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Bill Bubba Bussy (0:00)
This podcast is brought to you in part by Coke, Buffalo Wild Wings, Southern Immediate Care, Guaranteed Labels, Central State Bank Sunrise Docs, bankers Bounty, and Dr. Thomas Dudney. Now back to Bubba on the Lake. Hey, it's Bubba. Hey, Bubba. Bubba on the lake. Bubba.
Hunter Bussy (0:27)
Hey, Bubba.
Bill Bubba Bussy (0:28)
Bubba on the lake. Yeah, he gotta come and check this. Talking people, talking places from Bubba's perspective. This is Bubba, Bubba, Bubba, Bubba. Bubba on the lake. Hey, Bubba, Bubba, Bubba.
Hunter Bussy (0:42)
Bubba on the lake.
Caitlin Bussy (0:43)
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Hunter Bussy (0:48)
Well, hello, hello, hello again, everybody, and welcome. I am your semi retired, mostly washed up host, formerly of the Rick and Bubba show and now your host of Bubba on the Lake, Bill Bubba Bussy. We're broadcasting from the Melayella Studio, of course. Our website is bubbaonthelake.com you can email me at bubba@bubbaonthelake.com our message line, 308-244-5235 or an easier way to remember it. 308 Big Lake. We want to ask everybody to always subscribe, turn on notifications. We don't want you to miss anything going on with the program. And always follow us like us, check us all that stuff on our social media pages. You know, I'm still amazed. I run into people daily who enjoyed the radio show and who want to listen to the podcast but don't know how to do it. I know there's a generation gap there. Got that. I'm on the other side too. But I thought everybody knew how to do that. It's really simple, guys. If you, if you have an iPhone, just, you know, pull your finger down on the front page, bring the search line up, type in podcast, and you're going to see a logo pop up, kind of blue, purplish looking that says podcast. And you tap on it and it's probably going to give you some things. And you just hit search on that app and put in Bubba on the Lake. Capitalize all the words and, and you'll see the podcast come up and at that point you click on it, then you subscribe to it and then it will automatically end up on your phone every time it comes down. Now, some of you have asked, when are you publishing the podcast? Well, it varies most of the time. In the past, it has been on Thursday morning very early, and we try to do it early so that you can have that on your device when you head out on Thursday. But that's not always the case. Some days it varies, some weeks we have two, some we have one. You know, it just depends on what's going on and how Timely. The podcast is like this week, we may get it out a day or two early because it's dealing with Father's Day that just happened and a lot of the big news items over the weekend. Got a very busy podcast. Don't you miss a minute of it. I am going to be having a roundtable discussion with my family about four Father's Day and about my job as a father. Don't want to miss that. Also, I'm going to introduce you to a young lady named Shaylee Moore. And if you don't know Shailey, she is a mover and a shaker. I mean, she gets after it. And she also is the editor in chief of a couple of magazines that we really like here at the house. One called Lake magazine, the other called Lake Martin. Living in this part of the country, if you go to anybody's coffee table, they have those two magazines and they are very well done. I'd met Shailey before. I wanted to sit down and talk with her some more. She's actually going to do a story about us and her magazine. So we'll keep you up to date about how you can see and read that when it comes out. But she does a great job and just glad to be friends with her, get to know her a little bit better, know some of her family, and we had a great time sitting down with her to have a discussion. So we'll share that with you today. Well, it was Father's Day weekend. I hope all of the fathers out there had a great time. We've covered this quite a bit in the past. Dads are pretty easy to buy for. As a matter of fact, most of the time you don't have to buy for them. But, you know, they. Dads work hard and they provide and sometimes they don't always get the bells and whistles of some of the other holidays. And that's fine. Matter of fact, I was looking forward to standing up at church as a father. Didn't do it. Love my church. Been at other churches. Didn't do it. But, boy, I tell you, Mother's Day, you don't let that one pass without standing up. You'll get a heel upside your head. So I told Betty I was. I was all ready to stand up. Matter of fact, I practiced standing up two or three times at the house before we left, but they didn't do it. I. I started just to stand up once on my own and just kind of start a thing, but I didn't do it. But doesn't take Away from the fact that we love being a father and it is a blessing, and we've been blessed many times over, and we're just very thankful for that opportunity. Now, before we move on, two topics that I think we need to touch on briefly. One, the military parade and one, the no kings protest over the weekend. Let me start with the no Kings. I don't know anybody that wants an earthly king. Who are these people? Anyone? Show of hands, Anyone? I don't want a king. You probably don't want a king. Betty. Don't want a king. I don't know of anybody that really wants a king. Here on earth. Heaven, that's another thing. But here on earth, I don't think so. I loved Ronald Reagan. He was the first president I got to vote for. Thought he did a wonderful job. He was a great communicator. Don't want him for a king. Loved George W. Bush. Thought he did a lot of good things. Maybe some not as good as we'd like to, but had the opportunity to meet him a couple of times. I really appreciated that. Don't want him for a king. Donald Trump. Don't want him for a king. He's serving his second and last term as president and then he will go back into the background. He could be a king maker, as they like to say, with his endorsements of the next Republican candidate, but that's just a term. You don't really make them a king, but their endorsement will hold a lot of weight. So I don't really know why they call this the no Kings protest, because I don't know anybody wants a king. Now, it looked to me more like they were protesting Donald Trump and that this was just another version of Trump derangement syndrome playing out on the national stage. I got it. You don't like him. Have at it. But I don't think you did yourselves any favor with those mainstream, hardworking mom and pops that are in the flyover country. Who were the ones that gave you Trump for a second term. I think it just looked weird, it looked crazy, it looked chaotic. We all know who the father of chaos is. Don't have to remind you. And I think it was just generally bad timing. Look, if you want to protest Trump, you want to have a national day to do it, have at it. Long as you're as you do it in the right way, you're in the right place, you ain't blocking traffic, you ain't destroying things. Have at it. I support you in your right to speak up. I don't have a problem with that at all. But what I do think it was terrible timing for it to be on the 250th birthday of our army and the very people who gave you the right to protest. What I would have done is got out and support a good parade for our military. Now, I know in Washington they had a big parade. Some people were against that idea. Honestly, all Democrats are always against anything that's happening while Trump's in office. We expect that. But there were a lot of Republicans that didn't like the idea. They think that only communist dictators have military parades with all this military hardware coming down the street, planes flying over, all that stuff. I'm going to kind of break with the norm here with some of my Republican conservative buddies. I love military parades. If the communist countries have one thing right, and I don't say that lightly, it is they have some good parades. Now, granted, everybody's there waving a flag at gunpoint. Don't want that. If you want to come out to it, fine. If not. I love parades in general. Any parade, Christmas parade, homecoming parades, parades, celebrating parades. I love parades. Now, when you throw in military, be still heart. I love it. I love it. What is the difference in a military parade and an air show? Nobody ever protest air shows. And it's primarily just airplanes. This one was a combination. But why is an air show? Okay, but this parade was not. I don't really follow the logic there. And living in Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, if you've ever been there, they have the largest Memorial Day parade, Veterans Day, I'm sorry, parade in the country. And they have a lot of equipment rolled down the streets. And it's really cool. I'm going to tell you, if they do something right, it is that parade. I love that parade. If I didn't go to it, I watched it on tv, they televised it. I mean, it was great. And as a taxpayer, I pay a lot of money for that hardware. And I believe in paying your fair share, whatever that amount is. It seems to be elusive, depending on who's having the conversation. I just don't want to pay for somebody else's fair share. And I Love Raptors. The F22. Don't want to buy one myself, you know, I. But I love seeing that stuff on parade because we, me and you collectively together, if you write a check or have it taken out of your check, I should say your payday, you help pay for that. And I'm mighty proud of that equipment and I like to see it in action. Probably not Going to be on the battlefront at my age now to get to see it. So I prefer a parade when I can have cotton candy and a soft drink. Much more entertaining or on tv. I tell you, one of the things was really cool if you did not catch these parades. They had soldiers marching in different parts of it, and some of them were in uniforms of various time periods. They had people in the Revolutionary War time period. They had people during Civil War time period. They had several World War I, World War II, and I thought that was great. I just. I like parades. So if some of you were against it, you thought it was out of place, you thought it cost too much. You know, it's. It's a fair discussion about the cost, but I think for us to celebrate the men and women of the United States army who have gone and secured freedom time and time again, not only for our citizens, but citizens of other countries who we felt like were deserving of what we have here in America. Freedom. A choice to set our own destiny, even though it's messy sometimes. Look at that. Look at the no kings thing. What a mess some of that was. But you kind of look at that crowd and you figure, bunch of idiots anyway, right? I saw some real clowns out there. Good night. I know there were some people who had honest feelings, but good night. Some of them were absolute goofballs and some of them got into a little trouble. But anyway, look, I'm glad you can exercise your first amendment. I just think you ought to do it in an appropriate way. Place and time, and a lot of that was not. Okay, let us go ahead and get into the show. We've got a lot to cover. Gonna be a long one this time. And thank all of you for being part of this podcast. And we ask you to hang in there with us. Thank you.