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Ray
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Lunchbox
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Ray
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Ray
I started it. Oh, you did? Oh, crap. We're now doing talk radio.
Lunchbox
All right, we're going, man. How are you, man?
Ray
Talked to a guy this weekend, Billy's buddy, and he said you.
Lunchbox
Yeah, Alex.
Ray
He said, I listen to the podcast. I go, oh, dude, thanks for supporting the big show. And he goes, no, I listen to sore losers, dude. He's like, we're driving around. He's like, I'll throw it on every once in a while. I'm like, thanks, man.
Lunchbox
Where's Alex live?
Ray
Atx.
Lunchbox
Well, thank you, Alex. How's Billy known?
Ray
They work together, so they're boys. And Alex knows me from Austin, but I don't know him. He knew of me but now he's friends with Billy and then we all hang out. But yeah, he always his favorite quote this weekend, man, you're not the old Ray. And I go, Alex, the 10th time he said it, I go, alex, if you're listening. I said the old Ray was 18 years old. I'm 40 now.
Lunchbox
You're not the old Alex. You're not the old Billy. We all change over time. No one is the same person they were 10 years ago. You change, you evolve. You go down bad roads, you take left, there's forks in road, the got to come back and go down the other fort because you made the wrong turn. If you're the same person you were 10 years ago, then, yeah, there's something wrong with you. It's sort of like last year. 20, 24 brave.
Ray
My body count was.
Lunchbox
No, it's not about a body count. And I was in Austin for the iHeart Festival, and I met up with a buddy that I hadn't seen in probably seven, eight years.
Ray
Carlos.
Lunchbox
No, not Carlos. And we all met up after the concert on Saturday night. We went to a bar. I'd been working my ass off all day long in the heat. I was tired. I just wanted a few drinks. I wasn't there to get smashed.
Ray
Why do you think I told my story? I teed this up for you perfectly.
Lunchbox
You did. And the buddy that I hadn't seen in, like, eight years, he's like, oh, dude, I'll order you a vodka soda and we'll do a. Well, tequila shot. And I'm like, no, I'm not. I don't really want to do a shot. He's like, what do you mean? We're all doing shots. We're all doing tequila.
Ray
Well, I hope you don't mind. I don't do wells.
Lunchbox
And I said, nah, man, you know, I'm just going to have a few drinks. I'm not here to. And he's like, who even are you? This isn't a lunchbox. I know.
Ray
There we go.
Lunchbox
Dude, I haven't seen you in eight years. He goes, why are you not going to take a tequila shot? We always do a tequila shot. I'm like, yeah, when we were in our early or late 20s and we had nothing to do and we hadn't been working all day. Yeah, you want to have a tequila shot? I'll have five of them. But tonight I don't feel like having a tequila shot. He's like, I'm going to still order you one. You're going to do it. I'm like, no, no, no. I'm really not going to do it. Like, I don't want to do it. Like, maybe when I was 25, you could have said, you're not going to do it. Oh, I'M going to order you one anyway.
Ray
And I would do it outside of the thirsty pickle. I would have done it correct. Thirsty nickel.
Lunchbox
Thirsty nickel.
Ray
Wooden nickel.
Lunchbox
Thirsty nickel. Okay, and now I'm just going to tell you no. And so if you order it, you're wasting your money because I don't want to do it. You're just not the same, dude. You've changed, man.
Ray
This must be a pattern.
Lunchbox
I was just like, yeah, bro. Like, I mean, I don't mind going hard sometimes, but tonight I'm just here to have a few drinks with my boys, chat, catch up on life, and that's it.
Ray
Justin calls it going hard in the paint. He'll say, hey, tonight I'm going to go hard in the paint. Or tonight I'm just going to have a couple.
Lunchbox
There you go. I'm going to stand outside and shoot some threes. I'm not really trying to. I'm not really trying to bang down low. I'm not trying to, you know, take it hard. I'm just going to have a nice, relaxed evening, Throw up a couple threes, they go in great. If they don't, guess what, I'm going home early. Not a big deal.
Ray
It's NBA basketball.
Lunchbox
It's 100%. But, yes, we all change. So don't tell me, oh, you're not the same. No crap.
Ray
But these Austin kids, I'm saying, must not be changing. And we're getting outside of that bubble, and we're changing, and they can see it.
Lunchbox
You're right. You're right. I think you're right. Because Chess day. I heart radio weekend when we go, you changed again. He doesn't say you've changed, but he's just like, man, I look forward to that weekend. I'm ready to go. And he's ready to go hard in the paint starting on Friday night. All weekend, he's ready to go. Like the minute I get off the plane. And me, I'm like, ah, man, I got to pick which night because I got to work all weekend. People think it's just, oh, you just show up and you do nothing. No, you got to talk to people. It's exhausting.
Ray
I gotta go live on Hulu.
Lunchbox
It's gotta be exhaust. It's exhausting the entire time. But, yes, we change. We can't do it. Can't go hard in the pain. Every single night after he said it.
Ray
A couple of times, Baser gets on the text thread we were on all in the same one. Probably not the best idea. Baser Goes, yeah, he's changed. He's a different person now. And then that's when I go, Yeah, I was 18, borderline 19 then. I'm almost 40. I'm talking about retirement. Like, what are you talking about? You're talking about the single kid that didn't know his left leg from his man. I'm a. I'm a. I was a boy then. I'm a man now.
Lunchbox
Yeah. And I mean, like, leading into your weekend, I mean, on Friday, I have to say, you are the weirdest human I've ever met.
Ray
Oh, this was funny.
Lunchbox
You are the weirdest human I've ever met.
Ray
A great memory, because first memory of the weekend was the. Almost the. No, I'm kidding. It was an amazing weekend.
Lunchbox
But this was hilarious because Ray came on this podcast and said that he was having a fight with BAE about what to do with the bags. Do I walk him to the hotel? Do I leave them here? And then we come over here in the middle of the night, Friday, and get them and take them to the hotel. And so we get done with work on Friday. I was like, hey, man, you want me to just drop you at the hotel with your bags? No, no, man, I'll. I'll just walk it. It's only like two and a half, three blocks. I'll just walk. I'm like, all right, man. I mean, I. I'm just going that way. If you want me to drop you off. No, no, I mean, I gotta, like. I gotta change into shorts and everything, so. You don't want to wait that long? What? Well, why would you have to change into shorts if I'm just gonna drive you to the hotel? You could probably change in your hotel. Oh, man, no, I mean. No. I mean, it's just. It's too much of a hassle. It's so much easier if I just LUG these things three and a half blocks in the hundred percent humidity and 85 degrees outside. I mean, I'm gonna be sweating like a whore in church. But, hey, no big deal. I don't need you to do that. Okay, man. All right, suit yourself. And then he. 10 seconds later. What floor are you parked on? I said, I'm on floor three. He goes, you know what? I think I can change in my shorts a lot quicker than I thought I could. And if you don't mind, I could run up and get the bags out of my car and I'll meet you down at your car. And could you drop me off at the hotel? And I said, yeah, man, no, Problem. We can do that. No, I don't want to be a bother man. I don't want to be a bother. You know what, it's only two bags. It's one suitcase in a bag. So it's not really in that many bags. It'll be easier if I just carry it. And we have this back and forth for like 10 minutes. We could have been at the hotel. And the amount of time and debating that Ray did with himself about is it easier to lug a bag in a suitcase three and a half blocks or throw them in the back of the car and me drop him off and be done in 30 seconds. Unbelievable. Why are you so weird?
Ray
Yeah, a lot of regerts man. My bad.
Lunchbox
Why are you so freaking weird?
Ray
But I'm happy I did the ride because actually the next day I did a Gatorade run. The next morning. Dude, I broke a sweat. So I can only imagine what I would have done with luggage bags and a long sleeve shirt that two blocks in the city isn't what it used to be. Holy crap man. When you got a sore back and plantar fasciitis, it took me about 30 minutes.
Lunchbox
And your, your walk would have been uphill.
Ray
And I asked the lady at the gas station, I go hey, we work next door. You guys used to always be open 24 hours. She goes yeah, we got robbed. They stole our ATM machine. Now we close from midnight to 5am because of crime. I was like, oh, what time is it? It's like 5:05. Oh, I missed the window.
Lunchbox
Wow. Yeah, that's, that's, I'm glad you weren't there at five o' clock man. You'd have been, you'd got robbed and there would have been no Gatorade because they wouldn't have been opened yet.
Ray
No, don't worry. There was a line ten deep. Me and nine other construction workers. Hey guys, anybody else hung over? Why is this line not moving?
Lunchbox
Yeah, and then I, I, I got a text right after I dropped you off at the hotel and it was from Justin. And he said, breaking news, there will be fireworks this weekend. Thanks Justin. I mean I said thanks. What did I tell him back? I said thanks for letting me know because I don't know what that has to do with me, but I'm cool. And he says now you're in the know.
Ray
He must have been a couple deep. He took a $66 Uber.
Lunchbox
No.
Ray
Yeah, that was the most expensive one of the weekend. Oh, but not the highest charge of the entire weekend.
Lunchbox
Crash at the hotel he did the.
Ray
First night and then Ubered again in the morning. He just ubered the whole time. He never drove.
Lunchbox
Interesting. All right, well, we better start the show. But that was. That was the start of the weekend. I can't wait to hear about how the weekend went. There's got to be stories upon stories upon stories.
Ray
There is, but. But I don't want to get to the point where I am bragging because I just learned this weekend that Billy's a billionaire. Good God. Bones may have more money than him, but Billy spends more. Good God.
Lunchbox
So you're telling me Billy knows how to live like he lives life?
Ray
I'm telling you right now, there is an underbelly of this city you and me have never been purviewed to. And I found it out this weekend.
Lunchbox
No crap, Ray.
Ray
You about to take me on a ride?
Lunchbox
Cause let me tell you, I went on an underbelly of this city that you have never been a part of.
Ray
This weekend, the Teenage Men Ninja Turtles.
Lunchbox
So, I mean, we both were living the life of luxury in different ways. Go ahead. I mean, start the show, man. I gotta hear.
Ray
All right. Arnold will be in on Wednesday, guys. He's doing cms, a FES cleanup for extra money.
Lunchbox
Very nice. That's good service.
Ray
He's cleaning the throw up off Broadway.
Lunchbox
Oh, God. I can't imagine how much throw up was on Broadway.
Ray
Well, he called me and left a voicemail. And this. I'll play it for you. Hey, cleaning up some of this pukey. I'll miss tomorrow's show. Whoa, it smells bad. Oh, is that a Red Bull shot? Whoop, there's a fireball. Talk to you later, man.
Lunchbox
Sounds like he's having a rough time.
Ray
So he is out today. He will be back on Wednesday. We're going to do it live. We are the 1, 2, 3. Sore losers.
Lunchbox
What up, everybody? I am Lunchbox. I know the most about sports. So I'll give you the sports facts, my sports opinions, because I'm pretty much a sports genius, y' all.
Ray
Sizz from the north, Alpha male, live on the north side of Nashville with bazer, my wife. 2.2 acres, 2.2 kids at Vanderbilt. Justin checks on him typically every weekend. Wasn't able to. This weekend he was slaughtered and sauteed. Otherwise, we're good, man. Over to you.
Lunchbox
It's not about me today. Today's about you living the billionaire lifestyle.
Ray
It was. It was. It was the silver spoon.
Lunchbox
I mean, it's pretty amazing that we were able to get done in Time on Friday that your group was still running late for brunch. So you didn't even miss brunch.
Ray
It which would have been to keep up with this group. You had to go start at the starting line. You couldn't do a pace car delay with these guys.
Lunchbox
I was a little disappointed that not a single one of them when I dropped you off at the hotel, finally, when you finally decided to get in the vehicle, then not a single one of you them met you at the curb. Not one person was out there to say, ray, let's get this weekend started right?
Ray
And I had my best friend up there, another best friend. I had my own wife. I had a girl now that is becoming slow, fast quickly becoming our best friend in Angelina. And not one person met me with a little welcome party to the party.
Lunchbox
Yeah. That's what I was really like, man. This is not off to a good start. I was really shocked by that. There was no.
Ray
Got to be real. Thought there was going to be a whole welcome party. Like, I just got back from war.
Lunchbox
Yep, I did too. I thought they were going to be standing outside lobby cheering like, yeah, let's go. But nothing.
Ray
Ray, you put in a good shift at work.
Lunchbox
So let's hear it.
Ray
So do we need to take a break?
Lunchbox
Do we need to take a break? No, we don't.
Ray
No, man, no. No.
Lunchbox
So would you like to take a break? Is your stories long?
Ray
No. There. No. I don't tell stories like you. I'm just giving you highlights.
Lunchbox
Okay.
Ray
Okay. And you ask your questions that need you see fit. But it started with Billy and them. Did I already say it? On Friday's pod, they all missed their flights and everything.
Lunchbox
Didn't hear about that.
Ray
So, I mean, they were out all night. They said screw it. They didn't get a text or something that their gate changed and they just totally missed the flight. They were at the airport and they said, apparently you can order bottles at the airport. They got a bottle of 1942 and missed the flight.
Lunchbox
Oh.
Ray
And after that, hit the strip club. They stayed up all night until 7am and took a flight in the morning.
Lunchbox
Wow. Okay.
Ray
That is how I was welcomed to them.
Lunchbox
So Thursday night they were supposed to be here.
Ray
I come in fresh off of a shift with the big show and a small shift with a little show. Did we do a shift? We did.
Lunchbox
Yeah, we did do a shift. And that was when we heard about the bags.
Ray
And they came in hot, man. They had already taken a hot lap all around America. And when Billy's Hammered. He's very touchy because we're best friends. I mean, he was in. He was one inch away from my face.
Lunchbox
He's a close talker when there's alcohol involved and.
Ray
And just touch my best friend. I don't care what he does. But this is what I had to deal with. 12 hours of the Bone show. And then I walk into, hey, man. Yeah, how you been? Out you been. I mean, him and Alex were mauling me. And we look at, There was like 10 other girls in the hotel room. And Baser's like, we've all. We've already been here for 10 minutes. These guys are crazy. I look over at Angelina, she's like, who are these people? We look over these 10 New York girls and they go, what is with your friends? And I go, since the divorce, he's been going a little crazy.
Lunchbox
It's okay. Understandable.
Ray
More on that later. Advice from his therapist. We're not touching on it right now.
Lunchbox
Okay.
Ray
Advice from his therapist.
Lunchbox
Okay.
Ray
So at that point, Billy thinks that we're going to the pool. He's got his. He's got like camouflage swim trunks on and a baseball jersey.
Lunchbox
Oh, he thinks you're going to Dustin lynch pool party at 3 o' clock Margaritaville.
Ray
And I go, cut. Billy, what are you wearing? Like, dude, throw something else. Alex has cowboy boots and bathing suit on and a button down shirt that was ripped in half. I'm like, guys, it kind of could work for CMA Fest, but throw something else on. And the girls are going to the pool. Billy was confused. He thought we were going to the pool. And Baser goes, we've been texting all week about going to brunch. And so then the girls from New York, standup class act, they said, go to brunch. Y' all are all friends from college. Y' all go do your brunch. So we split up. New York girls. Ten of them went up top.
Lunchbox
How did we get these New York girls?
Ray
New York girls randomly enough were at CMA Fest last year and we all met and they came back the exact same week. Me and Basa were going to always do CMA Fest. Billy hit us up two weeks ago and said, I'm coming.
Lunchbox
So the New York girls became friends with you guys last year and you guys planned it all together.
Ray
The New York girls became friends with Billy. They hit Billy up and said, hey, we're coming again this year. Are you? He hit up baser and said, hey, I'm coming. Then Baser randomly follows one of the Girls on Instagram. And she goes, hey, hey, are you doing team A, Fez? We're doing it. We're doing it. We're staying at the W. We're all staying at the W. Beautiful.
Lunchbox
Love the planning. Love, love the spur of the moment.
Ray
So organic. And so then we go to brunch. And I had maybe one small conversation with Billy until the shot started. We did. And I memory was on point because I had one. Truly, we did no less than four shots of 1942 before 11:30.
Lunchbox
Damn.
Ray
And every time the waiter would come over, Alex, what's his line? Not, Ray, you've changed. His line was. What time is it? I don't know, man. Lunchtime, Shop time.
Lunchbox
Oh, God, he sounds like Martinez, man. I mean, that's like him at coach's convention. Hey, man, you want a shot?
Ray
No.
Lunchbox
It's been 10 seconds. You want a shot? No. Martinez, like, stop. I don't know how your wife puts up with you.
Ray
By the. By the second one girl bartender comes over. Guys, is everything good? You guys have been in a great group. You're spending a ton of money. Is everything good? Yeah. I got one question for you. You know what time it is? She pauses, waits for it. We all go. Shot time. There's people just eating their morning brunch, trying to gear up for CMA fest, and we're yelling, shot time.
Lunchbox
Okay, I like this.
Ray
And at this point, I mean, there'd been three or four bartenders all over coming over, hey, you guys are great. Hey. They knew we were a. A problem then. They needed to keep Billy controlled a little bit. But they also knew we were spending money.
Lunchbox
They love that. They like money being spent.
Ray
Smash cut. The check comes out, It's $500. Billy says, I'm paying for it. And I go, billy, I actually work a job.
Lunchbox
Hold up. Did you say $500 for brunch?
Ray
Yeah. And whoa, you rich.
Lunchbox
Rich.
Ray
And I said, baza works a job, I work a job. We're proud to have jobs and make money. Then we can afford the food that we eat. I don't need you buying all this weekend. Pardon? And 1743, 1942. And he goes, no, no, I'm paying for it. And then he gives her like $100 tip on that. Yes, that was 20%. Yeah, that was a good tip. But so $600 for brunch.
Lunchbox
Okay.
Ray
And we probably need to take the break because that's going to be the break in the bars that we go to.
Lunchbox
Yeah, we take a break.
Ray
And it stopped. The Break stops at Alex. Middle of the road. There's a cop directing traffic. He goes up to the cop after four shots of 1942, puts his arm around the cop and wants a picture. The cop smiled. I got that picture. We'll put it on the Instagram and.
Lunchbox
We'Ll be right back.
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Ray
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Lunchbox
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Ray
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Lunchbox
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Ray
I'm good. Seriously.
Lunchbox
Let me check this pocket.
Ray
Oh, mints. Really, I'm fine. Oh, I have raisins. I'm a mom. Wait, wait one sec. I've got cupcakes in the car.
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Lunchbox
I mean, that is baller. That is like going up to the. That's. That's risque.
Ray
It's Angelina Bazer, me, Alex, Billy.
Lunchbox
Got it. And New York. New Yorkers are at the pool.
Ray
New Yorkers are at the pool. And so then we go to Barstool. Okay, Good spot. Billy apparently never been to Barstool, and so this.
Lunchbox
Is this his choice. Are you recommending you go to Barstool?
Ray
Trying to think of some good spots. And I. It's always a great go to. And so I go, let's do Barstool, Billy.
Lunchbox
Yeah, let's go to Barstool.
Ray
Like we were going to Chuck E. Cheese's.
Lunchbox
Love it.
Ray
It's 11:30 in the morning, dude. I mean, it was.
Lunchbox
Yeah, starting early, man.
Ray
There was basically nobody there. But we roll up and instantly. Buckets of High Noon. Buckets of High noon White walkers. Buckets of High noon Red Bull vodkas. What? There was definitely another round in 1942. And at that point, I hit up Kitty. Kitty goes, hey, what are you guys doing? And I go, dude, get here. Because there's alcohol that's just not even gonna get drank. When. When Billy's having fun, he'll buy. Let's just put a number on it. 75 drinks, and we drink 15 of them.
Lunchbox
That's smart. That's good math. I mean, that's really a good use of your money to just have a bunch of wasted alcohol. So Kitty, the afternoon guy, or is the evening guy. I don't even know what he is. He comes.
Ray
Yeah, he met up with us.
Lunchbox
Love it.
Ray
And, hey, coach, are you sure I can have one of these high noons? McKitty, Billy has bought no less than 55 high noons. We're not drinking anywhere close to all of them. Have as many as you want. So we're taking pictures. The band was good. Billy's talking to every waitress in the entire bar. Literally the life of the party.
Lunchbox
Love it.
Ray
Like, he's the biggest connector. He met all of Nashville in 48 hours.
Lunchbox
That's how he does it.
Ray
And so we're doing the Nooners. Still doing pictures. There was no games or anything good on. But at that part, I feel like the groups were starting to Split. So then. Well, no, they wanted to go. They're going to go chill with all the New York girls, and we kind of wanted to get away from the crowd.
Lunchbox
Who. Who. Who was going to show New York girls? Alex and Billy.
Ray
Billy got it. But McKitty goes, hey, Gabby Barrett's going on at 4. If you guys haven't enjoyed the story, get ready. Gets a little bit more interested. McKitty goes, hey, at 4, we can get in. Gabby Barrett and I go, cool. Let's just go to Gabby Barrett. I'm not thinking. McKitty has connections, right?
Lunchbox
Yeah, dude.
Ray
So we go to Casa La Rosa, and there's a line wrapped around Casa Rosa, the entire side. You can't even move. Like, I mean, it's gridlocked. We go around. We're cutting through people, security guards. No, you can't do this. McKitty. Oh, they're with the radio station. I know him. Some people saying, stop. We just kept going. Velvet rope move. Velvet rope moved. We cut an entire line and go up these stairs to the private area. Every executive I heart is up in this private VIP area, and we're going up there. After seven shots in 1942, in the.
Lunchbox
Casa La Rosa, it's you, baser Angelina.
Ray
Justin meets up at this time.
Lunchbox
Justin shows up.
Ray
Alex. Billy corralled them. They wanted to go bounce around, but we said, hey, let's at least see one country show.
Lunchbox
So they were gonna go pool, but once they heard about Gabby Barrett, they joined you.
Ray
Yes. And so what's the one thing I told Billy?
Lunchbox
Don't talk to the execs.
Ray
I go, dude, I get you're a businessman making business deals, and you got that money. But, dude, here's the deal. Keep it cool with the business guys. They're literally the presidents of our company. He goes, no problem. Not a problem at all. So I'm talking to Gator, I'm talking to Rod. There's label people. I'm trying to keep it together. Bazer's doing a great job massaging conversations. Angelina. Just killing it. Everybody's like, who are these girls? Well, that's my wife. That's Angelina. Just having a blast. Having a blast. Everybody's lost sight of Billy. Last thing I told him, mind your P's and Q's. These executives about the brass and nuts of Iheart.
Lunchbox
Oh, boy.
Ray
We look over at the bar. He has bought 100 shots of vodka for the entire room. That had about 20 people in it. Dude. You couldn't even see the bar. There are that many shots of vodka on it. And so it starts circulating. People are like, what shot is it? What is that? Tequila. Billy got a hundred shots of well vodka.
Lunchbox
Oh, my God.
Ray
The richest man became the poorest man. And cut. The poorest shot you could ever have got.
Lunchbox
I will never forget, I was at Element down in San Antonio nightclub, and my buddy Joel ordered well vodka shots. And he saw me walking up the stairs like, oh, dude, here's a shot. Here's a shot. It was well vodka. And I took it as I was walking up the stairs to the second floor of Element. No, it wasn't Element. Oh, my God. That. That's in Austin. No, no, no, no. Level. Level was the dang club. And I took it and I immediately regurgitated that thing in level.
Ray
It's the worst shot you can have.
Lunchbox
And I had to put my hand over my mouth because it was warm and it was straight. Just vodka.
Ray
Well, do you think they have. Do you think they can chill 100 vodka? No.
Lunchbox
No Jazz.
Ray
It was warm as piss.
Lunchbox
So when you say well, and that was the last time I ever believe I took a straight vodka shot because I was like, that was so God awful that I had a little bit of throw up on my hands. I swallowed it back down. But I was like, I will never do that again. Even how inebriated I was at level. And I was like, oh, so you saying he ordered 100 shots of vodka? Took me back to San Antonio circa 20, 22.
Ray
And so 22, 2002 people smash cut back to CMA Fest this weekend after we just took a trip 20 years ago to level guys. Billy is now realizing that we can't do that. Nobody wants this shot. So what does Billy do? He's a pleaser. He then gets a hundred orange juice things that we can shoot it with with an orange so that we won't taste the vodka. This bar is the dude, the bartender for 20 minutes was making these shots. It is stacked with so many shots. I'm telling execs, guys, you got to come back label people all. I'm not trying to drink. It's. It was actually four at that point. I'm trying to take it slow, you know, asking Gator. I don't drink. I mean, of the a hundred, it was about eight of us took this warm to keep vodka shot and put it down. And we left littered on the counter. 80 shots that went on drank. Don't even know the price tag on this.
Lunchbox
So wait, wait, wait. So how do they. Did they. Did the bartender just wipe them away or they just sat there.
Ray
Don't know. This was the story of the weekend, guys. If you're out there, truck drivers, you know, this is. It's wastefulness. It's opulence, and it was disgusting. But you know what? I enjoyed it for 48 hours. So we just left all these bars. There was a menu of drinks you could get for free. And we went and bought the shots when we could get anything we wanted for free, man. But at this moment is when we split up.
Lunchbox
This is when we go our separate ways. You say, billy, you need a break.
Ray
Bill. Well, he was on another level and wanted to meet up with the New York girls because they were doing pool. Yeah, we had the pool at the.
Lunchbox
W. And he needed that.
Ray
We went Odies Midtown. Yeah, they went pool. The group split up for the night. Justin. We ended up back at our place there playing cards, Bazer and him, till 1:30 in the morning. I went in and out of rest, woke up Justin. He was sleeping on a love seat that was maybe three feet. Three feet of his legs were hanging off on the ground.
Lunchbox
That's not comfortable.
Ray
And that's how we went to bed Friday night.
Lunchbox
That okay? Because I got a text from Justin on Friday at 3:38pm it's like trying to track down six homeless people. No context, no anything. It's like trying to track down six homeless people. That was all he said.
Ray
He was probably having trouble finding us.
Lunchbox
And I was like, I don't know what you mean. I don't know what you're talking about. I have no idea. I have no frame of reference for what is going on in your life right now. And so I just ignored it and I didn't respond. And that was the last text I received from Justin this weekend.
Ray
And I did know that they were alive, though, that night, Friday night, because there was at Jelly Rolls, they dropped another 20 shots of 1942 and they came out with the sign. And Alex thought he'd give a shout out to the show, but they didn't have enough S's. So it said Bobby Bone Show.
Lunchbox
Okay. Could have done Sore Losers podcast, but that's okay. A little less S's, but I wasn't even there. That's really funny. That's good.
Ray
We got to take a break. We got to go to Saturday.
Lunchbox
Can I tell you what I did Friday?
Ray
Yeah, go.
Lunchbox
Because I told the kids on Thursday, hey, we're going to go to the pool all day Friday, guys. All day. And then I looked at the radar and there was thunderstorms rolling in, in and out. And I was like, guys, we're not going to go to the pool. You promise we could go to the pool? You promised we could go to the pool. So your boy had to pivot. He had to think of something fast. I was like, boys, put your shoes on.
Ray
W pool party. Billy and some New York chicks.
Lunchbox
We are heading to the W. I.
Ray
Wish that was the story.
Lunchbox
That would have been awesome that we show up, me and my three kids at your damn W hotel.
Ray
Yeah, lunch has changed. Apparently, he has three kids now. Guys, since Austin.
Lunchbox
And I said, boys, put your shoes on. We're going to the trampoline park. And so me and the three boys, we headed out in the suburbs and we went to the trampoline park for two and a half hours and let them jump and jump and jump and have a grand old time.
Ray
That's a good pivot.
Lunchbox
Good pivot. And then the wife stayed home.
Ray
Pivot.
Lunchbox
And as we're leaving, I was like, boys, you want to go eat dinner? Yeah. Yeah, dad, let's go eat dinner, dad. And the boys went to dinner by themselves, Us four guys night. And we had no shots. We had no VIP bottle service.
Ray
We had orange juice, Ray, but it was for the little one.
Lunchbox
No. And we had to wait 20 minutes for a table. So we had none of the service that you did. We didn't get to cut the line. We couldn't do any of that.
Ray
Make sure you drink all your waters. I paid for those, man.
Lunchbox
It was an amazing, amazing Friday night. I mean, I didn't do anything that you did. And I knew they were alive in the morning when I woke up, and they were still alive. We'll take a break. We'll be right back.
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You ready? Saturday two quick things to address this is where we get to the underbelly of this city that I never knew existed. And let me say this so the reason Billy I've just learned through the night why he goes hard now this hard.
Lunchbox
Why? His therapist oh, this is the advice from the therapist that we teased earlier.
Ray
The therapist gave him the advice that after his divorce, he should go as hard as he possibly can for a year. And I said to Bazer and Angelina and Justin, I said, seriously, who is the agency that you contact to complain? The Better Business Bureau because that therapist needs to get their license revoked. That is the worst advice I've ever heard of from a licensed and trained professional in the therapy realm.
Lunchbox
Why?
Ray
And then we started to break it down. We're like, well, Billy, CMA Fest was last year and you were divorced then. It's been a year. When did this year start?
Lunchbox
Why did the therapist Say this. Did Billy expand on it? Is it more to just like cleanse your soul to live and just like be free? What. What is the reasoning behind it?
Ray
That's it. So that he would be able to just get over what had happened. And so. And because of that, now we order 80 shots at every bar and leave 70 of them. Thanks, therapist. Were. Were the recipients of this amazing therapy advice? It's not better help. Better help would have given him better advice than that.
Lunchbox
I think it's an interesting concept because then Billy goes to the therapist like, hey, I need another session. Like, hey man, your credit card was declined. And Billy's like, yeah, well, you told me to go as hard as I could for a year. Sorry, I can't talk to you, man. I don't have. You don't have any more money. You. We can no longer service you.
Ray
I want the number of the board on that one. Saturday morning was boring. I said went and got the Gatorades and Baser informs me that we double locked our house and we had house sitters throughout the weekend so they couldn't get into our house. So we had.
Lunchbox
Please tell me you did not drive.
Ray
So we drove all the way home and let Piper out, pet her, gave her food, and then since we're already driving, we went and picked up Justin. We're already driving. Went and picked up Angelina. We were driving on Saturday morning from 6:00am until 9:30am dude, we covered half of Tennessee. We gave everybody rides.
Lunchbox
Oh my God.
Ray
I'm glad we did though. Angelina lives in a beautiful spot in Germantown. Justin got to see the old place.
Lunchbox
The fact, the fact that you spent three and a half hours of your city weekend driving around picking people up and letting cats out is 100% you.
Ray
I loved it, dude. Compared to my nine to five, I loved it. We were just driving, laughing our butts out.
Lunchbox
The fact that you were up at 6am 5am on a Saturday after going balls to the wall for a few hours with Gabby Barrett and playing cards and barstool and brunch. That you're up that early and you have time to go drive to the countryside. Hilarious.
Ray
And the gates didn't work at the old apartment complex, so Justin had to walk a quarter of a mile. He brought two beers with him. One for me, one for him. He drank them both before he even got to the car. It was that long of a walk. He was sweating his ass off because we couldn't get past him, dude. So there was nothing we could have done.
Lunchbox
Hey, welcome to Saturday man, we tried the code. I love it.
Ray
But so then. Then we're doing brunch. We're meeting up with everybody.
Lunchbox
So you didn't see Billy again the Friday night. Did he spend the night in the same room as you guys, or do you.
Ray
We're all in. A floor away, but we were in different rooms. Okay, yeah, but we did brunch then. Then we did Hampton social, and it was 99% women. There was not one guy up there but me and Justin. It was chill lobster. There was no Billy and Alex. They, I guess weren't eating or they ate at the hotel. One of the two. Oh, before we got in the car to go to see the cat, we run into one of the New York girls. And she said, yeah, Alex had been out all night, didn't even go to bed, and she was going to meet him down in the lobby to give him the key card at 6:00am okay.
Lunchbox
So who is this Alex dude?
Ray
He's insane.
Lunchbox
I mean, this is unbelievable. This Alex dude is out of control. So he's not the same Alex I remember exactly.
Ray
And so she goes, this is when the New York girl just. She had the best quote. She goes, where do y' all know him from? And like, how does this friendship start? And we go, college best man in my wedding. He wasn't always as crazy thank his therapist. Like, good God. Like, what are we doing? She's like, is he always this aggressive when he talks to you and look like he's full send? No, he's not. Back in the day, we went to Hawaii together, celebrating Bazer's one year cancer free. And we would have a drink together and watch the ocean. There was crazy. There was times like that. No idea what this whirlwind is that you. That we're all involved in right now.
Lunchbox
All right.
Ray
She had the best line, though. She goes, just like, seriously, just how does a friendship like that develop? Because this dude's crazy. Good guy, though. We got more stuff going on. What are we doing? What are we doing?
Lunchbox
Keep going.
Ray
Okay, so Billy, us, I was trying to think if there was music. We just went to Hampton and then we went midday and then we went barstool. Because that's when Billy was recovering and Alex was recovering.
Lunchbox
Yeah, Alex needed.
Ray
So we're at barstool and we had two couches, and the waitress goes, you guys are so cool. You guys can sit in all these couch all you want. She was coming over. It was just me, Justin, Bazer, and Angelina. And she had no idea we had this kind of Aura. She goes, you guys are so cool. She was bringing a shots for free.
Lunchbox
Or she was bringing you the leftover shots from yesterday. When Billy had ordered them and just decided not to drink them. They had put them in the fridge in the back. It's sort of like when our buddy Steve, we were in Las Vegas and he was playing craps and he had a couple thousand dollars in the little thing and he went into the bathroom and was so drunk that he was like, ah, I guess I lost all my money and went to bed. And he woke up, you know, a few hours later and went back to the craps table and they said, steve, welcome back. And they pulled all his money out and put it back out there for him. That's exactly what you guys experienced. I mean, still, one of the most unbelievable stories ever is that he was in the middle of rolling and he decided, nah man, I gotta go, I gotta go piss. And he goes, and he, he's so drunk. And he'd stayed up all night. It was 6:30 in the morning. And he thought, oh, I lost all my money in that 30 seconds that he took a pee. He lost memory of having money at the table and went to bed. That is. And the fact that they still had his money the next day is mind blowing.
Ray
And I think I was there that weekend.
Lunchbox
Yes.
Ray
Yeah. Just crazy because he was drinking those fishnet beers at 6:00am or something.
Lunchbox
Yes.
Ray
But okay, so anywho, back to Nashville, guys. Circa 2025, CMA Fest, country music Association Festival. And we were at Barstool. We rocked it. But then we tell the girl, hey, just so you know, we paid it. I mean, Those buckets were 100 bucks a piece.
Lunchbox
Oh my God.
Ray
I don't even want to text Baser how much we spent, but so we did that. But I kept telling the waitress, hey, there's going to be a guy that comes through that is like Elon Musk, who's like a super wealthy guy that just takes the entire Leonardo DiCaprio. Yeah, there's going to be a Tom Brady, there's me, a Tom Cruise that comes through here and I'm telling you, you're going to get the biggest tip you've ever got in your life. You're going to get the most shots you're going to have to pour in your entire life. Just so you know, there's a hurricane coming. And I wasn't talking about the storms. There were storms in and out of Nashville all weekend. Not a lot of them never hit.
Lunchbox
No, a lot of them Went around, went down. It was pretty much a nice weekend. After being categorized as a terrible weekend, terrible weather actually turned out pretty nice.
Ray
So Billy wrote, this is where. This is it, guys. This is the underbelly of the city I didn't know existed. Billy hired a personal on site assistant. So this guy rolls up with him. Hadn't seen him all weekend, but today, he's gonna take care of Billy ever. So that Billy doesn't have to worry about getting the bottles, paying for the stuff, getting the signs, the wording on the signs. This guy takes care of all of it.
Lunchbox
What? So this guy, where did he find this guy?
Ray
It's the underbelly poor people don't know about. Rich people do. So he just shows up. And Billy goes, hey, this is my best friend. Take care of him. I'm like, billy, who is this man? I've never met this guy before. Who is this? Billy goes, best friend right here. Anything he wants, let him know. And the guy, hey, man, what do you need anything? And I was like, oh, phone chargers. I've been on like, 2% all day. Give it to me, man. I know the bartender goes back, takes my phone, charges it, two seconds later. All right, we're going to get this roped off. Let's get some stanchions. You guys don't need to be associating with any of those people. We don't want any of these people coming near you. Get it back, get it back. He knew all the bouncers. He knew all the bartenders. They stanchioned off the entire corner. At rush hour at Barstool, you could not get onto the second floor of Barstool because we had the whole thing rented out.
Lunchbox
And Billy just trusted this dude with all his credit cards and everything.
Ray
He took care of it all. Hey, hey. First, any bar we went to, it was multiple ones. First thing you say, I'm going to get this Stangent. Yep, yep. Can we get that stanchion all the way across? Yeah, yeah, we got to get that done. Okay. Yeah, y' all are good. Y' all are good. All right. Do you all know these girls? Okay, yeah, Y' all ladies can go. Ladies, I'm sorry. This is all closed off. And so then he's just a bouncer, security handle and all that. So then we leave Barstool, we did shots, and where was it we were gonna meet up at? We Gars. We're gonna go to Gars.
Lunchbox
Got it.
Ray
Okay. And so. But we need a car because he's got a personal assistant. Personal assistant said you're not walking, Billy. You're gonna get a car.
Lunchbox
Dude, it's like a block and a half.
Ray
It's a block and a half. And it's in rush hour. At CMA Fest, the other group, Bazer, they were in a good mood. It was like, so baser, Angelina and Justin walk. Okay, so they're gone. And baser goes, yeah, you just go with them. Go with them. That's funny. Black car rolls up. I. I got the car for you. So Uber's an easy app. This guy got up, had some underbelly car service that he called up. The guy comes up in a pimped out Escalade. All right, y' all are good. Y' all get in here. And he's, like, slapping the doors. All right, you're good. You're good. Bailey, get in the front seat. You're good. Hey, Alex, you're over there. Hey, you're right here. As this is happening, I. Dude, I couldn't have written a better script. A listener from the Bobby Bone show sees me, and she tries to come up to get a picture. Hey, get back, get back, get back. Oh, no, no, no. It's okay, it's okay. I'm just gonna take a picture real quick. Okay, you're good. Take a picture. We're in the middle of traffic in the middle of the street right now. This girl takes a picture. I gotta find the. She's been asking for me on Insta. We take the picture with somebody's phone. It might have been that private security guy. All right, you're good. Okay. Yep. That's it, guys. That's it. Get in the car. Get in the car. Slaps the door. That's when the guy knows the drive. And then we're sitting in gridlock traffic for like, 30 minutes. Have been quicker to walk. Hey, I'll see you guys at Gar. So I'm gonna go in there, get it all set up and everything. You guys are all good. And he's gone.
Lunchbox
He doesn't get in the car.
Ray
No assistant's going to do assistant work. And so he hits the street. Hey, we could go to Gars. What's the first thing that happens at Gars?
Lunchbox
Stanchions.
Ray
Hey, we got to get stanchions up here, man. You got to get these stanchions. He closed off the entire top floor guards. And then. Oh, my gosh, we gotta take another break.
Lunchbox
Yeah, we're gonna take a break. Hey, we stanchion off that section.
Ray
Hey, we gotta stanchion this off, man. I just Got here. Like I'm just sitting here. Hey.
Lunchbox
Hey. I think it's a good time to take a break, guys, because I got more stories. We'll be right back.
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Lunchbox
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Lunchbox
Yeah.
Ray
From. His son was there.
Lunchbox
It's legit.
Ray
It's his underbelly. Billy's then getting introduced by this personal assistant. Personal assistant just introduced Billy to the biggest connectors in the entire city. In a span of like 30 minutes. At a stanchioned off area Gar bar. Stanchioned off. Baser's co workers are coming up to meet us. Hey, you guys get back. You guys get back. They just came from like a classy dinner. Oh, and they're in like three piece suits. They're all dressed up. They went for like bourbon and steak. Hey, you guys get back. Oh, no, we know those. We know that that's baser. There's. Yeah, yeah, she's. That's her boss, actually. Oh, yeah. Y' all are good then. Y' all are good. And they're like, what? Basers. Coworkers are like, who are you guys? And why do you have to stitch it off? And why is there a security guard? Well, Billy's just do. There's connecting at. Boom. Shaking hands, meeting people. One lady was like the. She looked like Von Dutch. She looked like, you know, Jesse James. Yeah, she looked like a chick. One of those chicks just tattooed up. But she was like some huge famous person. I was busy with a lot of other stuff, so I don't. I couldn't figure out who she was or the Titans player.
Lunchbox
Got it.
Ray
But. And then it's just a bunch of youtubers. All these kids are in their 20s. Crypto guys you to all meet up there. How did they all know to come up there and meet.
Lunchbox
It's the underbelly. That's what we don't know about.
Ray
Hey, we're gonna get this stanchion off. Yeah, y' all are good. We're gonna get this stanchion off. And he would find a bouncer. Stanchion it off. Nobody could even come anywhere near us. They're bringing over shot table. It says. I think the one thing said B money. The other one said Kings of Nashville. I mean, we had so many shots coming, they weren't even getting any creative with the signs anymore. It was just like, at one point, we just saying, like, shots, location, Nashville. I'm like, guys, that's not even that catchy of a little thing to put on a sign.
Lunchbox
We don't need a sign for Nashville. Like, you don't have to put Nashville on there. Like, just don't even bring a sign next time.
Ray
Everywhere you looked, one of those trays could probably hold 30 shots. 1942 just sitting all over the table. Nobody drinking it. 1942, girl. They didn't. Bro, they're double stacking it. They didn't know where to put it. I was just trying to find a water. Oh, this is my guy. I go. Because Billy said, ask him whatever I wanted. Got the phone charged. I was like, hey, man, you got any gum, dude? Yeah, dog, I got you. Boom. Comes back with some trident. Minute later. Hey, man. So my wife, she doesn't want to drink the 1942. Is there any way I get a mixed drink? Yeah, dog, I got you. Two minutes later, comes back, like, the most perfect mixed drink I've ever seen. Didn't even have to wait in line. Like, he literally must have jumped behind the bar and made it. Hey, dog, your wife. Here you go. Here's your drink. All right. Yeah, y' all are good. Y' all. Y' all stay back here a little bit. These people are getting a little touchy. I'm gonna keep. I'm gonna see if I can move this stange back. D. This guy loved his stanchions today. Hey, Imma see if I get to move this tangent back another five feet, Bro, we're good. If a guy bumps into me a little bit, like, I don't need people 20ft back, dude, he didn't want people touching us.
Lunchbox
I still. I mean, I don't understand. Did you ever get his name?
Ray
No, it's the underbelly. I'm not just gonna get the dang guy's name. So then we go, oh, we went to bed at 8. So after GARS, we went home and went to bed.
Lunchbox
So this whole weekend, you saw one concert?
Ray
Yes.
Lunchbox
Okay. In bed by eight. Hell, I stayed up later than you did. CMA fest. And you saw one musical act. It's very interesting.
Ray
Is my mic on? Yeah, it'd been terrible if it wasn't.
Lunchbox
I got a question. Did New York girls come to any of this?
Ray
New York girls. So a couple of the non mentionable. So after.
Lunchbox
Or did they just kind of.
Ray
We went Mexican, so right after Garsh, we went and ate at Bakersfield for two hours and had Mexican martinis. And Laura made like, the best friends with the New York girls. The New York girls have been here all week, though. They came on, like, Tuesday, so they've.
Lunchbox
Been a long week.
Ray
And the W has a pool. You almost don't even want to leave that thing. They said service lickety split. They're bringing you drinks. They would did if they did shows. Maybe they did some on Thursday. Because once Billy came to town, dude, you didn't need Luke Combs. Billy was the Hurricane.
Lunchbox
Hey, you didn't need Miley Cyrus. Billy was the wrecking ball.
Ray
But the. The stanchion boy. Then he went out with Billy and them not last. Is this last? No, because Sunday. Yeah, Sunday. Sunday night. And then Saturday night they did limos. At one point, I got a picture of. I mean, some of these are not even safe for work. We're on a group thread with my wife and they're sending pictures of a strip club. I'm like, okay, all right. Here's Billy.
Lunchbox
He says, did Justin.
Ray
He says he was performing at Odie's last night. They let him sing on stage.
Lunchbox
Oh, my God.
Ray
Here's a picture. Where's this car?
Lunchbox
Justin. What? Did Justin go to bed at 8 o' clock on Saturday? Did he go out with Billy and.
Ray
They got a Lamborghini? That guy hooked up a Lambo? Oh, no. Justin was cashed out. He and Angelina and me and Baser, we all split our. Went our own separate ways. Justin said bye to us like eight. He was in bed by nine. So were we.
Lunchbox
Got it.
Ray
But they did. They did limos. I mean, good go. All right. I don't even know what this is. Here's just a taste of it. I think this is clean. Hey, who's the king of the city? Be money. Let's go. Come on, let's go. We're going to Sam's club. But we got Costco memberships.
Lunchbox
Dude.
Ray
So they're rolling with the Rolex owner. They're in limos. That stanchion boy hooked all this up. They don't.
Lunchbox
That girl did the shot time because she got.
Ray
Because he was saying it all weekend.
Lunchbox
Thank you for making sure that shot time was in the video because that was great. She did her little hands on her chin. She goes, shot time.
Ray
But yeah, we chill with them at the hotel a little bit. They were mainly just lounging, so the boys would go meet him up there.
Lunchbox
So question Does Billy any of these New York girls and Billy that they. They got anything?
Ray
No, I don't know. I just think they're. They're all just because Billy and Alex stayed in the same room.
Lunchbox
Huh. So very interesting.
Ray
I think it's just people that love to party together.
Lunchbox
Like it was a good looking the group. The girls looked fun. They looked great. I mean, oh, don't worry.
Ray
Bazer's meeting up with. I mean they're all best friends now. The girl goes, I'd see your cat on Instagram. I love you guys. We didn't even know her. We're like, what were you what? But she loved Bazer. What is you guys story so many times. She's like, so how do you know Billy, man?
Lunchbox
You had a hell of a weekend, man.
Ray
And bro, they're not done yet. They're here till 7 o' clock tonight.
Lunchbox
Oh my God. You need to send a text. Be like, what are you currently doing?
Ray
I said, so hotel. You're gonna get booted out at noon. I go, where are you guys going when you get booted out, Billy? That's a good question. Probably pool or something. After we get kicked out at one. Any ideas? I'm done with drinking, Billy. Probably take the month off. That's it.
Lunchbox
Okay, man. Cause let me tell you what I did Saturday night, man. We went to the pool. We got there about 4:45. It was like we had a private pool.
Ray
The community.
Lunchbox
Yeah, dude. It was like no one was there on a Saturday and I do not understand why. The rain had come through a little bit. Saturday afternoon there was a little bit of rain and we had the pool. There was very few people there. It was fantastic. We ordered some food to the pool.
Ray
They do that.
Lunchbox
Oh dude, you order Ubereats, whatever, bring it to the pool. We ate right there. Kids ate, go swim some more. And the pool stayed open till 8, but about 7 we were like, we gotta go, we're tired, we're done. We left, we went home and we were. There was another family that lives down the street from us. They were there and they're like, hey, pool's open at 10:00 clock tomorrow. You guys want to be there at 10:00 clock? I was like, we will be there at 10 o' clock. Let's go. And I wake up on Sunday morning. They're like, hey, that four year old birthday party we all have to go to, that's it at noon. So let's go to the pool after that. And I'm like, yeah, so what are we going to do for two hours, dude, I got two hours to kill. And I told the boys, put your shoes on, we're going to the trampoline park again. Again. Because when I went the first time, I paid for them three to jump. And you get a month long membership for the same price as you get for one time visiting the place. So we bought a month long membership.
Ray
You went to the trampoline park twice. We went to barstool twice exactly.
Lunchbox
And I went to the pool three times.
Ray
I don't know, I didn't go to the pool once.
Lunchbox
I went to the pool twice Saturday and Sunday. And so, dude, so I went and we went to the trampoline park. And when you go, when it opens, there's no one there. My kids had a private trampoline park. So you were having like VIP stanchions. We had VIP trampoline park, dude, we.
Ray
Got to get these stanchions up.
Lunchbox
You didn't have to worry about anything. There wasn't enough kids to lose your kids. It was so easy. Then we go home and we go to the four year old birthday party that's at the neighbor's house and they have some water blow ups in the backyard and they're just running around doing all that crap for a couple hours and talking to that other family. I'm like, hey, you thinking 4:35 again for the pool? Like, yeah, 435. I was like, my kids have got a nap. We went trampoline park before this took them home. And you think they're going to fight us on nap? And I say, hey guys, you got to lay down. They were out asleep before I could even finish my sentence. They were asleep. And then I laid down on the couch. Next thing I knew, it was the sixth inning and I was like, whoa. The game was just starting when I was laying down here. All right, cool.
Ray
Of what team?
Lunchbox
I'll tell you that in a minute. And then I was like, all right. The two older boys got up. The baby box three was still sleeping. So me and other boys, we got on our bikes, we rode it to the pool, man.
Ray
Oh, you left the other one with your wife.
Lunchbox
Yeah, we were like, we got to go. And we rode to the pool, met the other family there. It was jam packed. Pool was crowded. 6 o' clock, rolls around, it was empty. 7 o' clock rolls around. It's my family, our neighbor's family and the guy I coached baseball with. Like we coached the Padres together. There was only three families at the entire pool. We had the Entire pool for our kids.
Ray
That's a good.
Lunchbox
It was amazing.
Ray
Private pool free or community?
Lunchbox
Community.
Ray
Free.
Lunchbox
Free.
Ray
You don't have to pay anything?
Lunchbox
No.
Ray
Sheesh.
Lunchbox
And they were just gone? Everybody was gone.
Ray
Is there a membership?
Lunchbox
No.
Ray
Everybody left country club?
Lunchbox
No, no, no, Ray.
Ray
A couple bums out front.
Lunchbox
They got like teenagers being the lifeguards. I mean, it's great.
Ray
Did anybody like get in yalls way?
Lunchbox
There was no one there to get in our way.
Ray
Y' all gotta get these stanchions up.
Lunchbox
There was no stanchions needed. Literally. We were the only three families at the pool. That was it. We were the only ones.
Ray
The T shirt dude. Gotta get these stanchions up.
Lunchbox
And that was my weekend.
Ray
What's the foreshadowing? Where's the baseball game now?
Lunchbox
No one cares about baseball, man. College baseball. So dumb. No one cares about it. It's the stupidest sport in the world. Like, no one watches that crap. Don't even care about it. Like, I mean, I'm not even going to Omaha.
Ray
Utsa.
Lunchbox
UTSA got beat. They got beat. And let me tell you, I watched the game on Saturday and it was two nothing or it was. We were only down two and their. Their pitching was just dirty. We jumped out to a two nothing lead on them and then we just couldn't score. We couldn't hit. They were breaking off some splitters. Like, it looked like it's in the. It was going to be a strike and it would just fall out of the zone. We were swinging at everything. We just can never get hits. And then the game on Sunday, we had runners on every inning and we couldn't get the hit. We never scored a run. It was only two nothing. Like in the seventh, I want to say seventh or eighth. And they had a guy on second and this dude hit a piss rod back and drilled our pitcher right in the elbow. And it hits off his elbow and bounces. It goes into the foul ground right there by first. First basement runs over and picks it up and he should have just held it. He tries to fling it to the pitcher who. I don't know how, after he got drilled with the ball that hard. It was 106 exit velocity. Hit off his arm. Still went to cover first, but he couldn't catch it. And then he tried to pick the ball up and his arm wasn't working. The guy scores. Then that's kind of when the floodgates open and we lost seven to nothing. But it was an amazing season. But I mean, college best baseball, who cares? It's stupid.
Ray
The Vols got touched inappropriately all weekend.
Lunchbox
They got, they got absolutely sodomized.
Ray
The Vols game had it on at barstool on Saturday and they lost. I saw a guy with a vol shirt. I go up to him, I'm all in hype mode. I'm like, dude, tough loss. We got him tomorrow. What do you mean? What are you talking about? Baseball team play today. Oh, I had no idea. All right, man, it was some sec, bro.
Lunchbox
Then North Carolina. I watched them play Arizona, I think it was on Thursday. And they won like 18 to 2, 18 to 5. And I was like, that is a team that can win the national title. Then they scored three runs the rest of the weekend and are going home. Arizona, the College World Series. I was like, oh my God. I thought they were amazing because they scored so many runs in one game. They sucked. But yeah, college baseball stupid, man. That was my weekend. Your weekend sounded a lot more fun.
Ray
Yeah, right. I just told the whole thing.
Lunchbox
It was amazing.
Ray
It was, I. It was started to be me and Bazer. She wanted to do CMA fest. And then Billy tailed and Billy tailed in a big way.
Lunchbox
Then Angelina, then Justin, then Alex.
Ray
I just don't, I just don't drink like that anymore with the shots and stuff.
Lunchbox
Yeah, you've changed, man.
Ray
Dude, I like buying my drink, enjoying my drink, knowing that I bought that drink, disposing it in the trash can fully empty and knowing I was able to afford a drink. Drink that drink, finish the whole thing and then head to my next spot in life. I don't leave crap. Dude, it killed me walking away five cans now. Never drank two Red Bull vodkas. Never touched two trays of 1942. I would, I don't even. The bill. The personal assistant had to have been 2K. The hotel had to have been 2K. He had the limos, had to been a thousand. The, the shots had to be. He had. It had to been a twenty thousand dollar weekend. It had to have been. I was talking to Kevin, I was like, how much do you think that is? And we, we agreed it had to have been a ten thousand dollar weekend. Justin did say Billy was just carrying around a hundreds. And he goes, hey man, that money clip keeps getting smaller and smaller and smaller. He's like, by the time if it just becomes like pencil thin, it's time for us to split.
Lunchbox
Bill. The old middle of the day, the.
Ray
Billy money clip was going down all weekend. It wasn't getting replenished. Hey man, keep an eye on it. If it gets paper Thin. It's time for us to get the.
Lunchbox
Hell out of here.
Ray
He's a good kid, though. He's a good kid.
Lunchbox
That's good, But I need to talk.
Ray
To that therapist, man.
Lunchbox
Yeah, we need to get a session. We need to get him on the air. We need to get. Talk to him. And, I mean, I got to say. And after watching college baseball so much the last two weekends, I don't know if there's a bigger group of douchebags than college baseball players.
Ray
I thought you're going to say the fans now.
Lunchbox
College baseball players are huge douchebags.
Ray
Dude, the fans were wearing corn on their head. They had, like, palm trees. Like, they. They put together little plastic floaty arrangements in the outfield. Dude, the fans are a weird breed.
Lunchbox
It is. I mean, those guys, those college baseball players, my God, they are. They are the frats of sports. They are the frat daddies of sports. 100%.
Ray
We weren't allowed to talk back when I played. Now they do all they.
Lunchbox
They strike out one batter, and they are yelling at them, and they are. It's like, guys, you guys are a bunch of idiots.
Ray
And they don't have the pitch clock.
Lunchbox
Very confusing.
Ray
They don't.
Lunchbox
There was a. There was a few times. The college baseball games do take a long damn time, but the umpire would get out from behind home plate and then point at the pitcher with his, like, eyes and like, I'm like, I don't know what you're doing. Can you explain to me why you're pointing your eyes?
Ray
And the announcers should have filled us in.
Lunchbox
Yeah, it was rough, but, yeah, College baseball players. Bunch of douchebags, most of them. And who cares about college baseball? What a weekend. What? What a freaking weekend. You had a good weekend. I had a good weekend. You've changed. I've changed. This show's changed. We used to have three. Now we are two.
Ray
You've changed since Austin, Texas, man.
Lunchbox
Yeah, man, I'm sorry.
Ray
Hey, I'm gonna get these stanchions out. I. I get it, man. I get it. You've reach my armpit to put this stanchion out like, five times. I'm okay. If a girl's ass rubs up against me, man, I don't need it. I'm gonna get these stanchions back another 20ft, man. Get these people back, bro. If you get them back anymore, they're gonna be on Broadway. You're about to launch him out of the bar. We don't need a whole floor. All I need is a chair. These girls have been standing for an hour because you stanchioned them.
Lunchbox
Hey, I didn't like that video. Hey, who runs Nashville? Who runs. Who runs Bunny B.
Ray
Money B.
Lunchbox
Oh, my gosh, man. Oh, I'm tired. Oh, what a day.
Ray
Hey, we got to get these stanchions up for this podcast.
Lunchbox
You think he can come to coach convention?
Ray
Dude, he would be epic. The first step, you take it into an establishment, he looks at the bouncer. Hey, we got to get these stanchions up. And they're up.
Lunchbox
They're up.
Ray
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Podcast Summary: "SORE LOSERS: Ray's Lives Like a Billionaire for CMA Fest"
Title: SORE LOSERS: Ray's Lives Like a Billionaire for CMA Fest
Host/Author: Premiere Networks
Release Date: June 14, 2025
Podcast: The Bobby Bones Show
The episode kicks off with Lunchbox and Ray eagerly discussing their plans for the weekend centered around the CMA Fest, a premier event celebrating country music. They express excitement about attending the festival and highlight their anticipation of the experiences awaiting them.
Notable Quote:
Upon arriving at CMA Fest, the hosts reconnect with old friends and meet new attendees, including Billy—a friend who recently became a billionaire—and his entourage. The group's dynamics quickly reveal personal changes and evolving relationships, setting the stage for the weekend's unfolding events.
Notable Quote:
Lunchbox recounts meeting up with a buddy after their shift, leading to a series of misadventures involving excessive drinking and missed social cues. Ray shares a humorous yet telling story about helping a friend navigate the complexities of airport logistics amidst festival chaos.
Notable Quote:
As the weekend progresses, Ray reveals his surprising discovery of the festival's "underbelly"—a world of unchecked opulence and excessive spending spearheaded by Billy. The narrative delves into wild parties, exorbitant spending on alcohol, and the introduction of Billy's personal assistant, who manages his extravagant lifestyle.
Notable Quote:
The hosts critique the unsustainable and wasteful behaviors exhibited by Billy and his group. They highlight the disconnect between their current actions and their past selves, emphasizing personal growth and the challenges of maintaining relationships amidst changing lifestyles.
Notable Quote:
Throughout the episode, both Lunchbox and Ray reflect on their personal transformations since their younger days. They acknowledge the changes they've undergone, striving for moderation and responsibility in contrast to the reckless behaviors of some of their peers.
Notable Quote:
Lunchbox shares a parallel account of his weekend, focusing on family-oriented activities such as visiting a trampoline park and attending a child's birthday party. This contrast underscores the differing priorities and lifestyles between him and the more extravagant party scene at CMA Fest.
Notable Quote:
As the episode concludes, Lunchbox and Ray summarize the weekend's events, highlighting the lessons learned about excess, friendship, and personal growth. They express a desire to maintain their evolved selves while navigating the ever-changing social landscapes of such large-scale events.
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Conclusion:
"SORE LOSERS: Ray's Lives Like a Billionaire for CMA Fest" offers a candid look into the dynamics of friendship, the allure of excess, and the journey of personal growth. Through engaging storytelling and humorous anecdotes, Lunchbox and Ray provide listeners with both entertainment and introspection on navigating the complexities of evolving relationships and lifestyles.