Rick & Bubba's Greatest Hits - Ep. 25

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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 Rick and
Bubba's Greatest.

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

Speaker 3 (00:16):
We had a group of friends and now that dropped
the most work, the awfulest hint I've ever gotten. I
had a group of friends that set out the following email. Hey,
we're planning on getting together on New Year's Eve at
a restaurant for dinner. It'd be great if if somebody
who had a house that would be great for kids
to play downstairs would maybe decide to have everybody over
to their house afterwards, so we all could visit for
a few minutes. And I'm like, well, could y'all have

(00:39):
any more of a hint like that? And so we
had a couple of friends over and the kids had
their downstairs New Year's Eve party. Uh, And then we
we decide decided I will share you said we need
to get some fireworks, which you know, she's gotten some
break now. She even tells me to.

Speaker 4 (00:54):
Get when she survived that dilemma before.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
Yeah, when I almost you know, shot everybody made up,
made up, made a mistake of the past. Where I
had the family on the deck again where they're up
a little lot right and uh, the line of fire.
So I've got uh you want to be close. I've
got your standard Roman Roman candle deal. Nothing says the
New Year like, I want to be close to fire. Right,
I've got the I've got the block. I've got the block.
You like that, just you shoots them out like crazy.

(01:18):
Then I've got the big ones, you know where you
shoot the straight up fireworks that go up in the air,
where you drop the little ball in with the you
need to make sure the balls pointed the right way. Yeah, yeah,
by the way. Uh and uh.

Speaker 5 (01:30):
One of my favorite rick is where you just take
a little bit of all of them, you wrap them
in a big garbage bag and you lock the bag
and run for your life.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
Amen.

Speaker 4 (01:38):
When they shoot where they shoot, it's just random. It's
part of the fun.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
Kids don't so uh So then now this is this
will show you that you got This will show you
when you have children who are traumatized. I shoot off
one of the big ones, and I've got two of
the other men down there with me. Actually three other men,
and I shoot one of the big ones. Well, little
kids next door across the way start coming out. My
kids screamed to them, you're.

Speaker 6 (02:01):
Too little, go back in. My dad will catch you
on fire. You know it's dangerous. Don't come over here.
So I'm like, well, there's where's all the trust. So
there's always this.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
I've shot a couple of them, and the wives are
oo and a, and the kids are running around with
sparklers and all that. And then one of the days.

Speaker 4 (02:18):
We lived to hear our wives being praised right.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
Right, well, and we all know what happens when you
get men together and fire. All of a sudden, one
of them says, i'll tell you what. Listen, we need
to shoot too at the same time, and I said, well,
we only have one one little tube. He said, we
got that Roman candle to you to what's Then the
intelligent one of the group said, hey, guys, there are

(02:41):
two different sizes of tubes. One tube is designed for this,
the other designed for what it did. It's too it's
too wide and too tall. You won't get the thrust,
to which we said, a tube's a tube.

Speaker 5 (02:54):
Yeah, no, he's right, it's like a barrel, you know,
let him go back in, how about this?

Speaker 3 (03:00):
But he is absolutely right, and uh and we uh did.
So we dropped the firework in there, and we have
we're gonna light them both at the same time, and
they're gonna shoot up in the air. And uh.

Speaker 5 (03:11):
Uh big big, big, big.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
Two big tube took his firework and shot it about
an inch and a half above the two uh, exploding
the one next to him. And now we're running and
and and and and and and and one of them
is the landscape designer who landscaped our yard, so he
knew where we should take cover, you know what I mean.
He said, go for the bushes and jump, and we're

(03:34):
diving over bushes as he goes, and I mean lights
up the whole yard. Don't picture firecrackers. I'm talking about
the kind of fireworks that you like. Go and watch there,
you know, I mean, I mean the big ones. And
it's like it's still expanded. It looks like just holl
of duty, right, just like it should have done hundred
feet hundreds of feet in the air. It did the

(03:55):
same thing hovering a few feet off the ground us like.

Speaker 4 (04:00):
A star burst under the deck. More than I like
one over that.

Speaker 3 (04:03):
How about this? I felt I felt, you know how
to exclusions feel, you know, the percussion of it. I
felt it get on me. I mean as it knocked
me over the bush.

Speaker 4 (04:14):
Doing there, Greg, you'd been left behind?

Speaker 3 (04:15):
Oh yeah, I went theying and and then you then
you hear out of the smoke, the book comes out.
It's this one so bad because she's been Therefore, everybody
get inside for he killed that said. Fund's over.

Speaker 4 (04:32):
Y'all happy now watch behind the window, you know then?

Speaker 1 (04:35):
But now next year, though, you see you've started something.
Hey daddy, do what y'all did last year? Well, yeah,
that'll be disappointing from now. And the and the wife
are so mad at you. You have to ask one
of your guy friends put the salve on you. You know,
Hey man, I'm burn back here.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
You don't mind, you know mind, you know, as long
as you agree to put it on the back of
my leg, you know.

Speaker 5 (04:52):
And Rick, I think the thing you ought to go
for next year is a two stager. Have one lot
the other wallets.

Speaker 3 (04:58):
In the well. You know what I need to do.

Speaker 4 (04:59):
Get I'll get you some fun.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
Rick, here's an idea. Get two of the same sized tubes. Yeah, yeah,
if you want to shoot two yeah, buy two boxes?
Said the tube is a tube? Was it you? No?
That wasn't me? That's that would would you agree that
would come from one Jeordi Henson? Of course a roll tide.
We're trying to recap what happened with Bubba's pontoon. You

(05:22):
hit a rock. You've damaged the pontoon, think the Lord.
It did not take on water. But we have to
understand how Bubba hit the rock, and for that we're
going to act it out here in the studio.

Speaker 5 (05:33):
Well, we're having a discussion about exactly how we need
to act this out. Speedy wants to be my motor,
but I don't think he's a big enough horsepower.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
I don't either. Well, I think, honestly, it looks more
like a booye. All right, well, Greg and Hamsey be
the booye. He sit in the chair and then and
then let me push the Okay, Greg, it looks like
you're gonna be a booey baby brother. I'm not.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
Right here.

Speaker 4 (05:57):
Just come right here, can you hear me?

Speaker 3 (05:58):
Rick? Got you loud and clear? Buddy? Did you just
come right here? We're acting out how Bubby hit a
rock in his pond, ting.

Speaker 4 (06:04):
We need to go on this side. Speedy, come back
over here, come back over here.

Speaker 7 (06:09):
Booze, y'all, stay where you are. You're anchored, you can't move.

Speaker 3 (06:12):
Yeah, all right, but wait a minute, So who so away.

Speaker 4 (06:18):
From everything because this is the way I was going.

Speaker 3 (06:21):
Yeah, and he can shoot it right here around now
we got it. We got the camera position now everything
Bubba you're purp, No, don't do that and flipping around
with the camera's got it set up perfectly, all right, Okay, alright,
So these Greg's a booye and Hounsey's a booy and
Speedy you're the molder.

Speaker 5 (06:39):
Face Rick.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
That's that's what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
It makes a lot more sense if you face Rick,
so you can talk to it this way. All right.

Speaker 5 (06:48):
I had I had a comment that almost would have
gotten me in trouble right.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
There, so does Gregg's booy needs to move right there.

Speaker 4 (06:54):
Now we've got to change Greg over here.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
Gregg's booy needs to move. Okay, all right, that was
for y'all. Yeah, the.

Speaker 5 (07:08):
Speedy you're a yamahall two hundred and six stroke six
is cylinder.

Speaker 3 (07:13):
Have you ankle? Brace on? Yeah? Okay, yeah, thank god
for that.

Speaker 4 (07:18):
That or a walking boot yeah, that's right.

Speaker 3 (07:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (07:21):
So I look up and I see the Bowie hams right,
So I'm going in this direction, so I go, I
need to go around this way, correct, So I'm turning
this way. The motor is stalling right now a little bit.
The motor needs to come on. So I was gonna
go this.

Speaker 3 (07:37):
Way all right.

Speaker 4 (07:38):
Right, See, this is how I envisioned it a little bit.

Speaker 3 (07:40):
For this way, okay, and this would be correct.

Speaker 4 (07:42):
This was what I wanted to happen. This is what
I saw.

Speaker 3 (07:45):
Okay, back up motor now where you're reverse?

Speaker 2 (07:50):
Right?

Speaker 3 (07:50):
I got you? All right? So you think you're that
would have been correct, yes, okay.

Speaker 5 (07:54):
But what I really had was great come back over
here now, okay, and then let's see I need somebody else.

Speaker 3 (08:01):
Can what do y'all help me?

Speaker 2 (08:02):
Just ant?

Speaker 4 (08:03):
Can you stand in front of.

Speaker 3 (08:04):
Greg Gregg's been blocked by it? Is he playing the
role of somebody on the boat? Yes, okay, all right.

Speaker 5 (08:11):
So in reality, this is what was taking place. I
saw the booy, I didn't see that booty. I thought
he was over there. I got so I'm again going
up through here and I go, whoa, I don't hit
that on going the middle.

Speaker 3 (08:24):
O my gosh. And that's how it happened. I understand
that completed now.

Speaker 7 (08:31):
It was just a.

Speaker 5 (08:34):
Yeah I was I actually made an adjustment to line
up perfect to hit this giant rock, which is not as.

Speaker 3 (08:41):
Dumb as you got it. You doubt you were doing right?
So what what? What? What could have avoided that? What?
What could have avoided that?

Speaker 4 (08:49):
Me paying better attention?

Speaker 3 (08:51):
Okay, that's what I was gonna ask you.

Speaker 5 (08:52):
Me seeing the other booy, knowing where I was. Now,
no excuse, Rick, I'm the captain.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
That's on you.

Speaker 4 (09:00):
And when I hit that, I thought, wow, the captain
has to go down the ship. That's a bad rule.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
Yeah, how did it feel? That awful grinding sound? We
know me?

Speaker 5 (09:08):
How I am with equipment anyway? You know I have
to take care of equipment. Yeah, I mean I have
equipment that's very much outdated, but it's still prestine the
way it looks.

Speaker 3 (09:17):
Yeah, that goes back to.

Speaker 5 (09:19):
The time I got my butt tore up as a kid,
tearing wheel off the little car I had.

Speaker 4 (09:23):
I know, my dad, and that stuck with me here
right there.

Speaker 3 (09:27):
Well, those kind of things always do with just like
this crash will a couple of.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
Questions again, you said you went up in the air
and as you actually flying here.

Speaker 4 (09:38):
I wasn't going quite that far.

Speaker 5 (09:40):
That's too much motor for Yeah, that is that looks
like an airplane.

Speaker 7 (09:44):
They've got three hundred and fifties on the back of it.

Speaker 3 (09:46):
Look on a pot.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
And so did the rock act as a as a
ramp or did you get stuck on the rock?

Speaker 4 (09:51):
No, it was a ramp.

Speaker 3 (09:53):
It was a ramp.

Speaker 5 (09:54):
So we went airborne there for a minute, which is
kind of a strange feeling in a boat.

Speaker 3 (09:58):
So where do we go from here?

Speaker 4 (10:00):
So so now the the great folks at Colliga Marina
are going to.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
We need help, Bob. They're going to.

Speaker 5 (10:10):
Bring in the the welder and uh, he'll see what
he can do. Now, it wasn't it didn't appear to
be taking on water. But you know, obviously it's out
of form.

Speaker 7 (10:21):
And can you hammer that back in form and then
weld where it needs to be.

Speaker 4 (10:24):
Well, well, that's the thing, you know. They can.

Speaker 5 (10:26):
They can drill holes and pop things out, you know,
like you do a fender. Uh, but let me tell you,
they'll welder have his he'll have his work cut out
on that.

Speaker 7 (10:33):
Here's another question, and I and this.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
Is just I just feel so stupid.

Speaker 5 (10:37):
Well and we're past that. I feel like letting Speedy
kick me right in the butt. But we've got to
think the bill for this will do it.

Speaker 8 (10:44):
We got three more paint we really and honestly and truly, bo,
we've got three more months of pontoine.

Speaker 7 (10:50):
Oh I know, so what do you do? You rent
a boat? Do you how long does it take to
fix this?

Speaker 3 (10:55):
Well, I'm trying to know how long you're at to
late with no boat? Right, it's a big deal.

Speaker 5 (10:59):
It's it's not like we don't have anybody lined up
to be there, but right so, you know we we
won't know probably till till friday.

Speaker 3 (11:07):
Okay, Well, can you rent a boat? Oh?

Speaker 8 (11:09):
Yeah, you tried to do that here lately, though it's
it's like buying one. There are no Voat boats. But
it doesn't matter about that, there's none available.

Speaker 5 (11:18):
The shortage of supplies is you know, when we shut down,
none of us really thought it was gonna take as
long to get everything going again, which apparently we're still
struggling with that. Yes, But to answer your question. Short
term is just get back in the water.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (11:33):
Long term may be that we need a new pontoon
or a new log as they call it on that side,
which that'll be sweet.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
I want to think Betty Bussy, she just sent us
some dash cam footage that she shot of y'all.

Speaker 3 (11:56):
Night. You know.

Speaker 4 (11:58):
That's not what it looked like, but that's kind of
what it fell.

Speaker 3 (12:04):
What are they driving, gracious, hang on control. That's when
you got some them roight up there trying to be sharp. Sure, yeah,
well so sorry.

Speaker 5 (12:16):
So the rule the lesson today is pay attention where
you are on the water, know where your booies are,
and don't drive between two that have a diamond on it.
I know some of you have no idea what I'm
talking about because you didn't take your own boating test.

Speaker 4 (12:28):
Yeah, but that really is a thing.

Speaker 3 (12:29):
Okay, here's the parody. Everybody's not set his butt. It's
his boat driving like an idiot. He thought he'd get
a boat. He went to the line, she thought he'd

(12:52):
getting stock. Wish he'd seen that wrong. So everybody's thinking.
Everybody saying Bubba's but now.

Speaker 7 (13:09):
Was about bought my museum Baba's boat.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
We ain't had an available.

Speaker 4 (13:19):
From Marina's bride.

Speaker 5 (13:25):
Boom boom booming, staying out a little middle.

Speaker 3 (13:37):
They thought it was absurd tangle things. Thank you. Now
you can't go on? See heard.

Speaker 2 (13:46):
For two of us.

Speaker 3 (13:53):
He thought he didn't have something boat, then there was
two booties.

Speaker 9 (14:02):
For me.

Speaker 3 (14:02):
That's right after you hill so short, I'd go to
the lake. It'd be pretty soon. I really was looking
forward to riding on Bubba's ponting.

Speaker 4 (14:11):
Yeah, I can't have that.

Speaker 3 (14:12):
Arenda have a chocolate monkey?

Speaker 7 (14:19):
Not while you're driving?

Speaker 1 (14:21):
Well, but here's what Hey, Hey, Bobby, you thought you
were doing the right thing the way you the way
you played it out. You actually you weren't trying to
go through to you going around?

Speaker 5 (14:33):
Yeah no, I didn't even know I was in the
middle till I was their born and living over Hey,
what was that a submarine?

Speaker 4 (14:41):
Where did that come from?

Speaker 3 (14:43):
Hey? If you hate, if you little betty, you come
down to Lake Mitchell. I got a ponting and promised
not to hit no rocks. That's that face right there
that you're teaching Bubba.

Speaker 4 (14:59):
Now, God, will lessons learn?

Speaker 3 (15:01):
Will you be teaching a bobbing? Now? Oh?

Speaker 4 (15:03):
Love has been been going to school all week.

Speaker 3 (15:06):
You be sitting on the dock now looking out in
the water. Aren't you.

Speaker 4 (15:11):
Remembered how it was.

Speaker 3 (15:14):
Bad when I had a boat back.

Speaker 4 (15:15):
When we were on the water.

Speaker 3 (15:18):
A man in his cooking grill become one over time,
and and those relationships they build and they're strong. You know.
Anytime my wife said, hey, won't you grill a something
today for a family gathering? And you know, I'm one
of those grillers that sure, I mean, the great ones
can go on the road and be at a church

(15:40):
function and somebody's say, can you go over that ready
grill and make us something? You know, some people, the
ones who are moderate grillers, can't go on the road,
right I mean, But but there's still nothing like your
home grill. There's nothing like it. You know how it works.

Speaker 4 (15:53):
You know that you got the temps down and sure,
sure tools you won't.

Speaker 3 (15:58):
And this grill and me have been together for eleven years.

Speaker 4 (16:02):
I have to have the fork with a little thermometer
on it. It really kind of got used to that.

Speaker 3 (16:06):
So we all have things we're not proud of. But
I was. I started noticing probably two years ago that
some of the burners weren't firing like they should, and
you got, oh, just a bunch ton of them.

Speaker 4 (16:20):
And a bunch of round burners.

Speaker 3 (16:22):
And then now there there's the there the tubes, you know,
for four tubes across, and and it's it's stainless still,
I mean, and yeah, and he's I mean, And I
know a lot of you out there, you charcoal people.
I've got a charcoal grill too, you know, down on
the farm. But but at home, and I'm and you know,
I'm not propane either. I go straight to the natural gas.

(16:43):
So I've always got fire. I'm always ready to go
at a moment, at a moment's notice, I'm ready to go.
So it was awful over the past weekend. Sherry said
to me, and sometimes she didn't know how to say it.
My wife's names. For those of you that are new,
she said, you know, your birthday was October third, and

(17:04):
I said, I know, And it was kind of heckted.
She said, you know, we got your card, and your
mom and dad, you know, got you this outstanding by
the way table for cleaning fish and for lating fish
with all the utilities that go with it. Oh yes, yeah,
so you know what else I got to. Have you
seen this contraption where if you hook a big bass
and you don't want to and you let him swallow

(17:25):
it too much, the big thing that can go inside
go and get.

Speaker 4 (17:29):
It's like pliers with the world long.

Speaker 3 (17:31):
Yeah. Oh I love them. My dad got me one
of those. And so I was having a good birthday.

Speaker 4 (17:34):
But she's for picking up screws behind the dresser.

Speaker 3 (17:37):
And you know how sometimes your wife will say something
to you and they don't want to say it directly,
but they're trying to get you to say it because
they know how hurtful it could be. And uh, she said,
why don't you get you a new grill? And I said, uh,
well don't. I don't need a grill. And and it's like,
for a moment, she gave me that look, Rick, I
think you and I both know that it's over. That

(18:01):
girl's done. Let me just say it. And I said,
but two burners still fire, she said, the hot dogs
you made for us this past weekend not cooked all
way through. Rick, eleven years is a long time for
it is, she said. And the reason why it happened
and you know it, Rick, but you want to admit it,

(18:22):
it's because you didn't have the proper fire. You were
moving around a couple of hot spots that you now
can't even control. Low means nothing on that grill now, Rick,
I mean, it's just fire. Okay, there's no control over it.
It's out of hand. Hey, she's not running like she
once ran, and you need to replace her. Rick, It's
it's time. And you know, hearing that just wow. You

(18:44):
know when somebody just says it. So yesterday was the day.
I mean I walked out there to her and I said,
you know you've served this family. Well, you got nothing
to be ashamed of. This is this is not a
dig on you. Is have to say you didn't perform
well your eleven years worth smoking, no pun intended. What

(19:06):
is that in grill years? Oh, there's no telling what
that that's a long time one like every other. It
is the is how does she look on the outside?

Speaker 4 (19:13):
Is she still physically?

Speaker 3 (19:14):
And good?

Speaker 2 (19:15):
Check?

Speaker 3 (19:16):
Little rough old dog. There was there was the fire.

Speaker 5 (19:19):
If you'd have just brushed her like you're supposed to
and maintained her burners, she might have lasted a little longer.

Speaker 3 (19:25):
But that's the guilt that comes to you. You can't
stop it from happening. I mean, you start thinking, how.

Speaker 4 (19:29):
Many times did you brush her out with a good
steel brush.

Speaker 3 (19:32):
I did, Bubba, but not like I should have. You're right,
You're right, you can't expect it. I don't bill to
run if you don't change the old one you supposed to.
But he feels bad enough. Questions anything else you like
to pile on.

Speaker 4 (19:42):
I'm just saying, you know we're not one for the
next one. I've noticed burgesses and maintenance preventive.

Speaker 3 (19:49):
Listen, guys, I wasn't prepared for how I would feel
about this grill. I wasn't prepared for it. I thought
I could just discard it, like I do so many things. Okay,
but I got I'm attached. I mean, her stain was
still beauty, glistening in the sun.

Speaker 4 (20:01):
I thoughtless still lasted forever.

Speaker 3 (20:03):
Well it does, unless you. I'd better not talk about
twenty ten eleven years, though it is forever real years
left the fire roar and forgot about it. Oh, I've
done it a lot. I don't. I'll turn her black
one on the outside a little bit. How about leaving
it a lot? How about leave it burning for days days?

(20:25):
Since it was twenty ten, I was a little off
my game that day. Well, I've emptied the tank out
left and on forgot empty the entire tank. So I
went to I picked out the was not happy. I
picked out the grill get another. As I was walking
out of the house to go pick out the new grill,
I looked out the window to the deck and it's

(20:46):
like she was staring at me. Where are you going
going to get a puppy? And I was like, I nothing,
I just got things I gotta do. And as long
as you said, Rick, you don't come home the middle
of the day, put your stuff down and leave again
where you're headed? She knew you know what I mean.
And I'm And I decided to go out there. And
I have yet to disconnect the gas. I just can't

(21:07):
do it.

Speaker 4 (21:08):
Is it natural or is it pro paint?

Speaker 3 (21:10):
It's natural. It's always hot, always on. Rick, did you
put the new on? They can meet?

Speaker 10 (21:17):
No?

Speaker 3 (21:17):
No, I don't want to handing over the torch.

Speaker 4 (21:21):
Youre want a new puppy meeting the dog headed Here.

Speaker 3 (21:25):
Was the worst part. This was this, This hurt badly.
So I buy it at the place I bought it,
picked it out and they said, you want us to
deliver it fully assembled. I said absolutely, you know me,
I'm locking keygwy. They said, we'll also remove the old one.
Oh that's good. Just do that when you're not there. Yeah,
just don't. So that's my question. Do I say goodbye
with them standing there?

Speaker 10 (21:45):
No?

Speaker 3 (21:45):
No, you step away?

Speaker 5 (21:49):
What do you want in a dramatic moment? I had
to have everybody there, just point where it is, go
in the house, come back and let the do.

Speaker 3 (21:55):
It's supposed to be there, just like getting.

Speaker 8 (21:56):
Rid of it.

Speaker 3 (21:56):
They're supposed to be there tomorrow. When do I say
goodbye officially? Do I go out there and have a moment?
Or do I let it surprise her?

Speaker 1 (22:02):
Well, you go out today and just had a boiler last?
Respect ever her heads up to down. Yeah, yeah, maybe
even us your one last.

Speaker 3 (22:08):
I wouldn't do it. Is there anything you can? Could
you make a hamburg?

Speaker 4 (22:11):
She could draw you in one.

Speaker 3 (22:12):
Wait a minute, shall go out there and cook one
more hamburg? One? Absolutely? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (22:15):
With your little well you want you want to half done? Hamburg?

Speaker 3 (22:18):
Thank you? Thank you?

Speaker 2 (22:20):
Hey, just one?

Speaker 4 (22:21):
If it's time for the dog to go, you don't
carry about to play fetch one?

Speaker 3 (22:25):
Maybe one hot.

Speaker 4 (22:26):
That's why a great point, lay there and be asleep.

Speaker 3 (22:31):
One one tear stained hot dog. H I went out
there yesterday, didn't say what was happening, but I was
so emotional. I could tell she knew something was up
because all I did yesterday was talking about all the
good times we had to get. Maybe just unplug or
take her for one last walk.

Speaker 5 (22:47):
Do you think about a stainless steal burner just doing
the burner replaced?

Speaker 3 (22:51):
It's too far gone. He's a burgess. They just buy things, well,
don't They don't replace. I went out there yesterday and
talked about the team party of twenty two of two
thousand and nine, when she probably was at her.

Speaker 2 (22:59):
Fire up a ricking bubba rick and bubba.

Speaker 3 (23:04):
Bubba. This past weekend for me, it was a stay
home weekend, which was great, and my wife, Sherry, spent
some time down at our family farm preparing for this
weekend's marriage conference, the part she's going to be presenting.
She went and try to put all that together. Why,
the boys and I spent some time hanging out. Had
one kid come home from college, so I had the
oldest son with me and spent most of the weekend together.

(23:26):
We celebrated the real Greg Burgess's birthday at my mom
and dad's house yesterday. That was that was That was
an extravaganza.

Speaker 4 (23:33):
Well, how did that go?

Speaker 3 (23:35):
Well? You know it. It was an active weekend. It
all went really well. I had Friday. Of course, I
had to take care of the first order business, and
that was to purchase into double A College Football twenty eleven.

Speaker 4 (23:45):
I guess while you were out getting Gregg's gift.

Speaker 3 (23:47):
Yeah, why, I was getting Gregg's gift and Greg told
me not to get him a gift. He said, I
don't want any gifts. So you did, and so I'm
sitting there and so anyway, so week the boys and
I went out to a theme park in our state
called Alabama Adventure. So that involved the combination of water
slides and amusement park rides, which is in the boy

(24:09):
hot in Alabama. I mean, I mean, I don't know
if you've walked that pavement lately, hot and you know,
hot time, and they always want to do the format
of water slides first ride. Second. Now now I'm rolling
over to the rides and we're all wet, and but
you draw pretty quick out there and made the mistake
even though it was a great day, had an outstanding day.

(24:31):
You know a lot of times when you go to
theme parks, you know your goal of trying to make
sure you could go one time when everything's running, you know,
which is it rarely ever happens? You know, is there
anything any worse feeling to go to a major amusement
park theme park? And also you go and they go, hey,
so and so that ride ain't running. We ain't run,
kids like why they ride at you know, And so

(24:52):
we over over a period of a thunderstorm slowing things down,
and which never happened, just rumbled off in the distance.
But that have to shut down anything that's which is
all the great ruts, you know what I mean. And
so finally that kind of rumbled away and they opened
back up and we had a great day. And just
when I had had had planned out everything perfect. Because
when you go to a theme park, you know you

(25:13):
have to It's when you take kids to a theme park,
it gets a battle plan. Sure, I mean you don't
just casually Now you can go to the beach and
casually figure out what to do. You don't ever casually
go into a theme park with children with no plan
of action. I tell people that all the time, you know,
the first time parents or email we're thinking about going
to six Flags or disney World or something like we
go into Alabama Adventure, you know. And I'm like, you

(25:34):
got a plan? Well, well we were just wondering. You
can't wonder. I mean, you you got interest. This is
like going into battle. I mean, this thing could turn
into a disaster. So my battle plan was perfect, perfect,
And I made the mistake. I made the mistake almost free.
I'm almost done. I'm not frustrated. The lines. We were tolerable.
Everything was great. Me and the boys had a great time.

(25:57):
Uh you know, I even you know, we won some
of those carnival games and won some worthless prizes and
and and I'm just about to leave, and I noticed
the hot dog restaurant. Nobody was in it, and and
I and I thought, man, I can knock dinner out
right here, because you know, Dad's are always that dinner
cloud hangs over you in lunch. If you mom, you know,
if mom is no one knows. She wants to know

(26:19):
did you feed them right? And you start thinking it
will this this has been acceptable food for her?

Speaker 4 (26:23):
You know that kind of probably not for mom. For dad,
it's fine, yeah, cereal.

Speaker 3 (26:27):
So instead of hitting another restaurant while we're all tired
on the way home, I said, let's knock us out
right here, got it? Forgetting of course that employees of
thing parks, well, there's a lot of things they do well,
but boys service and food just ain't one of them.
And uh, you know, I finally said to the young man,

(26:51):
I don't know that you could fix this hot dog
any slower than you're doing it. That this is like
watching a lava lamp, you know what I mean.

Speaker 5 (27:01):
So you're saying it would have been quicker if the
hot dog had come over and jumped in the bun itself,
you know what?

Speaker 3 (27:06):
You know what I did. And this is the part
where that because I was trying to represent Christ right,
which which was difficult, and at one point I really
did say, just let me do it. It's just hot dogs.
I can do this. They're they're spinning on the little warmer.
The buns are to your left. That's it. Take the weenie,

(27:28):
put it in the bun and give it to me.

Speaker 4 (27:33):
Letting me have it.

Speaker 3 (27:34):
How hard is that? You know what I mean? And uh,
and and you know and and and and let me
tell you what happened, because I watched him wait on
the one woman that was in front of me who
wanted one plane hot dog. I'm not do you want
for those you here? You want to show you my impression.
It's a visual only you streamers and people here. I'm
not making this up. Of course, his his theme park

(27:55):
hat tilted to one side. Of course, you know what
I mean. Look, she walks in. He's back there with
nobody nothing. She she walks in. She says, I would
like a just a one plane hot dog. Rick standing
up like he's ordering, and I'm not. I'm not exact.
First of all, he won't come all up to the counter.
And then the hot dogs are behind him, already cooked,
and bungs are to the left, and a tupperware thing okay,

(28:19):
drink machine is over here. We're left. I would like
one plane hot dog. Now keep mine. I'm gonna get
a lot more than that. Okay, one plane hot dog,
head tilting, He walks over, then goes over to the
god forsaken plastic gloves, which I said more than when
I said, when it's my time, just grabbing your hands.

(28:41):
You're fine. We've we've done things a lot, a lot
more unclean than your hands probably are, you know what
I mean. My gosh, we've been over there, you know,
with piles of people like animals and water, you know
what i mean, We've been going down slides. Ain't no
telling what's in that water, you know what I mean?
So look whatever, and look, So here comes one glove
trying to get his fingers in it barely, and look

(29:03):
at and I'm just like about to come apart, you know,
I'm just like, how long does it take to put
on a stupid you know what I mean? Look, and
he kind of gets it down. Then he didn't get
it right one time, he takes it back off. This
is one hot we have the wrong fingers.

Speaker 2 (29:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (29:15):
Then he finally gets out on and then he looks
over and gets the other one. Look, and then he
kind of works it down. Then he goes over there
and he goes over to the tupwar thing. He can't
get it open with the buns in it. Well's he
got slick gloves on that well. Unfortunately inside where the
buns are. Unfortunately, they had not disconnected the buns for
him and made them individuals. They were still attached and

(29:38):
that threw him for a loop, just tear it off,
just but they come apart. Well, he's keeping around with it,
and I'm just like, oh my gosh. And so finally
and then he and then he's just about to come
over with the hot dog. He's just about got it
over and she said, and I would like a pretzel too,

(29:59):
And he turned around. He starts taking the gloves off,
and I'm going to leave him on more next, you know,
I just get it with the glove, you know, It's
like and then there was a piece of paper you
had to get for that. Oh that just a and
I'm just sitting I kid, you know. It took him
ten twelve minutes to hand a plain hot dog to
a woman. And I realized, I've got to get a
lot of them, you know what I mean, because you're hungry.

(30:20):
So here's what I did. And I thought this was smooth.
I thought I cannot watch this again. Okay, I can't
because I do something that will do will crucify Christ,
you know, in this man's eyes. So what I what
I said is because you remember the one time I
was there and I removed the hot dog special. Yeah,
I took it off the menu. Because they couldn't pull
it off. Yeah, yeah, And I said, if you can't

(30:40):
pull it off, just don't even have it on the menu,
you know what I mean. And so I didn't want
to do that again because I thought, that's not being
a line though, you know what I mean.

Speaker 4 (30:47):
And so it's obviously a lot was needed here, right,
So so this time I really did.

Speaker 3 (30:53):
And I want to thank the Moss family. God love you,
Scott Boss and your and your beautiful children and your wife.
Because when I ordered, I turned around, not because I
couldn't face what I was gonna watch, because I wanted
like five hot dogs and all this. So I turn
around and I see the Moss family coming outside the window,
who I know and go to church with. I went

(31:14):
out to them, and we talked about everything about their family.
We got updated, and I just hope that enough time
would pass it I would then turn around and see
the hot dogs there. So I just couldn't look at it.
I said, I can't look at what's happening back here.
And I walked outside and talked with them, and that
you know how you talk to people, time passes faster.
And I talked with them and ate up about ten
fifteen minutes, and I came back and my hot dogs

(31:35):
were coming to me, and and and so that that
helped big time because and I wanted a chili dog too,
But I just couldn't know. I couldn't imagine if I'd
ask him to get in that chill, you know what
I mean, I couldn't. And then I know the stomach
thanks you too, I imagine. And I know I noticed
they gave him. Also his job was to take care

(31:58):
of hot dogs and pretzels and watch the soft serve line, Oh.

Speaker 4 (32:04):
That soft serve, and take him all day getting that out.

Speaker 3 (32:06):
This young man couldn't take that on. This young man
cann't take that on, you know. And and I tried
to talk to him, which was a mistake. You know,
you ever try to you, ever try to talk to you,
ever try to talk to some of our youngsters today,
some of our young men and women. So, man, you're
having a good time here today, you know, because when
I come to a theme park, I want to excited. Yeah,
I want people. I want people. Look at my kids,

(32:28):
y'all having a good time at at a theme part today,
you know, like that, Hey, everybody doing okay? How y'all?
Doing today? What can I do for you?

Speaker 9 (32:35):
You know?

Speaker 3 (32:35):
I made say say, man, you're doing all right? I
was like, what did you say? You ever looked a
man in the eye and spoke with some some volume?
Son Rick and his defense? Are you capable of looking
in someone's eyes and acknowledging our family existence? Here? We

(32:56):
just knocked down hundreds of dollars here having tilts it
to the side, you know with the thing part logo,
which if you're the one sweating inside that office running
them numbers, you love him with his hat tilted again.
I mean, this is who's representing everything you've invested. Have
had a hat here? So what they charged to eat
at these thing parts? They're not used to people coming

(33:16):
in here. You couldn't believe somebody to buy I couldn't
believe it. I think it ended up being four hot dogs,
not five, because I knew fires too much. So four
hot dogs, two potato chips, one soft pretzel, three Coca
colas normal size. Yeah, that'd be thirty five. I said, Now,

(33:36):
now I see that time I heard you. You couldn't
have said forty dollars. Yeah, you know what I mean.
I wish I didn't hear that clear and Rick.

Speaker 4 (33:44):
Probably has a tip jar on the counter.

Speaker 3 (33:47):
Yeah, yeah, the gold put a tip jar out for
a seven dollars hot dog. And you know what My
tip for him was, find a job where you don't
interact with human and look both ways when you cross
this dread. Yeah, fuck it up? How much you say?
I tell you.

Speaker 5 (34:07):
Have you noticed the price of all food? It seems
like it's gone up cheap. Mexican ain't cheap anymore.

Speaker 3 (34:13):
A ball park or a thing park, try to eat there.
I told the kids, prepare for what I want you
to tell me. He's the greatest hot dog you've ever eat.

Speaker 2 (34:20):
Ricking bubba, ricking bubba.

Speaker 3 (34:24):
May I introduce you to Big Love?

Speaker 4 (34:26):
And yeah, I was from kind of that.

Speaker 3 (34:29):
Yeah, got the schools, I got school's almost here, So
going to work with Daddy's toughter in school speak of it,
I understand Big Love and Tabs were here. We had
Caitlin here yesterday, Hunter last week, and time's running it.
Welcome guys, glad you're here with work with Daddy today.
I won't say school anymore. I said, I'm sorry, it's

(34:51):
next week. Now what grad? What grades? Ad?

Speaker 4 (34:53):
I going into fourth?

Speaker 3 (34:55):
Fifth?

Speaker 4 (34:55):
Over there at big love fourth for the test, so
I've got sixth and fifth. So we're we're all staggered
in there, you know.

Speaker 3 (35:02):
It's they're all right there in a little group. That's
the guys. You had an awesome summer. I mean got
to work at the farm.

Speaker 4 (35:09):
Yeah, the crops.

Speaker 3 (35:11):
How fun is that?

Speaker 1 (35:12):
Only did that?

Speaker 10 (35:13):
That?

Speaker 3 (35:13):
Get paid exactly?

Speaker 10 (35:16):
And I got the game that I finally wanted.

Speaker 3 (35:18):
Yeah, he worked all summer to buy the game Band Hero.
You know you can play the whole band. Yeah. And
uh so every time they go out there and you know,
pick six seven pieces of squash, of course, immediately we
talk about how the summer sun had just beat down
on them. I don't know that you can call that
bringing in the crop. Uh happy, Yeah, I understand what

(35:42):
it's all about, you know, bub and I learned a
long time becau. It's funny how money motivates everybody. Hey,
what about uh what about the summer though? What did y'all?
What did y'all like the most of summer? And we
did some cool stuff. Y'all had a very active summer.

Speaker 1 (35:56):
You went to Ireland, guys the morning and slip your mind,
you don't remember what you went to that it was good, but.

Speaker 10 (36:02):
Dog kept on talking in the accent.

Speaker 2 (36:07):
Got annoyed.

Speaker 6 (36:08):
That was actually my least favorite part with me talking
like the Irish people that I want.

Speaker 4 (36:12):
I hated that.

Speaker 3 (36:15):
You hated it. You didn't like when I begin to
talk to Tom. No, you didn't like when it like that.

Speaker 10 (36:21):
Oh, please stop, you're making my.

Speaker 3 (36:26):
All right? So what about now? Also? Yah, y'all stop? Yeah,
so you said you Dave would just constantly do that.

Speaker 11 (36:35):
Yes, yes, he's enjoying doing it.

Speaker 2 (36:38):
Now he won't stop.

Speaker 3 (36:40):
I did not change me. It was not life changing.
Are you saying it that I talk like that more
than I should?

Speaker 4 (36:50):
Yes, it's like you are Irish exactly.

Speaker 3 (36:55):
For about a week after that, around here.

Speaker 4 (36:57):
They had a lot of Top of the Morning, do
you Oh, I.

Speaker 10 (37:00):
Cannot stand the Top of the Morning studio?

Speaker 3 (37:01):
Yeah? All right now, so, yes, I tell.

Speaker 10 (37:06):
Everyone the story about that little girl you sat by
on the wave.

Speaker 3 (37:10):
Well I have to speak Irish. Well, I don't care,
and they don't have to dance while he's speaking Irish.
I heard you love that you asked for the story.
She was sitting on the plane with me, and she'd
been to America for the first time to New York City.
She was about your age. She was Tazz's age or
your age? And I said, I said, how did you
like New York City? She said, I think you're the

(37:31):
biggest city in the world. As she said, I think
it was your biggest city in the world. Your eyes
like that in the whole world. And I said, it's
a big one, no doubt about it. And then I
tried to explain to her where we were from, and
that just blew her mind, because you know, Ireland is
about the size of our state, so to tell them
that New York is a tiny part of the whole

(37:52):
country just blew her mind.

Speaker 4 (37:53):
It's unbelievably.

Speaker 3 (37:54):
You mean it's bigger than that. Yes, and where you're from.
It come from where the cowboys in the Indians. That's
what one woman said. That's what I said. Do you
mean we talk like we're from Texas? Yes, the cowboys
in the Indians. So now, now, so we did that?
They love? Did you? Uh?

Speaker 5 (38:11):
Did you get out and see uh the young lady
that you've been very fond of any during the summer.

Speaker 3 (38:16):
Oh, I I couldn't. I've been picking too much squash,
I've been too busy.

Speaker 4 (38:21):
Hey, now, what are you been so busy doing? You
you mean you haven't talked to her at all?

Speaker 3 (38:25):
What about it? Church? This past Sunday when you had
your new summer cut. I thought that she went by
she said, hey, hey Brooks Dad, Well, I mean May
Brooks and I we used to warn her to call
I think you might Si. I tapped in money to
you Brooks top of the morning. And also oh and

(38:51):
also now now tell us also I try to explain
to the guys, what what happened at football practice?

Speaker 6 (38:56):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (38:56):
This this past uh past? Was it Tuesday's Monday? This
past this past Monday? About the chili fries? What happened?

Speaker 10 (39:03):
It was awful?

Speaker 3 (39:05):
But why did you Why did you eat chili fries
on a day of practice?

Speaker 10 (39:08):
I forgot we were having practice, right, And how did
it go? It went a little something like this, I
got real gassy.

Speaker 3 (39:21):
A little something like that. Yeah, exactly, So you became
the bombeder beetle.

Speaker 2 (39:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (39:27):
I hope you're not playing center this, yes, sir, Oh yeah,
you weren't center. So the corback is glad of that.
Now Now let me let me ask you this where
you keep them off of you? Were you taken out
of practice because they thought you were getting sick, or
because you were making noises that the coach got tired
of the Okay, so are you sure you kept drawing
people off side and down big You can't love it

(39:57):
now you drew me all Look, there's nothing that brings
joyce to little boy's faces right there too, or to
my friend Rick acting like it's on two. Okay, all right,
this time is going to nobody move ow Brooks it
laughing because of course it happened. And this is the

(40:21):
first time I've ever coached towns in football. How is
your dad out there?

Speaker 10 (40:25):
He's terrible?

Speaker 3 (40:27):
Wait, let him handle it.

Speaker 10 (40:30):
He's probably gonna say the same.

Speaker 11 (40:31):
Well you think probably going to see this like a movie.
Not I'm just saying, right, he's awful.

Speaker 3 (40:42):
What's so bad? It's not in?

Speaker 4 (40:44):
Does he holler at you.

Speaker 3 (40:46):
Dad?

Speaker 11 (40:46):
You might want to leave through.

Speaker 3 (40:49):
Does he coaching like uh, you know, like he's from
Ireland or anything?

Speaker 10 (40:53):
Knowing coaches like he's from Tokyo, like he's from the
Man the mat the land of Screaming.

Speaker 3 (41:05):
Coach doesn't yeah unless people make him yep, right, you know,
how's it to have me? Mean? Coach? Who do you
like better mean coach and nice coach, nice coach. Nice.
That's right, So that's the goal. That's the goal. Oh great,
I love sushi. Just for that. I'm coaching at tomorrow's
practice completely in Irish.

Speaker 1 (41:23):
Nonill get a chili hot dog, go to practice, do
it in Japanese.

Speaker 2 (41:30):
Ricking bubba, ricking bubba.

Speaker 5 (41:34):
Justin case, program director of the flagship station has dropped by,
justin always good to see you.

Speaker 4 (41:39):
Hey, great to be here.

Speaker 3 (41:39):
How you guys doing?

Speaker 4 (41:40):
You know we we don't get to see you a
whole lot.

Speaker 5 (41:43):
We're glad when you drop by. And you told me
that coming by here to added a few playoffs, do
you too?

Speaker 3 (41:49):
Well?

Speaker 9 (41:49):
You know I didn't come by for a while because
I was I was trying to lose some weight, and
I did. I successfully lost twenty three pounds, and now
Speedy demanded that I come by and visit more often.

Speaker 3 (41:59):
Don't that time put seven back on?

Speaker 5 (42:01):
So you know, it is strange in the radio business
that the and I use this term loosely, but that's
referred to as the talent would ask the program director
to come by.

Speaker 4 (42:10):
Usually it's right opposite of that.

Speaker 3 (42:12):
Yeah, well that's that's like that that's how great our
relationship is.

Speaker 1 (42:14):
We just didn't We just don't get because see our
building and the flagships, staff building and all that. It's separate,
so we don't get to see each other as much.
And Justin's a great friend, and and.

Speaker 9 (42:26):
I stay in contact with Speedy through email and he's
my Facebook friend and sure, so that's all that.

Speaker 3 (42:32):
Yeah, we tweet tweet all the time. So exciting.

Speaker 5 (42:36):
We've been kind of checking in with all their dads
this week, uh, to see how their father's day went.

Speaker 4 (42:41):
Of course, obviously Rick tore by sep up.

Speaker 3 (42:43):
That was not good.

Speaker 5 (42:44):
I want a state championship speed. He played ball, Greg
cut grass. That's all he does now, that's right. Uh
So but you you told us you got out on
the water a little bit.

Speaker 3 (42:53):
I did.

Speaker 10 (42:53):
Uh.

Speaker 9 (42:54):
We decided we were going to go up to the
lake and had some friends up and went for a
little boat ride and went to start the boat after
we went swimming, and it didn't it didn't go what
stranded stranded. Yeah, there's a sort of a backstory. I
started the boat up and it was making a kind
of a squealing sound.

Speaker 3 (43:15):
That's not good.

Speaker 4 (43:16):
That did that send off maybe an alert?

Speaker 3 (43:18):
It did.

Speaker 4 (43:18):
It was a problem.

Speaker 9 (43:19):
In fact, I went down to the marina and I said, hey,
when I start my boat up, it makes kind of
a squealing sound.

Speaker 3 (43:23):
Is that bad? And they're like, well, it's probably the
alternator belt or something like that.

Speaker 9 (43:27):
And I'm like, uh, well it goes away after thirty
forty five seconds or something like that, and they're like, ah,
you know, bring it to us. So I thought I
could use it for a day. So we got head
out on the water. So you said, who cares about that?

Speaker 4 (43:39):
I'm I'm going on, Well, it goes away after forty
five seconds or so.

Speaker 3 (43:42):
You just have to deal with that.

Speaker 9 (43:43):
You know, everybody around the boat launch staring at you
while your boat squeals like oh yeah really high pitch.

Speaker 3 (43:48):
Yeah, very annoying. So we head out.

Speaker 9 (43:53):
It was a sunset cruise, So we head out and
we float in the water for a while, get back in.

Speaker 3 (43:58):
The boat doesn't go. I thought, it's blooded, you.

Speaker 4 (44:00):
Know, that's what you always think.

Speaker 3 (44:02):
What a motor. Yeah, because it was cranking.

Speaker 1 (44:06):
Y'all do real quick. You went and turn it off
and y'all jumped in. Yeah, yeah, I mean I'll swim. Yep,
we swim.

Speaker 9 (44:12):
We were floating on the noodles and just about dark
right out in the middle sunset.

Speaker 4 (44:18):
Yeah, we're three and a half miles from very romantic
we put in.

Speaker 9 (44:22):
So it was great until the boat wouldn't start. So
you got friends with you, so you're you know, that's nothing,
it's just flooded. Then I better look in the back.
So I opened up the back and immediately you see
the little belt dangling.

Speaker 3 (44:36):
Yeah. Oh no, yeah, so you know what did you do? Well,
at least you could get back in the boat. You
see that movie, that movie they couldn't get back in
the boat.

Speaker 4 (44:44):
Yeah, we got back in the boat.

Speaker 9 (44:46):
The first thing you do is you you look for
your cell phone and then hopefully you have some bars,
and there were no bars at this time so far.
We did have a paddle, but we also had four
people in one paddle, so it was easier just to
get in the water and just kind of push the
boat to a.

Speaker 3 (45:08):
Three and a half miles from from the where you're
supposed to be though.

Speaker 4 (45:10):
Right, yeah, well we're doing human tug boat.

Speaker 3 (45:13):
Yeah yeah, and it's getting dark. It's getting dark.

Speaker 9 (45:16):
So my idea was we'll push the we'll push the boat,
we'll paddle it out to the middle of the lake
where you're in a traffic area where people will stop,
and then you know there wasn't a lot of a
lot of traffic and they're just dark. Now you've got
your noodles and you know the orange noodles that you
float on and make sure so you're waving your noodles
at people saying hey.

Speaker 3 (45:38):
Yeah s O S or well I didn't know the code?

Speaker 4 (45:42):
What about your marine radio?

Speaker 3 (45:44):
I mean if you didn't have one, now, shoot, did
you just scream at them?

Speaker 2 (45:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (45:50):
You know? You know, how do people just drive by
under jet ski's waving Hey these having fun?

Speaker 5 (45:55):
You don't have I have an app on my iPhone
so you can flash Morse code real just in case
of that Zach disaster.

Speaker 1 (46:01):
And you've got to sees it not somebody's going, hey,
what's well?

Speaker 4 (46:06):
A lot of people will go while they flash the marscode.
They may need tail right.

Speaker 9 (46:10):
You figure if you're standing on the front of your
boat waving two orange noodles, right that somebody would stop.

Speaker 3 (46:16):
You know, nowadays you don't know what they want. Yeah,
you know what they sell?

Speaker 4 (46:20):
Y'all are drunk?

Speaker 3 (46:21):
Probably, Yeah, they probably got a swinging couple or something.

Speaker 9 (46:25):
But yeah, pushing out to the center of the lake
did allow me to get a phone call out and
high bar. I called my boss because we were very
near where he swims to watch the sunset as well.

Speaker 3 (46:39):
Ray swims. Yes, Ray, So their their pontoon is swimming
to watch the suns.

Speaker 9 (46:46):
Their pontoon boat is over very close to us.

Speaker 3 (46:49):
I can see it.

Speaker 9 (46:50):
So I'm texting, hey, Uh, he was out there too. Yeah,
but we were in a different spot.

Speaker 3 (46:56):
You couldn't you noodle from where you want.

Speaker 4 (46:58):
It's not you know, anywhere you're on the lake. You're
pretty close to one of right spots.

Speaker 9 (47:01):
Yeah, so I texted, hey, stranded, I'm at your ten
o'clock position.

Speaker 3 (47:08):
I see you guys.

Speaker 9 (47:09):
So all of a sudden, after we wait for a
little while, we see the boat start to take off
and they turn right towards us, and I'm like, hey,
we're saved. And then it goes it goes the other way. Oh,
he didn't have his he didn't have his phone with him.
I thought he was answering, I replied, So now it's
getting dark. Yes, I mean it's like really.

Speaker 5 (47:26):
Justin I've never seen right without his phone he lives
on that phone, and that one didn't know.

Speaker 3 (47:32):
What can I just tell you something? I don't think
you wanted to help him. That's probably lesson.

Speaker 9 (47:39):
I'm kidding, right, But then I called my neighbor and
she's going to come out and find me, and I
gave her bad directions. I didn't realize I was two
jogs up on the lake. I just said, go to
that first jog, take a left, we're right there. But
she did, and and I wasn't there because I was
another jog up into the left.

Speaker 4 (47:57):
And probably went up there is dark.

Speaker 9 (47:59):
Now it's pretty much dark, and I've got the nave
lights out, and some guy comes out on his balcony.
He's like, hey, are you stranded? We're like, no, watching
the sunset. What am I gonna do way up there?
I mean, he's not gonna drive me back to my house.

Speaker 3 (48:16):
We get you off the water. Well, I mean, branded
I feel embarrassed, what, well, a little bit, A little bit,
I mean.

Speaker 4 (48:25):
So maybe he could call, right, he'd answer his call.

Speaker 3 (48:32):
Yeah, I mean, come on, I stranded the whole time.
Somebody finally talks to No, we're good, No, we're good.

Speaker 7 (48:38):
I know it looks like we are, because we really are.

Speaker 3 (48:40):
But we're fine.

Speaker 9 (48:41):
Just saw you kicking your boat out to the center
of the lake.

Speaker 3 (48:44):
What's up with that?

Speaker 4 (48:44):
They asked the question, are you stranded? And your answer
is no, we're good.

Speaker 3 (48:50):
Yeah, could you call the marina. I'm missing the logic.

Speaker 4 (48:54):
Tried to call the marina there, we don't have a
toe coming.

Speaker 9 (48:57):
Well, no, I had somebody looking for me, but they
couldn't find but they were on the wrong job.

Speaker 3 (49:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (49:03):
Then I called my other neighbor who just got off
the water, and now you know, he's getting ready to
eat with his family.

Speaker 1 (49:10):
And he didn't really don't ask the guy that's screaming
at you for help. Anyway, Let's call the guy that's.

Speaker 3 (49:15):
Maybe he had a boat. He could have told you
that's possible. He was at the background. That's just the
guy screaming for if I need help, But hey, but
you come get me. But but Steve came and got
me after dark and towed me back. And that's that's.

Speaker 9 (49:29):
You know, it's a no wake toe. You don't you
don't go very fast, So three and a half miles
at no wake speed is a long time.

Speaker 3 (49:38):
I didn't know you were a big water kind of guy.

Speaker 1 (49:39):
I love it the water, so y'all instead of getting
the boat, y'all just go to the middle of the
lake and jump out and yeah with your little noodles.

Speaker 4 (49:48):
Yeah, he loves the like he's just not prepared all
the line.

Speaker 3 (49:51):
Right. Yeah.

Speaker 9 (49:52):
Well, I you know, I didn't wear something, didn't file
a float plan, didn't exactly know where I was on
the water because we went somewhere different than we normally do.

Speaker 3 (50:01):
So I like how the guy told him what it
was probably the belt. He figured I'll give it another
shot one more time. What didn't he tell you it's
probably your belt? Was your problem on your Oh yeah
he did. He now said, well, I'm just going to
give it one more shot anyway, and the belt just
shredded it. Did do you have about it? She blame
come out? She tried.

Speaker 9 (50:22):
Yeah, she tried to entertain the company while I was
texting for help. And then when I suggested that we
yell get in the water and you know, kick the
boat out to the middle, it was basically I'll stay
here and the belt kick. So there were four of us,
but not all of us were just say anything about
the guy that was screaming if y'all. Oh yeah, yeah,
that one did not go over.

Speaker 3 (50:42):
Well, it's like, what you well, I have to ask
a question, what are you thinking? I just thought, I
don't know who that guy is. He's usually go and
look for people stranded to rest their back porch.

Speaker 1 (50:56):
Right now, they walk out on a private deck and go, hey,
you need help. Yeah, I wouldn't ask for him help.
I could have been a gang member.

Speaker 3 (51:05):
Could have been a krill who knows.

Speaker 10 (51:10):
Well.

Speaker 4 (51:10):
Reminder not to go voting with you.

Speaker 2 (51:12):
Just ricking bubba, ricking bubba.

Speaker 3 (51:17):
So some other things from the trip. Keep in mind
that Dad was with us and it was great. Now,
one day I did make a mistake. Sherry and I
both did that we would tool down to the beach
and do a slot workout with our oldest son, who
you know is he does that? Yeah he's he's an actor,
but when he does not have a gig, he does

(51:37):
personal training. Looking back on that decision, that was not
a good decision. That was a real bad decision, especially
when I looked and he was in the regular sand
and you know, I thought, we'll run few sprints. I
don't run through springs. I said, why why we not?
When I went not down there in Yeah, hard sands,
a little wet, tony, too many people. I don't want

(51:58):
to get people's way and get around put beach shares
and stuff out there already for the day. We don't
need to be down there. Plus, this is harder, I said,
I know. That's why don't want That's why I want
to do it. I don't want to run in this
kind of scend. I don't like walking in this sound
from my from my chair, you know, to go back
to the house. I don't want what what are we doing?
This seems very hard and seems very hot? He said,
that'd be good for you know that. I'm you know,

(52:18):
there's hard disease in our family that I'm really glad
you've been doing better. And I'm glad to be able
to work out a little bit today. Now, I tell
you what, why don't you take your young body and
your young look and you're perfect bandana and I'm gonna
go over here in my T shirt, very large swim
trunks and my straw hat and I'm on, I'm on,

(52:40):
I'm on, maybe do my own thing. And I told Cherry, said, Scherry,
he'll kill us. We can't do this and Cherry thought, no,
I'm gonna do it, my la enforce share you joined me,
you know what I mean? And then he got I
could tell one time. Cherry said, he ran past, and
she said, I felt air go byes. I said, yeah,
because he's young and big and strong and really does
this a lot. You and I are old. We're old,

(53:00):
and for us to be out here doing anything, we
must not kill ourselves if we die here. This didn't
do us any good, you know what I mean. Let's
not be killed by our attempt to live, you know
what I mean?

Speaker 4 (53:09):
Yeah, And so Rick, let me sum it up. Life
shouldn't kill you, right, you know.

Speaker 3 (53:14):
So I left that little that doesn't have a good
father son moment there. I left that quickly. My next
chance at father son moment revolved walking on the beach
as the sun was setting, which is a little more where.

Speaker 4 (53:24):
It's a great time for the beach, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (53:26):
Speaking of the beach, my dad, uh so coaches with
us whole time, and you know he's still very much coach. Okay,
seventy six years old, bigger and badder than everybody, still
challenging everyone. You know, a lot of things from my childhood,
you know, standing in many doors asking for anybody in
the room that thought they could take him. Still still
keeps talking about that he desires to get in to

(53:48):
fight someone else before he gets too old. And we've
talked about that, so let's not do it on this
trip though. And Dad's very loud, and Dad, you know,
couldn't care less about what he says around anybody. You know,
I'm sure all of us is with can relate to
that if your parents have lived long enough for that
and they come from that era. So my dad, when
he was young, was a lifeguard on the beach during
his summers away from college. He had an uncle that now,

(54:12):
keeping how much it's changed, it was literally just one
of those little one level hotels right on the beach
and he would go down there. He did various jobs
work at the hotel with his uncle, but he also
did lifeguarding on the beach, which leads to this story.
And then he also worked fishing boats too, cutting bait
and that kind of stuff. So, first of all, Dad,
if you think a guy fishing is bringing sharks in,

(54:33):
he can hear you. Well, I don't know why this
blankey blanket is standing here pulling bait out there, dragging
sharks in on us. Dad. He's standing right there. He
heard everything you said. And his son that's catching a
fish right now, is looking at his dad like, why
is this man telling us we shouldn't be doing this? Dad?
He hears you, Dad. Let me tell you what else.
Everybody hears you telling everybody who's going to die. See

(54:55):
idiot out there. You can't say hey, when you a
lifeguard to beach, you don't say people. You just identify bodies. Hey, Dad,
everybody hears you.

Speaker 5 (55:04):
It's true, and I can relate to that. You would
always see that guy. You go, hey, there's the five
o'clock needs story right there.

Speaker 3 (55:12):
Yeah, but it will make his wife cry. If that's
your husband out there. Well, when he looks out and says,
what's that blanket he blanked doing out there? What's that
dumb dumb ain't doing out there? I'll tell you one thing. See,
he's lifeguards. They ain't bit to get him. They'll identify
his body. Dad. Everybody hears you, especially the woman who's
upset right now screaming for a husband to come.

Speaker 4 (55:30):
In, may have saved his life.

Speaker 3 (55:34):
Let's look at this, hey, you see it Hey, I
told get you you better swim with it, and I
mean you as good as dead. Dad. Everybody hears you,
you can't well, they need to hear me. Yep, I'm
just telling you. I've done it. You can't save nobody.
Lifeguard hears you. He's looking down and he just said, didn't.
He's pointing at him. This guy right here, the identify

(55:56):
a body. He can't save nobody, Dad, that guy, that
guy's worked hard, I think, don't. He doesn't want everybody
here that he can't save them. Okay, I'm just telling you.
I know that you've told us all. You've told it
real loud and so and then he would point guy
in the kayak. See I got out there in the kayak.
Good is dead, well kayak versus shark. Mad mad Dad.

(56:20):
The people that by guy might know he's doing that.
It don't matter. He said, you got to learn about this,
about this blue water. This blue water. Don't play games.
I know, Dad, we all got it. Dad, you said,
please stop talking about identifying bodies.

Speaker 4 (56:32):
What he got he may have saved that guy's life.

Speaker 3 (56:35):
Right. Hey, let me tell you what y'all get away
from this. This dad and his son having a great
moment together fishing. They ain't do nothing of bringing sharks in.
Before you know, everybody hates them. Boot, won't y'all move on?
I'm like, now, the dad, why does everybody hate us? Well,
because you put in sharks in and that's why you
got baked. What do you think is coming in? What
do they tell you to do?

Speaker 4 (56:52):
Don't swim around?

Speaker 3 (56:53):
Somebody's fishing right right? That guy out there now, I'm
with you Dad on that Rick.

Speaker 4 (56:58):
He may have saved two life.

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