The Rick Burgess Show Christmas Party 2025 | The Rick Burgess Show | Best of 12/19/25

It's the last LIVE show of the year - The Rick Burgess Show Christmas Party! Over the Christmas break, you can enjoy Best Of shows from the first year of the show! Lord willing, we will return with all-new LIVE shows on January 5th! Merry Christmas from the whole gang at The Rick Burgess Show!!!

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
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the whole gang at the Rick Burgess Show. Well America says, yes, sir,

(00:50):
We're ready. I see a new Orleans Saints. Fancy who
that said they're gonna beat tim Saints? Who that waste management? Montgomery,
Alabama highth ninety two said we're in for all five, Birch. Yeah, Brady,
Panama City said looking forward to another one. Knoxville, Tennessee

(01:15):
Rocky Tops Ready Merry Christmas. Nauvoo is ready to go
big take.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
I see you.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
Leroy in Bessemer I got my own you, buddy. Loud
and clear. Birge in Brazil, Tennessee, Fairview, Alabama, Stanley, Ohio
dowed in and ready, Birch. I'm in Georgia. Good to
be invited to the Christmas party?

Speaker 3 (01:51):
You are?

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Yeah. Stevens Plumbing at East Lakes at burg Let's go Michigan.
Mark the Wolverine is ready looking for a new coach.
But he's ready. So they come in from all over America.
Boiling spring, South Carolina. There's the Foxes. Somebody said they

(02:13):
quit their job today 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 New Year. Today is the Rick Burgess Show Christmas Party.
Come on and all of you are invited. It is

(02:34):
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, plus Tis Blanc meister
stoop ballpoint pen from Barton Clay Jewelers. We throw that

(02:55):
in todaytasy. So we have a lot to announce. First
of all, today you're all invited. So it's gary. I mean,
I thought I'd come up here and maybe bring some
of my pies and say Mary Christmas everybody. Now, buddy, Hey,
I ain't got to come up there, ain't you to.
I mean I got, I got more than enough to do. Okay, yeah,

(03:17):
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 here today, and
today b s or be true worth money today, Christmas
cash up for grabs. Andy will also read to us.

(03:37):
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
emotion in it, so that that will happen today. James

(03:58):
span I will, we'll check in. He'll give you his
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year in 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 ask you this one. The last time
we heard from Dickey n admire to say he was

(04:19):
down as an understatement. Done done, yeah tied, don't deserve
to go to the playoff. Done, need to get a
new coach. I'm out right? Is that pretty much it
in the retrail? Yes, yeah, need new players. Yeah, you
know the he's I think you said the Ryan williamsase
disease has affected the whole team now, even their quarterbacks
got it. Yeah. So but I just I just since

(04:46):
I don't see him letting the playoffs go, no, so
we may hear from Dickey.

Speaker 4 (04:51):
I communicated with him a little bit, and he was
a little vague on where he was.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
And I'm like, Dickie, what.

Speaker 4 (04:58):
Are you doing because I wanted to know his play
and see and see if you wanted to join the
Christmas party and all that, And he said, just check
with me, you know, okay 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 a.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
Lot of boomers sooner on textonation. Yeah, I know he
and he and Nate go head to head today, so
playoff start tonight. Also today we swap our Christmas gifts. Yeah,
well I worked hard on yours, green 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

(05:35):
did back in school when you had a project. I
waited til the last night to do it right before,
but I got it done. It's there.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
I can't wait. I cannot wait to see y'all's gifts.
And it's the thought. Yeah, it's the thought.

Speaker 5 (05:48):
Right, you spent a lot of thought in mind thinking
about Yeah, friends and brother.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
So if you don't remember Greg Drew Speedy's name, Yeah,
I Drew Gregg's name, and Adler and Greg Drew and
Adam you Drew whose name you mine? Oh? Man, I'm excited.
And then I Drew Adler and then Speedy Drew.

Speaker 5 (06:11):
I do have a kind of extra little gift for everybody.
And you guys, remember yesterday we were talking about chicken
and dumplings.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
Oh wait a minute, wait a minute, you.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
Guys want some chicken and dumplings?

Speaker 1 (06:24):
Really are you? He came out of my f there's
no refrigerator in there. I just who made it?

Speaker 2 (06:32):
I just not me?

Speaker 5 (06:34):
Okay, Yeah, in fact a place that you like a lot,
right recognized, recognize?

Speaker 1 (06:39):
Oh okay, yeah, baby, we got done.

Speaker 5 (06:42):
But yesterday picked 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 1 (06:52):
Yeah, let me tell you, it was pretty to forget it.
It was pretty cool last night. We're fine, Hey, I'll
take can I say, I don't mind where you got
to see. 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 now. Their meats fantastic. But I
had I had their dressing for Thanksgiving and it was great,

(07:13):
very nice. I'm looking forward to that. That's awesome.

Speaker 5 (07:15):
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 1 (07:26):
You know, let's give it a go.

Speaker 4 (07:27):
That's very kind of you. When you went down to
the floor to get it. I thought, well, is he
What's what's this deal with?

Speaker 6 (07:32):
Is it?

Speaker 1 (07:32):
Is it? Mister chin? Should we be concerned? What's the
plan for him.

Speaker 6 (07:40):
Christmas?

Speaker 1 (07:42):
A Christmas party? Let's take him to camp, get it
over with, Let's take it. Why would let's just get
it over with. Let's take him to campound. Is he alive?

Speaker 5 (07:50):
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 Chan
and racist.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
So I'm going to take him home with me. I
take him home with me? What I'm gonna do?

Speaker 1 (08:08):
I was surprised he does have kind of his eyes
are a little bit easy.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
He's a Chinese fighting fish. Why is mister Chan?

Speaker 1 (08:15):
Yeah, he's fighting fish, and so there you go. That's
your Chan home with.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
A Yeah, I'm going to take him home and he'll
have a nice There's.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
No way he's taking out. You're gonna ride.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
I'm gonna have to.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
Yes, Yeah, got too great. Somebody you realized. The beautiful
thing is we've worked for years back during the Rick
and Bubbi 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 we think we have done. We hope we're gonna
try it anyway, so.

Speaker 4 (08:50):
All the boxes have been checked, and everybody says, and
we're ready to go. So we'll see because we had
the discussion many times, surely in twenty twenty four, twenty five.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
So how Greg, what color is my my?

Speaker 3 (09:03):
My?

Speaker 1 (09:03):
That's Kurgandy my quarters up to the burgundy? Am I
the only one that had any Christmas spirit at Also,
I'm gonnay's gonna's not red? It's maroon. Yeah, maroon. It's
very close to Hale State maroon. Yeah, so it's there.

Speaker 3 (09:16):
You go.

Speaker 1 (09:17):
You'll see a maroon signa every now and then. Yes,
thank you Adler for the little effort in there. But
Christmas red is supposed to be bright.

Speaker 2 (09:25):
Yeah, this is speedy.

Speaker 1 (09:27):
And Greg have decided on Christmas Day apparently there in morning,
uh so something Christmas. But I really don't own anything
this Christmas. Almost wore I have a little goofy Christmas sweater. Almost.

Speaker 4 (09:37):
I was like, it's just just dress. So we have
h we have the shirt. Also wear one of the tens.
Greg approves, right, we're approof stuff.

Speaker 3 (09:47):
I like that.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
One big announcement to one kind of 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 3 (09:57):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
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. Okay, so Apple Music. Yeah,
Apple Music, it's there for sure. So go and if

(10:20):
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.

Speaker 7 (10:31):
God.

Speaker 1 (10:32):
So it is on streaming today. Good stuff. So great
way to in the first year is to get that
out on streaming before the last show. Yeah, so there,
So there's a lot. Today's big today is big, big.

Speaker 4 (10:45):
Big, And just when we think it's gonna be going,
Andy's gonna make his cry with socks for Christmas.

Speaker 1 (10:50):
I knew you were going to do it. What if
you got socks with the Christmas and then some Christmas
shoes to put up with a song. Oh my goodness,
of course, Greg, those are not for you. There for mama,
so she can look pretty much. She meets Jesus, which
is the saddest st ever.

Speaker 8 (11:06):
We'll be back. This is the Rick Burgess Show.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
You also will have an archive every day for you
podcast archive people. You will have that, 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
you don't care about that. You can still order it,

(11:38):
but remember the gift cards in the store. If you
miss the deadline. You still want somebody who is a
fan of the show to be able to go to
the store and get something 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

(12:00):
this as we take a couple of weeks off and
kind of refresh, spend time with family and friends, get
to sleep a little bit. I think Adlers showed us
all you know that 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

(12:21):
the first year. It is celebrating Christmas, it is having fun.
It's given away gifts, it's swapping gifts, it's getting festive
up in here. I don't want to be a Debbie
Downer on you know, the Rick Burgess Show Christmas Party,
but we can't just ignore and and overlook. You know

(12:45):
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. Of course Greg Biffy has
been you know, like you were talking about when he
used to his helicopter to help rescue people, you know,

(13:06):
during one of the hurricanes and flooding.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
And that's that's what I'm showing right now.

Speaker 1 (13:10):
Yeah, and you know so and that that is he's
he seems to be by people who know him, and
then 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

(13:31):
think just to go see visit some friends and Sarahsota,
I think is where the plane was going his 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 all appearances are
they knew they had trouble and they tried to come

(13:53):
back to the airport and unfortunately crashed trying to land
and and all all died.

Speaker 4 (14:00):
Yeah, he is 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
C five fifty I think is that was the plane.

Speaker 1 (14:20):
And some eye.

Speaker 4 (14:22):
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 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 obviously he

(14:43):
was trying to get it back.

Speaker 1 (14:44):
Yeah, yeah, And I also saw some of the you know,
because you know, I actually followed this account on Instagram
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 to

(15:07):
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

(15:28):
that's a sad story today.

Speaker 9 (15:30):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (15:31):
And you know 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.

Speaker 3 (15:48):
Yea.

Speaker 1 (15:49):
And so uh, just be in prayer for all that
are associated with the Biffel 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 4 (16:04):
Also on the flight was Craig Wadsworth and Dennis and
Jack Dutton.

Speaker 1 (16:08):
I want to make sure I give their names. Just
awful story.

Speaker 4 (16:11):
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.

Speaker 1 (16:16):
Well, yeah, I saw. 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, you know. So that's right, it is his plane.
Because I said that. Yeah, And so they didn't at
that time, they didn't know who was on it, but

(16:38):
they knew who it belonged to.

Speaker 2 (16:39):
So here's a here's a back at Easter, Greg Biffle.

Speaker 5 (16:42):
After flying a helicopter for nine straight days rescuing people,
he returned.

Speaker 10 (16:48):
And dropped Easter eggs on a bunch of kids. So
there's another happy memory of what a servant and serve server.

Speaker 1 (16:54):
He was. Wow, wow, Wow, We'll be back. The Rick
Burgess Show Christmas party continuing right after this.

Speaker 8 (17:03):
This is the Rick Burgess Show.

Speaker 1 (17:11):
Harry's still to come. Hey, Sage's greeting insurance from Chilnam County, Alabama.
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

(17:31):
had to go make a gift for that person. I've
made something for baby brother and it's going to be
an emotional time when I give him that gift.

Speaker 3 (17:45):
It really is.

Speaker 1 (17:48):
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 nod did you all? I mean, just like
you had experience, Greg, I was at the house, went
home after Strange Encounters. Let's tell everybody about that, Adlers. So, uh,

(18:09):
there is a new Strange Encounters. We recorded that yesterday.

Speaker 3 (18:13):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
We kept the Bible study this week with the Christmas theme.

Speaker 7 (18:17):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (18:17):
Strange Encounters also a bit of a theme there dealing
with you know what what what are some tips?

Speaker 11 (18:24):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (18:25):
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 message out of that, but I will say we did.

Speaker 9 (18:41):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (18:42):
We we took on the approach with this episode this weekend,
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 points on the proper balance of Santa Claus and

(19:03):
Jesus uh and you know, 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 look

(19:25):
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,

(19:46):
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. And Jesus was tempted
by Satan. So we break down all the different things
that Satan tried. Probably good to know those because that's
probably the same playbook. So so that's kind of it
in a nutshell. The details are out there this weekend

(20:06):
wherever you get podcasts Strange Encounters, and then both the
Bible Study, uh and the and Strange Encounters, they will
also be on a two week break like the rest
of us. So there you go. 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

(20:27):
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 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,

(20:48):
here's what I got, What do you have? 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. We can 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 7 (21:08):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (21:08):
She I said, I've got the show. I've said, we've
got some production to do. I need to do strange encounters.
Get that done. I'll be home after that.

Speaker 3 (21:16):
Now.

Speaker 1 (21:16):
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,
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

(21:38):
was like, well, he's going to love that, and uh.
And she knows how im about trying to make things.
She goes, boy, when y'all talk, when you think, when
you say that it's the thought that matters. I don't
even 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

(21:58):
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 little
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

(22:19):
it's something that you can always remember me by. Okay, well, great,
I need that. There you go. I don't know what
kind of motivation I have for Spity I do and
I'll explain it.

Speaker 4 (22:28):
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.

Speaker 1 (22:34):
Mean, Not that it's oh that's so great. You didn't
do it, No, we just I just documented the process.
Did you do that too, Greg? No, 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 2 (22:52):
Well, you have to wait and see.

Speaker 5 (22:54):
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 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.

Speaker 1 (23:09):
Okay, it's all right, you always.

Speaker 2 (23:12):
Think of me when you look at that little cry
baby doll.

Speaker 1 (23:15):
Look, if you can just not have a melt down today,
that's a gift to nothing. Yes, morning, you be gentle
when you're getting it out of the bag. It's it's
a little more flamed bag.

Speaker 2 (23:24):
Did you wrap it or he bagged I didn't even wrap.

Speaker 1 (23:26):
My Yeah, you got to kind of handle it. Don't
be rough with it.

Speaker 4 (23:31):
Okay, So the bag looks really nice and and the
paper in and all.

Speaker 1 (23:35):
Did you do that? 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?
I did m And I wrote something special to be
careful Greg that I want him to read. And when

(23:56):
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 able to sleep, so so fired up, stoked.
All right, who remembers? This is bad? I hate to
bring this up. Guy used to be so exciting. Who remembers?

(24:20):
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 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

(24:40):
just it 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, I was gonna say it, and you'd get
kind of excited. And it was always a box that
had clothing in it, and it was wrapped, Sure it was.

(25:02):
And it had our names on it, Sure it did.
And we were never I remember preparing my face as
I was taking the wrapping paper on, going, please please
look grateful, I know. And then you'd open up would
be something like a pair of pajamas. Yeah, it would
be like some socks or something. Yeah, And you had
to and it was it didn't do the job because

(25:23):
these and 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.

Speaker 3 (25:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (25:34):
Thanks, you know. Christ Christmas Eve, excuse me for us.

Speaker 4 (25:38):
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 and he'd play the piano, would
all sing around it. It would say Christmas, Zula. She

(26:02):
was great, she was great, great host. Did uncle duke
and on the bin and do pure wet.

Speaker 1 (26:06):
Yeah, Uncle Duke was there.

Speaker 6 (26:07):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (26:08):
But and then and then we would exchange.

Speaker 4 (26:10):
Gifts for that side of the family, which was my
dad's side, and then we'd go home.

Speaker 1 (26:14):
And I was always so excited.

Speaker 4 (26:16):
I couldn't wait to get home because my parents let
me open those gifts on Christmas Eve, so we'd all
we'd sit down.

Speaker 1 (26:21):
I just I was can we do it now? Can
we do it? Can we open them now? And hang
on looking back? I had to be a bip to it.
And my sister too.

Speaker 4 (26:30):
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.

Speaker 1 (26:39):
Mom's side and all that.

Speaker 4 (26:40):
But well, Christmas Eve, I couldn't wait to get home,
like can we go nowt I couldn't.

Speaker 1 (26:44):
Hold it together. I couldn't hold with the Christmas girls.
I'm ready to go home. I couldn't hold it together
on Christmas Eve. It was too much.

Speaker 5 (26:50):
It was we got to open one and my parents
got to pick it out there.

Speaker 10 (26:55):
Some years my dad would do like a good present.
Some years you'd open it to be socks.

Speaker 1 (26:59):
Yeah, wait till tomorrow. But you know that's what it was,
wasn't it. By the way, somebody said, I tell we
got for Christmas Eve shots and knakil. That's good you have.
Those are good parents, good stuff. Yeah. So it's it's
just the thought of trying to go to sleep. You
remember if you ever did those off and you'd wake
up and you saw a little bit of light or something,
you couldn't believe it. Yeah, but the minute I woke up,

(27:21):
I tried it. If my kids did that too when
they were little, they would they'd come in the room
at four four.

Speaker 3 (27:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (27:30):
I woke up one night and I saw the the
red leg of Santa going back up the chimney.

Speaker 1 (27:35):
I went, there, he's leaving. I shouldn't believe it.

Speaker 8 (27:39):
He was the Rick Burgess Show.

Speaker 1 (27:47):
Let's talk a little bit. Some people were talking about
to about Christmas traditions. So, and I know different kids
and different families have different things. Like I said, you
had kind of the opening act stuff on Christmas Eve
and you got to open something like pajamas or something
like that. And this is what our family did when

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we were little. And then anything that went under the
the Santa heading 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. Uh.
I know some people, Uh they they get up to
wrap to gifts and and they and they opened them,

(28:31):
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 said, yeah, yeah,
they were unwrapped. Yeah, that's the same.

Speaker 4 (28:47):
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 or yeah we exchange gifts there you.

Speaker 5 (29:02):
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 I have, So.

Speaker 1 (29:15):
That makes a lot of sense. Yeah, you know, I
never believed in the Nicer Naughty list because Greg kept
getting gifts. Yeah, must 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 one to help
Greg and me realize that not everybody was raised the

(29:36):
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 you know, he didn't make it. I
mean he found it. And I'm not going to say
the word, but you've heard of like people would say,

(29:59):
you know, you know, want to get on the bad
list or whatever. Dad, I don't even know how to
say it. I mean, it was it was not 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 a very negative word about a
list you don't want to be on. And it started

(30:20):
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 weather.

Speaker 12 (30:34):
Oh gods, no, and uh so but maybe it'll come down.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
I don't know. Yes. 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 I'm not I'm not in the little kid world
rather than Christmas Eve when I see all Gregg's green
kids and that's always a blast, but so now it's

(31:07):
now become that awkward because they're all out on their
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. And then what

(31:29):
will happen is like I'll forget about it and it'll
be like March and all of a sudden you got one.
I'm gonna 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 4 (31:46):
Take us 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 so then Mama doesn't
really like that because she's like, well, know, they got
to open something.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
I'm like, well, okay, but they just want cash. I'm
just telling you no, you're right.

Speaker 4 (32:09):
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.

Speaker 1 (32:16):
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 in but the
adult kid world, it's so weird. 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,

(32:37):
straight up, my car broke, man, 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 venmo Yeah yeah,
remember we venmo'ed you about the radiator. Oh yeah, Mary, Chris,

(32:58):
I've enjoyed that. Yeah, I mean, but it really is
that kind of stuff. They're like, oh, look, I appreciate
you y'all wanted to get me another shirt because I
got news for you what I need right now. I'm
in a bind on 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.

Speaker 3 (33:19):
You know.

Speaker 5 (33:19):
I was 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.

Speaker 2 (33:33):
Ye did you notice that?

Speaker 5 (33:35):
And I'm like, man, this is people don't want to
risk that one fifty 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 wise. The audience is like, you know what,
that's one fifty. I'm good, you know what I'm saying, Like,

(33:57):
that's that's.

Speaker 1 (33:58):
Also something about hand versus three hundred in the books.

Speaker 2 (34:01):
Yeah, so we have a very intelligent audience.

Speaker 1 (34:03):
Also, there you go.

Speaker 2 (34:04):
You know, I think there's both of that.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
Yeah, we'll be back.

Speaker 2 (34:07):
And how about those numbers.

Speaker 10 (34:08):
Trump's Trump's economic numbers as of yesterday looking great?

Speaker 1 (34:12):
Yeah, we need it.

Speaker 8 (34:13):
Is The Rick Burgess Show.

Speaker 1 (34:20):
For all of you out there in the streaming world.
The brand new album, the debut album of the Best
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The name of the CD now available on should be
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(34:42):
you can get the entire album or you can get
to individual cuts, one of those featuring Gary Hey, Gary.

Speaker 13 (34:50):
Hey, Hey y'all, Hey Hey Mary Christmas, Mary Christmas.

Speaker 1 (34:54):
So you the these pies are good?

Speaker 3 (34:57):
Yees?

Speaker 1 (34:57):
No, delicious?

Speaker 13 (34:59):
NOI I just got so aggravated. Why, well, I couldn't
find and dried apples?

Speaker 1 (35:05):
What do you mean dried apples?

Speaker 13 (35:07):
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 in a can.

Speaker 1 (35:20):
Well, well, boy, I ain't doing that.

Speaker 13 (35:24):
I ain't doing that.

Speaker 1 (35:25):
You know what if they banned dry apples.

Speaker 13 (35:27):
I don't know they must have. All I could find
was apple teater chips.

Speaker 1 (35:32):
You don't use that.

Speaker 13 (35:34):
No, you can't use that, John, what there was?

Speaker 1 (35:36):
There a problem with the peaches too? You can do
a peach now.

Speaker 13 (35:39):
You can't find the peaches like that? Not dried people
pitches anyone.

Speaker 1 (35:43):
You've changed them?

Speaker 13 (35:44):
Keep on you just keep on.

Speaker 1 (35:48):
You've you've changed a lot since they took your picture
for brownie paper towels. I don't know.

Speaker 13 (35:57):
He's gonna let me tell you something now, y'all remember
what happened last Friday?

Speaker 1 (36:02):
What what with Adler? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I wasn't here.

Speaker 13 (36:07):
Well I heard about it and I went back and
listened to it. You know, when.

Speaker 1 (36:12):
He's you know, his RNT.

Speaker 13 (36:15):
When you hear me rant it's gonna be like him
doing a devotional at a per minute.

Speaker 1 (36:21):
So yours is, yours years is, don't.

Speaker 13 (36:33):
I just seemed to get up and go to the house.

Speaker 1 (36:36):
Jerry's there, Merry Christmas.

Speaker 13 (36:39):
I'm trying to be I didn't sleep good last night.

Speaker 1 (36:41):
What happened? You're just excited about being here, That's what
it was.

Speaker 13 (36:46):
Well, I don't know. I just couldn't sleep. You know,
I was right been raking leaves and cleaning down to
beever man, I've had got two dunk trucks for hm.
I thought I had a tick on me last night.

Speaker 1 (36:57):
I got up.

Speaker 13 (36:58):
I ate my fingers and the line on it my nipple. Well,
I thought I felt something crawling on me.

Speaker 1 (37:11):
Dang it.

Speaker 13 (37:13):
Like you pulled it on?

Speaker 1 (37:15):
Yeah, not a twister now I like that?

Speaker 14 (37:18):
So?

Speaker 1 (37:18):
Uh are you? Are you excited? Are you excited about Christmas?

Speaker 8 (37:23):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (37:23):
I'm just just you know what you call lady or
be lady?

Speaker 1 (37:30):
Hey? Am I excited? I'm elated?

Speaker 13 (37:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (37:33):
So uh so, what what do y'all normally do for Christmas?
Is everybody come to your house?

Speaker 13 (37:38):
Or like me, like me, we usually have Christmas at
the river, you know, Christmas Eve or something, you know
when they.

Speaker 1 (37:47):
Have a nice salad.

Speaker 13 (37:48):
Yeah, sometimes we have a salad. Mm hmm.

Speaker 1 (37:52):
I saw you cook some dumplings some today because.

Speaker 13 (37:55):
I bet that you as good as mine.

Speaker 1 (37:57):
Pretty good. Hey, I'm telling you so you're a dumpling man. Huh. Yeah,
that did look good. I thought you were going to
bring something to thank you for saying it.

Speaker 13 (38:07):
Well I was, But you're going to cook a roast,
and I wonder what the down roast that's gonna be?

Speaker 1 (38:13):
Well you are you? You had some left? You're gonna
bring us.

Speaker 13 (38:16):
A big part of them.

Speaker 1 (38:17):
Bring them. It ain't gonna hurt nothing.

Speaker 13 (38:20):
You may bring them to night. Oh yeah, over to
the camp house.

Speaker 1 (38:23):
Yeah, what's wrong with that? Maybe I don't need to
cook a roast.

Speaker 13 (38:27):
If you got all that, well, that's up to you.
Roast is easy to cook, you know.

Speaker 1 (38:34):
Just putting that crop pot and go.

Speaker 13 (38:36):
Now that I've got it back over a campus, well
you know that's my crop. Thought y'all been fighting over?

Speaker 1 (38:41):
Yes, I do?

Speaker 6 (38:42):
Oh is it?

Speaker 1 (38:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (38:43):
Everything nowhere just about mine?

Speaker 1 (38:46):
Well, I mean you brought it.

Speaker 13 (38:49):
Well I didn't have nothing to cook with.

Speaker 1 (38:52):
Oh god, oh yeah, everybody so uh loves it.

Speaker 13 (39:05):
Hey, it's Uh, I'm telling you you don't cut it all. No,
what are you fishing for?

Speaker 14 (39:16):
You?

Speaker 1 (39:16):
We just you know today we're swapping gifts. Now, we
all drew.

Speaker 13 (39:19):
Each other's names, but I didn't know about my name.

Speaker 1 (39:22):
We all did, we all did?

Speaker 3 (39:24):
We all do?

Speaker 1 (39:25):
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 c D and you're on here. Yeah.
Now we had the editors a little bit, but it's uh,
cousin you. You're on. You're on the first ever c
D The Rick Burgess Show, and I just want to
let you have you on copy. That's it. I can't

(39:47):
find them.

Speaker 13 (39:48):
There ain't even nothing in there that yes, and the
Merry Christmas, Christmas. Well, I appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (39:56):
Very I'm very thankful for you. I'm thankful for I mean,
I'm to find myself kind of being elated.

Speaker 13 (40:02):
I'm thankful for myself too.

Speaker 1 (40:04):
Right, you've you've have you enjoyed this year?

Speaker 6 (40:08):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (40:08):
Yeah, yeah, it's been fun. Uh you know, I know
next year I'm gonna probably be back probably on six
what six eight weeks rotation?

Speaker 1 (40:22):
Yeah, well you know it's you know, you.

Speaker 13 (40:24):
Call me the other day at the river and your
phone kept going out.

Speaker 1 (40:27):
No yours kept going out. Will you please get something
done about the service down there?

Speaker 13 (40:32):
It don't matter if I spent five thousand dollars on
the phone, you couldn't talk on it down there.

Speaker 1 (40:38):
I ain't having it.

Speaker 13 (40:40):
Eything on that.

Speaker 1 (40:41):
So I was talking to you. And what happened when
I was talking to you when you kept hanging up
on me?

Speaker 13 (40:46):
Well, I don't know. You have to get out there
and stand up on the railing after out there and
hold two fingers up and then one stuck up.

Speaker 2 (40:53):
You hear, dear nose.

Speaker 1 (40:57):
Gary. I'm gonna tell you too. 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 13 (41:09):
I don't you Well, I think walking around, well, you
got human beings walking around in there.

Speaker 1 (41:19):
They don't care anything about a vehicle.

Speaker 13 (41:20):
Well, I told you then, when you're hunting in a
place like that that, you ain't got it. A couple
of hundred acres to hunt mm hmm uh, roads all
the way around it? 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

(41:41):
adapted to it. But they know when somebody comes in.

Speaker 1 (41:44):
There, well I know, but you mean they don't, don't
an adapt to hear in the.

Speaker 13 (41:48):
Vehicle, Well, when you come in there, I'm driving there
with that flat.

Speaker 1 (41:52):
Bed, you're telling me that, dear know you're bringing food.

Speaker 13 (41:56):
Yeah that's down there, and let me just drive right by.

Speaker 1 (42:00):
And but they won't let us do that because they
know we're dangerous.

Speaker 13 (42:03):
Yeah knows, y'all doesn't words out.

Speaker 4 (42:06):
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 1 (42:11):
We haven't.

Speaker 4 (42:12):
The field wasn't disturbed anything. There wasn't the field didn't
have any deer on it when we got there.

Speaker 1 (42:16):
So we've done good. Y'all.

Speaker 13 (42:18):
Y'all need to y'all need to change the way that. Uh,
you know, your attitude when you go in there hunting, well,
you go in there with a killer instinct. You're not
gonna see nothing. Just go in there and have fun
and you'll see something.

Speaker 1 (42:37):
So you're talking good little And you also told us
to quit playing with her phone.

Speaker 13 (42:42):
Hey, I'm telling you, what is that I tried? I said,
d okay, uh, I tried to rake my yard dinner
the other day and y'all had me on that group
take my dad gun thumb got So we're trying to
tell y'all to put your phone down.

Speaker 1 (42:57):
Hunt. Well, we we wanted to bring you into the
fun we were having.

Speaker 13 (43:01):
Well, I wouldn't have no fun. Reckon them dad gum
lee and.

Speaker 1 (43:04):
Nothing fine about that. I get a chick on you.

Speaker 13 (43:07):
Yeah, I got a tit on booming NIPPLEO.

Speaker 1 (43:11):
We'll be back Gary's with us for the rest of
the party today, or least some of it. Hey, thank
you for getting them posty.

Speaker 8 (43:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (43:23):
Uh, I was really looking forward to here. You said
you got a special guest.

Speaker 13 (43:27):
Yeah, I got No, I got Gerald Casella Cage.

Speaker 6 (43:33):
What's up.

Speaker 1 (43:36):
Boy? Let me tell you. I know somebody's got Christmas
cheer and my own your own Gerald Cage.

Speaker 6 (43:42):
Yeah, I kind of want you really good. Listen, I
couldn't wait to get up on this radio this morning.
Now Here I am at the whole FD. I'm serving
it pro taking and I'm probably gonna get rid of
led to this taxplayer's money hard at work right here
show listen. First of all, congratulations on the year fellows.
What a beautiful show y'all created here the team, the

(44:04):
Rick Burgers 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, Rick, one of the questions
that you asked was what's to Jarry eat with his steak? Okay,
I get that, But the next one, where in the
world how was that girl supposed to know? Such as that? Well,
I mean you was talking about the mayor Kingston listening.

(44:24):
And another fact too. There's a whole lot that I
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 of a barr. Another story. I call my
little grandson cause his brother baby brother. So every time
I hear that, I think of none other than the

(44:46):
baby brother.

Speaker 1 (44:47):
Craig word, Yeah, I made something special today, Gerald for
a little baby brother buddy.

Speaker 6 (44:53):
Oh my Josh, when is he gonna flee that.

Speaker 1 (44:56):
Oh we've written that next segment. Yeah, I'm sure it's Hey.

Speaker 6 (45:00):
Gary and Gary brought the apple pies and I know
this is delicious.

Speaker 1 (45:03):
Yeah, I was thinking about your cries all night.

Speaker 13 (45:08):
H Gerald went winter you and Lee and uh, glad
gonna fly back down, may pick you up at there.

Speaker 1 (45:16):
We don't want nothing to do with that.

Speaker 6 (45:18):
And I'm ready anytime. I want to have the National
Guard down this time, just really shake. Lee.

Speaker 1 (45:26):
Don't want to go anywhere near that place.

Speaker 6 (45:29):
Lee won't even fly over it. And Wing.

Speaker 13 (45:34):
I don't believe I've ever saw you laugh. Is hard man.

Speaker 6 (45:39):
You're up there. 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 1 (45:50):
It's hard things right there, get out.

Speaker 6 (45:53):
So we went rumbling, stumbling, fumbling, Greg face burst. Yeah, No,
that was good stuff.

Speaker 1 (46:00):
Hey, Jared, when you hear when you hear me talk
about Greg, people don't know.

Speaker 6 (46:03):
Do they No, they don't. 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, one percent. Greg watches Dancing with the story.
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

(46:23):
cup of Joe, watching Dancing with the stores, watching them
get after it. And that is the silliest show I
think I've ever seen.

Speaker 1 (46:32):
You could tell he knew too much. Oh yeah, y'all.

Speaker 6 (46:36):
Want he knowes I taste wrinkle, I tast rink, I said,
Oh my gosh, it's pure beauty right here.

Speaker 4 (46:45):
He knew a lot about Golden Bachelor too, watch out
the Golden Back.

Speaker 6 (46:50):
And I appreciate her. Tell I 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.
What do you'll call him?

Speaker 1 (47:01):
Jumping Jack?

Speaker 6 (47:03):
Joe hun Shut it up to you trace me? Thanks,
I'm talking about that boy right there. You don't want
him after you hate it?

Speaker 1 (47:11):
Yes, you'll find you. You know how some people go
to the stalker line and stop. He goes right through.

Speaker 6 (47:18):
And they just give out my information. Then there you know,
it's a station down there. Yeah here he is that.

Speaker 1 (47:24):
You buddies didn't cover for you on that farewell.

Speaker 6 (47:27):
Well they didn't know. You know, I do get quite
a few song calls, you can imagine. So you are
is what it is?

Speaker 1 (47:33):
Gerald? Tell me about you and your little family? Are
y'all just excited about Christmas?

Speaker 6 (47:38):
Man? Listen, it's beginning to look like Christmas everywhere.

Speaker 3 (47:41):
I can't.

Speaker 6 (47:44):
Everything in the sleeve. Now. We're very excited about Christmas.
We got another, you know, a new grandchild, baby brother
and uh, you know, my oldest sons expecting a uh
a boy. So we're carrying the cat's name a little
father and uh you know they lived down in Louisiana,
but they're coming in the town Monday. So we got
everybody just right here. So then ready to celebrate the uh,

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the Christmas season. What a beautiful time.

Speaker 1 (48:08):
Have you got a little song you could sing for
greg On just to just give them a little gift.
He's going hot today Christmas? Yeah, just a little gift.

Speaker 6 (48:16):
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 carries a lot of wait
with me, but then I'm gonna sing a little bit
of it, and then I got to get out of here.
But congratulations on all of it. But uh, it was
almost Christmas time. There I stood in another line, trying.

Speaker 14 (48:35):
To buy that last gift or two, not really in
the Christmas move. When standing was right in front of me,
you weren't little boy waiting, ain't si lead, don't laugh, listen,
dancing around and like a little boy's dude in his hands.

Speaker 6 (48:51):
He held up real fu listen to this part. Now listen,
people take this, don't take this song you insprtuinity. That's
the true meaning Christmas shoes you listen, y'all, y'all just listening.
I think never heard that song. That's the true meaning
of Christmas. Let me tell you the Finnish that song out.
That's all I'm on singing about it. But to send
this it out that that guy he could, all he

(49:14):
had to do was help this boy. You know what
that made this Christmas? God sent that to to that
man to really understand the true meaning of Christmas. So
Marry Christmas, Happy, thank you.

Speaker 1 (49:27):
Brother, great wish you boys.

Speaker 6 (49:30):
Holler at me, son. Let's get together, boys, Let's get
together and go hunting. I'm serious about it.

Speaker 14 (49:35):
I can't.

Speaker 1 (49:36):
I can't wait. I'm sitting in campus looking right at
that big old face.

Speaker 6 (49:39):
That's right, let's get let's get it together boys.

Speaker 1 (49:42):
All right, Merry Christmas is getting his gift next. Don't
miss it.

Speaker 6 (49:46):
I won't. I'll see.

Speaker 1 (49:48):
There is, there's Greg and themistis Jerkey, the most famous
firefighter in Oxford.

Speaker 7 (49:53):
He is.

Speaker 13 (49:53):
I'm gonna tell you what. He's something else now.

Speaker 1 (49:56):
And listen he'll sing it to you. Know. Yes, I
can't believe Chris shoes a message situated all right, you
know where the great message and grandkids do it so
you can't get it solved. I know it's like me.
You two are being changed and I'm watching speedy being changed.
So all right we come back. It's gift swap. Oh

(50:19):
all right, we're swapping gifts next. Everybody had to make something.
If you drew somebody's name, stay close, we'll be right back.

Speaker 8 (50:27):
This is the Rick Burgess Show.

Speaker 1 (50:35):
So we drew names and we all had to make
a gift for that person. Couldn't buy it right, had
to make it. Uh now, I don't, I don't know.
We have to buy the material yeah, yeah, to put
it together, whatever your hands had to to to put
it all together. So I don't know where how we

(50:55):
want to get started. There's no particular order to all this.
Uh do you want to start with you? Adler? And
and and yeah? Who did you drew me?

Speaker 3 (51:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (51:05):
I drew you.

Speaker 5 (51:05):
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.

Speaker 2 (51:16):
So if Speedy you wanted to give.

Speaker 1 (51:18):
I think, so 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
then Adler you no way he wrapped that?

Speaker 3 (51:36):
Wow?

Speaker 1 (51:37):
Way Just okay.

Speaker 2 (51:40):
Buddy, thank you. Man to give me a hug.

Speaker 1 (51:42):
Honestly, come on in here.

Speaker 10 (51:47):
Even if this is like a joke or whatever, it's okay,
it's fine.

Speaker 4 (51:51):
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. I didn't want to
go silly funny. I wanted to go serious with you,
and I sent you. I just emailed you a video
drop you know, of me kind of putting this together,
which we don't have to play now.

Speaker 1 (52:10):
But yeah, hey Mary, Christmas.

Speaker 6 (52:11):
And I love you.

Speaker 2 (52:13):
Work video first or open it first?

Speaker 1 (52:15):
No, I mean you can open it.

Speaker 2 (52:17):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (52:18):
So he's opening the box. It's one of those decorative boxes.

Speaker 5 (52:21):
That looks like it's a card that says workplace, best friend.

Speaker 3 (52:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (52:25):
Do you guys read the card first?

Speaker 1 (52:28):
Probably? Yeah, the thing to do.

Speaker 2 (52:29):
I always just go straight for the price of a card.

Speaker 1 (52:31):
Go ahead, I don't have a card. Wrap it.

Speaker 2 (52:35):
I know your family means the world to I'm getting
all choked up.

Speaker 5 (52:39):
Oh, 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.

Speaker 2 (52:53):
Adlers. Speedy, Wow, I don't have a card at all.
That careful to be careful.

Speaker 1 (53:00):
Andrews was crying.

Speaker 2 (53:01):
Gary got it so nice, was like he said, gas.

Speaker 5 (53:06):
Speedy, bludy, look at this y'all, it's a picture frame
with my family.

Speaker 2 (53:10):
No, it's not speedy made you a picture frame and
it said the Adlers established twenty sixteen. Y'all. Look at
how nice that is. And it even props up in everything.
It just on my desk and cry family.

Speaker 1 (53:24):
Did you you didn't make that? You will explain it.
You can roll the videos. Look at this.

Speaker 2 (53:32):
He cut the wood in everything?

Speaker 1 (53:33):
Did you No? I didn't know.

Speaker 4 (53:34):
You can buy the you can buy the wood, So
you buy the frame.

Speaker 1 (53:38):
I painted. I painted the frame. Wow.

Speaker 4 (53:41):
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 1 (53:50):
Buy you put just take a picture of his family.

Speaker 7 (53:53):
Huh.

Speaker 4 (53:54):
So this is me on social media going. So we're
at hobby lobby here. I'm going to hobby lobby and
go in trying to I was a little lost. Look
at found that.

Speaker 3 (54:02):
Look at.

Speaker 4 (54:05):
It in their paint and you know, the paint was
a little thick and got all over me.

Speaker 1 (54:09):
Took me a while to get off of me. But
so I'm painting here, and you know there's.

Speaker 2 (54:14):
A lot of looking serious and uh.

Speaker 1 (54:17):
And then just kind of going through. Uh, look at
that 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 2 (54:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (54:29):
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 glue on the.

Speaker 1 (54:36):
Back side of it. There, you know, just trying to
handwriting and then I'm really a woman, just really trying
to press it in.

Speaker 2 (54:43):
It's almost as a woman.

Speaker 1 (54:45):
And uh, I think we're good.

Speaker 2 (54:46):
So that is so nice. You made a video in everything.

Speaker 13 (54:51):
There you go, buddy.

Speaker 1 (54:52):
He played it safe because he didn't want to set
him off. That's true.

Speaker 2 (54:56):
That's true.

Speaker 1 (54:56):
Yeah, we've seen that we didn't great. As a matter
of fact, I heard speed you mumble last Friday, I
gotta change my gift. Yeah that's what you tell me.
Oh look, I was going, I was going.

Speaker 4 (55:07):
I was going funny at first, but I wanted to
be and you made the family is very important.

Speaker 1 (55:13):
I ended up I ended up being serious on yours too.

Speaker 2 (55:15):
So all right. So, so whoever had Greg Gregg's up yeah.

Speaker 1 (55:19):
Of course that'd be me, big brother. Let me tell
you you wouldn't believe how I worked on this. I
want to give this to Greg. And Greg, 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

(55:40):
that card. Walk it up and you'll have to hug too.
This is a card you have to hug their hugging brother.
My father's got a hug on the last time you
got hugged. Greg's now standing up? Is sound the front? Greg? Oh,
I'm sorry, Greg, baby brother. Merry Christmas. Okay, be careful,

(56:04):
get emotional. He's gonna get emotional with this. I promise
you he's be careful.

Speaker 4 (56:10):
We got don't break to break it is okay, Happy holidays.

Speaker 1 (56:17):
You got a car to look inside. When you put
this on your tree, think of me. This special just
for you. You make Christmas. I can't read you make Christmas,
all right, baby brother. I hope this you make Christmas bright,

(56:38):
baby brother. I hope I really can't read your riding
you make will here? Just give it to me. Spitting.
Let me read it from the heart anyway, Thank you
very much. Show everyboy 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 want to hope this. What

(57:00):
do you want to read? He ain't reading it right.
I can't. I can't read. I know, and I worried
about that, but I had so much arthritis I didn't
get 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,

(57:21):
your big brother Rick. There it is. 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 in the little.

Speaker 2 (57:37):
Hat, but the hat turn around so we can see it.

Speaker 1 (57:41):
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. I mean, that's a pretty good looking gingerbread.
I mean I wish I could have at your handwriting
would have went well, you know, as we said, Greg,

(58:02):
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 Rick, will you hang
on this forevery absolutely every every Christmas? I'm bringing it
out car you you.

Speaker 2 (58:14):
Did post a little bit of a spoiler last night.

Speaker 1 (58:16):
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.
It's a little kid, Yeah, a little kids.

Speaker 5 (58:26):
I thought that was the parent and the two kids,
but I know that's large though it was was a large,
large child.

Speaker 1 (58:32):
And I look right there, look at that guys, look
at that right there and a look how much? Look
how much it cost a dollar? Should I should have
feln mine? Because I had, Rick, I spent more than you. Well,
and that's a shocker. And that's first time those words
on this show. There I was working on I want

(58:52):
you to see me working on it. Do you know
what you're talking about? That it's funny? Sure, he goes, well,
don't throw it out there. Everybody'll see it before tomorrow,
said Greg ain't gonna see that. He didn't 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. That's so nice, that's
so so sweet. Okay, all right, we come back. Two
more gifts, two more gifts. Oh boy, look at it

(59:14):
hanging right there. Speedy gets his and I get mine.

Speaker 2 (59:17):
This is the guys, this is really fun and this
is really.

Speaker 1 (59:21):
This needs to be a Rick Burgess Show Christmas party tradition.
I think so too. I like it.

Speaker 2 (59:25):
It tis the season, right.

Speaker 1 (59:26):
Even though it'll become burdensome to us and we'll stop.

Speaker 4 (59:29):
And well because we didn't make Andy Andrews anything and
he's just standing and Gary guy at least to see.

Speaker 1 (59:34):
Yeah, this is.

Speaker 8 (59:37):
The Rick Burgess Show.

Speaker 1 (59:44):
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 B budget. Yeah I did. And
full disclosure that dollar ninety nine had six of the minute.

Speaker 2 (01:00:05):
Uh but anyway, so still it's the thought.

Speaker 1 (01:00:09):
It's a thought that county 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, get rid?

Speaker 2 (01:00:20):
Did Sherry help you all the time?

Speaker 1 (01:00:21):
No, y'all get ready to cry it all? I? Oh?
Really okay? Here, so Greg now has the gift. Get ready,
be careful whether it's a little fragile. Okay, this is
for speedy. I'll explain it when you get it. That
all right.

Speaker 4 (01:00:32):
So here's Greg's gift to speedy. Where's the card I'm
trying to find.

Speaker 1 (01:00:36):
There's no card. There's no great Greg's gift of speedy. Greg,
you went, we're black and go go big, Go careful, right, careful,
be care 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

(01:00:56):
what if it was a bird house? And read? Look
so we of this flipping around this size so you
can see it. Says it's the top can Calvin's Playhouse.
It's my hand running it is what can I you
can read it.

Speaker 4 (01:01:11):
Greg boots and hose both boats and boat I spelled it.

Speaker 1 (01:01:17):
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 dumping all night. Come get you some ladies,
ladies night every night.

Speaker 4 (01:01:33):
Listen, 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 1 (01:01:44):
See so you don't see Terry in there, honey, Calvin's
Playhouse was not a physical place travel. He needs something
to commemorate the playhouse. And for some reason, it's a
bird house and I had to that't you didn't listen,
you'll the video. It has this tube of glue to

(01:02:07):
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. Look

(01:02:29):
you know Lisa's got fantastic handwriting. Yes, and she goes,
oh no, no, you're going to have I don't think
that that Lisa would have wanted to write in those phrases.
But it says boats and hose. But I couldn't. I
couldn't read your writing. I didn't know that that right.
There is a garden too? What what?

Speaker 6 (01:02:51):
Greg?

Speaker 1 (01:02:52):
What?

Speaker 7 (01:02:52):
What?

Speaker 1 (01:02:52):
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 thank you, So
we didn't hug What a what a thoughtful gift? You
don't know where, you don't know where, you don't know
where you're going. Put it in the backyard, okay, what
bird goes into? And then there was one gift that's

(01:03:20):
very fun, the bird hand. If you have been.

Speaker 5 (01:03:25):
We have we have a playoffs in our back yard
and we even have a two year old boy calling
it the play hand.

Speaker 1 (01:03:32):
Yeah all right, Rick, I'm going okay, all right, comes
to you?

Speaker 2 (01:03:39):
Are you coming here?

Speaker 11 (01:03:40):
Here?

Speaker 1 (01:03:41):
It comes Addler's coming in. Oh, it's kind of it's
in a Santa hat. Oh boy, it's kind of like wrapping. Okay,
now they're hugging. They're hugging, all right, there they go,
all right, so let's see what what what is that?
So is that a cup?

Speaker 6 (01:03:58):
What is what?

Speaker 3 (01:03:59):
What?

Speaker 7 (01:03:59):
What is?

Speaker 5 (01:03:59):
It looks like it's it's you're always talking about how
you're lost, you lose pens.

Speaker 2 (01:04:06):
You can't keep track of your pens.

Speaker 10 (01:04:08):
Also, I gave you those very that very two very
expensive raiders pens.

Speaker 1 (01:04:13):
Yes you did.

Speaker 2 (01:04:14):
I got in the airport, Yes you did.

Speaker 1 (01:04:16):
One of them is still sort of riding.

Speaker 6 (01:04:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:04:19):
So I was like, you know what, Rick's always losing
his pens, and I'm gonna make him a pen holder.

Speaker 2 (01:04:24):
So did you make I made this?

Speaker 1 (01:04:27):
What kind of what is this?

Speaker 2 (01:04:28):
That cedar?

Speaker 1 (01:04:29):
Looks yeah, it.

Speaker 2 (01:04:31):
Should smell good. Oh yeah, and it holds pens very well.

Speaker 1 (01:04:36):
How did you make that?

Speaker 5 (01:04:37):
So it started out like this right here, I've got
just pictures in some video here.

Speaker 10 (01:04:42):
It started out looking like this log like that. That's
what it started out looking like. You guys remember them.

Speaker 1 (01:04:50):
So much more handing the rest of us, You guys, you.

Speaker 5 (01:04:52):
Guys remember the cedar log that we had right here,
but on the one that had yea, 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 the bugs.

Speaker 1 (01:05:07):
In this Does my penholder had bugs in it?

Speaker 5 (01:05:10):
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 1 (01:05:20):
See his face?

Speaker 2 (01:05:20):
Can that's my that's my feminine hand. Clearly, that's clearly me.
I can't sell. I've never I've never learned how.

Speaker 10 (01:05:30):
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 wood shot. My dad, Michae Ladler,
makes bowls and cups and all kinds.

Speaker 2 (01:05:47):
Of things, and he's a he's a master at it.

Speaker 5 (01:05:49):
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 lathe and.

Speaker 10 (01:05:59):
Just spent some time with my dad and that was
huge and just to be able to spend that time
with him. And this almost kind of forced me to
do that, and I regret not doing it earlier.

Speaker 5 (01:06:10):
And it was a very very nice time. And it
was after my meltdown. And my favorite thing was that
we never even talked, but never even brought it up.

Speaker 1 (01:06:18):
One one because Greg had that covered.

Speaker 2 (01:06:22):
And so there I am kind of finishing it out.

Speaker 10 (01:06:25):
Okay, what'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.

Speaker 2 (01:06:34):
Doesn't have anything that's.

Speaker 1 (01:06:36):
Nice and yeah, look at that from this old house.
And I will say that as far as making it
from scratch, Adler did the most work. He put the
most work into it.

Speaker 2 (01:06:49):
I thought it turned out okay, there's there's some errors
in it.

Speaker 10 (01:06:53):
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 thirty three.

Speaker 1 (01:07:11):
Yes, John sixteen thirty three.

Speaker 2 (01:07:13):
Okay, doing great here, Okay, but I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (01:07:17):
I saw you starting to get emotion.

Speaker 3 (01:07:20):
I am.

Speaker 2 (01:07:21):
I woke up again last night for like two three hours.

Speaker 1 (01:07:23):
That's okay, shut up.

Speaker 2 (01:07:25):
You know you're not the first person to have kids. Everybody, Okay,
gosh your grip.

Speaker 10 (01:07:29):
On your life here. I am boring out the top,
as I finished saying, and not.

Speaker 1 (01:07:33):
Boring anything out.

Speaker 2 (01:07:34):
But that's what was boring. No, thank you, man.

Speaker 5 (01:07:36):
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.

Speaker 1 (01:07:43):
Of the way.

Speaker 2 (01:07:43):
And but how cool was that? It was fantastic By
the way.

Speaker 1 (01:07:46):
Somebody on text on text Nation, says Afder wins, he
risked digit amputation making ricks against.

Speaker 2 (01:07:54):
Yeah, and you know I'm damaged.

Speaker 10 (01:07:58):
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.

Speaker 2 (01:08:08):
Lake with his dad, and how he hated it so much.

Speaker 10 (01:08:12):
And at that funeral he said, I would give anything
to be back on that boat.

Speaker 2 (01:08:16):
Again. Oh, and that's a lesson I learned and I
will continue to learn it. I love you, guys. Merry Christmas,
Marry Christmas. Don't blow up on your family. Guys.

Speaker 8 (01:08:25):
Outside is the Rick Burgess show.

Speaker 1 (01:08:33):
There he is, Oh, and he's back. Mary Christmas is
May Christmases. All right, Andy, you have a book to
read us. It is a book you wrote. And what
is it called.

Speaker 15 (01:08:44):
It's called Sucks for Christmas, a child's discovery of the
true riches of Christmas.

Speaker 1 (01:08:49):
All right, here's and here we go. There are twenty.

Speaker 15 (01:08:52):
Four hours in a day, only twenty four That translates
to one thousand, four hundred and forty minutes or eighty
six thousand, four hundred 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 occurred near the end

(01:09:13):
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

(01:09:33):
the usual niceties 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 presents 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,

(01:09:56):
I hated the stuff, 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

(01:10:17):
and at the other 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 kind of things a kid thinks about
On Christmas Eve. Earlier, I'd heard on the local news

(01:10:38):
that Santa's sleigh had been 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

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Christmas and would have had our tree up, trimmed and
glowing by Labor Day if my mom had lit 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.

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Although my mother consistently prevailed 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

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you get the idea. 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

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our own decorations. Though the tree looked beautiful to me,
in reality it was probably kind of junkie construction. Paper chains,
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,

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but I knew better than to venture into the living room.
I was just stay in bed until Mom and Dad
came to get me. Besides, I didn't want to blow
the whole deal. I had been warned repeatedly that Santa
would not come until I was asleep. But how was
I supposed to go to sleep? This is 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.

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No way I was going to sleep. I just wouldn't
that I'd 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,
ignoring the fact I had indeed gone to sleep. I
jumped out of bed and ran to the living room.

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The tree, more than one hundred 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. Where was
my BB gun? 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

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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? 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,

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my hull 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 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,

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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 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

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showing off for Kathy Burns. Johnny tried to pop a Wheeley,
fell off the bike and cried. I laughed down the street.
Gregg and Richard Frehley were in the guinea pig business.
Mister Freyley had made a trip to the emergency room
early that morning 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 Lofton had

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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 Rouckham souck'em robots. Oh yeah, we
didn't play with 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.

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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, a real mini 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

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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 1 (01:15:51):
All 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, hang on, I mean you're going
through the neighborhood that we all remember, Rock them Sock
the Robots. I remember thinking that was one of the
greatest things I'd ever seen. Electric football set, electric paration game, all.

Speaker 15 (01:16:11):
The seven you sung my battle chip, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:16:14):
Yeah, and there is always that one kid that gets everything,
gets everything everything.

Speaker 1 (01:16:19):
We come back, we'll finish that. We'll get to the the.

Speaker 15 (01:16:24):
Moral of the story, the part you love so much.

Speaker 1 (01:16:28):
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 nadmire all
still to come on The Rick Burgess Show Christmas Party.

Speaker 8 (01:16:45):
This is the Rick Burgess Show.

Speaker 1 (01:16:53):
As many of you were doing last hour and you're
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 Christmas 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 Klay Jewelers this hour, and that's right at
another five hundred dollars. Adder has a song for us,

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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 15 (01:17:54):
Yeah, and we're comparing. And I've just been to Danny
Foster's house. Nie 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 menu we'd had
the year before, Turkey and dressing with cranberry sauce, sweet

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potato casse, roll with pecans and brown sugar on top, peas, corn, pickle, 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

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my class at school. Barbara was three years older. They
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

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I approached, what'd you get for Christmas? I got everything
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 the shoes he

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had received, big black, hard leather shoes that looked as
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.

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After that, he was absent for a week. Watching them
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 3 (01:19:49):
Oh boy.

Speaker 15 (01:19:50):
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. 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 is in a way I've 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

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since that year. 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 1 (01:21:57):
What a great book.

Speaker 15 (01:21:59):
Yeah, yeah, just wanted to cheer you up. I just
wanted to get you thinking about others.

Speaker 1 (01:22:04):
Rick, No, thank you, thank you. So 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 and you you

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just said 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 15 (01:22:30):
Just came out, just came out.

Speaker 1 (01:22:32):
There's there's there's a rick on the there I am yep.

Speaker 15 (01:22:36):
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 if you want to,
there you go.

Speaker 1 (01:22:49):
So just get it at Wisdom Harbor dot com. Yep, Andy,
thank you, thank you being quite enjoyable. If you'd like
to stick around. We got something what Christmas? Oh countdown,
mat you reminded us we got to give wow on
fu Christmas.

Speaker 2 (01:23:04):
This socks. Well, there you go.

Speaker 1 (01:23:11):
So here's the number two O five five, three zero
one thousands.

Speaker 16 (01:23:22):
Everybody Christmas.

Speaker 1 (01:23:27):
So we are going to give you the opportunity to
work your way to four hundred dollars if 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

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the table. And then we're gonna throw in the four
hundred and eighty five hundred dollars mont Blanc, Meister Stook
platinum coated Ballpoint pre World. So really there's there's there's
about nine hundred bucks, so for grab it right now. Yep. Wow.
Uh So give me a number, Andy, any number, give

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me it can be a big number. How old are you?
I'm older than you? Yeah, okay, so I'm sixty one.

Speaker 15 (01:24:16):
Okay, I'm sixty one and a half.

Speaker 1 (01:24:18):
Okay, y'all want to do the number? Sixty one? Okay,
all right, So here we go. There's there's one, two, y'all,
s Andy three count nine, ten, he's sixty one, Oh
my god. Seventeen.

Speaker 15 (01:24:32):
We got to talk about a lot of different time
to read the dictionary.

Speaker 1 (01:24:36):
Ty eight we get talk about thirty.

Speaker 15 (01:24:38):
Yeah, he's only a half way there.

Speaker 1 (01:24:39):
Thirty four, thirty five, thirty seventh.

Speaker 15 (01:24:41):
He trained by.

Speaker 1 (01:24:43):
Forty forty one, forty forty four, forty five, six, forty six.

Speaker 15 (01:24:47):
Seventy eight, four nine, fifty to fifty one week to
Christmas music for something county.

Speaker 1 (01:24:52):
Forty seven, fifty eight, fifty nine sixty. Here we go,
Hello and welcome to the rig Burgess Show. You've made
it to the Christmas party. Your caller sixty one and
a half. What's your name? Where are you calling from?
Patrick from hunt all right, Patrick from Huntsville. This is
a big moment, okay, buddy? For two hundred dollars? Are

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you ready for two hundred dollars? The Man Church conferences
next year will be in two cities named the two Cities.

Speaker 7 (01:25:28):
Oh, I've got no idea.

Speaker 15 (01:25:33):
This is the number I chewers this time is one
hundred and fifty four.

Speaker 1 (01:25:37):
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. Yeah, all right, so you'll
give me another little smaller number nine. All right, there's
one two.

Speaker 15 (01:25:53):
I started to say that. Listen to him.

Speaker 1 (01:25:56):
Count. Hello, welcome to the Rick Burgess Show. What's your name?
Where you call from?

Speaker 7 (01:26:01):
Birmingham?

Speaker 3 (01:26:02):
Uh? Gardendale?

Speaker 6 (01:26:05):
Uh?

Speaker 7 (01:26:06):
Birmingham Gardendale?

Speaker 13 (01:26:09):
Mark Bush who?

Speaker 1 (01:26:13):
Okay, I have no idea? I call her ten? What
was it now?

Speaker 3 (01:26:18):
Mark Bush?

Speaker 1 (01:26:19):
Mark? Mark bush Mark? Yes, Mark, I don't know why? Okay,
so what he thought he couldn't? 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? He calls him? What name?

Speaker 11 (01:26:44):
Uh?

Speaker 7 (01:26:46):
Let's say m's like, let's less.

Speaker 1 (01:26:54):
Blessing lord.

Speaker 6 (01:26:58):
H lee e Musk?

Speaker 1 (01:27:02):
That what do you saying? The last name? He said?

Speaker 7 (01:27:06):
La?

Speaker 1 (01:27:07):
No, I did e muskue Y. It's incorrect. I'm sorry.
It's so close to so close, so close he called
him Leon must m u s team? Did he say Leon? Eventually?

Speaker 2 (01:27:29):
Okay, email me, sir, I'll send you a hat, a hat.
I'll send you a hat.

Speaker 1 (01:27:36):
Yeah. Now where was it from Gardendale?

Speaker 3 (01:27:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (01:27:41):
Email me, sir, I'll send you a hat just for
you know, a consolation prize.

Speaker 1 (01:27:44):
You know that was close?

Speaker 2 (01:27:46):
Yeah, because it was so he got half of it.

Speaker 1 (01:27:47):
This is not a chad and we're all going to
hug each other in this break. Yeah, all right, we'll
be right back.

Speaker 8 (01:27:54):
This is the Rick Burgess Show.

Speaker 1 (01:28:02):
It looks like Dickie Nadbar.

Speaker 17 (01:28:04):
Yeah, oh boy, uh Dickie are you there?

Speaker 3 (01:28:23):
Bud road Guide? And Mary Christmas?

Speaker 1 (01:28:26):
How there he is?

Speaker 3 (01:28:28):
Road Guide? Mary Christmas?

Speaker 1 (01:28:29):
What's going on? But hey, what's going on?

Speaker 6 (01:28:32):
Well?

Speaker 3 (01:28:32):
First of all, I want to say hello to Gary.
Gary's in there. He's big tied manh.

Speaker 13 (01:28:36):
Yeah, yeah, I mean I just can't hardly get by
without uh watching him.

Speaker 3 (01:28:43):
Okay, I'll tell you Greg getting everybody chancel the way
little Mary Christmas from Gregory?

Speaker 1 (01:28:49):
Well, you know you fired up where you're at you
in Oklahoma?

Speaker 3 (01:28:52):
Hey? Well, first of all I want to say on
behalf of Phillish.

Speaker 11 (01:28:55):
Hey, g phillis.

Speaker 1 (01:28:59):
Road Tide, road Tide, big night tonight.

Speaker 3 (01:29:02):
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 1 (01:29:10):
Now you still don't feel like you deserve to be there.
I thought you was just man.

Speaker 3 (01:29:13):
You know I'm out here in Norman. You did go
road tide.

Speaker 1 (01:29:19):
You said you were going.

Speaker 3 (01:29:21):
Oo, Gary understands this. I can speak on the baffle,
Gary budget, Hey, I got too much?

Speaker 13 (01:29:28):
Oh yeah, yeah, I can ready to tell. I can
really tell. That's the first time I ever talked to him.

Speaker 4 (01:29:37):
Oh wow, Gary, this is Dicky, Dicky Gary, Gary, Dicky.

Speaker 3 (01:29:42):
Nice to meet you. Sure think a lot of you.

Speaker 13 (01:29:44):
Yeah, I appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (01:29:46):
I'll tell you one thing, are you tolerating these clas
is beyond me.

Speaker 13 (01:29:50):
You don't know what I have to go through roadside tide?

Speaker 1 (01:29:54):
So you ended up going to Norman, Oklahoma? You know
what that means?

Speaker 4 (01:29:58):
By goodness, gracious, he feels like they he feeling it.

Speaker 1 (01:30:01):
He's feeling it.

Speaker 3 (01:30:02):
I got too much, Uni me. I kept thinking about Harvey. Huh.
I kept thinking about Harvey up night, and I thought,
what you do Harvey?

Speaker 1 (01:30:10):
Okay? He would go to Oklahoma. I tell you that, Yeah,
he would.

Speaker 3 (01:30:19):
Have you seen the four ok.

Speaker 1 (01:30:21):
Yeah, here the wind is gonna be blowing hard, and
I was about to.

Speaker 3 (01:30:25):
Say something off of me with blowing hard wind.

Speaker 6 (01:30:30):
Tide?

Speaker 1 (01:30:31):
How do you?

Speaker 4 (01:30:32):
How do you feel about your field goal kicker who
blames everybody but himself.

Speaker 3 (01:30:36):
You gotta take responsibility. I mean, like I said, our
team is kind of called Ryan Williams's disease.

Speaker 7 (01:30:43):
Boy.

Speaker 3 (01:30:43):
I mean, the whole team's starting to fall apart. But
at the need beginning, and you know, if I was
sitting here with Sabing still coaching Sabing cars, mmm uh
you know, then we're about to win another national championship.
I don't know the little kailing little kailing to boor
it realizes the opportunity will be presented. But if you can't,

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nobody beat Mama twice in one season. So we're gonna
meet the Sooners and we're gonna beat the bansh off
of Look he's.

Speaker 2 (01:31:10):
Back, he's back.

Speaker 1 (01:31:11):
Yeah, no, wonder you made it the drive to Yeah
he's back.

Speaker 3 (01:31:14):
Uh huh Ober, little litt co kicker can kick it
a forty five mile do our win?

Speaker 1 (01:31:18):
I tell you, I can't come down to special teams
always does it seems.

Speaker 3 (01:31:24):
If you if you look at Oklahoma overrated.

Speaker 1 (01:31:27):
Oh well, I'll tell you this that what that means.

Speaker 3 (01:31:30):
Last time we had a lot of injuries, we had
a lot of issues, and the rest we're cheating.

Speaker 1 (01:31:33):
Oh I forgot about that.

Speaker 4 (01:31:36):
But now you know, nobody believes that Bama can do it.
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 3 (01:31:47):
Well, it's it's it's it starts over in the playoffs,
you know, and when you give Mama another shot. We
kind of like Jason and them Jason movie, you better
kill us now.

Speaker 1 (01:32:00):
Coming bad.

Speaker 3 (01:32:01):
I don't like to coach Oklahoma. Don't like him at all.

Speaker 1 (01:32:04):
You don't like him? Huh?

Speaker 3 (01:32:06):
Well, okay, how you say his last name? Verbal?

Speaker 1 (01:32:09):
Venerable venal verbal verbal? Man, we're gonna go to Gary, Gary,
it's vulnerable, Okay, well.

Speaker 3 (01:32:18):
Gary, Now we just just you know, I'm trying to
like him, But trying to like him is like trying
to figure up the clean end of a turk. You
just can't do it.

Speaker 13 (01:32:25):
Yeah, well I know, I know, I know where you're
coming from there.

Speaker 1 (01:32:34):
I had to tell you what, Bama better be able
to run the ball. I ain't done it very well
this year.

Speaker 3 (01:32:38):
We think, well, you got to run the ball. We
got jam back that's going to help him.

Speaker 1 (01:32:42):
No, you got to do it.

Speaker 3 (01:32:44):
Yeah, well we gotta we gotta block somebody. We gotta
move somebody. Uh the Sooners looking at our defense. Well,
you know, you gotta score points to meet the tide,
and I think we can score more than they can
this time. Road tag.

Speaker 1 (01:32:55):
Okay, yeah, have I think three turnovers led to points
last time they played, So you got to get that
taken care of.

Speaker 3 (01:33:02):
Yeah, it's a Christmas party going man, little Phyllisten I
dress up as Sabing Calls and she dresses up as
Miss Terry.

Speaker 1 (01:33:08):
Okay, all right, that's a side.

Speaker 3 (01:33:11):
I'm like missus Calls. And let me just tell you this.
I don't do number win just like saving.

Speaker 1 (01:33:17):
That's it.

Speaker 4 (01:33:18):
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
Indiana game?

Speaker 1 (01:33:26):
If y'all win?

Speaker 3 (01:33:27):
If we win this one, I've been to California before,
and I hate those people, but we'll go again.

Speaker 1 (01:33:32):
You'll tolerate.

Speaker 3 (01:33:34):
I'll tell you one thing. If you're bothered by singing transvestis,
don't go out there.

Speaker 1 (01:33:40):
What about.

Speaker 13 (01:33:42):
Yeah, it's basically.

Speaker 3 (01:33:45):
Yeah, that's right. Grim. Have you've seen that video with
that trains under persons hanging?

Speaker 6 (01:33:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (01:33:49):
I watch it all the time.

Speaker 6 (01:33:51):
You bro go.

Speaker 1 (01:33:55):
Think you with about ten seconds left, give us a
final score. What's your production? You sound kind?

Speaker 3 (01:34:00):
Mama Winnes Tonight twenty seventeen.

Speaker 1 (01:34:03):
Twenty seventeen, twenty seven to ten.

Speaker 3 (01:34:05):
I'm on the Crimson and why go beat the pants
off to the Crimson and cream?

Speaker 1 (01:34:09):
Okay, a lot of a lot of crimson. All right?

Speaker 4 (01:34:13):
Well did I cannot believe we found it? Sound like, hey,
you know he's back to his old sale. These last
couple of calls we had, he was down. He turned
on the tide. I think he's back.

Speaker 3 (01:34:22):
Well, you'd be Christmas and all wind Rota Hotel.

Speaker 4 (01:34:27):
And there he goes, thank you, Dick, you appreciate you, buddy, Ay,
bye bye.

Speaker 1 (01:34:30):
There he goes, there he goes. I go he sounds better. Oh, hend,
I didn't think he was going. No, he was pouting
last time we talked to him.

Speaker 8 (01:34:38):
Yeah, this is the Rick Burgess Show.

Speaker 1 (01:34:49):
Well, you know, we're we're 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 Rick burgesshow dot com, under
shop or hit store and you can do that. Also

(01:35:09):
a reminders Wednesday's Bible study that archive available. It is
a Christmas theme Strange Encounters, 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 would.
That's gonna be some stuff in that podcast this weekend
wherever you get podcasts, and of course the archive of

(01:35:31):
today's Christmas 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 Mike.

Speaker 2 (01:35:47):
Yeah, I figured it'd be good to like just have
everybody come on in.

Speaker 1 (01:35:51):
It's the Christmas party.

Speaker 2 (01:35:52):
We can see everybody. That's It's not just me.

Speaker 15 (01:35:54):
Yeah, okay, and I can't swedge while I'm.

Speaker 1 (01:35:57):
No to a wide shot. Get your guitar and have
at it.

Speaker 6 (01:36:01):
Let's do it.

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

Speaker 2 (01:36:02):
So this is a Christmas song I wrote.

Speaker 1 (01:36:05):
Okay, good this morning.

Speaker 2 (01:36:06):
All right.

Speaker 10 (01:36:07):
You got the idea for it last night and then
kind of dreamed about it a little bit. Laane Kiffin
was not.

Speaker 13 (01:36:13):
Involved, okay, okay, yeah, so there you go.

Speaker 1 (01:36:16):
All right.

Speaker 10 (01:36:17):
The name of this song is don't flie flip out
on your family. Okay, doomed falise flip out on your family.
Reckon Christmas is not manly, So stop all the fighting

(01:36:38):
and fussing, because Christmas should be busting.

Speaker 2 (01:36:44):
Do y'all know what busting means.

Speaker 1 (01:36:46):
It means good.

Speaker 2 (01:36:49):
Chris should be busting.

Speaker 1 (01:36:50):
Okay, yeah, I got it.

Speaker 10 (01:36:52):
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 low go and stay away from
the mall in Costco. So don't falise flip out on
your family. Reckon Christmas is not manly, So stop all
the fighting. And for sin, because Christmas should be busting.

(01:37:16):
Your 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.

Speaker 2 (01:37:34):
But don't falise flip out on your family. Reckon Christmas
is not manly.

Speaker 10 (01:37:40):
So stop all the fighting and for sin, because Christmas
should be busting. And yeah, and here's now a little
shout out to my workplace friends and family.

Speaker 2 (01:37:52):
I spend more time with you guys than I actually
spend with my family, which is depressing. All right here right.
Speedy he's the best in the world producer.

Speaker 1 (01:38:02):
Speedy.

Speaker 2 (01:38:03):
He'll rescue you when you are needy.

Speaker 10 (01:38:06):
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.

Speaker 2 (01:38:23):
He'll bring up your past mistakes and your reputation.

Speaker 10 (01:38:27):
He will tarnish, but then he'll give you a big,
warm hug and he'll smell a little bit like varnish.

Speaker 13 (01:38:36):
And that's good Mary Christmas.

Speaker 10 (01:38:39):
Greg, thanks for being my accountability partner, Beddy, never let
me forget my mistakes.

Speaker 2 (01:38:42):
I appreciate that so much.

Speaker 13 (01:38:47):
Rick Burgess, by this goes out to you, buddy, Rick Burgess.

Speaker 10 (01:38:50):
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.

Speaker 2 (01:39:02):
Merry Christmas, Ray, thanks for saving our jobs, buddy.

Speaker 6 (01:39:06):
That was big.

Speaker 2 (01:39:09):
Remember, guys, I remember that's pretty bad.

Speaker 1 (01:39:15):
I'm so glad that.

Speaker 10 (01:39:17):
Remember the reason during the holidays, zoo, it's celebrating Jesus
to get given to you, to share that love freely
with family foreign nearing. 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 angry

(01:39:38):
little else.

Speaker 2 (01:39:41):
So don't plea slip out on your family.

Speaker 10 (01:39:44):
Reckon Christmas is non manly, So stop all the fighting
and busting because Christmas should be busting.

Speaker 2 (01:39:52):
I said Christmas should be busting.

Speaker 16 (01:39:55):
Yeah, Merry Christmas, everybody, Yastmas, and no mistakes so they
would get good work.

Speaker 3 (01:40:11):
So there we go.

Speaker 13 (01:40:17):
Time for the Christmas Cash countdown.

Speaker 2 (01:40:21):
Hey, Senna, how about some cash? All I want for.

Speaker 1 (01:40:26):
Christmas is code hog.

Speaker 2 (01:40:31):
Cas and here we go.

Speaker 1 (01:40:37):
The number is two O, five, five, three zero, one thousand,
Barton Clay Jewelers, Monks, 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

(01:40:57):
we can get. We're gonna give people a choice. Gary
will be Readyary, So we're gonna go with caller twenty five.
How about that. It's like, since today's the Christmas party, Okay,
so let's go. Let's go one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
eight nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty,

(01:41:24):
twenty one, twenty two, twenty three. Hello, Welcome to the
Rick Burgess Show. What's your name and where are you
call him from?

Speaker 8 (01:41:33):
My name is Cally and I'm calling from Dallas, Georgia.

Speaker 1 (01:41:35):
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

(01:41:56):
answer one question.

Speaker 6 (01:42:02):
Is the question about the show this year?

Speaker 4 (01:42:04):
It is I'll take the question.

Speaker 1 (01:42:07):
Here is the question, Here is the question for everything?
And what's your what's your name again?

Speaker 6 (01:42:15):
My name is Cali on the YouTube. On the YouTube,
I'm Cal.

Speaker 1 (01:42:19):
Okay than 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 6 (01:42:32):
I'm ready.

Speaker 1 (01:42:32):
What does big box mean?

Speaker 6 (01:42:37):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:42:37):
It has to do with a big voice.

Speaker 9 (01:42:40):
Yeah, wow, it means big voice. Wow you girl, Come on,

(01:43:00):
you did it.

Speaker 1 (01:43:02):
Four hundred dollars for you and you also won the
mont Blanc Master Stook Ballpoint Pen Platinum coated worth four
hundred and eighty dollars from Barton Clay Jewelers. My goods.

Speaker 6 (01:43:16):
Can I can I tell you a story? I'm the
one that went up against Nookum's on when we were
on the show and I lost Burgess Ball Battle and
she won one thousand dollars. Oh, this is my comebacks.
This is my comeback story.

Speaker 1 (01:43:33):
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 obvious that you have been
loyally listening and your loyalty has paid off for you.

(01:43:56):
So thank you very much for your support. I'm putting
you on whole and speed. You'll get your information. We'll
send you the money, and also we will send you
the pen. Merry Christmas, guys.

Speaker 2 (01:44:08):
You guys don't know how much this means to me
and my family.

Speaker 1 (01:44:11):
Well, Merry Christmas to you and to your family, and
thank you for supporting us. And tell that baby we said, Hell.

Speaker 17 (01:44:16):
Up, I sure will, she said, is that Rick?

Speaker 14 (01:44:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 16 (01:44:21):
It is?

Speaker 14 (01:44:21):
Baby.

Speaker 1 (01:44:22):
Hey, that's fantastic. Do you not love that?

Speaker 3 (01:44:25):
Rus?

Speaker 1 (01:44:25):
I love it.

Speaker 4 (01:44:26):
I want to see as we go to Breakwood, Gary
have made the show get over from the one.

Speaker 1 (01:44:30):
Fis gonna make it makeable. Get your tod what Gary
would have done here? I would have missed it. It
was good to say missed it. Brothers would have hit that.

Speaker 14 (01:44:43):
We end.

Speaker 1 (01:44:44):
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 8 (01:44:53):
This is the Rick Burgess Show.

Speaker 1 (01:45:01):
Dollars over budget. I saw that, all right, I saw
that big time rush and I'll get mad about that.

Speaker 4 (01:45:07):
And so yes, today Rick, we had two three hundred
dollars winners and one four hundred dollars winner.

Speaker 1 (01:45:13):
Yep, ain't got the pen.

Speaker 4 (01:45:13):
Didn go with that four hundred one 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 Neltson from Ohio was one of the
three hundred dollars contestant winners. And then Beth Norman from
Georgia was the other three hundred. Today it's good and

(01:45:34):
we got a text winner.

Speaker 1 (01:45:35):
Were waiting here.

Speaker 4 (01:45:35):
We are waiting to hear back from them. I have
contacted them and just waiting to hear back.

Speaker 1 (01:45:40):
So thank you text nation. 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 Tea

(01:46:00):
and their sales team, and and the content with Strange
Encounters and the daily best of IWUR 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 just

(01:46:22):
a big thank you, uh that we have so many
organizations and now we've teamed up with grip feed. We're
excited about Big Box 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. Without them, none of

(01:46:45):
this happens so on the national and local scene and
on the streaming and and and you know the archives.

Speaker 3 (01:46:52):
All of that.

Speaker 1 (01:46:52):
So also, don't forget the new album is out on
all the streaming today. So are you ready those you
that were waiting for it to come to the streaming options,
It is there now, just search whatever option you use
the Rick Birders Show. So guys, let's take a few
phone calls here, unscreened Gary, thank you for all your

(01:47:13):
contribution this year, Buddy.

Speaker 13 (01:47:15):
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.

Speaker 1 (01:47:24):
Stay safe out there. Thank you Gary. Well, Gary, what
you do for us sometimes is really thankless, but thank
you for all you do.

Speaker 13 (01:47:31):
Buddy Well, I appreciate.

Speaker 1 (01:47:32):
You're out there working hard and nobody even sees it.
But no, you know, I do what I can. Yeah,
we love you.

Speaker 3 (01:47:37):
Well.

Speaker 1 (01:47:38):
You know you saw me last time one hundred I said, Gary,
thank you for making this place so special.

Speaker 13 (01:47:42):
Well, I'm gonna tell you y'all want to be down
there here the 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 heppen.

Speaker 1 (01:47:56):
Okay, I just said, thank you. Don't do it.

Speaker 2 (01:47:58):
Gary, it's not worth it, trust me.

Speaker 1 (01:48:00):
Come on, Gary, you're saying you want to roll him
sleeves up, so you're getting you're singing a little frustrated
with us.

Speaker 13 (01:48:06):
No, not really, Okay, I'm just joking.

Speaker 1 (01:48:09):
To the phones, we go, Hello, Welcome to the Rick
Burders Show. Unscreen phone calls, go Rick, Rick.

Speaker 11 (01:48:15):
I got an idea for a great segment. Okay, Rick,
Rick and Gary switch spots. Gary goes to seat one,
Speed goes to uh the live stream. Anyway, everybody switches spots.
I think it would be hilarious.

Speaker 1 (01:48:34):
Okay, yeah, you're talk about kind of like musical chairs.
We just all move and we have to take each
other's back. 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 great, Rick, Gret, Gary,
come out, Gary, Christmas got a hold of it.

Speaker 2 (01:48:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:48:57):
I started to saying, why go ahead and sing it now?

Speaker 1 (01:49:00):
Is that what you're doing when you leave?

Speaker 13 (01:49:01):
Just yeah, y'all start laughing.

Speaker 1 (01:49:03):
That mean we were yeah, well we were.

Speaker 13 (01:49:09):
Answer small phone calls.

Speaker 1 (01:49:10):
Dashing through the snow. Dang it. Let me chill. Okay, uh,
welcome to the Rick Burgers Show. Unscreen phone calls, go ahead.

Speaker 13 (01:49:22):
I'm lost.

Speaker 1 (01:49:23):
Uh, here we go, Rick Burgess. Wow, boy, they're coming
in like crazy. Really okay, Rick Burgers Show, unscreen phone calls,
go ahead, Hell, you're on the Rick Burgess Show. Go ahead.

Speaker 7 (01:49:37):
Hey Brandon from Western Spring.

Speaker 1 (01:49:39):
What's up, buddy? What's on your mind? Go ahead?

Speaker 7 (01:49:42):
I just wanted to say that I listen every day,
watch on YouTube or the radio, and I actually do
look forward to hearing the best of us away.

Speaker 1 (01:49:53):
Oh good, yeah, yeah, yeah. All the guys have worked
so hard on those and they're ready to go. Uh
so we're excited you go back and relive some of
those moments that are unforgettable from your one Rick Birders Show.
Go ahead.

Speaker 6 (01:50:07):
I just want to say happy anniversary to my husband
Joe Tomorrow thirty nine years is caring from bluntschvill All right.

Speaker 1 (01:50:15):
Well together right here at the Christmas time. Rick Birders Show,
unscreen phone calls, Go ahead, Papa, one of the Andrews
make the room all musty. Oh that's good.

Speaker 3 (01:50:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:50:31):
Rick Burgers Show, unscreen phone calls. You're on, Go ahead, hey,
Pa show we can we hit.

Speaker 9 (01:50:40):
Can we get Gary to cook some chicken dump and
so Christmas?

Speaker 1 (01:50:47):
So like a kid, that's not somebody that would try
to get kids in their van. Yeah, they don't have
don't have kitt rick Burgers show unscreen phone calls.

Speaker 11 (01:50:59):
Go ahead, Papa, Papa, what's a playhouse?

Speaker 1 (01:51:07):
Greg, you had the gift of the year, Buddy. I
think Adler put the most effort in. Oh yeah, I
think yours was the most offensive.

Speaker 2 (01:51:15):
I think it was the best.

Speaker 1 (01:51:16):
Yeah, it was good. So yeah, and just want to
say to you guys, thank y'all. This has been a
great year of city, Greg, Adler, Gary, everybody works on
the show. Look, you know it was a it was
a it wasn't easy now. 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

(01:51:39):
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. Yeah,
I mean glad that it was there. Yeah, you gotta
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,

(01:52:00):
coming in here every day and doing that. And uh
if you, if you had not, this thing had no hope. Uh.
And so thank you. I know it was a lot
to try to figure out, and you guys have delivered.
I mean I had somebody sent an email last night
and they were like, you know, I think I would
would give your one an A plus. I think it

(01:52:20):
was more difficult than we thought it would be. Uh,
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 of weeks off, come back, ready 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 to

(01:52:41):
your leadership. That's a good way. Merry Christmas to all
of you out there. Ye, happy hanukah whatever you're doing,
and I hope you have a wonderful, wonderful.

Speaker 2 (01:52:57):
Time, happy speedy.

Speaker 1 (01:52:59):
Yes, thank you, thank you, that's gosh, that's good. Enjoy
those best of moments. 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 and
every one of you.

Speaker 8 (01:53:15):
This is the Rick Burgess Show.

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