Wisdom doesn't come from sermons – it comes from scrapes, burns, and learning on our feet. Today's special birthday episode features an impromptu conversation with a guest celebrating 63 years of life lessons acquired the hard way.
Our birthday guest offers a refreshingly counterintuitive perspective on gaining wisdom: "Get out and do it and find out what's right and wrong, instead of having someone tell you." This philosophy stands in stark contrast to our modern information landscape where everyone from politicians to social media personalities dispenses advice without the credentials of lived experience. The conversation suggests that genuine understanding comes not from following instructions but from feeling the consequences of our choices firsthand.
The discussion takes an unexpected turn toward everyday frustrations that reveal deeper societal issues. Our guest's passionate plea for proper parking etiquette highlights how individual actions affect community spaces. Those half-parked vehicles creating hazards for pedestrians and blocking other drivers become a metaphor for consideration in shared environments. This segment resonates with listeners who recognize how small courtesies contribute to functional public spaces.
Personal stories dominate the latter half of our conversation, with nostalgic recollections of memorable birthdays. From an 18th birthday oyster roast that involved sneaking out while grounded to adventures with fake IDs at drive-thru liquor stores, these anecdotes capture universal coming-of-age experiences. The humorous encounter with a clerk who finally realized he'd been serving an underage customer for years perfectly encapsulates the audacity of youth. These birthday memories serve as perfect time capsules that mark not just aging but personal development.
What's your most memorable birthday? Share your stories with us and join the conversation about how celebrations become milestones in our life journeys!
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Episode Transcript
Well, hello, good morning, happy Friday.
We made it to the weekend.
Welcome, welcome.
And welcome to the gent whowill be a special guest this
morning on the podcast.
Normally we have our ownpodcast come out every Sunday
morning called Brute Awakening,but today is his birthday and I
(00:22):
took off of work, so I am athome.
So here you go, happy birthday.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Good morning, happy birthday to me.
Happy birthday to me, yes it'smy birthday Glorious day.
Do you feel any older?
No, uh-oh, I don't.
I feel like it's just anotherday, except I got served coffee
(00:48):
in bed, yeah you're gonna getbreakfast too?
Speaker 1 (00:49):
oh well, all right, then I like that.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I'm gonna cater to all, to you this morning.
Yeah, well, you know mybreakfast consists of a piece of
toast, so, but you know what?
I'm not gonna be making it.
So I'm gonna love every minuteof it.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Thank you, my dear, I appreciate it well, awesome,
well, any kind of words ofwisdom you would like to impart
to the world for being anotheryear older and wiser go out and
support your local bulldogs, godog sick and woof, woo, woof,
woof.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Okay, you know.
As far as wisdom goes, I thinkpart of wisdom.
People need to get out and doand learn, instead of having
(01:48):
people preach to them about whatthey need to do.
I think we get too much of youknow, all the government and
everybody over here and left andright telling you this is the
way you do it.
This is the way you do it.
When, in essence, if you go outand do something and it burns
you, you know, yeah, you knowthat's not to do that again, but
(02:09):
all the people just sittingthere and preaching moan about
you know this is the way yougotta do it, this way, when they
really have no experience ontelling you how to do it.
So my experience and my wisdomwould say get out and go do it
and find out what's right andwrong, instead of having someone
tell you what's right and wrongand pull up in the parking
space all the way.
That too.
That too, you know, that's oneof my pet peeves.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
That seems like a new thing lately.
It is?
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I think it is.
You know, one of my pet peeveslately is pulling into the
parking lot of the grocery storeand people halfway in their
parking space, halfway in theirparking space, and you've got to
delicately negotiate your waythrough the lanes of traffic
into.
You know, not only are youdoing it, but now you know
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people can walk out directlyinto the middle of the traffic
if it's a big car, because theycan't see around the car,
because the car's sticking toofar out into the lane.
So it's a danger.
But it seems like and you know,at first I thought I was the
only one that was getting- that.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Also, when the car next to them wants to back out
and turn, you can't because theyare.
So.
Not only it, but you can't turnin time because the other car
beside you is out.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
His ass is out in the aisle, yeah, and you can't turn
to get out of your parkingplace, exactly right, and, like
I said, I thought I was one ofthe only.
You know that was.
I was the only one pissed offabout this, but I pulled into
space.
The other pulled into the lotthe other day and there was a
lady out outside her caractually taking pictures of
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another car.
That was, you know, not evenhalfway into it.
It was awful.
But yeah, that would be my nextpiece of advice to 63.
Use your whole damn parkingspace.
All right, yes, it's going tobe a good day.
Okay, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Well, I don't know what else is going on.
I haven't really paid attentionto the news.
I don't know.
If you want to talk about thenews.
What is your?
How about this?
I'm going to put you on thespot.
Okay, what's your mostmemorable birthday?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Oh Lord From the past , oh good God I know I put you
on the spot.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Should I put it on pause and let you think, yeah,
all, okay, we had to hunt forsomething.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
I would probably have to hunt for something too.
When I turned 18, I had anoyster roast at my house.
Okay, now here's the funny partabout that I had gotten in
trouble and was grounded.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
You're going to share what you got in trouble for no.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
And I was not to leave the house, so I had, you
know, a bunch of friends thatcame over and my you know, my
parents were, yeah, it's your18th birthday, you know we're
not gonna let that pass, and so,you know, had an oyster roast
in there.
But you know this, this is whenI learned that I just I was,
(05:06):
you know, yeah, what a what aperson I was.
Well, you know, we needed, weneeded ice for the beer, so it's
like, well, so we, I got abuddy and your parents let you
drink beer.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
I was 18 years old.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
18 years old was the age was it?
Speaker 1 (05:23):
I, yeah, I thought it was 21.
No, in.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Georgia when I grew up 18.
Hell, I was going to the barswhen I was 15 with a fake ID.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Oh, my God Shh.
I mean, you know, move on,continue your story.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
I'll tell you the rest of that story too.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
No, we can't.
We've got to keep this short,okay, ten minutes or under.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Oh well, this will be ten minutes or under, Anyway.
So I hop in the car and we goup to this hotel that we know
close to where we live and raidthe ice bin there and get a
bunch of ice and bring it back,and of course my parents were
like where the hell were you?
I was just going to get someget in trouble on my 18th
birthday.
So you know, we had an oysterroast.
(06:03):
I'm grounded, I didn't care, Ileft anyway to go get ice to
drink beer with on my 18thbirthday.
You know, I remember that forsome reason, I remember that I
was okay.
Yeah, what a life.
I was getting ready to leave atthat point.
(06:26):
No, but I'll tell you the shortstory of being 18 with a fake
ID.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
You mean 15?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Being 18 when I had a fake ID.
After having a fake ID for thatmany years, all right, pulled
into the liquor store.
One night after I'd pulled wehad drive-thru liquor stores
Pulled to the drive-thru liquorstore to get a bottle to go out.
That night the guy, for somereason, carded me.
He said can I get an ID?
And I was like yeah, because Ijust turned 18 and I had my
(06:54):
driver's license.
I had a driver.
He looked at me.
He goes, you just turned 18?
I said yes, sir, he goes.
I've been serving you for threeyears.
I said yes, sir, he goes, becareful.
Tonight I was like thanks.
So that was kind of funny.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Very good, that's my whole story, all right, so you
didn't have to use your fake IDanymore.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Exactly I could use.
You were using your real ID bythen, but I never used my fake
ID with him because he'd beenselling me for three.
But if I remember correctly, Iwas on a, I was dressed in a
suit and I was going out on adate and I was pulling into the
liquor store and you know, ofcourse they're way mad.
It's like prom night orsomething and you're coming to
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get liquor.
You got to be underage.
I'm like, well, no, I'm not,and that was when he, that's
when it hit him.
He's like son of a bitch.
I've been serving you for threeyears.
Yes, sir, you have well, have agood night and be careful.
Yes, sir, I will.
So anyway, that was why allright well that's funny hope you
have a great day.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
I'm gonna try to make it a great day for you anyway
and the nfl draft is on.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
so if anybody has the notion to watch that, that's
entertaining.
If you're a big football fanand I'm not a huge NFL fan, but
I do like to see where all thecollege players are going and
that's been entertaining so far.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Awesome.
So I'm going to leave you withmy question of the day, which
I've already asked what is yourmost memorable birthday?
That is the question of the day.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Thank you for listening you didn't even tell
them how old I was.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Oh, what you already did, I think yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
See, I don't even remember.
I must be 58.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
63.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
No dogs.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
All right, love y'all , bye.
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