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Speaker 1 (00:03):
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Speaker 2 (00:29):
What's Up? Is Adler, video producer for The Rick Burgess Show.
Just a quick heads up. This first segment of the
show is real and it's gonna get awkward. I'm running
on three hours of sleep over the last two nights combined,
just dealing with kids and things like that, and that's
no excuse. And I kind of kind of snap on

(00:49):
the guys and it's not cool and it's awkward and
that should never happen. And I need sleep. I'm sleep deprived,
and that's not an excuse. That is it should never happen.
Rick and I spoke immediately after this segment occurs. I
apologize to the guys. This should never happen. It's gonna
get awkward. We do address it later on in the show,

(01:12):
and Speedy and Rick handled this with a class and
Grace buckle up. It's gonna get awkward, but don't worry.
We smooth things out. Appreciate y'all listening. Hope you all
have a great weekend.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
Big Fox Entertainment presents oh Rick Butchers so with Speedy
Greg Butchers, Edie van Adler and Rick Birches.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
And here we go Elizabethtown, Kentucky. Chuck it up, baby,
here we go?

Speaker 2 (02:02):
What up?

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Lamb chop Mississippi chicking in Raccoon River and keep seeing
Panama City beach checking in. Let's go a Milton is
ready for five hours burn Milton, Florida.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Stephen is in Chief City.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Is ready to go. They're all ready, Dear Stephen, Hilton
County saying, y'all come on hunting today, boys, we'll be
there by Waste Management Lincoln, Alabama, in Gaffney, South Carolina
in Colman County. Chicken farmers are ready, caynut haulers out

(02:46):
of Mississippi or roaming, and Mad Nolan's is ready. We
got you. How about little Land? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:55):
Birds?

Speaker 1 (02:56):
But you woman wanted to go six hours? There you
go four points eating Rick's mix right now, I can
see you. We're ready to go. Birch uppended ninth grader
says he's back in delivering Amazon packages and I'll be
doing all four hours. Uh so that we'll look at that.

(03:18):
Just rolling in from all over? Is that? What's I
c A l A Florida A call of Florida. But anyway,
so man, it's good to see people from from all over.
It come on down, all the way down down. I
mean up up up.

Speaker 4 (03:33):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
I gotta learn which one that means to you? Up
up up. There was something that I'd seen before the
show even started. You know, we have people that come
in early. Boy, look at all that going to make
you feel good. Music City, Nashville. There you are for
the shows, little more good night. I didn't realize how
many came in. There's so many ray soo. Still we're

(03:56):
still right after the show, just go back up back
bombs one has bomb come down. Oh my god, it
keeps kicking you downe oh boy, yeah, come down, come on,
come on, come on right there. Bombs and Blades Hot
Sauce Company. Oh that sounds good. Yeah. I don't know
where they're located, but they said they're ready China Grove
in Texas up and ready. Wow, So text I know

(04:19):
something else Uh, there's old show hunt Jack. He's always
hoping he is man and he gets after it too.
Of course we don't have Greg today. I know. I'm sorry, y'all.
Greg's not here today. How about Voxy? I was talking
to h I was talking to my bride. Uh, she
was up with me this morning. We were sitting there
spending our little quiet time talking and I looked down

(04:41):
at the text. I said, well, I knew baby brothers
out today, and she goes, oh, yeah, well, I said,
lee Lea's I've never had an absessed tooth. I understand
it is terrible, terrible, and I hope to not have one.
It's one of those things where you hear about when
somebody says they've passed a stone. You're like, man, I
hope I don't have to pass the stone. I know
people that have passed tons of them, you know, if

(05:03):
they get kidney stones all the time. So I don't.
I don't. I don't know about what it feels like
to have an abscess. I know it's not fun. I
know it's very painful, horrible. Uh so have you ever
had one?

Speaker 2 (05:15):
Never had one? My grandfather had an abscess on his
spine and it's that was a whole nother thing. You
asked some questions. If you want some answers to them,
I've got you bombs and blades. Hot Sauce is out
of Enterprise, Alabama. And I think they misspelled that city
in Florida because it looks like Ocalla O c A

(05:35):
l a. Is is right there in the middle there. Yeah,
that I've heard south of Gainesville.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
Oh yeah, nice, Yeah, you're right. Probably probably send us
some hot sauce. Yeah. So so we were going back
and forth. Now this is where things get awkward as
as men here, Okay, because first of all, we need
to care about Leley is number one to concern, okay,
number one. Our number two concern should be the show, okay, okay,

(06:07):
And deer we're going in order, yeah, and deer hunting
are to be are to be down there at three
and four. Okay. Now, we all know that we love
what we do for a living, and we love the
deer hunt. Okay, and we're we're glad to be here,
and we want lee lead to be to get relief
and be better. And Greg's doing his job as a
husband and we applaud him for that. I brought in

(06:30):
something for breakfast. I wouldn't have brought in if Greg
was here. That kind of stuff, you know, and and
don't don't underestimate it. By the way, it's good. Okay, okay,
we're not gonna speak of it, but it's good. So
the first thing that you know, how your wifle. We've
talked how they'll just tilt their heads at you, like,
what are you doing? And she goes, so, what are

(06:53):
you doing right now? I thought we was gonna said,
I'm just typing. I'm texting to Greg. She goes, oh, okay,
so you got stuff at work you have to like
find out from him so y'all can cover. And I
realized that that does make more sense, But that wasn't
what I was texting about. You know what I was
texting about, Oh sure you think you still make the hunt?

Speaker 5 (07:10):
Yeah, hey man, I'm glad you're handed in your business.
Now you're gonna wrap that up before we go out.

Speaker 1 (07:15):
Listen. And instead of me trying to help him, get
Leelee some and doctor Dudeney's involved, so we try to
get this done. Me trying to get Leee help. Yesterday
should have been so he could be on the show. Okay,
and it began. It turned into me trying to make
sure he could make the hunt. Look, I'm not proud

(07:35):
of that. That's those moments where you realize you got
a problem. Yeah, even before hunting, we ought to care
about Greg. We shouldn't just him. I still haven't cared
about him yet. No, what I'm saying is, let me
tell you what I care about him is we need
him to cover that spot.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
I haven't texted him yet. Let me see. Hey, Greg,
sorry to hear that. Do you think you'll still be
able to go hunting?

Speaker 1 (07:57):
Sent? All right? Good, that's what. Just just jump in
there with that. You know what. You know what Adler's thinking,
I'm gonna get greg spot. Yeah, because he knows family,
he'll probably get to the more premier spots when we
go hunting. But now it's really more motivation for Adler
because now he definitely wants to take one, and he
can send the picture of what Greg would have had.

(08:17):
That's right, Hey, Adler, you realize now if Greg didn't go,
you get his spot. That's good, that's right. Hey, I
think I feel good about your chances this weekend.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
Son, not your son.

Speaker 1 (08:29):
I meant that. I mean, you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
I'm actually still kind of mad about all the fun
y'all had yesterday. Well, if you do that every time
I hunts, close out and stuff, it's honestly, really really
not cool. Really, you do it every time the whole
hunting experience. I'm not joking around at all.

Speaker 1 (08:52):
I'm so sorry, kisses me off. I'm so sorry. Ever
say I'm bald again.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
That's not it. That's not the thing that joke.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
Hey, get ahead on your balldse.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
That's not about Speedy turn into these weird cartoon villains
and spend ten minutes hacking to each other. And I'm
just like, dude, this is nobody thought this was funny
fifteen minutes ago, and it honestly is not cool. And
I tried to not do it, but y'all jumped into
it again, and I'm just being real as hell right now.

(09:25):
It's not cool. You're the one that mentioned you just now, well,
Speedy bring seven hats.

Speaker 5 (09:30):
Yeah, you go ahead and get all the jokes out.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
I'll stop all that, And honestly, it ruins my hunting experience.
I don't want to again, don't want to go.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
Well for me to be clear, right then, what I
was talking about that had nothing to do with that. Yeah,
it was all about trying to get you on to
do here. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:47):
Look, I'm I'm sorry, but it ruins my hunting experience.
And it hurts my heart to know that you guys say.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
That stuff about me.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
Man, And I'm just losing my mind right now because
it's I up at one thirty this morning changing sheets.
I woke up at one thirty the night before, changing sheets.
And I'm sorry that I'm losing my mind right now.
Straight up, I'm straight up losing my.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
Mind right now.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
And it hurts my heart when you guys have that
much fun and it's obvious I'm not having fun, okay,
And I'm sorry that we had to have this conversation
on the air. It's incredibly awkward and I'm very embarrassed
right now. Let me just sorry that we had to
have this conversation on the air.

Speaker 5 (10:25):
Well, let me just tell you that was never my intention.
If I knew I was hurt about it, If I
knew I was hurting you, I never would do.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
There's the thing, as I've thought about this a lot,
and it happens, you know, it honestly happens on this show.
It happens about every month or two. Like I'm honestly
like down for like a day or two, and it
happens every month or two, and that really I thought
about it a lot last night. I'm like, am I
being overly sensitive? No, I'm not. It happens every month

(10:52):
or two. And I know I'm being in the same
camp as the ninth grader that we were accused of
cheating yesterday, which is hilarious because we talked to about that.
But it's just man, when it stops being funny on
the air and you guys keep going and and you're
burning time until we get to a break, it just
really makes me feel like I am the just I'm
I'm I'm I'm covering the cost until we get to

(11:14):
a break. And that is not cool and it's not
an environment I want to work in Franklin. It's really
not cool. So I'm so sorry that I'm losing my
mind and having a mental break on the air right now.
But I'm seriously agitated with the both of you guys.
I love you guys, but it's seriously I don't I
don't want to go hunting if you guys are gonna
treat me like that the entire time. And I know
I'm being a woods and a whim and and I'm

(11:36):
having a mental breakdown on the air right now, But
I'm just telling you all the truth.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
That's it.

Speaker 3 (11:40):
This is the Rick Burgers Show.

Speaker 1 (12:15):
We are back. Thank you for being with us today.
So some of you are saying on what we just
talked about, Yeah, anybody ever heard of Bobby Patrino. Yeah,
I remember that one pretty well, so well.

Speaker 5 (12:30):
You know you hada, And we're talking again about the
Michigan head coach his dismissal, and then it just escalates
from there. You know, you wish somebody could have got
him after the dismissal, because then you just go and
you make it worse because now you have all these
other charges and you're threatening people and scaring people, and

(12:52):
you got knives out and now it's escalated to the
point you're in jail.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (12:58):
I mean, there's been unfortunate as it is. You have
the the football and the professional side, and that's my job,
and then and then it and then you you leave
and do something like that. Now it's escalated to where
it is is. Now it's it's just sad.

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(14:46):
Greg is not here today, but he will be back
on Monday, and he may or may not be able
to join us for the hunt this weekend. But his
I mean, Leeley's fine, but it's something, you know, an
abscess is so painful and a problematic and don'eys on
it and they're trying to get that handled today, hopefully
sooner than later. So now I have not heard this.

(15:09):
This is something that came from probably one of our
most loyal Lamb Chop Chop familiar with Lamb Chop, it
is a haybird. I'm not familiar with this. Uh, you

(15:31):
may have already covered this, but we have not. We
have not. I just heard this Fox News reports a
North Carolina school district superintendent is getting called out by
a state senator over a book that was published a
few years ago. I can't believe I'm just now hearing
about it. I don't. I want you all to stand

(15:53):
by for the name of this book. Are you ready?

Speaker 5 (15:55):
Okay, Santa's Husband, Santa's husband.

Speaker 1 (16:00):
I got sick at my stomach over the video where
an individual was reading this trashed of little children. Missus
Claus is not mentioned. It totally ignores the story that
has been told for hundreds of years. It doesn't explain
if missus Claws and Santa met beforehand and they got
divorced or something like that. But what we have here
is Santa now has a dude, a boyfriend. It tells

(16:27):
the story like it's normal for this, for these two
men to have this kind of relationship, and it has
every kind of lifestyle box checked on a confused society,
not just subtle, but blatantly. I have five grandkids. I'll
try anything I can to prevent my house from me

(16:47):
subjected to such a weird, evil message.

Speaker 5 (16:51):
I'm not familiar with this. Well, I did a quick
I said two years ago. I did a quick search here.
This one was published in twenty seventeen. Okay, so that's
that's called Santa's Husband. Unless this is something different.

Speaker 1 (17:04):
Well maybe Lamb chop. When he said two years ago,
he said, no, I'm sorry, he said a few years ago. Okay,
So I guess it's Chris Kringle. Uh.

Speaker 5 (17:12):
And it's a book that tells the story of a
black Santa, his white husband and their life in the
North Pole.

Speaker 1 (17:19):
Oh my goodness, now.

Speaker 2 (17:22):
Santo kissing.

Speaker 1 (17:27):
Good night it yeah, oh wow, suddenly Mama's not kissing Santa.
Daddy is Santa's husband.

Speaker 5 (17:36):
No, it's a it's a cherished symbol of the holiday season. No,
we have black, we have gay, and we have married.
It says here and the and this is it. I'm
reading the illustration of the book the breakdown.

Speaker 1 (17:52):
Holy mackerel. Yeah, that well, it can't. I don't know
why is it a story now? Because of this the
superintendent started using it or something, and a senator has
called him out. In North Carolina, those of you North
Carolina probably know this better. But anyway, so.

Speaker 5 (18:10):
It's a it says, it's a holiday children's book.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
No what there it is? Adder has found it. Jeohly
husband that I mean, it's one thing to be jolly,
but it's quite another to.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
Be brings a new meaning to jolly.

Speaker 1 (18:31):
It's just so so anyway that No, I did not
know about that lamb chop. And I'm kind of sick
at my stomach that that these things. Of course it's
twenty seventeen. Again, I don't understand why it's a story.

Speaker 5 (18:44):
Okay, he's they decided that they wanted their kids to
only know Santa as black, so if they saw a
white Santa, they would just say, that's his husband. The
more I read, I just just stopped it. I'm I
hate it's on my Safari searching.

Speaker 1 (19:02):
Right. Yeah, that's so not good. Well, let's go to
something that was that was very very positive. Last night.
We're in that mow where we're watching Christmas movies. This
is a Santa movie. And so Cherry was like, what
what do you think about tonight? And I said, I'm
a miracle on thirty fourth Street. And so there's the

(19:24):
oldest one and then there's the one that might have
came out in the eighties. Maybe I'm not sure when
it came out. It's the it's the there's the black
and white one, and then there's the colored one. And
I don't mean colored life, right. Oh, it's ninety four. Okay,
so ninety four. And I will tell you, and I

(19:45):
know this is going to probably get some pushback. I
prefer the ninety four version because I prefer the ninety
four Santa.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
Okay, Richard Attenborough, I love.

Speaker 1 (19:54):
This old man. I will just tell you this, and
I know some times the when when he interacts with
the deaf girl. Have you seen that? All right?

Speaker 2 (20:07):
So she really was deaf, that's it.

Speaker 1 (20:09):
I did some background that you may have seen it too.
This reaction she has to the actor who's playing Santa,
the reaction is real because, as Adler just pointed out,
I saw that too, the little girl really is deaf.
That's that's in the movie. Playing the part. She had
no idea that the actor playing Santa could sign. So

(20:29):
when he begins to sign to her, it is. Her
reaction is is real. It's it's really so. So watch
this right here. You an any signs to it, and
I watch your face. That's a real reaction that the
little the little girl did not know the actor was.

Speaker 5 (20:47):
And the guy playing Santa is the guy from Jurassic Park.
It is, it is, but he spared No. I like
him better than the black and white Santa. The black
and white Santa is really good. Don't misunderstand me, but
that want a touching little moment.

Speaker 1 (21:01):
I don't know. Oh look, oh, Sherry was like had
gone to get something to drink in the kitchen. Yeah,
and I was screaming, here goes the deaf girl. That's
it and uh and so we should listen to it.
Can we can move it? Can we do it incredibly?
Let's try it.

Speaker 2 (21:21):
She doesn't know. Don't forget that, she does not know you.

Speaker 1 (21:27):
I'm very.

Speaker 3 (21:29):
Beautiful, young lady.

Speaker 1 (21:37):
Look at that and say. Right before that, the mom says,
don't worry about it. She's deaf. Just you don't have
to say anything. She just wants to see something of
Santa stepping up and I and I will tell you
the hmmm. The way Santa gets treated in that movie
is hard. They try to rub him out, chuck, put

(21:57):
him away.

Speaker 5 (21:58):
I thought I was watching home alone with good last night.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
They trying to kill him. They tried to well, they
don't try to kill him, Rick, that's too far.

Speaker 2 (22:04):
Oh, okay, rub him mount means kill.

Speaker 1 (22:06):
Yeah, I know you're right.

Speaker 2 (22:06):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (22:07):
They try to deem him as being mentally unstable, but sure,
telling everybody he's Santa Claus all because of the business
they're having over at the store where he's the Santa.
The rival store tries to put him away.

Speaker 3 (22:21):
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(23:36):
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(23:57):
first ever Rick Burgess Show Best of CD. Are you ready?
I noticed that NASCAR settled their their lawsuit with with
m J. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (24:08):
The the figure has not been released yet, but but
the reports are from Daily Mail that it was a
pretty large one. They're saying upwards of three hundred million. Yeah,
I heard that number being thrown around. I'm trying to
understand exactly the details of what the lawsuit was trying

(24:30):
to accomplish. But at the heart of it, it's NASCAR's
revenue model, uh and uh and they're they're going to
make it permanent for all the Cup Series teams. Uh
and and not just the two planeufs in the lawsuit. Yeah,
they they are going to change. And I guess this
is about revenue sharing across the sport. Yeah, yeah, they

(24:53):
it's uh, it's it's kind of confusing a little bit,
especially not following NASCAR as much as we do, I mean,
as little as we do. I should say, yeah, but apparently, well,
you know, we asked him about this too, and he's like,
but he could probably help a lot more if it's
not on Dell Junior's download. Yeah, and surely it is mean.

(25:14):
But they filed their lawsuit last year after refusing to
sign agreements on a new charter offers NASCAR presented in
September of twenty twenty four, and teams had until the
end of the day to sign one hundred and twelve
page document which guaranteed access to top level to level
Cup Series races and revenue streaming to your point, and

(25:36):
thirteen of the fifteen organizations reluctantly agreed to it. However,
Jordan and them sued instead of agreeing to it and
race most of the twenty twenty five season unchartered and
said both teams had lost a lot, and so they
took him to court on it, and now there's a settlement.

(25:58):
And to so what Jordan was saying, what the clip
I heard, and this is a little few weeks old.
He said, I hated to do it, but somebody had
to step up and take them on and represent all
the other teams because the teams only there was only
a few that profited this past season. Most on average,
they say, lost two million dollars a team.

Speaker 1 (26:20):
Yeah, and I noticed that what caused all this is
it NASCAR when they were trying to negotiate it without
Michael Jordan. Yeah, you know, a big name taking this on. Yeah,
that NASCAR hit them with one of these, hey, just
take it and leave it, and it ignored the four
things they wanted addressed. And NASCAR tried they take it
or leave it approach and it blew up on you.

Speaker 2 (26:40):
Yeah, and what I'm seeing here that take it or
leave it. The NASCAR presented a take it or leave it,
twelve page charter deal. Fifteen teams signed it.

Speaker 1 (26:51):
Excuse me.

Speaker 2 (26:52):
Of the fifteen full time teams, thirteen signed it reluctantly.
And then you've got twenty three excel Michael Jordan, Yeah,
I guess it's twenty three six. And then front Row
they both refused.

Speaker 1 (27:05):
And how about this if you're a NASCAR team, aren't
you glad those two had the fortitude? Of course you
got Michael Jordan. I mean, if you've got a name
like Michael Jordan, I mean, you might as well use it.
And you know what, he he threw his weight around
a little bit and looks like they got a settlement

(27:25):
and hopefully things will be better for the teams going forward.
I don't know how NASCAR expected to continue on that
their audience is diminishing, Their sport had its heyday in
the nineties, and their sport is diminishing. And yet it
seems like that NASCAR expected teams to continue I guess
to lose money. You know. It's like that's that thing.

(27:49):
What's more important all of us that bring people to
this or as NASCAR saying, no, we're more important because
without us, none of this exists. So hopefully this is
a win win that everybody can can live with. But
I've like, i haven't followed. See, I'm part of the problem.
At one time I was a big NASCAR fan, and
I've kind of faded on it. Yeah, and and so

(28:12):
I'm I guess I'm part of the problem.

Speaker 5 (28:13):
Well, the eight days of testimony which led to the settlement, Uh,
they really saw that that that NASCAR, the founders and
private owners of NASCAR were they they like, wouldn't bend
at all to back to y'all's take it or leave
it deal. They're like, okay, y'all aren't y'all are just
going no, this is what you got to do. And
all the teams that kind of were handcuffed were like, well, okay,

(28:35):
I guess we need to do that. And then Jordan's like, no, no,
we're not doing that. We're gonna take you to court.
We're gonna follow lawsuit and take you to court. And
looks like there's been a settlement.

Speaker 1 (28:45):
Well, and MJ on his part, he's agreed to have
a three on three basketball tournament in the infield of
the major Super Super NASCAR speedways.

Speaker 2 (28:52):
Good the they cited the unfair terms like limited revenue growth,
no input on media rights, and the no sue clause.

Speaker 1 (29:02):
Now twenty three elect and I'm like, you had a
car dealership instead of being in a car of car racing.

Speaker 5 (29:07):
So twenty three eleven that's Jordan and Denny Hamlin and
that's who Bubba Wallace, that's that's their driver. And I
guess does Denny there's is there just one car or
is there two?

Speaker 1 (29:18):
It seems like to me, I know Denny races as well,
it seems like Denny Hamlin at one time raced for
another team as a driver, right, and then was co
owner with with Jordan with with his with that group
of drivers. He wasn't in the group of drivers for
the team that he owned with Jordan. He drove for
I believe a coach Gibbs. Oh yeah, Gibbs, Joe Gibbs, Racy.

Speaker 2 (29:40):
Yeah huh, and then co owns twenty three what I
called it, twenty three nine eleven, that's eleven, that's all right?

Speaker 1 (29:47):
Yeah? How about they? How about? They were asking him
one time I watched that series that Netflix did when
you're racing, do you think more about the team or
about you? And he goes, I'm just I'm here to win. Yeah,
you know, I hope our team does well, but I'm
not going to give up a win for the team
as a driver. I'm going to try to win every time.

Speaker 5 (30:04):
About Yeah, you know they were they were talking about
the hand eye coordination and how quick the reflexes are
for all these drivers Formula one, Indy, NASCAR, what the
average person does like they'll hold a ruler and then
and then drop it and see where you can grab it,
and their reflexes is.

Speaker 1 (30:23):
Can y'all do that? Is it all? It's like what
and wherever you grab it.

Speaker 5 (30:27):
It's like you know, it'll say inches wise whatever where
you can grab it. And they're like way ahead of
the average person, just in speed because they're like if
one of us got behind the car, especially Formula one
would wreck within five seconds, just Formula one, if you
Formula one, or and then of course holding it together

(30:47):
the way they do, just inches from each other three wide.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
Now I think I think a Nascar I could take
one to the front.

Speaker 3 (30:54):
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Speaker 5 (32:40):
When's the last time you tried to talk like Alvin
and the chick Monks?

Speaker 1 (32:44):
I know, to me, you know, I'm I'm I'm helium Boy.
That's about as close as I can get right, you know.
But that's that's my attempt at it. That's what became
Helium Boy.

Speaker 5 (32:57):
We had River over yesterday and he loves the Chipmunks
Christmas album. I remember where the Chipmunks sing sing the songs.

Speaker 1 (33:07):
As a kid, I can still see myself riding in
the green Plymouth, not a seat belt to be found.
And uh, I remember sitting in the back seat and
when that AM radio spun Alvin and the Chipmunks, I thought, well,
that one, you know, creates mass Christmas. That you ready? Boys, Yeah,

(33:29):
that one you know? And what was the guy? What
was the guy that dealt with them? Oh? He would
say his name Alvin? You ready? Alvin?

Speaker 2 (33:36):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (33:38):
Alvin? Yeah? Yeah.

Speaker 5 (33:39):
Uh well River was all about it yesterday. And I
don't know what it is about, same songs, just updated, no,
just just they have an entire album where they sing
the hits. I mean it's from the halls to you know,
jingle bells. Uh, it's all it's you name it. It's about
twelve cuts and buddy, let me tell you, we shuffle

(34:00):
that thing. And I don't know what it is about kids.
They never get tired of the same thing. It's again
again again again again, yes, and and now we're dancing
and now we're singing sing pop sing like them. Can
you did you try you know when when it was playing, Well,

(34:21):
now we kind of dialed it in.

Speaker 1 (34:23):
I'm gonna tell you we did dill it in. Uh,
how did you dial it in.

Speaker 5 (34:26):
I mean it requires when when Alvin and the Chipmunks,
when they're singing, you can sing like them. You know
what I'm talking about, like to hear when it's it's
tough to find it without them singing.

Speaker 1 (34:37):
Let me see here.

Speaker 2 (34:42):
Yeah it's Dave by the way. The guy's name is Dave.

Speaker 1 (34:47):
By the way. When I was a kid, if I'm
not mistaken, all Alvin wanted was a hula hoop? Was that?
Right's a swan? Yeah? Wasn't that it?

Speaker 3 (34:59):
Hulu?

Speaker 1 (35:00):
Okay, that's about the worst. Yeah, yeah, there it is.
Remember the hula hoop?

Speaker 5 (35:11):
Yeah that was Now Rivers got it because he's got
the little five year old voice.

Speaker 1 (35:15):
Sure he does. And buddy, let me tell you.

Speaker 5 (35:16):
We were screaming that we got home. Then we just danced,
and then it's now pops put it up on the TV, Pops,
and now we're dancing.

Speaker 2 (35:25):
It is a hula hoop that he wants.

Speaker 1 (35:26):
You did y'all ever get good at the hula hoop
at all?

Speaker 5 (35:29):
I could never do the hula hoop, I mean we did,
would fall to my feet in a second.

Speaker 3 (35:34):
I can hula hoop?

Speaker 1 (35:35):
You can? Yeah, pretty good?

Speaker 2 (35:38):
I mean it's been like thirty years, so it's it's
hard to say now.

Speaker 1 (35:42):
I remember when I was getting about twelve, I found
myself trying to tell all the girls at school they
should try it, right. I didn't know why, but I
sure didn't want to see them do that hula right,
you know, yeah, but you know, the good I didn't
fully understand why, but I was like, why don't y'all
give it a try? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (36:01):
The good ones though, they don't really have to move
their hips. It's like a little thrust. It's like it's
it's just easy.

Speaker 1 (36:07):
It's just one of these don't do that, but one
of those yeah, yeah, but you know when somebody doing
this right there, show me what you're supposed to do. Yes, just.

Speaker 2 (36:19):
I mean it's just a little They seem to be
getting so much action just from that.

Speaker 5 (36:23):
Just a little bit of little hip vibration, and that
sends that thing around.

Speaker 1 (36:28):
You know.

Speaker 5 (36:28):
You know, someone's gonna have a tough time when they
when their hips are about as wide a loop and
they're trying so desperately to keep it up.

Speaker 1 (36:36):
You ever seen some of them people that had them,
you got them big old hips. It's almost like it's
not fair. It's like the hoop just starts doing its
own thing. Yeah, it's almost like just just the momentum
of those hips keep going.

Speaker 5 (36:47):
How about the ones that can start around their neck
and then work it down, Yeah, work it down around
the shoulders, down to the hips.

Speaker 1 (36:53):
Yeah. I wasn't willing. I wasn't willing to you know
when you talk about what it takes to keep it going. Yeah,
it's like if I got a few rounds all yeah.

Speaker 5 (37:01):
Yeah, I can't do that. I can't do the yo yo.
Now did you see Adler? Was was he here when
you did that? You want to see him?

Speaker 1 (37:09):
Yeah? Are you still real good at it?

Speaker 2 (37:11):
I can still yo yo? They should say, you know
how they say it's like riding a bike. Yeah, it's
like throwing a yo yo. That should be a sing too,
because they came right back. Could neither walk the dog
and as that rock the baby and all.

Speaker 1 (37:22):
That he look gosh, I wanted to do that and
that really fancy yo yo. The one that looked weird,
almost like a spaceship. Yeah, man, I wanted one of those.
He can hold it and it just rocks. Can you
make it hesitate? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (37:33):
Yes, sleep at the bottom.

Speaker 1 (37:34):
You got to sleep. Oh, I got it. I could
I could never, I could never do anything.

Speaker 5 (37:39):
One of the days you were out, we talked about, uh,
somebody with the yo yo and how talented they were
or whatever, and he brought one in the next day
and was was showing out.

Speaker 2 (37:48):
Yeah, because Gary said I couldn't.

Speaker 1 (37:49):
I couldn't yo yo because it would hit the ground.
Oh that's right to show.

Speaker 2 (37:53):
I had to show Gary that I can.

Speaker 1 (37:54):
Yes, yeah, here we go. Here we get that. Look
at that? Oh so yeah, look so is that we
to call that and make it hesitate? You said put
it to sleep.

Speaker 2 (38:02):
Yeah, it's called sleeping. It at the bottom and then
you pull it up.

Speaker 5 (38:05):
So have come like when you do that, just goes
to the bottom. What's the technique?

Speaker 2 (38:09):
You gotta slam it. You gotta really throw it out
there and it'll just sling it.

Speaker 1 (38:14):
Will it do it? When you just if you just
give it up, you'll do it. What about my rotator? Cuff?
What go back to your rotator? Try right hand.

Speaker 2 (38:27):
Yet not there you go and then make sure it's
unrolling the right way and you go like that and
then it's hard and don't bounce it. If you bounce
it and kind of give it.

Speaker 1 (38:36):
It'll come back up right.

Speaker 2 (38:37):
It'll come right back up. So just let it kind
of ease to the bottom, but slam it then ease it.
Oh wow, that was okay.

Speaker 1 (38:43):
Put that wasn't bad, by the way, for a first time.
That's what happens with me. Let me try to right.
So am I am? I am? I am? I like
going nuts through the floor.

Speaker 2 (39:01):
You know how a skeat shooter, a skeet thing will
just sling that thing.

Speaker 5 (39:06):
What if you have like snot on your finger and
you flick it, you gotta.

Speaker 1 (39:08):
Sling that thing like that. Give you a slip.

Speaker 2 (39:11):
Not here, it's.

Speaker 5 (39:17):
Over here now behind the mics, trying to get Rick
set up, and so I'm coming.

Speaker 1 (39:22):
I'm coming. Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry. Slipped off
your f I break it, I think.

Speaker 2 (39:29):
Rick, I've never seen a ball phone.

Speaker 1 (39:31):
I don't know that the balls. Sorry, you just broke it.
I'm sorry. If I broke it, it looks broken. I'm
so I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I was. I
was so caught up. Rick. I've never seen anything. I
don't know that I've seen anything on that hard in
a long time. I'm so sorry. I didn't think about it,

(39:51):
need to be tighter on my finger. I didn't even
think about that. I don't know that you might.

Speaker 5 (39:55):
You could make major leagues and throwing a ball a
baseball backwards, but you.

Speaker 1 (39:59):
Might want to try it.

Speaker 2 (40:00):
I think I can fix it.

Speaker 1 (40:01):
I'm so so fine. I think I can fix You've
only had that since childhood, and it's probably a good precious.

Speaker 3 (40:05):
My grandpa is the Rick Burgess Show.

Speaker 1 (40:14):
You know we love Camp House Breakfast. I mean, how
about we'll let Camp House Breakfast get in the way
of us hunting harder? We will And I hate to
say that, that's really got to be a discussion. I
don't feel good about this, Dad. I don't know what
you can hear and see from heaven. By the way,
do you realize y'all? Saturday two years ago is when
Dad passed two years ago. Saturday?

Speaker 4 (40:36):
Wow?

Speaker 1 (40:37):
Really the thirteenth? Yeah, so anyway, you know, and I
thought I'm gonna be hunting on the day that he
went into glory. That's what he would want. Things. I
keep telling everybody, uh so, just doing that because that's
what Dad would want.

Speaker 2 (40:51):
It's like hunting is like when you go to the
pool and you get so hungry afterwards. Hunting sometimes does that.
It's like, but I've just been sitting why am I? So?

Speaker 1 (41:00):
I know, I don't understand how you can leave the
woods and you come home and you tell me how
tired you are and your wife's like, you've been sitting
in the woods. Yeah, I know there's something about it.
You're right, it is like driving may.

Speaker 5 (41:10):
But you gotta be a unless you go out and
just sleep, which why are you doing that? If you do,
I know, you get relaxed and sometimes might like nod. Yeah,
but it's you having to stay alert. You know it's
normally cold. Say that takes energy to stay warm.

Speaker 1 (41:24):
I tell share all the time. She doesn't know how
hard we work. It's tough. Then if you if you
take something, then you drag it, bag it out and somebody, Hey, guys,
don't let me hurt my rotor cuff when I kill
that big one this weekend. So I want y'all to know,
and this to me adds to the camp house experience.
We will dine on jerky on summer sausage and breakfast

(41:48):
sausage from a deer I killed at the hunting land
just a few days ago. That's nice. We will dine
on a deer from the very place and which we hunt.

Speaker 3 (42:00):
Man, that is cool.

Speaker 1 (42:02):
Is anyone stoked about that at all? Fired up? And
you know what I'm picturing when when we roll in
today some some some of that summer sausage out there
were crackers, just a little warm up. Really. Oh yeah, okay,
have it out there on some papers. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (42:20):
Now, but a honor of your dad, we got to
talk Saturday morning.

Speaker 1 (42:23):
I know, because if you're worry is wearing me out
about this?

Speaker 5 (42:27):
If you're like me, and if I'm just being totally transparent,
it gets to be around nine o'clock and I'm like,
you know, boy, I'm hungry. We either have to take
something with us or we got to eat a little
bit before we go out of some kind of you
don't want too much because you're going to.

Speaker 1 (42:42):
Sit that way. We're not starving, and we need to
sit ten ten thirty. I know, I know, guys, that's
a long shinho. That's a let me let me. I
know a lot of your get honors. It not Dad.
I'm sorry I saw yesterday at I'm just going to
tell you I just showed. I'll show you the picture
in the break one of the one we have on
the hit list ten fifty two. He's moving, see and

(43:05):
we're there.

Speaker 5 (43:06):
We're in there eating, which I gotta tell you, a
good breakfast is better than well, I said, but I mean.

Speaker 1 (43:13):
We do need to we need are we willing? Well,
here's the here's the deal. Why don't we just it's
not that we're not gonna have camp house breakfast. We
just make it our lunch. Yeah, and we just stay
a little longer or brunch. We could call it brunch. Easy.
We don't say brunch at camp house. You don't say
brunch at camp house.

Speaker 2 (43:31):
Okay, that's true.

Speaker 6 (43:32):
So you know it's yeah, and I mean you know
you cook this though in there may be a little bit.

Speaker 1 (43:38):
Of a sady. We can't guys do that. Guys, Gary
has hiss that. You know what he said yesterday. I'm
not making this up. This is not me doing a bit.
This is a hundred percent from Gary. Hey, this is
how serious saund about y'all riding them side by side.
I didn't take the keys from them, I said, Gary,
did you get the keys? What? Yeah? I thought, Hey,
I took the keys out of them. I said, so

(43:59):
you have the keys, so we can't even drive them.
That's right, y'all need to walk in. I said, we
can't walk from camp house. I'm telling you. They pattern
you they hear him said by side. So what do
we do? So we were just walking he said, he
took the keys.

Speaker 5 (44:13):
Is this is this his prank?

Speaker 1 (44:15):
We gotta really, we gotta talk about this is his
Gary could be a prank? Gary is willing? Hey?

Speaker 6 (44:21):
He he said, Hey, what I'm gonna do is I'm
gonna get my jeep and I'm gonna be here for
the morning hunt and I'm gonna load some up in
my jeep. I'm gonna take them down forty two you
know like that.

Speaker 1 (44:31):
I'm like, he can come pick us up too. He
was walking out. Well, and once again, now it makes
getting everybody back longer. We're pushing now, we're pushing camp
house breakfast even further. We're staying later, and it takes
us longer to get in. What are we doing if
we're gonna walk in? Honey, you're eating that breakfast? By

(44:52):
the way, y'all like cheese and the scrambled eggs. I
always just assumes a tiny bit am I put it?

Speaker 4 (44:58):
Do?

Speaker 1 (44:58):
I put too much in it. Don't think though, nor
you want to know. It's good too.

Speaker 5 (45:02):
A little block of cheese. Cut your little block of cheese.
Eat that with a biscuit with a little bit of
grape u syrup on it.

Speaker 1 (45:10):
Oh, really, did you put sausage? You didn't put butter
down too? You have to cheese take the place of
the butter. It's just a pen.

Speaker 5 (45:18):
I've got it all ready to gottle bloody. Just cut
your little block of cheese. Have a little couple of
little happy blocks over the left.

Speaker 1 (45:23):
Hey, listen, don't you don't you think for a minute
that I don't have everything ready to go. Okay, I'm starving.
I am too. Let's just sleep in and eat.

Speaker 2 (45:32):
That's just called a slumber party. That's just called a
slumber party.

Speaker 1 (45:37):
Hey, I got it.

Speaker 5 (45:38):
Let's sleep in, eat, go out at nine.

Speaker 1 (45:40):
They're not moving till ten anyway to about one. I
was like, here, you want us to walk from camp
I no, I want to try to walk from the studio. Gary, Hey,
I know one of the done got your tea, I
done got the keys. We'll be right back. Stay close.

Speaker 3 (45:58):
This is the Rick Bridgers show.

Speaker 1 (46:06):
On page right there at the very bottom Also, I
want to remind you guys that it's time for the
Toys for Tots Drive going on with the US Marine
Corps here where we are located in our home market
home of one O four to seven W'SZK. Today the
thirty three hour Toy Drive is happening. It'll it'll go

(46:27):
through tomorrow, I mean through Sunday at Walmartin on Highway
one fifty and Hoover. The Marines are on site collecting
the new toys and bikes for children in needs. So
if you can't make it over there, you know, you
can use any of the Central Alabama toy donation boxes.
But you also can do that anywhere in the country.

(46:48):
So if you want to find locations near you, no
matter where you are and catch our show, go to
toysfor Tots dot org. Toysfor Tots dot org. So a
reminder that that's one of those things that we all
get to do at Christmas that couldn't be simpler. You know,
you just you don't you make sure that there's there's
no kids out there that are going to wake up

(47:09):
on Christmas morning to nothing. So so it's it's a
great way to go out and and and participate in
that and also always love the Marines doing that. Oh
you love teaming up with them. So, uh, I guess
in think you look sharp in the commercial too, Buddy. Well,
I mean, you know, I thought I thought you tell
me to wear a shirt that was kind of Christmas y. Yeah,
I don't. I'm you know, put a little green button

(47:29):
down on. Yeah, rocking, you know, kind of salt and
pepper beer. Yeah, very sound like speaking of that. Uhh yeah, sure.

Speaker 5 (47:39):
Oh time for the Christmas cash countdown.

Speaker 2 (47:44):
Hey Santa, how about some cash?

Speaker 1 (47:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (47:47):
Sure, Hollo one for Christmas is cold.

Speaker 1 (47:54):
Cat. Everybody say it two old five five, three zero
one thousand. It's a little something called know the show
three questions that could get you five hundred and ninety
nine dollars. Uh so, uh well, we get a caller on.

(48:16):
I hope you've been paying attention. We've had winners. We've
had winners. I mean, uh, let's let's look at yesterday.
We had a big winner. We I mean another five
ninety nine winner yesterday, Jamie DeMarco, she got five ninety nine.
Misty Brantley won one hundred dollars yesterday by texting the
word that we've already mentioned today, by the way, so

(48:38):
so today it might as well be you. So, anybody
got a number that you want me to Uh, we
we've already done the number forty, right when Adler turned
forty that day.

Speaker 5 (48:49):
Yes, we did forty. You've done fifty seven, we've done.
We've done fifty ninety nine we had that week twenty five.
I haven't done sixty one forty four. I'm sixty one. Yeah,
we we haven't done. So we haven't done that.

Speaker 1 (49:00):
Okay, all right, so let's let's go sixty one. How
about that? So one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, thirteen, forty, sixteen, eighteen,
ninety three, wish, twenty six, twenty seven, twenty nine, thirty,
thirty one, thirty two, thirty three, thirty four, thirty five,
forty thirty nine, forty, forty one, forty two, forty three six,

(49:24):
I'm getting fifty sixty one, fifty two, fifty three, fifty four,
fifty five, fifty seven, fifty eight, fifty nine sixty Here
we go. Hello, Welcome to the Rick Burgess Show. What's
your name and where are you calling from?

Speaker 5 (49:37):
Gosh what I'm calling from? Birmingham?

Speaker 1 (49:39):
Hi Joshua, you do you realize you were a car
sixty one? Come on, how about that? Let's go all right?

Speaker 2 (49:45):
All week?

Speaker 1 (49:46):
Oh good, okay, what's your phone's better? But here we go.
Are you ready? It's three questions. We start with the
one hundred and fifty dollars question. Are you ready? Yes? Sorry,
speedy struggles on behalf of other people's all moments? What
is this called.

Speaker 5 (50:03):
Embarrassment?

Speaker 2 (50:04):
That is confident?

Speaker 1 (50:06):
That's one hundred and fifty dollars, hesitate. You can take
that money and leave, or you can try for three hundred.
Now if you miss it, you don't get anything. Yeah,
let's go have three hundred. Here we go. It happened
early in the very first year of the show. So
what did Greg and Adler do this year during the

(50:28):
Arctic blast back in the winter of twenty twenty five
to prove they were men?

Speaker 5 (50:36):
They take the shirts off and Tom gas.

Speaker 1 (50:42):
Man you wow, all right? Three hundred dollars now, buddy,
I just want to tell you, you know that the
questions get harder as you go, So five hundred and
ninety nine dollars? Are you willing to go? With question three?
It's it's all or nothing? I don't think I'm going
to do it because they're like singing hard questions and.

Speaker 2 (51:04):
Okay, I think I'm take three hundred.

Speaker 1 (51:07):
Okay, okay, that's not bad. That's probably a wise move.
Respecting for that. All right, I'm gonna put you on hold.
We'll get your information. You just won three hundred dollars
of Old Saint Rick's Christmas cash. But wow, thank you,
thank you very much, and it's it's awesome you've been
paying attention because you entered that second one was not
an easy one. You got that pretty pretty easy. All right,

(51:27):
So now I'm an archive listener. I don't miss the
show yet. Oh well, thank you man. So sat againstpeaking,
thank you. Okay, boy, it's not sorry, that's not it,
thank you. There it is. Then I spit all over
my laptop. Don't spit. You could just kind of ease
into it and not go after that like I did
the yo yo you attack. Thank you the way I

(51:50):
attacked that yoyo. Thank it's all about the tongue. Thank you.
You just spit on me. Well, but but at least
I said it.

Speaker 5 (51:57):
I about that was three hundred gone quick, three hundred
o Joshua to your point. Rick, he was like, didn't
even half a second.

Speaker 1 (52:04):
He was like, yep, got it. You know, I really
thought I even questioned on question two. I thought, did
I explain that good enough? He knew exactly what I
was talking about? Yeah, that's all on the best of
CD this What wasn't it like? It was an arcaice blast?
Wasn't it like in the teens when y'all did that fourteen?
It was forty and windy too, fourteen and Wendy fourteen
and Wendy yep, And then they headed out, all right.
More chances to win still ahead, of course, somebody on

(52:26):
the text option is going to win today to ye
box seats, somebody's can get a chance to win there.
So all that is still to come. We have a
lot to cover. We'll continue to rolle through the stories
of the day and interact with you also, So be

(52:46):
hanging out. And if you didn't get the word today
that you should have text in, asked somebody who should know.
We'll be right back. And that's not speedy.

Speaker 3 (52:53):
This is the Rick Burgess Show.

Speaker 1 (53:02):
As of today, we are now one week from the
Rick Burgess Show Christmas Party, which is the final show
of the year. We'll go on to two weeks sabbatical,
give me some best of shows, and then Lord williing
we come back on the fifth of January, ready for
twenty twenty six, and boy, do we have an exciting

(53:22):
year plan for you next year as well. Speedy and
Adler are here. Greg is not here. His wife needed
him to help out today with her. She had an
absessed tooth that came out of nowhere, and you know
the pain that's associated with that. So he's trying to
get her some relief, and so he could not be
with us. The vox seat are coming in. Greg of

(53:44):
course apologizes for that, but sometimes these things cannot be helped.
So as we start the hour and so and I
were talking some of you that joined us right out
of the gate, you know that there was we had
a situation here amongst guys and friends, dear friends, uh
that that Adler got upset with Speedy and me. Uh

(54:08):
and unfortunately it's spilled onto the air. And you know,
we but you know, we do a show that's pretty transparent.
I mean we uh, we pretty much talk about real life.
And so we we have all talked, we have privately
and and now publicly apologized ether to you.

Speaker 2 (54:26):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (54:26):
We we did not mean to uh to get to
go too far cutting up. You know, we play rough
in here, and that doesn't mean that anything goes uh
and and we should not have let that spill onto
the air, but we did. And you know, we're we
we love you man, and and all of us have
talked off the air. We are good, We're not We
don't have any issues or anything like that. It was

(54:49):
really just friends. You know, sometimes things go on and
and when you're cutting up and hacking on each other
sometimes it makes people mad. And and that people get
upset and say, you know, I'm sick and tired of
this narrative and and and I'm done with it. And
that's and that's perfectly okay.

Speaker 2 (55:06):
Yeah, if anybody needs to apologize, also, it's me. We
spoke immediately in the breaks following that I'm having trouble
staying awake, like in my life and so I'm incredibly
sleep deprived. That's no excuse for my behavior earlier in
the show. And I knew it as I even as
I was doing it. I said that, Yeah, So just
want to clarify that I'm embarrassed, and I apologize.

Speaker 1 (55:27):
Yeah, okay, and nothing. Hey look, nothing to be Like
I said, I've had people say, you know, hey, Rick,
I noticed you sat there silent. That was the right
thing to do. I knew that you had things going
on and me trying to engage you right then because
of this, you know that you were obviously tired and
upset and and speedy. Now, I have also taken ownership
of our role in that of not being aware that

(55:51):
you were getting upset. We should have picked up on that,
and that is you know, it's it's not and anything
goes Hey, hey man, everybody. Sometimes look, you know, there's
there's been times that I've been sitting in here that
all of a sudden, I feel that little fire inside
and I'm kind of like, y'all need to y'all need
to get off of me right now, you know what
I mean, And you let it go. And then there's

(56:12):
times when you're behind on sleep and you're already ill
and struggling, and you're kind of like, you know what,
I've just had enough of this, and so, uh, we
all could have handled it better. But what y'all need
to know is that we are good, all of us.
We're brothers, we're dear friends, we truly are on and
off the air and we have nothing but the utmost respect.

(56:33):
And you've heard us say that for you, Chris, the
man you are and the work you do, and I
do try to make sure you hear that. But I
can understand that that doesn't mean that I can just
do anything and tell you, hey, we didn't mean anything,
but get over it. You know, I don't. I don't
ever want to have that attitude either, because I do
because we do care you know, about you, and we

(56:54):
don't want to do anything that ever comes across the
wrong way.

Speaker 2 (56:57):
Absolutely, and again I handled it where wrong? Sorry, and
I apologize.

Speaker 5 (57:01):
Well, well, you know what a lot of folks say
what they love about this show is that they feel
like family. Yeah, man, we're all in this together. Well, y'all,
y'all were in a family disagreement and argument and so
but we love you, buddy, thank you straight up.

Speaker 1 (57:15):
So you know what, this isn't a bad idea. Somebody
said maybe in the future because it is so rough
to be in y'all's group. You know how you've heard
the term safe word. Maybe we need to all establish
a word that we that we murmur, like if you're
the one that everybody's on. You kind of just call out, hey,
whatever it is, and everybody goes, okay, we'll start right. Yeah,

(57:36):
so maybe so yeah, maybe so.

Speaker 5 (57:38):
I know when I was doing VICKI quest, it was
John Deere, right, yeah, and that's about that's.

Speaker 1 (57:44):
About years ago. So yeah, we could come up with something, right, So.

Speaker 2 (57:48):
I appreciate your your graciousness in all this guy.

Speaker 1 (57:51):
Yeah yeah, just a noise man, right, and you know what,
and we look back again and maybe it was another
blessing that Greg wasn't here. Yeah, yeah, did they but
because can you imagine his face looking wrong on what's
happening right now? But actually Adler and Greg are actually
really really close as well, and we would all feel
the same way. We have fun, but there's lines to

(58:13):
be drawn, and there's also, as you said, Adler, there's
ways to handle things. So we got it done. We
are all good. And I know a lot of you
were like, are y'all just got out like that didn't happen?
And we really were just trying to work this out
the right way and everything is fine, yea noting nothing
to be concerned about, all right. So some some other
things that we need to discuss going forward. You know.

(58:34):
I don't mean to be insensitive again on this, you know,
because we said the other day on the show. Sometimes
we forget when we do stories that are bizarre, when
when it leads to someone's death, we'll start the story
and then all of a sudden, three quarters away into
it speedy. Usually you will have to remind us, hey,
somebody died. Yeah, but pickleballers, uh, you know, we talked

(58:56):
a lot in the last show of the last year
of the Rick and Bubba Show about pickleball. That's when
it kind of became this obsessive pickleball thing. I dipped
my toe in it. It was pretty fun, you know,
and all that, but it's one of those things that
if I can't be good at it, it's not fun
for me to go out there and be bad at
it and not be able to because I know it

(59:18):
ruins people's fun that are good at it, Like when
they're going, hey, why don't we take on you and
Sherry and they play all the time, and you can't
keep a volley going because you're not good enough, and
I can't devote the time to it, so we kind
of I'm not saying we're not going to play it anymore.
But we never have pursued it to try to get
good at it. But this is showing how obsessive people

(59:40):
are about this. We have a pickleball player that has
plunged to his death and a three story fall because
he climbed over a safety rail trying to retrieve the pickleball.

Speaker 5 (59:52):
And I think it's more about that, like with Sandlot
when the baseball went over the fence, and they're like,
I think, growing up and play in sports, you have
to go get that ball, and it's you just named
the sport. Hey, the balls over the fence, the balls
in the ditch, you know, going out after it.

Speaker 1 (01:00:09):
Now, I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:00:10):
If climbing this fence that they say was as high.
Did I see three story fall?

Speaker 1 (01:00:15):
Yes or something? That's that's what they said. There's there's
actually an add I don't know that we want to
show it. They said, there's actually a video. Yeah there is.
It is jumping onto the mesh netting that covered the
open gap, but it tore under his weight. Oh and
you can tell that was a pickleball player.

Speaker 2 (01:00:33):
Oh my goodness, I just saw it.

Speaker 1 (01:00:34):
I mean, how bad do you have to get Yeah,
he was playing pickleball on the third floor. There must
be a court there at this place.

Speaker 5 (01:00:41):
That makes sense now, And he climbed over the courts
fence to retrieve the ball, fell to the lower floor.

Speaker 1 (01:00:46):
Okay. By the time his friends got to him, they
realized that the fall had killed him. Oh yep, so
there were going okay, that makes sense. So it was
it was on another level. Okay. I I think about
all the people that feel bad in this. What about
you're the person that didn't keep it in play? Oh,

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you gotta feel kind of bad.

Speaker 5 (01:01:10):
You hit it out right, Yeah, And I mean I know,
like in tennis, you have more than one ball and
pick a ball? Can you not have Let's let's get it.
Let's get us a lot of balls and then after
we're playing and we can go get them all.

Speaker 1 (01:01:21):
Yeah, you know what I mean. Let's let's are we
playing to have a single ball. I mean, let's have.

Speaker 5 (01:01:25):
About five or six balls in our bag and if
one goes over the fence, right, if we just grab
another ball. Yeah, and then when we're all walking to
the car, then we'll go get the balls or something.

Speaker 1 (01:01:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:01:37):
He jumped down. It was obviously thought that netting would
hold him.

Speaker 1 (01:01:40):
Yes he did. Oh he jumped onto the net. Yeah,
he jumps over this rail right here to see the
net on the other side of the road. And the
ball was on the net. Yes. Oh yep, and get
a ball retriever like in golf. Oh.

Speaker 3 (01:01:54):
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(01:02:22):
raised money for the Bronna Burgess Memorial Fund as well. Okay,
so Maduro am I saying that right, Adler Maduro uh,
the the evil dictator of Venezuela. Uh you of course
having a friend who is Venzuelian and uh and now
a purple belt you you're probably being updated on this.

(01:02:43):
From a personal standpoint, it's just so sad when you
see wonderful people and countries, it's like our our our
history is just riddled with all these evil tyrants that
that take over and it looks like Maduro is going
to be our latest Nicholas uh Nicholas Maduro.

Speaker 5 (01:03:03):
Now, for those of like me that have have heard Venezuela,
have heard Maduro, and you're like, yeah, okay, and you're like, okay,
I've really got a zone in here, and get updated.
Do I have it correctly that he lost an election
but refuses to leave correct?

Speaker 2 (01:03:17):
Yes, Okay, he's falsifying the results.

Speaker 1 (01:03:20):
He's falsifying the results.

Speaker 5 (01:03:21):
He is obviously in bed with the cartel and drug
trafficking and all this kind of stuff, and now defiant
to the Trump administration on getting his act together and
leaving office.

Speaker 1 (01:03:34):
Do I have that right?

Speaker 5 (01:03:36):
And Trump even said, hey, I'll give you a mulligan here,
you know, if you'll just leave office, we'll call it
quits and then you.

Speaker 1 (01:03:44):
Can move on. He's but he's refused. Yes, yes, And so.

Speaker 5 (01:03:47):
Now Trump said, okay, well, now all call it. All
cards are on the table, and we're coming after you.

Speaker 4 (01:03:52):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (01:03:53):
And even before obviously before this most recent election, that's
been turmoil in that country. We see what socialism does
two countries. At one point, Venezuela, with all their resources,
with all their people, they were they were in the
top I mean, you could say top fifteen of powerful
countries in the world. Socialism takes over and the country

(01:04:13):
is it's it's horrible. It's because it's a beautiful country
filled with beautiful people and so many resources. There by
the way, and you guys remember back on Rick and
Bubba University, Francisco Marquez, who you guys had on the show,
talked about that he was imprisoned by Maduro before the selection.
I remembered, So imprisonments, murders, torture is all part of

(01:04:39):
Maduro's tactics to keep control.

Speaker 1 (01:04:43):
Yeah, okay, this is it's as old as time. I
mean here, here's like Adam was talking about a country
that when it was free market capitalism, it thrived. They
bought into socialism, they bought into this garbage where everybody
he's going to be equal and rich people are evil

(01:05:03):
and all this, and now a ruling class has come
in that now you're under tyrannical, tyrannical government with a
tyrannical leader that that pretends there's elections unless they don't
go his way. And then and he keeps himself in power.
And now he's doing the thing now where he's gonna
he's gonna position himself as a victim. Uh and he's

(01:05:23):
going to protect the people from the evil West and
their allies. And that's what we have today. He's singing, dancing,
and he's threatening to smash the teeth of the North
American Empire. This this is like this. We've seen this
so many times, where these ridiculous dictators stand up like

(01:05:44):
they can take in the world. You remember the time
we had Kadafi in the bass boat out there knowing
the line of death and all that. So see he
went with a hat that I used when I cut
the yards. He really keeps his son off your face.

Speaker 2 (01:05:57):
Yeah, this is going to give you a second hand.

Speaker 4 (01:05:59):
Also speaking, don't worry, be happy. Sorry, speedy lie, don't worry,
be happy. Death bits not to.

Speaker 2 (01:06:21):
Just peace, not worry.

Speaker 1 (01:06:24):
There you go. Okay, now we've got the peace signs,
got peace signs left and right. Oh he didn't need
to make fun of Trump's dance. No, I expected more
rhythm from someone with the Latin background.

Speaker 5 (01:06:36):
I know he's very uncomfortable. I think we should dance
and we're gonna die, so I think we dance and smile.

Speaker 1 (01:06:42):
The guy and the cowboy had is terrified at He's like,
my screaming, Am I moving enough? Screaming inside, hollering help me?

Speaker 2 (01:06:52):
Still dancing?

Speaker 1 (01:06:53):
Wow? Now really dancing now speedy.

Speaker 5 (01:06:56):
I don't know what we're doing now.

Speaker 1 (01:06:57):
Oh, now we're going to take the hat off. He
does have good hair, Yeah he does. I wonder why
he's got the had on. Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:07:05):
This is uh, but he's done this. He keeps trying
to use like American pop hits to plead his case. Uh,
he's saying, John Lennon, imagine that. No people he did, yes, yes,
and now this just pit's not war?

Speaker 1 (01:07:22):
So what is your neighbor? I know he's so anti Maduro, Yes,
but what does he say?

Speaker 2 (01:07:29):
I was very surprised, because, you know, we the age
that I am. I'm very scarred by the war, wars
in Iraq and Afghanistan. How Afghanistan and Afghanistan ended so
direct disastrously, and then the suicide rate of veterans that
we have in our country now, friends of mine that

(01:07:52):
went and served and felt like their their friends died
for nothing. Again, especially the way that Biden left that
engagement twenty years I think it's like a trillion dollars
all going to the military industrial complex. So I was
initially saying, let's not touch Venezuela. Why do we care
about Venezuela and so, and you see that a lot

(01:08:15):
of times the people of those countries resent the United
States for coming in at times, you know, you sometimes
see that in the population. And so I was initially
against this, but I've been speaking to them and hearing
there they are saying that the people of Venezuela are
crying out for this. They're so tired of being killed
and being in desolation that they actually support this. And

(01:08:40):
so I've had to say to my neighbors, I'm like, wow,
I'm having to rethink how I view this thing when
you have because you can't you can't pull off a
regime change war if you don't have the support of
the people, right, And.

Speaker 1 (01:08:50):
So you're saying that people would invite America and the
Allies to come in and change out the government.

Speaker 2 (01:08:56):
Yes, I was very surprised to see how much they
said that the people of Venezuela would support that. I
wouldn't resent it, and do support this and would not
resent it one bit when you see the suffering, UH,
and the death and the corruption.

Speaker 1 (01:09:09):
UH.

Speaker 2 (01:09:10):
Just taking over your country. Then I guess that's a
very logical opinion to have.

Speaker 1 (01:09:16):
H Yeah, I mean, enough's enough. And and now that
you have an election and you clearly tell him that
this is the this is the problem with with tyrannical dictators.
Now a lot of you went on record that you
didn't want him in there, and he's just staying. So
now he takes his all his thugs and he says,

(01:09:36):
I remember all of you that tried to vote me out,
and now you're I'm not not exaggerating, you're in the crosshairs. Yeah,
of being done away with UH and being jailed.

Speaker 5 (01:09:47):
Well, that's a lot of the and that that's what
a big fear of of those that were against Hamas
when they signed that you know, that piece deal or
cease fire. Ham Austin started going locally and started picking
off people that they knew were against them.

Speaker 2 (01:10:01):
And so and you guys saw that the United States
seized at Venezuelan tanker ship off the coast of Venezuela.
Trump said, it's the largest one I ever seized.

Speaker 1 (01:10:11):
So well, of course it's the biggest, the best.

Speaker 2 (01:10:15):
Yes, things are.

Speaker 1 (01:10:16):
Heating up though, Yeah, we'll be right.

Speaker 3 (01:10:18):
Back this is the Rick Burgess Show, now speedy.

Speaker 1 (01:10:28):
Sometimes you'll just read things. Yep. I'm going to ask
you to proceed with a huge amount of caution here
because I know you get some of these things that
are stories of the day, and hey, today is such
and such today, and hey have y'all ever heard of this?
And you did this in the break and hopefully I

(01:10:51):
want you to get to the explanation as quick as
you possibly can. Okay, all right, So what I mean
in order you tell me.

Speaker 5 (01:11:02):
Today is uh is National dingling Day.

Speaker 1 (01:11:06):
Please tell me what you mean. Uh, it's uniquely some
people say every day, but I mean, but I mean, right,
this is this is something that people don't who don't
have good sense. So it's I remember that that phrase
used a long time ago. Yeah, somebody is a dingling
ring that they're that they're kind of goofy uh huh.

Speaker 5 (01:11:29):
Well, so, as I said, it's it's a day where
you basically you touch base, preferably by phone. Hence the
playful reference to dingling.

Speaker 2 (01:11:42):
Oh with.

Speaker 1 (01:11:45):
Yeah, see do I said it right? Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:11:47):
You know it is it is ding It's not ring,
it's dingaling. It's not ring aling. But y'all would think
it would be ringling, but it's dingling and anyway, it
says it's where you reconnect or touch base with friends
or family you may have lost track of during the year.
You also get a free pass to be just a

(01:12:08):
little bit weird for the.

Speaker 1 (01:12:10):
Day national back to my reference. Uh huh.

Speaker 5 (01:12:16):
So they're saying, if you have spent the year and
we've all done it at Christmas parties last year or
family gathering's early spring, where you go, man, I miss you,
we need to get together, and then you go their
whole year and you don't see them again, and you're like, man,
I need to reconnect with them and reach out to
them and say hey, Today to celebrate National Dingling Day,

(01:12:38):
you reach out to family of friends maybe you have
just lost touch with or it could be that maybe.

Speaker 1 (01:12:44):
You've even gone longer than today.

Speaker 5 (01:12:46):
Maybe you're on the outs with somebody and just give
give them a call, wish them happy holidays, and a
quick conversation might actually clear things up. So if you've
lost track with someone during the day it is National Dingling,
let me make sure I'm staying a day during the
year during the year, let me say I make sure
I'm saying it right.

Speaker 1 (01:13:05):
I track with a lot of people on a day.

Speaker 5 (01:13:07):
Can you see if I'm saying it right here? This
is well no, I just want to make sure. Let's
say here is this right?

Speaker 1 (01:13:14):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:13:14):
Wait?

Speaker 1 (01:13:14):
Oh no, no, no, this is what? No it was
I hit the wrong button. This is it here right here?
Let's stay here? Is that me? You got me up?
I'm sorry, I've got me uh yeah, okay, yeah. It's
December twelfth, National Dingling Day. Yeah yeah, yeah, okay, I
got it right, Dingling Day. Okay, all right, there it

(01:13:35):
is there, you go there.

Speaker 5 (01:13:36):
That's what it's called. And so for those of you
that are wondering what he's saying, that's the official name
of the day.

Speaker 1 (01:13:42):
Have you ever have you ever had that thing where
you you had lost track with somebody for so long
and you reconnected and you remember why you lost track
pretty quick into the conversation. I wish I had not reconnected.
This was there was a reason that that I didn't
put much effort in it, and now I regret it. Yeah,

(01:14:03):
you ever brought somebody back in your life that you
had successfully removed?

Speaker 5 (01:14:07):
Yes, yeah, But there's also those times where you've lost
track with someone and it's just been total mammunication. And
you miss and you call and after maybe ninety seconds,
you feel so much better, absolutely, like a weight's been
lifted off of because you've cleared up that relationship.

Speaker 2 (01:14:23):
Right, So who's the dingling in this in the scenario?

Speaker 1 (01:14:26):
Right, let's think you. I mean, you can contact someone
and give them I would say a ring a ling,
But this is saying dingaling. Okay, you remember hate ding
me right, right? Like ding me? Like call me right,
I would say ring me, but I mean, but I
say ding But I remember when when I was a

(01:14:48):
little kid, that dingaling would be like older men talking
about how goofy somebody was, yeah, you know. And so
I've never heard it used this way. But some people
are wondering if this is the word of the day.

Speaker 5 (01:15:03):
It is not no no, it's not no what you
text no, but just it just popped up as far
as just news of the day.

Speaker 1 (01:15:11):
I remember also being being like an elementary school and
like some kid came to school and and had the
chuck Berry song. Yeah, that involves this as well, and
of course we thought it was the greatest thing we
had ever thought. It's a great song. You'll sing you well,
you think a bunch of elementary boys didn't sing that

(01:15:32):
say and and uh. But but I just somebody saying
rick today's day you call Larry Wait, but y'all have
y'all in law touch. I talked to Larry almost every show,
not not every show, a lot through me a lot,
by the way, if it wasn't for me, it would
be every show because I try to help Larry.

Speaker 5 (01:15:54):
Yeah, you know, because sometimes people need help. And but
have you ever those they can't quite called themselves? Do
you have those friends though that like maybe you need
to danling.

Speaker 1 (01:16:04):
And and holler at I'm not going dingling any friends.

Speaker 5 (01:16:07):
But do you have those friends where you haven't talked
in maybe a year, but you talk and it's like
y'all saw each other yesterday.

Speaker 1 (01:16:14):
There's just that. Now, let me tell you what that is.
You're right, and I'm sure it's the same way for
those of you that Adler mentioned a minute ago that
have served in the military. It's certainly not that level
of sacrifice by any means. But anytime you are with
people that you went through things that were difficult and hard,
and not everybody is willing or can do it, And

(01:16:36):
that's everybody you played football with. Yeah, if you played
sports with people, that connection is always there. Yep, like
I can see people that have I don't even if
I have you mentioned that I played little ball? Did you?
But when I met number one, well, seventy five in
high school, ninety six in college, want to be seventy
five in college? But they and they told me I
would be and then they didn't. But but the but

(01:16:59):
when when you meet anybody that was a former teammate anywhere, anytime,
no matter how many years, it instantly picks up. Now
I will tell you from being in a locker room
though with teammates, there's no way that today I will
reach out to them and say I just wanted a dingling.
You that ain't happening. Okay, not do that today.

Speaker 2 (01:17:20):
Oh god, he's just giving you a dingaling.

Speaker 1 (01:17:22):
You're gonna leave that part out? Just call him? Yes,
I would just say, hey, man, good to talk to you.
Should I text my wife? If there's anybody we let's see.
Is there anybody we need to anybody we.

Speaker 2 (01:17:34):
Need to give a daling?

Speaker 1 (01:17:35):
Yep? That's it.

Speaker 2 (01:17:36):
Chuck Berry's special word seventy two song that was that
was his only us number one.

Speaker 1 (01:17:43):
Hit Are you serious? That went to number one? Chuck Berry?
Are you serious? I wish we could play it?

Speaker 2 (01:17:50):
And it was about that song. The literal meaning was
about a cute toy with silver silver bells.

Speaker 1 (01:17:56):
He was having a good time at the expense of
everybody on that one because it was it was two
bells on a string and uh, and he would go
on and on about it. I did not know that
song because it was seventy two. I was I was
only six years old. No, I was eight years old,
so I don't recall. I remember hearing it when I

(01:18:18):
got in like elementary school and thinking how is this
allowed to even be? You know?

Speaker 5 (01:18:23):
And but so that I just by sitting here, I've
thought of three friends I need to dingling, but just
and I'm going to do it today, Okay, I am.

Speaker 1 (01:18:36):
I just take maybe on the way to the farm.
I just text Greg to say tell me you're listening.
Uh well he might he might know if some too
day you guy, you too, buddy?

Speaker 3 (01:18:47):
All right?

Speaker 1 (01:18:47):
People said, literally, Tomlin you the Little.

Speaker 3 (01:18:50):
Operators is the Rick Burgess Show.

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a bizarre headline, and Andrew says he has more to
say about this person. Swedish man teaches pet octopus to
play the piano. Yeah, first of all, I've never laid
awake at night and thought to myself, there's something missing

(01:20:50):
in my experience here on Earth. If I could just
see an octopus play the piano, everything would be great.
So first of all, I don't know why he thinks
we need this, but but tell me what's going on here.

Speaker 5 (01:21:01):
So what you've got is you've got a guy here, sweetest, sweetest,
sweetish musician taught and octopus how to play underwater piano.
It's uh, it's a it's kind of a crazy situation
because he's playing a guitar while the octopus chimes in
and hits the levers on the piano keys.

Speaker 1 (01:21:24):
And are you okay with this?

Speaker 2 (01:21:26):
I actually admit something what I got sucked into this?
This this was a like this popped across my YouTube feed.
I don't know how many months ago, maybe two months ago,
something like that. A month ago, and it was a
thirty minute video. I watched the entire thing. I got
sucked into it. I couldn't I couldn't help it.

Speaker 1 (01:21:44):
Are you this thirty minutes of your life?

Speaker 2 (01:21:48):
Yes? And I was intrigued and loved it.

Speaker 1 (01:21:50):
You could have watched the Seinfeld rerun.

Speaker 2 (01:21:52):
He picks the octopus up from a like a food market.
Like he didn't buy it, like from a pet store
or whatever the thing was going to be served up
on somebody's plate. He gets it from a food market
and just talks about the process of teaching an octopus
to play the underwater.

Speaker 1 (01:22:06):
Now, he's not like that weird octopus documentary guy who
in my opinion, fell in love with it drifted into
a world that is depraved.

Speaker 5 (01:22:15):
Would lay on his chest and he'd like, yeah we did,
oh yeah, that one was only about as big as
your hand. And he would just lay on his chest
and he would sit there holding his breath.

Speaker 3 (01:22:24):
I thought I was.

Speaker 1 (01:22:25):
Watching a documentary about, you know, the the the incredible
creature of the octopus, and it just got and all
of a sudden it took a turn. Yeah, I was like,
he's taking his shirt off.

Speaker 2 (01:22:34):
He's this is platonic.

Speaker 5 (01:22:38):
So so I got to see this and hear it
because I have the audio only. But this this has
both what Adler has rig and and so uh he
the octopus grabs the levers that are attached to the
piano keys. That's how he's playing while the while he's

(01:22:58):
playing the guitar.

Speaker 1 (01:22:59):
So there's levers.

Speaker 2 (01:23:00):
He had to fashion some levers.

Speaker 1 (01:23:02):
Okay with that? Is that really him? You know? If
Greg was here, I can hear his voice right over
there right now, I ain't ready to play. It's an octopus.
It's an octopus pulling levers. That's all this is, right.
You can see the different versus Adler's channel in my mind. Okay, yeah, yeah,
me down.

Speaker 2 (01:23:19):
He's playing piano with the octopus.

Speaker 1 (01:23:21):
Y'all. Should you wait where there you go?

Speaker 2 (01:23:26):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:23:26):
So now this is now we're inside, we're underwater, and
now we're seeing the octopuses underwater.

Speaker 1 (01:23:31):
Just oct with that camera angle.

Speaker 2 (01:23:33):
Okay, right, So we three D printed designs in different
ways to get the octopus to pull on it.

Speaker 5 (01:23:39):
Oh so we grabbed and those little levers and pull
down on it.

Speaker 1 (01:23:42):
Can the octopus here hear that? Yes, under the water
that thinks still? Okay? Yes, yes, so he was.

Speaker 3 (01:23:52):
That was.

Speaker 1 (01:23:54):
There it is, y'all.

Speaker 2 (01:23:55):
And so he used little crabs and put little crabs
in an elevator to entice the.

Speaker 1 (01:24:01):
Let's play Taco. Taco's the name Taco, y'all, y'all.

Speaker 4 (01:24:14):
Good.

Speaker 1 (01:24:15):
So we're supposed to have already eaten at and it's
playing the piano? Are you kidding me? Talk good?

Speaker 2 (01:24:24):
I love you, Taco?

Speaker 1 (01:24:25):
Did you see him as a little suckers? Just thirty
minutes you gave I gave it thirty minutes.

Speaker 5 (01:24:30):
Wait, lookuse six months. It took him to do this
six months.

Speaker 2 (01:24:33):
The train worked so hard on it. You're just like,
I got to see the.

Speaker 6 (01:24:36):
End of this.

Speaker 1 (01:24:37):
He's like, did he think Taco could understand what he
was saying?

Speaker 2 (01:24:39):
He talks to Taco more than you want.

Speaker 1 (01:24:43):
Not not as bad as that other guy though, right, No,
he keeps no point. He shirtless.

Speaker 2 (01:24:47):
Right, It's like a brother relationship, not like a weird
husband octopus relationship that we saw the octopus teacher?

Speaker 1 (01:24:54):
Was that what it was?

Speaker 2 (01:24:55):
My octopus teacher?

Speaker 1 (01:24:56):
What a weird I blame you? You're the one that
told us about it. I know I shouldn't you and guys,
I had salts. Basically, I pointed everyone to a documentary
that featured beast reality.

Speaker 5 (01:25:07):
So he started crying at the table with his family.
Don't know how much he left the octopus, Yeah, I.

Speaker 1 (01:25:11):
Thought to my I looked at Sherry and I said,
all like to do is go, honey, we look at
this guyy'all here all the time, to go play with
this octopus. At least I'm not doing that, all right?
So I know I know what Greg would say, you
when you speak on his behalf. Yes, channel Greg, y'all
think that was good? Y'all think that's playing the piano.

(01:25:33):
I mean that's what Greg would be saying. Does he
play the piano better than what I just heard?

Speaker 2 (01:25:38):
That's as good as it gets.

Speaker 1 (01:25:39):
That hurts. I mean, can I have some chopstick something something?
Can I see the octopus's face? Does it smile at all?

Speaker 5 (01:25:45):
Like? Like check that out?

Speaker 2 (01:25:47):
He doesn't smile?

Speaker 5 (01:25:48):
Well, you know what I'm saying. They can kind of
like not that, you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (01:25:51):
Like the way they I think that's a bad note.
He should go in there.

Speaker 2 (01:25:54):
He's minery.

Speaker 5 (01:25:55):
It's moody, so he trains it, is he so he
can't hear him playing the guitar?

Speaker 1 (01:26:05):
Has he hit the beat?

Speaker 2 (01:26:06):
There's an argument between argument to me made there. I
think that beat was lucky, a lucky beat.

Speaker 1 (01:26:11):
Okay, yeah, now it's getting less impressive it is, so
you're you're saying that, really he's just grabbing those levers
to get that crab and this guy's trying to play
some chords that go around it.

Speaker 2 (01:26:21):
Let's okay, now that I'm thinking about it, I wasted
thirty minutes of my life and that guy wasted six
months of his.

Speaker 5 (01:26:26):
Uh huh.

Speaker 2 (01:26:27):
So as I think that's what we're learning right now.

Speaker 1 (01:26:29):
I don't know what I'm more upset about his loss
of six months? Are you're lost of a half hour? Yeah?
I got into it. Wow. So Taco's so for thirty
So if you went thirty minutes, he takes you to him.
You know, very beginning, he's getting he's got to get friends. Yeah,
does he have a thing, does he have a girlfriend?

(01:26:52):
Something to do?

Speaker 5 (01:26:53):
So we get excited about like going hunt today, he
gets excited about working with Taco.

Speaker 1 (01:26:56):
Yeah, that's the same excitement. Do you think he sees
our interest in hunting just as oh, we're probably evil.
Well if you save an octobus from a from a
web market, yeah, to teach you to play a piano.
You're not a big No, you do not want to
go hunting. No, that's true. That's a great point.

Speaker 3 (01:27:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:27:15):
So, uh, I didn't get jingle bells. I didn't get chopsticks.
I didn't get anything out of that.

Speaker 2 (01:27:19):
Right, we're not playing jingle bells anymore. Rack remember racist?

Speaker 1 (01:27:23):
By the way, can I can I do one last
little thing on that racist thing? Do you remember the
movie The Incredibles? Yes, outstanding movie, really good. Do you
remember the outstanding line? If everyone, if everyone is super,
then no one is. If everything is racist, then nothing is.
And can we not learn that what we're doing is say,

(01:27:45):
taking something that's very wicked, very evil, that that at
times needs to be addressed. But if we declare everything racist,
then sadly nothing will be And and don't we know
that apparently not?

Speaker 2 (01:27:58):
Yeah, you can't. You can't call out actual racism if
we're calling everything.

Speaker 1 (01:28:01):
Racist, right, right, you're really you're taking it's just it's
just turning into a parody of something very serious.

Speaker 2 (01:28:09):
Right, can I explain something that I did that seemed
to maybe like I was trying to rub you know,
lemon juice in a paper cut or whatever. We talked
about that that the song jingle Bells being potentially racist.
I have these royalty free songs that I'm using to
cover Rick's real songs, and I'm not joking you. The
next one in line, and this is totally random. The

(01:28:29):
very next time we're coming back from break, I'm like,
all right, Christmas songs, here we go, and it goes.
So that seemed like I was trying to say something,
but yeah, it was funny. I let it roll though,
because it's not racist.

Speaker 1 (01:28:45):
Dash through the snow together. It's a one horse, open sleigh.

Speaker 5 (01:28:48):
That's it.

Speaker 1 (01:28:49):
So all right, we'll be back.

Speaker 5 (01:28:51):
Also, if you're out there and you've graduated from college
but you're having a tough time finding a job before
the end of the show, I want to make sure
you know about something where to send the application in.

Speaker 1 (01:29:02):
There's a major company looking for help. Really, yes, I
might help some folks that can't find a job.

Speaker 2 (01:29:09):
Octopus trainers or what what is it?

Speaker 1 (01:29:12):
Six months? Six months?

Speaker 3 (01:29:14):
Yeah, this is the Rick Burgess Show.

Speaker 2 (01:29:23):
So so in.

Speaker 1 (01:29:26):
Inside that break text Nation always delivers.

Speaker 4 (01:29:31):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:29:32):
You've heard us talking about it on the show for years,
comparing a little league from when we were kids versus
the kids of today. So I guess this is a
teammate that played on the team in Calhoun County, Alabama. Yep.

(01:29:52):
And we were sponsored. And it's not a comedy bit
you now see, its reality by Miller Funeral Home, which
meant they put on our hats MF. There's a picture
that Adler just took for those of you that that
are tubers, and it features this team. And I want

(01:30:14):
you to not just look at the team. For those
of you that can see it, I may, yeah, there
it is. I want I want you to look at
the pointer. All right. So when you see this team,
let me show you Greg first. Here's Greg. Uh huh, yeah,
there's Greg there. I am that's that's me at like
ten okay. And and and I don't know what's happening

(01:30:40):
with teammate Wayne Lee.

Speaker 2 (01:30:43):
I don't know what this is.

Speaker 6 (01:30:44):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:30:45):
Not even the photographers cared then, you know what I mean.
I mean, not only did you not get a participation
in trophy, they the picture is good enough. Okay, I'll
stand over there. Okay, so these three men, you see
those three men in the background, that we weren't being
coached by Phil the accountant, Okay, we were being coached
by men that just got off their shift. Okay, we're

(01:31:08):
talking about men who were in the jungles of Vietnam. Okay.
And and our bats were in an army duffel bag okay,
and you shared them all. You didn't have your own
nobody had their own back, nobody had their own helmet.
You just you just played with whatever Billy Joe had. Okay.
Those are the atoms across the back. And uh you
think right there in the middle, you think Billy Joe

(01:31:30):
Adams handed out of participation trophy. I mean there were
there's kids on that team that never played an inning
the entire season. Okay. And we rode in the back
of his truck, beer cans in the back of it. Okay.
And uh and and like we said, he would, he

(01:31:50):
would get out, he or Pete, either one of them
his brother, and he would literally get out. He'd fin off,
finish off the paps, blue ribbon, throw it in the
back of the truck, which were ode in to practice. Yeah.
A lot of cigarette get his bad, I said, let's
get one. And that's how, that's how. And and our
parents would leave us with these bits. Yeah, they would.

Speaker 5 (01:32:12):
No one cared, No one was practice time to get
things done. They didn't stay and watch.

Speaker 1 (01:32:16):
My mama wouldn't had any practices, No, she she just
trusted me to the Adams brothers. I mean it's it's
like he picked us up in the back of his truck.
And you know what though, even though that was a
tough time, and we might have grew up a little
a little a little hard and a little difficult and

(01:32:37):
slightly traumatized, but you know what, we could persevere. Yeah,
I know you think we were into We weren't in
touch with getting our feelings hurt in disappointment? Was it?

Speaker 5 (01:32:47):
I noticed something about the Burgess boys in this one.
I've never y'all are y'all are wearing matching undershirts, white
turtlenecks or must have it cold?

Speaker 1 (01:32:56):
Was it winter? It was a cold day of the
picture day, cold day, and Alma thought we needed to
have a have on some sort of undersleeve thing to
keep this warm, which is standing. I noticed other members
of the team not so much.

Speaker 5 (01:33:08):
Some did some did wonder if they were cold, because
I see one with a jacket on, so that I mean,
clearly it is chilli, right.

Speaker 1 (01:33:14):
I think he was our picture keeping his arm warm.
So the uh that that really does? Yep, that's tough. Hey,
go a whole season where they mix all the different leagues,
and one of the leagues is the Babe Ruth League
where teenagers are playing. Yeah, walk around with m F
on your hat as a ten year old. Try that out.

(01:33:35):
That's a tough day at the ballpark, Okay, especially eating
the hot dog. Okay.

Speaker 5 (01:33:41):
So so it's a it was you know the movie
Bad News Bears. I mean you sit there and you
look at that, and there's so much in that that's
just real. Yep, that's what really happened. A lot of
it exaggerated, No, when a lot of it real And
that that team photo looks like it.

Speaker 2 (01:33:55):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:33:56):
No, I've said this. I've said this before speaking at
Confort and doing a little comedy and I've even said
it before here. When I was a little boy, if
a man, you know, bit down started talking to me
and I smelled beer on him, I thought, well he
must coach littlely. I mean, it was just a difference.
Now Now we have parents that are, you know, hovering

(01:34:16):
over their children, worried that filled the accountant's going to
say something mean to them. I mean, try these guys. Yeah,
And like I remember, like the police were called to
our game so much. It didn't even a lot of times.
You wouldn't even get out of your stance. You'd be
in the outfield and the police be pulling up, you know,
cause two coaches were fighting field over. You wouldn't even look.

(01:34:37):
You just keep playing, you know, because it happened so much.
I mean I remember being on the field where the coaches,
the two coaches would literally fight. I mean they would
absolutely fight physically on the field, and then we get
back to the fourth end and they'd still be there. Yeah,
nobody would send them home. They'd work it out. Yeah,
And I remember one where one came out with a

(01:34:58):
bat after the other co mm hmm. But but none
of it seemed odd. I guess it's just all what
you what you're accustomed to, right. I remember thinking, well,
this must have been going on all over the world,
you know, I had no idea. And I remember when
we moved to Birmingham and because of the success of
the show were able to live in nicer neighborhoods, and

(01:35:20):
I realized, oh, there's a whole nother culture. I didn't
I didn't even know. I didn't know anything about this, right,
What is all this? Why are we all going to practice?
And I said I had to learn all that, you
know that you're supposed to I remember thinking, where do
these people get all this extra time? My parents never
seemed to have extra time for that. They came to

(01:35:41):
the games, but they weren't going to practice.

Speaker 5 (01:35:44):
And I do love the photographer there. Hey, y'all get together,
ado care. You got some that are in what I
call the high knee, you know, like they're sitting down, Sure,
they got a knee and they're up real proud.

Speaker 1 (01:35:54):
And you got some that are sitting back on their butts.
And he's like, all right, that'll do. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Next, hey,
get you some green apple bubble gum and walk past
the baby blue field with that hat on.

Speaker 5 (01:36:06):
But your size, I'm sure people were like, I'm not
sure if we need to mess with him, But now
your baby brother, Greg.

Speaker 1 (01:36:12):
He'll fight. Let me tell you that little fella right.

Speaker 5 (01:36:14):
There, yeah, yeah, that little fella right there see Adam
some sideburns.

Speaker 1 (01:36:18):
I didn't know that. I want you to look at
little Greg right there, That little fella right there, Yeah,
would fight the devil himself.

Speaker 3 (01:36:27):
Him.

Speaker 1 (01:36:27):
Look at him, Look at him right that's the meanest
little boy I've ever known. You know. I was a
little more good natured. Yeah, no, you were just conniving.

Speaker 5 (01:36:42):
You set him up a lot because you knew what
would get him going and what he would fight.

Speaker 1 (01:36:46):
Then you'd come in. I tell you, you see me
standing there. You think I can find a concessions stand
for you? They follow a big fellow, he'll take us
to it. Yeah, you know.

Speaker 5 (01:36:58):
Fact, that's back when the umpires held the cushion in
front of them.

Speaker 1 (01:37:01):
Oh yeah, you know they didn't. They didn't have all the.

Speaker 5 (01:37:04):
They had to have the cushion shield right in front
of them.

Speaker 2 (01:37:07):
They couldn't have put like, you know MF. H. Miller
Funeral homes.

Speaker 1 (01:37:11):
Did you know the next year, sir? Straight up, the
next year they just put an M and the shirt
that said Miller's. And now we were a sponsored by beer.

Speaker 3 (01:37:19):
Well yeah, that yes is the Rick Burgers Show.

Speaker 1 (01:37:28):
Hey, Rick, here from the Rick Burgers Show. You got
a great weekend Hopefully your Christmas shopping is close to done.
You want to shop the Rick Burgers Show store, please
get those orders in by Monday. Go to Rick Burgershow
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great weekend, a brand new show Monday, more of the
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(01:37:50):
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