SORE LOSERS: Surviving the Ice: Sore Losers Edition!

Summary

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The Bobby Bones Show – Sore Losers: Surviving the Ice (Sore Losers Edition!)

Original Air Date: January 30, 2026
Hosts: Lunchbox & Sizz
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Episode Overview

This special "Sore Losers" episode features Lunchbox and Sizz swapping stories about surviving a massive ice and snow storm that left large parts of Nashville without power for days. The guys dive into neighborhood life during the freeze, creative meals, sledding adventures, power struggles, hotel "guilt," and the way community comes together under tough circumstances. With their trademark humor and candid banter, they turn a winter disaster into comedy gold, highlighting both “the good times” and “the bad times” of an unforgettable storm.

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Main Themes

• Community during crisis: How neighbors banded together during the storm
• Parenting through adversity: Entertaining kids without power, food improvisation, and household survival tactics
• City unpreparedness and humorous chaos: From frozen milk to heated arguments on sled hills
• Feelings of "power guilt" and "heat guilt": Reflections on privilege and discomfort
• Classic Sore Losers humor: Witty observations on how adults and kids react differently to storms

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Detailed Breakdown

Surviving the Storm: The “Good Times”

Weekend Kickoff and Snow Excitement

• [01:44] Lunchbox: Grateful to be back after 27 hours without power.

  "That was enough for me. That was enough."

• [03:22] Lunchbox: Credits his wife for prepping early with recipes and food—especially since they kept their gas stove running even during the outage.
  • Ordered takeout Friday to save groceries for when they really needed it.
• [04:27] Lunchbox: Relives the kids’ excitement waiting for the snow and their exuberant “T-shirt and underwear” celebration when the flakes finally fell ([08:07]).
• [06:44] Sizz: Paints his own picture of trying to drive safely to Nashville, watching truckers and U-Haul drivers spin out on icy roads.
  • “That’s the worst fear is that I get stranded on the side of the road, and that’s how I die in my damn Trailblazer.”

Neighborhood Sledding and New Friendships

• [09:39] Lunchbox: Shares the saga of getting three kids dressed for sledding—one of whom melts down over mismatched winter gear.
• [10:09] Lunchbox: A mysterious “adult” turns out to be Marcus, a previously unknown (but huge) neighborhood 6th grader, who instantly joins the sledding fun.
  • “I mean, he was big boy. Big boy. The Blind side dude.”
• [12:31] Lunchbox: The sledding party in the alley grows—families converge “like Ace Ventura when all the birds land”—kids crash into recycling bins and jump railroad ties.
• [13:59] Lunchbox: Marcus is undeterred by the cold in “pajama pants and a light jacket—maybe he’s so big he doesn’t get cold.”
• [14:44] Lunchbox: Recaps hours of outdoor play, impromptu gatherings, and the flexibility of storm day social rules (“Just throw [the sleds] on the porch. This is what snow days are all about.”).

Spontaneous Hospitality

• [21:20] Sizz: The neighborhood gears up for hot chocolate, snacks, and wine after sledding:

  “What about some secret syrup in it for the parents?”

• [23:19] Lunchbox: Marcus’ legendary “calm down, bro” after a snowball mishap with a neighbor's child stirs up laughter and shows neighborhood solidarity.

School Cancellations and More Play

• [27:04] Lunchbox: Announces the call from school—classes canceled for Monday and Tuesday, raising neighborhood morale during the party.

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The “Bad Times”: Powerless in Nashville

Losing Power & the Struggles of Cold

• [27:16] Lunchbox: Power goes out with pouring rain, setting the tone for the “bad times.”
  • The family rallies around the fireplace, carefully rationing door openings and outdoor time to keep heat in.
  • [29:55] Lunchbox: Kids read by window light; adults catch themselves flipping useless light switches out of habit.
• [31:19] Lunchbox: Misses the AFC and NFC championship games—

  “I didn’t see one play of either one, man. ‘Cause nothing was working.”

• [32:47] Sizz: Describes neighbor “freak-outs” as families debate fleeing to hotels, and why hotel circuits seemingly never lose power.

Storm Survival Hacks

• [35:05] Lunchbox: Moves food outside so it doesn't spoil—“Bear Grylls” style.

  “We stuck it in a little bucket and stuck it in the back porch.”

• Jokes about eating squirrel, stoking the fire, and improvising basic needs.
• [37:47] The family charges devices in the car, eats simple meals (recipe plans derailed when the recipe was stored on a dead phone), and layers up in comically “bed-sheeted” windows to fight the drafts ([39:30]).

Descent into “Homeless Encampment” Living

• [39:42] Lunchbox: Describes transforming the home—mattresses by the fire, bed sheets nailed up, towels blocking the stairs.

  “We started to resemble… a homeless encampment.”

• [41:33] Realizes sleeping with the fire on (all night) might be dangerous, after the fact.
• [43:42] Milk frozen outside, the family eats dry cereal. Toast and other amenities simply out of reach.

Restoration and “Power Guilt”

• [52:05] After a brief return, power goes out again; when it finally comes back for good ([53:14]), relief mixes with guilt for being warm while others still suffer:
  • “I don’t want to celebrate because there’s still people without power… Power guilt.”

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Notable Moments & Memorable Quotes

Hilarious Neighborhood Dynamics

• [19:37] The neighborhood blocks a city street for sledding; a Jeep tries to break through, leading to a classic suburban stand-off and insults in front of kids:
  • Jeep driver: “You mother effing itch.”
  • Samantha: “Please, watch your mouth in front of my four year old.”—([19:52])
• [23:04] Marcus, the big sixth grader, policing snowball etiquette: “Calm down, bro.” and “Are you going to give me a push, bro?”

Parenting Fails & Realizations

• [44:11] Kids helpless before the frozen milk—“Dad, can I make a piece of toast? …The toaster didn’t work, we don’t have electricity.”
• [51:01] Lunchbox refuses to use the ice-cold toilet:

  “I refuse to take a crap because you go sit on that toilet seat… Oh my God. It was, like, sitting on ice.”

• [55:52] Storm damage and the price of tree removal:
  • “Got a quote from a tree guy yesterday, said, 5,000. Take it down.”

Hotel & Heat Guilt

• [60:27] Sizz:

  “That guilt’s a real thing. When you’re in the Grand Hyatt 24th floor, and you look out and the only light is the skyline… it’s tough to look…and it’s dark.”

Creative Storm Entertainment

• [61:42] Making “fresh snow cones” from collected snow and pantry syrup.
  • “We got the snow cone syrup out… and we had fresh snow cones right there on the front porch.”
• [67:19] Rediscovering the DVD player when internet and cable are down.

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Timestamps — Important Segments

• [01:44] Lunchbox on losing power and gratitude for modern comforts
• [08:43] Sledding preparations and the kids' excitement
• [12:31] Alley sledding and neighborhood coming together
• [14:44] Neighborhood party winds down; Marcus disappears
• [19:37] Sledding hill blocked to traffic; Jeep altercation with Samantha
• [27:16] Power goes out for Lunchbox’s family — “the bad times”
• [31:19] Missing major football games amid the outage
• [39:42] House transformed into “homeless encampment” with mattresses, sheets, and blankets
• [53:14] Power finally restored — the saga winds down
• [61:42] Snow cones on the porch—storm survival creativity
• [67:19] DVD player rediscovered for kids’ entertainment

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Tone & Style

• Conversational, irreverent, self-deprecating
• Frequent asides and running jokes (parental struggles, sled hill drama, hotel privilege)
• Candid about family tensions and neighborhood dynamics
• Balances lighthearted moments with recognition of the real struggles some neighbors faced

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Closing Thoughts

"Surviving the Ice: Sore Losers Edition!" hilariously documents the Nashville ice storm from two perspectives: the lucky (Sizz, in a comfy hotel) and the stubborn (Lunchbox, determined to tough it out at home). Woven into the storm survival are vignettes about neighborly solidarity, the resilience of kids, and the power of humor in adversity. Whether you’ve lived through a storm or not, the episode is both a practical and comedic guide to surviving “the good times” and “the bad times” — and why the stories of chaos make for great radio.

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Key Quote to Remember:
“These were the good times. These were the bad times.” – Lunchbox, repeatedly throughout the episode

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Transcript

[Sizz]

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[Lunchbox]

Oh man. Warm those hands, baby. It feels. I'm gonna tell you what. Maybe the greatest invention ever. Power condoms. I think power is more important. Like whoever decided you know what we should put what the was that?

[Sizz]

What?

[Lunchbox]

It went doom. Do you have the computer booting up sometimes?

[Sizz]

It's stupid. Does this. There's no way to mute the volume on this thing.

[Lunchbox]

That's okay. I'm not worried about it. I'm just saying it is so freaking cold. But I am just so thankful. Like I I. The whole storm, the whole weekend. It started out beautifully. Like do we need to. I. I'm just glad I'm back. Like 27 hours without power. That was enough for me. That was enough.

[Sizz]

And the beautifully. You're talking about the snow at first. But what you idiots don't realize is I'm awake. The third shift, even on Saturdays and Sundays from 2am it could have been earlier. That's when I came out of my drunken stupor. From 2am until 2pm it rained. That's how we got three quarters of an inch of rain. Freezing rain.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. I'm going to. I'm going to tell you. We'll just start off the weekend, man. Cuz what did it. It snowed on Saturday. Correct? Was that the day it snowed?

[Sizz]

It started at 10am on Saturday. That's when Baser said, you've got to just get to the hotel. You've got to get to downtown. This snow. You're never going to be able to drive on it. I said, bazer, I'm from the north. The snow's fine. It's the rain that I'm worried About. Well, then the snow kept coming down harder and harder. So then I left, like, 10:30.

[Lunchbox]

So, yeah, so you got the snow a little later than us. So let's just. Should we start the show? Because I don't want to get into this, and. Oh, I'll get into it, and then we'll start the show.

[Sizz]

And this podcast is for you to get into things. So when you preface everything with, should I get into it? Yes, get into it.

[Lunchbox]

That's what I ask my wife sometimes. Should I get into it? And she's like, yes, get into it.

[Sizz]

So are you sure I should.

[Lunchbox]

My wife, she was smart. She went to the grocery store on Thursday or Wednesday. I don't know what day it was. She stocked up the grocery. She had recipes, and she said, that way, if the power goes out, if we get stuck here, we have food because we have a gas stove. So we're gonna be able to start the stove, we're gonna be able to cook, do all that.

[Sizz]

Oh, y' all was cooking.

[Lunchbox]

And so Friday. Friday night, I was like, all right, so what's for dinner? She said, no, no, no, no. Friday night we're going to order takeout to go food. Because that way, if we're stuck here for three or four days, we don't waste the food that we bought on a day that you can get out and about. Great idea.

[Sizz]

That was the joke going around social media. You buy all the rations and stuff and then you eat them before the storm gets there. Really? Yeah. Baser was like, I'm already halfway through The M&M's I bought for the storm. And it was like, Thursday.

[Lunchbox]

M&M's essential item.

[Sizz]

Well, it gives her food energy to shovel, to potentially have to walk places.

[Lunchbox]

So we eat, and everybody's like, all right, we got to go to bed. We got to go to bed. We all go to bed. 4:30am Baby box comes in the room. Dad, dad, it hadn't snowed yet. And I'm like, what?

[Sizz]

Factual.

[Lunchbox]

And I'm like, yeah. And he goes, no, dad, I've been looking out the window. There's no snow. Can we get up now? He goes, because we're gonna get one to two feet of snow. And I said, well, no, no, no. I said, but the forecast is. He goes, no, no. When we were at school, they told us we may get 1 to 2 inches of snow, Bud.

[Sizz]

What head news reporter told you that?

[Lunchbox]

I said, no, but it's. It's only. It's going to change, Bud. But it's. It's in the middle of the night. Can you go back to bed? Oh, okay. Sorry, Dad. I was just excited about the snow. All right, cool. Goes Back to bed. 6:30am dad, Dad, Dad. I just looked out the window. Still no snow. All right. Can I. Can I get up now? What time is it? 6:33. Yeah, you can get up, man. You can get up. I'll get up in a minute. I'll be right. I'll be out in a minute. So we get up, we're kind of hanging out, goofing off. And then at 8:07am it's snowing. It's snowing, it's snowing. All three boys running around the house celebrating that it is snowing. It's snowing, it's snowing. They run out in the backyard in their T shirt and underwear, and they're just, whoa, it's snowing, it's snowing. Awesome.

[Sizz]

Okay, so we're finally to 11am on Saturday. Great.

[Lunchbox]

Well, I'm just saying, it had to move north, so it started here a.

[Sizz]

Little earlier, but it was exciting at first. I see the picture you're painting.

[Lunchbox]

Yes. I am going to tell you every exciting moment that we had that day.

[Sizz]

I've never been more proud to be a dad.

[Lunchbox]

No, it's not that. And so then they. They want to play in it. Why? It's coming down. They did that. Cool. Took the dog for a walk. Cool. Then we went back inside, made some breakfast. Kind of hang out. So that way it can accumulate.

[Sizz]

Right. And as you're doing that, I'm driving. There's truck drivers. Yeah. Y' all know who you are. Colby, Jack knifed. They thought they could still go 65 on an interstate with snow on.

[Lunchbox]

It was that tie.

[Sizz]

There was multiple ones. There was one that was on the side of the road. And then when it's jackknife, one's going one way, the other one's going the other way. And then.

[Lunchbox]

That's a little loud.

[Sizz]

Is it?

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, it's a little loud. Unless my headphones are just up.

[Sizz]

Headphones are jacked.

[Lunchbox]

I think maybe that's it. So.

[Sizz]

And then there was another one that just had the whole front ripped off, so. Oh, I think he just went into a cement barrier. A couple cars spun out. Usually they had U Hauls because they would. The back would start dicking, and then they just pull them off the road. I was going 30 the whole way to Nashville. I had cars honking, bro. I'm not going off the road. You know what happens? Freeze to Death. My car heat would go out. I'd eventually run out of there. Nobody's going to tow me out. Nobody's thinking about their fellow Americans. That's the worst fear is that I get stranded on the side of the road, and that's how I die in my damn trailblazer. So I went 30. There was cars honking.

[Lunchbox]

Hey, get off the road, idiot. Where are you from? Florida?

[Sizz]

No, Michigan.

[Lunchbox]

Thanks.

[Sizz]

I don't care. Go around me. But I didn't go off the road.

[Lunchbox]

I mean, you might freeze to death. Except for you could have walked half a mile to the exit and just gone to a gas station.

[Sizz]

Or there's a Taco Bell right around the corner.

[Lunchbox]

Exactly. I mean, let's not act like you're out in the middle of nowhere, man. Like, there are things between here and your house. Like, I'm not. Like, it wouldn't be that hard for you to find something or pick up your cell phone and call baser. Hey, baser, I'm stuck at exit 58. I mean, there is no. This isn't the 1950s we. Where you're just stranded on the side of the road with nothing but prairie in front of you.

[Sizz]

You're saying, head for the border. Taco Bell.

[Lunchbox]

And so then as it starts to snow and it starts to accumulate outside, it is time. It is time to go play. It is time to throw on everything, grab the sleds, and see if we can go sledding. Even though there was only about, I mean, maybe two inches of snow.

[Sizz]

Correct.

[Lunchbox]

I mean, it wasn't that much, but we were going to find a hill because we needed to get outside. And baby box two and three, they let me get them dressed. In about 30 seconds, they are out the door.

[Sizz]

Got to that. Getting hot in the house with all your clothes on. Waiting for bro and sis. The worst.

[Lunchbox]

Baby box one. I don't know. He was the one that was most excited about the snow, but, oh, my goodness, if he was angry at me for I don't know what reason, it wasn't the right pants. It wasn't the right gloves. Those are my brother's gloves. And I'm like, son, it doesn't freaking matter.

[Sizz]

Sometimes they're mismatched.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, they're mismatched. It doesn't matter.

[Sizz]

Oh, those are your mom's panties. Usually doesn't matter.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, dad, that's not my hat. But I can't find it. I can't find the right hat. Great point.

[Sizz]

Usually you just have the bench or the big old thing at Home and you're grabbing stuff from it.

[Lunchbox]

Yes. Just. Just put it on.

[Sizz]

They didn't know that.

[Lunchbox]

And he's throwing a fit. And I mean, it took me 25 minutes of him throwing a fit. And finally I said, listen, bud, I'm gonna go outside with your brothers, so you can have your mom help you or you can do it yourself, but I'll be outside. I just laid down the law, went outside without him.

[Sizz]

I would hope so.

[Lunchbox]

And I go out front and there's this dude chasing the other two kids around, throwing snowballs at him.

[Sizz]

The neighbor dude or.

[Lunchbox]

I never seen this dude.

[Sizz]

Oh, that might have been drug fueled.

[Lunchbox]

And I'm like, did a homeless dude just wander into the neighborhood and, like, start chasing my kids? And I'm like, hey, Matt. He goes, hey, like, do you live around here? He goes, yeah, I'm over there. My name's Marcus. Oh, how old are you, Marcus? He goes, I'm in sixth grade. Oh, I thought you were grown up.

[Sizz]

It was just a kid.

[Lunchbox]

Just a kid. Never seen him before in my life.

[Sizz]

We need to get him on the football team.

[Lunchbox]

I mean, he was big boy. Big boy. The Blind side dude. He was blindside. It was like, whoa.

[Sizz]

The real untold, true, untrue story.

[Lunchbox]

And we are throwing Snowballs. Then finally, five minutes later, you know what's amazing? Baby Box 1 came outside, no problem, got the stuff on. The same stuff that I was trying to get him to put on. Guess what? He put it on, he had no problem, came out, started throwing snowballs, having a blast. And then Baby Box two decides, I want to go ride my bike in the snow.

[Sizz]

Tough. But I like the ambition.

[Lunchbox]

And all I could think is, Ray's going to tell me this isn't safe, as I'm from someone from the north. He's like, it's not a good idea to ride your bike in the snow.

[Sizz]

It's really not. Because they're at an elevated level and when they hit their head, it would hurt even worse than if they just fell.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. But he did have the helmet on. And then Baby Box got his bike out. They were riding bikes. And then we got a text from one of the neighbors, said, hey, we're. We're sledding in the alley out back. And I was like, boys, you want to go out back? So Marcus came with us. This kid that I just met just picked him up off the street. Still never met. Like, I don't know how he found us.

[Sizz]

And these are. These were the good times.

[Lunchbox]

These were the good times.

[Sizz]

You got a storybook. It.

[Lunchbox]

And we go.

[Sizz]

I had never seen my wife so happy, so I saw her breath. 12 hours later.

[Lunchbox]

We go out in the back and we're sledding and sledding and sledding.

[Sizz]

I saw the hill. It was makeshift, but it'll do. You're in the city. I get it.

[Lunchbox]

What do you mean it was makeshift?

[Sizz]

I mean, it needed to be higher. Like, right?

[Lunchbox]

No, I got. Okay, I understand.

[Sizz]

Okay.

[Lunchbox]

I'm a Michigan guy. It wasn't. It wasn't the hill at Merkerson Middle School. I understand. It's not a straight downhill. It's a little hill.

[Sizz]

There was about eight recycling cans and trash cans the kids could have hit potentially on the way down.

[Lunchbox]

Correct.

[Sizz]

Okay.

[Lunchbox]

Yes. 100% accurate. It's an alley behind houses. That's where the trash cans stay in the recycle bins. You don't. You don't move them. And they are just sledding. And then they start sledding in someone's yard. And it's like where they park their car. They have made an indention in their yard. And there's railroad ties. They're sliding and flying off the railroad ties.

[Sizz]

That's good.

[Lunchbox]

Pretty cool. Little jump. Then they found a little section over here. Oh, they're crashing into the bushes. And, I mean, families just come out of the woodworks. It's like Ace Ventura when all the birds land on it. These people just came from all directions. And we had a neighborhood party. Snow bunnies in the alley.

[Sizz]

So the guys weren't working or. It was Saturday.

[Lunchbox]

It was Saturday.

[Sizz]

That's right. I was like, the neighborhood you live in. A working non. Working class man and woman working at home.

[Lunchbox]

Nobody was working.

[Sizz]

Gotta love 2026. What do you do, Mark? I don't leave the house.

[Lunchbox]

And all these people. I know these people. I know these parents. They're like, who's that? Oh, that's Marcus, man. I don't know. I came out, he was throwing snowballs at the kids. Thought he was an adult. He joined us. Okay. Hey, Marcus. How's it going, Marcus? So everybody starts talking to Marcus, and I don't know how Marcus isn't freezing because the dude's wearing pajama pants.

[Sizz]

Is it confirmed, though? He's middle school. You just had misunderstood exactly his age.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. I asked him, I said, oh. He goes, I'm in sixth grade.

[Sizz]

Okay.

[Lunchbox]

I'm like, oh, okay. And he's just in pajama pants and a. Like a light jacket. I'm like, this Dude's got to be freezing. But maybe he's so big that he doesn't get cold.

[Sizz]

True.

[Lunchbox]

And so he sleds for like 45 minutes with us. And then he's like, all right, I'm going to go home. He disappeared.

[Sizz]

You never know with snow. It's going to be a ragtag group. And that is what snow days are all about.

[Lunchbox]

And it really is. Last year we picked up some random girl and we took her to the park with us and she got her picture in the. On the news, all that. And then this year we got Mario.

[Sizz]

Marcus.

[Lunchbox]

What did I say Marcus? Yeah, Marcus.

[Sizz]

Because it was my name of my friend that died.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, Ray.

[Sizz]

I didn't mean to pick that name.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, didn't mean to pick that name. That's my bad. Anyway, so he just disappears. And then more people are showing up. And then people are like, hey, we're going to go home for lunch. We're going to go home for lunch. And it starts to dissipate.

[Sizz]

Yep.

[Lunchbox]

This is about 1:30. 1:00 o', clock, 12:30. So we've been out in the snow for three hours.

[Sizz]

People on the east coast and Pacific time don't care the exact times.

[Lunchbox]

I know it's been about three hours.

[Sizz]

Hawaii time.

[Lunchbox]

This was 8am and then we invite Baby Box, this girl from his first grade class, lives up the street. And we just found out she lives up the street. And we're like, hey, we're out here. And he shows up with the daughter and they start playing. And then we're like, actually, we're going to go back in for lunch after her. She was there for like 20 minutes. And I was like, you just use our sleds. Just throw them on the porch. Storm in the backyard when you're done. Don't worry about it. This is what snow days are all about.

[Sizz]

And you just said something that's an actual popular term, we out here. That's actually kids. Cool kids say that.

[Lunchbox]

Really?

[Sizz]

You didn't even intend to say that?

[Lunchbox]

Oh, I know. I'm just a cool kid.

[Sizz]

Okay.

[Lunchbox]

Anyway, maybe I heard Marcus say it.

[Sizz]

We out here.

[Lunchbox]

I don't know. So we go inside and we get all undressed and we, you know, put the clothes in the dryer, got to dry them up. Then I get a text from the group. Hey, thinking about going out about 1:30 to the big hill.

[Sizz]

Yep.

[Lunchbox]

Anybody in? I said, we'll be there. We didn't get there till 1:50, but we ate lunch. And as we're eating lunch, knock. And I Go to the door.

[Sizz]

Oh, yeah, I work for the electric company.

[Lunchbox]

No, it's Marcus. Hey, where are your kids? I need someone to play with. Well, we're eating lunch, bud, but we're gonna, we're gonna be back out in like 20 minutes. We're gonna head over to sled. All right, cool.

[Sizz]

Can you drive? I'd like to have a couple APs.

[Lunchbox]

And so we go back inside. Lo and behold. I didn't know he was just gonna sit on the front porch. He didn't go home. He didn't? He didn't.

[Sizz]

That's sad, man. These kids need families and dads.

[Lunchbox]

So he was just sitting out there.

[Sizz]

Come here, son.

[Lunchbox]

And once again, the first, the younger two, get dressed. No problem.

[Sizz]

I've always wanted a 16 year old.

[Lunchbox]

Foster kid baby box. I don't know what his problem was. Dude, again, took 35 minutes to get him dressed.

[Sizz]

Yeah, he's not used to the snow. I'm not gonna fault him for that.

[Lunchbox]

So we're 20 minutes late getting to the big hill and I text everybody, hey, guess what? We're on our way. And they're like, ah, we knew you wouldn't be here on time. I'm like, okay, okay. Inappropriate. So then I asked Marcus, I said, hey, you want to go sledding with us? Dude, it's a couple blocks over.

[Sizz]

You can fit him in the van.

[Lunchbox]

No, no, we're walking. Oh. And he goes, oh, I got to go ask my mom.

[Sizz]

Gotta drive there. Gotta pay for my parking.

[Lunchbox]

So we walk over to his where he lives and he goes. And he goes, mom, mom, can I go sledding with these guys? And she pops her head out the door and she goes, you ain't my kid.

[Sizz]

Get the out of here.

[Lunchbox]

She goes, hey, is it up? Is it getting icy out there? I might. I mean, it's a little bit of snow. I mean, I. I don't know if it's icy yet. She goes, yeah, I'm really starting to think I might need to get some groceries for this storm.

[Sizz]

Yeah, there could be a couple pieces of bread left.

[Lunchbox]

All I could think, all I could think was, have you not seen one news story all week?

[Sizz]

I mean, I heart had me in a hotel on Tuesday.

[Lunchbox]

He's. Have you not seen one news story all week?

[Sizz]

How some people live wild about how.

[Lunchbox]

We are like about to have an ice storm snowstorm and you should get some groceries. You are thinking on Saturday in the middle of the snow at 1:40pm that you're going to just jet over the Grocery store. And they're going to have groceries a plenty.

[Sizz]

Did you wonder why your son came home with a bunch of white cotton all over his pants? That's called snow.

[Lunchbox]

Are you wondering why your kid came up with frostbite on his legs? Because he was wearing pajama pants for two hours while we were sledding.

[Sizz]

Are you wondering why I'm wearing a stocking cap? It's cold, the temps are dropping. These were the good times.

[Lunchbox]

These were the good times. And we head over to the hill, man. So we go over there and we're sledding and sledding and all the families over there, random families I've never seen before, this is. I mean they're just going at it.

[Sizz]

Whoa, what are they doing?

[Lunchbox]

No, no, sledding.

[Sizz]

Oh geez.

[Lunchbox]

And for some reason we're here.

[Sizz]

Sarah, what the family's you got, man?

[Lunchbox]

Cars start trying to drive down the hill. The sledding hill, the sledding hill. Cause it is a street. It is a street, but it's a big hill. And so finally we're like, turn around, turn around, turn around. And finally I tell the neighbor, I'm like, hey, dude, you need to park your truck and block the street. Oh boy, man. And so he does it. He has it pretty much blocked off. And then Here comes a Mr. Jeep, tries to go around the truck. And one of the moms waving her finger, no, turn around, turn around.

[Sizz]

Which name was it just for the truckers?

[Lunchbox]

Samantha.

[Sizz]

There you guys go. Keep you warm in that cab.

[Lunchbox]

And Jeep rolls down his window, looks.

[Sizz]

At Samantha and he goes, friggin Morgan's dude Fiance.

[Lunchbox]

No, no. And Samantha gets a earful. He goes, you mother effing itch. Awesome. And she goes, the kids are sledding there, you got to turn around, go the other way, you mother effing itch. And she goes, please watch your mouth in front of my four year old. Because her four year old daughter standing right next to her. And he goes, I'll say it again, you mother effing itch. And then Samantha, who the f do you think you are? The kids are trying to have some fun and you want to be a A. Why don't you just turn your jeep around and get out of here? And he goes, one last one for the road. Mother itch.

[Sizz]

Tensions were high at the sledding hill.

[Lunchbox]

And I'm like, can. What happened to just us having fun and. But the jeep turned around.

[Sizz]

Gotta say, you guys blocked off a city street. Hilarious.

[Lunchbox]

We blocked off a city street, dude. Put the truck in front. Like we were like, we ain't messing with cars, dude. Ain't messing with cars. And we just sled and sled. And that's when the sleep started coming.

[Sizz]

Yep.

[Lunchbox]

That is when it started sleeting.

[Sizz]

I was at the ski lodge.

[Lunchbox]

And then we got a text from one of the neighbors. Says, hey, just so you know, I'm making a hot chocolate and we got some snacks if you guys want to come over anytime after three, it'll be ready.

[Sizz]

What about some secret syrup in it for the parents?

[Lunchbox]

And I'm like, whoa. Oh, they were going to. And she said, and we got bottles of wine.

[Sizz]

Perfect. Bring the wife.

[Lunchbox]

And so we get. We. Then we have a dilemma.

[Sizz]

And then we pre game or just go straight there.

[Lunchbox]

Well, everybody's like starting to get cold, you know what I mean? And then I'm thinking, am I gonna take. Am I gonna take Marcus to this house?

[Sizz]

Oh, he's still with you, dude, he's.

[Lunchbox]

Been with us all day, man. Right.

[Sizz]

He blocked traffic for a good 20 minutes. He's so big there.

[Lunchbox]

And then a snowball fight kind of breaks out. And it's not the best snowballs because it was such soft, fine snow. It didn't really pack together. But one of the neighbors, neighbor dads, Chris, he takes a snowball and boom. He throws it at Samantha's daughter. They're not related, they're just neighbors. Hits the four year old daughter. Boom. Marcus doesn't miss a beat. Looks at Chris and goes, calm down, bro.

[Sizz]

He didn't know he knew it.

[Lunchbox]

Didn't know he knew her. And he stuck up for the four year old. Marcus has been in the group for about two hours.

[Sizz]

He's a good dude. We need to get him in next year's convention.

[Lunchbox]

And he literally looks and goes, calm down, bro.

[Sizz]

What a neighborhood.

[Lunchbox]

And then he waits 10 seconds, looks at Chris and goes, are you going to give me a push, bro?

[Sizz]

He needed a sled push. We out here.

[Lunchbox]

I mean, Marcus told him, hey, calm down, bro. It was fantastic.

[Sizz]

That's great.

[Lunchbox]

It was absolutely fantastic.

[Sizz]

What a group, man. And just enough to that you got the mom snow bunnies sprinkled in. What a fun time.

[Lunchbox]

But it was a great time over.

[Sizz]

The mom staying home cooking. Besides Samantha.

[Lunchbox]

No, the moms were out and about. There was moms everywhere.

[Sizz]

And a lot of these kids missing parents.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. And then we head over to the house for hot chocolate, dude. Everybody derobes, takes all their wet stuff off this mom. They're very nice. Puts it all in the dryer for everybody.

[Sizz]

Can I take everything off?

[Lunchbox]

And they're. There's like.

[Sizz]

You're putting your underwear in the dryer?

[Lunchbox]

No, no, no. Just the outer layers.

[Sizz]

Can I wear a pair of your husband's?

[Lunchbox]

And he's no longer around. They got hot chocolate. They got wine. They got. They have, like, pumpkin bread.

[Sizz]

Geez, would you guys take everything from Kroger? No wonder people couldn't get bread.

[Lunchbox]

No, no, they made the pumpkin bread.

[Sizz]

Yeah, it comes from bread.

[Lunchbox]

I know. I don't know what they put in it, but they made all this stuff. They made these little rolls or muffins, and the kids are just bouncing off the. Diving over the couches like it's just pure chaos. I mean, there's probably six families in there, crammed in their kitchen and living room is hilarious.

[Sizz]

Wow.

[Lunchbox]

Hilarious. I mean, jackets and boots and snow stuff just thrown everywhere.

[Sizz]

You got to respect somebody that's going to host. It really can't fit everybody properly.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, no.

[Sizz]

And we got to take a break.

[Lunchbox]

It was amazing. We were there for like two hours. And Marcus, he didn't make it.

[Sizz]

He.

[Lunchbox]

He told me. I said, hey, man, we're going to go get hot chocolate. You want to come? He goes, I didn't ask my mom. I better go home.

[Sizz]

Hypothermia.

[Lunchbox]

And so Marcus headed home, man. And I haven't seen Marcus since, man.

[Sizz]

Good kid, though.

[Lunchbox]

Good kid, man. Marcus made the night. Then we. Then we trekked through the Snow at like 5, 35, 45, back to our house, played in the snow in the backyard. And then as we were walking to our house, a snowplow truck went by. And my kids, I mean, they just did. This is all genetics. Genetics. They picked up the snow without me telling them and threw snowballs at the.

[Sizz]

Snowplow, actually funny because it is such an armored truck. It's not going to get hurt. So you can do that, kids.

[Lunchbox]

It was hilarious. And the guy gave him a thumbs up. He stuck the hand out the window and thumbs up him. And I was like, that is a true American hero.

[Sizz]

And we'll tell you the bad times after the break. Hey, man, can we start the show if you don't mind?

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, we better start it.

[Sizz]

We better owe it to our new listeners because now that Netflix has got all these Iheart shows, there's like 11 of them on there.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, right.

[Sizz]

They're not looking for any more. Maybe we try to have a more organized format.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, they should maybe look at the video from this podcast. They. This episode. And they'll really like what they saw.

[Sizz]

Maybe we try to get video without screens in the background that say blank, blank and blank.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, we probably should do that.

[Sizz]

All right, we're going to do it live. We are the 1, 2, 3.

[Lunchbox]

So, loser. What up, everybody? I am Lunchbox. I know the most about sports. So I give you the sports facts, my sports opinions, because I'm pretty much a sports genius, y'. All.

[Sizz]

It is Sizz. I'm from the north. I'm an alpha male. I live on the north side of Nashville. Not this weekend, though. I was downtown at the Grand Hyatt and over into the week, and we do have 2.33 acres covered with a lot of snow and rain and nice. And sleet, Baser said. And, yeah, the kids are back to frozen at Vanderbilt. Two of them 23 eggs, actually. Justin needs to check on them, but we out here. Over to you, man.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, On Saturday, I forgot when we were over there having hot chocolate, we did get the. The call from the school, said school is canceled Monday and Tuesday.

[Sizz]

What an upper. For the party.

[Lunchbox]

And we were like, okay.

[Sizz]

All right.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, that's. That's good. The kids are gonna be excited about that. All right. It's not that bad yet. We. We're still hanging in there, but it's still doing this sleet. And, you know, we went to bed, we wake up, and baby box one wakes up at 6am and so, of course, he wakes everybody up, and we get out of the bed, and it's like 6:07, 6:07am Pouring rain. Boo. Power goes out. Oh, and these were the bad times. And we're like, all right, all right, guys, this is. This is what we're gonna do today. We're not gonna have any power. We're gonna have to, you know, turn on the fire.

[Sizz]

Did you turn on your fire before?

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, we turned it on before.

[Sizz]

I gotta be real. I don't know how to turn on my fire.

[Lunchbox]

That's not good.

[Sizz]

Bazer's the only one that's turned it on.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, we have a little remote. You just hit the button, it comes on.

[Sizz]

My bad, man.

[Lunchbox]

It's really not hard, right?

[Sizz]

You gotta stoke it. You got one of these fire starter sticks. You know, you gotta prong it.

[Lunchbox]

And so the kids want to go outside and play. I said, guys, we can't go out there today.

[Sizz]

It's raining.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, but they. They see the snow and the eyes. They want to sled. They want to do something fun. I said, guys, here's the problem. We don't have heat, so we got to limit the amount of time, the amount of times we open the doors.

[Sizz]

Finally, you're being a dad. Authoritative.

[Lunchbox]

And also, once you go outside and get really cold, we don't really. I mean, you're not going to be able to get that warm because it's going to be freaking cold in here, dude.

[Sizz]

What are you MacGyver? That's the smartest thing you've said this entire storm. Did your wife agree or did she never think about that?

[Lunchbox]

No, no, she agreed.

[Sizz]

Okay. And I mean, if, like, if they went out and got cold, they could have gotten hypothermia.

[Lunchbox]

They could have.

[Sizz]

Without any heat in the house. Yes. Some houses were getting to 40 degrees.

[Lunchbox]

That would be our house.

[Sizz]

How many of your hoodies you have on?

[Lunchbox]

We had a few layers on. We got these comfies. They're like big old sweatshirts that go down like your, your shins. Got those for the kids for Christmas because they're always complaining about being cold at breakfast.

[Sizz]

Why did you have the bed sheet on the window?

[Lunchbox]

I will explain that later.

[Sizz]

Wow, I didn't know it deserved its own topic.

[Lunchbox]

Because these are the bad times. So we, we were in the house all day. We were just hanging out, we played games, we. Baby box. Let me tell you about baby box one, though. He curled up on the couch, grabbed his Dogman book and read it from COVID to cover. Then he went and got another Dogman.

[Sizz]

Book without any light.

[Lunchbox]

Well, I mean, he's sitting by the back door. I mean, it's daylight, so you can. The light comes in the windows.

[Sizz]

Oh, daytime provides light. Got it.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, this, you know, it's not sunshiny, but there's light.

[Sizz]

Did he try to turn on the light switch and you're like, haha, we don't got power, idiot.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, no, no, that was me. Every room, every room I went in, I would try to turn on the light switch and I'm like, oh my gosh, idiot. I'm not gonna do that again.

[Sizz]

You go into a room that doesn't have any windows, it's pitch dark.

[Lunchbox]

Walking.

[Sizz]

I went, I'm gonna go pee in the backyard. Dude, you have to. You can't see.

[Lunchbox]

I went to the bathroom. Like, I'll turn. God, did it again. Stupid. And you feel so dumb.

[Sizz]

Throwing Sports center.

[Lunchbox]

Ah, can't do that, can't do that, can't do that. Oh man.

[Sizz]

Oh man. See if Scotty won another tournament. Coach, you idiot. Coach. Coach, you idiot.

[Lunchbox]

So we're like, all right, what Are we gonna do. So we played some games. We. We ran around. We just kind of chilled. We read books, read stories. And then. Then I'm like, oh, the football games are starting. Oh, I can't watch those. Oh, cool.

[Sizz]

It was the championship games.

[Lunchbox]

AFC and NFC championships, man, they were phenomenal. I didn't see one play of either one, man. Cause nothing was working.

[Sizz]

They were great games.

[Lunchbox]

I bet they were. I bet they were so enjoyable.

[Sizz]

Patriots, Broncos. Was pretty messy. Just like the weather.

[Lunchbox]

Just like. I mean, snow games, like, I've always said they're. They sound cool in theory, but they really are. Football suck.

[Sizz]

But it wasn't a snow game till the fourth quarter. But the teams thought it was a snow game the whole game. Oh, like May wasn't good in the Stidham. Dude, that was really bad game.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, well, so, I mean, we're just around and we're texting with neighbors. How's it going? And then about 9:30am We've heard the first trees falling. That was the first one. 9:30. And then we hear another. Tree falling. And it's starting, and you start looking out the window, and you can just see tree branches. Boom, boom, boom. And that's when the text thread blows up. Texting the neighbors. And the One neighbor who's Mr. Chill, he's Mr. Outdoors. Does everything, Chops it up, builds things.

[Sizz]

What are you explaining me, Mr. Chill?

[RingCentral Announcer]

What is he?

[Sizz]

Less stress, more life, less I gotta meet this guy.

[Lunchbox]

Samantha's husband's like. She starts texting. My wife's like, oh, my God. I've never seen him like this.

[Sizz]

My bra is still wet. Does anybody have a dryer that works?

[Lunchbox]

Samantha's like, he is freaking out. I've never seen him like this. He's insisting we go onto a hotel. And I'm just like, I think we can stay here. But he is. He is. I've never seen him freak out like this. So it looks like we're going to a hotel.

[Sizz]

Okay.

[Lunchbox]

And my wife's like, should we go to a hotel? And I'm like, no, we don't need to go to a hotel. How. I mean, I said, how long could the power be out? Two, three hours. Why would we go to a hotel?

[Sizz]

Hundreds of rich, hundreds of families in hotels when I was there and with their animals.

[Lunchbox]

As the day went on, she was like, oh, should we go to the hotel? Should we go to the hotel? I'm like, no. I mean, It's. It's still 55 degrees in here.

[Sizz]

So that your wife knew about the hotel option.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. Well, she did, because the neighbors are texting. All these neighbors are going, oh, Sherry and Kevin, they went to this hotel. I'm like, all right, cool. Great. Glad they went to that hotel. We don't need to go to the hotel. We're good.

[Sizz]

And this is the one point I wanted to make, guys, about hotels in the bar industry. In downtown Nashville, out of all the city, not one hotel or bar lost power. Whatever power circuit they're on, y' all need to get on that.

[Lunchbox]

I believe they have backup. They got to be having generators. Oh, they have to.

[Sizz]

It was kind of sad, though. Skyline, lit up houses. It was just hills. You couldn't see any house lights.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Sizz]

To know that I'm in the warm part, it was tough to swallow.

[Lunchbox]

No, no.

[Sizz]

But I did. I got back in my thousand counts.

[Lunchbox]

I, I. Your. Your texts were quite hilarious.

[Sizz]

I was being funny on the Bobby Bone show text thread. People were saying how cold they were, and I was like, come on, these people got fireplaces. They're decent, right? And so I was saying stuff like, the hotel, it's 74 in here, but the temperature's stuck. It won't go up or down. I'm gonna call the front desk. Then somebody was like, I'm starving. I need something. And I go, yeah, it's. It's a little bit ridiculous. They have a limited menu here.

[Lunchbox]

They made.

[Sizz]

I'm dead serious. This is actually real. They had no pizza. They had no fries. They had no. Any, like, side things, like poppers. They didn't have bacon. They didn't have jalapeno stuff. They didn't have hush puppies, any of that. You had to choose between a wagu burger or a tomahawk steak. I'm sorry, at noon on a Monday? I don't want a tomahawk steak. Over to you, man. Sorry.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Sizz]

Little out of touch.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, a little out of touch. So then we had to move our food out to the outside. We were worried about it spoiling in the FRIDGE after about 12 hours of no electricity. So we stuck it in a little bucket and stuck it in the back porch.

[Sizz]

Okay. What are you, Bear Grylls?

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, dude, we're just like, hey, man. Like, there's gonna be no animals out in this cold. We'll just stick in the backyard.

[Sizz]

Why didn't you look for a dead animal on the ground and freaking cook that thing?

[Lunchbox]

I did. I saw a frozen squirrel, man. I thawed it out and ate that sucker. And these were the best neighborhood.

[Sizz]

You turn into bear Grylls. People are like, guys, lunch was eating a squirrel. There's literally no reason for that. We have food, dude. You're living off the land. All of a sudden. Freaking idiot. You're making a fire in your backyard, dude. In a nice neighborhood. Oh, my gosh. Oh.

[Lunchbox]

And so we're. We're there, you know, and we're.

[Sizz]

We're.

[Lunchbox]

We're. It's starting to get. It's. The first game is on. I called batters, but I was like, hey, man, what's going on with the football?

[Sizz]

I'm only watching the Niners. What up, everybody?

[Lunchbox]

It's batters box here with a spec. He said, why aren't you watching it on your phone? I said, seriously, we're in the middle of a power outage storm, and you think I can pull this up on my phone? A, don't know how to do it. B, I have three kids locked in the house with no electricity. You think I can just say, hold on, guys, I'm going to pull up this game and put it on my phone and sit here and watch it?

[Sizz]

That have been dad's 20 years ago.

[Lunchbox]

So he told me who won the first game, and he said, oh, man, the Rams already getting their butt kicked. I'll keep you updated. I haven't heard from him since, so I have no idea who won.

[Sizz]

You still don't know?

[Lunchbox]

Still don't know.

[Sizz]

You don't know who's in the Super Bowl?

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, no idea.

[Sizz]

Big game. My bad, guys.

[Lunchbox]

He. He didn't update me one time throughout the game. Didn't tell me. Oh, it's a comeback. Oh, this, that. The next day, I saw that Cooper cup. Looked like he caught a ball, but looked like he fumbled it. And I said, how was this a catch to him? And he responded, not a catch. That was all I heard about the game from him. So I don't know what happened. Great game, bad game, whatever. I didn't get to see it. My name was Saul. And you? No, no, no, no. My name is Saul. I didn't get to watch ball.

[Sizz]

There you go.

[Lunchbox]

There you go. So we were just there, and then we're like, all right, what are we going to do for dinner? And I don't know. Oh, my wife was gonna cook something. She had a nice recipe and got the fire. Yeah. But she asked me, well, she has a gas stove. And she goes, hey, can you go out to the car and charge my phone? It's dying.

[Sizz]

I'm too cold.

[Lunchbox]

And she was like, because I've been texting everybody all day, seeing if they're all right and checking on them. And so my phone's about die, so. All right, I'll go sit in the car for a little bit. And I go sit in the car for a little bit. Like, 30 minutes.

[Sizz]

Wait, so to charge your phone, you have to turn the car on and freeze your balls off and charge the phone?

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. Well, the car has heat.

[Sizz]

Right. But it takes a minute.

[Lunchbox]

Takes a minute cold. But the ice and snow was so thick on the car. I was in there. It never melted it.

[Sizz]

But if you would have also just done no gas, you know, you'd have drained your battery. Good thing you didn't do that. You can just put your ignition backwards. Oh, yeah, but it'll drain your battery.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, I understand.

[Sizz]

But then you wouldn't have heat, right?

[Lunchbox]

Then you wouldn't have heat. That's not a smart thing to do. So I go inside, and I'm like, all right, where's this great recipe? She's like, oh, I just cooked chicken and rice. Because the recipe was on my phone. You were charging it. Oh, okay, cool. So this big, nice meal plan that you had, you just cooked chicken and rice.

[Sizz]

I'll have chicken rice over freaking tomahawk at 11am so that's what we had.

[Lunchbox]

We had chicken and rice. Great.

[Sizz]

Jealous of my tomahawk steak?

[Lunchbox]

I am.

[Sizz]

Really? Dude, I just had wagyu burger eight hours before that.

[Lunchbox]

You.

[Sizz]

Do you really want that much meat?

[Lunchbox]

Probably not.

[Sizz]

No, I don't want that much meat.

[Lunchbox]

I mean, so, yeah, we had chicken and rice. Kids loved it. I was a little underwhelmed because I was expecting some nice, cool meals. She was making some Korean bowl, and so we didn't get to have it. All right, cool. No problem.

[Sizz]

You know, wife makes the Korean bowls are really good.

[Lunchbox]

And then it's time for bed. I mean, the kids, we wrestle a little bit, and it's like, all right, we got to go to bed, guys.

[Sizz]

Here, Come here. Let's wrestle. Stay warm.

[Lunchbox]

So then we go and pull mattresses off the beds.

[Sizz]

And what are you guys doing? You're sleeping five deep with the dogs. Six deep.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Sizz]

Wow. With the bed sheets. Did you ever get to that?

[Lunchbox]

That's where I'm coming to right now.

[Sizz]

I've been wondering why you were looking like you're in a shanty town. Like, he just posted a photo of his new kitchen, and now he's got a bed sheet in the window. I'm like, dude, did you lose out on your mortgage?

[Lunchbox]

No, we started Pulling mattresses out of bedrooms to bring them down by the fire. We started to resemble. What would you call it, a homeless encampment.

[Sizz]

These are the end times.

[Lunchbox]

These are the bad times. It looks like a homeless encampment. We've got the mattresses up by the fire, and then we're like, man, those windows are kind of drafty. That's when we went and got towels, taped them. That's when we went and got bed sheets and nailed them to the wall.

[Sizz]

When you do the sheets on the walls for windows or for. Drapes.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Sizz]

That's when it starts to look like a crack house.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. And then, like the little hallway, we put a blanket up there at the base of the stairs. We did that so the cold air couldn't come up the stairs.

[Sizz]

Smart.

[Lunchbox]

So we had what looked like a homeless encampment. If you looked at it from the kitchen, you had a rocking chair up against the blankets that are covering the back door. But it really looked like a shopping cart with clothes in it. And it had the tent of a homeless shelter. The. I mean, we just.

[Sizz]

We looked homeless, but you also got to know the place in your house and need some.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. Oh, we definitely got that. Because you'd feel. Oh, yeah, Need. Need a towel there. Need a towel there. And so we got. We nailed up everything.

[Sizz]

Well, insulated homes shouldn't drop that much.

[Lunchbox]

That tells you how insulated mine is. Tells you about the. The old windows that we have that are very thin and cold. And it was cold. It was 52 degrees at bedtime. And I didn't realize it, but no one told me that you weren't supposed to sleep with the fire on.

[Sizz]

You did.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, we slept on it with. On all night. We survived.

[Sizz]

But people saying the CO2 or something.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They were saying that was bad. Bad move, Bad move.

[Sizz]

Did you get any from the kids or your wife? I'm so cold.

[Lunchbox]

My wife woke up in the morning, goes, I was pretty cold. She goes, I think we got to go to a hotel today. I was like. I was like, we don't need to go to a hotel. Look, I got a point to prove.

[Sizz]

I got an axe to grind. I ain't going to go to some hotel. What am I, some sort of city slicker? I just cooked a squirrel. You wouldn't cave to the hotel.

[Lunchbox]

I said, look, now that it's daylight, there's no need to go to a hotel right now.

[Sizz]

We gotta use the sun. We gotta create heat with the sun. You guys are using terms they used A hundred years ago with the sun. That will provide us warmth. Kids, kids, remove the blankets.

[Lunchbox]

The sun's out.

[Sizz]

It'll provide us a little bit of warmth. We'll finally get some relief from the cold. Coach, go to a freaking hotel.

[Lunchbox]

These were the bad times.

[Sizz]

And you know what? They're gonna remember the bad times. They won't even remember that stupid hill.

[Lunchbox]

You know what's funny?

[Sizz]

Hey, you don't remember a thing about the sledding Hill in 20 years.

[Lunchbox]

And Metro, every, every day was sending. Is sending texts. These are three warming shelters you're welcome to come to.

[Sizz]

Yeah, apparently, firehouses, you just can go there and sleep on their floor or something in a cot.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, they're trying to keep everybody warm, man.

[Sizz]

I know, but that also sounds cold. I'm like, how hot and warm do those firehouses get? I gotta ask Phil. He'll tell me. Father in law.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, he may know. So we wake up that morning, everybody's kind of cold. We're trying to. All right, you know, I mean, time to make breakfast. And I was like, no, we're just gonna have cereal. Milk was frozen. I put it outside. It was frozen.

[Sizz]

Rookie mistake. If it drops below 32, it's risk of frozen. Coach, you couldn't even keep your family sustained with food for one meal.

[Lunchbox]

Baby box like, hey, dad, can I make a piece of toast? I'm like, bud, the toaster didn't work. We don't have electricity.

[Sizz]

Coach, you couldn't even keep milk from getting frozen, bro. You had one job. Put it by the fire. Warm milk.

[Lunchbox]

That's disgusting. We cook the milk. Oh, yeah, man.

[Sizz]

Now, this kid, I used to babysit his mom. I had to warm him milk and put chocolate. That's how you do hot chocolate.

[Lunchbox]

I get it. Oh, but we were trying to make cereal.

[Sizz]

All right, well, Coach, this isn't a normal day. Did they not get that? Hey, dad, I'll take Lucky Charms. Hey, dad, can I get Captain Crunch? Kids, the milk's frozen. They're eating dry cereal in a bowl. Your dad's an idiot. I froze the milk. I had one meal that I was responsible for. It's frozen solid. I mean, there's no chance that they was thawing for hours. Hours got people dying out here.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, These were the bad times. We'll be right back.

[Sizz]

Oh, man, I feel bad. I was in the hotel, dude. Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

So what are we gonna do Monday, man? My wife's like, we really got to look at hotels.

[Sizz]

I was like, look, why were you not, like, 99 of rich 99 of Nashville. They were all in Union Station in Grand Hyatt. The lobby was filled. Every business guy that works on the financial district and his wife that he hasn't seen in a month and his five kids and two dogs is in the hotel. Every wife. Are you on the Bobby Bone Show? Yeah, I am. I don't listen. Cool, man. I get it. You work on Church Street. You don't listen to the show. Another guy. Are you from the Bobby Bone Show? Yeah, I am. I haven't listened in a second. What is your name again? Raymundo. Man, why even bring it up if you don't know who my name is? There so many damn dogs. I've learned what a cockapoo is. I learned what a multipoo is. I learned what a Labrador is. A cocker spaniel.

[Lunchbox]

Holy crap.

[Sizz]

People got a lot of dogs. One lady brought her cat with cat litter, dumped it in the elevator. I was like, was that an accident, or did she do that so her cat could take a crap in the litter and she could clean it up? People were living like, the zoo is closed. We had zookeepers sleeping with the animals. They said, at the Nashville Zoo, people and their damn animals. Oh, we had a guy sleep with the bear last night, so it stayed warm. Guys, it's freaking hibernates. The bears are fine. Like, you don't have to have the zookeepers sleeping with the animals.

[Lunchbox]

Literally.

[Sizz]

The report this morning, we had some of our zookeepers stayed the night to keep the links warm.

[Lunchbox]

What?

[Sizz]

They were in bed with a freaking mama bear. Like, people. You don't have to have sex with a bear to keep it warm. It hibernates. Over to you, ma'.

[Lunchbox]

Am. Good.

[Sizz]

Gosh. Just so you know, some of our staff stayed the night with the animals.

[Lunchbox]

What?

[Sizz]

People and their freaking animals seen every breed of dog. Holy crap. If you got a cockapoo, I can pick it out because I rode the elevator with it all weekend. Oh, what is this thing licking my. Oh, it's pissing on my shoe.

[Lunchbox]

Awesome.

[Sizz]

What is this thing? By the end of it, I just started saying to people, what is that thing? What do you mean? Like, what is that thing? Oh, it's a maltipoo.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. And so we wake up Monday morning, no power. And Sunday night, I texted another family, just someone that lived in a different neighborhood, friends with one of the kids. And I hadn't thought about them all day, and. And I said, oh, I feel bad I hadn't checked on you guys. Hope everything's okay. You guys staying Warm. And before they'd even replied, I'd fallen asleep. And I woke up the morning and said, we're at a hotel. It's too cold for us. We couldn't take it. Had to get out. I'm like, oh. And I was like, you guys should come over here. We can have a slumber party. We're not doing hotel. And they're like, maybe we will. Just so the girls can run around and we don't wake up everybody in the hotel. But I thought a hotel has to have everybody with kids and dogs. Like, they're not really worried about noise at this point. It's not a normal hotel experience.

[Sizz]

And I heard the hotels being very accommodating, accepting points, doing this, reducing prices, really doing anything they could to help out people.

[Lunchbox]

I love it. Yeah, I love that. I love that about our city. They're always.

[Sizz]

I only have two Marriott points. Perfect. We'll give you two nights. Usually that's just good for a cup of coffee. Very nice. I've never seen so many families on Broadway. I ate lunch the other day. Assembly Hall. We sometimes. We've never done convention stuff there, but it's right there on Broadway. So many families and kids. They all just went on Broadway. Honey, I want to go drink on Broadway. Got the kids. Who cares? I ain't been down here in 20 years.

[Lunchbox]

So the bars were open?

[Sizz]

Some were. The one day I went, it was like, you had, like, Thunderhead Hawkins. You had. Hank Williams Jr. Was open. It was. It was sprinkled. I would say they're all open now. But, yeah, it was only. It was like, pizza joints were closed, but a random bar was open with cold pizza. A really popular bar would be closed, but then a dive bar would be open. It was spotty.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. And we. We invited. You know, one family didn't have power, said, hey, you guys want to come over and eat dinner? They said, I think we're going to go out to dinner tonight. I'm like, there ain't no way restaurants are open. But maybe I was wrong. Maybe the restaurants were open. I don't know. I don't know what they ended up doing.

[Sizz]

Good luck on that one. Because McDonald's wasn't open. Uber Eats wasn't open. Assembly Food hall was closed for the longest time. Goodfellows Pizza was closed. Mellow Mushroom was closed. Don't know where they ate.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. And then the kids are like, hey, can we go outside? I'm like, guys, we still don't have power. Dad, I'm cold. We'll Put socks on your feet. They refuse to put socks on their feet. They want to walk around the house with no socks. I said, that's why you're cold.

[Sizz]

Sounds like just how you were yelling at them. That's why you're cold.

[Lunchbox]

Well, I. I did as.

[Sizz]

You got a freaking tube sock on your head.

[Lunchbox]

Look at me.

[Sizz]

I look like an idiot, but I'm warmer than you.

[Lunchbox]

No, I had a hat on. I had a beanie. I put the beanie on. I had. I had it all. Like, I had socks. I wore shoes the entire time because.

[Sizz]

You guys got your slides on your little cool Crocs. The kids are wearing six, seven. Guess what I'm wearing? Boots. Fricking warmer than you. Wasn't in time for style.

[Lunchbox]

No, it wasn't. I was wearing my hiking boots, wool socks.

[Sizz]

Got people dying out here, man.

[Lunchbox]

Let me tell you. It was so cold in the house. I refuse to take a crap because you go sit on that toilet seat. Oh, my God. It was, like, sitting on ice.

[Sizz]

Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

And it's, like, so uncomfortable. I was like, man, I'm just going to. I'm going to hold it. I'm gonna hold it because there's no way. There's no way I can do this.

[Sizz]

Well, I'm being honest. It's not like you were eating ice cream and chips and stuff like that. You were eating, really, the bare necessities of what you needed for your stomach not to eat itself. So it's not like you got to go to the bathroom.

[Lunchbox]

And so we're just hanging out.

[Sizz]

I just had some mixed nuts.

[Lunchbox]

Then we played. What did we play? Ghost in the Attic, which is a board game. We played some other. We played Uno Wild, which is. Every card is a wild. It's very confusing. Not really my favorite. And then at like, 8:05. Boom. Wow, we have power. And the kids start dancing. They start jumping up now, we got power. We got power. We got power. We got power. Straight to TikTok for 38 seconds, then boom. These were the bad times.

[Sizz]

What did you do those 38 seconds, though?

[Lunchbox]

I was like, oh, my gosh, we got power. Texted all the neighbors, spend it on your phone.

[Sizz]

Solid.

[Lunchbox]

Well, I didn't have time to do.

[Sizz]

Anything else, but that just tells you, with power, people just go straight back to their phones and how they do their phones.

[Lunchbox]

No, no, I texted the neighbors. Hey, did you guys just get power? We just got power.

[Sizz]

What did we learn from no power? Don't use your phones. The second we get power, we use.

[Lunchbox]

Our phones and so they were like, no, no. And I was like, never mind. Our power just went out. False alarm.

[Sizz]

Yeah, it'll do that.

[Lunchbox]

It did do that. Then at 9:30am, boom. These were the good times. The power came back on.

[Sizz]

Honey, would you mind making me one of them recipes? I've been waiting three days for it.

[Lunchbox]

27 hours in the freezing cold. Let be light, Let there be heat. Let there be the linemen that are working hard. Oh, thank you. Thank you.

[Sizz]

Good job, coach. Your stubbornness paid off. You didn't have any family members die because you didn't want to go get a hotel. It was like, Amy, the same thing. Stevenson was up here at the studio and he goes, last night I was so cold. But like, Amy wouldn't go to her ex husband's place and stay the night and she wouldn't go to a hotel. Like, what? Freaking Stevenson? We got people dying out here, man.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Sizz]

I gave Stevenson some heat and packs from the studio. I gave him those warm hands.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, did you really?

[Sizz]

I was like, dude, take these. Don't tell Amy about them. Your feet and arms and hands will be warm tonight.

[Lunchbox]

You mean Amy from feeling yourself?

[Sizz]

Yeah. I was like, listen, if she's not getting her kid a hotel room, she's trying to save the almighty dollar. I said, do not tell her about these warm hands.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. So then we had to decide, what were we going to do today? What were we going to do now that we have power? And I'll tell you about it right after this. Had to do it real quick because we're running out of time, so I had to get that break in, so.

[Sizz]

Well, you spent 10 years talking about the good times, about some snow hill.

[Lunchbox]

Those were the good times.

[Sizz]

No, you sold 20 minute story about before the snow even happened.

[Lunchbox]

That was leading up to it.

[Sizz]

Okay, that was the preface.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, that was the preface. I mean, when you write a story, when you write a book, you have to have all this stuff included or else it's not a complete book. So then I don't know what to do. I'm like, this is crazy. I don't want to celebrate because there's still people without power. It makes you, like, have guilt.

[Sizz]

Yes.

[Lunchbox]

Power. Guilt.

[Sizz]

Yes.

[Lunchbox]

Power and heat guilt. So we started texting the neighbors. They don't have power. So people that live two streets over don't have power. And we're feeling really bad, and so we're inviting. Hey, you guys can come over here. Come over here. And the family that I texted that was at the hotel and I fell Asleep the night before, they still didn't have power. We're like, hey, you guys can come over here and stay the night if you need to. And they're like, oh, you know, our baby is taking a nap right now, but maybe when, if she wakes up, we still don't have power, we'll come spend the night.

[Sizz]

They're gonna go from satin sheets. Like, come on. What are they, Hotel Indigo?

[Lunchbox]

I. I don't know what hotel. They're at.500 a night and they got their little dog. And so we, the boys are like, hey, now that we have heat, I'm like, we can go outside. We can go outside and have fun. I don't think there's gonna be more trees falling. I mean, we had trees just all day Sunday. There's trees all over our streets, blocking the roads. All my backyard, all in the neighbor's yard, all in my front yard, Tree branches everywhere.

[Sizz]

Well, we know you'll clean that up in eight months, but your house, is it okay?

[Lunchbox]

My house is okay. Okay.

[Sizz]

We have no trees on our property.

[Lunchbox]

So luckily. So a few years back, I had a pecan tree that fell on my house. Just a branch and put holes all in it.

[Sizz]

Made great pie though, right?

[Lunchbox]

So we got rid of that. We got rid of that. We had to cut down the 100 year old pecan tree. And my wife was like, in the middle of this, Tre trees snapping. She's like, can I just say I'm so glad that tree's gone because I don't have to be worried about tree branches falling on our house. But we did have a very big tree in the back corner that it could. It was dropping branches left and right. If I'm being honest with you. It's a big old sucker. If I could show it to you. Let me see if I got a good picture.

[Sizz]

Did any of your vehicles get hit?

[Lunchbox]

No, we. We parked on the street where there was no trees. Like, we parked in a very discreet location, like in between houses where there was no trees. So that way, just planning, just in case.

[Sizz]

Cause y' all got crap loads of trees over there.

[Lunchbox]

Crap load of trees. So there's the big mama that was dropping branches, but it's in the back corner.

[Sizz]

Sheesh.

[Lunchbox]

Got a quote from a tree guy yesterday, said, 5,000. Take it down.

[Sizz]

Yeah, man, I'll take it down for free at risk of losing my fence and house.

[Lunchbox]

So I was like, oh, yeah, man, we'll call you back, man. We'll call you back.

[Sizz]

Hey, I can come over there and help you out, man. But I got insurance.

[Lunchbox]

Oh.

[Sizz]

So if I die, you're gonna lose your house. Baser's gonna get it.

[Lunchbox]

So we went out. We went. Dude, we went sledding. We went sledding some more. We went and played in the side of our neighbor's house and just broke up big ice chunks. And we're trying to throw ice chunks across the street into the gutter. Like we were doing everything. Okay, these were the good times.

[Sizz]

I was gonna say the story's over and you're Ray. And then I threw an ice chunk at my wife's breast. Like, we don't need to know every snowball that was thrown.

[Lunchbox]

No, I know. I'm not.

[Sizz]

The ice is dangerous.

[Lunchbox]

Dangerous. So then they were sledding. Baby box, threes on the sled. Baby box, two jumps on him to kind of wants to go on the sled with him.

[Sizz]

Hold on. Pause that. But were you guys showering when power went on? Like, were you How I would have been wanting heat so bad.

[Lunchbox]

I haven't. I hadn't showered because the water pressure, a water main broke. So it was just a trickle of water.

[Sizz]

Because I was at the hotel, I had to make a walk to McDonald's, and I got cold, and I took a 45 minute hot shower. I'm sorry. Shower guilt.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Sizz]

So I thought maybe y' all had done that.

[Lunchbox]

No, no, there's no showers. It was just like a trickle of water. Just a trickle. Like, if you would have put shampoo in your hair, you wouldn't be able to get it out. Oh, man. Bro. So it was just like, yeah, I'm not gonna take a shower, but.

[Sizz]

So you guys enjoyed the heat a little bit, but then headed right back.

[Lunchbox]

Out to experience now that we could experience it again and we could come back in and get warm, go back out, hey, let's go have at it.

[Sizz]

But are you making the wife cook like the wife? You guys, the kids have got to be skinnier than they were before. They've got to be chilled to the bone.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, we. We. We did heat up. No, we didn't.

[Sizz]

Were you responsible and just kept it at 70, or did you throw it up to 80?

[Lunchbox]

No, we kept it at 70.

[Sizz]

Okay.

[Lunchbox]

Kept it at 70. Heated up the house. I said, the good news is, kids.

[Sizz]

Steal some of this electricity before the neighbors get it.

[Lunchbox]

If it. If it goes out again, at least it's got heat back in it, so it'll take a while to get cool again.

[Sizz]

Smart physics.

[Lunchbox]

So we did that.

[Sizz]

Letting kids are on top of each other.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, yeah. So he jumped on top of him, and it pushed his face down into the ice, and the sled went down the hill. And so he got.

[Sizz]

Yeah. Snow burn.

[Lunchbox]

Snow burn right down the side of his face. He comes up crying, runs inside, goes to see mom. He stays in there for, like, an hour and a half trying to get better. Then they want to go to the park because there's a good hill. At the park.

[Sizz]

Yes.

[Lunchbox]

And we go to the park. We're the only ones there, man. Only ones there.

[Sizz]

Well, you know what that means. People didn't have heat. Dads are keeping the kids inside.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. And that's when I started having heat. Guilt.

[Sizz]

No, that sled guilt.

[Lunchbox]

Sled guilt. Because I was like, man, we're taking advantage of this hill, and there's no one here. I feel really bad, but the hill was flying. It was flying, running. There's a little hill at the end. If you hit it perfect, you go right over the little hill, bro.

[Sizz]

That guilt's a real thing. When you're in the Grand Hyatt 24th floor, and you look out and the only light is the skyline and from your heated shower, the television that's on any channel you can imagine, and the room service light that's been flickering so that the person will come and bring you your food, it's tough to look out over the city. And it's dark.

[Lunchbox]

There's.

[Sizz]

There's guilt with that.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. And so then we went over, and there's fresh powder. It snowed a little bit.

[Sizz]

What is this veil? Fresh powder. Who are you? It's called fresh pow.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, sorry. Fresh pow. Baby box. Baby box is so into it. I don't know what he's doing, but he gets one of the sleds, and he starts scraping the little bit of fresh pow up and putting it on the sled and putting it on the sled and putting it on the sled and putting it on the sled. I'm like, dude, what are you doing? He's like, I got a plan. I can't tell you. So then we go home. He's like, dad, I brought this snow home so we can make fresh snow cones. So we got the snow cone syrup out of the pantry, and we got little cups, and we scooped that fresh pow and we put it in cups and we poured it in there, and we had fresh snow cones right there on the front porch. Ha.

[Sizz]

Thought he was gonna do something else. Don't know exactly how your fireplace is, but usually with a stovetop or Something you can throw the snow on it and it'll go pretty cool if you're a kid. Annoyed the crap out of my dad. I think he may have hit us a couple times or tried to get the snow out of our hands. But it would. You throw it on it and it like explodes and melts really fast. It's cool. But you would have to have a type of stovetop type thing above your fireplace.

[Lunchbox]

Got it. So, yeah. So then, I mean, that was awesome. That was amazing. Then the other family came over and they brought their two kids, their dog, and they spent the night my wife made.

[Sizz]

Whoa.

[Lunchbox]

They stayed the night, dude, they don't have heat.

[Sizz]

Whoa. The wife and husband?

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. So unfortunately, y' all tag teamed or what? We, we only had a blow up mattress for them. So the husband and.

[Sizz]

What did you guys do? Guys and girls?

[Lunchbox]

No, husband and wife. They went from staying.

[Sizz]

It was me and Jim, Samantha and my wife.

[Lunchbox]

They went from staying at the hotel to sleeping on an air mattress. All the kids were downstairs. They were sleeping on the mattress that usually goes on that bed. They were all downstairs having a slumber party. All five kids.

[Sizz]

Why would he go from Hotel Indigo to that? They must be having some money troubles.

[Lunchbox]

I don't know. But their dog doesn't like our dog. He's a little chihuahua. Every time my dog thinks the dog's playing with them, so he tries to play with them.

[Sizz]

This is worse than having no heat.

[Lunchbox]

These were the good, good times, bad times for them. And they are so stressed out. They said, man, at the hotel, everybody had that look of like defeat.

[Sizz]

Yeah, right. You should have been in my hotel lobby. Everybody was drunk, hitting on each other. One guy forgot his wife was even there. You should see it at 1am When I come into work, there's a whoa. That's not your family. Who is that lady and why is she in a skirt? I saw you with a different woman earlier. Yeah, good gosh. I mean, they were swinging, dude.

[Lunchbox]

And so they spent the night. And then yesterday, the two families in our neighborhood that don't have heat yet, they have four kids and three kids respectively. They were at our house, okay. And it was pretty chaotic, but they were able to go outside. We went sledding back in the alley and they found a steep hill. Only problem is, at the bottom of the steep hill is a chain link fence. They just kept running into the chain link fence and they loved it. And then at one point, baby box two was going so fast. He went straight underneath the chain link fence. All the Way into the backyard.

[Sizz]

Listen, you helped more people than the warming centers, man. A round of applause for you and your family, for your refugee camp.

[Lunchbox]

Well, I kept telling them, hey, guys, are you getting those texts about the warming centers? You guys can go there at any time. And they're like, are we overstaying our welcome? I'm like, ah, man. I'm just saying, that warming shelter, it's only a mile from here if you want to go check it out.

[Sizz]

And also, you know, you go in one of those. I mean, like, I'm gonna sleep up against the wall, like, you know what I'm saying?

[Lunchbox]

Oh, I know what you're saying. Yeah. And so, like.

[Sizz]

Like, that's what they're saying at Hurricane Katrina in the Superdome, like, there was raping, you know, not, like, being funny at all, but, like, that was a serious thing.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. And then, I mean, it started into chaos. This is what we did. I mean, this is what they were doing last night. They were standing up on the couch, and they would salute, and then they would fall like they're falling to their death, and they would fall down onto the mattress. I mean, they were.

[Sizz]

See, they need to have some sort of power, guilt. They have none. Kids don't understand it. For their other classmates don't have power.

[Lunchbox]

They don't. I mean, watch. Watch this one. Here he goes. He's gonna stand up, salute, and he's gonna go. Bye. Bye. See if he falls. Yup. Did he fall?

[Sizz]

Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. I mean, they spent the night again last night.

[Sizz]

Ray have never seen him so happy.

[Lunchbox]

And warm, but it's been crazy, man. Those are the good times. The. The kids are having a. The time of their lives. These two parents, I feel so bad. They're so stressed out, and I'm like, guys, just relax, man. You got a roof over your head, man. You got a roof over your head.

[Sizz]

All right, man.

[Lunchbox]

And they still don't have power. And we played a little game of Racco last night. It was great, man, but, yeah, that's how we've been surviving, man.

[Sizz]

Remember that video we did for that girl? Battling right now? Here's her watching the video, smiling.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, that's good.

[Sizz]

You made her happy, dude.

[Lunchbox]

Good. And those.

[Sizz]

I hit the lady up. I said, can I get a cameo fee for that video? Just kidding. We love to send them to those in need.

[Lunchbox]

Hey, hopefully you guys are all right. No power. No power. Power. Stay safe out there.

[Sizz]

And, guys, Bazer was good. Bazer was good. We never lost power. And I was in the hotel. I I had hotel guilt, so I didn't really want to share too much. Couple specifics, nothing more. The guilt is real because honestly, people are dying out there.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. Yeah, man. It's crazy, dude. Crazy. It's crazy. But then once that power came back, Ellen, it was like a weight was lifted. Dude, I'm telling you, I can't imagine being this long without power. Those families, like, you had, like, kids just everywhere. We had just a gaggle of kids. Some kids. I don't even know who they were.

[Sizz]

Some of our friends, I think they may stay at our house tonight. They're in moxie one night, then they went to some other friends another night, and then they may stay at our place tonight. So they took the cat's dogs, but there were like, some other outer lying animals that they have that they had to leave at the house.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, man. Oh.

[Sizz]

But, like, you know what they are? They're not like serious animals.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. What do you think? Rats.

[Sizz]

They all died. The kids were crying.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, the fish. Oh, the fish, man. Fish. Yeah.

[Sizz]

But I mean, you can't take those.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. And you know what? You know what we figured out, though? Like, I and I didn't know this. My wife was sitting there the other day, like, because we still don't have Internet tv, nothing. She's like, I think we bought a DVD player years ago. She went digging, found a DVD player. It works. So in the mornings, the kids have been watching DVDs because there's no cable, there's no nothing.

[Sizz]

Got it.

[Lunchbox]

It's crazy, man. Hey, stay safe out there, guys. Stay safe.

[Sizz]

Dude, at the freaking hotel, we had HBO and you could hook up your YouTube TV.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, that's cool, man. That's cool. We didn't have that. And hey, there's a 40 chance of snow on Saturday. Tell me something bad.

[Sizz]

Was that the power going out again?

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. These were the good times.

[Sizz]

This is an iHeart podcast.

[Lunchbox]

Guaranteed Human.