March 2, 2024 • 51 mins
In today's epsidode, the guys discuss what to do during phone outages like AT&T customers had recently, as well as arguably the funniest story about cow manure, a worm farm, and a truck load of turtles. Yes, it actually all happened.
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And welcome to the Town outdoor showon Charlie. I'm and fred Man,
I am Grant, and we gotRobert. I'd never there. So I
got into Martinis the other night.Oh lord, here it goes. What
we're gonna talk about? Here wego that seconds he had that one,
he had that loaded. I'm gonnaget into the Martinis a night and I
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don't even like Martini's. This's beenthat kind of week. I came home
the other night the other night andthere was an open can of ginger beer
on the counter over where we keepthe liquor. And that was when I
left going on. I said,uh, who's drinking? And she held
up a drink over her head fromthe recliner. I went, it was
one of them kind of days.She goes, I never do this,
and I would know you don't,and she might have told me about it.
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I don't know. Yes, Ipicked up the Martinis. Yeah.
The first thing I did was I'mlooking out at the pool and I picked
up the ukulele and started singing Melchalukulakiand wife did it like that. So
that got twelve string out, andI'm thinking, you know, i'd like
to record some of this bumper musicthat opens this show. Well, there
you go. You know I mightdo that. Okay, cool, and
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I might even get the banjo out. We've we've been. There's a joke
there may drive. Do you hearbanjo's turn around and go back about a
mile you'll be all right. Well, it's one of the ridnecks in this
room. I don't think I'm gonnabe squealing. No, I'm I'm I'm
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Burt with the bowl and era.Buddy, you got have problems, probably
not good to be the smallest guyin the room. Who was in that
movie There was Renolds, ned Baby, Burt Reynolds. I can't remember the
other guy's name that there was,their buddy John Voyd. Yeah he wasn't
Yeah, yeah, See you can'tget around this thing. You can't get
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around this thing, man. I'mjust telling you, yeah, doing his
fun song to play, and Ican do it on the guitar and the
banjo. Little doesn't, doesn't,ned Baby and Fred got a little he
was a little bit of resemblance.He was the one squading like a pig.
That's where I was going with that. I's why why do you think
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I asked who was in that movie. You brought it up. We are
we are short on we a littleshort on toothless, toothless hill Billies right
here, grant you will mock someteeth out, buddy, No, you
passed. I think I'm okay,okay. I appreciate it though. It's
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a nice offer. But when itcomes he's classing the place up. Yeah,
it's the uniform. Now, ifyou look at the chide matches,
the shirts got the maroon in it, the maroon stripe. Somebody, his
wife, his wife A dresses him. I guarantee you no, it's all
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me, buddy. There's another sideto that story. I don't know what
it is, but this reaction justspoke volumes of something. I don't know
what. We get that on thebreak. So my son got engaged a
week or so ago, and therelady that was here and congratulations congratulations to
him. I mean, yeah,I want to live vicariously through it.
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Yeah. There, And she spenttime around you and still said yes.
She even tells me when we hangup the phone and talk and she says,
love you, so yeah, thereyou go, I love you too,
baby. There there no sweet sweetTaylor Brantley's Sweet Sweet girl. We
love her so proud of Justin andher and all this good stuff. So
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this time next year he'll be married. And told my wife dressing you.
So I get a text yesterday fromfrom my wife and she said, this
is the new suit you're getting forthe wedding. And I said, yes,
ma'am. So you didn't pull oneof those father of the brides and
go up into the attic, canpull a pull the old tuxedo out,
try to fit in it. AndI've never own the tuxiedo. Thank you,
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fred, I am a I don'teven own I don't know that I
even have a suit right now thatwould actually fit near doesn't have mouth holes
in it or whatever. It's beena long time since I put on a
suit. We go up in anattic, and I've got some sports coach,
I think left. I don't knowthat I have any suits anymore.
And if I do, I canpromise you that suit that used to be
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big on me, probably it ain'tno more. Yeah, I've got some
suits in the plastic bags hanging upin the closet upstairs, and yeah,
I just don't do suits. I'mlike you. I put on a sport
coat and a pair of jeans.And if it's got to be dresser than
that, I ain't going with.If it requires me to dress up beyond
like my swede type sports coach,thankfully, if it requires me to look
like that, ain't gonna do it. I ain't unless it involves a whole
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bunch of money. And then Iwill go shopping for a lot. I
will. I will sell out.I will wear that stuff for money.
But that's it. I do itevery day if you want me, If
you want me to dress up togo to your funeral or your wedding,
I will. I will pour outhalf a bottle liquor five, get you,
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you know, here's one for thehomies. And then I want to
sit and I have something at thehouse, but I ain't coming. I'll
be that guy carrying the carrying thepine box that's wearing cowboy boots and blue
jeans, and there you go.That's right. So my funeral, you
gonna be on the balcony, iswhat you're saying. No, sure you're
gonna, you're gonna stream it.List just ain't gonna be but the two
of us as pall bearers. SoI mean we touch it. You get
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that in. I get this,and you wanna walk? You want to
go backwards? Yeah, I'll scoophim up. Hain't gonna say, let
us scoop him up. I throwit on my shoulder, on your shoulder,
like a sack of feed. Ifinna say if I can. I'm
still mad enough to throw one fiftypounds sack over each a corn over each
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shoulder and walk out of the doorwhen customers by corn. So I can
still do that. I can touchyou. Speaking of weights, so I'm
coffing shopping for my my husband.Do you have a kid section? So
we don't talk about that, ma'am, but unfortunately we do, so that's
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morbid. Apologies, my apologies.Well, speaking of weights, and this
was this will surprise you coming frommy jeans. But last weekend, Uh,
I was in clear Order, Florida, which nice place to visit.
Don't think I'd want to live there. Uh. My son competed, this
is my youngest son competed in thestate wide weightlifting powerlifting competition, and uh
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he was two pounds over what hewas supposed to be to fit in his
weight class, and that made himgo to the next to the higher bump
up a knot right, So hehad to lift with these other guys who
were much bigger than him. Sohe could either be in that or he
could well, he tried to dropthe weight and he you know, sweated
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everything could out and if I look, I'm not gonna be able to walk
if it's all I got. Anduh so he could have either gone to
the higher weight class or say hewas transgender. And I was trying to
get my high heels and lipstick toto bring to him so he could and
uh but I didn't want him towear the high heels because I praid he's
gonna stretch him out. And uh, dog on the fat kid didn't compete
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in the higher weight class and camehome with the bronze. Awesome, And
uh now he's set to go tothe Nationals in May and compete, and
they're in Vegas. And I've neverbeen to Vegas. You haven't you you
Vegas. It's kind of like,uh yeah, and that's there's there's a
reason for that. Yeah, we'renever gonna get you back. Well,
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that's what I'm afraid of. Andyou know, I might get out there
and like it, you will youthink we don't anymore. Okay, you
will, you will like it.That's it's it's man. I think Fred
puts on a lot of airs aboutbeing I think this the Fred persona,
the Fred persona might like it.The real Fred is gonna be highly gonna
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be like us and really turned offby it. I think, Well,
I liked it the first three orfour or five times we went, and
after that I got I didn't likeit anymore because I got burned out on
because the same stuff over and overagain. It's like it, how many
times you want to ride that ride? You know? It's it's it really,
other than the uh warm warm smellof of whatever there yeah, there
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you go. Yeah, other thanthat, it hasn't changed a lot now
that that got progressively worse through theyears of us going to shots. You
used to walk down the road gosmell weed. I wish they wouldn't do
that. Now it's hey, Idon't smell we don't smell weed. We're
gonna stay here for a little bit. I hang out right here in this
breeze, and I'm kind of lookingforward to seeing some of the Elvis impersonators.
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You know, I thought about thata lot. As prevalent as you
would think you need to go toFremont. You definitely go to Fremont Street.
That's the old Vegas. Now that'scool to me, it's still cool.
And that's where you have the streetperformers that are not just nasty and
stuff and they that's that's the oldstrip at Vegas that you see on the
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movies. You know when you seethe car slide up in front of the
casino and all that stuff. That'sthat Fremont Street. And it's entirely the
entire street has like a dome overto canopy over it where they project white
shows and you can get on theuh you get on the zip line and
zipline. The entire entirety of FremontStreet. How farway is chicken? We
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didn't go there. Tell you where. It's some good sushi. All you
need to do. You like sushi. We got we got to hook up
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giving out wow Turkey brist recipes hereon the break. Yeah, we was
on the break and my phone myphone went off and looked down there and
there's a is a gobbler with adog on paintbrush hanging down in front.
I mean, I fine, gobblerjust walked out in front of the camera
up there and we were talking aboutfried turkey breast strips. Is that's that
I never forget the first time Ifed that to my kids because kids there
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are probably any kid on the planetdon't like chicken, chicken tenders or fingers
or whatever. And I was overthere cutting that stuff up. What's that,
daddy, I says, chicken tenders, And it's just this is what
it looks like, you know,just kind of because they all my kids
that when there kids, when they'reyoung, they don't want to try anything
new, you know, they wantto eat what they want to eat,
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what they know is good. Andgetting something throwing something new on them is
hard. But I cooked up abunch of that stuff, stripped it and
stripped it up and fried it likethat, Daddy, It's the best chicken
fingers I ever had, Like itorder to be. It's hard to get.
Yeah, you know, you runninga lot of these rednecks and they
see a big deer with big youknow, horns on him, and they
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see a turkey with a brush onthere, or you know, a pheasant
that's pretty I'd like to have himon my wall. I see these wild
game when they come by, I'mnot looking at I start salivating golden brown.
I mean, it's kind of likethose old cartoons where you know,
the coyote sort of pictures the roadRunner, and he sees him dressed out
and yeah, with the little hatson his legs, you know, coming
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out of a little Therefore, theNeil guy, the Neil guy. I
mean, you know, I seean elk I'm not I have. So
we were having we were having Chickenof the night and Robert Henson, my
stepfather, not that Robert that wentto went hunting with us. Just just
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dimension of sitting down to eat withhim tickles me. Well, so he
so, I get this. Iget I love my mother's Italian and Robert's
whatever he cooks it. When hecooks, he goes all out. So
he says, Hey, we're havingchicken over at the house. I'm there,
so show up and have his crockson. If he's got wearing shoes,
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he got crocks all right. Soalthough I think he may be about
the upgrade. And let me tellyou why I think so. So Robert's
been driving this old Ford Ranger hthe old School Reach for a while now.
It's held together literally with stuff he'sI mean, the beds of it
he's had to he's I don't,I don't know if it's wire says it's
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yeah, it's it's like, it'slike that. And the other day he
goes, yeah, Charlie wish he'son show tell the story. He does
it so much better because it's justthis. He's not trying to be funny.
He's just talking. And so hesays, says, uh, all
right, so my truck, youknow, my truck's running hot. The
other day, you know, Ihad to go I had to go up
there to to to Charles Hagler.Now, Charles Hagler was the barber over
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there for many years, all right, and he's a character in this story.
Now he stood on his feet fortyto fifty years cutting everybody's hair.
And he's still he's got a littlehe's he's got a farm up north of
town, and he is. Everybodyin Jackson Countada is Charles Hagler. He's
first every pronounced that I was gonnago balk when I was a teenager,
because you know, you're gonna loseyour hair. And I've been mad at
him ever since, and so andso. But he's got this farm,
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and then Roberts got it. Wegot another friend of the family, Donald
White, who is a former mechanicfarmer pig farmer and all this stuff.
And he's his son paints water towersand real successful family. But he's just
dug a pond. And I washaving some issues there with trying to keep
fish in it and on and sothat's just sort of the background. So
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Roberts gona, hey, I'm atruck's running hot. I need to do
something about getting the new truck.Just you know. I went out the
other day and I went up thereto Charles Hagler's to pick up some manure
from my worm beds. And we'resitting the hereld were sitting there and checking.
He goes. I went up toCharles Hagler's to get some manure from
the worm beds, and I wasbringing that back, you know, and
Donald white Ha called me about thoseturtles in his pond eating his fish.
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So I had to he was gonnahe caught them all up and called me
and said he had a bunch ofthem. He was gonna kill him,
but he did. And so Itold a note, don't you kill those
turtles. Now, I come uphere and pick them up. I'll go
put them over at so and so'shouse and we'll turn them back loose again.
Because I don't want to lose them. So so I went up there
to Charles and I talked to himfor a while, and I was coming
back and my truck started running hot, but I had time to go buy
Donald's and pick up that load ofturtles. And you know, when I
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got back to the house, youknow, my truck and making this book
look sound and and I said,stop, Robert, stop right there.
I want you to stop telling thatstory. And he looked at me and
says what And I said, ifthis ain't, I said, this is
why I moved back to Marianna.If that ain't the red neck is story,
I said, And that's not evena joke. You're telling this story
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because it yesterday, because it justhappened, and it's a normal day for
you. But you got exaggerated.Well, well, I had a lot
of streaking head turtles. Gets toget to the point. You don't even
know what the point was by there. And if you saw a picture of
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this guy, you're like, yeah, I believe that's exactly the story he
told. Well, the next dayI went down to you told me what
he was looking for, and Isaid, I ran by the Nissan dealership
bear and talked with Mark Bell andthe salesman and and and said, hey,
you gotta you gotta use Nissan Frontierabout this year with this many miles.
So yeah, that one came inlast night. I looked at it
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and I said, we'll clean itup, and they buffed it out.
Robert, my mama went up thereand bought that thing. I don't know
that Roberts ever had a truck thatnice, and not in my lifetime.
He hadn't. And he's all,man, he is so excited about this
truck. Beautiful, beautiful four wheeldrive that pulled a boat. It's all
polishing it. I said, Isaid you gonna, I said, I
said, Robert, you're gonna keepon and you're gonna start wearing real shoes.
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I goes, you know, youmight be right. So I have
a question. We we gotta knowthat was gonna get him out of sweatpants.
But he was out there a sweatpants, corn Field and sweat fi and
crocs. Really And the same partis my mama was hearing him tell this
story and she's not thinking twice aboutit. And then when I stopped him
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and I turned around, I said, let me tell this back to you,
and my mom was over there laughingher butt off now and I'm like,
you live with him, you marriedhim. But what did he do
with the turtles? Uh? Heturned a moose somewhere. I you know
what, I totally missed the pointof where they got gone story. He
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was transplanting, so transplants the turtlewell, because he didn't want he didn't
want he didn't want the turtles todie because they were eating the fish in
the pond. And he was like, well, I'm gonna get turtle,
go get them, and I willgo take them somewhere and eat the fish
and somebody else's pond. And I'mprobably somebody didn't like. I don't know
there's a if there's anybody he doesn'tlike. But he you know, And
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I told him at the end ofit, I said, you know,
one thing and one thing he missed. The turtles eat pretty good, Robert.
You can fry him up just likethis, chicking around pretty good.
And I'd like to try that,I honestly would. But turtle, but
I tell you what, oh yeahyeah, But I tell you what I'm
all about. That chicken is you'regonna get anywhere. It's that good.
I'm all about broadening horizons, youknow, trying new things, learning different
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cultures. I'm gonna draw the lineat a fried turtle like chicken. It
ain't taste like chicken and green turtlesoup. I don't want no green turtle
soup. I mean, you doknow that back in the back A lot
of the reason that most of thesea turtles the species of today, the
reason they are endangered is because theywere such a delicacy in the twenties and
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thirties, back in the old markethunting days. The reason that there're a
lot of those are endangered is becausethey are. It was so good and
it was an expensive delicacy served upin the big cities in the north that
it was worthwhile for people to goout and catch sea turtles to sell to
the restaurants. I've never seen asea turtle, and I've seen a lot
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of them. What I've never seena sea turtle and and and gotten to
salivating, like I do what Isee? Well, yeah, but you
when you see that sea turtle outthere swimming around, what do you always
do when you in the boat?You stop and look around around for the
sea turtle, for the bottom.You stop and look for hard bottom underneath
him. If we all know thatout there and you see that head pop
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up, you stop and go rightaway and drop your line. Yeah,
looking for a kobe of falling underhim or hard bottom on the bottom where
he's hanging out. There's rocks,they're they're there, Yeah, somewhere that
seat somewhere close by. But yeah, in the back of not many some
of them. J Yeah. Actuallyroad one was yeah, the sea turtle.
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Yeah, it's way past statue limitations. Yeah, but yeah, diving
and I was I've done the samething. Grab one by the grab one
right behind his head at the shelland hang on, just hang on it
take you for a ride. Yeah, yep, done the same thing.
But yeah, that's uh, thestreaky the head turtles offt shell, turtles
of delicacy is that they're delicious.I've actually when I was a kid growing
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up, my dad and some ofthe other guys in the community around there
used to used to pull gophers,gopher tortoises what you call them now.
They made this these long, thislong, stiff, kind of really heavy
gauge wire like you would use totension a fence with. If you have
you know, you set up abrace on the fence and you want a
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tension your wire with it, wetwist it with a put a put a
log in there, and roll itup. Charlie, this is what I'm
talking about when you build a fence. But anyway, tensil wire. So
they take it and they'd put ahook on the end of it, and
they'd get a piece of wire aboutten or twelve feet long with a hook
on the end of it and havethat attached to a big long wooden handle,
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two three foot long wooden handle,and they'd take that wire and run
down a gopher hole. Feel around, do you grab a hold of that?
Pull on? Do you grab thehold of that gopher? Once you
got it hooked and something pulled back, it took two or three grown men
sometime to pull that joker up outof that hole. But they were they
were doing that to to eat on, to eat them. They're they're really
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oh yeah, delicious. I meanthose things live bout years. Yeah,
and they're protected now. And youI mean you you know they're highly protected
now. Now. When I wasa kid, I had one as a
pet. Well, when I wasa kid, that were they were not
protected and they got they got eatenand uh caught for the fourth of July
gopher races, remember those? Ohyeah, so uh but yeah, but
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but they a lot of those goteaten after the race was over because they're
they're really good to eat. Usedto be a little box turtles everywhere.
I can't hardly find. I don'tthink I've seen one. I hadn't seen
a box turtle in a long time. Now I get I get the turtles
out of the lake ammonia that comeacross the road and lay eggs in my
yard. I got those soft shelljaws. No, they're the old streaking
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head. Yeah, streaking head.Uh, I don't know the proper name.
We had a bunch in our pondand they just aren't there anymore.
I don't know what happened. Idon't know came and got them all.
Hold them off. Gators are heavy. I've got got I've got me a
gator in the pond right now.I think that's gonna take care of the
and hinga problem we've been having.They could do that. What problem?
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And hinga water turkey bird? Ohwell, I just thought you had an
ant inga that was swimming in thepond, I do want to You probably
have cormorants, not not anything.I'm pretty sure. Yeah, we've had
that discussion before. Yeah, yeah, you might have even you might have
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shout out my buddy Ricky hearing itbarre at the state line fireworks and now
portable buildings and as soon to bea vegetable stand, you know. He's
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a oh yeah, yeah, that'swhere I got all my fireworks this year.
But it's also where we've got ourlast few buildings from up there,
just inside Alabama. And uh,he's pretty cool too, man. I
always like talking to him. He'sa county commissioner and he works at the
Sheriff's office, and he's got youknow, fireworks and all that good stuff.
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What's the vegetable stands? His way? He's just gonna be a produce
stand. He just he's building anotherbeliever or not another one of those metal
buildings up there, and he's gonnaput a big, huge produce stand in
there. And that's on my wayhome. I passed by there every day,
so that's one more place I gotto stop at that other place up
there where I get my pickled garlicat with the with uh the spicy pickleed
garlic. I get that there's anotherstand up there, but but no,
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he's may I tell you. Italked to him and I look around people
talk about, you know, howbusy folks are, and I look at
him and I think he's actually busierthan me. But uh, anyhow,
he answered. But the funny thingwas I called him. I had to
ask him a question. I calledhim and you know, we ain't talking
in a while, and he goes, just this, the phone rings and
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picks it up. He gus,this the Charlie Strickland. And there's an
inside joke on that because I hadpeople sometimes are you the Charlie Strickland,
And I'm like, uh, don'tknow what you hear on the radio?
You that guy on already? Ohyeah, I'm that. I'm that,
I'm that try the trying, I'mthat. That's a different thing. But
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he answered the phone that way,and all that's funny. That happened to
the other day in CBS. Igot celebritized. You did, Yeah,
I was. I was trying toorder something from behind the counter and the
guy recognized by boys from the radioshow because he's like you Fred Connor,
and I'm like, are you andand all the things you've done in your
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life and as much alcohol you've hadyour like, I don't know, I
want to, I don't. Irefused. I didn't do the answer on
the ground so that I might getmy rear end for it. You don't
know me, and I'm like,that's even worse. A guy recognized my
boy, and he's probably listening rightnow, So but say something nice about
him that you know. He walkedaway, and I finally met that little
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salt off du He's a tiny,little ball headed fella. So he told
me one time, you're not asfat as you sign on the radio,
and when you always make it soundlike you're fat, you're not that fat.
And I'm like, I never doI do that. I get folks
coming in the store pretty regular andgo, I dang, you a big
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old boy. You don't sound likethat on the radio. Yeah, it's
kind of like the one nine hundredcalls you make. They never look like
they sound. Well, how wouldyou know? I just knew somebody who
knew somebody that told you about it. He told me about it was that
one I don't believe I told thatone. I do not believe I told
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that. Oh who who was it? The radio guy? Just how big
old boy are you? Anyway?That's a roy D Mercer, that guy
that's the one that made all theprank calls Feeling Brent. Feeling Brent and
roy D Mercer, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Yeah, my wife was now my
wife, Sharon Jean was down thereto your clinic, had your boots you
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get wet water? Yeah that youcan't even repeat those, but those calls
are here. Lets I mean Ican repeat it, but not on this
show. But she come down thereto your mo So you come out of
your makeup shopping. You said thatwas like putting my lipstick on a pig.
And she's crying and you just gottamthere and wh tar and rims,
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what do you needs? Just justanyway, well maybe I won't come out.
Yeah. Apparently he made those callsfrom like a hospital bed. He
was laid up, nothing to do, and he's bored, so he picked
up the hospital fan and started makingprank calls to stores. The funniest one
to me of all of those stories, if is uh tlding about his wife
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Sharon Jean hasn't been down there tothe chiropractic Clinton. Yeah, she had
some of them. My brain headachesand headaches is better, but lately here
I can't get a beat of sweatout of her. I won't go no
further than that, but U onmy brain one of them, my brain
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headaches. I've had a full weeklong my brain headache this week. It's
been it's been a rough week.So yeah, we got a we've had
visitors this week. That's what Ihear. Fun stuff. We'll be right
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And we're back. So we justhad this long conversation off the air Jedi.
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When we left. JD was talkingabout we had some visitors. We
you know, we own the gunstore here votes and the ATF came in
this week and it's doing our cyclecount as it was our turn. And
that's always for any gun store.That's stress. That's kind of like having
an IRIS audit, you know,it's exactly like having an IRS audit,
except you ain't dealing with taxes,you're dealing with guns. Yeah. So
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anyway, we're we're rolling out ofthat here the next little while. That
looked like anybody that's gonna shut usdown. I think we'll be fine.
See, I'll come in and keepyour fingers crossing. Yeah, I just
with you know, the NSSF,the big National Sports Shooting Federation, the
people that put on the shots Show, the people that represent gun the gun
industry in Congress and lobbying and allthat stuff they send out they send out
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monthly or bi weekly or anytime somethinghappens in the gun world, they send
us emails to updates. And uhso last year in the country, I
think they said one hundred and seventyfour gun gun stores were closed by the
ATF and so far this year fiftyfour. Scary and it's a lot of
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it. A lot of it hasto do with politics and the current the
current administration. It has been onthe President has been on national television and
said I'm I'm shutting down these gunpeople. And when you get that kind
of direction from the top, andyou get it pushed down through the bottom,
and we have to deal with everylevel in between, and we can
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we think we're we think we're goodon everything. And somebody read a report
three three runs up the three rungsup the ladder and said, well,
you had the serial number is ABCone two three four five and it should
have been ABC one two three foursix because you misread the number. So
and they say that they will theypull your license for an egregious, an
egregious violation. Well, I know, I don't think it's going to happen
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either, but it doesn't relieve mystress any Well, and here's some things,
and I can tell you that withfederal government, we might hear back
from this in three years because itmight take a while, because I can
tell you if you do something toviolate certain laws and the federally, it
might take a minute or two toget back to you before you find out
what you're fine is. Yeah,yeah, yeah, it's just then then
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you got to hurry up and dothat like right here, right now.
Yeah, speaking of politics, andwhat would you say, we don't talk
politics on this, but youre talkingabout politicians and crooked people and whatn't y'all
followed any of this stuff? Whyabout several people's faces just pop into my
head, right, then, No, I tried were not at the federal
level either, To be honest withyou, Fred, No, I tried
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not to follow any of this stuff. Well, you know, and I'm
looking I'm looking at it from thejuris, from my standpoint as a lawyer.
Yeah, law enforcement officers, theythey A good law enforcement officer despises
most that crooked law enforce Absolutely,yeah, absolutely, that's the worst thing
in the world to a good lawenforcements. All right. The same hole
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is true with lawyers. What Isee a lying, crooked lawyer who is
making an appearance on a national stagethat reflects poorly on my profession. And
I got into this profession because Ithought it was honorable, only to find
out that there's some folks that aregiving it a bad name. And Fanny
Willis is doing that as we speak, and laughing about it and laughing about
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it, and she's up there perjuringherself like it's going out of style.
She's got others perjuring themselves, otherlawyers. And if I had done half
of what she's done, what's comeout in court so far, I would
and should be disbarred and immediately suspendedpending disbardment and the fact that she's still
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able to walk around with a lawlicense to me is offensive. Yeah,
I get it, I absolutely getit. It's unfortunately it's the world we
live in today. It just forher to sit up there and say,
oh, well, I said it, therefore it's true. What how does
that work? I mean, what, Well, because I said because I
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said so, because I said so. Yeah, rules for thee and not
for me. That's exactly right.And you know, and then they confront
her, I don't know, didyou see the phone records? Oh yeah,
so she testified. Not only thatthis is something else that struck me,
they're asking one of the I guessher paramour or whoever the dude was,
was having an affair with her.This guy's supposedly a trial lawyer,
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so you would think that he wouldclue in when they say, okay,
if we have phone records that sayyou visited her condo more than ten times
in twenty twenty one, Now that'sa pretty specific question. Now that's a
clue, start one, that's that'sa clue. Get Yeah, And I'm
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a trial lawyer, and I knowthat, Uh, trial lawyers don't ask
questions of witnesses that they don't alreadyknow the answer, and his a answer
as well. The phone records wouldbe wrong. Okay, that's the whole
I saw you with that woman,I saw you run. Wouldn't me,
Yeah, it wasn't me, defendwasn't me? Wasn't me? You say
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it long enough, somebody go,well, maybe it wasn't them, It
wasn't you, And you got thesecommentators are, yeah, it wasn't here,
to make you doubt yourself. Obviously, wouldn't him look at him?
Somebody sent me a picture of theday of a German short haired pointer and
said they found this dog down soand so is it's yours? And I
looked at it and I went myfirst impression was no, that's wait a
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minute, where's my dog? Looka look? And okay, well,
obviously until I found her and shewas running around in the woods while I
was doing something on the equipment.Until I saw her again, I was
seriously, I'm going pulling up picturesin the thing, going no, that's
not her, that's not so whatthat's that's that's the wolden't the wasn't me?
Thing? Might work on with me? Wouldn't me? I look,
(36:00):
oka me. I read the tagon the becket wouldn't be must have been
dreaming. I don't know what yousaw, but it wouldn't me. Well,
when they confronted that one, theother lawyer of the partner, with
the text message, where you know? And the question was, you know,
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were they having this affair in twentytwenty one And they confronted with the
text message and his answer to thaton the text message was absolutely. And
when they handed him to text,he goes, wouldn't he? He was
dang, oh man, but youknow nothing, nothing's gonna come out all
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that, and they're still going toprosecute Trump and there's still gonna be.
This is this is, this iswhat our country has evolved to. And
this is not good for anybody.If good for anybody. If this was
happening in any any other country thatwe did business with, we would have
sanctioned them. Oh yeah, yeah, until y'all get your business straight.
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And now we ain't doing no morebusiness. Yeah, I got a question
for y'all since we're here, andit's a it's been a while and wacky
week. My phone ain't been workingright, even though I don't have at
and T does anybody in the roombelieve that solar flares caused the phone outages
with AT and T Robert. I'mon, you're down there. This is
your area of expertise. So whenit comes down to the RF or radio
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frequency and the interference, anything caninterfere it. When you get a solar
flare, absolutely it's gonna do it. It's going to cause interference with your
transmission, all right. So nextquestion, follow up question to that,
because I was hoping that's what youwould say. Why one carrier and not
the wrist since they all use thesame hubs, towers and YadA yadas.
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The question is is what what onthe back end actually failed? That's the
question. I don't think it wasRF, all right, solflare? Yeah,
So that's so the next question was, let's say that's highly unlikely that
the solar flare caused these specific problems, and there's most more likely the answer
is that they got a ransomwared orhacked or whatever it could have been.
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Somebody punched in one keystroke wrong whenever'retrying to program the back end infrastructure,
because there's an entire network that runsthe back end, but we wouldn't call
our infrastructure fragile though if you couldput human air in it, Yeah,
it is incredibly fragile. I meanthe same thing happens when you know,
when Level eight went down a coupleof years ago, somebody made one small
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keystroke error and pushed it out toevery switch across their entire network, and
it took down the entire network.It was a couple of years ago.
It was the back end of thelike the back end of the internet for
the US on the East coast.It's not unheard that the biggest solar flares
have been recorded in eighteen sixty.That's great, all right. See,
(38:57):
I got a JD moment going here, and all the telegraph flight, all
the telegraphs, there were people intelegraph offices that got shocked. Some of
them got caught on fire. Soimagine if that at solar flare of that
magnitude happened today's world. Scary.Yeah, I'd be going to Charlie's house,
souse. Everybody I know has beenfreaked out all week about the phone
stuff not working. So oh yeah, when we come back, I want
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to talk a little bit about whatshould we do? How about that sounds
good? How about that? Catchmassa. Yeah, how about that?
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all right, So we all withall the technical difficulties, we simplified things,
and I got Paul and speak tomy speakerphone and he can hear me,
and I can hear him, andy'all can hear what's going on.
So, hey, Paul, howare you today doing? Great? Man?
I tell you what it's uh.It's raining up here today and this
is Friday day for the show.But man, I tell you what we've
been been uh in cabin fever.If we finally went out to go get
(41:35):
some lunch and and I I said, oh, I forgot about the show.
It's text grant and so we're gettingit worked out. So I'm glad
to be talking to you. Heah, buddy, you're in You're in Gunnersville
fish in Lake Gunnersville, right.Yes, we came up came up here
earing the week and got to getup here and do some fishing on this
historic lake. It's fun. ButI tell you, jay d, I'm
just spoiled. I just I'm alreadymissing like sewing old man. I'm just
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I just tell you it's beautiful uphere, you know. I like it.
It's notice. Yeah, it ain'tnothing like calm brother, I tell
you what. Uh. I've beenup there to that late one time and
it is absolutely scenically a beautiful placefor sure. And they've they have caught
some there's been some big bass caughtin that place too, from what I
could tell, Yeah, they havebeen. It's been thevice been pretty good
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up in water. What colder thanIROs is back home. It's about fifty
two fifty three degrees and we beencatching some bass, been catching quite a
few numbers, and it's kind offigured out. Yesterday I had to catch
some bigger fish. Actually, Isent you a picture of a big old
car that I hooked in the back. We must have thought that thing twenty
five minutes trying to get into theboat. I bet you thought. I
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bet you if you you foul hookedthat thing and had to fight him in.
I bet somebody thought they had tiedinto a whale, because those things
pull like crazy. I've accidentally caughthim the time or two now on the
top of the dorsal fin and wherethe hook just went right underneath that man.
I tell you that thing, hewouldn't never come off. It took
about twenty minutes to get him in. Now it looks like it weigh about
(43:04):
twenty pounds for business. Yeah,why are you up there fishing just out
of curiosity? Why aren't you backhere and beautiful? We got a little
tournament we got we're fishing this weekend. Are our real money classic and being
him fish the trail next year,his dad fish, his partner, and
we got a couple of other buddies. We've got a place up here and
we just do this once a year. We go out of town and this
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year's happens to be on Guntersville andup here having a good time. It's
more about the fellowship and hopefully wecan catch some fish come this weekend too.
Yeah, buddy, Well, areyou hearing anything from Lake summon Old?
Yeah, yeah, waters are stillthe water's still kind of muddy,
but the water temperature is warmed upinto the upper fifties, low sixties.
The faster are actually moving on thebed. I got some guys getting in
(43:46):
the truck right now. Just butI tell you what it's been, it's
been really good. Well. Igot a report from a good buddy of
mine yesterday afternoon and he said thatsome said that some guys win and put
then at the ninety eight bridge onthe Apple on Applets Cola River at the
ninety eight bridge and fish from thebridge to the bay and caught bass like
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every cast you know, just wideopen bass, red fish, trout,
flounder, you name it. Theywere just tearing it up down there with
all this high water. So's it'sthat time of year, man, and
people need to get out and yeah, out and do that. The uh.
Then you know, towards end ofthe month, them shell crackers start
moving up back on the bed andthat happens all three the month of April.
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Then after that then the brims startbedging. Make you know, yes,
sir, all right, buddy,Well, thank you for being part
of the showtel folks how they canget ahold of it. If they want
to go fishing, they can reachme at eight five zero two six four
seven five three four, or theycan follow me on Facebook at Captain Paul
tar Fishing. All right, buddy, will all be safe up there and
have a good rest of the weekend. All right, y'all have a great
(44:52):
weekends. So when we left beforethe break then we moved. Its sounded
different because Paul's actually out in theworld. But that wasn't bad. It
wasn't I could understand it. Wegot we were talking about infrastructure and breakdowns,
and I know that was something thatcame up recently. Technology in general,
lenology. You know, we doyou know, EMP protection devices out
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of the store here, and youknow, we talk about that type of
stuff, and I was talking.I had this conversation, oddly enough to
say the day was somebody about whatwould you do if communications went down?
Like you know at and T cellphone covers. Everybody freaked out about it,
but what if that was more thanone network. What if it was
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all of them? And what ifso? What was your planning to get
your family? What do our familiesknow to do when that happens? Where
do you meet? What do youdo? How do you conduct business?
I mean, there's a lot ofthings to think about. Uh yeah,
we get you know, anytime thatthere is just the most minor in today's
world, the most minor network interruptionbecause of everything's tied into the end Internet
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now, it can be anything fromjust an annoyance to a serious, serious
issue, you know. And Ihad somebody ask me the same thing.
What if the cell phone's going Andthere's a bunch of apocalypse movies out and
about right now that just deal withor that talk about that. That's the
setting of the movie. Is communicationssystems being going down? There's two or
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three movies out that been readed recentlyabout that, and it's a it is
a genuine problem in today's world andthe dependency that we have on on devices.
And the only thing I can tellpeople is have a plan, a
pre predesignated place to meet your family, the people that you want in your
circle when things get bad, ifthey get bad. And the other question
(46:45):
is, well, how do youknow, Well, you're just gonna have
to kind of use your best judgment, and it's uh, you know,
I think that having a shortwave radioemergency broadcast system radio at the house is
probably a good thing. The technologythat those run off of or is not
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nearly as complicated as the Internet andthe wants to do. They run on
They don't run off satellites, no, uh they some of them are linked
to satellite, but they are groundbased towers and short wave radio can go
from one radio to the other.So I actually personally keep a I've got
a handheld radio that I bought onthe Internet that is programmable frequencies. Everything
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in the range from uh VHF.VHF is kind of the low end of
the band, very high frequency,and then they have ultra high frequency UHF.
What about the citizens band? Whatis that citizen CB is is on
the VHF scale, if I'm notmistaken. But this radio device that I
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have, it wasn't expensive. It'sgot a it's got rechargeable or you can
use double A batteries in it.You can that comes with a rechargeable battery,
but it's also you can put adouble a's into a pack and you
can type in the frequency that youwant to talk on all the way up
into the eight hundred megahertz van andthere's a bunch of there's a bunch of
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lit's there. They're not derelict towers. There's a bunch of towers out there
with repeaters on them that that lawenforcement keeps operating. They keep in the
operational mode in case the system theyhave now fails. So it's my understanding
that there's a lot of repeater towersout there, and if you can hit
that tower, you're sending it toanother tower. They're sending it to another
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tower, so it extends your RINGK. So what you're talking about, I
think here in Florida is called sartinet. That's a Ham radio. If you
remember back in the day, whenyou're driving down the road, every couple
of miles you see a little pullstation for emergency. This is predated of
cell phones. Those pull stations wouldrun off of that sarnet which would talk
to back to doh or DOT andthey'd be able to transport somebody out to
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help you. Nowadays, the Hamradio system or the Ham radio community actually
uses that sarnet for day to daycommunications as well as when we go into
an emergency broadcast or emergency situation.They will actually use that to communicate across
the state for hurricanes, outages,stuff like that. So when you're talking
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back to the at and t outage, surprisingly within about an hour you saw
a massive uptick in the amount ofboth UHF as well as VHF broadcasting on
the HAMM radio bands, which againyou have to be licensed to do CB
radios. They're a citizen band.There is no license for those. They
can have those and communicate off ofthose as well. Those are usually point
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to point so at radio to radio. Ham radio can do it two ways.
You can go either radio to radio. If it's HF, you usually
are bouncing it off of the atmosphereto bring it down on a wide area.
The other alternative is like you're sayingthrough sarnet or through a standalone repeater
that will take a little handy talkwhich gives you two to three mile range
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to somewhere of fifty miles sometimes dependingon the output of that actual repeater.
So, but all of those kindsof things require you know, Ham radio
license. There's Ham radio license foruse in times when there is when when
can stop you, when somebody cancan enforce the law. You'd actually be
surprised even nowadays with all with thefeting, all of the FCC, all
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of them. They actually have podsif you will, that sit there and
actually watch and triangulate radio broadcasts.So talking about yeah, but they ain't
coming. The world will once aworld comes back up and they get that
information, they will come after you. There was actually the poke pocalyptic post
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apocalypse post apocalyptic period. That's goingto be their biggest concern. I thought
you just say say don't poke thebear, and that's what I was going
to say. That was Yeah.Now with that with that said, also
you've also got other things like youknow, radio base that will actually go
over the internet as well. Soit's traditional radio that's broadcasting digitally over the
end. So is it a goodidea to get a handheld CB and hand
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it at your family? Mean?Is that depends on your situation and how
far you're looking to cow for cYeah. CB ain't across town for the
most part when you start. It'sline of sight. So anytime you have
buildings and trees and physical barriers,Yeah, that ain't gonna work. Too
good. Yeah, it's gonna,it's gonna. It's going to be incumbent
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upon everyone to be able to gethome. That the thing should be is
my plan? What is my plan? What is my family plan? What
are they carrying in their vehicles?Are on the person that will help them
get home? And you know,maybe next show we talk a little bit
about what is in our bail outbag? What is in our vehicle?
Quit running and I have to getinto the house. What do I need?
Where do you find out what's inIf I'd be afraid that
And welcome to the Town outdoor showon Charlie. I'm and fred Man,
I am Grant, and we gotRobert. I'd never there. So I
got into Martinis the other night.Oh lord, here it goes. What
we're gonna talk about? Here wego that seconds he had that one,
he had that loaded. I'm gonnaget into the Martinis a night and I
(00:26):
don't even like Martini's. This's beenthat kind of week. I came home
the other night the other night andthere was an open can of ginger beer
on the counter over where we keepthe liquor. And that was when I
left going on. I said,uh, who's drinking? And she held
up a drink over her head fromthe recliner. I went, it was
one of them kind of days.She goes, I never do this,
and I would know you don't,and she might have told me about it.
(00:50):
I don't know. Yes, Ipicked up the Martinis. Yeah.
The first thing I did was I'mlooking out at the pool and I picked
up the ukulele and started singing Melchalukulakiand wife did it like that. So
that got twelve string out, andI'm thinking, you know, i'd like
to record some of this bumper musicthat opens this show. Well, there
you go. You know I mightdo that. Okay, cool, and
(01:12):
I might even get the banjo out. We've we've been. There's a joke
there may drive. Do you hearbanjo's turn around and go back about a
mile you'll be all right. Well, it's one of the ridnecks in this
room. I don't think I'm gonnabe squealing. No, I'm I'm I'm
(01:34):
Burt with the bowl and era.Buddy, you got have problems, probably
not good to be the smallest guyin the room. Who was in that
movie There was Renolds, ned Baby, Burt Reynolds. I can't remember the
other guy's name that there was,their buddy John Voyd. Yeah he wasn't
Yeah, yeah, See you can'tget around this thing. You can't get
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around this thing, man. I'mjust telling you, yeah, doing his
fun song to play, and Ican do it on the guitar and the
banjo. Little doesn't, doesn't,ned Baby and Fred got a little he
was a little bit of resemblance.He was the one squading like a pig.
That's where I was going with that. I's why why do you think
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I asked who was in that movie. You brought it up. We are
we are short on we a littleshort on toothless, toothless hill Billies right
here, grant you will mock someteeth out, buddy, No, you
passed. I think I'm okay,okay. I appreciate it though. It's
(02:38):
a nice offer. But when itcomes he's classing the place up. Yeah,
it's the uniform. Now, ifyou look at the chide matches,
the shirts got the maroon in it, the maroon stripe. Somebody, his
wife, his wife A dresses him. I guarantee you no, it's all
(03:00):
me, buddy. There's another sideto that story. I don't know what
it is, but this reaction justspoke volumes of something. I don't know
what. We get that on thebreak. So my son got engaged a
week or so ago, and therelady that was here and congratulations congratulations to
him. I mean, yeah,I want to live vicariously through it.
(03:23):
Yeah. There, And she spenttime around you and still said yes.
She even tells me when we hangup the phone and talk and she says,
love you, so yeah, thereyou go, I love you too,
baby. There there no sweet sweetTaylor Brantley's Sweet Sweet girl. We
love her so proud of Justin andher and all this good stuff. So
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this time next year he'll be married. And told my wife dressing you.
So I get a text yesterday fromfrom my wife and she said, this
is the new suit you're getting forthe wedding. And I said, yes,
ma'am. So you didn't pull oneof those father of the brides and
go up into the attic, canpull a pull the old tuxedo out,
try to fit in it. AndI've never own the tuxiedo. Thank you,
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fred, I am a I don'teven own I don't know that I
even have a suit right now thatwould actually fit near doesn't have mouth holes
in it or whatever. It's beena long time since I put on a
suit. We go up in anattic, and I've got some sports coach,
I think left. I don't knowthat I have any suits anymore.
And if I do, I canpromise you that suit that used to be
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big on me, probably it ain'tno more. Yeah, I've got some
suits in the plastic bags hanging upin the closet upstairs, and yeah,
I just don't do suits. I'mlike you. I put on a sport
coat and a pair of jeans.And if it's got to be dresser than
that, I ain't going with.If it requires me to dress up beyond
like my swede type sports coach,thankfully, if it requires me to look
like that, ain't gonna do it. I ain't unless it involves a whole
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bunch of money. And then Iwill go shopping for a lot. I
will. I will sell out.I will wear that stuff for money.
But that's it. I do itevery day if you want me, If
you want me to dress up togo to your funeral or your wedding,
I will. I will pour outhalf a bottle liquor five, get you,
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you know, here's one for thehomies. And then I want to
sit and I have something at thehouse, but I ain't coming. I'll
be that guy carrying the carrying thepine box that's wearing cowboy boots and blue
jeans, and there you go.That's right. So my funeral, you
gonna be on the balcony, iswhat you're saying. No, sure you're
gonna, you're gonna stream it.List just ain't gonna be but the two
of us as pall bearers. SoI mean we touch it. You get
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that in. I get this,and you wanna walk? You want to
go backwards? Yeah, I'll scoophim up. Hain't gonna say, let
us scoop him up. I throwit on my shoulder, on your shoulder,
like a sack of feed. Ifinna say if I can. I'm
still mad enough to throw one fiftypounds sack over each a corn over each
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shoulder and walk out of the doorwhen customers by corn. So I can
still do that. I can touchyou. Speaking of weights, so I'm
coffing shopping for my my husband.Do you have a kid section? So
we don't talk about that, ma'am, but unfortunately we do, so that's
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morbid. Apologies, my apologies.Well, speaking of weights, and this
was this will surprise you coming frommy jeans. But last weekend, Uh,
I was in clear Order, Florida, which nice place to visit.
Don't think I'd want to live there. Uh. My son competed, this
is my youngest son competed in thestate wide weightlifting powerlifting competition, and uh
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he was two pounds over what hewas supposed to be to fit in his
weight class, and that made himgo to the next to the higher bump
up a knot right, So hehad to lift with these other guys who
were much bigger than him. Sohe could either be in that or he
could well, he tried to dropthe weight and he you know, sweated
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everything could out and if I look, I'm not gonna be able to walk
if it's all I got. Anduh so he could have either gone to
the higher weight class or say hewas transgender. And I was trying to
get my high heels and lipstick toto bring to him so he could and
uh but I didn't want him towear the high heels because I praid he's
gonna stretch him out. And uh, dog on the fat kid didn't compete
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in the higher weight class and camehome with the bronze. Awesome, And
uh now he's set to go tothe Nationals in May and compete, and
they're in Vegas. And I've neverbeen to Vegas. You haven't you you
Vegas. It's kind of like,uh yeah, and that's there's there's a
reason for that. Yeah, we'renever gonna get you back. Well,
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that's what I'm afraid of. Andyou know, I might get out there
and like it, you will youthink we don't anymore. Okay, you
will, you will like it.That's it's it's man. I think Fred
puts on a lot of airs aboutbeing I think this the Fred persona,
the Fred persona might like it.The real Fred is gonna be highly gonna
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be like us and really turned offby it. I think, Well,
I liked it the first three orfour or five times we went, and
after that I got I didn't likeit anymore because I got burned out on
because the same stuff over and overagain. It's like it, how many
times you want to ride that ride? You know? It's it's it really,
other than the uh warm warm smellof of whatever there yeah, there
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you go. Yeah, other thanthat, it hasn't changed a lot now
that that got progressively worse through theyears of us going to shots. You
used to walk down the road gosmell weed. I wish they wouldn't do
that. Now it's hey, Idon't smell we don't smell weed. We're
gonna stay here for a little bit. I hang out right here in this
breeze, and I'm kind of lookingforward to seeing some of the Elvis impersonators.
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You know, I thought about thata lot. As prevalent as you
would think you need to go toFremont. You definitely go to Fremont Street.
That's the old Vegas. Now that'scool to me, it's still cool.
And that's where you have the streetperformers that are not just nasty and
stuff and they that's that's the oldstrip at Vegas that you see on the
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movies. You know when you seethe car slide up in front of the
casino and all that stuff. That'sthat Fremont Street. And it's entirely the
entire street has like a dome overto canopy over it where they project white
shows and you can get on theuh you get on the zip line and
zipline. The entire entirety of FremontStreet. How farway is chicken? We
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didn't go there. Tell you where. It's some good sushi. All you
need to do. You like sushi. We got we got to hook up
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giving out wow Turkey brist recipes hereon the break. Yeah, we was
on the break and my phone myphone went off and looked down there and
there's a is a gobbler with adog on paintbrush hanging down in front.
I mean, I fine, gobblerjust walked out in front of the camera
up there and we were talking aboutfried turkey breast strips. Is that's that
I never forget the first time Ifed that to my kids because kids there
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are probably any kid on the planetdon't like chicken, chicken tenders or fingers
or whatever. And I was overthere cutting that stuff up. What's that,
daddy, I says, chicken tenders, And it's just this is what
it looks like, you know,just kind of because they all my kids
that when there kids, when they'reyoung, they don't want to try anything
new, you know, they wantto eat what they want to eat,
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what they know is good. Andgetting something throwing something new on them is
hard. But I cooked up abunch of that stuff, stripped it and
stripped it up and fried it likethat, Daddy, It's the best chicken
fingers I ever had, Like itorder to be. It's hard to get.
Yeah, you know, you runninga lot of these rednecks and they
see a big deer with big youknow, horns on him, and they
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see a turkey with a brush onthere, or you know, a pheasant
that's pretty I'd like to have himon my wall. I see these wild
game when they come by, I'mnot looking at I start salivating golden brown.
I mean, it's kind of likethose old cartoons where you know,
the coyote sort of pictures the roadRunner, and he sees him dressed out
and yeah, with the little hatson his legs, you know, coming
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out of a little Therefore, theNeil guy, the Neil guy. I
mean, you know, I seean elk I'm not I have. So
we were having we were having Chickenof the night and Robert Henson, my
stepfather, not that Robert that wentto went hunting with us. Just just
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dimension of sitting down to eat withhim tickles me. Well, so he
so, I get this. Iget I love my mother's Italian and Robert's
whatever he cooks it. When hecooks, he goes all out. So
he says, Hey, we're havingchicken over at the house. I'm there,
so show up and have his crockson. If he's got wearing shoes,
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he got crocks all right. Soalthough I think he may be about
the upgrade. And let me tellyou why I think so. So Robert's
been driving this old Ford Ranger hthe old School Reach for a while now.
It's held together literally with stuff he'sI mean, the beds of it
he's had to he's I don't,I don't know if it's wire says it's
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yeah, it's it's like, it'slike that. And the other day he
goes, yeah, Charlie wish he'son show tell the story. He does
it so much better because it's justthis. He's not trying to be funny.
He's just talking. And so hesays, says, uh, all
right, so my truck, youknow, my truck's running hot. The
other day, you know, Ihad to go I had to go up
there to to to Charles Hagler.Now, Charles Hagler was the barber over
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there for many years, all right, and he's a character in this story.
Now he stood on his feet fortyto fifty years cutting everybody's hair.
And he's still he's got a littlehe's he's got a farm up north of
town, and he is. Everybodyin Jackson Countada is Charles Hagler. He's
first every pronounced that I was gonnago balk when I was a teenager,
because you know, you're gonna loseyour hair. And I've been mad at
him ever since, and so andso. But he's got this farm,
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and then Roberts got it. Wegot another friend of the family, Donald
White, who is a former mechanicfarmer pig farmer and all this stuff.
And he's his son paints water towersand real successful family. But he's just
dug a pond. And I washaving some issues there with trying to keep
fish in it and on and sothat's just sort of the background. So
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Roberts gona, hey, I'm atruck's running hot. I need to do
something about getting the new truck.Just you know. I went out the
other day and I went up thereto Charles Hagler's to pick up some manure
from my worm beds. And we'resitting the hereld were sitting there and checking.
He goes. I went up toCharles Hagler's to get some manure from
the worm beds, and I wasbringing that back, you know, and
Donald white Ha called me about thoseturtles in his pond eating his fish.
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So I had to he was gonnahe caught them all up and called me
and said he had a bunch ofthem. He was gonna kill him,
but he did. And so Itold a note, don't you kill those
turtles. Now, I come uphere and pick them up. I'll go
put them over at so and so'shouse and we'll turn them back loose again.
Because I don't want to lose them. So so I went up there
to Charles and I talked to himfor a while, and I was coming
back and my truck started running hot, but I had time to go buy
Donald's and pick up that load ofturtles. And you know, when I
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got back to the house, youknow, my truck and making this book
look sound and and I said,stop, Robert, stop right there.
I want you to stop telling thatstory. And he looked at me and
says what And I said, ifthis ain't, I said, this is
why I moved back to Marianna.If that ain't the red neck is story,
I said, And that's not evena joke. You're telling this story
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because it yesterday, because it justhappened, and it's a normal day for
you. But you got exaggerated.Well, well, I had a lot
of streaking head turtles. Gets toget to the point. You don't even
know what the point was by there. And if you saw a picture of
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this guy, you're like, yeah, I believe that's exactly the story he
told. Well, the next dayI went down to you told me what
he was looking for, and Isaid, I ran by the Nissan dealership
bear and talked with Mark Bell andthe salesman and and and said, hey,
you gotta you gotta use Nissan Frontierabout this year with this many miles.
So yeah, that one came inlast night. I looked at it
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and I said, we'll clean itup, and they buffed it out.
Robert, my mama went up thereand bought that thing. I don't know
that Roberts ever had a truck thatnice, and not in my lifetime.
He hadn't. And he's all,man, he is so excited about this
truck. Beautiful, beautiful four wheeldrive that pulled a boat. It's all
polishing it. I said, Isaid you gonna, I said, I
said, Robert, you're gonna keepon and you're gonna start wearing real shoes.
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I goes, you know, youmight be right. So I have
a question. We we gotta knowthat was gonna get him out of sweatpants.
But he was out there a sweatpants, corn Field and sweat fi and
crocs. Really And the same partis my mama was hearing him tell this
story and she's not thinking twice aboutit. And then when I stopped him
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and I turned around, I said, let me tell this back to you,
and my mom was over there laughingher butt off now and I'm like,
you live with him, you marriedhim. But what did he do
with the turtles? Uh? Heturned a moose somewhere. I you know
what, I totally missed the pointof where they got gone story. He
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was transplanting, so transplants the turtlewell, because he didn't want he didn't
want he didn't want the turtles todie because they were eating the fish in
the pond. And he was like, well, I'm gonna get turtle,
go get them, and I willgo take them somewhere and eat the fish
and somebody else's pond. And I'mprobably somebody didn't like. I don't know
there's a if there's anybody he doesn'tlike. But he you know, And
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I told him at the end ofit, I said, you know,
one thing and one thing he missed. The turtles eat pretty good, Robert.
You can fry him up just likethis, chicking around pretty good.
And I'd like to try that,I honestly would. But turtle, but
I tell you what, oh yeahyeah, But I tell you what I'm
all about. That chicken is you'regonna get anywhere. It's that good.
I'm all about broadening horizons, youknow, trying new things, learning different
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cultures. I'm gonna draw the lineat a fried turtle like chicken. It
ain't taste like chicken and green turtlesoup. I don't want no green turtle
soup. I mean, you doknow that back in the back A lot
of the reason that most of thesea turtles the species of today, the
reason they are endangered is because theywere such a delicacy in the twenties and
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thirties, back in the old markethunting days. The reason that there're a
lot of those are endangered is becausethey are. It was so good and
it was an expensive delicacy served upin the big cities in the north that
it was worthwhile for people to goout and catch sea turtles to sell to
the restaurants. I've never seen asea turtle, and I've seen a lot
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of them. What I've never seena sea turtle and and and gotten to
salivating, like I do what Isee? Well, yeah, but you
when you see that sea turtle outthere swimming around, what do you always
do when you in the boat?You stop and look around around for the
sea turtle, for the bottom.You stop and look for hard bottom underneath
him. If we all know thatout there and you see that head pop
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up, you stop and go rightaway and drop your line. Yeah,
looking for a kobe of falling underhim or hard bottom on the bottom where
he's hanging out. There's rocks,they're they're there, Yeah, somewhere that
seat somewhere close by. But yeah, in the back of not many some
of them. J Yeah. Actuallyroad one was yeah, the sea turtle.
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Yeah, it's way past statue limitations. Yeah, but yeah, diving
and I was I've done the samething. Grab one by the grab one
right behind his head at the shelland hang on, just hang on it
take you for a ride. Yeah, yep, done the same thing.
But yeah, that's uh, thestreaky the head turtles offt shell, turtles
of delicacy is that they're delicious.I've actually when I was a kid growing
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up, my dad and some ofthe other guys in the community around there
used to used to pull gophers,gopher tortoises what you call them now.
They made this these long, thislong, stiff, kind of really heavy
gauge wire like you would use totension a fence with. If you have
you know, you set up abrace on the fence and you want a
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tension your wire with it, wetwist it with a put a put a
log in there, and roll itup. Charlie, this is what I'm
talking about when you build a fence. But anyway, tensil wire. So
they take it and they'd put ahook on the end of it, and
they'd get a piece of wire aboutten or twelve feet long with a hook
on the end of it and havethat attached to a big long wooden handle,
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two three foot long wooden handle,and they'd take that wire and run
down a gopher hole. Feel around, do you grab a hold of that?
Pull on? Do you grab thehold of that gopher? Once you
got it hooked and something pulled back, it took two or three grown men
sometime to pull that joker up outof that hole. But they were they
were doing that to to eat on, to eat them. They're they're really
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oh yeah, delicious. I meanthose things live bout years. Yeah,
and they're protected now. And youI mean you you know they're highly protected
now. Now. When I wasa kid, I had one as a
pet. Well, when I wasa kid, that were they were not
protected and they got they got eatenand uh caught for the fourth of July
gopher races, remember those? Ohyeah, so uh but yeah, but
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but they a lot of those goteaten after the race was over because they're
they're really good to eat. Usedto be a little box turtles everywhere.
I can't hardly find. I don'tthink I've seen one. I hadn't seen
a box turtle in a long time. Now I get I get the turtles
out of the lake ammonia that comeacross the road and lay eggs in my
yard. I got those soft shelljaws. No, they're the old streaking
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head. Yeah, streaking head.Uh, I don't know the proper name.
We had a bunch in our pondand they just aren't there anymore.
I don't know what happened. Idon't know came and got them all.
Hold them off. Gators are heavy. I've got got I've got me a
gator in the pond right now.I think that's gonna take care of the
and hinga problem we've been having.They could do that. What problem?
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And hinga water turkey bird? Ohwell, I just thought you had an
ant inga that was swimming in thepond, I do want to You probably
have cormorants, not not anything.I'm pretty sure. Yeah, we've had
that discussion before. Yeah, yeah, you might have even you might have
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com and we're back. So anyhow, I don't want to give a quick
shout out my buddy Ricky hearing itbarre at the state line fireworks and now
portable buildings and as soon to bea vegetable stand, you know. He's
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a oh yeah, yeah, that'swhere I got all my fireworks this year.
But it's also where we've got ourlast few buildings from up there,
just inside Alabama. And uh,he's pretty cool too, man. I
always like talking to him. He'sa county commissioner and he works at the
Sheriff's office, and he's got youknow, fireworks and all that good stuff.
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What's the vegetable stands? His way? He's just gonna be a produce
stand. He just he's building anotherbeliever or not another one of those metal
buildings up there, and he's gonnaput a big, huge produce stand in
there. And that's on my wayhome. I passed by there every day,
so that's one more place I gotto stop at that other place up
there where I get my pickled garlicat with the with uh the spicy pickleed
garlic. I get that there's anotherstand up there, but but no,
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he's may I tell you. Italked to him and I look around people
talk about, you know, howbusy folks are, and I look at
him and I think he's actually busierthan me. But uh, anyhow,
he answered. But the funny thingwas I called him. I had to
ask him a question. I calledhim and you know, we ain't talking
in a while, and he goes, just this, the phone rings and
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picks it up. He gus,this the Charlie Strickland. And there's an
inside joke on that because I hadpeople sometimes are you the Charlie Strickland,
And I'm like, uh, don'tknow what you hear on the radio?
You that guy on already? Ohyeah, I'm that. I'm that,
I'm that try the trying, I'mthat. That's a different thing. But
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he answered the phone that way,and all that's funny. That happened to
the other day in CBS. Igot celebritized. You did, Yeah,
I was. I was trying toorder something from behind the counter and the
guy recognized by boys from the radioshow because he's like you Fred Connor,
and I'm like, are you andand all the things you've done in your
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life and as much alcohol you've hadyour like, I don't know, I
want to, I don't. Irefused. I didn't do the answer on
the ground so that I might getmy rear end for it. You don't
know me, and I'm like,that's even worse. A guy recognized my
boy, and he's probably listening rightnow, So but say something nice about
him that you know. He walkedaway, and I finally met that little
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salt off du He's a tiny,little ball headed fella. So he told
me one time, you're not asfat as you sign on the radio,
and when you always make it soundlike you're fat, you're not that fat.
And I'm like, I never doI do that. I get folks
coming in the store pretty regular andgo, I dang, you a big
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old boy. You don't sound likethat on the radio. Yeah, it's
kind of like the one nine hundredcalls you make. They never look like
they sound. Well, how wouldyou know? I just knew somebody who
knew somebody that told you about it. He told me about it was that
one I don't believe I told thatone. I do not believe I told
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that. Oh who who was it? The radio guy? Just how big
old boy are you? Anyway?That's a roy D Mercer, that guy
that's the one that made all theprank calls Feeling Brent. Feeling Brent and
roy D Mercer, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Yeah, my wife was now my
wife, Sharon Jean was down thereto your clinic, had your boots you
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get wet water? Yeah that youcan't even repeat those, but those calls
are here. Lets I mean Ican repeat it, but not on this
show. But she come down thereto your mo So you come out of
your makeup shopping. You said thatwas like putting my lipstick on a pig.
And she's crying and you just gottamthere and wh tar and rims,
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what do you needs? Just justanyway, well maybe I won't come out.
Yeah. Apparently he made those callsfrom like a hospital bed. He
was laid up, nothing to do, and he's bored, so he picked
up the hospital fan and started makingprank calls to stores. The funniest one
to me of all of those stories, if is uh tlding about his wife
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Sharon Jean hasn't been down there tothe chiropractic Clinton. Yeah, she had
some of them. My brain headachesand headaches is better, but lately here
I can't get a beat of sweatout of her. I won't go no
further than that, but U onmy brain one of them, my brain
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headaches. I've had a full weeklong my brain headache this week. It's
been it's been a rough week.So yeah, we got a we've had
visitors this week. That's what Ihear. Fun stuff. We'll be right
back. Are you looking for aplace to buy quality shoes but want to
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And we're back. So we justhad this long conversation off the air Jedi.
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When we left. JD was talkingabout we had some visitors. We
you know, we own the gunstore here votes and the ATF came in
this week and it's doing our cyclecount as it was our turn. And
that's always for any gun store.That's stress. That's kind of like having
an IRIS audit, you know,it's exactly like having an IRS audit,
except you ain't dealing with taxes,you're dealing with guns. Yeah. So
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anyway, we're we're rolling out ofthat here the next little while. That
looked like anybody that's gonna shut usdown. I think we'll be fine.
See, I'll come in and keepyour fingers crossing. Yeah, I just
with you know, the NSSF,the big National Sports Shooting Federation, the
people that put on the shots Show, the people that represent gun the gun
industry in Congress and lobbying and allthat stuff they send out they send out
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monthly or bi weekly or anytime somethinghappens in the gun world, they send
us emails to updates. And uhso last year in the country, I
think they said one hundred and seventyfour gun gun stores were closed by the
ATF and so far this year fiftyfour. Scary and it's a lot of
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it. A lot of it hasto do with politics and the current the
current administration. It has been onthe President has been on national television and
said I'm I'm shutting down these gunpeople. And when you get that kind
of direction from the top, andyou get it pushed down through the bottom,
and we have to deal with everylevel in between, and we can
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we think we're we think we're goodon everything. And somebody read a report
three three runs up the three rungsup the ladder and said, well,
you had the serial number is ABCone two three four five and it should
have been ABC one two three foursix because you misread the number. So
and they say that they will theypull your license for an egregious, an
egregious violation. Well, I know, I don't think it's going to happen
(31:48):
either, but it doesn't relieve mystress any Well, and here's some things,
and I can tell you that withfederal government, we might hear back
from this in three years because itmight take a while, because I can
tell you if you do something toviolate certain laws and the federally, it
might take a minute or two toget back to you before you find out
what you're fine is. Yeah,yeah, yeah, it's just then then
(32:10):
you got to hurry up and dothat like right here, right now.
Yeah, speaking of politics, andwhat would you say, we don't talk
politics on this, but youre talkingabout politicians and crooked people and whatn't y'all
followed any of this stuff? Whyabout several people's faces just pop into my
head, right, then, No, I tried were not at the federal
level either, To be honest withyou, Fred, No, I tried
(32:32):
not to follow any of this stuff. Well, you know, and I'm
looking I'm looking at it from thejuris, from my standpoint as a lawyer.
Yeah, law enforcement officers, theythey A good law enforcement officer despises
most that crooked law enforce Absolutely,yeah, absolutely, that's the worst thing
in the world to a good lawenforcements. All right. The same hole
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is true with lawyers. What Isee a lying, crooked lawyer who is
making an appearance on a national stagethat reflects poorly on my profession. And
I got into this profession because Ithought it was honorable, only to find
out that there's some folks that aregiving it a bad name. And Fanny
Willis is doing that as we speak, and laughing about it and laughing about
(33:22):
it, and she's up there perjuringherself like it's going out of style.
She's got others perjuring themselves, otherlawyers. And if I had done half
of what she's done, what's comeout in court so far, I would
and should be disbarred and immediately suspendedpending disbardment and the fact that she's still
(33:44):
able to walk around with a lawlicense to me is offensive. Yeah,
I get it, I absolutely getit. It's unfortunately it's the world we
live in today. It just forher to sit up there and say,
oh, well, I said it, therefore it's true. What how does
that work? I mean, what, Well, because I said because I
(34:08):
said so, because I said so. Yeah, rules for thee and not
for me. That's exactly right.And you know, and then they confront
her, I don't know, didyou see the phone records? Oh yeah,
so she testified. Not only thatthis is something else that struck me,
they're asking one of the I guessher paramour or whoever the dude was,
was having an affair with her.This guy's supposedly a trial lawyer,
(34:30):
so you would think that he wouldclue in when they say, okay,
if we have phone records that sayyou visited her condo more than ten times
in twenty twenty one, Now that'sa pretty specific question. Now that's a
clue, start one, that's that'sa clue. Get Yeah, And I'm
(34:51):
a trial lawyer, and I knowthat, Uh, trial lawyers don't ask
questions of witnesses that they don't alreadyknow the answer, and his a answer
as well. The phone records wouldbe wrong. Okay, that's the whole
I saw you with that woman,I saw you run. Wouldn't me,
Yeah, it wasn't me, defendwasn't me? Wasn't me? You say
(35:13):
it long enough, somebody go,well, maybe it wasn't them, It
wasn't you, And you got thesecommentators are, yeah, it wasn't here,
to make you doubt yourself. Obviously, wouldn't him look at him?
Somebody sent me a picture of theday of a German short haired pointer and
said they found this dog down soand so is it's yours? And I
looked at it and I went myfirst impression was no, that's wait a
(35:36):
minute, where's my dog? Looka look? And okay, well,
obviously until I found her and shewas running around in the woods while I
was doing something on the equipment.Until I saw her again, I was
seriously, I'm going pulling up picturesin the thing, going no, that's
not her, that's not so whatthat's that's that's the wolden't the wasn't me?
Thing? Might work on with me? Wouldn't me? I look,
(36:00):
oka me. I read the tagon the becket wouldn't be must have been
dreaming. I don't know what yousaw, but it wouldn't me. Well,
when they confronted that one, theother lawyer of the partner, with
the text message, where you know? And the question was, you know,
(36:22):
were they having this affair in twentytwenty one And they confronted with the
text message and his answer to thaton the text message was absolutely. And
when they handed him to text,he goes, wouldn't he? He was
dang, oh man, but youknow nothing, nothing's gonna come out all
(36:45):
that, and they're still going toprosecute Trump and there's still gonna be.
This is this is, this iswhat our country has evolved to. And
this is not good for anybody.If good for anybody. If this was
happening in any any other country thatwe did business with, we would have
sanctioned them. Oh yeah, yeah, until y'all get your business straight.
(37:07):
And now we ain't doing no morebusiness. Yeah, I got a question
for y'all since we're here, andit's a it's been a while and wacky
week. My phone ain't been workingright, even though I don't have at
and T does anybody in the roombelieve that solar flares caused the phone outages
with AT and T Robert. I'mon, you're down there. This is
your area of expertise. So whenit comes down to the RF or radio
(37:31):
frequency and the interference, anything caninterfere it. When you get a solar
flare, absolutely it's gonna do it. It's going to cause interference with your
transmission, all right. So nextquestion, follow up question to that,
because I was hoping that's what youwould say. Why one carrier and not
the wrist since they all use thesame hubs, towers and YadA yadas.
(37:52):
The question is is what what onthe back end actually failed? That's the
question. I don't think it wasRF, all right, solflare? Yeah,
So that's so the next question was, let's say that's highly unlikely that
the solar flare caused these specific problems, and there's most more likely the answer
is that they got a ransomwared orhacked or whatever it could have been.
(38:14):
Somebody punched in one keystroke wrong whenever'retrying to program the back end infrastructure,
because there's an entire network that runsthe back end, but we wouldn't call
our infrastructure fragile though if you couldput human air in it, Yeah,
it is incredibly fragile. I meanthe same thing happens when you know,
when Level eight went down a coupleof years ago, somebody made one small
(38:35):
keystroke error and pushed it out toevery switch across their entire network, and
it took down the entire network.It was a couple of years ago.
It was the back end of thelike the back end of the internet for
the US on the East coast.It's not unheard that the biggest solar flares
have been recorded in eighteen sixty.That's great, all right. See,
(38:57):
I got a JD moment going here, and all the telegraph flight, all
the telegraphs, there were people intelegraph offices that got shocked. Some of
them got caught on fire. Soimagine if that at solar flare of that
magnitude happened today's world. Scary.Yeah, I'd be going to Charlie's house,
souse. Everybody I know has beenfreaked out all week about the phone
stuff not working. So oh yeah, when we come back, I want
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to talk a little bit about whatshould we do? How about that sounds
good? How about that? Catchmassa. Yeah, how about that?
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all right, So we all withall the technical difficulties, we simplified things,
and I got Paul and speak tomy speakerphone and he can hear me,
and I can hear him, andy'all can hear what's going on.
So, hey, Paul, howare you today doing? Great? Man?
I tell you what it's uh.It's raining up here today and this
is Friday day for the show.But man, I tell you what we've
been been uh in cabin fever.If we finally went out to go get
(41:35):
some lunch and and I I said, oh, I forgot about the show.
It's text grant and so we're gettingit worked out. So I'm glad
to be talking to you. Heah, buddy, you're in You're in Gunnersville
fish in Lake Gunnersville, right.Yes, we came up came up here
earing the week and got to getup here and do some fishing on this
historic lake. It's fun. ButI tell you, jay d, I'm
just spoiled. I just I'm alreadymissing like sewing old man. I'm just
(41:59):
I just tell you it's beautiful uphere, you know. I like it.
It's notice. Yeah, it ain'tnothing like calm brother, I tell
you what. Uh. I've beenup there to that late one time and
it is absolutely scenically a beautiful placefor sure. And they've they have caught
some there's been some big bass caughtin that place too, from what I
could tell, Yeah, they havebeen. It's been thevice been pretty good
(42:20):
up in water. What colder thanIROs is back home. It's about fifty
two fifty three degrees and we beencatching some bass, been catching quite a
few numbers, and it's kind offigured out. Yesterday I had to catch
some bigger fish. Actually, Isent you a picture of a big old
car that I hooked in the back. We must have thought that thing twenty
five minutes trying to get into theboat. I bet you thought. I
(42:42):
bet you if you you foul hookedthat thing and had to fight him in.
I bet somebody thought they had tiedinto a whale, because those things
pull like crazy. I've accidentally caughthim the time or two now on the
top of the dorsal fin and wherethe hook just went right underneath that man.
I tell you that thing, hewouldn't never come off. It took
about twenty minutes to get him in. Now it looks like it weigh about
(43:04):
twenty pounds for business. Yeah,why are you up there fishing just out
of curiosity? Why aren't you backhere and beautiful? We got a little
tournament we got we're fishing this weekend. Are our real money classic and being
him fish the trail next year,his dad fish, his partner, and
we got a couple of other buddies. We've got a place up here and
we just do this once a year. We go out of town and this
(43:25):
year's happens to be on Guntersville andup here having a good time. It's
more about the fellowship and hopefully wecan catch some fish come this weekend too.
Yeah, buddy, Well, areyou hearing anything from Lake summon Old?
Yeah, yeah, waters are stillthe water's still kind of muddy,
but the water temperature is warmed upinto the upper fifties, low sixties.
The faster are actually moving on thebed. I got some guys getting in
(43:46):
the truck right now. Just butI tell you what it's been, it's
been really good. Well. Igot a report from a good buddy of
mine yesterday afternoon and he said thatsome said that some guys win and put
then at the ninety eight bridge onthe Apple on Applets Cola River at the
ninety eight bridge and fish from thebridge to the bay and caught bass like
(44:09):
every cast you know, just wideopen bass, red fish, trout,
flounder, you name it. Theywere just tearing it up down there with
all this high water. So's it'sthat time of year, man, and
people need to get out and yeah, out and do that. The uh.
Then you know, towards end ofthe month, them shell crackers start
moving up back on the bed andthat happens all three the month of April.
(44:30):
Then after that then the brims startbedging. Make you know, yes,
sir, all right, buddy,Well, thank you for being part
of the showtel folks how they canget ahold of it. If they want
to go fishing, they can reachme at eight five zero two six four
seven five three four, or theycan follow me on Facebook at Captain Paul
tar Fishing. All right, buddy, will all be safe up there and
have a good rest of the weekend. All right, y'all have a great
(44:52):
weekends. So when we left beforethe break then we moved. Its sounded
different because Paul's actually out in theworld. But that wasn't bad. It
wasn't I could understand it. Wegot we were talking about infrastructure and breakdowns,
and I know that was something thatcame up recently. Technology in general,
lenology. You know, we doyou know, EMP protection devices out
(45:16):
of the store here, and youknow, we talk about that type of
stuff, and I was talking.I had this conversation, oddly enough to
say the day was somebody about whatwould you do if communications went down?
Like you know at and T cellphone covers. Everybody freaked out about it,
but what if that was more thanone network. What if it was
(45:36):
all of them? And what ifso? What was your planning to get
your family? What do our familiesknow to do when that happens? Where
do you meet? What do youdo? How do you conduct business?
I mean, there's a lot ofthings to think about. Uh yeah,
we get you know, anytime thatthere is just the most minor in today's
world, the most minor network interruptionbecause of everything's tied into the end Internet
(46:00):
now, it can be anything fromjust an annoyance to a serious, serious
issue, you know. And Ihad somebody ask me the same thing.
What if the cell phone's going Andthere's a bunch of apocalypse movies out and
about right now that just deal withor that talk about that. That's the
setting of the movie. Is communicationssystems being going down? There's two or
(46:22):
three movies out that been readed recentlyabout that, and it's a it is
a genuine problem in today's world andthe dependency that we have on on devices.
And the only thing I can tellpeople is have a plan, a
pre predesignated place to meet your family, the people that you want in your
circle when things get bad, ifthey get bad. And the other question
(46:45):
is, well, how do youknow, Well, you're just gonna have
to kind of use your best judgment, and it's uh, you know,
I think that having a shortwave radioemergency broadcast system radio at the house is
probably a good thing. The technologythat those run off of or is not
(47:05):
nearly as complicated as the Internet andthe wants to do. They run on
They don't run off satellites, no, uh they some of them are linked
to satellite, but they are groundbased towers and short wave radio can go
from one radio to the other.So I actually personally keep a I've got
a handheld radio that I bought onthe Internet that is programmable frequencies. Everything
(47:30):
in the range from uh VHF.VHF is kind of the low end of
the band, very high frequency,and then they have ultra high frequency UHF.
What about the citizens band? Whatis that citizen CB is is on
the VHF scale, if I'm notmistaken. But this radio device that I
(47:53):
have, it wasn't expensive. It'sgot a it's got rechargeable or you can
use double A batteries in it.You can that comes with a rechargeable battery,
but it's also you can put adouble a's into a pack and you
can type in the frequency that youwant to talk on all the way up
into the eight hundred megahertz van andthere's a bunch of there's a bunch of
(48:14):
lit's there. They're not derelict towers. There's a bunch of towers out there
with repeaters on them that that lawenforcement keeps operating. They keep in the
operational mode in case the system theyhave now fails. So it's my understanding
that there's a lot of repeater towersout there, and if you can hit
that tower, you're sending it toanother tower. They're sending it to another
(48:36):
tower, so it extends your RINGK. So what you're talking about, I
think here in Florida is called sartinet. That's a Ham radio. If you
remember back in the day, whenyou're driving down the road, every couple
of miles you see a little pullstation for emergency. This is predated of
cell phones. Those pull stations wouldrun off of that sarnet which would talk
to back to doh or DOT andthey'd be able to transport somebody out to
(48:58):
help you. Nowadays, the Hamradio system or the Ham radio community actually
uses that sarnet for day to daycommunications as well as when we go into
an emergency broadcast or emergency situation.They will actually use that to communicate across
the state for hurricanes, outages,stuff like that. So when you're talking
(49:20):
back to the at and t outage, surprisingly within about an hour you saw
a massive uptick in the amount ofboth UHF as well as VHF broadcasting on
the HAMM radio bands, which againyou have to be licensed to do CB
radios. They're a citizen band.There is no license for those. They
can have those and communicate off ofthose as well. Those are usually point
(49:40):
to point so at radio to radio. Ham radio can do it two ways.
You can go either radio to radio. If it's HF, you usually
are bouncing it off of the atmosphereto bring it down on a wide area.
The other alternative is like you're sayingthrough sarnet or through a standalone repeater
that will take a little handy talkwhich gives you two to three mile range
(50:02):
to somewhere of fifty miles sometimes dependingon the output of that actual repeater.
So, but all of those kindsof things require you know, Ham radio
license. There's Ham radio license foruse in times when there is when when
can stop you, when somebody cancan enforce the law. You'd actually be
surprised even nowadays with all with thefeting, all of the FCC, all
(50:25):
of them. They actually have podsif you will, that sit there and
actually watch and triangulate radio broadcasts.So talking about yeah, but they ain't
coming. The world will once aworld comes back up and they get that
information, they will come after you. There was actually the poke pocalyptic post
(50:46):
apocalypse post apocalyptic period. That's goingto be their biggest concern. I thought
you just say say don't poke thebear, and that's what I was going
to say. That was Yeah.Now with that with that said, also
you've also got other things like youknow, radio base that will actually go
over the internet as well. Soit's traditional radio that's broadcasting digitally over the
end. So is it a goodidea to get a handheld CB and hand
(51:09):
it at your family? Mean?Is that depends on your situation and how
far you're looking to cow for cYeah. CB ain't across town for the
most part when you start. It'sline of sight. So anytime you have
buildings and trees and physical barriers,Yeah, that ain't gonna work. Too
good. Yeah, it's gonna,it's gonna. It's going to be incumbent
(51:30):
upon everyone to be able to gethome. That the thing should be is
my plan? What is my plan? What is my family plan? What
are they carrying in their vehicles?Are on the person that will help them
get home? And you know,maybe next show we talk a little bit
about what is in our bail outbag? What is in our vehicle?
Quit running and I have to getinto the house. What do I need?
Where do you find out what's inIf I'd be afraid that
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