November 4, 2025 • 31 mins
Spencer's Boatload of Toys is here!!! Help us raise 25 boats full of toys!
A dog was found and reunited with its owners, however, that pup may have been wanting to retire! That's todays The Good Good!
Spencer learned a skill from Subway in high school that still sticks with him.
A dog was found and reunited with its owners, however, that pup may have been wanting to retire! That's todays The Good Good!
Spencer learned a skill from Subway in high school that still sticks with him.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Larry, can you tell me, in a perfect world, what
age you think is the best to get married.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I would say, hmm, twenty seven to thirty one.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Given the fact that I'm in the dating world right
now and you and I have talked about this, I'm
running into a lot of women who have been married
and have children, which is fine, and I'm becoming more
comfortable dating somebody who has kids. For a while, I
was kind of like on the fence and I wanted
to have my own family, the whole deal. That sounds terrible,
but that's true. But then I started talking to somebody
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and I realized that they're way younger, and that they
got married when they were about twenty years old. Yeah,
and I'm very common, Yeah, but I felt like twenty
you don't even know a thing about yourself at twenty.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
What's crazy is so I've been married for six years now,
So I was twenty seven twenty eight when we got married.
And Steve and I still have conversations where he and
I both I mean, he's in his sixties and he'll
still say like he has grown so much in the
last six years, like you never stop, you know, developing
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into the person that you are. I'm a firm believer
in that, But I think it's even more crucial when
you're in your twenties, because you know, you start your
twenties and you might still be in college, or you
might still be taking you know, trade school, whatever it
might be, or you may have just entered the workforce,
and then you go through like your mid twenties where
you do have those friends that get married at a
younger age, and you're kind of like seeing that side
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of life.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
A little bit.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
But I don't think that you really are a big
portion of who you are, and so your late twenties
when you've kind of you know, had to experience life
in the different things that come at you in life
or that. So that that's why I say late twenties.
I'm not trying to judge anyone who got married younger,
but I just that's where I kind of fall in.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
But if you're saying everybody grows, you know, as they
continue throughout life, which I agree with, then it wouldn't
it wouldn't be bad if somebody got married when they
were twenty as long as the person that they got
married to grows along the same rate that they.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Correct and that you can still not only just like
grows along with you, but that you grow, you're continuing
to better yourself. I think is where it is because
there are times like I mean, I was there, you know,
in my twenties where I went through a little you know,
wild and crazy stage and had to really you know,
Luckily for me, Steve and I he was there with me,
and he's like, look like, you're good, Like everything's gonna
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be fine. But if you don't have a person in
your life that's willing to go through those different stages
of life with you, then you could unfortunately find yourself
in a separation or a divorce or something like that.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
I have friends that graduated with me high school in
two thousand and one. They dated all throughout high school
and they're still married, and it's yeah, mind blowing to me.
I'm like, man, the amount of changes that I've gone through,
they had to go through similar changes, but they did
it with somebody that they met when they were in
ninth grade.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
I mean, that's how like they're my brother and sister.
But Abby and Josh they they met when they were
in middle school, middle school and there's still together to
this day. They've been together longer than Like they've been
together longer than not, if that makes sense, you know
what I mean, Like there's been more life of them
together than before they met.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Maybe you've been married a few times, maybe you're recently engaged.
What's the best age to actually settle down? A five
five Graves zero. Conversation that we got into earlier this
morning is what age is perfect to settle down and
finally get married A five five Grave zero. Blair, you
decided when you were twenty six twenty seven that you
wanted to settle down.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Yeah, I mean I was honestly, probably closer to twenty
five twenty six when I was like, Okay, I'm good,
Like I've done what I need to do and now
I need to be more civilist.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
What were some of the things that you realized about
yourself dating that made you realize, okay, I want that
next step? You know?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I think for me, I had a couple of serious
relationships where I was able and this is going to
sound harsh, but I was able to verbally say what I.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Didn't want A five five Grave zero. Let's jump over
to you.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
I advise don't get married at all, because you ladies
out there can do it all by yourself.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
I do agree absolutely.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
How many times have you been married?
Speaker 4 (04:15):
I'd rather not know?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
That is okay, we're not going to fry on that.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Yeah. I didn't get a T shirt either, so I
feel a little gyps. But you know, sometimes people aren't
who they are until after you get married, and then
you see the real them, and it's sometimes it's not good.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I feel like it's more than two less than five,
and I'm just gonna stand by that.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Okay, I'll go with that.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
It's like, yeah, that sounds fine, perfect, Yeah, thank you,
have an awesome day.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Appreciate your time.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
So hi you.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Our engineer Jeane is bouncing around. He heard this on
the overhead speaker's blair. So, Jeane, welcome to the show.
What's the greatest age? The best age to get married?
Speaker 6 (04:59):
The best age get married is when you find a
nice Filipino girl.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Okay, okay, what does that mean?
Speaker 6 (05:09):
Geen it I'll leave that open to interpretation.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Jean's were married three times?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Okay?
Speaker 7 (05:15):
What led?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
What led to the breakups?
Speaker 6 (05:18):
Oh no, it's just too much.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
It's like not me. I went into problem all right.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Gene, thanks for jumping in. Let's get out to you
a five five graves zero. Thank you Melissa for hanging on.
So what's the right age to get married?
Speaker 8 (05:32):
My husband and I got married at twenty three and
twenty two and we just celebrated are not change wedding anniversary?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
But did you regulations?
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Did you feel really confident getting married at that age?
Speaker 8 (05:46):
I actually I did. I had actually been through a
lot in my mid teens, late teens, so when I
met him it was I don't know, I can't point it.
I just I knew that he was my person, so
it was it was very easy.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Really, Hey, you im so I'm twenty two years old.
I'll go out and get that twenty three year old
older man.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
You know, you you bring up a three years old.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Look at you, you little cougar.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Yeah, you know you bring up.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
You bring up a good point of like, I think
it does play into the whole equation of like when
you mature, when you have to become an adult, because
you know, some people do you you're kind of forced
to grow up a little bit earlier than other people.
So you know, it could definitely be different for everybody.
But you know, if you go through a lot at
a younger age. Maybe you are more prepared for marriage
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at a younger age, right.
Speaker 8 (06:42):
I agree. Over the last nineteen years we have grown together.
I mean no, we are not the same people we
were in our twenties, but we have grown so much
together and our love for each other is stronger every day.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Wow, what Spencer gets some dating advice.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Here's what I'm Here's what I'm noticing. What I'm noticing
that you're saying is you made a conscious decision on
your own end at twenty three years old. You wanted
to settle down, you wanted to move on to that
next step in your life. And I feel like that's
an important part that a lot of people don't do.
They try to settle down before they actually tell themselves
that this is what they truly want.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Good point.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
I agree, and I want a cupcake. So I'm going
to go get a cupcake.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Okay, I will think You're not quite ready is what
we're here. Okay, got it, got it, got it.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Got Thank you very much, and congratulations on your anniversary.
Hope you have a great day.
Speaker 9 (07:37):
Thank you y'all.
Speaker 10 (07:38):
Do Hey, good morning. I just wanted to chime in
on the marriage thing. Looks like if you're.
Speaker 7 (07:43):
Still doing that sure, right?
Speaker 10 (07:44):
Okay, So I just heard the lady that said you
have like when you just know, you know. And so
my husband and I got married when I was twenty
and he was twenty one, and we were both broke
in college and we decided we love each other, we
just want to be broke together. So we got married
and then everyone was like, we'll never finish college. And
we did it together. And we both have like master's
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degrees and postmaster's degrees, and we've went through life and
grown and we've lost a child together, you know, we've
grown up and like, had all these things happen that
we're just like, I don't know. It was we had
no idea what we were doing, but we still just
knew and we did it together.
Speaker 11 (08:19):
So hard?
Speaker 1 (08:20):
How hard was that to grow through all that stuff?
But knowing that you have somebody who's grown right alongside you, Oh.
Speaker 10 (08:27):
It was it was. I couldn't have done it without him.
I would be in the ground with my baby if
it wasn't for him.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Yeah, I mean, I agree with you. I think that
there is a beauty in meeting somebody and deciding that
this is the person I want to go through life
with and you meet that person when you literally have nothing.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
How long have you guys been together, if you don't
mind me asking.
Speaker 10 (08:47):
Yeah, no, so I'm twenty nine now we've got July
will be our ninth year being married. So yeah, we
actually just lost our baby in April.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
So oh, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 10 (08:58):
Yeah, well, you know it happened. We have a two
year old toddler, and so it was it was a
full term steelboard steelburse. But yeah, well like completely grown through. Oh,
thank you, thank you. That's not why I called it.
I'm sorry. I'm not trying to bring the show down, but.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Had I had a grandmother that went through that. My
mom was an only child because my grandmother had two
stillborn babies. And it gut wrenching obviously for anybody who's
had to go through something like that. But the beauty
is you love on that two year old, that toddler
that you have right now, uh so much, and then
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you guys can give it another chance.
Speaker 7 (09:41):
Yeah, and we do.
Speaker 10 (09:42):
She's so sweet, she's the best sister. We actually just
gave up her pacifier. We ticket to SUSY's grave and said, oh,
you need to, and she just gave it to her.
So we're learning through the through life of you know,
and we started a nonprofit called Anna's Arms to give
boxes to stillborn's moms in the hospital and trying to
make a little bit of life out of this horrible Wow.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
That's that's incredible.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Well, thank you for taking a couple of minutes with us.
We really appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Sure you're sor.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Yeah, thanks.
Speaker 10 (10:10):
I'm actually just gonna go in here and teach them
six year olds the first grade. So they're a little
light to my life.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Giving you all the warm fuzzies and whatnot. It's the
good good on the Spencer Grave Show. Got a great
story to share with you guys this morning. It's about
a family pet that has been reunited with their original owners.
I say original because this dog, Blair, was found five
hundred and twenty miles away from its original house.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
I don't even know how that happens.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
So this little dog is a Chihuahua Docson mix named Penny.
She was found two weeks ago. She was dodging traffic
on a city street in Florida. The person who found
her said that she was just heartbroken that this dog
was running around. She grabbed Penny took her to a vet.
They scanned the microchip which Penny and found out the
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owners were in Mississippi. They called them, and Penny is
now being reunited with her original family.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
You know, when I hear stories about the microchip coming
in like at the perfect time, it just puts smell
on my face because I bet those owners never thought
they would be reunited with their pet.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Sure, but it also begs the question of why did
Penny leave in the first place. Like Maybet was not
necessarily in her plans. She was like, look, I left Mississippi.
I was in sunny Florida about to retire.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
She was like, look, I was just going on a
little vacation, y'all. Didn't have to be so dramatic. I
would have been back eventually.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
I've never run in to a situation where we lost
a pet for a considerable amount of time, not five
hundred and twenty miles, but certainly had a pet go
missing for a couple of days. And it happened in
my neighborhood not too long ago. People lost their cat
and they put up on the neighborhood facebook page. Hey
if you see my black cat. It answers to so
and so just let us know three days later the
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cat that just miraculously shows up. What's wild is when
one of our cats went missing, it came back pregnant.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Oh well you know what was going on there? Yeah, well,
hurry between the lines.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
If you ever lost a pet a five to five
graves zero, share with us that story. Spencer's boatload of
toys back for a third year. This is incredible. Over
the last two years we have managed to fill over
fifty bass boats full of toys with our friends at
Silicaga Marine and ATV. McSweeney Auto Group in pel City
and Clanton and Bart Perry, a state farm agent in
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pel City, have all come together to say that this
is their mission for the holiday season. And if you
don't know what Spencer's boatloaded toys is, it was a
brainchild where I wanted to do something for the kids
of Alabama who wouldn't otherwise have a Christmas. You know,
times are tight. Money is tight with a lot of people,
and some people are trying to decide whether or not
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they put food on the table or buy their son
or their daughter even a few fifteen to twenty dollars gift.
So that's where it all came from Brian a Silicaga
Marine has been championing this for years since he got
involved with this, and over the last year, Brian, you've
seen something pretty incredible.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
Oh yeah, it's an amazing Spencer.
Speaker 11 (13:17):
So many of our anglers and local businesses have just
kept asking me all through the year, when does it start?
When does it start? We want to get more involved
and set new goals and help you guys reach those
goals with the toy donations. It's just been an incredible deal.
Not just to mention local businesses, just customers that have
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come by and not even shopping for a boater and ATV,
they just want to learn more about the Spencer boatloader
toys with us and you and it's an amazing, amazing
program and it's really awesome.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Brian. Didn't you guys get like a storage, like a
temporary storage been at Silicaga Marine because you were getting
a lot of people that were dropping off toys throughout
the year.
Speaker 7 (13:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (13:59):
We use that's one of the rooms in the back
to storage for the toys and ended up having to
utilize that space as well. But you know, I'm ready
to overflow that storage room as well and fill up
all the boats that we possibly can. What's our goal
this year? Any idea?
Speaker 1 (14:13):
I mean we've done fifty over the last two years.
I think we did eighteen last year, which was pretty incredible. Blair,
you want to slap a number on what you think
we can do.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Boat wise, right, we're going to carry the one.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
I take your shoes off and start outing.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
I think we should be able to do twenty two boats.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Twenty two boats, that's actually a great number. I think
that's manageable. Brian, Oh, easy, no worries, Oh.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
He said easy. I mean we can bump it up
to twenty five if it's too easy.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
Twenty five time. I want twenty five.
Speaker 11 (14:40):
I feel confident with that number.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Let's do it all right. Twenty five sounds like a
great number for Spencer's bewload of toys. If you're wondering
how you can get involved, you can buy a brand
new toy unwrapped. You can bring it to the guys
at Silicaga Marine and ATV. You can also bring it
to pel City's location with McSweeney their Clanton location, Art
Perry State Farm. We have several others. On one O
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two five the Bull dot Com. You can also make
it super easy. You can buy a toy through our
Amazon Gift Registry and that will ship directly to the
Spencer Graves studios and that way we will share those
and get them out to where they need to be.
But Brian's so happy that you guys are back on
board this year and looking forward to twenty five boatloads
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of toys.
Speaker 11 (15:24):
Shouldn't be a problem. We're super excited and thanks for everything,
and thanks for everybody that donated last year and the
year before, and let's kick it off and roll with
it this year and let's let's let's just make it happen.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Who's going to be the first person who's going to
be the first one to buy a toy from the
Amazon Gift Registry and get it shipped to the studios?
I think it could be you eight five to five
Graves zero if you need more.
Speaker 7 (15:46):
I just heard about this boat load for toys. You know,
I went to boubash and we raised twenty five grand.
You know, I think we can do twenty six boats.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
You're going to be the first one?
Speaker 7 (15:59):
Or what can you tell me how to buy that
Amazon toy?
Speaker 1 (16:02):
It's easy, you just go to our social media spencer
Grave Show. There's a link right there. You click on it.
You find a toy or two, or ten or fifteen
or twenty five, and then you purchase them. It'll get
shipped right to the studio and we'll start loading up boats.
Speaker 7 (16:15):
Do you need extra hands to go shopping?
Speaker 1 (16:18):
You can shop anytime you want, and then you can
buy a toy. You could drop it off to one
of our locations.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
I heard that the motorcycle gang from wherever they were from,
trust Bill or somewhere. Did you know their ride a
couple of weeks ago and he said that, Hey, I'm
ready to go shopping. Do you need extra shoppers just
to go pick out stuff? I mean, I'm unemployed, I
can do a lot.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Yeah, their group will have plenty of people shopping with
the money that they raised. But individually, if you want
to go out and you want to do some shopping,
and you want to think about some kids in our
area that otherwise wouldn't have a Christmas and a toy
to open up underneath the tree, or in some cases
some families don't even have a tree. This would give
you an oppertunity to just do that. You can buy
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a toy, you can drop it off to Silicoga Marine
and atv Nick Sweeney and Clinton or pel City, Bart
Perry at State Farm. And we have other people on
one oh two five The Bowl dot com. You can
get all the info there.
Speaker 7 (17:13):
Okay, I will help.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Thank you. Are there things that you remember from maybe
a part time job or a former life where you
worked a career? Eight five five Graves zero. This happened
to me this morning. You know I love going to
Love's truck stops. Yeah, well, the one that I go
to as a Subway and I worked at Subway when
I was in high school, so this is probably twenty
five thirty years.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Ago, okay.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
And the woman makes my sandwich. She does an awesome job.
It's the same sandwich that I've gotten for years, Turkey
provolone on white foot long with some fixings. But the
thing that I always remember about the job when I
worked at Subway is how to roll the sandwiches. Because
she struggles with this every time I go there. Oh no,
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but it's not a problem. It's like I just realize
that she's not doing it the way that I remember
being taught. And the same problem happens the one that
they were trying to circumvent. So when you go to subway,
they're supposed to take that sandwich which is on that
individual sandwich paper, and then they put it on that
big rectangle piece.
Speaker 12 (18:14):
Right.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Once it's on the big rectangle piece, you roll it,
then you fold one of the flaps over, you roll again,
then you fold the other flap over, and then you
finish out the roll. That's what I was taught. I
watched her put it down on that paper and try
to roll the end and then roll over it. And
what happens is it doesn't make it a tight connection
of the paper, so then your sandwich can fall apart
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in the bag.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
I see, I see, which could be a problem.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
So she was sitting there messing with the sandwich. She's like,
for whatever reason, this paper just doesn't lack me. And
I just simply said to her, I go roll it once,
fold it over, roll it twice, fold it over, and
then you get to see.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
I would have looked at you and been like, really
really right now, Well, guess what four in the morning.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
When I brought it up to her the last time
I was in there, she did it and she was like,
oh my god, that's so easy. Nobody's ever told me that,
and then today was the moment of truth. Today she
rolled my sandwich and she did it the same exact way.
She rolled it over, folded it in, rolled it over,
folded in in.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
But you know that you're like a topic of a
group tech.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
This guy came in and he was chanting in tell
me how to do my job, and like he doesn't
even understand the pressures that I'm wonder.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Well, what was the job that you worked where you
remember certain things about that? And you probably go back,
like for anybody who worked in food service, maybe at
McDonald's or if you work at Chick fil A, you
know the fact that you have to say my pleasure
after everything. You probably catch yourself in your everyday life
saying my pleasure. What was something that you remember specifically
about a job?
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Lare Okay, So when I was in high school, I
worked at a tanning salon and a lot of times
I was the only girl working, like during the summer,
and so I mean, you were having to turn those
beds over, you were having to clean them. And to
this day, the gym that I go to they have
tanning beds, and I can tell when somebody has cleaned
the like bedding properly and when they haven't, because there's
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a very particular way when you spray the solution onto
the acrylic glass, how you need to wipe it. And
it drives me insane every time I see that somebody
did it wrong.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Like what do you notice? Are there streaks?
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Streaks?
Speaker 2 (20:20):
And there's a certain way that you have to do
it with that certain solution to keep those streaks from coming.
So it's a mixture of my OCD plus like, no,
I kind of what's what are the kids saying? Now
I know about ball or something? I know a lot.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
What's the saying the kids?
Speaker 1 (20:34):
You know ball?
Speaker 3 (20:35):
You know ball? I know ball when it comes to
cleaning the tanning beds. Okay, I know ball.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
So you're ripping me on me saying something to the
woman from from subway. Have you said anything to the
people at the gym?
Speaker 3 (20:46):
God? No, have you met me?
Speaker 5 (20:48):
No?
Speaker 3 (20:49):
I'm like, thank you so much, Like y'all are wonderful.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
What's the thing that you remember from a job sticks
with you no matter what? Eight five five grave zero cam,
what's up?
Speaker 11 (20:59):
Brother?
Speaker 13 (20:59):
So I used to be a warehouse manager and this
has been probably ten plus years ago, but I was
in charge of unloading all the trucks and then at
the end of the day we would he put up
all the inventory.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
It was here in Winchester, the warehouse, but for the
longest time. I worked there for several years, but after
I left. It was a very hard habit to break
because when we were putting up inventory. I don't know
how many owls we had throughout that warehouse, but we
always had to beat the horn on the forkliff every
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time we were passing an aisle because we did have
people on the ground actually walking and loading different racks.
The amount of times that I was driving through a
Walmart parking lot and every time I would pass the aisle,
I would toot the horn of the truck. It was
a very hard habit to break.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
How many people thought you were absolutely crazy. They're like, God,
why does that guy keep beeping in the Walmart parking lot?
Like what does he want to know?
Speaker 4 (22:01):
I really didn't, I guess.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
I really didn't realize I was doing it until I
have my wife with me one day and just doing
it out of instinct, I guess, and she was like,
why are you?
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Like what do you mean?
Speaker 5 (22:18):
She's like, you you keep beeping.
Speaker 11 (22:20):
The horn every time we drive past the aisle hit
her life alert.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
Probably looking like why is he honking at me? And
I give a second nature. At the time, I didn't
think nothing about it. To my wife said something. I
was like, Okay, I'm going to start paying attention to it.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Cam brother, thank you for the call. Have a great
day a YouTube, Angela. What's going on?
Speaker 8 (22:45):
So I was.
Speaker 9 (22:46):
Calling about the thing that you learned from my job. Yes,
So I worked for a major grocery store and back
in the day, they actually taught you how to properly bag,
And to this day, I will either tell them how
to bag my groceries or I will do it myself.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Can you share with all of us how you're actually
supposed to bag groceries?
Speaker 9 (23:05):
So back when I started, you had paper, and you
build up the walls, like if you have cereal boxes,
you put those on the outer portions and then you
fill it with your cans on the bottom. And then
if you have smaller box items, you can put those
on top.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Got it?
Speaker 9 (23:19):
And then you put your eggs in one with your
bread on top of that.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
And how do people do it? That drives you crazy?
Speaker 9 (23:26):
Two or three items in a bag and it's just
thrown in there. I can't stand it.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Yeah, everyone's using plastic bags these days, which kind of
drives me nuts because they'll put one or two items
in a plastic bag.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Yes, well, I get frustrated when there's things that I
get it. When you get towards the end, there may
need to be some mixture happening. But I can't stand
when you don't have to mix non refrigerated and refrigerated items.
I'm like, nope, you're making this more complicated for me
for when I get home, of when I'm in a
situation where I can bag my own stuff.
Speaker 9 (24:03):
Yeah, to this day, I will. I don't care what
store it is. If they have it to where the
cashier's sending it down, I'm like, I'll bag and the
bag will come up and I got it. Are you sure?
Speaker 2 (24:12):
So I put stuff on the conveyor belt in a
specific order too, that way, because again it makes sense
to me for when I get home, things are going
to be bagged in a certain way.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Don't act surprise.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Don't they know that? I know you tell them, you go, look,
this isn't a specific order.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
I don't need my batteries next to the milk, Like,
what is that?
Speaker 1 (24:36):
What if they just find you strange? What if they
know you and they're like, oh, that's the bizarre Blair.
You gotta watch out for her. She likes her batteries
by your milk. You both would have an absolute conniption
if you saw how my bags were, because I hate
lots of bags. I just want a few bags and
I will pack stuff in the bags. The other day,
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the plastic bags were busting at the seams because cause
my honey nut cheerios boxes were breaking through.
Speaker 9 (25:03):
This there is that if you had used your plastic
bag and bagged it correctly, they would honeynut cheerios on
one side, and you would have another big box on
another side. And then you can split full at the
bottom and then put some lighter items on top. You
have a full bag and you have everything in order.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Look, I'm not going to deal with somebody busting my bags,
you know what I mean? Like, I'm doing things the
way that my life needs them to be done.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
And see, Spencer, we're just trying to help you because
one day you're going to meet a woman and that
once has been the rest of our life with you.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
I think it's going to go to that one grocery
shopping trip with you. I can't do that.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
And then I'll find out that she puts her batteries
by her milk, and I'll be like, who is this woman?
Who is I have.
Speaker 9 (25:45):
Had people that I was I have had people that
I was with actually walk off as I'm telling them
I got this, they just leave me.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Well, thank you very much. We appreciate your time.
Speaker 9 (25:58):
Thank you you too, have a great day.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
To the conversation that we're having this morning is what
did you learn from a previous job. It has not
left you and it bothers you when people don't do
it the right way. Eight five five graves zero.
Speaker 11 (26:09):
Kay.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
We were just talking about something that you learned from
a job way back in the day. What do you
used to do?
Speaker 12 (26:14):
So back in the day, I was a pillar at
one of the banks there in town. Indicator. But one
of the things that drives me crazy, or drives me
crazy now, is all of my money in my drawer
had to be turned a certain way. It couldn't be
upside down, it couldn't be facing a different direction. It
all had to be facing the same way. So now
if I go to the gas station or a convenience
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store or still ors wherever. If I give them cash
and they count my money back to me and it's
not all facing the same way, it drives me nuts.
And I will literally stand at the counter and redo
every bit of it before.
Speaker 7 (26:48):
All I can.
Speaker 12 (26:53):
And you know how anal I am.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
I have a hard time with when people hand me
money and it's not done the right way. I will
not put it in my pocket or my wallet or
wherever I'm going to hold it until I turn it
all around.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
And do you ever find yourself if you're having to
count out money for whatever reason, even if it's just
like you're getting ready to put money like in a
birthday card or something like that, I still count it
out like I'm doing it at the bank.
Speaker 12 (27:16):
I'm the same way. When I endorse checks, I'm the same.
It is just an anal thing with me. I can't
get over it, and I don't know that I'll ever
get over it. And I try to teach my children
to say they don't use cash. I think it's the
generational thing. They always just have their debit card or
their venmo or whatever. But yeah, eating money all facing
the same way, nothing upside down. All the things drives me.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Yes, Keay is driving through Birmingham. She's getting ready to
go do some business. I guess. But house traffic, Oh suck.
Speaker 12 (27:45):
It's just when I really love working from home.
Speaker 9 (27:49):
It's when I drive through.
Speaker 12 (27:50):
Birmingham or Montgomery and for God's sake, Atlanta, I I
have to go that way. But yeah, I love working
from home. It keeps me out of traffic, but it
does give me a chance to listen.
Speaker 10 (27:59):
To the Spencer Grave shifts.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Nothing wrong with that, We appreciate that. Okay, have a
great day today.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
Yeah, see bye bye.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
It's How Country are You? On the Spencer Grave Show.
Brandy's from Silicaga getting ready to play a little How
country are you? This morning? Can you tell everybody how
country you are?
Speaker 4 (28:16):
Oh?
Speaker 14 (28:17):
I say, I'm at least in that.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Yeah, girl, lame it, Mercy.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Why are you a nine on the country scale?
Speaker 14 (28:26):
I guess because I just grew up down here in
a small town from a whole lot.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Well, that's going to help you in these questions. We've
got three of them for you. Are you ready to
go through it to get a score?
Speaker 4 (28:37):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (28:37):
In Garth Brooks song thunder Rolls, What time.
Speaker 14 (28:40):
Was it three in the morning, three.
Speaker 6 (28:43):
Thirty in the morning.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
I'm going to give it to her. I'm going to
give it to her. She was in the right hour.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
She was in the hour. I yeah, come on now.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
And she was fast with it. All right, here we go.
How many tires do you have on your property that
aren't attached to a vehicle?
Speaker 14 (28:59):
I'd say it lace. I know there's four to five
sitting in.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
The front yard, and one purpose do they serve?
Speaker 14 (29:08):
I just sit there.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
There is a purpose. We just don't know what that
purpose is.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Oh, we know what it is. The purpose is they're
lawn decorations.
Speaker 14 (29:16):
Well you know, oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
And they're good at protecting where snakes like to live.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Sure, we'll go with that.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
All right, here's your final question. Give us southern directions
to your house.
Speaker 14 (29:27):
You'll get in Fevel and you take the Wah And
when you take the wa it'll be the first road
on the rock after you come through.
Speaker 9 (29:38):
The full way.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
That's about a country as it gets. The only thing
you were missing was a landmark, like you go to
the old red barn, make a right, Well, I.
Speaker 14 (29:45):
Guess you could say you go past the Dollar.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
General there, she says, she's a nine. She's right there
nine point five. Today, Nice Blair Dolly Parton Hotel in
Nashville has now taken reservations.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
I've already got a couple of nights booked.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Do you really Yeah?
Speaker 3 (30:07):
But wait, Dad, if you're listening, surprise.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Wait a minute, birthday? When did you so you're taking
your dad to Dolly Parton's hotel for his birthday?
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Well, it's going to be a delayed birthday gift. But
I was going to tell him on his birthday. But
we all know Bobby D's listening, So surprise, Dad.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Is it insanely expensive?
Speaker 2 (30:26):
He just better be glad that he's the best dad
in the world. And I'm definitely staying. I had to
do something after y'all forced me to put on that
Alabama sweatshirt for the kids at Saint Jude to get
back in the will.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
If you guys haven't seen that video, by the way,
it's over twelve thousand views on TikTok Blair singing Dixie
Land Delight wearing an Alabama hoodie. So when you made
the reservations for Dolly Parton's place, were you shocked at
how much it was or do you feel like, it's
actually a pretty good price for what you're supposed to.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Get, honest all kittting aside for it being in Nashville
and knowing what you know those hotels go for now,
in general, I didn't think it was totally out of
the scope.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
That's not bad then, because everybody was worried that you're
going to go to Deli Parton's place, it's going to
be crazy expensive.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
I mean, I think it's kind of in line with
everything else that's in Nashville, So I mean, you know,
I'm not saying that it's a hundred bucks a night
because you can't get anywhere, even that sketchy hotel we
all stayed at in college, and.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
Yeah, hundred dollars not anymore. Okay, it's not.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Even a hotel. It's where the doors open to the outside,
a
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Motel, hotel, holiday in
Larry, can you tell me, in a perfect world, what
age you think is the best to get married.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I would say, hmm, twenty seven to thirty one.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Given the fact that I'm in the dating world right
now and you and I have talked about this, I'm
running into a lot of women who have been married
and have children, which is fine, and I'm becoming more
comfortable dating somebody who has kids. For a while, I
was kind of like on the fence and I wanted
to have my own family, the whole deal. That sounds terrible,
but that's true. But then I started talking to somebody
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and I realized that they're way younger, and that they
got married when they were about twenty years old. Yeah,
and I'm very common, Yeah, but I felt like twenty
you don't even know a thing about yourself at twenty.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
What's crazy is so I've been married for six years now,
So I was twenty seven twenty eight when we got married.
And Steve and I still have conversations where he and
I both I mean, he's in his sixties and he'll
still say like he has grown so much in the
last six years, like you never stop, you know, developing
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into the person that you are. I'm a firm believer
in that, But I think it's even more crucial when
you're in your twenties, because you know, you start your
twenties and you might still be in college, or you
might still be taking you know, trade school, whatever it
might be, or you may have just entered the workforce,
and then you go through like your mid twenties where
you do have those friends that get married at a
younger age, and you're kind of like seeing that side
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of life.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
A little bit.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
But I don't think that you really are a big
portion of who you are, and so your late twenties
when you've kind of you know, had to experience life
in the different things that come at you in life
or that. So that that's why I say late twenties.
I'm not trying to judge anyone who got married younger,
but I just that's where I kind of fall in.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
But if you're saying everybody grows, you know, as they
continue throughout life, which I agree with, then it wouldn't
it wouldn't be bad if somebody got married when they
were twenty as long as the person that they got
married to grows along the same rate that they.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Correct and that you can still not only just like
grows along with you, but that you grow, you're continuing
to better yourself. I think is where it is because
there are times like I mean, I was there, you know,
in my twenties where I went through a little you know,
wild and crazy stage and had to really you know,
Luckily for me, Steve and I he was there with me,
and he's like, look like, you're good, Like everything's gonna
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be fine. But if you don't have a person in
your life that's willing to go through those different stages
of life with you, then you could unfortunately find yourself
in a separation or a divorce or something like that.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
I have friends that graduated with me high school in
two thousand and one. They dated all throughout high school
and they're still married, and it's yeah, mind blowing to me.
I'm like, man, the amount of changes that I've gone through,
they had to go through similar changes, but they did
it with somebody that they met when they were in
ninth grade.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
I mean, that's how like they're my brother and sister.
But Abby and Josh they they met when they were
in middle school, middle school and there's still together to
this day. They've been together longer than Like they've been
together longer than not, if that makes sense, you know
what I mean, Like there's been more life of them
together than before they met.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Maybe you've been married a few times, maybe you're recently engaged.
What's the best age to actually settle down? A five
five Graves zero. Conversation that we got into earlier this
morning is what age is perfect to settle down and
finally get married A five five Grave zero. Blair, you
decided when you were twenty six twenty seven that you
wanted to settle down.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Yeah, I mean I was honestly, probably closer to twenty
five twenty six when I was like, Okay, I'm good,
Like I've done what I need to do and now
I need to be more civilist.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
What were some of the things that you realized about
yourself dating that made you realize, okay, I want that
next step? You know?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I think for me, I had a couple of serious
relationships where I was able and this is going to
sound harsh, but I was able to verbally say what I.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Didn't want A five five Grave zero. Let's jump over
to you.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
I advise don't get married at all, because you ladies
out there can do it all by yourself.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
I do agree absolutely.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
How many times have you been married?
Speaker 4 (04:15):
I'd rather not know?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
That is okay, we're not going to fry on that.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Yeah. I didn't get a T shirt either, so I
feel a little gyps. But you know, sometimes people aren't
who they are until after you get married, and then
you see the real them, and it's sometimes it's not good.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I feel like it's more than two less than five,
and I'm just gonna stand by that.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Okay, I'll go with that.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
It's like, yeah, that sounds fine, perfect, Yeah, thank you,
have an awesome day.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Appreciate your time.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
So hi you.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Our engineer Jeane is bouncing around. He heard this on
the overhead speaker's blair. So, Jeane, welcome to the show.
What's the greatest age? The best age to get married?
Speaker 6 (04:59):
The best age get married is when you find a
nice Filipino girl.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Okay, okay, what does that mean?
Speaker 6 (05:09):
Geen it I'll leave that open to interpretation.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Jean's were married three times?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Okay?
Speaker 7 (05:15):
What led?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
What led to the breakups?
Speaker 6 (05:18):
Oh no, it's just too much.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
It's like not me. I went into problem all right.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Gene, thanks for jumping in. Let's get out to you
a five five graves zero. Thank you Melissa for hanging on.
So what's the right age to get married?
Speaker 8 (05:32):
My husband and I got married at twenty three and
twenty two and we just celebrated are not change wedding anniversary?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
But did you regulations?
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Did you feel really confident getting married at that age?
Speaker 8 (05:46):
I actually I did. I had actually been through a
lot in my mid teens, late teens, so when I
met him it was I don't know, I can't point it.
I just I knew that he was my person, so
it was it was very easy.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Really, Hey, you im so I'm twenty two years old.
I'll go out and get that twenty three year old
older man.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
You know, you you bring up a three years old.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Look at you, you little cougar.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Yeah, you know you bring up.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
You bring up a good point of like, I think
it does play into the whole equation of like when
you mature, when you have to become an adult, because
you know, some people do you you're kind of forced
to grow up a little bit earlier than other people.
So you know, it could definitely be different for everybody.
But you know, if you go through a lot at
a younger age. Maybe you are more prepared for marriage
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at a younger age, right.
Speaker 8 (06:42):
I agree. Over the last nineteen years we have grown together.
I mean no, we are not the same people we
were in our twenties, but we have grown so much
together and our love for each other is stronger every day.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Wow, what Spencer gets some dating advice.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Here's what I'm Here's what I'm noticing. What I'm noticing
that you're saying is you made a conscious decision on
your own end at twenty three years old. You wanted
to settle down, you wanted to move on to that
next step in your life. And I feel like that's
an important part that a lot of people don't do.
They try to settle down before they actually tell themselves
that this is what they truly want.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Good point.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
I agree, and I want a cupcake. So I'm going
to go get a cupcake.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Okay, I will think You're not quite ready is what
we're here. Okay, got it, got it, got it.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Got Thank you very much, and congratulations on your anniversary.
Hope you have a great day.
Speaker 9 (07:37):
Thank you y'all.
Speaker 10 (07:38):
Do Hey, good morning. I just wanted to chime in
on the marriage thing. Looks like if you're.
Speaker 7 (07:43):
Still doing that sure, right?
Speaker 10 (07:44):
Okay, So I just heard the lady that said you
have like when you just know, you know. And so
my husband and I got married when I was twenty
and he was twenty one, and we were both broke
in college and we decided we love each other, we
just want to be broke together. So we got married
and then everyone was like, we'll never finish college. And
we did it together. And we both have like master's
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degrees and postmaster's degrees, and we've went through life and
grown and we've lost a child together, you know, we've
grown up and like, had all these things happen that
we're just like, I don't know. It was we had
no idea what we were doing, but we still just
knew and we did it together.
Speaker 11 (08:19):
So hard?
Speaker 1 (08:20):
How hard was that to grow through all that stuff?
But knowing that you have somebody who's grown right alongside you, Oh.
Speaker 10 (08:27):
It was it was. I couldn't have done it without him.
I would be in the ground with my baby if
it wasn't for him.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Yeah, I mean, I agree with you. I think that
there is a beauty in meeting somebody and deciding that
this is the person I want to go through life
with and you meet that person when you literally have nothing.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
How long have you guys been together, if you don't
mind me asking.
Speaker 10 (08:47):
Yeah, no, so I'm twenty nine now we've got July
will be our ninth year being married. So yeah, we
actually just lost our baby in April.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
So oh, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 10 (08:58):
Yeah, well, you know it happened. We have a two
year old toddler, and so it was it was a
full term steelboard steelburse. But yeah, well like completely grown through. Oh,
thank you, thank you. That's not why I called it.
I'm sorry. I'm not trying to bring the show down, but.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Had I had a grandmother that went through that. My
mom was an only child because my grandmother had two
stillborn babies. And it gut wrenching obviously for anybody who's
had to go through something like that. But the beauty
is you love on that two year old, that toddler
that you have right now, uh so much, and then
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you guys can give it another chance.
Speaker 7 (09:41):
Yeah, and we do.
Speaker 10 (09:42):
She's so sweet, she's the best sister. We actually just
gave up her pacifier. We ticket to SUSY's grave and said, oh,
you need to, and she just gave it to her.
So we're learning through the through life of you know,
and we started a nonprofit called Anna's Arms to give
boxes to stillborn's moms in the hospital and trying to
make a little bit of life out of this horrible Wow.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
That's that's incredible.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Well, thank you for taking a couple of minutes with us.
We really appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Sure you're sor.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Yeah, thanks.
Speaker 10 (10:10):
I'm actually just gonna go in here and teach them
six year olds the first grade. So they're a little
light to my life.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Giving you all the warm fuzzies and whatnot. It's the
good good on the Spencer Grave Show. Got a great
story to share with you guys this morning. It's about
a family pet that has been reunited with their original owners.
I say original because this dog, Blair, was found five
hundred and twenty miles away from its original house.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
I don't even know how that happens.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
So this little dog is a Chihuahua Docson mix named Penny.
She was found two weeks ago. She was dodging traffic
on a city street in Florida. The person who found
her said that she was just heartbroken that this dog
was running around. She grabbed Penny took her to a vet.
They scanned the microchip which Penny and found out the
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owners were in Mississippi. They called them, and Penny is
now being reunited with her original family.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
You know, when I hear stories about the microchip coming
in like at the perfect time, it just puts smell
on my face because I bet those owners never thought
they would be reunited with their pet.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Sure, but it also begs the question of why did
Penny leave in the first place. Like Maybet was not
necessarily in her plans. She was like, look, I left Mississippi.
I was in sunny Florida about to retire.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
She was like, look, I was just going on a
little vacation, y'all. Didn't have to be so dramatic. I
would have been back eventually.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
I've never run in to a situation where we lost
a pet for a considerable amount of time, not five
hundred and twenty miles, but certainly had a pet go
missing for a couple of days. And it happened in
my neighborhood not too long ago. People lost their cat
and they put up on the neighborhood facebook page. Hey
if you see my black cat. It answers to so
and so just let us know three days later the
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cat that just miraculously shows up. What's wild is when
one of our cats went missing, it came back pregnant.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Oh well you know what was going on there? Yeah, well,
hurry between the lines.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
If you ever lost a pet a five to five
graves zero, share with us that story. Spencer's boatload of
toys back for a third year. This is incredible. Over
the last two years we have managed to fill over
fifty bass boats full of toys with our friends at
Silicaga Marine and ATV. McSweeney Auto Group in pel City
and Clanton and Bart Perry, a state farm agent in
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pel City, have all come together to say that this
is their mission for the holiday season. And if you
don't know what Spencer's boatloaded toys is, it was a
brainchild where I wanted to do something for the kids
of Alabama who wouldn't otherwise have a Christmas. You know,
times are tight. Money is tight with a lot of people,
and some people are trying to decide whether or not
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they put food on the table or buy their son
or their daughter even a few fifteen to twenty dollars gift.
So that's where it all came from Brian a Silicaga
Marine has been championing this for years since he got
involved with this, and over the last year, Brian, you've
seen something pretty incredible.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
Oh yeah, it's an amazing Spencer.
Speaker 11 (13:17):
So many of our anglers and local businesses have just
kept asking me all through the year, when does it start?
When does it start? We want to get more involved
and set new goals and help you guys reach those
goals with the toy donations. It's just been an incredible deal.
Not just to mention local businesses, just customers that have
(13:37):
come by and not even shopping for a boater and ATV,
they just want to learn more about the Spencer boatloader
toys with us and you and it's an amazing, amazing
program and it's really awesome.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Brian. Didn't you guys get like a storage, like a
temporary storage been at Silicaga Marine because you were getting
a lot of people that were dropping off toys throughout
the year.
Speaker 7 (13:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (13:59):
We use that's one of the rooms in the back
to storage for the toys and ended up having to
utilize that space as well. But you know, I'm ready
to overflow that storage room as well and fill up
all the boats that we possibly can. What's our goal
this year? Any idea?
Speaker 1 (14:13):
I mean we've done fifty over the last two years.
I think we did eighteen last year, which was pretty incredible. Blair,
you want to slap a number on what you think
we can do.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Boat wise, right, we're going to carry the one.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
I take your shoes off and start outing.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
I think we should be able to do twenty two boats.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Twenty two boats, that's actually a great number. I think
that's manageable. Brian, Oh, easy, no worries, Oh.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
He said easy. I mean we can bump it up
to twenty five if it's too easy.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
Twenty five time. I want twenty five.
Speaker 11 (14:40):
I feel confident with that number.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Let's do it all right. Twenty five sounds like a
great number for Spencer's bewload of toys. If you're wondering
how you can get involved, you can buy a brand
new toy unwrapped. You can bring it to the guys
at Silicaga Marine and ATV. You can also bring it
to pel City's location with McSweeney their Clanton location, Art
Perry State Farm. We have several others. On one O
(15:03):
two five the Bull dot Com. You can also make
it super easy. You can buy a toy through our
Amazon Gift Registry and that will ship directly to the
Spencer Graves studios and that way we will share those
and get them out to where they need to be.
But Brian's so happy that you guys are back on
board this year and looking forward to twenty five boatloads
(15:23):
of toys.
Speaker 11 (15:24):
Shouldn't be a problem. We're super excited and thanks for everything,
and thanks for everybody that donated last year and the
year before, and let's kick it off and roll with
it this year and let's let's let's just make it happen.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Who's going to be the first person who's going to
be the first one to buy a toy from the
Amazon Gift Registry and get it shipped to the studios?
I think it could be you eight five to five
Graves zero if you need more.
Speaker 7 (15:46):
I just heard about this boat load for toys. You know,
I went to boubash and we raised twenty five grand.
You know, I think we can do twenty six boats.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
You're going to be the first one?
Speaker 7 (15:59):
Or what can you tell me how to buy that
Amazon toy?
Speaker 1 (16:02):
It's easy, you just go to our social media spencer
Grave Show. There's a link right there. You click on it.
You find a toy or two, or ten or fifteen
or twenty five, and then you purchase them. It'll get
shipped right to the studio and we'll start loading up boats.
Speaker 7 (16:15):
Do you need extra hands to go shopping?
Speaker 1 (16:18):
You can shop anytime you want, and then you can
buy a toy. You could drop it off to one
of our locations.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
I heard that the motorcycle gang from wherever they were from,
trust Bill or somewhere. Did you know their ride a
couple of weeks ago and he said that, Hey, I'm
ready to go shopping. Do you need extra shoppers just
to go pick out stuff? I mean, I'm unemployed, I
can do a lot.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Yeah, their group will have plenty of people shopping with
the money that they raised. But individually, if you want
to go out and you want to do some shopping,
and you want to think about some kids in our
area that otherwise wouldn't have a Christmas and a toy
to open up underneath the tree, or in some cases
some families don't even have a tree. This would give
you an oppertunity to just do that. You can buy
(17:01):
a toy, you can drop it off to Silicoga Marine
and atv Nick Sweeney and Clinton or pel City, Bart
Perry at State Farm. And we have other people on
one oh two five The Bowl dot com. You can
get all the info there.
Speaker 7 (17:13):
Okay, I will help.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Thank you. Are there things that you remember from maybe
a part time job or a former life where you
worked a career? Eight five five Graves zero. This happened
to me this morning. You know I love going to
Love's truck stops. Yeah, well, the one that I go
to as a Subway and I worked at Subway when
I was in high school, so this is probably twenty
five thirty years.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Ago, okay.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
And the woman makes my sandwich. She does an awesome job.
It's the same sandwich that I've gotten for years, Turkey
provolone on white foot long with some fixings. But the
thing that I always remember about the job when I
worked at Subway is how to roll the sandwiches. Because
she struggles with this every time I go there. Oh no,
(17:55):
but it's not a problem. It's like I just realize
that she's not doing it the way that I remember
being taught. And the same problem happens the one that
they were trying to circumvent. So when you go to subway,
they're supposed to take that sandwich which is on that
individual sandwich paper, and then they put it on that
big rectangle piece.
Speaker 12 (18:14):
Right.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Once it's on the big rectangle piece, you roll it,
then you fold one of the flaps over, you roll again,
then you fold the other flap over, and then you
finish out the roll. That's what I was taught. I
watched her put it down on that paper and try
to roll the end and then roll over it. And
what happens is it doesn't make it a tight connection
of the paper, so then your sandwich can fall apart
(18:35):
in the bag.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
I see, I see, which could be a problem.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
So she was sitting there messing with the sandwich. She's like,
for whatever reason, this paper just doesn't lack me. And
I just simply said to her, I go roll it once,
fold it over, roll it twice, fold it over, and
then you get to see.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
I would have looked at you and been like, really
really right now, Well, guess what four in the morning.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
When I brought it up to her the last time
I was in there, she did it and she was like,
oh my god, that's so easy. Nobody's ever told me that,
and then today was the moment of truth. Today she
rolled my sandwich and she did it the same exact way.
She rolled it over, folded it in, rolled it over,
folded in in.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
But you know that you're like a topic of a
group tech.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
This guy came in and he was chanting in tell
me how to do my job, and like he doesn't
even understand the pressures that I'm wonder.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Well, what was the job that you worked where you
remember certain things about that? And you probably go back,
like for anybody who worked in food service, maybe at
McDonald's or if you work at Chick fil A, you
know the fact that you have to say my pleasure
after everything. You probably catch yourself in your everyday life
saying my pleasure. What was something that you remember specifically
about a job?
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Lare Okay, So when I was in high school, I
worked at a tanning salon and a lot of times
I was the only girl working, like during the summer,
and so I mean, you were having to turn those
beds over, you were having to clean them. And to
this day, the gym that I go to they have
tanning beds, and I can tell when somebody has cleaned
the like bedding properly and when they haven't, because there's
(20:06):
a very particular way when you spray the solution onto
the acrylic glass, how you need to wipe it. And
it drives me insane every time I see that somebody
did it wrong.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Like what do you notice? Are there streaks?
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Streaks?
Speaker 2 (20:20):
And there's a certain way that you have to do
it with that certain solution to keep those streaks from coming.
So it's a mixture of my OCD plus like, no,
I kind of what's what are the kids saying? Now
I know about ball or something? I know a lot.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
What's the saying the kids?
Speaker 1 (20:34):
You know ball?
Speaker 3 (20:35):
You know ball? I know ball when it comes to
cleaning the tanning beds. Okay, I know ball.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
So you're ripping me on me saying something to the
woman from from subway. Have you said anything to the
people at the gym?
Speaker 3 (20:46):
God? No, have you met me?
Speaker 5 (20:48):
No?
Speaker 3 (20:49):
I'm like, thank you so much, Like y'all are wonderful.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
What's the thing that you remember from a job sticks
with you no matter what? Eight five five grave zero cam,
what's up?
Speaker 11 (20:59):
Brother?
Speaker 13 (20:59):
So I used to be a warehouse manager and this
has been probably ten plus years ago, but I was
in charge of unloading all the trucks and then at
the end of the day we would he put up
all the inventory.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
It was here in Winchester, the warehouse, but for the
longest time. I worked there for several years, but after
I left. It was a very hard habit to break
because when we were putting up inventory. I don't know
how many owls we had throughout that warehouse, but we
always had to beat the horn on the forkliff every
(21:30):
time we were passing an aisle because we did have
people on the ground actually walking and loading different racks.
The amount of times that I was driving through a
Walmart parking lot and every time I would pass the aisle,
I would toot the horn of the truck. It was
a very hard habit to break.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
How many people thought you were absolutely crazy. They're like, God,
why does that guy keep beeping in the Walmart parking lot?
Like what does he want to know?
Speaker 4 (22:01):
I really didn't, I guess.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
I really didn't realize I was doing it until I
have my wife with me one day and just doing
it out of instinct, I guess, and she was like,
why are you?
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Like what do you mean?
Speaker 5 (22:18):
She's like, you you keep beeping.
Speaker 11 (22:20):
The horn every time we drive past the aisle hit
her life alert.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
Probably looking like why is he honking at me? And
I give a second nature. At the time, I didn't
think nothing about it. To my wife said something. I
was like, Okay, I'm going to start paying attention to it.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Cam brother, thank you for the call. Have a great
day a YouTube, Angela. What's going on?
Speaker 8 (22:45):
So I was.
Speaker 9 (22:46):
Calling about the thing that you learned from my job. Yes,
So I worked for a major grocery store and back
in the day, they actually taught you how to properly bag,
And to this day, I will either tell them how
to bag my groceries or I will do it myself.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Can you share with all of us how you're actually
supposed to bag groceries?
Speaker 9 (23:05):
So back when I started, you had paper, and you
build up the walls, like if you have cereal boxes,
you put those on the outer portions and then you
fill it with your cans on the bottom. And then
if you have smaller box items, you can put those
on top.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Got it?
Speaker 9 (23:19):
And then you put your eggs in one with your
bread on top of that.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
And how do people do it? That drives you crazy?
Speaker 9 (23:26):
Two or three items in a bag and it's just
thrown in there. I can't stand it.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Yeah, everyone's using plastic bags these days, which kind of
drives me nuts because they'll put one or two items
in a plastic bag.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Yes, well, I get frustrated when there's things that I
get it. When you get towards the end, there may
need to be some mixture happening. But I can't stand
when you don't have to mix non refrigerated and refrigerated items.
I'm like, nope, you're making this more complicated for me
for when I get home, of when I'm in a
situation where I can bag my own stuff.
Speaker 9 (24:03):
Yeah, to this day, I will. I don't care what
store it is. If they have it to where the
cashier's sending it down, I'm like, I'll bag and the
bag will come up and I got it. Are you sure?
Speaker 2 (24:12):
So I put stuff on the conveyor belt in a
specific order too, that way, because again it makes sense
to me for when I get home, things are going
to be bagged in a certain way.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Don't act surprise.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Don't they know that? I know you tell them, you go, look,
this isn't a specific order.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
I don't need my batteries next to the milk, Like,
what is that?
Speaker 1 (24:36):
What if they just find you strange? What if they
know you and they're like, oh, that's the bizarre Blair.
You gotta watch out for her. She likes her batteries
by your milk. You both would have an absolute conniption
if you saw how my bags were, because I hate
lots of bags. I just want a few bags and
I will pack stuff in the bags. The other day,
(24:57):
the plastic bags were busting at the seams because cause
my honey nut cheerios boxes were breaking through.
Speaker 9 (25:03):
This there is that if you had used your plastic
bag and bagged it correctly, they would honeynut cheerios on
one side, and you would have another big box on
another side. And then you can split full at the
bottom and then put some lighter items on top. You
have a full bag and you have everything in order.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Look, I'm not going to deal with somebody busting my bags,
you know what I mean? Like, I'm doing things the
way that my life needs them to be done.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
And see, Spencer, we're just trying to help you because
one day you're going to meet a woman and that
once has been the rest of our life with you.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
I think it's going to go to that one grocery
shopping trip with you. I can't do that.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
And then I'll find out that she puts her batteries
by her milk, and I'll be like, who is this woman?
Who is I have.
Speaker 9 (25:45):
Had people that I was I have had people that
I was with actually walk off as I'm telling them
I got this, they just leave me.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Well, thank you very much. We appreciate your time.
Speaker 9 (25:58):
Thank you you too, have a great day.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
To the conversation that we're having this morning is what
did you learn from a previous job. It has not
left you and it bothers you when people don't do
it the right way. Eight five five graves zero.
Speaker 11 (26:09):
Kay.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
We were just talking about something that you learned from
a job way back in the day. What do you
used to do?
Speaker 12 (26:14):
So back in the day, I was a pillar at
one of the banks there in town. Indicator. But one
of the things that drives me crazy, or drives me
crazy now, is all of my money in my drawer
had to be turned a certain way. It couldn't be
upside down, it couldn't be facing a different direction. It
all had to be facing the same way. So now
if I go to the gas station or a convenience
(26:36):
store or still ors wherever. If I give them cash
and they count my money back to me and it's
not all facing the same way, it drives me nuts.
And I will literally stand at the counter and redo
every bit of it before.
Speaker 7 (26:48):
All I can.
Speaker 12 (26:53):
And you know how anal I am.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
I have a hard time with when people hand me
money and it's not done the right way. I will
not put it in my pocket or my wallet or
wherever I'm going to hold it until I turn it
all around.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
And do you ever find yourself if you're having to
count out money for whatever reason, even if it's just
like you're getting ready to put money like in a
birthday card or something like that, I still count it
out like I'm doing it at the bank.
Speaker 12 (27:16):
I'm the same way. When I endorse checks, I'm the same.
It is just an anal thing with me. I can't
get over it, and I don't know that I'll ever
get over it. And I try to teach my children
to say they don't use cash. I think it's the
generational thing. They always just have their debit card or
their venmo or whatever. But yeah, eating money all facing
the same way, nothing upside down. All the things drives me.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Yes, Keay is driving through Birmingham. She's getting ready to
go do some business. I guess. But house traffic, Oh suck.
Speaker 12 (27:45):
It's just when I really love working from home.
Speaker 9 (27:49):
It's when I drive through.
Speaker 12 (27:50):
Birmingham or Montgomery and for God's sake, Atlanta, I I
have to go that way. But yeah, I love working
from home. It keeps me out of traffic, but it
does give me a chance to listen.
Speaker 10 (27:59):
To the Spencer Grave shifts.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Nothing wrong with that, We appreciate that. Okay, have a
great day today.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
Yeah, see bye bye.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
It's How Country are You? On the Spencer Grave Show.
Brandy's from Silicaga getting ready to play a little How
country are you? This morning? Can you tell everybody how
country you are?
Speaker 4 (28:16):
Oh?
Speaker 14 (28:17):
I say, I'm at least in that.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Yeah, girl, lame it, Mercy.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Why are you a nine on the country scale?
Speaker 14 (28:26):
I guess because I just grew up down here in
a small town from a whole lot.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Well, that's going to help you in these questions. We've
got three of them for you. Are you ready to
go through it to get a score?
Speaker 4 (28:37):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (28:37):
In Garth Brooks song thunder Rolls, What time.
Speaker 14 (28:40):
Was it three in the morning, three.
Speaker 6 (28:43):
Thirty in the morning.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
I'm going to give it to her. I'm going to
give it to her. She was in the right hour.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
She was in the hour. I yeah, come on now.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
And she was fast with it. All right, here we go.
How many tires do you have on your property that
aren't attached to a vehicle?
Speaker 14 (28:59):
I'd say it lace. I know there's four to five
sitting in.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
The front yard, and one purpose do they serve?
Speaker 14 (29:08):
I just sit there.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
There is a purpose. We just don't know what that
purpose is.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Oh, we know what it is. The purpose is they're
lawn decorations.
Speaker 14 (29:16):
Well you know, oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
And they're good at protecting where snakes like to live.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Sure, we'll go with that.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
All right, here's your final question. Give us southern directions
to your house.
Speaker 14 (29:27):
You'll get in Fevel and you take the Wah And
when you take the wa it'll be the first road
on the rock after you come through.
Speaker 9 (29:38):
The full way.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
That's about a country as it gets. The only thing
you were missing was a landmark, like you go to
the old red barn, make a right, Well, I.
Speaker 14 (29:45):
Guess you could say you go past the Dollar.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
General there, she says, she's a nine. She's right there
nine point five. Today, Nice Blair Dolly Parton Hotel in
Nashville has now taken reservations.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
I've already got a couple of nights booked.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Do you really Yeah?
Speaker 3 (30:07):
But wait, Dad, if you're listening, surprise.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Wait a minute, birthday? When did you so you're taking
your dad to Dolly Parton's hotel for his birthday?
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Well, it's going to be a delayed birthday gift. But
I was going to tell him on his birthday. But
we all know Bobby D's listening, So surprise, Dad.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Is it insanely expensive?
Speaker 2 (30:26):
He just better be glad that he's the best dad
in the world. And I'm definitely staying. I had to
do something after y'all forced me to put on that
Alabama sweatshirt for the kids at Saint Jude to get
back in the will.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
If you guys haven't seen that video, by the way,
it's over twelve thousand views on TikTok Blair singing Dixie
Land Delight wearing an Alabama hoodie. So when you made
the reservations for Dolly Parton's place, were you shocked at
how much it was or do you feel like, it's
actually a pretty good price for what you're supposed to.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Get, honest all kittting aside for it being in Nashville
and knowing what you know those hotels go for now,
in general, I didn't think it was totally out of
the scope.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
That's not bad then, because everybody was worried that you're
going to go to Deli Parton's place, it's going to
be crazy expensive.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
I mean, I think it's kind of in line with
everything else that's in Nashville, So I mean, you know,
I'm not saying that it's a hundred bucks a night
because you can't get anywhere, even that sketchy hotel we
all stayed at in college, and.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
Yeah, hundred dollars not anymore. Okay, it's not.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Even a hotel. It's where the doors open to the outside,
a
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Motel, hotel, holiday in
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