SORE LOSERS: How Did Lunchbox Save a Bus Full of Kids?

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And listen on iHeart radio stations across America and the free iHeart app. I'm Daniel Alarcón, and this is my friend who is much more famous than I am. I wouldn't go that far, but I'm John Green, co-host of the podcast The Away End with my old friend Daniel. On our podcast The Away End, we'll share with you the magic of international football, all leading up to the 2026 World Cup. Together, we'll find out why of all the unimportant things, football, soccer, is the most important. Listen to The Away End with Daniel Alarcón and John Green on the iHeart radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Roll. Yeah. Uh, dude, we got so much to talk about. So much to talk about. You got a great cappy story that we've been holding on to. I've got an amazing husband of the year story. I got me taking over traffic police duties in the city of Nashville. That's the menu. What's on the menu? And I mean, I don't even know if we'll have time to get to it, but I am upset with Vandy Athletics. We have one view on YouTube. Who is it? We got Enoch Rosado says, let's go. Joe Rivera, coacher. Sam Clark. What's up, coaches? I hope you're doing well. Sam Clark watching on Netflix. Oh, stop making fun of us. No, that was actually pretty funny. Average person is viewed 59 seconds and then went to another YouTube. Not bad. I do got to say your outfit, very Vandy colors. I wore it to the Vandy game. Did you really? Yeah, when I went to the football game. I'm a fan. I saw your sweatshirt. And I mean, I looked at you. Your beanie, everything. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's not exactly what we're good at when you're commenting on fashion. Ray, I love your Dom Daniel. Why are you getting me with the white vans? But here's the deal. You even know that? No. Okay. What is that? Never mind. Just tell me. It was from 10 years ago as the one kid, his friend kept coming to school with new vans and he was Dom Daniel. Where'd you get those kicking with the white vans? Oh, man, I guess I'm just not hip. Do you know clock it? Nope. No, no, no clock. It means, you know, you know the big balls. If you make a three. Yeah, I know that one. I got that one. I got the, you know, headband, Darius miles. I understood that one. You know, four one. No, I know six, seven. This is the new one. So that one's six, seven, four, one is four, one. Is that really new? The kids were staying in my house said it is because my first grader was trying to talk about it like a month ago and I was like, no one says that. He's like, dad, the new one is four one. I told you. I told you. And I was like, no, he goes, yeah, six, seven in it. It's four one. And so he would do it and no one would react. I'm like, you're just embarrassing yourself. No, no one does for one. Like I swear to you, it was at least a month ago. He said this and I thought he was just nuts. The kids either were making fun of me, but if it's two kids saying it, I think there's something to that. That's really funny for one, but you got to know clock it. That's what Haley Bieber did after Justin did his performance. It means good. It means that was good. Clock it. Dude, where was, oh my God, we did it in Jamaica, man. And when we would get our drinks, we'd go clock it. And the girl bartender knew it in Jamaica. It's already made it up across the Caribbean. Clock it. And it's, it's just like baby claps. So it's just your pointer finger and your thumb. Yes. And it's clock it. Never knew that. So Haley Bieber, Justin performed. She goes, clock it. You know what my kids are really into right now is, Hey dad, did you see that under there? Underwear. You said underwear. You said underwear. They freaking love that joke. It's not freaking funny. We ain't got power. They think that is the greatest thing and they try it all day, every day. Like, I mean, it is like nonstop. They try to get you to say underwear. Are the kids appreciative now that you guys have power? Oh, they love it. Okay. But where they, they, you guys probably grew as a family. Well, like they had to be impressed. Dad made a fire. Dad kept us alive. No, that didn't make a fire. I have a gas fire, but you're confidence during the storm. Hey, we'll make it through. You guys letting other families stay with you. Like that has to be core memory. Clock it. Whatever the kids, core memory. All the girls on Instagram core memory. That's a core memory. It's 100% going to be a core memory because like, were you strong throughout it? Yeah, I was never really worried. Like, I mean, we didn't have power, but we could have gone to stay at a hotel if he wanted to. But I was like, really? Here's, here's the truth. When the power went out, I thought, I mean, really, how long can the power go out for? I didn't really think you said that to your wife. Yeah. Hey, how long you actually think it go out for? She wanted to go hotel. What the rich? Who thinks of that first? I was in the hotel and still never had that idea until I saw a bunch of families and dogs. And so the next day I told bones, I was like, dude, so many families and people were coming to our hotel. Bones didn't even know about that idea. He goes, what? And I go, yeah, when power goes out, hotels usually stay powered. So all the rich families were standing in hotels, bones like, think they have availability. The only reason we thought or she thought hotel is because Samantha and her husband had texted, Hey, we're going to a hotel. And then she was like, should we go to a hotel? See, I never knew about a hotel. And now it makes total sense that middle class and lower class has never heard about the hotel. My dad, that option has never come into his head ever. It's probably still hasn't to this day. But if your power goes out, you have the option truck drivers to go to a hotel and the Tuggers, you guys out there goonin over to you, man. Correct. The financial flexibility. There's certain people that you're not going to be able to go to a hotel. Now, I don't understand why they waited. I saw a news story on Thursday. So like four or five days after the power went out of Nashville hotels are offering discounted rates to Nashville residents. Where was that night one, Fox 17? We are live outside of a hotel. They just gave away free continental breakfast. More of that at five. The rates are going down. So are the temps over to you in the weather studio. Mark, how's it looking? Well, similar to my weight. It's going up. He's coming late in the week. I'm going to go get a cheeseburger back to you out there in the, in the field. Yeah. I mean, so the whole thing I thought, Oh, how long can the power go out? So I was not even thinking hotel smash cut. I didn't realize it could go out for seven, eight days and you could be trapped in it for that long. Then maybe hotel would have been a smart option or stay with friends or get an Airbnb, something like that. But I was strong during it because it was only 27 hours. So we played a lot of games. I will say baby box one, he sat down, curled up on the couch and is comfy, curling, nice winter Olympics. No, we are excited about the winter Olympics. If we ever get TV back, we will watch it hosted by Matt Lauer. No, who's hosting it without some Samantha Guthrie. I don't know. Matt Lauer. No, no, because I think that's when it all started. No, back in when he was in Nagano, Nagas. Yeah. Anyway, so what was I saying? You were talking about your kids power. So baby box one underwear. He curled up on the couch in his comfy and he pulled out a dog man book and he read it from cover to cover and then boom, put that one down, went and got another dog man book and boom, read it from cover to three, four, so the way through. He sat there for four straight hours reading his book. When did you need the paper for the fire? No, it's gas. So we don't need it. See, I felt bad for you guys a little bit, but we heated our house growing up with a fireplace, right with logs, right? Like my neighbor, Samantha and her husband, the ones that went to the hotel, they finally came back and they had a generator. They finally got a generator to work. And so they were in there with a little bit of heat and he was going around and find finding fallen trees. He was looking for oak trees and he was cutting them up with a chain zone. That's what he was using for his firewood. Same. When we get done with sports practice, you would have to go cut firewood and then bring it into the house. I always hated when it snowed. Oh, dad's going to make us cut firewood before we go to bed tonight. Otherwise, the house is 40 degrees. So I didn't really feel that bad for you guys. I lived off of that for 14 years. Yeah. Well, you should have felt bad for us because we were unprepared. Well, and then the one time my dad left town and he didn't teach us how to cut firewood or start a fire. We didn't even know how to heat the house at night. I was like, mom, he's never showed us how to heat it. My dad would always just do all the work. So we would cut the firewood, but I didn't realize you had to learn how to light it, make a TP, light the paper. He never taught us in 12 years. So like when we were 13, we froze the death one night because dad didn't teach any of us how to do a fire. So you were like the iguanas down in Florida. You were just frozen to death, but then you came back to life. No, the dolphins this year with Tua. That's been going on all football season, y'all. It used to be so fun starting a fire at my parents' house because you would stick the newspaper under there and you'd have it sticking out and you'd light it and you'd watch it go. But you got to bring the wood in before otherwise the wood's wet. The wood isn't going to work if it's wet. You can't wait until it snows. Dad never taught us that. And then the paper, we didn't really have kindling. So you just had three big logs. Yeah. Try making fire with paper and three big logs. You can't do it. You freeze to death and you go to school the next day at 5 a.m. because they have heat there. Man, that's a sad story. Well, I will say that. My dad has still not taught me how to make a fire. I will say this, man. Maybe I shouldn't say that, man. But my kindergartner came home yesterday, first day of school back and he told me about how one, like they went around the room and they talked about their experience with the storm and everything. And one of the kids in his class said that they had slept in the car for three nights. And I was like, Oh my God, I feel terrible. How do you top that? I was like, that's awful, man. Don't don't even mention that you only had power, not no power for 27 hours. Like that's that's bad, man. So the only heat they had was the heater of the car. Wait, so that was their best option or they homeless or what? I think that was their best option, man. And that's it was warmer in the car with the heat than their house because they didn't have power. You could run a car, I guess, all day. Yeah. Somewhere I read online, I don't know if it's accurate, but if you just idol it, like if you just put it in park and run it, the gas goes way slower. Like it's like half a gallon an hour. I don't know if that's true. 20 gallons. So you 20 hours or you'd have 40 hours, 40 hours, then you have to go to the gas station, fill up, ran out of gas. Oh, coming in from Kentucky. No, down the road. We were sleeping in our car. Oh, yes. I felt pretty bad about that. Whoa. What? What? Did somebody pay $10 to be highlighted? What? What is going on? I'm in the middle of storytelling. I think we just got paid on the YouTube. No way. It says $9.99 cents and his messages highlighted. What's his name? Well, I can't read it because it's political. Oh, yeah. Not going to read that. Oh, it's about the storm. Oh, D ice LB's moat fund. And it said non political and he gave us $10. I don't know how to do that. Like, how do we get that? What? Will it be in our account? What account? How do we get that $10? Okay. Can you hit the cough button? I don't have one anyway. So we can set it up, but we, we're not streaming. You've got to have a certain amount of views before you can like stream. So like, sure, we'll have this money in there, but you can't withdraw until you set up an account and we can't set up an account until we have like thousands of people watching it. Got it. Okay. Anyway, so then it takes me to my, you know, I felt really bad and I was like, that's awful. Then I got to tell you about the story about this dad that lives down the street from me. Well, we're cooking through the menu. He's cappy coming up. Oh, he's coming up, man. But this is, this is like a, oh my gosh, like, what are you thinking moment? I, you know, maybe I'm crazy, but this family, they don't have power. And he's supposed to go on a work, work trip to the West coast. And he was supposed to leave on Tuesday. They don't have power on Tuesday. And on Wednesday, the boss stops by to check on him, like the boss of their company stops by, Hey, how's everybody doing? Blah, blah, blah, they work in construction. Okay. And their power comes on Wednesday morning. And so he tells his wife, Hey, well, I'm going to rebook my flight for the West coast this afternoon since I didn't fly out yesterday. LA red light. And the boss is like, no, no, you really don't have to do that. You can, you can miss the meetings. Like you can just don't worry about it. It's not a big deal. Is it a man boss or woman boss? Man boss. I assume woman. No, man boss. And the dude said, Oh, no, no, no, I mean, I should go out to California, you know, that it's just, I mean, now that we have power back and his wife looks at him and says, it's been on for 45 minutes and you're going to rebook your flight and your boss is standing here telling you, you don't need to go. She goes, what if the power goes off again? He goes, Oh, I showed you how to run the generator. Little bit of gas every six hours. Dude jumped on a plane to LA after they had their power back on for 45 minutes. Y'all sleeping triple. He said, junk induces, even though his boss was there at the house and said, Hey man, don't even worry about it. Like we got it covered. You don't need to go to those meetings. Like it's not a big deal. And he told his wife after having power for 45 minutes, Hey, I wrote, rebooked my flight for 2 PM. I got to leave for the airport. Some of those people trying to get out of the house. Like, Ray, just think you tell Baser F you call me razor. I meant Ray talking to Baser. You've had power for 45 minutes and you got your kid and you're like, Hey honey, I got to go to the West coast. Even though the boss said it's okay and the boss isn't going to go. The boss was supposed to go to those meetings, but the boss said, no, I'm not leaving that dude. Deuces had to California. What you realize is you're used to your wife telling a story for 30 seconds. Cause then you got boom, a job to go to. Oh, you got to get a phone call, work conference, zoom call. Then when my wife all of a sudden tells stories for like six minutes, you're like, man, I got to get to the office, honey. Yeah. As much as I love talking about your mother. Um, I got a West coast trip. You know what flight just came up. I'll see you later. Hey, I just rebooked to even know the boss told me not to and you told me not to leave, but I'm going to go ahead and go, honey. Okay. Honey, I know we've never talked about this, but I, I lined us up as sex therapist. We have a two hour call in an hour. I got a flight to the West coast. I don't need therapy when it comes to that. Isn't it just pound and drive lot like football. Man, I felt like that was crazy. He left his family for five days in the middle of winter storm. I was like, Oh, I'm not left mine for four. A different, you know, I'm kids. She had power. Got a cat. You got a cat. Let's start the show and then we'll take a break. All right. We are going to do it live. We everybody on YouTube. We are the one, two, three, so loser. They yelled that from YouTube. What up, everybody? I am lunchbox. I know the most about sports. I'll give you the sports facts, my sports opinions, because I'm pretty much a sports genius. Y'all it's SZA. I'm going to read the comments in two seconds. Let me get to the intro. I'm from the North Alfa male live on the North side of natural with Bayser. We did have ice snow on our 2.3, three acres. And I heard if an Amazon driver trips and falls on your sidewalk on your 2.3, three acres, they can sue you. Father in law Phil said there's insurance you can add. Make sure you do it. You can get sued. You can lose your house. You can lose your business on those 2.3, three acres. Right now we got the kids at Vanderbilt clinic defrosting again because the temperature is up. The sun is out. Justin is in Michigan. He informed me he's got a job. All right. He started playing roulette on one of the Michigan apps. So they let you do casino there. That was not, no, he made a thousand. That's not the job. That's not the job you want. So he made a thousand dollars. Yeah. He lost 50 of it and he cashed out. He's made $950 in the last three months. Top comments I say, we'll take a break. And we're going to run it. Georgia. We'll get the comments right out to the break. We'll be right back. All right. Let's go. Our I Heart Radio Music Awards are coming back Thursday, March 26th live on Fox. Watch as we honor the biggest stars from all genres of music that you loved listening to all year long on your favorite I Heart radio station and the I Heart Radio app. Hosted by Ludacris. Icon award recipient John Mellencamp. Innovator award recipient Miley Cyrus with performances by Alex Warren, Kehlani, Lainey Wilson, Ludacris, Ray, TLC, Salt and Kappa and Invoke. Plus Taylor Swift makes her first award show appearance this year. Also gold medal Olympian, Alyssa Liu, Neo, Nick Kulcherzinger, Nicky Glazer, Sombra, Weezer and more. Watch live on Fox Thursday, March 26th, at 8, 7 central and listen on I Heart radio stations across America and the free I Heart app. Hey there. This is Josh from Stuff You Should Know with a message that could change your life. The Stuff You Should Know ThinkSpring podcast playlist is available now. Whether Spring has sprung in your neck of the woods yet or not, the Stuff You Should Know ThinkSpring playlist will make you want to get your overalls on, get outside and get your hands in the dirt. You can get the Stuff You Should Know ThinkSpring playlist on the I Heart radio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm John Green. You may know me as the author of The Fault in Our Stars and now I guess also as the co-host of The Away End, a brand new world soccer podcast. I'm Daniel Alarcón, a writer and journalist and John and I have known each other since we were kids. My first World Cup was Mexico 1986. I was nine years old. I watched every game and I fell in love. On our new podcast, The Away End, we'll share with you the magic of international football, all leading up to the 2026 World Cup. For us, soccer football is a story we've shared for over 30 years since Daniel was the star player on our high school soccer team. Very debatable. And I was their most loyal and sometimes only fan. I love this game. I love its history, its hope, its heartbreak and above all, its beauty. Together, we'll find out why of all the unimportant things, football, soccer is the most important. Listen to The Away End with Daniel Alarcón and John Green on the I Heart radio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Hit me up with those comments, man. Let me get to them. I got a hit over here. You guys can see it now on YouTube. How much of a cluster it is. One hand's over here. One screen's over here. I'm trying to goon at the same time. Let's see. We got Sam Clark already read that one. Cody Stannette, what's up, brothers? Cody Stannette, Vine needs to come back. Milkman, 4-1. Oh, 4-1. That's the new one the kids are saying. I was like, what the hell's 4-1 mean, dude? Sam Clark, no Jamaica spoilers until March 8th. Okay. Rosette, shout out from the New Mexico teachers. Whoa, the slippery nipples. Milkman. The buttery nipples. What is it called? Buttery nipple, slippery nipple, slippery nipple. Milkman. And he just put from Georgia. Okay. Janelle Travels, message redacted. Oh, it must have been a bad one. And we already read our boy and then we got Milkman, hilarious. Enoch Rosado. Oh, Enoch's back. Before I forget, Royal Rumble is 30 men total. One man enters every three minutes over the top rope elimination. There's a male and a female virgin. Oh, why would you not watch the female? And I'll hang up and listen. I wondered if the male and female one was on the same night. So did the females go and then the males went or is it on separate, totally separate nights? I don't know. I don't care. I'm sorry, Jim. We're watching the male Royal Rumble over here. Well, at my house, we're watching the female deuces. Yeah. Now you want to tell me your capy story because I've been waiting for this. Yeah. So this one, you guys are going to need to buckle up. We're going to put down the comments. I don't need any of y'all on YouTube interrupting us. And this is a new thing. I heard YouTube's going to be big just like I told you guys kick was going to be big war ahead of the curb. So capy, have you ever looked at his wheelchair when he's come to the sore losers conventions? Yeah. It's a wheelchair. What do you mean? Does it look like a wheelchair that they sell at stores? I've never looked at a store to buy them. I'm assuming they're like vehicles or they're like a bicycle. You can buy the basic model or they go all the way up to the very super fancy expensive models is what I would guess. But honestly, honestly, I don't even know where you would buy a wheelchair because one time my buddy AJ, when we were young, I don't know, 10, 11, 12, our buddy Russell was moving into a new house and they had cleaned the sliding glass door really well. And Russell had a, now he had a pool and they're like, all right, we're going to go get another load, but you guys can go for a swim before we go get the next load of, you know, moving stuff. And they went back and he changed into a swimsuit in Russell's room and he came running around the corner. Sounds like Royal Rumble. And he ran straight through the sliding glass door because he thought it was open because it was so clean and the sunshine was just made it look like it was a wide open runway. Chick did in high school, never recovered. And the glass all shattered on AJ and he had stitches everywhere and we needed a wheelchair. So no teeth. Keith, his sister, ran a retirement home in Bartlett. Sounds lucrative. And so we went to Bartlett. Keith and I rode up to Bartlett kid got to get in the car. We're going to go up to Bartlett and we got a wheelchair. No seatbelt. I'll grab you if we hit something. And whoa, no, no, no, no, he didn't grab me. And so we went to Bartlett, got the wheelchair and that's what AJ used was the wheelchair from there. So I don't even know where you get a wheelchair. They have stores, but what I'm trying to say is, sorry, did I sidetrack you? No, Capi's is aerospace engineering. It's a wheelchair that's not even on the market. Whoa. Which leads me to what I'm about to say. Aerospace engineering. What is, what has Capi ever told us that he does call center? He has. Yeah. So if he has an aerospace engineering wheelchair that isn't even on the market, where do you think he got that from? Probably from an aerospace engineer. And does Capi look like somebody that knows an aerospace engineer? Not really wrong. Oh, cause all he would have to do is look in the mirror. Capi does some sort of thing in aerospace engineering. If he's not the CFO or the CEO, he's the CMO or the COO. Capi has a bigger, better job than he's ever told us about. And he got busted because he has an off market aerospace engineering wheelchair. And it all came to light with his daughter in town. So if you guys think Capi works in a call center, I think maybe the first convention he told us he was a trucker. I don't know the exact company, but all I know is Capi does something with aerospace engineering and he ain't no truck car. And he played us a fool and we bet him off the hook and we took the damn field. We let him off the hook. He's not who we thought they were. Dennis Green, rest in peace. He's not who we thought they were and we let him off the hook and Capi's been playing us for a fool for the last five years. And he let him off the hook for the last five years. I've looked at Capi and I thought he works at like a call center. He just calls at his house. I didn't even know he went into an office. I thought he had a little earpiece. He sits at a desk in his room in his office of his house and that's how he got around. And that's how he answered calls. That's how he worked. So now you're telling me, I don't know who that guy is. He's totally different. And then even, even more over. Oh, Capi used to do the betting when we were doing in Vegas, when we were here. Oh yeah. Me and Capi, we sat at that blackjack table for a long time. I mean, Capi couldn't even count a five at that point and he was trying to play blackjack. It was tough to play with him. So a good conversation, but tough to play with him at these conventions. That's where he's able to be somebody else, have an alter ego and the gambling side of things. He's like a data analysis. He does crunches a lot of numbers, spreadsheets. He told me, hasn't bet since the first week of the NFL, he said something's wonky because he was seeing the spreads at favorites weren't winning. No teasers were hitting. He says, I'm all into analytics. So I shut it down the entire year. I thought he was like a little, a little bit trigger happy and was always firing every Sunday. If the analytics don't make sense to him, he gave up since week one. He's a data analysis for an aerospace engineering company. And so he said, Oh, I've always just been numbers. I, if the teasers aren't hitting, then I know the numbers aren't going to be right. So I've been out since week one week, one NFL season. He stopped betting the entire year because the numbers were lining up. It's like, I don't even know this guy. He brought his daughter and she, you know, maybe revealed some information that he was trying to keep type to the vest about aerospace engineering, all that stuff, you know, because he didn't tell her, Hey, I told them I work at a call center. So don't act like I'm really smart. And I do aerospace engineering. And she probably, you know, had a few cocktails and she started talking about how, Oh, my dad's an aerospace engine. What? Your dad's a what? Totally. That's mind blown, dude. And when we were all thinking, remember, there's a bad weather that one year, a couple of years ago, and everybody wave, cap me off and he went off into the sunset. Yeah. It's cause he had a flight because he had to get back to his job. He's a COO. It wasn't because he was trying to wait for the next wave of storms and stuff. He really had to get back to his job. He wasn't being safe. He had no choice but to host a Monday morning meeting at 10 a.m. So had to leave us. That's weird because, you know, it's crazy is this year, he had a flight out on that Sunday at 2 30. And so Saturday night, we said our goodbyes. We hugged him, told his daughter, Hey, it was nice meeting you. Thanks for coming. You're now a coach. Hopefully you'll listen to the pod. I don't think she's ever listened to the pod. No, he just dragged her along and she was down to party the whole weekend. And so we said our goodbyes like, man, I can't believe I'm not going to see Cappy for another year. Smash cut 12 hours later. Cappy missed his flight on purpose. He showed up to the watch party on Sunday. I'm like, what is going on? Right. But do you know why? Because he wanted to come. No, he canceled the Monday morning meeting because he hosts it. He's the COO. He sent out an email. Hey, we're canceling the meeting. We'll reconvene later on in the week. That was him sending it so that he could stay longer at the convention. Wow, dude, you've been holding on to that for like two weeks. What took so long? Because it was a good one. I was very solid. And it was, was it at the putting zone after a couple? Was it at one of the bars on Broadway after a couple? But it all just wasn't lining up. And then his daughter was right there to confirm it all. She goes, yeah, he's been playing y'all. We thought he was we got, we got ballsacked. We got ballsacked by Cappy, man. Cappy ballsacked us. Dude, he was escaping, trying to be a different persona. And we fell for it hook, Clyde and sinker, man. Oh, man, that's rough. I thought we knew who he was. Don't even know who he is. We'll take a break. We'll be right back. Hey, there, this is Josh from Stuff You Should Know with a message that could change your life. The Stuff You Should Know ThinkSpring podcast playlist is available now. Whether Spring has sprung in your neck of the woods yet or not, the Stuff You Should Know ThinkSpring playlist will make you want to get your overalls on, get outside, and get your hands in the dirt. You can get the Stuff You Should Know ThinkSpring playlist on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Melancham, Innovator Award recipient Miley Cyrus with performances by Alex Warren, Kailani, Lainey Wilson, Ludacris, Ray, TLC, Salt and Pepper, and Invoke. Plus, Taylor Swift makes her first award show appearance this year. I cry, I cry, I cry, Elizabeth Taylor's happy for real, deep in its floor, I cry, also Gold Medal Olympian Alyssa Liu, Neo, Nicole Scherzinger, Nikki Glaser, Sombra, Weiser, and more. Watch live on Fox, Thursday, March 26th, at 8, 7, Central. And listen on iHeart radio stations across America and the free iHeart app. I'm John Green. You may know me as the author of The Fault in Our Stars, and now I guess also as the co-host of the Away End, a brand new world soccer podcast. I'm Daniel Alarcón, a writer and journalist, and John and I have known each other since we were kids. My first World Cup was Mexico 86. I was nine years old. I watched every game, and I fell in love. On our new podcast, The Away End, we'll share with you the magic of international football, all leading up to the 2026 World Cup. For us, soccer, football, is a story we've shared for over 30 years, since Daniel was the star player on our high school soccer team. Very debatable. And I was their most loyal and sometimes only fan. I love this game. I love its history, its hope, its heartbreak, and above all, its beauty. Together, we'll find out why of all the unimportant things, football, soccer, is the most important. Listen to The Away End with Daniel Alarcón and John Green on the iHeart Radio App, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. We'll do the Jamaica episode. Yeah, I think you did. I already told about the Army that carried me off the catamaran. You did. You talked about that in the live pod from Coach's Convention 5. All right. I got a couple left. If you didn't listen to that episode, you got to go back. Ray got his another strike, and you'll find out how if you go listen to that pod, tell your friends. But anyway, let me tell you what happened to me yesterday. I'm out running Samaritan. Whoa, you're running again? Not running, driving. Sorry. My apologies. Trying to stop by the bank. And I'm headed to the bank, and there's traffic everywhere. So I'm like, I'm not going to sit in this traffic. So I turn into a neighborhood, think I'm going to take a shortcut. Three. And then I type in the, you know, to the Waze app. I'm like, where is, is there the quickest way to get to the bank? And it's not even going to take me to the one that's only half a mile down the road. It's got me going 1.7 miles back the other direction. You going to the Farmers Credit Union? Yes. That's where we bank. And I'm like, all right, so I'm cutting through a neighborhood and it says, all right, and 100 feet, take a left. So I get to a four way stop. I take a left. There's a big ass school bus. Not your first four way. Right in front of me. And all of a sudden, it's going, meh, meh, meh, and it's backing up. And I'm like, Hey, hey, I'm back here. Hey, meh, meh, meh, and it's backing up. And it won't, and then there's three cars behind me. Are you in your, are you biking? No, I'm in the car. And I'm like, there's nowhere for me to go. And this bus just keeps going meh, meh, meh, backing up. And I'm like, what, what am I going to do? Got to pull up. So I hop out of the car. Only you. I hop out of the car and I wave and I'm like, getting the bus driver's attention and she stops. So then I walk up to the window. I said, Hey, can you not go forward? And she goes, there's a power line. I can't fit underneath it. And I'm walking for the bus and I'm looking down at the bottom of the hill. There's a power line strung across the road that the bus can't go under. Crazy. There were only a thousand of those this past week. And I had, and so the bus driver is trying to reverse, but there's so many cars at this four way stop. She can't go. And there's two cars behind me. So I tell them, Hey, you got to back up. You got to back up, back up. You're a guard now. I am now a guard, except I don't have a whistle. I don't have a stop sign and I don't have an orange vest. I am just in a white t-shirt and jeans. And I'm pushing everybody back. And I'm telling, because it's a two lane road. And I'm telling the cars on the other side, stop. So the bus can back up. And so I clear those two cars, then I jump in the car and I reverse the vehicle, park it, blocking the intersection so no cars can get through. And everybody's like, one guy throws his hands up. I said, school bus, school bus. And so I start pointing the school bus. I'm waving it back, back up, back up. And Jackass and his little Kia over here on the left, Geo Metro, still wants to go. And I'm like, dude, can you just stop? Like, can you just let the bus go? Like, I know you're driving forward and you think you can just go at the stop sign, but the bus needs to reverse all the way through the intersection and find a new route. And so the bus gets in the middle of the intersection. I jump in my vehicle and I, that way the intersection is no longer blocked and the bus, new way home. All because of me. Everyone else is just sitting there honking at the bus. Everybody, you got to take control of the situation. If your job ever ends here, you got one in traffic guarding. I absolutely handled that like a professional. I had the hand signals. I had the, you know, the stop signs up and I'm doing the wave with the left hand and I'm, whoa, you wait, sir. It's not your turn. Come on, bus. Come on, bus. I mean, it was phenomenal. Usually those jobs go to somebody else. Yeah, who retired people? Nope. Nope. Homeless people. Nope. Nope. Um, cops. Nope. This is factual. Nope. Can't get my source. Who are the flag holders, stop sign holders typically? Construction workers. Felons. Oh, so. Ask one next time you pass them. Oh, well, I thought, I mean, I'm gonna tell you in the bus driver, then the bus driver was behind me and I was going down a road and she stuck her thumb out the window like, thanks. That's what I'm talking about. So I threw the things out the window. Hot. Not. Now she was probably 65. She was an older lady, gray hair. You know, like she just good body. Not. Okay. I mean, not terrible body, but on that day under that Nashville sun, you and her teamed up. There was no net and that's the thing just like James Harden teamed up with the Knicks. Who do you have? And there was somebody. No, no. And it wasn't sunny. That was the problem. It was raining. You and her were a tag team that day. That's the problem. It was raining. And so everybody's grumpy and trying to get in their way. And there's a lot of traffic and there's all these people because schools finally backs. There's a lot more cars on the road. No one was having patience and no one was going to give the respect to the bus. They were just kept flying by it. I'm like, guys, you see her reversing. She's in distress. Can we stop? It's all about the children. The children are our future. Did any of those people, the cars recognize you? I don't know. Because I was waiting for him to call in and leave a voicemail because boy is your star falling. You're just out there. Do as a truck crossing guard. Hey, is that the guy from the radio? Hey, it's lunchbox jackass. He's easy. A traffic cop now. Like get out of the way. Brutal. If you're a 25 year old self could see you now. Hey, man, it was, it was a, it was a proud moment that I was able to save the children. That bus driver was going to be stuck for an hour because no one was, everybody kept pulling through the intersection trying to go that way. And she couldn't go anywhere. Yeah. The school bus are interesting. Do you have to stop if they have their stop sign down 100% and you're running? No. Okay. Dumb question. Now question. This is a serious. Is that not dangerous when I run past them with the kid coming across the road? No. What if you're on a bicycle? I think you do. I think you got to stop. Okay. But I'm not sure. I mean, I don't know the law, but I feel like it's kind of like a car because a bicycle can be flying. What if the bus is coming, but the stop sign isn't out yet, but he stopped with blinkers, but the stop sign is not out. Well, I mean mine when I was growing up. Answer it. I say the flashers are going the red ones, but no stop sign. No, it's the yellow ones. No, you can go. I mean, so I blew past him and I think he was just hooking it up. He's like, Oh wait, let this guy gun it. He's probably busy and then I'll put out the stop sign. As I passed, he puts out the stop sign. So I think he was doing me a solid doing you a solid. We never had a stop sign when I was a kid. It was just the red flashes. There was no stop sign that popped out. Yeah. Now you see some buses and they got a little like lever in the front, like a little bat, like a guardrail that pops out the front bumper. It'll block the whole thing. It blocks part of the street. Geez. Pretty interesting. Yeah, that was it, man. That was that. That was a good cappy story. That was my traffic cop story. Did we blow through the menu? All right, we'll see you later, man. Did we blow through the menu? You named like 10 things and I hadn't didn't know any of the things you were talking about. So, Oh, I got an update. You've got to take a break. Yeah, we'll take a break and we'll be right back. Hey there, this is Josh from Stuff You Should Know with a message that could change your life. The Stuff You Should Know ThinkSpring podcast playlist is available now. Whether Spring has sprung in your neck of the woods yet or not, the Stuff You Should Know ThinkSpring playlist will make you want to get your overalls on, get outside and get your hands in the dirt. You can get the Stuff You Should Know ThinkSpring playlist on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Alex Warren, Kehlani, Lainey Wilson, Ludacris, Ray, TLC, Salt and Pepper, and Invoke. Plus, Taylor Swift makes her first award show appearance this year. Also, Gold Medal Olympian, Alyssa Liu, Neo, Nick Coleslaw, Nicky Glaser, Sombra, Weiser, and more. Watch live on Fox Thursday, March 26th, at 8, 7, Central. And listen on iHeartRadio stations across America and the free iHeart app. I'm John Green. You may know me as the author of The Fault in Our Stars, and now I guess also as the co-host of The Away End, a brand new world soccer podcast. I'm Daniel Alarcón, a writer and journalist, and John and I have known each other since we were kids. My first World Cup was Mexico 86. I was nine years old. I watched every game and I fell in love. On our new podcast, The Away End, we'll share with you the magic of international football, all leading up to the 2026 World Cup. For us, soccer football is a story we've shared for over 30 years, since Daniel was the star player on our high school soccer team. Very debatable. And I was their most loyal and sometimes only fan. I love this game. I love its history, its hope, its heartbreak, and above all, its beauty. Together, we'll find out why of all the unimportant things, football, soccer is the most important. Listen to The Away End with Daniel Alarcón and John Green on the iHeart Radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Sorry, guys. We've never been on YouTube before. We're all over the place with our menu. Can I just tell you something? You are looking live on YouTube. I had no idea. I had no idea that me getting the Josh Allen Jersey sign for not my kid was such a controversy. I thought it was a no-brainer that that kid wanted to get something signed that I had to let him get his jersey signed. And then I go to the Facebook page and Tyler Reed said, if I sent my son to any kind with any kind of jersey on and lunchbox, let him get it signed by the Harlem Globetrotters, I would be pissed and I would immediately send a Venmo request so fast for the price of that jersey. Guys, that never crossed my mind that they would not want me to get this jersey signed. I thought it was the kid living in the moment, so exciting meeting who he thinks is a superstar basketball player. Josh Allen. No, no. These basketball cross over. Yes, the Globetrotters cross over. Thank you. And torch. And to name another few. So I didn't even think about, oh my gosh, could I be ruining this kid's jersey? Will the parents be mad when he shows up with Marker written all over this jersey? I didn't even think about it. And so this Tyler Reed guy made me start thinking about it. And then Sherry Morris goes, yeah, I'd have been extremely mad and would have asked for the jersey to be replaced. Sherry. And I was like, that is so mind blowing. So then I called batter's box. Hmm. What up, everybody? It's batter's box here with and I asked him, I said, Hey man, you listen to the pod Monday. He said, no, I'm behind. Thanks. Thanks, man. Thanks for the sport. Really appreciate it. Good looking out. Just because your Niners aren't in the Super Bowl doesn't mean you have to stop listening. Anyway, I said, I told him the story and I said, so if your son went with a friend or came with me and I got a Jersey, a Jerry Rice Jersey signed or a Brock Purdy Jersey signed, he goes, Oh, I'd be pissed. I am blown away. What about I you I you can sign. He's no longer on the Niners. I had him on our bench. He never played all year. Never played, never showed up. Never going to be a Niner again. Last time he's worn a Niner uniform, it's over. Justin was like, get him off our bench. He doesn't deserve to be in the playoffs. So anyway, I started like, Oh, maybe I did screw up. Maybe I wasn't supposed to do it. But as me, I couldn't look that kid in his eyes and say, Hey, man, sorry, my kids can get their stuff signed, but you can't. Now you took a beating online. I did take a beating. So I texted the parents and I said, Hey, do I need to apologize about ruining that Josh Allen Jersey? If you're secretly cussing me out for letting him get it signed, I totally understand. Within three minutes, the dad responds, No, no. He's thrilled with it. And he's actually going to wear it to school tomorrow. The mom six minutes later. Are you kidding me? He loves it even more, which we didn't think was possible. We could never get him to take off the Josh Allen Jersey. But now that it's signed by the globetrotters, he wants to wear it every day. So I feel vindicated. I feel like my decision making was rock solid 15 views on YouTube. And we dipped 25 minutes into this one or seven minutes in 25 minutes ago. So I wonder what we were talking about. I don't know. But so maybe I'm wrong. Go to the Facebook page, please leave your feedback on Tyler's post because I just never even thought for a minute that I should say, no, you can't get that sign. So are losers on Facebook. And you also see my cat up there. She is in second place trying to get on the cover of modern cat magazine. Oh, you moved back up to second because I know she dropped a third. They're looking for the top five this week. Next week is number one. Oh, next week's the push. Yeah. So it's tops right now in second. It's fine. We're, it's a holding pattern. Speaking of a Piper, coaches Cody from Texas. First off, I voted for Piper meow Piper to the moon. We need more San Antonio sports talk because we are so back. Aggie football sucks. Aggie basketball is back. Thanks to bucky ball. Last thing lunch. Have you seen the show traders? Your boy Johnny bananas is on season two and he seems annoying as all hell. Love the show. Go Spurs. Go gig a Maggie's and don't forget. Go Spurs. Go. Yeah. What's your people don't realize with reality TV nine out of 10. It would be boring as hell on television. Johnny bananas is phenomenal. Correct. He's great on TV. Put yourself in that situation. How would you be interesting? Like you're in England, you're laying in a coffin, you're trying to trick people. How would you be any more interesting than Johnny bananas? You wouldn't be the people you are watching is the extremes of normal personalities. If you're watching this on YouTube, you have a normal personality. There's no way you would be more interesting than Johnny bananas. I had no point. Thanks. Yes. I've heard of the traders. I watched season one and season two. The great show. It's a great show. It is a phenomenal show and the way that they're able to know if they're a trader and not accidentally say something like we because you can't say man because if you're a trader, you can't be like, they killed somebody or you can't be like, we killed somebody because that'd give it away. How are you good with your pronouns and your possessives? That's tough. My name Ben and I ain't in it. My name Paul. It's up to y'all. I told Bayser the way to do it is you must in your head have to convince yourself you're not a trader because when you're having these conversations, you have to actively act like you're trying to find the trader even though you're the trader. She could be like, guys, how do we find them? Even though in your head, you know you're the trader. I would accidentally be like, we got to find me. All it takes is one slip up in your screwed. So I also want to know, do the producers hide that if they screw up and we just don't get to see it? That's a great question. Do they edit that out? And like you people, when you see the round table and Rob from survivor is in the round table and he makes all these great arguments and he's basically a guy in court. He's a defense attorney. Rob is insanely good at what he does with lying, negotiating, manipulating, being a puppeteer. You guys couldn't have done any of that. So people are like, Rob's lost it. Rob was great on the show. You would be sitting like a puddle. I'm not a trader. I miss my kids. That'd be terrible TV. So as I'm saying, don't criticize Johnny Bananas. It's probably the most interesting you're going to get unless you get like a stripper on there or like, I don't know, let somebody else to be interested, you know, like, yeah, but Cody, back to the spurs, man, because Ray was losing his train of thought. I tried to save him. I haven't been able to watch them lately because I don't have TV. So I can't really talk spurs basketball because I can't watch it. I think somebody said their top three to win the championship. Love it. It goes thunder nuggets and somebody said it was spurs and we play the thunder tonight. Guess what? I'm going to watch it nowhere because I don't have TV. A giant Mitchell. I'm not going to watch it because it don't have TV. But anyway, I love the traders. I got a shout out Emily McKibbin. She's the one that told me about traders. I'm 99% sure she's the one that sent the email about traders a couple of years ago and I finally got on board. I need to start this new season. And what I like about traders is these reality people, they come from all these different shows. I have no idea who they are. No idea who half of them are. But what the funny, it really isn't funny, but it's a good setup phrase. The funny thing about these reality shows is the reality shows are ending marriages. A majority of people that put their relationship on a reality show get divorced in summer house, divorce and another summer house, Carl Radke, divorce with Lindsey and Lindsey dated Dustin Lynch allegedly. You got, you got Kyle Cook, the guy that invented Loverboy, him and Amanda just divorced. All these shows are divorced. That's the most good Simpson. And it's a divorce. So these shows are ruining these people's lives for your entertainment. So let's not criticize them. The real housewives. I mean, these people, I don't understand what happens all them, but they're all in prison. Hang up and listen. The one lady is so dumb. She gets herself indicted and goes to jail because she puts it all out there on the reality show. These people are going to jail for you. And you say, I have the audacity to say Johnny bananas isn't funny. Come on guys. He's highly entertaining. He is highly entertaining. And I'm sorry, you must not be a real world or challenge guy. Cause then you would understand Johnny bananas. He had the line of the century on this new season. He said, he said, oh yeah, how you like that? Suck on my banana. No vets versus new threats. They were doing the deliberation. Whoa, that rhymes. Yeah. Very good job by the producers coming up with that one. And he stood up and they said, Oh, Johnny sit down. It's not all about you. And he goes, it's not about me. I am the challenge. Oh my gosh. He hit him with I am the challenge. That is not a better one liner than Hey, Connor McGregor. Yeah, man. If I get a chance with you, I'll punch you right in the face. I'll make you go to sleep. Conor McGregor. Hey, who the fuck is this guy? I mean, that might be the best one liner in the history. You're right. I might. Hey, Connor, if I see you, it'll be a two punch fight. I punch you. You hit the ambulance punches 90. Connor looks around. Hey, who the fuck is this guy? Even the guy was like, you know what, that's pretty well done. Well done. Well done. Yeah. So yeah, I'm on traders. I'm going to start season four when I get TV back. My wife said season three was really good. She watched it without me. So I do need to go back and watch that one season one phenomenal. And next season they're doing all no, no reality people. It's all audition. Okay. Like it's going to be back to normals. Yeah. I don't know if you necessarily have to have a reality person. We talking traders or what are we talking about? Traders. Okay. They don't want to survive. No, no, no, no. Totally not enough into that show to talk about it. But traders, I think it could be good with non celebs as long as you learn their characters. Yeah. And that's what reality TV shows do. And Alan, he's fantastic. Great host. Like the host Alan and the, so there's a voice guy on Love Island. Never seen my okay, but it's just the PA announcer. So Love Island, it'll come back from a break and he'll be like, look at these two kids canoodling. Looks like me when I was on spring break in 2008. But he does that every commercial break. That's great. So that's a good host. And then they have like some hottie from the US, Ariana Grande or some chick hosting it as the actual host. But this dude Alan, right? Yeah, Alan is a great. Oh, if you have a phenomenon host, they can pretty much carry it regardless of the cast before you leave my castle. Reveal yourself. Are you a faithful or a traitor? And then when they had the morning breakfast, and he comes in, he's like, oh, poor. I don't know who was on last season. It's been so long I've watched season two polar bananas. He's no longer with us. And he smashes the freaking picture on the ground. Freakin love the way he just throws the picture on the ground like, or he tosses it over his shoulder. That is drama. And I am all here for it. You probably didn't even understand it, but Dr. Will, this is traders as well. He was one of the biggest on there. He was one of the biggest personalities in the history of big brother. And then he'd never done another show after that. That was season two. So season two, he comes back for one episode and he's on traders and he thought it was going to be a cool little cameo type thing. He got so much backlash. People are like, dude, you disappeared for 15 years on the reality circuit. And then you just show up and we're some creepy vampire and a show in Europe and your character didn't even make sense. And you're like a bad host. People are like, that's how you make your comeback. He tried to lay low. Right. But he wasn't even on the show to win or lose it. He was just hosting an event. Wasn't he? Oh, they're like, no, you're thinking about when he was on that deal or no deal. No, no. I don't even know who Dr. Will is. There was someone from big brother. 99% of season one or season two, I don't know. And he was trying to lay low because he was like, man, I have such a bad reputation and he got out real quick. Yes. But I don't remember who he was. Yes. So all right. We got to go home man. Hey, it's the Super Bowl this weekend. Yeah. We'll talk about that on Friday. Anything else you want to say? I think I missed the Vandy athletics. I will tell you on Friday why I'm upset with Vandy athletics. I'm glad we at least got to the entire menu. We didn't because we didn't get to Vandy athletics. Well, and I didn't tease this in the menu. It was almost like the dessert that we never got to. There's a box for you that I want you to open on the air. Okay. We'll do an unboxing on Friday. Oh, crap. I got to give Morgan the marble false couple, Napoles, Napoles. They got like 26 kids and one of them's a doctor. They gave me a Steelers bad goodie bag for Morgan at the convention. I told her I'd give it to her and I still haven't given it to her. So I'll give it to her tomorrow. Hey, Morgan, give this to your dude from a couple in Texas that visited two weekends ago. Yeah. I don't understand how they're being in marble falls. How their Steelers, oh wait, maybe it was her dad or his dad was a Steelers fan. I don't remember. They told me, but I forgot. She's the one that wears a see-through shirts. She dresses to impress. Yes. She believed the first year she wore, it was just the covers and then one of the years it was see-through and then this past year, it wasn't a lot. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Have a great Wednesday, guys. Go Spurs, go as our buddy Cody said. I posted one of her pictures on our Instagram. Yeah. Instagram pulled it. Oh, I said it was. Yeah. Not safe for, they said that belongs on OnlyFans. Oh man. Let's get out of here, dude. It's raining again. Beautiful. But all the ice is gone, man. Ice is going bye-bye. How do we get this video on our audio? I don't know. That's a different way. You have the platform. Can you post a video? No, I can't. Okay. Looks like you need to make a phone call to the press. All right. Let me call her. She sent me the voicemail. Hey there. This is Josh from Stuff You Should Know with a message that could change your life. The Stuff You Should Know ThinkSpring podcast playlist is available now. Whether Spring has sprung in your neck of the woods yet or not, the Stuff You Should Know ThinkSpring playlist will make you want to get your overalls on, get outside, and get your hands in the dirt. You can get the Stuff You Should Know ThinkSpring playlist on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Chris. Ray. TLC. Salt and pepper. And Invoke. Plus, Taylor Swift makes her first award show appearance this year. Also, Gold Medal Olympian, Alyssa Lu, Neo, Nick Colesure Singer, Nikki Glaser, Sombur, Weezer, and more. Watch Live on Fox, Thursday, March 26th, at 8, 7 Central. And listen at iHeart Radio Stations across America and the Free iHeart app. I'm Daniel Alarcón, and this is my friend who's much more famous than I am. I wouldn't go that far. But I'm John Green, co-host of the podcast The Away End with my old friend Daniel. On our podcast The Away End, we'll share with you the magic of international football, all leading up to the 2026 World Cup. Together, we'll find out why of all the unimportant things, football, soccer, is the most important. Listen to The Away End with Daniel Alarcón and John Green on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed human.