September 26, 2025 • 21 mins
What part of Alabama has the best food? Mobile has grabbed a lot of attention but one major city was called "trash."
Eric moved from St Louis so how would he do on How Country Are Ya?
Blair has been pranking her husband but recently she went with a gift that was for her!
Eric moved from St Louis so how would he do on How Country Are Ya?
Blair has been pranking her husband but recently she went with a gift that was for her!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I saw this on al dot com yesterday. They took
the state of Alabama and they separated it into five quadrants,
and they were asking people, what section do you believe
has the best.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Food in Alabama?
Speaker 1 (00:13):
And I think you'll be upset because there were a
lot of people, you being from Decatur, who basically took
the Huntsville region and said that the food was trash.
They took Birmingham and they said the barbecue was really good.
But the winner, from what I could tell, was Mobile
because of the seafood.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Oh yeah, that doesn't surprise me at all.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
I mean I don't eat seafood at all, none of it.
So when I go to the beach, it's like, huh,
where's the chicken and fries?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
But I know a lot of.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
People loved the fresh seafood. Steve always loves to eat it.
But the fact that they called like Huntsville area trash, Mmm,
maybe you should get better I don't know.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Taste, but because we got some good places.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Okay, all right, but tell me about like Huntsville food
for those that haven't had it, don't know much about it.
What are some of the bright spots with Huntsville cuisine?
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Well, I mean, I've said the before and I'll say
it again that Borhogs Barbecue is the best barbecue in
the state of Alabama by a long shot.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
But does it rival like Jim and Nicks and Saws
and all that kind of stuff, Because that's what most
people were saying, is the best barbecue.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Is the Birmingham Like Jim Knicks doesn't even hold a
candle to Borhowks. I mean, it's not even close. And
I've had both. I grew up in a barbecue loving family.
I'm telling you Borhog's barbecue hands down the best. Then
of course you've got Rosy's Mexican. That's just I mean.
I have friends and family that live out of town
that that is their main focus point when they come
(01:43):
to town is we got to go eat roast.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
So when I took a look at some of the
responses from people and I saw people kind of trashing,
they didn't really trash the Birmingham area because honestly, you
really can't. The amount of Michel unrated restaurants that Birmingham
has and winners of the James Beard Award is pretty wide.
But when people were talking about mobile, I've yet to
go south and have the seafood and mobile.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Have you never been to the golf.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I've been to the Panhandle, but only in Florida. Like,
I haven't really done the golf stores thing. I haven't
really done the whole Alabama South thing.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
That's surprising.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Yeah, I mean again, I'm not I can't speak to
that because I don't eat any of it.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
But I mean when we.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Go down to the golf, Steve or really, I mean Josh,
whoever I'm with, they have their staples. They're like, Hey,
I've got to go get this at this place. I've
got to go do this here. And I'm over here,
like I just need a Miami Vice or a dak
or like.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
So, do you know of those places have that? Like,
I'm good, You're.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
The only person I know that would have those types
of drinks with chicken tenders. But anyway, here's what I'm
looking for. I'm looking for people who can stand up
for certain areas in Alabama to talk about why the
food is so good where they believe it's good. And
if you believe mobile the southern portion of Alabama has
the best food, hands down. Give me some recommendations, because
(03:01):
I would love to go down and actually check it
out A five five Grave zero Michelle, what's going on?
Speaker 5 (03:08):
Okay, I wanted to talk about the food. I live
in Huntsville, but I have to say I think Birmingham
has tremendous food.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Go ahead, share with everybody.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Why because that was kind of an argument that a
lot of people were having online.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
Chris Hastings has hot and hot Fish Club and oven Bird,
and I'm telling you, one of the best restaurants I
have ever been to my life. We were there with
my cousin from Chicago and she kept going on and on.
She's like, I didn't know they had food like this,
and all.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Look, I've always been a firm believer that if you
call a radio show like the Spencer Grave Show and
you know the name of the head chef or the owner,
you got money in your bougie.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
Turns out he's Chris Hasteins and he beat Bobby Flay, and.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
I see she is a food eat to the.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
But now let me ask you. You're saying Birmingham is better.
You live in Huntsville. If you had to pick a
top Huntsville restaurant, what would you pick?
Speaker 5 (04:08):
I like, fantastic, and as well as some of the
other stuff too.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
And with seafood it's different too, because like certain entrees
matter where you go, Like if you go to Maine,
you're going to get lobster when you're in Maine. If
you go to Maryland, you're going to get blue crab.
What is Florida and what is Alabama in the coast
known for food?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Wise?
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Well, I like grouper, you know, when I go to Florida,
I eat as much grouper. I also like shrimp too,
So grouper and shrimp.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Damn.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
My husband like snapper.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Yeah, yeah, those are cool too when you do a
deep sea fishing trip and then you can do a
hook and cook, so you catch them, you bring them
back to a restaurant and they'll make it for you.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Also, I guess I spend a lot of money on
food too, because one of the best fishes I've ever
had was cooked by Emerald Legatti at his restaurant down
in Sandston.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Girl, you don't hide you fancy when it comes to food.
You're the foodie.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
She's like, I'm not holding back, and that's okay.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Michelle, thank you very much. We appreciate you. Okay, thank you, Angela.
What's up?
Speaker 6 (05:18):
Oh well, I'm actually just calling to let Blair know
that I've got her back.
Speaker 7 (05:23):
I would totally have a bushwhacker, a daker or anything
like that.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Don't get the bushwhacker.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Have you had the bushwhacker with a peanut butter floater
on top?
Speaker 7 (05:35):
Oh? Yes, ma'am, Yeah, ma'am. Yeah, the licoln We.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Found two women who like to drink their lunch rather than.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Eat their lunch.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
I would rather drink my calories than eat them, if
I'm being honest.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Same girl, same Gabrielle. You're so bright and chipper this morning.
What's going on?
Speaker 3 (05:53):
She's always brightened?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Chipper, he is.
Speaker 7 (05:58):
I'm a morning person, just driving to work. So I
heard you on the radio and I wanted to give
you a recommendation for mobile if you decide to go south. Yes,
Bluegill Restaurant.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Now, where's that one called.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I'm going to say it's Nebile probably, Yes.
Speaker 7 (06:18):
I don't know the road exactly, but it's the Long Bridge,
I think, like before you get to Dolphin.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Island, Yes, Parkway. It's in Spanish Fort.
Speaker 8 (06:32):
Yes.
Speaker 7 (06:32):
So they have the best seafood. My favorite is their
appetizer and it's fried green tomatoes with crawfish etufa on top.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Okay, it is so good. Listen, fried green tomatoes.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
For something like that. People know seafood.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
I mean I would, honestly for a fried green tomato,
I would.
Speaker 9 (07:01):
Yeah, I left that SHELFI shallerg coo full bloom.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Yeah yeah, yes, it is so good.
Speaker 7 (07:09):
So that is my recommendation.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Thank you. We appreciate your time today.
Speaker 7 (07:14):
Alrighty, thank you. You'll have a good day.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Giving you all the warm fuzzies and whatnot. It's the
good good on the Spencer Grave Show. This is a
beautiful story.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
It's about a teacher who solicited the help of a
news reporter in Florida. She wanted to get connected with
a former student. That former student was in her class
twenty four years ago. She wanted to give him a
letter that his mother had written about her. Had written
about him in March of two thousand and one. Six
(07:50):
months after the teacher got the letter, she found out
that that young man's mom passed away. She was a
flight attendant on flight ninety three in the nine eleven attacks.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
That that's tough. That's tough.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
So a local news reporter connected the teacher and the
former student, and she was able to finally give him
the letter.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Yeah, Miss Thurman.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
Javon read a book last night that he brought home
from the library. He read it from cover to cover.
I told him that I would to write you a
note and tell you what an outstanding job he did.
We are very proud of him and we'll continue to
work with him at home.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Again.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
Thank you for your dedication encourage to the job that
you do. Very touching because it seems very sweet and
it seems like something she would definitely say.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
How amazing is that that Javon got to see his
mother's handwriting for the first time in twenty four years.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
I think that's incredible. I mean, and way to go
to that teacher for going the extra mile. When we
always say, you know, hey, educator's teachers, they always go
above and beyond.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
This is exactly what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
It could have been so easy to just hold onto
that note for maybe a couple of years. You move,
or you're just looking at on the table and you're like,
I'll just throw that away. It's not a deal. But
you're right to hold on to that and then find
him and say, hey, I really think you need to
have this. And it's not like the mom was writing
anything earth shattering because she had no idea what the
outcome was going to be. But she took the time
(09:12):
to write a note about her son and he gets
to read it.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Love it.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Wait, is Blair the only wife that tries to prank
her husband on a regular basis? Her love for Kenny
Chesney and her love for her husband those pasts intersected
just recently. If you haven't seen the video, it's up
on her TikTok and all of this has even been
taken to the family group chat. We'll get into that,
but we want to hear the audio first.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
So I got you suppressed.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Okay, this box?
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Now, I know how big.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Of a fan you are of this person.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Oh, it gets better. And their website was selling mystery.
Speaker 6 (09:58):
Boxes, Like you think I were going a mystery box.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
First, Ida, I mean there's more than one.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Different mystery box.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Really, Kenny chessa T shirts?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
I don't look like getting fit makes right?
Speaker 4 (10:25):
What else is in the Kenny Chesney mystery box?
Speaker 5 (10:29):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (10:29):
You telling me that's a Kenny Chesney mystery box and
we can get that on Ken T shirt.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
I hope this stuff is all free.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
I'll tell you that another mystery box.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
It's another Kenny Chess T shirt.
Speaker 7 (10:45):
Give me a break.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Why you get from That's good?
Speaker 4 (10:51):
That's it gets better when you get to the hatch.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Come on, what we're gonna do with them?
Speaker 5 (10:57):
We can clinging out our posts as it is. Kenny
Chesney had and I never had, and you word.
Speaker 8 (11:10):
Oh god, Chesney, Ken Jessey Cousey.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
I love the fact that your husband, Steve has now
confirmed for me. I was a little worried that he
was giving into all these delusions that you have and
all the things that you love.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
That video.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
That video confirmed for me that he is not fully
bought into your craziness when it comes to Kenny Chesney,
and I applaud him for that.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Okay, first of all, I sent the video in the
family group text because everybody needed to see what we
got in our mystery box. And let me just tell
you what some of the responses are, because I think
that they responded well. Abby said wow for real, and
then grand Jan said that really is a deal and
(12:01):
a half. And then Rachel said, oh my gosh, that's
such a deal for seventy five dollars. Blair you should
definitely buy another one. And then State Bobbly chimed in
this morning and goes, send me seventy five dollars and
I'll send it all to you, wrote, I get you deal.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
I'll send you all three mystery boxes. Today is the
last day of snore Wars for this week. It's just
going to be a game that we play every once
in a while. We're not going to do it every
single day, but we wanted to at least bring it
to you. We have had a challenger come into the
arena because yesterday we've had a back to back champ.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
And that's Andrew. That's currently who's leading.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
But we now have someone new, Sam whose wife wrote
to us and said, my husband when he snores, sounds
like a squeaking door.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
And it's really true.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Okay, So instead of the squeaking door, I feel like
he sounds like that piece of the floor that when
you stand on and it creaks.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Oh that's a good one, yes, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Like, I think it's that's more accurate to describe him,
the one where.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
When you step on it, it makes the noise quick
and then you realize that there's a squeak so you
softly rock back and forth.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
That's how I would describe it.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
That's good, all right.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
So our challenger this morning sounds like a squeaky door
or the squeaky floor, Sam, who is trying to dethrone
our good friend Andrew. So now you guys need to
give us your vote eight five five, grave zero. Which
(13:45):
one of those snores would be the worst one to
sleep next to? Melissa? Let's do snore wars. Do you
want to weigh your opinion on which one is the worst?
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Yes, definitely right.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Let me play him for you. This is Andrew. He
was our current champion two days in a row. That
one's bad, It's definitely bad. But then Sam comes in
and we were all kind of shocked at how Sam
was going to perform because his wife said he sounded
like a squeaky door. So which one would you say
(14:18):
is the worst to have to sleep next to?
Speaker 5 (14:20):
I would definitely say Andrew because he sounds like an
alien or something from.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Out That's what I'm saying. It's scary.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
Yeah, the floor, like I've heard that before, but like
Andrew is like an alien from outer space.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Wait a minute, you've heard somebody who snores was like
a squeaky floor or door.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
Well, no, I've heard like the doors or like the've
never heard an alien before.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
You're making a vallid point.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
It's like, okay, we know that noise, the noise that's
coming out of Andrew is not something we are familiar with.
Speaker 10 (14:57):
Right.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
We got people riding shotgun even jumping in love your
guys's vote. Thank you very much for playing along with us.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Thank you, Lindy.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Here are the people that we have on snore Wars.
We have our champion, Andrew. His wife says he sounds
like Gullum from Lord of the Rings. But we have
a new challenger named Sam. His wife says he sounds
like a squeaky door. And it's kind of true. So
(15:32):
which one of those snores would you have a hard
time sleeping next to?
Speaker 7 (15:37):
Most definitely Sam and of some sort.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
It's so funny to me that people are saying Sam
because I don't know Andrew sounding like he's possessed.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
But people are like, Nope, don't want a squeaky door.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
I mean, at the end of the day, we don't
want either. But we gotta do what we gotta do, I.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Guess, Lindy.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Thank you so much. Thanks for listening. Hopefully you have
a great day today.
Speaker 7 (16:01):
You two.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Thank y'all.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
All right, let's get over to you this morning. A
five to five Graves zero. How do you want this?
Do you want the challenger or do you want the champion?
Speaker 2 (16:10):
First?
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Bring me the champion.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
This is the champ two days in a row. That's Andrew,
whose wife says he sounds like Gullum from Lord of
the Rings. Now this is Sam. His wife says he
sounds like a squeaky door. Which one would you have
(16:34):
a hard time sleeping next to you?
Speaker 7 (16:36):
I could not sleep next to that. I'd have to
go with the first one.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Wow, Blair, we have a new champion.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
See, I'm telling you, I'm gonna have to stick with Andrew.
Really gonna have to stick with Andrew. I'm still scared
for him.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Honestly, Amy, you were to the deciding factor today. It
was so neck and neck. Thank you very much.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
You are so welcome. I hope y'all have a great
day and we'll see all this evening.
Speaker 9 (17:01):
It's how country are you? On the Spencer Grave Show. Claire,
let me introduce you to Eric. He's actually from Missouri.
So let's see if Missouri country is the same as
country country.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Okay, share with us.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
A little bit about where you were raised in Missouri.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
So we moved a lot.
Speaker 10 (17:18):
When I was a kid. I lived in Saint Louis,
I lived in the county. I lived in Kansas City.
I lived like Washington, Missouri, Moscow, Mills, Troy. I've been
here about eight years. So yeah, I'd say I moved
here about a three and a half and I say
I'm about a five.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Now, well, let's see if we've rubbed off on you.
We've got three questions for you.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Good luck.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
What truck shows up on the job site to sell
people tools?
Speaker 8 (17:47):
One?
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Now, let's I mean it could be what's the tool
what's the tool company that's trying to sell the tools?
Speaker 8 (17:58):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (18:00):
Is it called Mac Mac Tools?
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Or I'm not positive, ma Ac or snap on. I'll
give it to you. I love how you said was good?
All right?
Speaker 3 (18:11):
I could be I that's.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Fine, all right.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Question number two, what did your mom say when you
walked into a store.
Speaker 10 (18:20):
Don't ask for nothing?
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Okay, the same I mean, moms speak the same language
no matter where you are in the country. Final one,
tell us in detail what the inside of your granny's
house looked like.
Speaker 10 (18:33):
Well, my granny was British, so I had just lots
of pictures on the.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
One flag on the wall and a spot of te flag.
Speaker 10 (18:43):
But you know, she uh a small TV. She sit
on the couch and crochet. She make your sweater okay,
you know, to make your sweater for Christmas, and always
always felt like pot roast. And she she did had
tons of dolls, creepy dolls.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
They're always creepy. You got that right.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (19:09):
She would buy dolls a yard sailed and like refurbish
and pick them up, crochet them some clothes, and then
sell them at the flea market.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
All right, real quick, let me share with you guys
a doll story that my mom did when she was little.
You want to talk about creepy dolls. My mom had
one of those dolls where if you turned it upside down,
it would wink, like its eyes would blink or whatever. Well,
one of the eyes broke, so the other one just winked.
And my mom was sure when she was a little
girl that if she cut the eyelashes of her doll.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
They would grow back.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
So she for years had this doll with a broken
eye that would only wink with jack to eyelashes.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Do you want to.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Talk about the nightmares that I had when I was
four years old?
Speaker 10 (19:53):
She creepy with the eyelashes when they do that.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Oh my god, it was the word any buddy, not
bad today? Seven point two for you, Boom Craig, thanks
for sliding in our DMS and talking about the Grammys.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
It's actually the CMAS. Thank you for the thank you
for the note about the CMA. Very nice. You are
well deserved.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Well thank you.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Even though she's a Tennessee fan, she still can.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
What I thought, I'm telling you, I think that's gonna
hurt I mean, guess, let me guess you're an Alabama fan.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Roh, God, Craig, I honestly think that her being her,
by the way, Blair.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Being a Tennessee fan is actually going to hurt us
with the CMA.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
You forget where Nashville, where a majority of these CMA
members live.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
It's the state of Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Nashville ain't like everywhere else in Tennessee.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Okay, well, all still Balls or.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Vanderbilt fans over there. And for me this which cousin,
have you had a relationship with.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
While you get on here and you start being nice
to me and I now, absolutely not.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
That's over in Mississippi.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
We got people listening to this show that are like, Craig,
you're living in Alabama.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Don't say that out loud.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Yeah, come on, Craig, I thought me and you were
were starting.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
There's right, that's what people in Mississippi do. We don't
do that here. We don't do that, all right, No,
I'm just kidding. Uh got one hour, Craig,
I saw this on al dot com yesterday. They took
the state of Alabama and they separated it into five quadrants,
and they were asking people, what section do you believe
has the best.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Food in Alabama?
Speaker 1 (00:13):
And I think you'll be upset because there were a
lot of people, you being from Decatur, who basically took
the Huntsville region and said that the food was trash.
They took Birmingham and they said the barbecue was really good.
But the winner, from what I could tell, was Mobile
because of the seafood.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Oh yeah, that doesn't surprise me at all.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
I mean I don't eat seafood at all, none of it.
So when I go to the beach, it's like, huh,
where's the chicken and fries?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
But I know a lot of.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
People loved the fresh seafood. Steve always loves to eat it.
But the fact that they called like Huntsville area trash, Mmm,
maybe you should get better I don't know.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Taste, but because we got some good places.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Okay, all right, but tell me about like Huntsville food
for those that haven't had it, don't know much about it.
What are some of the bright spots with Huntsville cuisine?
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Well, I mean, I've said the before and I'll say
it again that Borhogs Barbecue is the best barbecue in
the state of Alabama by a long shot.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
But does it rival like Jim and Nicks and Saws
and all that kind of stuff, Because that's what most
people were saying, is the best barbecue.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Is the Birmingham Like Jim Knicks doesn't even hold a
candle to Borhowks. I mean, it's not even close. And
I've had both. I grew up in a barbecue loving family.
I'm telling you Borhog's barbecue hands down the best. Then
of course you've got Rosy's Mexican. That's just I mean.
I have friends and family that live out of town
that that is their main focus point when they come
(01:43):
to town is we got to go eat roast.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
So when I took a look at some of the
responses from people and I saw people kind of trashing,
they didn't really trash the Birmingham area because honestly, you
really can't. The amount of Michel unrated restaurants that Birmingham
has and winners of the James Beard Award is pretty wide.
But when people were talking about mobile, I've yet to
go south and have the seafood and mobile.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Have you never been to the golf.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I've been to the Panhandle, but only in Florida. Like,
I haven't really done the golf stores thing. I haven't
really done the whole Alabama South thing.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
That's surprising.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Yeah, I mean again, I'm not I can't speak to
that because I don't eat any of it.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
But I mean when we.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Go down to the golf, Steve or really, I mean Josh,
whoever I'm with, they have their staples. They're like, Hey,
I've got to go get this at this place. I've
got to go do this here. And I'm over here,
like I just need a Miami Vice or a dak
or like.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
So, do you know of those places have that? Like,
I'm good, You're.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
The only person I know that would have those types
of drinks with chicken tenders. But anyway, here's what I'm
looking for. I'm looking for people who can stand up
for certain areas in Alabama to talk about why the
food is so good where they believe it's good. And
if you believe mobile the southern portion of Alabama has
the best food, hands down. Give me some recommendations, because
(03:01):
I would love to go down and actually check it
out A five five Grave zero Michelle, what's going on?
Speaker 5 (03:08):
Okay, I wanted to talk about the food. I live
in Huntsville, but I have to say I think Birmingham
has tremendous food.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Go ahead, share with everybody.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Why because that was kind of an argument that a
lot of people were having online.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
Chris Hastings has hot and hot Fish Club and oven Bird,
and I'm telling you, one of the best restaurants I
have ever been to my life. We were there with
my cousin from Chicago and she kept going on and on.
She's like, I didn't know they had food like this,
and all.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Look, I've always been a firm believer that if you
call a radio show like the Spencer Grave Show and
you know the name of the head chef or the owner,
you got money in your bougie.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
Turns out he's Chris Hasteins and he beat Bobby Flay, and.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
I see she is a food eat to the.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
But now let me ask you. You're saying Birmingham is better.
You live in Huntsville. If you had to pick a
top Huntsville restaurant, what would you pick?
Speaker 5 (04:08):
I like, fantastic, and as well as some of the
other stuff too.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
And with seafood it's different too, because like certain entrees
matter where you go, Like if you go to Maine,
you're going to get lobster when you're in Maine. If
you go to Maryland, you're going to get blue crab.
What is Florida and what is Alabama in the coast
known for food?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Wise?
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Well, I like grouper, you know, when I go to Florida,
I eat as much grouper. I also like shrimp too,
So grouper and shrimp.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Damn.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
My husband like snapper.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Yeah, yeah, those are cool too when you do a
deep sea fishing trip and then you can do a
hook and cook, so you catch them, you bring them
back to a restaurant and they'll make it for you.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Also, I guess I spend a lot of money on
food too, because one of the best fishes I've ever
had was cooked by Emerald Legatti at his restaurant down
in Sandston.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Girl, you don't hide you fancy when it comes to food.
You're the foodie.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
She's like, I'm not holding back, and that's okay.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Michelle, thank you very much. We appreciate you. Okay, thank you, Angela.
What's up?
Speaker 6 (05:18):
Oh well, I'm actually just calling to let Blair know
that I've got her back.
Speaker 7 (05:23):
I would totally have a bushwhacker, a daker or anything
like that.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Don't get the bushwhacker.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Have you had the bushwhacker with a peanut butter floater
on top?
Speaker 7 (05:35):
Oh? Yes, ma'am, Yeah, ma'am. Yeah, the licoln We.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Found two women who like to drink their lunch rather than.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Eat their lunch.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
I would rather drink my calories than eat them, if
I'm being honest.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Same girl, same Gabrielle. You're so bright and chipper this morning.
What's going on?
Speaker 3 (05:53):
She's always brightened?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Chipper, he is.
Speaker 7 (05:58):
I'm a morning person, just driving to work. So I
heard you on the radio and I wanted to give
you a recommendation for mobile if you decide to go south. Yes,
Bluegill Restaurant.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Now, where's that one called.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I'm going to say it's Nebile probably, Yes.
Speaker 7 (06:18):
I don't know the road exactly, but it's the Long Bridge,
I think, like before you get to Dolphin.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Island, Yes, Parkway. It's in Spanish Fort.
Speaker 8 (06:32):
Yes.
Speaker 7 (06:32):
So they have the best seafood. My favorite is their
appetizer and it's fried green tomatoes with crawfish etufa on top.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Okay, it is so good. Listen, fried green tomatoes.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
For something like that. People know seafood.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
I mean I would, honestly for a fried green tomato,
I would.
Speaker 9 (07:01):
Yeah, I left that SHELFI shallerg coo full bloom.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Yeah yeah, yes, it is so good.
Speaker 7 (07:09):
So that is my recommendation.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Thank you. We appreciate your time today.
Speaker 7 (07:14):
Alrighty, thank you. You'll have a good day.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Giving you all the warm fuzzies and whatnot. It's the
good good on the Spencer Grave Show. This is a
beautiful story.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
It's about a teacher who solicited the help of a
news reporter in Florida. She wanted to get connected with
a former student. That former student was in her class
twenty four years ago. She wanted to give him a
letter that his mother had written about her. Had written
about him in March of two thousand and one. Six
(07:50):
months after the teacher got the letter, she found out
that that young man's mom passed away. She was a
flight attendant on flight ninety three in the nine eleven attacks.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
That that's tough. That's tough.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
So a local news reporter connected the teacher and the
former student, and she was able to finally give him
the letter.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Yeah, Miss Thurman.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
Javon read a book last night that he brought home
from the library. He read it from cover to cover.
I told him that I would to write you a
note and tell you what an outstanding job he did.
We are very proud of him and we'll continue to
work with him at home.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Again.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
Thank you for your dedication encourage to the job that
you do. Very touching because it seems very sweet and
it seems like something she would definitely say.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
How amazing is that that Javon got to see his
mother's handwriting for the first time in twenty four years.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
I think that's incredible. I mean, and way to go
to that teacher for going the extra mile. When we
always say, you know, hey, educator's teachers, they always go
above and beyond.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
This is exactly what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
It could have been so easy to just hold onto
that note for maybe a couple of years. You move,
or you're just looking at on the table and you're like,
I'll just throw that away. It's not a deal. But
you're right to hold on to that and then find
him and say, hey, I really think you need to
have this. And it's not like the mom was writing
anything earth shattering because she had no idea what the
outcome was going to be. But she took the time
(09:12):
to write a note about her son and he gets
to read it.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Love it.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Wait, is Blair the only wife that tries to prank
her husband on a regular basis? Her love for Kenny
Chesney and her love for her husband those pasts intersected
just recently. If you haven't seen the video, it's up
on her TikTok and all of this has even been
taken to the family group chat. We'll get into that,
but we want to hear the audio first.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
So I got you suppressed.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Okay, this box?
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Now, I know how big.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Of a fan you are of this person.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Oh, it gets better. And their website was selling mystery.
Speaker 6 (09:58):
Boxes, Like you think I were going a mystery box.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
First, Ida, I mean there's more than one.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Different mystery box.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Really, Kenny chessa T shirts?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
I don't look like getting fit makes right?
Speaker 4 (10:25):
What else is in the Kenny Chesney mystery box?
Speaker 5 (10:29):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (10:29):
You telling me that's a Kenny Chesney mystery box and
we can get that on Ken T shirt.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
I hope this stuff is all free.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
I'll tell you that another mystery box.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
It's another Kenny Chess T shirt.
Speaker 7 (10:45):
Give me a break.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Why you get from That's good?
Speaker 4 (10:51):
That's it gets better when you get to the hatch.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Come on, what we're gonna do with them?
Speaker 5 (10:57):
We can clinging out our posts as it is. Kenny
Chesney had and I never had, and you word.
Speaker 8 (11:10):
Oh god, Chesney, Ken Jessey Cousey.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
I love the fact that your husband, Steve has now
confirmed for me. I was a little worried that he
was giving into all these delusions that you have and
all the things that you love.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
That video.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
That video confirmed for me that he is not fully
bought into your craziness when it comes to Kenny Chesney,
and I applaud him for that.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Okay, first of all, I sent the video in the
family group text because everybody needed to see what we
got in our mystery box. And let me just tell
you what some of the responses are, because I think
that they responded well. Abby said wow for real, and
then grand Jan said that really is a deal and
(12:01):
a half. And then Rachel said, oh my gosh, that's
such a deal for seventy five dollars. Blair you should
definitely buy another one. And then State Bobbly chimed in
this morning and goes, send me seventy five dollars and
I'll send it all to you, wrote, I get you deal.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
I'll send you all three mystery boxes. Today is the
last day of snore Wars for this week. It's just
going to be a game that we play every once
in a while. We're not going to do it every
single day, but we wanted to at least bring it
to you. We have had a challenger come into the
arena because yesterday we've had a back to back champ.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
And that's Andrew. That's currently who's leading.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
But we now have someone new, Sam whose wife wrote
to us and said, my husband when he snores, sounds
like a squeaking door.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
And it's really true.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Okay, So instead of the squeaking door, I feel like
he sounds like that piece of the floor that when
you stand on and it creaks.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Oh that's a good one, yes, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Like, I think it's that's more accurate to describe him,
the one where.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
When you step on it, it makes the noise quick
and then you realize that there's a squeak so you
softly rock back and forth.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
That's how I would describe it.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
That's good, all right.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
So our challenger this morning sounds like a squeaky door
or the squeaky floor, Sam, who is trying to dethrone
our good friend Andrew. So now you guys need to
give us your vote eight five five, grave zero. Which
(13:45):
one of those snores would be the worst one to
sleep next to? Melissa? Let's do snore wars. Do you
want to weigh your opinion on which one is the worst?
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Yes, definitely right.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Let me play him for you. This is Andrew. He
was our current champion two days in a row. That
one's bad, It's definitely bad. But then Sam comes in
and we were all kind of shocked at how Sam
was going to perform because his wife said he sounded
like a squeaky door. So which one would you say
(14:18):
is the worst to have to sleep next to?
Speaker 5 (14:20):
I would definitely say Andrew because he sounds like an
alien or something from.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Out That's what I'm saying. It's scary.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
Yeah, the floor, like I've heard that before, but like
Andrew is like an alien from outer space.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Wait a minute, you've heard somebody who snores was like
a squeaky floor or door.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
Well, no, I've heard like the doors or like the've
never heard an alien before.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
You're making a vallid point.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
It's like, okay, we know that noise, the noise that's
coming out of Andrew is not something we are familiar with.
Speaker 10 (14:57):
Right.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
We got people riding shotgun even jumping in love your
guys's vote. Thank you very much for playing along with us.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Thank you, Lindy.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Here are the people that we have on snore Wars.
We have our champion, Andrew. His wife says he sounds
like Gullum from Lord of the Rings. But we have
a new challenger named Sam. His wife says he sounds
like a squeaky door. And it's kind of true. So
(15:32):
which one of those snores would you have a hard
time sleeping next to?
Speaker 7 (15:37):
Most definitely Sam and of some sort.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
It's so funny to me that people are saying Sam
because I don't know Andrew sounding like he's possessed.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
But people are like, Nope, don't want a squeaky door.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
I mean, at the end of the day, we don't
want either. But we gotta do what we gotta do, I.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Guess, Lindy.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Thank you so much. Thanks for listening. Hopefully you have
a great day today.
Speaker 7 (16:01):
You two.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Thank y'all.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
All right, let's get over to you this morning. A
five to five Graves zero. How do you want this?
Do you want the challenger or do you want the champion?
Speaker 2 (16:10):
First?
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Bring me the champion.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
This is the champ two days in a row. That's Andrew,
whose wife says he sounds like Gullum from Lord of
the Rings. Now this is Sam. His wife says he
sounds like a squeaky door. Which one would you have
(16:34):
a hard time sleeping next to you?
Speaker 7 (16:36):
I could not sleep next to that. I'd have to
go with the first one.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Wow, Blair, we have a new champion.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
See, I'm telling you, I'm gonna have to stick with Andrew.
Really gonna have to stick with Andrew. I'm still scared
for him.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Honestly, Amy, you were to the deciding factor today. It
was so neck and neck. Thank you very much.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
You are so welcome. I hope y'all have a great
day and we'll see all this evening.
Speaker 9 (17:01):
It's how country are you? On the Spencer Grave Show. Claire,
let me introduce you to Eric. He's actually from Missouri.
So let's see if Missouri country is the same as
country country.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Okay, share with us.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
A little bit about where you were raised in Missouri.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
So we moved a lot.
Speaker 10 (17:18):
When I was a kid. I lived in Saint Louis,
I lived in the county. I lived in Kansas City.
I lived like Washington, Missouri, Moscow, Mills, Troy. I've been
here about eight years. So yeah, I'd say I moved
here about a three and a half and I say
I'm about a five.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Now, well, let's see if we've rubbed off on you.
We've got three questions for you.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Good luck.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
What truck shows up on the job site to sell
people tools?
Speaker 8 (17:47):
One?
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Now, let's I mean it could be what's the tool
what's the tool company that's trying to sell the tools?
Speaker 8 (17:58):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (18:00):
Is it called Mac Mac Tools?
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Or I'm not positive, ma Ac or snap on. I'll
give it to you. I love how you said was good?
All right?
Speaker 3 (18:11):
I could be I that's.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Fine, all right.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Question number two, what did your mom say when you
walked into a store.
Speaker 10 (18:20):
Don't ask for nothing?
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Okay, the same I mean, moms speak the same language
no matter where you are in the country. Final one,
tell us in detail what the inside of your granny's
house looked like.
Speaker 10 (18:33):
Well, my granny was British, so I had just lots
of pictures on the.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
One flag on the wall and a spot of te flag.
Speaker 10 (18:43):
But you know, she uh a small TV. She sit
on the couch and crochet. She make your sweater okay,
you know, to make your sweater for Christmas, and always
always felt like pot roast. And she she did had
tons of dolls, creepy dolls.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
They're always creepy. You got that right.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (19:09):
She would buy dolls a yard sailed and like refurbish
and pick them up, crochet them some clothes, and then
sell them at the flea market.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
All right, real quick, let me share with you guys
a doll story that my mom did when she was little.
You want to talk about creepy dolls. My mom had
one of those dolls where if you turned it upside down,
it would wink, like its eyes would blink or whatever. Well,
one of the eyes broke, so the other one just winked.
And my mom was sure when she was a little
girl that if she cut the eyelashes of her doll.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
They would grow back.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
So she for years had this doll with a broken
eye that would only wink with jack to eyelashes.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Do you want to.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Talk about the nightmares that I had when I was
four years old?
Speaker 10 (19:53):
She creepy with the eyelashes when they do that.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Oh my god, it was the word any buddy, not
bad today? Seven point two for you, Boom Craig, thanks
for sliding in our DMS and talking about the Grammys.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
It's actually the CMAS. Thank you for the thank you
for the note about the CMA. Very nice. You are
well deserved.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Well thank you.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Even though she's a Tennessee fan, she still can.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
What I thought, I'm telling you, I think that's gonna
hurt I mean, guess, let me guess you're an Alabama fan.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Roh, God, Craig, I honestly think that her being her,
by the way, Blair.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Being a Tennessee fan is actually going to hurt us
with the CMA.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
You forget where Nashville, where a majority of these CMA
members live.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
It's the state of Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Nashville ain't like everywhere else in Tennessee.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Okay, well, all still Balls or.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Vanderbilt fans over there. And for me this which cousin,
have you had a relationship with.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
While you get on here and you start being nice
to me and I now, absolutely not.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
That's over in Mississippi.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
We got people listening to this show that are like, Craig,
you're living in Alabama.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Don't say that out loud.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Yeah, come on, Craig, I thought me and you were
were starting.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
There's right, that's what people in Mississippi do. We don't
do that here. We don't do that, all right, No,
I'm just kidding. Uh got one hour, Craig,
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