at least
ten minutes to walk from the plane to the gate
to the where you get picked up. So it being
two miles away, that's perfect. Yeah. I don't use the
cell phone anyway, you know. I back to my story.
(11:28):
So I'm sitting there waiting at the shuttle stop. It
is now six twenty five total, not six twenty five,
three twenty five, and I'm like, we've done so much
to establish a timeline, and you fuck I knew. Bus
pulls up at three twenty seven. My flight leaves. How's
(11:51):
it going? Man? Where you're headed? Shut the god shut?
Just go, just go skip the other damn stuffs. I
need to be in Southwest. I am flying south west
to Chicago. My plane leaves in thirty eight minutes. Can
you get a freaking move on it? Hock to it? Boy?
You seen the video? A good man. I don't have
(12:12):
time for small tongue. Oh yeah, what are you planning
on doing in Chicago? Nothing? If I don't make my
freaking plane, please go. And I text my wife, did
you make it? She goes, just got through security, walked
away forgot to give the guy the ten, had to
walk back and give it to him. I'm like, oh
my god, your wife totally missed the point of the
dead at that point, you don't have to she goes.
(12:35):
I literally walked into the airport and realized I still
had the two fives in my hand, had to walk
back out. Yeah, they were so small you needed to
give them a wad. I'm like, oh my god. Anyway,
and I'm like, let's go, let's go, She goes. We're
through security, walk into the gate. Now I'm gonna come
in with a gun. I mean, I'm on a run.
I need to run. What if you actually text her
(12:55):
and the guy was like, oh, do you have any bags?
I'm like, no, no bags, let's go. Let's go. Oh dude,
you look like you just robbed a cycle person. I
look like I am going to do something terrible out
of playing because I am fly. I am literally getting
on the shuttle to the airport with no bags, literally nothing,
not a backpack, and I have a cell phone and
my wallet and the keys. That is it. Dude. You
(13:16):
look like you're running from your life. Looks like I
am abandoning my car in this parking lot, and I
am on a one way ticket to somewhere and I'm
never coming back. I'm just starting a whole new life.
Hey man, are you Lunchbucks Judy? That guy's batshit crazy. Yeah,
and so all right, here we go. Then we stop
at the next stop, four people getting on. I'm like,
you have God be kidding me. I can't believe you
(13:37):
thought you could pull that off. Bro, this was not
a smart move on your part. It wasn't my fault.
I didn't forget the birth certificate. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
You still parked it at that point, Just ditch the
car and go. Man, you're gonna miss the flight that
costs you way more.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
In fun and all that. Yeah, we pull up to
the airport. It is now three thirty five. Boarding starts
in five minutes. We are the last game. I mean,
it never fails, dude, I am always the last gate.
It does. I'm always CE twenty five. It is unbelievable,
(14:13):
no matter where I'm flying.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Did you have to do the airport run? And I'm like,
oh my gosh, this is the lowest OAR podcast has
ever gone.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Am I here? We go Louk and I'm TSA PreCheck
TSA pre Check Clearray, and they let two clear people
go in front of me, and I'm like, mother, I
don't know what clear is and why they have more
access than like why they get to go in front
of TSA PreCheck, But it's really annoying. I'm I started
walking like, oh, actually we have clear and I'm like,
(14:42):
so they applied for a Discover card. Oh my god. Yeah,
oh so your MasterCard, you know, gold whatever. I get
through security. It is now three forty two. Boarding has
already started. According to the timeline, they should stop you
at TSA. No, No, it's sorry, that's just the A listers.
(15:03):
And I mean, I am and I'm texting my wife, heye,
you fill up my water bottles. She's like, yeah, we
just filled up the water bottles. We're at the gate.
They're boarding. Where are you at. She's prepared to leave you.
She's like, well, yeah, she's gonna do family boarding between
A and B groups. And I'm like, I just got
through security. I'm moving it. Do I have time to
stop and get lunch? The drama of the story is
(15:24):
off now that you say you're stopping for food and
drinks and she goes, no, she goes, do not miss
this plane. I said, okay, she goes. The boys did excellent.
They walked very fast. We got here, we went to
the bathroom. We're good, gentleman. So here I go. Why
(15:45):
are you running in the airport speedwalk? Oh? See the
speed walk? And I walked by, Hey, I walked by
Hattie Bee, and I'm like, no, line's too long, can't
do it. So I just and then I kind of
light jog because I'm I'm trying to play it cool,
like I'm not nervous. And I arrive at the gate
(16:06):
at three forty nine. They're almost all booked up, right,
they are already done with the A group and family
boarding has started, and my wife is just sitting there
going and she's calling me where are you. I was like,
I'm at see nineteen. That's I will be right there.
I will be right there. Does she realize the phone
(16:26):
calls are not progressing in the situation the phone calls
and her texting me like hey where are you? Like
I don't have time for that, Like I don't have
time to respond. So that's all out the window at
that point, no text, no call, so I am sweating
because I'm in the hot sun, ripping out car seats.
I'm in the hot sun waiting for the shuttle. I'm
power walking slash slow light jog and everybody's you know,
(16:51):
when you're going through the airport and you're dodging people
because they're just leisurely. Oh sorry, Oh my gosh, I'm
oh my god, that was. I wouldn't remember when you
were at the stage and you're like, well that guy off, yeah,
hot too, girl winn in Nashville, hot to hey, I
won't tell John if you don't. And I'm like, oh
(17:13):
my guy. And I get on the plane, I'm just like,
oh I want and I drink some water. We don't
have snacks. I'm hungry, so I have to wait till
we get in the air and they give you the
bag with pretzels and the stupid bread and the you know,
cheddar c whatever that snack checks mix mix whatever it is.
It's some new get warmed over. But we made the
(17:34):
freaking plane. All that to ask you the what died?
What the bed? All that to ask you howing awesome
was it being that rush going amazing race style through
an airport. It feels pretty good. There you go. It
feels great when you make it. It feels so good when
(17:54):
you're like, see, there was nothing to worry about when
you try to tell your wife, hey, there's no reason
to get here early. Look we can make it no
problem when you're rushed. So now you have a little
one in your holster, like, hey, look, the last time
we didn't get there till there was it was an
hour till the plane left, and we made it no problem.
Why do we need to get here two and a
half hours early.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
I heard you can drop your name if you need
to get through TSA quicker. But you said there's only
two people in front of you.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
There's only two people in front of me. They had
like four TSA pre check lines open, so they were
spread out pretty good, and I went to the one
on the far left it. And that's what people don't
know is a lot of people, like at a concert,
if it's general admission, always go left because most people
are right handed, so they go right.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Ray one of the TSA guys asked me if he
could body check me. If I wanted to cut the line,
it was worth it, And so get randomly picked and
they just oh man, can I just tell you.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
I was like, oh my god, please don't be one
of these random like where it beeps. Well, I get
it every time.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
But because I got my jewels on, I got the
necklace and the wristband, I got diamonds on the wrist, I.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Mean I didn't have any of that. I just had
my keys, my wallet and my phone. What about your
wedding ring. I didn't wear that, Ray, eat the cats
out of the bad No, Ray, I'm still marrying. I
just don't wear it. I wear it too in special events.
Traveling with three kids is not a special event. You're
probably gonna lose it. So we get on the plane.
(19:19):
I'm like, Okay, we're gonna relax. The kids are gonna
take a nap. Not a damn chance in hell. They
stayed up, bouncing from seat to seat looking out the window.
They didn't know what their dad just went through. They
didn't know what they went I went through. You're exactly right.
Then it was off to Chicago and off to Wrigley
Feel and I'll tell you all about it. Right after this,
(19:44):
the pack or the podcast is back with a vengeance.
Where's my bed? Ray? And we're staying with my aunt
night one way to save a buck and drive an
hour from the stadium, right, no, no, no, no. We were
gonna do two nights at the ant and two nights downtown. Okay.
(20:07):
And we looked up the ant's house. Aunt Judy lives
an hour and ten minutes from Wrigley called it not bad. Okay,
everybody lives near something.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Until you actually make the drive and it's an hour,
thirty hour, forty five All pass, I'm gonna get a hotel.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Thanks, And we were like, oh. We looked into a train.
It was a three hour train trek to get to
the stadium from her house by train because she lives
out in the suburb. Addison's an hour, man, that's all right,
hour and ten minutes on the train. Are on the
car to the stadium, no problem. And when I bought tickets,
I looked it up. It was gonna be eighty five
degrees and I was like, gotta have the shade seats.
(20:41):
Gotta have the shade seats, because Nashville has sea taught
you that you don't want to just sit there and
bake in the sun with kids, It'll be miserable. So
got that, and then I'm looking and I'm like, parking
Western hemispheres, and you got to look at parking and
they have reserved parking one hundred and fifty dollars. Sets
in the reserve were parking two hundred dollars. I'm like,
(21:02):
good God, and this is you know a few days
before the game, I'm like, well, I don't want to
take a chance of showing up and just trying to
find somewhere to park then to find out. So my
wife does some research and she finds a lot a
block and a half. You might lose your wallet. It
was in an alley. This is ray I got touched.
(21:23):
We did. We did a Google street view of it.
It's in an alley about a block and a half
from Wrigley Field, about half a block from Rizzo's Bar,
and it was seventy dollars. And I said, book it
because you think we should reserve it ahead of time.
I was like, one, it's a block and a half
walk with three kids, it's perfect. So she books it.
(21:45):
So we got everything. We know. It's an hour and
ten minutes from my aunt's house. We are ready to
go day game, wake up the next day and we're like,
just goofing around at Aunt Judy's house, having breakfast, having
a bar all dick it around, playing Barry that, and
we don't want to get there too early. You don't
want to wear the kids out. And we're like, all right,
let's go ahead and get in the car and head
(22:05):
to the game. You know what I mean. It's uh,
it's about two hours until game time. So let's I
haven't seen you since the COVID bye and Julie Judy. Yeah,
we actually saw Ante Judy last summer. She lived in
Colorado at the time, and she has now moved to Chicago,
so we have seen her two summers in a row. Say,
(22:27):
how to Ryn Sandberg? For me? Is Mark Gray still playing?
What about that Andre Dawson? Guy? Does the Hawk still Fami?
Is still hitting home runs? No? He's actually white? Now?
Does Harry Carey? Dude? Have you seen him? He bleached
his skin or something that doesn't even look like the same. Dude?
(22:48):
Does Harry Carrey still call her games? No? An Judy
like he's gone, Well, what's he gonna tell me? Next?
They advertise on the billboards on the green wall. Next
thing you're in? Tell me they have lights on the stadium?
What the hell anyway, So we get in the car
and Judy waves this goodbye. She's meeting up with her
girlfriends for lunch. Where are they going to a little
(23:10):
cracker barrel? Nah? But I didn't stop at Portillo's on
the night we got there driving to Judy's and then
we got to the house, they forgot my wife's dog.
Oh missiles huh. Yeah. She didn't get a missile, so
she had to split it with her my aunt each
got half of their the missile. I was like so excited, like, oh,
this is so good. Portillo's is so good. We gotta
(23:31):
have it. And we get it, and she didn't get
her order and the guy checked it. I mean he
looked in the bag and he called everything all So
I was like, no, no need for me to look
in it. I mean, we had like twelve dogs because me,
the kids, my aunt, and she had two friends, two
girlfriends over. You guys all ordered port miss yeah, and
they called it all off, this kind of fry this
that drink, and then we didn't have her dog, and
(23:52):
I'm like, so we get in the car and we're
waving an Judy and we pull up to the stop
sign of my wife. So hold on, don't go anywhere.
Let me type the type it into the GPS. Remember
it's an hour and ten minutes. Oh I noted it,
and uh well on game date it's an hour and
fifty two minutes. There we go, another rush to the game.
It trains planes and automobiles. Let's get the car seats.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
And start running. Get ready, man, hope you got your
running shoes on. You guys can't be on time to
save your dicks. Dude, Here we go. Kids, get out
of the car.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
The first Clubs game. Those kids are gonna have PTSD
just running everywhere in Chicago. Are you guys ready to
feel the emotion As we get to walk up to
Wrigley Field and soak it all in, we'll forget about it.
We're gonna be spreading our asses to the gate, straight
into the seats. No time to take in the atmosphere
around Wriggley Field, no time to walk up and down
(24:48):
the street to see all the Cubs fans. We are
going straight in the damn stadium. I'm trying to make
a right Yeah you too, buddy. So then we start
driving the kids. YEAPQ too, man, Yeah, suck on my
wife's tits. I'm welcome to Chicago. Yeah. Oh look, there
(25:12):
goes a train down. I got how come we didn't
ride the train? I sun, it's three hours. Are we
there yet? No, it's gonna be a walk, kid, it's
gonna be a walk. Would you let me on to
the Dan Ryan Man? Yep? Q too. Go socks man,
you go for yourself. I got socks. Oh you're going
to the Cubs games. I got my kids in the car. Man.
(25:41):
Right as we drive, we just keep hitting traffic and
more traffic and more traffic, and we and I mean,
I'm I tell my wife, I look at her, said,
aren't we glad we booked parking ahead of time because
we're gonna get there, ride a game time, ride a
game time. She's like, I'm so sorry, I messed up.
I know you wanted this special moment with your kids
walking in the first time. Yeah, it'll be just a
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special in the parking lot, trying to pay Marco yep.
Then we roll up to the parking spot. First pitch
is already about eight minutes away, and so we get
out of the car, get all of our stuff, and
we start walking and we're gonna take a picture out
in front of the stadium and it is now the
bottom of the first. Oh, my gosh, dude, that's devastating.
(26:28):
And I take a picture of the family in front
of Wrigley. There's already a score on this score and
I send it to my cousin Andrew. The scoreboard says
twelve to one. Doesn't have the same effect. Man. I
send it to cousin Andrew, and he goes, dude, that's
a magical moment. But I can't help but notice it
says bottom of the first. Oh, cousin, gotcha with the facts.
(26:50):
And I'm like yeah, And you know, my five year
old's in his cub shirt. My four year olds in
his cub shirt. Two year old doesn't have a cup
shirt that fits him. Dad, Do these games only have
eight inning? I'm in the cub shirt and we walk in.
We're all excited, and we go up to our seats.
We're in the shade seats, ray and the wind is
howling in. It is howling. It is freezing cold. It
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was supposed to be eighty. It feels like it's fifty
with the wind blowing in. My kids are freezing. It's
already the second inning. By the time we get to
our seats. So you had the sun figured out, just
not the cold figured out. Yeah. I didn't have the
cold figure out. And my kids were like, oh, I'm cold, Dad,
I'm cold. I'm freezing. Oh. So my wife's like, I'll
go buy a blanket. Only problem is she goes to
(27:35):
the gift shop and she said, it's like a Black
Friday sale. Everybody is freaking out about the cold. People
are ripping blankets off the wall. People are fighting over
blanket shot. The man exposed his wife breast. There's only
two blankets left. She gets one. Then she panic buys
a sweatshirt your wife for the kids. Oh, give it
to baser man. Shit, we got Gatlinburg sweatshirts and Charleston sweatshirt.
(28:00):
Will never wear again. Yeah. And the problem is they
had no sizes because everybody was panic buying. So it's
like a triple EXL. It's a two XL man. She's like, oh,
maybe our kids will grow in a kid two excel
kid Like, it's like huge, no way our kids can
fit it. And by the time she gets back, it's
the fifth damn inning. The game goes fast, pitch clock,
(28:21):
pitch clock, it goes real fast. It's cooking. So all
this excitement about the kids seeing their first game out
of the game's only four innings, No, son, we were
in traffic the first. The teacher chopped the fourth. So
we're sitting there and then my son's like, I gotta
go potty. That I gotta go potty. And this is
in the sixth inning, the bottom of the six I'm like,
(28:43):
all right, cool, so me, dude, So we go down
the line for the bathrooms. A little long. Can he
drain his lizard? He's got a little guy, and we're
in the bathroom and that's when take me out to
the ball game. To be kidding me, son, it's all
about the trough. Hey, what are you doing in the trough?
Get out of there? So so me to the ball
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who was singing it? Let me guess Ray. I don't
know Ray, because I was in the bathroom. Right. Introduce
you to the twoenty twelve World Series team and you're
in the bathroom right. So not only do we miss
first pitch, we missed the seventh inning stretch. I mean,
did you at least see the girls with their bud
(29:26):
lights and the outfield with their taters hanging out? No, ray,
we were in the shade. Damn it. Yeah right, we
were in the shade. Man. Did you see the beer
snake that they make every game? They did show that
on the Jumbo Trawn and people went crazy. We got
back to the seats in the bottom of the seventh
he missed the opening pitch. I wanted him, my really,
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my five year old is the one that probably enjoys
it the most, soak it all up. Wanted him to
see the seventh inning stretch, the excitement, everybody stands up
and sings. Didn't see that, Dad, That was a fun
Nationals c game. It was Rig's son. And did you
not notice the ivy the entire two hour drive to
the stadium, they wanted us to play over and over
(30:12):
again the song go Cubs Go, Go, Cubs go, Hey Chicago,
what do you say The Cubs are going to win today,
so they only play when they win, right, But they
played that for one more time? Dad had one more time.
We played it for two hours straight. Cubs Go, Oh,
Cubs Go. We didn't see the cub score run. The
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Cubs got shut out like a Griswold family Cubs game.
The Cubs got shut out. The Cubs lose, no sudden,
they don't play it, so they're not gonna play it today.
So my five year old, I'll play it in the
car roll up your windows. My five year old breaks
down in tears. Want a disaster, an unmitigated disaster of
(30:58):
the Cubs games. Starts crying in the stadium. You need
to go to Old Harry's bar and have a drink.
That the chicks driving home. I mean, he is so upset,
just crying. We're not gonna get to hear the song
the cola. I'm like, it's okay, And people are walking
(31:19):
by and say, hey, Bud, that's why we play three.
That's that's why we play three. Man, It's okay. We'll
get it tomorrow. We'll get in tomorrow. And i's the
line on that one. Oh my gosh. I'm like, son,
if you draw a blue w on your napkin from McDonald's,
it'll look just like and we can wave it and
it'll feel like they won. So we watched them get
shut out. We missed half the game. So this whole
(31:43):
majestic moment that I had drawn up in my head
of Wrigley Field, us walking in, being there early enough,
getting to our seats not being rushed getting lunch. And
I mean they had this QR coat on the back
of the seat in front of me where I just
scan it and I can order food to my seat.
I'm like, oh my god, there's gonna be great. Well,
I guess my seat sucks so much. The only thing
(32:03):
I could order was a pretzel or popcorn. You have
no wife. I'm like, I can order drinks, pretzel or popcorn.
I couldn't order a hot dog. I couldn't order any
type of food. Son. After the game, who's your favorite Cub? Paul?
Everybody's not for the Cubs. So the kid is crying, Paul, Takman,
(32:24):
Zuke Sure? So that was it. Man, we went down
by the you know they.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Don't hell no, they a't gonna remember one of those
guys names because I don't even know a Cubs player.
Morsel Morell, Yeah, you got morel Suzuki se Yeah, yep,
you got him, and then uh Tacman.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Yeah, and you got Dansby Swanson bottom of the lineup.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
I'm telling you, kids ain't gonna come out of there
with one memory of a Kyle Hendricks.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Back in the day, you had your Mark Grace Samberg,
Shawn Dunstan, Doug Desnzo. I mean you had an all
Jerome Walton. I mean it was it was crazy, man,
it was sad. And we sat down there and we
went down by the field and took some pictures. You
know what I mean. When everybody starts clearing out and
they're trying to clear the stadium and we're trying to
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get pictures because we weren't there early enough to get pictures.
And then I started talking to an usher and I
got some good news for you. Ray. After the game,
we go out drinking. No. They the little green area
right out front. They have the you can hit off
a tee. They have a band playing, they had a
(33:34):
splash pad, but we didn't get in the splash back
because we didn't have a change of clothes and we
had a two hour drive by day at Judy's house. Ray,
so a four hour round trip probably should have stayed
at the Hyatt. Yeah. Well, we were moving downtown the
next day and I'm like, why didn't we go to
a game? Then I was like, oh, this was better
out scheduling. I'm like, not sure that is a better scheduling.
(33:55):
I'm not sure about that. But logistically, honey, did you
have them in the splash pad wet in the car
for two hours so they not point lunchbox again. So
for the next forty minutes we played Go Cubs go.
Oh yeah, I hope the windows were up, dude. They
all people in traffic, can I They didn't win you, cass,
(34:16):
I'll be honest with you. On the way there, windows
were down. As we're getting into Wrigleyville and everywhere, and
we're we parked on Addison and we were playing it.
That's a rough one and all right, man, come over here,
all sucker to just a rough street to take the
kids off dead. Yeah, maybe we may we parked on Wavelands.
(34:39):
I don't know, but we're playing it, just getting all excited.
On the way home, the windows were up. Windows were up.
You cut it, dude, We had we had to have
the windows up. We're going through neighborhoods and people are
all walking around with their Cubs gear going to restaurants,
Go Cubs Coast playing. They didn't even get they didn't
(35:00):
gonna run. They didn't score a freaking run. Honey, put
up the windows. I'm not kidding, Oh man, it was.
It was It was awesome but sad at the same time.
It was memorable, not in all the best of ways,
but we made it to Wrigley. Now after the break,
(35:22):
I have some inside news. It's gonna be make you happy,
make me happy, and a lot of people we know
very very happy, and it has to do with Major
League Baseball. We'll be right back ray. At the end
(35:44):
of the game and we went down to take pictures.
We were talking to one of the ushers. He's like, oh,
where are you guys? From here? We go? Here? You
are our story? Who cares? Buddy, Planet Earth? What's your name?
He's like, you guys live in Chicago. No, no, first
Cubs game, you know we live. And my kids like,
we live in Nashville. We live in Nashville, Nashville, Tennessee.
(36:07):
Give them the street while you're at it, And well,
my kid does. When you say, if you tell someone says,
what's your name? He goes them first, middle and last night,
you guys said the poster child for getting robbed. He's like, hey, man,
what's your name? And he tells them boom boom boom.
I'm like, no, no, you just tell me your first name. Man.
(36:27):
He's like, no. No. He asked me my name at
it and I'm like, okay, all right, well yes, because
I'm trying to, you know, teach them their middle name.
It's so cool to have a middle name. But they
tell him at all, they tell him at all, never
use and so he's like, oh, Nashville. Yeah. And I
was like, how long you were to I don't know,
forty years being a nush or something like that. He goes, Man,
I'll tell you what. Nashville. That's where the players want
(36:52):
to go. Like, what do you mean? He goes, you
know how they're talking about expansion. He goes, no, no, no,
expansion wise, he goes, all the players they want it
to be Nashville. I'm like really, He goes, oh yeah, yeah.
The nightlife in Nashville wants Every player wants Nashville to
get a team because they want to be able to
experience the night life during the season. What what he was like,
(37:13):
all the players all they talk about is Man, expansion
is a huge topic going on amongst the ball players.
And he goes, I'm telling you ninety percent of them
that I talked to, He goes, Nashville, that's the one
they want to get a team. That's so this usher
has got his ear on the grapevine. He's got his
ear on the grapevine that among Major League Baseball players
(37:34):
they are very, very in favor of Nashville getting one
of the expansion teams.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
Well, did you tell him that the players don't have
any control?
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Who decides it? Probably the commissioner. I don't know, but
I think we're supposed to make some big decision. It'll
be like, guys, Tuesday, that's he'll being decided. Then nothing happens,
like what God decided. I don't know if there's even
really talk that there's actually like, I don't even if
it's one hundred percent there is expansion going on. Tell
me this.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
Excuse me part in my French. But they're building a
football stadium right now. You have Citzens stadium sightings. You're
telling me they're now going to start building a baseball stadium.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
Well, or could they just add on to the current
stadium and make it bigger the Nashville sounds Yeah, dude,
that'd be the worst stadium in It's got stupid ass
guitar and right bean bags in a track. Major league fans, Well,
they could just make it bigger right build up. I
don't know, I have no idea. That is just from
the usher. I think his name was, I don't remember
(38:34):
his name, to be honest with you. But he was
right there by the visiting team dugout. So he talks
to all the players, you know, he does. He chats
with him while they're sitting there, because he's the one
that leans up against the wall right there by the
on deck circle. Hey man, what do you think in
under seven and a half today? And he said, when
blowing in, I would say, so everybody wants Nashville. Yeah,
(38:55):
that's the good news I have.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
For think about it. Miami's a party city, got a team.
Vegas to have a team. New York City has them too.
That's another one. Austin, Texas, No, doesn't have one.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Oh they might beat us to it. But Austin there's
nowhere to put it. They don't have any land.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
The logistics of it. We don't have any land, dude.
We're building two football stadiums next to a scrap yard.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
That's true. So that's a good point. I mean, top golf,
for God's sakes, is facing a I don't know. It's
because of the sun ray it's because of the sun. Yeah,
but I'm saying Top Golf built on almost an industrial
part of town. I don't even but they're building it now.
I mean, if you go over there now, they're building
all sorts of city life. What. Oh and okay in
(39:38):
that part, Yeah, entertainment district, right, bars, restaurants, everything they're
building it. Top Golf is gonna be surrounded by entertainment.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
It's almost gonna be too much. Because now they're saying
they're gonna build up the river. We had that podcast
segment where he said, why don't anybody walk towards the river?
Speaker 1 (39:53):
Well, they just put out an article.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
They're doing some huge billion dollar thing where you can
now walk by the river and it's going to be
up in ten years.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
That's beautiful, dude.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
It's too much construction, too many people. It's actually time
for us to get out of this city. And that's
why I always preach live in the country and I'll
hang up in it.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
And that's what you did. Yeah, that's exactly what happened
to my hang up and listen yep. Now, do you
have any stories from vacation? Maybe we should do the
next podcast. Okay, I mean I could sum it up
and no, no, no, no, no, no, I don't. I don't want to.
I don't want to short change your vacations. I don't
want to sum it up in two sentences. I want
I want real story. So we will wait. I will
(40:28):
wait till Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
I think that's the best way to do it. Okay,
but it doesn't need to be labor intensive on me.
You can still bring other stuff to the table.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
Yeah, we're gonna take a break because I got one.
I got another story that happened to me in Chicago. Yeah,
or you could just do it here. We need another break.
We need another break. Yeah, we need a break. We'll
right back. I don't know which one to do. I
don't you know what. I'm gonna save the story and
I'm just gonna say we we can talk a little
sports that happened over the break. I think we need
(40:59):
to because I got devastating news when I was on
the break. I'm on vacation, enjoying my life. I'm not
checking social media. I'm not checking anything. Ray, I got
served well on vacation and I get a text, but
I'm with you, sweetie. I get a text and it
(41:19):
was I mean man, this hurt and I said it said,
this is from my buddy John, who's a big MASS fan,
and he said CP three plus Wimby should be enjoyable
for you. And I said, what, this is the first
I am hearing of this awful news? Are you telling
(41:40):
me Chris Paul is coming to the Spurs subtraction by addition?
He never responded, And so then I get a text
from my buddy Mike Harris, who was also a Mass fan.
And I don't know if Mass fan's just like rubbing
it in my face, but let's see what Mike said.
He said, this is Texas that let me let me pull.
(42:02):
I didn't plan to talk about this because it hurts
my heart. He said, hey, how do you feel about
CP three being a Spur? Made me laugh when I
saw it, like, thanks, Dick, and I am I hate it.
I hate Chris Paul. He got traded to the Spurs,
he signed with the Spurs, he got released, He got
(42:25):
released by the Warriors, So immediately I start looking it up.
He got released by the Warriors, started doing TV hits,
and he goes and signs a one year, thirteen million
dollar deal with the San Antonio Spurs. And I am devastated. Win.
I hate Chris Paul. He's always hurt. He's a freaking loser,
(42:46):
he says, a sharpshooter now that he had his vision changed.
He just is such a dirty player. He's just bad.
Think he's a bad dude. You can have him on
his state barm commercials and he looks fun and whatever.
I don't buy it for a second. Appsolutely hate the dude.
Speaker 2 (43:04):
And he even came out and said he said something
that congrats for him. He said he doesn't even play hard.
Back in the day, he said, I thought there'd be
more of these, So I was just like, Ah, who
cares we lose?
Speaker 1 (43:13):
I'm not that into this. He thought they'd be more,
but there wasn't more. Yeah, what is he going to
teach the Spurs how to punch people in the nuts?
Because he's really good at doing that, seeing it multiple
times he's been for punching people in the nuts. Did
it at Wake Forest, done it in the NBA. An
absolute trash player. And he's on the San Antonio Spurs like,
what the hell are we doing? And what are we doing?
(43:37):
He was ready to segue into the twilight of his career,
which is announcing or whatever he was doing with Candae
Parker and the boys. So I thought that's what he
was doing. And then the Spurs just threw him a
life vest. They threw him a life vest of thirteen
million dollars for one year.
Speaker 2 (43:52):
You could have used that on money to go and
get somebody like no ways of Jah Morant.
Speaker 1 (43:58):
I don't think John marian it's available, and I don't
think he's only gonna cost thirteen million dollars. I just
could not believe.
Speaker 2 (44:06):
And these things ain't gonna travel on the plane. Ray,
when is John Morant coming home?
Speaker 1 (44:14):
He played last year but then he got hurt, So
then I was I was depressed. Then I see Clay
Thompson goes to the Mavericks three years something and I'm
like what. So I text my buddy John and I said,
congrats on the corpse of Clay Thompson joining your team. Ah,
(44:37):
and he said, can't watch to him and CEP three
matchup in wheelchairs.
Speaker 2 (44:44):
We've had our off seasons where it's Lebron goes to
the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (44:48):
There's been other Brodny James did go to the Lakers, I.
Speaker 2 (44:50):
Know, but there's been during our vacations. There's always a
blockbuster NBA thing that goes down. Kevin Grant, Durant. I
believe that's when he went to the Suns. Stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (45:00):
But the fact that the Klay Thompson shoe dropped and
the CP three during our break at man, are we
getting old? What a bory bock buzz I mean? And
what's funny is I texted my buddy Mike, Mike Harris,
who's also a mass fan, and I tell him the
same thing. He goes. By twenty twenty six, the Mavericks
will have the twenty twenty one All Star team all
wrapped up. I mean, it was crazy. And then the
(45:24):
Lakers dragged him, Brody James, and they gave him four
years four years of money. Yeah, banana, he got hurt already. Yeah,
he hurt his knee. Whatever. Whatever. It's so weird. And
then the Lakers Lebron's like, hey, I'll take less money.
I'll take less money so we can get a superstar.
We can get another player over here. Yeah that's because
at home, you're buying him his gross trees. Guess what
(45:46):
other players decided to sign with the Lakers. None? None,
Bron Hey DeMar DeRozan said, nah, I'm good. I don't
want to play with you, Lebron. You guys are done.
I'm gonna go over here to the Sacramento Kings. And
so Lebron got stuck with He's stuck with the pretty
much the exact same team they had. Yeah, JJ Reddick
let him play. Oh yeah a JJ Reddick. And then
(46:08):
JJ Reddick gets hired and he comes out and he says, no,
there will be no podcast, Like, well, no crap, JJ,
you're a head coach of painting the headphones down. No crap, dude,
Thank god, y'all? Are you and Draymond talk more on
the pod than you do on the court. Hey, you
don't think you're gonna have to talk for a podcast
when you're trying to lead an NBA franchise. You're the
(46:30):
head freaking coach. Yeah, sorry, guys, no practice today, I
got an interview for my podcast. He said he's he's
putting the earbuds down. Thanks man, I mean shocking, breaking news.
He said he's gonna do no longer hot takes on
hot take great, thanks JJ Reddick. So wait, you're not
gonna give away strategy on the pod and talk about
(46:52):
how you guys didn't play deepense last night. You're gonna
just keep that in house. Probably pretty smart. JJ.
Speaker 2 (46:57):
You're not gonna pull a Draymond and talk about your
tire game plan the minute after the game ends.
Speaker 1 (47:02):
Yeah, not even gonna be done with your shower yet,
and you're gonna get on the pod and break down
how you lost the Dame six of the playoffs. His
first shower, his first pod is Showers with Bronny. Hey,
we's copyright in fridge, but we'll sue your ass man. Hey, pod,
We're gonna have James on the the uh pod. Oh,
Everybody's like, oh, hell yeah lebron James. Oh no, sorry guys,
(47:24):
our second round draft prick Bronni James is here. Guys.
The biggest podcast ever will be Lebron and Bronni Showers
with Dad. Hey, they're gonna be showering with Dad every
single day. Guys. We predicted it five years ago. Look
for our podcast Showers with Dad. Dude. Seriously, they got
(47:46):
a shower at different times, right, Yeah. I think they
all have their own.
Speaker 2 (47:50):
I mean, dude, I got a local twenty four fitness
that has private, sectioned off showers.
Speaker 1 (47:55):
It's not like you're in there slapping it with twelve
other guys. Oh really, yeah, dude, they've avol Okay, Rights
actually visited. And then lebron comes out and says, man,
you guys that are talking trash about Bronnie James, He's different.
He doesn't give a crap what you say. Well, yeah, no, crap.
He done. He's in the NBA, He's got millions of dollars, right,
(48:15):
why would he care what we say? But it is
still weird. But I mean it is. Oh, Paul George
left buying the kid apples. Hey, that didn't drop Paul George.
He went to the seventy six ers. I don't even
know who that is. Oh yeah, playoff P three. I
mean the guy that the the Los Angeles Clippers traded
everything for it. They traded SGA in like five thousand
(48:38):
draft picks for Paul George and they didn't win shit. Look,
they did not win shit. Lookout for Jamar DeRozan though,
and the boys in Sacramento. Yeah, that's the one people
need to watch. Who else we got, Spurs got Harrison Barnes.
I mean he was good about fifteen years ago. He
was part of the championship team back when we first
(48:58):
started the pod with the Warriors, right, yeah, that's what
I'm saying. So we got Harrison Barnes and CP three
to go with Wimby and then, oh, I was so excited.
The Spurs drafted the kid out of Kansas, Furfy, and
I'm going crazy. Yeah we got Furfy. Dude can shoot.
I love that dude. Three minutes later, Furfey traded Pacers.
(49:20):
All right, cool, Well that was exciting. All right, punked
your ass. I text all my boys, I want us
to draft Furfey right here, draft Furfy. Yeah we got
him to Oh we traded him, all right, cool, nevermind, guys,
don't worry about Furfy. He can shoot, but we didn't
need him. I guess we didn't need him. I don't
know what else happened during the break man.
Speaker 2 (49:37):
Guys, enjoy Wimbledon. It is winding down. We were to
the round of sixteen. The likes of Sinner, Alcatraz and Djokovic.
The Joker ended up coming out of the wheelchair and
performing in this round of sixteen. They're all in action
today and tomorrow. Get ready, Boomer. Also in the State Championship.
I was watching it in the entire Bobby Bone Show.
He plays in the actual state championship for the state
(50:00):
of Michigan this afternoon. I will post the link at
three Central time. Watch out for Boomer. If he wins this,
he's going straight to the Major Leagues and as per
an usher at Wrigley Field, major Leagues then go to Nashville,
So Boomer will be playing in Nashville per a random
seventy year old usher at Wrigleyville.
Speaker 1 (50:19):
Thanks for that. Take Morgan Hewle post on your own stories.
Thanks Morgan, I will all right. Senior Baseball State Tournament
semi finals game number four Nagany eight Hillman won championship
game at four Eastern, three Central. We are so excited
(50:41):
and also they have the state championship. The kid just
played this morning during the Big Show, and now he's
gonna play this afternoon. Exhaustion.
Speaker 2 (50:51):
That is terrible scheduling, but I'm guessing parents have to
get back to work. It is Monday, I would say so, man, guys,
I'll post the link. We're expecting thousand of people to
be watching on the Game Time app. It is an
absolute awesome app that they have. They put it on
the chain link fence. You can only basically see the infield.
If anybody hits it to the outfield, good luck. You
can never tell if it's a hit or and error,
(51:12):
but it does have the score. Good luck, God, bless
God to Goney Ray.
Speaker 1 (51:21):
That was the hell of a oh dude that tripped
a Wrigley Man. It's a special one, it wasn't. Sadly though,
the kids aren't gonna remember that. They remember the game.
They remember the Cubs lost. You always remember first. They
tell everybody but the Cubs lost. Cubs lost, Kid. They
won in our hearts. I placed the bed on them too.
(51:43):
I doubly lost kid. Password Mikey Man No Willie Mays.
Yo, Hey, welcome back, man, Yo, welcome back. We're talking
about we did pods all week. No, I know we
did pods. We were on Vaca, but I don't know
if people. I have no idea that people like the
pods that we did. I have no idea what we
talked about in the pods we did. And I do
know I did make one mistake. I messed up. Now.
I posted the pod and I talked about the new
(00:24):
merch that someone sent us, the guy from Day One's
he like sent us some like mock ups. It's Day
ones ones. And I took pictures of every single item
to post it on Facebook so people could see and
give their opinions. And I totally forgot to post it.
You've given up, No, no, no. I was on vacation and
(00:44):
I was enjoying my time and I totally forgot. And
I didn't know what day that pod went up. And
I didn't even remember it until literally this morning when
I saw on Facebook someone I was scrolling through the
old post and someone said, Man, where's that golf shirt?
I'll buy it right now, And I was like, I
never post the pictures, so yeah, they're also not for
(01:04):
sale though. No, not for sale, but they just want
to see it. I just thought they would want to
see him and as my bad. But hey, well sure
you'll see it. I'll be wearing it. Hey, welcome back, man.
Thanks dude. You ready to start it? Yeah, I mean
I'm ready to talk. I got like two hours. No no,
no, no no, I've got two hours in the bag. Well,
then you're gonna do a special.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Sore Losers post show pre show, and you're just gonna
record it on your own, and then you're gonna post
it on your own.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
I've got like two hours of materials. So sit back, relax,
this car drive. I'm gonna make it easy for you.
I'm gonna make your day so much better. Happy Monday.
It is gonna be story after story after story, and
we're not talking Trevor story. We are gonna do it live.
Arnold is still on vacation with Abby.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
They went to Italy, the Amalfi coast right in there,
I believe it's called uh Perinino is where he went.
And he said that he's trying to want to do
the pizza, to do the wine, wanted to do the
whole Italian experience.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
And he wanted to do Abby. Yep, that's always a given.
We're gonna do a lot. We oh the one, two three,
so loser? What up, everybody? I am lunchbox. I know
the most about sports, so I'll give you the sports facts,
my sports opinions, because I'm pretty much a sports genius.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Permiento, I think, is the place called No one's ever
heard of it. It's where Leo always docks his yacht. Okay,
maybe they've heard of it. I've never heard of it,
y'all at sizzle.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
I'm from the North. I'm an alpha mel.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I live on the north side of Nashville, baser farmland, countryland.
A lot of crops out there, pumpkin, strawberries, blueberries. They're
picking over to you, man, we're picking.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
There's no there's no way Leo owns a yacht. He
rents the yacht, right, I'd say he owns it, dude,
Maybe he owns it. I don't know. Ray, I'm gonna
tell you about my vacation. I know you went on vacation.
I went on vacation, but I want to start about
the drama of my vacation because we're going to Chicago
the Wind. We're gonna take the boys I'm taking them.
(03:02):
I'm gonna take them to their first trip to Wrigley Field.
Ad Hey, good hot dogs, Ere hot dogs. I told
you to damn advertisement advertising, betting it is advertisement everywhere.
But that's not the whole point. Our plane leaves at
four oh five pm. My wife says, Okay, we are
(03:24):
gonna be pulling into the school at two o'clock to
pick up the kids. Close, but you can do it.
We're gonna be pulling away from school at two ten
on our way to the airport. Get to the airport
at two thirty. Get the timeline so we have plenty
of time to make our flight. Needless to say, we're
(03:45):
pulling into the school at two twenty seven pm, behind schedule,
behind schedule. Already we get the kids, we're rolling to
the airport and it is two forty three pm. We
are now an hour a little bit, an hour and
(04:05):
twenty minutes still our flight twenty minutes behind schedule, twenty
seven minutes behind schedule. And my wife says, oh crap,
I forgot their birth certificates. I bet you blowke casket. No, Ray,
I didn't blow, and gask you no rack myself because
(04:27):
half the time they don't ask for the birth certificate.
Hey bring your kids on, no proof needed. And then
other times they do ask for the birth certificate. And
I just said, I don't worry. Maybe we'll just go
get them. We'll just go to the house and get them.
She's like, we don't have time. We don't have time
because we got to check three car seats, we got
(04:49):
to check the luggage. We're not gonna have time. We're
not gonna make it impossible for you to go home
and get them. I said, don't worry, boy, We'll just
go home, hit the highway, hit that exit flying. Do
you know where they are? I think I know where
they are. I think I know exactly where they are.
Do you want me to run in or no. I'm
(05:11):
not one that likes to get to the airport early.
She likes to get to the airport early. Now this
might be cutting it a little close because check baggage
is supposed to be there. They say at least an
hour and a half, I think before they will tell you, oh,
your bags late. If you get under an hour, it
(05:31):
is no go. And I was like, listen, don't worry.
I'm gonna have to the you to the airport by
three oh five and we pull up the house. She
runs in timeline, she comes out with the birth certificates
and it's go time. I think you guys just crossed
the border at noon. It felt like it. It is
(05:52):
now two fifty three and we are leaving the house.
And if you've seen a NASCAR driver on a NASCAR track,
that is what I was to the airport.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Don't worry, We've heard about him anytime we got him
on the show.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
I am zoom zoom, zoom zoom. My wife, it's okay,
and I'm like, we're gonna be fine. Don't worry about
it now. Listen, boys, when we get out of this car,
we're gonna need you to stay right by us. There's
no deal, there's no dattle. We're gonna have to move, move, move,
because dude boarding starts at three point forty. We roll
(06:32):
up to the airport at three oh seven pm. Wow, No, no, no, Ray,
you don't understand. You still gotta take three car seats
out of the car, put him in bags and check
all this bag the bags in. Yes, I've seen an
amazing race Kid edition. So then I have because I
(06:52):
did curbside drop off. Because I was like, there's no
way we're gonna be able to go to the parking lot,
unload all this stuff, wait for a shuttle, Load it
on the shuttle, Shuttle it up to the airport, Get
it up the shuttle, get it up to the counter
in time. So I am I pull up. She goes
and gets in line at the pull up. I pull up,
pull up? Are you talking about VIP? We're gonna curbside
(07:15):
checking and the stuff right there at the thing, the counter.
But they tell you they you had to be there
a certain time. So I gave my wife a five
dollar bill and I said, hey, you go up there
and you beg him. I give a hopeless guy twenty.
I said, you go up there and you beg him
to take our bag. Do whatever beas and why you
are in line begging him, I will be ripping, don't ask,
(07:39):
don't tell, do what you need. I will be ripping
the bag, the car seats out of the car and
putting them in bags. So we pull up and she's
getting out, and I said, you know what, you better
give Hi an extra five. Here you go. So we're
up to ten ten dollars. He's gonna move the needle. Hey,
(07:59):
we're up to ten dollars bribe right now, and I'm
my go for it. And I say, listen, boys, I'm
gonna take you out of your car seats, and I
need you to say if they talked about the workers.
Now listen, boys, I'm gonna finish you off. So I
(08:21):
look at the wife, I say, what do you say.
I haven't gotten to the front yet. I'm like, all right,
I say, boys, I'm gonna need you to stand right
here on the curb. There are cars going, there's too
much traffic. Please just stand there. We need you to
be focused and not mess around. The ones I'm worried
about are the two year old and the four year old.
Five year old he can handle himself. He can stand there,
(08:41):
he knows how to stand. Two year old doesn't know
how to stand still train cats. And so I am
in the car. I'm ripping car seats out, boom in
a bag carried over the wife. She's the next person
in the line. Still don't know if curbside is gonna
accept our luggage. And she's got the two fives in
her hand, and I'm like all right. So I ripped
(09:02):
the second car seat out, get it to her. Rip
the third car seat out, boom, put it on my back.
Lug the suitcases over. And what you don't know is
kids like to bring their own suitcase, so they have
a suitcase per kid. So we have four suitcases, three
car seats going on the airplane. No wonder, we're over bud,
(09:23):
No wonder, it's overweight limit. It's not gonna make it.
And I get up and I was like, what do
you say? Said, we're good, gave me the thumbs up.
It is now three thirteen pm. Our flight leaves at
four oh five. I still gotta go park the freaking car.
I've told you about Valet. Yeah, that's really expensive. Thirty
(09:43):
a day if you have to do it, I understand.
But I'm like, I've got them through. Might be forty,
it might be forty five. I might have looked it
up and I said, I did the calculations. I'm like, God,
I don't know if I'm doing that. So I see
them getting the bags taken care of, and I'm like,
all right, And I pull out of there, pull out
(10:07):
and I go to parking lot B, and I'm like,
where is this shuttle? Where is this shuttle? Dude? You
went to the shuttle. You can park in the airport garage. Dude,
there was so much traffic in that airport. I just
found the first parking lot I could get to, the
one with the least traffic. I was like, this is
the one. It says take a right and there's a
parking lot. Good leave it in the cell phone lot.
(10:28):
Can you do that? They don't even have a cell
phone lot, much less.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
It'll be booted ten times with a E F and
orange sticker that says you're going to jail. Probably told
by the time I got back, they tried to tow
us with us in it much less you're not even
in the vehicle.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
It's a great point. Can't imagine what they do to you.
I do believe they've moved the cell phone lot like
down the street. No, it doesn't exist. Ali goes there
all the time and said it still doesn't exist. That's
how stupid our airport is. And how much thenstruction is
I think, I know. I think it's it's like off
off site. It's not on the air puts off site.
You can go wait at the preston. No. No, it's better
(11:05):
that it's off site because when you're in the cell phone, like,
guess what they text you, Hey just landed. Hey honey, No,
it takes that home text. It takes him at least
ten minutes to walk from the plane to the gate
to the where you get picked up. So it being
two miles away, that's perfect. Yeah. I don't use the
cell phone anyway, you know. I back to my story.
(11:28):
So I'm sitting there waiting at the shuttle stop. It
is now six twenty five total, not six twenty five,
three twenty five, and I'm like, we've done so much
to establish a timeline, and you fuck I knew. Bus
pulls up at three twenty seven. My flight leaves. How's
(11:51):
it going? Man? Where you're headed? Shut the god shut?
Just go, just go skip the other damn stuffs. I
need to be in Southwest. I am flying south west
to Chicago. My plane leaves in thirty eight minutes. Can
you get a freaking move on it? Hock to it? Boy?
You seen the video? A good man. I don't have
(12:12):
time for small tongue. Oh yeah, what are you planning
on doing in Chicago? Nothing? If I don't make my
freaking plane, please go. And I text my wife, did
you make it? She goes, just got through security, walked
away forgot to give the guy the ten, had to
walk back and give it to him. I'm like, oh
my god, your wife totally missed the point of the
dead at that point, you don't have to she goes.
(12:35):
I literally walked into the airport and realized I still
had the two fives in my hand, had to walk
back out. Yeah, they were so small you needed to
give them a wad. I'm like, oh my god. Anyway,
and I'm like, let's go, let's go, She goes. We're
through security, walk into the gate. Now I'm gonna come
in with a gun. I mean, I'm on a run.
I need to run. What if you actually text her
(12:55):
and the guy was like, oh, do you have any bags?
I'm like, no, no bags, let's go. Let's go. Oh dude,
you look like you just robbed a cycle person. I
look like I am going to do something terrible out
of playing because I am fly. I am literally getting
on the shuttle to the airport with no bags, literally nothing,
not a backpack, and I have a cell phone and
my wallet and the keys. That is it. Dude. You
(13:16):
look like you're running from your life. Looks like I
am abandoning my car in this parking lot, and I
am on a one way ticket to somewhere and I'm
never coming back. I'm just starting a whole new life.
Hey man, are you Lunchbucks Judy? That guy's batshit crazy. Yeah,
and so all right, here we go. Then we stop
at the next stop, four people getting on. I'm like,
you have God be kidding me. I can't believe you
(13:37):
thought you could pull that off. Bro, this was not
a smart move on your part. It wasn't my fault.
I didn't forget the birth certificate. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
You still parked it at that point, Just ditch the
car and go. Man, you're gonna miss the flight that
costs you way more.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
In fun and all that. Yeah, we pull up to
the airport. It is now three thirty five. Boarding starts
in five minutes. We are the last game. I mean,
it never fails, dude, I am always the last gate.
It does. I'm always CE twenty five. It is unbelievable,
(14:13):
no matter where I'm flying.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Did you have to do the airport run? And I'm like,
oh my gosh, this is the lowest OAR podcast has
ever gone.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Am I here? We go Louk and I'm TSA PreCheck
TSA pre Check Clearray, and they let two clear people
go in front of me, and I'm like, mother, I
don't know what clear is and why they have more
access than like why they get to go in front
of TSA PreCheck, But it's really annoying. I'm I started
walking like, oh, actually we have clear and I'm like,
(14:42):
so they applied for a Discover card. Oh my god. Yeah,
oh so your MasterCard, you know, gold whatever. I get
through security. It is now three forty two. Boarding has
already started. According to the timeline, they should stop you
at TSA. No, No, it's sorry, that's just the A listers.
(15:03):
And I mean, I am and I'm texting my wife, heye,
you fill up my water bottles. She's like, yeah, we
just filled up the water bottles. We're at the gate.
They're boarding. Where are you at. She's prepared to leave you.
She's like, well, yeah, she's gonna do family boarding between
A and B groups. And I'm like, I just got
through security. I'm moving it. Do I have time to
stop and get lunch? The drama of the story is
(15:24):
off now that you say you're stopping for food and
drinks and she goes, no, she goes, do not miss
this plane. I said, okay, she goes. The boys did excellent.
They walked very fast. We got here, we went to
the bathroom. We're good, gentleman. So here I go. Why
(15:45):
are you running in the airport speedwalk? Oh? See the
speed walk? And I walked by, Hey, I walked by
Hattie Bee, and I'm like, no, line's too long, can't
do it. So I just and then I kind of
light jog because I'm I'm trying to play it cool,
like I'm not nervous. And I arrive at the gate
(16:06):
at three forty nine. They're almost all booked up, right,
they are already done with the A group and family
boarding has started, and my wife is just sitting there
going and she's calling me where are you. I was like,
I'm at see nineteen. That's I will be right there.
I will be right there. Does she realize the phone
(16:26):
calls are not progressing in the situation the phone calls
and her texting me like hey where are you? Like
I don't have time for that, Like I don't have
time to respond. So that's all out the window at
that point, no text, no call, so I am sweating
because I'm in the hot sun, ripping out car seats.
I'm in the hot sun waiting for the shuttle. I'm
power walking slash slow light jog and everybody's you know,
(16:51):
when you're going through the airport and you're dodging people
because they're just leisurely. Oh sorry, Oh my gosh, I'm
oh my god, that was. I wouldn't remember when you
were at the stage and you're like, well that guy off, yeah,
hot too, girl winn in Nashville, hot to hey, I
won't tell John if you don't. And I'm like, oh
(17:13):
my guy. And I get on the plane, I'm just like,
oh I want and I drink some water. We don't
have snacks. I'm hungry, so I have to wait till
we get in the air and they give you the
bag with pretzels and the stupid bread and the you know,
cheddar c whatever that snack checks mix mix whatever it is.
It's some new get warmed over. But we made the
(17:34):
freaking plane. All that to ask you the what died?
What the bed? All that to ask you howing awesome
was it being that rush going amazing race style through
an airport. It feels pretty good. There you go. It
feels great when you make it. It feels so good when
(17:54):
you're like, see, there was nothing to worry about when
you try to tell your wife, hey, there's no reason
to get here early. Look we can make it no
problem when you're rushed. So now you have a little
one in your holster, like, hey, look, the last time
we didn't get there till there was it was an
hour till the plane left, and we made it no problem.
Why do we need to get here two and a
half hours early.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
I heard you can drop your name if you need
to get through TSA quicker. But you said there's only
two people in front of you.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
There's only two people in front of me. They had
like four TSA pre check lines open, so they were
spread out pretty good, and I went to the one
on the far left it. And that's what people don't
know is a lot of people, like at a concert,
if it's general admission, always go left because most people
are right handed, so they go right.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Ray one of the TSA guys asked me if he
could body check me. If I wanted to cut the line,
it was worth it, And so get randomly picked and
they just oh man, can I just tell you.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
I was like, oh my god, please don't be one
of these random like where it beeps. Well, I get
it every time.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
But because I got my jewels on, I got the
necklace and the wristband, I got diamonds on the wrist, I.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Mean I didn't have any of that. I just had
my keys, my wallet and my phone. What about your
wedding ring. I didn't wear that, Ray, eat the cats
out of the bad No, Ray, I'm still marrying. I
just don't wear it. I wear it too in special events.
Traveling with three kids is not a special event. You're
probably gonna lose it. So we get on the plane.
(19:19):
I'm like, Okay, we're gonna relax. The kids are gonna
take a nap. Not a damn chance in hell. They
stayed up, bouncing from seat to seat looking out the window.
They didn't know what their dad just went through. They
didn't know what they went I went through. You're exactly right.
Then it was off to Chicago and off to Wrigley
Feel and I'll tell you all about it. Right after this,
(19:44):
the pack or the podcast is back with a vengeance.
Where's my bed? Ray? And we're staying with my aunt
night one way to save a buck and drive an
hour from the stadium, right, no, no, no, no. We were
gonna do two nights at the ant and two nights downtown. Okay.
(20:07):
And we looked up the ant's house. Aunt Judy lives
an hour and ten minutes from Wrigley called it not bad. Okay,
everybody lives near something.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Until you actually make the drive and it's an hour,
thirty hour, forty five All pass, I'm gonna get a hotel.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Thanks, And we were like, oh. We looked into a train.
It was a three hour train trek to get to
the stadium from her house by train because she lives
out in the suburb. Addison's an hour, man, that's all right,
hour and ten minutes on the train. Are on the
car to the stadium, no problem. And when I bought tickets,
I looked it up. It was gonna be eighty five
degrees and I was like, gotta have the shade seats.
(20:41):
Gotta have the shade seats, because Nashville has sea taught
you that you don't want to just sit there and
bake in the sun with kids, It'll be miserable. So
got that, and then I'm looking and I'm like, parking
Western hemispheres, and you got to look at parking and
they have reserved parking one hundred and fifty dollars. Sets
in the reserve were parking two hundred dollars. I'm like,
(21:02):
good God, and this is you know a few days
before the game, I'm like, well, I don't want to
take a chance of showing up and just trying to
find somewhere to park then to find out. So my
wife does some research and she finds a lot a
block and a half. You might lose your wallet. It
was in an alley. This is ray I got touched.
(21:23):
We did. We did a Google street view of it.
It's in an alley about a block and a half
from Wrigley Field, about half a block from Rizzo's Bar,
and it was seventy dollars. And I said, book it
because you think we should reserve it ahead of time.
I was like, one, it's a block and a half
walk with three kids, it's perfect. So she books it.
(21:45):
So we got everything. We know. It's an hour and
ten minutes from my aunt's house. We are ready to
go day game, wake up the next day and we're like,
just goofing around at Aunt Judy's house, having breakfast, having
a bar all dick it around, playing Barry that, and
we don't want to get there too early. You don't
want to wear the kids out. And we're like, all right,
let's go ahead and get in the car and head
(22:05):
to the game. You know what I mean. It's uh,
it's about two hours until game time. So let's I
haven't seen you since the COVID bye and Julie Judy. Yeah,
we actually saw Ante Judy last summer. She lived in
Colorado at the time, and she has now moved to Chicago,
so we have seen her two summers in a row. Say,
(22:27):
how to Ryn Sandberg? For me? Is Mark Gray still playing?
What about that Andre Dawson? Guy? Does the Hawk still Fami?
Is still hitting home runs? No? He's actually white? Now?
Does Harry Carey? Dude? Have you seen him? He bleached
his skin or something that doesn't even look like the same. Dude?
(22:48):
Does Harry Carrey still call her games? No? An Judy
like he's gone, Well, what's he gonna tell me? Next?
They advertise on the billboards on the green wall. Next
thing you're in? Tell me they have lights on the stadium?
What the hell anyway, So we get in the car
and Judy waves this goodbye. She's meeting up with her
girlfriends for lunch. Where are they going to a little
(23:10):
cracker barrel? Nah? But I didn't stop at Portillo's on
the night we got there driving to Judy's and then
we got to the house, they forgot my wife's dog.
Oh missiles huh. Yeah. She didn't get a missile, so
she had to split it with her my aunt each
got half of their the missile. I was like so excited, like, oh,
this is so good. Portillo's is so good. We gotta
(23:31):
have it. And we get it, and she didn't get
her order and the guy checked it. I mean he
looked in the bag and he called everything all So
I was like, no, no need for me to look
in it. I mean, we had like twelve dogs because me,
the kids, my aunt, and she had two friends, two
girlfriends over. You guys all ordered port miss yeah, and
they called it all off, this kind of fry this
that drink, and then we didn't have her dog, and
(23:52):
I'm like, so we get in the car and we're
waving an Judy and we pull up to the stop
sign of my wife. So hold on, don't go anywhere.
Let me type the type it into the GPS. Remember
it's an hour and ten minutes. Oh I noted it,
and uh well on game date it's an hour and
fifty two minutes. There we go, another rush to the game.
It trains planes and automobiles. Let's get the car seats.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
And start running. Get ready, man, hope you got your
running shoes on. You guys can't be on time to
save your dicks. Dude, Here we go. Kids, get out
of the car.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
The first Clubs game. Those kids are gonna have PTSD
just running everywhere in Chicago. Are you guys ready to
feel the emotion As we get to walk up to
Wrigley Field and soak it all in, we'll forget about it.
We're gonna be spreading our asses to the gate, straight
into the seats. No time to take in the atmosphere
around Wriggley Field, no time to walk up and down
(24:48):
the street to see all the Cubs fans. We are
going straight in the damn stadium. I'm trying to make
a right Yeah you too, buddy. So then we start
driving the kids. YEAPQ too, man, Yeah, suck on my
wife's tits. I'm welcome to Chicago. Yeah. Oh look, there
(25:12):
goes a train down. I got how come we didn't
ride the train? I sun, it's three hours. Are we
there yet? No, it's gonna be a walk, kid, it's
gonna be a walk. Would you let me on to
the Dan Ryan Man? Yep? Q too. Go socks man,
you go for yourself. I got socks. Oh you're going
to the Cubs games. I got my kids in the car. Man.
(25:41):
Right as we drive, we just keep hitting traffic and
more traffic and more traffic, and we and I mean,
I'm I tell my wife, I look at her, said,
aren't we glad we booked parking ahead of time because
we're gonna get there, ride a game time, ride a
game time. She's like, I'm so sorry, I messed up.
I know you wanted this special moment with your kids
walking in the first time. Yeah, it'll be just a
(26:03):
special in the parking lot, trying to pay Marco yep.
Then we roll up to the parking spot. First pitch
is already about eight minutes away, and so we get
out of the car, get all of our stuff, and
we start walking and we're gonna take a picture out
in front of the stadium and it is now the
bottom of the first. Oh, my gosh, dude, that's devastating.
(26:28):
And I take a picture of the family in front
of Wrigley. There's already a score on this score and
I send it to my cousin Andrew. The scoreboard says
twelve to one. Doesn't have the same effect. Man. I
send it to cousin Andrew, and he goes, dude, that's
a magical moment. But I can't help but notice it
says bottom of the first. Oh, cousin, gotcha with the facts.
(26:50):
And I'm like yeah, And you know, my five year
old's in his cub shirt. My four year olds in
his cub shirt. Two year old doesn't have a cup
shirt that fits him. Dad, Do these games only have
eight inning? I'm in the cub shirt and we walk in.
We're all excited, and we go up to our seats.
We're in the shade seats, ray and the wind is
howling in. It is howling. It is freezing cold. It
(27:13):
was supposed to be eighty. It feels like it's fifty
with the wind blowing in. My kids are freezing. It's
already the second inning. By the time we get to
our seats. So you had the sun figured out, just
not the cold figured out. Yeah. I didn't have the
cold figure out. And my kids were like, oh, I'm cold, Dad,
I'm cold. I'm freezing. Oh. So my wife's like, I'll
go buy a blanket. Only problem is she goes to
(27:35):
the gift shop and she said, it's like a Black
Friday sale. Everybody is freaking out about the cold. People
are ripping blankets off the wall. People are fighting over
blanket shot. The man exposed his wife breast. There's only
two blankets left. She gets one. Then she panic buys
a sweatshirt your wife for the kids. Oh, give it
to baser man. Shit, we got Gatlinburg sweatshirts and Charleston sweatshirt.
(28:00):
Will never wear again. Yeah. And the problem is they
had no sizes because everybody was panic buying. So it's
like a triple EXL. It's a two XL man. She's like, oh,
maybe our kids will grow in a kid two excel
kid Like, it's like huge, no way our kids can
fit it. And by the time she gets back, it's
the fifth damn inning. The game goes fast, pitch clock,
(28:21):
pitch clock, it goes real fast. It's cooking. So all
this excitement about the kids seeing their first game out
of the game's only four innings, No, son, we were
in traffic the first. The teacher chopped the fourth. So
we're sitting there and then my son's like, I gotta
go potty. That I gotta go potty. And this is
in the sixth inning, the bottom of the six I'm like,
(28:43):
all right, cool, so me, dude, So we go down
the line for the bathrooms. A little long. Can he
drain his lizard? He's got a little guy, and we're
in the bathroom and that's when take me out to
the ball game. To be kidding me, son, it's all
about the trough. Hey, what are you doing in the trough?
Get out of there? So so me to the ball
(29:04):
who was singing it? Let me guess Ray. I don't
know Ray, because I was in the bathroom. Right. Introduce
you to the twoenty twelve World Series team and you're
in the bathroom right. So not only do we miss
first pitch, we missed the seventh inning stretch. I mean,
did you at least see the girls with their bud
(29:26):
lights and the outfield with their taters hanging out? No, ray,
we were in the shade. Damn it. Yeah right, we
were in the shade. Man. Did you see the beer
snake that they make every game? They did show that
on the Jumbo Trawn and people went crazy. We got
back to the seats in the bottom of the seventh
he missed the opening pitch. I wanted him, my really,
(29:49):
my five year old is the one that probably enjoys
it the most, soak it all up. Wanted him to
see the seventh inning stretch, the excitement, everybody stands up
and sings. Didn't see that, Dad, That was a fun
Nationals c game. It was Rig's son. And did you
not notice the ivy the entire two hour drive to
the stadium, they wanted us to play over and over
(30:12):
again the song go Cubs Go, Go, Cubs go, Hey Chicago,
what do you say The Cubs are going to win today,
so they only play when they win, right, But they
played that for one more time? Dad had one more time.
We played it for two hours straight. Cubs Go, Oh,
Cubs Go. We didn't see the cub score run. The
(30:36):
Cubs got shut out like a Griswold family Cubs game.
The Cubs got shut out. The Cubs lose, no sudden,
they don't play it, so they're not gonna play it today.
So my five year old, I'll play it in the
car roll up your windows. My five year old breaks
down in tears. Want a disaster, an unmitigated disaster of
(30:58):
the Cubs games. Starts crying in the stadium. You need
to go to Old Harry's bar and have a drink.
That the chicks driving home. I mean, he is so upset,
just crying. We're not gonna get to hear the song
the cola. I'm like, it's okay, And people are walking
(31:19):
by and say, hey, Bud, that's why we play three.
That's that's why we play three. Man, It's okay. We'll
get it tomorrow. We'll get in tomorrow. And i's the
line on that one. Oh my gosh. I'm like, son,
if you draw a blue w on your napkin from McDonald's,
it'll look just like and we can wave it and
it'll feel like they won. So we watched them get
shut out. We missed half the game. So this whole
(31:43):
majestic moment that I had drawn up in my head
of Wrigley Field, us walking in, being there early enough,
getting to our seats not being rushed getting lunch. And
I mean they had this QR coat on the back
of the seat in front of me where I just
scan it and I can order food to my seat.
I'm like, oh my god, there's gonna be great. Well,
I guess my seat sucks so much. The only thing
(32:03):
I could order was a pretzel or popcorn. You have
no wife. I'm like, I can order drinks, pretzel or popcorn.
I couldn't order a hot dog. I couldn't order any
type of food. Son. After the game, who's your favorite Cub? Paul?
Everybody's not for the Cubs. So the kid is crying, Paul, Takman,
(32:24):
Zuke Sure? So that was it. Man, we went down
by the you know they.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Don't hell no, they a't gonna remember one of those
guys names because I don't even know a Cubs player.
Morsel Morell, Yeah, you got morel Suzuki se Yeah, yep,
you got him, and then uh Tacman.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Yeah, and you got Dansby Swanson bottom of the lineup.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
I'm telling you, kids ain't gonna come out of there
with one memory of a Kyle Hendricks.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Back in the day, you had your Mark Grace Samberg,
Shawn Dunstan, Doug Desnzo. I mean you had an all
Jerome Walton. I mean it was it was crazy, man,
it was sad. And we sat down there and we
went down by the field and took some pictures. You
know what I mean. When everybody starts clearing out and
they're trying to clear the stadium and we're trying to
(33:13):
get pictures because we weren't there early enough to get pictures.
And then I started talking to an usher and I
got some good news for you. Ray. After the game,
we go out drinking. No. They the little green area
right out front. They have the you can hit off
a tee. They have a band playing, they had a
(33:34):
splash pad, but we didn't get in the splash back
because we didn't have a change of clothes and we
had a two hour drive by day at Judy's house. Ray,
so a four hour round trip probably should have stayed
at the Hyatt. Yeah. Well, we were moving downtown the
next day and I'm like, why didn't we go to
a game? Then I was like, oh, this was better
out scheduling. I'm like, not sure that is a better scheduling.
(33:55):
I'm not sure about that. But logistically, honey, did you
have them in the splash pad wet in the car
for two hours so they not point lunchbox again. So
for the next forty minutes we played Go Cubs go.
Oh yeah, I hope the windows were up, dude. They
all people in traffic, can I They didn't win you, cass,
(34:16):
I'll be honest with you. On the way there, windows
were down. As we're getting into Wrigleyville and everywhere, and
we're we parked on Addison and we were playing it.
That's a rough one and all right, man, come over here,
all sucker to just a rough street to take the
kids off dead. Yeah, maybe we may we parked on Wavelands.
(34:39):
I don't know, but we're playing it, just getting all excited.
On the way home, the windows were up. Windows were up.
You cut it, dude, We had we had to have
the windows up. We're going through neighborhoods and people are
all walking around with their Cubs gear going to restaurants,
Go Cubs Coast playing. They didn't even get they didn't
(35:00):
gonna run. They didn't score a freaking run. Honey, put
up the windows. I'm not kidding, Oh man, it was.
It was It was awesome but sad at the same time.
It was memorable, not in all the best of ways,
but we made it to Wrigley. Now after the break,
(35:22):
I have some inside news. It's gonna be make you happy,
make me happy, and a lot of people we know
very very happy, and it has to do with Major
League Baseball. We'll be right back ray. At the end
(35:44):
of the game and we went down to take pictures.
We were talking to one of the ushers. He's like, oh,
where are you guys? From here? We go? Here? You
are our story? Who cares? Buddy, Planet Earth? What's your name?
He's like, you guys live in Chicago. No, no, first
Cubs game, you know we live. And my kids like,
we live in Nashville. We live in Nashville, Nashville, Tennessee.
(36:07):
Give them the street while you're at it, And well,
my kid does. When you say, if you tell someone says,
what's your name? He goes them first, middle and last night,
you guys said the poster child for getting robbed. He's like, hey, man,
what's your name? And he tells them boom boom boom.
I'm like, no, no, you just tell me your first name. Man.
(36:27):
He's like, no. No. He asked me my name at
it and I'm like, okay, all right, well yes, because
I'm trying to, you know, teach them their middle name.
It's so cool to have a middle name. But they
tell him at all, they tell him at all, never
use and so he's like, oh, Nashville. Yeah. And I
was like, how long you were to I don't know,
forty years being a nush or something like that. He goes, Man,
I'll tell you what. Nashville. That's where the players want
(36:52):
to go. Like, what do you mean? He goes, you
know how they're talking about expansion. He goes, no, no, no,
expansion wise, he goes, all the players they want it
to be Nashville. I'm like really, He goes, oh yeah, yeah.
The nightlife in Nashville wants Every player wants Nashville to
get a team because they want to be able to
experience the night life during the season. What what he was like,
(37:13):
all the players all they talk about is Man, expansion
is a huge topic going on amongst the ball players.
And he goes, I'm telling you ninety percent of them
that I talked to, He goes, Nashville, that's the one
they want to get a team. That's so this usher
has got his ear on the grapevine. He's got his
ear on the grapevine that among Major League Baseball players
(37:34):
they are very, very in favor of Nashville getting one
of the expansion teams.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
Well, did you tell him that the players don't have
any control?
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Who decides it? Probably the commissioner. I don't know, but
I think we're supposed to make some big decision. It'll
be like, guys, Tuesday, that's he'll being decided. Then nothing happens,
like what God decided. I don't know if there's even
really talk that there's actually like, I don't even if
it's one hundred percent there is expansion going on. Tell
me this.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
Excuse me part in my French. But they're building a
football stadium right now. You have Citzens stadium sightings. You're
telling me they're now going to start building a baseball stadium.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
Well, or could they just add on to the current
stadium and make it bigger the Nashville sounds Yeah, dude,
that'd be the worst stadium in It's got stupid ass
guitar and right bean bags in a track. Major league fans, Well,
they could just make it bigger right build up. I
don't know, I have no idea. That is just from
the usher. I think his name was, I don't remember
(38:34):
his name, to be honest with you. But he was
right there by the visiting team dugout. So he talks
to all the players, you know, he does. He chats
with him while they're sitting there, because he's the one
that leans up against the wall right there by the
on deck circle. Hey man, what do you think in
under seven and a half today? And he said, when
blowing in, I would say, so everybody wants Nashville. Yeah,
(38:55):
that's the good news I have.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
For think about it. Miami's a party city, got a team.
Vegas to have a team. New York City has them too.
That's another one. Austin, Texas, No, doesn't have one.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Oh they might beat us to it. But Austin there's
nowhere to put it. They don't have any land.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
The logistics of it. We don't have any land, dude.
We're building two football stadiums next to a scrap yard.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
That's true. So that's a good point. I mean, top golf,
for God's sakes, is facing a I don't know. It's
because of the sun ray it's because of the sun. Yeah,
but I'm saying Top Golf built on almost an industrial
part of town. I don't even but they're building it now.
I mean, if you go over there now, they're building
all sorts of city life. What. Oh and okay in
(39:38):
that part, Yeah, entertainment district, right, bars, restaurants, everything they're
building it. Top Golf is gonna be surrounded by entertainment.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
It's almost gonna be too much. Because now they're saying
they're gonna build up the river. We had that podcast
segment where he said, why don't anybody walk towards the river?
Speaker 1 (39:53):
Well, they just put out an article.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
They're doing some huge billion dollar thing where you can
now walk by the river and it's going to be
up in ten years.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
That's beautiful, dude.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
It's too much construction, too many people. It's actually time
for us to get out of this city. And that's
why I always preach live in the country and I'll
hang up in it.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
And that's what you did. Yeah, that's exactly what happened
to my hang up and listen yep. Now, do you
have any stories from vacation? Maybe we should do the
next podcast. Okay, I mean I could sum it up
and no, no, no, no, no, no, I don't. I don't want to.
I don't want to short change your vacations. I don't
want to sum it up in two sentences. I want
I want real story. So we will wait. I will
(40:28):
wait till Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
I think that's the best way to do it. Okay,
but it doesn't need to be labor intensive on me.
You can still bring other stuff to the table.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
Yeah, we're gonna take a break because I got one.
I got another story that happened to me in Chicago. Yeah,
or you could just do it here. We need another break.
We need another break. Yeah, we need a break. We'll
right back. I don't know which one to do. I
don't you know what. I'm gonna save the story and
I'm just gonna say we we can talk a little
sports that happened over the break. I think we need
(40:59):
to because I got devastating news when I was on
the break. I'm on vacation, enjoying my life. I'm not
checking social media. I'm not checking anything. Ray, I got
served well on vacation and I get a text, but
I'm with you, sweetie. I get a text and it
(41:19):
was I mean man, this hurt and I said it said,
this is from my buddy John, who's a big MASS fan,
and he said CP three plus Wimby should be enjoyable
for you. And I said, what, this is the first
I am hearing of this awful news? Are you telling
(41:40):
me Chris Paul is coming to the Spurs subtraction by addition?
He never responded, And so then I get a text
from my buddy Mike Harris, who was also a Mass fan.
And I don't know if Mass fan's just like rubbing
it in my face, but let's see what Mike said.
He said, this is Texas that let me let me pull.
(42:02):
I didn't plan to talk about this because it hurts
my heart. He said, hey, how do you feel about
CP three being a Spur? Made me laugh when I
saw it, like, thanks, Dick, and I am I hate it.
I hate Chris Paul. He got traded to the Spurs,
he signed with the Spurs, he got released, He got
(42:25):
released by the Warriors, So immediately I start looking it up.
He got released by the Warriors, started doing TV hits,
and he goes and signs a one year, thirteen million
dollar deal with the San Antonio Spurs. And I am devastated. Win.
I hate Chris Paul. He's always hurt. He's a freaking loser,
(42:46):
he says, a sharpshooter now that he had his vision changed.
He just is such a dirty player. He's just bad.
Think he's a bad dude. You can have him on
his state barm commercials and he looks fun and whatever.
I don't buy it for a second. Appsolutely hate the dude.
Speaker 2 (43:04):
And he even came out and said he said something
that congrats for him. He said he doesn't even play hard.
Back in the day, he said, I thought there'd be
more of these, So I was just like, Ah, who
cares we lose?
Speaker 1 (43:13):
I'm not that into this. He thought they'd be more,
but there wasn't more. Yeah, what is he going to
teach the Spurs how to punch people in the nuts?
Because he's really good at doing that, seeing it multiple
times he's been for punching people in the nuts. Did
it at Wake Forest, done it in the NBA. An
absolute trash player. And he's on the San Antonio Spurs like,
what the hell are we doing? And what are we doing?
(43:37):
He was ready to segue into the twilight of his career,
which is announcing or whatever he was doing with Candae
Parker and the boys. So I thought that's what he
was doing. And then the Spurs just threw him a
life vest. They threw him a life vest of thirteen
million dollars for one year.
Speaker 2 (43:52):
You could have used that on money to go and
get somebody like no ways of Jah Morant.
Speaker 1 (43:58):
I don't think John marian it's available, and I don't
think he's only gonna cost thirteen million dollars. I just
could not believe.
Speaker 2 (44:06):
And these things ain't gonna travel on the plane. Ray,
when is John Morant coming home?
Speaker 1 (44:14):
He played last year but then he got hurt, So
then I was I was depressed. Then I see Clay
Thompson goes to the Mavericks three years something and I'm
like what. So I text my buddy John and I said,
congrats on the corpse of Clay Thompson joining your team. Ah,
(44:37):
and he said, can't watch to him and CEP three
matchup in wheelchairs.
Speaker 2 (44:44):
We've had our off seasons where it's Lebron goes to
the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (44:48):
There's been other Brodny James did go to the Lakers, I.
Speaker 2 (44:50):
Know, but there's been during our vacations. There's always a
blockbuster NBA thing that goes down. Kevin Grant, Durant. I
believe that's when he went to the Suns. Stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (45:00):
But the fact that the Klay Thompson shoe dropped and
the CP three during our break at man, are we
getting old? What a bory bock buzz I mean? And
what's funny is I texted my buddy Mike, Mike Harris,
who's also a mass fan, and I tell him the
same thing. He goes. By twenty twenty six, the Mavericks
will have the twenty twenty one All Star team all
wrapped up. I mean, it was crazy. And then the
(45:24):
Lakers dragged him, Brody James, and they gave him four
years four years of money. Yeah, banana, he got hurt already. Yeah,
he hurt his knee. Whatever. Whatever. It's so weird. And
then the Lakers Lebron's like, hey, I'll take less money.
I'll take less money so we can get a superstar.
We can get another player over here. Yeah that's because
at home, you're buying him his gross trees. Guess what
(45:46):
other players decided to sign with the Lakers. None? None,
Bron Hey DeMar DeRozan said, nah, I'm good. I don't
want to play with you, Lebron. You guys are done.
I'm gonna go over here to the Sacramento Kings. And
so Lebron got stuck with He's stuck with the pretty
much the exact same team they had. Yeah, JJ Reddick
let him play. Oh yeah a JJ Reddick. And then
(46:08):
JJ Reddick gets hired and he comes out and he says, no,
there will be no podcast, Like, well, no crap, JJ,
you're a head coach of painting the headphones down. No crap, dude,
Thank god, y'all? Are you and Draymond talk more on
the pod than you do on the court. Hey, you
don't think you're gonna have to talk for a podcast
when you're trying to lead an NBA franchise. You're the
(46:30):
head freaking coach. Yeah, sorry, guys, no practice today, I
got an interview for my podcast. He said he's he's
putting the earbuds down. Thanks man, I mean shocking, breaking news.
He said he's gonna do no longer hot takes on
hot take great, thanks JJ Reddick. So wait, you're not
gonna give away strategy on the pod and talk about
(46:52):
how you guys didn't play deepense last night. You're gonna
just keep that in house. Probably pretty smart. JJ.
Speaker 2 (46:57):
You're not gonna pull a Draymond and talk about your
tire game plan the minute after the game ends.
Speaker 1 (47:02):
Yeah, not even gonna be done with your shower yet,
and you're gonna get on the pod and break down
how you lost the Dame six of the playoffs. His
first shower, his first pod is Showers with Bronny. Hey,
we's copyright in fridge, but we'll sue your ass man. Hey, pod,
We're gonna have James on the the uh pod. Oh,
Everybody's like, oh, hell yeah lebron James. Oh no, sorry guys,
(47:24):
our second round draft prick Bronni James is here. Guys.
The biggest podcast ever will be Lebron and Bronni Showers
with Dad. Hey, they're gonna be showering with Dad every
single day. Guys. We predicted it five years ago. Look
for our podcast Showers with Dad. Dude. Seriously, they got
(47:46):
a shower at different times, right, Yeah. I think they
all have their own.
Speaker 2 (47:50):
I mean, dude, I got a local twenty four fitness
that has private, sectioned off showers.
Speaker 1 (47:55):
It's not like you're in there slapping it with twelve
other guys. Oh really, yeah, dude, they've avol Okay, Rights
actually visited. And then lebron comes out and says, man,
you guys that are talking trash about Bronnie James, He's different.
He doesn't give a crap what you say. Well, yeah, no, crap.
He done. He's in the NBA, He's got millions of dollars, right,
(48:15):
why would he care what we say? But it is
still weird. But I mean it is. Oh, Paul George
left buying the kid apples. Hey, that didn't drop Paul George.
He went to the seventy six ers. I don't even
know who that is. Oh yeah, playoff P three. I
mean the guy that the the Los Angeles Clippers traded
everything for it. They traded SGA in like five thousand
(48:38):
draft picks for Paul George and they didn't win shit. Look,
they did not win shit. Lookout for Jamar DeRozan though,
and the boys in Sacramento. Yeah, that's the one people
need to watch. Who else we got, Spurs got Harrison Barnes.
I mean he was good about fifteen years ago. He
was part of the championship team back when we first
(48:58):
started the pod with the Warriors, right, yeah, that's what
I'm saying. So we got Harrison Barnes and CP three
to go with Wimby and then, oh, I was so excited.
The Spurs drafted the kid out of Kansas, Furfy, and
I'm going crazy. Yeah we got Furfy. Dude can shoot.
I love that dude. Three minutes later, Furfey traded Pacers.
(49:20):
All right, cool, Well that was exciting. All right, punked
your ass. I text all my boys, I want us
to draft Furfey right here, draft Furfy. Yeah we got
him to Oh we traded him, all right, cool, nevermind, guys,
don't worry about Furfy. He can shoot, but we didn't
need him. I guess we didn't need him. I don't
know what else happened during the break man.
Speaker 2 (49:37):
Guys, enjoy Wimbledon. It is winding down. We were to
the round of sixteen. The likes of Sinner, Alcatraz and Djokovic.
The Joker ended up coming out of the wheelchair and
performing in this round of sixteen. They're all in action
today and tomorrow. Get ready, Boomer. Also in the State Championship.
I was watching it in the entire Bobby Bone Show.
He plays in the actual state championship for the state
(50:00):
of Michigan this afternoon. I will post the link at
three Central time. Watch out for Boomer. If he wins this,
he's going straight to the Major Leagues and as per
an usher at Wrigley Field, major Leagues then go to Nashville,
So Boomer will be playing in Nashville per a random
seventy year old usher at Wrigleyville.
Speaker 1 (50:19):
Thanks for that. Take Morgan Hewle post on your own stories.
Thanks Morgan, I will all right. Senior Baseball State Tournament
semi finals game number four Nagany eight Hillman won championship
game at four Eastern, three Central. We are so excited
(50:41):
and also they have the state championship. The kid just
played this morning during the Big Show, and now he's
gonna play this afternoon. Exhaustion.
Speaker 2 (50:51):
That is terrible scheduling, but I'm guessing parents have to
get back to work. It is Monday, I would say so, man, guys,
I'll post the link. We're expecting thousand of people to
be watching on the Game Time app. It is an
absolute awesome app that they have. They put it on
the chain link fence. You can only basically see the infield.
If anybody hits it to the outfield, good luck. You
can never tell if it's a hit or and error,
(51:12):
but it does have the score. Good luck, God, bless
God to Goney Ray.
Speaker 1 (51:21):
That was the hell of a oh dude that tripped
a Wrigley Man. It's a special one, it wasn't. Sadly though,
the kids aren't gonna remember that. They remember the game.
They remember the Cubs lost. You always remember first. They
tell everybody but the Cubs lost. Cubs lost, Kid. They
won in our hearts. I placed the bed on them too.
(51:43):
I doubly lost kid. Password Mikey Man No Willie Mays.
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