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On a brand new week.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
And as ken Osburn has already told you with great
fanfare that Speedy, Greg and Adler are also here. I
hope all of you enjoyed time off. On the fourth
of July, we will recap Independence Day. We have a
lot from the weekend.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Today. It's one of those days.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
You know, we've all been at this a long time
as far as doing this for a living, and today
it's it's it's one of those we've been there. It's
tough because it's it's balancing out, you know, the fun
of the labs, which we all need and we're always
going to have that for you here.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
But also the somber.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Uh, there's some there's some serious things that are just
that this have us all a little bit somber today.
And of course I speak of on a macro as
far as a country. We were all morning with the
people of Texas and all those who not just in Texas,
but wherever you were from. Your children were at these
various Christian camps all along this river, and of course

(03:10):
the people that live in that area as we start
this live. Unfortunately, you know, the death count is rising
and we think right now at least eighty two. I know,
the last report was eighty and like even as we
were getting ready to come out of the break, it
jumped up to eighty two. So it's awful, and there's

(03:32):
a lot of inspiring stories that look miraculous, and then
there's the you know that you sit there and your
mind also is thinking, well, you know, I mean, there's
all kinds of things when you deal with these kind
of tragedies.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
It's a test for people of faith.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
It is the time to cling to the things that
we know, but it's also a time to go back
and go what happened, what could have been avoided? Maybe
we don't know. And that's where James Spen will come in.
James has done a good job, as he always does,
of trying to just you know, because the madness that's
on social media, the madness and you talk about the

(04:14):
biggest shoot ready to aim people in the world, everybody
right now. Sherry and I were talking about this over
the weekend. She goes, so you got to understand, husband,
you're living in a time that everybody thinks they can
do what you do for a living. Everybody has a show,
everybody has access, everybody hosts their own thing. And I'm
not just talking about podcast, I'm talking about on social media.

(04:35):
And she says, so it is is reckless. You know,
there's a time if you were discussing something at work,
everybody else didn't see it. Yeah, now that kind of
theories and here's what I think. People just throw it
out there. So Spain will join us and we'll talk
to him about how these floods happen. We're going to

(04:55):
talk about flash flooding. We're going to talk about warnings
that did go out and where is there a flaw
in the system, where do we need some help. Spaan
has had some excellent commentary as usual on that, and
this is somebody that knows what they're talking about. So
we'll definitely look at that aspect of it with him today.

(05:16):
So no, that's coming, So we'll probably reserve a lot
of conversation about it till after we talked to him,
which is probably in a couple of hours, but we
can talk about how it affected us individually and then
of course over the weekend on a personal level. But
it's also personal to some of you that spent time
with us on the three decades of the Rick and

(05:37):
Bubba Show. Jordie Henson, as I mentioned when I told
you that he was near his earthly life being over,
a lot of you have emailed me over the weekend
because he did pass over the weekend from als and
a lot of you were sending me emails remembering the
multiple moments that he was involved in on the show.

(06:00):
Team one I had forgotten and I had a great
emailer that was laughing it up with me over the
weekend remembering Jeordie was the time that he left his
cell phone and I got it and started returning all
his texts. Yeah, and and and and he was screaming,
give me my phone. And uh that that one, Sherry
and I got to laughing about that yesterday, and and

(06:22):
you know, and then the whole thing with that, the
passion of the Christ.

Speaker 5 (06:27):
Yeah. Yeah. Scott Dawson, when he put a post out
about it, he referred to that, yeah, as one of
his favorite moments.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (06:34):
So so anyway, we'll, uh, we'll do a little look
back and remember the incredible earthly life of Jeordie Henson
on the show today too. And for those of you
that never knew him or did not enjoy the moments
that he had with us on the on the Rick
and Bubba's show, I'll take a moment to you know,
because they'll probably be with his arrangements. He once again

(06:55):
he continues to serve he had the ultimate servant's heart.
If he was, if he was on your side, the
tenacity of that man is unrivaled. And he he continued,
you know that with ALS, we're trying so hard to
find answers for this horrible, horrible disease. And he told

(07:15):
the Mayo Clinic that when he passed, he was even
joking around about that. If you remember, he told the doctor,
if you can, if you can get me to live
this long, you can have my brain. If I live
less than that, you can't have it. And so the
doctor did meet Geordie's requirement on length of life after ALS.
And so Jordie, there's things about his situation that they're

(07:37):
looking for answers that may help others. So you know,
he Jordie is certainly born and raised in the Baptist Church,
and you know, with Baptists, if you pass, you know
we're going to have you in the ground in forty
eight hours. Yeah, okay, And so we're having to kind
of adjust a little bit because his body has been

(07:58):
sent to the male clinic, so probably won't be able
to celebrate him until maybe Friday this week. For Baptists,
that makes us very uncomfortable because you know, that's that's
a long time before the funeral, yeah, and the memorial
service and all that. But so we'll definitely do a
little mini eulogy for him today on the program, So
that'll be coming up. We'll talk about that a little
bit later on too, But just be with the Hnson

(08:19):
family as.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
They grieve the earthly loss.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
But boy, do they have a lot to celebrate the
impact of this man's life.

Speaker 6 (08:26):
It is.

Speaker 1 (08:28):
It's not something that needs to be exaggerated, it's all.
Doesn't that feel comfortable?

Speaker 5 (08:32):
Do you ever?

Speaker 1 (08:32):
You ever have that uncomfortable feeling when you have to
pretend somebody had impact when they really didn't, or you
have to kind of elevate them a little bit after
they died.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
We don't have to worry about that with with Henson,
you know.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
And there's there's plenty to talk about that is legit,
and so that and that sure is comforting for the
folks who are you know who are going to be
mourning you.

Speaker 7 (08:53):
Yeah, I've been at those funerals before. Heck of a whistler.

Speaker 8 (08:57):
Hey, hey, this guy could whist sold like you wouldn't believe.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
Right, I've said it before, and and you've heard me
say this before, and I've never forgotten it.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
As I had to.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
I was asked to try to do one of those funerals,
and we sat down with the family form me mentioned
this at at some of the man church stuff, and
we were talking to his kids and talking to his wife.
And after we finished our complete tell us about your husband,
tell us about your dad, the worship leader who I

(09:34):
will not name, looked at me and says, I guess
I need to add some songs m And I said, yeah,
that's probably helpful.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
Well, well we'll be back.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
So but not in not in this case right. Matter
of fact, we might have to drop a few songs.

Speaker 6 (09:53):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (09:54):
Jordie loved football, but he loved his family too, and
you can tell ye.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
I mean a lot. We'll be back.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
And also, more importantly, he loved the Lord and served
him valiantly and with much devotion.

Speaker 9 (10:07):
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two hundred and ninety seven dollars. When we were looking
back on some of the things that happened on the
lighter side with Jordie Henson, so he and Mark Garnett.

(12:24):
When Sherry and I first moved to Birmingham, Okay, I
mean we're we just got here. It's nineteen ninety eight, okay,
and we're trying to find a church and we don't
know where we're going. We'd been going to church, you know,
for a couple of years where we lived in Oxford
and that's kind of where we were disciples really for
the first time. And so, you know, it's all pretty

(12:46):
new to us. We've only been you know, followers of
Christ for about three years and we're looking for our
Birmingham church on which we'd never encountered churches of this size.
I mean, we didn't know what to think. You know,
we're from small towns, both of us, and so Jordie
Henson and Mark Garnett came to our door because we
had visited the church where they went, filled out a

(13:07):
visitor's card and they came into our house and that's
how I met him for the first time, and so
invited us to church. And so when we developed this friendship.
Remember you know, the Rick and Bubba show was just
beginning to climb in Birmingham. We had come from Gadson
to Birmingham. We just got there and so they didn't

(13:30):
really know what they were dealing with with having a
friend that had to fill a lot of content. And
I actually got him in trouble at his job. Didn't
know it, okay, So he was working in the banking
industry at the time, and he was always in finance.

(13:51):
And so I found out, you know, visiting this church,
and I thought it was weird that a lot of
the men in the Sunday schools asked that Sharon and
I were visiting, had decided to go get visectomies, like
on the same day, what like some kind of vasectomy party,
and uh, and I thought that was odd.

Speaker 7 (14:10):
I'm sorry, what now?

Speaker 1 (14:11):
Yeah heard group? Yeah, so I thought that was weird. Well,
of course I'm read. Of course I come to the
show with it. Yeah, you know, and I'm talking about it.

Speaker 2 (14:18):
Well he is.

Speaker 1 (14:20):
He he said, he gets called out of a meeting
where he was working and said, hey, what any world
this radio show is talking about you today like that.
He's going, I don't, I don't know what you're talking about.
And he's going, we can't even we can't even have
a meeting.

Speaker 5 (14:33):
That's all.

Speaker 2 (14:34):
Everybody here is talking about what any world? I mean?

Speaker 1 (14:37):
Why is he talking about your visectomy on the show?
And he goes, I didn't know he was in the show.
He said, They like almost sent him to Atlanta because
he was like, look, is everything we do here going
to end up on this radio show? And everything you do,
and he would think he had to come to me
and go, hey, man, you might want to run stuff
by me first, but I was like, so, so we

(14:58):
got off to an interest start. But so well, we'll
talk more about that coming up a little bit later on.
But anyway, so also other things, and we're going to
get into the flooding. You know, this is like I
said earlier, this you know, when do you go light,
when do you go serious? It's we just kind of
used ago with just how we feel being led. And

(15:21):
so we will talk about the horror of all that.
And I know that was just on all of our
minds all week and long. And we're praying for all
these families from all over but the people of Texas too,
And and I will tell a lot of you that
have been contacting me personally, I am aware, sadly, I'm
aware that one of the families that's dealing with already

(15:43):
knowing that their child was taken by the floods.

Speaker 2 (15:47):
Actually they actually.

Speaker 1 (15:48):
Live in our home community where we all live, and
so the process has already started. And you know, remember,
all the best of intentions are always out there, but
share and I in this ministry that we wish we
didn't have dealing with the earthly death of children it is.
We're honored to do it. I wish we weren't in

(16:09):
that club, but we are, and we are, and part
of the healing is watching that count and matter. But
remember these families, they're in shock, and I know the
best of intentions is, you know, reach out to them,
reach out to them. Here's their phone and all that.
But these people need time to settle. I mean, they're
in a whirlwind right now. But just so all of

(16:31):
you know, the efforts are being made now for us
to just let them know that we're here if they
need us, and we're happy to walk with them. So
that's happening. Thank all of you for considering us worthy
of that. But we've been doing this, you know, for
seventeen years now, and you know, every family is different.
Some people want to talk to you immediately, some people

(16:53):
need some time, but we will.

Speaker 2 (16:55):
We will move at the pace that.

Speaker 1 (16:58):
They want to move at and are here if they
desire our input and help. If if they don't need it,
that's okay too, But we're we're always there. So thank
you for all of you thinking about that. But yeah,
we we have already been called into action on that,
so we'll be standing by ready to help them and
really any of these families because the show now is
far reaching. Uh, if there's any way that we can,

(17:20):
because you know, earthly death is a hard thing for
all of us, but when children die rightfully, so it
just it just kind of hits you in a different way.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
You know. It's it's a hard thing.

Speaker 5 (17:33):
To to think we live in a world where things
like this happen, but they do, they do.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
And uh.

Speaker 1 (17:39):
And one of the things Span will talk about as
far as these type of floods that it's you know,
you've got a lot of you know, climate change. Waco's
out there. I like to thank them for not allowing
anyone the time to mourn.

Speaker 10 (17:51):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (17:52):
But uh, and then you've got these people claiming that
cloud seating caused it and all this. But these floods
are not unprecedented, and Span made that very clear. This
this has happened before, uh, in this exact same area,
so it's it's not the first time. So we'll we'll
talk with him more about that coming up a little

(18:12):
bit later in the program. So we have other things
to cover today. We will look back on a much
lighter note over the Independence Day weekend, and of course
we all have stories.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
We'll be right back. We're starting our recap.

Speaker 1 (18:31):
We have talked about the briefly the Texas floods. James
span will one hour from right now can shed some
light on exactly what happened and was there really anything
that could have been done.

Speaker 2 (18:44):
We'll we'll, we'll talk.

Speaker 1 (18:45):
He'll clear the air on that coming up one hour
from right now, and so we got that coming up.
We definitely would do a tribute to our dear friend
Jordie Henson who did pass over the weekend from als.
We'll do that coming up. And of course we have
all kinds of recapsure phone calls more, hey Burge from
the past weekend. I'll get more into the American village later.

(19:07):
But Bradley's email was just so good. You know what
hit me about Bradley? Did you notice his wife, who
doesn't like the show, says didn't like the former show.
Didn't like this show mainly because of Greg, you, Adler
and me, And she said the only one she liked
was the bald one. And we all know why. Remember
he said back on the Rick and Bubba days, we

(19:28):
came to the golden tickets each one, and.

Speaker 2 (19:30):
She experienced the over greet and liked it.

Speaker 1 (19:33):
Yeah, did find something I don't with the Beach Boys.
Well that's true too. Maybe that that helps you too.

Speaker 7 (19:39):
I said I liked the Beach Boys.

Speaker 8 (19:41):
Well I won't go back and gave her nothing out
of the day, but I do like the Beach Boys.

Speaker 1 (19:45):
Well, and plus that's she's nice and all that, but
I still don't like the Beach Boys.

Speaker 2 (19:49):
I just don't like Gray. This didn't happen here. How
about this.

Speaker 1 (19:51):
I'm gonna get with Bradley. If we can interview her
and let her spin the wheel, Yeah.

Speaker 5 (19:55):
Maybe we can. Maybe we can convince her give us
a week, right, and and let us let us know
things you want us to do, and maybe we we'll
let her.

Speaker 2 (20:03):
You're fine, don't worry about if you over greeted.

Speaker 5 (20:05):
You're good.

Speaker 2 (20:06):
You're fine, bald one.

Speaker 1 (20:07):
What if we just had her say she programmed maybe
an hour and we did everything anything she wanted to
do for one hour. If you picked four segments which
you'd like just to cover. Do you hear the list
always said we'd have to cover. Yeah, it sounds ugly.

Speaker 5 (20:22):
See that's not helping. You know what you say sounds
promising if.

Speaker 11 (20:26):
You're ready for the fireworks.

Speaker 1 (20:27):
Say hey, all right, so speedy speaking of fireworks.

Speaker 5 (20:31):
Uh huh oh yeah, I pulled.

Speaker 2 (20:34):
I've been there, this, this has happened.

Speaker 5 (20:36):
I thought about you. Let me ask you a question, Adler.
You you chime into, is anything ever happened to y'all
in your private life? And you you immediately think about
the crew here. I wish that Why aren't they not here?
Why are they not here right now? It happened to
me on fourth of July night. It was a great day.

(20:56):
We got the family over all the boys tell you
even at one point came to the kitchen. She said, look,
I said what she said. All my babies are right
there on the couch together, hanging out, all adult men
and getting them all under one roof is really hard nowadays,
and they were all over there, just kind of hanging out.
She just made her happy. So anyway, Maybury, Uh, my

(21:18):
daughter in law, Tyler's wife, I blame her. Uh she
uh cranked up talk of hey, we need fireworks, and
I don't know why, but we've never never really been
a big fireworks family. I mean, it's never been.

Speaker 4 (21:33):
A big deal.

Speaker 2 (21:35):
Now that thing back.

Speaker 5 (21:36):
Yeah, and it didn't before I get them. It's not
about the money. It has nothing to do with that.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
And they aren't free. They aren't the.

Speaker 5 (21:46):
Boy Hey wow the mark up, So that's two hundred
dollars and all fairness.

Speaker 1 (21:54):
I do remember one year that the sponsor gave us
all fireworks and Speedy still didn't shoot and they were free.

Speaker 5 (21:59):
Yeah, yeah, we just it's just never we don't run
from them. It's just never really gained any interest at
the house.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
Well, and I don't want to get on your story,
but we did that for a while, but what happened
stopped it with our family. Didn't do it anymore because
I traumatize them.

Speaker 2 (22:15):
But boy, let me now.

Speaker 5 (22:19):
Yeah. Yeah. So Maybury late in the afternoon says, hey,
we might let's go get some fireworks. And there's a
fireworks stand around the corner or there, and I thought
it was gonna kind of die down, and then it's
and then Tyler came said, hey, we'll be right back,
and I'm like, why see y'all going to get some
And so they come back and they just got a
bag full and they got so much stuff. JC was

(22:39):
off somewhere. Well, everybody's hey, y'all come back with a
big Wilburn fireworks show. And our house is where I live.
It's it's a sidewalk community, you know, the cove and
and the houses can be you know, there's somewhat they're
close together. Everybody's got their own private life, but yeah,
we're you know, everybody's kind of communicates and talk and

(23:01):
we all have each other's cellphone them. So I texted
my closest neighbors and I said, hey, heads up, Wilburn
boys are gonna put on a firework show. If you
hear a lot of banging right outside, you know, your
your door, that's what's going on there in the backyard.
They're like, okay, great, and one of them would said,
we're gonna come out watch. And it starts okay, it
gets to be right at dark, and there's a little

(23:24):
hill that goes goes behind the house and up on
top of the hill it's real flat and it's still
our property up there, and so that's where they were
gonna set shop up. And they you know, it's it
starts with a bottle rocket here, and you know when
you try to throw a bottle rocket it's really tough
to time it down. It is a lot of times
you'll throw it and it'll go to the left or
it'll hit the ground.

Speaker 2 (23:43):
And then you know them in bottles.

Speaker 5 (23:45):
Yeah and I and I just got a bottle rocket right, Yeah,
and yeah, I yelled that to the boys, Hey let's
use a bottle. And now it turns out one of
my sweet little neighbors, she's out, you know, kind of
finishing up with her flowers. She likes to water the
flowers right right before. In the dark, she's kind of
walking around the house and hey, how are you all good?
And you know, and uh, she said, oh, we can't

(24:06):
wait for the show. And and one of my buddies, Shannon,
he's down the street and he's like, hey, we're gonna
even come out and watch this. Tell him to put
on a good show. And and there's a couple of duds,
you know, and so you know, they're young bucks.

Speaker 1 (24:21):
They're young bucks. They don't I mean, they you know,
there they'll be there'll be a shooter one day.

Speaker 5 (24:24):
And then there was one that they pulled out. There
was there was a had a tower and it was
about as long from your elbow to your to your
to your fist.

Speaker 4 (24:33):
You know.

Speaker 5 (24:34):
It's just it was pretty and I noticed it didn't
have a real good base on uh, and and I
was like, huh, but now I'm down. Now we got
rocking chairs out. We're sitting there. They're putting on a show,
you know, and we wished it was a little better.
And they do too.

Speaker 12 (24:51):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (24:52):
You don't know when you know, you don't, you don't.
But it's there's something going on and off in the
distance above the tree, you see you see. We're like, wow,
y'all need to do that, you know, and they're getting frustrated,
all right, and they Tyler is going, I can't believe
this cost two hundred dollars. And then all of a

(25:12):
sudden they're like, hey, y'all gonna like this one, and
and they lighted and then they all run.

Speaker 2 (25:17):
You know.

Speaker 5 (25:19):
It was JC was really helping. Reese was the smart
when he was kind of chilling and going up, and
and then Maybury was helping. And then they you see
little flashlights running and they're like, okay, here we go,
Ill said, and it goes up and it's just she's
this little blue sparkling thing that's nice. And then all
of a sudden, I hear Tyler go oh, and you

(25:43):
don't want to hear Tywer fell over and guys happened?
It is pointing straight at us and all of a
sudden the side of the house. And then all of
a sudden, it just starts firing everywhere the house to
the lamborhood. It goes into their back porch, breezeway.

Speaker 2 (26:05):
Somebody, what a show?

Speaker 5 (26:07):
I know where where my little neighbor, My little sweet
neighbor was just standing on the side of their house.

Speaker 2 (26:13):
She's watering her breast.

Speaker 5 (26:15):
Somebody helped me, right, my neighbor. That's that's served in
desert storms screaming.

Speaker 11 (26:20):
This brings back memories, wallets.

Speaker 2 (26:24):
We went on the ground.

Speaker 11 (26:25):
Everybody hit the ground.

Speaker 2 (26:27):
I went down on the ground.

Speaker 11 (26:29):
Some dogs are barking.

Speaker 5 (26:30):
Jack who hates thunderstorms. He's peeing everywhere.

Speaker 13 (26:33):
It's a mess.

Speaker 11 (26:37):
It is a mess. Somebody good night.

Speaker 2 (26:42):
One of them got about Terry. They screamed, back up.

Speaker 8 (26:44):
Terry, Terry, Terry wild.

Speaker 11 (26:51):
Everybody hit the deck.

Speaker 2 (26:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (26:53):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (26:54):
It was mania for about twenty five seconds, and then
you don't know is it over?

Speaker 2 (27:00):
You know, it's like, is there a follow up fire.

Speaker 5 (27:02):
We're all on our belly shoot another way and now
we stick our head up.

Speaker 2 (27:05):
Is it over?

Speaker 5 (27:05):
Can we get up?

Speaker 2 (27:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (27:07):
I mean they haven't hit the ground up there. There
was one even even fired out into some tree and
then we thought it set it on fire, which it didn't.
Luckily it had rained earlier in the day. Right now,
I had to walk the neighborhood going, is everybody all right?
We had houses hits?

Speaker 2 (27:23):
What about Hoby? All right?

Speaker 5 (27:26):
Well Hoby wouldn't. Now I figured it was say, hey,
that was great, But guys, for one second, the Wilburn
fireworks extravaganza was a disaster. And it was also like
do we continue this.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
One thing to shoot at your own family when you're
hitting other people's houses?

Speaker 5 (27:42):
And they had one other one too that was the
same and we had to kind of brace it to
where it wouldn't fall over. But for about, like I said,
twenty to twenty five seconds, the entire neighborhood was under fire.

Speaker 2 (27:52):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (27:53):
Yeah, but that was better than just a fireworks Yeah. Uh,
Greg you were you were mentioning that your Fourth of
July you cleaned out the garage.

Speaker 2 (28:10):
Yeah, we didn't.

Speaker 1 (28:10):
The kids and all the way the plans were, we
didn't get together. So I did grissl Hamburgs and hot dogs,
but just you and yeah, we got out and cleaned
garage out, got a lot of stuff done. That was
our Fourth of July. Not very patriotic, but you know what,
So I tell you what it was productive. It was
definitely that you know, Okay, it was productive.

Speaker 2 (28:30):
Yeah, but Greg, I mean.

Speaker 5 (28:31):
It's one of those painfully productive days where you feel
better after it's done, but it's miserable doing it. Oh yeah,
you know, it's just one of those chores.

Speaker 1 (28:40):
Where you're like, but I understand where we are now
in life. There's a certain elation that you got.

Speaker 5 (28:47):
Things done on that day that you need to get done,
and so there there is there is good that comes with.

Speaker 2 (28:53):
That, right, So how you felt people get tired of
hearing this? To me?

Speaker 1 (28:57):
The best thing about holidays or anytime we're all I
don't have to get up early, that's right. As long
as I get to experience that, then that it was
successful the way I said, Because I mean a break
from that, it's awesome, you know.

Speaker 2 (29:09):
I mean, we're not in a salt mine here. I
get it. But I like to sleep every now.

Speaker 1 (29:13):
Then sure, all right, Larry's Larry's checking in, Larry, how
did you and Carolyn?

Speaker 2 (29:18):
Did y'all celebrate the fourth?

Speaker 15 (29:21):
No, we just can't here at home, Larry.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
I mean you didn't take it to a firework show
or saying nothing?

Speaker 2 (29:29):
I mean we had.

Speaker 15 (29:31):
Barber everybody's hing mire in our neighborhood.

Speaker 2 (29:36):
Did I mean?

Speaker 1 (29:36):
But did you see a show enough show or just
a couple of neighbors like speed these kids firing stuff
dangerly dangerously at their neighbors.

Speaker 15 (29:45):
They had a huge one go in our neighborhood.

Speaker 5 (29:48):
Okay, I talked to Larry and four on the fourth
of July. Did you he talked to the family, He
got to meet Terry's parents.

Speaker 2 (29:56):
Okay, okay, yes.

Speaker 15 (30:00):
We want to thank everybody that sent us uh uh
last week in the mail.

Speaker 2 (30:08):
Okay, yeah, okay, what what what? What all did you get? Lair?

Speaker 15 (30:12):
We got some pactice and a necklace yeah and a
what necklace?

Speaker 5 (30:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (30:21):
Now necklace?

Speaker 5 (30:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (30:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (30:25):
News.

Speaker 15 (30:26):
One of the listeners her husband that tumbos the stone
and she makes necklaces.

Speaker 5 (30:34):
Yeah. And I want to say some some CITs in
our audience that send him some stuff. I think Auntie
Anna and maybe Koleira and some others sent you some stuff, right, okay?

Speaker 15 (30:47):
Uh, Speedy, Yes, sir, Karen Karen, and I sent you
a text of a.

Speaker 8 (30:58):
Braham A pactice.

Speaker 5 (31:01):
Yes, sir, did you get it? I did? I did
get it was a little delayed. I didn't get it
when you sent it, but later on I was able
to get it. That looks nice, buddy.

Speaker 2 (31:11):
Did you did you show that the admir and Rick?

Speaker 5 (31:15):
I did?

Speaker 2 (31:16):
I just I just show. I haven't seen it. You
weren't looking like Speedy has not shown me this, and
I'm angry.

Speaker 5 (31:22):
No, Larry, don't listen to him.

Speaker 2 (31:25):
I haven't seen it.

Speaker 8 (31:29):
The whole frame is doesn't.

Speaker 2 (31:30):
But I did a ride Patrick, Oh really?

Speaker 5 (31:33):
Okay, yeah, Adler, I just emailed you the picture so
you can show the audience if you want to.

Speaker 15 (31:38):
But yeah, so so yes, the Great, the Great Begwood
twenty twenty an't it? Yes, let's see I did a
ride the Grace that we went to.

Speaker 2 (31:51):
Okay, Okay, Larry is fired up about it. He loves it.

Speaker 5 (31:56):
Is right there, Larry. I'm just we're showing it now.

Speaker 1 (31:58):
Larry got it, Larry. I wish s Medy, I wish
Speedy had shown it to me.

Speaker 2 (32:01):
Sooner, but he didn't.

Speaker 5 (32:02):
He just doesn't pay attention. Larry, I like the dog thing.

Speaker 1 (32:06):
Yeah, I know, I know you're very patchionate about all
these patches.

Speaker 2 (32:09):
That's right, that were guys.

Speaker 15 (32:14):
Oh uh patch from a.

Speaker 4 (32:21):
Giant rocket at the park patch.

Speaker 2 (32:27):
Larry, Larry.

Speaker 5 (32:28):
We really it's really on us. We have cranked up
the patch, Larry.

Speaker 1 (32:32):
Larry, We've got we've talked about this before. You know,
your your passion. It's patches and I did a rod
and those two they're just it's a small circle. I mean,
there's just it just doesn't have a lot of mass appeal.
And but I'll tell you one thing. People have found
out that you want patches, so that part's easy. They
are coming to you. But I would just give you

(32:52):
just a waving of just a yellow caution flag. I
wouldn't talk about these two topics too much in the community.

Speaker 2 (32:59):
You remember what happened BEFO.

Speaker 15 (33:01):
Yeah, really, you don't talk about that.

Speaker 1 (33:08):
You might want to throw something out like, hey, find
out how many days of this till college football starts
and bring up you know, hey, this many days to
the Bulldogs crank out again? Something you know, you just
work and don't don't mention a bulldog patch or bulldogs
reminds you of sled dogs. Don't go down that road,
you know, let's stay right right with football sec talk

(33:29):
something like that.

Speaker 16 (33:31):
Have you ever heard of Jerokee Ridge?

Speaker 2 (33:34):
Not see these kind of kind of swing?

Speaker 1 (33:39):
No, I haven't heard of Jerokee Ridge?

Speaker 15 (33:44):
Again the day Jill Alabama?

Speaker 2 (33:48):
Yeah, okay, what's that got to do with anything?

Speaker 7 (33:52):
Be there?

Speaker 9 (33:58):
This is the Rick Show. Here with the legist. Here
is mediaologist James Span.

Speaker 2 (34:10):
James, Welcome to the show.

Speaker 1 (34:13):
Wish it was a much happier, bright visit, but it
is somber what we're all seeing in Texas. We can't
even believe our eyes, we can't believe our ears. Anytime
children are involved. That takes it to a whole nother level.
So I'm just going to kind of turn the show

(34:35):
over to you, because, as you and I have talked about,
you and Speedy just talked about it in the break,
we are living in a time that we have access
to so much information, but we also are being fed
so much misinformation. Can you help us to just get
down to the real world and the real truth involving this.

Speaker 16 (34:56):
So there's two elements of this Rick, any tragedy like this,
you've got physical science and that's what I do, meteorology.
Then you've got social science human behavior, and we're learning
about that. But that's not what I was trained to do.
I do physical science, and the social science aspect of
this is just as important. Did they hear the warning?

(35:17):
Did they not hear the warning? Did they All? That
will find out later. But in terms of the meteorology
behind this, and again, Rick, there's so much nonsense. I
don't what is horrifying to me. Some of these precious
parents that lost their precious children, they're going to get
back in the real world at some point and they're
going to open up Facebook or whatever, and they're going

(35:38):
to see the most horrific, horrific nonsense from political extremists.
Now I'm talking right wing and left wing, both sides.
It's nuts. Can you just stop it? But let me
just go through the meteorology real quick. Part of the
problem the really really high precipitable water. The atmosphere was

(35:59):
charged up because of a tropical system that was in
the Eastern Pacific by the name of Barry.

Speaker 4 (36:04):
And this happens a lot.

Speaker 16 (36:06):
They make landfall in Mexico in the rim that moisture
comes into Texas and sometimes Oklahoma, and so the atmosphere
was loaded. It was just like a wet sponge waiting
on something to squeeze it out. And that's the reason
the rain rates were so high. We basically had about
a foot of rain right over the river basin, and

(36:27):
so flash and listen. The warnings were good in my opinion.
And again you listen to some people. The Weather Service
didn't have staffing and all this. They had extra staff
that night, the Weather Service in Austin, San Antonio, New Bronfels,
and they.

Speaker 4 (36:42):
Had extra staff.

Speaker 16 (36:42):
The first flash flood watch went out at the day
before flash flood watch. The first flash flood warning was
issued at about one am. The second flash flood warning,
which was a flash flood emergency, was issued at five
point thirty four am. And of course the question is
did they hear it? And I don't have answers to that.
I'm not familiar with this cam. I worked in Texas

(37:05):
for a couple of years a long time ago, but
that gives me no unique knowledge of this. And the
cell service is extremely spotty from what I understand there
and we how many times have I been on this
show asking people to get a weather radio. Get a
weather radio. That's the baseline. It's not your phone. Phones
are important, yes, but that's not the baseline. The baseline,
it's a weather radio. It has nothing to do with

(37:26):
cell coverage, nothing to do with a cell network. They're loud,
they will wake you up and understand.

Speaker 4 (37:32):
Rick.

Speaker 16 (37:32):
The other thing too. Along this river, they have had
catastrophic floods. This is not the first time.

Speaker 1 (37:37):
This is important because some of the stuff out there
is acting like this was an event that has never
happened before.

Speaker 2 (37:44):
Right.

Speaker 16 (37:44):
It happened in nineteen ninety eight, nineteen eighty seven, nineteen
seventy eight, nineteen thirty five, nineteen twenty one, that eighty
seven floods, same thing.

Speaker 4 (37:52):
Children were killed, same thing.

Speaker 16 (37:54):
And if you're going to have a facility like this
along a river, and in Texas it's a little different.
Those rivers are just dry, they're basically a little gulch,
and then you get a foot of foot of rain
that falls and you're going to literally have a wall
of water that comes down that little gulch that river basin.

Speaker 4 (38:09):
And that's what happened with this thing. Thursday night, early
Friday morning.

Speaker 16 (38:12):
And obviously I'm hoping that they had a weather radio,
and the question is was it on, did it not sound,
or did they not have one.

Speaker 4 (38:19):
I don't know that, and we'll find this out later.
You know.

Speaker 16 (38:22):
To me, the time is not proper now to go
through the social science side of this thing, because we're
still in the recovery mode here, and you know, all
the blame and pointing fingers and all this other stuff.
But the bottom line is this. The warnings were timely.
We don't know if they heard them. Weather Service in Austin,
San Antonio had extra staff, and on the meteorology side,

(38:45):
the warnings were good. Now here's one problem that we have.
We have too many false alarms. It's ridiculous. We're better
than this. You've got some weather service offices in the country.
For example, with tornadoes, the false alarm ratio is eighty
to ninety percent of warnings are false alarms. Nuts and
over and over and over and over and over. We
have flash flood warnings where you might have an inch
of water in some country road that's not a flash flood.

(39:08):
And you know we're gonna have to stop this. We
have a warning addiction problem. Within the professional weather enterprise.
And then of course you got to TikTok guys and
the YouTube guys. Everything's doom and disaster and you hear
this constant, constant murmur of this and all the false alarms,
and a lot of that's on our side. We've got
to fix that on the professional weather enterprise. And my
challenge to every single weather service office stop it, stop it,

(39:31):
stop issuing these false warnings. You're always going to have
false warnings, but when you've got a false alarm ratio
of eighty eighty five ninety percent, we're better than that,
and I think we have to look at that, and
that's an internal thing we'll have to do within the
weather enterprise. So that's one of our problems. So and
I hope we were going to work on that within
the government. But Rick, the bottom line is, it's at

(39:52):
weather radio. Did they have one? Did it go off
at one am? Did they know the history of the
flooding that's come down that river with loss of life
involving true? I don't know that. And that's the social
science side of this that will get later. But again,
if you have a strong political opinion, I'm just asking
you to stop it, stop putting out this nonsense on
social media. So the left wingers, of course, immediately it's Trump,

(40:13):
It's Trump, and you know he's cut the research on
climate and he cut the Weather Service employees. And then
on the right wing, you got these you know, Kim
trail guys, it's Kim trail. So he brayed Kim trail's
the day before and the Kim trails, and the seating
that they did this on purpose, that the government caused
this and it was done on purpose, and you know,

(40:36):
this is nonsense, and people believe this, Rick, They honestly
believe this. And I might be kicked off the show
because I'm telling you the truth here, but oh.

Speaker 2 (40:44):
This is the real world.

Speaker 1 (40:45):
Now we're gonna have to use the platforms that God
has given us, James, and hopefully, I know we're not
a long We're gonna have to get out there and
say we have platforms and we can bring some clarity
to this. So I'll lauded you for doing that, because
I'm I mean, I see a picture of a blue
tarp with water in it and some idiots saying, look,

(41:07):
this is blue water, and I'm like, well, it's reflecting
the blue tarp, you idiot. I mean, and you know
it didn't come out of the sky blue. This is
showing you it's kim trails and seeding and it was
done on purpose. And I'm like, it's just so irresponsible.
And then back the other way, you know, it's a
you know, we're saying that you know the staff was

(41:27):
cut and you said no, the facts are they actually
had extra staff. There no warnings went out, Yes they did.
So I think you know if we I agree with you,
we can't solve problems if we can't get out of
the fake world and get in the real world and
talk about real solutions. But first we have to identify

(41:48):
the real problem. You can't you can't get a solution
for anything if you can't talk in the real world.

Speaker 2 (41:53):
James, I don't know how it bus. I'm sure you're
a bicky.

Speaker 1 (41:55):
You mind standing one more segment because there's some of
the things I want to ask you. Okay, we'll come back.
James Spen bringing some clarity and foundational truth to all
this is so important, so important that you hear these things. No,
it's not unprecedented. You heard James name all four years

(42:17):
that this has happened in the past. We'll be right back,
James spen with us so important after the horror that
is the Texas flooding situation, with these just people that

(42:37):
live there, and of course really really bringing us attention,
bringing in the attention and involving children in these camps
that are along this river, and it is it's a horrible,
horrible thing. Unfortunately, we're living in a time where I
don't know, I do know not how to explain it,
and James is trying to Let's talk about the real stuff.

Speaker 2 (43:01):
James, let me ask you this.

Speaker 1 (43:03):
A lot of people are asking there are companies that
do some sort of cloud seating.

Speaker 2 (43:10):
Yes, no, does that happen? And how often does it happen?

Speaker 5 (43:14):
This?

Speaker 2 (43:15):
I know this has nothing to do with it. Even
if it happened.

Speaker 16 (43:19):
Listen, there have been weather modification experiments for decades and
decades and decades, most of them have failed miserably. And
are there some seating operations in limited spots. Yes, it's
happened before, and there have been experiments, and what they
try and do is is, you know, bring some rain
to drought areas. And the success has been very limited.

(43:41):
And the area where they do that, it's very limited,
and of course, you know, people dig up some license
for somebody that's doing this and immediately they say, well,
the flood was caused by humans. This was a man
made operation. They were spraying kim trails the day before.
And that's absolute nonsense. And any third grader, any third grader,
can get a map and look at the progression of
trop Storm Berry that came in from the Pacific, and

(44:02):
it came right up through Texas and Oklahoma. Listen, I
was in one of these floods like this in Tulsa, Oklahoma,
back in the early eighties. Same circumstance, we had Hurricane
Tico that came into Mexico. Remnant moisture came up through
Texas and Oklahoma, one of the worst flash floods I've
ever been involved in. These things can be just absolutely horrible.
The precipitable water, it just loads the atmosphere. It is loaded,

(44:25):
and it will dump something like that a foot of
rain in three, four or five hours.

Speaker 4 (44:30):
It can do that.

Speaker 16 (44:31):
And so it wasn't you know, some guy doing this,
it was it was a tropical system with a little
wave that.

Speaker 4 (44:38):
Produced upward motion. That's all.

Speaker 16 (44:39):
It's like just somebody squeezing out a sponge. You pick
up a wet sponge, you know, you know at some
point that water is coming out of that thing, and
that's when it happened unfortunately along the Guadaloupe basin there.

Speaker 1 (44:49):
Yeah, which can be problematic because you said, we have
four other instances where this happened as well, and that's
an important piece of information and all that.

Speaker 2 (45:00):
It's not unprecedented.

Speaker 1 (45:01):
It's tragic, it's horrible, but we know why it happened,
and we know that it has happened before. The bigger
question is how can we handle these things better? That's
where we need to be focused. And one of the
things that I did see is that some of the
children said they knew that there was a flash flood.
They actually did get the warning back to your original

(45:24):
point last segment, but they thought flash flood wasn't that big.

Speaker 2 (45:28):
A deal, and again they went right back to sleep.

Speaker 16 (45:31):
A lot of that's on us, all right, A lot
of that's on the professional weather enterprise because of issuing
flash flood warnings when when you know, you see you've
got a report of an inch of water on a
county road somewhere. We have to get away from that,
and we have to focus on this and understand Rick, Rick,
there are different levels of warnings that flash flood emergency.
When that was issued, that's the that's the most urgent

(45:54):
message that can go. The first warning was a flash
flood morning about one am. Second was a flash flood
emergency about five am. But the bottom line is this,
you've got to be aware of the history nineteen ninety eight,
nineteen eighty seven, nineteen seventy eight, nineteen thirty five, nineteen
twenty one, among others, with catastrophic flooding and the same
circumstances in which there was loss of life, including children,

(46:17):
same thing, and we have to learn from the past
to be successful going forward in the future. And again,
now's not the time to judge or to do any
of that because we don't know the facts about did
they get the warning, how did they respond, did they
not get the warning. Nobody knows anything right now that
will be coming out in future weeks and months and years,
And that's the social science side of this thing. But

(46:39):
what we need to do is just simply learn from it.
In other places, anywhere there's a large gathering of people
in a floodplain, Okay, listen. Flooding is a real deal.
In a floodplain, it's the real deal, and it's life threatening.
And you know, you've got to have a weather radio.
You've got to have a weather radio, not your phone,
not your you know weather channel app or you know

(47:02):
weather bug or whatever. And that stuff's okay, but I'm talking.
Cell service can be spotty, and during a genuine emergency,
a true weather emergency, that cell service can go away.
And that fancy iPhone, peq, Promax, whatever you got, it's
a brick. And that's why that radio is crucial in
many states. The percentage of people that have them in

(47:25):
flood prone states, tornado prone states, it's less than five percent.

Speaker 4 (47:28):
And I don't sell them. I have nothing to do
with them. It's a government.

Speaker 16 (47:30):
Service, but it's it. I'm just saying that that's a
critical part of that. And then having the plan of action.

Speaker 4 (47:36):
What do you do?

Speaker 16 (47:37):
And it's easy for us Rick to sit here and judge. Listen,
this was after midnight. Okay, these kids are sound asleep.
It's after midnight, and you got to evacuate. That's easier
said than done, it is, yeah, and you know so,
but for every camp like this in a floodplain the
Center River. You got to imagine what if this happens

(47:57):
to you, what are you going to do?

Speaker 4 (47:59):
Do you have a the radio?

Speaker 16 (48:00):
And what's your plan of getting those kids and those
campers out of there? And it ain't easy, but it's
something we all have to talk about.

Speaker 1 (48:07):
Forgive my ignorance on this with you say, in this
tropical storm, could we also maybe try to educate if
I'm running a camp and I'm in a floodplane, Hey,
this weather system alone, you need to have an evacuation
plan because if it hits, you need to get these
kids out of here.

Speaker 2 (48:23):
Knowing that the system was.

Speaker 16 (48:25):
Brewing, right, and that was the point of the flash
flood watch that went out to say before so this
was Thursday afternoon, flash flood watch was issued because of
the extremely high precipitable water values. You know this could
be you know, they mentioned river flooding, they mentioned creeks, streams,
all this stuff and the flash flood watch and you've
got to have a basic knowledge of that watch and

(48:48):
understanding that you could have some overnight flooding and know
the history of the camp and be ready to do something.
But that's the purpose of that flash flood watch. So yeah,
and again the warning process darned good. And of course
these poor guys that worked at the Weather Service. I
can imagine their mental state right now. Oh yeah, their
products were good, but they're brutally attacked, brutally attacked all

(49:10):
across social media. There was no warning, you know, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump,
and then Kim Trails, Kim Trails, Kim Trails, all these lunatics,
on these fringe right wing and left wing lunatics, they're
having to see this stuff. And you know, I just
hope that they understood, that they understand that they did
a darn good job.

Speaker 4 (49:28):
They really did.

Speaker 2 (49:29):
And you said it to colleagues.

Speaker 1 (49:31):
I think in the weather world we're gonna have to
get to a point where just because I need to
have more of a responsibility to be accurate and to
not become the boy who cries wolf, that's more important
than how many clicks I can get by being scary
all the time.

Speaker 16 (49:47):
Yeah, and listen, we cannot control TikTokers and YouTubers.

Speaker 2 (49:50):
That's right, I'm not talking about that.

Speaker 16 (49:51):
Go On, go on TikTok right now, and you'll find
probably dozens and dozens of accounts with millions of you
saying a hurricane's gonna come up and hit Panama City
Beach this week, which is absolute nonsense. We can't control that,
but we can control what we do. And I'm talking
the private sector, which is what I do, and the government, Noah,
the Weather Service what they do. And we need to

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take a long, hard look at the false alarm ratio
and stop it. There's a warning addiction problem here. And
you can't be issuing flash flood warnings when there's no
flooding or where there might be a little water on
a road somewhere. You've got to hold off and save
it for when there's a genuine flash flood. And how
do you define flash flood? Obviously what happened in Texas
that was a flash flood. You know, an inch of

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water on a country road, that's not a flash flood.
And we need an internal we need to have a
sit down, come to Jesus meeting about these false alarms.
And I think this will help initiate that discussion within
the professional weather enterprise.

Speaker 4 (50:48):
And these TV stations Code red weather.

Speaker 16 (50:51):
Emergency and I'm declaring a Code red weather emergency.

Speaker 4 (50:56):
Whether there's fog, Are you kidding?

Speaker 12 (50:58):
Me.

Speaker 4 (50:59):
People have warning fatigue. We got to stop this stuff.

Speaker 2 (51:01):
We got to thank you, James, appreciate your talking to
day very much.

Speaker 4 (51:05):
That's good day.

Speaker 2 (51:06):
We'll be right back.

Speaker 1 (51:13):
But you know, always incredible stories, a lot of tragedy,
a lot of tragedy, but also incredible stories as always
of human perseverance. Here's two young brothers talking about, you know,
their their terrifying night. Uh. Some of you may have
seen this on social media, but if you haven't, here
it is in the Kerr County floodwaters. They were sleeping

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at one of the camps and they're gonna tell you
what happened to them.

Speaker 2 (51:38):
Here we go.

Speaker 10 (51:39):
I'm one of the campers from Kamp Leahana, one of
the camps that flooded, and I had a first hand
view of the flood. And so the cabins were flooding
and the walls were like they they like they broke out,
and all of the campers in those cabins had to

(51:59):
go up on the rafters and they had to wait
there until they could swim out. And my brother here,
he had to swim out.

Speaker 7 (52:07):
Of his cabin.

Speaker 10 (52:07):
The flood started getting bigger and it was going up
to we had bunk beds in our cabins and it
was going up to the top bunk and we had
one choice and we had to swim out of our cabins.
What time it was like we woke up at Yeah,
we had to wake up at like four am. On
the way here, we saw all of like other camps destroyed,

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like obliterated.

Speaker 7 (52:32):
And tell me, how did you guys get out of there?

Speaker 4 (52:34):
They put you guys on buses or yes.

Speaker 5 (52:37):
Yeah, we had to get on a bus.

Speaker 10 (52:38):
Yes, we had to get on a bus. We were
in other cabins for like like cabins on hills for
about seventeen hours. We hosted a cabin buses get here
and it was.

Speaker 5 (52:52):
Not fun mm hmmmm.

Speaker 2 (52:54):
I had to swim for it.

Speaker 9 (52:56):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (52:57):
So also Fox he was reporting we there.

Speaker 1 (53:01):
Also they have found you know, some some girls and
women that had got in trees twenty seven feet up.
That's how how the water got. So here's a report
of a young girl that was found alive in Texas
after though floating on a mattress. Uh, they're they're during
the floody for twelve hours.

Speaker 2 (53:18):
Wow.

Speaker 6 (53:18):
So the little girls from our school, thankfully, you know,
praise the Lord was found she floated on a mattress
for three hours yesterday morning, and we just got the
text notice that she survived and we've located her and
that she's safe and sound.

Speaker 2 (53:30):
So wow, how many hours uh on a mattress?

Speaker 5 (53:34):
That was Congressman Chip Roy.

Speaker 1 (53:36):
Yeah, also a lot of us heard this heartbreaking story.
But heroic the twenty seven year old man who lost
his life saving his family in the Texas floods, and
you know, he just he did all he could and
he did get them to safety, but there just wasn't
anything left for him.

Speaker 2 (53:54):
So here here's that story.

Speaker 17 (53:56):
It just started pouring in.

Speaker 12 (53:57):
We had to fight the door to get it closed
to so that too much didn't come in.

Speaker 17 (54:02):
And we ran back to the room and we started
calling nine to one one.

Speaker 18 (54:05):
Julian's fiance, Christina Wilson says after twenty minutes, the water
was up to their knees. Julian punching open a window
to try and get her, their children, and his mother
to the roof.

Speaker 17 (54:15):
It severed his artery and his arm almost cut it
clean off.

Speaker 18 (54:19):
Christina says they kept calling nine to one one, but
no one came in time to save him.

Speaker 12 (54:23):
By six o'clock. My husband was dead. He had lost
all of it, all his blood. He looked at me
and the kids and my mother in law and he
was sorry, I'm not gonna make it.

Speaker 17 (54:34):
I love y'all.

Speaker 18 (54:35):
Christina says she found her fiance after the water receded,
but his body wasn't recovered for hours.

Speaker 5 (54:41):
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Speaker 8 (54:45):
That video, she's wearing an Alabama crismon tide hoodie. So
I don't know if there's just a local connection there
at all, or if she's just a fan. But man,
you just hear so many of these stories coming out
of a Texas and it's just horrible and tragic, and
we were definitely praying for everybody involved. My goodness, growing
up in San Antonio, my mom would talk. She would

(55:08):
talk about I remember being a kid, my mom talking
about flash floods because you would hear about it happening.
Nothing like this, nothing this devastating happened when I lived
in Texas, but you would hear about it, and I
remember being a kid, and I just kept thinking about
those conversations with that I had with my mom, about
how she said, if you know, if you see something,
come and get up, kai I go you know, and

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you just don't ever.

Speaker 7 (55:31):
Think it's going to happen.

Speaker 8 (55:32):
And for these rivers to go to change twenty feet
in twenty minutes, you're just like, that is not a
lot of time that has shut such a short amount
of time for these rivers to swell in such a
way that they did. Man, it's just it's horrible to
hear about these things, but you're glad to hear the

(55:54):
stories of survival as well.

Speaker 1 (55:56):
So there's all kinds of footage we have, you know,
before and after, there's you know, helicopter footage.

Speaker 2 (56:04):
Of of the of the river.

Speaker 1 (56:06):
And but let's get the five A because Spider, you
were talking about this one.

Speaker 2 (56:11):
So five A.

Speaker 1 (56:12):
This is a home, a complete home. This is crazy
being swept away. It's like in Kerrville, Texas. And there's
people inside and you can hear them holler.

Speaker 5 (56:22):
You can hear them, you can hear them. It's dark,
but listen up.

Speaker 7 (56:30):
It's just a house moving down the river.

Speaker 5 (56:32):
It's moving down the river and you can see because
they have flashlights hitting the house and floating down the
river like it's a it's a boat and it's not.
It's a house. There's people and not just one or two.
There's a number of people in the house looking out
the front door and it's just floating and they're just
screaming for help. It's just horrifying, and it's just pitch

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darkness in the middle of the night.

Speaker 2 (56:54):
And that that's not the houseboat you want there.

Speaker 5 (56:56):
No, No, it's not.

Speaker 2 (56:57):
It's really not.

Speaker 5 (56:58):
And I don't know where the mindset is. I mean,
I'm thinking, Okay, I live there, local and these camps
aren't new, They've been around. There's adults that are being
interviewed going on, I went there when I was a kid,
So this isn't this isn't something like seven. Yeah, like
they just started last week and they're not familiar with everything.
But I'm pretty sure. And this is back to what
Span said is and this is a time of time

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lapse of how the water race is that everybody thought, well, yeah,
there's probably some water gonna come. You know, it's gonna
it's gonna rise a little bit, but we're high up
and we're fine, right, and then all of a sudden,
within minutes, it goes from I mean this it had waves,
it was it was flying through there. There was an
interview on I think it was CNN of a guy
that said they're still looking for his parents, that his

(57:42):
brother called him and said, hey, I just escaped. My
camper was just devastated, but I got away. I'm getting
to dad, his mom and dad's who's like seven minutes away.
And he said by the time he got to them
that their whole place was washed away with it seven
minutes and it was up the ridge more.

Speaker 8 (58:02):
Yeah, here's a time lapse of the Lano River La
N And you can see here this is fourteen minutes after.
The bridge looks relatively normal. And now I'm gonna pose
it now we're at sixteen minutes after and the bridge
is totally covered in water.

Speaker 5 (58:21):
Yeah, you never know there was a bridge there.

Speaker 8 (58:23):
Two minutes and the bridge is gone four minutes later.
It's five six ten feet above the above the bridge.
To just give you an idea how quickly this water
is was coming through. Unbelievable amount of water and flooding
in devastation.

Speaker 2 (58:40):
Wow, So a five B.

Speaker 1 (58:42):
We do have a water rescue greg. This is in
San Angelo. Remember we used to play them at Jacksonville
State as a matter of that was in that area
not too long ago. And here's a water rescue that's
taking place there. I mean, look at this.

Speaker 5 (58:56):
I've watched this. I'm almost like a nervous rag. They
have a a rope that's gone across the the water,
and you've got some guys volunteers and yeah, and they're
trying to go out to this lady who looks like
to have a life jacket on. She's on her back
and the current's trying to take her away and they're
trying to hold her and they're trying to get everybody

(59:18):
on the bank to pull and two guys end up
getting taken away and downstream it doesn't and she's got
one shoe on, one shoe off, she's grasping for air
and they ended up getting her to safety. But it's
just watching this, you know, you're man, you're just your
breath taken away because you're like, man, they're struggling. One
guy's man, hey, we need help, and then and then

(59:40):
finally two of them just have to let go and
they get taken down river.

Speaker 2 (59:45):
How about the when when you're when you're dealing with
this kind of force, you know, there they go, they
just have to let go and go. She's still there.

Speaker 5 (59:54):
Well, they were getting taken under two. They're like, well, yeah,
we're about to have a real bad problem here because
we're all three going down the Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:00:03):
But they do get her.

Speaker 5 (01:00:04):
Out, so yeah, they do, they do. And you you know,
you've heard stories where they found two girls up in
twenty seven feet up in a tree that'd been hanging
there for half a day. Praise god, they were found. Okay,
there's a lot of heroics heroes coming out of this too,
the stories the National guardsman, the I think the Coast

(01:00:26):
Guard rescue swimmer. Yeah, and then there was somebody that
serves the National Guard that was that was there, that
just lives there and that he was her hero. But
just so many stories of people coming a.

Speaker 8 (01:00:37):
Girl twelve miles down the river found out that tree.

Speaker 2 (01:00:40):
Yeah, they said.

Speaker 1 (01:00:41):
Camp Mystic has been around since nineteen twenty six, right, wow,
this is the Rick Burgess Show.

Speaker 2 (01:00:53):
So looking at textanation, a lot of you bring this up.
I knew that.

Speaker 1 (01:00:57):
Yeah, I did see this too, that the director of
Camp Mysstic lost his life saving campers. And I think
that was the guy when I mentioned the seventies. I
know the camp's been around since the twenties, but that
guy took over the camp. I think in the seventies,
he and his wife. So I did see that too, So.

Speaker 5 (01:01:20):
And we were talking about, you know, some of the
heroes that were involved with this. They're calling him an
American hero, saved one hundred and sixty five lives.

Speaker 2 (01:01:32):
Good grief.

Speaker 5 (01:01:34):
They are with the Coastguard. He's a rescue swimmer as
well from New Jersey. And according to what I'm reading,
and y'all could correct me if I'm wrong, but I
think they were in the air when all of this
started developing, and I think before they had direct orders,
they saw that they pinpointed where some were stranded, and

(01:01:56):
they just went into action getting folks out of there,
and they were able to directly be involved in saving
and astonishing one hundred and sixty five victims in the flooding.

Speaker 1 (01:02:07):
Also one of the things you mentioned, you know, and
Spain really took this on some of the crazy stuff
that's been happening during all this and they're calling now
former Houston appointee in Houston.

Speaker 2 (01:02:23):
Texas, what an idiot.

Speaker 1 (01:02:24):
This is some of the stuff that just blows our mind,
claiming claiming now that the flood ravage camp mystic. Of course,
there were other camps and people's homes that were affected
because it was white people only. That's the only reason
why anybody cares. If this had been Hispanic children or

(01:02:45):
black children, no one would care. How does somebody say
something like that in the middle.

Speaker 2 (01:02:52):
Of all this.

Speaker 1 (01:02:58):
So let's take a look backed a lot. But let's
take a look back over to fourth of July Independence
Day America turning two hundred and forty nine years old. Okay,
So American Village. It's in Manavado, Alabama. It is a beautiful,
beautiful part of our state. It's an incredible story. I

(01:03:19):
won't share all that with you. How this all came
to be and it was a vision I think Tom
Clark is his name, that made this happen. Where he
wanted children to grow up knowing true American history. And
they almost built back in time colonial village. And you
go there and there's actors playing, you know, patriots from

(01:03:41):
the past. You learn about life during that time, you
hear from them. So when they do their fireworks, there's
about a two hour presentation that starts about seven to
fifteen local time up to the fireworks and so on
the main stage, which is what I had the honor
of being asked to m C this year as Alabama

(01:04:03):
spokesperson for the Simi Quin Centennial, Which.

Speaker 5 (01:04:06):
Are your flight?

Speaker 1 (01:04:07):
I mean that's like easy, ye, So we're one year
away from that. This was the big one year till
so they brought me in. Now they it's scripted. And
I was there last year. First time I'd ever been
was last year, and Sherry and I loved the experience, and.

Speaker 2 (01:04:25):
I was kind of watching.

Speaker 8 (01:04:25):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:04:26):
Remember we mentioned that I was following a broadcaster that
has done it. I guess a few times, who is
a pro. He's a professional. He's not gonna mess the
script up. Uh, he's not gonna veer from the script.
He's gonna be a pro. He's gonna be professional. And
he's not really there to goof off and be funny.

(01:04:48):
He's a straight shooter and a beloved person. Now they've
now they've gone to me and now enters right, And
I figured, if you brought me.

Speaker 2 (01:04:58):
Then you must be wanting something different. Okay, is that
what you're thinking?

Speaker 7 (01:05:01):
That's what I'm thinking.

Speaker 1 (01:05:03):
Well, I found if I'm just being honest, last year,
I was the whole time I'm watching, the whole time
I'm watching, I'm thinking to myself, this could move along
a little quicker.

Speaker 2 (01:05:15):
Yeah, by the way, hold that thought. That thought's gonna
be important. Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:05:21):
I'm like, is it I'm catching some dead time, I'm
catching some transitions. I think it quicker.

Speaker 5 (01:05:28):
Now side note, let me just say this. Everything you
are involved with you think.

Speaker 2 (01:05:33):
Should be quicker that it. Don't miss that, okay.

Speaker 5 (01:05:35):
So I mean it could be the airlines, which you
might have a point there, traffic, anything you're involved with, meetings.

Speaker 2 (01:05:41):
Lines, lines of any kind.

Speaker 5 (01:05:43):
You want things to move faster.

Speaker 1 (01:05:45):
If I can find places to fix it, if I
see there's places now, we could fixed that. I always think.
You know, I lived my whole life going let me
try it. Okay, I think I can. I can fix
your store, I can fix your lines, anything, your tickets.
I can just help me get just put me in.
So I think to myself, I'm gonna run this thing

(01:06:07):
like a fine old machine, taking mom at the grocery store.
That's what I'm thinking, okay. And on the way down there,
there was a little bit of a little pep talk.
You know, my one of my sons and his wife,
you know, young broadwrecking Camtastick are all in our plans,
since I'm a seven point fifteen kick off, our plans

(01:06:27):
is to arrive five thirty ish, go to the food vendors.
I wasn't even gonna play the VIP tent card, you know.
I chairs like, you know what I want. I just
want a hot dog from a food truck. And I said,
I'm in mingle with the people, and let's let's hang.
Let's see, let's let's get some feedback on the show.

(01:06:48):
Getting a lot of feedback, loving it, crowd building, they'll
build towards those fireworks. But I always put myself in
the position of those that, if we were just being honest,
we're very excited about America. We're very excited about America's history,
and the things that they do before are very moving

(01:07:10):
and they're incredibly important. But I'm here for the fireworks.
Let's just call it. Okay, So I want to I
want I want to take us to the fireworks.

Speaker 2 (01:07:22):
Did you have to come? You weren't early enough to
see the reenactment? I did not.

Speaker 1 (01:07:25):
I did not see the path the battle at Concord Bridge,
but it was always a winner.

Speaker 3 (01:07:31):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:07:31):
The fireworks at American Village, in my opinion, are the best.
They're fascastic. They're fantastic American village front row seat, front
row seat, and folding chair. I shot down any blanket talk,
I said, I said, now we're gonna sit in the chain.

Speaker 2 (01:07:46):
You got to get back up. Yeah, that's hard.

Speaker 1 (01:07:48):
And then there was that well you think we can
see good? I said, you mean from the front row
of the folded seats. Look, look looking right at the
building that they shoot the fireworks off behind it. It
was almost like the fireworks were coming to us in
three D. Yeah, but there's a lot on that stage
that needs.

Speaker 2 (01:08:02):
To be run.

Speaker 5 (01:08:04):
So you're not gonna get me in a meeting, are you.

Speaker 2 (01:08:06):
I'm afraid.

Speaker 5 (01:08:07):
So, buddy, we got it. You got a year left
with them, I know.

Speaker 1 (01:08:10):
So So anyway, night, look at that.

Speaker 2 (01:08:14):
So a couple of things.

Speaker 5 (01:08:15):
I think you've got to be in the meeting with me.

Speaker 1 (01:08:17):
Yeah, So, so I know where you're doing about. So
I come out immediately, and the first thing I do
here you go this, the emailer said earlier. The first
thing I do is say, anybody here ready for the
Father of July.

Speaker 5 (01:08:29):
You know, Independence Day? Hey America two forty nine? Looking
good for two forty nine? And so did the setting
did that it was set up for a hype man.

Speaker 2 (01:08:39):
It was not.

Speaker 5 (01:08:39):
You don't think it was not, Jeff Spiegel and so,
but the crowd goes into a friend.

Speaker 2 (01:08:46):
Yeah, hey, I think the crowd.

Speaker 1 (01:08:49):
I had them right here in my hand, and you're
telling them to hold their hands in there and wave
them like they just don't care.

Speaker 2 (01:08:53):
Yeah, I said to every other the announcements, and I.

Speaker 5 (01:08:56):
Said, I said, weave them so we can see wave
them like free you.

Speaker 1 (01:09:01):
Know, Declaration of Independence and so so all right and
every buddy.

Speaker 2 (01:09:06):
So it went great.

Speaker 8 (01:09:07):
And by the way, the lost and found could we found?

Speaker 2 (01:09:11):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:09:11):
I killed on the talk about the bathrooms, I killed.
If you'd like a little more authentic, eighteen hundreds used
the port of potties, I kept killed.

Speaker 7 (01:09:21):
That's good.

Speaker 2 (01:09:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:09:23):
So anyway, so are you doing a stand up bag
or you just announcing little combination?

Speaker 1 (01:09:28):
I'm I'm keeping you informed. I'm keeping you informed in
the humorous way he's making.

Speaker 2 (01:09:32):
Uh. I saw Sherry one time giving me give me
the cut sign because Thomas Jefferson he's right out the gate,
so he's done. I said, what, that looks pretty good
for his age. I wonder what itam is he's taking Come.

Speaker 5 (01:09:45):
On, all right, you said you wanted to run.

Speaker 2 (01:09:49):
You look at the front row and sure he's like
and so said Vitamins.

Speaker 1 (01:09:53):
Yeah, well he's three hundred some years old, pretty good
moving around.

Speaker 5 (01:09:59):
Miss Melanie be busy and not have heard you.

Speaker 2 (01:10:01):
Well, she just she looked concerned. But but but at
that point, what do you do? Well? And I'm getting everybody.

Speaker 7 (01:10:07):
Remember when naked cowboys on the lock.

Speaker 1 (01:10:09):
I'm getting people, and I'm getting the people on and off.
You know, hey, I'm getting the moaning off.

Speaker 2 (01:10:14):
I really am okay, George, thanks, you get on out
of here.

Speaker 8 (01:10:17):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:10:17):
Now we look those who were there my teaching everybody
how to say Simmy Quin Centennial.

Speaker 2 (01:10:24):
I said, oh, everybody, we're gonn. Let's break it down.

Speaker 1 (01:10:25):
Somebody say Simon Twin Stennhill, Sammy quincenten. And I mean
the crowds going bizark.

Speaker 2 (01:10:38):
Yeah, they didn't won't flavor. No, they loved it.

Speaker 5 (01:10:44):
They look, the staff is looking at the script. Where
is this?

Speaker 17 (01:10:48):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:10:49):
When he breaks down, Simmy Quin looked out there and
I said, look, there were there were probably you know,
five to seven black families.

Speaker 2 (01:10:56):
And they looked up and said, hey, no, this is different,
you know what? And Uh and they they seemed all
in like.

Speaker 17 (01:11:02):
You go.

Speaker 2 (01:11:05):
Three heresay sam Man, and UH turned down for well,
you know, because I decided to claim my thought because.

Speaker 1 (01:11:14):
I already told, already told you. I said, when I
step up, I will go stand up, stand up and
show up.

Speaker 2 (01:11:21):
And she said, if you do that, you are in
so much trouble. Well you're there. You might as well.
You know, there's a meeting today.

Speaker 5 (01:11:26):
You know, we wanted to be our spokesman. He does
a great job.

Speaker 1 (01:11:29):
But next year, as far as him seeing right, we
might think he understands the mood when I come back.
When I came come back, they gave me a script
and there were all kinds of little notes on that
script that I needed to.

Speaker 2 (01:11:40):
Pay attention to.

Speaker 1 (01:11:43):
One one part I really wish I had pay attention
because I got trapped. And then what happens at the end,
You'll be in a meeting. So to no one's surprise,
I've got this thing running like a fine oil machine.
We're clicking a long baby, okay, And I'm thinking to myself,

(01:12:06):
I'm cutting the others or thinking that is it I
found out later? Or no, oh, so I'm thinking to
myself the people in the audience. This is all good
quality stuff, and I'm cranking it. I mean I'm cranking
it out and getting stuff on it off the stage.
I'm keeping things moving. I'm rolling through the script, putting

(01:12:28):
in colorful, colorful antidotes. I've got the audience on my hand,
and I'm picturing myself in the audience saying, let's get
to the fireworks. Rick, take us to the fireworks. Birge,
you got it. Okay, I'll make good time. Don't you
worry about that.

Speaker 2 (01:12:43):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:12:46):
So John Adams is finally up giving give me a country,
and I think I've done it. I've carried us here.
He's outstanding, very moving speech. You read it off stage
for that, yeah, I did eventually. Uh, and you believe that,
you believe you're watching John Adams and it's an impassioned
speech that will make you just physically sick what we've
let happen to this country. So I thowt a few

(01:13:07):
barbs in about that too, Like nowadays, after we heard
from the King of England, there's somebody who plays him.
I said, we got a lot of politicians that say
I'm more like the King than they do George Washington,
he gave commentary political commentary.

Speaker 2 (01:13:21):
I had some commentary, so Edy was at in the
script it was not so.

Speaker 5 (01:13:27):
No, he added that, yeah, he missed the part by
getting off stage, but he went had and added one.

Speaker 1 (01:13:32):
So I'm so the fireworks are nine to fifteen, because
that's that's when it's supposed to start, supposed.

Speaker 2 (01:13:40):
To So.

Speaker 1 (01:13:43):
John Adams is probably ten minutes from being done. I
look down, it's eight thirty. I have I have zipped
us through this thing so fast. Oh, and I have
heard people so much. I looked down, I'm like, my goodness,
forty five minutes left.

Speaker 5 (01:14:01):
Ford and so people are going to start getting Nancy
shifting around.

Speaker 1 (01:14:06):
So I think, what's the big deal, We'll just start
the fireworks early and everybody left. No, that's not how
it and everybody all I think there's a set time front.
You think, Greg, you know what, you'd be right. So
I didn't think people putting it on they're going off
a time.

Speaker 2 (01:14:21):
I didn't think.

Speaker 6 (01:14:22):
I thought.

Speaker 1 (01:14:22):
I thought everybody were done start the fireworks, and I
didn't know it was on some timer.

Speaker 5 (01:14:27):
And and so were you paying attention to anything they say?

Speaker 2 (01:14:30):
Said?

Speaker 1 (01:14:31):
Timer?

Speaker 5 (01:14:31):
I think they did.

Speaker 1 (01:14:32):
They said fireworks around nine ten, nine fifteen. I thought
that was because break.

Speaker 2 (01:14:37):
I thought that was because norm of this thing drags on.
I had this thing whipping to shape. It was moving
like a final machine.

Speaker 5 (01:14:43):
The fireworks people are getting ready.

Speaker 2 (01:14:44):
There on a time.

Speaker 5 (01:14:45):
I'm sid I'm side hugging John Adams. He's loving it
and uh not the most colorful fella, but he was hot.

Speaker 1 (01:14:52):
He didn't even that right, Yeah, he's serious about it. Well,
he's playing the character, and the character John Adams was
not over friendly. So so I look over, you know, Melanie,
I'd love her.

Speaker 2 (01:15:07):
Who booked me? Yeah, yeah, you thought, mel I'm being
efficient And she.

Speaker 1 (01:15:11):
Goes early and I said, you're welcome, Yes, we were.
I think I think she's complimenting. I think I think
I think she's Everybody keeps looking around talking early, and
I think they love me. Gosh, I think they can't
believe how quick I got this. You picked up a
little time when you stayed on stage. You know, although
you were in a buying that save time you going

(01:15:31):
off and having to come back. I kind of thought
coming off on and off the stage was a little
bit cumbersome, So I smoothed that out.

Speaker 5 (01:15:37):
Okay, Can I ask you a question, and this is
this is one. What could you have done differently? What
did you speed up?

Speaker 2 (01:15:45):
Or was it just trasicians? My transitions were fantastic.

Speaker 5 (01:15:49):
So was there supposed to be more time between us
to be ready?

Speaker 12 (01:15:54):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:15:54):
Wait a minute, what I'm asking is how much time
were you supposed to kill between transitions?

Speaker 1 (01:15:59):
I don't know, but I was just running that thing
like a fine old machine. When I heard a by
talking about where early, I thought it was a compliment.
I thought everybody was anutes. I don't know what to
do with By the way, by the way, let me
go ahead and give you my yes for next year.

Speaker 2 (01:16:11):
So I know that's what you're about to ask.

Speaker 5 (01:16:13):
Yes, And so five minutes is one thing, thirty something minutes.

Speaker 1 (01:16:17):
So so, so I decided, but I decided to. Uh,
I don't I don't fully understand it. I still don't
understand it. And I get up there and I do
the closing. I talked about how we're going to exit,
everybody be patient. I talked about how everybody who's not
it didn't buy the VIP package is about to hate
the VIP people. And uh, you know, I got a

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big laugh.

Speaker 5 (01:16:40):
Uh, and you're trying to kill time now.

Speaker 1 (01:16:42):
I also ran through what happened to the fifty six
people who ran who signed the Declaration of Independence, and
all the horrible things they went through. Talked about how
freedom is never paid for. That's all I had living now, Okay,
it's a lease. And these people never even enjoyed the
freedoms that we all get to enjoy. We got to
be willing to sacrifice.

Speaker 2 (01:16:59):
I'm wanna roll, look down and got twenty five four
minutes and so and so and go.

Speaker 5 (01:17:04):
So is there a band?

Speaker 2 (01:17:06):
I'll enjoy some music up the band.

Speaker 1 (01:17:09):
So we have the Mono Vallo Community Band, and they're
fantastic and they're gonna they're supposed to play dear in
the fireworks.

Speaker 2 (01:17:16):
You know, the hits the biggies, you know, but no, no, no, no.

Speaker 9 (01:17:21):
You know, and uh and so.

Speaker 2 (01:17:24):
And stars and stripes forever all that and so uh
so I do what you would have done. Speed.

Speaker 1 (01:17:31):
You've been very proud. My last thing was I said,
if you're ready for the fireworks, say hey, I don't know,
and everybody said no.

Speaker 19 (01:17:38):
The the heart did you divide the audience and half
and make them chance against each other right, you know,
let me hear you over and so, so I look,
I know, y'all do better than need thirty minutes.

Speaker 7 (01:17:50):
So I exit the stage the audience against.

Speaker 11 (01:17:56):
Some people getting loud over here five the side works.

Speaker 14 (01:18:01):
We got some.

Speaker 2 (01:18:02):
Freedom loving maniacs over here, and so up and some guy.

Speaker 1 (01:18:08):
So anyway, So so I y'all don't understand. I don't
think i'm supposed to hit. I'm not trying to back time.
I think that they that's the time they have because
they don't. They stretch this thing out. And I've now
got it running smoothly.

Speaker 5 (01:18:24):
Once again.

Speaker 2 (01:18:25):
I've taken something and said I can do it better.
So you talk, but it's really not better when you
follow thirty minutes short.

Speaker 1 (01:18:31):
Yeah, you thought you made it better, But why can't
we just know it's time for the fireworks.

Speaker 2 (01:18:35):
We'll get home earlier.

Speaker 1 (01:18:37):
So I go and I sit down the front road
by Sherry, and I said, look at that. I said,
they're gonna love me. I said, by the way, y'all
are welcome.

Speaker 2 (01:18:43):
We're starting the.

Speaker 1 (01:18:44):
Fireworks eight fifty and uh and so Sherry says, you
don't you think that's on a timer. Yeah, And I
looked at my son. He's like, Dad, I said what,
and and all of sud there's your silence. Yeah, we're
all staring at the sky because because then now she
just said, you're at fireworks.

Speaker 11 (01:19:05):
Hey, kids are in the fence.

Speaker 2 (01:19:06):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, And everybody's looking up at the sky
and nothing's happening.

Speaker 11 (01:19:14):
Then all of a sudden, the over god said we
should not heart him. He didn't even get people out
of the way.

Speaker 5 (01:19:18):
We were coming to present the collars and so and so.

Speaker 1 (01:19:21):
Then and then all of a sudden, you see the
community man are just like you see the conductor, He's like,
let's go, and they just start playing somes.

Speaker 2 (01:19:29):
They look like that bunch on the Titanic on the
deck out there, and just keep playing.

Speaker 1 (01:19:34):
But but, but, but the problem is, I think I
think now they are playing the songs you're supposed to
be playing when the fireworks go.

Speaker 2 (01:19:43):
So then when the music starts, guess.

Speaker 13 (01:19:44):
When everybody thinks the fireworks are starting, looking up, it
starts looking at the Papa America and why where are
the fireworks?

Speaker 11 (01:19:54):
Papa, I don't see him. Where's the fireworks?

Speaker 17 (01:19:57):
Papa?

Speaker 3 (01:19:57):
I'm blind.

Speaker 11 (01:19:58):
I don't say you. Beer Beard said we were ready.
He told us to say hey and so so, then.

Speaker 2 (01:20:07):
I will say this.

Speaker 1 (01:20:08):
I guess they got the word to the firework people,
whoever they are, can y'all go ahead and start? It
did start ten minutes early, but I don't think that
was there.

Speaker 2 (01:20:19):
That was no got to them. Some idiot got on
stage and said that we're ready, guys.

Speaker 1 (01:20:23):
I mean, if you're there in the audience, I mean
you all were like, man, he's got this thing moving.
It's not dragging like it did before he came on.

Speaker 5 (01:20:29):
Probably was on the fly at what time the fireworks were.

Speaker 2 (01:20:32):
Do you think, oh?

Speaker 5 (01:20:33):
Absolutely, But but somebody was driving there at eight fifteen when.

Speaker 2 (01:20:39):
Ain't nobody You didn't even get near that place.

Speaker 11 (01:20:42):
We're not there, and the fire start to get their
honey for trial.

Speaker 2 (01:20:49):
Person at bathroom.

Speaker 11 (01:20:51):
Why it's not a darn popa.

Speaker 2 (01:20:59):
I I thought everybody would love me for that.

Speaker 7 (01:21:02):
Everybody loves fireworks before sunset.

Speaker 5 (01:21:04):
It was a start, y'all.

Speaker 2 (01:21:06):
Don't exaggerate that. I'm telling you. They were dads back
there said I love birds. They should have been ready, bud.

Speaker 12 (01:21:13):
That was.

Speaker 2 (01:21:15):
Let's get it going.

Speaker 17 (01:21:17):
I was.

Speaker 2 (01:21:17):
I thought I was helping.

Speaker 5 (01:21:26):
When it comes to a schedule, there are things that
can move around, be adjusted. The start of the fireworks
is not really No, No, that is a hard start.

Speaker 2 (01:21:37):
Are you serious? Yeah? What's hard about? It's over start
the fireworks stage stage done plenty, dark fire them.

Speaker 5 (01:21:45):
Most of the time. They're going off a set time,
so the company is working to make sure they meet
that march.

Speaker 2 (01:21:51):
I know they're they're far off. They're not. They don't
really know what's going on there.

Speaker 5 (01:21:55):
Just because they're going off the time. Again, That's what
I'm saying. And then you know what, Rick, they can't
be close. But it's fireworks. There have to be a distance.
There has to be a distance.

Speaker 1 (01:22:03):
Well, I will agree next year. If y'all want to
start later, we'll start later. But we're not gonna drag
it out, Okay?

Speaker 12 (01:22:09):
I is that?

Speaker 5 (01:22:12):
Is that?

Speaker 7 (01:22:12):
Even your call to my I don't know, call to me.

Speaker 2 (01:22:14):
It's not trying to be rude. Right, Let's get Thomas.
Let's move Thomas Jefferson to seven forty five. All right?
But uh, but I mean, because if we wanted to
the people don't need to have to sit that long.
I mean, I kept living.

Speaker 5 (01:22:29):
That's so the rain that came through didn't didn't push
things back they worked through the rain.

Speaker 2 (01:22:34):
No, there were no rain.

Speaker 5 (01:22:35):
I mean earlier I thought it was like five something,
but that that has nothing new with main stage. Okay, well,
I just thought that maybe that activity is leading up
about the main stage. We're gonna start the main stage.
It's like, you can be concerned about the whole day.
It started at eleven a m.

Speaker 2 (01:22:48):
The rest of the day is not my concern.

Speaker 7 (01:22:50):
Hey, gang, have you everybody know want to make this
event go as fast as possible.

Speaker 2 (01:22:54):
That's what you're saying. No, I said, I don't be
rushing every one him off with this project. Right looking
the fireworks guy, he looks like one of them strange
foreign dictators. I just get the ground. He's up.

Speaker 11 (01:23:08):
I'm here. Everybody Calm down, I.

Speaker 1 (01:23:12):
Said, I sent you a picture me with the confetti canon.
But do you see that when I counted down to wish.

Speaker 2 (01:23:18):
Up, I wish you were you tank top like boo.

Speaker 1 (01:23:21):
By the way, the guy who had the tank top phone,
I didn't realize it was going to look like look
at that.

Speaker 2 (01:23:30):
So you when you're up there on that setting cragging jokes.

Speaker 5 (01:23:33):
Of course, he's he's from that stage and that set.

Speaker 2 (01:23:38):
Everybody, if you have a good time, saying, hey, don't
forget look right there.

Speaker 5 (01:23:43):
Oh yeah, yeah, Wow, that's brody.

Speaker 2 (01:23:48):
Oh yeah yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:23:51):
The camera I hate to say that Gantastic is so
close to everybody.

Speaker 2 (01:23:56):
I'd like to see Brody in that uniform that young
man's wearing. You with the young interpreters. Yes, now, these
confetti brought them out too. All right, So the confetti.

Speaker 7 (01:24:06):
Cannons are supposed to go off at eight, but it's
six forty five fire?

Speaker 2 (01:24:10):
Why they shooting confetti because it's time of fire.

Speaker 1 (01:24:16):
I really did think when everybody was talking about where earlier,
I thought listening y'all, don't I can hear y'all.

Speaker 2 (01:24:22):
Yeah, talk about how well I've done amongst yourselves. Uh
So now I don't worry.

Speaker 5 (01:24:27):
We're moving along.

Speaker 2 (01:24:28):
Okay, let's here we go.

Speaker 1 (01:24:30):
Uh next time, I just have a person out there
by the fireworks and I'll have a two way or something.

Speaker 5 (01:24:36):
I go, let's go ahead, fire fireing babies. I got
a Monta Beetle Community Band ready to go, Stars and stripes,
let's row.

Speaker 2 (01:24:42):
Yeah, you don't lie it outside.

Speaker 5 (01:24:44):
But yeah, but Tank's Nation brought up a good point.
The guy that emailed earlier saying that his wife didn't
like you. You were the only one trying to speed
things up for she wanted to go home. No said that,
and she said, I said, I got them up. I
got him started fifteen minutes earlier. You know what he
said on the follow up email, she said, ten, don't exaggerated.

Speaker 1 (01:25:00):
All right, So anyway, well I could have had it
started twenty minutes early for everybody will let medler. Mike
Rowe has joined me. Mike Rowe has put out a
video he agrees with me. He said the national anthem
is way too long. You can sing it in one
minute or less.

Speaker 12 (01:25:18):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (01:25:19):
And Mike row says, I'm gonna show you how we
should sing the national anthem. It should not take this long. Yes,
And and he sings it in a minute or less.

Speaker 2 (01:25:26):
Yes.

Speaker 8 (01:25:27):
And y'all ripped on me for singing it fast at
the at the.

Speaker 2 (01:25:30):
No, we did great. Feel that wasn't the part that
we were worried about.

Speaker 5 (01:25:33):
Yeah, yeah, there's a lot of other things were worried.

Speaker 2 (01:25:36):
Everybody wanted that to be fast. Yes, I'm sure fast
was actually bother Okay, all right.

Speaker 7 (01:25:40):
Ezra with his dirty diaper wanted it to be fast.

Speaker 2 (01:25:44):
Watch this right here, it can be done.

Speaker 14 (01:25:47):
Oh say, can you see by the dongs early lies?
Whats so proudly we at the twilight's last leave being?
Who's brought ripes and bright stars through the pairl leus
five or the ram parts we watched were so gallantly streaming,

(01:26:12):
and the rockets red gleam, the bombs bursting in it
gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Who say, does that star spangled banner and.

Speaker 3 (01:26:30):
Wave or the line of the free and the whole
of the bead?

Speaker 2 (01:26:46):
He did fifty eight seconds? Yeah, that was fifty eight
second good.

Speaker 5 (01:26:50):
I will say, if I'm ever at a baseball game
or sporting event, and even though it's great, Liam Rhymes
Winnie Houston at heel, they play that version. Oh we're
going to be here for lynn round, a really long one.
It's like two minutes and thirty forty seconds.

Speaker 1 (01:27:08):
Sugar Land, Texas the home of the sugar Land Space Cowboys.

Speaker 2 (01:27:12):
So sorry, speedy.

Speaker 1 (01:27:14):
Someone who was supposed to sing the national anthem actually faints.

Speaker 5 (01:27:18):
Oh yeah, bless them, Mike Roe.

Speaker 2 (01:27:22):
I actually fainted after the How about this fifty eight?

Speaker 5 (01:27:25):
He did pretty good?

Speaker 2 (01:27:28):
You know what he would have said? You know what
he was saying, I would I appreciate how birds kept
his thing moving. He would jump right in with his
beautiful bear tone.

Speaker 8 (01:27:35):
Even Chris Stapleton his version that's two minutes long, and hey,
I'll listen to all two minutes of that.

Speaker 2 (01:27:43):
I listened to.

Speaker 7 (01:27:43):
Okay, I listened to that like eight times on July fourth.

Speaker 2 (01:27:46):
I'm not even messing around. Yeah, Staple, kids, I did once.

Speaker 7 (01:27:50):
Rocks it all right.

Speaker 8 (01:27:51):
So this is like you guys said, this is a
constellation field, the sugar Land Space Cowboys and sugar Land
Taxmy Jackson when she was young is where this happens.
It does look like a young Janet Jackson. She's in
some kind of military outfit of some kind. Maybe she's
in some kind.

Speaker 5 (01:28:07):
Of r O t C program.

Speaker 4 (01:28:09):
I looked there you go.

Speaker 2 (01:28:10):
Maybe she's hurting.

Speaker 8 (01:28:12):
I looked for the long video. This is only seven
seconds long. It's the very end of the national anthem.

Speaker 2 (01:28:17):
And I guess she got.

Speaker 8 (01:28:18):
Short on breath because she's about to say or the
Land of the Free, and she doesn't make it.

Speaker 7 (01:28:23):
Guys, and it's not funny.

Speaker 11 (01:28:35):
Did you say it.

Speaker 2 (01:28:36):
Wasn't fun.

Speaker 11 (01:28:47):
Seen again, it was the pasted out run.

Speaker 5 (01:29:09):
She's trying to sing.

Speaker 1 (01:29:15):
That dear friend Jordie Henson that his earthly life was
close to ending. And then over the weekend Saturday night,
we got the news that we knew that we would
get on on any day from his family that he
had passed away. So Jordie Henson, you know, he had
a history. Because anybody who are true friends of ours

(01:29:37):
will find themselves on the show, but even off the show.
One thing that that Jordie Henson, along with a couple
of our other friends who we we spend a good
pit a bit of time together. I think I think
the time that we're the times we're in now more
than ever, people aren't really fostering true friendships. I think

(01:30:01):
technology has taken us further apart, not not brought us
closer together. And I think there's almost like the word
friend gets thrown around a lot, but the it's not
an accurate presentation of friendship. So I'm going to try
to show you what I mean by someone being a friend. Now,

(01:30:23):
we all have a lot of acquaintances, a lot of relationships.
People you work with, people you you know, go to
church with people, your kids play little lead together, or
they go to the same high school and those those
are great and there's nothing wrong with that. They're wonderful.
But when you get down to someone is my friend.

(01:30:45):
Jordie Henson was probably one of the best examples of
that that I've ever seen. Uh he was you're he
would defend you. You know, I'm sure you've had that
before with somebody. Well you know, hey, yeah, I'm a
friend or whatever. But things a little rough on you
or you start taking a little heat, you can't find them. Yeah,
you know, Jeordie would come and stand right besides you

(01:31:05):
and dig in and say, you know, I'm here to
defend my friend. Now if you were wrong. He would
also hold you accountable with just as much tenacity. And
we referred to him and our the friend group that
we all hung out together. Because you know, I've told
you about three circles before. You got the big circle
on the outside like on a bull's eye, and those
are just people you interact with in life. You're kind,

(01:31:27):
you're nice, how are you good to see you? Then
you have that second circle that's where the acquaintances are
and all those things I just mentioned. You know them
better than that outside circle, but you're not gonna call
them at two Am and a calamity, you know, nor
are they gonna call you? You know, it's a good
relationship and it's fine, but it's not really deep. And
then you get into examples like when I think about

(01:31:49):
Geordie and our friendship and all the wonderful moments he
gave to the Rick and Bubba show, but also just
things that we did away from the show that we
just laughed and he loved to laugh.

Speaker 5 (01:32:01):
He loved to.

Speaker 1 (01:32:01):
Goof off as much as any person I've ever known,
and we ribbed on each other and we had fun
in our little group.

Speaker 2 (01:32:09):
But he also and you know, one thing we've noticed.

Speaker 1 (01:32:11):
You you ever have a group of friends that where
people are tight, and there's the person that kind of
holds it all together. Like he would always make sure
that he and two other friends that we both were
close to, Mark Garnett and Scott Dawson, that was kind
of our forsome that hung out together. And we had
others that we would interact with too, but that was
kind of the core, you know. You know, even Jesus

(01:32:33):
had the twelve, but then he had the three, you know,
and so we we would call him the glue that
kind of held it together, like if he made sure
that we had lunch together minimum twice a month, and
if you committed to a lunch and then you canceled,
he'd get on you, Well, you committed to this, Why

(01:32:53):
are you throwing us to the curb?

Speaker 2 (01:32:55):
That kind of thing.

Speaker 1 (01:32:55):
And we've noticed since when he got sick with als.
As he got worse, we realized that we weren't getting
together anymore. We weren't we weren't lunching together anymore, we
weren't spending much time together, and we all went Jordie
was the guy that made that happen. So to kind
of give you my history with this great man is

(01:33:16):
and this, this is Jeordie in a nutshell on the
night that my youngest son died his earthly death. As
soon as we knew what was happening, the person that
everybody went to get was JORDI go get Jordie, get Rick.
You go with Jordy and he'll get He's going to

(01:33:37):
make sure you get home. And he was the guy there,
he is standing in the gap, you know what I mean. Uh,
anytime that that that there was difficulty in my life
and calamity, there was Jordie not asked. You didn't have
to ask him, you didn't. Nobody had to prompt him.
He immediately went into action when and I came back

(01:34:00):
to do the show after you know, it had happened.
I was GoF for a week and I came back
on the show after you and Bubba and they Aldough
have done such a great job holding that together. Jordie
and then of course he got Mark also and Scott,
but Jordie leading the way, as we called him our bulldog.
He said, Rick is not going back on that show

(01:34:21):
by himself. We're going with him. And I don't know
if you remember that. Geordie stood in the hall. He
didn't have to be on the air whatever, but he
wanted me to see him and say you're not alone,
We're here with you. And see, that's a friend. That's
what a friend does. And you know it's you know,
when you're in your time of trouble and you look around,
you'll find out pretty quick who are acquaintances and who

(01:34:45):
are friends. And Jeordie passed the friend test over and
over and over. And that's just my experiences with him.
Everybody would tell you the same thing. Okay, everybody he now,
I said, when I posted something about him over the
weekend after I found out. If Jordie felt like that

(01:35:07):
God had called him to something, you either join him
or get out of his way. He was relentless and
he was never He was always a man of action,
which I love. I cannot stand when people are not
people of action. They always talk around something, but they
never do anything. You know, let me tell you this,

(01:35:27):
This was Jordie Hinson. If he said he was going
to do something, he went into action. Now sometimes recklessly
into action, which we would always laugh about. You know,
the time when the Passion of the Christ came out
and he came up with this elaborate thing about this
is our opportunity to talk to people coming out of
the theaters, and he put together there's some massive rented

(01:35:48):
a building, I mean, got handouts, had us all camped
out outside of theaters, got a van that you could
get in, which led to a very funny story about
half the sign falling off. He would just he was
just a man of action. If Jordie Henson was on
your team, you're in good shape. He'll fight for you. Uh,
he'll he'll get the job done. He'll do whatever it takes.

(01:36:12):
And and he is a man that was built for calamity.
You want a calming force to come into a chaotic situation.
Jordie Henson always and and and and there was never
a time that I was in in in and he
was with me in some really deep holes. And uh

(01:36:33):
and I tried to be there for him. Never could
match his tenacity.

Speaker 2 (01:36:37):
I know I didn't.

Speaker 1 (01:36:39):
But you know, even while he was taking us through
his darkest time, he he pointed people to Jesus, he
pointed people. He you know, the first thing that Jordie
Henson thought of think about this when he got a LS.
Most people would say, poor, poor, pitiful me. Jordie's attitude
is I got to do something to find a cure
for als.

Speaker 2 (01:36:59):
That must be why I have it. And he try
he did, He was did all the testing.

Speaker 1 (01:37:05):
His body is in the male clinic right now saying
if I can help y'all find a cure to this,
let's go, let's do it. Let me try these trials.
I mean, hey, I've been given a death sentence. Let's
try it.

Speaker 2 (01:37:18):
And you know, because he thought it might help somebody else,
even if it didn't help him.

Speaker 12 (01:37:21):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:37:22):
You never you never had a pity party with Jordan Henson.
Uh and and he was he was always ministering to
you while you were trying to minister to him.

Speaker 17 (01:37:30):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:37:31):
It's just the way it was built, you know. And
so you talk about.

Speaker 1 (01:37:35):
Somebody that's going to get a well done, you talk
about somebody that was impassioned.

Speaker 17 (01:37:40):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:37:40):
One other thing is is he started speaking for us
on teen Man Church too, And I knew when I
sent him out that the people were just going to
fall in love with him. But unfortunately, he got sick
pretty quick on that, so we didn't get that. He
didn't get to do that as much as I would
have loved it, because he had so many other things.
I was like, look, don't feel like that you pressured
to come. And when he thought it was time for
him to be part of it, he came home and

(01:38:01):
told me thought it was time, you know. And then
of course he immediately went out and started getting after
it on that too. So so yeah, every time I
think about difficulty in my life, I think of Jeordie Henson,
always there, always standing in the gap, always undergirden you,
always always telling you the truth, always encouraging you, always

(01:38:26):
inspiring you. I mean I remember, you know, we'll talk
about it on Strange Encounters at a future episode. We
had some spiritual warfare going inside our house.

Speaker 2 (01:38:35):
There was Jordy. He went in there, wide open, battling
demons and just coming in the name of Jesus, ready
to go.

Speaker 1 (01:38:43):
You know when when we when Sherry and I were
getting attacked by the world for making a stand for
for him. He didn't worry about how he might be perceived.
He didn't worry about that maybe he might start taking
some heat. He stood right there with us, and and
things that some of y'all don't even know about. He's
standing in the driveway.

Speaker 2 (01:39:02):
I'm here. And that's a friend.

Speaker 1 (01:39:05):
That's that separates the friend from the acquaintance, from the
person I work with and the person you know, my
kids go to school with, and all those relationships have
their place, but they're not friendship. And and Jordie Henson
was one of the greatest examples of friendship.

Speaker 2 (01:39:21):
That I've ever known.

Speaker 1 (01:39:23):
And and so he he will get a well done.
And he was not just a friend of me, He
was a friend of many. And I promise you that
he gets a well done, good and faithful servant. And
I promise you when we get to the point where
he'll be, we'll do the memorial service and lay his
body to rest. We'll have too much to say, we
won't be scrambling for things to say, and well done.

(01:39:48):
And you know what, he's He's there with his Daddy,
those that have gone before him. He's there in the
presence of the Lord, in the Savior that he served
withou passion and devotion. He lived the life that mattered
and his impact is.

Speaker 5 (01:40:09):
Far reaching. We'll be back, Greg. Joey cheshing up back
on top. Yeah, I play a little piece of audio
for you.

Speaker 2 (01:40:21):
Yeah, okay, okay, just a little bit here.

Speaker 5 (01:40:23):
So grego point five.

Speaker 1 (01:40:24):
Hot dogs and buns seventy ten minutes the Nathan's famous
fourth of July Champion of the World.

Speaker 12 (01:40:32):
Joey es.

Speaker 2 (01:40:36):
I was excited. I love being here, man. I wish
I ate a couple more.

Speaker 7 (01:40:39):
I'm sorry, guys, I'll be back next year.

Speaker 5 (01:40:41):
I'll see how you can talk after that out in
the world. Do you even just talk even utter anything
after eating that?

Speaker 12 (01:40:49):
You know.

Speaker 9 (01:40:51):
So bad.

Speaker 1 (01:40:51):
There's nobody in his class, so they got to we
need another contender, the guy that won it last year
because he couldn't be in it finished second this year,
but he was like twenty dogs behind. How would you
how would you feel about? We just see how many
records Joey can break?

Speaker 2 (01:41:06):
Yeah? How many can you do it? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:41:08):
Because the record is a little over sets twenty seventy eighty.
Maybe he's like compete against a robot or something.

Speaker 2 (01:41:16):
Yeah, it was really gross again. Well yeah, and the female,
the female one.

Speaker 7 (01:41:20):
So gross looking.

Speaker 1 (01:41:22):
How do you watch the I can't look at that,
Mickey Soudo the female champion, Greg, I don't know who
the female champion?

Speaker 2 (01:41:28):
Hot dog wiper face on every time?

Speaker 5 (01:41:32):
Rose?

Speaker 2 (01:41:33):
All right, right, right, right, you don't have to act that.
Watch that. Nobody can touch him.

Speaker 1 (01:41:39):
I mean he's he's look fourth TOBIASI came out of
retirement last year, took him own in that Netflix special
on right, beat him pretty bad, and I mean he
has no competition. Well, the fourth of July, like I
told you, you know, when I was whipping the American
Village presentation into shape, setting a new record, I was
I had a couple of hot dogs from a truck

(01:42:00):
and they were delicious, two and I was good what
they did with the bread? Do you ever look away
because how do you like watch it?

Speaker 2 (01:42:10):
But what they did with that bread? Because I'm not
big on wet bread.

Speaker 8 (01:42:14):
No, no, I'm looking at the leaderboard here as it's
finished out. Chestnut had seventy. The next guy had forty six. Yeah,
come on, Gred forty two on ast doubling.

Speaker 2 (01:42:25):
People, Come on.

Speaker 1 (01:42:27):
He needs he needs a nemesis, he needs somebody. I
don't know if they're out there.

Speaker 5 (01:42:31):
So you watch the whole thing.

Speaker 2 (01:42:33):
Yeah, it's just ten minutes. It's just.

Speaker 7 (01:42:37):
I don't know how to ask.

Speaker 2 (01:42:39):
I just wished that he had some competition.

Speaker 8 (01:42:41):
After the competition is over and then he's going to
talk to the people. Is there a time period in
which he I know what it disappears.

Speaker 5 (01:42:53):
It does because yeah, you go to I know that
it can't purge deering at your disqualified.

Speaker 7 (01:43:00):
Right, that's not eating, that's reverse eating.

Speaker 5 (01:43:06):
Whatever you do do not going there.

Speaker 2 (01:43:08):
Can you imagine?

Speaker 5 (01:43:09):
I don't know how the guy, I mean he eats
other stuff too, I mean he oh yeah, so all right,
so one thing. Some of these others that are trying
to do this actually are like champions of different foods.

Speaker 2 (01:43:23):
How is he on wings? He's pretty good on wings? Yeah,
I saw some like hot dogs. No, hot dogs are
his thing.

Speaker 5 (01:43:29):
Yeah, let's just so all.

Speaker 2 (01:43:33):
Right, the one guy was a champion of all the
strawberry short cake.

Speaker 9 (01:43:37):
Okay, showed him.

Speaker 1 (01:43:40):
And you know what his parents are trying to be
trying to be humble hot doll thing is extremely gross.
So but let's let's go to this talking about the
health side of it. So if you're ever been a
person that struggles with your weight, you'll know where I'm going.
Every single time you go to the doctor, he's always
going to address the weight. You got to take this
waight off. You gotta change the way.

Speaker 2 (01:44:02):
Does Joey face this like every time he goes to
his doctor? Does doctor go Joey? I mean you gotta stop.
You got to stop with the hot dogs. Yeah, he's not.
Most of the better ones aren't fat. They just I mean,
it can't but it can't be good for No, it
can't be good for you. Can you image what your
body goes?

Speaker 1 (01:44:18):
How about how does your stomach not bust? I mean,
how many hot dogs and bread can you put in
a stomach and it not bust?

Speaker 4 (01:44:26):
Did he talk?

Speaker 12 (01:44:26):
You know?

Speaker 2 (01:44:27):
Like good question?

Speaker 5 (01:44:27):
You do training? If you're inspirently it's sev You know
you do weight training, you do you know, whatever specialty
whatever you whatever, your deal is, how do you train
for this?

Speaker 3 (01:44:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:44:38):
I know you don't come out and just knock seventy out.
You just work on you work on your bread water technique.

Speaker 5 (01:44:43):
You start like two or three weeks back, like eat
thirty one day. Yeah, yeah, let me ask you this,
would we be would be? Would we be interested? Would
we be interested?

Speaker 2 (01:44:55):
No time?

Speaker 1 (01:44:57):
Joey, eat till you're done, and let's just see how
many eats. Yeah, that's that's tell us when you're done,
tell us when you cannot. I'd like to know that number.

Speaker 2 (01:45:05):
I want.

Speaker 1 (01:45:06):
I want you to tell me, and don't you stop
before seventy two, because we've seen you do that. I
want you to eat these hot dogs until you decide
you can.

Speaker 2 (01:45:14):
Eat no more. Boy. I bet that's quiet enough. Would
you like to see that? I'd like to see that number.
I wonder when it's so. I don't want to watch it.
I want to hear about it before he.

Speaker 1 (01:45:20):
Gets back to eating normal, you know, after one of these,
because I've been when he's finished.

Speaker 2 (01:45:24):
He because I don't care if I ever eat again.
So I ask you a question after you watched it,
did you eat? Yeah? I don't eat during it, but
after I like, you don't You're going to draw the
line with that. Yeah, I'm not doing that.

Speaker 1 (01:45:39):
Here's somebody said one time, I ate seventy two chicken
wings in an hour, and I thought I was going
to die.

Speaker 5 (01:45:45):
Oh yeah, I.

Speaker 1 (01:45:45):
Think they said Joey one somebody in the crowd. It
may not have been him, as actually the bald egg champion.

Speaker 2 (01:45:51):
The what egg bold old Cohan loot.

Speaker 1 (01:45:57):
Yeah, I eat eggs, the bolled eggs. Now there's full
blown nut quail eggs. Oh yeah, he's just showing of eggs.
How you on quill eggs just by themselves?

Speaker 2 (01:46:07):
Pickled? Man? No, I mean I'm just like regular. Oh no,
I never had a case. I ate it like a
I don't know what.

Speaker 1 (01:46:13):
It was some sort of Asian something last night and
the dish I had the noodle dish I had had
quail eggs in it. Oh wow, in there with the
vegetables and all that, and it was the other cooked
and it was interesting. They're just like tiny bulled eggs.
Yeah that's yeah, But something about it bothered me. You
don't need them out of the jar. We had them
in here, you know. Yeah, I was from Virginia that day.

(01:46:34):
I came back and every stiff like that jar. I
wouldn't eat one of those stuffs. Nothing wrong, pickle quail eggs.

Speaker 2 (01:46:39):
Here we go.

Speaker 12 (01:46:41):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:46:42):
In twenty and thirteen, in eight minutes, Joey Chestnut ate
one hundred and forty one hard bull eggs. Wow, that'd
be rough and forty How about that stomach? Even coophand
Luke said wow.

Speaker 2 (01:46:56):
Wow, he barely made it.

Speaker 5 (01:46:57):
And twenty twenty one it was seventy six Nathan's famous
hot dogs?

Speaker 2 (01:47:02):
How quick got the record?

Speaker 5 (01:47:04):
He has a he's eating a meat pie?

Speaker 2 (01:47:07):
Are we open to Joey chest still he's done?

Speaker 1 (01:47:12):
I want to see it? Yeah, Oh I see it.
I want to hear about it. Yeah, you want to
just see if a number?

Speaker 5 (01:47:17):
Yeah, he holds the record for pork ribs thirteen points
seven six pounds of pork rib meat he ate. How
does he not in twelve minutes in twenty thirteen?

Speaker 2 (01:47:25):
How does this not kill her?

Speaker 1 (01:47:26):
Twenty thirteen was a big year. You should take thirteen
pounds of anything his digestive system.

Speaker 5 (01:47:31):
He ate fifteen bowls of gumbo in twenty fifteen in
eight minutes.

Speaker 2 (01:47:36):
So he's just eating all kinds of stuff.

Speaker 5 (01:47:39):
Yeah, the guy that introduces everybody, and he's got the
like the Carnie Barker had on.

Speaker 2 (01:47:44):
He's really in. They're saying that Joey Chestnuts intro?

Speaker 6 (01:47:46):
Is it?

Speaker 5 (01:47:46):
Is it good?

Speaker 6 (01:47:47):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:47:47):
He brings him out.

Speaker 5 (01:47:49):
He ate fifteen points seven pounds of baloney slices in
eight minutes in twenty twenty five, May tenth this year.

Speaker 2 (01:47:57):
Man, there he goes. He's a weird looking guy. I'll
give you that.

Speaker 7 (01:48:00):
It's not weird looking, Greg.

Speaker 2 (01:48:01):
Yeah, he needs a little teeth work. You think he maybe?

Speaker 12 (01:48:04):
Greg?

Speaker 2 (01:48:04):
I mean, how can you not have teeth problems doing
what he does? My god, I just said it.

Speaker 5 (01:48:08):
Choppers cheese take egg rolls forty six and eight minutes
in twenty twenty three.

Speaker 2 (01:48:13):
How is he a lot?

Speaker 5 (01:48:14):
He's are old record.

Speaker 2 (01:48:15):
You know how much you got for winning this? What?
Ten thousand?

Speaker 9 (01:48:18):
That's it?

Speaker 2 (01:48:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:48:19):
So they used to get it off endorsements. Yeah, yeah,
as far as just winning the contest, he.

Speaker 2 (01:48:24):
Got how many ten thousand? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:48:25):
How many ice cream sandwiches y'all think y'all could eat?

Speaker 2 (01:48:28):
Well, you got to get past six minutes where it
hurts your teeth because they're cold.

Speaker 5 (01:48:32):
Twenty five point five he ate and six minutes eighteen
Oh yeah, well I mean make a living old twinkies
one hundred and twenty one twinkies in six minutes.

Speaker 2 (01:48:42):
Us, think about it. He can't just live off Nathan's
once a year. He's got to do other things. Yeah right,
He'll be right back you America.

Speaker 1 (01:48:55):
We've had a great time with you today. We've had
to cover some somber stuff today obviously was I'm of
the calamity going on in Texas, but we've been able to,
you know, give you a lamp too, hopefully, and spend
some time with you.

Speaker 2 (01:49:08):
We've enjoyed it.

Speaker 1 (01:49:09):
Catched the archive today if you missed any of that.
Somebody a great great food question off text Nation. They've
been on fire today. Why is it that if you
tried to eat six boiled eggs, that's a lot, but
twelve deviled eggs really isn't.

Speaker 5 (01:49:27):
Why isn't It's it's just an egg egg white with
the you know, the stuff missing one one size. Yeah, yeah,
it's half of it.

Speaker 2 (01:49:38):
Eat me. But six boiled eggs is kind of like
you did you do twelve doubled eggs? It's nothing. I
shouldn't be the same as an egg. You're right, I
eat devile eggs. Oh, I don't know that. I've never
stopped gold.

Speaker 1 (01:49:54):
I've never stopped doubled eggs because I thought, well, I've
had enough of those. I'll stopped because I just.

Speaker 2 (01:49:58):
Wanted to live.

Speaker 5 (01:49:59):
Yeah, you know, we run out of them.

Speaker 2 (01:50:03):
By the way, I was late to the devil Digg
didn't like it when I was young either.

Speaker 7 (01:50:06):
I hated it and kind of along those same lines.

Speaker 8 (01:50:09):
But now there's that that meme on the internet that's like, hey,
do you want six string cheese sticks?

Speaker 7 (01:50:15):
No, that's way too many for me. Well, I deep
fried them and here's some Marinara sauce. Okay, yeah, that's great.
That's a nice warm up for what I'm actually going
to eat.

Speaker 12 (01:50:23):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:50:23):
You're one hundred percent right. Why are these Why do
these things happen?

Speaker 1 (01:50:26):
Somebody said, also look up Joey Chestnuts, Crystal Burger, and
three good Night.

Speaker 2 (01:50:32):
I could challenge him on that. Eat one hundred and
three greg and eight minutes now. But I couldn't hate
nobody going in the eighties.

Speaker 5 (01:50:39):
I could I could do eight minutes.

Speaker 2 (01:50:43):
In the eighties, I think I.

Speaker 6 (01:50:47):
Did.

Speaker 7 (01:50:47):
Y'all hear the national anthem at the hot dog eating contest.

Speaker 5 (01:50:50):
It's pretty good.

Speaker 2 (01:50:53):
It great.

Speaker 3 (01:50:58):
OA.

Speaker 2 (01:51:06):
Never lose that, never lose it. Never anything we bring
up said. You hear the n.

Speaker 5 (01:51:18):
She's trying to.

Speaker 2 (01:51:24):
I've been there, got to get her feet under it.

Speaker 9 (01:51:26):
I can't.

Speaker 2 (01:51:27):
I can't do it. Can't do heavy top, heavy top, ain't.

Speaker 1 (01:51:29):
I'm just gonna still try to sing. If we heard
what happened to her, I mean, we do need She's fine,
she had too much air, she was nervous. God lovers
shouldn't be made making fun of her.

Speaker 5 (01:51:46):
But there's nothing I can do about it. I'm sorry,
I can't help it. I'm gonna have to make fun
of that. If it was me and the same thing happened,
everybody in the world would have permission to make fun
of me, Okay, I would grant that we should. I
gotta have one more time, dy y'all stop it.

Speaker 7 (01:52:01):
Sorry last time.

Speaker 2 (01:52:13):
It's one of the it's one of the best things
ever about the person.

Speaker 12 (01:52:17):
You know.

Speaker 5 (01:52:17):
The photographers get down in front of you on one
knee with a big lands and they're trying to get
the best shot. She almost hit lands on one.

Speaker 2 (01:52:24):
What I love is the photographers still getting shot yo.

Speaker 5 (01:52:28):
I like to see those shots from that camera.

Speaker 1 (01:52:30):
You know why it's so good, it's it's it's somebody
not been to pull off the national anthem, even though
she almost made it.

Speaker 2 (01:52:36):
But it has a little bit of great lady in it,
just a great lady. Mad. I hate to say this.

Speaker 1 (01:52:45):
Anytime somebody's somebody's body is uncontrollably making noise that the
person can't stop for some reason, that adds.

Speaker 2 (01:52:54):
Uncontrollable noise. So let's not do it again.

Speaker 5 (01:52:59):
How many seconds before she passed out do you think
she went, oh, I'm in trouble.

Speaker 2 (01:53:04):
Right now, right here, everything after this person she did.

Speaker 5 (01:53:14):
There's nobody more grateful than Carl Lewis that this happened,
that question showing she did help her slide for those
of you can't see God without her arms out in
front of it on the side.

Speaker 2 (01:53:26):
The funniest part to me is the noise.

Speaker 7 (01:53:31):
Again, I don't want last time.

Speaker 2 (01:53:32):
What do you think she's messing around?

Speaker 4 (01:53:38):
Disrespectful?

Speaker 5 (01:53:42):
All right, let's let's let'st now not even look, don't
just listen, don't close your eyes are closed because I'm
on the screw last time we go.

Speaker 2 (01:53:59):
It's a different.

Speaker 1 (01:54:02):
Is better almost because I'm feel sorry for if I
close my mind, I wouldn't say better.

Speaker 2 (01:54:06):
But it's good. Yeah, it's good. So do we know
her name? How do we find out if she's.

Speaker 5 (01:54:14):
She might have a bruck note?

Speaker 2 (01:54:16):
If I was her, I would never no one would
ever know my name.

Speaker 7 (01:54:19):
Everything she's talking like this to everything I can find.

Speaker 8 (01:54:24):
This happened on July third, twenty twenty five, at the
National Anthem singing at Constellation Field of the sugar Land
Space Cowboys baseball team.

Speaker 2 (01:54:36):
I'd be lucky you at the Barons. That'tight? Yes, yeah,
let me tell you see that.

Speaker 1 (01:54:40):
That also means it didn't have a lot of coverage,
which meant so many people got to come on from
the game say I got a story, leave it because
and most of the people probably say, oh, you have
already seen that. Learn now they have because it's out now.
Yeah I'm seeing something.

Speaker 5 (01:54:55):
Sugar Land Space Cowboys will host auditions for singers to
perform the national anthem. Uh see that was earlier, so
I guess, well, okay, they had tryouts at one point.
I'm just I'm randomly, randomly searching trying to find out
if I was she lost her airs, her air, No, Greg,
you can tell that's what made her pass out.

Speaker 2 (01:55:16):
Yeah, that's what made her pass out. Probably hot. She's
got that uniform.

Speaker 7 (01:55:20):
Looks real hot.

Speaker 2 (01:55:21):
It looks hot. I mean you talk about the man,
I mean, I mean, not the good guy.

Speaker 11 (01:55:24):
The temperature.

Speaker 2 (01:55:25):
Yeah, she's a little girl god lover. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:55:28):
Looks like Janet Jackson when she was on different strokes. Yeah,
don't you are good times missus Jackson? If you're nasty?

Speaker 17 (01:55:35):
Right?

Speaker 2 (01:55:36):
Was she on both those? I think so? Did I
add the different strokes thing? I thought she Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:55:42):
When she will sugar Land Baseball, she said the crowd,
it's the same thing for the grape lady.

Speaker 1 (01:55:53):
Oh oh, I think that's I hope she's okay. I
mean if you said she hit right on her face?
Anybody anybody word about the mic at all? It didn't
fair well, it didn't sound good.

Speaker 2 (01:56:06):
I hope it wasn't very expensive.

Speaker 7 (01:56:07):
One h Tannel Jackson was in different strokes.

Speaker 5 (01:56:11):
Yeah, when she Willis's girlfriend. Yep, I can't find anything.
I can't find anything on this.

Speaker 17 (01:56:17):
I know, I know.

Speaker 7 (01:56:18):
It's like they're trying to wipe it from the internet.

Speaker 1 (01:56:19):
Well, how about this, it's probably her trying to wipe
it from their Yeah, I would be too, Yes, her heart.

Speaker 2 (01:56:26):
Well, you can't say that you've laughed at least five times. Well,
but I do feel I'm not watching watching it anymore.
I'm asking you a question. Do you feel bad about this?

Speaker 12 (01:56:35):
Huh?

Speaker 2 (01:56:35):
Do you feel bad about it?

Speaker 5 (01:56:36):
I just want to know she's all right.

Speaker 17 (01:56:38):
I know her.

Speaker 5 (01:56:38):
Her little feelings are hurt.

Speaker 7 (01:56:39):
I'm reading right here. Yes, she is all right.

Speaker 5 (01:56:41):
Okay, then let's laugh.

Speaker 2 (01:56:43):
Okay. Did she drives? She thinks it's funny. I saw
that in there? Can you can you drive?

Speaker 6 (01:56:49):
Oh?

Speaker 15 (01:56:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (01:56:49):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:56:50):
She looks like she's somewhat successful. Yeah, yeah, she's in
sometimes she's maybe a fire person. I think maybe she
just had a little blood going Salvation Army. She had
some low blood sugar. Probably eat great before the game.
She's a little nervous.

Speaker 2 (01:57:02):
She's nervous. That's not that that that uniform, but she
holds it well.

Speaker 5 (01:57:09):
Doesn't look like she's hot, but I'm sure it is.
And she probably didn't eat a lot, and not everybody
sweats like Adler.

Speaker 7 (01:57:16):
And she locked her knees.

Speaker 5 (01:57:17):
I bet she locked her knees.

Speaker 2 (01:57:26):
I like how they shot a shot of the flag
right after us. They gave us so glorious tried to
get her eyes on the flag. I appreciate that.

Speaker 9 (01:57:41):
This is the Rick Burgers Show.

Speaker 1 (01:57:50):
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be back from the big long weekend. A lot of
you are still on vacation. That's all right, we got you.
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