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When I played Little League baseball that it started at the beginning of February and we practiced in you know, thirty and forty degree weather, trying to play baseball, which you don't get a real fiel because now people are playing in jackets, you know, which is just crazy and every time every time they bat they scream, hey, it hurts my.

Hands and oh yeah.

So anyway, but of course, now you know where we live, which is an odd new culture phenomenon, trying to get Little league baseball over before school is out.

Again, I go back to what I talked about last hour.

Was it just that when we were small where we in the areas we grew up in that nobody had money to go on vacation, so trying to end for summer started was not even a point.

I remember we played baseball on spring break because nobody was going anywhere.

I mean, you know this thing of hey man, we're gona get playing spring break.

Everybody's going out.

There was no concept of that when we were kids, you know.

But but anyway, I remember us getting over with a little league and then you would have all stars, and all Stars would practice over the fourth of July weekend, and then you would have a tournament right after that, maybe.

Mid July, absolutely right.

But the season went on to you know, at least the third week in June.

I would say, yeah, I mean we we actually started baseball.

And where it comes in content when it when it was baseball season.

I mean, when you're starting the little league before the major league pitchers and catchers report there's a problem.

But anyway, now it's over with, like by the end of mine.

That's not what I'm gonna see.

The high schools problem.

They got to do it before school, but lead But anyway, so let me guard baby.

But I want to land on something today now.

For the everything had parted on it a r marking recreation.

And I know when you look at when you look at us, you know we've not actually ever been slaves to fashion.

And for the life of me, I never understand fashion, because what is the authority who declares this is now the look, and all must follow who is this person and where where does this happen?

Well, in base you know baseball players, you know, and I am uniform sensitive.

I like a nice looking uniform at all levels.

I don't care if you're playing t ball.

I wants you uniform to look right.

It drives me crazy for the for the uniform to be to be tampered with.

Well, you play as good as you look.

Yeah, the baseball players have gone into this, this this thing about their hats.

Okay, now, when we play baseball, it was the standard baseball hat with a slot bend to the to the bill the way I still wear it because I'm a man.

I'm forty Okay, come after me.

Okay, come after me.

I'm a man, I'm forty so so so I still wear the hat, which to me was was baseball's finest moment.

Was the slot tilt in the bill.

Yep, and a nice good looking hat come down, you know about over your eyebrows, and that's where it needed to be.

Well, then we went into the we're gonna bend it too far.

We've looked like a piece of pipe.

We bent it like you have a pipe sticking out like you have a horn like coming out of.

Your side down.

I called that the college boy be right, and they went through.

You remember frat boy that that was an intern he you know his was his was rolled up to the point like you It looked like a uh a paper type er towel holder that just had a cut in the bottom of it sticking off his hair.

So he wouldn't be seen without that hat.

It didn't matter that it looked like it had been drug behind the truck.

Then that was it.

Then the next stage was we keep that that that over tilt and now it needs to be as nasty as it can be.

We want our hat to have stains on it, have its own zip.

We want it to be like rough, look like you would buy like you would buy rough furniture.

I've seen kids that they had get a brand new hat and rub it on the concrete.

We wanted to be scuffed up again.

I thought that was stupid.

Have a good have a uniform looking nice.

You want to practice, well you know who you I don't bring a hat on the game field.

You know who brought that on rick?

That was the people who bought stonewashed jeans.

Yes, we had to wear our jeans out before we.

Could buy you remember this too.

And then it got into furniture.

Go find furniture that looks old.

Yeah, you're hired to me, all right.

So now I've come through those hoping and praying that as cycles always go that in baseball, we would return to what I call the greatest look, the slight tilt to the bill, and your hat looks neat and it looks normal.

It looks a normal hat.

But oh no, now, and I don't know who started it.

These and I saw them at the ballpark last night as I was coaching the Rick and Bubba Manz.

They're wearing their hat and what I call a duck bill, and it's you've seen it even the college.

It is a They don't bend it at all.

It's like you get it out of the box and put it on and you want it to look like a non broken I thought a lot.

You know what I told one of them last night, were you can wear a non broken in glove.

So I guess you don't break your glove in either.

You're gonna you're gonna be able to.

Open it bother you.

Oh straight, you know why, because let me let all of you know something.

It looks stupid.

You're the kids think it looks cool.

And I'll tell you where I started it.

The kids are wrong, they're kids.

I'm just telling you what they're thinking.

Uh.

It started with the college baseball.

Okay, these kids see what the college guys are doing.

Then the high school guys do what the college guys do, and then the youth league does what the do We want the youth league to become a bunch of drunkards too like college kids.

No, I'm just talking about hats.

They look at their hats and then where you build hat and drink down't know what you've seen major league baseball they're even doing.

So they want them on steroids.

You're right, So, yes, so you haven't seen this.

I haven't seen it at the major league level.

That entertennis.

I was trying to figure out where are they emulating, and he said.

College, I've seen it in college.

You know that.

Have you seen the look I'm talking about?

I know exactly what you're doing.

It looks it looks you know, you think, bless his heart, he didn't have time to break his hand.

Well, let me tell you.

And I don't know where the line is on the is it by the way, Ryan Greenwood joins, is it happening in softball?

Because you have all.

Girls, Well you got to think it's soft others there's a lot of no hats, a lot of game faces and advisors.

What's the game foul?

You know things that were on their face?

Yeah, what's her?

His oldest daughter needed what she's wearing now.

But and then you got visors, so you don't see is that cats can coming today?

Uh so far?

So good?

Okay, good?

Well you know what you learn, uh so so?

And it's not an issue in softball.

Have you seen the look I'm talking about?

I will tell you I've seen it, but only on hip hop star.

Yeah, I know, I started it Greg.

It looked so you have friends and in the g unit started my my.

Son, your your son, Taylor doing it.

No, lady, let me tell you about tight and now it's all him.

He keeps his bill bent.

He also wears his socks up high.

He pants to his knees.

I say, I was you don't like the loose pants?

Took in the pants under your cleak like you're wearing little footy uh pajamas.

Baby, I'll tell you what is Let me just tell you right now.

It drives me crazy because he's got a little hole punch in the bottom of it.

Yeah, and you let him do it.

I know your crutch, your straddles, like at your knees.

You know what it looks like.

He's wearing skirt pants.

Yeah, you're right, you're right.

The other day, let me just tell you right now that you can get a flat bill.

Okay, hat, They look so stupid, the sidewinders.

We don't have flat bills, but all the kids.

There's even a kid on our team that tried to iron his flat Okay, now, hold on, listen.

The other day, somebody the other day, Tyler.

Throws his hat up on on the the dashboard.

He goes, I can't get it flat, you know, like he's frustrated.

Players wear the flat bill a couple, but a lot of teams do.

Our team.

There's a few, but it's not really press I want to tell you this, but it is very he says.

It does feel when you wear it looks stupid.

You know what, biggest mind, rick, you can't wear it.

What I hate is wearing a hat and it presses down on you.

Hate.

There's so much curve to get around here.

It has to get But here's the thing, guys, y'all not hearing me.

Last night, we're sitting.

I'm not gonna let the little guys do it.

My kids will These kids start coming on the field that we're in the older leagues, and some of them travel ball and they had and they had the fight.

And I looked at him.

I said, hey, son, I want you to know this from a grown man.

You look stupid.

Rick.

And I said, give me, you said to another kid.

I did.

I said, give me the hat and let me And I told him, I said, look look at you, dad, and look at me.

Our hat looks outstanding.

I mean that our hat is like we like it.

Do you remember, make your hat look like this?

We look so much better than you in our hat.

Right now, he's walking around the park.

I dog every kid that has one, Rick, But I said, I said you had look.

I said, what's wrong you had?

What's wrong?

You had?

Looks stupid?

They end up with him, Rick, what it is?

Every you know what they look like?

You remember everybody's when they're their grandad would show up with that big foam hat and his bill wouldn't be and we all made fun of him.

That's the look, man, how can that be mine?

Make fun of everybody's pop holl with that straight bill, not listen, I am begging based a flat It looks just a stupid I'm begging baseball.

I'm begging you.

Let's return to the classic hat.

Let's get our leggings back on, Let's get our pants tight.

No, let's let's get them up to our neatna happen.

Right now we have baseball players.

They're playing baseball and duck bill hats and pajamas.

Yeah, it's ridiculous.

If you had walked on the field in that when I was playing, you would have been laughed out of.

The laughed out of the complete port.

I speak.

That's real, catch you it is and uh, this comes out of Shelby County, Alabama, part of the Shelby County Reporter.

I think it's an insert.

And it's called I speak, and it's very looks really good, very professionally done.

And there is a picture of bub in this holding a shotgun, standing on a tennis court with a rick and bubble hunting hat on.

I think the caption should have been are you sure that ball was out?

That would have been good U and it says it was.

A lot of fun doing that.

Shoot, now we got some strange Look when you go in with a twelve gage over your shoulder to a tennis Well, the.

First line telling me about it, I think I did tell y'all.

The first line of the of the article really says it.

Oh, and it really couldn't make me proud of it just started the I mean I cannot okay.

The name of the article is called Game Set Bubba.

And you pay attention could eat reading the email.

It is written by Austin Phillips, who, of course has secured his.

Place in Ricky Bubba history.

Yes, and listen to the opening line and see how proud I am.

The face of tennis in the state of Alabama is a man simply known as Bubba.

I really don't have to read anymore.

I mean that, that's really all I have to have.

That's what you call a demographic stretcher, isn't it.

Bill Bubba Bussy of the famed Rick and Bubba Show.

And then it mentions the local Birmingham affiliate w z Z King doesn't look like your typical tennis fanatic, but the man who is one half of the self proclaimed sexiest fat man alive has helped take tennis to another level.

Bubba, who lives in North Shelby, first picked up a racket three years ago when he and his wife Betty were on anniversary vacation on the Gulf Coast.

With a nice tennis court adjoining their hotel, the couple decided to give the game a try.

She couldn't even hit the ball back at me, Bubba said of Betty.

After a few misses, she said, this is embarrassing.

Not the first time Betty's ever said that in the marriage to Bubba.

No, sure, so Betty decided to start taking lessons.

After a few months, Betty started playing competitively, even playing in several state tournaments.

When Bubba realized he was going to be left behind, he no, I'm sorry to say that, and that's when Bubba's competitive spirit began calling him to the court.

I thought this may be something I get used to bring.

Being in my mid forties, there's not much I can do, Bubba said, But like a lot of things, I got into it.

Because of my wife.

And we can all say that when bubb Att mince while Bubba at mints, he's not the best player.

He has played on two state tennis championship teams.

He even lost forty pounds in his first year, and I do emphasize first year right correct on the court, and lowered his cholesterol from two forty.

To one twenty.

Look, I got the paperwork.

No, there's no question you did.

It's shocking, right, I mean my blood must have been like gravy.

Right, No, not too far me.

I mean that that's high, but I've seen much higher.

But is exceptional some good drugs right.

Now, that'll only do about fifteen to twenty percent.

That's right.

The rest of it came directly from tennis.

Just because just because he's taking up the white collar sport and shed some pounds.

Don't expect the outdoorsman and pick up truck driver to go from the sexiest fatman alive to the sexiest skinny man alive.

Said, I'm not going to be losing.

That moniker anytime soon, said Baba, Amen to that friend, I'm not going to He's okay.

And then Anne Ethridge, who is the Pelham Racket Club head professional, said Bubba has now only built a reputation for tennis in the state, but he has also helped build a greater reputation for the Racket Club.

He's not just the face of Tennant now, he's the face of that Racket Club.

He is.

He's just a great ambassador for tennis all around the world.

And who said that all of us.

He just has a love of the game.

And I would take the word love out there and replace it with obsession if I was writing the article correct.

Although Bubba just picked up the game three years ago, Oh it seems so much longer now, it does.

He has he has had much of an impact off the court as he's had on it.

In November of two thousand and eight, Bubba helped play a vital role in bringing the Davis Cup Qualifier to the Birmingham Jefferson Convention Complex.

The qualifier was held in March two thousand and nine to sold out crowds and rave reviews.

Gene Holman, Bubba's assistant.

Blest Ba's assistant.

The executive director for the Alabama Sports Foundation, said when Bubba first spoke to him about the possible bility of bringing professional tennis to the Birmingham area, he didn't know if Bubba was serious or not.

I did think initially that it was a joke, Jean said, you would not think by looking at him that he would love tennis.

I did not fully appreciate his passion for the.

Game now I know.

Oh does he ever know?

Hallmond said, because of the tremendous response to the Davis Cup qualifier, the city has begun talks to bring the Fed Cup, which, by the way, that's in house, right, that's in the barn.

Yeah, the women's equivalent to the Davis Cup is coming in June.

It's actually gonna be April.

Yeah.

Uh, Bubba know at the time.

Bubba will be a big part of that recruiting process as well.

Hallman said, I just know the strength he brings.

To the table.

Oh, boy boy, and a Bubba also helped.

He's still stunned.

Yeah, Bubba also, Oh, I'm hearing it.

Bubba also helped bring the Brian Brothers Pelham Challenge to the Pelham Civic Complex in December of two thousand and nine, the first ever tennis match to be held at that complex.

I've often said the Birmingham area could be the new tennis capital of the world, Bubba said, of the world.

Bubba said that.

And no, he's not kidding.

The funny man in the morning pulls no punches when talking about bringing professional tennis events to Birmingham, just like the Professional Golf Association did when it brought the PGA Championship to Shoal Creek in eighty four and ninety.

Tennis is growing kind of like golf grew in the eighties.

Bubba said, it's set to explode.

You give the title again.

Game.

I feel like I'm reading Green Eggs and ham again.

Game set, Bubba games.

The first line should should should be should be engraved in our hearts today the face of tennis.

What you heard right here in the state of Alabama is a man simply known as Bubba.

As Bubba great article who actually wrote the article Austin Phillips, Austin, it's all on to get the names right.

And I got to tell you something.

You know what I did to that?

Well said, oh sure, a great picture.

They did a good job.

And you know they with you know, the new digital world.

I mean, we shot that in the middle of the day, twelve noon, and they you know, they made it look like it was early in the morning.

It's really cool.

Described the picture.

For those that don't don't.

Know, well, I'm standing on a tennis court in front of the net with tennis balls all over the ground, and I'm dressed somewhat in tennis clothes, somewhat in hunting clothes, have a hunting rick and Bubba hunting hat on, and I'm holding a twelve gage shotgun with an angry.

Look, very angry look tennis clothing.

The first is precious, yep, I mean it was.

You can't write that, sack.

I couldn't write that article.

We didn't know it was out yet.

Yeah.

We had a lady call the show last week and mentioned it, and so that there's our first cop yet.

We congratulations both thank you or should I say face at tennis, thank you?

Thank you Bubba game on set, Bubba the face.

I mean, how many people that have given a lot to tennis, over a lot are looking at that article on Wow, it's all about how you can do it, you know what.

They can sit there and keep doing it and still be unknown.

They can go to face.

Bubba ricking Bubba.

Massachusetts.

I can't say that.

It's such a.

Hard state, you know the Yeah, I can't.

I can't say it anything, you know, how to just somebody who lives there told me one time how they say it.

They do say it different than I'm sure, but I say Massachusetts.

I.

Say Massa, and then I just didn I just see what it can I just say you mass I say Massa, and then I just see what happened.

I think that that when Connecticut and all went to that, that was a good move for them on the marketing.

Just say you gone or you mass because nobody could say the rest of Connecticut speed.

He's trying for where Sam can say it about huh, y'all didn't go right in class yet?

First you gotta type it in so Sam can say that's.

The hard part.

M I S S I S S I P P I.

Okay, you didn't have little Massachusetts?

Was that again?

Massachusetts?

Massachusetts?

Massachusetts.

I'm closer than.

Listen Massachusetts.

Listen to the two listen for the speed.

I mean you're saying that.

Look around this room with the possibility of Helmsey being he's new.

I don't know his history yet like I need to, but I'm looking at you, you, you and me.

Every one of us was in slow Claft, Massachusetts, okay, And I mean this is a show being done by four people.

So he spent some time in slow It was like one semester because I didn't pay the drinking.

I was just at the slow table one time.

I didn't go to that class.

Yeah, that's by the way.

I was in the room today.

We used to have in class in fifth grade.

We had the top seven, we had everybody else, and we had the slow table.

That's right.

And you did not want to get.

On that sta Do you know that the teacher would make me in the brim closet and go over words.

Are you.

Going over that?

I will?

So I dominated that class though I was devileditor.

Oh yeah, you met your girlfriend there.

I remember.

I remember the first because there was no political correctness when we were in school.

No, no, we were there because we were lazy.

You know what.

It was all about out come.

We just wouldn't do the word matter of fact.

Matter of fact.

My kids had have a speech about that yesterday from my mother.

The one thing you don't want is for your kids to come home from school and your your mother actually be there.

They were going over their tests and the grades they made, and she had got to going on on on the grades I made.

She said, I used to take you dad's report card, I just throw it across the room.

I'm not looking at that.

And uh and I was like mom, you know, and so uh and and and one of the things about that was the first time I saw the first just inkling and Greg you may remember this.

I think it was Miss Hyde's class and and they they did the same thing you're talking about, but they did it by Peanuts characters.

Yeah, yeah, you were you were Woodstock, you were Charlie Brown, or you were Sneepings if he was like the top, yeah yeah, or maybe what what Stot was the top?

Charlie Brown was the middle and Snoopy was a slow table and that was a big pen about this.

Can't even make it?

How about when you land on the slow table and you go, I know, I can beat this, you know what I mean?

You know I kind of dug get that because I was like Greg, you know, suddenly I was I was like brilliant.

Yeah, the man people were looking at you.

French fishing.

Yeah, well, well the great Massachusetts.

Yeah.

And like when I had to meet with the person after school, you know, because I I went I went too far with my campaign and why I was making bad on long Division.

I went too far with it because I was trying not to get in trouble.

I ended up with like a with like a with like some kind of helper that was just to be helping me.

And I really could figure it out.

I just was lazy and I wasn't paying attention.

They sound, Oh, I'm like, wow, this is real.

But let me tell you the great thing and Bill Costs we said it best.

The great thing about slow class was that they give you a slow team.

That's Rick at Rick and Baba dot com.

So the next thing you know, man, you're you're owning it.

They're not gonna understand.

You know.

The next thing, you know, you're owning it.

Right.

You don't want to leave right because you can start doing better.

You're out.

And sometimes the slow table got a different test and everybody else.

Look, I got a naughty and I remember our tests had big, easy to read five.

Date line.

Switzerland, voters in the heart of the Swiss Alps on Sunday pass legislation banning naked hiking.

You know what, I think this may be a good this may be a good call.

After dozens of mostly German nudists started rambling through their picturesque region by show of hands of the citizens of the tiny state uh.

They voted overwhelmingly at their traditional open air Annual Assembly Assembly to impose a two one hundred Swiss frank about one hundred and seventy six dollars fine on any violators.

Only a scattering of people on Sunday opposed the ban on the back to nature activity that took off last autumn when naked hikers primarily Germany.

What is it?

Why do they keep emphasizing his primarily German?

Germans was the only one.

They started showing up in eastern Switzerland.

I would like to object to the band on the nude hiking double time.

I put a fight to hike with no pints.

The local government recommended the band after citizens objected to encountering walkers wearing nothing but hiking boots and socks.

That's funny.

This is the same naked scot diving people.

You know about them, same bunch.

The reactions, I probably.

The reactions of the population have shown that such appearances over a large area are perceived as thoroughly disturbing and irritating.

You seem to be following somebody going up a ridge.

Oh well, hello friend, Hey.

I don't know.

I don't know that.

I don't want them behind me.

They must not have leight have briars.

Let me know when you get to the top.

I'll come up there.

Yeah.

I started to say, there's so many there's so many problems with this activity.

Why are you not following me?

I'm going up the incline.

A similar legal move is expected in the neighboring state or providence, with legislation being prepared against this shameless behavior.

Is the quotation.

German websites promote the activity and describe it as a special experience of nature, free and health.

I would like to get back to the way we used to be in nature, except for the hiking boots.

Imagine the chiggers.

Oh, oh my goodness.

They must not have red bugs.

Honja should not have slept in the briars.

I mean, you know, really, what they're saying is we want to get back to nature, but not the boots.

Yes, we want to keep.

Keeping It's just it's just like the whalers that wanted to get back out whale with fears.

But they all had on Nike shoes and they and they were driving in Toyota four runners out to the beach to get back to nature.

I'm like that, ain't that.

Ain't getting back to nature.

I want to get to Natchez.

I came into the world except for the hiking boots.

I want to keep the boots now.

The region in Switzerland has been regarded as a favorite for the nudist with trails because most of them are off the beaten path.

The German side also promotes walks in Germany, uh and France, where public nudity has roots going back to the eighteenth century through a movement that has that has come to be called free body culture.

Let me tell you something, I have not seen one of these people.

That's a whole new definition to.

Thankfully, but I haven't seen one of these people.

We all know.

Any time you hear a story about nudists, have you ever noticed.

The overwhelming majority of them are people you really wouldn't want.

To see neaked either.

Right, It's like, if you got the body for it, you can almost understand, Yeah, you're.

Not gonna run into Cindy Crawford up there.

Trust me, you know your city.

I'm telling you.

The guy that they call Big Tommy.

Even the bears are going this is offensive, right, and it's sixty five year old aunts with him.

It's never out in the woods.

Out in the woods, you always run into the unexpected.

Okay, now, I mean there's times that you're gonna have to detour, you're gonna have rock slides, you're gonna have to climb, you're gonna have to do this, You're gonna have to do that, and uh, you know, I mean I don't want to be out there with no pants.

I mean, you know what I mean.

There's just too many stick and poker.

There's one thing that moves us ahead of the animals is the fact that we've had the sense enough to put pants on.

Sure, Sure, you go down a steep in line.

You know how your feet go out money, you slide on your butt to the bottom.

I know nobody wants to slide into second with no pants on.

No, No, I don't even them playing shorts, the softball girls on.

How they do that much less naked.

That's that's crazy.

Can you imagine that?

Primarily Germany?

Yeah, you know they're not hicking.

But I always go back to that first person who took his clothes off and said let's go hiking, you know, I mean, it was that first guy was he hot?

I looked for you what happened?

He got three?

You know, I was pretty good.

I enjoyed.

I enjoy the trip.

When we go to the Swiss house, here's what I'm considering.

I'm thinking of taking off my pints.

And then the part it was like you know what, seriously we climbed them ountain.

Now will warn you get a little cold to how you go up?

Yeah?

I mean.

You know the thing to think about this when you go out and you go hockey in the woods, you have to plan for a wide variety of temperatures, right, I mean in the morning it could be very cool, so now it could be coo, could be steaming in the middle of the day.

I mean it's just.

I just you're covered then obviously they're okay in the hot are you?

And where do you carry your supplies at?

I mean where where?

You don't want to know that GPS at Hans.

Because you get my compass please, no, no, thank you.

We are lost.

It appears you are putting do not rick compass?

Say that it's a compass all kinds of accompassed jokes.

Wow, there is.

We got a bunch of neked Germans hockey quickly German.

That's funny enough without all commentary.

Yeah, I mean to first off, you have to ask the question, any group of people that bild a BMW.

Why they walking?

You know what I mean?

So there it is.

They all like the ultimate the ultimates hiking experience.

To mean, these are like your exotic pet people.

See, it's one thing to have to walk around neked in boots because you lost your clothes, right, it's.

Another thing to volunteer for yeah, to.

Do it, to do it on the borning Yeah, I mean most people saying blue, what happened to.

Have any clothes?

How many of them on that trail looks just like Roseanne bar You don't.

All a riaking bubba ricking bubba mother?

What happened to you yesterday?

You said?

Somehow well, you know, rick, This is gonna seem mild after Greg having to you know, getting taken by a sun.

But here we go.

The I hate when these weird things like this happened.

I'm cruising down the road.

It's one twenty and the afternoon, minded my own business, I might add, right, just enjoying a beautiful cold winter day, the sun shining.

It's lovely out there and I'm cruising.

I've just stopped and got me a little bite to eat.

So I'm working my way down to the to the honey camp to be sure everything's good.

So, you know, we've had some cold weather.

We check the pipes, make sure we're all good.

So I'm going along minding my own business, and I see something over here on the right side.

It's peripheral.

I mean, and you talking about split second.

I'm driving and I just put my hand up.

It got up on me so much.

I put my hand up and in the instant something slams into the side of my truck.

I slam the brakes on.

Food goes everywhere, drink end over in uh you know, I lock it down.

Thank goodness, nobody's right behind me, and I'm like, what any world just happened?

And my first thought was a deer jumped into the side of my I'm in the beast.

I'm in the big Beast.

Okay, thank for Yeah, I'm not in the Steve Moultrie, you can you can relax and breathe.

I know you've already had one scared with Dan this week on ice.

I'm in the bee because I've got some dirty work to do, and I wasn't gonna mess up the pretty truck, right, So I think, well, my goodness, what was that?

And I'm trying to say, you know, I'm thinking, am I okay?

Because it was it was like a stick of dynamite went off, you know.

Because you're out there it's quiet here the road.

You know.

So I pull on up and I start to kind.

Of pull off the road.

It's so bad.

I think I need to check and be sure the truck is okay, and to what just hit me?

What?

What just happened?

So I look out the window and I've got what do you call that little piece of plastic that goes over the window, you know, you out so you can crack the window and water not come in.

And I don't want what do you call it?

A rain guard?

What do you call it?

You know what I'm talking about?

Old plastic guard?

Well, I look and.

It looks like someone has just chewed that rain guard off.

It's broke in several pieces.

And I thought, there's no way a deer hit me that high.

I hope not.

If it did, it was a Pegasus deer, yeah.

You know, so uh, And then I look in the rearview mirror, and I see something flopping around in the road, and I thought, what in the world was that?

And and I didn't think it was a bird to begin with, because I didn't see feathers, you know, flying when when you've ever hit a bird, you know, the feathers go up everywhere I saw.

You do you remember the time I saw a State trooper car hit a hawk that was coming in and it looked like a hawk bomb went off.

You knowing These these birds are diving at cars.

I'm saying, it's part of the attach.

Anyway, I turn around, I circle back around, I get out, and uh, it appears that a giant owl flew into my truck in the day.

And yeah, which is so odd.

And it's a it's a very pretty bird.

Uh you know, to to look.

Thank you.

But I get out and and I've got to inspect the situation, of course, and and the owl is like it's not right in the middle of the road, it's kind of over on the side.

But I do not see its eyes open.

Its eyes are closed.

And I and I do detect, yeah, I know that was about it was.

I do detect a little bit of motion, is so I think it's maybe still breathing or whatever.

So I didn't mess with it because the one thing you don't want to do is owl to wake up while you're cuddling it.

And it was.

Well, and I hated it because you know, I hate to see a pretty animal like that to come to such a shameful demise of flying into the side of the truck.

But uh uh, so I just let it go and hopefully the owl came back.

I doubt it because it took a pretty good I don't see a scream.

I don't see how it could have made it.

But with the question is why is an owl bombing my truck in the middle of the day, Let me say this, I do.

I do have a couple of pictures of the whole episode, just like yeah, I said that to y'all because you know now with you know, I phoned you feel like you need to document and broadcast there.

I'm gonna make a prediction, and because you know, I think I middle of the day make a prediction.

I'm guess if you were driving somewhere, you were eating, Yeah, sure, was okay?

All right?

Huh do you think it went after what was in Boba's hand?

Could see it through the Yeah, if you think I just had enough?

So do they eat MC nuggets?

I don't know.

Yeah.

Well, let me say this I had been saying all along with the bird that I've said all along, it's biblical.

I've said it.

The animals are on attack.

I've sucked.

Seeing more birds of prey diving into cars, diving into things.

I've seen more of it than I've ever seen before.

That's their air attack.

I'm telling us the air Force.

Now, think about this rick that I was trying to take you out.

The odds of that animal insecting the side of my vehicle which is moving, you know, probably fifty to fifty five miles an hour, and it's flying in there, and I stopped it to drive through to get something to eat.

If I had not stopped it to drive through, what I've already been through there when it flew by.

Ooh, I did something about the truck attracted.

Yeah, that's a small don't you think the smell?

I tell you.

The thing I like about that the most is I know you'd already had lunch with hims.

If you get something else, he he bailed on it easy.

He bailed the way around ricking Bubba, ricking.

Bubba Bubba back to a little segment we now call nuts in the news.

You really touched on something, Indogo, And after you finish these stories, we'll get into that.

You know, do we just need to be assigned punishment for these kind of people?

I mean, I mean, do we just need to be you know, I don't want to deal with almost like it almost like a like a game show, you know.

All right, uh Bubba, Our next contestant rolling down here to stand in front of you.

This is a young lady who was demoted to be a principal at elementary school and she spot a lawsuit this week because a superintendent who was celebrating great grades when she refuses high five, touched her on the forehead.

Says she feared for her life, called the police to the school and file a complaint, you know.

And then we said, well, I'll say one thing, Baba, what do you think we do about that?

Rick?

I'm kind of thinking maybe first of all, we'll start out by really pulling their hair hard.

Rick, I'd like to take a too hop open hand slap.

Baba.

That's a great too, That's something we'll snow the audience see what they vote.

Well, Rick, speaking of nuts and the news, we have another pairer here I want to share rich An Oregon man has spent Memorial Day in jail after dialing nine to one one to complain that a McDonald's worker was rude and didn't give him the orange juice he ordered.

The man was accused of improper use of an emergency telephone number.

The Oregonian newspaper reports that the twenty year old was bailed out of the Washington County jail on Tuesday and could not be reached for comment.

The sheriff Sergeant Sergeant David Thompson said the man ignored deputies who told him the emergency number is to be used for straightening out fast food orders.

A McDonald's employee also called nine one one during the incident to complain about the man and the people that he was blocking the draw through and they were getting very unhappy about it.

Bubba up next, I'd like to present to you Raven, a twenty year old man who tied up the nine to one one lines because he thought the worker at McDonald's was rude about his artist juice order.

Now, this of course blocked people who had real emergencies and if you don't think that's that.

Also, here's the McDonald's employee himself, who also tied up nine one one again to complain about Raven.

Any suggestions for them today, Bobba Rick.

I would send its Raven to about ten minutes of caning with no time out and then deport him to whatever country he came from.

Bubba, I would like to also offer up for the audience consideration.

I like to take Raven and his little McDonald's buddy and have them stand in a room where we release some of Michael Vick's pittbulls.

And who's next?

Rick?

We go to Andersonville, Tennessee, deputies say a man who was caught wearing a woman's thong was charged with burglarizing a home.

Okay, Chief Deputy Mark Lucas said, deputy's caught the forty two year old man only wearing panties in an abandoned farmhouse.

Now, I don't know about y'all, but I when I'm at the farmhouse, the last thing I want to do is be caught in pennies.

Did you just say farmhouse?

Yeah, he said, farmhouse.

Please be the coutain.

What are you doing.

You don't have on any pants.

The officers followed.

His footprints from a nearby Andersonville home, where a burglary had been reported.

I mean, think about it, if you're around a farm, don't you need cheese one?

I mean, you don't know.

What you're gonna step out there, of what you're going to do.

The man was charged with aggravated burglary, auto burglary and vandalism on Monday and is being held on sixty five thousand dollars bond in the Anderson County Detention Facility.

The Knocks when You Sentatol reported.

The man was released from the same jail May the twenty first, after being arrested in Norris for property crimes.

Rick, we have an habitual burglar here.

Bubba, next have a forty tcherr old man here for your consideration.

For some reason, he just.

Can't get the point that we don't like him breaking in people's homes.

He's a multi time offender.

Bubba can't send Lerner's lessons, and the last time we caught him in an abandoned farmhouse wearing nothing but women's undergarmage.

After his latest breakthof.

Rick, I would sendence this man to be tied to a chair and have to watch repeated episodes of Richard Simmons on any show.

Gotta step letter, Bobby.

I would like to also put it in that same chair where I actually get one free shot at him with a Louisville slugger and then ask him if he gets a message about stop breaking in people's houses and get some clothes on.

It's one free shot, you know, Rick, I just need one, you know, if you're gonna be if you're gonna be breaking into.

All that, and I'll make it a body shot that so it doesn't take his life.

There's some broken ribs, right.

If you're gonna break into these places and do this.

I mean, I watched the Mission Impossible series this week.

I mean you need you need like black clothes, boots.

You don't have all your supplies, your you know, your wenches, your ropes, your your lock picks.

I mean, where you gonna cary all that stuff?

If you all you got only as a thong.

If you're approaching to to break into someone's house wearing nothing but a thong, your goal, I guess it's just a crash in well.

I mean, here's the thing.

You're not coming in subtle?

Think about you know, you know the thong debate you know continues with the ladies, and I see both sides of the argument.

But for a god to have it on, I'm sorry that one.

Uh, you know, for a god to have it don't think about it that, I really that's a there's really no advantage there.

As a matter of fact, I.

Would see there's a disadvantage.

Don't follow that logic?

Can you needed quite a little picture there?

Thanks?

Well, I'm just saying, right, what are you doing?

Hey, son, Bob and I are talking to you.

Quit digging and you said you don't want to put them on?

Deal with it, you know what I mean?

Yeah, I for the life of me, I just don't follow it.

My goodness, we've had it too good for too long in this cust that.

Really is it?

I mean, it's just.

I don't know whether I've looked out over the sea of people and felt so hopeless in my life.

It is.

It is a hopeless feeling that will just wash up on you, isn't it.

I Mean, I got you, It's like I've got good and overlong, you know, I mean, I think I think it was the last time that you made a upstanding, good quality human.

Being just out of the blae.

I mean it rarely happened.

I mean hear about him in then.

I mean they're out there.

But boy, you got a look you're right time.

They said where we lived, like in the fifties, there were no deer, so if you actually got one, it was a very big deal and you didn't care how big it was because you never saw them.

That's why it's getting with quality human beings.

Hey, you know what I saw?

One went what about three years ago?

And I and I go every day ricking bubba, ricking bubba.

Ruben, how about this?

Congratulations?

The new CD is in the new single just on Fire, doing well, And I'm looking at the pictures on here, and boy, you've turned it up a little bit for him, haven't you.

I mean, Ruben's got it like he likes it.

I am trying to grow up and uh yeah.

So so when when you we were all talking about, you know, trying to stay in shape all this.

Look you look great, by the way, thank you.

And it's just hard.

It is, it is.

It's hard, you know, especially with us being from Alabama.

Oh boy, it is the most difficult thing.

You know, everybody talks about how hard it is to be on television and singing front.

No, the hard thing is turning down the fried chicken.

I miss it so much.

So and when you travel it's so bad anyway.

You can't eat good.

You don't have the selection you need.

You know, you're always grabbing something quick.

You know you have to tear paper off of and you know that ain't good for it.

I honestly just had to turn it over to God.

Man, like really that was I mean, that's the only thing that's really I think you know, that's helped me make it through, you know, trying to you know, be better and be healthier, because you know, any other way you really can't do it by yourself.

You really need divine intervention.

But I mean you look good, you seem like you feel good, having a good time.

But but you know the thing, it's just like I understand how to be healthy, I really do, right, I just can't figure how to do it and still have fun.

Well, you know you know what I mean.

I mean that's I mean I'll be riding along and aten I'll be locked trying to do good and all of a sudden, like Mama's fried chicken will be over riding shotgun.

I look over and it's almost like I can see it sitting over there.

Why don't you come see me anymore?

You know?

The hard thing is when you when you're trying to do good, is like McDonald's always has like that brand new special burgo with, you know, the fried pickle chips or something.

Try.

Pickle every time, every time for a limited time ninety nine.

Literally time I gotta go see it.

It's rude.

It's just gonna be here for a minute.

Every time I make a little progress.

That macrib comes from.

And you know what, I don't know why they call it a rib, but it's sure is good.

Yeah, it has no no real part of port in that.

But like it and you can see what it looks like they did it.

They they even have like a fake bone going through it.

But but you just about right through it, you.

Know, And I'm like, well, that ain't a bone.

It's like, you know, it's like cartilage.

It's like you know, cartilage.

Feel sure, it is good.

It is sure.

I had to get a trainer out with me.

I was doing.

So what are you doing?

What's your what's your workout every day?

It's it's like circuit training basically.

You know, we lift weights cardio every day, every day, every day, five days a week.

How do you do that?

On the road.

They're with me on the road.

If you're not well, you know, just different white rooms and whatever hotel.

You're not well.

We we we try to you know, if we're in the hotel, if they have a nice gym, we'll use it.

But if not, then we'll go to like a Goals or a Balley's or something like that.

It's it's rough, man, it's rough.

And I you know, we call my train of the food Nazi.

So we shouldn't mention we have like egg sandwiches and don't do that.

We don't know that, you know.

In college buddies, we're the college buddies you finally start.

Doing better, you know, and we're only about McDonald's.

Oh, I know, you be kind hang up, Hang up on them, Ruben.

We're enablers, is what we are.

We're doing better too that we're trying to.

I'm getting old now, just what till you get old?

And it happens now old forty four?

No, No, I know, I look a lot younger.

Now.

I appreciate that you look good man.

Yeah, but if if you if you're overweight at forty four, it makes you like fifty four, right, you know what?

I just can't.

I had to realize, like you're talking about, like now, you feel bad when a trainer, this is when you know you get an old when a trainer.

This is all he asked of you.

Hey, Rick, just move around something.

Move.

There was a day when they got that.

Go let's see if you bench four hundred.

You're not now it's like, just move, brother, just just keep moving.

Just go to the mailbox.

Yeah, did you walk to start somewhere?

That's when you know your old?

Did you walk?

Actually, Cardio, what you see got you reduced me to walking.

I'm walking down now.

You know you're out there with all those codgers.

What are you doing, my cardio?

Man?

This poor guy to used to walk in our neighborhood.

I see him every morning going to work, and God love him.

He walked for like eleven years and he looked the same.

And I remember, I remember one time I just s rolled down the wind.

I said, you got to pick it up.

I said, it ain't happening.

I've looked at you for eleven years out here walking.

You look the same, Rick.

I don't think getting a gallop or so.

I don't think it should qualify as cardio for a poodle can stay with you, you know what I mean.

Now, if you're dragging the poodle you're doing you know what I mean, he's trotting along beside you ain't burnt.

Poodle's not struggling.

You didn't get done yesterday.

Yesterday on the trip mill I almost win the cardiac arrest trying to keep up with this little girl on the trip on this I mean.

To turn it.

Oh man, I was like, you ain't gonna beat me.

He went, she went four point five, big Rue went four point she went five point Oh.

I was like five.

I had to stop at the five point five.

Reuben said that five point five.

I'm gonna hold up.

I could do one if I had wanted to, but I gotta go to recording session.

I'm an R and B singer.

Just when you think you're holding in there, they'll go to that indcline.

Yeah.

This is when I knew that I needed to lose weight.

Is when it wanted to go to incline.

And it wasn't just start beeping.

I said, get off, Tubby, you.

Killing ricking Bubba Rick and Bubba.

Speedy is the head producer me and he comes in here and he goes around.

He looks for stories that might be of interest, and of course we may use them, we may not, but he always throws them out there as food for thought.

And he prints out certain stories that are solely for certain members of the program.

There'll be stories, He'll go, Bubba, I printed that out just for you.

I knew you just hey, you love that and uh, you know, and then you got the ones you print out and you want to hear Greg go crazy and all this and and so Speedy today he said, Rick, there's a story here today that is especially for you.

Well and and and here it is.

Rick.

I know in financial circles a lot of people are concerned, you know, the retirement to their Wall Street, you know, retirement funds, the stock market, and uh, I know that today will have to make you feel a little bit better.

Rick.

Sadie the Scottish terrier, the newly crowned winner of the Big Dog Show in New York, now known as America's Top Dog, opened the trading round on Wall Street Thursday by ringing the New York Stock Exchange bell.

The black haired pooch is a celebrity following her triumph Tuesday in the Best in Show with the Westminster Kennel Club contest in downtown Manhattan.

Thursday, she and her handler visited the New York Stock Exchange, where Sadie launched another day of trading by pressing the button that activates the traditional ball.

On Wednesday, Sadie did the rounds of the talk shows, even getting a slot on CBS's Early Show ahead of Hollywood heart throb Leonardo DiCaprio.

Well, I can see that good.

I'm a Scottish terrier, dear.

Let me just say this.

Let me just say this.

All right, here's the thing.

You know what I say to the story.

I say to the story the simple word note, no, no, no.

How about this?

How about this?

Sadie the Scottish Terrier did not did not start the New York Stock Exchange.

She did not push a button.

No no, she didn't because she does not have the ability to reason.

She has no idea what Wall Street is, She has no idea what the Stock Exchange it's all about.

She picked a few stocks where she left.

No, no, no, she didn't.

Sometimes it looks like, let me tell you what the US champion, Sadi the Scottish terrier did you.

Let me tell what she did.

Do She followed around the people who feed her wherever they wanted her to go.

That's what she did.

I imagine they carried her car.

She was carried by people.

Reckon, they stuck a little piece of dog food on the button.

Yeah, absolutely, Look I know she pushed it.

She didn't lick it.

Oh well, you know somebody took her little Paul right, that's right, little little doggie pop.

Staying here, Sadie.

I mean, look, it's fine, it's cute.

We got a dog.

She'll like it.

I mean, I mean, you know, now somewhere there's a munth that didn't get adopted.

According to Peter, But but, but, but but I did not know Peter.

They're so bored now they're saying, what else can we be agains?

Somebody said, how about pure bread?

She beat a Dobman pincher, a Britney spaniel, a toy poodle?

Is it a pulley?

What is that?

And by the way, could anything and a whippet could Prince bulldog?

Could anything be more listen?

Could anything be less specifically designed than the dog show?

How does anybody say the Scottish terrier is does certain things better than a Doman?

Yes?

I mean there are two different worlds.

I mean, how can the each one the class and then therein?

But how can how can how can a Scottish terrier Westminster be a better Scottish Terrier than a Domman pincher can be the best Doman peacher?

Personality?

Good?

All I know is that what you call I knows we take a great dog like a dober and and and we and we whittle its ears and cut off its till all under the guys if he no?

What about that poor poodle we saw running yesterday with the pomp poms on his button and it's all skinned around that one?

I heard that the one because it was the only one that could ring the New York Stockings bell.

That's true.

I mean, you know what, you can train it to use its instinct to go for some button that happens to ring.

Let me assure you that Scottish terry is unaware that they ring, that it rang the bell to start for New York Stockey.

It knows we're in a recession and that was all it.

Please be the Scottish terry well the thing that makes it mad.

I always get Irish people angry because I do, like most of us do, I tie Irish things through the Scottish right, you know, and it infuriates.

Here's I'm with you on this dot money to you.

Everybody's like, that's not Scottish.

Well, they're clothes.

They need to do tricks and stuff and judge, I'm with you, and hey, some of the things they check when they're checking on I don't know why.

Y.

Yeah, that's a good dog, but that's you know, that's a little out of line.

But he has nothing to do with if you want to have hanging, even if you want to have a if you want to have a dog show, we're talking about his collar.

If you watched him, check them.

If you want to have a dog show, I mean, isn't that a little overdone?

To go to New York to do it?

Shouldn't it be done like Nebraska, somewhere I place the dogs would want to be needs to be out there.

You dogs don't want to be in man.

Yeah they do.

They look at everything and then and the thing we talk about all the time.

They start using the female word for a dog.

I know, if I'm saying, that's a beautiful bottle of water, don't say They'll say, like, hey, I'll tell you Whatn't this right?

That's a beautiful little you know, And they say it.

I'm like, wow, can you say that?

I mean, you can't let your kids watch it.

The first time I did that, they all looked at me like, let me tell you it's funny, though, let me tell you have some fun.

Let me let me put back a curtain again here on men and women.

You know we're always cash is we're the ones that laugh at that kind of stuff.

I heard the biggest cackling coming out of our bedroom.

Uh and and and for happened more than once.

Yeah, I'll say this.

I walk in there and my wife is watching the dog show on the TV and they're saying this word over and over and she's laughing as loud as she could laugh.

And I said, ah, so you do think it's fun And she said, I'm not laughing at that.

And I'm like, and then they say it again.

She drunk over around.

I said, is that not hilarious?

Because they do it so serious?

And this one, this one coming here, Sadie is a beautiful little and what a magnificent that's that's a magnificent bee right there.

Look at that.

Look how that bee walks.

Yeah, come on now, just watch Best in Show again.

It sums it up.

It's a parody of it, and I mean, just watching it says everything I want to say.

It's hilarious.

H So you won't be a Scottish tarrier six six weep be big is Irish?

Your phone calls her neck.

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