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Bubba (7:47)

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Bubba (8:15)

Well, we are back and we have Stuart the tech guy with us also sitting in Betty Lou Busse. Betty, how are you?

Betty Lou Busse (8:20)

I am doing good. Happy Thanksgiving week, everybody.

Bubba (8:24)

And I know how you love technology, so I asked you to sit in here in the Mello Yellow studio, which you can hand me my Mela yellow back. It's out of reach.

Stuart Brockwell (8:34)

Get your branding on camera.

Bubba (8:35)

That's right.

Betty Lou Busse (8:36)

That's right.

Bubba (8:36)

And we have Stuart Brockwell from Surge Technologies, Birmingham, Alabama and he is in.

Stuart Brockwell (8:42)

Studio with us for the first time.

Bubba (8:44)

We're pumped to have you here at the lake.

Stuart Brockwell (8:46)

Yep, it's a beautiful day, actually not horrifically cold for late November.

Bubba (8:50)

I know. How about the view though, out the studio?

Stuart Brockwell (8:53)

It is. It is nothing. Like no. Like no other.

Betty Lou Busse (8:55)

Yeah, like no other office.

Stuart Brockwell (8:57)

That's right. I mean the Melod studio spared no expense.

Betty Lou Busse (9:02)

Better known as my kitchen.

Stuart Brockwell (9:04)

I had to.

Bubba (9:04)

I had to get a swig.

Betty Lou Busse (9:06)

Oh, gosh.

Bubba (9:07)

Well, Stuart, what is going on? It's. We're about to have Black Friday.

Stuart Brockwell (9:11)

Oh, yeah.

Bubba (9:11)

We're about to have Cyber Monday. And I had to ask you, what are, what are some of the things. We talked a little bit about it before, but has there been anything that has come to the forefront that there's going to be the must have item this year?

Stuart Brockwell (9:24)

Well, I think first off, is it just me or is Black Friday like now? It's like a month long event. It's not. And then we had Cyber Monday for a while and that's just like all the time now. So I mean, that just kind of died off.

Bubba (9:38)

Well, I think Amazon killed both of them.

Stuart Brockwell (9:40)

They did really like most things unfortunately or fortunately, depending on who you shop with. But no, I mean, I mean, I'm thinking right now the must have tech items are kind of stuff people have already seen. You know, you got your AirPods Pros that are good value. You can see those on sale every so often now. People are always buying things like drones and tablets. Although the new Nintendo Switch is a thing, so you can buy that if.

Bubba (10:05)

You'Re a new one. It's a different one.

Stuart Brockwell (10:07)

The Switch two. Yeah, I got, I got one back when they came out in early July or late, I guess we had some.

Bubba (10:15)

Kind of switch that our kids had when they were little.

Betty Lou Busse (10:17)

It wasn't a regular Nintendo. I don't know.

Stuart Brockwell (10:21)

So the Nintendo Switch came out in 15, 2015 originally.

Betty Lou Busse (10:24)

Hunter probably has that. I don't know.

Bubba (10:26)

Or did I say it may have even been. Well, that was 10 years ago.

Betty Lou Busse (10:30)

Yeah, that was 10 years ago.

Bubba (10:31)

Next time's a getting away.

Stuart Brockwell (10:33)

Actually may have been 17. Don't quote me on the release date. Either way, it's been a while. Nintendo finally stepped up. They got something new. I picked one up. They're great there. It's a little pricey for a handheld. $500. But everything's expensive nowadays except for TVs. For some reason TVs are the cheapest. What is it with this world that you can pick up a 55 inch good looking television, not garbage. A good looking television for like $229 and yet you can't get, you know, a set of tires for your car for under three grand.

Bubba (11:04)

I know, I know. Yeah, it, it's very hard to explain that. I think the fact that they started turning the TVs out and they're not serviceable, you know, they're just one board and I think there's only probably about three boards and all the different manufacturers put a different case on it, you know, made it cheap.

Stuart Brockwell (11:24)

And you also have the thing like with TVs. Speaking of which, if you are in the market for a TV for Christmas, which is a lot of people are, it's a popular Christmas thing to do. Brand doesn't matter anywhere near as much as it used to. It really doesn't.

Bubba (11:37)

Right.

Stuart Brockwell (11:37)

My favorite TVs now are made by an off brand called Hisense of all things. And I like Hisense for a number of reasons. Their cost is low, their smart integrations are not great. But you just pick up an Apple TV and throw it on there. Right. You don't need that. So it gets you a nice hisense. Their mini led 7 series TVs are like under a grand for a big screen and you've got something.

Bubba (12:01)

Do you still like Apple TV versus just smart TVs in general?

Stuart Brockwell (12:05)

Oh, no question. I mean I, I deliberately tell people, ignore what the TV says it can do. Never connect it to the Internet, not once. And immediately just plug in an Apple TV because they're cheap enough. Most people have iPhones. If you don't. If you're over on the dark side and you use Android, then pick up a, a Roku and those work just as well.

Bubba (12:23)

Right, right.

Stuart Brockwell (12:24)

But you can't beat Apple's integration. The way that it works, your subscriptions all sync over. It's very nice. So if you are in the Apple ecosystem and Apple TV is a really smart buy.

Bubba (12:34)

So we were having a discussion about laptops a minute ago is when do you need to upgrade your laptop.

Stuart Brockwell (12:41)

So typically with my business customers, we typically say four or five years is kind of the point for home users. You can stretch it further than that, especially if you're not a heavy user. But these days, I mean, if you're using a MacBook Air or like a Dell Inspiron or an HP Pavilion or anything like that, you know, four or five years is easy to achieve, which is crazy thinking back into like the early 2000s when your computer was obsolete 12 months after you bought it, right. Nowadays it's not the case at all.

Bubba (13:06)

So why is that? Has the curve of technology slowed down a little bit? I mean, yes, when you have a bigger, more powerful computer, you're only talking about a few things. You're talking about processor speed and you're talking about memory. So we've reached a point now that memory is pretty cheap. Everything has a lot of memory in it. I don't use memory up on anything I've got. The processors are all so fast that you really can't see any difference if they make them faster. That's because the humans can't interact with it any faster. So is that why that's slowing down?

Stuart Brockwell (13:44)

Well, part of it. You know, back. Are you familiar with the term Moore's law?

Bubba (13:48)

That is the law that our technical advancement doubles at a certain point, right?

Stuart Brockwell (13:55)

Yeah, every 18 months. And the original definition was that the number of transistors, the little electronic switches that you can fit on a given processor of a certain size, whatever that size is, would double every 18 months. And it was held, that held true all the way through the 1970s, 80s, 90s, 2000s, 2010s. And then people will debate when it ended. I hold that it was 2017 when it ended. Some people argue that. But it's to a point now that due to physics, we simply can't make that many more processors, more transistors on the same size chip anymore because we're now manufacturing them in, you know, the most recent iPhones manufactured on 3 nanometer. 3 nanometers. That's the size of each individual switch. You need an electron scanning tunneling microscope to even see them.

Bubba (14:49)

So really the next step is a term we've heard a lot about, quantum computing, where you literally carry down to an atom either being on or off.

Stuart Brockwell (14:58)

That is a step. I don't think it's the step that is going to be the step that's still sci fi now. It will be after you and me are long gone. Right. What? I'm.

Bubba (15:07)

I don't know. It's every 18 months.

Stuart Brockwell (15:09)

Well, the next step right now and what do you see? Like how is it that AMD or Intel or Apple are able to make chips that are faster without making them, you know, have more transistors on them? By making the architecture more efficient. Right. So you know, an AMD processor from 10 years ago is going to have a similar, you know, physical dimension. There's definitely more transistors now than there were, but it's the architecture that's improved. So the Apple M5, what's the big difference? We talked about it last, last time I was on the air it was efficiency.

Bubba (15:42)

Right.

Stuart Brockwell (15:42)

It's. It's not any faster.

Bubba (15:44)

Right.

Stuart Brockwell (15:44)

But it can do the same amount of work with 40% less power. Right.

Bubba (15:48)

That's where it makes your portable devices last a lot longer. Betty, what do you think about the architecture situation?

Betty Lou Busse (15:55)

I have no idea. All I know is my laptop is what, 10 years old? We decided and apparently that's what I need to ask for Christmas. So I've already sent you links.

Bubba (16:03)

Okay, thank you.

Betty Lou Busse (16:04)

And they are on the Black Friday sale.

Stuart Brockwell (16:05)

Yeah, that's a good kind of rope back into our Christmas talk is, you know, MacBook Airs, great, great laptops. They just are great. We sell over at my company, we sell the more of the 15 inch model than any other MacBook Apple sells by far. And they are probably Apple's best computer in a very long time. They can video edit just like the big pros. They have no cooling.

Bubba (16:28)

That's what I was going to ask you. How are they when you bog them down with video, when you start doing that? Because long time I always thought that the errors were for doing email and web surfing and that kind of stuff, but I really didn't consider it a heavy duty video machine.

Stuart Brockwell (16:45)

It wasn't. And that was because back when up until 2020, the airs used intel processors and they didn't have any amount of dedicated graphics processing. When Apple came out with the M series starting with M1 and then it really took its really kind of took its claim to fame with M3 and M4 is they've integrated a video encode and decode engine into the processor that has its roots from the iPhone. And that video engine is so good at what it does. It's so efficient at what it does. It basically takes all the load off of the processor when you're video editing on it. It's not a video processor in a traditional sense, but it does that level of work. So I mean I have a friend Bill who needed a new MacBook we got him set up with a new 15 inch air and it's editing 4k footage all day long. It has no fan in it. It doesn't care because that video engine does all the work.

Bubba (17:40)

What about the input and outputs? It seems like I'm always one USB plug short.

Stuart Brockwell (17:47)

Yeah, you're not getting out of that one.

Bubba (17:51)

How many do they have on it?

Stuart Brockwell (17:52)

Two. And that's I like five. Yeah, well, everybody would. At least they've got HDMI now, right? Apple graced us with that.

Bubba (18:01)

Yeah. So I use a lot of Mac Minis and use them with TVs or different monitors.

Stuart Brockwell (18:07)

Mac mini M4 is in my. And this is, this is coming from me as a guy who likes PCs and Macs both equally. The Mac mini M4, the base model specifically is the best computer, period for most people. It's under $500 new and it will run circles around every PC on the shelf. It does not matter. It is unreal the amount of performance in that box. And if you've already got a mouse and keyboard laying around, you'd be a fool not to look at it as an option.

Bubba (18:35)

So the M series chips, Apple, they're Apple's own in house chip.

Stuart Brockwell (18:41)

Yes.

Bubba (18:42)

Where are they making them at? Are they overseas too? Are they China made?

Stuart Brockwell (18:45)

Tsmc.

Bubba (18:47)

So that will be ripped off at some point.

Stuart Brockwell (18:51)

Tsmc, despite being located in Taiwan and.

Bubba (18:54)

Well, Taiwan's different.

Stuart Brockwell (18:56)

It is Red China. Well, China think, depending on who you ask, China would claim them. But well, this is not a geopolitical segment, right?

Bubba (19:03)

They do, but they don't. They're not. They're not in charge, right?

Stuart Brockwell (19:07)

No. So TSMC is very good at protecting intellectual property. They manufacture chips for Nvidia, amd, intel even, and they do all of Apple stuff.

Bubba (19:16)

So. I remember back when Covid was going on, we had a discussion in this country about medicine not being made here and chips not being made here. Did we do anything to fix either one of those?

Stuart Brockwell (19:27)

I'm not an expert on the medicine, so I can't speak to that. But I can tell you that there are several fabs being built here in the us TSMC has got a fabric that is supposed to. If ground hasn't been broken yet, it's going.

Bubba (19:37)

Now that's a real hint. When you say fab, you mean factory fabricate?

Stuart Brockwell (19:41)

Yes. Fabrication facility. Yes. And people don't realize that the, you know, all the devices we use, from audio equipment to phones to laptops to your smart toaster, it doesn't matter what it is. The chips that go into those are manufactured in a very small number of facilities. It takes decades to build one of these facilities and even longer to ramp it up into production. You're talking about Mexico, Mexico, China, Taiwan, Germany. There's a. There's just a handful of places that can have the capability to do this. And inside the US There's. There's kind of a void of that. And that's because it's too expensive to do it here.

Bubba (20:21)

Yeah, mostly because of the. The cost of the people. Yeah, it costs so much more here than it does in other places. Well, you ought to pay them. Other people. Well, there's, you know, it doesn't cost as much to live there as it does here, but I mean, can we afford chips made here?

Stuart Brockwell (20:40)

It's going to be higher when you start seeing iPhones made with chips out of, you know, Arizona, which I believe is where they're is either that or New Mexico, where they're going to put the fab. I can't remember off top of my head, but yeah, you're going to see an increase in cost for sure.

Bubba (20:53)

What about these data centers that I keep hearing, you know, they're using so much power, a lot of places are not wanting them built in their area.

Stuart Brockwell (21:01)

They're also very loud. And there's a couple of places in Tennessee. I know some people who live near one of these things. Property values are in the toilet because. Because of this. Now, depending on.

Bubba (21:11)

Is it the new jail?

Stuart Brockwell (21:14)

Well, depending on your point of view, if you don't mind it, it's a good opportunity to get some cheap land.

Bubba (21:17)

Right.

Stuart Brockwell (21:19)

But no, these.

Bubba (21:20)

But we got to have servers. I mean, everything is server based out there. Every little app we're playing with has to go somewhere.

Stuart Brockwell (21:26)

And AI, of course, is all based in these data centers. Now, of course, Elon, you know, can't go a segment without bringing him up. His plan on this, which I think is actually is to put it all in space. And I know this is where your interest comes in. So he wants to put data centers in space powered entirely off of solar because you can get way better view of the sun up there. Your solar is a lot more efficient up there, you know, in the vacuum.

Bubba (21:50)

He's a dreamer.

Stuart Brockwell (21:50)

You're not worried. You're not worried about, you know, heating or cooling the panels because you got the vacuum space.

Bubba (21:55)

So, you know, his hell to work on, though.

Stuart Brockwell (21:58)

Well, it is, it is. But with Starlink now, hey, we got a few.

Bubba (22:03)

Somebody needs to go trip or breaker.

Stuart Brockwell (22:05)

Well, you'll have just, you'll just have.

Bubba (22:07)

Dragon 9 fired up.

Stuart Brockwell (22:08)

You'll have your optimus robots up there to do that. Well, that's true, but yeah, Orbital data centers are something that they're seriously considering doing now. Is this going to be in the next 10 years? Probably not in the next 20. Who would target though? You know, maybe so it's something to think about because AI is consuming vast amounts of electricity.

Bubba (22:29)

Is AI living up to the hype? I mean it was going to be unlimited knowledge. There's a lot of different AI products out there now that can, you know, put anybody's face on a video, that kind of thing. But is it living up to the hype? I mean, it was going to be everything, all, all world. I mean it was going to solve all these problems. Is it solving the problems or is it slowing down a little bit?

Stuart Brockwell (22:52)

I don't see it slowing down at all. I see it becoming more and more concerning, frankly, with the amount of things that are integrating into it. You know, we don't need AI in everything. When my printer is using AI to tell me when to order ink, I think is a bit much.

Bubba (23:04)

Well, you could do that now with not AI printers. You can log it into Amazon and it'll tell you it'll order its own ink.

Stuart Brockwell (23:13)

Yeah, I think it's too much in some ways. But is AI living up to the hype? I'd say more so than it is, especially with the more stuff we're seeing integrate into it. Machine learning is. It is the iPhone of the 2000 and twenties.

Bubba (23:31)

So what about, since you mentioned Elon, what about the driving cars? How are we coming on that? Because I know you're like me, you're a fan. You don't have one yet.

Stuart Brockwell (23:38)

Yet is the key word.

Bubba (23:39)

So I'm watching you, what you do here.

Stuart Brockwell (23:42)

So if you're following it at all. The 14.2 self driving software just launched. They are, as Elon said, with the 14 version they're trying really hard to move from okay, I can take you from point A to point B, which they've been able to do for a while now to now I'm going to take you from point A to point B, but I'm going to be able to reason and think as I do it. And you can really see that in its handling of parking garages, parking lots. It can.

Bubba (24:09)

Now that's the bigger problem is tight spaces and people. Not an out on the road is not an issue.

Stuart Brockwell (24:15)

When you did the test before, you didn't have version 14. And now what you can do is you're talking about zero contact drives. You can sit down, touch, go on the screen, and you touch the wheel, zero from point A to point B. It unparks, parks, navigates as needed. And what people are finding. What's interesting, I've talked to some buddies about this. With AI, there's a term called emergent behavior. You familiar with that? Okay, so y' all both raise kids, right? Yep. I'm not a parent yet, but with the oldest in a group of siblings, so I've seen this. You know how you have a kid and you teach them, you know, what to do and what not to do, and then you suddenly are like, how'd you learn to do that?

Bubba (24:56)

Yeah, one day they stay by themselves.

Stuart Brockwell (24:58)

How'd you learn to do. How'd you learn to open that? How did you learn to open, to defy? Where'd you find that? You know, it's the same thing, these AI language, AI models, because they learn, they're not programmed, they learn, they will pick up on and almost develop unintentional behavior, sometimes undesirable, but they will. And so one of the things that people have noticed with this 14 software, which I find hilarious, and there's lots of videos of it, this is beyond a glitch. It's a thing that actually happens. They can handle drive throughs. And to say that people might not think why that's significant, but to go through a drive thru is kind of this little process. There's a lot involved in it. Yeah, you know, where's the lane, you know, where's the speaker at? How long do you sit at the speaker? Where, where do you pay? Sometimes the first windows close, sometimes the second window's closed. You know, got to know sometimes I.

Bubba (25:52)

Got somebody out there with an eye, right?

Stuart Brockwell (25:53)

If it's, yeah, Chick fil a does, how do you know? But there are many, many videoed examples. You can find them on YouTube, Google, look them up. Of these cars going. It won't go in the drive thru on its own. You have to put it there. But then you can engage the self driving. It will pull up at the speaker and stop. You order, and after you order, it will move and then it will pull up to the correct window, somehow knowing which window it is.

Bubba (26:21)

The pay window or just the window that does it all.

Stuart Brockwell (26:24)

Yeah, it'll wait for you to give them your card. They'll give it back. If they give you your food, they'll wait for you to do that. And then it will pull on out. How does it do that? How does it know? Is it listening?

Bubba (26:36)

Does it look in the bag to see if I'm a straw short? Which is normally the case. That would be really.

Stuart Brockwell (26:43)

But I think what a lot of the guys I've talked to are thinking on this and Tesla themselves have not made any comment on it at all. But what we think is because Teslas have cameras on the side of the vehicle. What we think is that they have learned from their millions of hours of driving, lots of drive throughs examples in that footage. Of course people in America were addicted to fast food. But what we think is that they're using the side camera to watch for the transaction to take place. Even though that was never taught to the model or it was never instructed to do those things. It has emerged this ability to handle that and it's really cool to watch.

Bubba (27:23)

So Stuart, I'll ask you this and we'll wrap up. I know you have a very busy schedule. What's on your list for Christmas?

Stuart Brockwell (27:31)

So your tech list. So I'm actually, I never, I don't know if we talked about this. I'm into 3D printing as a hobby and that's something I got to get you into. It's really fun. But I'm just was wanting to get a, one of the. An automatic filament changer. If you familiar with how 3D printing works.

Bubba (27:49)

Yeah, it's basically got a wire of stuff in there, plastic or whatever that it melts down and basically hot glue guns it all together.

Stuart Brockwell (27:57)

You got it. That's, that's a great explanation. And so what I want is a module. You can buy them and it, I use a bamboo labs 3D printer and it basically just sits on top of it and it gives you the ability to put in more than one spool and it can automatically size color.

Bubba (28:13)

Exactly.

Stuart Brockwell (28:14)

And it can, it can, it can switch back and forth on its own. So you can print in multiple colors or you can print in multiple textures or you can print multiple materials and things like that stuff.

Bubba (28:23)

I've seen houses being built kind of out 3D printing. Yeah, that's wild.

Betty Lou Busse (28:27)

That is wild.

Bubba (28:29)

Is that going to catch on?

Stuart Brockwell (28:30)

You think, oh, the houses. I doubt it. But 3D printing. 3D printing. So the technical term in the industrial world is additive manufacturing. So instead of cutting away or carving away or refining a material, you're adding it on. Right. So you're adding. And there's lots of like actual devices including the new Apple Watch Ultra that they just came out with. That is 3D printed out of titanium. So they use titanium powder that's fed into the printer. And just like the hot glue gun, except it's doing it in metal. And so they 3D print the chassis. And it's cheaper than machining away all the excess to just form it into one piece.

Bubba (29:10)

You don't use as much stuff.

Stuart Brockwell (29:12)

It's a lot. It's quicker, it's more efficient, and you end up with what's cool about 3D printing. You got to think about it from a perspective of manufacturing. When you're wanting to make something metal, you have to cut away.

Bubba (29:22)

You get a block of something and trim it down as opposed to. Because that's a lot of waste. The trim that comes off it is.

Stuart Brockwell (29:28)

And it also means you have to get a drill bit in there somewhere, a tool in there, to actually carve that away, which means that there are certain shapes you can't make because you can't get the tool in there. With 3D printing, there's no limits to what shapes can be done. So geometry for products is actually more than you could do traditionally.

Bubba (29:46)

What did you say, Betty? What did you.

Betty Lou Busse (29:49)

What do you print? I'm just curious, like, what are you.

Stuart Brockwell (29:51)

So working on what I've done. So I 3D print just for fun, and I've done a couple of projects recently, so. So we have a screen porch door. I don't know if y' all got a screen door somewhere around here, but we do downstairs. Yeah, so. So you know how your screen door is held in with little like a. An insert around the edge. And so my door is real old at my house, and it's hand painted. And so my screens wore out and torn up, so I needed to replace it. But I didn't want to replace the door because it's been. It was painted and Lowe's didn't sell the insert, so I could buy a new screen, but I couldn't make it fit. And so I thought this could be a really fun project. So I go to Grok and coming back from a few weeks, a few segments ago, and I say, okay, Grok, here we go. So I gave it the measurements, I went with my calipers, I measured the opening all the way around. And I said, here's the dimensions. Give me. Oh, and here's what my 3D printer can make as far as how big of an object it can do at a time. Design for me the specs for a multi piece assembly that will take the place of my insert that I need to replace. And it did it. And with a little back and forth, we refined the design. I printed a prototype. It fit. I printed all the little remaining pieces, went to Lowe's, got some screws, put them in there. Looks factory.

Betty Lou Busse (31:09)

Really?

Bubba (31:09)

Oh, that's great.

Stuart Brockwell (31:10)

So that's a practice. That's a practical example of what 3D printing can do.

Betty Lou Busse (31:14)

So you could do like a frame or whatever? Yeah, yeah, something like that. A curtain rod. I guess you could. I don't know.

Stuart Brockwell (31:21)

You can. You can 3D print just about anything as long as your printer can hold it. And if not, you can make it in multiple pieces.

Bubba (31:26)

Handles.

Betty Lou Busse (31:27)

Crazy.

Bubba (31:28)

Anything.

Stuart Brockwell (31:28)

And printers are so cheap now. You can get a decent printer for, like, less than 300 bucks. I started on the cheapest one from Amazon. My mom got it for me for Christmas a couple years ago. And it's been just so. Such so much fun to learn it.

Bubba (31:39)

Yeah, you have to be good at being able to tell it what you want. That's the thing. The design of it is the key, isn't it?

Stuart Brockwell (31:47)

It's a little bit of cad, but it's less about learning how to design the models because there's lots of. You can download them from the Internet. It's more about learning how to run the printer and you know what, you know, how thick should you print and what temperature and all that stuff.

Bubba (32:02)

We have enough trouble. Our printer just prints paper.

Stuart Brockwell (32:04)

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Oh, yeah, it's always something. Well, Stuart, thank you for being with us. Stuart Rockwell from Surge Technologies in Birmingham. Stuart, have a great Thanksgiving. If I don't see you before.

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Absolutely. And we'll catch back up before Christmas.

Bubba (32:31)

Thank you for coming by. Stuart's helping us out with a little project here. So glad to have you in the studio. And maybe we can catch you again on the flop.

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Sounds good.

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Betty Lou Busse (35:15)

I'm doing great.

Bubba (35:17)

You've showed out this year.

Betty Lou Busse (35:18)

You know it's turkey week, so why wouldn't I be doing good? It's almost Christmas time. I've already got up one tree. Well, actually two trees. Got to decorate one of them.

Bubba (35:29)

But you don't put ornaments on them. And you call them a Thanksgiving tree.

Betty Lou Busse (35:33)

Well, the one in the main area where we will be doing Thanksgiving, I don't put ornaments on quite yet. I did decorate downstairs already, though, and it's kind of the. What I used to call the Thanksgiving tree because it's the Thanksgiving colors. And it's also the one that has the famous chipmunk ornament that one of the girls I used to play tennis with gave me.

Bubba (35:55)

Because you had a chipmunk situation much like Christmas vacation.

Betty Lou Busse (35:59)

I did have. I talked about that on this.

Bubba (36:01)

I don't think you have. Go ahead.

Betty Lou Busse (36:03)

Well, let me talk about it then. All right. This was probably 15 years ago. We used to play tennis and then we'd come back to my house in Pelham and have a little Bible study. And usually about 12, 15 women. So anyway, one closer to Christmas, we had a cat named Luna at the time that like to get chipmunks all the time. And we also had one of those real heavy castle doors that wouldn't latch well for some reason. So whoever came in last, the door had not latched just right. And we were all sitting there deep in conversation and praising the Lord. Praising the Lord. And somebody looks around and says, oh, what a pretty kitty you have. I said, oh, yeah, that's Luna. And she goes, well, I think it's got a chipmunk. So I turned around and I said, oh, it's dead. So I get up to go get the. Well, about the time I get up to get the chipmunk out of Luna's mouth, she drops it and it starts running.

Bubba (37:01)

And you talk about it's running for its life.

Betty Lou Busse (37:03)

12 to 15 women screaming. I mean. And so I go to get the broom. Well, that tree that I'm talking about that has feathers and different colored things that looks a lot like a chipmunk, was right by the front door at the time in our foyer. And I bet that house. And so anyway, it jumps up in that tree to hide, and it really did. It was hidden because it looked just like the rest of the ornaments, you know. So anyway, I get the end of the broom handle to try to, you know, poke it out or whatever, and it finally got out of that tree. But it was. We all had it cornered. It was something.

Bubba (37:39)

Where did it go when it got out of the tree?

Betty Lou Busse (37:40)

I swept it out the front door because it was right there at the front door.

Bubba (37:44)

So it was. It was a lot longer. It was a lot Christmas vacation.

Betty Lou Busse (37:47)

Yeah. Except I didn't have a nosy neighbor at the door and it didn't attack me.

Bubba (37:51)

Right, right.

Betty Lou Busse (37:51)

Thank goodness.

Bubba (37:52)

And the cat didn't buy a wire and catch tree on fire. Thank goodness.

Betty Lou Busse (37:57)

That didn't happen either.

Bubba (37:58)

Yeah, well, we tried to skip some of that. Yeah, well, it's, it is Thanksgiving. And Betty, I got an email here. You know, Thanksgiving food's a big topic here on this podcast, especially with Thanksgiving coming up. And this is from Nancy McAb McNabb in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Thank you for listening in Missouri says, first of all, I love the podcast. Please keep it up. Praying for your success. On episode number 36, Betty talked about making Thanksgiving dressing early and freezing it. I didn't know you could freeze dressing. This is, is this a cornbread dressing? Would Betty be willing to share her recipe and make the make ahead instructions?

Betty Lou Busse (38:43)

Why, sure, I will. And I don't know if it would be boring for me to just list these or I can quickly kind of list them, but I'll put the thing on your website or something.

Bubba (38:54)

Well, we can put that up under some of the stuff. But talk about freezing dressing.

Betty Lou Busse (39:00)

Okay.

Bubba (39:00)

What I do, you've always done.

Betty Lou Busse (39:02)

Yeah, I do my own cornbread, but I also use some other breads in it. Whatever I have here, it's like, you know, whatever you got on hand, if you got rolls, use that. If you got saltine crackers, use that. But I always use that.

Bubba (39:13)

So you grab everything that's left over and throw it in there.

Betty Lou Busse (39:15)

I do use a pone of homemade cornbread though. I call it a pone. You know, that's what our moms used to call it, black skillet, broad iron, skillet, thing of cornbread. So anyway, and so you just mix everything up like you would do making your thing. And again, we'll put this recipe on the website. But after you do all that, put it in your 9 by 13 pan, you know, make sure it's greased well and all that. Put it in your 9 by 13 pan, please.

Bubba (39:42)

Welcome to Betty say what?

Betty Lou Busse (39:45)

So anyway, after you do that, all you do is pop it in a 350 degree oven. I do about 15 minutes and then I freeze it and I do two 9 by 13 pans usually and I freeze both of them because if I wasn't going to freeze them, I would cook them about 45 minutes at 350. So all you have to do then I like tonight or tomorrow. This is, I guess Monday night, so either tonight or tomorrow I would take it out, let it thaw, put it in the oven then for maybe 30, 25, 30 minutes, just depending on how fast your oven cooks and it comes out great. That's all there is to it.

Bubba (40:25)

And you don't, you don't put the chicken or the turkey.

Betty Lou Busse (40:28)

I don't.

Bubba (40:28)

Or the ham in the dressing. You have it separate.

Betty Lou Busse (40:31)

I don't, but you could and it would. Now, talk about.

Bubba (40:34)

Talk about the gravy. The gravy to me is the make or break of the whole thing.

Betty Lou Busse (40:38)

Well, I got good news and bad news on the gravy. I always. Your Aunt Bessie always called it giblet gravy.

Bubba (40:45)

Yes.

Betty Lou Busse (40:45)

Or giblet gravy. Y' all had the big debate on that one year.

Bubba (40:48)

I don't care what you call it, as long as we got it and it pours.

Betty Lou Busse (40:51)

And I always thought, well, I will never be able to replicate that. And when she told me what it was, it's basically one can of cream of chicken soup, one can of chicken stock or whatever. And you cut up some turkey in there. Whatever. I don't know what she cut up.

Bubba (41:11)

I don't use that.

Betty Lou Busse (41:12)

Well, I don't do the liver. No. I just do a little.

Bubba (41:15)

Little bitty missing. I could tell.

Betty Lou Busse (41:19)

And that's pretty much it. And then she puts it on the oven. I mean, on the stove.

Bubba (41:24)

She cut an egg up. Didn't she do.

Betty Lou Busse (41:26)

Oh, yeah. And you do cut up a boiled egg. Yeah. You cut up a boiled egg in that. And here's the boy.

Bubba (41:31)

You said cut up an egg and the dog went crazy.

Betty Lou Busse (41:33)

Yeah, they love an egg.

Bubba (41:35)

There are the Barkers. Heard from.

Betty Lou Busse (41:36)

Yep.

Bubba (41:37)

They're ready for Thanksgiving. You think they won't be working the table?

Betty Lou Busse (41:39)

Listen. Yeah. They'll be in overtime. If somebody drops a little thing, a dressing buddy, it will be gone.

Bubba (41:45)

Yeah. I don't even worry about the crumbs.

Betty Lou Busse (41:47)

Oh, I don't either. No, I really don't. But. Yeah, that's all there is to it, to that dressing. But the bad news. I was going to say, this year, I have ordered our smoked turkey from a place close to our home that I'm going to go pick up Wednesday. Well, they were providing turkey dressing with it, so I did get the stuff to do at Bessie's just in case. We don't like this, and it may not. It may be that brown. I don't know how you do it. All that brown gravy stuff, I guess, you know, in your skillet on the.

Bubba (42:17)

I kind of like the same.

Betty Lou Busse (42:20)

Yeah. So anyway, that was kind of the bad news. But the good news is, if you want to do the other, it's simple.

Bubba (42:26)

In our tradition, because several of you have asked about our tradition. We'll have the kids in, and I've talked about it. We used to have. I mean, we used to have a house full, and we're down to, like, the. The basic four now because they haven't multiplied and divided yet. And so, you know, we will eat more than. We should probably lay in the floor and watch football for a little while and then probably get up and go for a walk so we can make room to eat again.

Betty Lou Busse (42:53)

Yeah, well, I get on the golf cart to get up the hill to take a walk, though. I mean, because I can get up our hill, but most of y' all don't want to fool with that, you know, so it's pretty steep anyway. Yeah, just get me up there, and.

Bubba (43:05)

Then we'll go from there.

Betty Lou Busse (43:06)

All right. So you want to know the rest of the menu for Thanksgiving? Is that where we're going here?

Bubba (43:11)

Before we can give it to Logan to put on the website, you. You're gonna have to type it up. He can't read all.

Betty Lou Busse (43:17)

I do have some of them typed up, but I think I've even got the dressing one typed up somewhere because I made a notebook for the kids whether they wanted it or not and gave it to them. And Caitlin's actually used some of it.

Bubba (43:27)

So that our recipe will live on past us for future generations.

Betty Lou Busse (43:32)

Yes.

Bubba (43:32)

But, you know, it is. It's sad in some way, because when you're a kid, you're eating, you got grandparents, you know, you got aunts, uncles, all that kind of stuff, and it seems like they are going to live forever, and they don't, you know.

Betty Lou Busse (43:45)

Yeah.

Bubba (43:46)

And before you know it, hey, it's next generation. Here we go.

Betty Lou Busse (43:49)

Yeah. Well, I didn't know how to do cornbread dressing for years. My mom, I had her recipe, and I had watched her make it, but I had never had to actually make it. And she lived, you know, hour and a half, two hours away or whatever. One of the year that I was supposed to be providing the dressing for our Thanksgiving, and so actually, our neighbor Fran Baker came over and showed me how to do it, you know, and all that.

Bubba (44:17)

So she was a lifesaver.

Betty Lou Busse (44:19)

Shout out to Fran.

Bubba (44:20)

Yep. Yep.

Betty Lou Busse (44:21)

Thank you.

Bubba (44:22)

The lady who saved Thanksgiving.

Betty Lou Busse (44:24)

That's right. That she's better known as the lady who said Thanksgiving.

Bubba (44:27)

Well, I'm just so fired up for it this year, I think, because we've had such a hellacious fall.

Betty Lou Busse (44:33)

I'm just thankful, you know, I am, too. I'm thankful. We may almost be done with these IV antibiotics.

Bubba (44:39)

I hope so.

Betty Lou Busse (44:41)

But we will have to do that Thanksgiving Day and Maybe a few days after, but we hope it's almost.

Bubba (44:46)

It ain't that big a deal now. I'm used to.

Betty Lou Busse (44:47)

No, no, it's really. We've got it down pat now. I get stuff out. Hey, we do it in about. It's about a 15 minute process, start.

Bubba (44:55)

To finish, room temperature for about, for an hour.

Betty Lou Busse (44:57)

You got to think to set it out.

Bubba (44:59)

The worst thing's changing the dressing on it once a week. Cuz that.

Betty Lou Busse (45:02)

Yeah, I had had to do that. Our little home health nurse does that thing. Thank you. Thank you very much.

Bubba (45:08)

Yeah, she does a good job.

Betty Lou Busse (45:09)

She does appreciate it.

Bubba (45:11)

She's got better at it. She, she works at alcohol in there, gets that thing loose.

Betty Lou Busse (45:15)

She did good before. You just didn't like her just peeling it off without putting alcohol on there. He's a bit of a baby when it comes to the patient, but you've been through a lot. I understand.

Bubba (45:25)

I'm gonna tell you that skin under the underside of your arm is not meant for adhesive to be pulled off of it because it hurts like a moat.

Betty Lou Busse (45:32)

Yeah. That is a sensitive area.

Bubba (45:34)

Yeah, terrible. Well, I'm thankful for you, honey.

Betty Lou Busse (45:38)

Well, thank you. I'm thankful for you too. I'm thankful for all our, our family and our friends, our kids, our pups, you know, thankful for this podcast. It's been fun getting it going. Now, not as thankful for QuickBooks, but that's another story. Anybody know anything about QuickBooks?

Bubba (45:58)

This is what I have found out. There's a lot of people will tell you, hey, I know QuickBooks, but they're not really willing to sit down and help you through your problem.

Betty Lou Busse (46:06)

Yeah, I don't know if anybody local would like to sit down. Yeah, how about I'll cook you some dressing if you come over here and show me how to do. You know that extra 9 by 13 panty in fact.

Bubba (46:17)

Oh gosh, that's funny.

Betty Lou Busse (46:18)

Oh, bless them.

Bubba (46:20)

So I was going to talk about this in another segment, but it may be worthwhile bringing up now when I went and I've told this story on the radio many years ago. So one Thanksgiving I was in Kentucky visiting friends and we went to their relative's house which happened to be in Elizabethtown or what the locals call E town. And they were, you know, helping my plate. They had people kind of serving, oh.

Betty Lou Busse (46:49)

I know where you're about to serve.

Bubba (46:50)

And they said, how many dressings do you want? I said, how many?

Betty Lou Busse (46:53)

How many balls? Is that the word?

Bubba (46:55)

Well, they said how many? They didn't say Balls. And. And I said, well, you know, I'll take a few scoops. And they said, no, it's in balls. And I was very.

Betty Lou Busse (47:04)

I don't know anything about balls and dressing. I don't know. Dressing balls, whatever. I just don't.

Bubba (47:12)

And I just don't. There is Betty Blue Bussy.

Betty Lou Busse (47:18)

Yeah. No, where's the drums when you need them?

Bubba (47:25)

But, you know, I like getting the corner piece out of the dressing casserole, for lack of a better term, because it's crunchy on both sides. And I like the crunchy part. When you have dressing balls, they're crunchy all the way around. So you actually have more crunchy stuff. And what they do is they take the balls and then they smash them up with a fork so you can't tell the difference by the time you get to the table.

Betty Lou Busse (47:51)

Well, who cares then? Well, let's just go with the pan.

Bubba (47:53)

Well, I was going to say me and you have talked about it next year. Do you want to try dressing balls and put it like that?

Betty Lou Busse (47:59)

I'll tell you who I'd ask is old Grok. You know, I'll just type that into Grok and say, how do you fix dressing balls?

Bubba (48:05)

Well, we can copy. I'll tell you what. They put it in like a muffin pan.

Betty Lou Busse (48:09)

Yeah, I see that.

Bubba (48:11)

And it was good because I love the crunchy part.

Betty Lou Busse (48:13)

You'd have to use, you know, just.

Bubba (48:15)

A little bit burned on the edge just to.

Betty Lou Busse (48:16)

Is it like a regular size muffin? Like.

Bubba (48:19)

Yeah, I mean, it was. The balls were about the size of a pool ball. You know, billiard then.

Betty Lou Busse (48:25)

Okay.

Bubba (48:26)

Somewhere between there and the old billiard. Baseball. Somewhere in that.

Betty Lou Busse (48:30)

Okay.

Bubba (48:30)

But you know, the big people say, I'll take three balls, you know.

Betty Lou Busse (48:33)

Yeah, sure. And you know, you probably said six right off the bat. No size.

Bubba (48:39)

Well, I was a teenager. I was a teenager at the time. And when they said three balls, I thought immediately of a June cat, but a June cat? What?

Betty Lou Busse (48:50)

Good Lord. Oh, my gosh. Where are we going with this?

Bubba (48:54)

It's an old saying, but we will.

Betty Lou Busse (48:58)

Grog about that too.

Bubba (48:59)

What is a gen. No, no, no, no, no. Let's not ask Rock that when we're not recording. I'll explain it to you. You've got plenty of paper and a pencil there. I can draw it out for you. But very thankful for Thanksgiving. Looking forward to it. It. And thank you for all you've done this year, Betty. You've been quite the trooper.

Betty Lou Busse (49:18)

I've swung into action. As far as nursing. I'VE learned how to bookkeep.

Bubba (49:25)

You become more of an air talent.

Betty Lou Busse (49:27)

Yeah, I guess. Kinda. And played a lot of pickleball this year.

Bubba (49:33)

You have and I'm glad a lot.

Betty Lou Busse (49:35)

Of new friends in that respect.

Bubba (49:37)

So it's been. Been a while, you know, I tell you. And we, we laugh about it sometimes, but it's true. I'm ready for a year of in the Valley because it seems like we have been topsy turvy for the last two or three between hurricane, I mean tornado show ending and all this going on with the knee. So. Yeah, but the knees doing good. It's. I mean, if you look at it now, it looks like I've had a minor bicycle wreck.

Betty Lou Busse (50:02)

Yeah. As opposed to minor bicycle wreck because.

Bubba (50:05)

It did look like hamburger.

Betty Lou Busse (50:07)

Oh, I know it's funny you say that about peace out. Just yesterday I was looking back at a. A journal and I don't. I'm not one of these that writes stuff every day and I wish I was better at that. But two or three or even four entries, especially with the end of the show, you know, the tornado stuff and even before that the liver cancer thing.

Bubba (50:33)

Oh, yeah.

Betty Lou Busse (50:33)

We've going on in the last four years and every, every entry was about peace, you know, so I'm ready for some of that peace in your mind and you know, don't be anxious about anything. But in everything with Thanksgiving.

Bubba (50:49)

Yep. Yep.

Betty Lou Busse (50:51)

And that verse ends, and the Lord will give you peace beyond measure.

Stuart Brockwell (50:56)

Yep.

Betty Lou Busse (50:57)

And we transcends all understanding.

Bubba (50:59)

We've needed it and we've had a lot of folks praying for us. A lot of you that are listening to this podcast, we appreciate it. Please keep it up and we'll try to keep rolling. You know, for many years though, I really felt like we were kind of skating on ice. I mean, we, you know, we were moving forward, a lot going on and we didn't have a lot of these upheavals that we've had the past few years. So, you know, maybe, maybe somebody slipped up and prayed for patience. I don't know. I don't. I'm not praying for. I ain't praying for that anymore, I'll tell you that.

Betty Lou Busse (51:32)

That would be out.

Stuart Brockwell (51:33)

Yeah.

Bubba (51:34)

Betty, thank you. Thanks for sharing those. We'll try to get those on the website. May not make it before Thanksgiving, but we'll get them on there and we will continue our discussion and our outlook about Thanksgiving balls for next year.

Betty Lou Busse (51:46)

Yeah. Are we done? We're already done. This was quick.

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We're back. Bubba on the lake. I thought we had wrapped up with Betty and she says, oh, no, I got more stuff. So Betty is back.

Betty Lou Busse (54:00)

Well, I tell you, we were on the topic of Thanksgiving anyway, and so the kids will be here. Our custom is to usually, you know, start decorating the. The tree. Or either. I usually do it and start.

Bubba (54:13)

You mean the Thanksgiving tree?

Betty Lou Busse (54:14)

No, I'm talking about the, like, the real Christmas tree in here that's just got the lights on it now.

Bubba (54:19)

Thanksgiving tree?

Betty Lou Busse (54:20)

Well, I guess, yeah, it becomes the Christmas tree, the transition tree.

Bubba (54:23)

I'm not big on the mantle because you get my electronics up there and start messing with all that stuff.

Betty Lou Busse (54:27)

Anyway, so. Anyway, to transition into that, a lot of people do Black Friday shopping.

Bubba (54:33)

Oh, yeah.

Betty Lou Busse (54:33)

Correct. The day after Thanksgiving. So I've already been looking, you know, and apparently, you know, Stuart thinks I need a new laptop. So I guess that's been added to the list now. And so that's actually on Amazon. I can't. You obviously get anything on Amazon. You really can. It's crazy My, I wish it was.

Bubba (54:55)

Not that easy because I have a real heart for the brick and mortar.

Betty Lou Busse (54:59)

Retailers and I still love to go look and all that.

Bubba (55:03)

And. But what a lot of people do, they go look, then they go home, buy it on Amazon, which doesn't help the retailer. They go out of business.

Betty Lou Busse (55:10)

I know.

Bubba (55:10)

Then you have nowhere to go see it. Then you have to buy stuff on Amazon blindly and hope it's what you want. So it's really kind of a vicious cycle.

Betty Lou Busse (55:18)

My own Cloud 5 sneakers are at several different stores in Birmingham that I was supposed to get back in May. And you thought you ordered them and you never did. So anyway, that's another thing on my list. But they are also, I think, on Amazon.

Bubba (55:33)

So this spun into Betty's Christmas list kind of has.

Betty Lou Busse (55:36)

Yeah, I mean, well, we're talking about Black Friday here. And I'm also a big fan of E. Newton bracelet. And so they apparently have this.

Bubba (55:45)

I have no idea what that is.

Betty Lou Busse (55:46)

E Newton design. It's the little bead bracelets that are popular now. So apparently they have a big Black Friday sale. So we're gonna check that out too. And so that's on my list. You don't know it, but you're gonna check it out.

Bubba (55:57)

Okay, great.

Betty Lou Busse (55:58)

And. And one of my all time favorite products.

Bubba (56:02)

We kind of got a big football game or two this week.

Betty Lou Busse (56:04)

Oh, I know. Yeah, that's right. So one of my all time favorite products that I've talked about before, I don't know if I talked about it on the show maybe because the mop and glow story kind of spun out of this product, but self tanner, I love self tanner. Have always have used it since the Cedar Springs days, you know. Okay. But my new favorite is PETA or PETA Jane. I don't know how she says her name. P E T A Jane. So anyway, you can go to petagejanebeauty.com and they're having this big Black Friday thing that's already.

Bubba (56:35)

And they're the self tanner people.

Betty Lou Busse (56:37)

They're the self tanner people. She used to be on Dancing with the Stars, Peter Jane or whatever. Yeah. And so she started her own little company. But I love that self tanner. It's. It's wonderful. So anyway, this little. Little things here and there. Little chit. Chatty about products and this and that. I could have some more for you if I'd had a little more heads up.

Bubba (56:59)

Well, you've got a pretty good list there. What do you got? Six, seven things?

Betty Lou Busse (57:03)

Yeah, that was. That was it.

Bubba (57:05)

Like I said, I see a few thousand laying there.

Betty Lou Busse (57:07)

Well, with that laptop on there, that's gone. Yeah. And I didn't really. You know, I don't know, we may have to get with Stuart on that. He may can help us out. We may not get a brand new one.

Bubba (57:19)

We've one out of the back closet.

Betty Lou Busse (57:20)

Yeah. Maybe he can like pour one in that 3D thing. He is. And make us one. I don't know how that works, but anyway.

Bubba (57:28)

Yeah, that's. That's interesting. Now, he may not have talked about that already by the time you're on. I don't know how we're going to stack all this together.

Betty Lou Busse (57:34)

Yeah, I don't either, but how about 3D printers? Those sound so neat. They really do.

Bubba (57:39)

Well, they are. They're a lot of work. You got to know what you're doing.

Betty Lou Busse (57:42)

I didn't say I wanted to. I just said they sounded neat, you know, like.

Bubba (57:45)

Well, we mentioned it in that segment. We can hardly get a paper printer to work around here consistently, so.

Betty Lou Busse (57:51)

No, it really. It's a mess. So.

Bubba (57:54)

But I'm just. I'm glad the kids are going to be coming in and back in D.C. and good to see her. And Hunter's. Hunter's working with us. We see him more often now, but he's not here every day, so.

Betty Lou Busse (58:07)

Yeah, it'll be good.

Bubba (58:08)

I'm looking forward to.

Betty Lou Busse (58:10)

Yeah. The Jack State Gang cops are in action. Did I say that right?

Bubba (58:14)

What. What team is that? Betty, try that again. You were trying to be careful not to say something wrong, and you got it wrong anyway.

Betty Lou Busse (58:26)

Okay, the Jack State Gamecocks are going.

Bubba (58:29)

Up against Western Kentucky.

Betty Lou Busse (58:31)

Western Kentucky this Saturday. That's right.

Bubba (58:34)

Mid afternoon. You can come out, watch that game, then come home, watch the iron.

Betty Lou Busse (58:38)

That's right.

Bubba (58:39)

So there's no excuse. And this will be for conference championship. Who gets to go on to that game the week after? So we're excited about that and looking forward to it.

Betty Lou Busse (58:51)

Yep.

Bubba (58:51)

I love you, Ben. Thank you for everything you do. And thank you for. I know it's going to be a wonderful Thanksgiving.

Betty Lou Busse (58:58)

It will.

Bubba (58:58)

And we're going to try to play some board games and card games just for you.

Betty Lou Busse (59:02)

Oh, I'll believe it when I see it, folks. Stay tuned. Well, I bet you a dollar they'll weasel out of it.

Bubba (59:10)

Which. Which game do you really want to play?

Betty Lou Busse (59:12)

I'll play whatever everybody's fired up about. If y' all want to play rummy, that's fine. That's fine. I'll play uno and there's some card game the kids have called. They've named it golf. I don't know if that's really what it. I don't even remember how to play now. You just like write random stuff down and people try to guess what it is or something. Can you give hints?

Bubba (59:32)

And so it sounds like a fun game game.

Betty Lou Busse (59:34)

It really was. You played it, you remember. It was really fun.

Bubba (59:39)

But I think my attention span is too short now.

Betty Lou Busse (59:42)

Must be. I always loved a good game of Clue. That was always pretty good. Especially if you just have four. It's. That's a good game, you know. But. Yeah, we'll see.

Bubba (59:52)

I used to love which witch. Do you remember that we had the haunted house and you had to work your way through it and it had the whammy ball that would come down.

Betty Lou Busse (60:00)

Never played that.

Bubba (60:01)

And you had to. It was kind of like clue. You had to figure out which witch was haunting the house or something interesting. Borderline, you know, something dead end something.

Betty Lou Busse (60:11)

What's that? When I bought the kids two different.

Bubba (60:13)

Well, this is an interesting segment. We didn't think of any of their names.

Betty Lou Busse (60:17)

The dead end street something. It was some game they loved that they used to play. The babysitter had it and she'd bring it. Hannah.

Bubba (60:25)

And so was it Backstreet Daddy?

Betty Lou Busse (60:27)

No, no, it was. It was dead in something. It was a number. But anyway, I can't think bottom two separate things of it because the first one, they lost a part and you had to have the parts for it to be played. Right.

Bubba (60:40)

You know, that's. That's the problem of board games. It's a little part and then they messed around, sucked up in the vacuum cleaner and you never see them again.

Betty Lou Busse (60:47)

And then they messed around and lost one on the way to Rockford when we used to hunt in Rockford some. So there'll be none of that.

Bubba (60:56)

Well, we hope you will have an entertaining Thanksgiving and I'm sure we'll get a complete recap on that. And we hope all of you have a great Thanksgiving and enjoy those house full of relatives that you only see once a year. And enjoy.

Betty Lou Busse (61:08)

Y' all don't fight. Everybody be patient with each other.

Bubba (61:14)

We'll be right back with more on Bubba on the Lake. You're listening to Bubba on the Lake. Hit me bad. A production of Intergalactic Pants and Tees.

Betty Lou Busse (61:28)

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Bubba (61:29)

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Stuart Brockwell (63:07)

It's a beautiful day for football here at the stadium and we're just about ready for kickoff. Score.00.

Bubba (63:13)

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Stuart Brockwell (63:20)

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Bubba (63:47)

Well, we're back and we're going to wrap it up right here. We want to thank everyone for being on the show today. Stuart Brockwell from Surge Technologies in Birmingham and of course, the lovely Betty Lou. Sorry we didn't get David Beeman on. We're going to try to get him on a podcast very soon. He a very, very interesting guy who's had a lot to do with our space program and we want to catch up with him and see what's going on with the Artemis program. And we hopefully will have interview with our spirited child Caitlin. She should be in for this, the Thanksgiving holiday, so we'll try to grab her while she is in town. Again, I want to remind everybody because this is the last time I'm going to get to tell you about it that Santa comes to Lake Martin on Black Friday for Christmas at Crossroads. That's November 28th. You need to come by and shop the Bazaar from nine to four for that perfect handmade gift for the loved ones on your list. You know, if you're just tired of the old Amazon thing and you want to get them something, maybe a little more hands on, a little more arts and crafts. This is a great. Betty and all her friends, they love to go up there and they stay the whole time. Tell the kids to have their list ready and get their picture made with Santa. He'll be there from 10 to 2. And if you need more information about today, you can go to Russellands.com and we especially appreciate them being on the program with us. So guys, have a great Thanksgiving. We have so much to be thankful for. Please try to enjoy it for that and don't get caught up in all the other things that we get caught up in. Most of all, be careful. We want to talk to you, not read about you. And until next time we sail into port, remember, God loves you and we do too. Thanks for being part of Bubba on the Lake. This podcast is brought to you in part by Coke, Buffalo Wild Wings, Southern Immediate Care Guaranteed Labels, Central State Bank, Sunrise Docks, bankers Bounty, and Dr. Thomas Dudney.

Betty Lou Busse (65:43)

Hey, Bubba.

Bubba (65:45)

Hey, Bubba. Bubba on the lake. Bubba on the lake. Yeah, he's got it going on. Gotta come and check this. Talking people, talking places from Bubba's perspective. Bubba on the lake. Bubba, Bubba, Bubba, Bubba.