#51 Kirsten McCorkle, Hunter's March Madness Challenge Update

Summary

Podcast Summary: Bubba On the Lake – Episode 51

Guest: Kirsten McCorkle
Segment: Hunter's March Madness Challenge Update
Date: March 25, 2026
Host: Bill “Bubba” Bussey
Recurring Voices: Betty Lou Bussey, Hunter Bus

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Episode Overview

This episode of “Bubba on the Lake” is a light-hearted, nostalgia-filled conversation with Bubba’s longtime friend—and former tennis partner—Kirsten McCorkle, joined occasionally by Bubba’s wife, Betty Lou. The trio reminisces about their tennis glory days, travel misadventures, and parenting challenges, all with the laid-back, Southern wit that defines the show. The second half features Hunter Bus updating listeners on the ongoing March Madness bracket challenge.

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Key Discussion Points & Segments

1. Welcoming Kirsten: Catching Up After Years Apart

Timestamps: 08:53 – 11:01

• Reconnection: Bubba introduces Kirsten, joking about not having seen her “in the flesh” for nearly 20 years.
• Old Ties: The group reminisces about when their kids were small and how children change social dynamics.
• Tennis Partners: Bubba recalls playing and winning with Kirsten as mixed doubles partners, and the comical interplay of personalities on and off the court.

“...when the kids come along, it’s hard to maintain friendships and—”
—Bubba (09:17)

“I just want to eat breakfast.”
—Kirsten (10:02) on Bubba’s enthusiasm for tennis strategy at dawn

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2. Tennis Stories: Victories, Rivalries & Laughter

Timestamps: 11:01 – 24:25

• Competitive Couples: Anecdotes of facing off as mixed doubles teams, often with spouses as rivals, resulting in humorous (and sometimes tense) moments.
• Strategy Sessions: Kirsten pokes fun at Bubba’s over-planning and her own ADD during pre-game breakfasts.
• Travel Fiascos: Memorable tournaments, like getting a flat in a dodgy neighborhood (with a gun for safety), choosing between dubious dining options, and discovering Panera Bread for the first time (“He was mad upon entry... it was so funny and you were so...” —Kirsten, 22:14).
• Unique Tournament Experiences: Dividing up teams to ensure victory and the drama of meeting in the finals, as well as local hotel and restaurant rituals.

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3. Life Updates: Parenting, Stress, and Some Humor

Timestamps: 26:32 – 38:38

• Lake Life: Kirsten and her family split time between the lake and “real life,” leading to jokes about never seeing each other at the cabin.
• Parenting Highs and Lows: Her oldest son is deep into competitive bass fishing—a sport she teases about for its boat and gas costs but also praises for keeping kids out of trouble early mornings.
• Special Needs: Kirsten discusses her younger son Quinn, who has special needs, adding that their “empty nest” will be different and sharing candidly about the challenges of “homescaling” (her take on homeschooling).
• Daily Joys: Stories of jumping on the trampoline in the rain, managing family chaos, and aspirations to “get back to fun” this summer.

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4. Massage Mishaps and Lake Life Shenanigans

Timestamps: 27:25 – 33:41

• On-the-Road Remedies: Hilarious stories about traveling with a massage therapist to tournaments and nearly getting into trouble for the optics of exiting a room together.
• Discount Massages: Funny and occasionally sketchy discount massage adventures, complete with group-on regrets (“That was a beat, but apparently, I needed it.” —Kirsten, 32:34).
• Gendered Massage Preferences: Lots of laughs around awkward appointments, “aromatherapy mishaps,” and the universal struggle to relax.

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5. Sports Talk: Beyond Tennis

Timestamps: 38:38 – 41:14

• Pickleball Trend: Bubba, Betty, and Kirsten discuss the migration from tennis to pickleball, the “Laid Back Ladies” group, and the shifting athletic priorities of their stage of life.
• Changing Bodies and Expectations: With self-deprecating humor, Kirsten laments being “in the worst shape of my life,” and Betty recounts forgetting entirely how to play tennis after years away.

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6. March Madness Bracket Update with Hunter Bus

Timestamps: 63:26 – 70:28

• Bracket Standings: Hunter highlights current leaders (TJ Morgan, others), the fate of participants’ brackets so far, and near-misses with top teams like Gonzaga.
• Game Recaps: Recaps of stunning upsets and memorable games—Santa Clara vs. Kentucky, Iowa vs. Florida, and “corn off” battles between Nebraska and Iowa.
• Tournament Insights: Bubba and Hunter banter about blue blood teams, college transfer stars, and humorous Big Bang Theory references.
• Hunter’s Other Ventures: He plugs his other sports shows and the upcoming football season’s “Tailgate Tailgate.”

“My bracket blew up about an hour after we started when North Carolina lost. Didn't take long.”
—Bubba (64:58)

“The team that's my Cinderella right now is Texas. They were in the First Four game and are now in the Sweet Sixteen.”
—Hunter (66:53)

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7. Life Coaches, Sister Wives, and Manifesting

Timestamps: 47:02 – 55:27

• Skeptical on Life Coaches: Bubba asks Kirsten’s opinion on the life coach phenomenon. Everyone shares wry skepticism about the qualifications—and sanity—of “coaches.”
• Sister Wife Jokes: A tongue-in-cheek riff on the logistical (and agricultural) benefits of plural marriage.
• Manifesting Millionaires: Kirsten tells of a reality TV “manifesting coach” making millions charging people to write down their goals, admitting it “sounds like the biggest racket I have ever heard.”
• Cultural Commentary: Jokes about reality TV, the Naked and Afraid show, and the absurdities of modern self-help.

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8. Wrapping Up: Last Laughs and Summer Promises

Timestamps: 56:11 – 61:08

• Pledges to Reconnect: Bubba and Kirsten vow to spend more time together at the lake, maybe even pick up a new sport.
• Reliving Pregnancy Tournaments: Fond (and funny) memories of playing tennis while pregnant, snacking on peanut M&Ms.
• Skydiving Memories: Kirsten teases Ryan’s habit of tandem-jumping with “sorority girls,” humorously justifying it as funding her tennis travels.

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9. Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

| Timestamp | Speaker | Quote | |-----------|---------|-------| | 10:02 | Kirsten | "I just want to eat breakfast." (on Bubba’s breakfast strategy talks) | | 22:14 | Kirsten | "He was mad upon entry because you wanted...well, you had already—there’s already, in your mind—you were stating it wasn’t Jack’s. What was the approved fast food restaurant?"| | 38:52 | Kirsten | "I need to do something. Yeah. You’d get on a casual level…What is that group you play with? Laid Back Ladies on Monday?"| | 47:56 | Bubba | "Now, look, if you get too rowdy, I’ll have to beep you." (on life coach talk) | | 53:18 | Kirsten | "She’s one of the Housewives, and she is a manifestor. And I thought, if this isn’t the biggest bunch of bull...the biggest racket I have ever heard!"| | 64:58 | Bubba | "Well, I’m in no contention whatsoever. I’d like to be in the top hundred right now, currently sitting about 435 out of 757. Not too good for the old Bus." |

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10. Final Segment: The Pickleball Life

• Bubba and Betty chat candidly about embracing the “Laid Back Ladies” pickleball group as part of his knee rehab, humorously noting the shift in athletic expectations with age.
• Betty lists her daily chores—including pickleball, cleaning, taking care of the dogs—in a tongue-in-cheek celebration of “country girl” multitasking.
• Bubba wraps up with gratitude for listeners and sponsors, encouraging everyone to help their friends subscribe to the podcast.

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Highlights & Takeaways

• Signature Tone: The episode is peppered with warm-hearted teasing, quick wit, and relatable stories about family chaos, aging, and the oddities of group sports.
• Community Spirit: Bubba’s podcast feels like a gathering of old friends, welcoming listeners into the quirks of their unique social circle.
• Sports as Social Glue: Whether tennis, pickleball, or fishing, shared activities anchor the memories and connections among the group.
• Southern Humor: Jokes about “manifesting,” sister wives, and the rules of mixed doubles crackle with laid-back, self-deprecating charm.
• March Madness Competitiveness: Even as NCAA brackets are busted, camaraderie and competitive ribbing keep the fun alive.

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Segment Timestamps (Quick Reference)

• Intro & Weather Chat: 01:15 – 07:10
• Reunion & Tennis Tales: 08:53 – 24:25
• Lake Life, Parenting, Massage Stories: 26:32 – 38:38
• Pickleball and Changing Sports: 38:38 – 41:14
• Fishing & Youth Sports: 43:27 – 47:02
• Life Coaches, Sister Wives Bit: 47:02 – 55:27
• Final Reflections, Skydiving Story: 56:11 – 61:08
• March Madness Update w/ Hunter Bus: 63:26 – 70:28
• Betty Lou Pickleball Wrap-up: 73:04 – 77:10

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For More

• Website & Contact: bubbaonthelake.com
• Podcast Contest Details: $500 for March Madness Bracket Winner, immortalization in Bubba's Hall of Fame

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Transcript

[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.

[Bubba's Intro Singer]

Beat you double B A on the lake hey, wishing I could listen to the show every day hey gotta hear what Bubba and his buddies gotta say on B U double B A on the lake in the mellow yellow studio Putting on a show Betty say what she always on the go we got on a bus sitting at master control don't wanna miss a moment cause Bubba's got the flow B U B A on the lake hey, wishing not to listen to the show every day hey gotta hear what Bubba buddy's gotta say on B U double B A on the lake Hey B U double B A B U double B A B U double B A B U double B A on the lake hello again,

[Bubba]

friends, neighbors and associates everywhere. I'm your semi retired, mostly washed up host, formerly of the Rick and Bubba show and now your host for Bubba on the Lake are also known as the people's Podcast. Welcome back to the mellow yellow Studio. Glad to have you along. We have a lot going on. Want to remind you our website is bubonthelake.com. you can shoot me an email Bubba at bubba on the lake.com and of course our message line 300-824-45253 or easier to remember 308 Big Lake. Well, we're glad to have you along. Everybody hope that you are doing good. How about that warm weather? Boy, I'm glad to see a little bit of that. I don't, I don't live under the fantasy that spring is here though because it always gets cold around Easter. So there may still be a cold snap out there. But I sure am enjoying these 80 degrees that we're having here at Lake Martin. Man, it's awesome. Really awesome. Look, we got a great show for you today. Now our guest is. Is going to be somebody that they're. They're not famous on radio or tv, but they're just a friend of ours and they're a very, very, very funny person. Kirsten McCorkle. Her and her husband Ryan are good friends of ours and Kirsten used to be a former tennis partner of mine in mixed doubles and we had a lot of fun playing together and we won a few games and had a lot of fun with that and we'll talk more about that. But she's, she's dropping by and Kirsten is a lot like Meg Bryant that was here last week. All I have to do is just say go. And they talk and they're entertaining, they're funny people. And, you know, that's kind of what this podcast is about, just having a conversation with somebody and enjoying it. And I think that you will enjoy it also. Still a lot going on in the world. Operation Epic Fury is continuing. That is still going on. But Iran has been greatly crippled militarily. So they're going to, they're going to throw a few haymakers out there and try to land something. No doubt you're going to have some of these crazy lone wolf terrorists try to do something that's, you know, you're going to have that can't do nothing about it. But overall, they have been greatly, greatly hindered in their effort to export terrorism. So that's very good. I know the gas prices have gone up. We knew that would happen. That's going to always be the case when the oil suppliers are under duress or the big oil companies think that there's any reason they can gouge you. Trust me, that, that plays into. Don't kid yourself. So anytime they can scream, hey, trouble on the world stage, they will raise the price. All does not need to be $100 about a barrel. And it doesn't need to be $30 a barrel because at that point people quit producing it. It's just not, they don't make any money with it. So when you hear on TV that all is 60, 50, 60, $70 a barrel, that's about right. Leave it in that range. It's worth for people to go out and do the job to bring it to us. It's affordable at the pump, you know, $2, maybe three a gallon somewhere in there. And they make their money. You can survive with that. Everybody's happy. When it gets too low, they quit. They quit looking for it, they quit pumping it. They'll cap their wells and wait and then supply goes down, so the price goes up. The flip side, if the oil is trading at a high volume, $100 a barrel or more, our price goes up. So we needed to stay in that 50 to 70 range. And I'm not an oil expert, I'm not a trading expert. I just know from history it works better when it's in that range. So. And our president knows that and they'll be fixing that as we go. There have been some disruption to supply, and once all of those get back online, Venezuela included, you will see the prices drop this summer dramatically. I think should as, as more suppliers get online, I mean, it makes sense, right? You have more supply and the price will go down and we'll have a great summer out driving around. But until then, there's going to be a, you know, it's going to be a little belt tightening there, a little bit. I have a, have a diesel truck I like to drive. It's a Ram dually. And boy, when I started to fill up the other day, golly, usually I could fill up, you know, if I was close to empty, maybe a hundred bucks. I stopped yesterday and I was filling up and I glanced over at the pump and it was going just as fast as it could and it was already at $120. And I said, you know, I'm just going to stop it right there. I need that fuel, but I'm going to play the game and not buy as much and hopefully it'll go down by the time I run out. Sometimes you just got to do that, right? All righty. Well, we will get started here with Kirsten in just a minute. Thank you for being a part of Bubba on the lake.

[Commercial Announcer]

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[Kirsten McCorkle]

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[Bubba]

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[Bubba]

We're back and we have a very special guest visiting us in studio today, an old friend, Kirsten McCorkle. Kirsten, how are you?

[Kirsten McCorkle]

I'm great. How are you guys?

[Bubba]

We're glad you made it today.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Well, it's so good to see you in the flesh.

[Bubba]

Well, in the flesh, we haven't seen you much over the past 20 years or something like that.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Well, I mean, I was around when your kids were little. Where have y' all been?

[Bubba]

I know. Well, it just. When the kids come along, it's hard to. Hard to maintain friendships and.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

It is. It is. But we're going to do better.

[Betty Lou Busse]

We saw y' all because we all played tennis when our kids were. They even played.

[Bubba]

Yes.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

So, yeah.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Yes.

[Bubba]

And Kirsten used to be my tennis partner.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Yes.

[Bubba]

We won a state championship and almost won a sectional championship. But we won our matches, didn't we?

[Kirsten McCorkle]

We did. And I was telling Ryan, my husband, earlier, I was laughing about, I said, how many, how many meals did I have with Bubba? Breakfast before a tournament where I would get down to the hotel restaurant and he would be there with cups, whether. Whatever cups you could find. Coffee cups.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Oh, and you were doing strategies and,

[Kirsten McCorkle]

you know, salt and pepper. So ADD Yeah. Nothing. I was retaining nothing. And he was going over strategy about here's where we're going to be at the net here at the baseline. And I was thinking the whole time, I'm not going to remember any of this. And I just. I just want to eat breakfast.

[Betty Lou Busse]

I know.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

But it was so funny, though, because you had this whole. And he, I was like, he knows that I am ADD and that I'm not gonna. But I would just not.

[Bubba]

Kirsten, you did very good.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Well, this is the reason I never played with him as his wife. Yeah.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Yeah.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Well, I just couldn't take it all.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Yeah.

[Bubba]

Well, we, we did play together a couple of times and did real well. So don't make. Make it out like I'm impossible to play with. No, you are, but playing with your spouse is not. It is. That's hard because I want to go home with someone that loves me, you know? I mean, I really do.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Yeah. And you almost like to win.

[Bubba]

And you. You got me in trouble. Probably the worst trouble I ever got in because we were partners and Betty and Ryan were partners.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Yeah. That was not intense.

[Bubba]

Let me be clear in tennis. Okay, let's. Let's be clear. I know there's a lot of odd things going on out there in the world today. This was tennis partner.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Bubba]

And we got. We got paired up in a tournament so we had to play each other. And I knew that was bad. It was just going to be bad. And Kirsten, you and I were probably a little ahead of them in tennis skill. Ryan much more athletic than me. But when it came to the tennis game, I think we were a little ahead of them and we were winning. And you got to laughing at them hysterically at the net every time they messed up.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Set this up, though.

[Bubba]

And I said, kirsten, you're going to get me killed.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

I don't remember. I mean, I remember us playing because there are pictures, but I cannot hear.

[Bubba]

You were obnoxiously laughing at them when they messed up.

[Betty Lou Busse]

I think, well, what was so bad about that day? We had played all that. We got there early and this was like. We had to play y' all at like 6 o' clock that night. It was so weird. And I think we went to eat

[Kirsten McCorkle]

and then came back and we're all morning people.

[Betty Lou Busse]

We could have waited and played the next morning, which would have been better. You know what I mean?

[Bubba]

But we need to get it done so we can.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Y' all just wanted to get it done, cuz y'.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

All.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Yeah, y' all just were. Were pushing it, pushing it.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

And I'm like, well, we weren't, we weren't stressed.

[Betty Lou Busse]

I hate to cuss right here in the morning. I've not had. Clearly not had enough caffeine for this conversation anyway. But yeah, y' all just push, push, push, and then laugh, laugh, laugh and blah, blah, blah, you know.

[Bubba]

So I said, I k. I put. I said, kirsten, quit laughing at them. You're going to get me killed. And Betty's gonna come over that net with that racket. Put it on my head.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

I mean, I don't know what. I don't, can't remember which tournament that was.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Oh, I don't remember.

[Bubba]

You got Pelham racket.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

You got us in some situation.

[Bubba]

It may have been one of the Rick and Bubba tournaments.

[Betty Lou Busse]

It might have been. I think it might have been. I remember one of these.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

I think we did a couple. We played together in a couple of your tournaments. But I remember one in particular. He said, hey, let's play together. Okay. That'll be fun. You know, no stress. It'll be fine. We show up. I think it's the first match and we're playing. I don't know if he was a coach of a junior college team and in one of his players. Yeah. Who were five O level.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Yeah.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

And I said what in the world is this? What is this? It felt like bullets coming and I was in no way prepared or at any tour. I don't know what happened but I got no information going into it. I thought it was going to be fun and it was anything but fun. And I feel like the match after that may have been a pro.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Yeah.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

And I don't know what you. I don't know how that happened but

[Bubba]

it was set up for failure. We were high in the bracket. We got seated high I think is what happened. So we had to play some high competition.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

This is your tournament, your bracket.

[Bubba]

I didn't do the bracket.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

If there's somebody who can pull strings.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Oh listen, there were no Shane for me, I'll tell you that. I don't remember ever enjoying a tennis tournament. I'm not really sure why I ever played tennis now that I look like.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Well, we would not really.

[Betty Lou Busse]

It was nothing but frustrating, you know what I mean?

[Kirsten McCorkle]

And I never played with anybody who played for fun, you know, I never found myself on a casual team. I was always playing with complete psychos who had one goal, I think she

[Bubba]

was referring to me that was to

[Kirsten McCorkle]

go you and everybody else that that goal was to go as far as we could go. And I. If I said it one time, I said a thousand. Just a reminder, nobody is getting a paycheck. I know. Just a reminder. We might out of the game.

[Bubba]

You are more competitive than you're letting us know.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

I am very competitive but I also had other responsibilities and could not field the emails and the strategy talks.

[Bubba]

The other thing that I remember, of course we had a lot of fun and we laughed a lot.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Oh, we did.

[Bubba]

But because you was always coming up with some line on the court and you get me tickled and then I couldn't hit the tennis ball and then you thought that was funny.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Oh, for sure.

[Bubba]

But we were our team. We had a really good mixed doubles team and we won the spring and the fall league or fall and spring, however the order was. So we got to go.

[Betty Lou Busse]

No, but I don't remember.

[Bubba]

We divided our team up and let one go as a spring winter, one go as the fall winter. And I think we did that just because we didn't want the second place team to go. You know, we were blocking them out. I don't remember who it was at the time but you may have suggested it. But so we go.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

I promise you I did not.

[Bubba]

We go to Dothan and we play in the state mix tournament and both of our teams are in opposite brackets. And we go all the way to play our own team in the championship. Ruth Ann said, this has never happened. This is so weird. And.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

And you were captain of both. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Betty Lou Busse]

I was not on that other team.

[Bubba]

Yeah, you were.

[Betty Lou Busse]

I was.

[Bubba]

Yeah.

[Betty Lou Busse]

That's not when we played y', all, though, because Ryan wasn't.

[Bubba]

That's when you were playing with M.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

We forced Ryan into tennis. It was never going to be his passion.

[Bubba]

Yeah, he win that and we get to go to sectional. And then I knew that we were going to face a lot harder competition. So I got Ethan Southern, who's a friend of mine who's a 50 player and played in college, and I said, will you hit some to me and Kirsten on the net and let us get used to that pace?

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Have no memory.

[Bubba]

You were going, are you trying to kill me? Are you trying to. I said, no, it's just. It's. We just want to you to see the pace. And we went. And you were complaining the whole time about how hard it was.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

I don't.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Because I was there. But he told me about it afterwards.

[Bubba]

And then when we got to Jackson, Mississippi, to play in a sectional tournament, you were like, they were hitting the ball. And you go, it's so slow now. I'm waiting to hit a volley. Because it really did speed the game up for us. But I appreciated Ethan doing that.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Yeah, that. That must have been right before you signed me up to play with the other young kid who was fresh off of a junior college team. And we started playing mixed doubles at some ridiculously high level. And I was like. I was like, I don't. I don't understand what we're doing. I mean, the serves were so fast. I started playing. I mean, late 20s, early 30s.

[Bubba]

You were much better than you're letting on right now. And you were much more competitive.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

When I started playing, yeah, I mean, it was, but it was so fun. And I don't remember any of the details of any of the teams or the matches, but I remember the things that made me laugh. And I remember driving to. Riding to Dothan with Bubba and you had some sort of a sports car.

[Bubba]

Yeah, we had a flat tire.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Did we see. I don't remember the flat tire.

[Bubba]

You don't remember how quick we got out and changed it?

[Kirsten McCorkle]

No.

[Bubba]

Where we at, it looked like we were a NASCAR tank. Now, where we were was not a very good area. And if you remember, Betty was holding the gun while I was changing the tire.

[Betty Lou Busse]

I was about to say, I don't think I rode with y' all that trip. I heard there was one character.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

You did not ride with us. We met down there.

[Betty Lou Busse]

I think that's the trip. I didn't come with you. Yeah, I rode with.

[Bubba]

Well, I just.

[Betty Lou Busse]

People I remember at all.

[Bubba]

Look, we're old. We don't remember things. We don't remember.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

You remember a lot more than the rest of us.

[Betty Lou Busse]

I do remember the tire episode, but I don't think I was with y' all in the car that day.

[Bubba]

You don't remember. You remember the tire going flat, but you wasn't in the car.

[Betty Lou Busse]

I remember hearing about y'.

[Bubba]

All.

[Betty Lou Busse]

You've texted me or called or whatever and said, hey, we've had a flat tire.

[Bubba]

I remember you being the gun. You were holding the gun.

[Betty Lou Busse]

I don't remember holding a gun.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

I remember that on the side of the highway.

[Betty Lou Busse]

I think I would have remembered that if I'd have had to hold them.

[Bubba]

We had to put a temporary on there and get to Dothan and get a tire. Remember we went to a tire place outside of town?

[Kirsten McCorkle]

I have no memory of that, but I do remember, and I do feel like that you have branched out a bit since then. But I remember this was. These were the days I was riding with him. We had five restaurant options. When you're with Bill and I can't remember. I remember. I remember.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Was it Chick fil A? He'll do a Chick fil A.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

We were not Chick fil A. Oh, we weren't.

[Bubba]

They wasn't that popular, though.

[Betty Lou Busse]

You might not have had one over there.

[Bubba]

No, I don't think it was that.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

It was. There was one fast food line, and then there was Applebee's.

[Bubba]

You can't. Applebee's either.

[Betty Lou Busse]

One salad bar.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

No, thanks.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Yeah, Applebee's.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Is that Stinton culinary school? I have no desire to go to an Applebee's salad bar with a. With a mediocre sneeze guard. Oh, gosh. I was like, can this be the trip where we eat stops somewhere else off of.

[Bubba]

I know where y' all wanted to go.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

This was Panera. Really, really strict. This was even pre.

[Bubba's Intro Singer]

I would go.

[Bubba]

I would go. I would go to Panera with y', all as long as there were girls in the group. Because I just didn't think. I just. I just don't think guys should be going to Panera by themselves.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Well, we went to Panera, this sandwich place for the whole mad. Upon entry we got into. I was so grateful.

[Bubba]

Where was it?

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Panera.

[Bubba]

It Was Panera.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

And it. It was your first time, I really think. And you were mad upon entry because you wanted with you had already. There is already in your mind. You were stating it wasn't Jack's, but what was the approved fast food restaurant?

[Bubba]

Well, it was. It was Waffle House or Huddle House.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

No, this is a drive through. And you were trying to talk me into it. I remember that. Not tired, but I remember this. But anyway, I talked to you. I was like, please can we just have something that's not one of those five places. So we go into Panera. He's mad upon entry. It's. It's crowded. Yeah, of course. And there's a line. And it is. You know, it's a line.

[Bubba]

If you just tuned into this, you would think you're my wife.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Well, I mean we spent a lot of time together. So we're in line and then they start. They start asking the questions, you know, do you. What bread do you want? Sandwich bread? You know, it was sandwich bread. I said no, you know, multigrain, wheat, white. You know, and then they start with the. It was kind of a bill of drones. I don't remember what was happening, but it was stressful. He was started right out right away. He's angry. But the best part was when we got to the. He said. He finally just said, I just want a turkey sandwich. Just a regular turkey sandwich. And I was like, oh, this is not going for. For the.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Don't put mayonnaise or resembling that.

[Bubba]

What is that place you like to get coffee? That's so expensive.

[Betty Lou Busse]

I don't get coffee.

[Bubba]

No Starbucks. Yeah, this was kind of the Starbucks sandwich shop.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

It is.

[Bubba]

They had all these choices. I'm like, just give me a turkey sandwich, put cheese on it, no mayonnaise.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

A mellow yellow. They don't have.

[Bubba]

Yeah, give me a melo yellow or

[Betty Lou Busse]

a diet code Starbucks.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

We did that one time. I didn't have soda and I thought,

[Betty Lou Busse]

oh no, no, it's not good.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

But we get. But the end. The kicker was at the end, folks.

[Bubba]

We're listening to Kirsten McCorkle who is not my wife. Go ahead.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

That's right. Chips, an apple or a baguette. Now why would I want a baguette? Have a whole sandwich.

[Betty Lou Busse]

That always confused me.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Well, if you have soup and salad, that makes it. But I need to just put them over edge. He said, just put on there whatever you're gonna put on there. I mean, he was so done and it was so funny and you were so.

[Bubba]

That Sounds a little bit like me, but not to the level you're describing.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Oh, it was you.

[Betty Lou Busse]

I can see you doing that. If you were hungry and just wanted a.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

That's right. Yeah. Oh, gosh. And I. That is my memory from that whole trip. I can't tell you who we played or did we win.

[Bubba]

That's why mixed doubles was always tough. Everybody told me mixed doubles was harder.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Yeah, yeah.

[Bubba]

Because the guys are easier to, you know, lasso into something.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

That's right. Lasso into Applebee's. I was done with that. I'm done with your. Your. Your five choices.

[Bubba]

But I always enjoyed going to dothan. They had great player parties over there at that splash park and all that.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Betty, you danced to Michael Jackson at that.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Yeah.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Love that. Those were fun.

[Betty Lou Busse]

You gotta cash it out. What do you call? Not cash it out. Deal it out. Yeah.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Is dothan ware? You know, I always wanted to stay at a Marriott because I was trying to build status.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Is dothan where you. You branched out and finally you ended up at the la Quinta? Is that what it was? And I said, I'm just. I'm not. I'm sure it's lovely.

[Bubba]

It was new.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

I said, I'm not.

[Bubba]

It was new.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

I said, I'm not staying there. And then I got to the root of why we were staying there. There was a waffle house or something in the parking lot.

[Betty Lou Busse]

We always had to stay in Mobile at the one where that. What was that restaura we always walked over to. To have dinner. Soon as we got there.

[Bubba]

Oh, it was.

[Betty Lou Busse]

I can't remember it. It was.

[Bubba]

Yeah, it was one of those that had a lot of hamburgers.

[Betty Lou Busse]

And this was a sit down, nice one.

[Bubba]

The seafood place.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Yeah.

[Bubba]

Had a seafood place on one.

[Betty Lou Busse]

The bang bang shrimp everybody used to get. You know what I mean?

[Bubba]

What's the name of that bone? Bone Fish grill.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Bone fish grill. Yeah. I look forward to that trip because of the bonefish grill.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

I had no issue eating there.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Oh, I love that one.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

I was fine. I loved that shrimp.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Yeah.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

But I do remember I was like, I have to get to the bottom of why we're leaving.

[Bubba]

Oh, God.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Because even the Marriott, it had a great breakfast. I mean, your choices are slim and small town Dothan. But it also had those small. You know, it's pre pickleball, but it had those small little tennis courts.

[Bubba]

Yeah. And we would starter tennis. Yeah.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Get out there and do it.

[Bubba]

All right. We're going to take a break. We're going to try to Slow down this conversation slightly and we'll be right back with more of Kirsten McCorkle and Betty Lou Busse in just a minute.

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[Bubba]

We're back. Thank you for being with us on Bub on the Lake. And we're talking to an old friend, Kirsten McCorkle. Haven't seen her much last few years. Even though y' all have a place on the lake.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

We do. We see you from a distance.

[Bubba]

I know we drive by. Y' all are in a different spot than we are though. So we don't see you by golf cart a lot and we're here full time and you come and go, so. And then for a while, every time I was going over there, you wasn't there and Ryan was there and he would say, well, Kirsten is at this or Kirsten's at that. And I finally pulled Ryan Aside, I said, look, if y' all are separated, just tell me. I mean, I know. I know couples go through.

[Betty Lou Busse]

You're always at Costco. It seems like every time we came by, she's at Costco, and it got

[Bubba]

to be a joke. We'd go, let's see if Kirsten and Ryan are here. And we'd look at each other and go, kirsten won't be there.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Yeah, we can't be together, so.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Or either you'll be there and Ryan won't be there. One of the other. You know, I mean, it's the only

[Kirsten McCorkle]

way you get a break.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Yeah.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Divide and conquer.

[Bubba]

Kirsten, one of my other favorite stories, and this sounds horrible, but it was. It was very legit. But we. We actually carried a young lady who was a massage specialist to a lot of our tournaments. I don't know if you remember that

[Kirsten McCorkle]

or not, because I do remember that. Getting to have an equal love for

[Bubba]

getting to my age. I had to have help staying on the court when we had these multiple matches multiple days in a row. And the girl's name's Rachel, and we still know her. We see her from time to time, and we. Do you remember this? This is so funny. It was the one time I called Betty to say, listen, this does not look good, but let me tell you

[Betty Lou Busse]

what happened when we have a couple's massage.

[Bubba]

No, no, listen. So she had. She had a room, and it was right next to the door going out toward Bonefish Grill, and we were upstairs or something.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

No memory of.

[Bubba]

We. We had had a long day. We played two or three matches, and I think my ankle was hurting or something. So when I would come in, Rachel would always say, she would ask everybody on the team, hey, is anybody need any. Any work done? You know? And I said, yeah, my ankle's killing me or something. I forgot what it was. So anyway, I go in there and you know how massage therapy works and all this stuff. And she's massaging my ankle. And I said, well, look, we're. We're about to go to dinner. You want to go with us? She, yeah, we're going to Bonefish Grill. That's fine. You know, we always tried to take care of her when she. She went. And so I get. You get done. You get dressed, and I'm about to go out. Well, she has got her massage scrubs on, and she is going to change out of those to go to dinner. So she changes out and what I would call dolls up, you know, and gets ready to go. So I'm Waiting at the door. And I open the door.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Massage.

[Bubba]

She's standing right next to me as I open the door and there's a bunch of girls from Birmingham coming down the hall. And you, and you look at me and start doing your eyes big like, what are you doing in that room with that girl? And I was like, kirsten, I got a massage. This is all. You know. And I thought. And you were, boy, you were really giving me the eye going across the parking lot. I just got said. Betty, before Kirsten calls you, let me tell you exactly what happened. I told her, I said, this gonna sound horrible, but this is all legit. And it was so funny. I was laughing so hard I could hardly tell her.

[Betty Lou Busse]

She goes, okay, okay, yeah, like whatever.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Bubba just came out of her room with tasseled hair. He's going to dinner with somebody.

[Betty Lou Busse]

He was greased up. Yeah, he was a little greased up looking.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

I can remember staying at the beach at maybe the beach club and having a table set up right in your den.

[Bubba]

Yeah.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

And we were staying with you. And I'd say, is it my turn? You know, that's where we met Rachel.

[Bubba]

She was from down there and worked at the beach club when we first met.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

And I thought, this is odd. Right next to the kitchen aisle.

[Bubba]

I guess we need to give her a plug. Rachel, Austin Massage.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Yeah, Austin Massage.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

That's great. That's when we, when you were in Birmingham, I mean we many times would go to lunch and then have appointments at Massage Envy.

[Bubba]

Oh yeah, that was. Yeah, that was standard. That's how us world class athletes stayed on the court.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

That's right.

[Bubba]

And now, now we have pieces of our liver missing stance and artificial joints.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

That's right. Now I have to go to discount massage places. Wasn't that long ago some guy named Tate on the door, somebody's spouse was. And I was like, it's not that kind of place.

[Betty Lou Busse]

It's not that kind of place that

[Kirsten McCorkle]

you knew of anyway. That's not a joke. That really happened.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Oh Lord.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

It's a whole nother episode place.

[Bubba]

But Kirsty, get into. You get into some of the craziest places.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Yes, I do.

[Bubba]

Craziest thing.

[Betty Lou Busse]

I guess when you're seeking out discount massages, you'll come across.

[Bubba]

Yeah, you got to be careful when that's what you're looking for is a discount massage.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

I mean, you know, I little one income household.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Yeah.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

I'll start you for. I don't have a massage.

[Bubba]

You know, I haven't had one in so long. It probably killed me. There's some people around here that do that, though. We need to look them up. Just hadn't been in the budget lately, you know?

[Kirsten McCorkle]

I know.

[Bubba]

We've had to trim that down a little bit.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

There are places. Yeah. Now they might take a phone call in the middle of the massage.

[Bubba]

Well, I always go to sleep so they could go outside, smoke a cigarette, talk on the phone for 45 minutes, come back in, and I would think, man, that was great.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

No, my baseline of relaxation. I'm still going over the grocery list.

[Betty Lou Busse]

That's me.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Oh, sorry.

[Betty Lou Busse]

I can't relax anyway, so there's no sense in me getting massages. Really? Because I still don't relax, you know?

[Bubba]

Oh.

[Betty Lou Busse]

I guess I'm very tired.

[Bubba]

They have to wake me up to turn me over.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Not me. The last one I had hurt so bad that I left in tears.

[Betty Lou Busse]

I mean, I know, because we're so tense and. Yeah, well, I don't want that.

[Bubba]

I want to relax. I don't want to be.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

You know, this was a beat this bordered on a beat, but apparently I needed it.

[Bubba]

So do you get massages from guys or girls, or does it matter when you go girl?

[Kirsten McCorkle]

I try girls, but sometimes.

[Bubba]

Me, too.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Yeah.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Yeah.

[Bubba]

I can't relax with a dude rubbing. I just can't.

[Betty Lou Busse]

I can't either now.

[Bubba]

If I'm on the sideline or on the tennis court and they're. They're working on an ankle or something, fine.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

That's different.

[Bubba]

Yeah, but I can't relax in there with a. My mind keeps going, dude, rubbing me. Dude rubbing me. I just can't. And, you know, if you. If you go somewhere you don't know, and they give you a gender bender name, and you're like. Then I'm always panicked because I don't want to. I don't want to hurt the dude's feeling, but I'm like, dude, I just can't do dude, you know? Yeah, but you're the same way. You'd rather have a girl, too, right?

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Yeah, but, you know, so would Betty, for sure.

[Betty Lou Busse]

And I made an appointment with a Carrie one time, thinking it was a woman. You know, I get there and it's a dude. You know what I mean? And I'm like, just go with it. Whatever.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

I know. So.

[Betty Lou Busse]

And it was.

[Bubba]

She found a way to work through.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Well, this particular place was big into aromatherapy, too. And so we started the massage with him putting his hands up, like, right in front of my face. I was laying on the table, inhale the aroma or something like that. And I can't do anything but laugh. Then the rest of I, I was trying my best to relax and not laugh.

[Bubba]

I can't believe you were laughing this time.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Y' all remember when I, I had the weird massage one time I was pregnant and the guy made me do bicycle kicks. You remember that? That was in our tennis days. And I thought, I thought, am I being pumped? You know, there was bell ringing at one point and I thought it was probably a failed Groupon experience. I just remember doing bicycle kicks and there was bell ringing and I thought at any where are the cameras? Because this can't be real. This is not happening. And I laughed about that forever. But he was serious.

[Betty Lou Busse]

You don't need to do a Groupon for a massage or to get your nails done. Really?

[Bubba]

Or eye surgery.

[Betty Lou Busse]

No, no, none of that.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Fillers.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Oh, probably not a good idea.

[Bubba]

So, Kirsten, you, you have lost a lot of weight. You're skinny.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

I'm in the worst shape of my life. Just straight stress. Just stress. But kid.

[Bubba]

But yeah, yeah, that can do it.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Yeah. Oh, yeah, we have.

[Bubba]

You're in the, you're really to the point to where it's maxing out right now. And you know, then you kind of move into the empty nest thing and it's, it's not as, you know, every day as it was. There's still things. But right now you got older kids doing more stuff, costing you more money, want to go more places, having more problems and boom, it's just all over you every day. I remember it.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Yeah. Well, you know, our oldest is 16. He has been 16 for three months and he is on the bass fishing team.

[Bubba]

Man, has that sport taken off or what?

[Kirsten McCorkle]

It has. And there, there is no sport that rivals when it comes to expense. You watch your 16 year old drive out of the driveway pulling a vessel that cost as much as your first garden home. Close. I mean, like, what have we done here? Yeah, you know, I mean just.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Yep.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

And then to fill it up with gas.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Oh, I don't even.

[Bubba]

Yeah, marine gas.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

But I just tell Ryan, I said, you know what I said when you have a child that likes to fish? I said, he will never be in a bar on a Friday night because you have to start fishing at 3am oh yeah, 4am you're getting ready. So I said that is what we need to focus on. We need to support, support the sport. And then we have our clean habit. That's right. Then we have our 14 year old Quinn. And Quinn has special needs. And so that nest is not going to be empty as fast as others. But he. He's. He's great. And he. But he's not currently in school, which is its own episode, so we are really homescaling. You know good and well, I'm not homeschooling school anybody. Why?

[Bubba]

You could. You'd be a great teacher.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

I have no patience.

[Betty Lou Busse]

I can.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

No, no, no, no. But hopefully we're in a transition period, and he is. Will hopefully start high school in August, which is hard to believe.

[Betty Lou Busse]

That is hard to believe.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Yeah. So. So we're. It's a lot of Together. See, I was on the trampoline in the dark this morning jumping, so your

[Bubba]

weather must not have been as interesting as ours.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Oh, it was. It was a wet trampoline covered in pine straw, and we were jumping.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Oh, my gosh.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Yeah.

[Betty Lou Busse]

It was still raining this morning. Was it not raining over there?

[Kirsten McCorkle]

It started and stopped.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Yeah.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

So we didn't have as much this morning, but.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Yeah.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Yeah.

[Betty Lou Busse]

And the wind was horrible this morning. I had to get up, take the dogs out, and I told Bill it almost blew my rain jacket off. I mean, because I didn't have it buttoned or whatever. And I turned around to come down our steep driveway again. That's. You know, we always talk about our driveways, but anyway, yeah, I turned around, and my jacket almost flew out and was like a kite in the wind, you know? Yeah.

[Bubba]

So, Christian, what do you do for fun now? Jump on trampolines early in the morning before the sun comes out?

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Fun is. Is scarce these days, but we're gonna get back there. We'll be down here a lot this summer. Max, our oldest, will be working at Klige, which is.

[Bubba]

He's gonna fill us up. He is gonna be a gasman out there.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

He is. He is. And he's excited about that. And, yeah, we're gonna get back to fun, and maybe.

[Betty Lou Busse]

We're gonna get back.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

We're gonna get back.

[Bubba]

It's out there.

[Betty Lou Busse]

We need to go to Herb's. Play the landing.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Yeah, well, that's right by us.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Yeah, I know. We can just pick.

[Bubba]

Have you. Are you playing any sports now, or have you picked up the great pickleball that everybody's.

[Betty Lou Busse]

That's a lot of fun. You'd enjoy it.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Worst shape of my life. Reminder. That's where we are. There's no sports.

[Bubba]

I just have an artificial knee, and I played for an hour.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Yeah, I mean, I'm. But I'm ready. I think I'm ready. I have never played Pickleball.

[Bubba]

You're watching.

[Betty Lou Busse]

That'll be easy to play.

[Bubba]

Tennis players own it.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Yeah.

[Bubba]

If you remember all those things I taught you at breakfast.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Strategies.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

I don't even remember the flat tire. I mean, if somebody was holding a gun, I feel like I should remember that. No, but I think that I would love it.

[Betty Lou Busse]

You would? Yeah.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

I need to do something. Yeah. You'd get on a casual level.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Yeah.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

You know, what is that group you

[Betty Lou Busse]

play with Laid Back Ladies on Monday? Yes.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Will we. Will we have wine with our chicken salad?

[Betty Lou Busse]

Well, there are days that people, you know, might get into a mimosa or something, but usually not on that, you know, on a Monday now, you know, it's all. Bets are off on Fridays and Saturdays. You know, who knows?

[Bubba]

Betty plays a lot of pickleball.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Okay.

[Bubba]

Every day, yesterday, every day. The schedule, you know, you have certain things to do and pickleball and certain things to do and pickleball. I run into men all over the place down here.

[Betty Lou Busse]

No, you don't.

[Bubba]

They go, your wife is a heck of a player.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Yes.

[Bubba]

And I said, I know, she's mean. She'll kill you on the net.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Yeah.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

And she looks like you doing it, too. That's good.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Outside of you, the other day when you came to play, you were.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Yeah. Well, I'm glad you're playing. Maybe I can get Ryan out there. We can have the reading. Wouldn't that be fun?

[Bubba]

Now when you. When you go back to the tennis court, you feel like you're on a football field.

[Betty Lou Busse]

I played trying to cover one time since all this, and I met. I hadn't played in seven, eight years, I guess. I picked that racket up and tried to hit the ball, and I didn't even make contact the first time. It was awful.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

There's so much.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Running's terrible.

[Bubba]

Yeah.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Yeah.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

I just thought the last team I was on, you know, I think Quinn was a baby. And it was three. Five nationals in California. Yeah. And I had no business being there. I should have been at home with my crying baby. And I just put the racket down. And I've thought about going back and playing, but I think I'm benchmarked at a4.0 or something. I can't just go back in and play.

[Betty Lou Busse]

If I ever play, it'll be for fun down here or something.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

I've had a few times with Max. He takes clinics from time to time in Birmingham.

[Bubba]

And so he's got it. He's got it in the blood deep down inside.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

He does. He does. He can't commit enough to do it to be on a team because, you know, in a big school, you have to be really good. But he does go to clinics and he loves it. But fishing is, fishing is his jam.

[Bubba]

That's a good sport. I mean, you carry it with you your whole life.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Yeah. And he's, he's really doing well fishing.

[Betty Lou Busse]

They won.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Yeah, he won.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Quinn. Didn't they both win something?

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Yep. If you can win with Quinn in the boat, you're really good because he's, he's not adding a lot of value. Right now.

[Bubba]

We're Talking to Kirsten McCorkle, old friend of the family, and she has dropped by to share many memories with us today.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Yeah.

[Bubba]

We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back with more of Kirsten.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

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[Bubba]

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[Bubba's Intro Singer]

Foreign.

[Bubba]

We're back with Kirsten McCorkle, old friend of ours, old tennis partner of mine and Betty. We're sitting here just having a good time remembering some of the old times. And you said you, you were telling us about your, your son fishing and both sons fishing and you said you went fishing yesterday yes.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

So Max has had a. Had a great streak fishing and won a high school tournament on Saturday at a nearby lake. Here lay lake. And it's a really big deal, really exciting. And he. And you know, like tennis, I guess. There are high school tournaments and then there are tournaments for fun. And he'll fish those with Ryan because Ryan, his dad. Yep. Drinking the Kool Aid. He is as in as anybody drinking. Everybody, everybody has a big truck every, you know, the boat you got to have that boat is in the garage. I am still driving the 2011 Sequoia as a sacrifice to support all of these people. But anyway, Max does really well. He's done really well with Ryan and so he had a tournament yesterday and I said, okay, I'm going to. I'm going to fish with you because I haven't fished a tournament with him before and I like to fish and I like to be on the water on a pretty day. So. And he won the tournament the day before, which happened to be on the Same Lake. So 12 hours before we set off to the same lake. This is going to be a great day. The only thing we caught was a broken boat motor and catfish. That's how it goes to say, which I'm 100% sure is all my fault.

[Bubba]

Did you get blamed for it?

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Of course it is my fault. Yeah, of course it is.

[Bubba]

I mean, well, you don't change when you're winning. You know, that's like 10 change their uniform when they're winning. You wait till you're losing, then you change.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

No, no, it was a, like, it was a beautiful day.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Oh, it was.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

And we were safe. We were safe. Driving 16 year old at night. I told him that on the Lord's day we probably shouldn't be listening to the rap we were listening to on the way down that I felt like that set us up for failure just right out of gate.

[Bubba]

What song of choice was it? Do you know?

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Not appropriate for a mom and a son to be listening to. But there we were. And it was bad from start to finish, but it was.

[Bubba]

Are you good at getting the boat in the water and, you know, pulling the trailer in and out? What part do you get I'm good

[Kirsten McCorkle]

and well that I'm not back in a trailer.

[Bubba]

Well, what do you do? What part do you.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

I can drive straight.

[Bubba]

You get to hold the boat. You hold the string or something.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

I can. But the setup that they have right now, I'm not really allowed to touch anything. Yeah. So. Yeah. And it was, it was real. It Was fun. It was fun. It was a Silicon Marine tournament. And it was. We left and didn't weigh anything in.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Oh, no.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Took what we had and put it back in the water and it was.

[Bubba]

And just thought about winning the day before.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

That's right. I said it's still a good weekend.

[Bubba]

Look, I'm going to need to. It happens in any competition. Tiger Wood can set the course record one day and not make the cut the next.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

It's just what makes it fun that we're easy. We would all do it, but it was hard that the. I think the nice kid that came in second the day before won yesterday.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Well, good.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

You know, and we were with him the whole day on the lake. You know, he's right next to us.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Okay.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

We were catching problems and catfish, so here we are. But, yeah, that was a good time that he's doing really well.

[Bubba]

So, Kirsten, I know you have. You've talked about it before, and I was wanting to get your. Your feelings. We actually discussed it on a previous podcast. This, this new thing of people being life coaches. This is a whole new genre that's kind of opened up and do you. Do you know much about that? Because I don't need to talk about this.

[Betty Lou Busse]

I was about to say you voted up a whole can worms now.

[Bubba]

I mean, well, what are these life coaches? What are they doing?

[Kirsten McCorkle]

What are the qualifications?

[Bubba]

What are they?

[Kirsten McCorkle]

What I'd like to know, what are

[Bubba]

they telling you that your mom didn't tell you?

[Kirsten McCorkle]

They're not telling me anything because I

[Betty Lou Busse]

haven't hired one, but I haven't hired one either.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Well, I think we're going to start advertising that we're going to be one because we have friends who are in the market for life coaches.

[Bubba]

Really? And now, look, if you get too rowdy, I'll have to beep you.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Okay. I'm shocked.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Nobody. I mean, I don't know. Personally, I can't think of anybody that I know anyway that has hired a life coach. But, I mean, I hear of it.

[Bubba]

I see the ads online.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Look, if anybody needs one, it's me. I mean, I mean, I am a prime candidate. I could really benefit.

[Betty Lou Busse]

But again, they charge.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

And a sister wife.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Well, now I. We all could.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Yeah.

[Betty Lou Busse]

I mean, come on, bring it on.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

You know, I mean, there are a few things that, you know, I could benefit from. But to budget in somebody who says that they're a life coach that's spending money on budget. And I'm. And, and then you look at now,

[Bubba]

what would a sister wife how would that help you?

[Betty Lou Busse]

Well, number one, I don't. Maybe they wouldn't charge us.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

I don't know.

[Betty Lou Busse]

If we just let them stay and eat. You know,

[Kirsten McCorkle]

there's some.

[Bubba]

I mean, I don't think you can charge. I think that's illegal. I think it has to be free.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

I mean, I think that marrying is probably illegal, too. There are just so many blurred lines these days and so many things. Well, there was a whole show.

[Betty Lou Busse]

There was a whole show. You know, we had about five of them living together with him. And I'm like, what in the world?

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Yeah.

[Bubba]

Well, you know, you could look at it several different ways, but one way might be you got five. Many as many. Five times as many problems as you had before.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

It's a risk that I'm close to being willing to take. I just need the manpower.

[Bubba]

You just need help around the house.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Help on many fronts.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Like how good are you at pulling up weeds? And how do you feel about planting stuff? Yeah. Would be my first question. And then how you feel about mopping. Yeah. And things like that.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

But there's. I'm not aware. I don't know what I'm talking about.

[Bubba]

We're not taking application for sister wise comedy segment.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

No. I mean, Ryan might be. Yeah. But. Yeah, I. I just want to know what the qualifications.

[Bubba]

Approve of them or do I. How's that work?

[Betty Lou Busse]

You know, do I have to approve of them if they're coming in my house?

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Yeah, I guess so. I prefer they not be better looking. Well, that's true.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Yeah, me too.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

But at this point, that's what I always wondered.

[Betty Lou Busse]

On that show that used to be popular, I don't even know if it's still on. I only watched it once or twice just because it was such a train wreck. If you ever got it on and really got into it. It's kind of like that Naked and Afraid show that Bill hates. I love Naked and Afraid.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

I've just watched that either.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Hilarious to me that they're surviving out there.

[Bubba]

And naked and naked.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Yeah.

[Bubba]

And they show her butt all the time on tv.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Butt naked.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

You can rest assured that would not be a show. No.

[Betty Lou Busse]

No.

[Bubba]

Well, I just think about being totally naked with a stranger you've never met before in the woods.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Yeah, you need that.

[Bubba]

Having to rely on each other.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

I used to shower in the dark. Just. I mean, you remember that, right? Just especially in the hotels where you have that huge. Ladies and gentlemen, Kirsten McCorkle here across from the shower. And I said, I don't want to start My day on a negative, and I don't need to see that. Let's fog up the windows, fog up the mirrors. Hot water, and turn the lights off. I'm gonna scoot on out and then get a rub.

[Bubba]

So you showered without the lights up?

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Pretty much, yeah.

[Bubba]

Cause you didn't want to see yourself.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

That's right. Start the day on the happy note.

[Betty Lou Busse]

I remember you talking about Ryan showering, and he was so meticulous about going in between every toe.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

I'll never forget that. Ryan is.

[Bubba]

I believe I missed that story. Kirsten.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

I don't remember that one either.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Oh, my gosh. I remember.

[Bubba]

You forgot so much. Good memory.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

It happens. That's why we're here. This is so fun. It's therapeutic reliving all these things. But Ryan does everything meticulously. And I'm the wrecking ball. I'm the. I bring the fury.

[Bubba]

And how long have y' all been married?

[Kirsten McCorkle]

20 years.

[Bubba]

See, it must be a good combination.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Yeah, yeah. We've been married. I can't imagine doing it with anybody else.

[Betty Lou Busse]

I can't add any more.

[Hunter Bus]

Excuse me.

[Betty Lou Busse]

30 years.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Okay.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Okay.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

I mean, the sister wife is not for me. Yeah, well, I can't imagine doing anything else.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Well, I didn't think that was included.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

I didn't think.

[Betty Lou Busse]

But anyway, you know, but not. Did you watch that show we're not together, the girls? You know what I'm saying? It was just the guy. You know what I'm saying?

[Bubba]

No, we really don't know what you're saying.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Okay. Yeah. Well, back to the shows, though. The trash that I do watch. Back to the Life Coach. There is a girl on one of the shows that I've been watching that is a manifesting coach. And when I say that manifesting. And she is rich. Rich making mold. Get your journal out and write down what you want. Do you want to. You know what. What financial level would you like to reach? You know, are you. Do you want to marry a 6 foot 4? Whatever. Let's write it down and manifest it. And when I say that she has made many show. Yes. Many millions.

[Bubba]

What's it called?

[Kirsten McCorkle]

It's a Housewives show. She's one of the housewives, and she is a manifesto. And I thought, if this isn't the biggest bunch of bull, if this isn't the biggest racket I have ever heard. It's like. It's like, you know, when you listen to a podcast, start your day after eight hours of sleep, and I'm like, no, I'd like eight Hours. I mean, eight hours of sleep. Eight hours of sleep would really, you know, a lot of things would really be different. A lot of things would be different. But I'm in the bottom bunk, you know, I'm in the bottom.

[Bubba]

Have you ever, like, some of these. You're talking about these life coach you see on tv. Have you ever gone and looked up their personal life and seen what a mess it is and you think how in the world.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

It's a racket.

[Bubba]

Can you be giving anybody else advice when you're a train wreck?

[Betty Lou Busse]

I don't know.

[Bubba]

Or a dumpster fire?

[Kirsten McCorkle]

How are you going to help this person in their marriage when you have had four of them? I mean, I get that moving on will bring happiness. I get. I mean, I can see how that would happen, but I don't know that you need to be coaching anybody, and that's just me. And I'd like to know what certification you got to be able to have a website that says life coach. Because if that's the case, then we're coaching.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Oh, I know.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

I'm gonna buy this house next door as soon as we get it up and rolling.

[Betty Lou Busse]

I wish we could.

[Bubba]

We are.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

We're gonna manifest whatever you want to manifest it. We're gonna sleep eight hours. We're gonna stretch and drain our lymph nodes and what all the crazy things people are doing, and we're gonna tell you to do them and journal about it, and then we're gonna laugh all the way to the. To the bank.

[Bubba]

Journaling, to me, sounds like homework. Yeah, I didn't like journaling when I had to journal.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

That's why I'm not homeschooling, Bubba. Because I don't want to journal and I don't want to teach and I don't want to do any of it. But I'll. I'll tell you to Journal for 5.99 for 3. 330 minute sessions or whatever. Whatever they're.

[Bubba]

Kirsten, I think you'd be a great life coach. I think you'd be a good stand up comedian. Or you could do a podcast. Well, any of the above.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

You're very kind.

[Bubba]

There's more people doing podcasts than there are life coaches, I'll tell you that. There's 5 million of them in the United States.

[Betty Lou Busse]

I mean, look at us.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Well, you know, you gave us a microphone.

[Bubba]

Yeah. Clearly we're not qualified.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

As we know, I can talk to a brick wall, but this makes me very nervous. It is better than your live show.

[Bubba]

You only cussed Twice.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

So that is really solid for me. But if you bring a child, I do not even have to think about it. There is no cussing in front of the children. It's not even a thought. But the minute I'm away from those children. I was raised by Salem, though.

[Bubba]

Yeah, that is true. I mean, that is true, Admiral.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

So, you know. Yeah, yeah. So it happens. But this is. This is so fun.

[Bubba]

Well, are you and. You and Ryan, are we going to hang out more this summer?

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Yes, we are going to hang out.

[Bubba]

Let's just pledge to do that. Have fun.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

We will. And we might even play a sport of some kind.

[Bubba]

Pickleball.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Yes. Let's do it.

[Bubba]

Yeah. I mean, you. You know, if you could play it with a new artificial knee, it's not too stressful.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Well, when I used, before Max could drive, I would take him to the tennis clinics and I should have been walking or stretching or manifesting, but instead I'd sit there and drink a diet Coke and watch the pickleballers because they were there and I'd watch them. And I just thought, I don't know if this is for me because, you know, I hated the net in tennis.

[Bubba]

Right.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

I think it's from playing softball back in the day. Like, I got hit one time and I like being in the back.

[Bubba]

The good news is the pickleball won't hurt you. Now, I'll tell you what I don't like. I don't like the sound of it. I hate it on the paddles, that tink, tink, tink sound. Because the tennis racket, it sounds like a musical instrument. You know, when that ball hits it, it just feels so good.

[Betty Lou Busse]

It does anymore. Yeah.

[Bubba]

Are you saying that the song is over?

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Yeah. Yeah. There's no music.

[Betty Lou Busse]

It sound like boing. You know, when I hit it last time I played, where were we?

[Kirsten McCorkle]

I played pregnant. Not. Not first trimester pregnant. I was second. I was. I was big and pregnant. And we went to a state tournament or it was sectionals or something, because I do have pictures of that, which is why I remember it. And our stomachs out there were impressive.

[Bubba]

You were trying to catch me.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

We were impressive. We were large.

[Betty Lou Busse]

And when you were pregnant.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Yes. And I remember having a shareable bag of peanut M and Ms. And in between every switch of the quartz, we

[Bubba]

would go over there and just get one or two.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Yeah.

[Bubba]

And I mean, it's a somewhat healthy snack.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Everybody we played, everybody we played with had protein bars and goos and we had coke and Eminem's and That is why we. We were competitive as could be, but we ate complete.

[Bubba]

That's why we'd get 6, 4, 6, 4 and move on.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

That's right.

[Bubba]

Huh.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

A reminder. Nobody is getting a paycheck. These are vacation days and I'm gonna eat peanut M&M's and I'm gonna have a chocolate monkey at the end of it. Or two.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Yeah, yeah, I remember the old chocolate monkey days.

[Bubba]

Yeah, I heard about it.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Oh, gosh. Yeah.

[Bubba]

All right, it's about time to take a break again here. How about that? Kirsten, thank you for coming by.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Thank you for having me.

[Bubba]

Will you come back again?

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Anytime.

[Bubba]

You're so funny. I forgot how funny you are.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

I just am so glad to be here and see y'. All. It is. Can't wait to buy the house next door.

[Bubba]

Oh, I wish you would. I wish you would. Kirsten McCorkle, longtime friend. We've been catching up with her today at the lake, and we're looking forward to spending more time with her and Ryan. We probably need to get Ryan's input at some point on some of these stories and see how his side compares.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

I don't think so.

[Bubba]

You speak for the family. Does he remember.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Does he remember playing tennis?

[Kirsten McCorkle]

He remembers everything. Does he. Everything. Remember we had to rope him into tennis because he was. I would play tennis. This was pre children. I would play tennis and he would skydive.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Oh, yeah.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

And I'm not a jealous gal whatsoever. But after the 800th sorority girl posting the tandem picture, you know, I guess Ryan was on her back, you know, and there was. I mean, it was a hundred every weekend, it felt like.

[Bubba]

And so you went online and you saw your husband strapped to coeds flying through the air at 100 miles an hour. Right.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Just cute, cute co ads. Just whole sororities taking, you know, field trips to the drop zone. And there's Ryan, big smile. Big smile on the back of some blonde bombshell. Oh, yeah. Which he is. Who I would want to jump with, too attention to detail. But I was like, enough already. Yeah, I mean, we're. We're the 60 year old. Where the 60 year olds guys just

[Bubba]

keep drawing co ed.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Listen, I didn't care because it paid for the tennis. All the, all the tennis travel and the rackets and the.

[Bubba]

All the going to Panera Bread.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Yes.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

All the things. The massages.

[Bubba]

Yeah.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

You know, I was not at the discount.

[Bubba]

I remember asking you. I remember asking you. We were going somewhere. What's Ryan doing? And you'd say, oh, he strapped the Co EDS again all weekend.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

And you would laugh

[Bubba]

because I could see it. And then I saw the pictures. It was even funnier.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Yeah. And I said, you need to come over here and play a little tennis. He was never going to be great at tennis. You know, he doesn't like anything unless he can be the best at it.

[Bubba]

Well, he's very athletic, but he just hadn't had that kind of practice.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

But he would have been good if

[Bubba]

he'd have stayed with it.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

He loves Betty enough. He was like, yeah, I'll play with.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Oh, me. Well, I'm nothing but fun to play with. I mean, I may not.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

You may not win every match, but truly so fun. We had the best time. We'll do it again.

[Bubba]

You both were a lot of fun and I think everyone has been able to pick up on that. Kirsten will have you back again. Thank you for coming by and talking to us.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Love y'. All.

[Bubba]

With another edition of Bubba on the Lake.

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[Kirsten McCorkle]

SP.

[Bubba]

Well, folks, welcome back. It is the crazy time of year known as March Madness, and we have the one and only Hunter bus on Sports Hunter. How are we looking with our bracket?

[Hunter Bus]

It's looking good. It's looking really good. Mine personally, not too hot after, you know, the first game or two, per usual. I mean, what's new? Along with spring kicking my butt in general. So what's new with that? But overall, the bracket contest is looking good. Out of all the entries right now, we've had a lot of people, you know, we had a tie for first there for a little bit, but currently TJ Morgan is in the top spot as it stands right now pending Sweet 16 games that happen, I believe, starting Thursday. So it's going to be, it's going to be fun. And they have Duke as their champion, so we'll see if they hold up.

[Bubba]

Who, who is in like second and third. Can you tell us that?

[Hunter Bus]

Yeah. So. Well, we technically have a tie for first and the, the name on that, I can't really, I can't read on here, but you'll get a laugh of it because you know who you are. But they had Gonzaga as their champion and Gonzaga was upset and they lost. So I don't know if that'll hold for long.

[Bubba]

It's gonna hurt down the road. Yeah, yeah.

[Hunter Bus]

But as far as, you know, further down the line, we have Duncan Jones, we have another ESPN fans in there. If you can please change your name to your first and last name so it's easier to read. But it's kind of tight right now, so we'll see how it ends up. But it's a, it's a tight race, kind of like it was last year. So it's going to be, it's going to be fun to see how this plays out.

[Bubba]

Well, I'm in no contention whatsoever. I'd like to be in the top hundred right now, currently sitting about 435 out of 7:57. Not too good for the old bus. But, you know, my bracket blew up about an hour after we started when North Carolina lost. I mean, it didn't take long. Didn't take long.

[Hunter Bus]

No, they didn't have their best player and now their coach is in limbo. And if he's going to come back or I doubt he will, supposedly reports coming out today that he's either going to step down under his own choice or the university is going to make it for him. So.

[Bubba]

Well, they made the NCAA tournament. I mean you can't be out in the first round if you're North Carolina. God help us all.

[Hunter Bus]

You know, come on, that's blue blood mentality.

[Bubba]

What all is going on in the actual tournament. Any games caught your eye?

[Hunter Bus]

Yeah. So we had. There was the, you know, the Cinderella team if you will, that's been kind of. That caught everyone's eye and then they ended up losing. They were. It was high point. They beat Wisconsin in the first round and then they got obliterated in the next round. And then the team that to me is my Cinderella right now is Texas. They were in the first four game which is like the play in game and they are currently in the Sweet 16 against Purdue. So we'll see how that plays out. Nebraska and Iowa was probably my favorite game to watch in terms of just or not Nebraska. Now they're playing in the Sweet 16 but Nebraska and Vanderbilt is who played the other day and it came down to literally a final shot that rimmed. It looked like it was about to fall and it just rimmed out. So shout out to the Cornhuskers on that one. Florida, the reigning national champion lost to Iowa. So I want Nebraska will be facing off and our someone that we had on the tailgate tailgate show. Molly Robinson, who's a big Nebraska fan coined the Iowa Nebraska game as the. I believe it was the corn off or something like that. I can't remember the.

[Bubba]

I don't know if you'd want to use that terminology.

[Hunter Bus]

No, no. But yeah it's. But that's apparently a rivalry game. I'm not a Big Ten. I don't keep up with Big Ten like I do sec but you know Big Ten's big strides with football and basketball. So I guess we need to start paying attention so.

[Bubba]

Well, two of the biggest Nebraska fans I know is Molly and Penny from Big Bang Theory.

[Hunter Bus]

I knew you're going to sneak in a Big Bang Theory reference in there somewhere. But yeah, as far as other games that were fun to watch, Kentucky and Santa Clara, they were really, really fun to watch. It came down to what we looked like it was going to be a buzzer beater for Santa Clara to beat Kentucky and then away for Kentucky goes down and hits a three to. And Kentucky pulled away in overtime just for them to ultimately lose to Iowa State who is playing Tennessee in the sweet 16 who upset Virginia. So the sweet 16 as it stands right now in the top left region is Duke versus St. John's in Michigan State versus Yukon. The top right, Arizona versus Arkansas, Texas versus Purdue. Bottom left, Michigan and Alabama. That sounds like a College Football playoff matchup right there. Tennessee and Iowa State. And then the bottom left, Iowa, Nebraska and Illinois. And Houston, who I think Houston can, if they win this game, I think they can make some strides to the title, I think. But we'll see.

[Bubba]

Houston, a solid program. Do not sleep on the Razorbacks or the Crimson Tide. They can beat anybody on any day.

[Hunter Bus]

Yeah, yeah, they. Alabama blew out Texas Tech last night. They had a late, I guess by the time we recorded it was last night. But the last game Bama played, they blew out Texas Tech with the barrage of threes and it was over pretty quick. So we'll see how that plays out. Michigan, though, I think Alabama is going to have their hands full of Michigan. You have the former UAB Blazer Yaxel Lindenberg kind of leading the charge with that team. He, he was very sought after in the portal and he picked Michigan. And ever since he put on the the blue and gold, he has been absolutely eating people alive on the court. So it's been very interesting to watch

[Bubba]

that play out as well. I think I had Mich winning at all in my bracket. They're tough. They got size too.

[Hunter Bus]

Yeah. And the bracket that I have, that's doing really good outside of the group, of course I have them winning and it's in the 94 percentile. So it's, it was, you know, looking good there for a minute and then in the main group and then of course we had some upsets that I was not expecting, like Florida. So, you know, it's just, it's, it's March Madness. It's why they make them play tournament and you know, know it's just, it's coming down to the wire and it's been really fun to keep up with. But again, shout out to the everyone that submitted a bracket and special shout out to TJ Morgan, who is currently leading the bracket group at the moment. Duke is their national champ.

[Bubba]

We'll see if he can hang on. All right, Hunter, plug, plug, plug away. Tell them what else you do.

[Hunter Bus]

Yeah, so I have a show with the Barn. It is called the Barn Social Hour. I co host that with Graham McLean. It is every Monday through Friday. It's at 7pm It's a lot of fun. And then, you know, of course helping you out with this podcast. Then the Tailgate Tailgate show, which is football season, will be here before we know. And I'm really excited about that.

[Bubba]

Oh, I know it it the year is flying away. I can't believe we're already at right on the edge of the beginning of April. I mean that's.

[Hunter Bus]

I know. I know. Someone was like, yeah, tax season. I was like, oh, April's already here already. Great.

[Bubba]

Yeah.

[Hunter Bus]

Awesome.

[Bubba]

Hunter, thank you very much and appreciate all you do for the program. And we'll be right back in just a thank you for being a part of Bubba on the Lake.

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[Betty Lou Busse]

Foreign.

[Bubba]

Well folks, that will just about wrap it up for this edition. Podcast number 51. I hope you enjoyed meeting Kirsten McCorkle. She is quite the sot and she probably ought to have her own radio or TV show. Truth be told, she is always fun, always glad and enjoy meeting and talking to her. I hope you did too. Appreciate the bracket update from Hunter. Remember that still going on $500 is up for grabs a segment on the show and you will be immortalized in Bubba's contest hall of fame and you'll remain on the website forever and ever in a day. So hopefully that has stirred you to competition to to fill out a bracket. But it's always fun, it's always exciting this time of year. And I think I hear Betty coming through. Betty's at you. Hey, come here a minute. Never know who's coming through the studio here at Bub on the Lake. Good morning honey. How are you?

[Betty Lou Busse]

I'm good.

[Bubba]

What are you doing?

[Betty Lou Busse]

I just dropped the little pups off at the vet for their little visit.

[Bubba]

Our pups are requiring a lot of vet visits here lately, huh?

[Betty Lou Busse]

Well, they always have that once a year.

[Bubba]

Gotta get their shots.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Vaccine thing. Yeah.

[Bubba]

Gotta keep little wolves healthy, don't we?

[Betty Lou Busse]

Yep. And then the other one's got blood work every so often now, so.

[Bubba]

Here we go.

[Betty Lou Busse]

So what's up here in the Mele studio?

[Bubba]

Well, we were just wrapping up podcast 51 here. We've enjoyed our visit with Kirsten. Oh, my hunters, give us a bracket update. What is. What's your plan for today? You look like you're dressed ready to go. You don't have to hold that.

[Hunter Bus]

I.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Of course I'm going to play pickleball.

[Bubba]

You were holding the microphone.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Well, you usually own a microphone. Well, this one's lower than usual.

[Bubba]

No, it's fine, it's fine.

[Betty Lou Busse]

I'm feel off here.

[Bubba]

No, it's fine.

[Bubba's Intro Singer]

You.

[Bubba]

We can hear you. Great.

[Betty Lou Busse]

As a matter of fact, I am going to play pickleball. And then you gotta be. I will.

[Bubba]

You gotta be kidding me.

[Betty Lou Busse]

I gotta get in here and do some laundry. That's what I had come in here to do and got to clean a bathroom. You know, just to the whole mundane.

[Bubba]

You're doing the cleaning, the washing, the pickleball, the dogs, you rattling pots and pans. A little bit. We'll have something.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Yeah. I may go out there and spray some weeds. I don't know. I tell you, ride the boat.

[Bubba]

Nothing like being married to a country girl, you know? Can get the job done.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Yep.

[Bubba]

Get out there, work, work in the field, clean the house.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Done. I mean, we're up and early. And here we go.

[Bubba]

And here I am in here playing with the podcast.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Yeah, I had you out playing pickleball yesterday.

[Bubba]

That went well, an hour and a half worth.

[Betty Lou Busse]

I know. You did 30 more minutes than last time.

[Bubba]

Yeah, that was my second rehab stint on the pickleball court.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Yep. Yep.

[Bubba]

So we're gonna go again today if

[Betty Lou Busse]

you want to go. Yeah. He's become one of the laid Back ladies.

[Bubba]

Yeah. Now, this is what's funny. Okay. And I wasn't planning on this segment being this long to talk about this, but allergies got me. When I talked to Hunter earlier, he's sniffing the. The group, and I'm not a real good pickleball player. Okay. So the group I'm playing with is

[Betty Lou Busse]

called Laid Back Ladies.

[Bubba]

And that would be what. What age group?

[Betty Lou Busse]

I'd say 50s, 60s, and maybe even an early 70. Year old. I can't really remember who all.

[Bubba]

So that's who I'm playing pickleball against.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Oh, yeah, yeah. There are no 20 year olds in this group.

[Bubba]

You know, hold your. Hold your emails, folks. I know, I know it looks funny. This is a rehab assignment.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Yeah. There was another guy there playing with us yesterday, and then on the other court, there were several guys.

[Bubba]

You know, maybe I need to call it Laid Back, Ladies and friends.

[Kirsten McCorkle]

Yes.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Yeah. We may have to rename it because, you know, we have guys drop in all the time. You know, so the.

[Bubba]

The visual. Just saying that I was there. I know what it looks like, but just saying that and thinking what it looks like. I know people are loving that.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Oh, me, You. Well, you enjoy it. I think you do. Anyway, you enjoy being out there.

[Bubba]

So, you know, it's like tennis. I just don't have to run as far.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That tennis court look like a football field when I went back out.

[Bubba]

When you go back on it, it does. It seems massive.

[Betty Lou Busse]

And the racket seems like it weighs 25 pounds and is, you know, 5ft long. Do. Anyway.

[Bubba]

That's funny, Betty. Well, thank you. And I'll. If I can get done here, I will go with you to Laid Back, Ladies. Pickleball.

[Betty Lou Busse]

All right.

[Bubba]

And my whole goal, don't get injured.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Yep.

[Bubba]

Don't care for win or not, don't get injured. That's. That's the stage I'm at.

[Betty Lou Busse]

That's funny. All right.

[Bubba]

All right. Thank you, babe.

[Betty Lou Busse]

Thank you. I'm out of here.

[Bubba]

She's out of here. She's going to do the cooking, the cleaning and rattling in pots and pans. Betty Lou. Thank you, dear. All right, folks, that is going to wrap it up for this edition. I want to remind you to subscribe, turn on notifications. We don't want you to miss anything on the show. Also, follow our social media, including Bubba on the lake on Instagram. And folks, as always, I try to remind you of this that we need you to help spread the word. Every. I mean, every week I run into somebody and they will say, bubba, I sure miss you on the radio show. And I tell them I appreciate that. I miss doing it also. And then I will ask them, are you listening to the podcast? And they say, no, I don't know how to get podcast or you know what, whatever. So I try to show them on their phone. So if all of you that are listening will help somebody find the podcast, that would help us greatly and we'll try to keep this thing moving. Forward. All right, thank you very much for listening again this week, and hopefully we'll get through the allergy season here and get back to normal before long. So thank you all so much. I cannot express how much I appreciate you supporting this podcast, supporting our sponsors that support this podcast. Without them it does not happen. So thank you very much. And until next time when we sail into port, remember, God loves you and so do we. Take care. 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

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