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#47 Cole Cubelic, Orlando Hamcation Update featuring Robby Sperr, Betty Bussey
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In this episode Bubba sits down and catches up with friend Cole Cubelic from ESPN and JOX 94.5 in Birmingham. We also get an update from Bubba while on his Hamcation in Orlando, Bubba also sits down with his wife Betty for a family update. Thank you for listening! Don't forget to like and subscribe!
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Bubba
This podcast is brought to you in part by Russell Lands Coke, Buffalo Wild Wings, Southern Immediate Care Guaranteed Labels, Central State Bank, Sunrise docks, bankers Bounty, Dr. Thomas Dudney and the Green Monster Fishing Light. Now back to Bubba on the Lake. Hey, it's Bubba. Hey Bubba, Bubba, Bubba on the lake Bubba, hey, Bubba, Bubba on the lake Jay's got it going on Gotta come and check this Talking people, talking places Bubba's perspective. This is Bubba, Bubba, Bubba, Bubba, Bubba on the lake Ain't Bubba, Bubba, Bubba, Bubba on the lake let's go. Hello again everybody and welcome to Bubba on the Lake. I'm your semi retired, formerly of the Rick and Bubba show and now your host of Bubba on the Lake. We're in the mellow Yellow studio and our website is bubbaonthelake.com keep those cards and letters coming. Emails are welcomed@bubbaonthelake.com and don't forget our comment line 308 Big Lake. That way you can leave your comments. Sometimes they make them to air, sometimes they do not. But they're always listen to. Want to remind you to subscribe, turn on notifications, all that stuff. We want you to always be in the know here on the show. We've got a great show today and it's there's a few complications to it and I'll explain that, but Cole Kublick from ESPN is going to be on the program. He's also does the morning show on Jocks 94.5 in Birmingham. Known Cole a long time and he was very gracious to come on and talk a little bit about what's been going on with him. We'll get you an update from the Orlando Hamcation. That is the big ham radio fest where hundreds and hundreds of thousands of hams come and do what hams do. Instead of calling it a ham fest, they call it hamcation and they want you to come and spend a week and hit the theme parks and all that. Although the name Hamkation sort of sounds like you're breaking one of the Ten Commandments, I don't know, it just, it's kind of got that sound to it, you know, thou shalt not hamcation. And it's always been in my mind. But anyway, I get on a tangent there. Robbie Spurr will also be with us. We interviewed him. He is the CEO, managing partner of GigaParts in Huntsville, Alabama. They were there, they have a big display and, and I had grand plans to do all kind of interviews with various vendors, but they all were so busy they didn't have time to talk. So I grabbed Robby for a minute. I wanted to do some more, but I just could not get it done. I mean, it was busy and if the ham fest was any indication of the economy, it's going gangbusters. So some of those interviews with some people that I wanted to get on, we may have to do them and sprinkle them in a little bit later. Now part of the tragedy of this podcast is that I did an opening segment. It was about 14 minutes long. It was informative, it was comical because I tried to tell a story that had the word anaphylactic shock in it. Now you know what anaphylactic shock is? That's where you swell up, your throat closes up, you have a severe allergic reaction and you can die from anaphylactic shock. Well, I was able to say anaphylactic shock like one time and then I got so I could not say it and I could not say it to save my life, life. And these goofballs in here were laughing, which made it worse. And nobody's going to help you out. I mean, if you're hung up on a word, they are going to let you blow in the wind before they will help you out. And that was the case. So I tried to say anaphylactic shock about 12 times and every time I tried to say it, it got worse and I was laughing, which even made it worse. So I hate that that great bit of self inflicted humor has been lost. We don't know what happened. The file was there, it was the right length, but the audio just cut off. So it was somehow got corrupted. I don't know no way to recapture that. And quite frankly, it may be God's way of preventing that segment from getting out because I look like an idiot. I did the segment early in the morning and I wasn't fully awake yet and it sounded like I may have been drunk on the podcast. So we didn't want that. And maybe it's just good that it got lost and is gone. But we're going to try to recap what we were telling in this. And of course we've got all kind of things coming up. But I was out having lunch one day not too long ago and we were at. I'll tell you where we were at a place called Honey's Cafe in Lionville, Alabama. And it is a very famous meet and three there and Thirsty's, they have fried chicken livers, which I love. Don't eat them all the time, quite frankly. Don't need to Eat them all the time. But I do love them. And we were there on Thursday for chicken livers. Okay. Because the place that I used to get them went out of business, and I haven't found a local place that will serve fried chicken liver since then. So I'm in there, and this very nice lady comes over, introduces herself, and says, you saved my husband's life. Well, you know, it's not often that a guy that was a dj, and I use the term loosely, gets credited with saving someone's life. So, of course, I had to hear more of the story. Well, she said that her husband went to the emergency room and was having a severe allergic reaction. His throat was closing up. Anaphylactic shock. I've been practicing since the debacle of that, and they couldn't figure out what it was. And, I mean, he's getting in a real bad way. They're about to have to do, like, a trach on him or something. And she says, screams out, hey, it might be Alpha Gal. And if you remember, Alpha Gal is the protein that comes from a tick bite, most notably the long star tick. And how does it get that name? It's a black tick with what appears to be a map of the state of Texas on its back in white. So it is known as the long star tick. And it is also very proficient in passing along Alpha Galaxy. Now, this disease, this reaction, didn't even have a name for a long time. I learned it from Richard Shinn, or I like to call Big Richard Shin. He played at the University of Alabama, won two national championships. And I saw him one day eating a salad when he used to eat, like, a side of beef. And he told me that he had had this terrible reaction to beef. Don't know what caused it. He was being studied. They actually. I mean, he was sending vials of blood to drug companies trying to figure out what had caused this violent reaction. Well, they found out it was a reaction to a tick bite, the Longstar tick. And eventually it was given the name Alpha Gal. Okay, Alpha Gal. And what it is that. That. That saliva or that venom or whatever you want to call it from the tick when it gets into your blood stream, the molecule is very similar to red meat. So when your body attacks that foreign invader in its body and builds up resistance to it, the next time you eat red meat, it thinks it's attacking it again, and it brings this overwhelming response, which turns out to be this severe reaction. So she had credited us because we had Richard Shin on a podcast, and he had talked about the fact that he had got Alpha Gala and how it got it and all this. And turns out that this lady's husband, very nice couple, had been hunting in Kentucky and he had got a tick on him. So she is shouting in the emergency room, check him for Alpha Gal. Rick and Bubba said to. And so it was kind of comical. I mean, it's a serious thing, don't get me wrong. But it was comical that she was quoting to them what to try. And it came from the podcast we did so thus her crediting us with saving his life. Sure enough, they tested him and he did have a reaction to Alpha Gal. He's been going through a treatment program now to try to alleviate that. And he actually got better. Then he had a little bit of a relapse, they said, but they think over time he'll be fine. So he just has to be very careful what he takes and keep, you know, all those EpiPens with him and that. That's kind of how you have to treat that. I'm not a. I don't like ticks at all. You know, in the woods, snakes and ticks are the big, big thing you got to look out for. I don't like either one of them, but I don't like snakes at all. I don't like the way they move. They kind of give me the heaves. And the fact that God took their legs away is always a big, big sticking point with me. You know, our loving, fair creator, God, that loves us enough to die on a cross, took the legs of the snake away. Now that's why they crawl on the ground. Let me tell you, that's a bad card to draw. Okay? God took your legs away. That's just a bad card. And I don't like them. And. But I'll be honest with you, I'm almost more afraid of ticks now than I am of snakes. Just because of the Alpha Gal thing. Because if you tell me I can't have meat, wow, we got a problem. I mean, EpiPen level. But it was. It was fun and they were very, very, very nice couple. And I appreciate them sharing that with us. And I wanted to mention it again because summer's coming up and you can do things to help keep ticks off of you. Most notably wear a hat that's light colored. Wear a shirt that's light colored. That way if you get one on, you can see it before it digs in. I always tuck my pants legs into my boot. Granted, not a big fashion statement, but it will keep ticks that get on your shoes and boots from crawling up your leg. And there's also other sprays and things that you can put on there with deet, some of them controversial, but they will keep ticks away from you. And if you're going to be out anytime soon, you, you need to be aware of that. Probably not the best transition here, but I think you needed to know that. Okay, the, the Russell Forest run 10k and 5k is coming up and we don't want anybody getting a tick on them that's in this. Okay? So that's, that's why we, that's why we've had this public service announce. But Alpha gal and ticks and anaphylactic shock because I am nailing it today. Seventeen years ago, the Russell Forest run was started and it was all to help Alexander City schools and their education foundation, the ACSEF. Now they have to date given more than 152,000 to that foundation, all from this run. So that run is coming up February 28th. The 10k will start at 7:45, the 5k at 7:55. And it will all end in the barn or what's called the stables. And they will have a post race party. And let me tell you, the Russell people know how to throw a post race party as well as anybody I've ever seen. And they will have their world famous grits bar. So you had me at grits. I'm probably not going to run in this, but I sure would like to be there and I don't know, maybe they'll let me start it or at least I could start the grits. Registration is now open. You can go online. Russellforestrun.com russell2l's forestrun.com and also keep an eye on their Facebook page. Russellforest Run. That's Saturday, February 28th. People come from everywhere, counties away, states away. This is a really big event. So if you want to come out and be a part of that, it'll be a lot of fun. And Russell does it upright. They really do. Okay, busy show. We're going to go ahead and take a quick break here and we'll be back. And we're going to talk with Cole Kublick from ESPN Jocks945 in Birmingham. We'll have an update from Orlando. Robbie Spear will be with us. Or Spur. I always say Spear. It's Robbie Spurr and we will have some more goodies. Also, thank you for being a part of Bubba on the Lake.
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Betty Lou
One, two, three, go.
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Cole Kublick
We'll be right back.
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Bubba
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Cole Kublick
Brother, I'm doing great, man. I appreciate you having me on. How are you?
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Bubba
I'm doing wonderful. It is a beautiful spring day here and after the temperatures we had last week, it is a pleasant change.
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Cole Kublick
I don't think there's any doubt it's been too chilly Especially with baseball practice for the kids starting up, being outside. But yeah, it looks like today's first day has felt like spring in a minute.
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Bubba
Well, Cole, I don't even know where to start with you. You've blown up. You're doing so many things in so many places. I know you and your co host, Greg McElroy just got an award for your sports show. Tell us a little bit about that.
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Cole Kublick
Barrett Sports Media, they do their top sports shows from all the different demographics every year. So we've been fortunate enough to win best mid major market morning show the last couple of years. And it's just, it's always an honor to be recognized. It's. I try not to pay too close attention to things like that because, you know, obviously, you know, I always want to try to get better. I always think I can be better and always think that there's things that we can improve. So I look at it from that perspective, Bubba, of, you know, someone might say we're the best or we're good. And this. That I look at it as, all right, what can we do better? What can we. What can we improve upon? How can we get better? And it's fun. It's fun doing a show with him because he obviously is able to talk football at an elite level. And he challenges me to be better, which I really like. And I know there are things that he knows better than I do, and that bothers me. So I want to try to be better than him at those things. So it's, It's. It's an ongoing battle, but it's. It's fun. It's just competitive enough, you know, it's just. Just a little bit competitive between the two of us, where it keeps us just wanting to be better and try to improve ourselves. And that makes for some cool radio sometimes.
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Bubba
Well, you got the Auburn, Alabama thing going. That's enough. But for those that don't know you, let's back up just a little bit. You. You played high school football at Homewood, correct?
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Cole Kublick
I did, yes. Sirwood High School. Yep. Birmingham, Alabama. Played for Bob Newton, an Alabama high school legend. Like a second father figure to me, honestly, growing up, grew up in Homewood, and I live back there now with my wife and kids. So it's been pretty cool to kind of come full circle. I was never that guy growing up that said, oh, I'll be back here one day and I'll live in my hometown. That was never really me, but it is cool to be back here now and to be around some of the folks I grew up with and see some of the people that I grew up around. It's been a lot of fun.
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Bubba
So then you went to Auburn and played football. Tell us a little bit about that. Were you recruited by other schools and how did you end up at Auburn?
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Cole Kublick
I was recruited by other schools. You know, I liked Tennessee, I liked Florida. I liked a couple of other sec. Alabama and Auburn were both going to be in it. I grew up, and I was a kind of a hybrid South Carolina fan. Both of my parents attended South Carolina. My aunt is in the Clemson hall of Fame. She played basketball at Clemson. So I really grew up a lot more around that rivalry than I did Auburn and Alabama. But I always had friends that were Auburn fans, I had friends that were Alabama fans, so on and so forth, and just knew the rivalry well, knew what it was about. I mean, how could I live in Birmingham, grow up a fan of college football and not know what it was all about? So I had a pretty good idea that either one of those schools would be pretty awesome. I grew up, honestly, Bubba, an SEC football fan. That was my lifetime goal. My goal was to play SEC football. That's what I wanted to do. And I had offers from a couple of others. I had a torn ACL. I tore it in 9th grade and I could not have it repaired because my growth plates weren't closed and ended up not having that surgery until my senior year of high school. I suffered what you call pivot shift, where you don't really have enough support for the knee, and I played in. I played in two games, did not play a full game my senior year. Thankfully, Auburn stuck with me. Terry Bowden offered me a scholarship. I'll always be indebted to him for that. And that's kind of how I ended up at Auburn. A lot of the decision was made for me, to be honest with you, because a lot of the other schools that I was interested in were just dropping out and didn't want to take a chance on me.
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Bubba
Cole, you did you. Did you have a chance to go on and play past college or what was your plan when you were done at Auburn?
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Cole Kublick
Yeah, I think your plan is always to go to the NFL. Every kid will tell you that's their plan. It wasn't really. It wasn't a reality for me. I was pretty beat up. I had multiple surgeries while I was at Auburn. And really, as I just stated before, before I got to Auburn, so that was going to make that difficult. I mean, I worked out, went through pro Day talked to scouts, had an agent, and when I wasn't drafted, instead of going through camp and trying to kind of grind my way through that direction, I just decided my body had had enough and I just kind of shut it down from there. I figured physically I probably needed to try to conserve a little bit because I was already beat up and I didn't want to make that worse. Now, I don't know how much that's helped today because I feel pretty beat up every day. But I can't imagine what I would feel like waking up every day if I had played, you know, five, seven years of pro football.
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Bubba
So what was your plan out of college?
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Cole Kublick
Well, I had multiple. I don't know if you'd call it a plan. I had multiple things I wanted to do. I wanted to. I always dreamed of going in media. You know, I listened to you guys when I was in high school. I listened to jocks when I was in high school. I listened to Fine Bomb in high school. I wanted to do sports radio. The difference was when I got out of school, there weren't many opportunities like that available. There weren't many places to go. You didn't have all these dedicated school websites and conference school websites. You didn't have all the different ways in which you could be involved. So it was either you were on the local news, on tv, you were on one of the two or three networks that aired college football, or you were on one of the, you know, one or two local sports talk radio stations. That was. That was about it. So my aunt was in pharmaceutical, being broke. When I got out of college, she helped me find a way to interview for a couple of jobs that were opening up. I ended up getting one of those jobs. And I was driving down South Memorial Parkway in Huntsville, Alabama, and in my. I think it was a 2001 Pontiac Grand Prix. That was my company car. I mean, I was. I was feeling pretty good about myself then. And I stopped into a guy's office that, you know, that my father had introduced me to. His name was Steve Shelton. Yeah, he owned multiple radio stations in Huntsville, Alabama, and they carried Auburn football. And I told him, I said, hey, you should hire me. And Ben Leard was in Decatur, Alabama at the time. You should hire us to do an Auburn, like, pre. Pregame show because we know the team better than anybody. We were on the team last year. And he said, man, that sounds like a great idea. And I learned a very valuable radio lesson that day. Bubba and Steve Shelton looked at me and said, that would Be great. You can have it if you can sell it. And I honestly at the time, I had no idea what he was talking about. I really didn't. I didn't know what he meant. And I kind of just. I probably sat there a little confused. And he said, if you can sell some advertising to sponsor your show, you can have the airtime. And I just remember thinking to myself, man, like, it's that easy. And then I realized it really, it wasn't that easy to actually sell the spots. But we did get a little bit sold. I think Ben sold two or three times what I did. And, you know, we were able to kind of get something going. And it was a 30 minute show, probably about 17 minutes of airtime. And I remember we went and recorded it on like a Thursday night. And I called my mom on the way home and I said, this is what I was born to do. I need to be in front of that microphone. Like that's my calling. And I got another very important lesson that day, specifically as it pertains to media, because I see a lot of kids this day and age not really understanding this part of it. She said, that's great, I'm really happy for you. Day job. And I needed to hear that because I probably would have that day. And I needed that day job to carry me through a long period of time that it would take for me to actually land a full time job in sports media, of which then I still really couldn't keep it going. There was a time I had to quit and kind of start over. And I went and tried to sell boxes, I went and tried to sell insurance. I went and, you know, tried to do some different things. I didn't like any of them, but the sports media thing just wasn't paying the bills. And I got married and was a little bit embarrassed of what I was making specifically compared to what my wife was making. And so I did find my way back in. Got another shot at the YUMP in Huntsville doing sports talk radio in the mornings, and then was able to just kind of network my way into a couple of other deals. And here we are today.
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Bubba
Well, Cole, you've always been one of those guys that just, you didn't take no for an answer. And, you know, I preach that to these young guys today. You know, you are the person that decides when you quit playing. You're the person that decides when you don't want to do a certain job anymore. Of course there's factors, you know, that, that drive that, but I remember us having you and Ben on the air. And I think we had you on the air even before that by yourself. And I. I knew then you were going to be in sports radio. You were a natural.
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Cole Kublick
Well, I appreciate that. And it was. I had a couple rep and I had some people have me on their shows and asked me to do different things. It's. It's funny. I've heard a couple of my old clips and I've. When I hear myself back then, I don't know how I made it and how anybody gave me a shot, but it's. It was. It was fun. It still is fun. That's the cool part about it, is I tell people I haven't worked in like 10 years now. It's a lot of work to do what I do, but I haven't really gone to work like normal people would. Reference going to work.
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Bubba
You love it. Yeah. You just.
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Cole Kublick
You love it sitting in a cubicle. No part. No doubt. And I love the process of it. I love the work that it takes to go into it. And it is. It's fun and it's cool, and it's. I'm honored to do it every day because I do consider it that an honor to be able to do it. But it was a long, winding road to be able to get here, and I'll never try to let people understand it a different way. It took me a long time to get to where I am, and I don't sit here and say that. I don't sit here and say, oh, I've made it, or I'm where I want to be. I still feel like I got a long way to go, but it's a cool journey. And like I said, it's not like I show up and go to a job every day. It does not feel like work.
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Bubba
Cole, how did you. How did you make the jump from radio over to espn? That's a big jump.
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Cole Kublick
It was. It was, and it wasn't. It wasn't like that. That wasn't really the jump I had. John Cole was running the Auburn network, and we were. We started doing our pregame show down there the next two years, and he heard me on the air one day and he said, hey, you know the guy who's doing Polar for radio or is leaving. And so the guy doing the CSS broadcast is coming over to radio. Would you be interested in, you know, trying to take some of that over? I was like, of course. Like, give TV a shot. Sure thing. Like, let's go. And that was Stan White. That was Going from CSS to radio, which people hear CSS these days. Same thing as with when I tell them I did pay per view games for college football games as well. Nobody really knows what that means.
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Bubba
Right.
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Cole Kublick
But I did do that for a while. And so I did the spring game with Andy Bertram. They liked it. They said, hey, do you want to come back and do the season? It actually ended up working out extremely well. That was a year going into the. Let's see, that was what, the 2014. And so, like, we worked a lot of games. It was dependent on who had the game, of whether or not we would be able to call it and work it. But we worked a lot of games that year, which ended up being really cool. And I did that for two or three years. And the inventory started to dwindle because ESPN was basically gobbling it all back up. And we could. We could not do ESPN replays. We could do CBS and Jefferson Pilot replays. There's another one that people won't know what that is because they. We don't have Jefferson Pilot Sports anymore. But when I was doing that, there was a guy at CSS that heard me and he said, hey, would you like to come over and, you know, do a couple of Sunbelt games? Because I have a. I have a full season Sunbelt package I could give you and you could do that. And I thought to myself, I kind of looked at it like, hey, this is just like football. I need to get reps at this to be good. If I want to do this full time, then I need reps. I need to be able to go and do it. So I was like, yeah, I'll take a full slate of Sunbelt games over two or three Auburn games, one more to pay per view, and that's going to better me down the road to potentially be able to do this full time.
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Bubba
Well, you. You certainly. You certainly made the most of it, Cole, and you've done a great job. You do a great job on tv. How do you. How do you balance all that now with ESPN schedule and doing the radio show? And. I mean, it does. I knew when I asked that. You're going to laugh.
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Cole Kublick
Yeah, I don't know. It's just. I just. I just kind of wake up and go and whatever I have that day, I figure out how to get it done. Not easy, thankfully. I have a wife that is beyond supportive, and without her, I couldn't, flat out couldn't do this. To be honest with you. I don't even understand how she manages what she does at home, much less me when I'm home as well, to just put even more on that. But it's one of those things where I understand that opportunities are going to be limited, and if I don't take advantage of things pop up, then that opportunity may not show up again. So I'm not going to turn. I'm not going to turn much down. And she knows that. And she knows that. That's a lot of the reason why I've been able to get here is because I don't turn a lot of things down. I'm willing to work, I want to work, I want to go try new things. I want to do new things. And it's opened a lot of doors for me. So it's just one of those things where you got to have a little bit of a balancing act. You got to have a little bit of understanding that you're probably going to miss a few things. You're not going to be able to be there for every single thing. And that's not fun. But at the same time, it's. It's one of the main reasons I've gotten where I am today. And so it's just, hey, let's go out there and try to do what we can to better our opportunities and continue to climb the ladder. And you better have a good support system behind you if you're going to do that. That's all I'll say. Because if you don't have somebody like her, it's going to be tough for you to find your way.
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Bubba
Cole, I think one of the. One of the games I remember seeing you do that, I really got to laughing because it looked like you were having a good time. Was it the Pop Tart bowl you did last year or a couple of years ago?
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Cole Kublick
Yes, sir. How about that?
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Bubba
That is a fun bowl game to.
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Cole Kublick
Watch, isn't Is they do those. Those guys have put that together. They get it. They understand that. They really buy in to kind of what that game is, and it makes it really cool. You know, they. They, they want you to have fun. They, they want you to enjoy it. They want people to have fun watching it. So it's not that other people at other bowls aren't that way, but I mean, when you got live Pop Tart mascots walking around acting a fool, it helps you be a little bit foolish at the same time. So it's a cool game to work. I had a blast doing it.
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Bubba
Cole, when you're out of town doing a football game or Greg's out of a town. How do you do the radio show? Is it. Does it just one guy tote the load or does the other guy call in? How do you guys balance that?
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Cole Kublick
We do it. We can do it from different places. Covid kind of taught us all that and really gave us the capabilities to be able to do it from just about anywhere. So we just, we have remote setups that I travel with a microphone and we plug into the Internet and we can log into the station and we go and it's. It's amazing to think about. Pre Covid, none of that was even thought about. Like nobody would even have considered trying to do a radio show that way. Now it's pretty normal. And you're able to just do it from home or you're able to do it from our hotel rooms on the road and we make it work. Now there's a little bit of a sacrifice. I'm not going to try to pretend like there's not sure. I mean, it doesn't sound as good. The quality is not always going to be exactly what it would be if you were in studio. And as you know, that non verbal communication is also massive to be able to look to your left or right and that guy's sitting there and you know what he's thinking or what he wants to say and you give him a chance to kind of chime in. But I think it's cool sometimes too for us to sit there and say, hey, you know, I'm in. I'm in Tuscaloosa. Greg's in State College, Pennsylvania. You know, we're going to be talking about the game. Greg's calling that game, I'm calling this game. But I think it offers us something that not a lot of other people can compete with and gives people a little bit of a feel like, hey man, these dudes are on the road for the game. We feel like we're with them. Like they, they're there, they're living it, they're seeing it, they're breathing it. Like it's, it gives us a little bit of an advantage. At the same time, I feel like.
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Bubba
Yeah, instead of a disadvantage, I look at it as a positive because you're there on the scene. I mean, it gives you a feel that you're, you know, on top of the story and you can bring that experience back to the listeners. Cole, tell me a little bit about getting up early. How are you dealing with that? Everybody can't do that.
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Cole Kublick
Yeah, not well. But I'll say this, you know, I did a Show in our station was in Decatur, Alabama and we lived, we lived about 28 minutes away. I think I had it down to 28 minutes and so that was a 6 to 10 show and I did a little bit of 6 to 10 when we still lived in Huntsville, which was about a 40 minute drive. So, I mean, I've had it worse, I'll say that. I've had it a lot worse, bubba, than I live about five minutes from our studio right now. So that is a big assistance and that helps a ton. But I just, I can remember talking to you guys about this when you were at some get together up there in Huntsville a long time ago. And I think both of you told me, like, listen, your body never truly acclimates that early. Like you, you never get used to it. It's never going to be normal. So just figure out how to make it work and then go from there. And that's kind of what I've had to do.
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Bubba
Yeah, choose your form of caffeine carefully.
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Cole Kublick
So there you go.
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Bubba
You, you, you were speaking of being Laird a minute ago. You know, I see him every year. We have a common friend that has a cookout at one of the holidays and I see Ben there every year and we always relive our glory days, you know.
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Cole Kublick
Oh yeah, he's definitely one to relive him with. He loves to tell the stories of the good old times and so there's free food involved. You know, he's going, oh yeah, he.
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Bubba
Is a great guy. He really is. So, Cole, let me ask you this and I'll let you go because you, you do have such a close tie to the Auburn Tigers. What, what is going on down there? What, what has happened? How do you feel about the coaching change? I mean, can Auburn win seven or eight games again or we going to be perennial sitting at home during bowl season?
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Cole Kublick
No, I think they can, I think they can win some games. And I think the main reason that I would say that or believe that is you look at sort of how Indiana was built with bringing in players that you had around you, that had been there with you before, that knew your system, that knew your expectation, that knew how you were going to coach when you were going to coach hard, what your language was. All those things are important and it takes a long time for guys to understand those things. Well, you're going to be ahead of the curve on that. And Alex Goelish has guys coming in that already understand that. They already get that there's not going to be a lot of Questions, there's not going to be a lot of wondering, what is he really thinking? What's he really like? What's he really saying? They all know. And I think that gives him a really nice starting point. And I think Byron Brown's a really talented quarterback, and, you know, that position goes a lot further than almost any other. So I think there are some things that he has in place that could really help them be successful early. Now, we're not talking about, you know, making a run in the College Football Playoff or anything like that, but if you're just talking about finding a way to win, as you stated, six, eight games, something along those lines, seven, you know, nine games, possibly. I wouldn't put it out of the realm of possibility. You got a great coordinator that you, that you already had there and DJ Durkin. Now you got a guy on the offensive side of the ball that knows how to call plays, knows how to draw system up. You knows what the expectation is from his players. And he's got some guys around him that have done it. They. They've been there with him. So I think he does have some advantages that could allow him to maybe surprise some people this year.
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Bubba
Do you think Auburn has been. I don't know the right way to say this, but other than they just haven't had great linemen the last few years, five, six, maybe even 10 years, they, especially on the offensive side, had some really talented backs. But, you know, I don't care how good you are, you can be Bo Jackson. If you got two people hanging on you in the backfield, you're not going very far. No.
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Cole Kublick
And that's been a big problem. I thought it was going to take a big step last year. It kind of didn't. I thought that was going to be a position that was very different for that football team last year, and it wasn't. But I do think they have now the resources and ability to go get some of those guys. And again, you bring in the center that played free there at South Florida, I think he's a pretty good player. You know, it's got to be a focal point for Goal Isch as well, because I know when he watches that film from last year, he can't be satisfied with what he sees. There's no way he watches that tape and says, oh, yeah, we're going to be able to ride with these guys and go in nine, 10 games. There's no reality to that whatsoever.
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Bubba
Cole Kublick from ESPN jocks 94.5 in Birmingham. Cole, thank you so much. I know you have a very busy schedule. Thank you for wedging out a little time for us. We'd love to have you on again to discuss some things when we get a little closer to football. But thank you for your time so much and always a pleasure.
- [39:58]
Cole Kublick
Hey, I appreciate you having me. Appreciate doing it. And anytime you need me, Bubba, you just let me know.
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Bubba
Cole, thank you so much. Cole Kublick, ESPN jocks 945 and we'll be back in just a minute with Bubba on the lake.
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Cole Kublick
You're listening to Bubba. Bubba on.
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Bubba
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Cole Kublick
You know one thing I love about Buffalo wild wings? You can get wings with any of their 26 sauces and dry rubs for takeout and delivery. That's like bringing an entire B dubs home with you, which you can't do. I tried. I've knocked down so many walls only to then be told to halt construction because I'm not zoned to be a spot sports bar. Kind of just looks like a big pergola or something. Because of the lack of walls, at least these 26 sauces and dry rubs are available. To go. Buffalo Wild Wings.
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Bubba
Let's go sports bar.
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Cole Kublick
Foreign.
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Bubba
We're here at the Orlando Ham Fest, or better known as Hamcation. Robbie Spur, one of the partners in giga parts. Robbie, how's the ham fest been for you so far?
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Robbie Spurr
Oh, fabulous. I just love seeing everybody smiling faces.
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Bubba
Well, y' all got quite a setup here. I mean, you. You have one of the bigger displays here. So y' all are a regular here every year?
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Robbie Spurr
Yeah, we've been coming here for least seven, eight years and it's always a good show for us. We love the Weather, so it's good to get a break from the winter weather.
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Bubba
Yeah, after you've had 11, 18, I guess y' all had single digits in Huntsville. It's nice to have 80 and sunny for a change in it.
- [42:43]
Robbie Spurr
I'll take it any day.
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Bubba
It almost feels too hot, doesn't it?
- [42:46]
Robbie Spurr
No, no, it doesn't.
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Bubba
It's a little chilly in the morning, but, boy, I tell you, by the time the sun comes up, it's great. Well, what kind of crowd are we talking about here? And business wise, is this a good trip for you guys?
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Robbie Spurr
Oh, it's good. It's probably 20,000 people, if I had to guess, over the course of the weekend. It's a good opportunity for us to get in front of our customers. A lot of them are buying from us online throughout the year, and so this is our opportunity to see them face to face, shake their hands, and do whatever we can to please them. We don't bring the whole store. We only have probably 60, 70 linear feet of show space here to present some of our wares, but we bring a good selection. And today we got mystery boxes that people always love, so that's a crowd pleaser.
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Bubba
So you guys cater to a lot of things. I mean, you have computers, you have games. The ham business is a small part of your overall business, but that's really kind of the focus here today, I guess.
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Robbie Spurr
Oh, yeah, Today is about ham radio, but we did bring some lasers. So we have. We've had a lot of customers come up to us say, hey, why didn't you bring 3D printers? People say, hey, what about that gaming laptop I wanted to buy from you? We can't bring everything, but we try to bring, you know, a good assortment. But the laser is part of kind of the maker community, and it's interesting how much crossover there is with all of our customers and the different things that we sell. All of our customers have computers. Many of them are into photography. A lot of them are into 3D printing and other maker stuff. So, you know, we look at it as a way for us to spark an interest in a customer who is a thinker like you. You're a thinker. You don't just do ham radio. You like drones, you like tech.
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Bubba
Yeah. Betty's listing. Thanks, Robbie.
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Robbie Spurr
Oh, I'm sorry. I was supposed to keep that in.
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Cole Kublick
The lowdown one night.
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Bubba
So. But. But I think you made a good point. I know a lot of business is done online now. I mean, not everybody's lucky enough to live in Huntsville next to Giga Parks. You know, like, I would. I wish I had an apartment on the back wall so I could just walk out. But you do a lot of business, and this does give you a chance to get out and meet and greet and see some of those folks. Oh, for sure.
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Robbie Spurr
Yeah.
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Bubba
That's. And it's.
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Robbie Spurr
That's why we come to the shows.
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Cole Kublick
This is.
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Robbie Spurr
This is not an economical way for us to grow our business. It is a way for us to get in front of our customers, for them to see us face to face, because a big part of our business is E commerce, and these guys come from all over the country to this show. And so it's a great way for us to see our customer base on a regular basis, to get feedback from them on the things that they're interested in to help us find the product that we're going to carry next year.
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Bubba
So how long have you guys been open there?
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Robbie Spurr
I think we're headed into our 28th year next month.
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Bubba
And you may remember when you and Patrick started this, y' all asked me about it, and I told you there's no way it would make a go. So, you know, people ask. People ask me for advice all the time. And I said, don't listen to me, okay? Just go get it done. Like Giga parts.
- [45:46]
Robbie Spurr
Did I hear you? I mean, I probably should have taken your advice.
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Bubba
Well, it's tough. Any business is tough. But we're glad that you're here. We're glad how you serve the community. When did you get into ham? How long have you been a ham? And for folks listening to this that are not hams, what would you tell them about our hobby?
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Robbie Spurr
I got into ham radio. I got licensed a few years before we opened the store back in the 90s. But my first interest in it, my introduction to it, was my fifth grade math teacher. She brought in a handheld radio and made a phone call from it, and that just blew me away.
- [46:25]
Bubba
Autopatch before cell phones.
- [46:27]
Robbie Spurr
Exactly. And, you know, it took me many years after that to actually get into the hub, get into the hobby. But, you know, that's what sparked the interest for me. I'm not terribly active in ham radio anymore, but, you know, there's a lot of things that spark my interest. Meshtastic is kind of the thing that is interesting to me now, and you don't actually have to be.
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Bubba
Have you met Mark Schnow yet?
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Robbie Spurr
Oh, yeah.
- [46:49]
Bubba
Oh, you know Mark. He's all about that.
- [46:51]
Robbie Spurr
There are tons of people that are all about it now. And the neat Thing about meshtastic is you can do a lot with a ham radio license, but you don't have to have a ham radio license to get into it. So it's a, it's a great way to be able to communicate off the grid to be prepared in case cell phones stop working. You want to be able to communicate with your loved ones and coordinate, you know, hey, let's meet up here. So there's a lot of really interesting things going on that get their start in ham radio. And you know, you can any, anything that you have wireless. You can thank a ham core because that's where the technology started.
- [47:21]
Bubba
Oh, yeah. Well, the packet radio led to the WI fi we have now and a lot of other things. You have to have people get out and experiment and build on these things and then they become commercially viable.
- [47:31]
Robbie Spurr
Yeah, exactly.
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Bubba
So, Robbie, you're a pilot too, right? Yeah, Patrick.
- [47:36]
Robbie Spurr
Oh, we're both pilots.
- [47:37]
Bubba
And then you're also probably my leading authority on any kind of battery car Teslas. Yes. You've had several. You had one of the first ones I ever saw.
- [47:47]
Robbie Spurr
Yeah, we had fun in that car, didn't we?
- [47:49]
Bubba
Yeah. When you made it come pick us up at the restaurant and it just came and got us, I thought, oh my gosh, I've reached Buck Rogers now.
- [47:57]
Robbie Spurr
Yeah, that was like another world. That was like five, six years ago. It's even better now. Why don't you have one yet?
- [48:05]
Bubba
Well, you know, I'm going to talk to Betty about that. We're working on that.
- [48:09]
Robbie Spurr
I think that they are deer proof now. I think they'll probably swerve and stop.
- [48:12]
Bubba
You know, better than you can. It would be interesting to see if the auto driving would have prevented that wreck.
- [48:19]
Robbie Spurr
You know, I think if you gave it a fair test, it would probably have a better chance of survival than your reaction time.
- [48:25]
Bubba
Well, that or I'm going to put one of these cow scoopers, you know, the trains used to have on the front of them on all my vehicles just to knock them out of the way.
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Robbie Spurr
I think your truck could probably support that.
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Bubba
I think it would too, Robbie. Thanks. I know you're busy. Thanks for taking time to talk to us. Hopefully you'll have another 28 years. We appreciate you guys and what you've done for electronics as a whole and especially the ham community.
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Robbie Spurr
Thank you. Bubba.
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Betty Lou
Where's Bubba?
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Cole Kublick
He's on the lake.
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Bubba
Well folks, we've finally been able to book a little time with her. She's very busy. She's moving, she's shaking, she's playing pickleball, tennis, taking care of the dogs, the house, me, the lovely Betty Lou. Betty, how are you hun?
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Betty Lou
I'm doing great this morning. How are you?
- [51:30]
Bubba
Well, I am great. I'm great. We've had a great trip to Orlando. We've talked a little bit about that on the podcast. I did need you a few minutes ago. I don't think you heard me hollering for you because I got hung up trying to say aphylactic Anaphylactic. Anaphylactic. That's why I didn't want to say it. Right. Anaphylactic.
- [51:50]
Betty Lou
Alpha phylactic. That is crazy. Alpha phylactic.
- [51:53]
Bubba
You know what?
- [51:54]
Betty Lou
You've made up a new term.
- [51:55]
Bubba
I was tying that in. I was tying that into alpha gal. The protein from the ticks that causes the violet reaction. Yeah, you know the long story.
- [52:04]
Betty Lou
It's got alpha whatever.
- [52:06]
Bubba
Well, I. You didn't hear the interview or the comments, but I met a lady at lunch and she said, you saved my husband's life because he had a reaction. Went to the emergency room, and they couldn't figure out what was wrong with him. And she remembered that he'd been to Kentucky and had a tick on him. And she said. She just starts. She said, I just started screaming, alpha gal. Alpha gal. Checking for Alpha gal. And she'd heard it on the podcast we did years ago with Richard Chin.
- [52:33]
Betty Lou
Well, there you go. So maybe you should have Richard on again and remind everybody.
- [52:37]
Bubba
Anaphylactic. God. That's why I couldn't say it.
- [52:39]
Betty Lou
Yeah, I was your heart.
- [52:41]
Bubba
I was saying alpha. I bet you wouldn't. I got hung up and I didn't edit it out because I don't. Sure, we don't hear. Yeah, it's really funnier, you know, with me. Me. And I just kept trying to say it. It couldn't say anaphylactic.
- [52:56]
Betty Lou
Anaphylactic. You know, that's anaphylaxic or anaphylactic shock or.
- [53:01]
Bubba
Yeah, you got to say Anna at the beginning of it. Anaphylactic.
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Betty Lou
So, yeah.
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Bubba
I was hung up. I mean, Betty, you couldn't have got me out of that with a tow truck? You know what I mean? It was horrible. Or. Quick updates. I've got some complaint emails. We didn't get your chicken noodle soup on Betty's corner.
- [53:23]
Betty Lou
Got to type that up, actually. Yeah, I don't know how to put it on Betty's corner and give it.
- [53:28]
Bubba
To me and Logan. Yeah, Logan about to run. Will take care.
- [53:32]
Betty Lou
All right. I'll talk Magic man when I get back today.
- [53:36]
Bubba
Where are you going today?
- [53:37]
Betty Lou
Well, it's some more lab work for the pup, and then I'm playing pickleball, of course, for a little while.
- [53:43]
Bubba
I can't believe you're playing pickleball today.
- [53:45]
Betty Lou
Coming home and doing laundry and that exciting thing.
- [53:49]
Bubba
Listen, I mentioned how well you take care of this household. You really do. We joke about your pickleball and tennis time, and you actually went out and played tennis.
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Betty Lou
I did, yeah. For the first time. And gosh knows How? I don't even know. Probably seven years. I think the last time I played was just at a. A clinic here with the great Wes Coleman.
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Bubba
Yeah.
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Betty Lou
And that's been a long time ago, that cardio tennis stuff. And that was ugly that day.
- [54:15]
Bubba
How was it being back on the.
- [54:17]
Betty Lou
First few whacks at it was not good.
- [54:21]
Bubba
Playing pickleball.
- [54:22]
Betty Lou
Yeah. That racket is so much heavier than that pickleball racket and longer and that.
- [54:28]
Bubba
I mean, that's probably 17 grams, you know.
- [54:31]
Betty Lou
Well, I don't know, it just felt so heavy. And then the tennis court is like a football field compared, compared to the pickleball court. So anyway, but I, I can still. I'm still, you know, do. All right. You know, I was kind of warming up and the rest was falling off by the time we played three sets.
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Bubba
Well, you know, I think you, you have done very well athletically, considering you were never an athlete in high school. You were a cheerleader. I know, which takes athletic ability. But you didn't play sports. You didn't, you know, hit balls and run and shoot hoops and stuff, and. But once you took up tennis, you got very good because you're fast, you got great speed.
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Betty Lou
Well, that.
- [55:15]
Bubba
You're still not big as a minute, so.
- [55:17]
Betty Lou
Oh, yeah, sure, that works in my favor now for sure, as I'm getting older, that I still have some wheels on me, so to speak.
- [55:25]
Bubba
You know, I could comment there. You. You got wheels, girl. You do. You got a lot of wheels.
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Betty Lou
It's funny you bring that up about not being athletic, though. I was at a funeral at a very good friend, a few. Oh, it's been a month or two ago now. And one of the guys I went to high school with and actually knew him since I was second grade. I guess we grew up together. He was kind of sitting in the back and that's one of the first things he said. Do you really play tennis? He goes, I can't believe I tried to get you to play anything with a ball every time ever since second grade, you know what I mean? And he's the one that I hit in the head accidentally because he kept saying, hit it right here, and pointing to his ear kinda. And so this was.
- [56:11]
Bubba
Go ahead and say his name.
- [56:13]
Betty Lou
No, it's funny. But anyway, I hit him.
- [56:17]
Bubba
I kind of want people to ask.
- [56:18]
Betty Lou
Him about, so I hit him. He kept saying, hit it right here, hit it right here. So when I did actually make contact with the bat to the ball, the softball, I hit him right there. That and I Mean, it was hilarious. I will never forget. And bless his heart, he wasn't hurt or anything. He was laughing. But anyway, he still remembers that to this day. And it's been, what, third grade? And I'm. Well, you know, how old I. Anyway, it's only been 10 years ago. Oh, Lord.
- [56:48]
Bubba
Well, it affected him. Now he. He serves as a minister.
- [56:51]
Betty Lou
That's right. Yeah. He's not some sense. And he's a man.
- [56:56]
Bubba
He's a man of the cloth today because you bet he hit him with a softball.
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Betty Lou
Oh, me.
- [57:01]
Bubba
So, anyway, she spared your name, Michael.
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Betty Lou
It was always good to catch up, though. We've got to have some kind of reunion at some point. I don't know when we'll do it or who's going to plan it, but we're going to have to have a reunion. It's fine running into these old classmates.
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Bubba
Yeah, I always. I know a lot of times people kind of look down on reunions, like, you know, oh, no, you don't want to do that. Or it may. Maybe it brings up bad memories for them if they had, you know, bad experiences. But I've always enjoyed ours. We've had fun. The last one we went to, we had a ball.
- [57:35]
Betty Lou
Yeah, I've enjoyed your reunions because I usually go with you because I know a lot of people that went to school with you, too.
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Bubba
I mean, we were out there dancing, having a good time.
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Betty Lou
Yeah. Yeah. You never know. The old Raiders may have a reunion yet. May have to combine a few classes.
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Bubba
I know. I think I missed your last reunion.
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Betty Lou
You did?
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Bubba
I had to go somewhere with years ago.
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Betty Lou
I don't think we've had one.
- [58:00]
Bubba
Let me tell you.
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Betty Lou
10, 15 years maybe.
- [58:03]
Bubba
Let me tell you.
- [58:03]
Betty Lou
Last one.
- [58:04]
Bubba
I ain't missing this one.
- [58:05]
Betty Lou
Okay, we have one.
- [58:07]
Bubba
Yeah, well, why don't you just get it?
- [58:09]
Betty Lou
Anybody out there want to help, just let me know.
- [58:11]
Bubba
So what high school? What class?
- [58:14]
Betty Lou
Oh, it was Pleasant Valley High school, class of 85. Yeah, we were the very first graduating class.
- [58:20]
Bubba
Yeah, for that school, that was.
- [58:23]
Betty Lou
How about that?
- [58:23]
Bubba
All of you would have gone to Jacksonville, where I went, but all the feeder schools had their own. Own school.
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Betty Lou
And, yeah, that was a unique experience, always being the oldest class, you know. So, anyway, it was fun. It was a fun group. Fond memories.
- [58:43]
Bubba
So are you telling people to get in touch with you for.
- [58:47]
Betty Lou
I'm just saying, y' all get it in gear. The ones that live close.
- [58:50]
Bubba
Still there, the homies. Let me know if I can have.
- [58:56]
Betty Lou
Y' all get your wheels on and get it in ge. Oh, man.
- [59:00]
Bubba
All right, so we're running Betty's update list. You have that. We need to have a class reunion. Pleasant Valley. The other one is. Everybody wants to know how Ruby's doing. Now, she has been diagnosed with an autoimmune disease, which. And I'm going to take liberty here, since I couldn't say anaphylactic earlier and say, for lack of a better way to explain it. Mm. Her white blood cells are eating.
- [59:29]
Betty Lou
Her red blood cells are. Her body is destroying her own red blood cells.
- [59:34]
Bubba
That's what I'm saying. The white blood cells are eating the red blood cells. It's basically doggy leukemia. Well, right.
- [59:40]
Betty Lou
But she's doing much better. Yeah, I don't know that. That's exactly right, what you were saying. So I'm gonna move on. I don't.
- [59:45]
Bubba
Well, I know the white blood cell count was elevated and it was. And the red ones were going down.
- [59:51]
Betty Lou
It was. But I don't know that that's the way they put it. They just said her own bodies attacking her red blood cells.
- [59:57]
Bubba
So apparently I'm struggling with medicine today. Human and dog. Okay.
- [60:02]
Betty Lou
Her body is now making red blood cells. Healthy red.
- [60:07]
Bubba
She had to get a transfusion.
- [60:08]
Betty Lou
She did. She did. I know, but. And I know she's doing so much better, though. She really is. We got to go get some lab work today. And I hope that this is the last time and for a long time.
- [60:20]
Bubba
We're animal people. Betty is the closest thing to Ellie May. Clamp it I've ever seen.
- [60:26]
Betty Lou
And, well, I did have a pet rabbit at one point.
- [60:29]
Bubba
Give me your line, too. Give me your line.
- [60:30]
Betty Lou
Can you. Can we keep them? Paul?
- [60:36]
Bubba
I love that.
- [60:38]
Betty Lou
I had Stan. I had a rabbit named Stan that I found. And I kept it inside and fed it and all that for a long time. And then it tried to bite me, and I had to let it go. I thought, well, it's strong enough to be outside now.
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Bubba
Betty, You.
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Betty Lou
Anyway, I just.
- [60:52]
Bubba
You basically kidnapped it and put it in prison.
- [60:54]
Betty Lou
No, I didn't.
- [60:55]
Bubba
Living outside.
- [60:56]
Betty Lou
Well, it was little. I could. It's mother one or. I never saw a mom. You know what I mean? So I watched it for a few days and. So anyway.
- [61:05]
Bubba
How long did you keep it?
- [61:06]
Betty Lou
Oh, not long. Not long. It was. It got stronger very quick once it started. I don't remember. That's what I was just thinking. My.
- [61:14]
Bubba
Wonder where. I always think rabbits like carrots.
- [61:16]
Betty Lou
I can't remember. I want to say I've tried to give it a bottle or Something. I don't know. I can't remember.
- [61:22]
Bubba
I think Bugs Bunny made us all think rabbits eat carrots.
- [61:24]
Betty Lou
Like, carrots. Yeah. But I don't really do. I don't really see a lot of.
- [61:28]
Bubba
Rabbits, and I don't see a lot of carrot.
- [61:30]
Betty Lou
My date. Cat food. I don't know, because we always had cats. No, they were all named Smokey, and they were all solid black.
- [61:36]
Bubba
Right.
- [61:36]
Betty Lou
So we just had, you know, smokey of the 70s, smokey. The 80s, smokey of the 90s, smokey.
- [61:46]
Bubba
But Ruby and I know. I know what the guys are thinking. What does set you back? Okay, I know. I know that's what y'. All. Because if I was listening to this, I would think immediately, what. What does that cost?
- [61:58]
Betty Lou
Let's just say we could go on a fairly nice vacation for the price.
- [62:02]
Bubba
Are you fanning. Are you hot over there?
- [62:03]
Betty Lou
But, yes, it's hot in here to me. Is it not hot to you?
- [62:06]
Bubba
I mean, it sounds like a helicopter when you're doing that.
- [62:12]
Betty Lou
It's very hot in here. He does not have the fan on, and he's got all this equipment in here. Sorry. I'm over 50. Way over 50.
- [62:27]
Bubba
Too much. You are too much, girl. So we have spent quite a bit on Ruby, and she was worth it. We have a little bit more to spend, but there is, you know, we've talked about it. There's. There's a point where you go, we can't continue this. We're going to have to let nature take its course.
- [62:49]
Betty Lou
Right?
- [62:50]
Bubba
We'll pray it up and let it. Let it go. But. But we have. We've prayed for our dog, and she's better, so I count that as an answered prayer.
- [62:59]
Betty Lou
I do, too. And she is going to have to stay on a medication called cyclosporine for a little bit that treats all this. And probably she's been on prednisone, but she's gonna have to taper off a bit, from what I understand. So that's. That's kind of what we're doing today, is seeing where she's at on her lab work and then hopefully beginning the tapering process of some of this medication.
- [63:24]
Bubba
Do you ever think that she can understand what you're saying?
- [63:27]
Betty Lou
I don't know. She's not even paying attention now. She's just like, well, whatever.
- [63:31]
Bubba
She was all excited running around here, and you start talking about, oh, I E T. And now she is laying curled up under the table here that we're doing the podcast on.
- [63:42]
Betty Lou
Like, please don't Take like she's, oh, me. But it's just a morning nap time.
- [63:49]
Bubba
Yeah, a lot of that. Well, we love our pets. You know, they, they, they're a blessing. I consider.
- [63:56]
Betty Lou
They are.
- [63:56]
Bubba
They're not human. We don't put them on that level. But they, they are a gift. And I think we should appreciate them and be thankful for that and enjoy them.
- [64:08]
Betty Lou
Yeah, I do too. Just like all the other gifts that God.
- [64:11]
Bubba
Gosh, are we not all blessed? I mean, if you're listening to this podcast, you're blessed beyond belief. Right? I mean, it's crazy. It's just crazy. I'm glad that God is much more patient than I would be with all of us, you know?
- [64:25]
Betty Lou
Oh, I know. Yep. He loved us even though we weren't worthy.
- [64:29]
Bubba
Yeah. Yep. Still, even today. Well, Betty, I appreciate you taking time. I know you're very busy. We'll try to get that recipe up. Thank you for taking care of the dog. Thank you for taking care of me and you. You've been very nice. We really have not talked about the fact that I have an office studio here now on the main floor. And that was all made possible by you.
- [64:54]
Betty Lou
Yeah. And I'm looking at quite the eyes or right past. This was probably one of the nicest bathrooms I've ever seen. And you've kind of turned that into a little storage area now. You sold it to me like, oh, I can get up when I get up early. I'll come in here and use this bathroom to get my shower and get ready. I said, okay, that'd be good. Shoot. You can't get to the shower.
- [65:20]
Bubba
You know, it's. It's.
- [65:21]
Betty Lou
Never mind.
- [65:22]
Bubba
It's a failure on my part.
- [65:24]
Betty Lou
Well, I'm getting there and help you clean.
- [65:26]
Bubba
I would told you.
- [65:27]
Betty Lou
What can we do? Well, the problem is, like, it's not much of anything. It looks like a bunch of papers.
- [65:32]
Bubba
Well, here's the problem. When we. When we moved to the lake, we downsized about three to one.
- [65:39]
Betty Lou
Oh, I know many.
- [65:41]
Bubba
And you did a tremendous. And I've credited you with this. You did a tremendous job of cleaning out and, you know, working yourself down to a third of what you had. I have not done so good and I've noticed.
- [65:55]
Betty Lou
My fault.
- [65:56]
Bubba
My fault. But one of the problems is I feel like I'm never here. You know, I'm always running somewhere.
- [66:03]
Betty Lou
Well, when you are here and we have a little time, let's get in there and I'll help you go through some of that.
- [66:09]
Bubba
Well, I know I'm Ready to go through. I don't need help. I need somewhere to set it.
- [66:14]
Betty Lou
I need to get in those cabinets. I, you know, mistakenly put things in there like that. I use like extra soap.
- [66:21]
Bubba
Well, that's what I thought. We should say put. Like when we get extra shampoo, you know, we buy it in bulk. We should put it in those cabinets. Why?
- [66:28]
Betty Lou
You can't get to.
- [66:29]
Bubba
Well, I know, but we will eventually. I'll get.
- [66:32]
Betty Lou
I mean. I mean, I got my yoga workout trying to stretch to get to something. The other day I needed a basket. We had company come in and I usually use this basket for like chips or whatever, you know, when you have. And I had to move some stuff that was not pleasant to move and then stretch and, you know, my legs are about two and a half feet long. They're not very long, so it's hard.
- [66:56]
Bubba
To stretch you, honey. Betty does his thing. You listen. You're smoking hot. Okay, I can say that.
- [67:07]
Betty Lou
Yeah.
- [67:07]
Bubba
Now, I'm partial, but you are.
- [67:09]
Betty Lou
Well, thank you and I appreciate it. I'm glad you think so. You.
- [67:12]
Bubba
Not only every day, not only do you take care of the house, you've taken care of yourself again.
- [67:17]
Betty Lou
Well, somewhat. Not really.
- [67:18]
Bubba
In my case, I look like that. That bathroom. Okay.
- [67:23]
Betty Lou
Okay. Lord. Anyway, I just gotta clean that bathroom.
- [67:29]
Bubba
I have to keep you laughing. That's my only hope.
- [67:33]
Betty Lou
Well, you're lucky. I'm an easy target, so I laugh all the time.
- [67:38]
Bubba
Well, Betty, thanks for stopping by. We'll get that recipe up and everything else. And thank you very much for taking care of the pup and taking care of old hubby over here.
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Betty Lou
Yeah. Did you already talk about your ham radio trip?
- [67:50]
Bubba
Yeah, a little bit. You know, one of the. I did get one interview on site and I had some others I wanted to do, but they were so busy selling stuff, it was hard to do. So I've got a phone call in. I don't know if we're going to get them all in for this podcast. I may have to sprinkle them in later, but we'll see what we can do. But thank you for coming by and good luck on pickleball today.
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Betty Lou
Well, thank you very much and good luck to Ruby.
- [68:15]
Bubba
Yes. Good. Get a good report. Ruby, we love you. We'll be right back in just a minute. You're listening to Bubba on the Lake.
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Cole Kublick
It's Bubba on the Lake. Bubba on the Lake.
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Bubba
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Cole Kublick
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