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#35 Knee Update, Tech, Meg, and NYC Election
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In this Episode Bubba gives a knee update and catches up with old friends, he also shares his opinion of the NYC Election. Thank you for listening! Please share, like and, subscribe!
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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, Bubba, Bubba on the Lake. Bubba, Bubba, Bubba on the lake. Yay. Know I 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, Bubba on the lake. Let's go. Well, hello again everybody. I'm your semi retired, mostly washed up host, formerly of the Rick and Bubba show and now your host of Bubba on the Lake. Welcome back to Bubba on the Lake. Glad to have you. We are broadcasting from the Melayella studio and we have some good news to report. Of course, I'm going to grop about a few things, but we do have some good news too. Remember, our website is bubonthelake.com and we have the comment line at 308 Big Lake. If you call and leave a message, it may be heard on the podcast or it may not. But they're always entertaining and the entire staff here enjoys them. So please keep those coming. Don't forget to subscribe, turn on notifications, don't want you to miss anything from the show and as always, we want you to help spread the word about Bubba on the Lake and try to get us more folks listening. It's podcast world is got a lot of analytics in it and it's very important we continue to grow the podcast and we want people following our social media and all that stuff, all that plays into it and it eventually comes out in the watch. Okay, some good news. Let's get an update here. Wound pump is now out of the knee. I still have stitches and buddy, they use some good ones. I think they used fence wire on this one. Beginning to pull a little bit, but we're about a week away from getting those out. So steady as she goes. Still got the PICC line and for those of you non medical people like me, that means I have a little tube hanging out of my arm and Betty hooks up a big old syringe and gives me IV antibiotics once a day. So that is still going on and that will go on through Thanksgiving. So this particular infection just got to beat it down, push it down, push it down to my knee, gets well enough that it can fight it off in that area by itself and hopefully we're headed that way. Still a little painful to walk, but we're stumbling around with a cane and, and I would say Overall, I would have to upgrade my condition from C plus to B minus. If we get stitches out, I will be a solid B baby. I mean solid lot to cover. I'm debating about groping about the time change again. I've done that on the podcast before. I've done it on the radio for 31 years. Still nothing done. Apparently there is nothing can be done that this has been forced on us by a power bigger than ourselves from somewhere else in the universe. And we're going to have to endure this ridiculous process of changing the time, screwing our clocks up, screwing our internal body clocks up for the rest of my life. I've just give up. It's just. And I'm not told y', all I'm not going to grip about it. I'm not. You think I'm grappling that well? I'm just mentioning. I'm not really griping about it, but it's just insane. And I can't help but see that and say that. Can you? I mean, do y'. All, y' all enjoyed it? I'll tell you, I love it dark at 5 o'. Clock. And by December it will be 4:30. Beautiful. 4:30 in the afternoon, pitch black. Good news, the shortest day of the year is out in front of us. December 21st. Mark your calendars. The days will start getting longer after that. That really does it give you a lot of good feeling, does it? Doesn't me anyway, not going to grip. Hope everybody had a happy and safe Halloween. I've talked about this before too, but I did want to mention it. Halloween was such a fun time for me growing up. I wanted it to be a fun time for my kids. I know you have to be careful with these things because spiritual warfare is real. If you are a believer, you've got the usual user manual called the Bible and it talks about that and how you have to be very careful of that. And I certainly appreciate that. When I was growing up, we had a neighborhood of about three blocks. Houses on the inside, outside, maybe 12, 15 houses, I don't know. And twice a year we would all get together, have a big cookout, big bonfire. Everybody would bring potluck stuff and it was the best time. The parents would sit around and tell stories and laugh, cook. Kids would play. We would run, play tag, dodgeball, whatever was in. Then we'd come and eat and we'd go run again. And it was just a good time. It was some of the most fun times I remember in my neighborhood growing up. And it's one of those times where everybody got together. I mean, I saw a lot of the kids in the neighborhood at different times, but you hardly saw everybody at one time together. So I look forward to that. And you know, we used to dress up as a skeleton or something, go around. But you know, so many people just take it so far and it's so get into such horror and such demonic stuff. And I'm like, eh, don't know that. And they've kind of ruined it for everybody. But it's a fun time of year, you know, the heat's finally broke. Feels good to get around a bonfire. Have you ever noticed people look good around a bonfire? I mean, I guess it's the light, the low light, you know. You know, some people look better in low light. Like myself. The lower the light, the better. I'm absolutely beautiful in pitch black. Uh, so that's what Betty says. Um, but anyway, we. I know y' all are baiting me over there. Stop it. I enjoyed Halloween growing up. It was fun. It was not demonic. It was not horror. It was fun. And we tried to do that with our kids. We, we went to neighborhoods that celebrated and we rented a golf cart or got a golf cart and we would carry everybody around. We went on a hayride one year on a trailer and then we had people come back to our house. We used to have a big party and it was so much fun. And we don't do that anymore. And I miss it. I'll just be honest. I'm just going to call it, hey, I miss it. So I was looking at old pictures from Halloween. I meant to post some online. I didn't do it, but man, those were fun days. They are fun days. And if I look back and say I miss something, I miss trick or treating with the kids and the whole thing. We used to have a street in our neighborhood. We lived in Birmingham that was known for pitching a all out Halloween street party. And it was like Mardi Gras, but Halloween. And we would go down there and I used to walk the kids around. When they got a little older, I would just go and sit in the yard with somebody, I'd say one of the neighbors, and they'd have lawn chairs and we'd sit there and talk. The kids would go down, come back. We'd eventually go home. But it was just fun. And I hope that you and your family enjoyed it. And it was not something over the top or, you know, demonic or whatever. You could just enjoy the season changing. I know we're riding piggyback On a pagan thing. I got it. I got you. I'm not debating that. So you have to be careful with that. But I think it's really in your approach to it and what you're doing and how you're doing it more than anything else. So with that said, I do want to mention this. We have two new sponsors who have come on the program that's going to complete our availabilities here on Bubba on the Lake. I want to thank Bryce Motors in Alexander City. Nice folks. I do business with them, bought a jeep from them, really like them and I'm glad they have decided to come on and be a sponsor. And Russell Lands, Russell Lands is a big operation here at Lake Martin and they do a lot of stuff and we're going to be telling you all about them in coming episodes. So we're very excited to have those along with our other sponsors. They've been with us all along. Coke, Buffalo, Wild Wing, Central State bank, guaranteed labels, Dr. Thomas Dudney, sunrise Docs, Bankers Bounty, Southern Immediate Care, the Green Monster lot. And they're joining that fine group. And let me tell you, good, good sponsors, this is not something we take lightly. I know these people. I know the quality that they offer and I'm glad to be in a partnership with them. All right, we have a lot to cover. Stuart, the tech guy has quite an update and he has some answers to some questions that I was asking. 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Well, we're back, everybody, and we have everybody's favorite tech guy. Stuart Brockwell from Surge Technologies in Birmingham is joining us. And Stuart, it just seems like the tech world just gets busier and busier and busier. It does.
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But I got a small correction for you. That would be the titan of tech.
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Oh, the titan of tech. That's right. Okay, I got to get that right. I need to remember that you, I.
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Mean, you came up with it. I'm just, I'm just saying.
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The titan of tech. Stuart Rockwell.
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Yes.
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And listen, I've got to say, I saw your office the other day. Very impressive.
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You know, it's been fun to get to work with Scott and his folks. Obviously you've been been involved with them for quite a while, friends and all that. But that. Did you see that building when it was smashed by the tornado last year?
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Saw pictures of it. But I'm going to tell you, that building does pictures, does not do the volume of that building justice. That thing is mammoth.
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It's. It's almost like a hospital. Like you could, you could, you could see it being used as something like that. It's got so many rooms.
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Well, I tell you, Scott, he's been very fortunate and blessed, and I know he's using it for maximum, you know, impact for the kingdom, and we're glad he's able to do that. What a blessing.
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I know. I hear their rumors that there's somebody has taken some space to film. Film some kind of a movie or TV show or something. I don't, I don't know. They're doing. They're big time now. I don't know.
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Well, you know, you got a, you got a group of podcasters right down the hall from you there.
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That's true. That's true. Good friends of mine and they, they've.
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Done a great job in there, too. What a wonderful building. If I lived a little closer, I'd want to have an office there because it is, it is really awesome. Well, Stuart, what's, what's on your tech list?
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Well, I mean the biggest thing to me, I don't like starting off with the bad news, but I do have to bring this up. Did you, you've been, you've been kind of in and out of this whole knee mess. I get it. You know, it's been keeping you tied down. But did you, were you, were you aware of the big Internet outage on October 14th a few weeks back?
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Oh, I sure was. Trust me. I was laying in a hospital room in Chicago trying to get things done right. It was very difficult.
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It was difficult for everybody. For those who don't know, the majority of the Internet runs through a couple of major providers with Amazon being the largest. That's called AWS or Amazon Web Services. And aws, believe it or not, hosts just a staggering amount of Internet traffic. Nearly. I don't know the current statistics, but it's going to be up there in the 40% or more of the global web traffic. And so they obviously don't run all that through a single server data center. They've got them all over the world and such. But on the 14th they had an 18 hour people called it catastrophic outage. I would agree. And it was their east server systems in the US that went down and it knocked out, you know, a good percent of the Internet. Netflix streams, email websites, all kinds of stuff. But the thing that made me laugh, Bub. Are you familiar with the smart bed?
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The smart. But you mean like it adjusts itself?
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Yes, but more than that, like it can adjust the thickness and kind of how it tilts and you know, how.
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Warm the heat or the air, all that. Yes, I'm familiar with that. Sleep number has one like that.
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They do. And there's another brand called eight Sleep. The number eight Sleep. And I've never used one of these. I've heard good things about them. They've got speakers in them and all this. But this is how, how bad it was. And this is just an example. Eight Sleep ran all of their smart bed controls and schedules through aws. And so all of a sudden you got people in the bed or trying to go to bed. Who's. The beds are like stuck on like hot and what they're like roasting people and they're like folding people. It's like the commercial. They're like squishing them in the bed.
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Oh no.
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It's this huge fiasco. And that's just one example of we don't realize how much of our daily life runs through Amazon. If you never make a single Amazon purchase, I guarantee you something in your life depends on them.
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You know, and you bring up a good point there. And I don't know what the current regulation is on that. I'm a free market guy, if at all possible. But the Internet is so important now. It's a backbone. Like you say, everything we do, from banking to flying to navigation to how we set our bed up. And I really would like to see us have a little diversity in that, in that setup. Like you said, aws, they hold such a market share in that when they have a problem, it is trouble for everything.
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It just wrecked the Internet and it took them almost a full day to come out of it. I honestly was starting to wonder how bad this really was. I heard rumors that they had to get the, the, the Amazon's head networking engineer off of his yacht to come fix it. I don't know how truthful that is.
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Well, what, what went wrong? Do we know what went wrong? I mean you got to have an Internet connection, you got to have power. What, what else do you need for all that to operate?
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So they're not being super, they're not being super clear on it. It's from my understanding they were trying to run firmware updates on the undersea transmission cables that link up Amazon's east data center with Europe and Africa. This is something that a lot of people don't know. Maybe your listeners would, would, would, would know this. The Internet doesn't travel between continents wirelessly. There are gigantic fiber optic cables that are all over the oceans that run from continent to continent connecting the whole world together. And those cables have to be maintained. New ones have to be laid down. They wear out like anything else. And so they were, from my understanding they were running firmware updates, routine stuff. And it caused a huge issue. These, the links to this data center went down and they weren't able to bring it back up until supposedly this, this, this head engineer was able to figure out what caused it and fix it. But it just was a mess.
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I'm glad he's got a yacht, I'll tell you that.
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Well, I mean, probably two or three given Amazon, but anyway, good, you know.
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What, good for him. I'm opposite of the new socialist movement. If the guy can make that and he's that smart, good for him.
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Yeah, you know, I always feel like the age old advice, don't buy a boat, get a friend who has one.
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Right? That in an airplane, I've always heard that True, true.
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Now you have a pontoon boat.
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I do have a pontoon boat. And I'm going to tell you, when I am on it, it is my best life. No doubt.
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Okay, so you're. So you're my. My friend who has one. So I'm good.
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You know, I would have to say I'm probably the exception to that saying, because I do love my pontoon boat. Now. Now, granted, it had the top ripped off of it in a tornado, and I had to put. Put a kind of a generic one back on, but, you know, dinks and bruises and I did take it over a rock that went skyward. We kind of did a Dukes of Hazard thing in at one time, but other than that, I enjoy. It's in good shape.
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Well, I don't mean to. You know, I like the good tech news, but you got to touch on that when the whole Internet drops offline for nearly a day, you got to bring that up.
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But I've got to ask you this, Stuart. I go to update my Macs and, you know, I'm expecting like Mac 18 or something, you know, and I see 26, and I thought, my God, have I missed that many updates? And. And then somebody said, oh, no, they've changed the way they're numbering them. And what are we doing, Stuart? Not Steve Jobs.
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Like, you know, I'm going to. Actually, I'm going to. I'm going to play devil's advocate. I think it's a smart move.
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Now, why are we naming it after the year it comes out? Is that the deal? Yep.
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You got it. It's that simple. It really is that.
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But see, if I have. If I have 26 and it's 28, I feel like it's outdated. But if I just have 17, I don't know that it's outdated.
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Yeah, it helps people to know because if they're. It's. Most people know what year it is. Right. So if you, if you, if you've got. If you've got iOS 26 and it's 20, 28, then probably you need to update. But it really is just as simple as a year thing. Apple's versioning has kind of gotten in the weeds, and it was easy to remember when it was 4, 5, 6, and now we're on. Previously it was 18. I mean, come on, who's going to know the difference between 18 and 17? For a long time I kept up with it, and eventually I just had to give up and start taking notes because there's just not. There's just no way, Stuart.
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I get so aggravated and you tell me this because, I mean, I love technology. I was there when we were punching in cards, doing basic, so I felt like I have to usher in the current era we're in. But I hate updates. Oh, my God, I hate updates because every time I get something working like I want it to, and I mean multiple devices. And I told you before we went on, I had like iPhone 12 or, I don't know, maybe 14, and I had it hooked to my Rodecaster Pro 2, which is what we do. The podcast on thing worked like a charm. I could zoom, I could do the. What's the call they have on there if you want to do it? What's the little video call?
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Oh, the FaceTime.
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FaceTime, yes, FaceTime. You know, I could do all that. It worked fine and it interfaced with my board Bluetooth, so I just set it up here on the shelf and had a good time. Or you could just do regular calls on. You do whatever. Anything the phone could do, it could send over to it. So after, you know, I'm behind on everything and battery life, Jimmy Jam, I finally give in and I go get a 17. I come in and, you know, it's all pretty and the screens not scratched up and all that. I'm excited, but it won't work like the other one did. I'm having audio trouble sending things back down the line, so seems like, you know, I have this problem a lot in other things. I have, you know, satellite tracking software for ham radios and all that, and I'll have it working like a top. Here comes an update. Plug that baby in. Nothing works. Why do I hate updates and why does it have to be like that?
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I mean, updates, unfortunately, these days are driven primarily by two things. They're driven by cybersecurity issues because there's constantly new vulnerabilities, weaknesses being discovered. We're humans, we can't write perfect code. There's no such thing as an unhackable system. And so no matter how good it's built, there's imperfections there. And so you've got all these people overseas and here locally trying to break in and make a buck and steal information, this or that. So you're always having to patch those out. So it's security is the biggest reason. And then the other reason is going to be, you know, bug fixes again, talking about fixing, fixing problems. And then you do have new features and things like that that come alongside that. And that's. That's what Apple people tend to get upset with Apple because they're constantly adding new features instead of fixing problems. But I've never heard of. I've talked to several people. I've set up a few iPhone 17s at this point since they've come out, and I've not had any audio issues with them. I've primarily seen issues with the aluminum body of these phones because they switched from titanium to aluminum because it dissipates heat better, as you know.
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You mean aluminum?
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Yes, or aluminium, as our, as our, as our friends overseas would say. So you've got, you've got the aluminum body which is a lot, a lot less durable. And so people are. They drop it out of their car and then they're expecting it to take the head and no, it just dents it because it's aluminum. So that's the only real complaint that I've gotten. So we'll have to do some troubleshooting off air on this and figure out what's going on with that one because I don't think it's an issue affecting all 17s. If it was, I think I would have heard about it.
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Well, I know they supposedly gave you more control of your audio, but in my case it's over driving. And I don't know, you know, apparently I have got to a point where I can say, hey, it's over my head. I got to call Stuart and, and get that worked out. I got a couple of other projects I know you are backed up probably till the spring thaw. I've got, I've got a couple land cables I need run and Hunter needs one run too. And unfortunately with my knee now, I'm not going to be running many.
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Well, I need to get down there anyway because I've got, I've got some stuff to do for you. And good news, I've. I've been, I've been looking to bring on some additional staff to kind of fill out that because I have been just unbelievably busy and I've got a great candidate interviewed with him yesterday. So that's going well. But going back to other, other stuff that's, that's in the tech news. Have you seen Meta Facebook's new glasses that you're going to be able to buy?
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No, you know, I bought into the Google Glass when, when that thing first came out and hey, hey, hey, nice price tag and it's a paperweight right now, but I love the idea of it. But you know, people kept getting in trouble driving with a moan and all that. Stuff. And I know Apple's got an augmented reality. It's not the same thing. I saw somebody else with some type of glasses the other day. But what's Meta got cooking?
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So. Well, talking about Apple, they did release an updated version of the Apple Vision Pro. I still honestly don't know who that device is for. I can't imagine anybody spending three grand on an iPad stuck on your face. It's cool. And that's selling the product a bit short if you've not been to an.
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Are you calling it a babe magnet?
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I'm calling. Look, I don't care what it is. If you put on a virtual reality headset or whatever, you're going to look like the biggest dork in the world.
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Sure.
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But look, if you haven't been to an Apple Store and tried the free demo, do it. It's a cool product, but I just don't see who's going to buy it. But anyway, so what Meta's doing is they're kind of coming alongside what they were already doing with the Ray Bans that were out before you saw those episodes.
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Okay, okay. Let me tell you, I have. Somebody was telling me about those and I was, I mean, they had me on the hook, man, I wanted some really bad.
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Well, I'm glad you're going to be glad you waited because this is like the, the evolution of that. Because the, the, the, the Ray Bans, they have the camera in them. Right. And they can record and that's fine as long as you're cool with sending all your video through, you know, Mark Zuckerberg's pockets.
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Sure.
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But you know, anyway, I mean, the Internet's up. Well, true. But so what these are, this is the Orion AR glasses. They're technically a prototype, but they, at releasing something that's going to be nearly the same of this. And they do video like the, like the existing glasses do, but they are like the Apple and the Google Glass. They have a holographic augmented reality screen that appears like, kind of floats in midair. And it does, it tracks your hands so you can use your hands to interact with the, the menus and whatnot. And the, it looks good. Like cautiously, it looks like they've done it really well. And the biggest thing is it doesn't look like, it doesn't make you look like a dork. They look like regular glasses.
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Well, that was one of the questions and I was going to ask you, how do they actually do the processing? And like the other Ray Bans, are they bluetoothing to your Phone and your phone actually doing it and it just throwing it up there. How, how's it. Where's the brain of this?
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It's kind of both. And it does use some onboard processing that thanks to, you know, the stuff being more efficient, you can do some of that now. It does leverage a lot of your phone. Obviously it uses your phone for an Internet connection. It has to do that. But it is communicating with your phone wirelessly and then it kind of does a little bit of both. The glasses do run their own menu and they do the AI processing some of it on the device. And I think part of that is they have to be able to support both Android and iPhone users. So they can't just rely on Apple's AI or Google's AI. They kind of have to have their own in the glasses to do that. But they look really good.
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So is that going to be out for Christmas? Is that a Christmas option?
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It's a prototype. They're aiming for early 20, 20, 27 and about a thousand dollars, which that's, that's a third of what Apple's is charging for the, for the Vision and that.
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So the, the Ray Ban set that's already out. What do they run?
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Oh, I want to say like 400.
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Yeah, it's high for glasses, but not bad for all the other toys out there.
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I'm not sure. Let me look that up real quick. I want to say that they are. Yeah, 379. So not bad. Not bad at all. I mean, I know that I paid, you know, 400 plus for my prescription glasses. I don't know what you pay for yours.
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Well, I usually get readers at the drugstore, so it's not that bad.
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Oh, true.
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You know, eight bucks.
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Well, I'm. Too many screens. Too many screens for too many years has made me almost, you know, almost half blind. So that's what you get.
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Well, I'm getting that.
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But anyway, so we got that. That's coming up is pretty cool. And then you did see the, the M5, the new Apple chip, the M5 that came out. That's pretty nifty.
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Talk about it a little bit.
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Well, I do say, when I say nifty, that's kind of about it. It doesn't come with any monumental features. It's more efficient. They've managed to make the thing consume 40% less power. So you've got, you know, you're getting nearly 50% more battery life out of your iPad or out of your MacBook, which is pretty cool. I'm continually disappointed by the fact that we live in 2025 and I can't use my phone for more than 12 hours at a time. It really sucks.
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A
Well, I mean, if you're out mobiling around, I usually plug mine in and, you know, when I'm driving, and it usually pairs up with my CarPlay, so I don't have a, you know, big deal with it. I kind of like plugging it in because I do get to charge it while I'm driving, and I don't. But I can see where if you just keep it in your pocket, you could run into trouble over a long time.
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C
I just get disappointed because. Okay, so. All right, we're going to do another history. Another history question from me to you. What was your first cell phone?
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A
Oh, Stuart, I had a Motorola. It looked like a lunchbox with a receiver up on top. It was the first cell phone out. And I don't know if I've told you this story or not, but I actually had a cell phone and I was trying to get. It wasn't Verizon then. It was called something else. Cell 1 or something. It was the wireless version at and T was the wired. Right. Because we had the two. And I was getting it through Mike McCord at Aniston Communications. Well, I had, like, my number was so and so so and so 4700. And Mike McCord, who owned the business, had 4701. And he never would let me live that down. He used to joke me about that all the time. But I had that phone before there was even service. I had it plugged in at home. I would come in every day and see the red light on, said no service. And I probably had it a month. And then finally one day the red light was off and I picked it up and dialed our home phone. And it rang. And I thought the world just changed.
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C
I mean, it really did. So that would have been. Would you have called that a bag phone?
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A
No, it was before. It was before the bag phone.
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C
Oh, wow.
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A
Yeah, it listen. And it. Hey, if you toted it around much, you did not need a gym membership because it was a full 3 watt output. And the battery, man, I mean, it was a. It was a horse.
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C
Had a. I'm like a little mini car battery, I'm sure, hooked to it.
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A
Oh, yeah, yeah. It was like a motorcycle battery inside it. It was a horse.
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C
That's crazy. My first was also a Motorola, but not nearly that that early. Mine was. Remember the Razor?
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A
Yes, yes.
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C
I still say that was one of the sleekest phones they ever has ever been around. And you know, it just, it just doesn't, they don't make them quite like that anymore. You can get flip phones now with the foldable screens and everything, but it's not, it's just not the same. And that phone, you could get two or three days of battery life out of that thing. And now of course, we're limited to eight to ten hours, if that.
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A
Stuart, I gotta tell you too, this was funny because as they were promoting cell phones, you know, you should charge you by the minute. And on the weekend they started a program. Nights and weekends were free after 6 o'.
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B
Clock.
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A
Okay, so that was great. Everybody dug that. Well, I took that Motorola phone and I took the handset and I took it apart and I put a plug in it and I put a plug so that when you inserted the male plug into it, it broke the microphone connection and it went over to the plug. Well then I put a little one to one transformer in an old film plastic box and had a wire running in each side. So when we would go out and do football games back 100 years ago, I would take that cable out of the mixer and plug it into the cell phone and then call the station. And back then everybody had to have wired cell phones. I mean wired lines put in and they were very expensive. Not, not every school supplied one for the visiting radio station. So it was, you know, it was, it was, it was a little tough doing games on the road. And when I first pulled up with that cell phone and put it on the counter and plugged in and dialed, you should have seen the looks I got from everybody in the press box. And you talking about que? Man, I was the center of attention everywhere I went. They thought that was the coolest thing ever. Which it.
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C
I gotta tell you, that's creative. I like that.
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A
Yeah, it, I showed it to the cell phone people. They were in a bit of a panic about it, but. And it kind of explained why I had 3 hour phone calls every Friday night. But you know, we've come a long way and we, we, we have.
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C
And that it reminds me we think a lot alike, I guess. How old would you have been then, Bubba?
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A
Oh gosh, let's see. I would have been. Let me. I might have to go back. That was late 80s, so I would have been early to mid-20s probably.
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C
Okay, so when I had my first phone I didn't, didn't quite do that same thing, but this. So the early Razr. Remember how when phones were just Kind of barely starting to get the ability to use mobile data.
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A
Yeah.
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C
And you could kind of access the Internet light on something. You could look up sports scores.
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A
You had an Endora app on it. Yeah, yeah.
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C
You could look up like the movie theater time or stuff like that.
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A
Time and temperature. The weather.
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C
Yeah. So I figured out that the Motorola razr, the way that it did that, is it had a little baby web browser on there. And it just was programmed, pre programmed to go to a specific Verizon website where you can view this information. Okay. And you get into where I'm going with this. I figured out how to mess with the firmware and basically redirect it to Google. So I was using mobile data for free for like a year. They eventually shut me off when they figured it out. But I had the Internet. I was like the only person who had the Internet on their razor. And I was looking stuff up on Wikipedia and people were like, how are you doing?
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A
I'll tell you. I'll tell you one other funny story about that. When the ipod first come out and, you know, it had a green screen on it and it was cool, you know, it was a music player. It was. It was a lot better than carrying around a CD player. And I had a guy I knew and he said, you know, I'm looking at this. I believe this thing would play video if it would accept the right stuff. And I said, yeah, well, that would be neat. It didn't have the color screen yet, so you'd obviously be limited. But he broke into that thing somehow and got it. And he came in one day and was showing me and he had a movie on that green screen just playing plain as day. And I thought, well, you know, that's coming and it's going to be big. And hey, look at it now.
- [36:06]
C
Look where we went. Look where we went. That's a, that's a fun project that we ought to do. I know we got to wrap up, but one of these days I want to do get. Get you an old ipod. And I'm going to teach you how to flash mod it and how you can modernize it, put modern storage in it. And they lack. You talk about a music player, the battery, you can make that battery last for weeks with the tech we've got now, Stuart.
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A
I had at one time I was going to keep all of my phones and ipods and stuff. And like, you know, if I wanted to lay them out like a museum one day, I could. Now some of them have got away when we moved, gosh knows where those first ipods went. Maybe they're in a box somewhere, but it's just amazing how far we've come. Stuart, thank you for your time. We're going to go ahead and break here, but thanks for coming off the job. And like I say, when you get a minute, I got plenty to do. And Hunter's got a project too, so let me know how you're looking.
- [36:56]
C
We'll schedule it. Thank you, Bubba. I appreciate it as always.
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A
Stuart Brockwell, Surge Technologies, Birmingham, Alabama if you need help with your tech project, be sure to check with him. Stuart, tell your mom and all I said hello. And thank you for joining us again here on Bubba on the Lake.
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B
One, two, three.
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B
Look, I just snorted. I didn't mean to do that.
- [40:31]
A
We snort on this show. It's perfectly fine now. Meg actually dropped by to help us on our other podcast, the the Tailgate Tailgate show, which we just did. And I said, meg, I'm going to grab you for a minute because you're more of a long form programming person and we wanted to share you with the audience again. You've been here before. We did a segment and you're a return guest. How's everything going with you?
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B
It's going wonderful. And I tell you, this was, this was awesome to be here. I mean, we have memories. We go way back.
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A
So did you enjoy our other podcast, the Tailgate Tailgate show, which you were the guest picker this week, Bubba.
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B
I just literally lived out one of my dreams to be a part of that because I remember the vet clinic on Rainbow Drive and the moment that I started working with y' all and we did the pigskin roundup, which was one of the greatest things ever. I mean, I thought to myself, I'm getting paid to do this and literally I'm here again and it's come full circle.
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A
Well, the conditions are a little bit different. The pay is not as good and maybe a little more comfortable. I don't know, we were all cramped in there. We're kind of cramped in here. But we had a great time and it was a lot of fun doing all that. I'm glad you came down to do the Tailgate Tailgate Show. It was a very lively program and I Hope people will check it out and follow and subscribe to it too as we pick the college football hits every day.
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B
I think I did pretty good. Do you think I was prepared?
- [42:05]
A
Oh, you had all, I mean you were, you had all kind of stuff.
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B
And you only gave me a couple hours notice and I think I've pulled it off pretty good.
- [42:12]
A
You were a late fill in and I appreciate you doing that. That's always very kind when somebody will.
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B
Do put me in coach.
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A
What else is going on with you? What are you doing nowadays?
- [42:22]
B
Everything is just wonderful. I just am so grateful to God for all the blessings and I want to help as many people as I can. I think, you know, I'm in home health, did hospice for years, but what's calling there? Yes, it is. And I feel like it's a big jump from doing radio and marketing for over 20 years working at the Auburn Network, which you were key in getting me that job. But my dad passed away at 54 of Alzheimer's and I just made it my goal in life to try to help as many other families as I can. So I've been doing home health and hospice for over 10 years.
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A
Well, I know that you are a blessing to a lot of people. We miss you in the, in the broadcasting podcasting world, if you will, because you're so funny and you enjoy doing all these shows and you're just, you're a lot of fun. We always enjoy when Megalov comes to visit.
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B
I miss it. Bubba, love, this is, it's a treat to be able to come and do some shows with you and Betty Lou, which by the way, she still needs her own show.
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A
Oh, I agree. I just can't do anymore. Somebody else is going to have to take care of it. I'm full right now between that and a few knee surgeries here and there. But Meg, I will say I think maybe the highlight of the show is when you ask and I'm talking about the tailgate. Tailgate show. If there was a statue of Brigham Young in Gadsden, Alabama, I don't know if, say, that's probably as far a place that I would never be a statue of Brigham Young. You could have.
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B
I don't know why when we were talking about Brigham Young, I immediately remembered that statue in Gadsden.
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A
Maybe Emma Sampson. Yeah, that's funny. You remember Gimme the finger. The big promotion because somebody broke her finger 100%.
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B
Remember that?
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A
It was a big mystery who had.
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B
The finger and did we ever figure out who actually. Did they have video Footage of somebody doing that?
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A
No, I think it was done before video cameras were so readily available, but somebody had it in a safe deposit box. And I think it's been replaced two or three times and it just always gets broke off.
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B
Okay. So I went to the Pine Hill Cemetery tour in Auburn where they basically have different characters which. Stay tuned for that with coming up with the Victorian porch tour for me. But there is a statue in the Pine Hill Cemetery that they basically have characters that tell the history of Auburn. And there is a statue there that the head keeps being taken off at the.
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A
Is that the statue of the Auburn head coach?
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B
But I'm. No, it's not. And I refuse to talk anything negative about the team that I love.
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A
Still trying to get up to speed on that.
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B
I'm not going to do it, I believe.
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A
Well, listen, it's a great place to go to get rich.
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B
I have said, yeah, I'm going to stop.
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A
$52 million in payouts. Gus Miles on just burned at center center field. I mean, right in the middle of the field. Well, I mean, 52 million.
- [45:19]
B
Okay. So there has been a rumor for a while that there started to be a downhill at our university when we let Coach Malzon go.
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A
Well, it has not been as successful, I'll say that.
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B
But, you know, hey, the Kansas City Chiefs are running Coach Miles on offense, so.
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A
Well, they, they, they run a lot of misdirection and they throw laughing now. They assume. They seem to throw to the. Which I don't know why we have. That's always been kind of absent there. But that's a whole nother topic. But Travis Kelsey. Yeah. Oh, yeah.
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B
You know, I'm a swifty.
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A
Well, you know, four steps forward, turn around. It's. It's not that hard. And it's, It's. It's one of a lot. It's one of a lot of football games. Might ought to try that if you protect your quarterback. Yeah, but we won't go in. That's. You know, that sounds kind of mean, but. Well, Meg, you've been watching all these elections or politics or did you get out and trip a treat? What else you been doing?
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B
Well, I had a ton of people at my house for Halloween. I had. Basically, our neighborhood at Foxhorn Village is amazing. We have this neat community, you know, You've been there. It's a neat community.
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A
I hate I couldn't come to your birthday.
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B
I know. I mean, you kind of owe me a lunch or something.
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A
Yeah, I do, I do. I had too many pops coming Out. I mean, at that point, I can't go anywhere with more than one pop sticking out. You know, from a medical standpoint, you have get tangled up and pull two or three. You have really been.
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B
You've been through it, Meg.
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A
I tell you, it has been. It's been heck since August.
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B
I know it has and I know it has.
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A
You know, I'm just praying we get.
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B
Over this and I feel confident in your next appointment. Well, that's all I'll say.
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A
Yeah, well, I hope that all that's going to run smooth. And my mother went in. It kind of gets on you after a while. And, you know, Betty is a very positive person. And I try to be. I want to be a glass half full person, but I have to be optimistic, too. I mean, I mean, I have to be realistic.
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B
Sure.
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A
And, you know, it's kind of on me. I'm kind of tired limping, because I know it hasn't. I've had stitches in my knee, with exception of one or two days since August 13th.
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B
That's not fun.
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A
No. And it's. They're hurting right now. I feel them pulling, and I'm about a week away from getting them out. Lord willing.
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B
My sweet mother went into labor on Halloween in Fort Dix, New Jersey, and she prayed that I wouldn't be born on Halloween night. But she wasn't more specific with God because I didn't come until November 2nd.
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A
Wow.
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C
So you would have shared the same.
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A
Birthday as Nick Saban. He's a Halloween.
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B
I'm glad I was born on November 2nd. But. But, hey, Coach Saban, you know, genius.
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A
Look, he's the Goat Man. Can't argue with that. So let me ask you about Halloween. I talked a little bit about it earlier in the podcast, what we used to do and how it's kind of got off the track with some people now. I hate that. Did you. Did you enjoy Halloween growing up? Did y' all have a good setup?
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B
You know, yes and no. It was recently. I was recently having this conversation with someone. I guess Halloween, we have to look what it is, too, and we have to acknowledge what it is and what it isn't. But when we grew up, we had those old timey costumes with the masks that would almost suffocate.
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A
You had the rubber band to hold it around you.
- [48:47]
B
Yes.
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A
It broke in the middle of the night.
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B
I mean. Oh. And the pain when that snapped. Oh, my Lord. But I was Cinderella. I found a picture of me in that Cinderella costume the other day. That was the good old days.
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A
Though we had a great neighborhood. Everybody got together and had a big cookout. It was fun. And we tried to do that with our kids, too, but, you know, it's kind of got off the track.
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B
It has.
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A
As believers, we got to be careful of that. So we, you know.
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B
Now, the Lake Martin Halloween house here. I went by boat with my friend Lisa the other night. That is impressive.
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A
Yeah, I'm. You know, I'm worried about those folks a little bit.
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B
Oh, no, she's precious. I know her. She loves to make people happy.
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A
Well, I. I talked. I saw her out.
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B
Hey, Melanie.
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A
But, wow, they're. That's.
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B
Well, every. She has a storage building just for all that. And she starts decorating in July.
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A
I can't imagine that all of that would fit in one store. And we're talking about a house where they decorate in the yard. And it's a lot of stuff and a lot of boats go by. And, you know, it's really cool because.
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B
I know her heart now and how much she loves it. And she just wants to make people happy. And she's giving out dog treats and giving out candy and the whole nine yards. So I think at the end of the day.
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A
She's giving out dog treats.
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B
Yeah, to the dogs.
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A
She gave me a cookie that was shaped like a dog bone. You mean to tell me that was a dog treat?
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B
Yes, it was, Bubba. How was it?
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A
It cleaned my teeth. Well.
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B
Well, good for you.
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A
A little crunchy, but a little crunchy. Yeah.
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B
Yeah. But I think at the end of the day. I know. I don't think it's our job. It's the Holy Spirit's job to talk to us about the things in our life. That's the way I feel. I think we get closer to God. We. Some things go away, some things get closer. I think it's a personal preference. But I will say I'm glad I wasn't born on Halloween.
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A
Yeah. You know, we've talked about holidays. Christmas is great. Love Christmas.
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B
I have three Christmas trees up already.
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A
Yeah. Betty will probably start decorating. She would already had it up if I hadn't been tied up with knee surgeries.
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B
Do you remember the picture you sent me last year of Betty decorate the tree?
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A
Oh, yeah.
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B
You said don't ever tell her. Sorry, Betty.
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A
Yeah, she was on the ladder.
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B
Yes.
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A
Yeah. It was quite a view.
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B
She's so stunning, Bubba.
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A
She is. She's.
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B
Betty Lou. Bessie is a beautiful human being inside and out. Yes, she is.
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A
And you know, the thing about Thanksgiving. And Thanksgiving is a wonderful holiday. Too. But the point was made years ago, and I think this can be valid, that you can enjoy Thanksgiving even more than Christmas because you have basically the same setup without gifts.
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B
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday because you're still watching college football while you got the tree up and the stretchy pants to be able to eat all the things. And don't you love dressing? Is dressing not the greatest thing ever?
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A
Don't get me started.
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B
Oh, my gosh. I love dressing.
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A
Oh, my gosh.
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B
I don't like a lot of sage, though. It's got to be light sage.
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A
I wish I knew a place I could get dressing all the time.
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B
Oh, I can. I'll hook you up.
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A
Okay.
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B
I know some people.
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A
I do. I would like to get it more than I do. And I love dressing. It's. Betty was in there cooking cornbread today. She's already started. I love it.
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B
Betty, I need an invite.
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A
But you know what we used to do? We would go. We had we. With our grandparents and all this. And we would eat like, you know, we're going to the electric chair.
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B
Yes.
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A
And then we would all lay in the floor and take naps while the lines lost on tv.
- [52:12]
B
Absolutely.
- [52:12]
A
Then we would get up and take a walk.
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B
Yeah.
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A
And go down the highway like a mile.
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B
Right.
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A
To walk it off so we could come back and eat more and do again.
- [52:20]
B
I mean, is that a great sandwich? The leftover sandwich?
- [52:23]
A
Only Americans can do that, right?
- [52:24]
B
Amen.
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A
Oh, good stuff.
- [52:26]
B
Aren't we blessed as a nation, as. As individuals?
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A
Beyond comprehension. Yes, we really, really are.
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B
And I want to focus on that this year. I was telling my small group last night, I don't want to miss anything this year. Like, I don't want to get caught up in the busyness of it all and not be in the moment and really, really celebrate the season of Thanksgiving and what we're grateful for and also the holiday season of the birth of Jesus. I think we forget that as a country, as a nation, we're just constantly in the busyness and the perfect this and the perfect that at the end of the day, though.
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A
So we're blessed, you know, too. I just enjoy the kids coming back. We see Hunter more. We see Caitlin, but we rarely have them here at the same time. And it's just what great kids have. And it's me, Betty. We're just talking about this today. We have. I'm sorry, I got my mic down. We used to have huge Thanksgiving house full of people. Just. I mean, 20 people.
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B
Oh, yeah.
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A
And over the years, on my Side, you know, they've. They've died off. Grandparents, aunts and uncles, and, you know, our kids have not got married and started bringing other people in or grandchildren, which, you know, they're. I won't get about that because, you know, in due time. But it's. I'm just not used to four of us sitting down.
- [54:01]
B
Well, I will be glad to come and provide some entertainment.
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A
I said we ought to talk to some of the other neighbors around here that may be kind of in the same boat we are, where it's just two of them or, you know, four of them, whatever, and we all get together, and that would be nice. I just want to enjoy people. I'm not as concerned about the football. Food's fine. It'll be great. But community, I just want to talk to people.
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B
Community.
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A
Visit with them.
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Yes.
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See how they're doing. Because, you know, we're so busy and, you know, you wave at people, you don't get the chance. It's a little better here at the lake, I'll be honest with you, because we. We people here do socialize a lot, and a lot of it's golf cart socializing, so I do enjoy that part of it. But I hope this year we can. We can just enjoy the day and what it means. And, you know, right now, I am so thankful for health.
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Yes. Amen.
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And, you know, we take it for granted. You can't help but take it for granted. But when you struggle, you realize what a. What a huge thing it is. You give every dime and everything you own to fill 100%.
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100%. And you know how much we've been praying, like, really praying. I mean, I'm so glad that Betty and Hunter kind of kept me updated through the whole process. And just knowing you and knowing how active you are and how full of life you are, for it to basically have kind of taken your legs out from under you, pun intended. It's been tough. But what you said right there, Bubba, is so important. It's about community, because people we are better with, we're serving other people. When we're having community with. I'm better personally, when I'm not introverted and thinking about myself, when I'm constantly finding ways to give to other people, I found purpose, and I come alive in that. And it's important to me. At my community Fox Run Village in Opelika, I intentionally try to know my neighbors. We used to know our neighbors like you. You had community in your neighborhood. You knew the people, and I think that's been lost. And I think it's so important that you know who is around you, that you help other people when you have an opportunity to help them.
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Yeah, it is. It. Being a helper is a real blessing.
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It is.
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And sometimes we miss out on that blessing.
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That's what we're made for.
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Meg, thank you for joining us.
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I love you. Bubba love.
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Thank you for coming up and being on the Tailgate Tailgate show and Bubba on the Lake. We have to. We have to use you all we can when we finally get you.
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I agree. And I gave out probably 20 shout outs. I got them all in because I'm afraid you have me back.
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Yeah. Pretty much everybody in Lee county got a shout out tonight. No.
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All the way to Texas. And that's right my friends that live.
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In Texas, very few people have friends at every single college that you pick.
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I love that.
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But Meg, now you know we love you. Thank you for coming by and take care and thank you for hanging around.
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Love you.
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See you. You're listening to Bubba on the Lake. Hit Me Bad. A production of Intergalactic Pants and Tees.
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At Central State bank, we believe community banking is more than just transactions. It's about relationships. For over 100 years, we've been helping neighbors grow, businesses thrive and dreams become reality. Because when you bank local, you invest in your community. Central State Bank. Large enough to serve you, small enough to know you. Visit us today or learn more@centralstatebank.com Member FDIC. Welcome back to Bubba on the Lake. We appreciate Meg taking time to be with us on two different podcasts tonight. So we had to, we had to make hay when the sun was up with her and glad to have her here. We appreciate all of you tuning in. I hope you enjoyed that. I did want to say too, the elections we just had, we saw the left wing Democrats gain some seats as mayors and one thing and another. And of course the big story was New York City and the socialist communist there who is going to take over and do all kind of wonders. You know, George Will said something I thought was very interesting when he was asked about the mayor in New York. He said, I hope Manda. What's his name? Mandani. Mandani. I hope he wins. And I think the interviewer was taken back by that and he said every 20 years or so we need a good socialist to come along and show everybody why socialism and communism doesn't work. And this will be the next rendition of it. But the problem is it's going to set things back in a lot of places, decades. It always does and takes time to work out of it. But he may have a point there. How can you be so positive, bubba, that it won't work? Well, I can tell you this. We have history to look at. We have some really good comparisons. After World War II, we had east and West Germany. East Germany was communist. West Germany was a free market capitalistic system. And people were fleeing into West Germany. So much so that the old Soviet Union had to put up a fence and watchtowers and gates and they had to put guards and guard towers and they shot people trying to leave. Now if that doesn't tell you the difference in those two systems, I don't know what does. Same thing with North Korea. We have another example, north and South Korea. North Korea is communist. South Korea is a free market capitalistic system. No comparison. Just look at the pictures at night of the Korean peninsula. There are no lots in the North. The south is all lit up, very westernized. You couldn't have two different countries so contrasting with the same people. It's just staggering. So it's never worked. The Soviet Union collapsed under their version of communism. Didn't work. Venezuela, it hasn't worked. Cuba, it hasn't worked. It's a long and distinguished list. We've had other countries even try it dealing with socialism. India has tampered with it. Israel at one point, it just never worked. Never worked. And the only example that people can point to is China. And you go, well, China was kind of behind the eight ball and just recently kind of got their act together like in the last 20, 30 years. And there was a reason for that. They went to more of a free market system. They allowed private ownership, they allowed profit. They still have a communist dictator framework for the government, but for the most part, they're letting a lot of people make their own decisions a lot more than they used to, and it's flourished for them. And I think all of those are examples that show that what we do in a free market capitalism like we have here in America has provided the greatest standard of living in the history of mankind. I don't even think it can be debated anymore. And for us to go back and try these same old. And look, socialism and communism has a great speech they give. Hey, look at all those other people. They stole your stuff. I'm going to give it back to you. I'm going to give you free bus trips, I'm going to give you rent control housing. I'm going to do this, I'm going to do that. Let me tell you how you bring the rent down. If you have a one, if you have 100 apartments for rent and you have 200 people that need an apartment, what do you think the price is going to do? Going to go up. Going to go up because they can charge what they want to. If you won't pay it, somebody else will. Now, what happens if you have 100 people and you have 200 apartments for rent? Guess what? They're begging people to rent their apartment. Prices go down. It's not that complicated. It's just not that complicated. Many of the pollsters, and I was looking at some of that this afternoon, has said affordability was the main thing on the ballot. Exit polling said it was about affordability. Well, you know, the Biden years, we had inflation at 9, 10%. It's back down in the 2 range now. 1, 2, gas is cheap. Remember when egg prices went just through the roof? They're back to about where they should be. So we have seen the process come down of things in the last nine months, and a lot of that is because of the free market pressures that President Trump and the Republicans have brought to bear. I will say this, I hate the government shutdown. I think Congress should fix the rules so that that cannot be done in the future, that they're going to have to fight it out as legislators, not as hostage takers. And that's exactly what they've done. It doesn't matter who you for here, the Republicans are offering them a start. All they have to do is come back and vote yes, but they want to tie a bunch of other stuff to it. We need to do away with this. This part of our system is a failure for everybody concerned. And I hope that the Republicans will get enough people they can do that. These continuing resolutions and look, give us a budget, vote on it up and down, have a certain time pass it and then we go with it. None of this. We're just going to take our checkbook and go home. That's ridiculous. It's like a bunch of sixth graders and this is real people, this is real lives. It's air traffic controllers and it's. Look, I hate to say this but we're going to end up with a disaster. We're going to end up with somebody overworked, not enough people and we're going to have a disaster. And boy, then the fingers are going to go to pointing again. But we still won't do anything about it. So I would call on our Congress to change the rules and not allow these defunding of the government that if they cannot get a budget and they cannot vote on it, that we just go forward with the one we had last year. I'd be alright with that. Ain't perfect. We need to reduce it. But hey, it certainly beats this. What we got going on now, now the longest government shutdown we've ever had and I don't think either side is any closer. Don't know who's going to get blamed for it. Doesn't matter. But we, we as Americans can do better than this. You know, we, we, we learned to fly, we broke the bounds of gravity, we split the atom, we landed on the moon. You know, we, we can do better than this. We invented the Internet. Good, bad or otherwise. I guess so. I really hope we can get that together. Guys. Thank all of you for being part of Bub on the Lake. We appreciate it. I ask you to tell a friend. Bring them in. We always love to hear from you via email or from our 308 Big Lake comment line here in the mellow Yellow studio. And don't forget to turn on your notifications. Subscribe all that kind of good stuff on social media and we certainly appreciate you being part of the podcast. It's going great. We have some new sponsors on and we're looking forward to things getting bigger and better with your help. So until next time when we sail into port, remember, God loves you and we do too. And thank you for being part of Bubba on the Lake. 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