Rick & Bubba's Greatest Hits - Ep. 35

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

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Ricking Bubba, Rick and Bubba.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
When I played Little League baseball that it started at
the beginning of February and we practiced in you know,
thirty and forty degree weather, trying to play baseball, which
you don't get a real fiel because now people are
playing in jackets, you know, which is just crazy and
every time every time they bat they scream, hey, it
hurts my.

Speaker 4 (00:34):
Hands and oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
So anyway, but of course, now you know where we live,
which is an odd new culture phenomenon, trying to get
Little league baseball over before school is out.

Speaker 4 (00:44):
Again, I go back to what I talked about last hour.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Was it just that when we were small where we
in the areas we grew up in that nobody had
money to go on vacation, so trying to end for
summer started was not even a point. I remember we
played baseball on spring break because nobody was going anywhere.
I mean, you know this thing of hey man, we're
gona get playing spring break. Everybody's going out. There was
no concept of that when we were kids, you know.

Speaker 5 (01:02):
But but anyway, I remember us getting over with a
little league and then you would have all stars, and
all Stars would practice over the fourth of July weekend,
and then you would have a tournament right after that, maybe.

Speaker 4 (01:16):
Mid July, absolutely right.

Speaker 5 (01:18):
But the season went on to you know, at least
the third week in June.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
I would say, yeah, I mean we we actually started baseball.
And where it comes in content when it when it
was baseball season. I mean, when you're starting the little
league before the major league pitchers and catchers report there's
a problem. But anyway, now it's over with, like by
the end of mine. That's not what I'm gonna see.
The high schools problem. They got to do it before school,
but lead But anyway, so let me guard baby. But

(01:45):
I want to land on something today now.

Speaker 5 (01:48):
For the everything had parted on it a r marking recreation.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
And I know when you look at when you look
at us, you know we've not actually ever been slaves
to fashion. And for the life of me, I never
understand fashion, because what is the authority who declares this
is now the look, and all must follow who is
this person and where where does this happen? Well, in
base you know baseball players, you know, and I am
uniform sensitive. I like a nice looking uniform at all levels.

(02:17):
I don't care if you're playing t ball. I wants
you uniform to look right. It drives me crazy for
the for the uniform to be to be tampered with. Well,
you play as good as you look. Yeah, the baseball
players have gone into this, this this thing about their hats. Okay, now,
when we play baseball, it was the standard baseball hat
with a slot bend to the to the bill the

(02:37):
way I still wear it because I'm a man. I'm
forty Okay, come after me.

Speaker 4 (02:41):
Okay, come after me.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
I'm a man, I'm forty so so so I still
wear the hat, which to me was was baseball's finest moment.

Speaker 4 (02:54):
Was the slot tilt in the bill.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
Yep, and a nice good looking hat come down, you
know about over your eyebrows, and that's where it needed
to be. Well, then we went into the we're gonna
bend it too far. We've looked like a piece of pipe.
We bent it like you have a pipe sticking out
like you have a horn like coming out of.

Speaker 4 (03:12):
Your side down.

Speaker 5 (03:13):
I called that the college boy be right, and they
went through. You remember frat boy that that was an
intern he you know his was his was rolled up
to the point like you It looked like a uh
a paper type er towel holder that just had a
cut in the bottom of it sticking off his hair.
So he wouldn't be seen without that hat. It didn't
matter that it looked like it had been drug behind
the truck.

Speaker 4 (03:31):
Then that was it.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
Then the next stage was we keep that that that
over tilt and now it needs to be as nasty
as it can be. We want our hat to have
stains on it, have its own zip. We want it
to be like rough, look like you would buy like
you would buy rough furniture. I've seen kids that they
had get a brand new hat and rub it on
the concrete. We wanted to be scuffed up again. I
thought that was stupid. Have a good have a uniform

(03:52):
looking nice. You want to practice, well you know who
you I don't bring a hat on the game field.

Speaker 5 (03:55):
You know who brought that on rick? That was the
people who bought stonewashed jeans. Yes, we had to wear
our jeans out before we.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
Could buy you remember this too. And then it got
into furniture. Go find furniture that looks old. Yeah, you're
hired to me, all right. So now I've come through
those hoping and praying that as cycles always go that
in baseball, we would return to what I call the
greatest look, the slight tilt to the bill, and your
hat looks neat and it looks normal. It looks a

(04:22):
normal hat. But oh no, now, and I don't know
who started it. These and I saw them at the
ballpark last night as I was coaching the Rick and
Bubba Manz. They're wearing their hat and what I call
a duck bill, and it's you've seen it even the college.

Speaker 4 (04:38):
It is a They don't bend it at all.

Speaker 3 (04:41):
It's like you get it out of the box and
put it on and you want it to look like
a non broken I thought a lot. You know what
I told one of them last night, were you can
wear a non broken in glove. So I guess you
don't break your glove in either. You're gonna you're gonna
be able to.

Speaker 4 (04:52):
Open it bother you. Oh straight, you know why, because
let me let all of you know something. It looks stupid.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
You're the kids think it looks cool. And I'll tell
you where I started it. The kids are wrong, they're kids.
I'm just telling you what they're thinking.

Speaker 4 (05:03):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
It started with the college baseball. Okay, these kids see
what the college guys are doing. Then the high school
guys do what the college guys do, and then the
youth league does what the do We want the youth
league to become a bunch of drunkards too like college kids. No,
I'm just talking about hats. They look at their hats
and then where you build hat and drink down't know
what you've seen major league baseball they're even doing.

Speaker 4 (05:23):
So they want them on steroids. You're right, So, yes,
so you haven't seen this.

Speaker 5 (05:29):
I haven't seen it at the major league level.

Speaker 4 (05:31):
That entertennis.

Speaker 5 (05:32):
I was trying to figure out where are they emulating,
and he said.

Speaker 4 (05:35):
College, I've seen it in college. You know that. Have
you seen the look I'm talking about? I know exactly
what you're doing.

Speaker 5 (05:39):
It looks it looks you know, you think, bless his heart,
he didn't have time to break his hand.

Speaker 4 (05:45):
Well, let me tell you.

Speaker 3 (05:46):
And I don't know where the line is on the
is it by the way, Ryan Greenwood joins, is it
happening in softball?

Speaker 4 (05:50):
Because you have all.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
Girls, Well you got to think it's soft others there's
a lot of no hats, a lot of game faces
and advisors.

Speaker 4 (05:56):
What's the game foul?

Speaker 3 (05:57):
You know things that were on their face? Yeah, what's her?
His oldest daughter needed what she's wearing now. But and
then you got visors, so you don't see is that
cats can coming today?

Speaker 4 (06:07):
Uh so far? So good? Okay, good?

Speaker 3 (06:10):
Well you know what you learn, uh so so? And
it's not an issue in softball. Have you seen the
look I'm talking about? I will tell you I've seen it,
but only on hip hop star. Yeah, I know, I
started it Greg. It looked so you have friends and
in the g unit started my my.

Speaker 4 (06:29):
Son, your your son, Taylor doing it.

Speaker 3 (06:32):
No, lady, let me tell you about tight and now
it's all him. He keeps his bill bent. He also
wears his socks up high. He pants to his knees.

Speaker 4 (06:40):
I say, I was you don't like the loose pants?

Speaker 3 (06:45):
Took in the pants under your cleak like you're wearing
little footy uh pajamas. Baby, I'll tell you what is
Let me just tell you right now. It drives me
crazy because he's got a little hole punch in the
bottom of it.

Speaker 4 (07:01):
Yeah, and you let him do it. I know your crutch,
your straddles, like at your knees. You know what it
looks like. He's wearing skirt pants. Yeah, you're right, you're right.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
The other day, let me just tell you right now
that you can get a flat bill. Okay, hat, They
look so stupid, the sidewinders. We don't have flat bills,
but all the kids. There's even a kid on our
team that tried to iron his flat Okay, now, hold on, listen.

Speaker 4 (07:23):
The other day, somebody the other day, Tyler.

Speaker 3 (07:25):
Throws his hat up on on the the dashboard. He goes,
I can't get it flat, you know, like he's frustrated.

Speaker 4 (07:33):
Players wear the flat bill a couple, but a lot
of teams do. Our team.

Speaker 3 (07:37):
There's a few, but it's not really press I want
to tell you this, but it is very he says.
It does feel when you wear it looks stupid. You
know what, biggest mind, rick, you can't wear it. What
I hate is wearing a hat and it presses down
on you.

Speaker 4 (07:51):
Hate.

Speaker 5 (07:51):
There's so much curve to get around here.

Speaker 3 (07:53):
It has to get But here's the thing, guys, y'all
not hearing me. Last night, we're sitting. I'm not gonna
let the little guys do it. My kids will These
kids start coming on the field that we're in the
older leagues, and some of them travel ball and they
had and they had the fight. And I looked at him.
I said, hey, son, I want you to know this
from a grown man.

Speaker 4 (08:09):
You look stupid.

Speaker 3 (08:10):
Rick.

Speaker 4 (08:10):
And I said, give me, you said to another kid.
I did.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
I said, give me the hat and let me And
I told him, I said, look look at you, dad,
and look at me. Our hat looks outstanding. I mean
that our hat is like we like it. Do you remember,
make your hat look like this? We look so much
better than you in our hat. Right now, he's walking
around the park. I dog every kid that has one, Rick,
But I said, I said you had look. I said,
what's wrong you had? What's wrong?

Speaker 4 (08:32):
You had? Looks stupid? They end up with him, Rick,
what it is? Every you know what they look like?

Speaker 3 (08:36):
You remember everybody's when they're their grandad would show up
with that big foam hat and his bill wouldn't be
and we all made fun of him.

Speaker 4 (08:41):
That's the look, man, how can that be mine?

Speaker 3 (08:43):
Make fun of everybody's pop holl with that straight bill,
not listen, I am begging based a flat It looks
just a stupid I'm begging baseball. I'm begging you. Let's
return to the classic hat. Let's get our leggings back on,
Let's get our pants tight. No, let's let's get them

(09:04):
up to our neatna happen. Right now we have baseball players.
They're playing baseball and duck bill hats and pajamas.

Speaker 4 (09:12):
Yeah, it's ridiculous.

Speaker 5 (09:15):
If you had walked on the field in that when
I was playing, you would have been laughed out of.

Speaker 4 (09:19):
The laughed out of the complete port. I speak.

Speaker 3 (09:23):
That's real, catch you it is and uh, this comes
out of Shelby County, Alabama, part of the Shelby County Reporter.

Speaker 5 (09:29):
I think it's an insert.

Speaker 3 (09:33):
And it's called I speak, and it's very looks really good,
very professionally done. And there is a picture of bub
in this holding a shotgun, standing on a tennis court
with a rick and bubble hunting hat on.

Speaker 5 (09:45):
I think the caption should have been are you sure
that ball was out?

Speaker 4 (09:49):
That would have been good U and it says it was.

Speaker 5 (09:53):
A lot of fun doing that. Shoot, now we got
some strange Look when you go in with a twelve
gage over your shoulder to a tennis Well, the.

Speaker 3 (10:03):
First line telling me about it, I think I did
tell y'all. The first line of the of the article
really says it. Oh, and it really couldn't make me
proud of it just started the I mean I cannot okay.

Speaker 4 (10:15):
The name of the article is called Game Set Bubba.

Speaker 3 (10:19):
And you pay attention could eat reading the email. It
is written by Austin Phillips, who, of course has secured his.

Speaker 4 (10:27):
Place in Ricky Bubba history.

Speaker 3 (10:28):
Yes, and listen to the opening line and see how
proud I am. The face of tennis in the state
of Alabama is a man simply known as Bubba. I
really don't have to read anymore. I mean that, that's
really all I have to have.

Speaker 5 (10:44):
That's what you call a demographic stretcher, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (10:47):
Bill Bubba Bussy of the famed Rick and Bubba Show.
And then it mentions the local Birmingham affiliate w z
Z King doesn't look like your typical tennis fanatic, but
the man who is one half of the self proclaimed
sexiest fat man alive has helped take tennis to another level. Bubba,
who lives in North Shelby, first picked up a racket

(11:07):
three years ago when he and his wife Betty were
on anniversary vacation on the Gulf Coast. With a nice
tennis court adjoining their hotel, the couple decided to give
the game a try. She couldn't even hit the ball
back at me, Bubba said of Betty. After a few misses,
she said, this is embarrassing. Not the first time Betty's
ever said that in the marriage to Bubba. No, sure,
so Betty decided to start taking lessons. After a few months,

(11:28):
Betty started playing competitively, even playing in several state tournaments.
When Bubba realized he was going to be left behind,
he no, I'm sorry to say that, and that's when
Bubba's competitive spirit began calling him to the court. I
thought this may be something I get used to bring.
Being in my mid forties, there's not much I can do,

(11:49):
Bubba said, But like a lot of things, I got
into it.

Speaker 4 (11:51):
Because of my wife.

Speaker 3 (11:52):
And we can all say that when bubb Att mince
while Bubba at mints, he's not the best player. He
has played on two state tennis championship teams. He even
lost forty pounds in his first year, and I do
emphasize first year right correct on the court, and lowered
his cholesterol from two forty.

Speaker 4 (12:08):
To one twenty. Look, I got the paperwork. No, there's
no question you did.

Speaker 5 (12:17):
It's shocking, right, I mean my blood must have been
like gravy.

Speaker 4 (12:21):
Right, No, not too far me. I mean that that's high,
but I've seen much higher. But is exceptional some good
drugs right.

Speaker 5 (12:30):
Now, that'll only do about fifteen to twenty percent.

Speaker 4 (12:33):
That's right. The rest of it came directly from tennis.

Speaker 3 (12:36):
Just because just because he's taking up the white collar
sport and shed some pounds. Don't expect the outdoorsman and
pick up truck driver to go from the sexiest fatman
alive to the sexiest skinny man alive.

Speaker 4 (12:48):
Said, I'm not going to be losing.

Speaker 3 (12:49):
That moniker anytime soon, said Baba, Amen to that friend,
I'm not going to He's okay. And then Anne Ethridge,
who is the Pelham Racket Club head professional, said Bubba
has now only built a reputation for tennis in the state,
but he has also helped build a greater reputation for
the Racket Club. He's not just the face of Tennant now,
he's the face of that Racket Club.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
He is.

Speaker 3 (13:09):
He's just a great ambassador for tennis all around the world.
And who said that all of us. He just has
a love of the game. And I would take the
word love out there and replace it with obsession if
I was writing the article correct. Although Bubba just picked
up the game three years ago, Oh it seems so
much longer now, it does. He has he has had
much of an impact off the court as he's had

(13:30):
on it. In November of two thousand and eight, Bubba
helped play a vital role in bringing the Davis Cup
Qualifier to the Birmingham Jefferson Convention Complex. The qualifier was
held in March two thousand and nine to sold out
crowds and rave reviews. Gene Holman, Bubba's assistant.

Speaker 5 (13:53):
Blest Ba's assistant.

Speaker 3 (13:54):
The executive director for the Alabama Sports Foundation, said when
Bubba first spoke to him about the possible bility of
bringing professional tennis to the Birmingham area, he didn't know
if Bubba was serious or not. I did think initially
that it was a joke, Jean said, you would not
think by looking at him that he would love tennis.
I did not fully appreciate his passion for the.

Speaker 4 (14:13):
Game now I know. Oh does he ever know?

Speaker 3 (14:18):
Hallmond said, because of the tremendous response to the Davis
Cup qualifier, the city has begun talks to bring the
Fed Cup, which, by the way, that's in house, right,
that's in the barn. Yeah, the women's equivalent to the
Davis Cup is coming in June.

Speaker 4 (14:31):
It's actually gonna be April. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (14:32):
Uh, Bubba know at the time.

Speaker 3 (14:34):
Bubba will be a big part of that recruiting process
as well. Hallman said, I just know the strength he brings.

Speaker 4 (14:40):
To the table. Oh, boy boy, and a Bubba also helped.

Speaker 5 (14:46):
He's still stunned.

Speaker 4 (14:47):
Yeah, Bubba also, Oh, I'm hearing it.

Speaker 3 (14:50):
Bubba also helped bring the Brian Brothers Pelham Challenge to
the Pelham Civic Complex in December of two thousand and nine,
the first ever tennis match to be held at that complex.
I've often said the Birmingham area could be the new
tennis capital of the world, Bubba said, of the world.

Speaker 4 (15:05):
Bubba said that.

Speaker 3 (15:07):
And no, he's not kidding. The funny man in the
morning pulls no punches when talking about bringing professional tennis
events to Birmingham, just like the Professional Golf Association did
when it brought the PGA Championship to Shoal Creek in
eighty four and ninety. Tennis is growing kind of like
golf grew in the eighties. Bubba said, it's set to explode.

Speaker 4 (15:29):
You give the title again. Game.

Speaker 5 (15:31):
I feel like I'm reading Green Eggs and ham again.

Speaker 3 (15:33):
Game set, Bubba games. The first line should should should
be should be engraved in our hearts today the face
of tennis. What you heard right here in the state
of Alabama is a man simply known as Bubba. As
Bubba great article who actually wrote the article Austin Phillips, Austin,

(15:57):
it's all on to get the names right. And I
got to tell you something. You know what I did
to that? Well said, oh sure, a great picture.

Speaker 4 (16:06):
They did a good job.

Speaker 5 (16:07):
And you know they with you know, the new digital world.
I mean, we shot that in the middle of the day,
twelve noon, and they you know, they made it look
like it was early in the morning. It's really cool.

Speaker 4 (16:16):
Described the picture. For those that don't don't.

Speaker 5 (16:17):
Know, well, I'm standing on a tennis court in front
of the net with tennis balls all over the ground,
and I'm dressed somewhat in tennis clothes, somewhat in hunting clothes,
have a hunting rick and Bubba hunting hat on, and
I'm holding a twelve gage shotgun with an angry.

Speaker 3 (16:34):
Look, very angry look tennis clothing. The first is precious, yep,
I mean it was. You can't write that, sack. I
couldn't write that article.

Speaker 5 (16:42):
We didn't know it was out yet.

Speaker 4 (16:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (16:44):
We had a lady call the show last week and
mentioned it, and so that there's our first cop yet.

Speaker 4 (16:49):
We congratulations both thank you or should I say face
at tennis, thank you? Thank you Bubba game on set,
Bubba the face.

Speaker 3 (17:00):
I mean, how many people that have given a lot
to tennis, over a lot are looking at that article
on Wow, it's all about how you can do it,
you know what. They can sit there and keep doing
it and still be unknown. They can go to face.

Speaker 2 (17:10):
Bubba ricking Bubba.

Speaker 5 (17:13):
Massachusetts.

Speaker 4 (17:14):
I can't say that. It's such a.

Speaker 5 (17:16):
Hard state, you know the Yeah, I can't. I can't
say it anything, you know, how to just somebody who
lives there told me one time how they say it.
They do say it different than I'm sure, but I
say Massachusetts.

Speaker 6 (17:32):
I.

Speaker 3 (17:35):
Say Massa, and then I just didn I just see
what it can I just say you mass I say Massa,
and then I just see what happened.

Speaker 5 (17:41):
I think that that when Connecticut and all went to that,
that was a good move for them on the marketing.
Just say you gone or you mass because nobody could
say the rest of Connecticut speed.

Speaker 4 (17:50):
He's trying for where Sam can say it about huh,
y'all didn't go right in class yet?

Speaker 5 (17:57):
First you gotta type it in so Sam can say that's.

Speaker 4 (18:00):
The hard part. M I S S I S S
I P P I.

Speaker 7 (18:04):
Okay, you didn't have little Massachusetts?

Speaker 4 (18:06):
Was that again?

Speaker 7 (18:08):
Massachusetts?

Speaker 4 (18:09):
Massachusetts?

Speaker 7 (18:11):
Massachusetts.

Speaker 5 (18:12):
I'm closer than.

Speaker 7 (18:15):
Listen Massachusetts.

Speaker 5 (18:17):
Listen to the two listen for the speed.

Speaker 3 (18:21):
I mean you're saying that. Look around this room with
the possibility of Helmsey being he's new. I don't know
his history yet like I need to, but I'm looking
at you, you, you and me. Every one of us
was in slow Claft, Massachusetts, okay, And I mean this
is a show being done by four people. So he
spent some time in slow It was like one semester

(18:41):
because I didn't pay the drinking.

Speaker 5 (18:42):
I was just at the slow table one time. I
didn't go to that class. Yeah, that's by the way.
I was in the room today. We used to have
in class in fifth grade. We had the top seven,
we had everybody else, and we had the slow table.

Speaker 4 (18:56):
That's right.

Speaker 5 (18:56):
And you did not want to get.

Speaker 3 (18:57):
On that sta Do you know that the teacher would
make me in the brim closet and go over words.

Speaker 4 (19:03):
Are you.

Speaker 5 (19:05):
Going over that?

Speaker 3 (19:05):
I will? So I dominated that class though I was devileditor.
Oh yeah, you met your girlfriend there.

Speaker 4 (19:12):
I remember.

Speaker 3 (19:12):
I remember the first because there was no political correctness
when we were in school.

Speaker 4 (19:16):
No, no, we were there because we were lazy. You know what.

Speaker 5 (19:18):
It was all about out come.

Speaker 4 (19:20):
We just wouldn't do the word matter of fact. Matter
of fact.

Speaker 3 (19:22):
My kids had have a speech about that yesterday from
my mother. The one thing you don't want is for
your kids to come home from school and your your
mother actually be there. They were going over their tests
and the grades they made, and she had got to
going on on on the grades I made. She said,
I used to take you dad's report card, I just
throw it across the room. I'm not looking at that.
And uh and I was like mom, you know, and
so uh and and and one of the things about

(19:44):
that was the first time I saw the first just
inkling and Greg you may remember this. I think it
was Miss Hyde's class and and they they did the
same thing you're talking about, but they did it by
Peanuts characters. Yeah, yeah, you were you were Woodstock, you
were Charlie Brown, or you were Sneepings if he was
like the top, yeah yeah, or maybe what what Stot
was the top?

Speaker 4 (20:03):
Charlie Brown was the middle and Snoopy was a slow
table and that was a big pen about this.

Speaker 6 (20:12):
Can't even make it?

Speaker 5 (20:13):
How about when you land on the slow table and
you go, I know, I can beat this, you know
what I mean?

Speaker 3 (20:19):
You know I kind of dug get that because I
was like Greg, you know, suddenly I was I was
like brilliant.

Speaker 4 (20:24):
Yeah, the man people were looking at you. French fishing. Yeah, well,
well the great Massachusetts. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (20:30):
And like when I had to meet with the person
after school, you know, because I I went I went
too far with my campaign and why I was making
bad on long Division. I went too far with it
because I was trying not to get in trouble. I
ended up with like a with like a with like
some kind of helper that was just to be helping me.
And I really could figure it out. I just was
lazy and I wasn't paying attention. They sound, Oh, I'm like, wow,

(20:51):
this is real. But let me tell you the great
thing and Bill Costs we said it best. The great
thing about slow class was that they give you a
slow team.

Speaker 4 (21:00):
That's Rick at Rick and Baba dot com. So the
next thing you know, man, you're you're owning it.

Speaker 5 (21:05):
They're not gonna understand.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
You know.

Speaker 4 (21:08):
The next thing, you know, you're owning it.

Speaker 8 (21:09):
Right.

Speaker 4 (21:10):
You don't want to leave right because you can start
doing better.

Speaker 5 (21:13):
You're out. And sometimes the slow table got a different
test and everybody else.

Speaker 3 (21:18):
Look, I got a naughty and I remember our tests
had big, easy to read five.

Speaker 5 (21:27):
Date line. Switzerland, voters in the heart of the Swiss
Alps on Sunday pass legislation banning naked hiking.

Speaker 4 (21:36):
You know what, I think this may be a good
this may be a good call.

Speaker 5 (21:39):
After dozens of mostly German nudists started rambling through their
picturesque region by show of hands of the citizens of
the tiny state uh. They voted overwhelmingly at their traditional
open air Annual Assembly Assembly to impose a two one

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hundred Swiss frank about one hundred and seventy six dollars
fine on any violators. Only a scattering of people on
Sunday opposed the ban on the back to nature activity
that took off last autumn when naked hikers primarily Germany.

Speaker 4 (22:14):
What is it?

Speaker 3 (22:14):
Why do they keep emphasizing his primarily German? Germans was
the only one.

Speaker 5 (22:18):
They started showing up in eastern Switzerland.

Speaker 6 (22:21):
I would like to object to the band on the
nude hiking double time.

Speaker 4 (22:26):
I put a fight to hike with no pints.

Speaker 5 (22:30):
The local government recommended the band after citizens objected to
encountering walkers wearing nothing but hiking boots and socks.

Speaker 4 (22:39):
That's funny.

Speaker 3 (22:40):
This is the same naked scot diving people. You know
about them, same bunch. The reactions, I probably.

Speaker 5 (22:46):
The reactions of the population have shown that such appearances
over a large area are perceived as thoroughly disturbing and irritating.

Speaker 4 (22:56):
You seem to be following somebody going up a ridge.

Speaker 3 (22:58):
Oh well, hello friend, Hey.

Speaker 5 (23:03):
I don't know. I don't know that. I don't want
them behind me.

Speaker 4 (23:06):
They must not have leight have briars. Let me know
when you get to the top. I'll come up there. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (23:12):
I started to say, there's so many there's so many
problems with this activity.

Speaker 4 (23:16):
Why are you not following me? I'm going up the incline.

Speaker 5 (23:21):
A similar legal move is expected in the neighboring state
or providence, with legislation being prepared against this shameless behavior.

Speaker 4 (23:29):
Is the quotation.

Speaker 5 (23:31):
German websites promote the activity and describe it as a
special experience of nature, free and health.

Speaker 6 (23:37):
I would like to get back to the way we
used to be in nature, except for the hiking boots.

Speaker 4 (23:44):
Imagine the chiggers. Oh, oh my goodness. They must not
have red bugs. Honja should not have slept in the briars.

Speaker 3 (23:54):
I mean, you know, really, what they're saying is we
want to get back to nature, but not the boots.

Speaker 4 (23:58):
Yes, we want to keep.

Speaker 5 (24:02):
Keeping It's just it's just like the whalers that wanted
to get back out whale with fears. But they all
had on Nike shoes and they and they were driving
in Toyota four runners out to the beach to get
back to nature. I'm like that, ain't that. Ain't getting
back to nature.

Speaker 6 (24:20):
I want to get to Natchez. I came into the
world except for the hiking boots. I want to keep
the boots now.

Speaker 5 (24:28):
The region in Switzerland has been regarded as a favorite
for the nudist with trails because most of them are
off the beaten path. The German side also promotes walks
in Germany, uh and France, where public nudity has roots
going back to the eighteenth century through a movement that
has that has come to be called free body culture.

Speaker 4 (24:53):
Let me tell you something, I have not seen one
of these people.

Speaker 5 (24:55):
That's a whole new definition to.

Speaker 4 (24:58):
Thankfully, but I haven't seen one of these people. We
all know. Any time you hear a story about nudists,
have you ever noticed.

Speaker 3 (25:03):
The overwhelming majority of them are people you really wouldn't want.

Speaker 4 (25:06):
To see neaked either.

Speaker 3 (25:07):
Right, It's like, if you got the body for it,
you can almost understand, Yeah, you're.

Speaker 5 (25:12):
Not gonna run into Cindy Crawford up there. Trust me,
you know your city.

Speaker 4 (25:17):
I'm telling you.

Speaker 5 (25:20):
The guy that they call Big Tommy.

Speaker 3 (25:23):
Even the bears are going this is offensive, right, and
it's sixty five year old aunts with him.

Speaker 4 (25:29):
It's never out in the woods.

Speaker 5 (25:32):
Out in the woods, you always run into the unexpected. Okay, now,
I mean there's times that you're gonna have to detour,
you're gonna have rock slides, you're gonna have to climb,
you're gonna have to do this, You're gonna have to
do that, and uh, you know, I mean I don't
want to be out there with no pants. I mean,
you know what I mean. There's just too many stick
and poker.

Speaker 3 (25:52):
There's one thing that moves us ahead of the animals
is the fact that we've had the sense enough to
put pants on. Sure, Sure, you go down a steep
in line. You know how your feet go out money,
you slide on your butt to the bottom.

Speaker 5 (26:02):
I know nobody wants to slide into second with no
pants on.

Speaker 3 (26:06):
No, No, I don't even them playing shorts, the softball
girls on.

Speaker 4 (26:09):
How they do that much less naked. That's that's crazy.
Can you imagine that? Primarily Germany?

Speaker 5 (26:16):
Yeah, you know they're not hicking.

Speaker 3 (26:18):
But I always go back to that first person who
took his clothes off and said let's go hiking, you know,
I mean, it was that first guy was he hot?

Speaker 4 (26:25):
I looked for you what happened? He got three? You know,
I was pretty good. I enjoyed.

Speaker 3 (26:30):
I enjoy the trip. When we go to the Swiss house,
here's what I'm considering. I'm thinking of taking off my pints.
And then the part it was like you know what,
seriously we climbed them ountain. Now will warn you get
a little cold to how you go up?

Speaker 4 (26:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (26:47):
I mean.

Speaker 5 (26:49):
You know the thing to think about this when you
go out and you go hockey in the woods, you
have to plan for a wide variety of temperatures, right,
I mean in the morning it could be very cool,
so now it could be coo, could be steaming in
the middle of the day. I mean it's just.

Speaker 3 (27:02):
I just you're covered then obviously they're okay in the
hot are you?

Speaker 4 (27:08):
And where do you carry your supplies at?

Speaker 5 (27:10):
I mean where where?

Speaker 4 (27:12):
You don't want to know that GPS at Hans.

Speaker 5 (27:15):
Because you get my compass please, no, no, thank you.

Speaker 4 (27:23):
We are lost. It appears you are putting do not
rick compass?

Speaker 9 (27:34):
Say that it's a compass all kinds of accompassed jokes.

Speaker 4 (27:48):
Wow, there is. We got a bunch of neked Germans
hockey quickly German. That's funny enough without all commentary.

Speaker 5 (27:55):
Yeah, I mean to first off, you have to ask
the question, any group of people that bild a BMW.

Speaker 4 (28:00):
Why they walking?

Speaker 5 (28:01):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 4 (28:06):
So there it is.

Speaker 5 (28:07):
They all like the ultimate the ultimates hiking experience.

Speaker 4 (28:12):
To mean, these are like your exotic pet people.

Speaker 3 (28:14):
See, it's one thing to have to walk around neked
in boots because you lost your clothes, right, it's.

Speaker 4 (28:18):
Another thing to volunteer for yeah, to.

Speaker 3 (28:21):
Do it, to do it on the borning Yeah, I
mean most people saying blue, what happened to.

Speaker 4 (28:24):
Have any clothes?

Speaker 5 (28:25):
How many of them on that trail looks just like
Roseanne bar You don't.

Speaker 10 (28:30):
All a riaking bubba ricking bubba mother?

Speaker 4 (28:34):
What happened to you yesterday? You said?

Speaker 5 (28:35):
Somehow well, you know, rick, This is gonna seem mild
after Greg having to you know, getting taken by a sun.

Speaker 4 (28:42):
But here we go.

Speaker 5 (28:44):
The I hate when these weird things like this happened.
I'm cruising down the road. It's one twenty and the afternoon,
minded my own business, I might add, right, just enjoying
a beautiful cold winter day, the sun shining. It's lovely
out there and I'm cruising. I've just stopped and got
me a little bite to eat. So I'm working my
way down to the to the honey camp to be
sure everything's good. So, you know, we've had some cold weather.

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We check the pipes, make sure we're all good. So
I'm going along minding my own business, and I see
something over here on the right side.

Speaker 4 (29:15):
It's peripheral.

Speaker 5 (29:16):
I mean, and you talking about split second. I'm driving
and I just put my hand up. It got up
on me so much. I put my hand up and
in the instant something slams into the side of my truck.
I slam the brakes on. Food goes everywhere, drink end
over in uh you know, I lock it down. Thank goodness,

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nobody's right behind me, and I'm like, what any world
just happened? And my first thought was a deer jumped
into the side of my I'm in the beast. I'm
in the big Beast. Okay, thank for Yeah, I'm not
in the Steve Moultrie, you can you can relax and breathe.
I know you've already had one scared with Dan this
week on ice. I'm in the bee because I've got

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some dirty work to do, and I wasn't gonna mess
up the pretty truck, right, So I think, well, my goodness,
what was that? And I'm trying to say, you know,
I'm thinking, am I okay? Because it was it was
like a stick of dynamite went off, you know.

Speaker 4 (30:13):
Because you're out there it's quiet here the road.

Speaker 3 (30:15):
You know.

Speaker 5 (30:16):
So I pull on up and I start to kind.

Speaker 4 (30:18):
Of pull off the road. It's so bad.

Speaker 5 (30:20):
I think I need to check and be sure the
truck is okay, and to what just hit me?

Speaker 6 (30:24):
What?

Speaker 4 (30:24):
What just happened?

Speaker 5 (30:25):
So I look out the window and I've got what
do you call that little piece of plastic that goes
over the window, you know, you out so you can
crack the window and water not come in. And I
don't want what do you call it? A rain guard?
What do you call it? You know what I'm talking about?

Speaker 4 (30:39):
Old plastic guard? Well, I look and.

Speaker 5 (30:41):
It looks like someone has just chewed that rain guard off.
It's broke in several pieces. And I thought, there's no
way a deer hit me that high. I hope not.

Speaker 4 (30:51):
If it did, it was a Pegasus deer, yeah.

Speaker 5 (30:53):
You know, so uh, And then I look in the
rearview mirror, and I see something flopping around in the road,
and I thought, what in the world was that? And
and I didn't think it was a bird to begin with,
because I didn't see feathers, you know, flying when when
you've ever hit a bird, you know, the feathers go
up everywhere I saw. You do you remember the time
I saw a State trooper car hit a hawk that

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was coming in and it looked like a hawk bomb
went off.

Speaker 3 (31:18):
You knowing These these birds are diving at cars.

Speaker 4 (31:22):
I'm saying, it's part of the attach.

Speaker 5 (31:23):
Anyway, I turn around, I circle back around, I get out,
and uh, it appears that a giant owl flew into
my truck in the day. And yeah, which is so odd.
And it's a it's a very pretty bird. Uh you know,
to to look.

Speaker 4 (31:39):
Thank you.

Speaker 5 (31:41):
But I get out and and I've got to inspect
the situation, of course, and and the owl is like
it's not right in the middle of the road, it's
kind of over on the side. But I do not
see its eyes open. Its eyes are closed. And I
and I do detect, yeah, I know that was about
it was. I do detect a little bit of motion,
is so I think it's maybe still breathing or whatever.

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So I didn't mess with it because the one thing
you don't want to do is owl to wake up
while you're cuddling it.

Speaker 4 (32:11):
And it was.

Speaker 5 (32:13):
Well, and I hated it because you know, I hate
to see a pretty animal like that to come to
such a shameful demise of flying into the side of
the truck. But uh uh, so I just let it
go and hopefully the owl came back. I doubt it
because it took a pretty good I don't see a scream.
I don't see how it could have made it. But
with the question is why is an owl bombing my

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truck in the middle of the day, Let me say this,
I do. I do have a couple of pictures of
the whole episode, just like yeah, I said that to
y'all because you know now with you know, I phoned
you feel like you need to document and broadcast there.

Speaker 3 (32:52):
I'm gonna make a prediction, and because you know, I
think I middle of the day make a prediction. I'm
guess if you were driving somewhere, you were eating, Yeah, sure,
was okay?

Speaker 6 (33:03):
All right?

Speaker 4 (33:03):
Huh do you think it went after what was in
Boba's hand? Could see it through the Yeah, if you
think I just had enough?

Speaker 5 (33:12):
So do they eat MC nuggets? I don't know.

Speaker 4 (33:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (33:14):
Well, let me say this I had been saying all
along with the bird that I've said all along, it's biblical.

Speaker 4 (33:19):
I've said it. The animals are on attack. I've sucked.

Speaker 3 (33:24):
Seeing more birds of prey diving into cars, diving into things.
I've seen more of it than I've ever seen before.
That's their air attack. I'm telling us the air Force. Now,
think about this rick that I was trying to take
you out.

Speaker 5 (33:35):
The odds of that animal insecting the side of my
vehicle which is moving, you know, probably fifty to fifty
five miles an hour, and it's flying in there, and
I stopped it to drive through to get something to eat.
If I had not stopped it to drive through, what
I've already been through there when it flew by.

Speaker 4 (33:50):
Ooh, I did something about the truck attracted.

Speaker 5 (33:53):
Yeah, that's a small don't you think the smell?

Speaker 4 (33:55):
I tell you. The thing I like about that the
most is I know you'd already had lunch with hims.
If you get something else, he he bailed on it easy.

Speaker 10 (34:03):
He bailed the way around ricking Bubba, ricking.

Speaker 3 (34:13):
Bubba Bubba back to a little segment we now call
nuts in the news. You really touched on something, Indogo,
And after you finish these stories, we'll get into that.
You know, do we just need to be assigned punishment
for these kind of people? I mean, I mean, do
we just need to be you know, I don't want
to deal with almost like it almost like a like

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a game show, you know. All right, uh Bubba, Our
next contestant rolling down here to stand in front of you.
This is a young lady who was demoted to be
a principal at elementary school and she spot a lawsuit
this week because a superintendent who was celebrating great grades
when she refuses high five, touched her on the forehead.

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Says she feared for her life, called the police to
the school and file a complaint, you know. And then
we said, well, I'll say one thing, Baba, what do
you think we do about that?

Speaker 6 (35:04):
Rick?

Speaker 3 (35:04):
I'm kind of thinking maybe first of all, we'll start
out by really pulling their hair hard.

Speaker 5 (35:09):
Rick, I'd like to take a too hop open hand slap.

Speaker 4 (35:13):
Baba.

Speaker 3 (35:14):
That's a great too, That's something we'll snow the audience
see what they vote.

Speaker 5 (35:17):
Well, Rick, speaking of nuts and the news, we have
another pairer here I want to share rich An Oregon
man has spent Memorial Day in jail after dialing nine
to one one to complain that a McDonald's worker was
rude and didn't give him the orange juice he ordered.

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The man was accused of improper use of an emergency
telephone number. The Oregonian newspaper reports that the twenty year
old was bailed out of the Washington County jail on
Tuesday and could not be reached for comment. The sheriff
Sergeant Sergeant David Thompson said the man ignored deputies who
told him the emergency number is to be used for

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straightening out fast food orders. A McDonald's employee also called
nine one one during the incident to complain about the
man and the people that he was blocking the draw
through and they were getting very unhappy about it.

Speaker 3 (36:17):
Bubba up next, I'd like to present to you Raven,
a twenty year old man who tied up the nine
to one one lines because he thought the worker at
McDonald's was rude about his artist juice order. Now, this
of course blocked people who had real emergencies and if
you don't think that's that. Also, here's the McDonald's employee himself,
who also tied up nine one one again to complain

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about Raven.

Speaker 4 (36:39):
Any suggestions for them today, Bobba Rick.

Speaker 5 (36:42):
I would send its Raven to about ten minutes of
caning with no time out and then deport him to
whatever country he came from.

Speaker 3 (36:53):
Bubba, I would like to also offer up for the
audience consideration. I like to take Raven and his little
McDonald's buddy and have them stand in a room where
we release some of Michael Vick's pittbulls.

Speaker 4 (37:07):
And who's next? Rick?

Speaker 5 (37:09):
We go to Andersonville, Tennessee, deputies say a man who
was caught wearing a woman's thong was charged with burglarizing
a home. Okay, Chief Deputy Mark Lucas said, deputy's caught
the forty two year old man only wearing panties in

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an abandoned farmhouse. Now, I don't know about y'all, but
I when I'm at the farmhouse, the last thing I
want to do is be caught in pennies.

Speaker 3 (37:38):
Did you just say farmhouse? Yeah, he said, farmhouse. Please
be the coutain.

Speaker 4 (37:42):
What are you doing.

Speaker 5 (37:45):
You don't have on any pants.

Speaker 4 (37:47):
The officers followed.

Speaker 5 (37:48):
His footprints from a nearby Andersonville home, where a burglary
had been reported. I mean, think about it, if you're
around a farm, don't you need cheese one? I mean,
you don't know.

Speaker 4 (37:58):
What you're gonna step out there, of what you're going
to do.

Speaker 5 (38:00):
The man was charged with aggravated burglary, auto burglary and
vandalism on Monday and is being held on sixty five
thousand dollars bond in the Anderson County Detention Facility. The
Knocks when You Sentatol reported. The man was released from
the same jail May the twenty first, after being arrested
in Norris for property crimes. Rick, we have an habitual

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burglar here.

Speaker 3 (38:29):
Bubba, next have a forty tcherr old man here for
your consideration.

Speaker 4 (38:32):
For some reason, he just.

Speaker 3 (38:34):
Can't get the point that we don't like him breaking
in people's homes. He's a multi time offender. Bubba can't
send Lerner's lessons, and the last time we caught him
in an abandoned farmhouse wearing nothing but women's undergarmage.

Speaker 4 (38:46):
After his latest breakthof.

Speaker 5 (38:49):
Rick, I would sendence this man to be tied to
a chair and have to watch repeated episodes of Richard
Simmons on any show.

Speaker 4 (38:59):
Gotta step letter, Bobby.

Speaker 3 (39:01):
I would like to also put it in that same
chair where I actually get one free shot at him
with a Louisville slugger and then ask him if he
gets a message about stop breaking in people's houses and
get some clothes on.

Speaker 5 (39:15):
It's one free shot, you know, Rick, I just need one,
you know, if you're gonna be if you're gonna be
breaking into.

Speaker 3 (39:21):
All that, and I'll make it a body shot that
so it doesn't take his life. There's some broken ribs, right.

Speaker 5 (39:26):
If you're gonna break into these places and do this.
I mean, I watched the Mission Impossible series this week.
I mean you need you need like black clothes, boots.
You don't have all your supplies, your you know, your wenches,
your ropes, your your lock picks. I mean, where you
gonna cary all that stuff? If you all you got
only as a thong.

Speaker 3 (39:45):
If you're approaching to to break into someone's house wearing
nothing but a thong, your goal, I guess it's just
a crash in well.

Speaker 4 (39:51):
I mean, here's the thing. You're not coming in subtle?

Speaker 5 (39:54):
Think about you know, you know the thong debate you
know continues with the ladies, and I see both sides
of the argument. But for a god to have it on,
I'm sorry that one. Uh, you know, for a god
to have it don't think about it that, I really
that's a there's really no advantage there.

Speaker 4 (40:12):
As a matter of fact, I.

Speaker 5 (40:12):
Would see there's a disadvantage.

Speaker 4 (40:14):
Don't follow that logic? Can you needed quite a little
picture there? Thanks?

Speaker 5 (40:18):
Well, I'm just saying, right, what are you doing?

Speaker 3 (40:23):
Hey, son, Bob and I are talking to you. Quit
digging and you said you don't want to put them on?
Deal with it, you know what I mean?

Speaker 5 (40:31):
Yeah, I for the life of me, I just don't
follow it. My goodness, we've had it too good for
too long in this cust that.

Speaker 4 (40:40):
Really is it? I mean, it's just.

Speaker 3 (40:44):
I don't know whether I've looked out over the sea
of people and felt so hopeless in my life. It is.

Speaker 5 (40:50):
It is a hopeless feeling that will just wash up
on you, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (40:53):
I Mean, I got you, It's like I've got good
and overlong, you know, I mean, I think I think
it was the last time that you made a upstanding,
good quality human.

Speaker 4 (41:02):
Being just out of the blae. I mean it rarely happened.

Speaker 5 (41:05):
I mean hear about him in then.

Speaker 4 (41:08):
I mean they're out there. But boy, you got a
look you're right time.

Speaker 3 (41:12):
They said where we lived, like in the fifties, there
were no deer, so if you actually got one, it
was a very big deal and you didn't care how
big it was because you never saw them. That's why
it's getting with quality human beings.

Speaker 4 (41:22):
Hey, you know what I saw?

Speaker 3 (41:23):
One went what about three years ago?

Speaker 2 (41:29):
And I and I go every day ricking bubba, ricking bubba.

Speaker 3 (41:35):
Ruben, how about this? Congratulations? The new CD is in
the new single just on Fire, doing well, And I'm
looking at the pictures on here, and boy, you've turned
it up a little bit for him, haven't you.

Speaker 4 (41:45):
I mean, Ruben's got it like he likes it. I
am trying to grow up and uh yeah.

Speaker 3 (41:52):
So so when when you we were all talking about,
you know, trying to stay in shape all this.

Speaker 4 (41:57):
Look you look great, by the way, thank you. And
it's just hard.

Speaker 8 (42:02):
It is, it is. It's hard, you know, especially with
us being from Alabama. Oh boy, it is the most
difficult thing. You know, everybody talks about how hard it
is to be on television and singing front. No, the
hard thing is turning down the fried chicken.

Speaker 4 (42:15):
I miss it so much.

Speaker 5 (42:16):
So and when you travel it's so bad anyway. You
can't eat good. You don't have the selection you need.
You know, you're always grabbing something quick. You know you
have to tear paper off of and you know that
ain't good for it.

Speaker 8 (42:28):
I honestly just had to turn it over to God. Man,
like really that was I mean, that's the only thing
that's really I think you know, that's helped me make
it through, you know, trying to you know, be better
and be healthier, because you know, any other way you
really can't do it by yourself. You really need divine intervention.

Speaker 4 (42:46):
But I mean you look good, you seem like you
feel good, having a good time.

Speaker 3 (42:50):
But but you know the thing, it's just like I
understand how to be healthy, I really do, right, I
just can't figure how to do it and still have fun.

Speaker 4 (42:56):
Well, you know you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (42:57):
I mean that's I mean I'll be riding along and
aten I'll be locked trying to do good and all
of a sudden, like Mama's fried chicken will be over
riding shotgun. I look over and it's almost like I
can see it sitting over there. Why don't you come
see me anymore?

Speaker 8 (43:07):
You know? The hard thing is when you when you're
trying to do good, is like McDonald's always has like
that brand new special burgo with, you know, the fried
pickle chips or something.

Speaker 9 (43:20):
Try.

Speaker 4 (43:22):
Pickle every time, every time for a limited time ninety nine.
Literally time I gotta go see it. It's rude. It's
just gonna be here for a minute.

Speaker 5 (43:32):
Every time I make a little progress. That macrib comes from.

Speaker 4 (43:37):
And you know what, I don't know why they call
it a rib, but it's sure is good.

Speaker 8 (43:39):
Yeah, it has no no real part of port in that.

Speaker 3 (43:45):
But like it and you can see what it looks
like they did it. They they even have like a
fake bone going through it. But but you just about
right through it, you.

Speaker 8 (43:53):
Know, And I'm like, well, that ain't a bone. It's like,
you know, it's like cartilage. It's like you know, cartilage.
Feel sure, it is good.

Speaker 4 (44:00):
It is sure. I had to get a trainer out
with me. I was doing.

Speaker 5 (44:05):
So what are you doing? What's your what's your workout
every day?

Speaker 8 (44:09):
It's it's like circuit training basically. You know, we lift
weights cardio every day, every day, every day, five days
a week.

Speaker 5 (44:18):
How do you do that? On the road.

Speaker 4 (44:20):
They're with me on the road.

Speaker 5 (44:23):
If you're not well, you know, just different white rooms
and whatever hotel.

Speaker 2 (44:28):
You're not well.

Speaker 8 (44:29):
We we we try to you know, if we're in
the hotel, if they have a nice gym, we'll use it.
But if not, then we'll go to like a Goals
or a Balley's or something like that. It's it's rough, man,
it's rough. And I you know, we call my train
of the food Nazi.

Speaker 5 (44:45):
So we shouldn't mention we have like egg sandwiches and
don't do that.

Speaker 4 (44:49):
We don't know that, you know. In college buddies, we're
the college buddies you finally start.

Speaker 3 (44:54):
Doing better, you know, and we're only about McDonald's. Oh,
I know, you be kind hang up, Hang up on them, Ruben.
We're enablers, is what we are. We're doing better too
that we're trying to. I'm getting old now, just what
till you get old? And it happens now old forty four? No, No,

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I know, I look a lot younger.

Speaker 5 (45:15):
Now.

Speaker 4 (45:15):
I appreciate that you look good man.

Speaker 3 (45:18):
Yeah, but if if you if you're overweight at forty four,
it makes you like fifty four, right, you know what?

Speaker 4 (45:24):
I just can't.

Speaker 3 (45:24):
I had to realize, like you're talking about, like now,
you feel bad when a trainer, this is when you
know you get an old when a trainer.

Speaker 4 (45:31):
This is all he asked of you. Hey, Rick, just
move around something.

Speaker 8 (45:34):
Move.

Speaker 3 (45:35):
There was a day when they got that. Go let's
see if you bench four hundred. You're not now it's like,
just move, brother, just just keep moving. Just go to
the mailbox.

Speaker 4 (45:42):
Yeah, did you walk to start somewhere? That's when you
know your old? Did you walk? Actually, Cardio, what you
see got you reduced me to walking. I'm walking down now.
You know you're out there with all those codgers. What
are you doing, my cardio?

Speaker 8 (45:55):
Man?

Speaker 3 (45:55):
This poor guy to used to walk in our neighborhood.
I see him every morning going to work, and God
love him. He walked for like eleven years and he
looked the same. And I remember, I remember one time
I just s rolled down the wind. I said, you
got to pick it up. I said, it ain't happening.
I've looked at you for eleven years out here walking.
You look the same, Rick. I don't think getting a
gallop or so.

Speaker 5 (46:14):
I don't think it should qualify as cardio for a
poodle can stay with you, you know what I mean. Now,
if you're dragging the poodle you're doing you know what
I mean, he's trotting along beside you ain't burnt.

Speaker 4 (46:24):
Poodle's not struggling. You didn't get done yesterday.

Speaker 8 (46:27):
Yesterday on the trip mill I almost win the cardiac
arrest trying to keep up with this little girl on
the trip on this I mean.

Speaker 4 (46:34):
To turn it. Oh man, I was like, you ain't
gonna beat me.

Speaker 8 (46:36):
He went, she went four point five, big Rue went
four point she went five point Oh. I was like five.
I had to stop at the five point five. Reuben
said that five point five.

Speaker 4 (46:52):
I'm gonna hold up. I could do one if I
had wanted to, but I gotta go to recording session.
I'm an R and B singer.

Speaker 5 (46:58):
Just when you think you're holding in there, they'll go
to that indcline.

Speaker 2 (47:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (47:04):
This is when I knew that I needed to lose weight.
Is when it wanted to go to incline.

Speaker 4 (47:07):
And it wasn't just start beeping. I said, get off, Tubby, you.

Speaker 2 (47:11):
Killing ricking Bubba Rick and Bubba.

Speaker 3 (47:16):
Speedy is the head producer me and he comes in
here and he goes around. He looks for stories that
might be of interest, and of course we may use them,
we may not, but he always throws them out there
as food for thought. And he prints out certain stories
that are solely for certain members of the program. There'll
be stories, He'll go, Bubba, I printed that out just
for you. I knew you just hey, you love that
and uh, you know, and then you got the ones

(47:37):
you print out and you want to hear Greg go
crazy and all this and and so Speedy today he said, Rick,
there's a story here today that is especially for you.

Speaker 4 (47:46):
Well and and and here it is. Rick.

Speaker 5 (47:48):
I know in financial circles a lot of people are concerned,
you know, the retirement to their Wall Street, you know,
retirement funds, the stock market, and uh, I know that
today will have to make you feel a little bit better.

Speaker 4 (48:02):
Rick.

Speaker 5 (48:03):
Sadie the Scottish terrier, the newly crowned winner of the
Big Dog Show in New York, now known as America's
Top Dog, opened the trading round on Wall Street Thursday
by ringing the New York Stock Exchange bell. The black
haired pooch is a celebrity following her triumph Tuesday in

(48:24):
the Best in Show with the Westminster Kennel Club contest
in downtown Manhattan. Thursday, she and her handler visited the
New York Stock Exchange, where Sadie launched another day of
trading by pressing the button that activates the traditional ball.
On Wednesday, Sadie did the rounds of the talk shows,
even getting a slot on CBS's Early Show ahead of

(48:45):
Hollywood heart throb Leonardo DiCaprio.

Speaker 4 (48:48):
Well, I can see that good. I'm a Scottish terrier, dear.
Let me just say this. Let me just say this.
All right, here's the thing. You know what I say
to the story.

Speaker 3 (48:58):
I say to the story the simple word note, no, no, no.

Speaker 4 (49:03):
How about this? How about this?

Speaker 3 (49:04):
Sadie the Scottish Terrier did not did not start the
New York Stock Exchange. She did not push a button.
No no, she didn't because she does not have the
ability to reason. She has no idea what Wall Street is,
She has no idea what the Stock Exchange it's all about.

Speaker 4 (49:22):
She picked a few stocks where she left. No, no, no,
she didn't.

Speaker 3 (49:25):
Sometimes it looks like, let me tell you what the
US champion, Sadi the Scottish terrier did you.

Speaker 4 (49:31):
Let me tell what she did.

Speaker 3 (49:32):
Do She followed around the people who feed her wherever
they wanted her to go. That's what she did.

Speaker 5 (49:39):
I imagine they carried her car.

Speaker 4 (49:41):
She was carried by people.

Speaker 3 (49:44):
Reckon, they stuck a little piece of dog food on
the button. Yeah, absolutely, Look I know she pushed it.

Speaker 5 (49:49):
She didn't lick it.

Speaker 4 (49:50):
Oh well, you know somebody took her little Paul right,
that's right, little little doggie pop.

Speaker 5 (49:55):
Staying here, Sadie.

Speaker 4 (49:56):
I mean, look, it's fine, it's cute. We got a dog.
She'll like it.

Speaker 3 (50:01):
I mean, I mean, you know, now somewhere there's a
munth that didn't get adopted. According to Peter, But but, but,
but but I did not know Peter. They're so bored
now they're saying, what else can we be agains? Somebody said,
how about pure bread? She beat a Dobman pincher, a
Britney spaniel, a toy poodle?

Speaker 4 (50:19):
Is it a pulley? What is that?

Speaker 3 (50:20):
And by the way, could anything and a whippet could
Prince bulldog? Could anything be more listen? Could anything be
less specifically designed than the dog show? How does anybody
say the Scottish terrier is does certain things better than
a Doman?

Speaker 5 (50:38):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (50:38):
I mean there are two different worlds. I mean, how
can the each one the class and then therein?

Speaker 3 (50:44):
But how can how can how can a Scottish terrier
Westminster be a better Scottish Terrier than a Domman pincher
can be the best Doman peacher?

Speaker 4 (50:56):
Personality?

Speaker 2 (50:57):
Good?

Speaker 3 (50:57):
All I know is that what you call I knows
we take a great dog like a dober and and
and we and we whittle its ears and cut off
its till all under the guys if he no? What
about that poor poodle we saw running yesterday with the
pomp poms on his button and it's all skinned around
that one? I heard that the one because it was

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the only one that could ring the New York Stockings bell.

Speaker 4 (51:20):
That's true.

Speaker 3 (51:21):
I mean, you know what, you can train it to
use its instinct to go for some button that happens
to ring. Let me assure you that Scottish terry is
unaware that they ring, that it rang the bell to
start for New York Stockey.

Speaker 4 (51:32):
It knows we're in a recession and that was all it.
Please be the Scottish terry well the thing that makes
it mad.

Speaker 3 (51:38):
I always get Irish people angry because I do, like
most of us do, I tie Irish things through the
Scottish right, you know, and it infuriates.

Speaker 4 (51:47):
Here's I'm with you on this dot money to you.
Everybody's like, that's not Scottish. Well, they're clothes.

Speaker 3 (51:53):
They need to do tricks and stuff and judge, I'm
with you, and hey, some of the things they check
when they're checking on I don't know why. Y. Yeah,
that's a good dog, but that's you know, that's a
little out of line. But he has nothing to do
with if you want to have hanging, even if you
want to have a if you want to have a
dog show, we're talking about his collar.

Speaker 4 (52:13):
If you watched him, check them.

Speaker 5 (52:15):
If you want to have a dog show, I mean,
isn't that a little overdone? To go to New York
to do it? Shouldn't it be done like Nebraska, somewhere
I place the dogs would want to be needs to
be out there. You dogs don't want to be in man.

Speaker 4 (52:26):
Yeah they do.

Speaker 3 (52:27):
They look at everything and then and the thing we
talk about all the time. They start using the female
word for a dog. I know, if I'm saying, that's
a beautiful bottle of water, don't say They'll say, like, hey,
I'll tell you Whatn't this right? That's a beautiful little
you know, And they say it. I'm like, wow, can
you say that? I mean, you can't let your kids
watch it. The first time I did that, they all
looked at me like, let me tell you it's funny, though,

(52:48):
let me tell you have some fun. Let me let
me put back a curtain again here on men and women.
You know we're always cash is we're the ones that
laugh at that kind of stuff. I heard the biggest
cackling coming out of our bedroom.

Speaker 4 (52:59):
Uh and and and for happened more than once. Yeah,
I'll say this.

Speaker 3 (53:03):
I walk in there and my wife is watching the
dog show on the TV and they're saying this word
over and over and she's laughing as loud as she
could laugh. And I said, ah, so you do think
it's fun And she said, I'm not laughing at that.

Speaker 4 (53:16):
And I'm like, and then they say it again. She
drunk over around. I said, is that not hilarious? Because
they do it so serious?

Speaker 3 (53:20):
And this one, this one coming here, Sadie is a
beautiful little and what a magnificent that's that's a magnificent
bee right there.

Speaker 4 (53:30):
Look at that. Look how that bee walks. Yeah, come
on now, just watch Best in Show again. It sums
it up.

Speaker 3 (53:36):
It's a parody of it, and I mean, just watching
it says everything I want to say.

Speaker 5 (53:40):
It's hilarious.

Speaker 3 (53:41):
H So you won't be a Scottish tarrier six six
weep be big is Irish?

Speaker 4 (53:46):
Your phone calls her neck.

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