The Rick Burgess Show | 12/19/25 | Ep. 239 - The Rick Burgess Show

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Speaker 1 (00:16):
Big Fox Entertainment.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Please, I'm I'm gonna Rick Butchers Show with Speedy Rick Butchers,
Edie van Adler and Rick Butchers.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
Are you well? America says, yes, sir, We're ready. I
see a new Orleans Saints Van say who that said
they're gonna beat in Saint Who that waste management? Montgomery, Alabama,
High ninety two said ran for all five Berkeley, Yep, Brady,

(00:52):
Panama City and I said they're looking forward to another one. Knoxville, Tennessee.
Rocky Top's ready Merry Christmas Eve. Navoo is ready in Chachiga,
big take, I see you Leroy and Bessemer, I got

(01:16):
my all you buddy loud and clear RGE in Brazil, Tennessee, Fairview, Alabama.
Were Sternley, Ohio and Maddie dowd in and ready ready RGE.
I'm in Georgia. Good to be invited to the Christmas Park?

Speaker 4 (01:35):
You are?

Speaker 5 (01:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
Stephen's Plumbing at East Lakes at Burgs, Let's go. Michigan.
Martin for the Wolverine is ready looking for a new coach.
Many rods.

Speaker 5 (01:49):
Uh, so they.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
Come in from all over America. Boiling Springs, South Carolina. Uh,
there's the Foxes. Somebody said they quit their job to
so they could hear the whole show. Look, whatever it takes,
whatever it takes, here's speedy Greg and Adler. I want
to say to you guys, Merry Christmas, Yes, sir, Happy

(02:11):
New Year. Today is the Rick Burgess Show Christmas Party.
Come on and all of you are invited. It is
action packed. Will we be giving away Christmas cash? You
better believe we will a lot of it, So that's
going to be happening today. Will we give away a
four hundred and eighty dollars? I don't know why we
don't say five hundred? You say five five plus mont

(02:34):
Blanc meister stoop ballpoint pen from Barton Clay Jewelers. We
throw that in today, classy. So we have a lot
to announce. First of all, today you're all invited, so
is Gary. I mean, I thought i'd come up there
and maybe bring some of pies and say Mary Christmas.
Ever by now along, buddy, Hey, I ain't got to

(02:55):
come up here. You go to I mean, I got
I got more than enough to do. Okay, yeah, but
I mean everywhere I go, people keep saying when you're
gonna be on again? So Gary will be here today
with his Christmas wishes. Andy Andrews will be here today
and today b s or be true worth money today,

(03:17):
Christmas cash up for grabs. Andy will also read to us.
I know it's borderline. It's not Christmas Shoes, but it's close.
It's close. Andy wrote this book and he's gonna read
it to us, Okay, and it's just it's got some

(03:38):
emotion in it, so that that will happen today, James Span,
we'll check in. He'll give you his Merry Christmas and
Happy New Year and seasons greetings, but also kind of
give you an idea what you can expect if you're
traveling for the wonderful holiday season. Okay, so we got
spam coming in as well, Speedy, I'm gonna have to

(03:59):
ask you this one. The last time we heard from
Dickey n Admire to say he was down as an understatement,
done done, yeah, ty tied. Don't deserve to go to
the playoffs. Done need to get a new coach, I'm
out right? Is that pretty much it in the reshil Yes, yeah,
need new players. Yeah, you know he's I think you said.

(04:20):
The Ryan Williams disease has affected the whole team now,
even their quarterbacks got it. Yeah. So but I just
I just since I don't see him letting the playoffs go, no,
so we may hear from Dickey.

Speaker 6 (04:36):
I communicated with him a little bit and he was
a little vague on where he was. And I'm like, Dickie,
what are you doing? Because I wanted to know his
plans and see and see if he wanted to join
the Christmas party and all that. And he said, just
check with me, you know, during the Christmas party and
I'll see what I'm doing. But he was real vague
where he was. So I'm hoping we can find him

(04:57):
a lot of boomers sooner on textanation. Yeah, I know
he and he and Nate go head to head today,
so playoff start tonight.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
Also today we swap our Christmas gifts. Yeah. Well I
worked hard on yours, Greg Man, I bet maybe, brother,
you know, it's just not my thing. I'm not. I'm
not I'm not I'm not able to you know, make things.
But but I worked well. I did like I did
back in school when you had a project. I waited
til the last night to do it right before, but

(05:25):
I got it done. It's there.

Speaker 7 (05:27):
I can't wait. I cannot wait to see y'all's gifts.
And it's the thought. Yeah, it's the thought you spent
of thought in mind thinking about Yeah, friends and brother.

Speaker 3 (05:39):
Yes, if you don't remember Greg Drew, Speedy's name, I
drew Greg's name, and Adler and Greg Drew and Adam
you Drew whose name?

Speaker 8 (05:51):
You?

Speaker 7 (05:51):
My?

Speaker 3 (05:52):
Oh man, I'm excited. And then I Drew Adler and
then Speedy Drew.

Speaker 7 (05:55):
Understanding, I do have a kind of extra little gift
for everybody. And you guys, remember yesterday we were talking
about chicken and dumplings.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
Oh wait a minute, Wait a minute.

Speaker 7 (06:07):
You guys want some chicken and dumplings?

Speaker 3 (06:09):
Really, are you? He came out of there's no refrigerator
in there. I just who made it?

Speaker 8 (06:17):
I just not me?

Speaker 3 (06:19):
Okay?

Speaker 7 (06:19):
Yeah, in fact a place that you like a lot, right, recognized, recognize?

Speaker 3 (06:24):
Oh yeah, baby, we have done.

Speaker 7 (06:27):
But yesterday kicked up. Yesterday went all the way over there,
and then I came over here and I put it
in the floor and then I went back home.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
Yeah, let me tell you, it was pretty I want
to forget it. It was pretty cool last night. We're fine, Hey,
I'll take can I say, I don't mind saying where
you got it. They're they're one of our big sponsors
in Birmingham. Yeah, yeah, New York butcher shop. Yes, you
know they're more than just a butcher shop.

Speaker 5 (06:52):
Now.

Speaker 3 (06:52):
Their meats fantastic. I had I had their dressing for
Thanksgiving and it was great. I'm looking forward to that.
That's awesome.

Speaker 7 (06:59):
I I haven't had chicken dumplings. I don't think in
over twenty years that Gary and we were talking about
it yesterday. I was like, you know what, let's just
see I don't even know know if I really remember
what chicken and doubles.

Speaker 9 (07:11):
You know, let's give it a go.

Speaker 6 (07:12):
That's very kind of you. When you went down to
the floor to get it. I thought, what is he?
What's what's this deal with?

Speaker 10 (07:17):
Is it?

Speaker 5 (07:17):
Mister? Is it?

Speaker 3 (07:17):
Mister chen? Should we be concerned? What's the plan for him?
A Christmas party? Let's take him to campus, Let's take it.
Why would let's just get it over with. Let's take
him to campound. Is he alive?

Speaker 7 (07:35):
Yeah, he's alive. I'm looking at running. I'm I'm going
to take him home. He's gonna he's going home. You
guys obviously don't like him because he's Asian, mister chen racist.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
So I'm going.

Speaker 7 (07:48):
To take him home with me. I'm gonna take him
home with me. What I'm gonna do?

Speaker 3 (07:52):
I was surprised he does have kind of his eyes
are a little bit easy.

Speaker 7 (07:57):
He's a Chinese fighting fish. That's why is mister chan.
Yeah's fighting fish. And so there you go.

Speaker 3 (08:02):
That's your chank on home with Adlai.

Speaker 7 (08:04):
Yeah, I'm gonna take him home and he'll have a night.

Speaker 3 (08:07):
There's no way he's taking it. You're gonna ride.

Speaker 7 (08:11):
I'm gonna have to.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
Yes, Yeah, got too great. Somebody you realized. The beautiful
thing is we've worked for years back during the Rick
and Bubba days and kept working on it, working on it,
and we made a commitment when we started the Rick
Burgess Show. By golly, we're gonna find the technology that
allows all of us to take off the entire break
and and and we think we have done.

Speaker 6 (08:31):
We hope we're gonna try it anyway, so all the
boxes have been checked, and everybody says, and we're ready
to go.

Speaker 3 (08:39):
So we'll see. Because we had the discussion many times.

Speaker 11 (08:41):
Surely.

Speaker 5 (08:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (08:43):
In twenty twenty four, twenty five. So how Greg, what
color is my my my that's qurgundy. My quarters up
to the burgundy, and I the only one that had
any Christmas spirit at Allso I'm gonna say it's I
was gonna be not red. Maroon. Yeah, maroon. It's very
close to Hale State maroon. So it's there you go.
You'll see a maroon Sanda every now and then. Thank

(09:05):
you Adler for the little effort in there. But Christmas
red is supposed to be bright. Yeah, this is Speedy
and Greg have decided on Christmas Day apparently they're in morning.
Uh so Christmas, but I really don't own anything this Christmas.

Speaker 6 (09:19):
Almost wore I have a little goofy Christmas sweater almost.
I was like, it's just just dress. So we have
h we have that shirt, also wear one of the tens.
Greg approves stuff.

Speaker 3 (09:31):
I like that big announcement too, and like it to
the audience. Big announcement to you out there. We checked
it already today. Speedy even had to do some last
minute editing, which was awesome.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (09:42):
The brand new album are you Ready, the first Rick
Burgess Show album ever, is now on streaming. Come on, now,
do I know that it's on every single platform today.
That may take some time. I don't know which one
you stepping out you use. I do know it's on
iTunes because I just checked h Okay, so Apple Music, Yeah,
Apple Music, it's there for sure, So go and if

(10:05):
you're looking for it, you want to search The Rick
Burgess Show, The Rick Burgess Show, and you'll see it.
Are you ready. You can get the individual cuts or
you can get the whole album. So it is on
streaming today. Good stuff. So a great way to in
in the first year is to get that out on
streaming before the last show. Yeah, so there, So there's

(10:26):
a lot. Today's big Today is big, big, big.

Speaker 6 (10:30):
Just when we think it's going to be going, Andy's
gonna make his cry with socks for Christmas.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
I knew you were going to do it. What if
you got socks with Christmas and then some Christmas shoes
to put over with a song? Oh my goodness, courst
tracts are not for you. There for mama so she
can look pretty much. She missed Jess, which is the saddest.

Speaker 5 (10:51):
Ever.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
This is the Rick Burgess Show, the hardest working men
in the business, The Rick Burgess Show, right.

Speaker 3 (11:13):
And we're gonna take a two week breaks, they'll be here.
Here's how it's gonna go. You'll get some of the
best hours of year number one. They've been worth money.
By the way, during the Christmas cash countdown, they hope
you were paying attention. You also will have an archive
every day for you podcast archive people. You will have that,

(11:36):
so don't worry about that. Also, the new album is
out today. The new album is on streaming today. So
we've had hard copies in the store and there's still
a few of those left. You can't get them by
Christmas now, I don't think. But if you don't care
about that, you can still order it. But remember the
gift cards in the store. If you miss the deadline.
You still want somebody who is a fan of the

(11:57):
show to be able to go to the store and
get some for themselves as a gift from you. Then
you can do gift cards, and we do have those,
and you get those in twenty four hours there in
the store. So that's how that's all going to work.
And you will get to stay with us as we
take a couple of weeks off and kind of refresh,
spend time with family and friends, get to sleep a

(12:20):
little bit. I think Adlers showed us all you know
that we do need that about a week ago. Yeah, yeah,
and so we have that and we'll be coming back
on the fifth of January ready to go. But today
it is looking back over the first year. It is
celebrating Christmas, it is having fun. It's given away gifts,

(12:41):
it's swapping gifts, it's getting festive up in here. Also know,
I know with this time of year, trying to do
a little bit better is harder than ever, and nobody's
helping you. I mean, as we sit here, I'm warming
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(13:02):
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Speaker 12 (13:03):
Uh.

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(13:25):
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so so we we we were ready to go. I
think we've got everything laid out, so much to do

(14:09):
once we get rolling here. I don't I don't want
to be a Debbie Downer on you know, the Rick
Burgess Show Christmas Party.

Speaker 5 (14:20):
Uh, but.

Speaker 3 (14:22):
We can't just ignore and and overlook. You know this
terrible story again yesterday with Greg Biffle and his family. Sad, sad,
sad sad. Yeah, just an awful, awful situation. Of course,
he was a NASCAR champion, and of course Greg Biffle
has been you know, like you were talking about when

(14:42):
he used to his helicopter to help rescue people, you know,
during one of the hurricanes and flooding.

Speaker 7 (14:49):
And that's what that's what I'm showing right now.

Speaker 3 (14:51):
Yeah, and you know so and that that is he's
he seems to be by people who know him and
and people are just aware of him to be held
in high regard as a man of good character and
a big heart and unfortunately just something as simple as
he and his family trying what we can think, we think,

(15:12):
just to go see visit some friends and Sarasota, I think,
is where the plane was going. His airplane or I
don't know if he charters it or it's his, but
it was a private airplane and they unfortunately, as soon
as they took off, all appearances are they knew they
had trouble and they tried to come back to the

(15:34):
airport and unfortunately crashed trying to land and all died. Yeah,
he is.

Speaker 6 (15:41):
His wife, Christina, their children, and there was another gentleman
on the flight as well as I think two of
his sons. And it's just awful. They were going to
the Bahamas via Sarasota, Florida in the Cessna CE five
fifty I think that was the plane, and some eye

(16:03):
witnesses were playing golf there by the airport that they
crashed at, and they said that they saw a plane
coming in pretty low and and and realized, wait, that's
really low. And at one point they said they all
actually hit the ground on the golf course because it
was coming in so low and just terrible news that

(16:23):
obviously he was trying to get it back.

Speaker 3 (16:25):
Yeah. Yeah, And I also saw some of the you know,
because you know, I actually followed this account on Instagram
that that it's all aviation and they have multiple pilots
getting theirselves out of trouble and you know, all this
kind of stuff. Of course, they had stuff pretty quick
and apparently, and I know there's always things that have

(16:48):
to be corrected later when everybody's trying to get these
things out. That when they returned to go back, they
also were dealing with poor visibility and you know, and
which you know, the ceiling for them to be able
to see and all that was it was unfortunately working
against them. So so so anyway, so there you go.
And so that's a sad story today. And you know,

(17:12):
this has been anytime something happens, and a lot of
you have dealt with this. We we actually have it
in our own family. You know, when you when you
have something that happened that was not pleasant and it's
close to the holidays, you know, it's then for that
day forward, the holidays now have a whole different deal
to you. Yeah, and so just be in prayer for

(17:32):
all that are associated with the Biffle family and connected
to them, families and friends and and just all of us.
When you see something like this, especially involving an entire family,
it breaks your heart, whether you know them or not. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (17:45):
Also on the flight was Craig Wadsworth and Dennis and
Jack Dutton. I want to make sure I give their names.
Just awful story. It's it's like, when I heard it,
I'm like, what the what? Yeah, it took a second,
you know, to go wait a minute, well, yeah, I saw.

Speaker 3 (17:58):
The very first thing I saw was the unfortunate footage
of the plane engulfed in flames and somebody standing there
in front of it saying, got no idea who's on
this plane, but it's owned by Greg Biffle. Yeah, so
that's right, it is playing because I said that. Yeah,
and so they didn't at that time, they didn't know
who was owning but they knew who it belonged to.

Speaker 7 (18:20):
So here's a here's a back at Easter, Greg Biffle.
After Lyon's helicopter for nine straight days rescuing people, he
returned and dropped Easter eggs on a bunch of kids.
So there's another happy memory of what a servant and
serve server he was.

Speaker 3 (18:35):
Wow, Wow, Wow. We'll be back the Rick Burgess Show
Christmas Party continuing right after this.

Speaker 1 (18:44):
This is the Rick Burgess Show. Merry Christmas from the
Rick Burgess Show.

Speaker 3 (19:04):
Welcome to the Rick Burgess Show Christmas Party. Our gifts
for you today cash Christmas Cash. Pretty funny reading some
of your emails. Somebody was like, hey, birds, really enjoying
this right now, but I do want you to know,
uh that all these catchy songs shall have now. My

(19:26):
kids were talking about the true meeting of Christmas and
all they can sing to me is that they want
some some some cold hard cash from Santa and they're
singing it.

Speaker 6 (19:35):
Oh yeah, so someoth the wives did a really good
job singing that they did.

Speaker 3 (19:39):
They did. I didn't know they could sing that.

Speaker 5 (19:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (19:41):
This one the one the wives got together, and the
one where the women are singing that's our wives. And man,
they sound good. They did. Oh they sound good. Thank you,
thank you ladies. Yeah, uh so we we do have
a lot out in front of us today. As we said. Uh,
I never got confirmation. By the way, I want to
tell you, those dumplings are fantastic. I'm going in in
sec so good.

Speaker 7 (20:02):
It's almost like chicken noodle soup.

Speaker 3 (20:03):
Yeah, taste to it. For some reason, Greg is a
child again and he's scared of it.

Speaker 7 (20:07):
Yeah, he's good.

Speaker 3 (20:09):
He's gone back to being a.

Speaker 6 (20:12):
So picky Anyway, we do need to get something out
of the white rick. Okay, big Boy needs his his hat on. Hey, guys,
we've gone this whole time in December and didn't put
his hat on because we were waiting for the party.
But the party he usually wears a whole monk. Greg,
I've looked over to I've checked. I checked on Big
Boy's time to put the hat on. He's about three in.

Speaker 1 (20:35):
Jolly, look at it.

Speaker 3 (20:36):
Look he's been in the eggnog. Guys. Every time we
interview somebody, and especially if it's a serious subject, and
and you look on the screen and there's Big Boy
cutting his eyes. Yes, I love it all right, so
head on that big boy, big boy Mike has been
a winter because you know, we went a long time
we had Big Boy, but we didn't utilize him much,
did Yeah, he used to lock him up? All right.

(20:57):
So there's big boy. Adler's got the big boys, big
Santa hat. You don't ask if he needs a step stool.
I don't, okay, okay, I just want to make sure.
All right, Oh look he got up there on his own.

Speaker 11 (21:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (21:14):
How you gonna get that veil crow in? Yeah? And honestly,
do you do you need some help?

Speaker 13 (21:18):
Straight up?

Speaker 3 (21:21):
Somebody help. Here's where he's gonna struggle. This is this is,
Oh boy, what we got here? Mary Chris's okay, don't
say nothing. I will. I did honestly thought he might.
I would marry Christmas Saddler. That's pretty good. I mean
it's okay.

Speaker 14 (21:37):
Right now, there you go, that was that was right
there there you go right here behind his right and
watch that right there, a little more little more white
right there, a little more.

Speaker 3 (21:48):
White heap on the veil crow. Yeah, we got it. Now,
we got it. Big boy's got his Santa hat, big boy,
all right, right, you're gonna get it back? Sure, Yeah,
he's right there on the face.

Speaker 9 (22:09):
Look at him.

Speaker 3 (22:10):
Look at him, Look at him, look at him. That's right,
that's all right, look at that. Why we already had
his hand on it. Okay, we put it out all
those way to Christmas Eve put the tree up. Apparently, Hey, buddy,
don't you think putting it on during the party makes
the party special? Party? Yeah to me, so he wore

(22:33):
we used to put him up. He wore it the
whole month.

Speaker 7 (22:36):
Now he's good to go.

Speaker 3 (22:37):
When did you think about it? Just now? When you'll
put it? Okay? All right, I could have helped in
that I cut up, but I didn't think about it, right,
Uh so all I know we lost it, Greg, you
didn't think about it. I didn't think about it. This
is so I was thankful, thankful. I want to ask.
I want to ask all of your opinions on this one.
So we know that you know, we started this show

(23:00):
and we're getting to this is really our unofficial one
year anniversary. Really, the one year anniversary will be the
day we come back because that's when we started. Us
hadn't been a full year. We haven't completed a full year.
We can okay. In general, though it's in general. We

(23:22):
we are celebrating the year that we've had because we
have no more shows this year, the year and review
and after today we then we go back and reflect.
Here we go, so you know that we're thankful. As
we've said, our goal starting this show, and some of
you made it very hard on us. Uh, the goal
was that we would you know, be grateful and remember

(23:44):
the past, the over three decades when we all four
worked on the Rick and Bubba show. That's right, we
would be super jacked about the present, and then we
would be also you know, uh, have be anticipating and
trying to continue to come up with stuff for the future. Right, Okay, yeah,
so you have the past, you have the present, you

(24:04):
have the future. The future, of course we don't have
much control over, but we need. All we can do
is prepare for it. So and some things we've determined
should just stay in the memories of the Rick and
Bubba legacy, which is one to be proud of. And
then there's things that can transcend into both shows because

(24:27):
we're four people who actually worked on that show, so
we're not changing who we are, So anything that we
bring to the table is still around.

Speaker 5 (24:33):
Right.

Speaker 3 (24:34):
But then you get into things like white trush Christmas, Oh,
which is a classic. It's a classic. First year I
was here, we had it. We got performant live the
original artist right on where it came from. Yeah, and
just full disclosure and being completely transparent and.

Speaker 7 (24:48):
Greg that was original artist's original makeup.

Speaker 3 (24:50):
It was exactly yea, being completely transparent completely is that
we also knew this was an outstanding opportunity to stop
doing thing things we were sick and tired of. Okay,
that had just become old to us, and we're basically
just phoned to them when we do it, Okay, So
and I could listen them and and then and then
take those things and put them like in a museum

(25:13):
or a hall of fame and say there they are.

Speaker 2 (25:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (25:15):
Yeah, but but and I I didn't really think I
didn't think we needed to play white trash Christmas like
over and over a bunch, But for the party, I mean,
it is a party. In the party, we would have
played this whole month. Yeah, but but it's a party.
It's a party to dance to it. This could take
a little bit of we're not doing it the way

(25:36):
we always did it, but we're still gonna do it
on the final like it's something to look forward to
as part of the party. Like you know, if everybody's
in here partying and somebody put it on, you know
the speakers, we'd all join in. And that's the way
this feels to me, you know. And I know we're
also dealing with the whole new world where we can't

(25:57):
just play anything we want to on the show. How
are we on this one?

Speaker 7 (26:00):
It's Christmas?

Speaker 14 (26:00):
You know.

Speaker 7 (26:01):
Oh, I think that's what you be, right.

Speaker 14 (26:03):
Losses, Okay, okay, we're doing it, yep, yep.

Speaker 3 (26:13):
And I want you all to stare. If you're a tumber,
if you're a tub city, you're just looking in the eyes.

Speaker 8 (26:18):
A big boy, they're they're in this bag.

Speaker 5 (26:20):
You're right here.

Speaker 3 (26:21):
So here we're here. We can yeah, okay here, I
really want.

Speaker 4 (26:24):
H be do stockeys are hung by the Woodmen's no, Papa,
just tell me that's the world underware.

Speaker 7 (26:30):
Her mama's on the couch, just.

Speaker 3 (26:31):
Big in her nose. It's a why trash Chrispboddy.

Speaker 4 (26:36):
Together, Daddy get the gun for when the reindeer come.

Speaker 3 (26:39):
Mama said she could get it.

Speaker 4 (26:40):
Be this one you both love, Honey, got so much
why trash? Christosty got seven hats, discutch, please under get
artificial tree. Everybody want my certificate and my stocking.

Speaker 3 (26:56):
Mama's always clean up. One stop shopping, back and exit,
saying I.

Speaker 7 (27:01):
Got blessed suze, separate water, God bless us, separate walk.

Speaker 3 (27:06):
Everybody. Come on now, big boy, Big boy's really jam
You only s knowss.

Speaker 7 (27:11):
He is on my sister's shoulder.

Speaker 3 (27:12):
When our cousin comes over, he.

Speaker 11 (27:14):
Likes the holder.

Speaker 5 (27:15):
She best get in the kid.

Speaker 3 (27:16):
You guess I got told her it's white trash.

Speaker 7 (27:19):
Christ We got turkeys, ma'am meaning yeah, my mom was
having flashbacks of es.

Speaker 3 (27:26):
Ma'am.

Speaker 9 (27:27):
Grab the kids, go running high, take shelter.

Speaker 3 (27:30):
I need a double wire, makes and deer.

Speaker 4 (27:34):
Saying I got blessed size, separate walk, Hello, God, blessed sueparate.

Speaker 3 (27:38):
Wa take it home, Take it home.

Speaker 8 (27:42):
Can't ring the last timmer?

Speaker 3 (27:45):
Welmare jack with my grandpa art?

Speaker 8 (27:47):
Can I want to go around?

Speaker 7 (27:49):
It'll make it best Christmas?

Speaker 3 (27:51):
Yeah, it's white trash. This smart What do you see
killing the dog? Win took another dump on the floor.

Speaker 4 (27:58):
Mama is making up a fresh man daddy God drunk.

Speaker 3 (28:01):
And it is head on the floor.

Speaker 15 (28:03):
It's a white trash Christmas begget home.

Speaker 4 (28:07):
My presents are ramped in the comic experience, good Will
Search and the other rag Yeah, Fresh Beef, Turkey INNI
six and Din Life.

Speaker 3 (28:16):
On the night. Y'all swerving out their van.

Speaker 7 (28:19):
View sends a guy bless us ever wal begolegs and
he sends the.

Speaker 16 (28:25):
Guy bless us every wal God bless us every Merry Christmas.

Speaker 3 (28:31):
The Rick Burgers Show Christmas Party is rolling by request.

Speaker 5 (28:37):
There you go.

Speaker 3 (28:38):
If you want to get your own copy of it,
it's out there on streaming. You just search zach z
A C ch Tyson T I S O N White
Trash Christmas and you can have your own copy and
play it as much as you want with the family.
This most wonderful time of year.

Speaker 1 (28:56):
We'll be right back to This is the Rick Your
Show from all of us to all of you. Merry
Christmas from the Rick Burgers Show.

Speaker 3 (29:15):
Thank you for being with us today, America, and Merry Christmas.
It is the Rick Burgess Show Christmas Party. Speedy, Greg
and Adler here so much still ahead as so.

Speaker 11 (29:26):
We move from now in New York City.

Speaker 3 (29:30):
It's kind of our way coming from sweet Home a
ground Merry Christmas, there goes Greg. He's guys, not in CALIFORNI.
Big boy's going to settle up to his own mic
today the sun shines falling down to Gary.

Speaker 16 (29:46):
And Andy and all of them getting baby down in Memphis,
Gracelands all in live playing one of Greg's favorites.

Speaker 3 (29:58):
Well in Atlanta, Georgia.

Speaker 11 (30:05):
There's peace on.

Speaker 3 (30:06):
Earth, so we we do have a lot to do.
So I was afraid to ask because he seemed to
be getting a little testy. But is Gary gonna bring pies?
I don't know, speeding, and I trying to press him
on it a little bit on Wednesday, but we didn't

(30:29):
get much back.

Speaker 6 (30:30):
I would say there's about a seventy five percent chance
that he's walks in here with pies. Seventy five percent
chance he always brings him on this day, Right, that's
his thing.

Speaker 3 (30:40):
Well we'll see. Yeah. Plus that's the same you said it,
and that's the biggest Z when you've ever done.

Speaker 7 (30:46):
I'm so sorry, Speedy, I'm so sorry.

Speaker 3 (30:49):
That's that's his thing and he can't stop doing it.

Speaker 6 (30:53):
Plus we've been on him about it, so hey, I
believe he will. And now what he won't bring.

Speaker 3 (30:59):
Which I wish he would have brought is his e
bike because I want to ride that thing. I really
wish you would. You think I'm gonna let you guys
break it? I mean, my goodness, you leave a Robert
hammer and an envelope. Bring y'all break it? What if
you got on it? I don't want you to be hurt.
That'd be funny.

Speaker 12 (31:18):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (31:18):
Congratulations. Yesterday congratulations, one hundred and fifty dollars went to
three question winner Rob Griffith. The one hundred dollars text
winner was Paul Grisby, So congratulations to both of them.
Today you're talking about Paul Grisby. Today we have one
thousand dollars to give away and the the mont Blanc

(31:43):
Meister stook five hundred dollars ballpoint pen. That's good. That's
where you talked through him eating nobody. Yeah, it's as
long as we have as long as we haven't lost it.
Does it may know where it is? No, I don't know.

Speaker 17 (31:53):
We have it.

Speaker 3 (31:53):
I can bring it out and sit it out. I
always I would have stole it from hit it. What
is it with Greg? Whenever he heats food up, he
has to eat it at that point.

Speaker 7 (32:02):
Because no matter what, it's got to be hot.

Speaker 3 (32:05):
To be hot. Now, you could go reheat it during
the break, don't make it. It's Christmas Show. That's right,
we eat on the Christmas Show. It is so thank
you Barton Clay Jewelers for that, for that extra gift today.
And we're going to do it all kinds of ways.
I am going to go ahead and give you the
final word to text of the year when this is

(32:27):
the tenth day right now of the Christmas Cash countdown,
and I'm giving the text word right now. Here comes
the text word right now, and you text this to us,
and at the end of the show, we'll draw it
a one hundred dollars winter. Here it is the final
word to text paid p a I D paid, be

(32:49):
paid p a I D. I want to be paid.
So text that to eight eight eight six two four
four eight sixty nine a D eight eight the number
six big vox and we'll scramble that random drawing with
the software that we have for the text line, and
one of you will be drawn out and get one

(33:11):
hundred dollars paid p a I D.

Speaker 5 (33:15):
And there it is.

Speaker 3 (33:18):
It's time for the Christmas You've lost your count Let's
let's have some fun with it.

Speaker 7 (33:25):
All want fuck Christmas.

Speaker 3 (33:27):
Let's go ahead, Let's give me some money. Let's give
away some money. Let's give away somebody. Let's here it
comes our wives Christmas.

Speaker 5 (33:42):
I can't listen.

Speaker 3 (33:47):
Christmas. It's kind of what kind of what to stay?
Okay't sharing Christmas? Everybody look and listeners.

Speaker 8 (33:55):
Terry for the Christmas?

Speaker 3 (33:58):
Oh Aaron trying to take the ladies, soprano.

Speaker 7 (34:12):
Ladies.

Speaker 3 (34:12):
Let's go up, all right, So here's the number. Cheo
oh five five three zero one thousand. Chwo oh five
five three zero one thousand. So, uh we we're here today.
Uh we we were getting the end of it the
first year. So we're gonna take caller three hundred and

(34:35):
sixty five. I'm just kidding. I'm totally king with that.
You see these faced How about this? There's there's fifty
two weeks any year. How about caller fifty two? Okay?
Or caller three Greg you and the I mean, come on,
all right.

Speaker 7 (34:48):
So what are we going to sing?

Speaker 5 (34:49):
Guys?

Speaker 7 (34:50):
While Rick counts all love one thing Christmas?

Speaker 3 (34:53):
It's coold heye, all right? So here is one and
then there's two, three three, four, five, six, seven, eleven, twelve, thirteen.

Speaker 7 (35:05):
Oh wait, we don't want to do accounting song because Brick's.

Speaker 3 (35:07):
Oh yeah, that's a good point, uh begging anyone day said.

Speaker 1 (35:14):
Or something?

Speaker 17 (35:18):
Four?

Speaker 3 (35:20):
Oh something happened forty five, forty six, forty.

Speaker 7 (35:24):
Seven, forty fifty four.

Speaker 3 (35:28):
Here we are going, Chris, Hello, Hello, welcome to the
Rick Burgess Show. Your caller fifty two? How are you?
What's your name?

Speaker 8 (35:38):
Sarah?

Speaker 3 (35:39):
Said him? Sarah? Sarah, Sarah, Okay, let's not rush it. Okay, Sarah,
have you been listening to the show this year? I
sure hope so bread Yeah, okay, are you ready? Okay?
For for for one for one hundred and fifty dollars?
I'm not feeling god? What does Gary like to have

(36:02):
with his steak? For one hundred and fifty dollars?

Speaker 8 (36:08):
Talent?

Speaker 3 (36:09):
Salid?

Speaker 17 (36:12):
You know?

Speaker 3 (36:12):
Also what does he say?

Speaker 18 (36:13):
I like a hell?

Speaker 3 (36:14):
Lily said, okay, So that's one hundred and fifty dollars.
Do you want to hold right there and take it?
Or do you want to try for three hundred? What
is easy?

Speaker 1 (36:25):
Trying?

Speaker 8 (36:25):
Again?

Speaker 3 (36:25):
You're gonna try for three Okay. Look, if you don't
get this, you get nothing. She knows Sir John Thomas
has been on the show this year. Oh no, hello,
this is John Thomas. I'd like to worsh all of you.
Just a happy merry Christmas, John Thomas, I want you

(36:49):
to name me the name of the ministry that he
has retired from running still goes out in as you know,
being the ambassador. What is the name of the ministry
in South Africa that he represents every breathed?

Speaker 8 (37:06):
Sorry, guys, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (37:09):
You went for I thought that's a tough one right there.
Oh Greg doesn't even know that, but it was three
hundred dollars.

Speaker 1 (37:18):
You don't.

Speaker 3 (37:19):
Oh sorry, I thought you were going to say, what
wisdom Harbor?

Speaker 12 (37:22):
What is it?

Speaker 6 (37:24):
That's Andrews not a ministry. I thought you can do
something like what does he do every year on our birthday?

Speaker 3 (37:30):
Rig talking to something like give us a call you
know that birthday? What had I wasn't going to ask
that celebrating the birth Chris, guys, where are we?

Speaker 7 (37:43):
That's a celebration?

Speaker 3 (37:44):
Sorry, Sarah good gracious birth, marriage, birthday. Yeah, that was
a five hundred dollars question. I give you five hundred.
Was in a five hundred questioning be living thank you.
Okay was closed living and you didn't win living Hope,
living hope, so we know you didn't know I got hope. Right.

(38:08):
Let me tell you, guys, that's the kind of attitude
I've got today during the Christmas party. I mean playing row.
I'm sorry, Sarah, No, that was I started giving money
away right out of the gate. That's what I meant
by that way. You didn't give any away.

Speaker 7 (38:21):
You know you gave some away the text that man.

Speaker 3 (38:25):
Yet So top of the hour.

Speaker 1 (38:27):
This is the Rick Burger Show Season squakies from The

(38:53):
Rick Burger Show.

Speaker 3 (38:57):
Thank you for being with us America brand new hour.
Right now, it is the Rick Burgers Show Christmas Party,
wrapping of our first year, celebrating by giving you money prizes.
Gary still to come.

Speaker 11 (39:13):
Hey, Sage's greetings from Chenna County, Alabama.

Speaker 3 (39:17):
We've got Andy Andrews coming out. We also have James
spah checking in and of course swapping gifts here among
the staff, all of us drew a name and we
had to go make a gift for that person. I've
made something for baby brother and it's going to be

(39:43):
an emotional time when I give him that gift. It
really is And Adler made something for me. Thank you, Adler.
Greg made something for Speedy. Speedy made something for Adlin.
That's the gift swapping. Certain Lee made it for me.
But what no, now did you all? I mean, just
like you had experience, Greg, I was at the house,

(40:05):
went home after Strange Encounters. Let's tell everybody about that, Adlers. So, Uh,
there is a new Strange Encounters. We recorded that yesterday.

Speaker 5 (40:13):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (40:13):
We kept the Bible study this week with a Christmas theme.

Speaker 12 (40:17):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (40:17):
Strange Encounters also a bit of a theme there dealing
with you know what what? What are some tips? Uh?
You know, because the whole podcast is about, you know,
keeping things spiritually pure in your life and in your home.
Uh and uh and of course dealing with the spiritual
warfare and all of that. Tough to get a Christmas

(40:39):
message out of that, but I will say we did.

Speaker 10 (40:42):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (40:42):
We we took on the approach with this episode this weekend.
UH giving you some pointers. So as as followers of Jesus,
if you are uh and you are someone of the
Christian faith. I know not all of you are, but
but if you are, what what is? What's what's some
good corners on the proper balance of Santa Claus and

(41:03):
Jesus Uh and you know, the the the the true
gift that the world was given and Santa Claus. What's
the best way to balance those two in the home.
So we give some of those pointers, and we also
also take on you know, if we want to know
about temptation from from you know, Satan and demons, let's

(41:25):
look to the person, the person of Jesus that showed us,
you know, even though he always remained one hundred percent God,
but took on human flesh. As we even talk about
this with the Man church. If you want to know
how to be a man or be human, how about
watch when God did it. So we take on the
temptation of Jesus Christ when Satan himself sat down and said,

(41:46):
I'm going to tempt you right now to see if
i can tempt you into that one hundred percent human
side of you to commit sin uh. And Jesus was
tempted by Satan. So we break down all the different
things that Satan tried. Probably good to know that because
that's probably the same playbook. So so that's kind of
it in a nutshell. The details are out there this
weekend wherever you get podcasts Strange Encounters, and then both

(42:09):
the Bible Study, uh and the and Strange Encounters. They
will also be on a two week break like the
rest of us.

Speaker 5 (42:17):
So there you go.

Speaker 3 (42:18):
All right, So when we're going to do the gift
swap coming up next hour? Yeah, okay, so I know
you want so, and I'm I'm kind of excited about it,
just like you guys. I was at home, went home
kind of early yesterday getting ready for today. I want
to be well rested and you know, and it was.

(42:41):
It was a good day. And I said to my wife,
do y'all do this? Will you talk to your wives
and say, here, here's our day, here's what I got.

Speaker 5 (42:49):
What do you have?

Speaker 3 (42:50):
And I said, yes, you know, I'm going to wrap
up here at the office. I said, I'm gonna come
on home. You want to have lunch together? And she said,
oh yeah, yeah, come on, I've got I got something
here can have lunch. And I've already got what we
can have for dinner, and you know, let's sit and
look at the Christmas tree and all that. And I'm like, hey, man,
sounds great, sounds great.

Speaker 12 (43:08):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (43:08):
She I said, I've got the show. I've said we've
got some production to do. I need to do a
strange encounters. Get that done. I'll be home after that.
Now I do need to, you know, make Greg's gift today.
And she said, what, well, let's don't wait till the
last minute. Yeah, and uh, and make it. Make his gift.
She goes, you're going to buy him something? I said, no,

(43:29):
I made it with my making it. So I've already
gotten all the supplies. She walked into my office and
saw all that laid out on the desk and she
was like, well, he's going to love that. And uh,
and she knows how I am about trying to make things.
She goes, boy, when y'all talk, when you when you
say that, it's the thought that matters. I don't even

(43:50):
know that that's going to save this well. But but Greg,
I want you to know. I went in there and
you know what I did. I went in there and
I and I stared at a picture of you and
me in front of the Christmas tree as little boys.
There's a lot of those out there, and uh and
and you know, me me holding our little sister, and
I just stared at it as I made a little

(44:11):
inspiration about that and I looked in your little face
and I thought, I'm doing this for my baby brother,
and I think it'll mean a lot to you, and
it's something that you can always remember me by. Okay, well, great,
I need that.

Speaker 5 (44:24):
There you go.

Speaker 3 (44:25):
I don't know what kind of motivation I have for Spitty.
I do and I'll explain it.

Speaker 6 (44:28):
But well, I have video proof of my gift to
Adler in case you know, not that it's that special,
you know what I mean, not that it's oh, that's
so great. You didn't do it, No, we just I
just documented the process.

Speaker 3 (44:41):
Did you do that too, Greg?

Speaker 11 (44:43):
No?

Speaker 3 (44:43):
Okay, thanks you so quick. You were the only one
that did that. Adler. Is my gift something I couldn't.
I had too much going on. Something functional? Was it something?

Speaker 7 (44:53):
Well you have to wait and see. But I do
think it's really cool that we decided to do this
the first year of the show because we can always
look back and hold or whatever, look at the thing
that we made for each other and always remember the
first year of the show. And Rick, I actually made
you a crying doll baby, so you always remember, Okay,
all right, you always think of me when you look

(45:13):
at that little cry baby.

Speaker 3 (45:15):
Doll. Look, if you can just not have a melt
down today, that's a gift to nothing. Yes, you be
gentle when you're getting it out of the bag. It's
it's a little more flamed bag.

Speaker 7 (45:24):
Did you wrap it or he bagged? I didn't even
wrap my.

Speaker 3 (45:27):
Yeah, you got to kind of handle it. Don't be
rough with it. Okay, So the bag looks really nice,
and and the paper and all.

Speaker 8 (45:35):
Did you do that?

Speaker 3 (45:37):
Do you think I did it? We never said we
had to do our own rapping, right, Yeah? Now did
I take time to put mine in special envelope?

Speaker 5 (45:48):
I did?

Speaker 3 (45:50):
M And I wrote something special to be careful Greg
that I want him to read. And when you get
it out, really i'll explain to you what's what we'll say.
You have to understand me and my baby brother, those
two twin beds back there in our little shared room,
for many, many, many years we laid down on many
a Christmas Eve back there, just not just not been

(46:11):
able to sleep, so so far to up stoked? All right,
who remembers this is bad? I hate to bring this up.
Guy used to be so exciting. Who remembers this is
how it worked in our house? I know everybody does
it different. Okay, I'm talking about the house I grew
up in, not the house I'm you know, the dad
and the husband. And now, you know, you develop some
of your own traditions. But when we grew up and

(46:32):
mom would always do this, and Greg, you know, I'm
just gonna go ahead and say it. She knew that
that them two little boys were about to completely just
just just have a complete breakdown over it. We kept
we must have a gift, and she would try to
help us a little bit by giving us a Christmas
Eve gift that was from your parents. There you go,

(46:56):
I just wanna say it, and you get kind of excited.
And it was always a box had clothing in it. Yeah,
and it was wrapped, sure it was. And it had
our names on it, Sure it did. And we were
never get I remember preparing my face as I was
taking the wrapping paper, all going, please please look grateful,
I know. And then you'd open up. It'd be something
like a pair of pajamas. Yeah, it would be like

(47:17):
some socks or something. Yeah, and you had to and
it was it didn't do the job, because these are
you wanted to kind of say out loud, these ain't toys.
Remember when they go, now this one here you can
open tonight, you can open this one. Oh sure? Yeah, mom,
you know what you did. You picked the one that
we should be least excited about. Yeah. Thanks, you know.

Speaker 6 (47:35):
Christ Christmas Eve, excuse me for us. The tradition was
to go over to my aunt Zula's and uh uncle yeah,
and and my uncle Bobby. He was the only one
that could play the piano besides my mom, but he
would he lived in New York. He would come home

(47:55):
and he'd play the piano, would all sing around. It
would say Christmas, did Zula?

Speaker 3 (48:02):
She was great? She was great, great host? Did uncle Duke?
And on the bin and do pure wetew Uncle Duke
was there.

Speaker 6 (48:07):
Uh but and then and then we would exchange gifts
for that side of the family, which was my dad's side,
And then we'd go home.

Speaker 3 (48:15):
And I was always so excited.

Speaker 6 (48:16):
I couldn't wait to get home because my parents let
me open those gifts on Christmas Eve.

Speaker 3 (48:20):
So we'd all we'd sit down. I just I was
can we do it now? Can we do it? Can
we open them now? And hang on?

Speaker 6 (48:26):
I'm looking back. I had to be a bip to
them and my sister too. We were just so excited
and then we'd we'd open up the gifts and then
on Christmas morning would have the you know, the main,
the main gift opening and my mom's side and all that.
But boy, Christmas Eve, I couldn't wait to get home, like,
can we go now?

Speaker 3 (48:44):
I couldn't hold it together. I couldn't do with the
Christmas girls. I'm ready to go home. I couldn't hold
it together on Christmas Eve was too much.

Speaker 7 (48:50):
It was we got to open one and my parents
got to pick it out there. Some years my dad
would do like a good present. Some years we'd open
it to be socks, right, wait till tomorrow. But yeah,
that's what it was, wasn't it.

Speaker 3 (49:04):
By the way, somebody said, I tell we got for
Christmas Eve shots and Nichael, that's good. You have good
those are good parents, good stuff. Yeah. So it's just
the thought of trying to go to sleep. You remember
if you ever did those off and you'd wake up
you saw a little bit of light or something, you
couldn't believe it. Yeah, but the minute I woke up,
I tried it. If my kids did that too, when

(49:24):
they were little, they would they'd come in the room
with four four.

Speaker 2 (49:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (49:30):
I woke up one night and I saw the red
leg of Santa going back up the chin.

Speaker 11 (49:35):
Now I went there.

Speaker 5 (49:36):
You believe it.

Speaker 3 (49:37):
I couldn't believe it.

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talk a little bit. Some people were talking about too

(50:55):
about Christmas traditions. So I know, different kids and different
family we just have different things. Like so you had
kind of the opening act stuff on Christmas Eve and
you got to open something like pajamas or something like that.
This is what our family did when we were little.
And then anything that went under the the Santa heading,

(51:19):
and ours was Christmas Morning where they were not wrapped. No,
you just walked in and you walked in and there
the toys were. They were not wrapped.

Speaker 12 (51:29):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (51:29):
I know some people, Uh, they they get up to
wrap gifts and and they and they open them and
we do that like more. As everybody has gotten older,
it's now wrap gifts on Christmas Morning. But when everybody
was little, it was just like ours. Yeah, yeah, they

(51:51):
were unwrapped. Yeah, that's the same.

Speaker 6 (51:52):
We would have our little stack and and I know
with the boys too, you had your your your stack
of stuff that Santa brought you and then you you
walked into the room and you're like, oh my goodness.
And then the rap gifts were more like hey, mom
and Dad got you this, or yeah we exchange gifts.

Speaker 7 (52:07):
Yeah, Santa doesn't wrap gifts for our house at least
growing up, everything was wrapped, which tells me Santa knew
that I was naughty, but my parents still loved me
because all.

Speaker 3 (52:18):
I have, So that makes a lot of sense. Yeah,
you know, I never believed in the nicer naughty list
because Greg kept getting gifts. Yeahs loophole must not be
there must not be anything to that. And of course
we've told this in years past, back on the Rick
and Bubba Show, but you know, Adler was the first

(52:38):
one to help Greg and me realize that not everybody
was raised the way we were by our dad. I
thought that, I thought, I thought, really, I really thought
the relationship we have their dads what everybody had. And
so Dad had a it was some sort of notepad.
I mean it was like like, you know, he didn't
make it. I mean he found it and I don't.

(53:00):
I'm not going to say the word, but you've heard
of like people would say, you know, you don't want
to get on the bad list or whatever. Dad, I
didn't even know how to say it. I mean it
was it was a path. It was a note, had
a little you know, and it says Santa's head. It
said Santa's face on it, and it had Santa's and
then it had list and and then before list was

(53:22):
a very negative word about a list you don't want
to be on. And it started with an S and
ended with the T. We got it. It was it
was Santa. It was it was Santa's s word list
and he would put it on the refrigerator and put
her names on, just a mess with it. Oh god, no,

(53:46):
and uh so, but maybe it'll come down. I don't know.

Speaker 8 (53:51):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (53:51):
As as parents, the thing that gets me now is
having adults. Well you really just try to get all
the adults together. All of our kids are adults, and
Speedy has a grand kid, and Greg has multiple grand children.
I'm not there yet, so I'm not I'm not in
the little kid world rather than Christmas Eve when I
see all Gregg's grandkids and that's always a blast, But

(54:11):
so now it's now become that awkward because they're all
doing their own thing. And I get this a lot. Dad.
Uh we ordered you something, it didn't come in, but
we'll get it to you in a few months. Okay,
thanks guys, Merry Christmas. Mary got to see a picture
of it. Yeah, it's really cool. You'll you'll love it.

(54:33):
And then what will happen is like I'll forget about
it and it'll be like March and all of a
sudden one of them will come over and go, oh,
by the way it came in. I'm like, get it,
what what is it? I don't even remember this. I'll
not even remember it. And they'll be like, oh, no,
it's something really cool, and I'm well, thank you, guys.

Speaker 6 (54:51):
Just to a ball again, right right, And especially when
you have adult kids, like uh, like we do. Adler
doesn't of course, but it's uh, hey, Dad, I don't
know what y'all think about. Hey, cash is fine with me.
Oh yes, just folding money if you if you don't mind.
And so then Mama doesn't really like that because she's like,
well know, they got to open something. I'm like, well, okay,

(55:12):
but they just want cash. I'm just telling you, no,
you're right. I mean, we can't get them something like
some little things. But as far as the hey, this
is the nice gift this is, they won't cash. Adam,
I'm going to prepare you. You're still getting a little
kid world. So you you're in all the magic of
that and just had the wonderment of all that and
and the fact, they get really locked in on what
that it's getting closed so like that. But the adult

(55:34):
kid world, it's so weird.

Speaker 3 (55:35):
Think of all the precious things about Christmas and gifts,
and all of a sudden you'll just have, like a
an adult kid go, hey, straight up, my car broke.

Speaker 11 (55:46):
Man.

Speaker 3 (55:46):
If y'all could just help me pay for that repair,
that that's that'd be my gift. And you're just like, well,
this is really this is changing. How do you even
put that in a card? Right? You know, here's a
good venmo. Yeah. Yeah, remember we've inoded you about the radiator.
Oh yeah, Mary, Chris, I you enjoyed that. Yeah, I mean,
but it really is that kind of stuff. They're like, oh, look,

(56:08):
I appreciate you all wanted to get me another shirt,
but I got news for you what I need right now.
I'm in a bind on a debt that I need
to get off of me something. Yeah, something was unexpected
and broke something whatever. And so it's not as sweet, No,
it's not. It feels different, doesn't it. You know.

Speaker 7 (56:24):
I was thinking about this as we were doing all
these giveaways in the week's lead or you know, the
last few days here, and I was just honestly feeling
for everybody because I noticed how many people stopped at
one fifty Yep, did you notice that? And I'm like, man,
this is people don't want to risk that one fifty.

(56:45):
And I thought, maybe you know that that's an indication
of how horrible inflation has been over the last four
years through Biden's administration, and wow, people are hurting. But
I also thought about this, the audience is why the
audience is like, you know what, that's one fifty. I'm good,
you know what.

Speaker 3 (57:01):
I'm saying, Like, that's also something about one fifty hand
versus three hundred.

Speaker 7 (57:06):
Yeah, we have a very intelligent audience.

Speaker 3 (57:08):
Also, there you go.

Speaker 7 (57:09):
You know, I think there's both of that.

Speaker 3 (57:11):
Yeah, we'll be back.

Speaker 7 (57:13):
And how about those numbers. Trump's Trump's economic numbers as
of yesterday looking great?

Speaker 1 (57:17):
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I mean there's Gary from text Nation. Nice shirt, Gary.

(58:37):
I see you got one of the tablecloths from Hickory Chip.

Speaker 5 (58:43):
So you like that?

Speaker 12 (58:44):
Yeah? Like that.

Speaker 3 (58:45):
He's in terrible attitude. Hey, Gary, let me just tell
you this right now. This is the Christmas party, and
you're not gonna come in here with some sour attitude, Okay.
I mean I want you to work on that countenance.
And when you come onto mock Care in a little bit,
I want I want you to be youful. Come on,
come on now, Joy Joy, Joy, hey, I mean, you know,
but what are you doing? He's over there gigling. What

(59:06):
do you And by the way, we don't see any pies,
well not not not one thing sun dried apples, no more.

Speaker 6 (59:14):
Just wait out, just hang on, we'll talk to you.
Compared he's up to something. He can't ever just be
like everything's fine and it's what it appears. So we
got he's got something up going on.

Speaker 3 (59:25):
Yeah, I don't know what it is. Daddy, I mean Gary,
he got something up asleep, but I don't know what
it is. Speaking of daddy, my dad, uh and my mom.
Wish all very merry Christmas.

Speaker 6 (59:39):
Christmas, he said he loves waking up, getting on his recliner,
get him a cup of coffee, and turning on the
rick Burg.

Speaker 3 (59:47):
Thank you spent an incredible year. And you know we
we wanna we want to share, we really do. And
we're gonna have different ways today for all of you
to to have fun, to to enjoy yourself, but same time,
you know, opportunities for you to win. And you know
Andy Andrews is coming that'll be worth money today. And
he's also gonna read us. You know, we're trying new things.

(01:00:09):
Andy and his sad little book about Christmas socks. I
don't know, but we'll see it's not Christmas.

Speaker 13 (01:00:13):
Shoes, and.

Speaker 3 (01:00:16):
We'll see. We're gonna talk to Andrews. So I laid
that money down. Should I cover them a little piggy
for my June? Got change it a little bit?

Speaker 9 (01:00:34):
Zula?

Speaker 3 (01:00:36):
Did I get right? That time? It was Zula?

Speaker 7 (01:00:39):
Is that?

Speaker 3 (01:00:39):
Was that a nickname for that?

Speaker 7 (01:00:41):
I like, you don't know if that's her real name?

Speaker 3 (01:00:43):
Oh no, it's in Zula. Yeah, Zula is her real
Now I made fun of that. Here we got ready,
you go, No, I just wondering. Yeah, quit laughing.

Speaker 7 (01:00:51):
It's like Zulu time military.

Speaker 3 (01:00:53):
Cool, yeahlu, because Zulu is not like Zulay.

Speaker 7 (01:00:56):
Right, all that's correct, We got it.

Speaker 3 (01:01:00):
How about this.

Speaker 8 (01:01:00):
Time for Christmas?

Speaker 14 (01:01:03):
Cash can?

Speaker 3 (01:01:04):
I'm going crazy night?

Speaker 13 (01:01:06):
He sat up?

Speaker 3 (01:01:09):
Sup, I'm going nuts today? Christmas? It's God first.

Speaker 5 (01:01:32):
Sometime.

Speaker 3 (01:01:33):
Come loose read his face. The number is two O
five five three zero. That gear one thousand. Come on down,
two O five five three zero one thousand. Jerry, what
what color number you want.

Speaker 5 (01:01:48):
Us to do?

Speaker 3 (01:01:49):
Huh?

Speaker 5 (01:01:51):
Here we go?

Speaker 3 (01:01:54):
What are said? Number? Seven? Just seven seven? We gotta
be I mean you can't just I mean, all right,
we could go with Garyya better get ready, cause I
don't know what even you know what I'm gonna do.
I don't know color one, two, three, four, five six. Hello,
Welcome to the ring Burgers Show. What's your name? Where

(01:02:15):
you call him from? Hello?

Speaker 8 (01:02:21):
Hey, Hayes Norris?

Speaker 3 (01:02:22):
Say it again?

Speaker 20 (01:02:24):
Hayes Norris from Madison, Mississippi.

Speaker 3 (01:02:27):
Hayes Hayes from Madison, Mississippi. Yes, Hayes. This is a
little contest we call one shot. Uh so you can
pick anybody, even Gary on the show. Even Gary, he's here.
Let me tell you Chill County High School. He wasn't
that bad man. I was in Brothers. It's one shot.
Who do you want to take the shots for you?

(01:02:48):
One hundred and fifty to three hundred to five ninety nine?
So who would you like to take the shots for you?

Speaker 20 (01:02:54):
I'm a I'm a I'm a Greg Minion. But I
love Gary to death, but I don't I don't. Gary
ain't no bad ball player. I'll tell you that by
looking at him.

Speaker 3 (01:03:02):
Uh oh, hekay with Let's stay with speedy.

Speaker 5 (01:03:08):
With Gary.

Speaker 3 (01:03:12):
How many shots do I get? You get one? No,
we get more than one. It's one shot, all right,
Speedy is going to the one hundred and fifty dollars line,
shooting on behalf of Hayes out of Mississippi. All right,
Speedy take that. That's it ND fifty bucks, that's.

Speaker 5 (01:03:29):
Drill that all right?

Speaker 3 (01:03:30):
You want to stay with that, Hayes? Or do you
want to back Speedy up? See if he can make
the three hundred shot. He hit that one like it
was nothing.

Speaker 12 (01:03:38):
Oh I'm I'm on my way into the deer stand
this morning.

Speaker 8 (01:03:42):
I waited to do this.

Speaker 20 (01:03:44):
I waited to do this so Speedy, if you miss this,
I'm gonna be real pissed.

Speaker 5 (01:03:47):
So go ahead.

Speaker 3 (01:03:49):
To three hundred. Okay, here we go, sures press, sure,
Speedy goes back shot, y'all? Three hundred dollars for Hayes
going to the deer stand.

Speaker 7 (01:04:00):
Yeah, dollars a long shot.

Speaker 3 (01:04:08):
I ain't telling you what to do with he's hot.
What do you think you want to go back to?
Five ninety nine? Three high ninety nine? Come on, Hayes?

Speaker 8 (01:04:18):
Hey, what look gory.

Speaker 3 (01:04:26):
So much? Just like the casino. That's how they get you,
that's how they get you. And here it is, and no,
no close, very hey, you have three hundred heads. Hey, Hayes,
if one comes out and you think it's a shooter,

(01:04:47):
and you think I'm gonna let it go because there's
a bigger one coming, go ahead and shoot it. Yeah,
go ahead.

Speaker 20 (01:04:51):
Oh hey, hey, I'll pull the trigger and not have
one loaded in the chamber.

Speaker 8 (01:04:55):
That'll happen to me this morning.

Speaker 10 (01:04:56):
It's not.

Speaker 8 (01:04:57):
I mean, thanks, Speedy.

Speaker 3 (01:04:58):
Oh you had three hundred, three hundred veas get you?

Speaker 7 (01:05:03):
Yes, yes, it's the house. It's double or nothing.

Speaker 3 (01:05:08):
Look, and Speedy was all over the place. He was
so close.

Speaker 11 (01:05:12):
You were there.

Speaker 3 (01:05:13):
Oh Speedy man, I'm sorry, Bud, Speedy, Speedy sp shots.
You did all you could do. I mean, you can't hit.
That's that a lot to ask.

Speaker 7 (01:05:23):
You owe that guy three hundred bucks though.

Speaker 6 (01:05:27):
Nine is back where I sunk the mister chin shot.
Yeahler had to get out of fish and lick on it.

Speaker 7 (01:05:32):
Two in a row, drilled too in a row.

Speaker 3 (01:05:34):
You realize that I have played twice right now, and
and I came into the show today with about one
thousand dollars that we need to get rid of, and
and nobody's taking a dime of it. I got to
tell you something, though, I'll take it. I kind of
if I hit this shot.

Speaker 6 (01:05:50):
I kind of envy him for wanting to go for
five ninety nine because I know where I would have stopped.

Speaker 3 (01:05:55):
Where I would have stopped one. I probably would have too,
but because he knew how hard that was when you
hit the three. No way I go for that.

Speaker 5 (01:06:04):
Look.

Speaker 3 (01:06:04):
I've seen Speedy find a quarter on the floor and
and it makes his entire day hazy. So anyway, we tried.
So now Sarah, Sarah had money and kept going. Yeah,
Hayes had money and kept going. I appreciate their attitude
and they're willing to play and go for it. Yeah,
but Greg, what if both of them won, Well, then

(01:06:25):
we got good news. Rig both of them get nothing, right, zimp.
So there it is.

Speaker 8 (01:06:30):
There it is.

Speaker 3 (01:06:32):
Rather by the way, somebody said that you could tell
by Christmas, I could have talked to you into anything
about your kids singing the Christmas cast songs.

Speaker 17 (01:06:52):
Not there.

Speaker 3 (01:06:53):
It could be worse.

Speaker 5 (01:06:55):
We'll be back.

Speaker 1 (01:06:58):
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year of The Rick Burgess Show has been one to remember.
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Speaker 21 (01:07:20):
Got bestie Marion. Gentlemen, let nothing dismay. Remember christ I
save was gone on Christmas Day to save us all
from save us by when we were conastry tidings of Corn.

Speaker 1 (01:07:40):
Doing what he was born to do The Rick Burgess Show.

Speaker 3 (01:07:47):
All right, So Merry Christmas from all of us here
at the show. It is at the Rick Burgess Show
Christmas Party.

Speaker 12 (01:07:54):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:07:54):
And we mentioned the album coming out. I have good
news for all of you out there in the streaming world.
The brand new album, the debut album of the Best
of The Rick Burgess Show twenty twenty five. Are you
ready the name of the CD now available on should
be on all the different services today. We've already seen
it on Apple Music. I know it's there. Just search

(01:08:16):
the Rick Burgess Show and the album will come up
and you can get the entire album or you can
get individual cuts, one of those featuring Gary Hey, Gary, Hey,
Hey y'all, Hey Hey Mary Christmas.

Speaker 13 (01:08:30):
Mary, Christmas.

Speaker 3 (01:08:32):
So you the these pies are good? Yes, no delicious?
So no pies.

Speaker 13 (01:08:38):
I just got so aggravated. Why what I couldn't find
and dried apples?

Speaker 3 (01:08:43):
What do you mean dried apples.

Speaker 13 (01:08:44):
They come in a plastic bag and it's like, you know,
it's just dried apples. You cook them, you know, put
water on them and cook them down. God, I couldn't
find them. But you know apples and a can.

Speaker 3 (01:08:58):
Well, well boy, he's doing that tough.

Speaker 13 (01:09:02):
I ain't doing that.

Speaker 3 (01:09:03):
You know what if they banned dry apples, I don't
know they must have.

Speaker 13 (01:09:07):
All I can find was apple tatter chips.

Speaker 3 (01:09:10):
You don't use that.

Speaker 13 (01:09:12):
No, you can't use that, John.

Speaker 3 (01:09:13):
What there was there a problem with the peaches too?
You can do a peach.

Speaker 13 (01:09:16):
Now you can't find the peaches like that? Not driving
people anymore?

Speaker 3 (01:09:21):
You've changed and keep on you just keep on. You've
you've changed a lot since they took your picture for
brawnie paper towels.

Speaker 13 (01:09:34):
I don't know he's gonna say, let me tell you
something now, y'all remember what happened last Friday?

Speaker 3 (01:09:39):
What what with Adler? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I wasn't here.

Speaker 13 (01:09:44):
Well I heard about it and I went back and
listened to it. You know, when he's you know, his rent,
when you hear me rant, it's gonna be like him
doing a devotional at a permit.

Speaker 3 (01:09:58):
So yours is really yours yours, don't. I just seemed
to get up and go to the house Old Jerry's
stay here, Merry Christmas.

Speaker 13 (01:10:16):
I'm trying to be I didn't sleep good last night.

Speaker 12 (01:10:19):
What happened?

Speaker 11 (01:10:20):
What happened?

Speaker 3 (01:10:21):
You were just excited about being here?

Speaker 5 (01:10:23):
That's what it was.

Speaker 13 (01:10:23):
Well, I don't know. I just couldn't sleep. You know,
I was right been raking leaves and cleaning it down
to beever man, I've had gotten two dump trucks for
h I thought I had a tick on me last night.

Speaker 3 (01:10:35):
I got up.

Speaker 13 (01:10:35):
I ate it, my fingers turned the line on it.

Speaker 1 (01:10:38):
My nipple.

Speaker 5 (01:10:44):
Cold.

Speaker 13 (01:10:44):
Well, I thought I felt something crawling on me.

Speaker 3 (01:10:47):
And dang it.

Speaker 13 (01:10:51):
Like you pulled it on?

Speaker 3 (01:10:53):
Ye not a twister now I like it? So are you?
Are you excited? Are you about Christmas?

Speaker 7 (01:11:01):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (01:11:01):
I'm just just you know what you call the lady
or be lady?

Speaker 8 (01:11:08):
Hey?

Speaker 3 (01:11:08):
Am i excited? I'm elated?

Speaker 1 (01:11:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (01:11:11):
So?

Speaker 3 (01:11:11):
Uh so what what do y'all normally do for Christmases?
Everybody come to your house.

Speaker 12 (01:11:15):
Or like.

Speaker 13 (01:11:17):
Me, we usually have Christmas at the river, you know,
Christmas Eve or something, you know, when they eat.

Speaker 3 (01:11:25):
Have a nice salad.

Speaker 13 (01:11:26):
Yeah, sometimes we have a salad.

Speaker 3 (01:11:29):
Mm hmm. I saw you cook some dumplings some today because.

Speaker 13 (01:11:33):
I bet tell you as good as mine.

Speaker 3 (01:11:35):
Pretty good.

Speaker 13 (01:11:37):
Hey, I'm telling you so you're a dumpling man. Huh
yeah that did look good.

Speaker 3 (01:11:41):
I thought you were gonna bring something to thank you
for saying it.

Speaker 13 (01:11:44):
Well I was, but your going to cook a roast,
and I wonder what then roast that's gonna be?

Speaker 3 (01:11:50):
But you are you? You had some left? You're gonna
bring us?

Speaker 13 (01:11:54):
Thought of them?

Speaker 3 (01:11:55):
Bring them, It ain't gonna hurt nothing.

Speaker 13 (01:11:58):
You may bring them to night. Oh yeah, over to campound.

Speaker 3 (01:12:01):
Yeah, what's wrong with that? Maybe I don't need to
cook a roast If you got all.

Speaker 1 (01:12:05):
That, well, that's up you.

Speaker 13 (01:12:10):
Roast is easy to cook.

Speaker 12 (01:12:11):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:12:12):
He just putting that crop pott and go. Now that I've.

Speaker 13 (01:12:14):
Got campus, well you know that's my crop. Thought y'all
been fighting over?

Speaker 3 (01:12:19):
Yes, I do, is it?

Speaker 5 (01:12:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (01:12:21):
Everything nowhere? Just about mine?

Speaker 3 (01:12:24):
Well, I mean you brought it.

Speaker 13 (01:12:26):
Well, I didn't have nothing to cook with.

Speaker 3 (01:12:29):
Oh god, oh yeah, goodbody? So uhet courage loves it.

Speaker 13 (01:12:43):
Hey, it's uh, I'm telling you you're gonna cut it all.

Speaker 3 (01:12:49):
No, what are you fishing for?

Speaker 12 (01:12:53):
You?

Speaker 3 (01:12:54):
We just you know today we're swapping gifts. Now, we
all drew each other's names.

Speaker 13 (01:12:58):
Well I didn't. Nobody drove mine.

Speaker 3 (01:13:00):
Well we all did, We all did? We all did?
We got you something? So I've got you something. I
want to give it to you right now. It's a
copy of the CD. Hey, and you're on here. Yeah,
now we had the edit yours a little bit, but
it's cousin you.

Speaker 8 (01:13:16):
You're on.

Speaker 3 (01:13:16):
You're on the first ever c D The Rick Burgess Show,
And I just want to let you have you on copy.

Speaker 5 (01:13:22):
That's it.

Speaker 3 (01:13:24):
I can't find them. There ain't even nothing in there
that's yes, and there some merry Christmas. Christmas.

Speaker 13 (01:13:32):
Well, I appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (01:13:33):
I'm very I'm very thankful for you. I'm thankful. I mean,
I find myself kind of being elated.

Speaker 13 (01:13:39):
I'm thankful for myself too.

Speaker 3 (01:13:42):
Right you've you've have you enjoyed this year? Oh?

Speaker 13 (01:13:46):
Yeah, yeah, it's been fun. Uh you know, I know
next year I'm gonna probably be back probably only six
what six eight weeks rotation that Yeah, well, you know
it's you know, you call me the other day at
the river and your phone kept going out.

Speaker 3 (01:14:05):
No, yours kept going out. Will you please get something
done about the service down there.

Speaker 13 (01:14:10):
It don't matter if I spent five thousand dollars on
the phone. You couldn't talk on it down there.

Speaker 3 (01:14:15):
I ain't having it.

Speaker 12 (01:14:18):
On.

Speaker 5 (01:14:19):
So I was talking to you.

Speaker 3 (01:14:20):
And what happened when I was talking to you, when
you kept hanging up on me?

Speaker 13 (01:14:24):
Well, I don't know. You have to get out there
and stand up on the railing after after and hold
the two flingers up and then one stuck up.

Speaker 11 (01:14:31):
You talking, dear dear nose Gary.

Speaker 3 (01:14:35):
I'mnna tell you. We're going hunting today and this weekend
kind of kick off vacation. And uh, and I'm gonna
tell you this thing you told us about walking in there,
it ain't work. We're back to driving day.

Speaker 5 (01:14:46):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:14:50):
Well, I think walking around worse. Well, you got human
beings walking around in there. They don't care anything about
a vehicle.

Speaker 13 (01:14:58):
Well, I told you then when you hunting in a
place like that that you ain't got it. A couple
of hundred acres to hunt mm hmmm, Uh, roads all
the way around that houses dogs, Yeah, children all that,
somebody cussing their wife out and stuff like that. They
used to all of that I know. Well, they they've

(01:15:19):
adapted to it, so they know when somebody comes in there.

Speaker 3 (01:15:23):
Well I know, but you mean they don't don't on
the adapt to hear in the vehicle.

Speaker 13 (01:15:27):
Well when you come in there, I'm driving there with
that flat bed, you're telling me you're bringing fo Yeah
that's down there, and let me just drive right by.

Speaker 3 (01:15:38):
And but they won't let us do that because they
know we're dangerous.

Speaker 13 (01:15:40):
Yeah, those y'all doesn't words out.

Speaker 6 (01:15:44):
How about we we've we've we've hunted the wind and
we have walked a lot, and I think we have
gotten in there.

Speaker 3 (01:15:49):
We haven't.

Speaker 6 (01:15:50):
The field wasn't disturbed anything that wasn't. The field didn't
have any deer on it when we got there. So
we've done good.

Speaker 13 (01:15:55):
And y'all y'all need to y'all need to change the
way that uh you know, you utitude when you go
in there hunting, well, you go in there with a
killer instinct. You know I'm gonna see nothing. Just go
in there and have fun and you'll see something.

Speaker 3 (01:16:14):
So you're talking to a little and you also told
us to quit playing with her phone.

Speaker 13 (01:16:20):
Hey, I'm telling you, what is that? I tried?

Speaker 3 (01:16:22):
I said ce d okay.

Speaker 13 (01:16:25):
Uh, I tried to rake my yard dinner the other
day and y'all had me on that group tex My
dad gun thumb got so we're trying to tell y'all
to put your bone down.

Speaker 1 (01:16:35):
Hunt.

Speaker 3 (01:16:36):
Well, we we wanted to bring you into the fun
we were having.

Speaker 13 (01:16:39):
Well, I wouldn't have no fun reckoning them dad gun lady,
and nothing fine about that. A chick on you, Yeah,
I got a kid and pull a nipp along.

Speaker 3 (01:16:49):
We'll be back Gary's with us for the rest of
the party today, or at least some of it. James
Spam comes in and kind of gives us an idea
of what you can expect over Christmas in the news
year in saying hello after this is the rick Burgers Show.

(01:17:17):
You better listen up.

Speaker 15 (01:17:20):
You know what we say.

Speaker 22 (01:17:23):
Ass, I'm gonna tell you we gotta find.

Speaker 1 (01:17:31):
The voice of reason in an unreasonable world. The Rick
Burchers Show.

Speaker 3 (01:17:37):
Thank you for being with us America and Merry Christmas
from the Rick Burgess Show Christmas Party. We thank you
for being with us today all across America, as people
are joining us, we thank you for being with us.

Speaker 2 (01:17:56):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:17:56):
And we've got a lot left to do as we
continue to give out money. Well as we start the hour,
Speedy Greg Abder, we'll do our gift swapping coming up
this hour. We all drew each other's names out and
we'll do some gifts swapping coming up this hour. Also,

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we've got Gary, he's already here. We've heard from him.
Andy Andrew's coming up a little bit later on in
the program. In multiple opportunities for you to win Christmas cash,
we've already had two of those. They were not successful
because they kept going for bigger money, which is fine,
nothing wrong with that. Also, also we have already given

(01:18:41):
you the word to text for your chance to win
one hundred dollars, So if you have been texting that,
stand by that winter coming up a little bit later
on about the opportunity version to hear from all spell.

Speaker 1 (01:18:57):
So what's up with the weather here with the latest,
here is Meteorobo, Just James.

Speaker 3 (01:19:04):
Spad, James Man.

Speaker 10 (01:19:05):
Merry Christmas, Mary, Merry Christmas. Tis the season to be jolly,
are you guys jolly?

Speaker 3 (01:19:11):
Yes, yes we are jolly, and we thank you so
much for taking time to be with us. Thank you
for all you've done for the show here in our
inaugural year it's been, it's been active and uh and
of course you know one of the things I noticed, James,
and this is a little birthday, a little Christmas gift
for you. Have you noticed how silent people have been

(01:19:35):
over thank thank the Lord that the hurricane season, you know,
it was everything you know is doom and gloom, end
of time. Why do we never have any of these
people that are as You've named them so many loving nicknames.
They never come back and give us good news and say, hey,
thank goodness. The hurricane season really was was not all

(01:19:57):
that angry, which which should be something that we should
be happy about.

Speaker 5 (01:20:01):
Right.

Speaker 10 (01:20:02):
Yeah, you know, we had the one issue in Jamaica
and Melissa that that was bad. But for the United States,
it was a golden year. It was outstanding. Not a
single hurricane landfall in the United States. We ought to
be celebrating that. But yeah, you're right that the social
media Jabroni's they're already look at the next hurricane season,
forecasting doom, gloom and destruction. It's like that they can't stop.

(01:20:22):
We live in very strange times, I'll put it that way.

Speaker 3 (01:20:25):
Yeah, let's let's be grateful. Yeah about that, I know
it doesn't get as many clicks or as many people
downloading and all that. But and then I want to
ask you another weather question before we get into celebrating
to and finding out how it looks for Christmas and
the New Year's best as we can tell now, But
so arctic blast. I've noticed this has become the new catchphrase,

(01:20:49):
millions in the path of an Arctic blast. Millions. Of course,
there's always millions in the path of any weather, since
there's millions of people that live here.

Speaker 17 (01:20:59):
Is this.

Speaker 3 (01:21:01):
I remember the first time I heard arctic blast, it
was a new phenomenon. Now I'm hearing arctic blast every
time it gets real cold. Help me on this.

Speaker 10 (01:21:10):
Well, you know, I think a lot of it has
to do with consultants. You know you dealt with consultants. Oh, yes, yes,
the consultants. They come in and I think they tell
some of these news guys. You literally have to say
the same thing and every weather related story, it's unprecedented,
never happened before, and the worst is yet to come.

Speaker 1 (01:21:29):
It just seems like that's built.

Speaker 10 (01:21:30):
And then you have to have a name for every
weather event that happens, and it's got to be some
kind of sexy name that's going to bring in all
these clicks and engagement on social media, and that's what's
driving everything now. It's the desire for engagement and for
some people it's monetization. For some people, it drives them
to you know, sites that can monetize. And that's okay,

(01:21:53):
I guess, but gosh, it's just like the hyperbole is
off the charts, I mean, and I just don't get
it so well. There are very few straight shooters left
in the world. You're a straight shooter. I'm a straight shooter.

Speaker 3 (01:22:04):
Yeah, and I'm thankful for voices like you because you know,
we talked about even with something as serious is as
racism and bigotry. We took a word from the movie
The Incredibles, you know, when you know, being super and
being excellent was considered bad. And the thing that was
said in the movie was if everybody is super, then

(01:22:24):
no one is. You know, if everything is racist, then
nothing is. That's the danger of that. So even though
it does still exist, same thing with severe weather. If
everything is doomsday, then people begin to think nothing is.
And that's a problem.

Speaker 10 (01:22:40):
You know, one of the biggest issues we've got these
local mediorologists that work for broadcast companies. They're under pressure
now once twice three times a week they have to
declare a code read weather emergency, first Alarm, first alert.
We have aware that weather impact day. This is an
emergency and it's for fog. You know, maybe it's going
to rain a little bit, or the temperature drops five degrees.

(01:23:03):
And I'm not faulting the local mediorologists, but they're under
pressure from these big broadcast groups to do that, thinking
it's going to drive people to these you know, old
school television Ron Burgundy newscasts. No, that's going to drive
people away. They're tired of it. People have warning fatigue,
they're just tired of the nonsense. And so somebody's got
to stay level headed here, somebody.

Speaker 3 (01:23:25):
Well, I'm glad that you have and others, and congratulations
on your big launch this year. Boy, that has really
gone well.

Speaker 10 (01:23:32):
Yeah, we got the new state wide network. Fact we
were live multiple times last night. We had some issues
in the Tennessee Valley. But I just love the fact
that I can take care of people in Pansy Bertha,
east of Boga, Andalusia, Theodore Lower Peach Tree.

Speaker 3 (01:23:47):
These are my people.

Speaker 10 (01:23:47):
I mean, you know, it's like they don't get any
attention for often, but we're going to take care of them.
So it's been a good year. Y if you know,
you guys see go ahead, you guys. Ready for a
warm Christmas?

Speaker 3 (01:23:59):
Yeah, let's talk about that, James. So you're you're talking
right now. I mean, you know, we've got this pergola
at our house now that we were not able to
use on Thanksgiving because it got really cold. But my goodness,
I'm starting to think that Sherry's chocolate biscuits on Christmas
morning might be under the pergola.

Speaker 5 (01:24:18):
What what?

Speaker 8 (01:24:19):
What is this thing?

Speaker 6 (01:24:19):
You?

Speaker 12 (01:24:20):
What?

Speaker 8 (01:24:20):
What is this?

Speaker 3 (01:24:22):
You ever heard of a pergola? I've been introduced to
the world of a pergola.

Speaker 11 (01:24:26):
It's I'm from I'm from Butler County.

Speaker 3 (01:24:27):
I don't know what that meant. I didn't know what
it was either. And it looks like a shed with
no roof and you grow vines on it and and
then you like sit hundred or something. Yeah, yeah, it's
a look at the outdoor thing. Yes. The bottom line
is we'd be eating Christmas breakfast outdoors. Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:24:45):
Yes, So so here's the deal.

Speaker 10 (01:24:47):
And you know, we've had some really cold air for
the December has been very cold for much of the
contiguous United States for the first half of December. But
the pattern flips, and this happened. The pattern always it's
gonna flip, and the pattern flips over the the next
few days, and instead of this big trough, we have
a big ridge.

Speaker 1 (01:25:03):
And what that's gonna do.

Speaker 3 (01:25:04):
It's going to.

Speaker 10 (01:25:05):
Provide above average temperatures for much of the contiguous United States.
The only part of the United States that would be
below average around Christmas will be northern New England. So
if you want to be really cold and really snowy,
think about going to Maine. And again, for those listing

(01:25:27):
in the southern US, let's say you're in Jackson, Mississippi,
or Maca, Georgia, or Montgomery, Alabama. There's a good chance
you're gonna see High's Christmas Day. Thursday of next week,
between seventy and seventy five, Rick will be out there
at that burglar thing whatever it is, in his tank
top and flip flops, just shuttle pictures.

Speaker 3 (01:25:50):
That's crazy.

Speaker 1 (01:25:53):
And most likely this.

Speaker 10 (01:25:54):
Is going to stay in place through the end of
the year, through New Year's But look, guys that you
know people say, well, well, we so much for winter.
What do you mean Winter's not even here yet? Winter
that the winter solstice is Sunday? Okay, well, this is
still fall. The winter solstice is Sunday, and by the way,

(01:26:16):
we should mention Sunday is today with the shortest amount
of daylight in the year. After Sunday, we begin to
see an increase in daylight. So for those people that
don't like the darkness, they'll celebrate that. But the pattern
will flip again in January, and of course the concern
is always this when the pattern flips again back to cold,
would you have any severe weather? This is tornado season,
but there's no evidence of that. The week look Christmas

(01:26:38):
Greek looks dry for much of the contiguous United States.
It looks mild, not warm in the Southern States, and
nice and quiet. So I'm celebrating that I'm supposed to
be off next week and many of my Christmas Week
vacations have been canceled by snowstorms, ice storms, tornado outbreaks.

Speaker 1 (01:26:56):
Or floods. So looks nice and calm next week.

Speaker 3 (01:26:59):
Well Christmas, do you span? Hope you and your family
you enjoy some time off, and thank you for everything
that you do and continue to do, and and just
thank you for all you've done for us in this
first year. Of course, all you did for us back
in the Rick and Bubby years too, I mean, including
speaking at the Man Church conference. You know, when you
start thinking about that, you think was that last year?

(01:27:19):
That was actually this year? It was at the very
beginning of the year, and that's strange. It feels like
it was. Yeah. So so anyway, so thanks for all
that you've done for us this year, and enjoy your
time off. And Merry Christmas. Ye, Merry Christmas, guys. Thank God,
bless you guys too. So there it is for most
of the United States, very mild Christmas weather coming up.

(01:27:39):
New England you're the exception, of course, but we'll come back.
We continue this ho where we're gonna swap gifts and
also may have a special guest coming up. Andy Andrews,
still to come.

Speaker 5 (01:27:53):
Hang in there.

Speaker 1 (01:27:54):
This is the Rick Burgess Show. He was told good
luck finding a job that would pay him to be
the class cloud. Rick BURCHI.

Speaker 3 (01:28:17):
We go big hour. We got the gift swap coming up.
We'll be swapping gifts that had to be handmade. We
had to make it ourselves. So I've got a gift
for Greg. Greg's got a give for Speedy. Speedy has
a gift for Adler. Adler has a gift for me,
and we all had a gift for gear and we
all had a gift for Geary right there, I had

(01:28:38):
him a gift, but I was expecting piles from him,
so I'm.

Speaker 13 (01:28:41):
Keeping my Wow, we're just getting mad.

Speaker 3 (01:28:43):
Then, Hey, thank you for getting them. Yeah, I was
really looking forward to here. You said you got a
special gift.

Speaker 11 (01:28:51):
Yeah I got.

Speaker 13 (01:28:52):
I got Gerald, cag Collin.

Speaker 3 (01:28:55):
You did, Cage. Let me tell you, I know somebody's
got Christmas cheer and am my own your own ger
o cake?

Speaker 20 (01:29:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:29:07):
Really good.

Speaker 8 (01:29:08):
Listen, I couldn't wait to get up on this radio
this morning. Now here I am at the oh FD.
Now I'm serving it, pro take it, and I'm probably
gonna get ridiculed to this taxpayer's money, harded worker right
here on the Rick Burdens Show. Listen. First of all,
congratulations on the year fell us. What a what a
beautiful show y'all created here the team, the Rick Burgess

(01:29:28):
and the team Bear. And I'm gonna tell you this
as I was rolling in this morning I was listening
to y'all give away some money, and I was like,
the question so so Rick, one of the questions that
you asked was what's Gary eat with his steak? Okay,
I get that, But the next one we're in the world.
How is that girl supposed to know such as that? Well,
I mean he was talking about the mayor Kingston listening.
And another fact too. There's a whole lot that I

(01:29:53):
can talk about, a whole lot. I got to get
over there and sit down with y'all when we really
got time to talk about this. There's so much for
Papa Bear. You know, you got Papa bear baby brother
sitting out the bird Another story. I call my little
grandson cause his his brother baby brother. So every time
I hear that, I think of none other than the
baby brother Craig Berd.

Speaker 3 (01:30:12):
Yeah. I made something special today, Gerald, for a little
baby brother buddy.

Speaker 8 (01:30:17):
Oh my Josh, when is he gonna see that?

Speaker 3 (01:30:20):
Oh we've written that next segment. Yeah, I'm sure it's sharing.

Speaker 8 (01:30:23):
Hey, Gary and Gary brought the apple pies and I
know this is delicious.

Speaker 5 (01:30:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:30:30):
I was thinking about your guys all night.

Speaker 13 (01:30:32):
Hey, Jerald went winter you and Lee and uh glad
gonna fly back down, may pick you up.

Speaker 3 (01:30:39):
At you don't want nothing to do with that.

Speaker 8 (01:30:41):
Well, and I'm ready any time. I want to have
the National Guard down he this time? Just really shake Lee,
Just shake.

Speaker 12 (01:30:49):
Lee.

Speaker 3 (01:30:50):
Don't want to go anywhere near that place.

Speaker 8 (01:30:53):
Hey, Lee, won't even fly over it in wing tip.

Speaker 13 (01:30:58):
I don't believe I ever saw you laugh is hard?

Speaker 3 (01:31:01):
Oh man, you know you're out there.

Speaker 8 (01:31:04):
There couldn't have been nothing in the world, no better
than that special with Greg over the airplane door and
falls out on his face. Not by accident, I mean
that was totally Greg.

Speaker 3 (01:31:14):
It's hard things right there when you get out.

Speaker 8 (01:31:17):
So he went rumbing, stumbling and fumbling Greg faceburst. Yeah, No,
that was good stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:31:23):
Hey, jar When you hear me, when you hear me
talk about Greg, people don't know, do they?

Speaker 5 (01:31:28):
No, they don't.

Speaker 8 (01:31:29):
And that's the thing. Look, you know I sent you
that text that morning that she was talking about him
watching the Dancing with the Stores. Well, there's no one
Greg watches Dancing with the Stores. Now he would He
wasn't mental effort in this world. But I could see
him sitting down in his pajamas with his house shoes on,
Lisa right there drinking a cup of Joe, watching dancing
with the stores, watching them get active. And that is

(01:31:51):
the silliest show I think I've ever seen it.

Speaker 3 (01:31:56):
You could tell he knew too much. Oh yeah, y'all.

Speaker 8 (01:32:03):
Know I tastrink. I tast rink. I said, Oh my gosh,
it's pure beauty right here.

Speaker 3 (01:32:09):
He knew a lot about Golden Bachelor too, watch out
the Golden Base.

Speaker 8 (01:32:14):
And I appreciate her telling. Want to give a shout
out to Jumping Hunting the Johnny Jacket chase me down?
Uh yeah, realized that I was a fireman hunting Johnny Jack.

Speaker 3 (01:32:22):
Will you call him show jumping Jack?

Speaker 8 (01:32:27):
Joe hunt Jack.

Speaker 5 (01:32:30):
Trace me.

Speaker 8 (01:32:31):
I'm talking about that boy right there. You don't want
him after you?

Speaker 3 (01:32:35):
Yes, you'll find, you'll find. You know how some people
go to the stalker line and stop. He goes right through.

Speaker 8 (01:32:42):
And they just give out my information. Then you know
it's a station down there. Yeah here he is that.

Speaker 3 (01:32:48):
Your buddies didn't cover for you on that farewell.

Speaker 8 (01:32:51):
Well they didn't know.

Speaker 7 (01:32:52):
You know.

Speaker 8 (01:32:52):
I do get quite a few song calls, you can imagine,
So yeah, you are it.

Speaker 5 (01:32:56):
Is what it is?

Speaker 3 (01:32:57):
Gerald, tell me about you and your little family. Are
y'all just excited about Christmas?

Speaker 13 (01:33:02):
Man?

Speaker 8 (01:33:02):
Listen, it's beginning to look like Christmas everywhere. I can
look everything in the sleeve. Now, we're very excited about Christmas.
We got another you know, a new grandchild and baby
brother and uh, you know my oldest sons expecting a
uh a boy. So we're carrying the cats name a
little father and uh you know they lived down in Louisiana,

(01:33:23):
but every day coming into town Monday. So we got
everybody just right here and nestle them ready to celebrate
the uh, the Christmas season. What a beautiful time.

Speaker 3 (01:33:32):
Have you got a little something you can sing for
greg on just to just give them a little gift.
He's going hut today Christmas. Yeah, just a little gift.

Speaker 8 (01:33:40):
Well, I'm gonna tell you now, this is right here. Boys.
It's a serious song right here, and it goes way
back with me, and it cares a lot of wait
with me. But then I almost sing a little bit
of it, and then I got to get out of here.
Congratulations on all of it, but uh, it was almost
Christmas time. There I stood in another line. Find about

(01:34:00):
that last gift or two? Not really in the Christmas
move when standing right in front of me, you weren't
little boy waiting.

Speaker 5 (01:34:09):
Ain't this lead?

Speaker 8 (01:34:10):
Don't laugh listen dancing around and like the little boy's
dude in his hands he held.

Speaker 12 (01:34:18):
You.

Speaker 8 (01:34:20):
Listen to this part. Now listen, people take this don't
take this song seriously. Let me to you, that's the
true meaning Christmas shoes. You listen, y'all, y'all just listening.
If there ain't never heard that song, that's the true
meaning of Christmas. Let me tell you to finish that
song out. That's all I'm on saying about it. But
the finish it out that that guy he could. All
he had to do was help this boy. You know
what that made this Christmas? God sent that to to

(01:34:42):
that man to really understand the true meaning the Christmas.
So Merry Christmas.

Speaker 3 (01:34:48):
You wish you boys.

Speaker 8 (01:34:54):
Did holler at me? Son. Let's get together, boys, Let's
get together and go hunting. I'm serious about it.

Speaker 3 (01:34:58):
I can't okay, I can't wait till I'm sitting in
campus looking right at that big old face.

Speaker 8 (01:35:03):
That's right, let's get let's get it together boys, all right,
Merry Christmas is getting his gift next.

Speaker 3 (01:35:08):
Don't miss it.

Speaker 8 (01:35:10):
I won't. I'll see you.

Speaker 3 (01:35:12):
There's Greg there he is, there's Greg's and Nemesis Jerkey,
the most famous firefighter in Oxford.

Speaker 12 (01:35:17):
He is.

Speaker 13 (01:35:17):
I'm gonna tell you what he's something else now and.

Speaker 3 (01:35:20):
Listen he'll sing it to you. Yes, I can't believe
Christmas shoes to a message? All right, you know where's
a great message them grandkids? Do it till you get
it all I know. It's like me. You two are
being changed, and I'm watching speedy being changed. So, uh,
all right we come back. It's gifts swap. Oh all right,

(01:35:43):
we're swapping gifts. Next. Everybody had to make something. If
you drew somebody's name, stay close, we'll be right back.

Speaker 1 (01:35:51):
This is the Rick Burgess Show.

Speaker 3 (01:35:58):
All the weather out.

Speaker 1 (01:36:00):
Side is frightful.

Speaker 3 (01:36:02):
What the fire is so delightful?

Speaker 7 (01:36:05):
And since we've no place to go, let its no
let its let it the.

Speaker 3 (01:36:12):
Rick burd just show Christmas party.

Speaker 2 (01:36:15):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:36:15):
And we've we've Gary in, We've we've had James in.
We said, Gerald Cage, what a surprise call. You never
know who's stopping by. You never know who' stopping buy
for Christmas? You never know, You never know. Rick and
so Andy Andrews just arrived. Well, we'll be giving another
opportunity to win some Christmas cash with him. Before we're done,
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time for gift giving. Yeah, So we drew names and
we all had to make a gift for that person.

(01:37:40):
Couldn't buy it right, had to make it now, don't
I don't know. We have to buy the material? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I had to put it together whatever your hands had
to put it all together. So I don't know where
how we want to get started. There's no particular order
to all this. Uh do you want to start with you?

Speaker 5 (01:38:00):
Adler? And and and yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:38:01):
Who did you drew me?

Speaker 5 (01:38:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (01:38:03):
I drew you.

Speaker 7 (01:38:04):
But I'm also I think that we should probably receive
our gifts in the order of and I'm low man
on the total okay, both you know, metaphorically and literally.
So if Speedy you wanted.

Speaker 3 (01:38:16):
To give, I think so they do it in the
and not who not who needs to give, but who
needs to receive? So whoever had Adler, that's you Speedy? Okay,
So you're up. Okay, So I give it to him,
Yes you do? And Thendler you no way he wrapped that?

Speaker 5 (01:38:34):
Wow, no way?

Speaker 3 (01:38:36):
Just okay, buddy, thank you.

Speaker 7 (01:38:39):
Man to give me a hug.

Speaker 3 (01:38:41):
Honestly, come on here, thank you.

Speaker 7 (01:38:45):
Even if this is like a joke or whatever, it's okay,
it's fine.

Speaker 6 (01:38:49):
And I don't want mine to be a boring gift
because I know it means a lot, you know, to
you and and I and I don't want you had
a lot of pressure on I did.

Speaker 3 (01:38:57):
I did not want to go silly funny. I wanted
to go serious with you, and I sent you.

Speaker 6 (01:39:02):
I just emailed you a video drop you know, of
of me kind of putting this together, which we don't
have to play now.

Speaker 3 (01:39:08):
But yeah, hey, marry Christmas and work video first?

Speaker 7 (01:39:12):
Or open it first?

Speaker 6 (01:39:14):
No, I mean you can open it. Okay, So he's
opening the box. It's one of those decorative boxes that
looks like it's a card that says workplace, best friend.

Speaker 17 (01:39:23):
Ye.

Speaker 7 (01:39:24):
Do you guys read the card first?

Speaker 3 (01:39:26):
Probably? Yeah, the thing to do.

Speaker 7 (01:39:28):
I always just go straight for the price of a card.

Speaker 3 (01:39:30):
Go ahead.

Speaker 7 (01:39:30):
I don't have a card.

Speaker 3 (01:39:31):
Wrap it.

Speaker 7 (01:39:34):
I know your family means the world to I'm getting
all choked up, Seedy. You're such a great husband and father.
I hope the skift reminds you of all the love
and fun your family shares. God has truly blessed you
in so many, so many ways. I'm hoping this Christmas
is the best one yet for you, Adlers.

Speaker 3 (01:39:52):
Speedy.

Speaker 7 (01:39:53):
Wow, I don't have a card at all.

Speaker 3 (01:39:55):
That's to be careful and crying. It's so nice, like
he said, gas speedy body.

Speaker 7 (01:40:06):
Look at this, y'all, it's a picture frame with my family.
It's not speedy, maybe a picture frame and it said
the Adlers established twenty sixteen.

Speaker 5 (01:40:15):
Y'all.

Speaker 7 (01:40:15):
Look at how nice that is. And it even props
up in everything, just on my desk and cry, family.

Speaker 12 (01:40:22):
Did you.

Speaker 3 (01:40:24):
You didn't make that? You will explain it. You can
roll the video this.

Speaker 7 (01:40:30):
He cut the wood in everything?

Speaker 3 (01:40:31):
Did you No? I didn't know. You can buy the
you can buy the wood. So you buy the frame.

Speaker 1 (01:40:36):
I painted.

Speaker 3 (01:40:37):
I painted the frame.

Speaker 14 (01:40:38):
Wow.

Speaker 6 (01:40:39):
I painted the frame and I wrote on it, and
I glued that piece to the frame. And then I
went and got a picture made and then put the
picture in the frame.

Speaker 3 (01:40:48):
Buy you put some to take a picture of his family.

Speaker 6 (01:40:52):
So this is me on social media going. So we're
at hobby lobby here. I'm going to hobby lobby and
going in trying to was a little lost.

Speaker 3 (01:41:00):
Found that look.

Speaker 6 (01:41:03):
In their paint and you know, the paint was a
little thick and got all over me. Took me a
while to get off of me. But so I'm painting here,
and you know, there's a lot of looking at serious
and uh and then just kind of going through.

Speaker 3 (01:41:17):
Uh, look at that it's trying trying to paint the
frame shows it looks like he's got a crap. Yeah,
and then he got it all over me for some reason.
Instead of the work, he's using campbell soup can.

Speaker 20 (01:41:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:41:28):
Well, it's just the quickest thing I could come up with.
And uh, and you know established twenty sixteen, that's when
they're married, getting some.

Speaker 3 (01:41:34):
Glue on the back side of it. There, you know,
Greg handwriting and then I'm really a woman, just really trying.

Speaker 5 (01:41:41):
To press it in.

Speaker 7 (01:41:42):
It's almost as a woman.

Speaker 3 (01:41:43):
And uh, I think we're good looking at that is
so nice.

Speaker 7 (01:41:48):
You made a video in everything you go, Buddy.

Speaker 3 (01:41:51):
He played it safe because he didn't want to set
him off. That's true.

Speaker 7 (01:41:54):
That's true. Yeah, we've had that, we did.

Speaker 5 (01:41:58):
Greg.

Speaker 3 (01:41:58):
As a matter of fact, I heard Speedy mumble that's Friday.
I gotta change my gift. Yeah that's what you tell me. Oh, look,
I was going, I was going.

Speaker 6 (01:42:05):
I was going funny at first, but I wanted to
be but you made the family is very important.

Speaker 3 (01:42:11):
I ended up. I ended up being serious on yours too.
So all right, So whoever had Greg Gregg's up, Yeah,
of course that'd be me, big brother. Let me tell
you you wouldn't believe how I worked on this. Open.
I want to give this to Greg.

Speaker 5 (01:42:27):
And Greg.

Speaker 3 (01:42:27):
I want you to to read the front, of course,
and then I want you when you open the card,
read all the card and the gift is inside the card. Okay, okay.
And I made this myself. You made it yourself and
that card. Walk it up. And you'll have to hug too.
This is a card you have to hug their hugging brother.

Speaker 7 (01:42:45):
My brother's got a hug.

Speaker 3 (01:42:46):
I went the last time you got hugged. Greg's now staying.
Uh sound the front?

Speaker 8 (01:42:56):
Greg?

Speaker 3 (01:42:56):
Oh, I'm sorry, Greg, Baby brother, Mary Christmas, okay, be careful,
get emotional. He's gonna get emotional with this. I promise
you be careful. We don't break. Going to break. Okay,
Happy holidays. You got a car to look inside. When

(01:43:18):
you put this on your tree, think of me. This
special just for you. You make Christmas. I can't you
make Christmas? All right, baby brother? I hope this you
make Christmas? Bright, baby brother. I hope I really can't

(01:43:39):
read your ride you make will here? Just give it
to me spinning. Let me read it from the heart anyway,
Thank you very much. Look show her boy what it
is what I made for Look it's gingerbread man, and
I will go home and put it on the tree
Christmas ornament. I will think of you and and our
handwriting is very similar. You'll find that out. I hope
this what do you want to read? He reading it right?

Speaker 11 (01:44:01):
I can't.

Speaker 3 (01:44:01):
I can't read, I know, and I worried about that,
but I had so much arthritis. Thinking of you and
wishing you a Christmas bright with happiness is the first one.
Now look at this. I made this special just for you.
You make Christmas bright, baby brother. I hope this labor
of love brings you joy, your big brother Rick.

Speaker 5 (01:44:20):
There it is.

Speaker 3 (01:44:22):
Look at that right here. You want to hang it
on your mic? I'd like would you mind hanging it?
Because guys, the work I put into that. By the way,
By the way, Sherry was shocked when I brought it in.
She goes, The buttons are almost straight.

Speaker 7 (01:44:35):
In the little hat, but the hat turn around so
we can see it.

Speaker 3 (01:44:40):
I made you a gingerbread ornament with my own hands,
even even that string on the top when I tied that,
think of you, I'll go, here's Rick, look at that candy.
That's good. I mean, that's a pretty good looking gingerbread.

Speaker 4 (01:44:55):
I mean.

Speaker 3 (01:44:57):
I wish I could have read your hand right, would
have went a lot. But well, you know, as we said, Greg,
you know, with this bad handwriting, my mother thought I
was going to be a doctor. But I showed her.
You showed her by now. So will you hang on
this forevery absolutely every every Christmas, I'm bringing it out.

Speaker 7 (01:45:11):
You did post a little bit of a spoiler last night.

Speaker 3 (01:45:14):
I did, but I knew he wouldn't say he wouldn't know.
You want to see again, like Speedy had the video
to go his here I am. Look that's our picture
as a little kid. Yeah, a little kids.

Speaker 7 (01:45:25):
I thought that was the parent and the two kids,
but that's how large.

Speaker 3 (01:45:28):
It was a large, large child. And I was right there.
Look at that, guys, look at that right there, and
look how much how much it cost a dollar? I
should have fel mine because I had Rick spent more
than you. Well, and that's a shocker. And that's first
time those words on the show.

Speaker 8 (01:45:49):
There.

Speaker 3 (01:45:49):
I was working on I want you to see me
working on it. You know what you're talking about? That
it's funny. Sure, he goes, well, don't throw it out there, everybody,
I'll see it before tomorrow, said Greg, ain't gonna see that.
He didn't even see email. I will say this. You
putting the buttons and all were actually straight? How straight
are the button they are? And we're not good at stuff.

Speaker 7 (01:46:06):
That's so nice, that's so so sweet.

Speaker 3 (01:46:08):
Okay, we come back. Two more gifts, two more gifts.
Oh boy, look at it hanging around there. Speedy gets
his and I get mine.

Speaker 7 (01:46:16):
This is guy's This is really fun, it is and
this is.

Speaker 3 (01:46:19):
Really this needs to be a Rick Burgess Show Christmas
party tradition. I think so too. It is the season,
even though it will become burdensome to us and we'll stop.

Speaker 9 (01:46:27):
And we didn't make Andy Andrews anything.

Speaker 3 (01:46:30):
And here guy, at least you.

Speaker 1 (01:46:32):
See this is the Rick Burgers Show. We talked to
the public every day and trust us, you should be
gravely concerned the weak Burgers show.

Speaker 3 (01:46:54):
Well, it is our gift swap going on among the show.
And so Adler has received his gift from Speedy. Baby
brother has received his meaningful gift from his big brother.
And at uh I spent a dollar ninety nine on it,
and uh I noticed you did have a big budget.
Yeah I did. And and full disclosure that dollar ninety

(01:47:15):
nine had six of them minute. Uh but anyway, so.

Speaker 7 (01:47:19):
Still it's the thought.

Speaker 3 (01:47:20):
It's a thought, that thought. Yeah, and speed. That's why
when you went to find one, they were already going.
Uh the so speedy, very moving gift. I'm no moving?

Speaker 5 (01:47:31):
Get rid.

Speaker 7 (01:47:31):
Did Sherry help you all the time?

Speaker 3 (01:47:33):
Nope, y'all get ready to cry all I can tell you.
Oh really Okay, here, so Greg now has the gift.
I'll get ready. Be careful whether it's a little fragile. Okay,
this is for speedy now, I'll explain it when you
get it out. All right, So here's Greg's gift to Speedy.
Where's the card I'm trying to find. There's no card.
There's no great Greg's gift of speedy. Greg, you went
were black and go go big o? Careful right, careful?

(01:47:55):
Oh look at this. Wait a minute, it looks like
a bird. It looks like a bird. We all have
heard of Calvin's Playhouse, yes we have. Well, what if
it was a bird house and read and look, so
we one of this flipping around this size so you
can see it says at the top Calvin Calvin's Playhouse.

(01:48:17):
It's my hand run it is. What can I say?
You can read it Greg boots and hose boat boats
and I spelled it h O E s. That's just
a lawn too. That's just going okay, okay, So you've
made a birdhouse Calvin's Playhouse. Yeah, and then jumping all night,

(01:48:38):
Come get you some ladies, ladies night every night. Listen.

Speaker 6 (01:48:45):
And then there's a come on ride that train on
the back and on the front there's all players and
a hole welcome.

Speaker 3 (01:48:56):
See so you don't look. I can see Terry in there. Honey,
Calvin's Playhouse was not a physical place and travel. He
needs something to commemorate the playhouse. And for some reason
it's a birdhouse. And I had tom that you didn't listen,
you'll got the video. It has this tube of glue

(01:49:19):
to put on it, and I couldn't get it to
come out because I think you're supposed to put a
pinch one. Listen. I squeezed it and it went off
and it hit the ceiling on and of course Lisa
loved that if you just joined it and I had
to go get a ladder, right, I had to go
get a ladder to get it, I know. And it
was look right, it was this is this is really
so nice shook and let you know, Lisa's got fantastic handwriting. Yes,

(01:49:44):
and she goes, oh no, no, you're going to have
to I don't think that that Lisa would have wanted
to write in those phrases. But it says boats and hose.

Speaker 1 (01:49:54):
But I couldn't.

Speaker 3 (01:49:55):
I couldn't read your writing. I didn't know that that right,
there is a garden too?

Speaker 5 (01:50:02):
What what greg?

Speaker 7 (01:50:03):
What a?

Speaker 2 (01:50:04):
What a?

Speaker 3 (01:50:04):
The others spelt different. You know some things some gifts,
some gifts just they tell the story of Christmas, just
what you think without you haven't adding what you think.
Thank you. So we didn't hug.

Speaker 12 (01:50:15):
What a?

Speaker 3 (01:50:16):
What a thoughtful gift? You don't know where, you don't
know where, you don't know where.

Speaker 22 (01:50:21):
You're going to put it in the backyard, Okay, what
bird goes into? And then there was one gift that's
very fun, the bird.

Speaker 3 (01:50:34):
Hand if you be.

Speaker 7 (01:50:37):
We have we have a playoffs in our backyard and
we even have a two year old boy calling it
the play hand. Yeah, all right, Rick, I'm.

Speaker 3 (01:50:47):
Going okay, all right, comes to you? Are you coming here?

Speaker 17 (01:50:51):
To here?

Speaker 3 (01:50:52):
It comes? Adler's coming in. Oh, it's kind of it's
in a Santa hat.

Speaker 7 (01:50:56):
Oh boy, it's kind of like wrapping.

Speaker 3 (01:51:00):
Okay, now they're hugging. They're hugging, all right, there they go.
All right, so let's see what.

Speaker 5 (01:51:06):
What what is that?

Speaker 3 (01:51:09):
So is that a cup? What is what?

Speaker 12 (01:51:11):
What?

Speaker 5 (01:51:11):
What is this?

Speaker 3 (01:51:11):
Adler?

Speaker 7 (01:51:12):
It looks like it's it's you're always talking about how
you're lost, you lose pens. You can't keep track of
your pens. Also, I gave you those very that very
two very expensive raiders pens.

Speaker 3 (01:51:24):
Yes you did. I got in the airport, Yes you did.
One of them is still sort of riding.

Speaker 5 (01:51:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:51:30):
So I was like, you know what, Rick's always losing
his pens, and I'm gonna make him a pen holder.

Speaker 3 (01:51:36):
So did you make this?

Speaker 7 (01:51:37):
I made this?

Speaker 5 (01:51:39):
Kind?

Speaker 7 (01:51:39):
Is this that cedar?

Speaker 8 (01:51:41):
Look?

Speaker 3 (01:51:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (01:51:42):
It should smell good. Oh yeah, and it holds pens
very well.

Speaker 3 (01:51:48):
How did you make that?

Speaker 7 (01:51:48):
So it started out like this right here, I've got
just pictures in some video here. It started out looking
like this log like that that's what it started out
looking like.

Speaker 3 (01:51:59):
Do you guys remembermember them so much more handing the
rest of us.

Speaker 7 (01:52:03):
Guys, you guys remember the cedar log that we had
right here, but the one that had yeah, bugs on it. Yeah,
the one that had bugs in it. Well, the that's
that's from the same tree. And I said, you know what,
since I brought bugs in on that log, I need
to get rid of all the log.

Speaker 3 (01:52:18):
The bugs and this does my penholder have bugs in it?

Speaker 7 (01:52:21):
No? But I got rid of them all. So that
is and they're they're they're here here. I am turning
it on my dad's lathe.

Speaker 3 (01:52:31):
See his face, can you see they that's.

Speaker 7 (01:52:33):
My that's my feminine hand. Clearly, that's clearly me. I
can't sell. I've never I've never learned how to turn
a lathe until until this time. And I got to
spend some time with my dad. I said, I've got
an hour and a half this day and an hour
and a half this day. Does that work for you
He's like, yeah, let's do it. So I went over
to my dad's would shot my dad, Michae Ladler makes

(01:52:57):
bowls and cups and all kinds of things and he's
a he's a mass were at it, but he every
single step of the way. I had to He had
to tell me what to do, every single step of
the way. But I learned how to turn a wood
lad and just spent some time with my dad and
and that was huge and just to be able to
spend that time with him, and this almost kind of

(01:53:18):
forced me to do that, and I regret not doing
it earlier. And it was a very very nice time.
And it was after my meltdown. And my favorite thing
was that we never even talked, never even.

Speaker 3 (01:53:29):
Brought it up. One one that Greg had that covered.

Speaker 7 (01:53:34):
And so there I am kind of finishing it out. Okay,
it's my feminine hands, guys, you can and I've got
the I've got the tattoo ring you can see on
my finger too, doesn't have any that's a nice.

Speaker 3 (01:53:51):
Yeah, look at this old house. And I will say
that as far as making it from scratch, Adler did
the most work, but the most work into it.

Speaker 7 (01:54:01):
I thought it turned out Okay, it's really nice, and
there's really nice. There's some errors in it. And then
I do have a I do have a wood burning
kit that I didn't have time to I want to
do a verse on the bottom if you'll allow me
to still do that. And when I when I, when
I freaked out on the air, Rick, you were so
incredibly kind and you texted me Philippians four thirteenth, fourteen

(01:54:22):
thirty three.

Speaker 3 (01:54:22):
Yes, John, sixteen thirty three.

Speaker 7 (01:54:25):
Okay, I be doing great here, so okay, but I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (01:54:29):
I saw you starting to get emotion.

Speaker 8 (01:54:32):
I am.

Speaker 7 (01:54:32):
I woke up again last night for like two three hours.

Speaker 3 (01:54:35):
That's okay, shut up.

Speaker 7 (01:54:36):
You know you're not the first person to have kids. Everybody, Okay, gosh,
your grip on your life here, I am boring out
the top, as I finished saying it.

Speaker 3 (01:54:44):
Not boring anything out.

Speaker 7 (01:54:45):
But that's my boring. No, thank you man. But there's
my there's my tattoo that is my hand. Yes, I
will say my dad had to tell me what to
do every single step of the way.

Speaker 5 (01:54:55):
And but how cool was that?

Speaker 7 (01:54:56):
It was fantastic?

Speaker 3 (01:54:57):
By the way, somebody on text the text Nation says
after wins, he risked digit amputation making ricks again.

Speaker 7 (01:55:07):
And you know, I think back to I think back
to my grandfather's funeral when my uncle was talking about
growing up on a fish hatchery, and how miserable that
work was, being out on a frozen lake with his dad,
and how he hated it so much. And at that
funeral he said, I would give anything to be back
on that boat again. And that's a lesson I learned

(01:55:30):
and continue to learn it.

Speaker 5 (01:55:32):
I love you, guys.

Speaker 7 (01:55:33):
Merry Christmas. Christmas, don't don't blow up on your family.

Speaker 1 (01:55:36):
Guys. Here's the Rick Burgess Show.

Speaker 17 (01:55:49):
You know.

Speaker 7 (01:55:54):
You got a fine.

Speaker 1 (01:56:00):
Broadcasting from the world, The Rich Burgess Show.

Speaker 3 (01:56:05):
It is the Rick Burgers Show. Christmas Party, final live
show of the year, best of shows coming up while
we're away, Lord Willing. We're back with the first live
show of the new year on the fifth of January.
So we got a couple hours left today and we
got a lot of money to give away, and that

(01:56:26):
an opportunity is about to be presented right now. If
you've missed it. Gary has been on, He'll be back
on some more. Span has been on. We've swapped gifts.
Thank you for your commentary on that. That's happened. We've
had two opportunities for people to win Christmas cash from

(01:56:48):
Old Saint Rick and they failed. Now they had money
in hand, but they tried to go for more and
they ended up having none. So so that that actually
is good news because that means the coffer is still full.

Speaker 11 (01:57:03):
Greedy little Christmas.

Speaker 3 (01:57:06):
There he is and he's back.

Speaker 13 (01:57:10):
Ma's this, bsir is the story real, Andrew.

Speaker 3 (01:57:17):
Annie Andrews is ready?

Speaker 12 (01:57:19):
Are you?

Speaker 3 (01:57:20):
Are you ready?

Speaker 2 (01:57:21):
Are you?

Speaker 3 (01:57:22):
Story? This the numbers two oh five five three zero
one thousand. We have to change it on the Christmas
cash countdown because we overwhelmed the system so much that
the provider started to remove us as a client and
told us that we were shutting down the nine one

(01:57:42):
one system and office buildings and things of that nature.
So it's a new number to the end of the year.
This is the final day on this number till next
year when we get to the Christmas party in the
in the you know, the ten days prior and all that.
Two o five five three zero one thousand. So Andy,
Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas.

Speaker 11 (01:58:01):
And I must say, I must say that Adler won
the gift sweepstakes. One say that because he put the
most work into it. Even what about the most heart, Well,
that's the heart of a ceedar, the heart of a father,
heart of a husband.

Speaker 7 (01:58:19):
I forgot something I forgot something.

Speaker 3 (01:58:21):
What did you forget?

Speaker 7 (01:58:22):
I also put a little mini little bezel right here
so that if you wanted to use it in a
different way, the Rick Burgess show coin fits right.

Speaker 3 (01:58:29):
Oh look at that.

Speaker 11 (01:58:35):
Wow, that's cool.

Speaker 7 (01:58:36):
I wanted to use it in a different way.

Speaker 3 (01:58:38):
Well, thank you, Adam. This is pretty cool.

Speaker 5 (01:58:40):
You know what it is?

Speaker 3 (01:58:40):
It truly is a gift that keeps giving.

Speaker 5 (01:58:42):
Yes, it is.

Speaker 11 (01:58:43):
I going to say that if he's going to put
a Bible verse on the bottom of that, the only
one that's gonna fit is Jesus wept.

Speaker 7 (01:58:49):
Oh, I'm just saying the shortest verse in the Bible.

Speaker 8 (01:58:54):
There it is.

Speaker 3 (01:58:54):
So that's awesome. So thank you Andy for making the
trip here for our chris Us party.

Speaker 11 (01:59:00):
In the Living Bible, Jesus cried in.

Speaker 3 (01:59:03):
The Living Bible in the Message. In the Message, Jesus
was was over overcome with grief, and the.

Speaker 7 (01:59:10):
Shortest verse would be appropriate for me to put in there.

Speaker 3 (01:59:13):
I have all right, I'm not going there. A minute
ago we should. You know, you showed us a little bit.
You're still we don't see how little fragile you know what?
You know, how Jesus ses you.

Speaker 11 (01:59:25):
As little as the bottom of that cup, you mat.

Speaker 3 (01:59:29):
And we didn't hear it.

Speaker 5 (01:59:30):
Right.

Speaker 3 (01:59:30):
If we were just now, if we were going to
do the Nativity, would you be baby Jesus?

Speaker 7 (01:59:34):
Yes, oh, we should do that next year.

Speaker 5 (01:59:36):
We know what?

Speaker 3 (01:59:37):
Yeah, all right, that's good.

Speaker 11 (01:59:39):
Have you ever wondered if Jesus is tenda sad on
Christmas Day because the angels are coming up to him
say hey, Jesus, here's your present, and since it's your birthday,
it's kind of a birthday Christmas present.

Speaker 7 (01:59:52):
Born on Christmas. I didn't think about that.

Speaker 3 (01:59:56):
You have to give.

Speaker 11 (01:59:57):
Yeah, I mean, I just think Jesus probably gets so
had about that.

Speaker 3 (02:00:01):
I think they're onto something so so andy. You're gonna
be bringing us two things today. You're gonna bring us
an opportunity for listeners and viewers to win Christmas cash
and be true or bs. These are for money today, okay.

Speaker 5 (02:00:15):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (02:00:15):
But you're also going to read us a book that
I get. I'm glad you wrote it.

Speaker 8 (02:00:22):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (02:00:23):
But but I will just go ahead and tell you
it's not my favorite cry. It upsets me. And it's
think that it's not as bad as Christmas.

Speaker 11 (02:00:31):
The song yeah, the way that other guy saying it.

Speaker 3 (02:00:34):
Yeah, yeah, that's funny.

Speaker 11 (02:00:37):
But yeah, well it's it's supposed to make you a
little a little sad. Yeah, I mean kind of like
Jesus on his birthday.

Speaker 5 (02:00:46):
Right, this.

Speaker 3 (02:00:49):
Be true? Now we're gonna do it. We're going to
be true BS. First, so let's let's get a contestant.
All right, So we've got this work. I'm gonna tell
you exactly, how been a minute?

Speaker 5 (02:00:59):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (02:00:59):
Yeah, okay. This is if a person wins this, the
first person up is going to win three hundred dollars.
All right, So there's three hundred dollars up, I mean
cash just for graps. Yeah, so and you got a
fifty to fifty shot of getting it right. It'd be
better to know it though, to be true or BS.
There's four categories. Will give the person the categories, they

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pick the one they want, then you give the story
and then we'll see if they get it right. And
they do not look at Google, and that's look at
Google's right. So we're going to all Benny Georgia, and
there's Beth, Beth.

Speaker 5 (02:01:33):
How are you doing?

Speaker 8 (02:01:35):
I'm great?

Speaker 20 (02:01:35):
How are y'all today?

Speaker 8 (02:01:36):
Beth?

Speaker 3 (02:01:37):
Thank you for calling in?

Speaker 5 (02:01:39):
All right?

Speaker 3 (02:01:39):
So that well, I can't help it. I mean I
grew up, you know, original members, original makeup. So anyway,
here are the four categories. A tip for you eight
boxing gloves, good literature, the idea guy boxing gloves.

Speaker 11 (02:02:00):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (02:02:01):
Listen to the story Bath Okay if you can determine
whether it is just made up? Bs Art's true, be
true three hundred dollars of Christmas cash.

Speaker 11 (02:02:11):
Here we go, Beth. In the oceans around Australia, researchers
have documented octopuses punching fish for no obvious reason. While
studying mixed species hunting groups on coral reefs, scientists noticed
octopuses suddenly striking nearby fish with a swift jab of
one arm, sometimes followed by a roundhouse from another arm.

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These weren't defensive moves or hunting strikes. These fish weren't predators,
and they weren't prey. They were just there and then
they got punched. After reviewing hours of underwater footage, marine
biologists confirmed the behavior was intentional. The octopus would cooil
one arm and thrust it outward, off and eating any
fish that strayed within range. Some fish learned to keep

(02:02:58):
their distance, others didn't and got smacked again. The researchers
ruled out randomness. The punches were targeted, repeatable, and sometimes preemptive.
Scientists say that what makes this so strange is that
it looks like a human emotional response irritation, frustration, maybe
even spite, but it's happening in an invertebrate with a

(02:03:19):
radically different brain structure. It sounds like a joke or cartoon,
but it's real. Octopuses punch fish and they mean it
is this bus or does it be true?

Speaker 3 (02:03:30):
For three hundred dollars, Beth, Ah, be true? You won
three hundred all right, so Beth, let me let me

(02:03:51):
put the octopus punching every only Australia. Beth, you've got
three hundred dollars of Christmas cash. Hang on, God, we'll
put you on hold uh and we'll get your information.
I'm just gonna tell you, Dallas, Oh, Saint Rick is
feeling Oh now I'm feeling generous. And we still got
Barton play to give away. I know That's what I mean.

(02:04:12):
We got we still have more to give away the.

Speaker 5 (02:04:16):
Ball.

Speaker 3 (02:04:16):
So when we come back, I'm gonna let one another
person play, Oh, another person play, And there'll be other
opportunities because we still got money in the budget. We'll
be right back.

Speaker 1 (02:04:28):
This is the Rick Burgess Show. The man who shaved
thirty minutes off his last road trip.

Speaker 3 (02:04:50):
Rick Burgess not trying to brag us, just what happened.
Let's talk a little bit about things that you need
to know. Today. We are winding down the year. This
is the Rick Burgess Show Christmas Party. If you missed
any of the show, you've already missed a lot. The
new album Are You Ready has been available on hard
copies for for weeks now, but a lot of you

(02:05:12):
been asking when will it go to streaming? When will
it be on Apple Music? When will it be on
my service? That's today, So go get individual cuts that
you might like, pick your favorites, or go ahead and
get the whole album. But it is available in the
streaming world today. Just search the Rick Burgess Show. The
CD title the album is Are You Ready? Andy Andrews

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is with us and he's been hanging out. Hey, Andy
wants to deal bringing Christmas? Yes, sir, is the story.
We've already had a winner.

Speaker 5 (02:05:46):
We've already a winner.

Speaker 11 (02:05:47):
Pere, We've had a winner.

Speaker 3 (02:05:49):
Manny Andrews is ready? Are you Everybody is the story
this be so still to come more cash and from
Barton Clay Jewelers.

Speaker 5 (02:06:01):
Speed.

Speaker 3 (02:06:01):
He's got it sitting right next to him. There it
is there, It is right there, right there, Bla the Monks,
Blanc Meister Stook ballpoint pin platinum coated M five. Wow
are you familiar with these? Andy?

Speaker 5 (02:06:19):
Yeah? I am.

Speaker 11 (02:06:20):
It seems like somebody needs to market some cedar pen holders.

Speaker 3 (02:06:28):
And we walked right into that one that we friend.
And you give me a number between one and ten.

Speaker 11 (02:06:36):
Six.

Speaker 3 (02:06:37):
Okay, here we go. Expect Christa out of Huntsville.

Speaker 8 (02:06:42):
Oh my gosh, it's Marysville, Hio.

Speaker 3 (02:06:50):
The phone says, Huntle.

Speaker 8 (02:06:53):
I'm sorry. I mean I have a Southern accent, but
you know, I'm agin.

Speaker 5 (02:06:59):
There you go.

Speaker 8 (02:07:00):
We're currently living.

Speaker 3 (02:07:01):
Here, So you're transplanted from Rainbow CEDI Yep.

Speaker 11 (02:07:04):
That's it.

Speaker 18 (02:07:05):
Yes, but hey we're going back. We're going back to
Hope Plus in a few months.

Speaker 8 (02:07:08):
So it's snowing and cold up.

Speaker 3 (02:07:10):
Here and we hate it. Okay, so how do you
get the show there?

Speaker 8 (02:07:15):
I want me YouTube?

Speaker 3 (02:07:16):
And what what were you located again? What?

Speaker 12 (02:07:18):
What?

Speaker 3 (02:07:18):
What town?

Speaker 8 (02:07:20):
Marysville, Ohio?

Speaker 3 (02:07:22):
Marysville, Ohio? Okay, well I have good news for you.
We've got another three hundred dollars ready to go. Goodness
and yeah you go here.

Speaker 11 (02:07:33):
You got to win it.

Speaker 3 (02:07:33):
You got to win it. So here are your categories.
A tip for you, good literature, the idea.

Speaker 7 (02:07:41):
Guy, how about the idea guy?

Speaker 3 (02:07:44):
The idea guy?

Speaker 15 (02:07:46):
Is this true?

Speaker 3 (02:07:48):
Be true? Or b yes, here we go, Here we go,
good luck.

Speaker 11 (02:07:51):
In the late nighteen thirties, long before he became president,
Harry Truman was known among friends as a relentless note
taker who constantly sketched ideas for making everyday life more efficient.
One evening, at a Kansas City dinner party, Truman casually
described a concept he had for standardized roadside lodging. He

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told a friend, these are not hotels, these are motels
because they are motor lodges. They'd have clean rooms, predictable prices,
layouts would be identical, and travelers wouldn't have to gamble
on everywhere they stayed. So he was just talking off
handedly to a well connected businessman seated beside him, thinking

(02:08:35):
nothing of it beyond polite conversation. Within a few years,
that businessman quietly took Truman's idea and refined it, packaging
it not as a convenience, but as a brand. Within
a decade, Americans were pulling off highways into identical motels
bearing the same name, same signage, same promise. The chain
exploded across the country, eventually earning millions, then billions. Meanwhile,

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never claimed credit, never filed paperwork, never even hinted the
concept had once been his. By the time Truman was president,
aides urged him to mention the story, if only as
an amusing anecdote, but he refused. Truman believed that ideas
were cheap, execution was everything, and bitterness served no one.
So the man whose offhand dinner table suggestion reshaped American

(02:09:24):
travel watched someone else build an empire from it, while
he went on to make history in another way and
never earned a dime from the idea that might have
made him rich. This is BS or be true?

Speaker 3 (02:09:35):
Wow, Wow, hope, mope te holiday true BS or be
true now BS, she says, BS.

Speaker 11 (02:09:51):
She won three hundred dollars just a fountain of money
today show.

Speaker 3 (02:10:02):
So your husband is so so Harry Truman did not
come up with that.

Speaker 11 (02:10:07):
He did not, He did not. I came up with that.

Speaker 5 (02:10:10):
There you go.

Speaker 11 (02:10:10):
I came up with the idea of Harry Truman coming.

Speaker 3 (02:10:12):
Up to Yeah, yeah, there you go. Well, I hope
that feels like a little bit of home there in
the snowy, cold Marysville, Ohio.

Speaker 8 (02:10:20):
It does, And I just want you to know I'm
going to give that to people that need it.

Speaker 3 (02:10:24):
Well, that's great, I could use it.

Speaker 18 (02:10:27):
I mean I have a I have my daughter's student loan.

Speaker 8 (02:10:30):
But peoples, yeah, I kind of right.

Speaker 3 (02:10:34):
You do realize Speedy has your number, right, that's right,
I'm about to talk to you too.

Speaker 2 (02:10:38):
Right.

Speaker 3 (02:10:39):
Well, Hey, congratulations Christa. Thank you for catching the show.
And even when you get were moved off to a
different state, you still used all these wonderful platforms to
stay with us. So that's great.

Speaker 11 (02:10:49):
That's awesome.

Speaker 3 (02:10:49):
Merry Christmas.

Speaker 18 (02:10:50):
Well, thank you, Merry Christmas.

Speaker 3 (02:10:52):
Well how about hang on there? We got that so andy?
You just you just threw out all kinds of money.

Speaker 11 (02:10:58):
Yeah, yeah, I'm glad it was yours.

Speaker 3 (02:11:01):
Right, So why did you come up with Harry Truman
came up with that idea because you thought you thought,
I'm gonna come up with something. Whoever came up with motels,
You could have picked a lot of famous picked a
lot of what made you go with Harry Truman?

Speaker 11 (02:11:15):
Well, I like Harry Truman. And one of my favorite
quotes is from Harry Truman when when somebody said, they
call you give them hell, Harry, and he said, I
never give anybody hell. I just tell him the truth,
and they think it's hell oh.

Speaker 5 (02:11:31):
So much.

Speaker 11 (02:11:32):
He's just a favorite guy of mine.

Speaker 3 (02:11:33):
All right. So what does like? What does what does
Andy Andrews? Christmas?

Speaker 12 (02:11:37):
Like?

Speaker 3 (02:11:38):
What do y'all do?

Speaker 5 (02:11:39):
Well?

Speaker 11 (02:11:39):
We have we go to the church candlelight thing at
Coastal this year, the flor Obama has gotten so big.
We're doing it because we had ten thousand people, over
ten thousand people at Easter Wow at the floor Bama Church.

Speaker 5 (02:11:57):
And so we do that.

Speaker 11 (02:11:58):
We go home, we have Jesus Is Christmas Party, okay,
and we talk, we eat, we have kind of the
same thing. We have some kind of soup on Christmas
Eve and we get up in the morning and you
know the boys, you know, they can't hold are they now?
They're twenty three and twenty six, and so they can't

(02:12:18):
come in to see Santa Claus until Daddy tells them
send those men there. So both of them, both of
them are still single and they still believe in Santa Claus. Yeah,
they're both going to get home. Yeah, yeah, they're both
going to be home, So that'll be awesome. And we
you know, we open gifts, and we eat the same breakfast,
and we we just have you know, it's just to

(02:12:41):
be around each other time and be happy. We probably
don't hug as much as you guys do, but we
did hug it.

Speaker 3 (02:12:49):
Out, hug hugged it out. It is interesting to hug
from you. Just thinking about it, it is interesting interesting
how some of the simplest things that your children hang
on to when they're adults, you know, like the like
the soup or the breakfast or you know, these things
that are never big productions because they just loved that tradition.
Right for us, it's Mama's sausage balls. We all get

(02:13:10):
up and have those on Christmas morning for our house
or individual house. It's Sherry's chocolate biscuits. I mean, you know,
we've got we've got a thirty I heard you say
that when I was driving in Yeah. Third, we've got
a you know, a thirty five year old, thirty four
year old about to be thirty five year old son
coming all the way from New York and the one
thing he wants to make he said, well, we don't
have chocolate busus?

Speaker 11 (02:13:29):
Does he say I want him in the pergola?

Speaker 5 (02:13:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:13:32):
You know you know that was gonna be some warming Bamma,
we may we may go out to the pergola.

Speaker 11 (02:13:36):
Yeah. When I was driving up, I thought, Coylee, I'm
gonna have to bring a dictionary today. I'man James saying
contiguous about five times. Yeah, you said two or three times?

Speaker 3 (02:13:44):
Did you have you ever had chocolate biscuits?

Speaker 11 (02:13:46):
I have not.

Speaker 5 (02:13:48):
You know what that is?

Speaker 11 (02:13:49):
Well, I'm assuming it's biscuits made with chocolate now smothered.

Speaker 3 (02:13:54):
It's biscuits made pat of butter and then chocolate syrup.
Oh over for it over them? Oh yeah. Chocolate serf,
which was the chocolate surf is a recipe of my mom.
Starvin Jerry Sure's mama did chocolate biscuits. Will be there
there it is that looks so good. It's good stuff.
When we come back, Andy, you will give us a

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sweet little Christmas story.

Speaker 11 (02:14:20):
And will be happy.

Speaker 3 (02:14:22):
We'll all sit around crisscross apple sauce and listen.

Speaker 1 (02:14:26):
This is the Rick Birgers Show. From all of us

(02:14:48):
to all of you. Merry Christmas from the rick Burgers Show.

Speaker 3 (02:14:56):
The rick Burgers Show Christmas Party. A lot has already
had if you missed it, catch the archive today. Six
hundred dollars has already been given away. There's more to
give away before we are done today, and not just cash.
A five hundred dollars law point pen from mont Blanc

(02:15:20):
and this is the Meister Stook five hundred dollars platinum
coated pen and that will be given away with the
money for the final money winner of today. We all,
Greg and Andy, Andrews and I have just been to
the restroom and we all can confirm for you that

(02:15:41):
bathroom etiquette in public restrooms is officially over.

Speaker 11 (02:15:44):
Yes, somebody's mad about the power grid.

Speaker 3 (02:15:48):
We just heard an entire conversation about the power grid
at the urinals. Yes, because he kept his phone going
and the wireless earpiece is passionate about and he's extremely passionate.

Speaker 11 (02:16:00):
And I was talking as loud as the guy. You
can hear five seats behind you in an airplane.

Speaker 3 (02:16:05):
Yes, Andy, we we thought we this is our first year,
so we walked into this year with a clean slate,
being very grateful and celebrating the past, but equally excited
about the present and a strong anticipation for the future.

Speaker 11 (02:16:22):
You don't seem as excited as I would have thought
you would have seen about this me reading my book.
You seemed very excited.

Speaker 3 (02:16:30):
No, I am excited because I told Speedy, I said,
you know, what could be a new Christmas tradition, you know,
loving the old traditions, but but embracing some new. I said,
you know, Andy had that book about about socks, and
that is good. And I said, maybe we have him
read that. That's so. Yeah, it's called Socks for Christmas.

Speaker 17 (02:16:53):
Is it is?

Speaker 3 (02:16:54):
It's what I call the book about socks.

Speaker 11 (02:16:57):
And I can say that. My mama taught me that
when you come to Christmas party, you bring presents for everybody.
So I, even though Gary and I sat over there
present list, I brought a gift for all of y'all
and for Gary.

Speaker 3 (02:17:15):
That's very kind.

Speaker 11 (02:17:16):
Socks for Christmas books. You gotta socks for Christmas book,
including Gary and Speedy.

Speaker 3 (02:17:22):
It will probably give you his bird house if you
want it.

Speaker 11 (02:17:24):
Yeah, you know, you know that's very whole house.

Speaker 3 (02:17:28):
Can I tell you what? Can I tell you what?
Andy and I just did to. Gary is sitting into
couching it for some reason. So we come through going
there and he goes, hey, come here, let me show you.
Yes did he? And I was like, what do you got?
He goes it's a deaf transgender and that was it. Yeah,
that's that's what he wants. What he wanted to seen

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this deaf transgender saying.

Speaker 11 (02:17:49):
And for once in the universe's life, Rick Burgess and
Andy Andrews were speechless at the same time.

Speaker 3 (02:17:59):
We had no what do you say that? What's my
response to this? Hey, come here, I think I'm gonna
see something Christmas Eve. I think I'm going to say something.
And I'm like, Gary, what is He goes, Hey, it's
a transgender deaf person singing.

Speaker 15 (02:18:13):
Yeah, thank you for that, blessing Mary, Merry Christmas.

Speaker 7 (02:18:24):
Whoever allowed that to happen as a bad person.

Speaker 3 (02:18:27):
They're not even singing a Christmas song. I don't know.
I still don't know.

Speaker 17 (02:18:30):
Why.

Speaker 3 (02:18:30):
How did they saund Gary?

Speaker 11 (02:18:33):
No, No, don't do it, No, don't do it. We'll
get letter than that.

Speaker 3 (02:18:39):
I mean, what were you looking at? He google transgender?
So Gary, sit down in that chair, get you a
cup of coffee and listen to Andy rig a Christmas store.
If I remember, this could be eight to eight and
a half minute. Think do we have enough time? You

(02:19:01):
think you can get it in? I found that clip?

Speaker 7 (02:19:03):
Do we want to hear that clip? Real quick? Of
what the person?

Speaker 3 (02:19:06):
My goodness, are you serious? He's got the book open talent?
Look a look at Andy? Look at Andy?

Speaker 9 (02:19:17):
Gary?

Speaker 3 (02:19:17):
Why did you do that?

Speaker 11 (02:19:22):
And you play that right before I'm here?

Speaker 3 (02:19:25):
There's no stop. Everybody stopped. All right, okay, what what
did you come here? Come here? What did you say?
You're right? I am, I'm gonna we gotta, we gotta.
We can't do this to a week it back.

Speaker 11 (02:19:36):
You know, it's just like having a bad opening.

Speaker 3 (02:19:38):
Now show you did you ever?

Speaker 8 (02:19:42):
This is listen?

Speaker 3 (02:19:43):
This is a great one and you're gonna love it
because this has been your world. Okay, So it's it's
an old story. Okay. So when when Bubb and I
were doing the show together, you know, from time to
time we might be asked to go to a corporate
demand and so and I it will shock you, Bubb
and I never prepared for any of that.

Speaker 11 (02:20:03):
Yeah, I'm shocked.

Speaker 3 (02:20:03):
Yeah, and so Mickey Dean, you remember Gods just showed
the hilarious comedian and he was to be the main guy.
He was going to entertain everybody at this corporate event.
We were the warm up. Okay. So we come out
first of all, we haven't done any background on this
at all, okay, And we thought it was it was

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people that did asphalt only. Okay, we didn't know there
were some concrete people in the room as well. And
right out of the gate, Bubba makes fun of concrete
because we think we're playing to the asphalt crowd and
we didn't know it was actually a mix, and that
upset them, Okay, okay, and then we just you know
how sometimes you just can't you just can't get it going.
It's just not happening, okay. And we and we completely bombed.

(02:20:49):
There's no spinning it. We completely bombed. Okay. So here
comes Mickey Deane up the steps. We're coming down for
the stage. He goes, thanks guys for working them into
a frenzy.

Speaker 11 (02:21:02):
I asked for when I was working as a comedian,
I asked for a specific opening act one time, and
it was the guy I think it's there's Robert Nelson.
He's deceased now too, but he was called the Butterfly Guy.
He had a butterfly tattooed on his bald head, and
he was a juggler, and.

Speaker 3 (02:21:21):
His act was I left.

Speaker 11 (02:21:24):
I loved his act, But I didn't realize why I
loved his act until I saw him performing before me.
Because I loved his act because he made people mad,
and that was funny to me to watch people get mad.
But then as I'm waiting to go, I want to realize, Man,
these people are mad.

Speaker 3 (02:21:45):
Guys really upset everybody. Yeah, and was it more? Was
it like a Don Rickles type act?

Speaker 13 (02:21:49):
No?

Speaker 11 (02:21:50):
No, I mean I'll tell you when off. By the way,
he would like he would like sword fight a little
kid with phone swords, and he'd make him safety glasses on.
And he said, all right, come here and let me
tell you the rules. He said, you don't start until
I say to start. All right, go over there, go
over there, and the kid would turn around. He hit
the kid in the back with it. He said, don't

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believe everything I tell you. Now, that's part of the rules.

Speaker 3 (02:22:19):
Hey, is it on video?

Speaker 5 (02:22:21):
You know he is?

Speaker 11 (02:22:22):
You can probably look up Butterfly Guy.

Speaker 3 (02:22:24):
All right, so let's do this. Let's I don't think
we can go into this story after what he he
just did it. So what we're gonna do, We'll come
back now now what I want to do. And I've
actually talked to Andy about this, and I've tried to
find a way to get Andy on the ship before
we go to break. I do want to remind you
and some of you are going to going to get

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this for a Christmas gift and you don't know it yet.
Sherry and I have been so excited to be approached
by Oceana Cruises and you know, this is this is
luxury cruising.

Speaker 11 (02:22:56):
I'm so excited to be going on that as as
a I mean it is.

Speaker 3 (02:23:01):
I'm working on that, by the way, and so this
is luxury. I mean, you know sometimes you go on
these these cruise ships and there's two thousand people. They
nickel and dime you the end the entire time you're
on there, and you're like, Okay, this wasn't as good
as deal as I thought. Everywhere turn you can eat
at the main hall with everybody. You go to one
of our other restaurants, you gotta pay for it, like
you're going out to eat. You get on this this

(02:23:21):
ship there's six hundred cabins. It's the best of the best.

Speaker 10 (02:23:25):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (02:23:25):
There are eight restaurants on the ship, award winning chefs.
It's all included in the price of the crews. You
just go eat on them as many times you want to.
Okay and so and gratuity's already done. You don't have
to tip anybody do any of that. That's already that
we had speedy at that.

Speaker 5 (02:23:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (02:23:42):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (02:23:42):
And we're gonna be you know, a lot of this
is really really cool because there's a lot of biblical
We're going to areas of you know, the historic city
of Ephices, thank you, Andy, and uh. And then and
as you can see, Andy can't believe we're going to Ephesis.
And and we're gonna we're gonna go to parts of
the world where you know, the Apostle John you know,

(02:24:04):
where he served. So it really is going to be
an incredible trip uh and emotional as you can hear. So,
we're going to be in Greece, Montenegro, Croatia, Uh, Italy,
it's going to Turkey is where we're leaving from.

Speaker 2 (02:24:20):
Uh So.

Speaker 18 (02:24:20):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (02:24:21):
If you what Montanegra, we.

Speaker 11 (02:24:23):
Call that Monte African an American now see you.

Speaker 7 (02:24:26):
I'm not letting you rung Gary, and I'm glad we're
taking a break.

Speaker 3 (02:24:29):
The next time Gary's here. You can't be here, okay,
because you were. You were really kind at one time,
and then you hung out with Gary.

Speaker 7 (02:24:36):
Bad influences matter.

Speaker 3 (02:24:38):
But anyway, there's the cabins are feeling fast. So is
the entire ship. So if you want to talk to
one of our three personal consultants to book with us,
call one eight four four two three nine zero six
three eight, or you can just go to Rick burgesshow
dot com and the link is right there. I can't wait,
all right, So we're gonna we're gonna come back, uh
you know, and by the way, Andy's performance on the

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ship is included. We'll come back and Andy's gonna read
us the book. Okay, are you ready?

Speaker 5 (02:25:05):
I read hard, you're out.

Speaker 3 (02:25:07):
I was gonna bring you in here to read the book,
to hear the book, and I don't know now, and
so you'll have to have somebody read that for you.
And if you would, Andy, I appreciate it. Be sure
you don't have anything thing going on with the sign.

Speaker 5 (02:25:18):
It's okay.

Speaker 3 (02:25:19):
Before we read the book, it's just tears it was, okay,
we'll be back. Andy Andrews reads for us on the
Rick Burgess Show Christmas Party.

Speaker 1 (02:25:27):
This is the Rick Burgess Show, all right, it is the.

Speaker 3 (02:25:45):
Rick Burgers Show Christmas Party. We have had a blast today.
Still got money to give away, Still got the pen
to give away from Barton Clay Jewelers and Speedy. We
keep asking are we going to hear from Dicky Nadman?
Are we Bama place tonight?

Speaker 6 (02:26:01):
He said, He's available in about thirty forty five minutes.

Speaker 3 (02:26:04):
Okay, all right, all right, Andy, you have a book
to read us. It is a book you wrote. And
what is it called.

Speaker 11 (02:26:10):
It's called Socks for Christmas, a child's discovery of the
true riches of Christmas.

Speaker 3 (02:26:15):
All right, here's and here we go.

Speaker 11 (02:26:17):
There are twenty four hours in a day, only twenty
four That translates to one thy four hundred and forty
minutes or eighty six thy four hundred seconds every single
day of my adult life. But as a boy, there
was one night every year that lasted longer than any other.
One night when clocks actually slowed down. This phenomenon generally

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occurred near the end of December, specifically the night of
the twenty fourth Christmas Eve, I'd gone to bed at
nine o'clock after leaving a note, pound cake and a
glass of buttermilk for Santa Claus. Every Christmas Eve for
as many of my ten years as I could remember,
that's what I left him, a note, pound cake, and
a glass of buttermilk. The note contained the usual niceties

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about being careful not to slip on the roof and
saying hello to rude Off, but its primary purpose was,
of course, to make one last stab at getting the
presence I wanted. The pound cake was left over from Jesus'
birthday party, which we had celebrated before bedtime, and the buttermilk, well,
the buttermilk was always left because my dad insisted that
it was Santa's favorite drink. Personally, I hated the stuff,

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but since my father drank it by the gallon, I
assumed he knew. By ten thirty, I was still awake.
I was mentally tracing Santa's route to our house at
fifteen oh five Randall Road. It did concern me somewhat
that he might not find me because of a mistake
on the road. Signs. Randall at one end of our
road was spelled with one L and at the other

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end the sign proclaimed Randall with two l's. Would he
be able to locate me? Maybe he would get confused,
come in from Randall Road once and later entered the
neighborhood by way of Randal Road, and I'd get presents twice.
Not likely, I knew, But these are the kinds of
things a kid thinks about on Christmas Eve. Earlier, I'd
heard on the local news that Santa's sleigh had been

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tracked on radar leaving Thailand, and the predictions where he
would soon be in Singapore. I wasn't sure where Singapore was,
but I thought it might be near Mississippi, which was
the state next to us. In any case, That's why
I went to bed at nine o'clock. Eleven o'clock. I
wasn't even sleepy. I could smell the Christmas tree from
the bedroom. My dad loved Christmas and would have had

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our tree up, trimmed and glowing by Labor Day if
my mom had led him. But as she told him
every year, our family was not going to skip Thanksgiving.
As it was, the tree had been decorated since the
day after Thanksgiving and would remain so until a loud
discussion occurred between my parents. This discussion usually took place
around the first of February. Although my mother consistently prevailed

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and the tree did come down, I always thought my
dad had a strong argument by pointing out that just
because the needles had fallen off the tree didn't necessarily
mean it was dead. The tree itself stretched fifty feet
into the air. The fact that we only had an
eight foot ceiling cast a shadow of doubt on my
recollection of this particular point, But you get the idea.

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It was a big tree. We bought a blue spruce
every year. That variety was, according to my dad, the
only real Christmas tree. A blue spruce was more aromatic.
It was the same kind of Christmas tree Jesus had
when he was a boy, and he explained it wouldn't
get sap all over the carpet like a stinking Scotch pine.
Family tradition dictator we make our own decorations. Though the

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tree looked beautiful to me, in reality it was probably
kind of junkie construction. Paper chain stars shaped out of
pipe cleaners, and bells made from foil covered Dixie cups
were everywhere. I hung a toilet brush from the bathroom
on it one year, no one noticed for days. At
twelve oh one, it was technically Christmas, but I knew
better than to venture into the living room. I was

(02:29:54):
to stay in bed until Mom and Dad came to
get me. Besides, I didn't want to blow the whole deal.
Warned repeatedly that Santa would not come until I was asleep.
But how was I supposed to go to sleep? This
was only the most incredible day of the year. There
was no way I could go to sleep. I'd have
to fake it and just hope Santa wasn't as sharp
as everyone said. No way I was going to sleep.

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I just wouldn't that I had already been awake for
a week. I'd just stick it out till daylight. Son, Son,
my father shook me. I opened my eyes. Santa, he said,
has been here, Oh, ignoring the fact I had indeed
gone to sleep. I jumped out of bed and ran
to the living room. The tree, more than one hundred

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feet tall, now was almost covered with gifts and toys
of every sort. There was the basketball I'd asked for,
Where's my bb gun? There was the incredible edible machine.
Now I could make bugs to eat in front of
my sister.

Speaker 3 (02:30:48):
Where is my be begun?

Speaker 11 (02:30:49):
Ah, my candy lamb game? There's a baseball glove Geei Joe.
My bb gun must be one of the wrapped presents,
but it wasn't. Neither was the electric football game I'd wanted.
I did, however, get two sweaters, blue jeans, a white belt,
and from my aunt Ruth, socks socks. Who wanted socks?

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What kind of Christmas present was socks? I had socks.
I had a drawer full of socks. I was not
pleased all in all. However, my haull was impressive. I'd
scored on some of the main things I'd wanted, and
if I didn't think about the clothes and especially the socks,
I was happy. Before too long, the most important part
of Christmas was at hand. My Dad was asleep in

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the recliner, Mom was in the kitchen. I was now
free to compare loot with my friends. This ritual, practiced
by every kid since time began, was a large part
of our growing up process. Ten years old seems a
little early to be concerned with keeping up with the Joneses,
but that's exactly what we did. My first stop was
two houses down. Johnny Hamilton had gotten a bicycle. It

(02:31:53):
had a tiger striped banana seat and spider handlebars. It
was beautiful, but he wouldn't let me ride it, so
I left. Later that day, while showing off for Kathy Burns,
Johnny tried to pop a Wheeley, fell off the bike
and cried. I laughed down the street. Greg and Richard
Freley were in the guinea pig business. Mister Freley had
made a trip to the emergency room early that morning

(02:32:15):
after being bitten by the one named Charlie. He hated
those guinea pigs after that, but never again tried to
put a bow on one. Roger Loften had gotten the
electric football game I'd wanted. Graciously pointing out the flaws
in that particular model, I generally acted unimpressed. Roger also
received the Rockham Sockem Robots. Yeah, we didn't play with

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them because, thanks to his brother Stuart, they were already broken.
Danny Foster's dad was a doctor. They lived across Cherokee
Avenue in another much nicer neighborhood. I hated going to
Danny's house that morning. I knew what Danny had gotten
for Christmas. Everything He had an operation game, battleship, a
tetherball set, the deluxe model Electric Football Game, real mini

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bike for horsepower, a bicycle like Johnny's, only better, a trampoline,
a swing set, and a BB gun. I stayed at
Danny's house for more than an hour. Danny really knew
how to show a kid a good time. We dug
a hole in the vacant lot next door and put
the box from the trampoline over it. It was a
great fort.

Speaker 3 (02:33:17):
Right stop right there, Stop stop right there, all right,
because I know we're about to get to the pinnacle
of the story, and I don't want you to run
against the heartbreak. Okay, just hang on. I mean you're
going through the neighborhood that we all remember, Rock them
Sock them robots. I remember thinking that was one of
the greatest things I've ever seen. Electric football set, electricparation game.

Speaker 11 (02:33:37):
Although E seven you sung my battleship, Yeah yeah.

Speaker 6 (02:33:41):
And there is always that one kid that gets every
it gets everything everything.

Speaker 3 (02:33:45):
We come back, we'll finish that, we'll get to the
the moral of the story, the part you love somebody, Yeah,
the part that always touches me, even though the staff
thinks I was born without tear Ducks. Stay with us.
Also more money to give away and Dicky Admire all

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still to come on the Rick Burgess Show Christmas Party.

Speaker 1 (02:34:11):
This is the Rick Burgess Show. Merrick Christmas from the

(02:34:40):
Rick Burgess Show.

Speaker 3 (02:34:42):
As many of you were doing last hour and you're responding,
you were reliving your childhood Christmas with the story of
Andy Andrews Christmas. Socks are just socks for Christmas, right,
socks for Christmas. I should distance it from shoes as
far as I can. That song, yeah please, But anyway,

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so we were getting toward the end of it in
some great childhood memories. If you just joined us, welcome
to the Rick bird Just Show Christmas Party. We've already
given away today six hundred dollars. We will give away
more money this hour. We will give away the gift
from Barton Clay Jewelers this hour and that's right at
another five hundred dollars. Adler has a song for us

(02:35:25):
and we will hear from Dicky Nadmire much to come
and more from Gary as well. So Andy, when we
left the story, you're going through the neighborhood as we
all did, seeing what everybody else got for Christmas, and
you've already reviewed what you got for Christmas, and you're
going through the neighborhood.

Speaker 11 (02:35:43):
Yeah, and we're comparing. And I've just been to Danny
Foster's house. Was a doctor, you know, his dad was
a doctor, and he got everything. Yeah, okay, here we go.
Walking home, I was imagining Christmas dinner. I felt sure
we'd have the same wonderful men we'd had the year before,
Turkey and dressing with cranberry sauce, sweet potato casserole with

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pecans and brown sugar on top, peas, corn pickled peaches,
and homemade rolls. I walked faster, rounding the corner behind
the vine and Olive motel, I saw Timmy Johnson and
his sister Barbara tossing an old tennis ball in their
front yard. As usual, neither of them was wearing a jacket,
though the temperature was in the forties. Timmy was in
my class at school, Barbara was three years older. They

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didn't seem to have many friends, and even at lunchtime
they'd go out onto the playground to swing from the
jungle gym or just talk. They never went with us
into the cafeteria, and never even brought a sack lunch.
The lofting boys said it was because they were snobs.
I thought maybe so too. Hi, Timmy, I said, as
I approached, what'd you get for Christmas? I got everything

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I wanted, except to be begun at an electric football game.
They continued tossing the ball back and forth. Thinking he
didn't hear me, I tried again, Hey, show me what
you got for Christmas. Never looking at me, Timmy mumbled,
I got these shoes. I could see these shoes. He
had received big black, hard leather shoes that looked as

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if they might belong to my grandfather, but they were shined, polished,
and tied directly onto his feet. Barbara had on a
pair that didn't appear to be drastically different. I'd never
seen any of them with anything other than tennis shoes.
Once Timmy was sent home from school for showing up barefooted.
After that, he was absent for a week. Watching them

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continue to throw the ball and noticed something not quite right.
I said, that's not the way you're supposed to wear
those shoes.

Speaker 5 (02:37:38):
Oh boy.

Speaker 11 (02:37:39):
The ball fell to the ground. As they turned to
face me, Barbara said, what do you mean by that?
We're wearing them, just like you are on our feet.
She looked mad. I tried to explain myself. Yeah, that's right,
I stammered, But you're not wearing socks. You're supposed to
wear socks with those kind of shoes. For a moment,

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we stared at each other. Then, without warning, Timmy started
crying and ran inside. Barbara called me a name and
ran after him. I stood there a few minutes, wondering
what I had done. I even knocked on their door.
No one answered, so I went home. When I arrived home,
I told my parents what had happened with Timmy and Barbara.
I told them exactly what I'd said. My mom had

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tears running down her cheeks. As my dad picked me
up and carried me to my bedroom, I thought I
was about to get a spanking, but instead he hugged me.
He told me all about why Danny Foster got big
presents and why I didn't get an electric football game. Gently,
he explained to me about Santa Claus and buttermilk, and then,
wiping the tears from my face, he told me why

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my friends didn't wear socks with their shoes. I now
remember that day asn't awakening I'd never known there were
families without enough to eat. Amid all the decorations and
songs and parties surrounding our most magical holiday. It had
never occurred to me that some parents might do without
the luxury of socks for their children simply because they
couldn't afford them. Many holiday seasons have passed since that year.

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Timmy and Barbara moved away while I was in the
fourth grade. I never saw them again, but I've never
forgotten that Christmas. Wherever I live, there will always be
people in my own neighborhood who are in some way
less fortunate than I. And to this day, there's one
Christmas gift I treasure above all others, the gift of
a pair of socks.

Speaker 3 (02:39:45):
What a great book.

Speaker 11 (02:39:48):
Yeah, yeah, I just wanted to cheer you up. I
just wanted to get you thinking about others.

Speaker 3 (02:39:53):
Rick, Thank you. On a side note, Wisdom Harbor is
always helping us get Andy here and for twenty seven
ninety nine. Right now, you can get Wisdom Harbor for
one year and and that. And you you just said

(02:40:14):
this is a great You just said the new one too,
that one one of the ones I did for you
just came out.

Speaker 11 (02:40:19):
Just came out, just came out. There's there's there's rick
on the there I am yep and this is I
mean this what a what an easy gift to give
to your family, to your grandchildren, to your extended family,
to your school.

Speaker 3 (02:40:35):
If you want to there you go. So just get
at wisdom haarbor dot com. Yep, Andy, thank you, thank you.
Quite enjoyable. If you'd like to stick around, we got something.
It's time. What a Christmas cash countdown? You reminded us.

Speaker 7 (02:40:50):
We got a gift all one fuck Christmas?

Speaker 3 (02:40:53):
This song is.

Speaker 12 (02:41:00):
There you go.

Speaker 3 (02:41:00):
So here's the number. Cheer O five five three zero
one thousand. So we are going to give you the
opportunity to work your way to four hundred dollars if

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you can complete the track, and we will also give
to you from Barton Klay Jewelers. Oh yes, oh yes,
how much cash are we giving away again? We're about
to give away a total of four hundred if they
can run the table, and then we're going to throw
in the four hundred and eighty five hundred dollars mont
Blanc meister Stook platinum coated ballpoint pen. So really, there's

(02:41:50):
there's there's that nine hundred bucks if we grab it
right now.

Speaker 5 (02:41:53):
Ye wow.

Speaker 3 (02:41:55):
So give me a number, and any number give me
it can be a big number. I hold you you,
I'm older than you. Yeah, okay, So I'm sixty one.

Speaker 11 (02:42:05):
Okay, I'm sixty one and a half.

Speaker 3 (02:42:07):
Okay, y'all want to do the number sixty one? Sure? Okay?
All right, So here we go. There's there's one to y'all.
Andy three, Rick count ten.

Speaker 11 (02:42:17):
He's inblator sixty one, Oh my god, seventeen. We got
to talk about a lot of different to get enough
time to read the dictionarreyy, So we get talking about
thirty one. Yeah, he's only a half.

Speaker 3 (02:42:28):
Way there, thirty four, thirty five, thirty seventh. He has
trained by forty forty one, forty forty four, forty five, six,
forty six, seventy eight, nine.

Speaker 11 (02:42:37):
Fifty to fifty one week to Christmas music for something county.

Speaker 3 (02:42:41):
Fifty seven, fifty eight, fifty nine sixty. Here we go,
Hello and welcome to the Rick Burgess Show. You made
it to the Christmas party. Your collar sixty one and
a half. What's your name? Where you calling from?

Speaker 8 (02:42:57):
Patrick from Huntsell?

Speaker 3 (02:42:58):
All right, Patrick from Huntsville. This is a big moment. Okay, buddy,
for two hundred dollars? Are you ready for two hundred dollars?
The Man Church conferences next year will be in two
cities named the two cities. I've got no idea.

Speaker 11 (02:43:22):
This is the number eight chews. This time is one
hundred and fifty four.

Speaker 3 (02:43:26):
Well, and what we what we're saying there? And we've
said this all year preparing for this party. You gotta
be listening to the show, all right, So you'll give
me an another a little smaller number nine. All right,
there's one I started to say that.

Speaker 11 (02:43:44):
Listen to him.

Speaker 3 (02:43:45):
Count, Hello, welcome to the Rick Burgess Show. What's your name?
Where you're coming from?

Speaker 5 (02:43:50):
Birmingham? H Gardendale? Birmingham Gardendale?

Speaker 3 (02:43:58):
Mark burs Yah who? Okay, I have no idea? I
call her ten?

Speaker 17 (02:44:05):
What was it now?

Speaker 3 (02:44:07):
Mark?

Speaker 15 (02:44:08):
Mark?

Speaker 3 (02:44:08):
Mark Bush Mark? Yes, Mark, I don't know why. Okay,
so what he thought?

Speaker 7 (02:44:14):
He couldn't?

Speaker 3 (02:44:15):
Okay, okay, we hear you find time? All right, Mark,
here we go for two hundred dollars. Are you ready
for two hundred dollars? What does Gary call elon Musk?

Speaker 7 (02:44:28):
He calls him?

Speaker 5 (02:44:29):
What name?

Speaker 11 (02:44:33):
Uh?

Speaker 12 (02:44:35):
Let's say.

Speaker 8 (02:44:37):
Hm.

Speaker 5 (02:44:38):
It was like.

Speaker 3 (02:44:41):
Let's lessen God, blessing Lord. Uh musk that what are
you saying? The last name? He said, lay No, I.

Speaker 8 (02:44:57):
Did e mosque?

Speaker 3 (02:45:03):
Yeah, I's incorrect. I'm sorry. So it's so close to
so close he called him Leon must m us team?

Speaker 7 (02:45:14):
Did he say Leon?

Speaker 3 (02:45:16):
Eventually? Alon?

Speaker 7 (02:45:18):
Okay, email me, sir, I'll send you a hat, a hat,
I'll send you a half.

Speaker 8 (02:45:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:45:26):
Now where was it from Garden Deale?

Speaker 7 (02:45:29):
Yeah, email me, sir, I'll send you a hat just
for you know, a consolation prize.

Speaker 3 (02:45:33):
Yeah that was close.

Speaker 7 (02:45:35):
Yeah, because it was so he got half of it.

Speaker 5 (02:45:36):
This is not a change.

Speaker 3 (02:45:37):
Yeah, he did. And we're all gonna hug each other
in this break. Yeah, all right, we'll be right back.

Speaker 1 (02:45:43):
This is the Rick Burgess show.

Speaker 3 (02:46:06):
Shoulder.

Speaker 1 (02:46:07):
He will likely be the new CEO of Cracker Barrel
bout you all right?

Speaker 3 (02:46:15):
So it looks like Speedy has pulled this off. It
looks like on hold right now, Bama's in the playoffs tonight.
He's gonna make the Christmas party.

Speaker 9 (02:46:27):
It looks like, oh boy, uh Dickie, are you there?

Speaker 5 (02:46:48):
Bud own Guide and Mary Christmas?

Speaker 11 (02:46:50):
How there?

Speaker 12 (02:46:51):
He is?

Speaker 5 (02:46:53):
Road Guide? Mary Christmas?

Speaker 3 (02:46:54):
What's going on? But Hey, what's going on?

Speaker 5 (02:46:57):
First of all, I want to say hello to Gary.
Gary's in there. He big Tide man.

Speaker 13 (02:47:01):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean I just can't hardly get
by without uh watching them.

Speaker 5 (02:47:08):
Okay, I'll tell me Greg getting everybody chances, the Little
Mary Christmas and Gregory?

Speaker 3 (02:47:13):
Well, you know you fired up where you're at in Oklahoma?

Speaker 5 (02:47:17):
Hey, Well, first of all, I want to say on
behalf of fidlish.

Speaker 15 (02:47:20):
Head, Road Tide, Big Night tonight.

Speaker 5 (02:47:27):
Boys, we got a little playoff action tonight. We don't
deserve to be there, but we You give us a change,
You give us a change, and here we go.

Speaker 3 (02:47:34):
Now you still don't feel like you deserve to be there.
I thought you was just mad.

Speaker 5 (02:47:38):
You know, I'm out here in Norman. You did go
Road Tide, you said you were going. Well, Gary understands this.
I can speak on behaffle Gary, I got budget. Hey,
I got too much, Mam' Oh.

Speaker 23 (02:47:54):
Yeah yeah, I can ready tell. I can ready tell.
That's the first time I ever talked to him. Oh wow, Gary,
this is Dicky Dicky Gary, Gary, Dicky.

Speaker 5 (02:48:06):
Nice to meet you. Sure think a lot of you.

Speaker 3 (02:48:08):
Yeah, I appreciate it.

Speaker 5 (02:48:10):
I tell you one thing, are you tolerating these is
beyond me.

Speaker 13 (02:48:15):
And you don't know what I have to go through
broad tide.

Speaker 3 (02:48:19):
So you ended up going to Norman, Oklahoma? What that means?
By goodness? Gracious? He feels like they got a shock.
He feeling it. He's feeling it.

Speaker 5 (02:48:27):
I got too much fun. I kept thinking about a Harvey.

Speaker 3 (02:48:31):
Huh.

Speaker 5 (02:48:31):
I kept thinking about Harvey up and I don't know
what do you do?

Speaker 3 (02:48:35):
Harvey? Okay? What he would go to Oklahoma?

Speaker 5 (02:48:42):
I tell you that, yeah, he would have you seen?

Speaker 3 (02:48:44):
Okay, Yeah, here's the wind's gonna be blowing hard.

Speaker 5 (02:48:49):
About to say something off of me? With blowing hard
WINDA how do you?

Speaker 3 (02:48:56):
How do you feel about your field goal kicker?

Speaker 2 (02:48:58):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (02:48:59):
That blames everybody but himself. You'll have time.

Speaker 5 (02:49:02):
Well, you gotta tell you responsibility. I mean, like I said,
our team is kind of called Ryan Williams's disease. Oh boy,
I mean, the whole team's starting to fall apart. But
at the need beginning, and you know, if I was
sitting here with Sabin still coaching sabing cars, uh, you know,
and then we're about to win another national championship. I
don't know, the little kailing, little kailin the Boer. It

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realizes the opportunity well be presented. But if you can't,
nobody meet Mamma twice in one season. So we're gonna
meet the Sooners and we're gonna meet the pants off of.

Speaker 3 (02:49:33):
The Look he's back. Yeah, no, wonder you made it
to drive the Yeah he's back.

Speaker 5 (02:49:39):
Uh huh ober little silk kicker can kick it a
forty five mile on our wind.

Speaker 3 (02:49:43):
I tell you can't come down to special teams always
does it seems.

Speaker 5 (02:49:48):
If you if you look at Oklahoma overrated.

Speaker 3 (02:49:51):
Oh well, I'll tell you this.

Speaker 5 (02:49:54):
When that meantes last time, we had a lot of injuries,
we had a lot of issues, and the rest were cheating.

Speaker 3 (02:50:00):
I forgot about that.

Speaker 6 (02:50:01):
But now you know, nobody believes that Bama can do it.
Uh So y'all always have to fight through that. So
you believe now though, because you've gone back and forth
from not believing to believing.

Speaker 5 (02:50:12):
Well, it's it's it's it starts over in the playoff,
you know, and when you give maam another shot. We
kind of like Jason and them Jason movies. You better
get it now. You like that, And I don't like
to coach Oklahoma don't like him at all.

Speaker 3 (02:50:29):
You don't like him?

Speaker 5 (02:50:30):
Huh, well I don'kay. How you say his last name?

Speaker 3 (02:50:32):
Verbal venerable venial vene verbal verbal. Man, we're gonna go
to Gary, Gary, it's vulnerable.

Speaker 5 (02:50:40):
Okay, well Gary, Now we just just you know, I'm
trying to like him, but trying to like him trying
to pick up the clean end of a turk. You
just can't do it.

Speaker 13 (02:50:49):
Yeah, well I know, I know, I know where you're
coming from.

Speaker 5 (02:50:54):
There.

Speaker 3 (02:50:59):
I had what Bama better be able to run the ball.
I ain't done it very well this year.

Speaker 5 (02:51:03):
We think, well, you got to run the ball. We
got jammed back. That's going to help.

Speaker 3 (02:51:07):
Oh, you got to do it.

Speaker 5 (02:51:09):
Yeah, well we gotta we gotta block somebody. We got
to move somebody. Uh the Sooner's hold looking at our defense. Well,
you know, you got to score points to meet the tide,
and I think we can score more than they can
this time.

Speaker 3 (02:51:19):
Road tag Okay, yeah, I think three turnovers led to
points last time they played. So you got to get
that taken care of.

Speaker 5 (02:51:26):
Yeah, it's a Christmas party going man. Little Phyllisten I
dress up as Sabing calls and she dresses up as
Miss Terry.

Speaker 3 (02:51:33):
Okay, that's a side.

Speaker 5 (02:51:36):
I'm glad missus calls and let me just tell you this.
I don't do number win just like shaving. That's it.

Speaker 6 (02:51:42):
Well now, Dickie, I don't want to look too far ahead.
But if you guys were to win tonight, are you
going to go on to the rose Bolt for the
Indianna game?

Speaker 5 (02:51:50):
If y'all win and we win this one? I'm into
California before and I hate those people, but we'll go again.

Speaker 3 (02:51:56):
You're tolerated.

Speaker 5 (02:51:59):
I'll tell you one thing. If you're bothered by singing transvestas,
don't go out there.

Speaker 3 (02:52:04):
What about difference they sing?

Speaker 13 (02:52:06):
Yeah, it's basically a song.

Speaker 5 (02:52:09):
Yeah, that's right. Have you seen that video with that
train under persons hanging?

Speaker 2 (02:52:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:52:14):
I watch it all the time.

Speaker 5 (02:52:16):
You broad.

Speaker 6 (02:52:19):
Okay, quit watching you. With about ten seconds left, give
us a final score. What's your production? You sound common?

Speaker 5 (02:52:25):
Mama winnes tonight twenty seventy.

Speaker 3 (02:52:27):
Ten, twenty seventeen, twenty seven to ten.

Speaker 5 (02:52:30):
I'm alost the crimson and why will go beat the
fants off? The crimson and cream?

Speaker 3 (02:52:34):
Okay, a lot of crimson? All right? Well, I cannot
believe we found it sound like, hey, you know he's
back to his old seal. These last couple of calls
we had he was down. He turned on the tide.
I think he's back.

Speaker 5 (02:52:46):
Well, you'd be Christmas whole and all a wing rotat hotel.

Speaker 3 (02:52:51):
And there he goes, Thank you, Dicky, appreciate you, buddy.
All right, bye bye, there he goes. There you goes.
I go, he sounds better. Oh here, I didn't think
he was going. No, he was pouting last time were
talked to him.

Speaker 1 (02:53:03):
Yeah, this is the Rick Burgess Show. We be bold
and let the whole world know that. You listen to

(02:53:25):
the Rick Burgers Show. Cool merchandise is available now. Just
go to richburgersshow dot com.

Speaker 19 (02:53:32):
That's clipt shop.

Speaker 3 (02:53:34):
Well, you know we're we can't get it to you
by Christmas. Now, we can't guarantee that. But if you
want someone to have a gift card that they can
use in our store to get whatever they want, we
can get a gift card to you in twenty four hours.
So go to rickburgesshow dot com, under shop or hit
store and you can do that. Also a reminders Wednesday's

(02:53:55):
Bible study that archive available. It is a Christmas theme
Strange and Counters brand new episode this weekend, also taking
on some things dealing with Christmas and the temptation of
Jesus Christ himself by Lucifer. We would that that's gonna
be some stuff in that podcast this weekend wherever you
get podcasts, and of course, the archive of Today's Christmas

(02:54:16):
Party will be available to Eddie van Adler is ready
to contribute to the Christmas Party even more than he
already has come. He's coming in here with his guitar.
He's got it out and he's got it out ready
to go. He's going to the big boy mikeed it'd
be good to like just have everybody's Christmas party.

Speaker 7 (02:54:36):
We can see everybody that's it's not just me.

Speaker 3 (02:54:39):
Yeah, okay, And I can't switche while I'm no to
a wide shot and get your guitar out and have
at it.

Speaker 5 (02:54:45):
Let's do it.

Speaker 3 (02:54:46):
Okay.

Speaker 7 (02:54:46):
So this is a Christmas song I wrote, Okay, good
this morning, all right, got the idea for it last
night and then kind of dreamed about it a little bit.
Laane Kiffin was not.

Speaker 3 (02:54:58):
Involved, Okay, Okay, so there you go.

Speaker 5 (02:55:00):
All right.

Speaker 7 (02:55:01):
The name of the song is Don't Police flip out
on your family. Okay, don't forlise flip out on your
family reckon Christmas is not manly, so stop all the

(02:55:22):
fighting and fussin because Christmas should be busting. Do y'all
know what busting means.

Speaker 1 (02:55:30):
It means good.

Speaker 7 (02:55:33):
Christmas should be busting.

Speaker 3 (02:55:35):
Okay, yeah, I got it.

Speaker 7 (02:55:36):
You maxed out your credit card again, but that's not
the fault of your family and friends. Just take a
deep breath, don't go loco and stay away from the
mall in Costco. So don't for leise flip out on
your family. Reckon Christmas is not manly, so stop all
the fighting and fussin because Christmas should be busting. Your

(02:56:01):
liberal cousin blames Trump for losing her blue hair, but
when Biden was half dead, she didn't seem to care.
Some presents are chewed up, What about the dang dog
look on the kitchen floor. That's not a mule law,
But don't fast flip out on your family reck and

(02:56:22):
Christmas is not manly, so stop all the fighting and
fussing because Christmas should be busting. And yeah, and here's
now a little shout out to my workplace, friends and family.
I spend more time with you, guys than I actually
spend with my family, which is depressing. All right here

(02:56:42):
right Speedy, he's the best.

Speaker 1 (02:56:45):
In the world producer.

Speaker 3 (02:56:46):
Speedy.

Speaker 7 (02:56:47):
He'll rescue you when you are needy. He's a little
bit rough, he's a lot of bit bald. I think
he's mulatto. I think that's what that's called. Merry Christmas,
my beautiful mixed race workplace, best friend, Greg Burgess. He'll

(02:57:08):
bring up your past mistakes and your reputation. He will tarnish,
but then he'll give you a big, warm hug and
he'll smell a little bit like varnish, and that's good.
Merry Christmas, Greg, thanks for being my accountability partner, buddy,
never let me forget my mistakes. I appreciate that so much.

(02:57:31):
Rick Burgess, this goes out to you, buddy, Chrick Burgess.
He's tough, but if you're falling, he'll catch you. And
he's got a face as big as an Easter Island statue.
Merry Christmas, Rag, thanks for saving our jobs, buddy. That
was big, Remember, guys, I remember that's pretty bad.

Speaker 11 (02:57:59):
I'm so let that out.

Speaker 7 (02:58:01):
Remember the reason during the holidays, zoo, it's celebrating Jesus
to get given to you, to share that love freely
with family foreign near, and don't let the men steal
your holiday cheer. So love the ones who around you
and put your anger on the shelf because if you
freak out on the rady, oh, you'll sound like an

(02:58:22):
angry little else. So don't police about on your family.
Recking Christmas is non manly. So stop all the fighting
and busting, because Christmas should be busting. I said Christmas
should be busting. Yeah, we merry Christmas.

Speaker 3 (02:58:45):
Everybody mistakes, they will do good work.

Speaker 7 (02:58:55):
So we're Go's time for the Christmas cash countdown. Hey Senna,
how about some cash? All I want for Christmas is
cold home.

Speaker 1 (02:59:16):
Can and here we go out.

Speaker 3 (02:59:21):
The number is two O five five three zero one thousand,
Barton Clay Jewelers, Monts, Blanc, Master Stook, Platinum, colded ballpoint pen,
four hundred and eighty dollars and another four hundred dollars
up for grabs, and we're gonna do it. I think

(02:59:42):
we can get We're gonna give people a choice, Gary
to be ready Gary, So we're gonna go with collar
twenty five. How about that? Is it like it since
today's the Christmas party. Okay, so let's go. Let's go
one to three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty,

(03:00:08):
twenty one, twenty two, twenty three. Hello, welcome to the
Rick Burgess Show. What's your name? And where you calling from?

Speaker 18 (03:00:17):
My name is Calli and I'm calling from Dallas, Georgia.

Speaker 3 (03:00:20):
All right, Cally, you have a choice, okay, and I'm
talking about for everything Okay, okay, four hundred dollars and
the pen from Barton Clay Jewelers. You can either have
Gary go to the Burgess ball court to make one
shot for you to win it all, or you can

(03:00:40):
answer one question.

Speaker 18 (03:00:42):
Oh is the question about the show this year? It is,
I'll take the question.

Speaker 3 (03:00:51):
Here is the question, ag Ery. Here is the question
for everything somebody's had? And what's your what's your name again?

Speaker 11 (03:01:00):
Cali?

Speaker 18 (03:01:01):
On the YouTube? On the YouTube, I'm Cal.

Speaker 3 (03:01:03):
Okay, thank Cal. Here it is something that I dealt
with all year long, and if you were listening, it's
gonna win money and a really nice gift for you. Okay,
are you ready?

Speaker 18 (03:01:16):
I'm ready?

Speaker 3 (03:01:17):
What does Big Vox mean.

Speaker 18 (03:01:21):
Oh it has to do with a big voice.

Speaker 7 (03:01:24):
Yeah, it's.

Speaker 3 (03:01:29):
It's Christmas cast came big voice.

Speaker 7 (03:01:34):
Hey Allo, one for Christmas is cold.

Speaker 3 (03:01:44):
Cal You did it. Four hundred dollars for you and
you also won the mont Blanc Master Stoop Ballpoint pen
platinum coated for four hundred and eighty dollars from Barton
Clay Jewelers.

Speaker 18 (03:02:00):
I good, can I can I tell you a story.
I'm the one that went up against Noookum's on when
we were on the show and I lost Burgess Ball
battle and she won a thousand dollars. Oh, this is
my comeback.

Speaker 8 (03:02:15):
This is my comeback story.

Speaker 3 (03:02:18):
You know that I had that saved is the last
thing of the year because of the whole big Vox
thing and how many times it was brought up, and
how many times it was this, how many times it
was that it's the name of our new company, and
it was the history of it we talked about many times,
and you know what it's It's obvious that you have
been loyally listening and your loyalty has paid off for you.

(03:02:40):
So thank you very much for your support. I'm putting
you on hold and speed you'll get your information. We'll
send you the money and also we will send you
the pen.

Speaker 18 (03:02:51):
Merry Christmas, guys. You guys don't know how much this
means to me and my family.

Speaker 3 (03:02:55):
Well, Merry Christmas to you and to your family, and
thank you for supporting us. And tell that baby we
said hello.

Speaker 18 (03:03:02):
I sure will, She said, is that Rick?

Speaker 8 (03:03:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (03:03:05):
It is baby. Hey, that's fantastic. Do you not love
that right now?

Speaker 2 (03:03:10):
I love it?

Speaker 3 (03:03:10):
I want I want to see as we go to
break wood, Gary have made get over from the one fifty.
Were gonna make it makeable. You're gonna get your toe.
What Gary would have done here? You would have missed it?
It was good to say I would have missed it.
Fouler brothers would have hit that.

Speaker 5 (03:03:27):
We end.

Speaker 3 (03:03:28):
We'll bring Gary back to the mic. Everybody will be
on a mic and we'll do unscreened phone calls to
end the year on the Rick Burgess Show Christmas Party.

Speaker 1 (03:03:37):

Speaker 4 (03:03:57):
Me.

Speaker 1 (03:04:02):
It's time for the most dangerous ten minutes in video
on screen phone calls.

Speaker 3 (03:04:09):
Call No.

Speaker 1 (03:04:11):
Two O five five, three zero one thousand and get
on the.

Speaker 3 (03:04:15):
Shows sor our final time to get to talk to
you of the year. Speedy. Eleven hundred dollars went out today. Yeah,
she did. And so by the time the week ended,
I think about fifty one hundred. So you'd like to
do some over five thousand, that should be it. Yeah,
I'm one hundred dollars over budget. I saw that, all right.
I saw that big time rush and I don't get
mad about that.

Speaker 6 (03:04:36):
And so yes, today Rick, we had two three hundred
dollars winners and one four hundred dollars winner.

Speaker 3 (03:04:42):
Yep, ain't got the pen. Didn't go with that four hundred.

Speaker 6 (03:04:44):
Oh yes, and she is so excited. Callie Grooms from Dallas, Georgia,
she won the four hundred and the pen. Thank you,
Barton Clays. And then Christa Nelson from Ohio was one
of the three hundred dollars contestant winners. And then Beth
Forman from Georgia was the other three hundred. Today it's
good and we got a text winner. We're waiting here,

(03:05:05):
but we are waiting to hear back from them. I
have contacted them and just waiting to hear back.

Speaker 3 (03:05:10):
So thank you textingation. We see all of your well
wishes coming up. Thank you to all of you there
in Tube City. And all the tubers out there. Thanks
to all of you that listened to us on our
wonderful affiliates all over the country on our terrestrial radio network,
our thanks to Syndicated Solutions and all the work they
do with the national sales team, Blaze TV and their

(03:05:30):
sales team and the content with Strange Encounters and the
daily best of iwor that you guys air and partner
with us. We're so grateful for that Summit Broadcasting. Thank
you so much for believing in this show and partnering
with us. So iHeartRadio, thank you for what you do
for the podcast archives, So just a big thank you.

(03:05:53):
We have so many organizations and now we've teamed up
with grip feed. We're excited about Big Vox Outdoors what
we're going to do going forward. So and we've got
other partnerships that we're kind of working on. And all
of our sponsors, national and local everywhere, all those sales
teams that bust their tail to make this thing happen.

(03:06:13):
Without them, none of this happens so on the national
and local scene and on the streaming and and and
you know the archives all of that. So also, don't
forget the new album is out on all the streaming today.
So are you ready, those of you that are waiting
for it to come to the streaming options? It is
there now, just search whatever option you use the Rick

(03:06:37):
Burgess Show. So guys, let's take a few phone calls here, unscreened. Gary,
thank you for all your contribution this year, buddy.

Speaker 13 (03:06:44):
Well, I appreciate it. I just want to wish up buddy,
Merry Christmas and happy New Year. And you know, stay
safe out there, oh, stay safe out there. Thank you Gary.

Speaker 3 (03:06:56):
Well, Gary, what you do for us sometimes is really thankless.
Thank you for all you do.

Speaker 5 (03:07:01):
Buddy.

Speaker 3 (03:07:02):
You're out there working hard and nobody even sees it.
But no, you know, I do what I can. Yeah,
we love you well. You know you saw me last
time one hundred I said, Gary, thank you for making
this place so special.

Speaker 13 (03:07:12):
What I'm gonna tell you, y'all want to be down
there here next a few weeks hunting and stuff like that.
I noticed I heard somebody want man, you to have
a fight and you yeah, and it may if y'all
keep on, it may happen.

Speaker 3 (03:07:26):
Okay, I just said, thank you.

Speaker 7 (03:07:27):
Don't do it, Geary, It's not worth it, trust me,
it's not worth it.

Speaker 6 (03:07:30):
Come on, Gary, you're saying you want to roll them
sleeves up yet, so you're getting you're singing a little
frustrated with us.

Speaker 3 (03:07:36):
No, not really, Okay, I'm just joking. To the phones,
we go, Hello, Welcome to the Rick Birders Show. Unscreen
phone calls.

Speaker 5 (03:07:44):
Go Rick, Rick.

Speaker 17 (03:07:45):
I got an idea for a great segment. Okay, Rick,
Rick and Gary switch spots. Gary goes the seat, one
goes to uh the live stream. Anyway, everybody switches spots.
I think it would be hilarious.

Speaker 3 (03:08:03):
Okay, yeah, you're talking about kind of like musical chairs.
We just all move and we have to take each
other's back. I said, hey, that's not bad. By the way,
that is a good idea. That is fun. That's funny
for twenty twenty six. I like it, say and switch
and then we just go we continue. Oh, Greg, Greck, Gret, Gary,
come out, Gary, Christmas got a hold of it.

Speaker 13 (03:08:26):
Yeah, I started to sing, why do you go ahead
and sing it?

Speaker 2 (03:08:29):
Now?

Speaker 3 (03:08:29):
Is that what you're doing when you and leave?

Speaker 13 (03:08:31):
Just yeah, y'all start laughing.

Speaker 3 (03:08:33):
That mean no, we were yeah, well we were.

Speaker 13 (03:08:39):
Answer a small phone call, dashing through the.

Speaker 3 (03:08:41):
Snow, dann that like me chill okay, Uh, welcome to
the Rick Burgers Show. Unscreen phone calls, go ahead, I'm lost. Uh,
here we go, Rick Burgess. Wow, boy, they're coming in
like crazy. Really okay, Rick Bird your show. Unscreen phone calls,

(03:09:01):
go ahead, Hello, you're on the Rick Burgess Show.

Speaker 11 (03:09:05):
Go ahead.

Speaker 12 (03:09:07):
Hey Brandon from Wascen Spring.

Speaker 3 (03:09:09):
What's up, buddy? What's on your mind? Go ahead?

Speaker 12 (03:09:12):
I just wanted to say that I listen every day,
watch on YouTube or the radios, and I actually do
look forward to hearing the best of us away.

Speaker 3 (03:09:22):
Oh good, yeah, yeah, yeah. All the guys have worked
so hard on those and they're ready to go. So
we're excited you go back and relive some of those
moments that are unforgettable from your one Rick Burgess Show.
Go ahead.

Speaker 18 (03:09:37):
I just want to say happy anniversary to my husband
Joe Tomorrow thirty nine years is caring from Bluntsville.

Speaker 3 (03:09:44):
All right, well together right here at the Christmas time
Rick Birders Show, unscreen phone calls, Go ahead, Papa.

Speaker 8 (03:09:52):
One of Andrews, make the room all musty.

Speaker 3 (03:10:00):
Oh that's good. Yeah, Rick Burgers Show on screen phone calls.

Speaker 5 (03:10:03):
You're on, Go ahead, Hey, can we can.

Speaker 3 (03:10:10):
We can we get Gary to cook some chicken dump
And that's not somebody that would try to get kids
in their van. Don't have rick Burgers show unscreen phone calls.

Speaker 8 (03:10:29):
Go ahead, Papa, Papa, what's the playhouse?

Speaker 3 (03:10:37):
Greg, you had the gift of the year, Buddy. I
think Adler put the most effort in.

Speaker 5 (03:10:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (03:10:43):
I think yours was the most offensive.

Speaker 7 (03:10:45):
I think it was the best.

Speaker 3 (03:10:46):
Yeah, it was so Yeah, and just want to say
to you guys, thank y'all. This is a great year. Greg, Adler, Gary, Uh,
everybody works on the show. Look, you know it was
it was. It wasn't easy.

Speaker 5 (03:11:01):
Now.

Speaker 3 (03:11:01):
It was a year of ups and downs. And like
I've said many times, I think people think think I
was joking. We have worked harder this year than we
probably have worked in ten fifteen years. I mean, you
know it has been. It has been a grind at times,
but a wonderful grind.

Speaker 17 (03:11:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (03:11:18):
I mean glad that it was there. Yeah, you got
you gotta hustle now in our business more than ever.
And you guys have been stellar, all all three of
you and you two Gary, y'all have been stellar. Uh,
coming in here every day and doing that and if you.
If you had not, this thing had no hope and
so thank you.

Speaker 11 (03:11:38):
I know it was a lot to.

Speaker 3 (03:11:40):
Try to figure out, and you guys have delivered. I mean,
I had somebody send an email last night and they
were like, you know, I think I would would give
your one an A plus. I think it was more
difficult than we thought it would be. But you guys
have been fantastic, and I just want to tell all
three of you, well done, well, thank you, thank you,
and we're fired up, ready to come back a couple

(03:12:00):
of weeks off, come back ray to row. Yes, sir, Yeah,
you know, like I said before, I don't mind resting
as long as I've earned it, and you guys have
definitely earned it. Wow. We're very thankful of you too
and your leadership. That's a good way to merry Christmas
to all of you out there, Happy, happy hanukkah, whatever

(03:12:23):
you're doing, and I hope you have a wonderful, wonderful time.

Speaker 7 (03:12:27):
Happy one's that speedy.

Speaker 3 (03:12:29):
Yes, thank you, thank you, that's gosh, that's good. Enjoy
those best of moments. H and Lord willing be here
with us on the fifth of January, as we have
even more planned for twenty twenty six, God bless each.

Speaker 11 (03:12:43):
You never wonder.

Speaker 1 (03:12:45):

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