SORE LOSERS: How Did Thanksgiving go so Wrong?

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Bobby Bones Show

Episode: SORE LOSERS: How Did Thanksgiving go so Wrong?
Date: December 6, 2025
Host: Premiere Networks
Main Speakers: Lunchbox (C), Sizzin Raymundo (D)

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Episode Overview

This episode of "The Bobby Bones Show" (Sore Losers edition) is a hilarious, chaotic recap of Thanksgiving gone awry, featuring Lunchbox and Raymundo reliving a family holiday that was anything but smooth. The hosts unravel their misadventures: from overcrowded family lodging, getting lost on a hike with kids, a failed turkey fryer, being unable to watch football, disastrous donuts, and a bitterly cold golf outing—right down to a dog vomit incident on the ride home. The episode shows how the best-laid holiday plans can turn into comedic misadventures.

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Key Discussion Points & Timestamps

1. The Thanksgiving Setup: Overcrowded and Underprepared

[07:21] – [10:58]

• Lunchbox describes the madness of cramming 17 people into a three-bedroom mountain house in North Carolina.
  • Not enough beds; air mattresses everywhere; he ends up using towels as a pillow.
  • “Didn’t have enough pillows for everyone in the house. I had to use a stack of towels for a pillow.” (Lunchbox, [08:35])
• Mountains were freezing cold, and his kids basically didn’t shower all week.
• Arrival was met with leftover pizza instead of a family meal.

2. The Great Hike Debacle: Getting Lost in the Mountains

[11:13] – [20:03]

• Plans to take the kids for a “quick” waterfall hike turn into a survivalist experience.
• No one brings water or snacks, the group gets completely lost ("no water, got no nothing"), circling trails for over two hours with no cell service and young kids in tow.
  • “Out of three grown men, you guys all had to tuck your tail. We had to admit we were lost.” (Lunchbox, [15:45])
• Forced to bushwhack up a mountain to reach a stranger’s house for rescue.
• Text for help, family members come to pick them up.
• The kids, unfazed: “That was so fun, we got lost! Can we get lost again later?” (Lunchbox, [19:24])

3. The Turkey Fiasco

[21:58] – [26:14]

• Attempt to fry the Thanksgiving turkey fails—the fryer won’t light. No neighbors have a backup.
• Resort to hacking up the turkey and shoving it piecemeal into an air fryer/pressure cooker. All the sides go cold.
• “We ate Thanksgiving dinner at like 3:45, still within the window. Turkey was okay.” (Lunchbox, [26:13])
• Ham debate: both agree ham is better than turkey.
  • “It's my absolute favorite, dude.” (Lunchbox, [22:49])
  • “Ham is so much better than turkey.” (Lunchbox, [22:56])

4. No Football, No Problem?—Or Is It?

[27:13] – [31:22]

• The house TV is stuck in an upstairs corner, away from the main living spaces; only four channels.
• Thanksgiving tradition of watching football is completely waylaid.
  • “If you want to go watch TV, you have to go up into the far left where no one is...you are away from everybody. You are anti-social, anti-Thanksgiving, anti-everything because you want to watch the game.” (Lunchbox, [28:22])
• Texting with family about games they’re missing, never seeing the action.

5. Post-Holiday Activities: Cold Golf & More Leftovers

[35:11] – [42:14]

• A frigid round of golf follows Black Friday, with Lunchbox admitting he plays terribly and is embarrassed in front of his in-laws.
  • “I couldn't hit a damn golf ball. It was cold and embarrassing.” (Lunchbox, [42:14])
• Family fun running wild at the dump, smashing bottles for entertainment.
• Everyone’s tired of leftovers; some family members bail for real breakfast at a restaurant.

6. Kid Gets Sick & North Carolina’s Worst Donuts

[47:24] – [51:32]

• Baby Box 2 comes down with strep throat; the urgent care nurse goes way overboard jam-packing a test swab up his nose, causing a nosebleed and a traumatic experience.
  • “I've never seen someone jab something so far up a kid's nose in my life.” (Lunchbox, [48:36])
• Consoles the kid with Dunkin’ Donuts, only for all the donuts to be flavorless, missing glaze or icing. Lunchbox leaves a scathing Yelp review.
  • “As a former employee, this is embarrassing. You guys didn't put glaze on my donuts.” (Lunchbox, [51:19])

7. The Long Road Home: Car Sickness and Catching Up on Football

[52:00] – [54:45]

• Departure on Sunday is two and a half hours late, everyone’s grumpy, the dog vomits after winding mountain roads, and they get home after 7+ hours.
  • “Five and a half hour drive turned into seven hours and 40 minutes... had a vomit episode in the car.” (Lunchbox, [52:30])
• Lunchbox never gets to watch any football; relies on his brother for updates and highlights.
  • “You are setting a world record for not watching football.” (Batter’s Box, relayed by Lunchbox [43:16])

8. Ray’s Quick Family Story & Thanksgiving Recap Clip

[56:01] – [58:58]

• Ray’s turn is short; he’s headed to the airport for a customs appointment (not to fly, just paperwork).
• Includes a lighthearted group clip: his family at “Putt Shack,” Nashville adventures, and a comical secret about someone working at Crate & Barrel for the holidays, “because it’s easier than an MP job.” ([58:22])

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Notable Quotes & Moments

On holiday family chaos:

• “It's eight people. My sister-in-law, that's nine people. My wife's cousin, her husband, two kids. That's 13 people... My wife's brother, his wife, and two kids... 17 people in one house!” (Lunchbox, [08:01])

On getting lost in the woods:

• “We were lost, man. We were lost in the woods.” (Lunchbox, [19:01])
• “We were just camped out in front of some people's houses...the kids down some water, we got in the vehicles, we drove the one mile home. They didn't realize we hiked four miles.” (Lunchbox, [17:17])

On the turkey disaster:

• “The fryer won’t light, dude. So we start texting neighbors...Crickets.” (Lunchbox, [23:39])
• “So we are chopping this turkey up and shoving pieces in the air fryer.” (Lunchbox, [25:07])

On missing football:

• “You want to watch the game? Yes. What used to be called being a man is now called being antisocial.” (Ray, [28:44])

On cold golf:

• “I couldn't hit a damn golf ball. I was like, it was cold and embarrassing...It was awful.” (Lunchbox, [42:14])
• “There’s nothing to be embarrassed about.—No, no, no...they don’t think that. I was like, it's still embarrassing.” (Lunchbox & wife, [42:37])

On bad donuts:

• “I've never had a worse donut in my life...every single one was a cake donut, they didn't have any icing on them.” (Lunchbox, [50:29])

On the endless drive home:

• “Five and a half hour drive turned into seven hours and 40 minutes...we had a vomit episode in the car.” (Lunchbox, [52:30])

Ray’s holiday summary:

• “We were out the door at 12. I don’t want one more foot stepping inside my house.” (Ray, [31:22])

Family bonus:

• “Nobody knows this but Justin lost his job.—Hey, nobody knows this but Justin's working at Crate and Barrel.” (Ray & family, [58:22])

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Memorable Segment Timestamps

• [13:32] – Realization of being utterly lost on the hike.
• [17:01] – “Send the vehicles” rescue call.
• [23:41] – Desperation texting for a turkey fryer.
• [26:14] – Thanksgiving dinner, finally, with rescued turkey.
• [28:22] – Football TV drama.
• [42:08] – Lunchbox admits golf humiliation.
• [50:29] – The Donut Disaster.
• [52:30] – Road trip from hell.
• [56:15] – Ray’s bonus clip with family, secret reveal.

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Episode Tone and Atmosphere

The episode is fast-moving, self-deprecating, and full of the Sore Losers’ signature light sarcasm. Both Lunchbox and Ray are open about their family frustrations, annoyances, and occasional moments of gratitude or laughter. Their banter, storytelling flair, and willingness to laugh at their own misfortunes make this a relatable and genuinely funny holiday recap.

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Takeaways for Listeners

• If you felt your holiday was a mess, listen to this—yours was probably easier!
• When family overload, malfunctioning appliances, lost hikes, and sick kids strike, your only choice is to survive, adapt, and turn it into a great story.
• At the end of the day, even “failed” holidays leave some funny memories—sometimes, especially those.

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For full context and laughs, check out the episode replay. This summary skips non-content ad sections but covers all the wild highs and lows of the Sore Losers' Thanksgiving!

Transcript

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[C]

Welcome back, man. I'm going to tell you what I.

[D]

Was here two days ago.

[C]

I understand you told me that you came up here, brought the family, showed them around. Did you come in here and show them the. That's why the sore losers is on the screen.

[D]

Had to show that off.

[C]

That's pretty cool. We could show all of our listeners on the web, but we don't ever do the cameras. As Burleson pointed out, it was like the Broncos offense. I said, it's hard to watch. And he goes, sort of like the Sore losers podcast on YouTube.

[D]

That's funny.

[C]

I laughed. I said, well played, well played. And I mean, I have so many stories. Roll them from this trip, this Thanksgiving holiday, the break, the adventure to North Carolina, Thanksgiving Day, the adventure back. But I'm going to tell you, I am so annoyed. I sat down last night to watch football and I mean, if Chris Collinsworth, I was about to jump out a window.

[D]

Where did he say Mariata or what?

[C]

He kept Saying Marcus Mariota, Mariota, Mario Ta. Mario Ta. And he was so ta ta. How do you say it? Mariota, Mariota, Mario Ta.

[D]

He lived here?

[C]

No, no, no.

[D]

He lived here.

[C]

Apparently he's Asian now, Marcus. I thought he was Hawaiian, but now he's Asian. Mario Ta ta. I mean it was like, dude, stop.

[D]

Marcus, Mario.

[C]

T.

And I was like, am I the only one hearing this? This is the first time I've ever heard it pronounced this way. And he. I thought he was being funny at first, but he did it over and over and over and it was so over the top that I almost had to put the damn thing on mute.

[D]

Somebody had to have recorded it.

[C]

Somebody had to. Mario Ta.

[D]

Every time that he had the ball.

[C]

Every oh, Mario Ta. It throws the ball. Mario Ta throws the ball. I'm like, what are we doing? Oh, nice run by Mario Ta.

[D]

Did he have to possess the ball a lot? So you were hearing it?

[C]

Yeah, I mean it was a very weird. I just knocked some things over. I wish I would recorded it. I didn't even think about that Ray. That would have been so smart.

[D]

And I'm curious. Was Jaden Daniels. What, what happened to him?

[C]

He dislocated his elbow. Man.

[D]

You can still play.

[C]

What arm? Left arm. I don't think he's right handed. Yeah, I, I don't think you can play. Here we go. You ready? Let's see here.

It is hard to come up with a scheme that's going to protect the quarterback against all of that. Mario intercepted.

[D]

That was Tariko.

4Yd line.

[C]

So they moved it down there. Well, Mario is in position to try to make a play. Il advised jump pass is picked by.

[D]

The veteran Trey Greenwood as Jaden Daniels watches from above.

[C]

So Marcus Mariota is one of smart guys playing quarterback, but this was really unsmart. He's going to run up, jump up in the air, have no vision where he threw the ball, what's going whatsoever and throw it right into the hands of Greenlaw. That is just. You cannot even come up with an excuse for that.

Oh, dude.

[D]

I mean it wasn't as bad as you said.

[C]

Interception number six on the season for Mariota.

[D]

That was Trico.

[C]

No, no, that was Trico. But I'm telling you, Collinsworth was the one doing Mario Ta. Mario, Mario. I'm never going to look at him the same again. Every time I see Mariota, I'm going to say Mario, Mario da. It was the most annoying thing in the world.

[D]

Well, I already put my Mario Ta jersey on the dead skeleton For Halloween. Titans have died. Season's over. We are the worst sports city in America right now. We have the worst hockey team and the worst football team. That's a round of applause for the city of Nashville. But we got the number one party.

[C]

And we got the number one podcast convention in February, so that's a good idea.

[D]

Well said.

[C]

Yeah. Now let's start the show because I do believe our last show, we never started the show.

[D]

Doesn't matter. No, nobody, nobody needs to know what show they're listening to. They just needs to be people they're talking to. Boomer said he listened to us for two hours on the way home to Michigan. So kids are listening again.

[C]

That's what I like to hear. Because we. We listened to you, us, zero, on the way home from North Carolina. Zero percent, zero. Did we hear the podcast?

[D]

Six, seven. That's so the kids will listen.

[C]

Oh, all right.

[D]

We're gonna do it live. 6, 7. We are the 1, 2, 3.

[C]

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, y'. All.

[D]

It's Sizzin Raymundo from the North. I'm an alpha male. I live on the north side of Nashua with Bazer. Had the family in town. We're all there in country. It was awesome. We got 2.2 kids at Vanderbilt. We will release a secret about that little story of our. Of our our lives on a three minute post podcast post that's gonna come at the very end of this one. But yeah, we got. What do we have? 2.3333 acres and die of a heart attack when I'm 72. If any of that made any sense. Probably not. Over to you, man.

[C]

Oh, Ray, let me tell you about Thanksgiving, man. What? What a trip to North Carolina. I mean, it was so awesome.

[D]

Wait, did you go there? Because Bones, new favorite teams, the Panthers.

[C]

No, no, that's not why I went. I went because my wife's aunt lives in North Carolina. So I was like, all right, yeah, holidays with my wife's family. Let's go for Thanksgiving. Here's the problem. It was a three bedroom house, okay?

[D]

Luke Combs live there?

[C]

No, Luke Combs doesn't live there, but my wife's aunt lives there. Then my in laws were there. That's three people. My family is five. That's eight people.

[D]

More like outlaws.

[C]

That's eight people. My sister in law, that's nine people. My wife's cousin, her husband, two kids. That's 13 people.

[D]

Stop.

[C]

My wife's brother, his wife and two kids. How many people is that right? 17 people.

[D]

Six.

[C]

Seven.

In one house?

[D]

Yeah, see, I, I'm not and I, I am a huge proponent for no more than five to 10 people in a normal sized house.

[C]

We.

[D]

Just because it's a holiday doesn't mean we need people sleeping on the floors. I've been saying it forever.

[C]

Oh. So we had air mattresses aplenty all over the place. Didn't have enough pillows for everyone in the house. I had to use a stack of towels for a pillow.

[D]

Well, it's better than what the guy down in the street slept on last night.

[C]

That's a great point. At least I had heat in this house. Oh, wait. It was so freaking cold in the mountains of North Carolina once I got there. Apparently it's beautiful all week. I get there, it's in the 40s, and I'm bundled up freezing my off.

[D]

Were you guys ready to make it warm?

[C]

Not with that many people in the house. That's what I'm saying.

[D]

Could you squeeze one of those in?

[C]

No. Couldn't have any privacy whatsoever. I mean, heck, sleeping on couches. I mean, people sleeping on the middle of the floor, tripping over an animal, you know, got the dog with this pure pandemonium.

[D]

Can't ever get your toothbrush. Oh, yeah, yeah, I'll just shower with a little kid, you know.

[C]

Yeah. Oh, no, no. My kids only took. They were there for a week. They only took one shower.

[D]

Smart. I mean, they're only playing around all day.

[C]

Yeah, they're only playing around all day and you don't want to stop the fun to have time to shower. So like, it's like, hey guys, just whatever. It's. It's 10 o'.

[D]

Clock.

[C]

We don't need a shower. We'll shower tomorrow. Then the next day, it's like 10:30. Ah, don't worry, we'll shower the next day. Then it's like 9:30. I will shower the next day. So they showered last night when they got home.

[D]

So your house smells like North Carolina.

[C]

Basically got clothes thrown everywhere because I was like, hurry, we got to get to bed. We got to get to bed. But anyway, so I get there Wednesday night, you know what I mean? All excited. All right, let's do. This is going to be so fun. Yeah, show up. Everybody's already had dinner. They saved me a good two and a half slices of pizza that they had on Wednesday night. Cool things that's really going to fill me up.

[D]

You flew or drove?

[C]

I flew. Family drove earlier because the kids were off school all week. Been there, so.

[D]

Oh, what? Muff's coming up a day early. Cool. I'll be at work for the next three days.

[C]

Yeah, that. So that was that. I was like, all right, cool. So we get there and we wake up on Thanksgiving. All right, cool your mic up. Oh, man, you're good. Get there on, you know, wake up Thanksgiving and we're just hanging out at the house, kind of have some little snacks for breakfast. Eat some casserole with eggs and sausage and I don't know what else is in it, but it was good. Cheese, maybe some potatoes. Maybe hash browns is what's in there. Tater tots, I don't know. My wife made it. It's not the custom bubble bread that I'm used to. That I love. That is a family tradition of mine.

[D]

Bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble bread.

[C]

No, they didn't bother to get the ingredients to make bubble bread so we could have it for the morning. But that's okay. I'm not upset about that. We'll just move on. We'll have this casserole, no big deal. Then the kids are like, hey, dad, let's go on a hike. Let's go on a hike.

[D]

Do it said.

[C]

All right. Yeah, you're great idea. The ladies are in there, you know, they're making the Thanksgiving sides and we'll come back and we'll fry the turkey when we get back.

[D]

You're doing that?

[C]

We were going to do it on the back porch. Do the fry turkey. You know, it's going to be great. Women are in there making the, you know, sweet potatoes, the mashed potatoes, the green beans, the whatever else they're making. So we decide we're going to take the dog with us and we're going to walk a little bit and it's like a. They want to go hike down to.

[D]

Some waterfalls in case you get lost. Is it too cold to hike?

[C]

No, it's like 45 degrees.

[D]

And you're going to go with kids?

[C]

Yeah, we went with a four year old. No, two four year olds. One of them is about to turn five. A five year old, two seven year olds. The one seven year old's about to be eight and three adult males.

[D]

Okay. The three men. You can wrangle them.

[C]

We can wrangle them. And we took the dog in case.

[D]

You guys need help.

[C]

No, just because. Get him out. Burn some energy. Be fun to go up and down Some mountain with a dog. Right.

[D]

I wore a white shirt in case we ran into trouble.

[C]

And it's really supposed to be about a mile, maybe a little over a mile hike down to this waterfall and back. Really 45 minutes, that's about it. And we'll be back, no problem. So we start hiking down to the waterfall. Kids are having so much fun. But there's a couple bridges. The dog is scared to go over the bridges so I have to pick him up because they're like little thin log bridges over water.

[D]

I've been to Costa Rica before, so.

[C]

I got to carry the dog over the bridges and we go down to the waterfalls and we're throwing rocks in the water and throwing sticks in there and watching it go down and so fun.

Then my brother in law was like, all right, we go this way to get back. Like, all right, cool. So we start walking and this is terrifying.

[D]

This brings back memories.

[C]

And just so you know, we brought no water, no snacks, bro, you need.

[D]

Me in the woods.

[C]

And.

Now we've been gone about an hour and 30 minutes.

[D]

This is terrifying. This is my biggest fear.

[C]

And.

I think we go this way. All right, cool. We'll go that way. Go that way. Oh no, I think we're going back down the mountain. Maybe we should go this way. All right, let's go that way. All right, go that way.

[D]

It is getting a little bit colder out here.

[C]

And now we've been gone two hours. She.

And we got no water, got no nothing. And I'm like, I don't know man. And you know, I told you it's probably about a mile, a little over a mile hike to the waterfall and back.

[D]

Correct.

[C]

We're now at 3.75 miles. We've gone.

[D]

So you've been lost for a mile and a half?

[C]

Yeah, we are just in there and finally we're just walking on a trail and we don't know. And he's like, let me run ahead and see what's over on this side. No, that side goes back down the mountain. Let's go this way. Start walking that way. And I'm like, man, that's going back down again. Guys, that's down again. Like both sides are going down. We're, we're going, we're on the wrong path.

[D]

You've carried the dog over a Bridge now 10 times.

[C]

And we can see a house.

About 250 yards straight up the mountain.

[D]

Go to it.

[C]

And we said, guys, it is time to leave the beaten path. We are not going to follow one of these trails for another minute. We are going to go straight up this mountain through the woods. Unpathed. Don't know what's lying beneath these leaves and these fallen trees. But we have been gone for two hours now and we are at 3.95 miles hiked with two 4 year olds, a 5 year old and two 7 year olds, and a dog with no water.

And we're like, let's just go look on a tree.

[D]

You can always tell the moss grows on the north side.

[C]

I could see the sunlight, so I was trying to head towards the sunlight. But whatever path we got on, it was going to take us around the side of a mountain. I don't know.

[D]

Listen for traffic too.

[C]

I understand that. All I could hear was the water going down, waterfalls.

[D]

That's not going to be very helpful.

[C]

No, it's not.

[D]

It's pretty, but it's pretty loud to fire in your way.

[C]

And we were like, I hope these people don't mind us just climbing right through their backyard because we're coming.

[D]

Got to. Out of three grown men, you guys all had to tuck your tail.

[C]

We had to tuck our tail, Admit we were lost, no cell phone service, so it's not like we could do anything about it. Like try to pull up a map and figure our way out. We're in the middle of a mountain.

[D]

You guys got burrs all over you.

[C]

And my brother was also like, I don't think it's a good idea just to go straight up the mountain. Like, we got no choice, man. These kids are getting tired. We're at 3.95 miles. We got no choice, man.

[D]

Okay, you listen to me.

[C]

Don't you give up on me. Promise me you're never gonna let go. Promise me you're never gonna let go.

[D]

Daddy. Daddy.

[C]

And we just hike the 200 to 250 yards, straight up the mountain, into the backyard, around to the front, up the driveway, onto the street.

And we are able to get cell phone service. We are now at 4.02 miles.

[D]

Yeah, you didn't go the right route.

[C]

That we have been hiking. And we put in the GPS to the house. We are one mile from the house. If you walk the roads.

Weren'T going to be able to walk it, man. The kids were tired, right.

[D]

We called an Ubers 20, 25. What you think we did?

[C]

So we dropped a print, a pin, sent it to the group text and said, send the vehicles, send the vehicles.

[D]

But at least you're at safety though. That's all I can say.

[C]

And I Mean, we're just camped out in front of some people's houses.

[D]

So did you go inside or.

[C]

No, no, we didn't go in their houses and we just. There was one guy out in his front. Hey, how's it going, guys? Hey, how's it going? And here comes my wife, here comes my sister in law. They brought two vehicles to rescue the stranded hikers. I thought we were, we were looking at each other like, all right, which one are we going to eat? Which one are we going to eat, man? We've been gone. We were gone for 2 hours and 32 minutes with a total hike of 4.01 miles.

[D]

You were right. That was Pilgrims, man, before we stole it from the Native Americans. That's crazy. You got to be careful. Never go on a hike without water and food. That's how those people die at Joshua Tree. And then the temperatures change and that's how you die.

[C]

Oh, no. We thought it was just going to be a straight to the waterfall and back from the waterfall, bro, I didn't.

[D]

Even know your story. And I said white shirt SOS because I know how that goes. When you're in the woods, you get fricking lost. It's confusing as hell. We'd go look at woods all the time with my dad and sometimes he would get lost, but then he's better with directions than us. It's terrifying when you get turned around.

[C]

I just assumed that my brother in law, he said, I know where we're going. So I just figured he knew. And we got to one point where there was two signs that said trail that way, trail that way. Didn't say which trail, it was just said trail. So that wasn't good. And then you got baby box chiming in. No, dad, I think we need to go this way. Like, how the hell do you know which way to go, son? You ain't ever been in these dang woods. Actually, dad, we came in these woods yesterday before you got here. Oh, oh, my bad. So maybe you do know a little bit.

[D]

I should listen to my kids.

[C]

Yeah, maybe I should listen to the seven year old. But my brother in law, like, oh, here's a red path. But I think we're supposed to be on the orange path.

I don't know, I don't remember which one we came in. We were lost, man. We were lost in the woods.

[D]

Been there, I've been there a handful of times. It is terrifying. I wish that upon nobody. It's not lost on Broadway in booze in the bottle. It's Lost and you have no idea where you're going. Not in life, but physically where you're going, it's. It's one of the most terrifying feelings.

[C]

So I felt good to be rescued. They pulled up in the vehicles and we told them in the text, bring water, we haven't had water. And the kids down some water. We got in the vehicles, we drove the one mile home. And that one mile home was a lot of big hills. It would have been treacherous. It would have been tough for the kids to make it. They would have been exhausted. But afterwards, the kids were like, man, that was so fun. We got lost. Can we get lost again later? Can we get lost again later? They didn't realize that we hiked four miles. I mean, I'm not talking like a little nice easy path. We're talking up elevation, down, elevate. And they were warriors out there.

[D]

Yep. What with the being lost, the kids, they. The dads at the dinner table later on were lucky, John. I know we are, Jim.

[C]

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So you get the turkey thing set up on the back porch. All right, here we go. Let's get that turkey. They've been, you know, thawing the turkey, and you get the fryer stand set up.

[D]

But are you doing it, or is somebody else manhandling it? I've just never heard you cooking a turkey before.

[C]

No, it's really the father in law. He's gonna do it. I'm not really caring to do it, whatever my situation.

[D]

Father in law brought over the turkey. Brother in law brought over the ham.

[C]

There you go. There you go. There was no ham at ours, unfortunately. I love ham, but we did not have ham. And we go out there, we're like, all right, we'll get it all set up. Let's light this sucker.

[D]

If you like ham.

[C]

Love ham.

[D]

I got a piece of ham in the fridge. It is the best ham I've ever had, and I would be willing to cook you up some and you try it live, man.

[C]

I love him. Ham is my favorite.

[B]

It is.

[C]

It's my absolute favorite, dude.

[D]

It's the most phenomenal ham I've ever had.

[C]

Ham is so much better than turkey ham. I am ray.

[D]

I love Dr. Seuss.

[C]

Ham is so much better than turkey.

[D]

The turkey was pretty good. We got it infused with stuff. Oh, it was so good, Father. Yeah. Father in law goes, I'm going to take this. And I go, oh, are you going to take it to the fire hall, drop it off there? And he goes, no, no, no. I'm taking it to my fire hall. Take it to my house. I'm eating it.

[C]

Wow.

[D]

I go, what? You take that to the boys down there at the old fire station? He goes, no, no, no. This boy me at my house.

[C]

Wow, that's pretty awesome.

[D]

It was that good. Father in law took it with him.

[C]

And he said, no, screw the boys at the house, man. I'm going to keep that for me. That one's on me. So we get out there and we're like, ah, man. Can't try for, like, 25 minutes. Can't get it to light.

[D]

What, are you lost again?

[C]

No, we're on the back porch. The. The fryer won't light, dude.

[D]

You guys can't win.

[C]

So we start texting neighbors, hey, do you happen to have a fryer stand? Turkey fryer stand? We can't get ours to light. No, no. So my aunt posts on the neighborhood Facebook page, hey, anybody got a fryer stand? Ours won't light. Crickets.

So here we are. The sides are all, you know, pretty much ready, and we have no turkey.

[D]

It was a malfunctioning thing. And guys, let's be real. How many times have they used it? Once a year for 20 years.

[C]

Ding, ding, ding, ding. Hadn't been brought out since, what, last Christmas or Thanksgiving.

[D]

There was this Instagram thing where the dad had the electric razor that cuts the meat or whatever, and he goes, We've been married 47 years. I've used this 47 times. The only time you use it for is Thanksgiving. Never. Do you ever get the electric cutter out?

[C]

Yeah. So that's the thing, man. So then we. We're like, what do we do? You can't put it in the oven now because it's going to take five hours.

[D]

See, I don't know on the cooking side of it, but I know they're not easy.

[C]

So we are between a rock and a hard place. We have no turkey for Thanksgiving dinner, campfire.

So.

We look around, we're like, we don't know what to do. So we start dissecting it because my aunt has a pressure cooker. It's like an air fryer, basically.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Okay. So we are chopping this turkey up and shoving pieces in the air fryer.

[D]

Oh, my gosh.

What time are we talking right now?

[C]

2:30.

[D]

It's Thanksgiving time.

[C]

It is Thanksgiving time, dude.

[D]

I mean, disaster.

[C]

Like, this was. The turkey was supposed to be in the freaking fryer at like one o'. Clock. I was supposed to be in there ready to like, let's go.

[D]

There's no way this ends up good, though.

[C]

So we are chopping it up piece by piece.

[D]

Everybody's teaming up.

[C]

Everybody's teaming it up and it is just a disaster. All the sides are now having to be reheated and reheated because they're cold by now. We're.

[D]

Well, what a tribute to the pilgrims, man.

[C]

Like, I mean, just they had a.

[D]

Butter better meal 200 years ago.

[C]

Like, I thought the turkey was going to be ready now. The sweet potatoes are now. I've been out of the oven for an hour. We're going to have to reheat them. Sorry. Didn't know this was going to happen. So we went pressure cooker, ripped up turkey and cooked it, then reheat all the sides. And we ate Thanksgiving dinner at like 3:45, still within the window. Turkey was okay.

[D]

There's no way it was good.

[C]

No, no, I said okay.

[D]

Oh, okay.

[C]

It was edible.

[D]

At least. There's a story behind it.

[C]

It was Edible.

[D]

But what happened with the turkey fryer?

[C]

It wouldn't light. See, I. I don't know, Ray. I didn't take it apart and see what was wrong with it, but.

[D]

Well, like, was it the lady that lived there or did somebody bring it from Nashville?

[C]

No, she had it.

[D]

Okay, see, that's on her. You got to try it the day before, the week before, the minute of action, she tries to see if this fryer is going to fry up from a year ago.

[C]

And it didn't. I mean, let me. Let me break the news to you. It didn't. It didn't start. It didn't start. Right.

And so here's the thing. I may. I was like, wow, this is a great Thanksgiving dinner. Wow, this is so fun. So we ate during the Cowboys Chiefs game. I didn't see one second of that game. I don't know how that game went. I don't know if the Cowboys dominated. I know they won. I don't know if it was back and forth. Don't know a thing about it. I was.

[D]

I was busy with kids. We watched a lot of the packers line, but yeah, I was busy during that one.

[C]

Packers, Lions was the first game, right?

[D]

Yeah, it was packers all day long. Lions never had a chance.

[C]

I think I watched one quarter of that game and maybe. What was the night? Oh, the night game was the Bengals and Ravens. Guess how many plays that I saw.

[D]

It was a blowout.

[C]

Didn't see a single play, Ray.

[D]

It was Joe Cool.

[C]

You want to know why I didn't see a single play, right? Because this house was set up weird.

[D]

I'm guessing they didn't have cable.

[C]

Well, that's one reason, Ray. They had four channels.

[D]

Well, you'd have been able to get one of them then, right?

[C]

They had four channels. But here's the problem. When you walk in, you're in the front little walkway. There's a bathroom to your left. The living room is straight ahead.

The dining room is to the right. Kitchen around the corner, Right to the right is the stairs. You go upstairs. There's two bedrooms up there. And then where the TV is, is in the far left wing of that upstairs.

[D]

I have the mental picture. I just drew the map.

[C]

Everybody congregates downstairs in the living room and in the dining room. There is no TV down there.

[D]

And it's just. Nobody's going to go in a random room by themselves with a door closed. It looks like you're looking at porn.

[C]

Ding, ding, ding. Ray, if you want to go watch tv, you have to Go up into the far left where no one is.

[D]

Yeah. You would have already passed five TVs at my house.

[C]

So you are away from everybody. No one knows where you are. And you are anti social, anti Thanksgiving, anti everything.

[D]

Because you want to watch the game.

[C]

Yes.

[D]

What used to be called being a man is now called being antisocial. Because you want to watch your sports.

[C]

Right. And so it was awkward when I'm getting texts from batter's box, like, oh, my God.

And I don't respond. What are you doing?

[D]

He wasn't there.

[C]

No. This is my wife's side. Okay.

[D]

Well, I mean, I heard the whole family tree. I thought at some point he threw batter's box in there.

[C]

No. And he just like, oh, my. Are you there? This is unbelievable. That was a great game.

[D]

Well, it had not been the late game. The late game was bad.

[C]

Highly entertaining.

[D]

Oh, he's talking about Chiefs, Cowboys.

[C]

I. I don't know. Cause I don't know what he's saying.

[D]

It wasn't. It wasn't. Lions, Packers. Because that was always out of reach.

[C]

And then he. I guess he called. And he goes, you can't even take my calls. Happy Thanksgiving. And I'm like, what? He goes, what a game. I was. I didn't see a second of it. And he goes, what are you doing?

[D]

I was on a hike.

[C]

He was like, I was over at mom and dad's, dude, dad got a new 80 inch TV. Whoa. I'm like, what? He goes, yeah. Night before Thanksgiving, his TV went out. And I guess he just went to Best Buy and he called me. He goes, can I help him hang his new tv? Goes, how? I was like, why does my dad need help hanging the tv? He goes, oh, my God. The TV was so big, it barely fit in the bed of his truck.

[D]

It's like, Taylor Lawan. The one time I saw him outside of Best Buy.

[C]

Yeah. He was like, he got an 80 inch or. Dude. He goes, it's massive. And I was like, wow. But I was like, no, I didn't see it, man. He was like, I don't understand how you didn't see in the football. And I was like, well, the TV is up left, far left of the house, so you have to. And he's like, well, just go up there and watch it. I'm like, well, no one else was up there, so I can't just leave the whole family. He's like, this is very disappointing.

[D]

So it's polite of the family member to offer up their house, but sometimes when you don't have the amenities for a huge group of people. You just really shouldn't throw it out there, in my opinion. M I o. Yeah.

[C]

Whenever you have football to be watched, it'd be nice to have it in a common area where we can have it on in the background. Everybody's talking, hanging out, Right?

[D]

But almost. Should you almost invite enough people that you have seats for? You don't need people sitting on the arms of chairs and stuff just because you're trying to pack in for the holidays. Sometimes you got to cut it off at eight people. You don't need to have 20 people. The third cousin, the fourth ex wife, the little seven year old from across the street. That's a secret baby. You don't need all that at a Thanksgiving. And that's why I drove the line. Sister, nephews, wife, her brother, her mom, dad. That's it. Couple other kids sprinkled in. Another niece and nephew. We were out the door at 12. I. I don't, I don't want one more foot stepping inside my house.

[C]

Sounds like you had it down, man. I didn't have an option. There was nowhere to go. There was nowhere to go. Like, look around and watch it. And so it's cool. Thanksgiving ends, we go to bed. That's all right. Friday, you know what?

[D]

We got another hike.

[C]

Well, the kids did want to do another hike, but we got bears, eagles. We'll talk about it right after this.

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[C]

Wake up Friday, man. All rejuvenated. All right. Bam. Bears, my favorite team. Yeah.

[D]

Stuffed. Did we eat a lot of crap? I felt like dog crap on Friday.

[C]

I mean, I didn't feel great because. But I mean, they only had pumpkin pie and I don't like pumpkin pie. They have pecan pie, which was okay. They did have a coconut pie, which wasn't bad.

[D]

Interesting. We went pumpkin chocolate, which has also got some other name.

[C]

And then. Oh yeah, they were talking about it.

[D]

And then pecan. That might have been it. Sorry, Muff, if I'm not remembering one.

[C]

Yeah. And so you wake up on Friday hanging out, have some breaks.

[D]

Chest pie.

[C]

Chest pie is what they call it. Don't really.

[D]

Chocolate.

[C]

Yeah, don't. Why not just call it chocolate. Don't understand the fancy name. And my wife makes the same casserole she made the day before.

[D]

Was it warm?

[C]

It was warm. Casserole was warm. The eggs, the.

Tater tots, the cheese, something. It's. It's really pretty good.

[D]

Honey, I love this. It has a similar flavor as yesterday. Oh, it's the same thing.

[C]

Oh, it's same thing. Okay, cool. Yeah. All right, cool. Really appreciate that. And what, what goes down on Friday.

[D]

Is you're eating the same warmed up food from the day before, but it's a worse version of it.

[C]

Awesome.

[D]

Can we just go to Waffle House? Kidding me. So we did.

[C]

Yeah. Well, I'm glad you did.

[D]

I made an order of like $75. Dude, I ain't eating food three times. We ate it for lunch. Dinner. Ah, that's the line. We're not eating this again.

[C]

Well, we did. We ate it. We're hanging out and my, well, my brother in law, he went into town to have breakfast. Him and his wife and two kids, they went to have breakfast. We're not having this again.

[D]

Smart man.

[C]

They went to have breakfast at a restaurant. And then my father was like, don't forget we're playing golf today at 1 o'. Clock.

[D]

You guys try to squeeze in some golf?

[C]

I said, what? He goes, yeah, it's really, you know, brother in law really wants to play golf. His son, he was like, so we're gonna play one o'. Clock.

And I was like, you do realize the bears play at three, right?

[D]

I don't know why you're questioning golf over the family time. That's amazing. Get out of the house. Go swing the sticks.

[C]

Oh, Ray, did I mention I checked the weather on Friday, high of 42.

[D]

Yeah. Okay. It's getting worse of an option, but still better than getting lost and eating three day old casserole.

[C]

Correct. So we did take a trip to the dump. Took the boys to the dump where they get to throw the plastic, the glass bottles into the dumpster and see them break. They stand above the dumpster and smash them.

[D]

I got to bring them out to my county dump. It's great, dude.

[C]

They absolutely loved it. I mean, just over and over.

Breaking bottles. Loved it. They absolutely love that. Then we head back to the house. Brother in law is in such a hurry. He's like, I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go check us in. I'm gonna hit some balls.

[D]

Wait, is he the same guy went for breakfast?

[C]

Yeah, he's back.

[D]

So he's freaking out a little bit.

[C]

He dropped his family off and he's ready to go.

[D]

He's got cabin fever.

[C]

He's got cabin fever. He needs to swing those sticks.

[D]

He's like at the boarding grocery store getting a vape next day.

[C]

Yeah. He's like, wow, man, this is this too much family time. I think driving him nuts.

[D]

We got to say though, the stores not being open on Thanksgiving and limited hours kind of throws you for a loop.

[C]

Yeah. Because they don't have a turkey fryer when you need one. They don't have a turkey fryer stand for sale on Thanksgiving because everything's closed.

[D]

Well, try also preparing for your wife's birthday the following day when every store is closed. Oh, it's awesome. Continue.

[C]

So we head to the golf course, high of 42, you know what I mean? So we're going to be wearing some layers, got some pants, got a jacket on. I go in the clubhouse and they have weather gloves. I buy those because I'm like my hands are freezing. But it feels weird having two gloves when you're trying to hit the golf ball. Feels weird holding the stick. I do it and let's just say that it was like I had never played golf in my life.

[D]

I love to hear it. I love to hear. Because I haven't played on a course in like three months. I love to hear it.

[C]

Couldn't hit the golf ball.

[D]

You're out there with the family trying to show out and you just suck.

[C]

You absolutely sucked.

[D]

Is it from the get go?

[C]

Nah. First a hole. Drove it right down the middle.

[D]

Okay.

[C]

Missed the green to the left. Chipped it up and barely missed my putt. Tap in. Bogey. All right. Second hole. I mean, it was like the wheels fell off.

[D]

What was it, the driving?

[C]

Oh, no, no. Second hole. Drive right down the middle, then you're good. Boom. Second shot.

[D]

Boom.

[C]

Right. It's a five. It's a five. Par five uphill. And I hit a six iron. The second shot to put me about 110 out.

[D]

Yeah, perfect.

[C]

Yank it left.

Way over the green. Back in the leaves. I'll hit it out of there. Short.

[D]

You hit it over with 110 yards.

[C]

Yeah, well, I hit it left, left.

[D]

Got it.

[C]

And it rolled all the way back in the leaves. All right, fine. Chip it. Short doesn't make it on the green. Then I bladed across the green, into the sand, out of the sand. Terrible.

[D]

Like a 10.

[C]

Like an 8. Geez. On a par 5 snowman. Well, it doesn't get any better. I mean, I got a nine on a hole. I mean it was just like. It was unbelievable.

[D]

Because it was cold out or what? You weren't familiar with the course?

[C]

No, no, I've played the course. I've. It was cold. I mean, I just wasn't hitting it. I don't know.

[D]

It's the worst when you don't hit it flush. I don't care where the shot goes. If you hit it flush, that's all it that I try for.

[C]

That's what matters. And so by hole 7, the sun is starting to go down.

[D]

Oh, it's right. You went later for.

[C]

We went at one o'.

[B]

Clock.

[C]

So by hole seven, I am now to sweatshirt.

And jacket like shorts, like light jacket, pullover underneath.

[D]

Are there other smucks playing in this course?

[C]

There's other people playing.

And by the time we finished the.

[D]

Round, I think the one by me was closed on Thanksgiving Day.

[C]

Oh, this is the day after, don't worry. Oh, I wore beanie the whole time. I went beanie the absolute entire time.

[D]

Hand warmers. I would have brought more stuff with me.

[C]

And.

I mean by the time we were done, the sun is already going down. They told us carts had to be in by five. We got him in about 5:20.

But it is probably.

30 degrees.

[D]

You cut it short.

[C]

No, no, brother in law was not going to. We were not missing a hole. Like we got to 18 and my father in law is like, hey, they said carts got to be in by five. We should probably take it in. And we're like, we're on 18, let's just finish. And the family had driven over, everybody had driven over. Because we're going to walk around the golf course and chase Some deer afterwards. So they're waiting up there on the.

[D]

18Th after you already froze to death. Now you go chase deer.

[C]

Exactly.

[D]

Go see where you hit all your ball. Oh, found it.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Oh, these are eight guys. It's actually good.

[C]

In the woods.

[D]

I'm finding some of my balls from earlier.

[C]

Yeah. And so we. We. I actually played that whole, well, hit the fairway on the drive, second shot up, and then chip it on. And, I mean, the kids come running down on the green.

[D]

What are you, Tiger Woods?

[C]

And they're sitting there, and we're all putting, putting. And I was like, am I gonna make this? And they're like, no. And they're like, make it, make it, make it.

[D]

You have, like a. The. What do they call it? The gallery.

[C]

I have the gallery, but the gallery is booing. You know, they've invaded the green. They're not just waiting up top. They are, like, on the green, dude. They are there. And so I have all this pressure of everybody around me.

And I drain the butt, and they go crazy.

There's people still playing golf.

I made it. I made it.

[D]

That's pretty cool.

[C]

That was the end of the round. Then we go chase deer. And, I mean, I have snot. I feel like freezing to my face. Everyone is freezing cold.

[D]

You're in a bad mood.

[C]

I'm in a bad mood because I couldn't hit the ball. My wife comes up, like, how was it? And she's all cheering.

[D]

Your lips are frozen together.

[C]

And she's expecting me to say, oh, it's so fun hanging out with your dad and brother. You know what I mean? And they're great. Like, they're awesome.

[D]

It was getting miserable. I'm gonna be real with you. It was terrible.

[C]

But I said. But it was awful. I said, because it was like, I couldn't hit a damn golf ball. I was like, it was cold and embarrassing. She was, oh, there's nothing to be embarrassed about. And I said, no, no, no. I said, because I talk about how, oh, I'm. I think I'm getting better at golf. And then I go play with your dad and brother, and it's like, I can't hit the golf ball. So it's like I just make this crap up. She goes, they. She goes, they don't think that. I was like, it's still embarrassing.

[D]

They're walking a little taller at work today.

[C]

They are, Phil.

[D]

May be because they were just smacking.

[C]

Me around the golf course.

And then it was time to head to dinner, man. And we went and ate Some barbecue. And we went to bed.

[D]

Did their fryer work.

[C]

But I got a text from batter's box.

[D]

He's like, oh, another game you didn't see.

[C]

He's like, oh my God. Now do you believe? He was like, and thank goodness I played DeAndre Swift. I was like, I don't know. I said, are you being sarcastic or not? He goes, what do you mean? I said, well, did he have a good game or not? And he goes, you didn't see it?

[D]

Yeah, they rolled him.

[C]

I was like, no. And he goes, oh my God. He goes, you are setting a world record for not watching football.

I was like, I didn't see it down. Did we win? He's like, yeah. And I'm like, oh my gosh.

[D]

You like couldn't check on your phone?

Yeah, I hear you though.

[C]

I didn't check. My hands were too cold to be typing. Like I. I just put them in pockets. My father in law, it was so cold. He was going NFL quarterback In between every hole he'd put a jacket on. And then when you get to the get to the ball, he'd take the jacket off, hit, put the jacket back on.

[D]

See, at that point maybe shouldn't be playing golf. Maybe I take the day off.

[C]

It was freezing.

[D]

It's not fun when you're cold.

[C]

And my brother in law, I mean there was one hole, it's a par five and it's like a on top of a hill and it goes down and then way up. I. And you don't want to hit it all the way because sometimes it gets stuck in the middle of the hill. But I hit it all the way down the bottom of the hill.

[D]

I already hate this course. Hills.

[C]

No, it's awesome. It's a great course and.

Drive of my life to hit it all the way down that hill. Perfect spot. Probably 250 yards from the green. Got a nine. How exactly how? Because I couldn't hit a golf ball after that.

[D]

But those hills are tough. I hate hill golf. Not a fan.

[C]

So the Bears won. And I want to apologize to Caleb Williams. I came on this pod and said, oh, he doesn't have it. Ben Johnson. Why'd we hire? We are the number one seed in the NFC D Bears. But I didn't see it. So maybe we are good. We actually beat the Eagles.

[D]

It's a good time for this present.

[C]

Oh man, you got me a present?

[D]

That's for my sister.

[C]

Bears. She got me a shirt that is size 4. It looks like a girl shirt. It's definitely A female shirt. Definitely female because it's got the V neck. That's for a chick. It kind of looks like a cheerleader shirt. But I will give it to my. One of my sons.

[D]

Well, the first question is, is any of your kids that small?

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

The second question is, does she not know you have three kids? She goes, I got this for lunch. Thanks. He's got multiple children. You can't just give one kid a present.

[C]

Oh, yeah, you can. You just stick in their pile. And they won't ever know. They won't ever know because they cheer for the Titans anyway.

[D]

They don't think it was at Marshalls or something.

[C]

They don't care. They don't. They won't cheer for the Bears. It's okay. But hey, maybe the Bears are for real. I didn't see it down, so I. It must have been a convincing win. I'm so excited. And I mean, you would think that's how vacation ended. It was so cold. That was it. We're done. No, I got more. I'll tell you right after this.

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You got about 10 minutes.

[C]

So we wake up Saturday morning. It has started to clear out. Cousin.

And husband and two kids have left. Brother in law, wife, two kids. They leave Saturday morning and baby box two comes to me, goes, dad, I don't feel good.

[D]

Here we go.

[C]

My throat hurts. And just by his voice, I was like, oh, you have strep. I was like, you have strep, dude. You have strep throat. Let's go to the urgent care. So we go to the urgent care, and they're like, what brings you in? I'm like, he's talking like this. He's got strep. He's like, are you sure he has strep? I'm like, yeah. I mean, it's pretty swollen back there. And just the way he's talking, that's that strep voice. I was like, he's got a little bit of a cough. He was a little hot this morning. He's like, all right, I'm gonna do the strep test. Does the thing in the back of throat, and he goes, but I'm also going to do flu and Covid. So I'm going to, you know, kind of stick this up your nose, and it may tickle a little bit. Well, I've never. I mean, maybe small town America, these nurses don't know how to do things. I have never seen someone jab something so far up a kid's nose in my life.

[D]

Yeah, probably need to go a little gentler there. Bedside manner.

[C]

Yeah. Dude, he's five, bro. He's five years old. And you. I mean, he. He's never recoiled at a doctor or nurse doing this, but he literally slapped the thing out of his nose. He did it so far.

[D]

Yeah. I think they just need to be in the upper orifice.

[C]

Yeah, just right in there. He's like, I got to do the other nostril. And my. My son is now crying. Baby Box 2 is now crying because he shoved it so far up there. And this dude just shoves it up the right nostril. Now, so far, nosebleed just starts bleeding.

[D]

What is happening in North Carolina, usa?

[C]

And he's like, oh, good, we got it. And I'm like, good, you got it.

[D]

You got his blood type, too?

[C]

Yeah. Dud. You got a freaking nosebleed. Congratulations. You made a volcano erupt right here in your office. He goes, I'm gonna go run these tests. Not a. Sorry. Not a. Oh, I didn't mean to do that. Just like, oh, yeah. All right, I'll be back with the results.

[D]

What was he, an intern?

[C]

I don't know, but he had a hat on that said, dad.

[D]

I mean, that's a good thing to wear if you want kids to feel good around you.

[C]

Especially the kids that don't know how to read.

[D]

Was he a family practitioner? It was just an urgent care.

[C]

Urgent care? He's just a nurse at the urgent care. And then the. The doctor came in. She comes in, she's like, well, good thing you guys came in. He's got strep.

[D]

Was she hot?

[C]

No.

[D]

Oh, well, you made it sound like she was hot.

[C]

Well, I'm sorry that I led you that way, but she wasn't hot.

[D]

Right. The doctor then came in and. Ooh la la.

[C]

And I was like, wow, Okay.

[D]

I think I may have Covid as well. You got a minute? Got a stick you can shove up me?

[C]

So I saw. I was there and I was, you know, all right, let's go back. Let's go get your medicine. Then we go to Duncan, get some donuts to reward him.

[D]

Smart.

[C]

I've never had a worse donut in my life. Wow. The donuts. The Dunkin in North Carolina, they don't know how to make donuts.

[D]

You haven't had a good meal in about five days.

[C]

No, we ordered a box of munchkins all assorted glazed, chocolate glazed, you know.

[D]

Like, sprinkle your glazing, dude.

[C]

I don't know if they just forgot to put glaze on them, but every single one was a cake donut. They didn't have any icing on them.

[D]

Yeah, they gotta have the glaze.

[C]

They had no glaze on any of.

[D]

Well, did you tell them? Are you.

[C]

I didn't know until.

[D]

You're going to glaze me?

[C]

Are you going to quit glazing me, bro? No, you need to glaze me, bro. Glaze me. You what?

[D]

If you would have told him that you need to glaze me, bro. What the you talking about, man?

[C]

And there was nothing. They didn't do anything. There was no glaze. And then we get home and I open the dozen donuts and like, they only put glaze on half the donut. Like, what are we doing?

[D]

Yeah, they just don't care.

[C]

And I actually went on yelp and wrote review and said, as a former employee, this is embarrassing. You guys didn't put glaze on my donuts.

[D]

We're getting so old. But I'm glad you did it. Make it better for the next guy.

[C]

Yeah. And that was. And then so Saturday I watched football. I watched.

Maybe the second half of the Texas Texas A and M game.

[D]

That was a good game, Vandy.

[C]

Vols didn't see it.

[D]

It was awesome.

[C]

Didn't see a minute of it.

[D]

But Vandy's not gonna get in, sadly. Sorry, everybody.

[C]

Why?

[D]

Yeah, at large is Their only hope, and it's probably Miami or Bama because Bam ended up winning the Iron Bowl. Oh, balls are out. Their odds right now are plus 20,000 to make the playoffs. Oh, I'm pretty sure that means they're not making it.

[C]

That's not good. So I watched the second half of that game and that's only. And then Sunday we had to drive back and my wife said, oh, we're gonna get on the road about nine one time. You think we got on the road?

[D]

I mean, in my household, you. We would have got on the road.

[C]

At 4:00am no, we got on the road at.

10:30. No, 9, 11:30. Two and a half hours late.

[D]

Were you trying to see every car on the interstate coming home from Thanksgiving?

[C]

We did.

We did. There's a five and a half hour drive turned into seven hours and 40 minutes.

And we had to take some side roads and we had to wind down this mountain into some small town. And we were so many windy roads, we had a vomit episode in the car.

[D]

I thought you were gonna say you found that original house you got lost at when you guys went hiking.

[C]

Nope. The.

Nope.

[D]

That or one of your balls rolling across the road from the golf course.

[C]

No baby box like, dad, Dad, I think Chase is gonna throw up. And I'm like, what? He's like, he's standing up and he's licking his nose over and over again.

[D]

Make him prove it.

[C]

He's licking his nose over and over again. That's my dog.

[B]

Oh.

[C]

And I was like, he's not bleep. There goes daddy. Throw it up. He's throwing up. Well, son, what do you want me to do, man? I'm in traffic winding down this mountain. When we get to this little town, we'll pull over and we pulled over and we scraped off the throw up and flipped the bed over. The kids went peeing a porta potty and we got back on the road.

[D]

That's why I don't have a dog.

[C]

And I didn't get to see football.

[D]

You can listen to our guy on the radio.

[C]

I was in the middle of North Carolina, dude. I. I don't think Titans radio reaches that far.

[D]

It'll reach damn far. That guy's a legend.

[C]

I got calls from batter's box. He's like, why don't you just download it and have it on your phone? I'm like, I don't know how to. I don't know.

[D]

I've told you this. You can listen to the YouTube TV audio on gate. That'd Be amazing to drive to.

[C]

And so he was calling me, giving me updates at half. He even called me at halftime of the 49ers game. Usually has no phone rule during the 49ers games, but he called me at halftime and after every after the games to give me the scores and how everybody was doing.

[D]

Did he tell you about the Puka catch?

[C]

He told me the Rams. He goes, oh, my God, the Rams. Down go the Rams. Down go the Rams. But I saw the Puka catch later. And I saw the Brock Bowers catch later. I saw the Traylon Burks catch live. Cause you know who threw it to him.

[D]

I don't even know who he plays for.

[C]

He plays for the Washington Commander. So Mario. Mario. Da. And Burks went up with one hand. Bam. And we finally got home last night at like 6:30pm it was the longest day of my life.

[D]

Well, you had to get home for the big show.

[C]

Yeah. Ray, did you have any cool stories like that? Because it was a great holiday, man.

[D]

No, man. I got to get to the airport. Baser decided to schedule an interview for us the day after Thanksgiving break when everybody's gonna be at the airport.

[C]

Wait, what?

[D]

Some, like, foreign travel policy thing. If you go do this, you can just walk, waltz through customs, and I can, like, pretty much bring plants back.

[C]

Oh, so that's why you got to go.

[D]

Yeah, I'm physically going to an airport and not flying. I'm going to an airport. Parking at an airport and not flying.

[C]

Are you going to take the shuttle? Are you going to park up close? Parking.

[D]

Just do the whole experience. Bring some luggage too, dude.

[C]

I hope you can get into the airport because last night when we were driving home, we drove by the airport. I guarantee you people were not getting in that airport. They were sitting in traffic for over an hour. It was five miles down the interstate. The freaking traffic backed up.

[D]

Well, Briley from Aubrey Mills was another five miles the other direction. You couldn't even go to the mall this weekend.

[C]

Wow. So, yeah, that. I mean, I'm like, I'm worried for you.

[D]

That's what I'm saying.

[C]

I feel bad I didn't get to hear any of your Thanksgiving stories.

[D]

Well, I do have this three minute clip. I had my sister Muffy boomer. Henny's like six boomers, like 17. Muffy bazer, my wife. We were all in here in the pod studio. I had him do a three minute pod with me.

[C]

I love it.

[D]

So we'll play that right here. They do reveal a secret about Justin. So it is going to be worth listening.

[C]

Okay, so should I ant now and then that'll just play after.

[D]

Yes.

[C]

All right.

[D]

We are doing a live podcast right now. We got Baser, Muffy, Henny, Tristan, Boomer, me, Susan, Raymundo. Hey, get over there. Get on a mic. Which one you get on?

[C]

Boom.

[D]

Get on one, y'. All get on one. Yeah, you're tapping the mic.

[A]

Tap it.

[C]

Put.

[D]

Put his mic down.

[A]

Who just won? Putt Shack.

[D]

All right, so Baser One, putt check by. They tied, and then she won by a tie rule. Apparently, she never had a hazard.

[A]

Apparently, I don't have hazards.

[D]

Hannah, how did you do?

[A]

Good.

[D]

Boomer, Good. Okay.

[A]

Y' all are great.

[D]

Okay.

[C]

Henny did bad.

[D]

Hannah. What? Hey, are you having fun in Nashville or what up? Yeah, like, good time or what? Yeah.

[A]

What's your favorite part? Yeah, is it the apple cider mimosas? Yeah. Yeah, you love some Welch's apple cider. A little sparkling.

[D]

Yeah. Why does this mic suck? Yo, yo, yo.

Yeah, this mic literally blows.

[C]

Henneth.

[D]

What? So what's your favorite part of Nashville doing? Get to the mic, boy. Doing putt shot. Excuse you. Boom. What's your favorite part? Putt shack. All right, What'd you think of all satellite? Did you represent or what?

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

So you toured Vol State. You ended up. What'd you do? You ran the bases? You had a good time at Vol State, or what up? Yeah. All right, lunch. We're gonna play this clip. I'll play this clip on Monday. All right, man. Love you, dude.

[C]

Hey, man.

[D]

Love you, man. I've never told you before. Secretly. Love you, babe. My best friend. I don't know what I do without you, man.

Nobody knows this, but Justin lost his job.

[A]

Hey, nobody knows this, but Justin's working at Crate and Barrel.

He went to Crate and Barrel for the holidays because it's easier than an MP job.

[D]

So somebody needs to check on our kids at the electrophysiology.

[A]

Our kids are. Are bubbling.

[D]

All right, we're gonna go.

[A]

They're being defrosted at the moment.

[D]

All right, I'm stopping this. Henny, say bye. Bye. Boom. Bye, Muff. Bye. Sorry.

[A]

Bye.

[D]

When it. When it comes to my family with microphones and stuff like that, and Henny with 6, 7. Justin is 41 67. A lot of my family is. You are.

[A]

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