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Speaker 1 (00:03):
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Bible State, but I got you Bertie Rry equipment ready
to go.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
Southern.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
The haulers are sandwire.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Standing by, ready for the Rick burd You Show to commence.
Little personal I'm a covering for rotator cuff surgery.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
Okay, at the.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Village is in Florida.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
All right, my rotator cuff still not write.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
I'll be there with you. It's no way, it's just
not ready.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
And here they come, rary in from all over Baker in.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Kentucky walking to the deer blind. The men of Calvary
are ready start with Mississippi says hell State call bell ringing,
ready for another one. Nate'sy his climber, Greg that you
need to be their supplies ready to.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
Rumble with you birds.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Okay, the gang's all here, speedy, Greg Adler. We're prepared
for another one. And uh today it's been a while,
but Andy Andrews returns to the progress true rbs. Come on,
come on, and then can you get to the wheel?
Between you and the wheel is when Andy Andrews he

(02:15):
returns these.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
Little stories I'm looking forward to, you know a little.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
Andy. Well, we started talking and Andy's schedule is he
was being very very gracious because guys, he lives on
the Gulf Coast and he drives here. He drives here
every time he does it and then turns around drives back.
Didn't he shouldn't he say do something? I mean, go
to the vulcan or something. He used to do something.

(02:38):
Get go over the Oak Mountain State Park, walk around
something by the ducks.

Speaker 4 (02:43):
By the way, I got honey for him in his
coffee today. Oh you well, for weeks I've been worried
about it.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
How about Sherry and I went went to dump.

Speaker 4 (02:53):
That clump or whatever it was in the coffee that
time I forgot it.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
Day I don't mean this because the person was very nice.
But you know, we're in marketing, so I guess we
can't turn it off. And we're always marketing something, including
the show. And so the person that was there in
charge of the state park, the person you pay your
money to to go in.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
You may never met him because I doubt you pay,
but anyway.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
They yeah, you know, the job there is to kind
of get us all fired up for our experience, and
you know, and she couldn't have been nicer, but just
a slight marketing. So we come up and you know, uh,
Cherry and I were like, it was afternoon. We were
in the car and Cherry's like, I don't I'm not
really ready to go home yet. Why don't we just
I said, I tell you what, Let's hit the state

(03:40):
park and look the fall colors.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
And she's like, oh, that's great, that'd be great.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
And so we pull in and hello, how are you?
And then did you ever been here before? I said, oh,
we just lived right over here. We don't live far
from the park. I said, we were coming from fire
but we got a lot. Okay, So and anything speedy
doesn't know the trails the thing speed he doesn't want
to hear ten dollars for two five apiece five.

Speaker 3 (04:06):
But if you can't just go walk, how about paid
to get in? Really?

Speaker 4 (04:10):
But if you save your receipt from your golf round
and show it the next time, you don't have to pay.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
By the way, I got my parking ticket validated somewhere too,
not there. Uh. And then then I was coming out
of the parking deck, it's still charged me. I thought,
I'm validating it. Man, I didn't pay on the way out. Yeah,
but anyway, that's who cares. And what got me was
when Sherry was like, well you need to we need
to love. I said, babe, for three dollars to get
out of here and get back to my life.

Speaker 3 (04:33):
I'm good.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
But anyways, so then she says it the person at
the park, and I thought, I said go get I said,
we just gonna check out the fall colors. Oh, you've
kind of missed them. And I went two days ago.
It was really vibrant, but it's almost like they've just
gone away that win.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
Oh come on, ma'am. And I'm like, well, thank you
can look at them on the ground.

Speaker 5 (04:54):
You probably miss it.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
Thank you going and just paid ten bucks.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
Thank you, Thank you, Debbie down, it'll probably rain on.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
Give my ten bucks. I must right, yeah, forget it.
Let me come, let me see. I'm in the saberuce
we can make this turn easy. Got any animals I
can pet?

Speaker 5 (05:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (05:13):
Up?

Speaker 3 (05:13):
I mean do you say that you are just say well,
we're so glad to have you.

Speaker 5 (05:17):
Oh that's what you say.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
Yes, let you figure it out.

Speaker 5 (05:20):
You probably twist your ankle.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
Yeah, don't venture off too far.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
But yeah, I already died a month ago.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
Great, Well, don't you walk our trail. I hope you
don't get bit by the snake the other guy did. Yeah,
you know you didn't make it? Come on man five five?
Do you think that was the thing to say?

Speaker 5 (05:43):
No?

Speaker 3 (05:44):
Well, it depends. I mean you do, like straight up,
I do. You're right.

Speaker 5 (05:50):
That thought in your head when you're just going to
go enjoy the park. You don't need that thought in
your mind because.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
To you, if you haven't done it, so to you,
it does. Look I think I would have never noticed.

Speaker 4 (05:58):
I don't think I've ever noticed you out there every
day You're like, oh, boy, looked better two days ago
and was great.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
If I don't have nothing compared to I haven't been
here this year, not during the fall. It's real to me.
You know what made me feel really good?

Speaker 1 (06:12):
Though, She went, I were waited to tell me when
the fall colors were vibrant only a few days ago,
and you know what, you just missed it. We had
a vox seat couple that said that, you remember they
were and they said, we're thinking about going George, Yeah,
we're thinking about going to Oak Mountain.

Speaker 3 (06:27):
And I said, it'll beautiful out there. And when they win,
it was you were right? Was it not beautiful for
you all?

Speaker 1 (06:32):
It was beautiful because all my mind now it's in
my mind, I'm going, you know what, not as vibrant
as I thought. It looks vibrant, but maybe it was
more vibrant yesterday that How about that yellow orange little doll?

Speaker 5 (06:43):
A lot of leaves on the ground.

Speaker 3 (06:46):
Enough with the wind?

Speaker 1 (06:47):
Yeah boy so but today has wind times on the
back of portion, I.

Speaker 3 (06:52):
Mean they went nuts. Yeah they did take them down, okay.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
And speaking of that, we we I saw another person
that lives where I live at lunch yesterday and it
was that awkward thing because he had like a very
serious meeting going. You could tell. And they set me
really close to him, and like we know each other
really well, and and it was like he realized, Rick
can hear my entire important meeting, and and I and

(07:21):
I didn't know what to do. I started like I
couldn't hear it. I mean, I mean ruined you, lunt. No,
I'm serious. You ever been to those smallest restaurants. They're
always the smallest restaurant's usually really good food. But they're
gonna use every square engine there to get as many
tables in there as they can.

Speaker 3 (07:36):
Probably not a great place to have a.

Speaker 5 (07:38):
Meeting, and their tables are going to be real small
to the chairs not.

Speaker 1 (07:41):
Comfortable like you and me right now, speedy, those of
you that can see how the console is.

Speaker 3 (07:45):
I'm closer to him. No, no, see I would have
to leave.

Speaker 1 (07:48):
I couldn't.

Speaker 3 (07:50):
I was in the meeting.

Speaker 1 (07:51):
And don't say that, how about it? No, let me
say that they talked about an investment. I went, I
don't know, well, I'm.

Speaker 3 (07:59):
Not sure that's what I would do. They were talking
about financial things.

Speaker 5 (08:03):
You're forgetting about AI or you know whatever.

Speaker 3 (08:05):
Yeah, guys, it.

Speaker 5 (08:07):
Is such a problem when I sit too close to people,
Like really, the only time I go out to eat
is when Aaron and I go on like a monthly date,
right or maybe twice a month, once a month. Yeah,
and that moment where they're going to sit you down,
I'm like, all right, I'm either going to have a
good time or I'm going to be trying to ignore
the people right next to me. I have a problem,
and I admit that's my issue, but it's it's a struggle.

(08:30):
It is a struggle for me.

Speaker 3 (08:31):
It is guys.

Speaker 1 (08:32):
I tried every way, and I was by myself because
you know, that's my new thing, and I couldn't stay
out of it.

Speaker 3 (08:38):
I mean I could hear them too good. You didn't
want to hear it. Let me ask you this is
it is this inside trading.

Speaker 1 (08:44):
If he said, now, let me tell your stock I'm
really excited about I wrote it down.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
Am I allowed to do that?

Speaker 2 (08:49):
You are?

Speaker 5 (08:51):
That says I'm Yeah, that's how Shaq got into Google.

Speaker 1 (08:54):
By the way, he heard good thing.

Speaker 5 (08:57):
Yeah, Shaq was eating or maybe he was in a
hotel lobby or somethingbody hear some guys talking about, Hey,
what are y'all talking about?

Speaker 3 (09:02):
Am in check diesels in? I thank you.

Speaker 5 (09:06):
I'm not sure, yes, but I know what you mean,
I know exactly. There were two black ladies sitting next
to my wife, and because they were talking about that
and their careers. And I hope that the one on
the left really gets gets really it worked out. She's
having some real struggles and her boss not respect her.

(09:27):
Her boss doesn't treat her right right, not like in
a harassment way, but just in a respect and compensation way.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
And I hope that you hope it works out, she
gets it worked out.

Speaker 3 (09:36):
So you got invested, you started being concerned about it.

Speaker 5 (09:40):
I can't ignore that. I can't ignore it.

Speaker 3 (09:42):
Well, you can't. You'd almost have to put air plugs in. Guys,
what do you do?

Speaker 4 (09:46):
I know someone had recommended a restaurant and it's it
was really nice, I mean really nice.

Speaker 3 (09:53):
Which means didn't want to be there.

Speaker 4 (09:54):
So we head on out and and hey, we're having
date night. And and you see my laptop. So that's
that's Terry and this is me, and we're just we're
sitting here like this, all right.

Speaker 3 (10:04):
I could well, and you know what I'm going to do.

Speaker 1 (10:07):
I hate these right here, No somebody else, you're right,
I hate here, yep, somebody.

Speaker 3 (10:14):
I hate those tables.

Speaker 4 (10:15):
I could literally have if I needed to gone, Hey,
could I.

Speaker 3 (10:19):
Borrow you this real quick?

Speaker 2 (10:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (10:21):
Very much.

Speaker 3 (10:21):
When I'm a date, Yeah, you're on a date. You're
almost having to.

Speaker 1 (10:24):
Go when I'm in place like that, If they are,
what about when there's other chairs they could put you in,
but they still stack here on top of people.

Speaker 3 (10:31):
I'll go, No, I don't want to sit there?

Speaker 1 (10:32):
Can I sit here?

Speaker 3 (10:33):
I will by the way I've asked, not, I've asked it.
Please tell them there's another seat?

Speaker 1 (10:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (10:38):
What what Speed's talking about?

Speaker 1 (10:39):
For those yo that can't see because you know he's
talking about that one where they have a long bench
against the table here, a table here, and basically the
same bench belongs to everybody on that. That's all I'm going.

Speaker 3 (10:50):
I cannot stand those I have whispered to Terry. I said,
we don't belong here. We're not We're not in their group.
I think that it should be legal.

Speaker 5 (10:58):
You're paying from I always feel pressure to be like
entertaining to show people like my wife and I have
a great relationship, we have we have fun. We're a
fun coverley who tell me about your days?

Speaker 1 (11:14):
You want everybody in there to go that couple right?

Speaker 7 (11:16):
Wow?

Speaker 1 (11:18):
They really love each other and man, they have fun.
We need to be more like them.

Speaker 5 (11:21):
Yeah, I find myself just talking just to not hear
other people.

Speaker 3 (11:25):
I know runs it, it does run it.

Speaker 5 (11:28):
So you ask Rick, you say, please put me somewhere
anyway possible.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
Lisa won't point out the table and go we won't
sit there. No, should do it in a minute.

Speaker 5 (11:37):
So I need Lisa with me.

Speaker 8 (11:38):
This is the Rick Burdgers show.

Speaker 1 (11:46):
We talked about yesterday. You know, we got we cover
some stuff here that's like super important, and yesterday was
no exception. Dark super important. Dark chocolate.

Speaker 3 (11:57):
You know you ran off that.

Speaker 1 (11:59):
You know, dark chocolate now supposed to be able to,
you know, help your memory in an hour if you
eat the right And then of course we we started
discussing that dark chocolate. The worse it tastes, apparently the
better it is. And and so we started talking about
the various and what is it called some kind of percentage?

Speaker 2 (12:20):
What is this?

Speaker 1 (12:20):
What does this number mean? CoA and Greg, you have
brought in an eighty five percent eighty eight. I challenge
anybody to eat some of that. That's gonna help your memory.
But I challenge anybody to take a bout off it.

Speaker 3 (12:36):
I got it?

Speaker 2 (12:38):
What you know?

Speaker 3 (12:38):
What iver worry about doing that?

Speaker 6 (12:39):
Now?

Speaker 1 (12:39):
This thing, this thing with helping my memory, What if
I take a bite of it and I remember something
that was trying to forget so trauma, Come on, I
forgot about that? Oh long?

Speaker 3 (13:00):
Oh no, got dark sol Oh my goodness.

Speaker 4 (13:07):
So I know Adler that you mentioned this yesterday, but
for those just to put it all in perspective here.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
This one is eighty five. We have a seventy two
I think in there the rick ball.

Speaker 5 (13:17):
Oh, let's start with the seventy and then work our
way up.

Speaker 3 (13:21):
But like, what is a Hershey's or Dove or whatever?
I mean, like you just what you're talking about? Their
dark versions?

Speaker 1 (13:28):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (13:28):
Yeah, I said in forties, wasn't you? Don't you think Adler?

Speaker 5 (13:32):
The standard dark is around fifty percent?

Speaker 3 (13:37):
Okay, okay, So so this is what what? What? What
should I expect to experience here? It's just real, big boy,
it's just so dark. So I was trying to do
better and brought that how much of a bike you
need to put that whole square in your mouth?

Speaker 5 (13:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (13:50):
Yeah, you got to take a whole square, both of those.

Speaker 1 (13:54):
It's one square. Yeah, a dirt tile.

Speaker 3 (13:57):
Oh, I hope you have something to drink?

Speaker 1 (13:58):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (13:59):
Sure, anything?

Speaker 1 (14:01):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (14:03):
M hm.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
Let me put this way.

Speaker 3 (14:05):
I love chocolate and I tried this and I never
went back to it. Mm hmmm mm hmm.

Speaker 1 (14:11):
We enjoyable.

Speaker 3 (14:12):
What's your experience? Eighty five percent?

Speaker 1 (14:15):
Coca? Are we saying Coco Coca Coca?

Speaker 5 (14:19):
I think it's all.

Speaker 1 (14:21):
Right, speedy? Are you okay?

Speaker 6 (14:24):
You go?

Speaker 1 (14:26):
Wow?

Speaker 3 (14:27):
Let me eat that. I want to try.

Speaker 5 (14:29):
Is it because it's early and we're so desperate for anything?
That's not I need stuff here all the time.

Speaker 3 (14:35):
Maybe it's the brand that Lisa got is does she spare?
You wouldn't need to hold bar? Would you? After I eat?
If I wanted something sweet, I could grab a lot
of that. But it is something. Guy's terrible. I mean
it's not physically hurt. Too bad.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
That's not enjoyable.

Speaker 3 (14:56):
There's nothing.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
It's not awful.

Speaker 3 (14:59):
It's like that terrible good night going whole square.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
Okay, it's oh, there's a there's what I'm saying. Hang
on when you first started, it's okay, it's getting worse.

Speaker 3 (15:12):
About twenty seconds a half years. If you know it's
getting it's fine.

Speaker 5 (15:15):
The bitter hits you in a second.

Speaker 3 (15:16):
Yeah, you really taste it.

Speaker 1 (15:17):
I don't enjoy that, and I don't consider that if
make it, get them to eat something.

Speaker 3 (15:21):
This is almost like a chocolate green for salmon. Exactly
what I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (15:26):
No monster for simmon.

Speaker 3 (15:28):
You ever, you never had a for simmon.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
You never had a green for simon when you trick
somebody into buying it. Bigger wild on trees. Now, if
you go to like.

Speaker 4 (15:36):
A farmer's market, trust me, if you have the trees
on your property, you need to hunt it because the
deer love it.

Speaker 1 (15:42):
Now, that's the ones that get the big, the big,
the big rifle. If you get the big rifle and
the orange ones, they're not bad. But you know we
should you don't want a green one. We should trick
people in there.

Speaker 3 (15:51):
Of course, great, we.

Speaker 1 (15:51):
Loved it, see that taste.

Speaker 3 (15:54):
The point is that maybe I.

Speaker 1 (15:55):
Exaggerated it too much. Yeah, this is not if I go, hey,
I want a candy bar and that that's not worth it?
Is this bad for us the way? No, it's good
for us for like Rick straight up. No, it's really
good for you. But you can have it ofcause drink.

Speaker 3 (16:14):
I'm just saying it's not unbearable.

Speaker 1 (16:16):
You're your own good. You're not doing it for fun,
You're not. That's not I bought a seventy five. I
got to eat a lay a cadberry beside that milk greak.
That's not to day a milk chocolate cadberry I just
brought up. I brought a seventy five, and it's a
different brand. It might even taste worse.

Speaker 3 (16:31):
It was a little lass. It may not be quiet
that gumm it's it's the aftertaste.

Speaker 1 (16:35):
But you just spilled water all over everything. Who tells
you they enjoy those is a liar?

Speaker 5 (16:40):
Yeah, I like, I'll go seventy eighties a little much
for me, Okay. I used to eat for Simmons as kid.

Speaker 3 (16:46):
Yeah, the ripe ones right now, not the green Yeah.

Speaker 1 (16:48):
We used to throw the ripe ones at each other
because said much do you get somebody to take a
bout off a green one?

Speaker 3 (16:54):
Seriously? That may be the most bitter thing. It'll take
your mouth.

Speaker 1 (16:58):
Yeah. I remember when we were like young kids, we
tricked people and they'd actually start.

Speaker 3 (17:02):
Crying more I had now. Okay, yep, I'm gonna ask
you this.

Speaker 1 (17:07):
It comes out of the gate Okay, when we were kids,
and this is listen kids, y'all hear us. Some of
these things don't do this. So we were making get
We would trick kids into eating you know, green percentage
because I'm remembering, well, these are good and they and
sometimes they would cry. The one that we went too
far on is when we talked that kid into buying
an elephant ear at times. Oh yeah, and I think

(17:27):
we always heard that he and his and his tongue
like swoll up and he said it felt like there
was needles in this time. Would'll do that because we
were told he would do that. We were told he
would do that.

Speaker 3 (17:34):
We told him that, we were told it was really
good yea, and it was.

Speaker 1 (17:38):
A you know the elephant ephant are playing. Yeah, And
we dared him to buy one. But we learned about it,
and we learned about it in science class and took
it right to the neighborhood for a prank.

Speaker 5 (17:48):
Yeah, you just told him to eat just a random plant.

Speaker 3 (17:52):
We dared him to buy it.

Speaker 1 (17:53):
It was it was growing in like an old lady's yard,
and we dared him to buy it, and he bit
it and his tongue swoll up and he said he
felt like there was needles. I forgot about that. That
probably wasn't the thing to do. No, by the way, kids,
that was not the thing to do. And the presiming
thing was not dangerous. That elephant here might have been. Yeah,
the presiming thing was just fun to watch, because seriously,
that may be the most bitter thing.

Speaker 3 (18:14):
Have you ever seen the big ones?

Speaker 1 (18:15):
I mean like they grow and they're almost about the
size of a tangerine.

Speaker 3 (18:19):
No, yeah, they're really good. That's what they have Performer's market,
trust me, I know.

Speaker 4 (18:23):
Yeah, where did Lisa get that?

Speaker 1 (18:27):
I'm now hating that chocolate bar worse now, Walmart, I'm
hating it worse now.

Speaker 3 (18:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:34):
Then I did a minute ago me too, when I initially,
like when she brought it home, when I first been
into it, I thought this is nice. And then an
hour later, when I was still tasting it, yeah, I
was like, it wasn't that not?

Speaker 2 (18:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (18:44):
Yeah, I just right now, I'm like, Okay, I mean
it's probably not my favorite, but I thought you I
was going to throw up.

Speaker 3 (18:50):
Well maybe, but to me it's horrible because I love
a good chocolate bar.

Speaker 1 (18:55):
Oh no, I'm remembering my time at Troy. Oh no,
I say that now, I'm just saying they're they're not
these people they give you dark Juggler's great.

Speaker 3 (19:06):
No, it's not. Oh no, I'm standing in the back
of the truck going down the middle of the street.
Put some on. Rick, I've been get in trouble. Yeah,
what are you doing if we started our day off
eating bad or was this okay?

Speaker 1 (19:18):
Now?

Speaker 3 (19:19):
This wasn't great for you? Want to try to do better?
That's what That's what they want. This is what they
want you to eat. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (19:25):
No, it's still it's still candy, guys.

Speaker 1 (19:27):
It's not yeah, but healthy candy, chocolate, healthy candy.

Speaker 3 (19:32):
I had blueberries a minute ago, and now I've had
dark chocolate.

Speaker 1 (19:35):
I'm ready. I wish I wish I had dark chocolate.
I want a blueberry now.

Speaker 5 (19:38):
That is a good combo.

Speaker 3 (19:39):
I love it now. I will say that, not that chocolate.

Speaker 1 (19:42):
The free ones that you get that are freezer ride
with a dark chocolate on them, with like a strawberry.

Speaker 3 (19:49):
I love those. Those are good and they're not this chocolate.

Speaker 1 (19:51):
That chocolate.

Speaker 3 (19:53):
I don't even know why anybody considered that.

Speaker 5 (19:55):
It's coating of it's coating of the tongue.

Speaker 3 (19:57):
It's terrible.

Speaker 1 (19:59):
I will now get up and I got it. The
water is not enough. I'm going to find something. Do
we have anything that has a flavor? I want to
brush my teeth right now.

Speaker 5 (20:08):
I don't know what for Simmons are. I looked him up.
I ate something else as a kid in the woods.
I don't know what I ate. I don't know what
that was.

Speaker 3 (20:15):
Was it a musketine?

Speaker 5 (20:15):
You ate one muscadin crab apple crab apple one crab apples.
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(22:09):
what about that dog?

Speaker 5 (22:12):
What about a dog?

Speaker 3 (22:16):
Adler text Nations says we should do that.

Speaker 1 (22:19):
Okay, look at wild chickasaw plum. All right, all right,
chick a saw plump. Hey birds, Hey birds, what about
the dog? Why is it that people feel the need
to carry their dog with.

Speaker 3 (22:28):
Them everywhere they go?

Speaker 1 (22:30):
I concur I'm sitting in the drive through today, I'm
one car back from getting to the window and a
small car in front of me.

Speaker 3 (22:37):
It's an older couple.

Speaker 1 (22:38):
They got two dogs, one rather large, one over overweight,
medium sized dog with their heads in the front seat
sniffing the food that they just received. I'm on the
phone my wife when I see this, and I proceed
to gripe about the situation, ask her why in the
world are people so goofy to think that they need
to bring their dogs with them to get through the

(22:58):
drive through? And now the dogs nosing in their food.
When I pull up to the window to pay, here
it comes speedy for my food, The lady tells me
the car in front of me had paid for my food.
Needs to say with my food, I was also I
also enjoyed a taste of my foot which was in

(23:19):
my mouth.

Speaker 3 (23:20):
Earn him, stupid dog.

Speaker 1 (23:21):
I'm also suffering from, I think, not second hand embarrassment,
first hand embarrassment. It was a very quick lesson from
God not to judge people so fast, and I guess
I should just mind my own business. Oh and there
was no one behind me to pay it forward, so
I couldn't even feel good about that. The couple had
pulled into a parking space to get things situated before

(23:43):
moving on. So I did Speedy pulled beside them, wave
and say thank you?

Speaker 2 (23:50):
All right?

Speaker 3 (23:51):
Question was might about his dog?

Speaker 4 (23:55):
Was the dog card just being nice and just did
that or were they looking in the rear view mirror
and could see him animated complaining about the dogs.

Speaker 1 (24:05):
You have to think about that. I don't make him
feel like crap.

Speaker 3 (24:09):
It feels a little random, doesn't go forward? Yea.

Speaker 4 (24:11):
It depends on how you know over the top he was,
or if he was just sitting there talking but a
good good mouth reader, if he was really animated, could go, oh.

Speaker 1 (24:22):
Look at that person back there hating on our dogs.
Watch this you know something you would have never done about?
What you think you ever gonna pay for the person?

Speaker 3 (24:31):
I think that.

Speaker 5 (24:32):
Speedy speed pays it backward. He just lets people pay
for him.

Speaker 3 (24:36):
Yeah right, I tell them car behind He's got.

Speaker 1 (24:42):
Speedy circles looking for a car and goes, I bet
that will pay.

Speaker 3 (24:45):
Yeah it is.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
Where does it end on that? If everybody keeps paying
behind them? Okay, even do it? Okay, grin, who gets
to go?

Speaker 3 (24:54):
I'm just taking it.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
How can anybody put a bad How can anybody put
a bad spend on people buying each other.

Speaker 3 (25:00):
And if everybody feels obligated, I guess I have to
pay that behind me.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
But they really don't want to, but they feel obligated.
Does anybody ever get there's paid for ye. Well, here's
what I would say to that. Don't do it out
of out of you know, oh gosh, I guess I
look bad. Do it because you feel in your heart
there's something that you feel called to do. Yeah, you
can't get guilted into. Do you look behind to see
how many peoples in that. That's a good point. If
it's a crowded you don't step out. If it's a solo,
I go, I got to go.

Speaker 5 (25:24):
I know they're going to be an entry and picking
up for the whole office.

Speaker 3 (25:28):
There's always that rint I tell you what I.

Speaker 1 (25:29):
Say, Well, I thank you, huh hey bird, hey burge.
This one's quick, Christine. I don't want anybody back from
How would you pronounce a n O K A and
Noka and Noka and Oka Minnesota? Uh here. I just
wanted to say that I heard the talk about the
Eagles on today's show. Thank you Speedy for your insight.

(25:52):
I've never heard the song Wasted Time. I immediately looked it
up and now I have it on repeat. What a
great song. I can't believe I ever heard it. I
love you guys, and I love the show forever a fan.
You guys introduced me to an Eagle song I'd never heard,
and I love it. In Pennsylvania, Minnesota is north of Minneapolis.

Speaker 5 (26:15):
I've actually been there. I got family in Minneapolis.

Speaker 3 (26:18):
You eat some fruit there and laying in the wood, Yeah.

Speaker 5 (26:20):
Got some. I got some family in Minneapolis and they're
not like Somalie or anything like that.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
Oh, by the way, somebody, somebody's asking, is it possible
because there are wild versions of pairs.

Speaker 5 (26:32):
I figured it out. And the person that said, what
do they say? Japanese plum or something chickasaw? Okay, there
you go the low quate. Have you heard of a
low quate? That's the name for it, but like Japanese plum,
Chinese plum, Chickasaw plum. And there it is right there,
there's the big nuts. It's called it's called a low quake.
That's like a couple of Yeah, it's got a couple

(26:56):
of those.

Speaker 3 (26:57):
You know how you eat around them? Sire?

Speaker 2 (27:00):
I know.

Speaker 8 (27:01):
I loved them as the kids the Rick Burgess show.

Speaker 4 (27:10):
We're going by like weeks yeah, man, But if we're
going by like just the whole month, yeah, it's been hot.

Speaker 1 (27:15):
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Speaker 1 (27:43):
M It's a big one about a happy on that day,
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Speaker 3 (27:50):
What's wrong with that? Got a little money, got a
little happy? Because that's what you really want?

Speaker 1 (27:55):
Yeah, I mean that's what you right at the end
of it all that give us some money and let
us go get what we need or buy what we want.

Speaker 3 (28:02):
There you go help us, help us with Christmas? What's it?

Speaker 1 (28:05):
Okay, that's it? So, so that's what we're gonna do.
We're gonna simplify it. It's gonna be money.

Speaker 3 (28:09):
Now.

Speaker 1 (28:10):
Look, you better know. You better know about this show.
You better I hope you've been paying attention this year. Yeah,
because if you hadn't been paying attention, you're gonna you're
gonna be You're gonna be upset with yourself.

Speaker 4 (28:23):
Having adult kids now men, Uh, it was interesting when
their their wants or their their request for Christmas. You know,
as you turn adults, you don't really do that. But
it went from hey, I want this to just give
me cash. Can I just whatever your budget is, just
if you're allotting that, I'll just give me cash.

Speaker 1 (28:45):
I gotta see.

Speaker 5 (28:46):
I feel that way after Christmas every year, I'm like,
all this junk. I really could have just used some
milk in the fridge. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (28:53):
You know what I'm talking about, some milk in the fridge.
Let's see if we can get you that.

Speaker 5 (28:58):
Yes, but I think that's a great move. Rick, Thank
you big bucks getting handed out this Christmas. Y'all check
it out.

Speaker 1 (29:05):
Yeah, I mean, I mean, honestly, if you've got especially
like you were talking about speed, when your kids are
first young adults, there's nothing that they'd rather.

Speaker 3 (29:14):
Have than a little help. You know's just the way
you want. A little cash came out of nowhere. Yeah,
that's it. And say you took a trip to Japan
and we want a little bit of cash, right for.

Speaker 1 (29:25):
Example, and as far we even went as far with
our family and we've added to it this this bingo thing.
That's a lot of fun that Lisa brought from from
her side of the family. Lelee in the hands. But
is that we have good We do the dirty sand
of you know whatever you call it, Yankee swap whatever.

Speaker 3 (29:45):
So so everybody just.

Speaker 1 (29:47):
Brings one gift, so that way you're not like I
got to buy a gift for everybody in the family.
Everybody brings one gift that's all thrown in a pile,
and then everybody is only has to spend money for
one gift.

Speaker 3 (29:59):
And that that really helped it.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
Look when you have when new family start growing, and
you look and you go, okay, I got to buy
this part of our family all their kids and everything gifts.
And of course the little kids I get treated a
little different. I mean there's more happies for them. But uh,
but it's that really took a lot of pressure off,
especially when when the young adults went out in their
own world and you're like, hey, what should we do

(30:21):
when we come home for Christmas, and now they's got
to bring one gift, so that's not that big a deal.

Speaker 3 (30:24):
Yeah, you just and plus trying to figure out what
to get people.

Speaker 1 (30:28):
Oh yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (30:28):
I remember when Tyler and Maybury got married. You know
the thing is, well, now you don't get a gift.
Now it's to the couple's And Tyler was like, huh and.

Speaker 1 (30:38):
You get stuff which that you.

Speaker 3 (30:39):
Really don't want.

Speaker 1 (30:40):
Yeah, yeah, that stuff you need, but you don't really
want it, but you.

Speaker 4 (30:44):
Need it as long as she needs it, that's fine.
That's pretty That came from my mom to Tyler. She
he was like, yeah, you know, you might see j. C.
And Reese, but over here it's Tyler and Maybray right there.

Speaker 3 (30:55):
How do y'all feel about How do y'all feel about this?
We we now know that we Leley helped us.

Speaker 1 (31:02):
We will not I don't have anybody coming home for
Thanksgiving other than Brooks. Okay, okay, I do have them
more coming home for Christmas, but on Thanksgiving, because I
told you, Blake's wife is helping choreograph the Macy's Thanksgiving
Day parade. Uh, so there's just pretty specially they're staying uh,

(31:24):
Broderick and his wife.

Speaker 3 (31:26):
It's there. It's Thanksgiving in Indiana this year, so we
lose them to the in laws, okay.

Speaker 8 (31:31):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (31:31):
And then Brooks is coming in from Atlanta. Uh and uh.

Speaker 1 (31:35):
And Brandy is not she's not there doing something in Philadelphia,
so we we will be down to I'll just only
have one kid. So Sherry, now, well, how do you
feel about this? So I see her think about this
was this is this isn't even today. This was a
few days ago. All of a sudden, Shery goes, oh,
I'm so glad they love that. And I said, what
are you talking about? Uh, Priscilla, that's Blake's wife. Priscilla

(31:58):
has showed me that she got the stuff that we
send them for Christmas. I said for Christmas. I said,
you've already sent the Christmas gift.

Speaker 6 (32:05):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
Look, they love it. And I'm like, they already have it,
And she was like, I just thought I would go
ahead and send it. Babe, it's not even Thanksgiving.

Speaker 3 (32:14):
They've already got it.

Speaker 1 (32:15):
How do you feel about that? I thought that was
a little early. That's where now they're going to be
fit a little down on Christmas. If we've ever gotten
if we've ever get that they get. They may get
home for Christmas.

Speaker 4 (32:25):
I hope, but Greg, you know you said, you said
something that really hits home. Well, they're not going to
get anything. We don't ever stand by that. If if
if any of the boys or any of the if
they get something early, they're like, okay, man, that's your
Christmas now, you got it, and.

Speaker 3 (32:39):
Then we go out and get more stuff. Yeah. And
I look at te you, I'm like, where are these
boxes for? Oh, they're for They're for Tyler. Well, right,
but we but we got him something. You said, now's
your Christmas?

Speaker 6 (32:50):
Now?

Speaker 1 (32:51):
Oh you're right, No, one thousand percent. What's going to happen?
And I don't know the plan on Blake and his
wife for Christmas.

Speaker 3 (32:57):
I'm a little gray on that. But if they find
their way home, oh yeah, I thought we sent him right.

Speaker 1 (33:05):
And that was a long time. Oh. Look, they love
their Christmas gift, right, I said, we're not even Thanksgiving
that you sent them.

Speaker 3 (33:12):
A gift on the day that doesn't associate with anything.
Did they just get a Christmas gift on Veterans Day?

Speaker 6 (33:17):
Right?

Speaker 1 (33:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (33:18):
What's the first? What age is the first Christmas?

Speaker 1 (33:22):
You remember?

Speaker 3 (33:22):
Now?

Speaker 4 (33:23):
I know Greg, you remember a lot when you were young,
but like age wise, is it four, five, six, seven.

Speaker 1 (33:31):
Four or five? Four or five?

Speaker 3 (33:33):
Remember back to then. I remember we lived in Birmingham
and that was four when we moved.

Speaker 4 (33:38):
Okay, because I was talking to Terry about our grandson
River and he's four, he'll be five in December.

Speaker 3 (33:45):
And I'm like, he's not gonna ever remember what he gets.

Speaker 4 (33:48):
I mean, we can still get him nice stuff, but
get gracious if we're just piling up stuff and when
he comes.

Speaker 3 (33:53):
Over, he's got stuff to play with. Now it's just
clutter everywhere.

Speaker 1 (33:57):
Let's hang on. So you were telling me you remember
Christmas in Birmingham when we were lag. I remember we
had this.

Speaker 3 (34:04):
You remember we had this? Uh, this is important. I
can document.

Speaker 1 (34:09):
This is four years old. Remember the animal? You're right,
I remember that too, because I remember the first first
one came out. We all screamed, yeah and that's all
some we got Green Bay packers. Yeah, oh wow, we remember. Okay, yeah,
well we got the pictures dressed with our packing uniforms on.
I remember wearing the package. Four years old.

Speaker 4 (34:31):
Alright, Well, I mean I'm not I'm not saying he's
not going to have a special Christmas.

Speaker 3 (34:36):
Understand he will.

Speaker 4 (34:38):
What I'm saying is all right, look we've got enough now, Yeah,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (34:43):
You're right, You're right.

Speaker 5 (34:44):
Like five toys is enough?

Speaker 1 (34:46):
Right?

Speaker 5 (34:46):
Twenty five that's two much.

Speaker 3 (34:48):
That's a complete corner of the girl.

Speaker 1 (34:51):
What you is, what you're doing, unless it's stuff you
keep there. But you buy all this stuff.

Speaker 3 (34:56):
And I remember when I was as parents, you're going,
they've got it. What am I going to do with
all this? Why do y'all keep buying all this?

Speaker 1 (35:01):
They happened?

Speaker 3 (35:02):
You put it on the parents? Another thing? And kind
I warn you about to You're right. It doesn't need
to be the.

Speaker 1 (35:07):
Christmas that every Christmas rest of his life. It never
never can meet again, you know. And and I don't
know what the future is, Okay, I don't know. I'm
assuming you have two more sons that will ventually get married.
Yeah you have. I think Tyler and maybe probably will
have more kids. Yeah, that that grand kid when he's
the only one, when he's first. A lot of times,
a lot of times I've seen them get piled on

(35:28):
so much and then the parents, the grandparents don't realize,
oh now there's four of them right now, and suddenly
they they none of the others can ever get what
the first one got because they get us spread it out. Yeah,
so be careful.

Speaker 2 (35:42):
You know.

Speaker 4 (35:42):
And and two river went down what would this past
week I can't remember, down to the Leonois farms and
we rode around and had fun, assault and all that stuff.
And at the end of the day, I mean we
had a day, okay, understand, a day that a.

Speaker 3 (35:57):
Boy would love.

Speaker 2 (35:58):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 4 (35:58):
And I'm like, hey man, what was yours part of
you day? He goes, Uh, we had gotten him some
tiny little hunt some tiny little hunting hunting boots. And
you know, his feet are as big as a sciphone, right, okay,
and uh they're.

Speaker 3 (36:10):
The cutest little things. And he he said, my hunting boots.

Speaker 4 (36:13):
And I'm like, so those little all the things, all
everything else you DoD And I looked at him.

Speaker 3 (36:17):
I said, see, he just doesn't know much, you know,
he's just all the fun. We did twenty different things
and he just liked his little hunting boots.

Speaker 1 (36:25):
Right.

Speaker 2 (36:26):
Remember.

Speaker 1 (36:27):
By the way, A long day, Gregor great great one
protext Nation. Rick and Greg just remembered Christmases in Birmingham.
The dark chocolate was working.

Speaker 3 (36:36):
That's a good one. That's the truth. Though.

Speaker 1 (36:39):
I remember we had this fake fireplace that they would
put up as a decoration made out of cardboard like
a hearth.

Speaker 3 (36:44):
You remember that. It was classy.

Speaker 5 (36:46):
Yeah, okay, see you're feeling in details. I was going
to say, are you sure you don't just remember looking
at the picture of details. I remember the ran on
down to your childhood.

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putting it all together, and we'll let you know. This
is I agree with this to a degree, but it'll

(39:46):
offer it's a serious topic, but it'll also offer us
an opportunity to make a point that actually is a
little bit lighthearted and fun, but a lot of truth
in it too. But Joe Rogan kind of watching Joe
Rogan and some of the things that are going on
with him spiritually, and all that is is intriguing and

(40:07):
and praying that you know, it turns into, you know,
a true faith in Christ and his redemption. But this
is not that, but it's it's it's in the whole
mode of him, the way he sees the world. And
the headline says this that Joe Rogan warns that liberal
celebration of Charlie Kirk's assassination shows that we're actually closer

(40:28):
to civil war than he actually thought, he says. You know,
Charlie Kirk gets shot and people are celebrating, and I'm thinking, well,
so you want people to die that you disagree with? Like,
that's where we are right now. I mean, what on
a scale of one to ten, where are we as
far as civil war? I actually thought that we were

(40:49):
more like a four or five?

Speaker 3 (40:50):
Are we like it? A seven?

Speaker 1 (40:52):
He said, because I didn't know that we were to
the point that you would rejoice over someone's death, especially
a public killing witnessed by the world and their family,
just because he said things you disagreed with. His biggest

(41:14):
offense was merely saying things others disagreed with, and for
anyone to celebrate that person's violent death is deeply troubling.

Speaker 3 (41:26):
And I agree, well, I agree with that too.

Speaker 1 (41:27):
And I don't know about us getting into a full
blown civil war, but I will say this to the left,
you won't win this time.

Speaker 3 (41:37):
You don't want to mess with us.

Speaker 1 (41:39):
You know, if it gets down to civil war, I'll
see some of y'all out there that celebrated Charlie Kirk's death,
and I see the state of the far far left,
your your bizarre bunch. You couldn't win a civil war.
We'd mought the floor with you. I mean, you really
don't want to do that. You know, we've laughed before that,
you you know, North and South thing. The North could

(42:01):
never win again because they've gotten so soft. And I
know that liberals are everywhere now. So this is more
of a civil war between ideology, correct, but even the
civil war against ideology. I'm sorry. The far left y'all
are a loud y'all make a lot of noise. You
love to threaten people, but if it came down to it,
you wouldn't win. I mean it would not It would

(42:22):
not be a fair. You don't want any part of that.
Oh so, and you kind of have let yourself get
to a point that you're starting to lose ground even
when people supporting you too. Yeah, because you know, yeah, look,
I've been there before where I kind of thought, hey, yeah,
I think I might be into that, and then all
of a sudden the group that you're starting to kind
of listen to starts acting really strangely. I can't really well,

(42:43):
there's some people on the far right now I'm like, hey,
I've gone too far.

Speaker 3 (42:47):
I can't go where you're going.

Speaker 4 (42:48):
And then and then the far left is scared, certain
democrats so bad they won't even point out what they're
doing is wrong because they're scared to death of the repercussions, like, oh.

Speaker 3 (42:58):
What's going on?

Speaker 4 (42:58):
What happened at Berkeley where Turning Point USA was just
having an event and they wouldn't even they were trying to,
They wouldn't even let people in, and they were just
going crazy that those opted that's an awful look.

Speaker 3 (43:10):
Well, and why can't you stand up and go that's wrong? Yeah,
because you're scared today. You're afraid of now they'll turn
on you. But here's the thing. If you want to
if you think we're birds, you don't know that. Well,
I do know that. Go back to the summer of love.

Speaker 1 (43:23):
I'm talking about, not the old one twenty when the
burning of the streets and you know, tearing up a
property and terrifying this and terrifying that. If you remember,
these mobs did really well where people weren't allowed to
be armed. They really were doing great. But do you
remember they had an idea once that they were going

(43:44):
to go into small town USA or going to the suburbs,
and if you remember, that didn't work. When they decided
to take that garbage into the suburbs or into the
small towns. The suburbs and the small towns are so
heavily armed, they turned back because I mean, so you remember,

(44:04):
they're predators. They're only looking for people that can't defend themselves.
So when they go into places where people can defend themselves,
they it ended You didn't see the burning of suburbia
and you didn't see the burning of small towns because
they couldn't have gotten away with it.

Speaker 3 (44:19):
You know, they're tearing up of stuff, and so you can.

Speaker 1 (44:21):
See a little, you know, just a small, little example
of what it would look like, just if you go
back and look at that. And they didn't farewell when
they start taking on the people that they really were
mad at. When they went to where they actually live.
They really ended up burning and tearing up the people
they claimed their own neighborhoods, which was bizarre.

Speaker 5 (44:43):
The neighborhood. Yeah, that was just the business owners in
their neighborhood.

Speaker 1 (44:47):
That didn't show a huge amount of intelligence. But usually
angry mobs are not really thinking things through, y'all.

Speaker 4 (44:55):
Remember what was it, Downtown Portland they took over the city. Yeah, oh, yeah,
they took it over.

Speaker 1 (45:01):
You wouldn't take over downtown, Jimson. No, I promise you
the you're gonna take over take You're gonna take over Gary's.

Speaker 3 (45:09):
Down No, no, no, we handle all you rang that
stuff down here.

Speaker 1 (45:14):
I don't know if well said Rick and.

Speaker 3 (45:17):
Yeah and true.

Speaker 5 (45:19):
I don't know if we're geographically divided enough politically, you
see what I'm saying politically, so it would be a
lot of infighting to and the the reality is, I
feel like it's so scary and sad is that these
radical leftists would have to and we've honestly seen them,

(45:40):
you know, used terror. It wouldn't be it wouldn't be
normal warfare. It wouldn't be a war. It would be
a terror operation uh in which they're putting bombs in
in in trunks like we saw in Ireland.

Speaker 6 (45:55):
You know.

Speaker 5 (45:55):
It would be that type of ugly, drawn out, horrible terror.
We would have to live in a police state type environment.
And I pray, I pray that never happens. And I
the world feels so divided when we look online, but
I don't think we are that divided. But when you
see people celebrate a death of a Charlie Kirk type

(46:16):
figure that is it is very discouraging.

Speaker 1 (46:20):
Yeah, well, and I think you're right at R. You
made a really good point right there. Sherry and I
were even discussing this here this week. You know sometimes
how difficult it is, and I try to encourage my family, and.

Speaker 3 (46:33):
You know, it's come.

Speaker 1 (46:35):
You know, we've been through some things, and when you're
a public figure, then you know you are your fair game.
And I've always told the family through the times where
we were publicly being ridiculed and attacked, just don't read
these comments, because what we tend to do is you'll
have you know, three hundred people encouraging you, standing with you,

(46:59):
and you can't get your mind off the twelve that
said horribly dark things, you know, And so you're right.
I think sometimes, you know, the dark comments are so
cutting and they and they're so bothersome that people would
be that wicked and say such wicked things that you
tend to think that that represents a large group, and

(47:22):
we sometimes we even tend to forget the large group
that is actually encouraging you, supporting you, and saying kind
things about you. I don't that should have as much power.

Speaker 3 (47:32):
But it really doesn't.

Speaker 1 (47:33):
And the reason why is because of the wickedness and
the darkness of really what is ultimately demonic. And so
you're right, you know, don't don't get caught up in
This represents a large number of people, and I think
Joe Rogan is maybe getting caught up in that. Now.
It is shocking that people would just openly celebrate. But

(47:54):
even if you went onto a college campus and saw
somebody with weird colored hair and rested oddly, you know,
jumping up and down and dressing up like a Halloween
Charlie Kirk being shot in the neck, that kind of stuff,
you if you back the camera back, you would just
see it's a small group of people standing. The rest
of the campus is just going on with their own business,

(48:15):
in their own.

Speaker 4 (48:16):
The media covers it because they want you to think
that's everywhere, and now you can't ignore what you said.

Speaker 3 (48:22):
Though.

Speaker 1 (48:22):
Now there have been moments they've taken over sections of cities,
but again, that's still a big city, and the part
they take over isn't a big part of the city,
but it's it's crazy disruptive.

Speaker 3 (48:32):
Seattle there, you lost their city.

Speaker 1 (48:34):
But eventually, even the people in these so called all
feeling all loving cities. They get tired of it too,
you know, because everybody would kind of like to be
able to go to the store without having to you know,
watch people loot it and burn it and you know
that kind of stuff.

Speaker 9 (48:49):
Yeah, so if the if a city does fall, you've
got realtors in Florida just rubbing their hands together saying, come.

Speaker 3 (48:59):
On, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (49:02):
And we've talked about this though. The ability to disagree
and debate has gone to, well, no, what you say
I don't like, so therefore I'm gonna label you as
a Nazi or something, and now I've got to do
away with you. And that's why, you know, you look
at that look at life like, yeah, it's no big deal.

Speaker 1 (49:20):
Well you can hit you know what it is, like
they did like they did. Yeah, it may not be
a macro deal. But if they want to target an
individual and make that individual with their faults propaganda seem
right for killing, now they can't pull that off. They've
done that to Trump, they just missed it, and they've

(49:41):
done it to Joe Rogan. I'm not Joe Rogan, I'm
Charlie kirk So and you know, and so that's the
part that those of you need to realize with the
social media thing. We talked about this back at the
beginning of the year. It's dangerous when you do these
kind of things because many times you radicalize people that
aren't right and they start thinking, well, maybe they deserve

(50:02):
to be killed. Yeah, And as weird as that may
sound to you, there's a lot of unstable people out
there that get radicalized by by these platform.

Speaker 4 (50:11):
But to your point, Nancy Pelosi was it last week
she said that President Trump is the worst person on Earth.

Speaker 3 (50:19):
On the face of the face of the earth.

Speaker 4 (50:20):
Now, think about what's on the face of this earth,
I know, and he's the worst person on it.

Speaker 3 (50:25):
She also must be missing a mirror. Yeah, but now
to the crazy person, Rick, that's not that's not right.
What does that make Sunday to save the Earth? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (50:33):
Yeah, see, I just does she not know about North Korea?
Oh yeah, how people are living?

Speaker 3 (50:39):
Yeah yeah, yeah, We'll be right back.

Speaker 8 (50:44):

Speaker 1 (50:55):
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Speaker 6 (51:17):
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Speaker 5 (51:24):
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Speaker 3 (51:26):
So uh from text Nation to kind of start this hour. Uh, Rick,
Its like.

Speaker 1 (51:33):
I said of Mississippi earlier when you were talking about uh,
and I hope it doesn't happen of the civil war.
When you use the phrase will mop the floor with you,
did you quote Jesus actually close? He actually said the
threshing floor, So I didn't. I didn't specify the which floor.
You're right, Jesus did specify the threshing floor when he

(51:55):
actually will take the chafe and the and the wheat
and he'll separate that.

Speaker 2 (52:00):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (52:00):
He'll also separate.

Speaker 1 (52:01):
The sheeps from the goats, and then when it's all
over all who oppose him will be annihilated.

Speaker 3 (52:06):
So you're right. I probably did.

Speaker 1 (52:08):
I should have add added threshing there to get Jesus
quote almost directly. So so, but but thank you for
reminding me of that.

Speaker 6 (52:16):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (52:16):
Okay, so we uh you know, have you.

Speaker 1 (52:20):
Ever seen this?

Speaker 3 (52:22):
I've seen this before, so.

Speaker 1 (52:27):
Gosh, I hope I saved it because I meant to,
because I kept saving it to work to use it.
On that note, you know this thing where you know,
everybody's starting to become Jesus' pr agent. Uh and and
casting him as a hippie who just hung out with
Sanders and partied with him. Uh So, uh, let's see, Gosh,

(52:48):
I hope I hung onto that it's been out there.
And what it is is somebody actually put together a
meme and they've they've gone through scripture and they've taken
some actual quotes from Gesus and there it is going
to hurt some of your feelings. I promise you that.
And well, gosh, I can't find it, but oh here

(53:11):
this I got it. Okay, I found it. Can you
believe I found it?

Speaker 2 (53:14):
All right?

Speaker 3 (53:14):
So you ever heard this comment?

Speaker 1 (53:16):
Jesus never called anyone names hypocrites Matthew twenty three thirteen
through fifteen, fools and blind Matthew twenty three seventeen, vipers
Matthew twelve thirty four, dogs Matthew seven six, swine Matthew
seven six, faithless Matthew seventeen seventeen, and perverse, and children

(53:37):
of the devil.

Speaker 3 (53:39):
So well, other than those I get, I called it righteous.

Speaker 1 (53:44):
So it is. You know, there's nothing wrong. Just remember
this throughout scripture and we even talked about this last
Sunday when it says that he was indignant with his
own disciples because they weren't letting children come to him.
And that's a pretty strong word. So remember, and I
learned this from the great Steve Farr, one of my

(54:07):
many mentors that have helped me. He said, remember Jesus
when he took on human flesh, he did everything correctly,
And he said, even Jesus did get angry, but he
even did anger correctly, so he would also have the
right example of how to be angry. And he did
get angry, and he had righteous anger, and he did

(54:30):
call people things that were not very nice by the
all loving, all caring. But so and to this other thing,
the threshing floor quote that he had, it probably would
hurt your feelings, but it is there so those of
us that you know. So I'm feeling pretty good about,

(54:50):
you know, as long as it stays in the righteous
anger mode and all, and as long as it is
good versus evil. I really don't have any issue with
saying the things that Jesus said, since he did and
I'm his disciple, So there you go. Okay, So the
other things to cover, speaking of the old government and

(55:13):
the state of things. Looks like the bill to end
government shut down survives key hurdle before a housewide vote,
So the House will vote on reopening the federal government today.
So those of you that this has impacted your life
and you're struggling, and hopefully that will end today and

(55:35):
the things that you're impacted by will return. So that
looks like it will end the forty two day government
shut down.

Speaker 3 (55:44):
We're in the forty second day now, so hopefully that
will happen.

Speaker 1 (55:48):
It doesn't look like there were compromises made on the
original clean Bill, which everybody seemed to be loving it
in a bipartisan way back in March.

Speaker 3 (55:58):
It pretty much is that same bill corrected.

Speaker 4 (56:01):
Not all it was that they I think they agreed
to compensate some of the furloughed federal workers. I can't
remember exactly, but what the the Democrats were standing on
their head about they did not get, which you kind
of look and go with then.

Speaker 5 (56:17):
Anyway, it's the longest shut down in history.

Speaker 4 (56:21):
Yeah, and this is just in time for Thanksgiving travel, uh,
and I hope everything can get back because they're talking
about air travelers inside the US about how bad it's
gotten and the how many thousands of flights have been canceled?
But they hopefully we'll get back on their feet prior
to the Thanksgiving travel, but.

Speaker 3 (56:42):
Right now they have.

Speaker 4 (56:43):
I heard a number I don't want to repeat because
I don't know if I have it right about how
many flights have been canceled around the country. But it
was a ton like double digit that I mean, like
over ten thousand, I believe. Yeah, So.

Speaker 1 (57:00):
I think, on that note, your son got home smoothly,
Praise God for that. Sorry about those that haven't had
that experience, but celebrating that one. And I you know,
and then one of my sons had to come all
the way back from California after once again portraying Johnny Cash,
which is funny. And I saw that he got home
back to his wife. How about today? So I worried

(57:22):
about that. I thought, not worried, but I was concerned.

Speaker 3 (57:25):
You don't want to get stuff.

Speaker 1 (57:27):
He was going to have a nightmare, and you know,
and uh so, and that's always hard when he's on
the road or somewhere else doing a performance. And if
she's she she always make sure she goes in season
for part of that time. But you know, when you've
been gone for a month to six weeks doing the show,
you know you ready to get back home. Yeah, and uh,

(57:48):
and so so I was glad to see that he
got back and time. Of course he got back and
got his Christmas gift that apparently Sharrees already sent them.

Speaker 4 (57:57):
Yeah, and Jason is not And jac does not have
your superpower of different uh, you know, areas of the
country and traveling and jet lag and time differences and
all this kind of stuff. You know, Japan, it's on
out there as far. I mean, they're often law and

(58:17):
so his sleep pattern, so he has been up when
I leave every morning, and he's still trying to adjust
still to this point, which.

Speaker 3 (58:27):
I can't explain it.

Speaker 1 (58:29):
It's a superpower that I was given that I'm not
affected by time zones.

Speaker 3 (58:33):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (58:34):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (58:34):
I don't even know why. I can't explain it. It
just is what it is. It is what it is now.

Speaker 1 (58:39):
I can't figure out how it's an advantaged to me
other than whatever I have to do on a trip.
At least I can do it and not have to
worry with jet lag and all that. You know, It's
like we've seen those of either new or new to this.
We studied that it's possible that I am a superhero.
But the powers that I have, we can't figure out
what good they are, you know, for mankind. And like

(59:02):
the fact that watches stop on my arm? Yeah yeah, hey,
wait a minute, what time? Somebody struggling with jet lag?
Call super Rick? He never has it.

Speaker 8 (59:16):
Here I come to save the day.

Speaker 3 (59:18):
Look, he's never sleepy, right, what happened?

Speaker 1 (59:20):
Right?

Speaker 3 (59:20):
He just adjusted with his own?

Speaker 1 (59:22):
Is your watch working? Maybe the evil guy's watch? If
he didn't know what time it was, he wouldn't be
able to get us. Call super Rick.

Speaker 3 (59:28):
He can stop a watch by putting it on his arm.

Speaker 5 (59:30):
Right, you're like a weaker magneto.

Speaker 1 (59:33):
Yes, okay, you know the other one that I noticed?
And guys, I can't explain. I'm telling there's something I got,
some sort of power shooting out of me. I don't
know what it is, but this I don't even did
you know that? I can never make one of those,
and I hate him. The faucets that you don't turn
off you have to, I can never get him to
come on. Some of them are stuff I've been stuck with.

(59:53):
Soup on my hands and I can't give him to come.

Speaker 3 (59:55):
I think it's that watch thing. I think whatever the same.
Are you just not waving in the right.

Speaker 5 (59:59):
Place more than one trying you can hold still for
more than one second. I don't think you can hold
still stay there for one more half a second.

Speaker 1 (01:00:09):
What are we trying to stop with this thing? I
think it was sein Feld first time. He was like
what and he made a great point. He goes, what
are we protecting ourselves from? Are they these rogue bandits
that come in and turn the fossels off and run
out and leave them on?

Speaker 5 (01:00:22):
I mean the wet bandits, you know, the first.

Speaker 1 (01:00:24):
Ones, and there's still something out there where you push
it down and if it stops on its own.

Speaker 3 (01:00:29):
I hated those.

Speaker 5 (01:00:30):
I hate that.

Speaker 1 (01:00:30):
If I can get these to work, they but you're right,
they're hard to get to work. Sometimes I'm not mash
down ones and you're getting the soap.

Speaker 3 (01:00:38):
Yeah, I got five seconds to wash your hands. I
don't like trying to move slam and slamming wash.

Speaker 1 (01:00:43):
By the way, I had to walk. I had to
walk wash. I had to walk around with wet hands
of the day because that stupid thing you showed us
about the air blowers. Yeah, I went in the public
bathroom and had air blow. I wouldn't put my hand
under it.

Speaker 5 (01:00:54):
That's a good movie.

Speaker 3 (01:00:55):
To save your life. I just started wiping on my
blue gin.

Speaker 1 (01:00:57):
You saved your life. You have to do anyway right,
don't work. But I'm talking about the biggest scam in
the history.

Speaker 3 (01:01:04):
That's why they have the censor so enough to touch
the knobs?

Speaker 1 (01:01:06):
Am I the only one that can't get those censor
when I guess? So? They don't work for me. Sometimes
that don't work for me.

Speaker 4 (01:01:14):
I'm gonna I'm gonna sometimes that if we went to
the same sink as you, we would have it working.

Speaker 3 (01:01:19):
Because you don't. You don't give yourself enough time for
it to work.

Speaker 5 (01:01:22):
You got to count to one Mississippi right.

Speaker 4 (01:01:24):
You're even trying to wave in a hurry. I bet
you're going, oh, don't work, and then you leave.

Speaker 5 (01:01:30):
No, no move, just stay there, no yeah, just yes,
like easy easy, Yeah, we don't do that hand motion.

Speaker 3 (01:01:37):
I do that one too.

Speaker 5 (01:01:38):
No, just why don't touch?

Speaker 6 (01:01:42):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:01:42):
If this has nothing to do with touching it, We'll
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Speaker 3 (01:02:51):
I did ask I need some.

Speaker 1 (01:02:52):
Help about something major happening in my life right now.

Speaker 3 (01:02:55):
Make sure it says God. To read their name.

Speaker 1 (01:02:57):
To read their name, you'll be glad to say, I
sent back, am I okay to take this to their
and he said, of course, that's the reason why I
sent it. Okay, okay. My wife will we more than
likely have to get surgery to have her gallbladder removed soon.
As her husband and the father to our five month

(01:03:19):
old boy, I obviously want to take some time from
work to take care of her and help out with
whatever she needs. But when I brought this up to
my boss, I think, I may, well, I'm gonna say
it because you put it in here.

Speaker 3 (01:03:35):
What would just say?

Speaker 8 (01:03:36):
Boss?

Speaker 1 (01:03:37):
By the way, I work as a delivery driver for
a major delivery service, I'll say that, okay. All he
said was, well, it's peak season. You know you can't
have any time off right now. Right then he continue
to ask me, does your wife not have a sister
or a family member that can watch after her and
your son?

Speaker 3 (01:03:55):
I bet that went overwhelmed with the wife berge.

Speaker 1 (01:03:57):
Am I crazy for getting offended that my boss thinks
I should put delivering packages over my family during this
major medical event because right now I feel like I
can't have nothing. And he got mad when I took
my PTO after my son was born in June thanks
for the help.

Speaker 3 (01:04:18):
That you. I understand your sentiment.

Speaker 1 (01:04:21):
I truly do. I truly do. But I also understand
the plight of the business that this is the peak time.
I mean this, this is your job, and this is
what they hired you to do. And uh and you
have you know, you have time you can take off,
I'm sure and if if you can take it, you

(01:04:42):
uh you know. But but there's one of these things
you have to I mean days we're talking here, I
don't know, but but I just want to go back
to this because I remember this learning this in uh
in you know what we could couldn't we But then
he'd have to put his thing on the last.

Speaker 3 (01:04:58):
That's kind of what I want to say. I want
to last. I'm made adler itch well, and that's kind
of what I'm looking for.

Speaker 1 (01:05:02):
You, okay, judge for for going doing a vox verdict
or is it too itchy for you?

Speaker 6 (01:05:08):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:05:09):
It was fine, It's whatever, Okay, all right, So.

Speaker 4 (01:05:12):
This is what I want right here, This is what
I need get frantically running around.

Speaker 3 (01:05:18):
You got to move Henry the horse get his wig.
What if Henry the horse had a wig? That would
be so I don't know, the situation on hisself.

Speaker 1 (01:05:28):
Other day people there are people saying that you can't
be denied medical leave. But you can't.

Speaker 3 (01:05:34):
But does that include a family member or is that
just includes you?

Speaker 1 (01:05:37):
Gaus on what your deal is? Right, you'd have to
know Greg. Greg would know this more than me working
for a company. But I do, I do want to
make this point. Uh and and it will not be
a popular point. Let me say, I'm not talking about
life and death. I'm talking about things like this that
that need to be done. I was told early on, Now, look,
I work in a business and still here. Remember these

(01:05:58):
are the most brutal people on the planet that work
in the radio business. There's some of those brutal, brutal
people on the planet. But I remember as a young
man bringing some things that was going on that were
chaotic in my life, and I was told by the
boss that he though he had sympathy for that, that
really wasn't his problem. His problem was whether he was

(01:06:18):
going to have a radio show on the air, and
whether advertising was going to be sold, and whether that
remote was going to happen. And the chaos I created
in my own life was really my responsibility, not his
or chaos that was happening and that I needed to
come and do my job. And because that's really not
his his fault. Uh, he still has to meet the

(01:06:40):
quotas and he still has to in this case deliver
the packages.

Speaker 3 (01:06:44):
Now. I don't know what their their their plan is on.

Speaker 1 (01:06:46):
Stuff like this.

Speaker 3 (01:06:48):
Uh, but uh yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:06:51):
So sorry, I dropped a hammer.

Speaker 1 (01:06:54):
It's hard, it's hard. It's hard to rule on this.
I see both sides of it. I think y'all can
find a compromise if you if this is not denied you,
then it's not an issue. You get it anyway. But
I understand both sides of it that sometimes the things
that are going in our personal life, the company just

(01:07:15):
says you have to deal with that and still do
your job.

Speaker 3 (01:07:17):
And again, it depends on what he's got, right.

Speaker 5 (01:07:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:07:20):
I think I believe uh he is protected from from
an immediate family member being able to take care of them.

Speaker 1 (01:07:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:07:27):
And I think every situation, if you're you know, the
caregiver for for someone and it's on you, hopefully the
employer employer works with you.

Speaker 3 (01:07:37):
I feel like there's more we're missing.

Speaker 1 (01:07:38):
We'll come back.

Speaker 3 (01:07:39):
Is he asking for too much time off for we
do need to know, we do need to know more.

Speaker 1 (01:07:44):
So we'll come back, we'll do our official realities, Judge,
if you'll you'll give a minute consider this, we'll come
back and we'll say what the jury has come to
the conclusion on this.

Speaker 5 (01:07:53):
So I'm gonna keep this itchy wig on for this
entire career.

Speaker 1 (01:07:56):
I put it on early. Do you mind doing that?

Speaker 5 (01:08:00):
Why did I put this on right now? So I
just dropped I've dropped a hammer in here.

Speaker 8 (01:08:05):
That is the Rick Burdger's show.

Speaker 1 (01:08:13):
So as we worked through the jury, Judge, I'm sorry
we had to go to the break there.

Speaker 3 (01:08:17):
I know you had to wear your hair longer. Sorry
about that.

Speaker 5 (01:08:21):
So itchy, so itchy.

Speaker 1 (01:08:25):
So what I would say is this, and what has
moved down the line. I would say to the emailer,
you should make every single effort you possibly can to
do one or two things since it is peak season,
and that your job is very important. As as Andy
Andrews on his way here as already text, and I
agree with him. Sometimes taking care of your family is

(01:08:48):
doing your job that provides for y'all's livelihood and probably
provides the insurance that you know, and things like that.
I don't know, but that also is taking care of
your family, So I would exhaust every effort to find
someone to cover, or if it's elective surgery, try to
put it off till after peak season. If you have

(01:09:10):
the days in your contract and there's nothing they can do,
then you certainly can make that decision. I don't know
what the situation is there. There's some very important details
left out, but understand I also come from a culture
where taking off from work for other than vacation is

(01:09:32):
highly irregular and really puts people in a bond. I
have come to work in some pretty adverse situations that
I just made sure they were covered until I got
on the air, did my job, and then got home.
But there have also been emergencies where you just didn't
have any choice, and people need to understand that. In
this case, I think the boss is asking you to

(01:09:54):
exhaust every effort to see if this can be covered
or delayed until after peak s and I think you
should give the company and your boss that effort. But
at the end of the day, if you have the
days in your contract and they can't keep keep you
from taking them, and you have no other option, h

(01:10:15):
then you certainly can take them, but I don't think
the boss is being as unreasonable as you may be
portraying him.

Speaker 2 (01:10:22):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:10:23):
But with that being said, that would be my ruling.
Exhaust every effort, try to get do anything you can
do for all this to be done, and you can
be there for your wife if no one else can
cover it, see if someone else can cover it till
you get home, and try to see if you can
get outside of the peak season. If you can't, then
I guess you'd take them. But I would say try

(01:10:44):
everything else first. Don't just go in and say I'm
going home when I know there's other ways I could
do it. That's my that's my ruling.

Speaker 4 (01:10:51):
Yeah, and I think we all are in agreement and
we understand this.

Speaker 1 (01:10:58):
Well.

Speaker 3 (01:10:58):
I mean, he really brought it down there.

Speaker 4 (01:11:00):
The Federal Medical Leave Act, one of the options here
that is UH that you can have time off is
caring for a spouse, child, or parent with a serious
health condition. So although you're covered for that, to Rick's point,
I think you exhaust and you might not.

Speaker 3 (01:11:17):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:11:17):
You might live in an area where you don't have
mom dad, she not have a mom or dad, or
a cousin or a sister or a brother or somebody
that can't jump in and help while you're not there,
and then you're right back. If that's all exhausted and
then you know you have to then hopefully the employer
can work with you on it.

Speaker 3 (01:11:33):
But it makes it so much harder.

Speaker 1 (01:11:37):
Situation. Yeah, Greg, if you'd build on with your contract has
the contrast as you can take off take off.

Speaker 3 (01:11:44):
If it don't, then I guess you need to find
something else. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:11:47):
And if you're if you're what I'm saying, because if
I can leave, I mean, I'll try to work with you,
yeah and all that.

Speaker 3 (01:11:52):
But if it says I can do it and you
really feel like you need to, then do it.

Speaker 1 (01:11:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:11:56):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:11:57):
And if you're with one of the bigger providers, uh,
then you're probably in a union, right, So I guess
it's whatever that agreement. You should have even been talking
in the employers shouldn't have a union rep.

Speaker 1 (01:12:08):
I've been talking to him.

Speaker 3 (01:12:10):
Yeah, that's only if he got agreements or something.

Speaker 1 (01:12:12):
You Well, I'm just saying where I worked it that way,
I don't know how it is everywhere. Yeah. And the
one thing whatever the union, if you if you file
agreements and yeah, you'd have representation with and his question
was too just so you have this, Judge, Am I
crazy for getting offended by this? I do think that
you're being too too sensitive about being well.

Speaker 3 (01:12:32):
It depends on how he portrayed it.

Speaker 1 (01:12:33):
Yeah, exact like Jeric abatter or he is going, man,
you kill him, right, you know, I really, But I
do think you got to put yourself in the position
of the company too. It's not just all about you. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
in your situation and.

Speaker 4 (01:12:45):
I miss it's the Family Medical Leveck not federals right back.

Speaker 5 (01:12:49):
Yeah, the f m l A. Yeah, of course, if
you go with the f m l A, you might
end up f A f O.

Speaker 3 (01:13:00):
Judge, what does that mean?

Speaker 10 (01:13:02):
I won't explain that acronym. I don't want to explain
that acronym. But yeah, the Family and Medical Leave Act
is an unpaid leave. There are certain requirements.

Speaker 3 (01:13:14):
They held your job.

Speaker 5 (01:13:14):
You don't get paid, right, You're not gonna be fired,
but it is an unpaid leave. What kind of what
kind of employee you want to be and how have
how have you contributed? Is your boss gonna when you're gone?
Is your boss gonna feel it and think to themselves
that Wow, that's a good employee. I value them, and
are you hustling to get back? You know, just just

(01:13:37):
use some common sense. I think you guys explained it great,
and you know, do look into what you are legally
able to do. Do what's best for your family, but
also be a be a good employee. That's if you're
I assume you're a Christian. You know, I don't know.
It didn't say anything about that in the letter, but
you know, we're supposed to work as if we were

(01:13:57):
working towards the Lord and everything that we do as Christians.
So you know, I'm wearing a wig and saying that
I just remember that, and it's really itchy. And you know,
I lost my train of thought because it's so itchy.

Speaker 1 (01:14:11):
By the way, I've had my gall bladder out too,
and I was back at work the next.

Speaker 5 (01:14:14):
Day the next day. Oh okay, well then, sir, this
is really the thing about one or two days.

Speaker 3 (01:14:22):
Then, Yeah, you didn't have a baby to take care of.

Speaker 1 (01:14:25):
No, I didn't know. I'm just saying I don't know
that it'll meet Oh I'm sorry, I should explain that
I don't know that it'll meet the criteria. Demanded by
that family.

Speaker 4 (01:14:33):
Yeah, and then and again we don't Know's what I meant.
We kind of need to know more because we don't
really know. But except for what he wrote in the email,
what company worked for and all that.

Speaker 3 (01:14:45):
Basically it's none of our business. I think you broke it.

Speaker 4 (01:14:48):
Really try really try to come, really, try to work
with the employer, and we we have.

Speaker 1 (01:14:53):
Sense will prevail and right the radio station ask them
about it, don't ask us.

Speaker 5 (01:14:57):
Maybe don't do that number one guilty, that's charge of that.

Speaker 1 (01:15:02):
What do we know? What do we know?

Speaker 5 (01:15:03):
I do know that if you drive a forklift into
a wall, a center block wall and break it, you'll
have to take a drug test and you better hope
that you pass it.

Speaker 3 (01:15:12):
Also know I work for a delivery company.

Speaker 1 (01:15:14):
We said yesterday, I if you fall asleep in a truck,
they'll get rid of you.

Speaker 3 (01:15:17):
Yeah, you can't take off and help you. Why but
you can't sleep in the truck.

Speaker 1 (01:15:21):
And then a strange irony. I told him the reason
why I fell asleep because my gallbladder was hurting.

Speaker 3 (01:15:27):
Yeah, and I'm trying to recover.

Speaker 5 (01:15:30):
He said, sorry, so good, good question. And we appreciate
you guys coming to the source of information that'd be
up drop my hammer.

Speaker 1 (01:15:38):
So we're all hammering here, guys dropped the hammer in here.

Speaker 3 (01:15:42):
We all agree you got exhaust every effort to cover this.

Speaker 1 (01:15:45):
Yeah. Yeah, well.

Speaker 3 (01:15:49):
There was even more credit.

Speaker 1 (01:15:51):
There was a there was a time when most people Yeah, yeah,
I think that day's passed. Now. This person may be
a person who will but.

Speaker 4 (01:15:57):
Hopefully you can find that used to be a church
member or a close friend to come and be with
your wife and child while you go to work and
then you come right back right hopefully. But maybe they
don't have that. I don't know their situation.

Speaker 5 (01:16:10):
Just be a go getter, you know, be a go
getter for your family, number one, and then be a
go getter for your employer as well, because he's providing
you with that paycheck and that steady job, and it's
peak season, and it's peak season. Yes, I mean, you know,
speaking of go getters. I know I'm an older millennial,
but I'm a millennial.

Speaker 3 (01:16:28):
He's got the wig.

Speaker 5 (01:16:29):
A lot of people have been complaining about millennials. I
will say that this I'm not talking about Brodie's generation.
I'm talking about the generation that is kind of middle school,
high school and the generation you're telling about that that
age is maybe may may make millennials look like the
greatest generation, which is not. I'm not happy about that,

(01:16:53):
but it's it's it's looking rough, guys, it's looking rough.

Speaker 1 (01:16:57):
Yeah, there's some exceptional It's like, there's a remnant in
there that I think are better than the millennials.

Speaker 3 (01:17:02):
But then there's a there's a there's another group.

Speaker 5 (01:17:04):
It's yeah, raised by the Internet kind of thing and
not a lot of motivation and not a lot of
common sense, but empathy there.

Speaker 2 (01:17:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:17:12):
I talked to a dad that and he was talking
about his own child, and he loves his child, and
his child is brilliant and his child will do real well.

Speaker 3 (01:17:20):
He said, my child.

Speaker 1 (01:17:21):
Is searching for a way, for a way to work
the least amount of time that that child possibly can
and still make money. Yeah, except that I want to
work from home. They don't even want to go to
an office. Isn't that crazy? Yeah, yeah, got to go
to an office, right, but yeah, they still want to
be able to have anything that they need.

Speaker 5 (01:17:42):
It's like fifth harmony says, you know, it's a fifth
harmony says, you ain't got to go to work you
can work from home. You guys know what I'm talking about.
Y'all love that song?

Speaker 3 (01:17:50):
Still got the wig on by exhaust every effort. If
you can, buddy, we'll be back.

Speaker 8 (01:17:54):
This is the Rick Burgess Show, as.

Speaker 1 (01:18:02):
We are working our way into the eye where Andy
andrews our guests and Andy.

Speaker 3 (01:18:06):
Hello, how are you doing? Buddy?

Speaker 1 (01:18:08):
So what were you going to say before we get
into your official stuff? Your official business.

Speaker 11 (01:18:12):
May be deeper than you, guys want to go.

Speaker 1 (01:18:14):
Look, this show is very deep. I mean, you wouldn't
believe this. You wouldn't believe the shocking conversation we've already
had today dark chocolate.

Speaker 11 (01:18:24):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, Sorry I missed that.

Speaker 1 (01:18:28):
We don't cover deep topics, so go ahead.

Speaker 11 (01:18:31):
Well here's here is just a thought that I had.
You know, I heard Adler say that, you know, I
mean you're a Christian. I guess you're a Christian. I
don't know. I didn't ask, And I thought Edward had
a good point about what kind of employee? You know,
what kind of hole do you want to leave in
the place when you leave? And yeah, well that's fine,

(01:18:52):
we don't miss him or oh my, guys, let's cover
we've got to get this guy back, you know, I mean,
what kind of team member are you going to be?
But the Christian thing does it?

Speaker 1 (01:19:03):
Did?

Speaker 11 (01:19:03):
It kind of hit me? And I get a thing
every day. It's called the Journey and it literally takes
thirty seconds to read, and it's every day and it's
like God is talking to you, and so it's the
thing I subscribe to. And today's it said this, and
this really hit me. And then I heard you all

(01:19:24):
talking about this. Is that for some you will be
the only connection to me that they have in their lives. Furthermore,
that connection might only be an observation of you. Yet
from that engagement, whether a moment of observation or a
longer relationship, that person will form a complex judgment about
you and about me, which will become a shaping part

(01:19:45):
of their life and influence other decisions. Most often, you
will not know who this is, so the behavior and
words they observe in you are of critical importance. Imitate
me in everything you do, live a life filled with love,
Follow me closely to ensure you're an example of me
for them. And it just occurs to me that, I mean,

(01:20:06):
you know how workplaces are, and it just occurs to
me that there are people that go, well, yeah, he's
a Christian. Well yeah, yeah, that's that's the way they are,
and and so, and I know that's getting in crazy.

Speaker 1 (01:20:21):
Ground, but I just think, yeah, no, I do think
and again, he's got to take care of everything and
all that it can be used in the right way.
There is an approach if the person is a person
of faith that has people thinking, man, these people have
a higher calling on their life on you know, there's
nothing that bothers me more. And I'm not saying this

(01:20:42):
has anything to do with his work ethic. I just
think he needs to try to work it out as
best he can and and care about all aspects of this,
not just one.

Speaker 3 (01:20:50):
However, on the point here I have, it does bother me.

Speaker 1 (01:20:54):
And we talk about this a lot, and it's what
Adler was talking about, because it is in scripture that
we work in a way that we're working for God,
because ultimately we answer to Him, not even the person
we work for. But there's nothing I think that sends
a worst message. And I'm not talking about this guy.
It's just opened up. The topic is people who walk

(01:21:16):
around putting Bible verses all over their desk or all
over their workplace and all over their social media. And
they have a terrible work ethic. Yeah, and they're.

Speaker 3 (01:21:25):
Lazy and uh and they're always the complainer.

Speaker 1 (01:21:28):
Uh. And in the workplace, as you just said, they're
a terrible representation of the Bible versus on their computer
and on their social media. Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:21:36):
A lady that used to work for us said that
she would not put an ikthus, you know, the fish.
She said she would not put an ikthus on her
car because she said, I get too mad in traffic.

Speaker 3 (01:21:47):
And the audience is already saying it.

Speaker 1 (01:21:51):
No, I don't have one on my car because if
there's an area that I'm being sanctified in, it's traffic.

Speaker 3 (01:22:00):
I am a work in progress.

Speaker 1 (01:22:01):
Yeah oh yeah, Andy, we.

Speaker 3 (01:22:04):
Got some stuff to do today. You ready to go
to work? For you to work?

Speaker 11 (01:22:07):
I'm ready today.

Speaker 3 (01:22:09):
If you want to join us, come on.

Speaker 1 (01:22:10):
This is the story real.

Speaker 5 (01:22:17):
Andrews is ready?

Speaker 1 (01:22:19):
Are you?

Speaker 8 (01:22:21):
Here is the story?

Speaker 3 (01:22:22):
This?

Speaker 1 (01:22:24):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (01:22:25):
So Andy? Here are our categories today.

Speaker 1 (01:22:28):
A shocking taste speaking of dark chocolate, just another Soviet fire.
Wow that you come? The bus jumper, It's camel season. Glimmer, glimmer.
There they are yeah, all right, So let's bring Grant
in here. Grant ready to win every one of them? Grant, Hey, you, buddy, Hey, Grant,

(01:22:51):
We're good. I hope that you're ready to play. Would
you like to hear a shocking taste? Just another Soviet fire?
The bus jumper? Its camel season? Are glimmer, glimmer.

Speaker 5 (01:23:06):
It's camel season.

Speaker 1 (01:23:08):
It's camel season. Saw that coming?

Speaker 3 (01:23:10):
Andy? Here it is? Is this true? Or is it
Andy made it up? Okay, here we go.

Speaker 11 (01:23:16):
Australia is home to the largest feral camel population in
the world, with several million camels roaming across more than
forty percent of Australia's mainland. The camels are descendants of
those imported by Arabic visitors in the nineteenth century, many
of which later escaped or were released. Their presence has

(01:23:36):
become a serious ecological and infrastructure problem. Feral camels trample
and overgraze vegetation, compete with livestock and native species for water,
damaging watering points, fouling remote water holes, and accelerating erosion
of fragile desert ecosystems. During droughts. As water becomes scarce,

(01:23:57):
camels will move into human settlements, knocking down doors, damaging
air conditioners or water taps, and pressuring infrastructure to reduce numbers.
Open season has been declared on camels. Shooters head into
the deserts and pickups, and it's not unusual for a
shooter to kill one hundred in a day. One shooter

(01:24:18):
sent in country from the Australian Marine shot more than
four hundred and fifty camels in one day and still
not a seeming dentt in the population. As the camels
move into neighborhoods, smashing fences and swing sets. Is this
BS or be true?

Speaker 6 (01:24:36):
Grant Abs, It's true?

Speaker 3 (01:24:49):
And do you know how I found out about this?

Speaker 11 (01:24:51):
Adam, my youngest son, was watching YouTube on the big
screen one day and I'm looking up. I just go
through the room and there's camels just falling, just falling,
boom boom boom. And I said, what are you watching?
He said, this is in Australia. I said, You've got
to be kidding me. And he said, look at this.

Speaker 3 (01:25:09):
I've watched this before.

Speaker 11 (01:25:10):
This guy kills eighty four camels, and I mean it's just.

Speaker 1 (01:25:13):
Like, Okay, I'm going to ask just a real simple question,
because all of us here. I've seen the size of
a camel. You're shooting a high powered rifle.

Speaker 11 (01:25:21):
Oh yeah, yeah, you have.

Speaker 1 (01:25:23):
How many times you took a kick on the shoulder
shooting that many camels? Yeah, I mean you're shooting a lot.

Speaker 3 (01:25:30):
We've had a camel in here in the stand in here,
big animal, big one.

Speaker 2 (01:25:35):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:25:35):
I didn't realize that they were you shooting.

Speaker 1 (01:25:39):
Really friendly? You know what?

Speaker 5 (01:25:40):
By the way, I saw that. I rode that camera
when it was in here.

Speaker 1 (01:25:43):
What was that?

Speaker 5 (01:25:44):
Almost two years ago, I was at a kid's birthday party,
rolled up, same camel was there and he's bigger, He's
even bigger than bigger, and he remembered me. I was like, buddy,
it's me.

Speaker 8 (01:25:57):
He was like, yeah, I remember you.

Speaker 5 (01:26:01):
But the guy says, hey, I for I feel bad.
I forget it's Hank. I think it's Hank.

Speaker 3 (01:26:08):
The camel tadler was in here on top of it.

Speaker 1 (01:26:11):
Did you.

Speaker 3 (01:26:13):
I didn't know they reproduced at such a rate.

Speaker 1 (01:26:15):
This is not putting it down faral hogs.

Speaker 3 (01:26:19):
It's just camel.

Speaker 11 (01:26:20):
But they have camels, rabbits and EMUs in Australia they're
trying to get rid.

Speaker 3 (01:26:25):
Of and they're all pretty pretty good at what they do.

Speaker 1 (01:26:28):
Yeah, all right, we'll come back. Uh, let's let's let's
hit one one c So so Pat McAfee interviewed Donald Trump. Uh,
and he of course in a shocker as we kind
of talked about way back earlier in the show.

Speaker 3 (01:26:50):
He took heat for it.

Speaker 1 (01:26:51):
I don't know why anybody I'm talking about.

Speaker 3 (01:26:54):
I wouldn't let any I wouldn't.

Speaker 1 (01:26:56):
Let everybody give me heat as a conservative. If I
had interviewed Obama and Biden, if either one of them
would have given us an interview, if I can interview
the president of the President of the United States, I'm
going to. I don't even care what party they represent,
because I must attack him. Though Ricky Jimmy I wasn't

(01:27:18):
got in trouble because he was cutting up, having fun
with it. Yeah. See, I would humanized. I wouldn't attack
Biden and uh and Obama. I would be respectful, and
I might disagree with policy and and have them, you know,
discuss that, but I would treat them with respect and eventually,
you know, I would make sure that speedy was assigned
to Joe Biden in case he wondered off.

Speaker 3 (01:27:39):
But but the but this was a really cool moment.

Speaker 4 (01:27:42):
Yeah, I thought, And you know how Pat gets everybody going,
you know, uh, we stand up in the chair. Yeah
and uh and the President called into a show and
you'll see what happens.

Speaker 1 (01:27:52):
All right, Well, we love them.

Speaker 3 (01:27:54):
They are a special group.

Speaker 1 (01:27:55):
Indeed, mister President, have you ever done an oohrah to
a bunch of Marines?

Speaker 3 (01:28:02):
Not the kind that I just heard.

Speaker 11 (01:28:03):
I just heard a level of professionalism with the way
they did it that I don't think.

Speaker 2 (01:28:10):
Anybody can match it. To be honest, that's very impressive.

Speaker 3 (01:28:14):
Mister President. Why don't you drop an urah real quick?

Speaker 1 (01:28:18):
I will urrah.

Speaker 2 (01:28:22):
Okay, we love everything about that.

Speaker 7 (01:28:24):
Let's let's pivot away from obviously all.

Speaker 11 (01:28:26):
The great work that the VA and you all are
trying to do for our vets in our military.

Speaker 1 (01:28:30):
And then they move on.

Speaker 4 (01:28:30):
But the segment started with Pat McAfee did it, And
that's what.

Speaker 3 (01:28:35):
Trump was referring to. And that's where two hundred and
fiftieth birthday of the Marines that we.

Speaker 1 (01:28:39):
Had talked about.

Speaker 3 (01:28:40):
Yeah, and it was yesterday on Veterans Day.

Speaker 5 (01:28:42):
I skipped ahead speedy. I'm sorry, I beginning.

Speaker 3 (01:28:45):
No, that's just what he was referring to is all
and here it is. You want that to roll?

Speaker 1 (01:28:51):
There you go?

Speaker 4 (01:28:53):
And you know, President Trump is the first sitting president
to attend a regular season NFL game and joined the
broadcast in the booth and actually called a play or
two for the commanders this past weekend.

Speaker 3 (01:29:07):
So he's been making his rounds about.

Speaker 5 (01:29:09):
That the flyover was amazing. Uh, air Force one actually
did the flyover. And to see Air Force one going
over a.

Speaker 3 (01:29:18):
Stadium, look at that, that's crazy?

Speaker 1 (01:29:19):
Is OK? Yeah, that's pretty cool.

Speaker 6 (01:29:23):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:29:24):
Also another one that I want to hit while we
have this adler is Pierce Morgan.

Speaker 3 (01:29:31):
Two.

Speaker 1 (01:29:31):
A there, Pierce Morgan. If you remember, and I remember
when you had the the Aaron Rodgers, you had the
Novak joke Djokovic, Djokovic said that you have you had
these people that had the audacity to stand up and say,
I'm not going to be mandated to take a you know,

(01:29:53):
an unproven experimental vaccine that's been rushed to market. I'm
not going to do it. I think i'm health theme.
I believe I can battle through COVID if I get it.
And remember a lot of people were very critical of
those who took that point of view of course, now
those people look a lot smarter than maybe they were

(01:30:14):
portrayed to be. Then Pierce Morgan, I give him credit.
He has the opportunity to apologize for being critical of Novak,
and he says that he was wrong. And so here
here's Pierce Morgan.

Speaker 12 (01:30:29):
I'm going to stop by making an apology, and it's
for this is. I was very censorious about you over
the COVID scandal that you got caught up in and
in a nutshell, you got thrown out of Australia over
what seemed to be, on the face of it, from
what the media were being told and what was being reported,

(01:30:51):
was you trying to bend the rules of getting into
playing Australian Open without having taken the COVID vaccine.

Speaker 3 (01:30:57):
And I was.

Speaker 12 (01:30:58):
I was actually quite centstories about the people at the time,
and I've since apologized to some people for being too
tough on them, because once it became clear that if
you had the vaccine, it made no difference to whether
you could then transmit the virus. Clearly, at that point,
for me, it becomes a personal choice if the potential

(01:31:19):
danger is irrelevant compared to whether you have the job
or not, And so I have on that basis said,
I believe the vaccines were important. I think they saved
a lot of lives. I had lots of people in
my life at the time who were going through a
terrible time.

Speaker 1 (01:31:34):
So he went on, but yeah, I thought that was cool,
and I even like the way Pierce Morgan framed it,
and others need to do the same. Even if you
still believe that the COVID vaccine was the best thing
for your body, if you were to contract COVID, that's

(01:31:55):
perfectly fine. Now, he says, since the transmitting of the
virus had nothing to do with vaccinated or unvaccinated. Now,
it's none of our business the personal choice that people make.
The reason why they were saying it's not personal because
it affects other people. When they realized that if you
were vaccinated, you passed it just like people who weren't vaccinated, Well,

(01:32:17):
then it just gets down to whether you think the
vaccine is best for you personally or not. So you
should have been able to make that decision on your
own because it doesn't really impact other people. Now you
may say it impacts people that depend on you if
you don't take the vaccine in it and it goes poorly.
I would say the proof that taking the vaccine versus

(01:32:37):
having a if you were healthy and had a strong
immune system, whether there was, it was going to change
your experience, I would argue, I don't think.

Speaker 3 (01:32:45):
It really did.

Speaker 1 (01:32:47):
But the big argument was you're being mean because now
you're going to pass it on and kill your grandmother.
And we realize now, well, if you were vaccinated, you
could pass it on and kill your grandmother as well.
So now it just came down to how do you
think it will affect your personal health, which means now
that's nobody's business, okay, So hm hmm. Well I struggle

(01:33:15):
with what happened to Dennis Prager. And I see that
we have an update, and I know it's gonna make
me sad. So the you know, Dennis Prager had a fall,
and I mean he's been paralyzed in I don't think
there's is there hope that he will ever be like
fully recovered.

Speaker 2 (01:33:36):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:33:36):
Dennis Prager is a brilliant man. Uh Prager, you is.
It's a really good resource, and and the things they
research and the things they have all good stuff. And
Dennis Prager, so I see you have him on the
video Is this old Dennis Prager?

Speaker 3 (01:33:55):
Is this paralyzed Dennis Prager?

Speaker 1 (01:33:57):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (01:33:58):
Yes, in November?

Speaker 5 (01:33:59):
November?

Speaker 3 (01:34:02):
Yeah, well, Greg, it's it's sad, it's really bad.

Speaker 5 (01:34:05):
Yeah. He had a fall in November of twenty twenty four,
which resulted in a severe spinal cord injury, leaving him
paralyzed from the shoulder down.

Speaker 3 (01:34:15):
Oh my god.

Speaker 5 (01:34:16):
That initially he had no mobility, no speech. He has
since regained some of his breathing function and speaking, so
he is he is improving, but it's slowly, but surely.
He is still paralyzed from the shoulders down.

Speaker 2 (01:34:33):
And he.

Speaker 5 (01:34:36):
Talks about that in a very unique way.

Speaker 3 (01:34:39):
Here and what are you doing? I mean, how about
I love Dennis Spraguer. Am I gonna see him?

Speaker 2 (01:34:45):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (01:34:46):
Is this gonna be hard for me to see? Yes?

Speaker 1 (01:34:48):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (01:34:49):
Then why are we doing it?

Speaker 5 (01:34:50):
Well? He makes a great point, and he talks about
making peace with his situation and applies it to other people.

Speaker 2 (01:34:56):
Understood, Okay, you can't become the other sex. You can't.
It's just the way it is. You can't become another species.
You can't become the other sex. You can think you
are like I think my fingers are moving, but they're

(01:35:17):
not moving, nor have you moved. The trick is to
make peace with the sex into which you were conceived
and came into this world. That's it. That's what responsible

(01:35:41):
therapy would involve. Not let me help you accept your delusion.
Would a doctor help me help me? Right now, Dennis,
if you think you're moving your fingers, you really are.

(01:36:05):
We're going to affirm that you're moving your figures. That
would not help me.

Speaker 3 (01:36:12):
Oh my goodness, incredible point, But that was hard.

Speaker 1 (01:36:16):
That was hard. Look, it's taken great, completely out speedy.

Speaker 5 (01:36:21):
You can talk, but you don't have to just sit
there with your hand over your mouth.

Speaker 1 (01:36:25):
I get his point. His poets is fantastic like that.
All that's how he always is such an incredible communicator.

Speaker 5 (01:36:33):
You can talk, you can talk. Was that Ai, No,
it wasn't. You know, you know what made you uncomfortable.

Speaker 1 (01:36:38):
But he's one of these people. He's one of these
people that is so unique in our society because he's
one of these people that can actually walk out his
narrative and he actually can make his point in a
way that you go, okay. If you've never been familiar
with him, you know it's it. And and They've got
some incredible young people that are to help young people.

Speaker 3 (01:36:57):
You know what.

Speaker 1 (01:36:58):
They won't just come out and tell us it was
like he fell down the steps of his house.

Speaker 5 (01:37:01):
It was a fall in his house.

Speaker 1 (01:37:03):
Yeah, now I'm thrown in steps, but I mean, it's
no one will. They won't just tell us for some reason.
I've listened to many updates and they never tell us.

Speaker 3 (01:37:12):
I don't know why. I think it's my business, but
I want to know.

Speaker 5 (01:37:15):
And Rick didn't mean anything, y'all stop commenting. He didn't
read anything by walking that point out.

Speaker 1 (01:37:21):
I'm sorry, that's a I was figuring you said that.

Speaker 3 (01:37:25):
Rick, I didn't mean to.

Speaker 1 (01:37:26):
Okay, I know you didn't mean to, but you know
that's a common phrase it was. It meant no disrespect.
I have great respect for Dennis Prager.

Speaker 4 (01:37:34):
They found him in his home laying on the floor,
and then I'm swimming that I.

Speaker 1 (01:37:39):
Don't know all the details. I know, all you can
think about is how you could have helped. But I know,
I just I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:37:45):
A fall that's a that's a pretty I mean, we
fail it was bad.

Speaker 5 (01:37:51):
Maybe it was on a ladder or something, but he
didn't he had had previous back surgeries, so maybe that
left him more vulnerable. Yeah, possibly a catastrophic spinal injury was.

Speaker 1 (01:38:03):
Strangely Strangely enough, this brings us to Caitlyn Jenner. Uhit parallel,
it transitions. Well, now I'm the point about transgenders.

Speaker 3 (01:38:13):
Oh yeah, that's right.

Speaker 1 (01:38:15):
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 3 (01:38:15):
Yeah, I don't forget the point he was made.

Speaker 2 (01:38:17):
That's true.

Speaker 1 (01:38:18):
I know. I know you never could because you probably
didn't hear where he said. For god, I was just
watching it and Greg, Greg, you know either Greg, he
made a great point, he did. Uh but you and
Greg you've told us this before that Caitlyn Jenner angers
a lot because at least Caitlyn Jenner. I know this
sounds odd considering that he's now living his life as
a woman, but there still seems to be just a

(01:38:39):
smidge of logic.

Speaker 3 (01:38:40):
Except for the I'm a woman not a man thing.

Speaker 1 (01:38:43):
YEP.

Speaker 3 (01:38:44):
I agree with with with Bruce.

Speaker 1 (01:38:47):
Caitlyn whatever a lot. He is agreeing with the IOC,
and by the way, me and to be discussed this,
he's more qualified to have this opinion than anybody. Katelyn.
Bruce is backing the IOC move to ban transgender women
biological men from the Olympics. After the review finds I

(01:39:11):
love this, they're now agreeing, well, we've looked into it.

Speaker 3 (01:39:15):
Now there is an unfair advantage. Well, welcome to the part.
I think that box heard that this beat the crap
by those women.

Speaker 1 (01:39:20):
Finally questions, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:39:22):
This was breaking yesterday. And so here is what. Listen
to this.

Speaker 1 (01:39:27):
I want you to think about what Dennis Prager just said,
and I want you to think about the Bruce Caitlyn
Jenner thing. I'm a trans woman, but I am still
biologically biologically male. I'm ex y. There's nothing I can
do to change that. Males do have a better advantage,

(01:39:48):
a big advantage in sports over women. It's just not fair.
Listen to these statements from a trans woman. Just because
I'm trans woman does not make me any less biologically male.

Speaker 3 (01:40:02):
I'm x y.

Speaker 1 (01:40:04):
There's nothing I can do to change that that gives
me and all men a better advantage, a big advantage
in sports over women. It's just not fair. And as
y'all have said, you can't say this is somebody crying
who doesn't understand this is somebody will be different. You know,
how can you just sit there and deny this part

(01:40:25):
of their transition to being a woman. And the reason
why is a trans woman just said, because I can,
in my mind, in my dress even try to make
some surgical changes if I want, I'll never change x Y,
which gives me a physical advantage over women. And also
and nothing will change that. No makeup, no surgeries, not

(01:40:49):
the perfect outfit with the right pair of shoes, it
nothing will change that. And being transgender, and the fact
that I was an Olympic athlete. I think I'm extremely
qualified to talking about it, That's correct, you know. And
how about this? A person that is extremely able to
talk about this, I mean has had I mean no

(01:41:11):
one can speak to it any clearer though than him.

Speaker 3 (01:41:14):
He agrees in just what was already logical. Yeah, do
you want to hear Do you want to hear from
something about this?

Speaker 1 (01:41:22):
Is hard?

Speaker 4 (01:41:23):
Saw that for the first time that you just landed
on earth? Would you think that's a woman?

Speaker 1 (01:41:26):
Is this is this the second where we just listen
to difficult to listen to audio?

Speaker 2 (01:41:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:41:31):
Okay, all right, what is this look at is that?

Speaker 13 (01:41:34):
Uh mind, I am a trans woman, but I am
still biologically male.

Speaker 1 (01:41:42):
I'm x Y.

Speaker 13 (01:41:43):
There's nothing I can do to change that. Males do
have a better advantage and much bigger, a big advantage
in sports over women. It's just not fair and we
have to do the right thing. If we don't it now,
it will just destroy women's sports. And it's not just

(01:42:04):
the girls that are competing today, but what about the
young women that are coming up. And you look at
title nine. Title line is so much for women's sports,
and they're gonna say, you know what, I don't even
want to play sports. Why because I have to play
against men? And it'll just slowly rode away women's sports.

Speaker 5 (01:42:22):
Whoever does Caitlyn Jenner's makeup does a good job, because mine, wow, okay,
a lot of paint.

Speaker 3 (01:42:29):
Think about a lot of nosework.

Speaker 1 (01:42:31):
But if in nineteen seventy six he decided to compete
as a female, oh when he was at the top
of his guy, what are you talking about domination?

Speaker 3 (01:42:39):
Oh? Okay, So is this little shot at me?

Speaker 1 (01:42:46):
Guys? Oh? Well, this pizza guy.

Speaker 3 (01:42:49):
Uh so, we've got some video in audio here.

Speaker 1 (01:42:53):
This pizza shop owner says he's not OCD, he just
likes things a certain way. Is this a shot at me?
Is what this is about? You're saying, I'm like this
pizza guy.

Speaker 5 (01:43:03):
You know you're not O. C. D In neither is he.
You just like things a certain way.

Speaker 1 (01:43:06):
Okay, Oh man, I wish we had some of that.

Speaker 2 (01:43:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:43:10):
This guy is he's the owner of a Brooklyn pizza
come on down house.

Speaker 1 (01:43:15):
A pizza Crispy Pizza in Brooklyn, voices.

Speaker 5 (01:43:19):
I don't know his name, but I think we just
we should call him mister Papa Georgia.

Speaker 3 (01:43:23):
You're looking to doctor.

Speaker 1 (01:43:26):
Okay, okay, you missed the face that you missed the
face hurt? Okay, go ahead.

Speaker 7 (01:43:33):
When a customer comes in, I got for a slice.

Speaker 5 (01:43:37):
I got him there.

Speaker 7 (01:43:38):
You have to take off the dispatcher and it's not
fully cut. It drives me insane. That's why the guys
go heare They think I'm like, oh C D. But
you know, that's just the way I am. I like
to stay on top of things and make sure everything
is okay.

Speaker 1 (01:43:51):
He goes.

Speaker 7 (01:43:51):
You know what, if you're not on top of your
business and you standards are low, it's a it's a
recipe for disaster. Hopefully I passed that on to.

Speaker 2 (01:44:02):
The other the new generation.

Speaker 7 (01:44:04):
What's putting on this is this sweet Regutta.

Speaker 5 (01:44:06):
Recall the cheese.

Speaker 3 (01:44:07):
I don't want to.

Speaker 7 (01:44:08):
I don't want fresh mutz, fresh tomato sauce. We're gonna
top this with bezo. The Regutta recalled pecorino romano.

Speaker 3 (01:44:17):
Romano command I cut it all the way through.

Speaker 5 (01:44:20):
What peggerina peal raman.

Speaker 3 (01:44:25):
You think that's some going to make a good want
to eat there? I wish I was there right now.

Speaker 5 (01:44:30):
And the pepper is almost burnt.

Speaker 1 (01:44:31):
The pepperoni curl pepper and it curls up on the beauty.

Speaker 3 (01:44:37):
I love, I hate it.

Speaker 5 (01:44:42):
Just do what they like.

Speaker 3 (01:44:45):
That looks good.

Speaker 1 (01:44:46):
It was real good.

Speaker 3 (01:44:47):
But did you hear what you're saying? Sometimes O c
D is misinterpreted?

Speaker 5 (01:44:52):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 3 (01:44:53):
You know somebody says, oh, you like things to be excellent.
How about this? I like things to be excellent. I
like things to be well done.

Speaker 1 (01:45:01):
I like things to be done the right way.

Speaker 3 (01:45:05):
Okay, so a whole less. So if I half do everything,
yeah you like that edit and things are just thrown to.

Speaker 1 (01:45:13):
And things are just thrown together, then the good that'll
free me of any accusation of.

Speaker 3 (01:45:16):
O c D.

Speaker 1 (01:45:17):
Yeah. Yeah, everything's everybody's everything subpar. It's moderately Okay, well
good you didn't have O c D. Everything's crappy and
it's a mess and you can't depend on anything. Nothing's organized.
But thank goodness you didn't have O c D.

Speaker 4 (01:45:32):
M Is this trying You're trying to defend yea some
of your stan I understand pizza guy completely.

Speaker 3 (01:45:38):
I mean wish you had his apron on, do you?

Speaker 1 (01:45:43):
But I do?

Speaker 4 (01:45:44):
I do hate when it's not cut all the way yes,
because then but then because then.

Speaker 3 (01:45:49):
You start trying not cut all the way through.

Speaker 4 (01:45:51):
It takes like a section of the other topping of
the other side.

Speaker 14 (01:45:55):
Yes, yes, it's now you got this slice hanging off
a hill, don't know, and then you know I'm a customer,
and then this shock and slice shot in your They say,
I got old CD.

Speaker 3 (01:46:07):
I just want things done excellent.

Speaker 5 (01:46:09):
Yeah, let's hear him say that again.

Speaker 7 (01:46:11):
That's why the guys go ahead. They think I'm like,
oh c D. But you know, that's just the way
I am. I like to stay on top of things.

Speaker 3 (01:46:17):
A man like that guy.

Speaker 5 (01:46:19):
That's the way I am.

Speaker 1 (01:46:20):
You stay on top of things so things don't get
messed up.

Speaker 8 (01:46:23):
You got dirt?

Speaker 4 (01:46:27):
Is that is trying to defend some of your decisions.

Speaker 5 (01:46:30):
The browning on the pepperoni changes the taste of it.

Speaker 3 (01:46:34):
It's not just text, it's texture and holds the juices.

Speaker 5 (01:46:37):
Is it changes the taste of.

Speaker 1 (01:46:39):
The little pepperoni cup.

Speaker 5 (01:46:43):
It's like eating It's a difference between eating like a
marshmallow raw and a toasted golden, toasted martial. Well, totally different,
Well said, totally.

Speaker 1 (01:46:51):
You must have O C D my Mama, me.

Speaker 3 (01:46:55):
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Speaker 4 (01:47:38):
Okay, that's sicy pillow.

Speaker 1 (01:47:47):
Somebody on text Nation cuppy pepperoni is greasy and gross.

Speaker 5 (01:47:53):
I might dab it. If it's extra oily, I might
dab it.

Speaker 3 (01:47:56):
I wrong with a dab, Yeah, I might dab it.

Speaker 1 (01:48:00):
Favorite pizza, Greg go o uh pizza hut thing Christ Pepperoni,
double Pepperonis.

Speaker 3 (01:48:07):
That's all you're putting on it? Yeah? Are you kidding me?

Speaker 1 (01:48:10):
I mean I like them, but I mean I'm pretty simple, Papa,
give me pepperoni on not like any good gas station pizza.
You give some good pizza of gas station brothers. That yeah,
yout ain't bad? Really?

Speaker 3 (01:48:25):
Did you just say? I'm glad this got in here?

Speaker 5 (01:48:30):
You're you're telling me, mister Papa Georgia, it would not
be you.

Speaker 3 (01:48:32):
Would you want to get a pepperoni pizza from a
gas station?

Speaker 8 (01:48:36):
I like it?

Speaker 3 (01:48:36):
Yeah, okay, have all the things you can have, but
I just threw out that.

Speaker 1 (01:48:41):
Hey, okay, I guess you can get a couple black
coffee wile in there too. Sure. Okay, but because because
God forbid, we have muzzbox here. Okay, all right, so
you do you like standing me?

Speaker 3 (01:48:52):
All the meat you got?

Speaker 1 (01:48:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:48:54):
You doing mighty meet men.

Speaker 1 (01:48:58):
Let me tell you if you've never had the mighty meat,
mellow mushroom, I'm just telling you. Yeah, oh yeah, I'm
telling you there are pieces.

Speaker 5 (01:49:06):
Okay, Gnado's. They do a good job of brown and pepperonis.

Speaker 3 (01:49:10):
They brown the pepperonis then crush.

Speaker 6 (01:49:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:49:12):
Have you ever had not as good as going to
a real like Italian, like straight up and they got
that like hot stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:49:21):
I dripping on there and eat it when I went
to visit. It's amazing.

Speaker 1 (01:49:26):
When I went to visit Boomer and his wife Sharon,
I went up there. That took us out to New
York Italian when we were doing the XFL y'all went
on this trip.

Speaker 3 (01:49:35):
We went to the Chicago Deep Dish Pizza one in
places really good and we didn't realize. And that Italian soup, no,
it's good. We didn't realize. I think they were and
we ordered The girl even asked. She said, y'all realize
how much piece of your order?

Speaker 8 (01:49:50):
That's a lot.

Speaker 5 (01:49:53):
The company car going pizza right now as a group, Yes,
I would enjoy that. Do have so much we're gonna
talking like a and when we order it from the
gas station.

Speaker 4 (01:50:03):
One of gut one of my favorite lunches that we
went on. They are all good because I never paid
for him. However, Yes, was to the Pizza buffett pizza
hole man.

Speaker 3 (01:50:13):
When I tore that place down, I cried like a baby.

Speaker 4 (01:50:15):
Yeah, you sit there and wait for more pizza.

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