SORE LOSERS: Ray and His Special Russian Lady Friend

Summary

The Bobby Bones Show Presents: Sore Losers – "Ray and His Special Russian Lady Friend"

Podcast: The Bobby Bones Show
Hosts: Lunchbox (Deval), Raymundo (Ray/Baser), and others
Date: November 14, 2025
Episode Theme:
This episode of the Sore Losers podcast blends banter about family life, sports nostalgia, odd neighborhood encounters, and a deep dive into Ray's unique relationship with his Russian hairdresser, Natalia. The same irreverent, candid, and storytelling-heavy tone threads through topics ranging from office bathroom etiquette to uncovering a valuable football memorabilia find, all while poking fun at modern life, podcasting, and themselves.

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Episode Overview

The hosts kick off with lighthearted reflections on Veterans Day, reminisce about childhood games (including the invention of "foil baseball"), and weave through funny tales of family life and neighborhood oddities. The episode's centerpiece is Ray's hilarious and affectionate story about his Russian hairdresser, their decade-long bond, and the linguistic/cultural disconnect that fuels their friendship. Other moments include a comedic hot chocolate stand encounter, an office bathroom horror story, a lucky sports memorabilia pull, and classic Sore Losers sports talk.

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Key Segments & Timestamps

1. Veterans Day Banter, Childhood Games & Family Life

• Happy Veterans Day Acknowledgement – [01:45]

  • The show begins by honoring veterans and wondering aloud if any listeners are vets, leading to side discussions about their community and coach's convention tickets.

• Nostalgic Games and Home Destruction – [07:18]

  • Stories about playing sports indoors as kids, the hazards (holes in the wall, broken furniture), and the universal experience of hiding "accidents" from parents.
  • “Foil baseball inside the house was the greatest game ever invented.” – Deval [08:01]

• Dad the Perpetual Home Handyman – [12:00]

  • Deval remembers his dad, a professional fixer, never wanting to fix things at home and his mom’s frustration with slow repairs.

2. Bathroom Etiquette & Office "Characters"

• Bathroom Mishaps and Disgust – [14:04]

  • Baser recounts attempts to fix his eye in the office bathroom, only to be interrupted by a coworker with bad timing, spiraling into a riff about "the redhead" who always stinks up the office restroom.
  • “That’s how you get pink eye, man. You come in with a swollen pink eye. Like what happened? Oh, man, I was in the bathroom… and a shard hit me. No, a shart.” – Deval [14:40]

• Pets vs. Coworkers – [16:50]

  • Drawing parallels between gross coworkers and cats at home: “At my house it’s my freaking cat. I get home and my cat goes in the bathroom, and it smells like a human did it.” – Baser

3. Podcast Life, iHeart’s Big Quarter & Nashville Expansion

• Making Podcasting Profitable – [17:49]

  • The hosts marvel over iHeart’s headline-making $160 million quarter and discuss the long grind of podcasting.
  • “People are like, ‘I’m gonna start a podcast.’ Well, guess what? We didn’t make a dollar for three years. So good luck!” – Baser [19:05]

• Personal Intros and North Nashville Growth – [20:12]

  • Ray mentions Nashville’s rapid expansion, affecting the “country” feel of his home.

4. Neighborhood Encounters: The Hot Chocolate Stand Story

• Hot Chocolate Stand Comedy – [23:24]
  • Deval encounters an oddly oblivious neighbor lady expecting alcohol instead of hot chocolate at a kids’ street stand.
  • "'Yeah, I'm not really feeling the hot chocolate right now. I was really hoping for more of a happy hour vibe.'" – The neighbor lady (stunned, sarcastic reactions by Deval and Baser) [25:15]
  • After the hot chocolate’s revealed to be both cold and terrible, Deval offers the kids some business advice.

5. Ray’s Russian Hairdresser: Natalia

• The Special "Russian Lady Friend" Segment – [29:42] Highlight
  • Ray glows about his decade-long relationship with Natalia, his Russian hairdresser, detailing the ritual and how they communicate via gestures because of a language barrier.
  • "Raymond, you’re my only male customer. I only have females who pay me $500 for hair. But I will do your hair because you’re loyal, Raymond.” – Natalia, as quoted by Baser [31:37]
  • [Story highlight] Ray never told Natalia he got married, not to “make her nervous” during his wedding haircut, so she still believes he’s just got a longtime girlfriend. The comical charade continues a decade on.
  • Ray shares the elaborate haircut routine, including scalp massages: "I leave there more relaxed than anywhere else." [32:21]
  • Natalia takes mostly Russian female clients, which makes Ray (her “only American male client”) feel like “a freaking alien” at the salon.

6. Mystery Memorabilia Unboxing Game

• The $30 Mystery Autographed Photo – [41:43]
  • Ray’s wife, "Baser", surprises him with a $30 mystery Tennessee Vols football photo, leading to a live on-air unboxing.
  • After playful guessing (Peyton Manning? Jason Witten?), it's revealed as a signed Jamal Lewis 8x10, worth five times the purchase price.
  • “Give Jamal the ball!” – Baser, excitedly making the discovery [48:58]
  • The struggle to identify the player and the AI-fueled confusion (“AI says it’s Jason Whitten”) leads to a lesson about why you shouldn’t trust AI for everything.

7. Community and Family Antics

• Chick-fil-A Kids Party & Face Painting – [55:24]

  • Deval takes his kids to an unexpectedly lively Chick-fil-A with cows and face painting for Veterans Day. A misunderstanding about painting his kid’s face “all black” turns into a lesson about why some kid requests can’t be granted.

• Trampoline Park Rule Changes & Flu Shot Drama – [59:20]

  • Riffing on stricter trampoline park policies, then narrating the family subterfuge needed to trick his kids into getting flu shots without a meltdown.
  • "They all immediately—I don’t want to get a flu shot, I’m not going first!” – Deval [63:13]

8. Sports Talk: NBA and Baseball Betting Scandals

• NBA MVP Talk – [65:17]
  • Quick takes on the NBA, with both hosts predicting OKC’s and Jokic’s dominance.
• Baseball’s Betting Scandals – [65:52]
  • Recap of recent exposés where MLB pitchers were allegedly paid to throw the first pitch as a ball.
  • “They cleared $12,000 and risked $28 million… The power of the dollar has not lost any value.” – Baser [66:20]

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Selected Notable Quotes

• “That’s how you get pink eye, man. You come in with a swollen pink eye... Oh man, I was in the bathroom and... a shart. Some particles came, got my eye.” – Deval [14:40]
• “Hey, dumbass, it’s kids out here on a street corner. What do you think they’re going to be selling? Apple martinis?” – Deval, on the "happy hour" lady [25:33]
• “Raymond, you’re loyal to me. Ten years I’ve been with her. You’re loyal to me.” – Natalia, as quoted by Baser [31:37]
• "AI says it’s Jason Whitten!” – Baser, on why you shouldn’t always trust AI [51:22]
• “If you guys don’t know who I’m talking about, you don’t know ball. You do not know.” – Baser, on Jamal Lewis [49:30]

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Episode Highlights & Tone

• Authenticity & Absurdity: Unfiltered, often self-deprecating tales about suburban life, awkward social interactions, and the sometimes ridiculous collision of modern life with nostalgia.
• Friendship: Underlying the banter is the genuine chemistry and affection between the hosts—even as they roast each other.
• Relatable Dilemmas: Insightful (if irreverent) perspectives on parenting, home maintenance, local neighborhood drama, and podcasting as a hustle.
• The Russian Hairdresser Story: This offbeat, personal portrait—both funny and oddly tender—encapsulates the show's blend of humor, loyalty, and relatable awkwardness.

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For Listeners New & Old

This Sore Losers episode is a vibrant patchwork of everyday comedy, sports love, and quirky life experiences. Even if you’re new to the show, you’ll find the conversational style inviting and the stories accessible—whether you’re interested in sports, looking for a laugh, or fascinated by the unique quirks of American neighborhood life. The Natalia storyline ensures the titular promise is delivered with heart and hilarity.

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End of Summary

Transcript

[Kadeen]

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[Deval]

Yo, yo, yo, yo. Can we get a Thanksgiving first?

[Baser]

I'm hungry.

[Kadeen]

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[Deval]

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[Baser]

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[Kadeen]

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[Baser]

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[Kadeen]

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[Baser]

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[Kadeen]

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[Deval]

We get paid more than the men. We call the shots.

[Kadeen]

In what way is that degrading? That's us taking hold of our life. Listen to Gentle world on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Deval]

Are you doing the whistle thing again?

[Baser]

Just off mic.

[Deval]

Okay. But you're back.

[Baser]

Yeah, we've all been back.

[Deval]

Good. Man, it feels good to be here on a Wednesday. And, I mean, we forgot to say it on Monday. So we will say happy Veterans Day to all our veterans out there that listen to our podcast. Do we have any veterans that listen to our pod? I have no idea what you're doing. Are you trying to do the Star Spangled Banner, though?

[Baser]

It's. It's some sort of a salute. They'll understand if they're a vet. That's why you didn't understand.

[Deval]

Yeah, I'm not a vet, so I had no idea what that was. I was very confused. Let's see. Do we have any vets that listen to our pod that I can remember? No, I can't. I don't know any. I don't think anybody that we've met has told us they were in the military at some point, but I did see Randy Ator, I think that was right. He got coaches conventions tickets from his wife or his girlfriend. I don't know. Let me go and man, I'll go to the Facebook page and look. But he said surprise. Coaches convention tickets.

[Baser]

Now one dude that wanted me to read your locks, he was so pumped that I did that on Monday show.

[Deval]

I'm glad he was. I mean, there are stupid people in this world and I'm going to tell you all about them. But man, it feels good to be here on a Wednesday. Are you ready? Are you ready?

[Baser]

You want me to hit the bonehead?

[Deval]

No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Here we go here. I'm going to tell you who it was. It was. Let me read the post again, Randy. A tour. I just got an anniversary surprise. I was given flights and tickets to CC5. Is there a convention group? And if so, how do we get into it? Jesse, Jessica, Nicole, you are amazing. So there you go. They're coming from Colorado. Maybe they're bringing the weed brothers with them. I'm not sure.

[Baser]

Weed Bomber.

[Deval]

Now, Weed Bomber is not. He's from Vegas. I believe he's a Raider fan. Weed Bomber. I don't even know if he's still around.

[Baser]

Frigging the one people from Colorado, middle of the convention in Vegas. Hey, you guys want to talk football? Let's go. We're in the heart of playoff football. What you guys want to talk? Hey, Nuggets basketball is going to be pretty good. What do you guys takes on it?

[Deval]

Hey, what do you guys think about the Nuggets this year? Haven't really given much thought to it. NBA Champions smash cut.

[Baser]

Six months later, they win the NBA championship.

[Deval]

That's always a great question. Great question. I mean, he was right on spot on. It was great.

[Baser]

That was. Was that before or after Ashley had half her bra off and she was on our table at Saturday morning, 9am I don't know.

[Deval]

She really definitely thought she was on the podcast. It was a very weird, very weird event. Very weird.

[Baser]

But if that's why you got to kind of shy away from Vegas, I mean, my sister feeling it. I mean, she came up to me post podcast and goes, hey, you want some pizza? You want pizza? I go, what? For brunch? And also, why are you feeding me like I'm a baby bird?

[Deval]

Yeah, Garrett did hit me up and he said, do you want to go to Vegas MLK Day weekend? And I said, no, we got coaches convention five. And he said, move it to Vegas. I was like, it's not that easy. We can't just shift. People are already coming to Nashville. Sore losers. Dot com. It's happening now. Let's start the show. Because last. Last show, we didn't start till the end, so we got to start it now.

[Baser]

At least your buddy's not Garrett. At least he's not like my friends. Because then once you responded that my friends would have said, oh, it's just because you're a. All right. Yeah, man, That's. That's why I can't do it, because.

[Deval]

I'm a. Yeah, he didn't do that. He just said, okay, cool. And he moved on to the next group of friends. And I was like, cool. But he always comes to me because he knows I'm number one. Vegas. And then he likes to get a group of two to three, and then he starts expanding the circle. As long as he can get two to commit, then he's all in.

[Baser]

Billy, typically. Hey, Cabo Christmas, you coming? No, I'll be with my family. Okay. See? All right, man. Yeah, I'm up.

[Deval]

Thanks, Billy. Sorry about that, man.

[Baser]

Well, lunch just got handed some documents.

[Deval]

Yeah, thanks, Scuba man. We really appreciate it.

[Baser]

Somebody just got a new endorsement.

[Deval]

Yeah, that's gonna be the Texas Lottery.

[Baser]

Hey, guys, it's Lunchbox. I needed help in the bedroom. That's when I reached for something that was in the form of a blue shaped circle. Didn't know what it was. And then. Hey, O. I was saluting like a veteran. How's it going? It's Veterans Day, and I'm Lunchbox. Hey, why aren't you. Why don't you reach for the red, white, and blue pill? Hey, guys, it's Lunchbox. Coach, sometimes you got to sell your soul to the devil.

[Deval]

That's pretty. That's pretty funny. No. And then I got to do kitchen refresh also. They will come and make over your cabinets. Like, freaking amazing. It's so amazing what they do. But, yeah, that's going to be a commercial I got to do for the big show.

[Baser]

I'm assuming. You got to get it done. Your kids are beating the crap out of it.

[Deval]

Oh, no, no, no. We are trying to quit soccer games from the kitchen because we have new cabinets now, and so I don't want them ruining the cabinets. The old cabinets. I mean, that's so loud. That is so loud.

[Baser]

Oh, I had it on the wrong one.

[Deval]

Good grief. The old cabinets, they were, like, different colors, and so now that we have all matching, nice, like, no slam cabinets, that's the coolest part, is you can let it Go. And it slowly closes. I mean, kitchen refresh. They did an amazing job. So we try to take the sports now out of the kitchen.

[Baser]

That's good. And also, do you have indoor balls and outdoor balls?

[Deval]

No, we have balls.

[Baser]

But do you have. Is there a line of demarcation between the ones that can come inside?

[Deval]

Yeah, baseballs can't come inside.

[Kadeen]

All right.

[Baser]

Because we did at home back in the day. I'm trying to think of. When I was a kid, there were certain balls you could play inside with and get away with.

[Deval]

Now, we never had those rules because we just played wherever. My parents didn't really navigate or police what balls came inside. My kids love to dribble the basketball around. They love to play soccer in the house. They'll do anything. They like to play football. But what we used to do. I'm gonna tell you what, Foil baseball inside the house was the greatest game ever invented.

[Baser]

We played with a wadded up paper towel because it wouldn't break anything.

[Deval]

Yeah.

[Baser]

And you hit it with your hand.

[Deval]

Yes.

[Baser]

You hit it to the cabinets. It's a home run in front. It's an out blast. Until dad walks in. Nobody gave you a heads up that he was coming? He, like, tiptoed for some odd reason. And the paper towel hits him in the lunch pail when he's coming home. That'll end it real quick.

[Deval]

Well, we usually played foil baseball when bad weather was going on outside, or if it was at night, we were having people spend the night. We'd be down in the living room playing foil baseball at midnight. Yeah.

[Baser]

Well, we invented a game that we could play in the basement. And it was just. With your hand. It's always with your hand. And it was.

[Deval]

You didn't invent that, dude.

[Baser]

And it was a.

[Deval]

And lotion. You didn't invent that.

[Baser]

And it was not a nerf ball, but made a foam, really light foam, so you could pitch it fast enough and you could hit it to be a home run. But, boy, your arm would hurt the next day because you would have to throw about 100 miles an hour fastball and. And then the ball would only go 60.

[Deval]

How cool is it that you had a basement so no one could hear you down there? You could be loud and stuff.

[Baser]

Except for mom and dad's bedroom was in the basement.

[Deval]

Oh, that does change it. Because we did not have a basement. And mom and dad's bedroom was right above the living room. But guess what? They didn't hear anything. I mean, we. We played foil baseball. We ran Around. We did. And they didn't hear a thing. They never woke up. Nothing. I'm telling you. And foil baseball. You had the living room and then the other room. I don't even know what the room is called because we never used it. It was just a room. And you had these wood doors that slide into the wall.

[Baser]

They're called bar room, saloon.

[Deval]

Is that what they're called?

[Baser]

Yeah.

[Deval]

And so you would open those up, and the outfield was in the other room. And home plate was back by the back window, by the back door. Bam. Hit it through those doors. You'd have two on two, the outfielders out there, and you'd run and dive. And the couch was first base. Second base was right there in the middle of those doors. Third base was the fireplace. Home plate was the window.

[Baser]

We would do the baseball and the basketball.

[Deval]

Yeah, we had indoor basketball. We had a Michael Jordan hoop in that other room, the room that wasn't the living room. And it hung right above those double doors because you could open those double doors, which was great, because then when you're going in for the dunk, you could fly through the opening instead of crashing into the wall. Usually if you hang one on the wall, you're very limited because you hit the wall. This no open space. Great. And it was a breakaway rim. So you would dunk on Jordan and the rim would rip off so you don't break it. So good. Tear away rim. It was amazing. I still have it. My parents kept it. They mailed it to me. It is at the house.

[Baser]

And what you do need, where you can go underneath the hoops, you don't put a hole in the wall because that happened at church. Yeah. There was the Nerf basketball hoop that goes on the wall. Brother dunked it. Or I dunked it. Foot goes in the wall. We had to put up a. I believe it was a Moses poster. It lasted for two years. Nobody knew that we made a hole in the wall until my mom one time decided to decorate or something for Christmas. Put up Jesus instead of Moses. And there was a massive hole in the wall. And we're like, oh, my gosh, where did that come from? Oh, I mean, it was a one heck of a secret for two years, though.

[Deval]

Yeah. That's like batter's box. He was one time running around the house and running up and down the stairs, and you go up five stairs, there's a landing, and then five stairs the other way. And he was coming down the stairs. He fell. After my parents had told us to stop Running in the house and boom, he crashed into the wall. Big old hole. I mean, the size of his body just dented in the wall right there.

[Baser]

But dad could fix that.

[Deval]

Yeah, and he fixed it probably about three years later.

[Baser]

I mean, he does it for a living. He doesn't want to come home and do it.

[Deval]

That is exactly right. That used to. Hey, let me tell you, that used to make my mom so mad. It's like something around the house would take forever to get fixed because he'd work all day. Last thing he wants to do is come home and work on his own house. And I mean, things would that that hole in the wall stood there forever. But like right now my mom's got him repainting the hallway. He's like, man, I just kind of got the itch, you know what I mean? So your mom was on the phone with her sister last night for four hours trying to pick out paint. He goes, I spent more money on samples then I'm going to spend on paint.

[Baser]

But we got to get it right, honey do's.

[Deval]

Yeah, man.

[Baser]

Are they near Billy?

[Deval]

If Billy still lives in the same house he did. Yeah, yeah, they're right down the road.

[Baser]

Then they're both increasing in value.

[Deval]

Yeah.

[Baser]

Yeah. Billy said he could retire and move to Bali.

[Deval]

I there's a pool right by Billy that I used to ride my bike to when I was a kid.

[Baser]

Well, he's not going to the community pool. He doesn't have kids. And I don't think they allow whale tails.

[Deval]

Yeah, you're probably right. But they did have a high dive and I mean high dive.

[Baser]

A lot of the kid girls he's dating right now are strippers.

[Deval]

Oh, good for Billy. So he's in a good place. He's in a real good place.

[Baser]

His therapist said for one year you need after the divorce you need to go as absolutely ape s as you possibly can. And wherever that therapist is right now, he needs to face the board because he needs his license revoked. That's the worst advice I've ever heard from a therapist.

[Deval]

That's a very interesting therapy. Where do you find this therapist? At the strip club.

[Baser]

Comes CMA fest. Comes for my birthday. Up therapist said I go as hard as possible. What? Is that real?

[Kadeen]

Oh, no.

[Baser]

He was dead serious.

[Deval]

How long has it been since the divorce?

[Baser]

I think it's been 18 months.

[Deval]

Oh, hey, that's not. That's not good. That is really not good, man. That's really not good. Yeah. Dang. Alright, let's start the show, man. You Doing all right.

[Baser]

Who you? Well, I got an eyelash in my eye.

[Deval]

I mean, you keep blinking like 500 times. You blink every, like 500 times a second. It's really, like, weird to look at.

[Baser]

Well, and I freaking told you after the big show, I had that window to go get it removed. And what do you know? One minute after I'm in the bathroom, some guy goes in there to just blow it out.

[Deval]

Oh, he was gonna blow out your eye?

[Baser]

No, he was blowing out the other eye.

[Deval]

Oh. Oh, dang, man.

[Baser]

And I. That's disrespectful on him. Or is it on me? Because I shouldn't be doing my looking at my eye in the. In the bathroom. But whatever the case is, I'm last I need is poop particles in there.

[Deval]

Correct. I was gonna say. Then that's how you get pink eye, man. You come in with a swollen pink eye. Like, what happened? Oh, man, I was in the bathroom and I was getting an eyelash, and then a shard hit me. A shard of glass? No, a shart. Like someone sharted in the bathroom. And it. Some particles came got my eye. Now I'm infected, man. I'm sorry.

[Baser]

Because two feet away from where I was fixing my eye. Well, got it all out. I'll see you later.

[Deval]

That's the sign I need to go. Time for me to head on out. Same guy. Same guy. Old redhead, man. Old redhead. I just. I can't. I don't know.

[Baser]

Oh, that's sign for me to head out.

[Deval]

Hey, man, redhead is on a schedule, though, man. He is on a schedule.

[Baser]

I'm not even worried about what's in my eye anymore. I'm worried about what just got shot hit the wall. I'm worried about my nose now.

[Deval]

Oh, man, that. That redhead dude, he. He likes to. Yeah, he likes to go.

[Baser]

Well, now I got nose issues. I got something in my eye. Throw some toilet paper my way.

[Deval]

No, man, you need more than that, buddy. Need to go see a doctor.

[Baser]

I got a pill for you. It's friggin Tums.

[Deval]

We need to figure out what you're eating because, boy, man, you. You know how to evacuate the building.

[Baser]

Freaking Beau.

[Deval]

Oh, man.

[Baser]

All right, we're going to have.

[Deval]

And they don't have very good ventilation in those bathrooms. It just stays in there.

[Baser]

That's what I'm saying. If I was cleaning my eye, I would have been in there in a haze.

[Deval]

Yeah. Oh, all right, yeah, enough of that talk. No one wants to hear that, man. No one wants to hear that.

[Baser]

All I needed was a guy that was just gonna go the bathroom. But it's a guy that's number two.

[Deval]

Does everybody have that person in their office that does that? There has to be one per office, right? We got the red headed guy. I'm sure that every office locker is probably that guy at his office. Tall guys that guide his office. We know Cappy. Oh boy. God, I don't know if he has an office. I think he works from home.

[Baser]

At my house. It's my freaking cat. Yeah, I'll just get home after leaving this guy at work and my cat. What do you know? Goes the bathroom and it smells like a human did it. Piper, I understand you don't have access to water, but holy. You know, because we go in water.

[Deval]

Yeah.

[Baser]

Holy crap, that smells bad. So I mean, it's just one from. From one to the other. Got that guy blowing it out. Piper will be ready 11 when I come home.

[Deval]

Oh, that's how kids are too, man. Let me tell you. Here, let's get ready for bed. And you start helping them get their jammies on. It's like, did you. Yes. Oh my God. Oh my gosh. Oh man. It's disgusting. Alright, enough talk. Let's go.

[Baser]

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

[Deval]

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.

[Baser]

So I get the times before I go into my intro. I get the Times, the old radio times. And Iheart just had the biggest quarter known to man.

[Deval]

Oh, podcasting.

[Baser]

They made a hundred. It's public news. $160 million in the third quarter. Huh?

[Deval]

Is that going to trickle down to us eventually?

[Baser]

So.

[Deval]

So we need to pick up the downloads is what you're saying. We need to get a piece of that pie. So how's it work? There's this pie, okay. There's this piece. And you're going to get this sliver and we're going to get this sliver.

[Baser]

But I'm telling you, we was a part of that third quarter.

[Deval]

We weren't close to 160 million. Right.

[Baser]

But do you understand? It gives us longevity. Stay in power.

[Deval]

Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah.

[Kadeen]

We're.

[Deval]

So we're here to stay? Yeah, I mean, we're going to Netflix.

[Baser]

But I'm saying podcasting is getting bigger. I don't care about how much we get dang paid. Oh, it's like what was I was talking To Abby about podcasting, I was like, you realize we didn't make a dollar the first two and a half years we podcasted. We did five episodes a week.

[Deval]

Don't even start.

[Baser]

So I was like, abby, a hundred dollars to us is like gold if you understand where we came from.

[Deval]

Yeah, yeah, we did start. We started from the dregs at the bottom. It's bad.

[Baser]

So I don't know how it is now, but people are like, I'm gonna start. I'll do my intro. I'm gonna start a podcast. Well, guess what? We didn't make a dollar for three years, so good luck. If you got three years of income, go have a podcast. If you don't, get in another industry.

[Deval]

Yeah. Or if your dad's supplying you with money and you don't have to work, good for you. If you're a Nepo, baby. That's what they're called.

[Baser]

All right, my intro, y'.

[Kadeen]

All.

[Baser]

So I'm from the north. I'm an alpha male. I live on the north side of Nashville with baser. They are now going to make it 16 lanes. And I got to go into that another episode about these people in their houses and their fences. They are taking. It's a clear cut. All the road since I moved to the country is going to be part of Nashville. It is unbelievable the superhighway they are creating right now heading to Kentucky. But, yeah, we live in the country. 2.3333 acres. I got two kids at Vanderbilt electrophysiology unit. Justin should check on them. I actually need to check on him, and I have a heart attack, probably when I'm 72 and a half. If I can't, don't get this eye thing out of my eye. 72, probably. Over to you, ma'.

[Kadeen]

Am.

[Deval]

And you forgot to say your name. But we'll be back right after this.

[Kadeen]

Welcome to Decoding Women's Health. I'm Dr. Elizabeth Poynter, Chair of women's health and gynecology at the Atria Health Institute in New York City. On this show, I'll be talking to top researchers and top clinicians, asking them your burning questions and bringing that information about women's health and midlife directly to you. 100% of women go through menopause. It can be such a struggle for our quality of life. But even if it's natural, why should we suffer through it? The types of symptoms that people talk about is forgetting everything. I never used to forget things. They're concerned that one. They have dementia. And the Other one is do I have adhd? There is unprecedented promise with regard to cannabis and cannabinoids to sleep better, to have less pain, to have have better mood and also to have better day to day life. Listen to Decoding Women's Health with Dr. Elizabeth Poynter on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you're listening now.

[Deval]

Atlanta is a spirit. It's not just a city.

[Baser]

I didn't really have an interest in being on air. I kind of was up there to.

[Deval]

Just try and infiltrate the building.

[Baser]

It's where crunk was born in a.

[Deval]

Club in the West End 4 World Star. It was 559 where a tiny bar birthed a generation of rap stars, where preachers go viral and students at the HBCU turned heartbreak in the resurrection. How do you get people to believe.

[Michael Lewis]

In something that's dead?

[Deval]

Well, dreamers brought Hollywood to the south and hustlers bring their visions to create black wealth.

[Baser]

Nobody's rushing into relationships with you.

[Kadeen]

Where are you from?

[Deval]

They wanna look you in the eye. Where the future is nostalgia.

[Kadeen]

I talked to my chatgpt. She like you really the first lady to have a Gangster girls tape in Atlanta, Georgia. Like that's what separates you from a lot of people.

[Deval]

And I was like, you know what you Atlanta doesn't wait for permission. It builds its own spotlight.

[Baser]

I'm big rude.

[Deval]

Let us guide you through the stories behind Atlanta's most iconic moments. Listen to Atlanta is on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast.

[Michael Lewis]

Michael Lewis here. My book the Big Short tells the story of the buildup and birth of the US housing market back in 2008. It follows a few unlikely but lucky people who saw the real estate market for the black hole it would become and eventually made billions of dollars from that perception. It was like feeding the monster, said Eisman. We fed the monster until it blew up. The monster was exploding. Yet on the streets of Manhattan, there was no sign anything important had just happened. Now, 15 years after the Big Short's original release and a decade after it became became an Academy Award winning movie, I've recorded an audiobook edition for the very first time. The Big Short story. What it means when people start betting against the market and who really pays for an unchecked financial system is as relevant today as it's ever been, offering invaluable insight into the current economy and also today's politics. Get the Big Short now at Pushkin FM Audiobooks or wherever audiobooks are sold.

[Deval]

Ray last Night. I'm out walking the dog last night and it's cold. I got a hoodie on, I got a beanie on, I got gloves on my hands because it's probably about 5:30 when I'm walking the dog.

[Baser]

Do we need the crime pod?

[Deval]

No.

[Baser]

It would sound like you're setting up a timeline.

[Deval]

I am setting up a time. I'm just giving you a picture of what it is outside. So it's already dark outside because it gets dark at like 4:30 here in Nashville.

[Baser]

Picture received.

[Deval]

And as I'm walking on the sidewalk on the right hand side of the road, I look over to my left and at the corner there seems to be a table set up. I'm like, huh? Why is there a table there? And I look a little closer and there's kids over there. I'm like, huh, Let me go over there and see what's going on. Let me do some investigating. And they got a hot chocolate stand set up.

[Baser]

That's what you need to sell.

[Deval]

And they are out there selling hot chocolate. And I walk up and I'm like, oh, can I get a. You know. You guys selling hot chocolate, huh? Yeah, yeah. I'm like, can I get a cup? I'll take a cup of hot chocolate.

[Baser]

Did they think you were homeless or did you say you had the dog with you?

[Deval]

I had the dog with me.

[Kadeen]

Okay.

[Baser]

Still not out of the woods with being homeless.

[Deval]

Correct. But the dog looked well kept and it was on a leash, so whatever. And I had shoes on and gloves and so they're pouring me my hot chocolate. And they're making it, they're mixing it up. And another lady walks up, she goes, what we got going on here? And they're like, oh, you know, we're just selling some hot chocolate. She goes, hot chocolate? Hmm. You say hot chocolate, huh?

[Baser]

What is happening? Is she slow?

[Deval]

And they're like, yeah, we're just doing it. 75 cents a glass. She goes, ah, yeah, I'm not really feeling the hot chocolate right now. I was really hoping for more of a happy hour vibe.

[Baser]

See an alcoholic.

[Deval]

I'm like, hey, dumbass. Like it's kids out here on a street corner. Like, what do you think they're going to be selling? You think they're going to be doing apple martinis? Like, I mean, come on, was that.

[Baser]

Window for happy hour?

[Deval]

Did you want that stirred or shaken or did you want it neat? I mean, what the hell are you talking about? Yeah, I think I'm about to pass. And then, and then she goes, yeah. So I'm about to pass on the hot chocolate. I was hoping it was more happy hour.

[Baser]

She wants Bailey's in it.

[Deval]

Get out of here.

[Baser]

And then, ah, White Russian lady.

[Deval]

I tell you so, A, I'm like, okay, show me where you live so I know I'm not on the road when you're driving. B, have you already started your happy hour the way you're. Well, I was really hoping for more happy hour, so I'm gonna have to pass on the hot chocolate. Okay, kick rocks, lady, you idiot. And then she lingers, she hangs out there, just going, so how much have you sold?

[Baser]

That's good questions.

[Deval]

How's business?

[Baser]

What are you, the bbb?

[Deval]

Have you thought about selling anything else? No, lady, they did not think about selling Bailey's. I promise you they're not going to be selling margaritas frozen or on the rocks.

[Baser]

My Uber driver told me you can put this moonshine they're selling at liquor stores now. He said, it's even better in Bailey's. And I go, and I bet it's ten times as strong. How drunk are we trying to get in the mornings, people?

[Deval]

Yeah. And it was just like, wow, this is cr. And she just lingered. And she's like, yeah, so good luck with your hot chocolate. But once again, I'm gonna have to pass on the hot chocolate. And she finally walks away. No need. No need to say it three times that you're passing on the hot chocolate. No need to announce to the neighborhood that you're an alcoholic and that you've been drinking since 2pm it was unbelievable. I was like, how stupid are these people?

[Baser]

Let's be real. She didn't need the hot chocolate to get warm. She was already warm.

[Deval]

She was feeling good. And so then they finished with my hot chocolate. And I'm like, all right, well, thank you guys. Have a good night. And I get my hot chocolate and I start walking the dog and I take a sip. Oh, my God, I've never tasted something so disgusting in my life.

[Baser]

Thought you were going to say it was hot.

[Deval]

No, it was cold, first of all. And it was God awful. It was so terrible.

[Baser]

You expected better from the corner stand of hot chocolate in the neighborhood.

[Deval]

And I went back and I said, hey, what are you guys putting in this? And they're like, oh, this dark roasted chocolate. I'm like, no, that's terrible. Guys, get Nestle quick and just put the little powder in there and mix it up. That was awful.

[Baser]

And milk.

[Deval]

Yeah, they were doing water.

[Baser]

Yeah, I'm more Of a milk. Oh, I'm a milk nestle with the little marshmallows in it.

[Deval]

And they did ask me, do you want the big marshmallows or the small marshmallows? And I said, absolutely no marshmallows. Do not like marshmallows.

[Baser]

You didn't bring any home for the.

[Deval]

Wife, Dude, I would. It was. It was cold, it wasn't good. And so I took another sip and when I got out of their sight, tossed it. Yeah, it was over.

[Baser]

It's a shame. You'd expect a better product in a wealthy neighborhood.

[Deval]

Well, you expect. I mean, I think it was their first time doing it, so they'll learn from their mistakes. Maybe, but whatever they were buying. Dark chocolate roast. That was the worst idea you've ever had in your life. Nobody wants dark chocolate, hot chocolate, you want milk chocolate.

[Baser]

And a lot of. That's the thing. It's instant. We're in this instant world. They just zap it and stuff. They probably didn't even do a slow boil over the stove. You know, they got the microwave, they're microwaving that stuff.

[Deval]

Yeah. So it was a rough day. That lady. I was just like that. That's the idiot I was talking about. That's the one. I was just like. Like, how dumb do you like, really? No one's gonna be selling alcohol on the street corner at 5:30 in the afternoon when they are probably second or third graders. Don't even know how old these guys were. Never seen him before.

[Baser]

Maybe she thought you were the dad.

[Deval]

Oh, maybe. And then I Venmoed because there was a Venmo there and I'd already Venmoed in. The girl goes, hey, that's gonna be 75 cents. As I tried to walk away, I was like, I Venmo'd you. Calm down.

[Baser]

You can Venmo under a dollar.

[Deval]

Well, I did a $2 because there was three kids. 75 cents. I felt like a quarter apiece. They weren't really going to make any profit.

[Baser]

It's tough with the Venmo. Even my hairdresser does a new Venmo.

[Deval]

Really?

[Baser]

Government's going to see that she's from Russia. Oh, not that it matters, but.

[Deval]

My cousin, she takes Venmo. I mean, yeah, my cousin's ex husband, he was from Russia and he refused to pay tax. He didn't pay his tax. He was just like me, not to pay taxes.

[Baser]

But my lady refuses to speak our language. We don't speak the same language for 55 minutes. It's complete silence.

[Deval]

There's no way your haircut takes 55 minutes.

[Baser]

She. It's crazy. It's a shampoo. It's. You got shampoo, conditioner. She rubs this other thing on it. A massage should massage the neck. She massages the ears, the lower head, upper head. Then it comes to the haircut. And what she taught me is through hand gestures, Raymond. I mean, it's very difficult to understand. Raymond. You see all these barbers when. When they cut your hair?

[Deval]

This is how she talks, okay?

[Baser]

She says they just do the buzzer. I use the scissors and the buzzer. So apparently if you do the buzz and the scissors, it takes longer for it to grow. So I. I don't have to go back for two months. So she'll buzz the whole thing, Raymond. And then I'll cut it and you'll. Two months, you won't need to come back. So she. That's the thing. No other technique. Anybody does that. And then she does the blending and then she'll do the eyebrows. I'm there 55 minutes. It is the best.

[Deval]

How much is it?

[Baser]

30 bucks I've ever spent my life.

[Deval]

Where's she at?

[Baser]

She's not taking any more clients. I'm her only male. I started with her on West End when I lived with you. Found her in a hole in a wall. I think it was a whorehouse. And it was at strip mall. It's run down.

[Deval]

No, I know what you're talking about.

[Baser]

I followed her from there to another place. Now I drive 30 minutes to Franklin to a galleria. She has moved up. She owns her whole own thing. She's a multi millionaire. And she goes, raymond, you're my only male customer. I only have females who pay me $500 for hair. But I will do your hair because you're loyal, Raymond. Ten years I've been with her, Raymond, you're loyal to me. So she's not taking anybody else.

[Deval]

That is incredible, dude.

[Baser]

You're loyal to me, Raymond.

[Deval]

You can't do wriggling. I cut your hair and I'm in.

[Baser]

There for 55 minutes and she's just rubbing one out the entire time. I couldn't be more relaxed when I leave that place.

[Deval]

That's really cool. Yeah, that. Did you just see the power go out?

[Baser]

I did. And the tough thing is, though, I didn't carry it. My story along with her. So she met Bazer as my girlfriend. So she still thinks I have a girlfriend. Because it all roots back to. I didn't want her to be nervous when she was cutting my hair for my wedding. So I decided in that moment I was never going to tell her that I was getting married because I just didn't want her to be nervous and do anything different. And so I've just never felt like telling her it happened because it'll just work her up. So I've just never told her I get married. So, Remonson, that was your girlfriend.

[Deval]

Are you ever gonna marry her?

[Baser]

No.

[Deval]

No.

[Baser]

Not pulling the trigger just yet. See you later.

[Deval]

All right. The Lehman.

[Baser]

Maybe someday you get married.

[Deval]

She married?

[Baser]

I think she is, but I believe she has to go home to see him.

[Deval]

Raymond. Raymundo. You need to sell her you married. Tell her she will. Oh, Raymond, that is so beautiful. That is so beautiful. Raymond.

[Baser]

Natalia. So five years ago, you cut my hair and I didn't tell you, but you were cutting my hair for my wedding. And I'm sorry, Raymond. Why would you never tell me that, you stupid motherfucker? I just couldn't, man.

[Deval]

I didn't want you to get nervous. Do you think I could. Nervous cutting hair? I do this for a living, Raymond. I do this for a living. You don't need to invite me to wedding. You did not invite me to wedding. I get you good gift. I give you good gift.

[Baser]

And I have seen, though, like, she's had to, obviously, because of inflation, increase her prices. But me and her started about 20 bucks. It's gradually. It's now I tip her because she. Nobody in the state does an hour haircut.

[Kadeen]

That.

[Baser]

That's amazing. She gladly gets $55 from me. Holidays, I'll give her a hundred because I love her that much. Whoa, whoa.

[Deval]

She is rich.

[Kadeen]

Rich?

[Baser]

No. Oh. If you provide a service that services me, she is the best at what she does in the entire state of Tennessee.

[Deval]

Wow.

[Baser]

Raymond. I will see you in two months. Nobody else does the scissors and the razor like I do, Raymond. And we always hug. Very affectionate kiss. She's a great woman. A very great woman. Next lady that comes in, right after me, one of her clients, she goes, how are you doing? It's a Russian lady. I am doing good. Her clients are only Russian. I'm the only American male client of hers. And they all look at me, dude, like I'm a freaking alien when I walk out. Why is this guy at this galleria?

[Deval]

What's your lady's name again?

[Baser]

Natalia.

[Deval]

So the other day, Natalia, why you let that guy. You let the American in here? What's wrong with you, girl? What's wrong with you? You sleeping With Raymond? No, no, he's just loyal. Loyal?

[Baser]

Well, sometimes some of the other Russians, the clients of hers, will bring their husbands, and they sit outside there. And whenever I walk out or I'm waiting in the waiting room, I told you.

[Deval]

Hey, Victor Bell.

[Baser]

Hey, Victor. I told you to f? Cking sell. When I tell you to f? Cking sell, you sell it, or you're gonna find me at the bottom of a cement creek with a couple cements around your legs.

[Deval]

You.

[Baser]

I told you to sell. Oh, hello, Natalia. I told you, if you don't count to 10. 1, 2, 10.

[Deval]

We'll take a break. We'll be right back.

[Kadeen]

I'm Eva Longoria. And I'm Maite Gomez Jejun. And on our podcast, Hungry for History, we mix two of our favorite things. Food and history. Ancient Athenians used to scratch names onto oyster shells, and they called these oysters ostracon, to vote politicians into exile. So our word ostracize is related to the word oyster. No way.

[Baser]

Bring back the ostracon.

[Kadeen]

And because we've got a very mi casa es su casa kind of vibe on our show, friends always stop by.

[Baser]

Pretty much every entry into this side of the planet was through the El Golf of the America.

[Deval]

No, the America forever and ever.

[Kadeen]

It blows me away how progressive Mexico was in this moment. They had land reform, they had labor rights, they had education rights. Mustard seeds were so valuable to the ancient Egyptians that they used to place them in their tombs for the afterlife. Listen to Hungry for History as part of the My Cultura podcast network, available on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, I'm Danny Shapiro, host of the hit podcast Family Secrets.

[Baser]

We were in the car like a Rolling Stone came on and he said, there's a line in there about your mother. And I said, what? What I would do if I didn't feel like I was being accepted is choose an identity that other people can't have.

[Kadeen]

I knew something had happened to me in the middle of the night, but I couldn't hold on to what had happened. These are just a few of the moving and important stories I'll be holding space for on my upcoming 13th season of Family Secrets. Whether you've been on this journey with me from season one or just joining the Family Secrets family, we're so happy to have you with us. I'll dive deep into the incredible power of secrets, the ones that shape our identities, test our relationships, and ultimately reveal who we truly are. Listen to Family Secrets on the IHEARTRADIO app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Deval]

It's okay not to be okay sometimes and be able to build strength and.

[Kadeen]

Love within each other.

[Deval]

Thanksgiving isn't just about food. It's a day for us to show up for one another. I'm Eliot Khani, host of the podcast Family Therapy, a series where real families come together to heal and find hope. What would be a clue that would be like? I've gotten lots of text messages from him. This one's from a little bit better.

[Kadeen]

Of a version of him because he's feeding himself well. It's always a concern like, are you eating well? He's actually an amazing cook.

[Baser]

There was this one time where we.

[Deval]

Had neighbors and I saved their dog and I ended up inviting them over.

[Baser]

For food and that was like one.

[Kadeen]

Of my proudest moments.

[Deval]

This is family therapy. Real families, real stories on a journey to heal together. Listen to season two of Family Therapy every Wednesday on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Kadeen]

Welcome to Decoding Women's Health. I'm Dr. Elizabeth Poynter, Chair of Women's health and Gynecology at the Atria Health Institute in New York City. On this show, I'll be talking to top researchers and top clinicians, asking them your burning questions and in bringing that information about women's health and midlife directly to you, 100% of women go through menopause. It can be such a struggle for our quality of life. But even if it's natural, why should we suffer through it? The types of symptoms that people talk about is forgetting everything. I never used to forget things. They're concerned that one, they have dementia and the other one is do I have adhd? There is unpredictable, unprecedented promise with regard to cannabis and cannabinoids. To sleep better, to have less pain, to have better mood, and also to have better day to day life. Listen to Decoding Women's Health with Dr. Elizabeth Poynter on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you're listening now. Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way.

[Baser]

Can we get a Thanksgiving first?

[Kadeen]

I'm hungry. Hey, y', all, it's Kadeen and devale, the hosts of Ellis Ever after podcast.

[Deval]

This holiday season, whether you're cooking for.

[Baser]

The family, out buying gifts for the.

[Kadeen]

Kids, or crowded in holiday traffic, tune out the noise and tune in to Ellis Ever After. On Ellis Ever after, we get real.

[Baser]

With our crew about family. If you feeling like you feeling that's probably because you a good parent.

[Kadeen]

Friendship.

[Baser]

Be careful what you put in your body.

[Kadeen]

Move your your body and love it the way you love them cars, that.

[Baser]

House, them clothes, them shoes. Love yourself. Them brunches, Love and marriage.

[Kadeen]

You know what's become attractive to me? And it's because I've self corrected and I guess I detoxified myself. Accountability, like it has become mad attractive. So attractive to me and everything else in between. I've told my most embarrassing moment on this podcast before, which was me taking it in a Ziploc bag.

[Deval]

So listen to Ellis Ever after on.

[Baser]

The iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever.

[Kadeen]

You get your podcasts.

[Deval]

Let's play your game. I'm ready to play.

[Baser]

It can be a game. Okay, so Baser had herself a day. It was Veterans Day, and apparently everybody else gets off except for us.

[Deval]

Oh, man, let me tell you. No school on Veterans Day and no work. And so after work, I had a full day of stuff. I'm gonna tell you all about it after you tell me about your game. But, man, we did it. We did a day.

[Baser]

So Baser goes to the mall with her friend, and her friend has a daughter. Ages, I guess, don't matter. And the son's high school. They're awesome. The kids are great. And Heather's her best friend and we hang out all the time. And so they go to this memorabilia store and Baser goes, all right, let's surprise Ray, because we went and did brunch and the mall without me. I spent no money. I didn't get to enjoy anything. So they said, let's get him one piece of memorabilia. The cheapest thing there. Oh, for $30 you get a picture, but you don't get to see what it is. It's a mystery picture. You get to pick the team, though.

[Deval]

Is it autographed or is just a picture?

[Baser]

It's a picture. It's autographed. And it's usually a significant moment.

[Deval]

Got it before.

[Baser]

I've done one for the Yankees. You pay $30.

[Deval]

Wait, Yankees? Did you get it? The moment judge threw me the ball and hit me in the chest.

[Baser]

It was not that time.

[Deval]

Oh. You know, it's funny. I was looking through my phone the other day and I saw the pictures. I never posted the pictures of how close I was the judge.

[Baser]

I've seen him. On your phone maybe.

[Deval]

Yeah, but I haven't showed our listeners. I need to do that.

[Baser]

Yeah, do that. And so you can pick the team. All that. I got Charlie Hayes winning the World Series. For the Yankees 15 years ago. Not this time. One of the other times. I've done it before.

[Deval]

Got it autographed.

[Baser]

I'd say it's probably. It's exact same value. Paid 30. It was probably 30 bucks.

[Deval]

Yeah, I'm getting a call from Mineral Wells, Texas. Maybe it's Natalia listening in. Hello?

[Baser]

Hello, Jake here for the Police Officers Committee.

[Deval]

Back. Switching to recorded audio. Okay. Yes.

[Baser]

Oh, I've been shot.

[Deval]

Hi, thanks for holding for me. This is Charles calling for the Police Officers Committee. We're having our back the blue awareness campaign. Sadly, our police officers are being assaulted and attacked while doing their job. That is not good organization.

[Baser]

I gotta pay my child support.

[Deval]

Lawmakers who will fight for legislation. Thank you. Thank you for fighting for us. Thank you for fighting us.

[Baser]

What do I get a free mag light?

[Deval]

I get that call once a day.

[Baser]

Well, see, the phone calls I get are from where my phone number's from. From Lansing, Michigan. And so I always know their robocalls, but they're able to know my first three numbers, so they must. But I don't know why they would have the number the same number. Oh, they're doing those things that do random phone numbers. So maybe they just plug it in. So it's random Lansing phone numbers because it's always 517. I'm like, well, I know nobody there. So fake delete, huh?

[Deval]

Yeah, I don't know anybody from Mineral Wells. I just. And it's a different number. Every time that thing calls me, they leave a voicemail.

[Baser]

It's different. But mine always starts out East Lansing, 51 7.

[Deval]

Interesting. Okay, so back to the mystery.

[Baser]

So the mystery is they said we.

[Deval]

Have crime music because this is a mystery.

[Baser]

Okay, so they said, let's get ray of all's one. It's $30. It could be an absolute crapper. It could have been. This is the worst player involved history.

[Deval]

Basically the T. Higgins.

[Baser]

I would say the team at this point.

[Deval]

Nico Imam Alamalu.

[Baser]

A team photo this year would be less than $30. Oh, so they get me this photo vols for $30 and open it when they. When Bazer comes home and brings it to me.

[Deval]

Okay, it's wrapped up in like brown paper or what?

[Baser]

It's in a manila envelope.

[Deval]

Got it.

[Baser]

Can't see into it.

[Deval]

So how big are we talking?

[Baser]

Like just a eight by ten.

[Deval]

Got it. It's not framed.

[Baser]

Not framed.

[Deval]

Okay, $30. Eight by ten.

[Baser]

And even if you got.

[Deval]

Do you know the sport before you buy it?

[Baser]

Well, yeah, it's not gonna be baseball You, I think it does say Vols football.

[Deval]

Got it.

[Baser]

So you know it's football.

[Deval]

That narrows it down. Okay, I got it.

[Baser]

I know who it is, so I will tell you. They paid 30 for it. And the photo I got.

[Deval]

Is it awesome? Just tell me, is it awesome?

[Baser]

We made an absolute of money on this photo. It's way more than $30.

[Deval]

Okay, that means that there's only one option. I mean the way that you explain it, there's only one option. There's only one player in Tennessee football history that is good enough to rack charge more than $30.

[Baser]

Ray, is it the head coach Hyper?

[Deval]

No, because. No, because he went to Oklahoma. My first thought was Curtis Martin because I thought you're gonna say, oh, he's a good Tennessee player. I think he went to Tennessee. I don't know, but it's gotta be Peyton Manning. It's a Peyton Manning photo. Don't know what he's doing in the photo. Maybe he's taking his helmet off after a big win or throwing a touchdown. He throws his two arms up. So it's Peyton Manning signed photo incorrect.

[Baser]

I will tell you, we looked it up online and this photo signed is worth $150 on multiple sites. So we won five times our money on this poll. In the biz we call it that's a good poll. So I hit up my friend Heather and I said tell your kids that was a good pull because there was three different balls pictures they could pick from and they had their daughter Zippy pick the one and so she picked this five times the money. I need to. I probably need to pay her. So she needs a finer's fee.

[Deval]

What other Tennessee football players are there? I don't know any.

[Baser]

Well, well.

[Deval]

Oh, Hinden Hooker.

[Baser]

Well he, in my opinion, I have his jersey on the wall. He was actually qbr, one of the highest. He was. He was the highest QBR rated quarterback in 2022.

[Deval]

So it wasn't him.

[Baser]

The only reason he lost the Heisman race is because of Caleb Williams having an insane year for usc.

[Deval]

And he had his nails painted. So that's the reason.

[Baser]

No, he didn't. And he beat Alabama.

[Deval]

Okay, so it wasn't him.

[Baser]

He didn't start painting until he went to Chicago.

[Deval]

Oh, thought he was always painting.

[Baser]

Dude, it is a running back.

[Deval]

So I was right.

[Baser]

Who?

[Deval]

Curtis Martin.

[Baser]

No, there's one way more famous.

[Deval]

There's another famous running back from the University of Tennessee.

[Baser]

In high school, you maybe were first year of college. We all had him on our fantasy team.

[Deval]

I Didn't play fantasy till I was out of college. Man, I'm old.

[Baser]

And he had a saying, give the ball, give.

[Deval]

The ball.

[Kadeen]

Give.

[Deval]

The ball, give the ball, give the ball.

[Baser]

Give Jamal the ball. J. Maul Lewis. Oh, I'd have never got the greatest Tennessee Vols running back of all time. There's other guys. Like a Henry guy.

[Deval]

I was thinking Henry, but I didn't know his first name.

[Baser]

Yeah, neither.

[Deval]

But I could think is Derek Henry. But I was like, that ain't it.

[Baser]

So I definitely didn't think it was going to be worth that much. Looked it online, though.

[Deval]

What's his name?

[Baser]

Jamal Lewis. Number 31. Tennessee Vols.

[Deval]

Okay, Kurt. I've heard the name. He played for the Ravens.

[Baser]

Yeah, he was huge. I mean, he might have been the only running back in NFL history to get like 400 yards and four touchdowns in a game. He was huge. And if you guys don't know who I'm talking about, you don't know ball. You do not know.

[Deval]

Curtis Martin definitely did not go to Tennessee. He went to Pittsburgh. I'm looking up Jamal Lewis. Jamal Lewis. And oh, yeah, there he is.

[Baser]

Yeah. And I can't have you in your phone, though. This is funny also.

[Deval]

Go ahead.

[Baser]

But you're not good at multitasking.

[Deval]

No, I am. He played from 97 to 99. He went to high school. And Doug at Douglas in Atlanta. He was a first round pick, fifth overall, Ravens, and then he played for the Browns. He's a Super bowl champion. He is a play NFL offensive player of the year. He made the Pro bowl, and he's in the Baltimore Ravens ring of honor.

[Baser]

Yes.

[Deval]

Go ahead.

[Baser]

Good pull.

[Deval]

Good pull. That was fun game.

[Baser]

Baser goes, hey, I was looking it up on AI, which AI is never right, if you guys haven't realized. And she goes, hey, it's. It's Jason Witten. And I go, I can assure you it's not Jason Whitten.

[Deval]

How would she look it up on AI?

[Baser]

We knew the number and we knew the Vols. And so she was plugging it in.

[Deval]

And she goes, oh, you knew what number it was?

[Baser]

Yeah, we could see the number.

[Deval]

Okay, so they have like a window. You can look in and see the number.

[Baser]

That's why I'm not a great storyteller.

[Kadeen]

We all.

[Baser]

We could see manila envelope, Tennessee Vols. And we. And then we couldn't see anything else. I open it up and it is a black player, number 31. And he has the ball. And so still at that point, me and baser have no idea who it is. And so then we start Googling for the next 10 minutes to try and figure out who it is. And Baser goes, AI says it's Jason Whitten.

[Deval]

Well, he's white.

[Baser]

And I go, bazer, I can assure you it's not Jason Whitten. And she says, grok is not Grok. Chat GPT says it's Jason Whitten. And I go, bazer, I am telling you right now all my life, this is not Jason Witten. And then we look it up. We're like, it's Jamal Lewis.

[Deval]

And she's like, give Jamal the ball. Give Jamal the ball.

[Baser]

We look it up. $150. That was a good pull.

[Deval]

That's pretty good.

[Baser]

With that said, let's go to the store again. Let's get another one today.

[Deval]

Did you tell her that Jason Whitten was white?

[Baser]

Oh, we had the argument for two minutes. And I said, baser, we don't see color in today's world. But just to let you know, Jason Witten's white. Jamal is black. So I'm telling you, this photo is not Jason Whitten.

[Deval]

We'll be right back.

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[Deval]

All.

[Kadeen]

They had some time on their hands. Listen to Reasonably Shady from the Black Effect podcast Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Deval]

That's like, yesterday was Veterans Day, right? Kids are out of school, so I get off work and they're cooped up. It's cold outside. I'm like, guys, let's go do something fun. So I throw him in the car and we drive and drive. There's a Chick Fil A and I'm like, let's go get some lunch at Chick Fil A. I know where you were. And we go in and I'm telling you what, My pleasure. I have never seen a bigger party in my life. They had two of the cows walking around. They had a face painter. They had it all.

[Baser]

That overweight, huh?

[Deval]

The face painter. Oh, no. Oh.

[Baser]

They're doing it for Veterans Day.

[Deval]

But I'm wondering, did every Chick Fil a do this or did we just happen to hit the gold mine?

[Baser]

Yeah, yeah. They had other stuff down the street here for Veterans Day. They're doing a parade, right?

[Deval]

But this was. I mean, they had a face painter.

[Baser]

But that's what I'm saying. Maybe you guys got the one that supplied the cows for the parade. And that's where they went maybe to graze after the parade.

[Deval]

It could have been. And I'm going to tell you what my. My oldest baby box, he wanted a black dog painting on his face because our dog is black Halloween costume. And so he sits down, she's like, what can I do for you? He's like, oh, can I be a black dog? And she's like, eh, I don't think I can do an all black dog. He goes, but. But it's like, it's like. It's like chase, I wanna. I wanna look like my dog.

[Baser]

It's a pretty basic request.

[Deval]

And she goes, how about I do a black dog with white spots? Like a Dalmatian or a white dog with black spots. He goes, no, I want to be all black.

[Baser]

My son doesn't see color.

[Deval]

And she's like, ah, I'm sorry, but I just can't do all black.

[Baser]

And who is this lady anti Bob Ross?

[Deval]

I was like, lady, just draw a black dog on his cheek.

[Baser]

He's a kid. Just draw whatever.

[Deval]

But what I didn't realize was she was doing the whole face as a dog.

[Baser]

Oh, so you had a freaking puppy dog the rest of the day?

[Deval]

So she did not want to draw an all black face on him. I thought she was just going to draw a black dog on his cheek. And she kept saying, no, I can't just do a black dog. And I was so confused on why she wouldn't just draw a black damn dog. What?

[Baser]

Above and beyond painting.

[Deval]

Exactly. And that is why she painted their faces like this.

[Baser]

That's awesome.

[Deval]

It's really good. It's really freaking good.

[Baser]

Why does your kid actually look good as a dog?

[Deval]

I mean, it looks so good. I mean, I thought she did a great job.

[Baser]

How long were you there, Bob Ross? Like two hours.

[Deval]

No, it took her like three minutes.

[Baser]

Yeah. That's phenomenal.

[Deval]

Phenomenal job.

[Baser]

You're what? You walk in with your wife, I mean, thinks you brought the dogs inside, keep them out.

[Deval]

And when they were done, I said, hey, guys, what do you say? And they go, thank you. And I say, no, you say, ruff, ruff. God, you missed a chance for a great joke. But I could not understand.

[Baser]

What do you dogs want from Chick fil A? You want some dog food?

[Deval]

I couldn't understand why she wouldn't do a black dog.

[Baser]

Makes sense now.

[Deval]

Makes sense.

[Baser]

Couldn't understand why Baszler thought it was Jason Whitten.

[Deval]

And your story tied perfectly into my story about how baser thought a black guy was Jason Whitten. And this lady wouldn't do blackface for a dog because she was doing the whole face. I was like, lady, you're about to lose this kid. He's going to lose his mind if you won't just draw a black dog on his cheek. But she was going full throttle. And it was awesome. It was great.

[Baser]

Then you know why I like that? Why I like the chocolate? Hot chocolate. Because that's real life. That's not AI. You know why I like the painting on the kid's face? Because it's not AI.

[Deval]

Yeah, anything that's not AI is good. Then we headed over the trampoline park, and they've changed the rules at the trampoline park all of a sudden. They're strict about everything. No bras, no. If you don't have trampoline socks, Even as a parent, you can't even walk around up where the trampolines are.

[Baser]

Insurance.

[Deval]

And I'm like. So they're like, dad, dad, come up here and play with. And I'm like, guys, I didn't bring socks.

[Baser]

I have fungus.

[Deval]

And I did do something that I'm pretty ashamed of. I was one of those parents.

[Baser]

You hit on another woman there?

[Deval]

No, I had the laptop out, and I was doing my work.

[Baser]

Was it the pod?

[Deval]

It's the big show.

[Baser]

Anybody asks you, hey, man, what you working on Over? Posting a podcast.

[Deval]

Exactly. Some people got their mouse out. You know what I mean? They're clicking around. I'm sitting there, and I'm like, I am one of those parents that we make fun of taking a computer. But I was like, I've got to do my work for the big show. They're at the trampoline park. I mean, this is a great time. I can't go up there and play because I don't have trampoline socks, and I don't want to pay the $8 for trampoline socks. And so I pulled out the computer and I sat there, and I was like, man, I look like an absolute idiot. And baby box came to complain about everything. Dad, dad, the basketball goal. It says we can't hang on the rim anymore. Okay, well, last time we could. Okay, bud, the rules have changed. I'm sorry. You know what I mean? Like, I don't know. Just go have fun. Okay. Five minutes later. Dad, dad. Now that there's signs that say only one kid per trampoline, we used to be able to jump all on one trampoline. Okay, well, I'm sorry they changed the rules. What Just go have fun. Dad. Dad, over there, it says you have to be 50 inches tall to get on that one. Now, we used to jump on it. Now I can't. Okay, what do you want me to do? Why did they change everything, Dad? I don't know. Dad, can we. Can we get a card so we can play the video games? No, we came here to jump on trampolines. We're not playing damn video games.

[Baser]

Was it packed?

[Deval]

No, it was empty. The one we went to was empty. Awesome.

[Baser]

On Veterans Day.

[Deval]

It was great. It was great.

[Baser]

Maybe the world's working again.

[Deval]

And I was like, this is the perfect one because there's not that many people. And eventually they got over the. Okay, you know, the rules have changed. And they had fun. They jumped for, like, two hours. Then the bad part was it was time to get flu shots. And I know, I know some people don't get flu shots. Aaron Rodgers. Save the. Save the emails. Save the complaints. I do flu shots for my kids. Don't. Don't. I don't care what you say. You're not going to change my mind. But I don't like telling my kids that we're going to get flu shots because they're scared of needles.

[Baser]

A lot of our truck drivers are anti vax.

[Kadeen]

And.

[Deval]

We'Re driving home like, all right, dad, what are we gonna do now? And I'm like, oh, we're gonna go do something.

[Baser]

Just a little stick in a poke.

[Deval]

We're gonna go do something. And we drive past our neighborhood. And they're like, where are we going? Where are we going? Where are we going?

[Baser]

I'm like, I'll just tell them.

[Deval]

No, I don't tell them. Cause when you tell them, they start freaking out.

[Baser]

Dude, you act like you're dealing with convicts.

[Deval]

No, it is. It really is. I'm like, we're not going anywhere. We're not going anywhere. We're just going down here real quick. We're going down here real quick. And I mean, about a minute and a half after we get past our neighborhood, my oldest looks at the middle, goes, I know where we're going because we're going to get flu shots.

[Baser]

They were on to the warden, dude.

[Deval]

He called it out. I mean, he literally called it out. And I'm on the phone with my sister. I was like, oh, my gosh. He just told him that we're going to get flu shots. He figured it out. She goes, damn, he's smart. I'm like, yeah, he knows where we're going. He goes, we're going to get flu shots. And both. They all immediately. I don't want to get a flu shot. I don't want to get a flu shot. I'm not going first. I'm not going first. They start freaking out. They start freaking out. And we get to the doctor, and, I mean, they're hiding in the corner. They won't get up on the table. And baby box is like, oh, I got to go to the bathroom. I got to go to the bathroom. So he won't have to go first. So he goes and sits in the bathroom for like 15 minutes. And I'm knocking on the door. I'm like, what are you doing? He's like, I'm almost done. And I said, you said you were just peeing. Well, I'm pooping now. I'm pooping. I'm like, you're still gonna have to get the shot either way.

[Baser]

I hear him. I got sick on the number two.

[Deval]

So he came in there and they do the shot. And for the next two hours, Baby box. I can't walk. It hurts so bad. I can't walk. Oh, my gosh. I can't walk. It was so ridiculous.

[Baser]

Yep.

[Deval]

What are you doing?

[Baser]

The last time I got mine.

[Deval]

That's a Covid shot.

[Baser]

Ashland City, Tennessee, 3-17-21.

[Deval]

That's a Covid. That's not a flu.

[Baser]

And then I got it April 9, 2021.

[Kadeen]

Wow.

[Deval]

Yeah. And so how did we. How did we get over it? We did the shots and we went and got strawberry milkshakes, man, to celebrate. And that still didn't cure his leg. Even this morning. My wife texted me and said he's still complaining his leg doesn't work because of the shot.

[Baser]

Well, get ready, kid. If there's ever a pandemic in 20 years, the second shot you get is going to make you feel like crap. Make you feel a lot worse than that. I was dog sick for, like a week.

[Deval]

Oh, man, what a day. Happy Veterans Day. Happy Wednesday.

[Baser]

We cover everything we needed to.

[Deval]

I think so. I mean, we.

[Baser]

Baseball, basketball.

[Deval]

Yeah. We didn't talk about Wimby hitting a three and then a step back three against the Bulls the other night. But, I mean, I don't know, what else are we going to talk about?

[Baser]

To be real, NBA OKC is going to win it. MVP is going to be.

[Deval]

They're really good.

[Baser]

They got a six man called IJ Mitchell, who's really good.

[Deval]

Yeah, but really the MVP every year is Jokic. He is the best player in the.

[Baser]

World according to Vegas, they're the only team that has any prayer at stopping okc, and they're not going to stop him till the finals.

[Deval]

Finals, yeah. The only problem is they're both in the Western Conference, so if they. If they somehow meet in the Finals, that'd be unbelievable. I mean, we didn't even talk about those dudes that were throwing balls on purpose for $5,000. The relievers for the Guardians, they were making millions of dollars. And then people were like, hey, we'll pay you $5,000 if you come in and your first pitch is a ball.

[Baser]

Emmanuel cla saying, that Ortiz guy.

[Deval]

Yeah. Well, the problem is some of the people were swinging at the pitchers.

[Baser]

The one guy swung at Splitter, and the guy sends him a sad face or whatever, acted like he was hanging. And Emmanuel Clase sends him back a sad face emoji, like, oh, didn't know he was going to swing at the ball. So they cleared $12,000 and gave up and risked 20 million, 28 million. Boys. The power of the dollar has not lost any value.

[Deval]

I mean, that is crazy, because they're like, oh, I can get an extra 5,000 every time I pitch. How amazing people.

[Baser]

Did you see it? He asked the guy the. Well, whoever he was dealing with, the mob, Emmanuel Claus and Ortiz, they go, oh, so it can just be any pitch. And the guy goes, yeah, just like one of the more popular ones is the first pitch of your outing. So since he was a closer, first pitch, Emmanuel Colosse ball, he would throw it five feet before the plate. These balls. These pitches weren't even close.

[Deval]

Oh, man.

[Baser]

Then he got a little risky and did a splitter across the middle, and the guy swung at it when it hit the plate. Dumbass swings at a splitter in the dirt on the first pitch.

[Deval]

Send a sad face. Stupid, unbelievable, unfreaking, believable. I mean, it's everywhere. This just tells you it's everywhere.

[Baser]

Well, then he facilitated his buddy Ortiz to come in. And so he or emmanuel clase got 5k. Ortiz got 5k for ortiz throwing a ball.

[Deval]

Yeah. And then John Moran. I mean, FBI. You need to tag the FBI in all his videos. He's. He's given up. Have you watched him play? He doesn't care anymore. He doesn't even try.

[Baser]

I saw it where he said, ask my team. Ask my coaches.

[Deval]

Yeah, ask my coaches, man. We're all good. Ask my coaches if they told you that. We're good. Yeah.

[Baser]

All right.

[Deval]

We gotta go, man.

[Kadeen]

Yeah.

[Baser]

All right.

[Deval]

We already buzz.

[Baser]

Yeah.

[Deval]

All right.

[Kadeen]

Eva I'm Eva Longoria. And I'm Maite Gomez Rejuan. And this week on our podcast, Hungry for History, we talk oysters. Plus, the Miami chief stops by.

[Baser]

If you are not an oyster lover.

[Deval]

Don'T even talk to me.

[Kadeen]

Ancient Athenians used to scratch names onto oyster shells to vote politicians into exile. So our word ostracize is related to the word oyster. No way. Bring back the ostracon. Listen to Hungry for history on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. Jingle bells, jingle bells Jingle all the way.

[Deval]

Yo, yo, yo, yo. Can we get Thanksgiving first? I'm hungry.

[Kadeen]

What's up, y'? All?

[Deval]

It's Kadeen and Deval, the hosts of the Ellis Ever after podcast.

[Kadeen]

This holiday season, tune out the noise.

[Baser]

And tune in to Ellis Ever After.

[Kadeen]

On Ellis Ever after, we get real with our crew about family, love, and.

[Baser]

Marriage and everything else in between.

[Kadeen]

Listen to Ellis Ever after on America's number one podcast network, iHeart. Follow Ellis ever after and start listening on the free iHeartRadio app today. You know the shade is always shadiest right here. Season six of the podcast Reasonably Shady with Gisele Bryant and Robyn Dixon is here dropping every Monday as two of the founding members of the Real Housewives Potomac. We're giving you all the laughs, drama and and reality news you can handle. And you know, we don't hold back. So come be reasonable or shady with us each and every Monday. Listen to Reasonably Shady from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. This is an I heart podcast.