SORE LOSERS: We Are 100% Human

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Bobby Bones Show - SORE LOSERS: We Are 100% Human

Date: December 22, 2025
Episode Theme: Navigating the Realities of Everyday Life – Home Repairs, Parenting Sleep Struggles, and the Perils of Reading Gifts

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Overview

In this lively and comedic episode, the Sore Losers crew—Ray, Sizzin, and a guest (possibly Chris)—dive into the everyday challenges and oddities of being "100% human." The conversation blends personal stories about freezing office temperatures, home repair woes, co-sleeping with kids, and the agony of receiving (and struggling through) a very dense biography for Christmas. With plenty of banter, off-the-wall humor, and relatable moments, the team keeps things candidly real.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Mystery of the Freezing Office ([01:47]–[04:41])

• Opening Chaos: Sizzin tries to start the show, stressing the need to be considerate of people's time and teamwork:
  "It's called being considerate of other people's time... That's called being a team player. That's what iHeart's all about." (Sizzin, [01:55])

• Office Temperature Detective: The guys joke about the building's bizarre cold spots and an unidentified older man wandering, “testing” the temperature:
  "Is that why the gentleman...he has been sitting in various spots throughout the building, just randomly...Apparently he's testing different locations in the building to figure out where the heat is coming from." (Ray, [03:11])

• Humor & Suspicion: Sizzin jokes, “…he needed the exact heat thermometer... of my desk. He sat on my lap.” ([03:59])

2. Home Heating and Real-Life Repairs ([05:11]–[10:20])

• Comparing Heat Systems: Sizzin and Ray swap low-key flexes about their home heat systems, sharing how vent placement drastically changes room temps.
  "All because the heat was having to go around the couch and up instead of straight up. That makes a difference." (Sizzin, [07:04])

• Flooded Foundation Saga: Ray recounts plumbing disaster, water damage, and how a company (Helotech) had to excavate his yard to fix the drainage system.
  "They dug a big old hole, put in a whole new drainage system...Boom. No more water coming in the bottom of the house. Hela Tech to the rescue." (Ray, [09:54])

3. Sleeping Arrangements – To Co-sleep or Not ([10:20]–[14:35])

• Guest Joins In: Guest (Chris) fuels debate about whether kids should co-sleep with parents:

  • "You guys don't sleep in the same bed together. Like a lion den." (Chris, [10:30])
  • "My oldest finally left the bed...he wanted a sense of independence because he was going into second grade..." (Chris, [10:35])

• Comedic Parenting Struggles:
  "The third one, oh my God, he will flip upside down. He'll be sideways...it is like you get kicked in the wrist. I mean, you don't get a good night's sleep." (Ray, [11:05])

• Animal Kingdom Analogy: Chris argues that sleeping together is natural—“In the animal kingdom...lions...all sleep together as a pack.”
  Sizzin: “100% human.” ([12:36])

• Growing Pains: Chris describes helping his oldest transition to his own bed, still tucking him in every night.
  "So he still needs to be, like, tucked in and cuddled a little bit." (Chris, [13:34])

• Birds and Roads: Sizzin hilariously shares how a mother bird taught her babies to fly by “pushing them into traffic”:
  "She led them into the road so that they would get scared by the traffic. And that is how they first did their wings..." (Sizzin, [13:48])

4. The Curse of the Bad Book Gift ([19:53]–[33:09])

• Holiday Build-Up: Ray transitions to holiday mode, describing the anticipation of gifts and his father’s unflappable “Oh, all right,” reaction to presents. ([19:53]–[20:59])

• The Book: Ray gets “The Last Man Who Knew Everything” (about Enrico Fermi) from his father-in-law and tries valiantly, and fruitlessly, to finish it:

  • “I have no damn idea anything they're saying in this book.” (Ray, [24:21])
  • “This book was so intelligent, I have no idea what I read.” ([24:42])

• Stubborn Completion:

  • “It took me 10 months to finish this damn book...10 months of my life.” (Ray, [26:37], [34:46])
  • “The lesson I want to teach you is: it is okay to give up on certain things.” ([29:20])

• Sizzin’s Brutal Honesty:

  • “The book sucks, Ray. You get one life to live...You're never going to get those 10 months back.” (Sizzin, [26:47])

• Hilarious Goodreads Review Reading:
  The guys mock the reviewers and the probable readership:

  • “Most of the people that have read that book haven't ever got honey on their stinger.” (Sizzin, [31:01])

5. Christmas Plans and Family Traditions ([39:43]–[41:58])

• Holiday Destinations: Sizzin is heading to Jamaica, on “missions work” (read: all-inclusive drinking vacation).

  • “You want me to clean up some palm leaves, you give me a pina colada...I'll have it cleaned up by noon.” (Sizzin, [39:41])

• Ray’s Family Time: Ray expresses excitement about a nostalgia-filled Christmas at his grandparents’ house, with homemade ornaments:

  • “We're going Griswold Christmas...They're going to come down the same stairs I did, and it is going to be amazing.” (Ray, [40:07])

• Sentimental Detail:

  • “All my homemade ornaments that I have had since I was a kid. The one that Aaron Weeks gave to me at Summit Elementary in, like, second or third grade...That still goes on the tree every year.” (Ray, [41:08])

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Memorable Quotes & Moments

• On Weird Office Heat Testing:
  “He needed the exact heat thermometer, temperature barometer, if you will, of my desk. He sat on my lap.” (Sizzin, [03:59])

• On Parenting with Co-Sleeping:
  “The third one, oh my God, he will flip upside down...when we travel...it is like you get kicked in the wrist. I mean, you don't get a good night's sleep.” (Ray, [11:05])

• On Receiving Bad Gifts:
  “It took me 10 months to finish this damn book...Ten months of my life...I'll never go on it again.” (Ray, [26:37], [42:36])

• On Brutal Honesty:
  “You get one life to live...You're never going to get those ten months back.” (Sizzin, [26:47])

• On Christmas Nostalgia:
  “They're going to come down the same stairs I did, and it is going to be amazing.” (Ray, [40:07])

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Key Timestamps for Important Segments

• [01:47] – [04:41]: Opening banter; the freezing office saga
• [07:04]: Home heating anecdotes and repairs
• [10:20] – [14:35]: Parenting and sleep arrangement debates
• [19:53]: Christmas presents dialogue—Ray’s dad’s reactions
• [22:30] – [34:19]: The painful odyssey of reading “The Last Man Who Knew Everything”
• [39:41]: Holiday plans—Sizzin’s “mission work” in Jamaica, Ray’s family trip

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Tone & Style

• Vividly unfiltered and irreverent: Regular use of self-deprecation, friendly teasing, and wry humor
• Conversational and relatable: Listeners get a fly-on-the-wall feeling
• Stories over information: Even routine topics (like drainage repair or book reviews) become entertaining through anecdotes

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Takeaways

• It's okay to quit something that doesn't spark joy…even if it's a holiday gift.
• Family weirdness, house repairs, and the struggle to get a comfortable night’s sleep with kids are shared experiences in many homes.
• Holiday traditions and nostalgia can bring joy and reflection, even amidst chaos.
• Sometimes, the most memorable podcast episodes are just snapshots of being “100% human” in all its messy, funny, and frustrating glory.

Transcript

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[Sizzin]

I hope we're going to talk about Vegas.

[Ray]

Whoa, hold on. Wait. What? You already started it? Yeah, I wasn't ready. I wasn't ready.

[Sizzin]

It's called being considerate of other people's times. I got the engineer waiting on us patiently with baited breath if you will, and he said, you guys finish the pod and then I'll jump in. That's called being a team player. That's what I hearts all about.

[Ray]

I know. It's good cross pollination. It's good teamwork. We are all about teamwork because teamwork, you know what they say makes the dream work.

[Sizzin]

I thought it was makes the wean work, know what I'm saying?

[Ray]

Well, it depends what team you're doing. If you're talking about the husband and wife's significant other, it does make the wean work. Just depending on how that is, you know.

[Sizzin]

I hope you got a good bit prepared.

[Ray]

Oh, I do have a great bit. I mean it's freezing cold, my toes are suffering from frostbite, I've been Trying to walk around to thaw them out, go in the bathroom to take a pee, and it might be colder in the bathroom than it is anywhere in this building. How is it on the inside of the building? And it is colder than anywhere else on the planet.

[Sizzin]

Yeah. And are they addressing it? Is my. Is my question. I've heard mumblings, rumblings that something with. There's only two different heat ducts or something, so maybe it doesn't disperse the air like how we want it to.

[Ray]

Is that why the guy. The gentleman, the older gentleman. Not sure what he does around here, but he has been sitting in various spots throughout the building, just randomly sitting in these chairs. You walk around, and he says it looks like he's just looking out the.

[Sizzin]

Window, but he's testing how it feels.

[Ray]

But apparently he's testing different locations in the building to figure out where the heat is coming from. If the heat is getting to that spot, what's the circulation like, how long until you get frostbite if you sit by this chair. Oh, let me walk over here and sit in this chair. Excuse me. Paige from sales. I'm gonna need you to move out of this desk. I need to see if you're getting heat here. Oh, you got a call coming in. I'll take. I mean, I don't know what he is. He. Does he work for our company or the building?

[Sizzin]

He needed the exact heat thermometer, temperature barometer, if you will, of my desk. He sat on my lap.

[Ray]

It's very interesting.

[Sizzin]

I was like, if you need it, get it.

[Ray]

And then when you had to play a voicemail and he hit the wrong button, it's like, dude, stop. You don't touch the buttons. And it was very awkward. It was weird to see, because I'm used to seeing three people in the glass room. You, scuba and Abby. And there was four people in there. It was very weird.

[Sizzin]

Well, and then he needed to get the exact temperature near Abby's legs because her legs have been getting cold.

[Ray]

Oh, she sat on his face. That's weird.

[Sizzin]

But he got the reading good.

[Ray]

And maybe we will see some improvement after the new year.

[Sizzin]

Are you freaking kidding me? What's this guy's name? Freaking playing tonksil tugs with Abby.

[Ray]

We don't know his name, dude. We. We don't even know if he works for us or the building. Sorry, Arnold. Didn't mean to upset you.

[Sizzin]

So what if he did a little tonsil skiing with your girlfriend?

[Ray]

Yeah, that was a little weird. It is a little weird to see him walking around the building, kind of just camping out and doing I don't know what.

[Sizzin]

But that's what he is. He's the expert for that. You're the bears expert. He is the heat expert.

[Ray]

How do you build a building this size? Like, this massive of a space? Right.

[Sizzin]

I'm guessing 30,000 square feet.

[Ray]

And you only have two places. The heat comes out of the ducts. Like when you're engineering a place. Don't you think, okay, I need this. I mean, I have two air vents in my bedroom.

[Sizzin]

Whoa.

[Ray]

Where the heat comes out. So how can you only have two in this whole freaking building?

[Sizzin]

Low key flex. We have one. So you might have similar heating.

[Ray]

I got a question. Does yours come out of the wall floor? Mine too.

[Sizzin]

I believe floor is probably the option for a lot of homes.

[Ray]

I thought that that's the older homes. I thought the newer homes, it was always on the wall or the ceiling.

[Sizzin]

No, we're floor. I mean, maybe. Obviously we cut a couple corners to be able to afford this puppy. And what I realized is you would never think. So we had a couch over one of the vents in our room. There's. It's a nook where you can put a couch. It's not a low key flex. It needed a couch there. Otherwise, it's a dead space.

[Ray]

So why'd you build it?

[Sizzin]

Because we flipped it around and. Great question. Maybe it was supposed to be this big bay window, and we just did a couple cheaper window options. So now there's this space where we really don't need low key flex.

[Ray]

So you could afford it.

[Sizzin]

Correct.

[Ray]

Got it.

[Sizzin]

There was supposed to be a different front door, and we said, we don't need a front door. From 2025, we boom, we go the throwback door. Save a bunch of money. Oh, we were supposed to have a huge sliding glass thing for $20,000. We said 1/30 the price of that. And guess what? They work just fine. And they look probably just as good.

[Ray]

I don't know. Those sliding glass doors look pretty cool. You can just open them up and let the air in.

[Sizzin]

But my point is this. I hate to take from your story.

[Ray]

I didn't have a story.

[Sizzin]

We. The couch covered the vent, and it changed the temperature in our bedroom by 3 or 4 degrees. All because the heat was having to go around the couch and up instead of straight up. That makes a difference.

[Ray]

Dude, you make a great point. All the box boys, they've been in the guest bedroom. Because about seven months ago, we had the hot water heater. Bust in the downstairs, and it flooded the downstairs.

[Sizzin]

That's a problem.

[Ray]

And so we had to rip out all the flooring, and we were going to put new flooring down, and we were going to have to cut off some of the wall, redo the wall, because, you know, you don't want mold to get in there. You had the fans in there. Drying it out. And they kept coming in and trying to do temperature readings and moisture readings. They finally got that figured out.

[Sizzin]

Moisturize this.

[Ray]

And then all the books that the boys used to read and look at, they're all wet.

[Sizzin]

Pages are all stuck together.

[Ray]

All stuck together. And my wife says, hey, how come you didn't clean up the wet books when you were tearing out the floor? I said, there is no way I missed those books. That is impossible that I missed those books. But then I sat there, and I was like, well, maybe I did miss those books. Maybe I'm just an idiot. I didn't realize they were wet, and I just stuck them in a pile, and that's on me. Mmm. Smash cut. A week later, it rains again. And I go into the boy's room, and there is water coming in the bottom of the walls. Jeez. Bottom of the walls. And so you know what that screams.

[Sizzin]

I'm not a contractor.

[Ray]

Foundation issues.

[Sizzin]

Jeez.

[Ray]

So I called my friends at Helich, and I said, hey, guys, look, man, I got water coming into the bottom of my walls. And they come out and they check everything. They said, all right, this is what's going on. You have a drainage system on the outside of your house that lasts about 15 years. 15 to 20 years. And yours has been. It says 18 years. So they're probably all clogged. So that is why the water was coming in the bottom of the walls. So Helotech brought the. And they dug out. They excavated my backyard. Yes. Dug a big old hole, put in a whole new drainage system, and then filled it back up, put the gravel there.

[Sizzin]

Boom.

[Ray]

No more water coming in the bottom of the house.

[Sizzin]

Fix the moat.

[Ray]

Hela Tech to the rescue. But this is where I'm going to get to my point. Then we have to re. Put the walls together. We have to paint the rooms. We still had to put the new flooring down, so the boys have been sleeping in a spare bedroom in the guest bedroom. What's up, Scoob? So, dude, how you doing, man?

[Sizzin]

Nothing, man.

[Guest (possibly Chris)]

Just want to give that to you.

[Ray]

For your friend Chris. Oh, thanks, man.

[Sizzin]

He's just talking about sleeping arrangements for his kids at his house.

[Guest (possibly Chris)]

Oh, you guys sleep in the same bed?

[Sizzin]

No, no, no, no.

[Ray]

Turn on his mic.

[Guest (possibly Chris)]

You guys don't sleep in the same bed together. Like a lion den.

[Ray]

No, you do that.

[Guest (possibly Chris)]

I do do that, yeah.

[Ray]

And you get no sleep.

[Guest (possibly Chris)]

No, I get great sleep, actually. My oldest finally left the bed and he now sleeps in his own room.

[Ray]

But wow, what made him do that?

[Guest (possibly Chris)]

It was a combination of my wife being like, hey, you're six, you need to get in your own bedroom. And then I think he wanted a sense of independence because he was going into second grade and he's like, hey, I feel like I need to be in my own room. And he's had a room. He just only played in it, never slept in it. But my now 5 year old and 2 year old sleep with me and my wife.

[Ray]

What about the kicking and the. They don't kick.

[Guest (possibly Chris)]

No, they don't kick. They cuddle.

[Ray]

See, my oldest one doesn't really move around the middle one. He is like a statue. The third one, oh my God, he will flip upside down. He'll be sideways. Like when we travel and we're in hotels and we had to share a bed, it is like you get kicked in the wrist. I mean, you don't get a good night's sleep.

[Guest (possibly Chris)]

Yeah.

[Sizzin]

Oh, I'm never having kids right in the nads.

[Ray]

It's awful. Like, you wake up and there's a foot in your face or hands hitting.

[Sizzin]

You in the face.

[Ray]

It's like never good sleep.

[Guest (possibly Chris)]

I think looking at it now, because my wife sleeps with the youngest one. I think I hear her a lot, being like, ow, stop. So I think the youngest one does like, like somersaults in her sleep.

[Ray]

Yes.

[Guest (possibly Chris)]

And the middle child is like a. Like a statue. Just sits there and just happy to be part of the family.

[Ray]

It's weird how that works.

[Guest (possibly Chris)]

Yeah, it really is. I think that. I think we kind of mirror what your kids are like.

[Ray]

I mean, sometimes I go in and the youngest is. His head is under the pillow or under the cushions or the blankets and his feet is on the pillow. And I'm like, how did that happen?

[Guest (possibly Chris)]

And how are you breathing the whole night like that?

[Ray]

Exactly. Yeah.

[Guest (possibly Chris)]

I'd be suffocated.

[Ray]

And they're hanging off halfway off the bed and it's like, how did that happen?

[Guest (possibly Chris)]

Yeah, I don't. I have no idea. But we, we enjoy it. We like it. I feel it's made confident kids and I mean, everyone does their own thing. Everyone. There's no right or wrong answer.

[Ray]

No, there is Right or wrong.

[Guest (possibly Chris)]

Yeah. Well, then the right way is to sleep together.

[Ray]

No, it's absolutely not.

[Sizzin]

Yes, it is.

[Guest (possibly Chris)]

In the animal kingdom. Look at all the mammals. We're the only mammals in the entire animal kingdom to that kick kids out of the bed immediately. Everyone else, lions. And around the circle of life, they all sleep together as a pack.

[Sizzin]

100% human.

[Ray]

And, you know, guaranteed human.

[Sizzin]

God dang it.

[Ray]

You know what happens then is later, the animals stay with their parents forever.

[Guest (possibly Chris)]

No, they get kicked out. They do their own thing. Like, Simba doesn't stay with mom and dad forever.

[Ray]

Simba goes away because he thought it was his fault.

[Guest (possibly Chris)]

Well, true that. But then I guess Nala stays around with the pack. Yeah, okay, I see your point there.

[Ray]

You see what I'm saying? So then when they get older, they think, oh, I had to be with my mom and dad.

[Guest (possibly Chris)]

Yeah, I don't know. I guess we're living that experiment now, so we'll figure it out.

[Ray]

Have you gone through growing pains with your oldest going out of the room? Does he, like, feel weird and nervous?

[Sizzin]

I still.

[Guest (possibly Chris)]

When it first happened, he was very nervous. And so every night I have to go in there, and I almost would almost sleep with him every night in his bed. But then he started to do his own thing. And then. So now I still take him and know, tuck him in, and I'll cuddle with him for like five or ten minutes. And then I hear Steven come to bed, and I'm like, halfway asleep, and I wake up and then I run to bed. So he still needs to be, like, tucked in and cuddled a little bit.

[Sizzin]

Let me give this small example. It's probably terrible, but there was a bird living in our house. We let it make the nest in the corner of our outdoor house, and all the little birdlings were right there with the bird. Well, guess how the bird taught the birdlings to fly.

[Guest (possibly Chris)]

Push them out that.

[Sizzin]

And she led them into the road so that they would get scared by the traffic. And that is how they first did their wings. And not only did she do it once, she did it with every one of her birds and so pushed him into traffic. Maybe that's how you guys can get rid of your kids. Push my kids right into traffic. Not that.

[Guest (possibly Chris)]

Okay, human example.

[Sizzin]

She was got to get them out of the bed or.

[Ray]

Well, she was trying to see if her kids were fit to survive in this world if they got hit by a car. She's like, well, they didn't learn.

[Sizzin]

Everyone got scared by the car and then started Fluttering their wings and would learn to fly by that.

[Guest (possibly Chris)]

That's pretty scary and crazy.

[Sizzin]

Talk them into traffic. Use that.

[Ray]

What a terrible mother.

[Sizzin]

We are 100% human radio.

[Guest (possibly Chris)]

I have to go, boys.

[Ray]

Yes. That was fun. Hey, man, thanks, dude.

[Guest (possibly Chris)]

Thanks for having me.

[Ray]

I really appreciate it. Hey, we taught him to fly, man. He's out of here. Birdie's flying.

[Sizzin]

Oh, he just went off the patio.

[Ray]

Oh, no. So back to my kids.

[Sizzin]

Are you taking a break?

[Ray]

No, I gotta finish the story about you had the. After the break, the covered up vent. After the break, they've been sleeping in the guest bedroom and we have a mattress because two of them sleep on one mattress. And then we have like a full or a twin that one sleeps on and it's on the floor. And every once in a while it gets moved over and it's over the vent and they complain about being cold. And I'm like, what? Oh, you're on the vent. We move it back over like, oh, dad, that's so. So the floor vent is a big problem. If you cover it up, you don't get the same air as you used to. You need to.

[Sizzin]

I'm curious. We do have the other vents. See, Bazer's office has the other vent. The. Right. When you enter the house, there's the other vent. Upstairs, there's a ceiling vent.

[Ray]

See? Yeah, you don't have ceiling vents. Father in law floor.

[Sizzin]

Okay, Father in law. Rock that. But. But guys, those floor vents are very important. And hopefully the guy right around here, this office, figuring out the heat, he can learn about the floor vents.

[Ray]

And after the break, he's gonna come in and tell us what he's discovered. We'll be right back.

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[Sophie Cunningham]

So I was.

[Sizzin]

Able to figure out with the barometer that the actual calculations of the heat in here is right around 69, 67. Here. Abby, if you wouldn't mind, let me sit on your head and just see if this temperature works. Is that hot enough? All right, my work here is done. Your temperature in this building is now 6, 7.

[Ray]

Man, that was great scientific research. Thanks, man, but appreciate it. Now that you're gone, man, I think we can start the show. Now that you're gone. Yeah. That our listeners really need to know the barometer and temperature.

[Sizzin]

All right, we're gonna do it live. We are the 1, 2, 3, soar loser.

[Ray]

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'.

[Podcast Announcer]

All.

[Sizzin]

It is Sizzin from the north. Alpha male live on the north side of Nashville with 2.3333 acres and bays are my wife. Kids are at the electrophysiology unit at Vanderbilt, probably defrosting. Somebody needs to check on them and I'll die of a heart attack when I'm 72 and a half. That's all I gay I had a rhyme at one point, I forget it. Over to you, man.

[Ray]

Ray, Christmas is rapidly approaching. We are a few days away. Before you're gonna wake up, you're gonna walk into whatever room that Christmas tree is. If you celebrate Christmas, that is. And you're gonna see those presents under the tree and you're gonna be like, oh yes, the most wonderful time of year. Santa Claus has come.

[Sizzin]

Not for the homeless, not for the.

[Ray]

Homeless, but maybe they will find a present under a tree. Maybe it'll be like half eaten cheeseburger. That's Christmas to them.

[Sizzin]

It's a box of coke.

[Ray]

And you're going to be like, yes, I can't wait to see what someone got me. What a surprise. And you're going to start ripping into those presents and some are going to be good, some are going to be bad. And my dad, every year he has the same reaction to every present. Oh, all right. Like it, love it or hate it, you would never know.

[Sizzin]

It's a great reaction, It's a great.

[Ray]

Reaction and you can just wait for it.

[Sizzin]

Wait for it.

[Ray]

Oh, all right. And sometimes 30 seconds later. What is it?

[Sizzin]

Plug and play.

[Ray]

Plug and play. He has the same reaction. It is a foul proof method. Well, last Christmas, Ray, my in laws, mainly my father in law sent me a gift and I opened it up, what was it?

[Sizzin]

A C ring.

[Ray]

And I am like, what could it be?

[Sizzin]

This will improve it for us. Thank you, I appreciate it, Phil.

[Ray]

And it was a brand new book and I was like so cool. Because I don't mind reading a book. I like consuming some words on a page and you know, going page to page and then reaching the end and slamming that book shut like 50 Shades of Gray. Never read it, but yes, like that. Or To Kill a Mockingbird or 1984. Those books that you read in high.

[Sizzin]

School, Ray, Fifty Shades of Grey was a real slam it shut, if you know what I mean.

[Ray]

This one is by David N. Schwartz, the Last man who Knew Everything. The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age.

[Sizzin]

Fricking written about Arnold.

[Ray]

And he put a little post it note on there and he said, I don't know if they ever met you because they would call you the most interesting man in the world.

[Sizzin]

I'm the interesting man in the world, you mother.

[Ray]

And so I'm like, great, I can't wait to read this.

[Sizzin]

It looks thick.

[Ray]

It's thick. It is. Let's see how many pages this book is.

[Sizzin]

Girthy even.

[Ray]

It's only like 360 pages.

[Sizzin]

I like sticking around six, seven.

[Ray]

Smart. And I thought, okay, let me read about this book. Well, it's about some scientist and he was big with the atomic bomb and things like that and splitting particles and it says, oh, the good news is you don't need to be an engineer or anything. We have dumbed this book down for the average reader.

[Sizzin]

Do they talk about heat conductors at all? Because otherwise why is this useful?

[Ray]

Well, it just talks about it. My father was a particle physicist. In 1962 he and two of his colleagues conducted an experiment that demonstrated the existence of two distinct types of neutrons. Neutrons, neutrinos, I don't know, ghostly subatomic particles that can pass through hundreds of millions of miles of lead without bumping into a single atom. That was the first sentence of the book, Ray.

[Sizzin]

Truck drivers just called in, they took a yellow jacket at a gas station and a bottle of Surge and they almost fell asleep while driving.

[Ray]

Well, this guy wrote all about this Fermi guy and he said don't worry, you don't have to be a scientist, you don't have to be a chemist, you don't an engineer. This book is for you.

[Sizzin]

The book sucks, Ray.

[Ray]

As a person you're trying to talk.

[Sizzin]

Like a poet, just frickin talk.

[Ray]

As a person that got this book, I wanted to be respectful of my father in law.

[Sizzin]

The book sucks.

[Ray]

And so I sat down to start reading it shortly after Christmas and I have no damn idea anything they're saying in this book.

[Sizzin]

Gun to your head. Are you looking at that? Are you looking at a nudie mag? First annuity mag, that's the better present.

[Ray]

This book was so intelligent, I have no idea what I read.

[Sizzin]

Let's throw it off the balcony.

[Ray]

We might as well throw it off the balcony.

[Sizzin]

But because guess what? You can give a homeless man a dollar but you can teach him to read. And he will learn his way off those streets.

[Ray]

He may learn how to split an atom and do all these neutrons and protons like this book talked about. Because I wanted to read this book because I was worried my father in law would ask me, so what you think of the book? And once I started the book, there's one thing about me, when I start something, I don't like to quit, I like to keep going. Because what if the book is going to get better? What if after chapter one, oh, maybe chapter two is better. Get to chapter two, get through chapter two, you're like ah, chapter three, that's going to be the Home run chapter.

[Sizzin]

You're not a good gambler, then you need to know when to quit.

[Ray]

Yeah, no, that's the same thing with gambling. It's like, oh, this, roll the dice. This is the one that's going to hit. This is the one where I'm going to flip over an ace king for a 21 blackjack. This is the role of the ball that is going to be Red 21. And we're all going to go home happy.

[Sizzin]

This is the day I chase back all the losses from Saturday and Sunday. Monday Night Football.

[Ray]

Correct. And I kept reading and I kept reading and I'd put the book down like, oh my God, I can't read this. Then a week later I'd go back to it and I'd start reading. I'd read three pages and it would take me 20 minutes to read three pages because some of the words, I didn't even know what they were.

[Sizzin]

Okay, so you're trying to get in good with Phil. I got you.

[Ray]

Yes. And it took me because I thought maybe Phil read this book and was like, oh, man, you're going to love this book. It took me 10 months to finish this damn book.

[Sizzin]

The book sucks.

[Ray]

It took me 10 months to read the Last man who Knew Everything. The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age.

[Sizzin]

Just let me say this. You could. You get one life to live. You can live it any way you want to. Just don't be a loser. Holy crap, dude. You're never going to get those 10 months back.

[Ray]

I feel like a loser after reading this book.

[Sizzin]

Oh my gosh, man, you got to start making up for lost time. What were you doing?

[Ray]

I. I was reading the book that my father in law gave me for Christmas. Trying, trying my darndest to like appreciate the gift and maybe I would understand it.

[Sizzin]

How's it going, Phil? You want to talk about small talk or you want to talk about the last man who knew everything?

[Ray]

How you doing?

[Sizzin]

Happy holidays, Phil.

[Ray]

Some recent work. This is page 180. Some recent work by E. Fermi and El Sizzle Land, which has been communicated to me in manuscript, leads me to expect that the element uranium may be turned into a new and important source of energy in the immediate future. Certain aspects of the situation which has arisen.

[Sizzin]

Page and stick it up your ass.

[Ray]

Which has arisen seemed to call for watchfulness and if necessary, quick action on the part of the administration. I believe, therefore, that it is my duty to bring to your attention the following facts and recommendations. Roosevelt finally received the letter in October 1939 and authorized work on fishing and as immediate priority. What is vision, Ray? I don't know.

[Sizzin]

The only page worth reading. Six seven.

[Ray]

Oh, you want to go to page six seven? Okay, we'll go to page six seven and let's see what they had to say on page six seven. Okay, page six seven. Let's see. That summer Fermi bought a car generally generally frugal. He chose the cheapest model for pgot a baby purgut a yellow two seat convertible that looked as silly as it was cheap. Bet he had grandly announced to his friends that soon he would be either getting married or buying a car.

[Sizzin]

Stop glazing me, bro. Stop glazing me.

[Ray]

Alarmed when she heard the news about the Pugat, Laura's friend Cornelia wrote to Laura.

[Sizzin]

Whoa, my wife's on that page?

[Ray]

Yeah, man. So I guess his wife found out, his girlfriend found out, he bought a car. So her friend thought, oh my gosh, he doesn't want to marry you. But he ended up marrying Laura anyway.

[Sizzin]

It's about me, dude.

[Ray]

Dude, I'm telling you what there are. So the lesson I want to hear teach you is it is okay to give up on certain things.

[Sizzin]

Just speak to the truck driver.

[Ray]

You farmers out there. If you were thinking about this Christmas giving one of your friends or family members the last man who knew everything, don't do it.

[Sizzin]

Just give them a can of corn and tell them they can stick it up there candy eyes.

[Ray]

It would be better than, more enjoyable than reading this book. It was so hard to read.

[Sizzin]

How much was it? Because it actually looks like one of those $60 or something like that.

[Ray]

It was US$35.

[Sizzin]

Well, invest that.

[Ray]

And I don't know where he got it, if he got it. A bookstore garage sale, bro, you take.

[Sizzin]

That to Goodwill, they're going to say no thanks. Nobody that comes in here can read much less Physiogn.

[Ray]

Yeah, and splitting atoms and doing all that. Let's. It was tough. Let's go to Goodreads and I'll tell you the overall rating this book has.

[Sizzin]

See, that's one of those you just brag about reading. I think that's one of those you put in your office and people can just see that you dominated that thing.

[Ray]

Well, there's been 1048 ratings. 127 reviews. It has 4.24 out of 5 stars. But that tells me that not a lot of people have read it. If only a thousand people have reviewed this book. Not a lot of people have Read it. So I don't know why my father in law thought I would love to know about splitting of atoms and fission and micro neutrons and neutrons and protons and atoms and. Oh my God, it was so miserable. But I will never read this book again.

[Sizzin]

I'm telling you right now, most of the people that have read that book haven't ever got honey on their stinger.

[Ray]

You're probably right. Let's see some of the. You want to read some of the ruse.

[Sizzin]

Oh, I read the book. It was actually very beautiful the way around page 100, the pages stuck together and I found myself in just a climax of climaxes and I found the perfect fission, fission, fission, fission.

[Ray]

From Charlene. I could read about Fermi over and over and never get tired of it. The Pope of Physics by Gino Segree ended up being one of my favorite books of all time because it went into the physics what in the world?

[Sizzin]

Well, I learned a little bit more fun than the average guy on that one.

[Ray]

I learned a lot. I didn't know about this amazing scientist from Howard who died in his early 50s, but influenced so many, including my own physics hero, Dick Fehrman.

[Sizzin]

Yep, there it is. Old Dick. We know she locked the door, shut the drapes there, read the book. Yeah, she ain't reading that when the neighbors are up. Tell you that right now, a lot of them will go over to the bedroom, lock the door. It's more in a book to them.

[Ray]

Here is from Elizabeth, an interesting biography of the last man who excelled at both theoretical and applied experimental physics. The physics content in the book, I can be a little. Can be a little daunting. I took notes and did some research and it was excellent.

[Sizzin]

See, for a lot of these women, it's 50 shades of gray. They didn't do the. The vision of it. A lot of these women are single and they were hearing about old Dick for me, you know.

[Ray]

Yeah, man, it was tough, man. Here, here's one from Jimmy Schwartz. Read a lot about Fermi before he realized that there was no definitive biography on the man at the re. Okay, we don't need. We. Great book. This is from Frederico. Four stars. A bit too detailed at times, but it really describes the character of Fermi in all his dimensions. Mackenzie. The quest to understand the landscape of nuclear physics continues. Man, I love Fermi. I don't think I fully understood just how singularly both a theoretician and an experimentalist he was. Mind blown.

[Sizzin]

The previous dude, what was his name?

[Ray]

Frederico.

[Sizzin]

Frederico, like let's be real. This is a real question. How many AIs has he hooked up with?

[Ray]

A lot.

[Sizzin]

That's what I'm saying, man.

[Ray]

So there you go. My review. One star. One star. So, guys, have you ever hooked up.

[Sizzin]

With a girl named Alexa?

[Ray]

Not that I know. Wait, maybe. I think Green Dress was named Alexa.

[Sizzin]

It's.

[Ray]

Maybe she was Alexis.

[Sizzin]

She was a rhetorical question.

[Ray]

She was Alexis. Sorry.

[Sizzin]

In my theorem. In my rhetorical rhetoric. That was a rhetorical question.

[Ray]

Sorry.

[Sizzin]

He's hooked up with a girl named Alexa. An AI.

[Ray]

Yeah. So my, my. If you get this present. If you get a present under the tree in a few days that you think, man, I don't know about that. It's okay to say you don't like it. It's okay to give up on it. It's okay to take it back. Me, I sucked it up. I learned a life lesson. It took me 10 months. 10 months of my life. And here we are. I won't pass this book on to anybody, but if you want it and you want to read it, if you love physics and theoretical physics and apply whatever the hell they're doing, I'd love to send it to you. You want it?

[Sizzin]

No. No. I was just gonna say, either your third wall is leaking again or page 267 and 268 are stuck together.

[Ray]

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[Ray]

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[Sizzin]

42. You're going down, Doug.

[Guest (possibly Chris)]

Oh yeah.

[Ray]

Your price on car insurance when you customize and save is going down.

[Sizzin]

Hey.

[Ray]

Limu.

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[Ray]

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[Sizzin]

Ray, I'm telling you, I got a little bored. The fact you read that. You're trying to suck up to Pops?

[Ray]

Dude, I. I mean, he got me a present. What was I supposed to do? Just say, ah, man, this one's not.

[Sizzin]

For me, but it's genius. What a talking point. Happy holidays, Phil. What was the last man to know? Know what I'm saying? How the hell have you been?

[Ray]

Come here.

[Sizzin]

Been a good nine months. Dear Adams and Physicisms. How you doing?

[Ray]

Hey, Phil, you know what I mean about that book, man? I don't really understand what I read, man. I've read the whole thing, you know. I've never read it. What? Wait, wait. You gave me the book and you never read? Yeah, man, I just thought it's something you might be find interesting. What about me says I would find splitting atoms interesting? And uranium and this and that. Nothing. I don't know.

[Sizzin]

You did nothing wrong and everything right.

[Ray]

It was rough, man. You want to read it?

[Sizzin]

We got different. Different kinds of things in the bathroom.

[Ray]

Yeah, Yeah. A lot of pictures, if you know what you mean.

[Sizzin]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ray]

So what are you doing for Christmas, man? You want to be your house or you're going to be.

[Sizzin]

You're going to look at me in Jamaica?

[Ray]

No, no, that's after. That's after. On Christmas Day. You will not be in Jamaica.

[Sizzin]

We'll be doing missions work. We're going south. Those people need our help.

[Ray]

Oh, you're Going south, Your brother in law's.

[Sizzin]

No, we're going to south to Jamaica. And our resort needs cleanup. And you know What? If my 21 drinks in one day helps clean up that resort, by God, I'm gonna help out and do some missions work down there. You know, I'm saying, you want me to clean up some palm leaves, you give me a pina colada, you give me Cubano, you give me a Red Stripe, that stuff's gonna get cleaned up real quick that you want to, you want to give me a mudslide, maybe a flaming Dr. Pepper. You see that entire disaster area over by the pool area? I'll have it cleaned up by noon. You get Bayser a Bloody Mary and a mimosa. We'll have the whole pool gutted and clean by 2pm you want us to taste test the steak and, and tell you if it is quality, you give us something to mix it with, a good wine, a good beer that pairs with it, and I'll let you know if all your, your grills and stuff are up to par. We're going to be down there doing some missions work. We'll be in Jamaica.

[Ray]

All right, man, Have a safe trip, man.

[Sizzin]

You, man.

[Ray]

Yeah, I'm going to be in Austin, man. We made a last second pivot. We were going to do Christmas here and we said, you know what? We ain't seen Granny and Grandpa in six months. Ain't seen our cousins in six months since we went to Texas in July. So we're packing up the vehicle and we're driving down to Texas, man.

[Sizzin]

Griswolds.

[Ray]

We are going Griswold Christmas. It's going to be amazing. Going to have it at Granny and Grandpa's. We're going to wake up on Christmas morning to the smell of that fresh bubble bread and the excitement of the kids and running down the stairs and seeing what Santa has brought. Just like I used to do as a child in this house. We're going to be in that same house and they're going to come down the same stairs that I did, and it is going to be amazing and it's going to be a wonderful time. Hopefully going to see my brother. I know I'll see my sister batter's box. Hopefully he's going to stop by for a minute or two. Hopefully.

[Sizzin]

Your dad repaired that hole in the wall your brother made 20 years ago that is repaired.

[Ray]

For a while there, we just put a bookcase in front of it and forgot about it. But we did do that and he did Paint the new. The entrance way, the hallway. So I need him. First thing I need to say is, like, wow, I really like the color. I don't know what color it is because they were doing it as a test to see if my brother and sister would notice, and they didn't.

[Sizzin]

Yeah, kids, no fingers. Please take the shoes off in the hallway.

[Ray]

Hopefully the Christmas tree. I don't know if they're gonna have the Christmas tree up or if we're gonna put it up with them and put the decorations. All my homemade ornaments that I have had since I was a kid. The one that Aaron Weeks gave to me at Summit elementary in, like, second or third grade, she gave me a little snowman with blue glitter. Oh, that still goes on the tree every year.

[Sizzin]

That was a drug reference.

[Ray]

No, it was not. It was Aaron Weeks. Her mom and her sat there and made homemade ornaments for every kid in the class. Wow. And they were in wood snowmen. And I. And I put it up every year. And I just think, man, what up, Aaron Weeks, how you doing? Good to see you, man. Yeah. So those ornaments that you get in second grade, you think they mean nothing, and then you have them 40 years later. It's pretty amazing.

[Sizzin]

Well, I mean, a lot of the truckers, that was their final grade, you.

[Guest (possibly Chris)]

Know.

[Sizzin]

It'S more mento.

[Ray]

Yeah. What about tug boaters?

[Sizzin]

I heard they have to be able to do some gps. They're actually a little bit more advanced.

[Ray]

Okay. All right, man. Well, have a great day. I'm out of here. Great pod. There's a great pod.

[Sizzin]

I think it was.

[Ray]

We are 100% human. We are 100 human.

[Sizzin]

You know, it says it at the beginning of our podcast. Now, you don't listen back to game tape. It says, I heart radio, guaranteed 100 human. And then it leads into us, and. You sound like a freaking robot.

[Ray]

I didn't know that.

[Sizzin]

Yeah.

[Ray]

And shout out to my guy, Enrico Fermi, man. May you rest in peace. Rest in peace, man. Thanks for all you did to the physics world. I took that journey with you, and I'll never go on it again.

[Sizzin]

There's no way you read that. There's. The pages are still perfect.

[Ray]

No, I read it, dude. I read it. It was terrible.

[Sizzin]

You sped read it.

[Ray]

No, no, no, no, no. 10 months is not speed reading like Bazer.

[Sizzin]

I mean, read girl on the train. Every day. This girl rides the train and sees a lady in the window. That's all I read. First two pages. Oh, not reading about a train and a girl. Like, it was so Boring. It was like, next day she rode the train and saw the lady in the window.

[Ray]

Cool.

[Sizzin]

When does something happen? Actually, I think she did get.

[Ray]

Don't. I don't know. I don't know anything about that book. But I'll tell you how this book ends.

[Sizzin]

I'm getting you Girl on the train.

[Ray]

Don't. Whatever you do, don't read this book, man. Hey, you want to give this to baser for Christmas?

[Sizzin]

I'm gonna read Girl on the Train in Jamaica.

[Ray]

That's what you should do. I want a full report when you get back. I want a full report, man.

[Sizzin]

Girl ever leave the train?

[Ray]

Well, this guy, he did a lot of things, man. He built bombs and real scientist stuff. I. I don't. I couldn't even tell you. It's so bad.

[Sizzin]

No, the girl on the train, I think I didn't get to page three, but somebody said she, like, gets naked on the train.

[Ray]

I don't want to know, man. I don't want to know.

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[Ray]

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