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July 31, 2025 18 mins
Spencer has been offered a once in a lifetime trip but doesn't want to drive the 6.5 hours there and back. We tried coming up with different ways he could get there without having to drive. 

Hardy made the day for a server by doing a show but it was the location that is The Good Good! 

Robert crushed it on How Country Are Ya! 
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm a little conflicted because I was given an amazing opportunity,
but I really don't want to drive six and a
half hours there in six and a half hours back.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
What is it?

Speaker 1 (00:10):
The Speedway Classic is this Saturday. It's the Braves versus
the Reds. This is where they're playing a Major League
Baseball game inside Bristol Motor Speedway. So they're taking an
entire field and they're putting it in the infield of
the racetrack, which I wish they'd do at Talladega because
that's just a you know, that's a short drive. Yes,
I don't want to drive six and a half hours.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
You know my new rule Spencer, and everybody thought I
was crazy when I said this, But if it's more
than six hours, I'm blonde.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
But if I try to fly and I get a
flight from anywhere in Alabama, whether it's Birmingham, Huntsville, wherever,
I feel like it's going to cost me thirteen hundred
dollars because those are both really small airports and you're
also going to a really small airport. I don't want
to spend thirteen hundred dollars, but I really want to
go to this event.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
Okay, so this is what we do.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
We get in touch with Kenny, Kenny Jesty that is,
and ask if we can borrow his plane.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
Who's gonna fly it? I don't have my private pilot's license.
You don't either, and you jumping onto this.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
This only.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
If it's Kenny's plane. He might want to go to
the game. So I'm gonna hop I mean, okay.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
That's far stretched. I mean to try to get Kenny Chesney.
Although I think you might be onto something. What if
I just went to a local airport to try to
see if somebody actually has a plane, Like maybe they're
just there trying to get hours, or they just wanted
to go for a while.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
I think like they just kind of like, I guess
are there. I don't know that world very well.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
I've always wanted to get my private pilot's license. So
from what I've researched already, you have to keep your
hours so you can maintain your log book. Some people
own their own planes outright. Other people rent planes, and
then some people do a plane share where it's multiple
people own one plane and then they just divvy up
like who's gonna fly whenever they want to fly. It's

(02:04):
like a reservation thing. So if I roll up to
a private airfield or whatever, I don't even know where
the closest one is. Do you think that I could
actually say to somebody, Hey, I have an extra ticket,
do you want to fly me to Bristol and we'll
go to this once in a lifetime event and then
we'll fly back. You think somebody would actually say yes.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
I think if you found the right person that loved
the sport as much as you did, now, I mean,
if you found me over there, I'd be like, no, man,
you gonna.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
Have to pay for this puer casing. I mean, you know,
like thanks aund me to get my hours.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
But but I mean I think if you've found the
right person, well.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
It's a cool event, right, Like something like this is
different than hey, let's fly to Atlanta and go watch
a regular Braves game. This is something that they're not
gonna do every single year, at least I don't think
they are where you're watching a baseball game inside a
NASCAR track.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
I doubt I doubt it because when Bristol did the
big football game, you know, it was Tennessee playing and
they only did.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
That one year.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yeah good, because it was Tennessee.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
All right, you know I was trying to help you,
but now I'm not.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
I mean, what other good ways would there be to
travel without you having to do the physical driving. I
could get an uber, but that's probably going to be
fifteen thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yeah, at least, so that's not saving you any money.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
What about somebody who has like one of those old
school tour buses, the big Prevost coaches or whatever, and
they drive and I just kind of hang out in
the back.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
Okay, so that would be good, But how are you
going to park it? That's going to need like special parking.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
I'm just saying private flying.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
I wonder if you were offered a once in a
lifetime thing and all you had to do was drive,
would you be in Well, I was calling.

Speaker 4 (03:52):
To I don't have a play, but I do have
an SUV and a husband. If you can come up
with a third ticket, we would be h The car
pulls at this event with you.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
She's like, we all have to drive.

Speaker 4 (04:04):
So there's an option for you, right, I know, but Terry,
you can drink as much as you want.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
You say that. You say that, but I have a seapap. Okay,
So if I'm sleeping in the back of the car.
I'm not running my seatpap movie snoring like crazy. It's
going to drive you nuts.

Speaker 4 (04:21):
Well, actually, I have to plug back there.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
She's like, better and better we got.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
Terry looks back at her rear view and she's like, God,
it looks like a hospital back there.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
She's like, but we're going to the game, so it
doesn't matter.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
Too So I love the idea. I think it's great
that you would you and your husband will want to
show for me in an suv. The problem is I
do only have two tickets, so it's for me and
one other person. And the bad part is there's eighty
five thousand people that are going to be there and
it's already sold out, so I don't know if I
could get a third.

Speaker 4 (04:56):
Well, if you do the offer, state.

Speaker 1 (04:59):
Thank you, Terry, appreciate you.

Speaker 4 (05:01):
You're welcome. You have a good day and have a
great time. However you get there.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
All right, follow along on my social media and I'll
see what I come up with.

Speaker 4 (05:08):
Yes, sir, Thanks thanks Terry.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
Tracy. What's going on?

Speaker 5 (05:12):
Well, I was thinking this morning, if you want to
try and get to Bristol, you could call a flight school.
There's one that useduld be one at Wallis State, and
I think there's one out at the airport. They may
be willing to give you some flight time to Bristol.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
You're talking about me flying the plane or a student flying.

Speaker 6 (05:31):
No, no, somebody she said no, no, no, Because here's
my problem.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
Listen. I'm not against people learning how to do something,
but I don't like being the first in their learning quest.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
You know, you can't be pay Yeah.

Speaker 5 (05:48):
I understand, but how important is it for you to
get to Bristol.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
Well, see, it's important for me to get there, but
it's also very important for me to get there, you know.

Speaker 6 (06:00):
Lastly, there are a certain levels, so I'm sure they
have some more experience instead of you know, the Gus
straight out of his car getting in the plane.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
It's like Tracy, if you showed up to a new
salon and you were gonna get your hair done. It
was a really important event, and they were like the
person you normally get isn't here, But we have Belinda,
and Belinda would certainly help you. She's one cut in
and she goes, You're the first person I've ever cut
hair on. You would be mortified.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
But here's the thing. They've had more training than you.

Speaker 6 (06:31):
Yeah, Blair, I mean all right, let me get you
hair looks like too.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
But let me hit Blair where it counts. Blair, You're
gonna have a surgery at some point, I am. You
go in and the doctor says, so happy that you're here.
This is the first one I've ever done. I know what.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
They make a deal with you. I'm gonna make a
deal with you. If I make it, you let me
scrub into a future surgery. We'll call it. We'll call it.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
So funny, just a fault. It's a great idea. I
just don't know many people that are like, yeah, I
want to be the first. I'll sign up.

Speaker 5 (07:04):
Well, I mean, hey, am I get you there.

Speaker 1 (07:07):
It's like sitting down for a tattoo and the guy says,
this is my first one ever. That's an unsettling moment. Blair.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
You gotta be somebody's like, so everybody has have it first.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
Gunner send me a message on Facebook and he goes, Spencer,
if you want to get to the game, you don't
want to drive, just take the train.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
Is there a train that goes up there?

Speaker 1 (07:26):
Supposedly? Have you ever ridden on a train, like an
actual distance, not one of those you know, like tour
trains where they take you around a property.

Speaker 3 (07:35):
No, we had talked about like not this trip, but
before taking the train down to New Orleans because a
lot of people do that. That's basically a car for me.
And again, if I can fly, I'm gonna fly.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
Is it weird to sleep on a train knowing that
you got somebody sitting right in front of you and
on a train they're facing you.

Speaker 4 (07:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (07:55):
See, I would have a problem with that. I'd be like,
excuse me? Can I help you?

Speaker 1 (07:59):
What happens if you flying on an airplane and they
flip the seats around like they do on a train
and you had to look at the people sitting across
from you, that would be miserable.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
No, I coulnot. I'd be like, excuse me, hello, seriously,
do you have a problem.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
I don't know if I can do the train, Gunner,
I appreciate it. I'll check the schedules just to see,
but I'm thinking the private pilot might be the only
way I can go. What's going on, Travis?

Speaker 7 (08:23):
I was just seeing if you were still looking for
a ride to the race. Well, I'll hang out in
Peil City.

Speaker 6 (08:28):
Huh.

Speaker 7 (08:28):
I have a plane in Pearl City, fly about two
hundred and fifty.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
Hours a year.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
So is that average?

Speaker 7 (08:35):
Is that average? No, that's probably your average private pilot's
probably gonna fly somewhere around one hundred and one hundred
to one hundred and twenty is a lot for most
private pilots. We just use our plane a lot.

Speaker 3 (08:47):
Would you like to take me and my friends to
the next Ara store? It hasn't even been announced yet,
but I'm just gonna throw.

Speaker 1 (08:52):
That one tickets to that.

Speaker 7 (08:56):
Yeah. Yeah, but no, like it's chasing that.

Speaker 2 (09:01):
I'm not even gonna entertain that.

Speaker 7 (09:03):
Georgia this afternoon, Yeah, on a whim. Well, it's my
daughter's birthday. She she works and lives over in Georgia,
So me and my wife are gonna hop and plane
run over there, Uh, spend the evening with her, and
then fly home.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
I love how casual it is. We're just gonna and
fly over there, so we're have dinner and then we're
just gonna love.

Speaker 7 (09:21):
It's It's just like having a car. Yeah, you use
it the same way if it's more than a half
hour drive or flying what.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
I don't blame you. I do not blame you more
than a half hour drive.

Speaker 7 (09:35):
Oh yeah, we'll run down to Destin to eat lunch.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
And right now this could we could be friends because
you know, I do love me.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
Because that's what I'm sure he loves to hear is
the only reason we would be friends, and so we
could go have lunch in DestinE.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
I'm gonna give him a chance.

Speaker 3 (09:52):
But I mean we started out a little like Risky
with the whole like him not jumping on board with
the ariostol.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
Well, dude, thank you so much, giving you all the
warm fuzzies and whatnot. It's the good good on the
Spencer Grave Show. You know, Hardy is always looking at
new ways to create new fans. But he did it
based on the generosity and kindness of a server at
an Iowa restaurant. The server's name is Carter. Kurt. Carter

(10:22):
was having a terrible week, but he performed excellent while
he was serving Hardy and his crew. That Hardy decided
to go back and offer him tickets, and he said,
I can't. You know, I'm working several jobs. I've got
a family to feed. I just don't have the time
to take off for a show. That's when Hardy and
his crew decided, well, then we'll just do a show

(10:44):
for you. They gave him a VIP concert experience right
there at the restaurant.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
Oh my gosh, I love this.

Speaker 3 (10:52):
I mean, can you imagine, like you just think it's
going to be a normal day at work and then
totally totally totally knocks it out of the park. Oh,
this is something that I've never done before on a trip,
and it's kind of psychotic behavior. You know, go figure
me doing something crazy. So you know how I haven't
slept in like seven hundred and fourteen years, like consistently.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
Precisely.

Speaker 3 (11:19):
We get to New Orleans, which, by the way, I
found if anybody ever needs a place to stay in
New Orleans, I found the place. It's called the Refinery.
It's so cool. It's like apartments and it's very very
very very very affordable.

Speaker 1 (11:30):
Compared so like an Airbnb type situation.

Speaker 3 (11:33):
No, they actually like treat it as a hotel, which
is unique, Like it's not an Airbnb, it's it's a hotel,
which just.

Speaker 2 (11:44):
Fantastic all around.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
But the first night we get there, I slept better
than I have ever slept, Like, I mean just woke up.
Steve was the same way. He was like, that's the
best mattress I've ever slept on.

Speaker 1 (11:59):
We are you saying that most of your sleeping issues
are because of the mattress you have a home?

Speaker 3 (12:05):
I don't know. I didn't know this at the time.
Did not know this at the time.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
Did y'all strip the bed to find a label?

Speaker 2 (12:12):
Yes, let me get and oh oh we took it further.
We took it further.

Speaker 1 (12:17):
We take on your phone in this mattress.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
Hold on, it gets better.

Speaker 3 (12:22):
There were no labels, so I was like, we've got
a message to come, like the hotel, Like I need
to know what kind of mattress this is. So they
have like the texting you know where you can text
like when you're like settled or whatever. I was like, Hi, hello,
I need to know what mattress is in this particular unit,
and they were like, oh okay. They ended up sending

(12:44):
me the link. It was a mattress on Wayfair. I
ordered it so fast. Oh no, it gets better, it
gets better. I ordered it so fast, which like surprisingly
it was four hundred dollars for a king size mattress,
which I thought was very recent like the last time
I went and looked at mattresses. They were not that
cheap anyway, ordered it paid expedited shipping so that it

(13:08):
would be there yesterday when we got home. I didn't
even unpack before I got this mattress out. We slept
on it last night and I slept great again.

Speaker 1 (13:17):
So wow, I wonder are there people that have been
inspired by something they saw on a trip and had
to have it at their house so they immediately did
what you did?

Speaker 2 (13:26):
I really hope.

Speaker 3 (13:27):
So, I really hope this isn't as psychotic as Steve
was kind of like saying it was.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
He's like, that's a little much like you didn't even
take a breath.

Speaker 1 (13:34):
I was like, Nope, Adcart, it's not psychotic. But the
fact that you've probably done this multiple times with different
things and not a mattress I have, and then you
have what we call a streak.

Speaker 2 (13:46):
I am it's a trend.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
If you've been inspired by something that you found on vacation,
you had to have it eight five five Grave zero
It's how country are you? On the Spencer Grave Show,
rob where are you from? And make them proud today
on a scale of wonded country? How country are you.

Speaker 8 (14:06):
I'd say about a six point five.

Speaker 1 (14:08):
Why so low?

Speaker 8 (14:09):
I'm pretty country, but I don't know how red.

Speaker 4 (14:11):
I am got it?

Speaker 2 (14:13):
Well, that just proved a lot right there.

Speaker 1 (14:15):
I'm southern, I'm country, but I don't know if my
neck is that red? All right, We're gonna ask you
three questions and we'll give you a score at the
end of you Ready, everybody knows this song? Nicely done?

Speaker 2 (14:31):
There we are that next.

Speaker 1 (14:33):
Getting a little more red.

Speaker 8 (14:35):
If I'm being honest, Come on the words say it
all here?

Speaker 1 (14:40):
We go share with us something you've done that city
folk don't know anything about.

Speaker 8 (14:48):
Oh, swinging off a tire, swing into the river.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
M that's it, all right? I mean, come on, city
folk don't know nothing about that. They're gonna be like
you want to do? What?

Speaker 7 (15:00):
There is?

Speaker 3 (15:01):
There?

Speaker 1 (15:01):
A laiver I have to sign?

Speaker 2 (15:04):
Get out there?

Speaker 1 (15:05):
How come no one's wearing a helmet? What's happening here?

Speaker 6 (15:08):
I have a questions?

Speaker 1 (15:09):
All right? Final question? How did you use redneck ingenuity
to fix something?

Speaker 3 (15:17):
Uh?

Speaker 8 (15:19):
Many times? With a duct tape? I think in my
second car, my passenger door would not close, so I
had to bend a nail to keep it closed, you know,
Ben had to put a nail in the circus slot
or it would he close.

Speaker 1 (15:32):
What happened to that door?

Speaker 8 (15:34):
It was the magic nail. I don't know, it just
stopped stop closing, so I kind of ricked it up.

Speaker 2 (15:39):
Would well? I mean, at least you had the duct tape.

Speaker 1 (15:46):
He played us for a bunch of fools. He said
a six and a half. He's easily in eight point seven.
Nicely done, Thank you, sir. You want to see Justin
Moore or Dylan Gossip?

Speaker 8 (15:56):
Which one's there? To Avondale?

Speaker 1 (15:57):
Dylan Gossip. It's gonna be great, Yes, sir, Did you
see that Tim McGraw's bald?

Speaker 6 (16:02):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (16:02):
Me and Steve had a whole conversation about what was
the conversation.

Speaker 1 (16:05):
I know you're really attracted to bald men, So did
that hit you in the fields or what?

Speaker 2 (16:09):
No, But as Steve said, oh my god, do you
think that he went bald because he saw you? And
he was like that had to be it? Why else
would he finally shave his head? And I was like,
you're so right, you know, you're just so right.

Speaker 1 (16:23):
I think he got to the point where he realized
his hair wasn't going to come back, and he just
decided there's no sense in having to spend money on shampoo,
there's no sense in having to spend money on other things.
I'm just going to keep it easy and I'm going
to shave this bad boy.

Speaker 7 (16:36):
Now.

Speaker 3 (16:37):
He's like, look, did you see that Blair is with
Steve because he's bald and she likes my buddy Kenny, Like, clearly,
this is what the women want.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
But you've known Steve ever since he was bald. You
didn't know him with hair. Why did he decide to
finally shave his head.

Speaker 3 (16:54):
I think it just to the point where like hairline
issues and stuff like that, and he just like finally
made the call.

Speaker 1 (17:00):
Because I think all of us know somebody who's losing
their hair, and at some point you just have to say, like,
hey man, when are you going to go the whole way.
It's such a hard conversation and a reality for a
lot of guys to make. Though.

Speaker 3 (17:13):
Yeah, I mean some people are very sensitive around the topic.
And you know, I mean, I'm sure you know rightfully.
So Bobby d shaved his head one time and then
grews hair back, So I guess he didn't like what
he saw.

Speaker 2 (17:26):
I don't know he.

Speaker 1 (17:27):
Dipped his toe in and he was like, you know
better with the hair. Have you ever wondered why you
can hear your wife's voice so clearly when there's a
lot of noise happening, whether you're in an argument or
a loud store or wherever, their voice just seems to
pierce your brain. There's actually science behind why the Southern

(17:49):
accent cuts through noise more than any other voice.

Speaker 2 (17:53):
Okay, what are they saying?

Speaker 1 (17:54):
So if you took Dolly Parton.

Speaker 9 (17:55):
Well, I don't care about following fashion. I've never been
one to to follow what other people are doing. I
see what's going on, but I never could have afforded
in those early days.

Speaker 1 (18:07):
But that voice and that accent cuts through more noise.
So if you add pots, pans, clang and bang in
the whole deal, there's something about the decibels or the
hurts that the Southern accent gives off that you can
hear it distinctly in a crowded space or a loud area.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
Well, here's the thing.

Speaker 3 (18:27):
You use Dolly as an example, and it's like, of course,
I mean, I'm gonna know Dolly's voice no.

Speaker 2 (18:31):
Matter if she's Southern or she's trying to be British
or whatever.

Speaker 3 (18:34):
But you know, it is funny because I can be
in a store even and hear Steve's voice, who I
don't think is that southern, that country, but like I
know it.

Speaker 2 (18:45):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (18:45):
He is when you leave town. If you went to
New York and you heard Steve talk, you'd be like, oh, yeah,
here's my husband.
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