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Ray
I'm rolling. Yeah, Hello? Yeah, I'm not on.
Lunchbox
Yeah, you are.
Ray
No, I'm not. My mic is not on. Yo, you've got to turn my mic on. Yo, there you go.
Lunchbox
It's a new studio.
Ray
And once again, we're in Zach's studio. We got kicked out by Wayne and D. That's the same person. Same person. We got Maddie and Tay, whoever the hell they are. They texted me this morning, said, hey, just so you know, we're going to be back up there in that studio. And I'm like, why do you have to use every studio that we use? Why can't you use any of the other studios? Lack of respect. That's okay.
Troy
All right.
Lunchbox
We got to introduce our guest.
Ray
Well, no, we will when we start the show.
Lunchbox
Right? But now he's just quietly sitting there because he doesn't know if he can talk yet.
Ray
So that's why we should start the show. Yeah.
Lunchbox
All right, man. Sorry. This is my first time doing a podcast.
Ray
Okay.
Lunchbox
My bad, dude. We're going to do it live.
Troy
Arnold.
Ray
Arnold. Did you see that rap video I put up of Arnold?
Lunchbox
Dude, you've posted so many things and everyone comments about Arnold. It's, oh, Arnold was here. Arnold would have made that. Arnold should have done that, man. We are. Arnold would have killed that.
Ray
No. There was a high school wrestler that tore his ACL playing football, but he was undefeated in high school wrestling, so he wrestled this season with a torn ACL and won the state championship.
Lunchbox
And I put Arnold doesn't understand.
Ray
I don't understand why this is a big deal. Arnold. And then also there was a. I think it was McNeese State. They did like a hype video for the basketball team as they're walking onto the court and the team manager is rapping spot on the whole time. And I was like, this is why Arnold hadn't been at work lately, Ray.
Lunchbox
And he did a good job of not saying the naughty words.
Ray
He did stop. He did stop. Right on. I mean, that was. I was getting nervous.
Lunchbox
Yeah, just check it out on X. And then I think it's called Gronk. There's an AI feature on X now that's called Gronk. So it's called X. Gronk and Twitter, it's all the same thing now.
Ray
Gronk. So never heard of it.
Lunchbox
What is Google's AI?
Ray
I don't know.
Lunchbox
Gemini.
Ray
Hey, I literally have no idea.
Lunchbox
What is Apple's Siri? No. Well, that's one of them. But it's chat on AI and then literally don't know. Some people do ChatGPT, which I don't have that one. But Twitter's new AI is Grok, and it's badass.
Ray
I've never. I don't know what you. How do you use it?
Lunchbox
Dude, that's how I created the image the other day. All I typed in was two guys doing a podcast that's called Sore Losers, and it created this image of two dudes. You didn't see this?
Ray
No.
Lunchbox
Dude said, sore losers in the background. We got to get to our guests, but this is more important. And dude, so many people. Steve came in. Steve said, hey, did you do a cease and desist? I can't believe those people copied your show like that. And I was like, dude, I made the graphic on a AI. It was straight up graphic.
Ray
I'm so confused. Did you post it on Instagram?
Lunchbox
It was all over the gram. It was all over the gram. I'm surprised corporate wasn't all over the place.
Ray
Is that what you used on the pod, like, to post the link?
Lunchbox
No. Oh, my God, here it is.
Ray
Let me see.
Lunchbox
But you got to hold it. Look at those two idiots. And it says sore losers. That was made on Gronk.
Ray
Okay, that's funny, because here's the deal. I don't even know how do you use it.
Lunchbox
You just type in if you want an image created. Create me an image and it'll do that. Or you can say, so if I.
Ray
Go to X and in the search.
Lunchbox
Bar, you can do two free searches a day. Otherwise you pay 100 a year, but it'll say Gronk on the far left and you kick on. Gronk.
Ray
I'm have to go do. I've never seen this before.
Lunchbox
So you could say, hey, make me a running plan. Make me a. Oh, Gronk.
Ray
Yeah, Grog's right there.
Lunchbox
And you can do anything. Make me an image of a naked woman.
Ray
I did read that Gronk is thinking about coming out of retirement.
Lunchbox
Really?
Ray
Yeah, and heading to the Broncos. But I don't know if that's really true. I just saw that somewhere, I don't know where I saw it.
Lunchbox
Well, the new kids are just going to know Gronk as AI. Okay, we got to get to our guest, please. We're going to do it live. Arnold is in the bathroom. Apparently he was talking to Wayne D and Taylor trying to get the studio from him. And it was a three hit fight. Wayne D hit Arnold. Arnold hit the ground and the ambulance hit 60. Arnold is is going to the hospital. Wayne D and T knocked Arnold out. We're gonna do it live. We are the 1, 2, 3.
Ray
So losers. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Guest. When you do that, when you're here, you have to do it, okay? Okay.
Lunchbox
And he comes in hard. Australian.
Ray
Yes. We are the one. Oh, you do it.
Lunchbox
We are the one, two, three.
Ray
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.
Lunchbox
I'm going to you next. Australia. Think of your intro. It can be easier, hard. I'll go. It is Citizen north, alpha male. I live now on the north side, ironically of Nashville. Bays are wife, Broadway girl, 2.2 acres, die of a heart attack when I'm 72, 23 kids at Vanderbilt Clinic. Guys, to our guest, I am Troy.
Troy
I'm from Sydney, Australia, hanging out in Nashville and Las Vegas this week. Filling in for Arnold today. We've left him out there now, but and just I feel like in a permanent state of hungover in Nashville.
Ray
Who are you with?
Troy
Just with a mate of mine. So you just.
Ray
You decided to come to Nashville and Vegas. Is this your like once a year vacation or like, have you ever been to America?
Troy
I don't know America before? Once or twice, but. The Penrith Panthers. So they're a rugby league team? Yes, they are opening the season in Las Vegas. So we've. We're branching out in Australia and an opening the season in Las Vegas. So that's the whole reason that I'm here, just to watch the Panthers. But I thought I'd come to Nashville.
Lunchbox
Holy hell. For a second I thought the team's in Vegas. Why are you here?
Troy
They're there in Vegas, but they. They play on Saturday, so I'll be there by Saturday.
Ray
So when did you get to Nashville?
Troy
Monday.
Ray
Okay.
Lunchbox
But you realize Nashville is nowhere near Vegas.
Troy
Yeah, but I love country music, I love drinking, and I love you guys.
Lunchbox
Okay.
Ray
You know, how did you find us?
Troy
I mean, yeah, there's not many Australian sore losers fans in Australia.
Ray
How do you find us? Is it because of the big show?
Troy
Because of the big show, yeah.
Ray
And country music.
Troy
Big show and country music. And then you know, navigated over to. To the little show.
Ray
Okay.
Lunchbox
We're huge in Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Costa Rica, Honda, Nicaragua, and now Australia. Sydney. I believe that's where we started saying she's in the French Polynesian. I believe. I believe it's somewhere near Bali.
Ray
I have no idea. So the Peanuts.
Troy
Penrith Panthers.
Ray
Penrith Panthers. Are they like really good or are they?
Troy
Well, so for most of my life, not. But we've actually won the last four premierships. Okay, so four. Pete. Last year. So before that, as growing up, it was hard times, but. But yes, for four championships in a row. So pretty epic.
Lunchbox
Now clarify it. You said Premier League, but that's not soccer and it's rugby. The Tush push.
Troy
It's rugby league. So it's similar to rugby, but it's probably a little bit more structured. So probably closer to the NFL than. Than rugby union is. But. But yeah. So rugby league would be the number one sport in Australia.
Lunchbox
Tell me if I'm right or wrong here. Over Unders. I believe I bet this back in the day when I had an addiction.
Troy
That's the whole reason that they're coming to America, because they think there's a great window for people like you, Ray, at like three in the morning who want to bet on. On sport in Australia.
Lunchbox
Is the over under, typically. What's the score of a game? I would say 50.
Troy
Probably like 40 low 40s.
Lunchbox
Okay.
Troy
Yeah.
Lunchbox
So it's just like, NFL.
Ray
What makes a good rugby team? Because if I watch rugby sometimes, like with the Olympics, and I'm like, they all look the same. They just throw the ball backwards. I don't know the rules. I don't really understand it. So how do you get good? Like, what is the difference in rugby?
Troy
So the difference is in terms of. Difference between, say, the NFL, for example.
Ray
Yeah. Like, what makes him so much, like, what makes a good rugby team and what makes a bad rugby team?
Troy
Defense is definitely the key. So you want to. You want to defend. Well, obviously, compared to, say, the NFL, you both defend and attack. You don't have sort of two. Two different teams. But, yeah, defense is absolutely key. And your halfback, which is the equivalent of your quarterback, is key. So the Panthers are lucky to play the best player in the game in Nathan Cleary as our halfback. And that's, you know, a big reason why we've won the last four. Four championships.
Ray
Do a lot of rugby players get injured and are out for the year, or is it like they just play through it?
Troy
Yeah. So no pads, no helmets. So they just, like, run at each other, basically. So plenty of. Plenty of injuries. A lot of shoulders, pecs, knees. So, yeah. Yeah. Pretty. Pretty big injury list generally through the season.
Lunchbox
Sometimes you got to go without the condom. I will remove the headphones and just do it like that sometimes because they'll throw me off. Maybe it's the same thing with a helmet or something like that. Let me ask this about Nashville.
Troy
Yeah.
Lunchbox
So you got here. When did you.
Troy
Monday.
Lunchbox
And you guys hit Broadway? The bars. Are you doing an educational thing?
Troy
We did the educational thing. We did the museum and rca, but we've mainly been to the bus. Yes.
Lunchbox
And just. Are we. Did you research Some. You wanted to go to the old ones.
Troy
Yeah. So last night, I did do a lot of research before I got here, but last night we did the old one. So, Tootsies, the stage. Those. Those ones. And the night before, kind of the bigger ones, we ended up at Morgan Wallens Bar, which I reckon was pretty awesome on a Monday night.
Ray
Okay.
Lunchbox
Was it?
Troy
And of course, we. Yeah, it was. It was really good on a Monday night. But we also, of course, paid tribute to the Sore Losers coaches convention and went to category 10 and Chiefs last night as well. And today we're going to the Nashville Tractor, who. Which I only found out about from Sore Losers, so they should be aware of that.
Ray
That is what I'm talking about.
Lunchbox
Let them.
Ray
Did you. Does your mate know what this. Sore losers.
Lunchbox
I'm saying mate go to their.
Ray
Does your friend know about the podcast or.
Troy
He knows about it, but he doesn't listen yet.
Ray
And he's like, you're. Wait, you're. So I'm hung over at the hotel and you're.
Troy
He's gone to a bar. He just sent me a message. He said, is it a bar at 11am Just saw the drink again.
Lunchbox
That's the beautiful thing about Nashville. You can go to the bars early. We did learn living downtown. The hard thing on Sundays I don't think you can go before 11, but weekdays all game but. And you can actually drink in the bar before. You can buy alcohol at gas stations and groceries stores. On a Sunday, it's noon.
Ray
The good news is he won't be here on Sunday. He'll be in Las Vegas because they play on the Pen Penth Panthers. That's tough to say. So do you live in Pernith Pen? Yes. My gosh, can you say it?
Lunchbox
Perth.
Troy
There is a new rugby league franchise coming to Perth.
Lunchbox
Do you live on the water or inland?
Troy
No, inland. Yeah. So 45 minutes from the beach.
Lunchbox
Do you watch Love Island, Australia?
Troy
No, no, I don't watch Love Island.
Ray
What do you watch? Like what. What is good in Australia?
Lunchbox
Fancy. You talk them up?
Troy
No, like, to be honest with you, we watch mainly American tv. Like there is Australian made stuff, but all the. All the American shows are generally what. What we watch. And then literally just yesterday HBO Max announced they're coming to Australia. So we don't have HBO Max, so.
Ray
Really?
Troy
No. So we're March 31st with the Last of Us. Season two, there's. They're launching, so that's pretty cool.
Ray
Do you watch. Okay, there's an Australian show I watch Colin from Accounts.
Troy
Yeah. That is awesome.
Ray
That is fantastic.
Troy
I actually know. I'm Harriet Dyer, who's the. The lead girl. Really kind of knew each other a while ago, so.
Ray
What do you mean you knew each other a while ago?
Troy
Just very platonic.
Ray
Okay.
Troy
I assure you.
Ray
Okay.
Lunchbox
And there's a lot of sun in Australia.
Troy
Yes. So I just come from. So we're just about to finish summer in Australia. So over the last week I was, you know, thinking that we're coming to a snowstorm, but it's actually pretty warm here.
Lunchbox
Because you're tan a little bit.
Troy
Yeah. I think I got sunburned on the weekend before I got here.
Ray
Got it. So what do you do in Australia?
Troy
So I run A. Or write for a local newspaper in Penrith.
Ray
Oh, yeah, the newspaper is still popular.
Troy
Yeah, In Penrith. So, like, everywhere. Bit of a. Bit of a change. But. But in Penrith. Yeah, still going strong.
Ray
So what do you write about? Sports or you just write about anything?
Troy
I write about anything, but yeah, big focus on sports and rugby league.
Lunchbox
Got it. Lifestyle.
Troy
So therefore, I think this is a tax deduction.
Ray
This is a work tr. Because you're going to cover the Panthers in Vegas.
Troy
That's what I'll be telling the tax department. Yeah.
Lunchbox
Less sports, more lifestyle.
Ray
Yeah. What. What are you going to do in Vegas? Where are you staying?
Troy
At the Paris in Vegas.
Ray
Okay. Have you ever been to Vegas?
Troy
Yes, I went on my honeymoon to Vegas.
Ray
Okay. How long you been married?
Troy
Ten years.
Ray
Okay.
Lunchbox
Yeah, I would say Paris. That's where I slept on Michael's couch. That is when we went on the Bachelor.
Ray
You know about his bachelor party was here.
Lunchbox
It is small Ponzi scheme. See, I was. I was heavily into gambling, so I was gambling all this money. I didn't have any money to pay for the hotel, so I told all them to book at what was mgm.
Ray
Mgm.
Lunchbox
But I had no money to book.
Ray
No, no, this is the true story.
Lunchbox
No, no, bro, this is the true story.
Ray
I know.
Lunchbox
And so Michael, who I slept on his couch in Paris, he hit me up and said, hey, do you want to sleep on my couch at Paris? And I said, dude, that's the best thing ever. That's exactly what I'll do. So we get to the booth at MGM and lunch is checking in. And I still hadn't told him that I'm not staying at mgm. Everybody's got their bags and luggage. And lunch goes, yeah, it's me. Five other guys. And the lady goes, I only have rooms for four.
Ray
I literally had everybody. No, no, here's the point. I said, hey, everybody, give me your id. She needs everybody's id. And Ray still doesn't have the balls.
Lunchbox
To tell me is at the ticket counter.
Ray
He doesn't have the balls to tell me, hey, man, I'm actually not staying here. So he hands me his ID. And so I put five IDs on the counter so she can check all our rooms in at once. And she goes, I only have four of these people down for a room here. And I'm like, which one's not here.
Lunchbox
Guys who isn't registered?
Ray
And she picks it up and she goes, oh, Raymond, he doesn't have a room here. And I turn around and Ray goes, oh, yeah, I'm staying at Paris with Michael. Here's the best part. Here's the best part, Troy. I mean, here's the best part. When's the last time you talked to Michael?
Lunchbox
Sadly, that night. No, he kept in touch a little while after that. It's been a minute. But he has a family. As kids, sometimes he's in Mexico. I don't think there's great service. You have to have WhatsApp. It's been a minute. I get it. It was short lived. Had a hell of a night at Paris with him.
Ray
I'm glad you enjoyed it. Now, my question. Do you have kids?
Troy
One daughter. Yes. Okay, four.
Ray
Nice.
Troy
She's actually turns four on this trip, so it wasn't that popular that I made the decision to go this week.
Lunchbox
Okay, and hold on a second. So you. 13 hour flight. How long was this?
Troy
So actually it's a 16 hour flight to Houston and then two hours to Nashville.
Lunchbox
Yeah, 18 hours.
Troy
18 hours.
Lunchbox
Is your wife with your kids without them allowing you to fly to Tokyo for a week by yourself with a. With a buddy.
Ray
With a mate? Probably not.
Troy
Dude.
Lunchbox
My chick ain't even letting me go to south of Brentwood of Nashville with. For a week with a buddy.
Ray
I will say with one. Maybe doable. Maybe doable.
Lunchbox
Guys, she doesn't know me.
Ray
Well, with three it would be a lot harder because I have three. He only has one.
Lunchbox
You must have the coolest wife on the planet.
Troy
She is the coolest wife. Yes.
Ray
Does she ever listen to the pod?
Troy
Absolutely. Indirectly.
Ray
Okay, she's in the room.
Troy
Yeah.
Lunchbox
Yeah, that's a word.
Ray
You want to say happy birthday to your dog.
Troy
Say happy birthday to edie, who turns 4 on Friday while I'll be in Vegas. Birthday party last week.
Ray
There you go.
Lunchbox
No, I was just gonna say secondhand podcast. It's a crazy world. So she hears just tidbits. I hear Vile Files and Tamara Barney talking about all the real world and reality stuff.
Ray
Who's Tamara Barney?
Lunchbox
The chick that was on O.C. she has a show with Teddy. I believe it was Teddy Mellencamp. It's secondhand, so I don't know the exact details. Kind of like if his wife was to talk about us, that's exactly how she would explain it.
Troy
Yep.
Lunchbox
Because my wife's always listening to him.
Ray
Yeah, my wife, I don't even hear secondhand now because she puts those. The AirPods in, so I don't have to hear the podcast anymore. Thank goodness. Because she watches now because she watches something with Big Brother, some podcast about Big Brother. They also cover Deal or no Deal Island. Never Rob.
Lunchbox
Boston Rob.
Ray
Well, Boston Rob was a show that's.
Lunchbox
Deal or no Deal Island. He was after show.
Ray
He was on Deal or Deal no Island. On the island.
Lunchbox
He was on Traders.
Ray
Well, I haven't seen that season.
Lunchbox
It just happened.
Ray
Well, I haven't seen it yet.
Lunchbox
It's still happening.
Ray
But I'm saying he was on Deal or no Deal Island. And so then because this podcast from Big Brother started talking about Deal or no Deal island, my wife watches that show and then she listens to the pod as they break down Deal or no Deal Island. I really have no idea how Deal or no Deal island works, but I can't believe it is worthy of a podcast. There can't be that much strategy in Deal or no Deal Island.
Troy
My wife makes that argument about, you know, pre and post game coverage of sporting events. It's like, you know, do we really need to talk about it for two hours beforehand? I say, yes, I will.
Ray
I will agree with your wife because I like the Super Bowl. Super Bowl Sunday. I turn on the tv, it's five hours before the game, and there's Terry Bradshaw and Michael Strahan live from Bourbon Street. I'm like, guys, there is not five hours worth of material to talk about for this stupid game.
Lunchbox
Tom Brady for seven hours. I know I've won seven. I should know, right? Kevin, it's gonna be hard out there tonight. Right now, it's all fun and games. When you don't have a grenade in your hand, it's gonna be hard. We saw Tom all day on Super Bowl Sunday. But I will say Deal or no Deal Island. It's actually good. You're just not smart enough for it. Now that I actually understand the show, it's phenomenal.
Ray
Don't insult my intelligence.
Lunchbox
That's what we just didn't understand it. We weren't wrapped around it. Dude. It's one of Traders is top right now.
Ray
Traders is fantastic.
Lunchbox
Dealer no Deal island because it gives you the aspect of Dealer no Deal island. And in an instant, you can be a voter. You can not even with a vote. They just send you off if the person wins Deal or no Deal. But that it's Survivor and Dealer no Deal. It's a double whammy. Your wife's right. The show's great. I'm all in.
Ray
She started watching it without me, and I tried to have her explain it to me.
Lunchbox
I said, what else do you do without me?
Ray
Well, she has wine and cheese with the guy on the Front porch. Sometimes she probably goes shopping without me. I tried to have her explain to me how it works and she did such a piss poor job of explaining it to me. I said, I don't think I understand. She goes, I'm not doing a good job of explaining it. I said, yeah, I know you're not because I don't know what's happening. And so I've never watched it. It may be, I'm not bashing that. It's a good show.
Lunchbox
I can explain it in less than five seconds.
Ray
Tell me.
Lunchbox
They play a game. The person that does the worst at the game plays Deal or no Deal. And if you lose, Deal or no deal, you're out of the game. If you win it, you pick someone and send them off the island.
Ray
How do you lose Deal or no Deal?
Troy
You win something, don't you?
Lunchbox
It's half the money. So it shows you the money. It'll say a hundred thousand is the deal you got from the banker. Okay, so in your case, do you have a better deal or a worse deal than that deal? So is your, the money in your case, is it higher than what the banker's offering you or lower? If it's lower, you made a good deal. So it's, it's. The banker will give you an offer and you choose whether to take that or not.
Ray
Okay, so if it's lower than what the banker offered you, you win the game or you lose the game.
Lunchbox
So you got to take a good deal that in life, what do you want, a good deal or bad deal?
Ray
I want a good deal.
Lunchbox
Okay, you want a good deal. So when the banker gives you a deal and you say deal, did you make a good deal? So your case, if it's small, you made a great deal. If your case is a million dollars, you made a horrible deal.
Ray
Right? Right. But then what happens if you made.
Lunchbox
A bad deal, you're off the island. Goodbye, thanks for playing the game. If you made a great deal, in an instant, you get to kick anybody you want off the show.
Ray
Okay.
Lunchbox
It is phenomenal gameplay. Not as great because you can't predict if they're going to win or lose, suck up to them or just hope they lose the game.
Ray
So it is a lot of luck when it comes to the cases like that. That aspect of the game is very lucky.
Lunchbox
Yes.
Ray
Okay. Because like other ones, it's not as much luck. There's a lot of skill like this is pure luck. Now my question, when you watch it, do you believe. Because I always think about, do you think the producers want certain people in and so they change those cases.
Lunchbox
Sure. But they can't change the cases once the game starts.
Troy
Maybe they. Maybe they can.
Ray
Yeah. I don't know. I'm not there behind the scenes. I don't know how it works. I've just never seen it. I've only watched Deal or no Deal on the TV when they're in the studio. I haven't watched the Island.
Lunchbox
I think they're pretty. They're going to have at least one person they want to do well in the game. They got poverty from Survivor, they got Will from Big Brother, and then they got the Australian Survivor winners on it.
Troy
Oh, okay.
Ray
Australia. My long hair.
Troy
Survivor. Crazy long hair in America. But yeah, I couldn't tell you because I don't watch it.
Ray
I don't know what time it is. I don't know what time it is in Australia, but you better text your wife.
Troy
Season four in the morning.
Ray
So season 48 starts tonight in America. So it's probably last night in Australia.
Troy
Yeah, we're like same time as the U.S. it airs in. Yeah, like 11:00am or something. In.
Ray
Okay.
Troy
Yeah.
Ray
So now is it Thursday in Australia?
Troy
It's the Thursday morning now. Yep. Bam.
Ray
Dang.
Lunchbox
That's crazy putting the podcast out on a Thursday.
Troy
So we gotta take a break. We left on Monday and arrived on Monday. But then we lose a day.
Ray
Oh, that's a little weird.
Lunchbox
No time for that.
Ray
All right, we're gonna take a break. We'll be right back.
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Troy
Wasn't that delicious?
Ray
So good. Your bill, ladies.
Troy
I got it.
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Ray
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Ray
Okay. Rock, paper, scissors for it. Rock, paper, scissors, Shoot, shoot. No.
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My question is, how much do you follow American scandals?
Lunchbox
So what's rugged like?
Troy
Just depends.
Ray
What.
Troy
What. What's. What's.
Ray
Did you see the college co ed that slept with her boyfriend's dad?
Troy
No, we didn't say that one. No.
Ray
Well, it just broke yesterday. So I'm going to show you this girl.
Lunchbox
Kinky.
Ray
She goes to Ole Miss, which is Miss. I don't know how much you know about America, but it's Ole Miss. And she was dating this dude. And Christmas break comes and she gets done with her exams early.
Troy
Yep.
Ray
And so she's like, I'm gonna go back to, I guess their hometown, and I'm gonna go watch your sister's basketball game. So she goes and watches the sister's basketball game, then her and the boyfriend's dad drop the sister back off at home, they go out to dinner and drinks, and she ends up sleeping with the boyfriend's dad.
Troy
That sounds like a storyline of a video you shouldn't be watching.
Ray
But here's what's great. The boyfriend finds out about it and forgives her and takes her back. Check out this hottie. That girl.
Troy
That's why you're taking it back, right?
Ray
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. So here's. And then here's the boyfriend. Here's them. They're at the Ole Miss football game. This is all alleged by the dad.
Lunchbox
Why are you so interested in the boyfriend? Look at his picture.
Ray
Here's the dad. Well, you know, but I am just.
Troy
Saying, like, how he's a private banker, so that's pretty good.
Ray
He has money, right? He has money. But it just seems so crazy to me that now this girl is worldwide famous. I mean, she's everywhere for sleeping with this dude.
Troy
Well, the hoc to a girl went crazy in Australia.
Ray
Like, oh, did she?
Troy
Massive. Massive story. Yeah. And now she's gone now she's gone with some casual. With some bad financial advice, maybe. Allegedly.
Ray
I. I just don't understand how you look at your son in the eye like, how do you have him home for Christmas and be like, hey, man, merry Christmas, son. I got you, you know, a new scooter or whatever. It's like in the back of your mind, you had to be thinking, dang, I slept with your girl. Yeah, I slept with your girl. I slept with my son's girlfriend. Like, that never crosses your mind. How weird is that?
Troy
And the son has to be thinking, that could happen again if it happened once.
Ray
Yes.
Troy
You know, drinks.
Lunchbox
I. Very difficult to do that sober. I would say the dinner and drinks led to it. 50. The other 50 is the dad had had infidelity before. The other 25 is, I'm a banker, son. Dad's been bringing home the money. Dad does what dad wants.
Ray
I'm a banker and a boinker.
Troy
Yeah.
Ray
I just. The. The gods it takes to make the.
Lunchbox
Son forgave his dad. Yeah. Dad's paying for him to go to Ole Miss.
Ray
Now that I get dad.
Lunchbox
How long did you guys for? He can forgive dad.
Ray
And I also think this is going to make this dude so popular on campus. There's going to be so many girls that feel sorry for him. Like, oh, my gosh, I should give him a shot. I bet you he's a nice guy and he's going to get so many dates out of this because there's no way they can still be together after it goes viral like this.
Troy
Yeah.
Lunchbox
And it is more common when kids are great friends with their parents and they drink with their parents. That makes it 25% more common. So then it's just a. It's an obscurity of 25%. They just call me statistical citizen.
Ray
Let's just. Let's just put a hypothetical out there. Let's just. I mean, how would you handle it if your dad was sleeping with bae?
Lunchbox
My dad. But they don't. They don't hang out in that way where we all drink together. So that makes it 25% less likely. Was there alcohol involved with baser. My dad? No, they didn't. We never drink around each other. So take that 50%. The chances of it happening are so minute you add booze, you add partying with family, lines get blurred. It's just like us partying at the convention with Arnold. Never know what could happen.
Ray
Yeah. I just don't think.
Troy
Right.
Lunchbox
You're talking about waking up at pacemaker.
Ray
Arnold But I guess. I guess it's different because that's your wife.
Troy
That's where I'm staying.
Ray
Where?
Troy
Placemaker, dude.
Lunchbox
Best spot in Nashville other than Grand Hyatt.
Ray
Really?
Troy
What is Broadway? One block from Broadway. And importantly, unlike the Paris, we have separate rooms. So myself and my friend matter, you know, snoring next to each other in. In Vegas, but at least in here in Nashville, we've got separate rooms.
Lunchbox
Dude, it's the best kept secret in Nashville. Awesome prices. Almost better than hotels. You have a hot tub there and a pool.
Troy
Yep.
Ray
Well, I don't think him and a dude are going. Him and Matt are going to the hot tub together.
Lunchbox
I mean, you can play pool. He would, you know, there's foosball. There's all kinds of stuff to do there. And typically the rooms are bigger, more spread out. The view of Nashville.
Troy
Awesome.
Lunchbox
Hands down, standalone.
Ray
Is your. Is your buddy married?
Troy
He is, yes.
Ray
Okay.
Troy
Yeah.
Ray
So there's no. There's no fraternizing?
Lunchbox
No. Why do you love narrowing down? Marriage, kids. Hey, man, what's your blood type?
Ray
Do you know your blood type? I would know. I just like to know because I would like to understand.
Lunchbox
What's your body count?
Ray
No, I would like to understand if, like, at some point his buddy's like, hey, man, you got to go back to the room. I'm going to try to hit on these chicks at this bar. So you got to keep. Get out of here.
Lunchbox
Isn't it beautiful, though, being married? Because there's not that pressure of having to impress your buddies, even talk to the opposite sex. You guys just get to go to a bar, laugh your asses off, try and get a good deal on drinks, which on a weeknight you probably did.
Troy
Yeah.
Lunchbox
And just waddle home after just stuffing your faces with alcohol.
Troy
Absolutely. And it's interesting as we do, obviously, we spoke to some. Some girls at different places, but they. They mentioned straight away they are. And you're married, so they obviously look at the. The finger straight away just to scope out what the story is. And then they're more comfortable talking to you anyway because they know that you're probably not there to, you know, hit on them necessarily.
Lunchbox
So the Australian accent, too. It's so easy to talk to if you're a female. It's disarming, if you will.
Ray
Oh, it seems very.
Lunchbox
My pants are down.
Ray
It seems friendly. It does. It's like, oh, these guys are so nice. Lad. My mate. Oh, this is my mate Matt. I mean, when you say that, it's like, oh, that's pretty cool.
Lunchbox
The cultures, what would you say? Americans. Nice. Why, what is your take on it actually being here?
Troy
Like, awesome. Like, we've been. It's really been great in Nashville, maybe. I don't know what the perception is from Australia probably. I don't want to get too serious here, but our perception, like, is a lot about guns here, where it's like, we just don't get it because Australia just doesn't have that culture.
Ray
So you have no guns?
Troy
No. So we had a.
Lunchbox
What do you call this?
Troy
We had a mass shooting in the 90s and literally, as a result of that mass shooting, had a gun buyback scheme and pretty much just. Yeah, no guns. So you wouldn't like, obviously people hunting or whatever, they've licensed sort of guns and whatever, but yeah, you wouldn't typically just have a gun in the house kind of thing. Protection. So we do find that a bit bizarre. And we've just been watching the whole, like, political landscape here, which is pretty. We're very thrilled though, that plastic straws are back.
Ray
Oh, you do like that.
Troy
Gone in Australia. And it's been so good to be here.
Lunchbox
Drew. The Turtles.
Ray
Oh, so you don't have plastic straws in Australia?
Troy
No, not for like three or four years now. So. And even, like, you go to the movies and they'll give you like three straws because they know that, you know, you know this straw is going to get destroyed. So I think that kind of defeats the purpose.
Lunchbox
What do you guys drink out of when you go there? A wanker.
Ray
So do you have, like a metal straw you carry in your pocket?
Troy
So, yeah, I've done that, but then I just always forget it.
Ray
And what else is there? Like, what else?
Lunchbox
What about drink price?
Troy
Pretty. Pretty comparable. But for us here, it probably feels expensive because the exchange rate's not great. So if you're charging $20 for a drink here, that's like $30 for us.
Ray
Oh, I didn't think about that.
Lunchbox
Give him a couple bucks.
Ray
Let me see.
Troy
But yeah, different place. Like, we went to Show Pony last night. They did five dollar beers. Oh, that's pretty.
Lunchbox
What is that?
Troy
I think it used to be called something else next to the Johnny Cash Museum.
Ray
Okay. Something new?
Troy
Yeah.
Ray
Then change the name.
Troy
I mean, I presume that, like, you guys actually don't go to Broadway that often. Like locals. Broadway that often.
Ray
Broadway is not somewhere we could go now. Have you done any, like, music? Like, are you going to any music?
Troy
We're going to the Bluebird tonight.
Ray
Awesome.
Troy
That was a Process trying to get tickets there. That's. I need to sort that out. So we're actually on different tables tonight.
Ray
You and your mate.
Troy
That's all I could get.
Ray
Hey, Matt. How's it sound over there?
Lunchbox
Matt, I sent you a drink.
Ray
Hey, Matt, did you get that vodka over there?
Lunchbox
A long neck.
Ray
What kind of drinks do you drink? Australian beer.
Troy
I'm actually more of a rum drinker.
Ray
Okay.
Troy
But I'm on the girly cocktails here, to be honest.
Ray
Oh, you are?
Troy
Margaritas. Went to Bakersfield last night. Yeah. Mexican restaurant. Dude, you guys are a margarita dude.
Lunchbox
I lived at Caddy Corner. From there, you guys are hitting all the spots.
Ray
You want some great margaritas?
Lunchbox
They hit you with a pitcher, right?
Ray
Yeah.
Troy
Pineapple. Pineapple margarita.
Lunchbox
You boys make it past the corner.
Troy
After that one we got there, you.
Ray
Need to check out Pushing Daisies.
Troy
Yeah, I just walked past that. Yeah.
Ray
Oh, dude, margaritas, they have so many different types and it's so freaking good. What else do they need to do? They. Oh, if you want music, go to the listening room.
Troy
Yes, I've heard about the listening room.
Ray
Really cool. Really cool place.
Troy
What about a bar of choice on. On Broadway? If you were on Broadway.
Ray
Oh, Chiefs. For sure chiefs. What?
Lunchbox
Category 10.
Ray
Let's be real.
Troy
Category 10 was awesome, but the rooftop wasn't open.
Lunchbox
Okay. Have you been to DOC Holidays?
Troy
Haven't mentioned.
Lunchbox
Okay, so it's right next to yours. It's on Second Avenue.
Troy
Yep.
Lunchbox
DOC Holidays. Dude, it's the most hole in the wall thing. It's a staircase up. I mean, you'd miss it. It's the size of this studio. It is great. Nobody goes to Second Avenue. Yeah, that's where category 10 is, all that stuff. But Doc Holidays.
Troy
All right, we'll give that a try. We did. We went to Printers Alley last night, so. We did.
Ray
That's good.
Troy
Bit of karaoke there, Jim.
Ray
Fleet Street.
Troy
No, that's a good one.
Ray
That's where they play a lot of soccer.
Lunchbox
Right?
Troy
Okay.
Ray
It's like a pub. You know what I mean? They play the English soccer. I don't know if you watch soccer.
Troy
Yeah, yeah. Watch a bit of soccer. Yeah.
Ray
What is your fate? Like, how do you watch American sports in Australia? Like, do you just see highlights? Because.
Troy
No. So on our. On cable we have espn, so both ESPN channels.
Ray
Okay, but like, what? Like, I'm trying to think if a football game here is at 7:00 at night. Yeah, it's like the Super Bowl.
Troy
The super bowl is on at 10 in the morning. On A Monday.
Lunchbox
It's awesome on a Monday, perfect.
Troy
But you would do like a lot of the bars would have super bowl parties on the Monday.
Ray
Like so a lot of people take off work.
Troy
Yeah, take off work for Super Bowl. But generally like most of the games I think like, so your Sunday afternoon games are on like at. Yeah, 4 and 6 in the morning kind of thing. But there's a free to air broadcaster, Channel seven, like a typical free to air broadcaster who has the NFL rights. So they actually show quite a lot of NFL. Otherwise though, espn, NBA is on Fox Sports in Australia. So yeah, we have pretty good access to.
Ray
Do you watch the Australian professional league basketball? It's like. Yeah, the NBL a little bit.
Troy
Yeah. We used, back in the day we had a team in near where I live called the Western Sydney Razorback. So we got really into it then these days. Sydney Kingston, they won a championship last year or the year before.
Ray
Who do you like in the NFL?
Troy
But yeah, well, this is the thing about the NFL. I don't, I don't follow the NFL that much, but I do get into, literally through you guys, I kind of get into the stories of the NFL more than I do the actual games. But. But yeah, so I don't know. I haven't really got a team per se.
Ray
Do you have any like professional American team? Like do you like soccer, basketball, football or you just like soccer?
Troy
Just because I love Nashville. I mean following Nashville in the soccer.
Ray
Oh, yeah, we're not very good.
Troy
Yeah, not very good there. And, and the Celtics in basketball purely because I. That was the first American sport that I saw.
Ray
Okay.
Troy
In New York. So Boston and the Knicks. But yeah. And, and a bit of baseball. Like I don't mind following the baseball as well, which I think there's a massive broadcasting drama at the moment.
Ray
Oh, is. Oh yeah. ESPN, they said no more, we're done. They wanted 550 million. They said it's not worth it. Yeah.
Lunchbox
Go woke, go broke.
Ray
Is that what it's called? Faster. Now baseball, though, the pitch count is the best thing that's ever happened. Like, I mean, I love baseball, but it was so hard to watch a game when it takes four and a half hours, five hours for a regular season. Wednesday night game.
Troy
Yeah.
Ray
I can't sit there and it's like I'm watching it and three hours later we're in the fifth inning. Come on, man. I couldn't do it.
Troy
Yeah. What we would be like, probably flabbergasted by an American sport is the popularity of like college and High school sports because we just don't have that at all. Like a high school football game in Australia. Like, it's just family and friends. You know, there's not 10, 20,000 people.
Ray
Back in the stadium. I'm a little shocked by how popular high school sports are. Like if you don't have anybody playing or I mean scouts, I mean, if there's a good. They just jam packed the plays. It's like. That's very interesting.
Troy
Yeah. Yeah. So we like. Yeah, flabbergasted by that and like college, like just don't get it. Don't get it.
Ray
Now, has your daughter. Has your daughter started playing sports?
Troy
She does a thing called. Or she did a thing called Ready, Steady, Go, which is kind of like just trying different sports. But yeah, nothing at the moment. Just gymnastics and whatnot. But yeah, probably. We call it little athletics. I don't know what you call it here, but where you just kind of do all the athletics sort of stuff. Probably looking at that next year.
Lunchbox
Do we need to take a break or can I take a break? Yeah, I got a really big question.
Ray
We'll get to that question right after this.
Troy
Wasn't that delicious?
Ray
So good. Your bill, ladies.
Troy
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Lunchbox
Yes. So the Australian Open.
Troy
Yep.
Lunchbox
Trying to Think of things called Australian. Did you watch it?
Troy
Yeah, yeah. The tennis. Yep. So it's right in the middle of our summer, in January. Yeah. So the tennis for us is kind of like, you know, because cricket season as well, so it's kind of really embedded in our culture. The. The tennis, cricket over summer concept.
Lunchbox
I think he needs to explain cricket to us.
Ray
Dude, there are some people that play in the park. I see him sometimes playing cricket and I don't really understand it. Like, when do you get an out?
Lunchbox
He's your guy, dude.
Troy
So basically like, yeah, someone bowls to you hit it.
Ray
Because they bounce the ball. They bounce the ball and they pitch.
Troy
Yep. So you can catch it on the full. That. That's out. And also hitting the stumps. So if you. If they miss it and they hit the stumps, that's out as well. 11 batsmen and a match. A test match. Goes for five days.
Ray
A test match.
Troy
So test cricket, y'all need a pitch.
Lunchbox
Clock up in there.
Troy
Goes for five days, or can go for five days because both teams would bat twice. But like, with everything, people want quicker stuff. So there's. There was one day cricket for a while, and now there's T20, which is over in like three hours.
Ray
Now, can you strike out in cricket?
Troy
No. Well, yes, sort of. I guess that would be. So if the ball hits the bat on the way through and you've got your wicket keeper, if he. That's out. And. But yeah, you can't. If you just miss it and it doesn't hit the stumps or, you know, then.
Ray
Oh, wow. So you can just swing as many pitches you want miss, but if a.
Troy
Bowler is good, they're gonna hit stumps if you miss it.
Ray
Oh, really?
Troy
Yeah. So. And then you're out.
Ray
There's a stump behind it.
Troy
Stumps behind you. Yeah. Okay. You're kind of protecting your stump with the.
Lunchbox
Not bad, huh?
Troy
And there's this LBW leg before wicket, which means that if you just left. It didn't. Didn't take the bat and it hit your leg, but it was going to hit the stumps. That's out. Oh, so then they use video technology to figure out. Yeah, that would hit the stump.
Lunchbox
This is going to be a little bit trickier just because you are married. Just curious. I don't. Do you think Australian women, like, do you think American women are pretty or do they look different to you?
Troy
No, I wouldn't say they look different. Yeah. Yeah, of course.
Ray
But who has hotter women? Australia, I think.
Troy
Australia.
Lunchbox
Dude, I'll tell You from Australia and Love Island. It ain't even close, dude.
Ray
Really?
Lunchbox
Those women get all dolled up and they have style and they're all tan. I go Australia, but I've never been there.
Troy
Yeah.
Lunchbox
And yalls accents.
Troy
I would go Australia, of course.
Lunchbox
But dude, they all have their eyes done. Big makeup, big. This big hats, designer sunglasses. Do the cowboys dress weird here, though? Is that weird? But you guys know going into it, everybody's going to dress kind of like cowgirl.
Troy
You kind of know here in Nashville what you're. What you're going to expect. So. Yeah, no. No surprise at all there. Vegas. Vegas is going to be interesting because we have, like, we. What we're interested in is will it feel like. Like it's an Australian takeover because there are so many people coming for these guys. Or feel like, hey, Vegas has no idea this is even on. Like, in Australia. We're like, how good? We're like going to America. They're going to see this game. I don't think anyone here actually knows it's. Dude, I got to say, at Allegiant stadium apparently sold 50,000 tickets, so.
Ray
Oh, wow.
Troy
Yeah.
Ray
So you're going to have 50,000 Australians in Vegas. That's going to. Okay. You're going to notice it.
Troy
Yeah.
Ray
Okay. Everywhere you go, there's going to be Australians.
Lunchbox
That is cool chance going on. You guys pick two great cities coming to America. Whereas if we were to do a trip in Australia. Perth.
Ray
No. Sydney.
Troy
No, you probably. You wouldn't. Perth wouldn't be your top choice. Sydney and Melbourne or Brisbane. Brisbane's pretty cool.
Ray
Which one's on the beach?
Troy
Sydney and. And Brisbane. Yeah.
Ray
Okay. Yeah, it's Perth.
Lunchbox
Dangerous. Dude.
Troy
I wouldn't say Perth's dangerous, but it feels like it. Like six hours from Sydney in a plane. Like, that's. That's a. Oh, yeah, it's a big trip over there.
Lunchbox
Oh, that guy's got a butter knife.
Troy
It's pretty isolated.
Lunchbox
There's no guns, right?
Troy
No, no guns.
Ray
Oh, we just. Oh, that's why.
Lunchbox
Oh, he's got a straw.
Troy
Oh, don't straw me.
Ray
But it's not plastic, so we know it's gonna crumble. I wouldn't be scared. Sorry. I don't know. I literally have nothing to go on about Australia.
Lunchbox
Save the total.
Ray
Except for Real World Sydney. Did you watch that back in the day?
Troy
I didn't watch Real World Sydney. You know what, though? Real World Sydney. I don't even know if Real World with Sydney was on in Australia.
Ray
Oh.
Troy
Because I've heard you reference Real World a lot, and I don't think we've had Real World as. Oh, and that's why Love island is big. Like, Love island is big. For sure. The survivors. Absolutely.
Lunchbox
Okay, do you guys have Tick Tock?
Troy
Yes. And we. We even had it when it wasn't on here. No. No band here, so. Yeah.
Lunchbox
So that's why the world isn't as big as you think it is. Everybody just gets on Tick Tock and copies everything that everybody does.
Troy
Yeah.
Lunchbox
I mean, it's not that big of a world.
Ray
That's it, huh? It's just that simple. As I get on Tick Tock and copy.
Lunchbox
Well, he kind of knew what he was going because of your research. And then. Yeah, dude, you knew exactly what you were getting into coming here. It's not like you were blown away by it. Is there something that blew you away? Like, oh, my God, that girl's showing her honkers.
Troy
No, probably not. Yeah, and you're probably right because the. You do so much research, you look where you're going that you just don't, you know, you don't get surprised by it necessarily. So a few of our friends were meeting us in Vegas. They're just doing Disney with their kids and whatnot. So I think they've been pretty blown away by. By Disney.
Lunchbox
Why did the wives not come?
Troy
I think in the end it was. Well, for us, it was just, well, are we making this a. Like, we did decide that will we make this big family trip which would have made it more weeks, would have done Disney and all that, or we just smash and grab for a week and smash and grab.
Ray
Hey, that is the title of the past podcast Smashing Grab from Australia. And you want to know what's funny? He's talking about Honkers. My four year old. No, he's now five. He turned five last week. This week twice. He stole my wife. Mama. Mama, I really like your blobs.
Lunchbox
Great name.
Ray
And she's like, well, actually, those are my breasts.
Lunchbox
Goes biological.
Ray
And she goes, he goes, no, mom, the blobs are kind of fun. And he hits them twice.
Lunchbox
Know your mom's anatomy? Anatomy?
Ray
And she goes, those would be my breasts. He goes, okay. Two days later, mom, your blobs are cool and long.
Lunchbox
Why doesn't she get the joy of rising boys?
Ray
And she's like, okay, this is starting to get a little awkward that he's talking about my blobs. Like, she's like, I don't know how to hand. Like, I don't understand how to Explain to him that they're not toys.
Lunchbox
She's going to need to show him.
Ray
No, no, he's seen them before. He used to suck on them.
Lunchbox
Right.
Ray
He used to eat out of them.
Troy
Are you done lunch or is it going to be a fourth?
Ray
Well, we're not done.
Lunchbox
Well, those are not cantaloupes.
Ray
How do I say it?
Troy
Practicing.
Ray
We're still practicing. Like, we haven't taken any measures.
Lunchbox
Pulled the cricket player to stop.
Ray
Like we are, but we are. We're not protecting the. What did you call it, though?
Lunchbox
How many times?
Ray
We're not protecting the wicket. But my wife is also very cautious. Like, nervous. Because she's worried about having twins as she's older.
Troy
Yeah.
Ray
If she knew it was going to be a girl, she would have been pregnant nine months ago.
Troy
Yep.
Ray
So that. That's more of where we're at. It's kind of like, oh, my gosh. So scared. Like, what can I handle another boy? When you're older, the odds of you having, like, multiples.
Troy
Yeah.
Ray
Is a lot. The odds increase tremendously.
Lunchbox
Statistical. Susan.
Ray
Thank you. And she's terrified of that because, like, we had a former intern, he had twin boys, right?
Troy
Yep.
Ray
And after two years, they were identical twin boys. And after two years, they got everything down, system, all that. And they were like, all right, we're gonna think we're gonna try to have another kid. And the doctor said, listen, because you had identical twins, your first set, you have a 1 in 12 shot of having twins again. And they were like, hey, you know what? It's worth it. We want a third kid. We want to have a second pregnancy. 8% chance she wants to experience that. A month after trying. Pregnant.
Troy
Yep.
Ray
Triplets. Oh, yeah. See, that's.
Troy
We're in the same boat. We might like a second, but we are a bit worried about that as well.
Ray
Like, how old are you?
Troy
I'm 42. My wife's 36. So, you know, she's. Yeah, she could still. Still definitely go again. But, yeah, undecided. Because we're past now. We're past the. The nappies, all of that sort of stuff. You really want to go back in again?
Ray
Do you want to start back over in diapers? That's the hard part. Nappies, diapers. It's. It's. It's a true thing. Because, let me tell you, no diapers makes life so much different.
Troy
Yep.
Ray
You don't have to care, but also, you don't really have to carry a diaper bag everywhere. Like, I see. Like, I look back at When I was a first time parent, and I see first time parents now, and they're at the grocery store, you're at the grocery store and they got the bag they got. And I'm like, if your kid goes to the bathroom right now in their diaper, you can just walk out to the car and get the. Get the diaper. You don't need to lug. And I realize it now, but then I did the same thing. I bought it, I had it in the basket. Like, oh my gosh, I can't go anywhere without this diaper bag. And now I'm like, why did we carry that thing everywhere? Why don't we just bring one diaper and some wipes?
Troy
Are you. Do you. Do you love this gig because you get to skip mornings? Because mornings are a bit chaotic in three kids, I'm guessing.
Ray
Yeah. I mean, I'll tell you what, I don't know how my wife does it, because she is notorious late. She's late everywhere. And when they were just in daycare, she couldn't get them there before 9:30. And so now the. The oldest one is in kindergarten. He has to take the bus, and the bus picks him up at 7:12am I don't know how she gets him there on time because she couldn't get him there at 9:30, but he's never missed the bus. So she's doing. She's doing it. I don't know how she does it, but she's doing it. So I am. I am kind of glad. I miss mornings.
Troy
Yeah.
Ray
But I. But I don't like nighttime either because then it's bath time and it's like, oh my God.
Troy
How much. How much sleep do you get a night?
Ray
Me? About five hours.
Troy
Okay.
Ray
But I also could go to bed earlier. Like when we put the kids in bed. I could go to bed, but I just like staying up and I like watching sports. Like last night I watched Luca.
Lunchbox
Great segue.
Ray
And we'll take a break and we'll talk all about it.
Lunchbox
Wasn't that delicious?
Ray
So good. Your bill, ladies. I got it.
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Lunchbox
Live. You're live.
Ray
I watched Luca live against the Mavericks, and it was fan. I mean, I watched it for the first half. I didn't watch the whole game, but it was so cool to watch, like, the. All the commentators building it up, like, how dramatic it was. And it's like, oh, he's staring down the gm. And it was pretty neat to see Luca in a Lakers uniform and Anthony Davis John at the freaking bench and them almost getting into it. It was entertaining. So I can't go to bed early, like, Right. He just wakes up to highlight.
Troy
Yes.
Ray
Well, right.
Troy
He, like, gets up at, like, midnight.
Lunchbox
Yes. Did you see the behind the head pass?
Ray
That was legit, dude.
Lunchbox
He's got eyes in the back of his head.
Ray
I will say him passing a basketball is really cool.
Lunchbox
Yes. He's a great passer. And then he does. He puts the brakes on, dude. Just like I do in the SUV going down a ramp at the garage here. Dude. He puts them on real quick and then right underneath. Euro step basket points. LeBron Ham had some good assists together. The chemistry's there. They'll make the playoffs. They'll win. They'll beat the Rockets. That's the only chance they got. Otherwise, they're out.
Ray
Right? Let's not.
Troy
We.
Lunchbox
We.
Ray
We're overselling how good they're going to be. They're. They don't have a chance to win an NBA title this year. They're not. Defensively, they suck. They suck on the deep.
Lunchbox
Why don't we just suck?
Ray
Austin Reeves sucks on the defense. LeBron is old. He can't play defense anymore. They got no center. They're not good. I mean, Jackson, Hayes. So they're entertaining. They're going to score a lot of points.
Troy
Right?
Lunchbox
But the Same thing I'm telling Boomer is let's. Let's just call a spade a heart, okay? They're going to make the playoffs, and they'll play a competitive series against the Rockets. Probably lose, actually, and then they're out of the playoffs. So that's just what they are. Boomers sending me hit clips every day about Luca. I don't need it. I don't need it. They're not going to change the NBA. It's the Thunder. It's the Celtics. It is a collision course. No other teams matter. And I'll hang up and listen.
Ray
Are you sleeping on Nicole Jokic and the Denver Nuggets? I mean, Jokic is the best player in the NBA. He is so, like, you think Luka's fun to watch? Do you ever watch Jokic?
Lunchbox
I saw a highlight of him in a horse carriage.
Ray
He is phenomenal. That, like, I love watching. I could watch both of them just pass the basketball. So great.
Lunchbox
That dude at the convention. Hey, why don't you guys ever talk about the Denver Nuggets? They win the championship that year.
Ray
Oh, yeah. Oh, the weed brothers. The Weed brothers from Colorado. He's like, hey, what are your thoughts on the Nuggets? And Ray goes, really? It's. It's football season. Who cares? The Nuggets suck.
Lunchbox
Smash cut. Four months later, they won the championship.
Ray
You should have. And Troy, while you're here, I want to apologize to you for not responding to your email. I saw. No, he emailed me, and I was like, oh, yeah, I'm gonna get back to that dude. I'm gonna email him back. He can come in, no problem. Nothing. So then he hunted me down on Facebook and said, hey, dude, I'm gonna be there in, like, two weeks. Can I come in? I'm like, yeah, my bad, man.
Lunchbox
And I gotta be hard.
Troy
Is it to reply? As a recent podcast episode was titled.
Lunchbox
It's not the hard part to reply. It's defining the message. So the people that are persistent. Not annoying, but persistent. Because you definitely messaged me before. Yeah, but, dude, it's landmines. If you click on one and people see that, you read it, and it's like some annoying thing. Hey, can you have lunch autograph this for me? And then please tell lunch this. A neighbor told me to tell lunch to tell him that. And then if he could respond to that, then I feel, like, obligated to have to do that. So you got to kind of wade through the messages, which is important. Which do I go to? And it's it's honestly, it's too many. Like, I can't imagine how many he gets. I get. The Average person gets 10. The person next to you in your neighborhood is a little more famous than you. He gets 20. Somebody gets 40. Bones gets 500. Lunch gets 200. I get 180.
Troy
Wouldn't get that many.
Lunchbox
It's a lot.
Troy
Who?
Lunchbox
It's a lot.
Troy
That guy.
Ray
Who was that guy? Yeah, that guy that we don't talk about. We don't mention his name.
Lunchbox
So that. That. That's the key. That's actually the advice. So whatever amount that you sprinkled in of messages.
Troy
Yeah.
Lunchbox
Was perfect.
Ray
It was great. So it was real nice. He's like, man, I'm coming from Australia. It's a once in a lifetime trip. And I'm like, damn, you're coming. All right. That sounds pretty cool.
Lunchbox
The porridge was too warm, too cold. Just right, Ray. You're just right, Troy.
Ray
Yeah. And you can email us. We are the sore losers gmail.com and I just want to say thank you to Sore Losers Nation. We asked you to go comment on the Instagram reel.
Lunchbox
That was good. That was good.
Ray
And you guys did it. You went and you made it over 100 comments. I really appreciate it. I don't.
Lunchbox
Sorry.
Ray
Go ahead.
Lunchbox
And we. I listened to Morgan from Take this Personally podcast. Dude, she does a cute little thing at the very end where she goes, visit my YouTube channel. So, guys, go check our YouTube channel out. Just search Sore Losers. It's somewhere there. Check us out on Instagram. Sore Losers.
Ray
Usually I'll do pictures, podcasts.
Lunchbox
Lunch doesn't even see them. Always posting stuff. The Twitter, the X account. Sore Losers. Lunch is putting more stuff up on there. Guys, search that stuff. We've never closed it like that. Wow, that was so professional. I saw a comment, I feel like it got knocked down or somebody deleted or something. Some guy said, we need to have more buttoned up segments. He said, I gotta quit doing. She said, it's just annoying. And there was something about you always just talking about. It's just a story of you reliving your kid's day. He said he was over it.
Ray
Yeah, I mean, you want me to read it? Exactly.
Lunchbox
But I believe verbatim, it's annoying when I go, she. Guys, that's the perfect response at times. You don't always got to be excited. You don't always got to be sad. Why not just say she?
Ray
If I could pull it up. My Internet's not working now. I gotta. Can I read Your articles online without having a subscription to the newspaper. Tell us how we read them.
Troy
Westernweekender.com One more time. Western weekender.comiu.ii did you get that?
Ray
Try to pull it up right, because the accent is tough. Do it one more time.
Troy
Weston weekender with an er.com au okay, here it is.
Lunchbox
He says, it's a porn site.
Ray
I listen to every episode from day one until here it is.
Lunchbox
This is an email.
Ray
Yeah.
Lunchbox
Well, then tell me to hit the sounder.
Ray
This is it. He said, just listen to Monday's pod. Exactly why I quit listening. No direction. Nonsense. Ray makes the same sound 1500 times. Ski bail and cup, etc. But. But actually adds nothing. My 19 year old referred to this as annoying dog crap. It's just a daily account of Lunch's life for that. I applaud Lunch for trying, but the podcast has always been lunch box. Trying to shovel diarrhea uphill. And someone said, who hurt you?
Troy
Yeah.
Lunchbox
Try that hard at your job, you'll get a promotion.
Troy
Good guys.
Ray
He said, I listened to every episode from day one until Eddie's departure. Arguing with lunch about Le'Veon Bell's contract. All of it. It just became what it is. Honestly, I only am on Facebook just for sports arguments. And I said, did you miss all the basketball talk on Monday? I mean, an intense battle for the Brooklyn Nets. And we talked golf for 30 minutes. How much more sports can we talk? And he said, I just don't like the vibe of the annoying boy bit. Ray's character is. If you even had 5% production backing, I think your show would hit. You're right. If we had production backing. We don't. It's just Ray and I, we have a. We have other jobs. Like, we can't. Unless Troy is going to move here from Australia, which I don't think is going to happen. His wife would not allow that. Maybe his mate Matt will, but he's too hungover to even come. I. We. We do it. But yeah, I mean, that's what it is. That's our podcast. I mean, he summed it up best. He said, it is like you guys are trying to shovel diarrhea uphill. That might be our podcast. And I think no direction is what makes the podcast fun.
Troy
Absolutely it is. I'm all for more. More lifestyle, less sport.
Ray
Yeah, like, it's just. That's what we talk about. Like, you can listen to any podcast and then tell you, man, did you see him? The way they put the screen and they run the X route this way and the fade that way. That's not that much fun.
Lunchbox
Well, and I've talked to Justin. I'm actually not even referring to people by their names anymore. I'm only researching numbers. So, like, when I talk about the Rockies, I'm not going to name Estrada the guy that got from the Giants. I'm just going to name him the number two hitter. Because I'm all about numbers and stats now. I'm statistical citizen. Oh, man, tell me this. I want to be jealous. What are you drinking today?
Troy
You're gonna hit some margaritas early or you're in the tractor. So what's on the tractor?
Lunchbox
Seltzers.
Ray
They have everything on there.
Troy
Yeah. All right, so we hit the tractor first, Bluebird, and then tonight. Yeah, margaritas to kick off, and then we'll. So, Tequila way down a cocktail list.
Lunchbox
Tequila's big there. Australia.
Troy
Yeah. Yeah, Tequila's massive.
Lunchbox
What about seltzers?
Troy
Seltzers, yeah. Like, definitely had their. Their season, but, yeah, not as. Not as. Not as popular. Now, that's probably, you know, what you wanted to know about getting blown away. We did not have alcohol at gas stations. Petrol stations.
Lunchbox
What?
Ray
Really?
Troy
Yeah. So that's. That's always weird to us when we see, like, just six pack of beer at petrol station. Like. Yeah, don't have that.
Ray
So you have to go to the grocery store or you have to go to liquor stores.
Troy
Not even in the grocery store. Just. Yeah, standalone liquor stores. And there's plenty of them. You're like, you're not going to miss one. But yeah, just not in the gas station or the supermarket themselves.
Lunchbox
Wow. There's nothing like on a Saturday, rolling in and getting a dirty 30.
Ray
Yeah. And I mean, what does your wife do? Does she work or. She just.
Troy
She works in media as well. Yeah.
Ray
Oh, is that how you guys met?
Troy
Yes, we did. We actually both worked at the newspaper. I was her boss for a little while.
Ray
Ah, going with the subordinate, huh?
Troy
And then she was like, no, I can't do this. I got another job. But yeah, she's a. She's a writer as well, at a website called Mamma Mia.
Ray
Oh, does she give mom advice?
Troy
Well, not really mom advice. Sometimes, yes, but it's just. It's female focused media.
Ray
Got it.
Troy
Yeah.
Ray
All right. Ray would like that. That's the kind of books he reads. He reads all the love stories, right, with.
Lunchbox
I listen to the female podcast. The female books. Yes.
Ray
You want to give your wife a shout out for letting you.
Troy
Come on. Stacy is awesome. Stacey is awesome. It's been. Yeah. Particularly when I threw that. I was gonna be away for our daughter's birthday as well. It probably wasn't, you know, the greatest effort time wise, but, yep, she is awesome. Awesome son.
Lunchbox
Guys, if you get the link, throw it on our Facebook Weston Weekender. That's it.comau I couldn't pull it up. We got one hell of a firewall.
Ray
At the work, at the office, so. Well, Troy, we appreciate it.
Lunchbox
I mean, thank you.
Troy
Thank you, guys. Thanks for having me in.
Ray
Now what are you gonna gamble in Vegas? Do you gamble?
Troy
Not really. But I mean, you're in Vegas, so. Yeah, I don't know.
Ray
So you don't really gamble?
Troy
Just everything on red, right?
Ray
Everything on red. That's right.
Lunchbox
You play golf?
Troy
A few of our guys. Not for a while, but yeah. So they're not a good golfer.
Ray
Do they have nice golf courses?
Troy
Yeah, yeah, there's some really nice golf courses in Australia, but Australia is in, like, a bit of a, I guess, a housing crisis. A few golf courses getting taken away sort of, you know, for housing or whatever. A bit of a controversial topic. Oh, but, yeah, there's some really nice golf courses.
Lunchbox
Is that your next article?
Troy
Maybe. Maybe. We've got a few golf courses where I live, so we're not in danger yet.
Ray
Do you write about Luka in your newspaper?
Troy
No, Luca hasn't made an appearance yet.
Ray
Okay. Do you write about LeBron James?
Troy
LeBron James has probably been mentioned a few times somewhere along the line. Yep.
Lunchbox
When you're gonna talk to a chick, it's chatter up, right?
Troy
Chatter up.
Lunchbox
Yeah, chatter up. And then it's like. Do you guys use fancy audience here?
Troy
Yeah, yeah, it's probably more English.
Lunchbox
Oh, okay. There must be English people on Australian Love Island.
Troy
But yeah, yeah, but, yeah, fancy. Yes, but, yeah, mainly. Mainly English.
Lunchbox
Okay. Wow, man. Any other words you want to teach us?
Troy
What do we got? Like bonza. That's good.
Ray
Oh, bonza.
Troy
Good.
Ray
Well, I like that.
Lunchbox
We gotta remember these.
Ray
Bonza.
Lunchbox
I'll write it down.
Ray
Smash and grab.
Lunchbox
Smash and grab and bonza. Any others?
Troy
I'm trying to think of, like, what would be an Australian saying that you wouldn't necessarily have, like, G'day, obviously, is our G'day. Hello. Where? Like Bludger. You do Bludger?
Ray
No.
Lunchbox
What is that?
Troy
Bludger's like you're someone slacking off.
Ray
Oh, Bludger.
Troy
Bludger, yeah.
Ray
Write these down.
Lunchbox
But what's bonza again?
Troy
Bonza's like, good. That's.
Lunchbox
Good job.
Troy
We had an Airline called Bonza. But it blew up and it didn't blow up.
Ray
I didn't do good. So Bonjour. Didn't do good.
Troy
Yeah.
Lunchbox
So Bonjour is.
Troy
Do you call. Do you call McDonald's Maccas? Because we call it Maccas. We don't really call it Mac.
Ray
We're going to Mackers is right across the street. You saw Mackers? Be careful. When you got a lot of homeless there. That's the craziest Mackers in the world.
Troy
We do, yeah. So we don't really call it McDonald's. And even Macca's, McDonald's themselves now are branded as Maccas in Australia.
Ray
That's crazy. Do you have a lot of homeless in Australia?
Troy
Yeah, yeah, we do have that issue. I have noticed it here as well.
Ray
Yeah, it's rampant here, but yeah, we.
Troy
Definitely have that issue as well. Yeah.
Ray
Okay.
Troy
Yeah.
Ray
All right. Anything else?
Troy
Right.
Ray
I got to say happy birthday to my sister in law, Tanya. Happy birthday. I don't know how old you are, but happy birthday. Today may be a good one. Yeah. You want to buzz us out, dude? Yeah, I'm bad.
Lunchbox
Yeah.
Ray
How long is a rugby game?
Troy
80 minutes. So two 40 minute hops.
Ray
All right.
Troy
Yeah.
Ray
All right. You got good seats?
Troy
Excellent seats. Yeah, yeah.
Ray
Did you get them through the team?
Troy
We bought them. No, but we just. We got them really early on, so. Yeah, we're right on the. What we would call the 50 meter line, which is our halfway line.
Ray
Okay. How much does a rugby ticket cost in Vegas?
Troy
It's like $100, but just for a regular season game, like 30 bucks.
Ray
Oh, that's great. Very affordable for the family.
Troy
Yeah, definitely.
Ray
Good. Do you take your daughter to rugby?
Troy
She's been to a couple of games. Yeah. But maybe this year will be the year that we kind of do. Although in Penrith, our stadium's being redeveloped this year, so sort of we're about 20 minutes down the road for a couple of years, so. But yeah, we'll see.
Lunchbox
All right, let's go have a shrimp on the barbie.
Ray
Let's go to Outback Blooming Onion.
Lunchbox
The restaurant or the country?
Ray
The restaurant. Do they have Outbacks in.
Troy
Yeah, we got Outback. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Alice Springs chicken.
Ray
What's that?
Troy
Alice Springs chicken is like chicken with melted cheese and bacon.
Ray
Oh, that sounds good.
Troy
Yeah. It's an Outback favorite.
Lunchbox
Lemon onion.
Troy
And they got the blue onion.
Ray
Yeah, yeah. All right. That's it. Right?
Lunchbox
Yeah. We chatted him up.
Ray
We chatted him up. Survivor starts tonight. Get ready.
Lunchbox
Oh, this episode was Bonja.
Ray
No, this. Hey, this was a smash and grab, dude. We had no direction whatsoever. I don't know if we talked sports at all.
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Podcast Summary: The Bobby Bones Show — Episode: SORE LOSERS: Lunchbox Has A Baby Announcement
Release Date: February 27, 2025
Host/Authors: Premiere Networks
Timestamp: [01:30] - [02:22]
The episode begins with Lunchbox and Ray encountering technical issues as they attempt to start the show. Ray mentions, "We are in Zach's studio. We got kicked out by Wayne and D." [02:04]. Lunchbox humorously apologizes, stating, "This is my first time doing a podcast." [02:16], setting a light-hearted tone for the episode.
Timestamp: [03:21] - [05:58]
Lunchbox introduces discussions about artificial intelligence features on social media platforms. He explains, "There's an AI feature on X now that's called Gronk." [03:21]. The hosts delve into how Gronk can create images based on text inputs, with Lunchbox sharing, "I created the image the other day. All I typed in was two guys doing a podcast that's called Sore Losers, and it created this image of two dudes." [03:57]. They discuss the functionalities and limitations of Gronk, highlighting its potential in content creation.
Timestamp: [05:58] - [07:21]
Lunchbox and Ray introduce their guest, Troy, who hails from Sydney, Australia. Troy explains his presence in Nashville and Las Vegas is due to the Penrith Panthers' rugby league season opening in Las Vegas. He mentions, "We're branching out in Australia and opening the season in Las Vegas." [07:05]. The hosts express interest in Troy's background and his connection to sports journalism.
Timestamp: [08:13] - [10:15]
Troy provides insights into rugby league, contrasting it with the NFL. He states, "Defense is definitely the key. So you want to defend." [09:38], emphasizing its similarity to the NFL but with a single team handling both offense and defense. The discussion touches on player injuries, with Troy noting, "No pads, no helmets. So they just, like, run at each other...a lot of shoulders, pecs, knees injuries." [10:03]. This segment offers listeners a comparative look at different sports dynamics and cultures.
Timestamp: [10:25] - [12:34]
Troy shares his experiences in Nashville, highlighting visits to local bars and attractions. He mentions attending venues like Tootsies and Morgan Wallens Bar, describing them as "pretty awesome on a Monday night." [10:37]. The hosts discuss Nashville's vibrant nightlife and offer recommendations for listeners visiting the city.
Timestamp: [12:34] - [17:02]
The conversation shifts to personal lives, with Ray and Troy discussing parenthood. Ray shares, "I'm 42. My wife's 36... undecided about having another kid." [46:44], while Troy talks about his daughter turning four and balancing work with family. They humorously explore the challenges of parenting, such as handling children's questions about anatomy and managing weekend routines.
Timestamp: [54:35] - [56:59]
Lunchbox and Ray address feedback they've received about their podcast. Ray reads a critical comment: "It's like you guys are trying to shovel diarrhea uphill." [56:56]. They discuss the balance between sports talk and lifestyle content, with Lunchbox defending their unique style by stating, "No direction is what makes the podcast fun." [58:20]. This segment offers transparency about the show's reception and their commitment to authenticity.
Timestamp: [57:00] - [64:17]
As the episode winds down, the hosts and Troy discuss upcoming events, including rugby matches and plans in Las Vegas. Lunchbox encourages listeners to engage with their content on social media, saying, "Check out our YouTube channel out. Just search Sore Losers." [54:50]. They also share light-hearted banter about their evening activities, such as enjoying margaritas and exploring Nashville's attractions.
Embracing Technology: The hosts highlight the importance of integrating AI tools like Gronk into content creation, showcasing adaptability in the evolving digital landscape.
Global Sports Perspectives: Troy's insights provide a valuable comparison between Australian rugby league and American NFL, enriching listeners' understanding of international sports cultures.
Authenticity Over Perfection: Despite technical hiccups and criticism, Lunchbox and Ray emphasize genuine conversation and relatable content as the core of their podcast's appeal.
Balancing Personal and Professional Life: Discussions around parenting and work-life balance reveal the hosts' commitment to sharing real-life experiences, fostering a connection with their audience.
In this episode of The Bobby Bones Show, Lunchbox and Ray navigate a range of topics from artificial intelligence and international sports to personal family dynamics and podcast feedback. Their candid conversations with guest Troy offer listeners a blend of humor, insightful discussions, and genuine interactions, underscoring the show's commitment to authenticity and relatability.