Rick & Bubba's Greatest Hits - Ep. 20

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey, it's speedy, and this is Rick and Bubba's Greatest tits,
flashing back through thirty one years of Radio Gold. Every
Saturday morning, wherever you get your podcast, it's Ricking Bubba's Greatest.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Tits, Ricking Bubba, Ricking Bubba.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Well, Rick and I want to thank y'all for not
mentioning my eyebrows this morning, because I tried to trim
one this morning and uh oh, I just now my goodness,
oh my gosh. And you know, uh, y'all just to
draw back, I appreciate y'all holding your comments till this segment.

Speaker 4 (00:36):
What what what in the world?

Speaker 3 (00:37):
Well, I have a you know, I have an electric
razer that you know, you trim your eyebrows with from
time to time. It has a little guard on it,
you know, a little plastic take the guard off. And uh, well,
thank you Ham for jumping ahead here in the story.
But you know this and and and trying to do
that procedure early in the morning is bad anyway. But
after you've been out of town all weekend. We were

(00:57):
at farm, you know, out about you know, you glance,
you go, I got some of my brows.

Speaker 5 (01:01):
There a little you know, my need little attention along with.

Speaker 4 (01:04):
The rest of them. You know, Brian Ringan did a
bit on this, and he's right. You get the point now,
So you walk by the mirror like man, I got it.
I got a hair just stinging straight out of my forehead.

Speaker 5 (01:12):
What any words? Yeah, it is strange.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
But I tried to trim that on the way out
the door this morning, and about halfway through it, I realized, Hey,
there's no guard on that.

Speaker 6 (01:21):
Baby.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
I'm cutting load. I'm trimming, I'm cutting the putt and
green here.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
You know.

Speaker 5 (01:28):
The good news is it grows back.

Speaker 4 (01:30):
But you hope I thought you were lighting the grill,
you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I gets all of it
at one time.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
But I dug in a little deep air to begin with.
Or I realized I didn't have the guard. Yea, well
you won't have I won't have that long, you know,
tangled up hair sticking out there, A pencils on it.
Let me tell you what happened. I'll sell a lot
of great pencils. I'll go, I'll go, I'll go military
with you. I know how you love the military.

Speaker 4 (01:58):
You wanted to do a precise strike, and sadly innocent
people were killed.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Yeah, It should have been a surgical strike, ended up
being a carpet bomber.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
It looks good, I said, there's one long one over
on the I say, exactly where you stopped.

Speaker 5 (02:12):
That's the only one I see from here. Well I quit,
I just quit.

Speaker 4 (02:17):
I just quit. That's you can't really tell, you can't.

Speaker 5 (02:22):
I guess now that.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Now that you've brought it up, I can really tell.
I be looking at Yeah, that was the that one
hair I want to come get it.

Speaker 5 (02:31):
Yeah, just let it go. I mean I skinned around there.

Speaker 6 (02:35):
Good.

Speaker 7 (02:35):
He paid a big enough price already. Did they ask
you when you get your haircut, do you want that trim? Yeah,
they've started doing that where I go, yeah, that's first time.
And so I figured it's just this is the first
time they've gotten away from.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
Now, when you get older, what is funny your line starting,
it'll start to receive And Greggs made that point to
us several times. But but your hair, your your eyebrows,
the hair in your nose and your ear, it like
tries to make up for it, and I'm like, hey,
you're wrong.

Speaker 5 (03:03):
My nose is you're in the wrong crazy, you.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
Know, he gets out of hand my nose shop when
I was just a kid, and y'all tell me this
because I don't know. Mister Kelly, they used to do
something with a match or something. Matt, Yeah, where were you?
This is back in Jackson years ago when I was
just mister Kelly.

Speaker 4 (03:22):
What he was the barber? Okay, okay?

Speaker 3 (03:25):
And and I remember he'd do some kind of flash
fire and burn that out of people's nose.

Speaker 4 (03:32):
That's are you sing something? I don't know if I'm
right or yeah. I'd like to see. But here's the thing.
Brian would be like, you know, I'm like, hey, were
you sure that your barber didn't smoke? Corrects?

Speaker 5 (03:46):
Kelly didn't. It wouldn't grow back as fast. Mister Henderson
was my first barber, and then mister Kelly.

Speaker 4 (03:52):
What was our guy Greg, mister Craven, Yeah, the Riffler
shop or Razors heads. But let's go back to this now.
That's gwen'sarden and Brian Reagan talked about it, these hairs
that start growing out of your head as you get older.
And Brian Reagan does a great bit about it because
and I agree with him. It's like Jack and the Beanstalk.
I mean, they go from zero to hero I mean,
you go, I didn't have a hair hare yesterday. No

(04:13):
way that hair got that long. That questions.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
It's like you get one follicle that tries to make
up for the failure of a bunch of us.

Speaker 5 (04:19):
Yeah, and it's in the wrong play.

Speaker 4 (04:21):
Wow, there is an article of it's like magic tem
to burn your nose hairs.

Speaker 5 (04:25):
Yeah, some flash fire. It scared me to death when
I was a kid.

Speaker 4 (04:30):
I go, Dad, I don't.

Speaker 3 (04:31):
Want that, I said, Dad, I don't want Dad, I said.

Speaker 5 (04:40):
I was a little guy. I didn't even have a choice.

Speaker 4 (04:43):
You were sitting that a little bit because I wored
them that. You know, I never thought that I would
start enjoying summer like I'm a kid again, Like school's
out and I'm like, I'm so having having fun. Matter
of fact, today I think one of my sons and
I go a little fishing after the show today and
try to get that in yesterday. We weren't able to

(05:04):
get it in. But h so you know that kind
of stuff. You know, we're watching movies. We're going back
through watching all the Jurassic parts to get ready for
the new one. Because I realized that, you know, my
kids point, I have not point break that they cannot.
So I haven't seen that. I haven't seen that breakpoint
or breaking. I haven't seen it.

Speaker 5 (05:23):
You know, you need to plan a weekend and catch
them all.

Speaker 4 (05:25):
You know, really the point movies, I don't know what
I have to do to get you to watch for
the love of the game. Well, somebody brings up some.

Speaker 5 (05:33):
I meant to sit down and watch it the other
day and something happened.

Speaker 4 (05:36):
I'm at the point I do I want you to
watch it? Yeah, you know, it's the way with me
about you know, what is it where eagles there? Yeah,
I still haven't watched it. I mean I watched it
as a kid, I think, but I don't. I don't.
Sometimes I'm afraid to go back, like I'm going back
through these Jurassic Park movies now, and you know, some
of it is like you, I wouldn't ready for Vince
Vaughan to be some raging you know, Save the Earth
Guy Run Durastic Part two. That was weird. But so

(05:59):
you know, well, there's always various stories and talking about
all the various kids, and they've have provided so much material,
and you know, in every time of their life brings
new things and and you know, when you're the father
of many, you you go through one thing and you
come back around. The problem is because the God has
made people so individual and so detailed and so unique

(06:25):
really in general, I guess you can prepare yourself for
different things if you've already been through it. But it's
a different person and different personality and all kinds of
different things. And you know, right now it seems to
be the kid. And it's been various kids throughout the
years that have produced the stories. Right now, Brooks Big

(06:46):
Love Burges seems to be bringing the most material to
what dad does for a living right now, you know.
And it's been different ones throughout the you know, throughout
you know, one you married used to Boomer was the one,
and then you had the drama of me having you know,
a teenage daughter when she was little and you know,
probably the meanest one of all of them when it
came to athletics and things like that. So so anyway,

(07:07):
you know, Brooks Big Love Burgess. You know, his name
says it all. No one's ever had a nickname that
was more appropriate. And he was nicknamed that as a
toddler when he hugged above his daughter right through somebody's
what was it, a little well coffee table.

Speaker 3 (07:19):
He was going in for the hug, and he got
the hug and took her down and took them both
through a coffee table, smashing it to bit.

Speaker 4 (07:27):
Yep. That was it. Yeah. So anyway he has and
his nicknames. You'll see in this story new nicknames are
being considered at different stages of life. And so, you know,
I told the story about, you know, the diesel incident
with his which you'll play into the story about him
putting diesel in his car as a sixteen year old.

(07:48):
Of course, only problem is not a diesel car. And
then we had the then we had the road barrel incident.
You know that he brought home three four miles to
the house from where he ran over it.

Speaker 5 (08:01):
Scraping all the way.

Speaker 4 (08:02):
Yep, yep. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (08:03):
And I still don't know how you got that out
from the car. That's a pretty big way.

Speaker 4 (08:07):
There's some kind of superhuman thing. I guess I don't
know what it was yet. Rage Yeah, yeah, that was
probably it. And then I turned into my dad that
this story has a lot of elements. It has it
just has the things that are obvious. It has the
you know, the personality of the kid. It has, you know,
the days we're living in. There's a grandparent time here.
That may be one of the most alarming parts of

(08:28):
the story. So so he just went through his first
ever football spring training, first time he's been old enough
where there's actually a spring training. He'll be on the
JV slash varsity, and they do it different than they
did when we were kids. Now Now, most teams, no
matter how big the school, the JV and the varsity

(08:48):
are altogether. It wasn't that way when we were playing.
The JV was completely separate from the varsity and you
were only on the varsity if you were varsity. I
mean that means you were going to play for the varsity.
If you weren't, then you were on a separate team
with a separate coach, separate practice field, the whole deal.
But they don't do it that way anymore, most of
them combined. So you're in, you know, the spring training

(09:10):
with a varsity and you may or may not be
on the varsity scurt and how you pan it and
pan out so anyway, but you'll always dress with them,
and which always makes for an interesting thing because especially
when you hit that JV World where your kid plays
JV but has to dress with the varsity. So now
you got two games with one kid anyway. But anyway,
so I don't know how that's going to land. We'll

(09:31):
see according to the team needs and how he does.
But so he has spring training. And we're at the
point now, which we've talked about a lot on this program.
We we the generation of parents today. We must, we must,
we must prepare our children to leave. You know, they

(09:51):
were talking about the other day now that it's nothing
for a kid to be twenty six, twenty seven and
their mom and daddy's still be making all their decisions.
And you may not be locked into to your career,
but you really should not still be. You know, your
parents are should be in a in a kind of
a counseling move now or you co to get advice

(10:12):
from They shouldn't still be running your life. You know
what I mean. It's it's time to it's time to go.
I mean, you've got to go. You got to develop
your own thing. So at sixteen, you've got a car,
you've got an account, you've got a job this summer.
You know, we'll help her here or there, but you know,
start you start making a little money doing you know,
and so pretty much, you got to get to practice.
You got to get your stuff. We're done with you.

(10:35):
You're not in the Little League anymore where mama has
to get your stuff and get it ready. You got
to take full responsibilities. So you go do your own thing.
I'm not I'm not calling coaches and asking about when
practice is and so so. Anyway, and he's doing great,
and he's he'd had an injury of the year before,
and everything's going to be okay with that, and it's
about all I was doing. Hey, how's the injury? Fine,
how'd you do today? Okay, So he gets into this

(10:58):
week where he has this this young lady that he
has been trying to you know, take like on a
little social thing together and go do something together now
that he has his car, and the parents are saying, well,
me like a date. Yeah, well yeah, but you know
most time they group date, but this would be something
where they go do something, you know, go get some

(11:19):
popsicles or go to lunch or something like that. And
I said, as we should, Well, you're gonna have to
talk to her dad about that. I mean that that
has to be okay with her dad. So he does.
He takes responsibility. It's her birthday. He goes over to
the parents' house, takes a little gift, you know, Mama
helped him with that, you know what to pick out,
and goes so there she's not there, but the dad's there.

(11:40):
He talks to the dad. He comes in and sits
down with the dad, and the dad says, you know what,
after school on Friday, if you would like to take
her to go get some popsicles or something like that
or ice cream, that's good with me. I'm good. Well,
of course, I mean, that's the greatest thing in the
world with all green live, right, So you float home
or drive home right. Well, And there was a conflict
on that evening. There was a big group thing happening

(12:02):
that evening with another friend of both of theirs that
had a birthday. But but he wanted them, he want
to do something just for her birthday. And he was
tied up the rest of the weekend. We were going
to be gone, and I said, so you don't have
practice Friday afternoon, and he and at the time he said, well,
you know, and they do want to give you something

(12:22):
they only give you so many days for spring training.
I thought, sometimes you go Monday through Thursday, and then
I knew they had a spring game the following week,
you know, against another school. So I knew all five
days next week they were tied up. And I never
really even checked up. I was just like, you know, okay,
I guess, well then that that'll work, and Friday it is,
and you know, and we'll come back. I don't know

(12:44):
what this is and why this is, but it seems
anytime in parenting world, if you ever make the mistake
of thinking, I've got a few minutes to relax right now, man,
I got it, just like I like it. Every thing
is a time out right, everything big time. Hey, everything
is copa setting.

Speaker 5 (13:05):
Everything's in play, you know.

Speaker 4 (13:07):
Let me just sit right here. So we'll come back
and the day arrives and uh, the big day things
that I will describe to you next, some of them.
There's one particular thing that's going to come at the
end of this story that you're not gonna see coming,
and it will it will blow your mind, all right.

(13:27):
So we'll be back fifteen minutes past eight six six
we be big More of the Rick and Bubba Show
comes your way. Right it for this.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
Rick and Bubba Rick.

Speaker 4 (13:39):
And Bubba tales from Family Life have been on this
program for all twenty one years. Indeed, there's best of
CDs packed with various things we've all gone through as friends,
as husbands, as dads, and uh just as as men.

(14:00):
So this story features and seems to be on a
roll right now. Brooks Big Love Burgess now sixteen, driving
you know, and got a job for the summer playing
on the varsity slash JV football team spring training. Just
in our school has a later spring training. It just
ended back around Mother's Day, and so I've been holding

(14:23):
this the story and now I'm reliving it so to
make to catch you up. It is Friday. I was
told there was no practice that day, So Brooks Big
Love Burgess has an after school taking young lady after
the dad said it was okay to go get some popsicles.
This kind of resembles to date, but we're not calling

(14:44):
this famous popsicle place for her birthday and they're just
going to spend a few hours together for the afternoon.
He'll take her back home. Come on to the house.
I'm at home. Have the day pretty much like I
like it. Just play a little water back basketball with
his brother. Now I'm not exaggerating this. My wife's in
the house. I literally am now getting into the lounge

(15:07):
chair to relax. I always get in the shade there
near the pool, and I rock back and I settle
into that chair, and I like, you like it? I think,
you know, I'm so proud. You know, he's handled this.
He's having a good time. Even saw them walking out
to the car together as I passed the school with
his brother. Told my wife, man, you should have seen them.
And he was dressed up and she was cute, and

(15:29):
here they go, and we're just feeling so good about it.
And so it never fails. About the time I get
my sunglasses on in my head, nestle's back in that
little cushion, that little waterproof cushion. My phone on the
little table next to me. I pick it up. It's
a text from one of my neighbors. Textedn't really didn't

(15:51):
know what was going on here? It is now he
has nicknamed Big Love because of the the gasoline diesel incident.
He's now completely calls him Diesel. And so I looked
down at the text. What numbers diesel? I think well,
they did get their uniforms for the game next Friday night,
So maybe he's talking about his son's got his uniform

(16:13):
out and he's wondering. So I didn't immediately think anything, right,
I thought, and I'll send him back seventy seven oh
sevens don't see him. I don't see him. What is
he talking about? And before I could even get the
phone up out of the house runs my wife holding

(16:34):
her cell phone filled with mothers, asking where is Brooks?
Why is he not in the scrimmage? And I'm like,
what is it? And I and I said, is there
a scrimmage? And say, yeah, man, we're looking from where
is it? I don't see him. Well you don't see
him because he's eating popsicles, you know what I mean?
I mean yeah, and unless the scrimmage is that still

(16:56):
city pop Yeah, I'll tell you w I don't see him.
He's not there. And uh. And so there's now like
twenty minutes left in the practice and here comes lover
boy bouncing into the house on cloud nun It might
as well. It might as well been in the movie
f when he comes into that meeting and interrupts it. Yeah,

(17:16):
you know, and I don't care who knows it, damn right.
And so I said, uh, I said, hey, are you
supposed to be the scrimmage and this they're stupid sixteen
year old, that old blank look you know what I mean?
And uh, well, I mean they changed what they changed it.

(17:37):
I thought we didn't have branks on Friday night. You
already had this shut up. I love this. I just
want to stick to my commitment. Oh and I'm like
you talking about yourquitment to the team or to the
you can move a move a popsicle day. Well, we's
gonna be out time res afternoon. I just I said,
you just stuck with this when the coach besides, he's
going scrimmage on Friday. You that's that. That takes over everything.

Speaker 5 (18:02):
I thought you were gonna say math team from there.

Speaker 4 (18:05):
No, no, no, not that. Uh And I said, and
I look, in course, my wife's horse than I am.
She's like, hey, well, I said, hey, you know, your
whole world is turned upside down, but we got to
deal with right now. Let me let me tell what
you we do right now. You're gonna get in that car,
you know, the one you got, like you like it.
You're gonna go up to the field and you're gonna
walk out on the field and you're gonna tell you
can tell the coach what you did, that you went

(18:26):
on a day into a popsicles. You want to stick
to his committee.

Speaker 3 (18:31):
It sounds better to say I was sick. So then
as he rolls out of there, you know, just as
wide as a sheet. My thing that I guess I
always investigate at that age, how did you think this
was going end? Did you think, well, somehow you talk
about living in the moment? Rick hormone was over rule
logic all the time. I mean, look at the look

(18:52):
around you. So so now I've got I've got the neighbor,
who will now give me play by play?

Speaker 4 (18:58):
Okay, so you've gone so ill, I said, give me play.
But he goes, oh, here he comes, here, he comes,
he's walking. Oh well, coach ain't even waiting on him.
I said, he's going after him.

Speaker 5 (19:08):
I said.

Speaker 4 (19:08):
He said, he can't even get to and the coaches coaches,
the coaches breaking down that distance coming out. He goes, oh,
he's on him, I said. He said, Oh, Rick is awful.
I don't even know if I should be looking at him.
He said, he is getting shooed, so, oh gosh, here
comes a defensive coach like that, and I said, they both thought.
He goes. I mean it's a double Oh my god,
he goes. You know, I don't. I don't happy go
lucky looked that big love carries around and it's the sunshine.

(19:28):
Wherever he goes, he goes, it's gone, it's gone, he said.
I mean it's bad. It is bad.

Speaker 6 (19:34):
All.

Speaker 4 (19:37):
I said, well, that that that's that's that's that's dealing
with it. So it comes home, I said, I said,
how did that go? He said not good? Not good?
And I said, are you off the team? I said,
because you know, i'd probably kick off too, and he said, no, sir.
He said, uh my, my position on the team is
at high risk. I said, yeah, I bet it is.
And I have to be with the coach every day

(19:58):
after practice. And he's said that he was gonna find
out about my commitment to the team and whether I
want to stay on the team or not. I said, oh, buddy,
that's never good. Yeah, but I've been there. Welcome to
the rolls. Yeah, I don't.

Speaker 5 (20:09):
Yeah, you did that a few times any Yeah, I
wonder where you got all that.

Speaker 4 (20:12):
I don't know. I don't know, and so so now
with that waiting on him, the following week, it's Mother's
Day weekend, So I'm going up to Jacksonville. I'm gonna
take him to his granddaddy. We're gonna talk to coach
about and I'm.

Speaker 5 (20:29):
Trash legendary because hey, look I've trash dog.

Speaker 4 (20:32):
And I said, hey, I cannot wait to tell your
granddad about it. Don't don't tell Pap. I said, oh no, no,
we're gonna tell Pop Rick.

Speaker 5 (20:39):
Rick.

Speaker 3 (20:40):
I'll say this, there's very few people that I know
matter rect. I think your dad may be the only
one who's living who has a stadium named.

Speaker 5 (20:46):
After Oh yeah, yeah, and that's a pretty big deal.

Speaker 4 (20:49):
Look, it's so bad that I find out later from
somebody who is a coach on the team that they
were discussing how bad it was gonna be when in
the office. Yeah, the head coach, he was so mad,
even said maybe Rick won't tell it, right, I mean,
I mean, you know how mad he is with it.
If they were.

Speaker 5 (21:06):
Disgusting how bad it would be when granddad.

Speaker 4 (21:08):
Yeah, yeah, they were even saying maybe Rick won't tell
his granddad his dad. Yeah, they were even saying that.
I mean, there was.

Speaker 5 (21:14):
Actually thinking a crime could be committed.

Speaker 4 (21:16):
Yeah, and there's there's even people suggesting, do you think
you should you know what I mean? I said, Oh yeah,
I said, I said, I got to make sure this
is a never unforgettable moment in this young man's life.
You know what I mean. I said, I tell you
who's going to join me on it? I said, you know,
I'm thinking myself, maybe I need to hold him back.
I hope he didn't swear too much, you know what

(21:37):
I mean. I hope how about I even went this far.
I hope it doesn't ruin Mother's Day.

Speaker 5 (21:40):
Yeah, you know what.

Speaker 4 (21:41):
I mean, let me destroy the whole. I mean, I'm
thinking about that, and I think, man, this is i
he's bleeding. Yeah, you know even you know and but yeah,
but you know, man, he loves his granddad. You think
you should do it? Ain't it ain't really your dad him.
He's a granddad. He shouldn't be brought And I said, no, no, no,
there's something about the wisdom of the patriarch of the family.
He's gonna lay down some of that discipline and lay

(22:04):
down some of those talks that I got that redefined
my life. I am thankful to have access to this card.
And when I come back. If I had not seen
it with my own eyes and have heard it with
my own ears, I would have screamed to the top

(22:25):
of my lungs blasphemy. That really didn't happen.

Speaker 5 (22:29):
Untrue, untrue.

Speaker 4 (22:32):
We'll talk about when we come back.

Speaker 2 (22:35):
Ricking Bubba, ricking Bubba.

Speaker 4 (22:39):
All right, so here's what has happened. Big Glove at
sixteen had a scrimmage for spring training football that he
did not attend because he said he already had plans
to take a young lady to get to these world
famous popsicles at Still City Pops where we live, and
that the scrimmage got on his calendar and he went

(23:02):
on when it had went on that instead of the scrimmage,
the coach has already told him he's in trouble the
following week and they'll decide his position on the team.
And now we're headed to Mother's Day weekend, where I
cannot wait to tell his grandfather. Now, those of you
that do not know, as Bubba mentioned, he's still alive.
There's a stadium named after him. If he was coaching today,

(23:24):
he would be put in jail. Their parents would weep
and cry and wail. It was a different time then.
Greg and I were discussing in the kitchen. Some of
the highlights of things that he actually did. There was,
of course, the I remember when I was in Brooks
same position, a sophomore, trying to earn my way onto
the varsity. I had a horrible stomach virus. I was

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outside the lunch trim at school, ready to go home,
you know, doing all the things that viruses bring to
the body. He walked by, did not come over and
put his hand on my back and say, son, how
are you are you okay? Do you need some help?
Looks over at me and says, I hope you don't
miss practice today. You're probably gonna lose your position. And
uh and and so I crawled through the practice, you know,

(24:09):
and trying to stay dehydrated.

Speaker 3 (24:11):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (24:11):
He once put me back in a game. Uh and
said to the man in the press box who said,
he said, how's he doing? He said, well, he's limping.
He said, well he's gonna limp. His foots broke. How's
he doing? The boss?

Speaker 6 (24:20):
Now?

Speaker 4 (24:21):
Okay, okay, So that those kind of things Greg mentioned,
if you quit football. You could quit in eighth grade,
and you could never play for his program again, never
come return. You couldn't take a year off and then
come back later. Once once stripped a player naked when
he decided to quit during practice and said, take off

(24:42):
everything that belongs to Oxford highscho uh. And I watch
someone leave in the jockstrap, hoping he would not remember
that the johnstrap. Mega gave him a pass on that.

Speaker 2 (24:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (24:54):
Yeah, So this is the kind of guy we're dealing. Yeah,
I mean when he coached college, I mean big I'm
talking about bad dudes from gangs would literally weep in
his presence, terrified of him. And I thought, well this
now the lesson, now the lesson. And I mean, and
so we get there. You know, I don't want to

(25:14):
I don't want to lead with it. I want to
you know, you got to go to the moms. It's
Mother's Day and you know, and all this and we
great meal, I mean, we bring I'm bringing you of course,
little dream land in for everybody, and and they they
set it all up. He loves that. So I think
I don't want to get you know, and I keep
looking at him. He's like, Dad, you know. I said,
oh yeah, oh yo, we're gonna tell Yeah, We're telling Pop,
no doubt about it, because I'm still a little myfed

(25:35):
about the whole thing. Yeah, and so so we we
we get down. I picked my time at the end
of the table, the patriarch, Hall of Fame, coach, old school,
old polyester coaching pants, black coaching shoes, trucker hats, coaching shirt,
raw hide whistle Okay, yeah, tape on the end of

(25:57):
the whistle with tobacco and blood on it. Okay, that guy,
the guy who I watched ants leave his legs one
time because they didn't want to bite him. Okay. So
I think to myself, Man, this is gonna be bad.
This is gonna be awful. Hey, Brooks, want you tell
your granddad what happened on Friday? He looks up Pop
and he's got ribsle what's up? What's going on? Said? Uh,

(26:20):
we got spring training going on. That's good, that's good.
How you how you doing out there? Boy? I'm doing okay.
What what what happened? Did you get? You get hurt
in your back? Bother me? No? He had scrimmage Friday.
I said, hey, Hey, how'd that go? How'd that go,
why we don't know he wasn't there, And he goes,

(26:41):
what do you mean you went there? How come you
want there? And I said, this is it? This is
I mean you could even see some of the female
some of the females in the room. I starting to
water sept mine because she's meaner than I am. And
uh she she can't wait for it either, and uh
I I had a I had a I was taken

(27:04):
as a friend of mine was gonna eat popsic what popsicles? Yeah,
here it comes, Well we eating the popsicles. Well, I
set a time taker to eat popsicles and when I
found out we was gonna have a scrimmage, So I
went on to the popsicles and drive to popstais. I
was trying to stick to that. You went, you too,
what you skipped a scrimmage to go eat popsicles with

(27:27):
a girl? That's what he did? Sure did? What do
you think about that?

Speaker 2 (27:33):
Coach?

Speaker 4 (27:35):
Guys, if I hadn't seen it, if I hadn't seen
it and heard it, it's like all some time stopped,
you know, And he goes, looks down right there, takes
a lot of courage. That's kind of guy. I won't
playing for me. What he said, what who are you?

(27:57):
You know what? I tell you? What he said? Something
else that takes He got a payer, Rick, that's the
guy I want. Entie situation. Got that kind of courage
stand up to me like that, which is a complete line.
I said, you, who are you? I can begin to

(28:19):
demand where's Dad? You know what I mean? And then
it hit me, I said, Dad, may I present the gospel?
You're not going to heaven over trying to right all
the wrongs you did. It's Jesus, okay, that's how you
get to heaven, you know what I mean. It's it's
not how you treating your grandkids that cancels out the
way you treat all the you know what I mean?
And uh, I said he needs that, He don't need

(28:41):
that right now. Look he's looking around happy. I said, Now,
you can't say no, no, no. I mean, you know
he's got to pay a price for it. You know
that's fine. But I said, you wouldn't have kicked him off? No, no, Huh.
I tell you what, And I see that's the kind
of guy I want. Uh huh. And I said, you
are the biggest homer. I said, you've turned into I

(29:05):
don't even know who you are. You're unrecognizable. That just
understand the way it is. No, I'm going, hey, hey,
And I said, what I tell you, Hey, what what?
What all's happened? I said, Well, he's got you know,
the coach is doing all this next week and he's
probably gonna be running after practice. He's position on the
teams at high risk. That's that's plenty. Then that's enough.

(29:25):
That's plenty. And you don't be you don't even take
his car away and all that. Ain't no need for that,
what I'm.

Speaker 1 (29:32):
Like, So he stuck on the fact that the courage
he was able to he walked up to the coaches at.

Speaker 4 (29:37):
Practice, he calm, He came out there and faced it,
and it's one of the great. But that's what he's
sticking in. He's hanging his hat on something that one
time was a hook that was never on the wall.
You know what I mean? Yeah, he would have people

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were trembling, not even wanting him to know about it. Okay, still,
and I said, I said to boy, we have reached
a new love.

Speaker 5 (30:04):
That is a slider down in the world.

Speaker 4 (30:06):
I said, I said, we have reached a new Low.
I guess is a man.

Speaker 1 (30:12):
We had a player late to a Sunday meeting because
they got carried away at church and went long, and
he made him run for Yeah.

Speaker 4 (30:17):
No, my dad at one time control church services on
Sunday during football season. You couldn't have a church service.
Interf was his meeting.

Speaker 1 (30:23):
I mean you, I mean, I mean, well, in his
mind at two o'clock, everybody should be honest.

Speaker 4 (30:27):
That was his quote. He said, ain't nobody need to
be in church that long? We got to meet starting
to this one particular player that got cranked up and
the service went a little long. He can run in
his church clothes and everything. He still made him, still
made run his church clothes.

Speaker 5 (30:40):
Oh gosh, see, I mean that's the kind of player
I want.

Speaker 4 (30:44):
He said things, He said things to me that that
to this day, I can't even I wake up sometimes
very no, no, not yeah, you know what I mean.
I mean, it's it's.

Speaker 5 (30:52):
Like and then he first told me that I thought
you were messing with me.

Speaker 4 (30:57):
Yeah, what if you'd told me, if I wouldn't been there,
wouldn't believe greg you did good, believe it.

Speaker 1 (31:01):
We never tested And I mean this is I mean,
I know this is true. Rick, I honestly believe he
would have let the grand kids rather bicycles on the
track at Oxford that he should run everybody else.

Speaker 4 (31:08):
I think he would have. True, he wouldn't even blink. No,
I mean I think he I mean, what if they
I don't know, I think they could play socer. I
don't know, you know what, I think they could some
black for it was so corrupt. Yeah, y'all this I mean,
I just I was aghast he went throughout where. That

(31:29):
took a lot of guts. That kind of guy. So
then he goes you know that guy won't that's a
good one.

Speaker 5 (31:35):
Yeah, that's kind of guy.

Speaker 4 (31:36):
We go through all the torch, we go through all
the torture, torture during the week, and he did get
he got punished severely by the coach and should have.
And so we get down to Friday night and I think,
well that, you know, and I think he's come through this.
He's on the other side of it. You know, he's
still you know, living off you know, the great the
great couple of hours of popsicles, yeah and all that,
and and Sharon and I are and we're there at

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the game and I think to myself, all right, I
see double sevens over on the sideline. Of course, shirttail out.
Of course my dad wouldn't care about that either. Yeah,
that game. Yeah, and I'm thinking Church shirttail in. And uh,
I said, well he no way. And I told I said,
if we see him go on the field, then he
has survived this whole thing. I mean, he's gone through
all the punishment. He's gone through his grandfather, which that

(32:18):
was nothing, right, you know what I mean. And and
all of a sudden we get about the second quarter
and I see double sevens sevens buckling that chin strap.
And when I see him going on the field, I
looked through my wife. I said, I can't believe what
I'm saying, That this is pull.

Speaker 5 (32:32):
It off ring.

Speaker 3 (32:33):
I could not have been more surprised if you had
tell me your dad had drawn up a new offense
for football where they zone block and throw it all
over the field.

Speaker 4 (32:39):
I know he may do it if if his grandkids
want to do it'll probably thinks grace offense. Ever, I mean,
it's amazing.

Speaker 5 (32:50):
And you rush three and fall back and play prevent
all that time.

Speaker 4 (32:52):
I'm telling Brody, you know, you you thought you didn't
want to be a kicker, go ahead and be a kicker, Yeah,
Ubba Rick And I was listening in the break, and
all kinds of things happened in the break, and and Speedy,
you know how you just hear conversations going on in
the room. And I was trying to figure out if
I was gonna play something big by Tom Petty or not.
And uh, I guess I was remembering. I wanted to

(33:15):
hear that. And so I heard over here to my left,
Speedy moved around the plaza, around behind Bubba, around behind
Greg over in his little hole over there, and and
he's and he landed right back here kind of caddy
corner to me to the left, and I heard him
say something saying, hey, I've got the trigger shakes, is

(33:36):
what you said? Yeah, and you said, I can't even
type because my hands are he's.

Speaker 1 (33:40):
Doing this, well, I've got I've got dead forearms because
I was on a weed er and uh for probably
three four or five hours yesterday.

Speaker 4 (33:51):
It lasted forever.

Speaker 1 (33:52):
I don't know, it's like from two to six or seven,
I don't know, my gosh, yesterday and I was uh,
and then it was the flower than the the the
trimmer and stuff where you just always having to hold
hold something down and the vibration of it. So I
don't know if you ever had like your kind of
your fingers kind of vibrate, you feel it, and and

(34:13):
and so today it's more, it's more the fact you
just have you know, dead forearms, and so she can't
get your fingers to work. And then as soon as
I say that I dropped my coffee, he was over
telling Greg he's he dropped.

Speaker 5 (34:23):
He gets the lines in order, he said.

Speaker 4 (34:28):
He says, not like, I don't don't think I'm getting
Parkings or anything.

Speaker 1 (34:32):
He just throws coffee, mister, mister, mister considered over there,
and and loving Gregg goes, you got porkins.

Speaker 3 (34:42):
And he says, no, I don't have it, Greg Coffre,
it was right, no big deal, just important tax stuff.

Speaker 4 (34:53):
I'm sorry. What was funny?

Speaker 5 (34:54):
Terrible?

Speaker 4 (34:54):
It is him saying that what big deal, right when
he's shaking hand poured coffee rights the big deal.

Speaker 5 (35:02):
And I mean all over the place, John enjoy that.

Speaker 4 (35:05):
Yeah, by the way, No, I'm good. I don't worry.

Speaker 3 (35:09):
I just hope Roan Greenwood is not driving.

Speaker 5 (35:14):
He would have loved it.

Speaker 4 (35:15):
He could have seen it.

Speaker 5 (35:15):
Oh, he'd be in the floor.

Speaker 4 (35:18):
The timing of it. How you spilled coffee right when
you had assured him it was nothing to work.

Speaker 5 (35:23):
It was like nothing to worry about.

Speaker 4 (35:25):
Yeah, yeah, I'll be fine.

Speaker 5 (35:27):
I'm good.

Speaker 4 (35:28):
You know, you know it's coming back. I have to
ask you this, though, we've been through one of the
coldest winters for long periods of time of any in
our state in a long time. I'm talking I were
just stay cold for long periods of time. What is
you weed eating? You didn't know? I started my own landscaping,
But what's a line?

Speaker 5 (35:43):
Kidding?

Speaker 4 (35:44):
What is even a love likes to growing?

Speaker 5 (35:46):
Right now? It needs to knocking down?

Speaker 1 (35:47):
My yard looks like it never had grass, right, well,
it wasn't my yard, all right?

Speaker 5 (35:54):
That gummt?

Speaker 1 (35:54):
And you hate them, y'all all do y'all been there
these work days that you have for your kids athletics?

Speaker 4 (36:00):
Okay, well what's growing there?

Speaker 1 (36:02):
And and and for for baseball?

Speaker 4 (36:05):
Tomorrow?

Speaker 1 (36:06):
If you're listening live, it's Friday, and and I've got
a conflict tomorrow when it is the official high school
work day for j c's and just skip Well, I
didn't want to be everybody else.

Speaker 4 (36:19):
That's what I always did.

Speaker 1 (36:20):
And and I've got a conflict because Tyler's got a
game and so I won't be there. So they sent
out a punch list of stuff, and so I was
just going early to knock out my portion of it.

Speaker 4 (36:30):
And it just took forever.

Speaker 5 (36:32):
And I'm not complaining.

Speaker 1 (36:33):
I just use the fence line and and you know,
the surrounding areas and stuff.

Speaker 5 (36:38):
It's just so it was dead grass.

Speaker 1 (36:41):
Yeah, well yeah, but now now a lot of it's
not dead. A lot of it. The weeds still are
coming up. I mean you got their leftover. Yeah, it's
just but they're green. I mean they were green weeds.
But it wasn't it wasn't like it was just all
over the place. But you you know, you we'd eat
the tram line.

Speaker 5 (36:56):
Well don't you let people with the shakes do other things?

Speaker 6 (36:58):
Do we?

Speaker 4 (36:59):
You know, the weed kill and and all that. I
just took a took a while.

Speaker 5 (37:02):
Took a while.

Speaker 4 (37:03):
A drunk needs a drink.

Speaker 1 (37:04):
But but I just had just got that. You think
maybe you've never ran any kind of equipment in your
the next day doing this, not the next prey to
I don't think.

Speaker 4 (37:15):
Taxpapers, You're not doing that. Just then I look down.
I'll take was having a small earthquake. Listen.

Speaker 1 (37:22):
He brought it up earlier, and I thought I have
had my hand tingled almost like fantom.

Speaker 4 (37:26):
Like you feel like it still. But I looked his
was physically going sweedy. I'm serious. I've never had that.
You you were did you spill coffee on Gregg's papers?
Because your hands were shaking? He was physically because I
meant that, but he's going for him.

Speaker 5 (37:39):
Hands hand.

Speaker 4 (37:42):
I see him shaking.

Speaker 1 (37:43):
Rick, God, what if his taxpapers could talk?

Speaker 4 (37:48):
Yeah, that'sked Greg's taxpapers. If your hands are messed up,
they got burned. My hot coffee down them, Greg. And
you know how he us on paperwork. He just about
had it like you wanted.

Speaker 5 (37:58):
Oh yeah, it's a struggle to get he likes.

Speaker 6 (38:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (38:00):
He's the kind of person tells you not, you know,
not not to worry about it. And then he's talking
under his breath.

Speaker 4 (38:05):
Oh yeah, I don't worry about By the way I
saw his face, I've seen that face for fifty years.

Speaker 1 (38:11):
I'm a little concerned because just during this, unless he's nervous,
hes talking about handshaking.

Speaker 4 (38:14):
He's also been a little slurring, if you know notice it.

Speaker 1 (38:18):
Yeah, y'all got me. Something's happened the last few days.
What's wrong with you? Start talking about it? When I
went over there and it was the hand was shaking,
the stutter. I'm sorry, that's not stuttering. I know you're
gonna I know you're gonna call Burgess double team.

Speaker 5 (38:34):
You're symptoms of something greater.

Speaker 4 (38:36):
Yeah, that's my point. I know you're gonna call Burgess
double team here up, But I have been noticing him
last few days. We all stumble words, but you've been
doing that an alarming rate. You put that with some handshakes,
and but thank you for being my friend. Rick his hand,
he's texting.

Speaker 5 (38:52):
You know he's being here. If you're green Woods up,
you know why.

Speaker 4 (38:57):
You know why he's not participating well, but because sometimes
you just get sit and Joygia. Look, I'm I'm I.

Speaker 5 (39:02):
Can't make this any better.

Speaker 4 (39:04):
I'm having a little fun.

Speaker 1 (39:06):
I may be exaggerating a little on the speech thing,
but your hand was shaking.

Speaker 4 (39:09):
Violently over here. Now it's violent.

Speaker 6 (39:11):
It was.

Speaker 4 (39:14):
Phebe I swear there's that's that's normal. Everybody doesn't if
they run. It was bad. You know it's bad. I
can see a little bit of fear behind you last night.
You know what?

Speaker 5 (39:28):
You got a sling of coffee? Cup? Pretty?

Speaker 4 (39:33):
Hey, can you do me a favor?

Speaker 5 (39:34):
Are we having a tremor?

Speaker 6 (39:35):
Might something?

Speaker 4 (39:36):
Can you do me a favor? In the break I
got dead, arms were out of spoons. Could you just
hold my coffee and let the cream mix in? Everybody
do that?

Speaker 6 (39:44):
Do that?

Speaker 1 (39:44):
Let me see if y'all shake, Kenny, do that? Everybody
do it? Oh good gosh, Rick, yours is going crazy
because of what you did. Oh yours a shaking to
see yours?

Speaker 5 (39:55):
Speed of yours is doing this?

Speaker 8 (39:58):
Okay, I can explain my mind shakes. Hey, he's getting up,
just injured. I'm just telling you. Well, I'm sorry, I
really truly am sorry.

Speaker 4 (40:08):
It's all right. Well, look that's I'm sorry. Which I
was a bit up during the break.

Speaker 5 (40:13):
Take a se catch your breath.

Speaker 1 (40:16):
And I loved he was so adamant making his point
while slinging coffee.

Speaker 4 (40:22):
About you know, I've come a long way. I normally
cuss when I do that.

Speaker 5 (40:27):
Let me plain, you would have.

Speaker 4 (40:31):
To get it out. I Well, I hope everybody here
has that read today.

Speaker 5 (40:42):
Take a segment off, catch your breath?

Speaker 4 (40:43):
Will you hold this? I need this mixed up thread?

Speaker 2 (40:46):
Ricking bubba, ricking bubba.

Speaker 4 (40:49):
We were talking about this past weekend and we did
have a trip to Dream Ranch, which was fantastic. And
the thing that we always get going in our house
whenever we have a new driver that's training to drive.
And we're down to the final one now and my
wife is all we need to let he's not driving enough.
Not driving enough? They drive and I said, well, look
how about this. I'm gonna I'm gonna check him out

(41:10):
of school so we can make an afternoon hunt on Friday.

Speaker 5 (41:13):
I said, great, father son time, I'm gonna pick.

Speaker 4 (41:15):
Him up and the automobile that he's going to be
driving in May when he turns sixteen. Uh, he's gonna
he'll drive us to dream Wrech. Here we go and uh.
And so that's what we did. So I get up,
he gets out, and I said, you're driving us to
dream Wretch. It's your first ever. Now you know how
to get there on your own. Here we go. So so,
and it evolves about everything you could encounter because you

(41:39):
got to get out of you got to get out
of the metro city and then you got to find
your way into two lanes and and we and we
really which you know, Mom would have been very nervous
about this. That's the reason why even Sherry will say, well,
you need they need to drive with you, you know,
because there's certain things, you know. And so he said,
I said, we're doing it all on this trip, buddy,

(42:00):
doing it all. And I said, I'm even pulling for
a little rain on the way back, you know what
I mean. And so uh so, so we uh we're
going and he he looks at me and he says, Dad,
I would like to pass a car on two lane road. Done?
I said, I assure you, on this trip we will
have several opportunities, you know what I mean. The two

(42:20):
lane road is good, and I love the beauty of
rule out of rural Alabama or anywhere you're in the
rural country. It's great view. But you're gonna get behind
that truck, You're gonna get behind this person. It's going
to happen. Yeah. So you find yourself kind of, you know,
contradicting yourself on certain things. And I realize that can
be confusing. When I said the following we're gonna pass

(42:43):
this guy. Man, you're gonna have to. You have to
come off as four car link thing. You better get
up on him a little bit. And then he looks
at me. He's like, I thought, we're not supposed to
get upon I said, well, if we're going to pass them,
we got to. Yeah, you want to start, You wanna
start from way back here? You know what I mean,
You're gonna have to. Hey, let's let's kick it up
a little bit. I don't like her speed right now.
And he's looked at me, and I'm looking back at him.
I said, no, we need to do a little faster.
And we're going and he's like, you want me to

(43:04):
go faster? I said, if you're gonna pass this car,
you're you gonna.

Speaker 5 (43:06):
Have to look when you pass, it's a commitment. You
got to get on it.

Speaker 4 (43:09):
And so uh so anyway, then I had to do
the deal. So at first, what do they think, Well,
if I've got the lines that say I can pass,
I can pass. Who The lines just mean if you
have the opportunity, you can pass. Now, still got to
make sure that opportunity I don't like. I don't like
that rise up there. I don't like you can't see
far enough.

Speaker 5 (43:26):
I don't like it, or drive ways and coming out.

Speaker 4 (43:28):
And he goes, okay, I said, I see that's not
a good call.

Speaker 5 (43:30):
There.

Speaker 4 (43:31):
No joy, you know what I mean, right, no joy?
And so so we're going, going, going.

Speaker 5 (43:36):
That's Rick's any word that he likes, use it, and
I love it.

Speaker 4 (43:39):
Because I just love it's a military term and all that.
Just love it. Then all of a sudden, he goes,
I said, and I know, you know, I've driven this
a gillion times because we also have in laws that
live in this part of the country, so we drive
this a lot. And I said, you're about to get
your shot coming up. Be ready. And so we get
we we come up, and so sure enough he gets
and hey, you got to go. You a easy, get

(44:02):
on past. You don't put easy. And then you know,
he gets into the guy and he looked at me.
He's all fired up, and I said, oh, if you
enjoyed that. We're nowhere near dream rats. We're gonna get
a lot of shots. And I said, wait till you
get to the big intersection up there that doesn't have
a red light. It's just blinking. You got to figure
out who does what And we crossed over the big one.
I said you, I said, oh, you encounter everything. I said,
at any point too, something's going right out in front

(44:23):
of you.

Speaker 5 (44:23):
Just be ready for that.

Speaker 4 (44:24):
And uh died. Here we go. Let's get around this road.
Kill so it didn't stink up your car. Good jobtlet
don't stink car up. Get around it. They're nice guy
on tractor. Give him away, nice work.

Speaker 5 (44:39):
Bus.

Speaker 4 (44:40):
I'll look at that bar and yeah like that. I'm
a little barn. Don't you look at it, great barn,
don't look to watch the road. Yeah, you're not looking
good enough. Let me take a picture for speedy and uh.
But then when you have a young driver, if they
if they're doing a pretty good job, what do you
start doing? You kind of fade into your own world.
At one point I became just a passenger and I
realized and then all said, it would just hit you.
Oh my gosh, there's a six there's a fifteen year

(45:02):
old driving. And so we went through that whole routine
and he got us there no problem, and and was
telling him, you know what to look for, and we
had a great trip, and and uh, my favorite thing
I did and I was waiting on the moment. I said, man,
we really got to make good time. I said, we
can get there for an afternoon. Hut, we really can't
fool around. I let that settle. I got him all
stirred up, and then I let him feel what it

(45:23):
was like to be a driver of the family. Oh,
I gotta go to the bathroom. He said what I said,
I read, need to go to the bathroom. He said,
we can't stop, and I said seek and so it
was so good.

Speaker 5 (45:38):
I did you ask him how long before we get through?

Speaker 4 (45:40):
How much further? Brodie that I just told you ten
minutes ago? I know.

Speaker 2 (45:46):
That.

Speaker 4 (45:47):
I said, hey, can we I'm hungry? You know? He said,
you didn't eat anything for you to pick me up? See,
so I got, I got. I got to do stuff
like that. You know what, I had lunch of schoos.
You not get you anything?

Speaker 6 (45:57):
Huh?

Speaker 4 (45:57):
I did you see? You will lie for me? Are
eating when you you know? So I got to do
all that stuff, which was fantastic. So so then as
we're getting ready to come home afterwards, he had a
he had a party he was trying to get to
he was invited to. And every year we're at dream
ranch when this this Philly has their birthday. So he's
never been able to go. And this time we were
gonna come back Saturday night anyway, and it went on later,

(46:19):
so he was gonna be late, but he can get there. Well,
we got rain and with all that, so we get
almost there and get stopped by a train. I'm talking about,
not just a little bit of train inconvenience, big train inconvenience.
Train stops and sits there, not moving, trying to train
A don't no, no, this was going to the party.

(46:40):
This this this I had to I had to bear
off into another world. But he's he's five eight minutes
from getting to the party and he's stopped by the train.
And you guys, I'm not talking about a little bit.
So then I said, so were doing here? We gotta
find a way around this. So he tries a couple moves,
he and then he gets in another What had happened somehow,
y'all have this same train was enormous. You know you're

(47:02):
in trouble when more engines start coming back. Yeah, they
had to add engines and then it stopped and they
started moving and all that, and literally, without exaggerating, we
were probably there twenty five minutes. So that's a game changer. Yeah,
And so I was like, buddy, I I'm sorry. And
then he began to be negative about trains and I said, oh,

(47:24):
so you're an anti train guy. He goes, yeah, I got.
I mean we got, but what is just it's just backwards,
just archaic. And I said, please don't say that for
your mother. And I said, and I remember a little
boy who loved trains. He's like, no, I train, My
trains are stupid like that. I'm not training a stupid
and like, oh yeah, I said, oh, guess what I.

Speaker 5 (47:42):
Did about Thomas the tank And I guess what?

Speaker 4 (47:43):
Guess what I did? And sir the next day he's
talking about all his fun with the party. I said, hey,
come here, I got a picture photo am I show you?
I said, I want the anti train men got to
come over here. And I showed him pictures of him
waiting on Thomas the tank engine with his little and
his little conductor hat. Yeah and I and then pictures
them laying on the ground with trains and moving. I said,
what about trains now, No, I was just a baby.

(48:06):
That's for babies. And I said, I said, no, you
love trains. Where where's the little boy who loved trains?
I said, you know you did. It was just a
minor inconvenience. The trains are part of an American heritage.
We love trains. Matter of fact, your mom would prefer
eighteen wheelers to be taking off the road and just's
go fully back to train. Yeah, I said, don't. And
then you're here and there. What do you say about trains?
I said, oh, yeah, there comes to your mom. Now
be negative aout trains for your mama. Uh, trains are outstanding, brod.

(48:29):
It's the way we used to move things. And it's
a lot less dangerous than it's having trains on wheels
out on highways. I'll tell you that we'd be better off.
And went back to trains more and like that, and
then come here and look at these pictures. And I
started doing and Thomas, we love you, and he's like, Dad,
I'm not, I said, dums and U and I picture
after picture. Oh here you're another train boy, I said, Burt,

(48:51):
Suddenly you don't like trains anymore. Okay, I want se
anything better but trains anymore. Wow, it was a handler.

Speaker 5 (48:57):
Can I take something bothers?

Speaker 3 (48:59):
Me about training or saying actions people that get too
close to the train that things flying back off. I
want to stay back far enough if it tips over
and slides, it doesn't hit me.

Speaker 4 (49:08):
I did one thing that was contrasting case. I did
one thing that was controversial, and I took it back
because I knew it wasn't because I just said, you know,
but you get crazy when you get stopped. He literally
the party was ten minutes from where we were, maybe eight, okay,
And I said, if this keeps up, can you call
somebody to come up on the other side of the
train and I'll just you just walk through, step through
there and go over and get in their car and

(49:28):
I'll go home, because because he was getting ride home
somebody else. And I thought, I don't know if you
tea could step through the train, yeah, I mean, I
mean it had stopped, it wasn't moving, I would advise it. Yeah,
but I mean I don't think we should do now
now that things down in the red lights, you're blinking, Yeah,
let's not do that. So we didn't do that. Tim
and sweet love you time and we love you liking
girls sudden you abandoned all that.

Speaker 3 (49:49):
Yeah, in it spooky, like when you're out somewhere and
the arm comes down, the lights and flashing before the
train gets.

Speaker 5 (49:55):
There, and you're like, where is it? Where is it?

Speaker 6 (49:57):
Now?

Speaker 4 (49:58):
What's it?

Speaker 5 (49:58):
What's it? Sigaling?

Speaker 4 (50:00):
All right, we'll be back fifteen minutes to the top
of the hour, eight six six. We be big as
our number more. Rick and Bubba right after.

Speaker 2 (50:06):
This, Rick and Bubba, Rick and Bubba.

Speaker 4 (50:11):
All right, here we go, so glad to be here
as promoted. You know, Gary the bulldozer Man has has
you know, he's been involved. Bubba encountered him first, brought
him into the rest of the group, and you know,
he's just continued to become a beloved character. You know
that you've become beloved by the audience when you make
it to the towas the night before Christmas at the

(50:33):
end of the year. Sure, and Gary, you know he
lives an interesting life. We've had so many Gary stories
and so anyway, uh, you know, at any given time
you could get you know, Gary's gotten pretty high tech.

Speaker 6 (50:46):
Now.

Speaker 4 (50:46):
I don't know if you've seen him. He'll put out
his spur Master stuff and all that for his turkey
call and and he you know, he's just hey, you know,
I mean, you know, I mean, I kill no turkey,
you know, I just you know, I ain't gonna makee too,
mam't have no turkey. And so he you never know
when he's going to say, Hi, calm, that's only message
you'll get, Hey calming. And so I was like, you know,

(51:10):
or the one I got one time, Hey, we got
beathes calming and that's it, no explanation one, yeah, hey calm.
So this one, uh So I call him and and
he said, you ain't gonna believe what happened.

Speaker 2 (51:23):
Man.

Speaker 4 (51:24):
Now, anytime he says that, you just say, you stop everything.
Try I get noise down because he's not a very
loud talker.

Speaker 5 (51:31):
You know, you got to listen up.

Speaker 4 (51:32):
And they said, you ain't gonna believe. I mean, I
couldn't believe what just happened. And I said, okay, And
he tells me and I said, Gary, I gotta tell you.
That's Uh. It may upset some people, but that's airworthy.
You know. Not every Gary moment is airworthy. Some of
us you just enjoyed on your own.

Speaker 5 (51:48):
Remember what he wrestled the deer out of the gate.
Remember that?

Speaker 4 (51:52):
Did you like that one? I did okay, Well, you're
gonna love this one.

Speaker 2 (51:55):
I did.

Speaker 4 (51:55):
Okay, Okay, video lady, if you if you love Bubba,
if there was a video of this now, it would
bother some people. I want, I want, I want to
warn you this does not have the happiest of indings. Okay,
all right, but I'm gonna tell you if we had
this on video, we canceled the sales meeting today and

(52:15):
when we we just put it up on the screen. Okay,
let's see. Bring Gary in. Gary, How you doing, buddy?

Speaker 6 (52:22):
Hey? How you Gary?

Speaker 4 (52:26):
The bulldozer man?

Speaker 2 (52:27):
Here?

Speaker 4 (52:28):
There is Gary?

Speaker 6 (52:30):
Y'all doing this morning?

Speaker 4 (52:31):
We're all right better than you. I bet you still try.

Speaker 6 (52:35):
I've had a rough week, real rough. I went from
getting snake bit til uh or out yesterday.

Speaker 4 (52:43):
Yeah, he got bit by a non poisonous snake.

Speaker 5 (52:46):
He posted that on Instagram.

Speaker 4 (52:48):
Got him rat snake.

Speaker 5 (52:50):
Yeah, playing with it, trying to catch it.

Speaker 6 (52:52):
Oh, just trying to get your own. The road got
run over and lord.

Speaker 4 (52:58):
You know see that's that's what Satan does as you
try to help him.

Speaker 5 (53:00):
Hell, Gary, you never you'd never be bit if you
just shot his head off.

Speaker 6 (53:05):
Well, the thing about it, it was overhere coach property.

Speaker 5 (53:09):
She really should have shot it, right.

Speaker 4 (53:11):
Yeah, now, Gary like that you I'm gonna set this
up and then you kind of tell everybody what happened.
If I recall someone, you know, because we're all neighborly
in that part of the country. Uh, informed you that
they had a donkey that uh that that they could
not keep any longer, and they wondered if anybody wanted it.

(53:34):
And you thought that it might be a good idea
to add to your animal arsenal because you thought donkeys
do keep Cody's off your live stock. And y'all know
how much Gary's goats mean to him. Yes, right now, Gary,
you got a soft spot for your goats, don't you.

Speaker 6 (53:49):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I've raised goats for a lot
of years. But uh, I got a I got a
phone call my wife and said that girl works with
her head or donkey. She wanted to get rid of that.
It was free if I come get it. So I said, well,
you know, I said, I was turkey hunting and you

(54:11):
know I killed a nice golbory yesterday, and uh, I said, well,
I'm turkey hunting right now, but uh, you know, later
on this that noon, I might go if I could
find a trailer, because I didn't have nothing to haul
it with.

Speaker 5 (54:24):
So you gotta have a don't I got home? Huh
you got to have a donkey trailer?

Speaker 2 (54:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (54:32):
Well I went home and uh, the lady across the
roads got some horses and she had a uh you know,
just to regular horse trailer short when you know, and
I said, well that'll work, she'll let me bard, I'll
just go get it. So I got my other neighbor.
Uh we went over there.

Speaker 4 (54:52):
To get it.

Speaker 6 (54:52):
And you know how a donkey is, it's hard to
load them on the trailer. Yeah, so you know we
had to put ropes on it, and dragon just about
drag it on.

Speaker 4 (55:00):
Man, that's how I got.

Speaker 6 (55:03):
Oh yeah, yeah. But uh we got it home, and
you know that's when it went bad. Yep.

Speaker 4 (55:16):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (55:17):
Then you know, you know you said, you know, I
like animals. You know, I got all kind of animals, turkeys, goats, chickens.

Speaker 7 (55:25):
You know.

Speaker 6 (55:25):
But I turned him in that uh my goat pen,
and uh the crazy things started.

Speaker 4 (55:33):
Running my goats, running them, running them.

Speaker 6 (55:37):
Oh yeah, he was trying to kill.

Speaker 4 (55:38):
Him, trying to kill all your goats.

Speaker 6 (55:41):
Yeah, he got one down. Was biting it and kicking it,
and well, I can't have this. So I had my
other uh neighbor jails. He was up here and they
kind of remind me of old Carl Wars show. Yeah,
you know, he kind of smoked, and I told him
to get to going, you know. So he got back
down there and he was heaping in a puff and

(56:02):
you know, and he brought a pistol. So I was
chasing the donkey, and the donkey was chasing the goat
and I was shooting at the don't and uh uh
it turned bad, real bad.

Speaker 5 (56:17):
What happened?

Speaker 3 (56:18):
I can't I can't imagine that that recipe.

Speaker 5 (56:22):
Don't tell me you missed the donkey shot the goat.

Speaker 6 (56:24):
Well, I just just way well I had, I had
neighbors coming out, and I was trying to run them
back in the house, you know, and he told them
they didn't need to see this, you know.

Speaker 4 (56:34):
But list before we go, I want everybody to picture
right now, there's a there's a you know, a pasture.
You know, it's not huge, but it's not small fence
then fenced in. Gary has brought a goat. I mean,
it don't worked hard to get it, work worked hard,
to get there, and as soon as he puts it
in there, it goes crazy on the goat starts trying

(56:57):
to kill them bottom And now Gary is facing a
crazed donkey with a pistol trying to shoot at it,
and the neighbors are coming out.

Speaker 6 (57:07):
You know, I tried. I took man lamb down there
and hit him right across the ash.

Speaker 4 (57:12):
No, but and that seems redundant.

Speaker 6 (57:17):
Yeah, he turned around and uh he just blot not
all over me.

Speaker 1 (57:23):
Oh yeah, yeah, they'll do it.

Speaker 5 (57:27):
It could have been worse.

Speaker 6 (57:29):
Yeah. Yeah, he started chasing the goats again, and you
know I just had to you know, wow, I had
to do what I had to do.

Speaker 5 (57:38):
You put him there.

Speaker 4 (57:39):
But Gary, according to your story yesterday, it did not
go easy.

Speaker 6 (57:43):
Oh no, no, I planted. Well, I emptied a thirty
eight I had, and then my neighbor run up here
and got my other pistol, and I think it was
seventeen more shots.

Speaker 1 (57:57):
My goodness didn't Well, yeah, were you just missing him
or is he that stout?

Speaker 6 (58:03):
Well, it's it's hard to uh, you know, it's hard
to shoot. What you wrong?

Speaker 4 (58:07):
I agree? You ever chase your donkey shooting over the
bill I bet it was horrible.

Speaker 6 (58:11):
Did you order try it sometime? You know?

Speaker 4 (58:14):
No, it's been after all of you.

Speaker 6 (58:18):
Yeah, oh yeah, I think started blake. You know how
a donkey oh.

Speaker 4 (58:24):
Get after? Did you ever get after you? Gary?

Speaker 6 (58:26):
Did it?

Speaker 4 (58:26):
Did ever charge him?

Speaker 6 (58:28):
He charged at me one time and I were trying
to kill him. Well he ought not have done that.

Speaker 5 (58:35):
You shot at him? Wally's charging.

Speaker 6 (58:39):
Yeah. And then one of my neighbors come over and said,
what happened to the donkey? I said, he was running
my goats and trying to kill him and uh, he said,
She said, what what did you do? I swell, I
had to put him down? And uh, I said, I
do that for anybody. You know, if you got in
no running my goats, I'd probably shoot you too.

Speaker 5 (59:00):
Here we go, Well, uh so you unloaded.

Speaker 6 (59:05):
Us about it? The thing about it, the girl had
called the donkey had been out and then the state
highway and she had called it, and they was gonna
come out there and shoot him anyway, So.

Speaker 5 (59:16):
You want to it was just a delayed shooting.

Speaker 6 (59:18):
Well, and I went over. I didn't want you know,
I said, well, they don't play the shoot donkey. I said,
I'll take donkey. But you know I found out I
couldn't have the donkey.

Speaker 1 (59:28):
Do you think if you would have give him a
minute they would have got along a little better? Maybe
they were just getting acquainted.

Speaker 6 (59:32):
Yeah, oh, he would have killed all my goat.

Speaker 1 (59:40):
Gary, let me ask you finally got I know, we
don't need to describe Gary.

Speaker 3 (59:44):
I know I know that it was difficult to load
the goat on the trailer when he was alive. How
difficult was it to load it up dead?

Speaker 4 (59:54):
Yeah? Right? Amen? And you got you got a hold
of it.

Speaker 5 (59:56):
That's that's dead weight, no pun intending.

Speaker 6 (01:00:00):
I uh. I was luckily had my tractor here with
a front end loader on it, so you know it
wasn't too bad. But I mean you talking about a
five hundred pounds, don't.

Speaker 5 (01:00:10):
Yeah, Yeah, that's a that's a big hold of bear.

Speaker 4 (01:00:13):
When he went down, picture you seen you see Gary
bringing this animal in. You hear all the commotion, You
walk over and there's there's the front endloader.

Speaker 5 (01:00:20):
Be here a shootout. I can't rick. He emptied to
thirty eight and then shot seventeen more.

Speaker 4 (01:00:27):
Yeah, and what what what was the what was the
size of that pistol that had the second round that
got it done.

Speaker 5 (01:00:32):
It was a block forty seventeen.

Speaker 6 (01:00:37):
Yeah, I went to I went to bed last night.
I got thinking over this this week's you know activities
that I went through. You know, I went from good
to bad and back to bed, and uh, you know,
I was laying there and I you know, I was
just watching a little T leading four. I went to
sleep and I got to thinking. I said, you know,

(01:00:59):
I'm probably is the only one that had to shoot
his all night.

Speaker 5 (01:01:14):
I think so.

Speaker 4 (01:01:16):
I think so That's not many people have had to
do that. They're very stubborn at us.

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