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Episode 37-Bandit Tim · Johnny's World

• 0:04
  SPEAKER_01: All right, welcome to a brand new episode of the Johnny's World Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, this is Johnny here.
• 0:09
  SPEAKER_01: I'm doing it uh doing it solo.
• 0:11
  SPEAKER_01: Um BW's wife is in uh is pregnant, and uh so they're about to have their their uh their child coming up in the next month.
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_01: So um I'll be doing a lot of the interviews solo, so um from now on out.
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_01: So um feel free to continue listening.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_01: We really appreciate everybody listening and and uh hopefully we'll bring you some good content and great interviews that y'all will like.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_01: So uh um just keep keep listening to us and we'll keep bringing you the stuff.
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_01: Um he he probably will be back, uh I think his uh the child is due in June.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_01: So probably end of the summer, uh BW will probably jump back on for podcasts with us and uh he'll talk about um the coffee sales that he's been doing for for CF and stuff like that.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_01: So um, but until then, um just just bear with us and you'll have some great interviews coming our way.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_01: Uh just like the first one, you know, the last episode that me and BW did, I guess the last podcast available that if y'all listened to was about the uh the masters.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_01: It was Masters Week in Augusta, uh, Georgia.
• 1:09
  SPEAKER_01: We talked about the Masters tournament, gave our predictions and all that sort of stuff.
• 1:13
  SPEAKER_01: So we hadn't done one since then, but uh that was a great uh master's tournament.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_01: If y'all listened uh or watched it uh in Georgia, so follow that up.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_01: We got a great guy from Georgia right now that I'm gonna introduce that that y'all will really, really enjoy.
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_01: So uh without further ado, I'm gonna bring him on.
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_01: Uh he is uh if you're a big fan of uh Smoking the Bandit or Burt Reynolds in general, you're gonna absolutely love this interview.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_01: Uh this guy's he uh he's keeping the legacy of Bert alive today.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_01: And uh he's doing a great job.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_01: I wish I could see what I'm seeing right now in this background with all this uh memorabilia and stuff of Bert Reynolds.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_01: He's keeping it alive.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_01: So uh Tim Phillips to uh known as Bandit Tim, uh, welcome to the show, Tim.
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_01: Thanks so much for joining us.
• 1:55
  SPEAKER_01: Uh thanks for having me and uh tell your buddy congratulations.
• 1:59
  SPEAKER_01: I'll do it.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely, I will.
• 2:01
  SPEAKER_01: Well, well, Tim, just uh just give us a background of how all this started.
• 2:05
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, you you know, it's it's so cool following you on Facebook and and uh and social media seeing you at all these events.
• 2:11
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I I just said that to you before we got on.
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, man, if Bert was around today and saw that room right there, he would absolutely love it.
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_00: And and you're you're keeping it like it looks like if Bert Reynolds had a garage sale in 1983 right now.
• 2:25
  SPEAKER_00: So exactly what this room looks like.
• 2:29
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_01: Uh yeah, yeah.
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_01: I gotta hear about how this started, how you how you started collecting the stuff and uh the bandit, how the bandit became about.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_01: I just want to hear all about that.
• 2:40
  SPEAKER_00: So uh this year marks my 20th year anniversary of how this started.
• 2:46
  SPEAKER_00: Uh had my daughter back in 2002, and my dad was going to car shows and and with my uncle and stuff and taking their cars.
• 2:55
  SPEAKER_00: I did not have any car at the time.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_00: I was married about five years at this point, and uh told the wife that I wanted to uh build a car and start going with my dad to car shows.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_00: So uh she said, Well, what are you thinking about?
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_00: And I said, Well, I was in the Camaros and Z28s and stuff growing up.
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe I'll do something like that.
• 3:13
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm in the kitchen one day and she's uh passing through the living room and smoking the band it was on.
• 3:20
  SPEAKER_00: And there's a scene in the in there that she saw where uh Sally's in the car, she looks over at Bert and she says, You got a great profile.
• 3:28
  SPEAKER_00: And he looks at her and goes, Yeah, I do, honey, especially from the side.
• 3:32
  SPEAKER_00: Well, she catches that scene and she says, That's you, that's you one way up and down the other.
• 3:37
  SPEAKER_00: She said, You uh hit on me just like Bert back then with that smooth up, you know, all that uh arrogance is what the best way, you know, nice, not the nice way to say it, but that's what it was.
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_00: It was just arrogance trying to pick her up back then.
• 3:51
  SPEAKER_00: But it worked, I told her.
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_00: But uh, she said, You need to build a transam, that is you.
• 3:56
  SPEAKER_00: She said, a transam.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_00: And I thought, man, that is a it was a cool car back then, you know.
• 4:00
  SPEAKER_00: And so I started looking for a transam, and and I started everywhere I went where people say I know where one's at, I would go and it wouldn't be the right car.
• 4:09
  SPEAKER_00: But the people were willing to get rid of it.
• 4:11
  SPEAKER_00: The you know, this was in the early 2000s when metal wasn't high and these cars weren't popular, you know, they were just sitting around.
• 4:19
  SPEAKER_00: I think the big big thing when back then was the chargers and the Dodge stuff started really get taken off then, the challengers and stuff like that.
• 4:27
  SPEAKER_00: But the Transam still wasn't thought of, it was uh it was the uh bastard muscle car, you know.
• 4:33
  SPEAKER_00: Nobody really wanted it.
• 4:34
  SPEAKER_00: It was a trailer park car, it usually left to rot in a trailer park somewhere.
• 4:38
  SPEAKER_00: So uh I was going everywhere where people were sending me going, they'd seen one, and every time I'd find someone, they'd say, Oh, well, you can just have it, just get it out of my yard.
• 4:47
  SPEAKER_00: And so I wound up with 20 transams in a buddy of mine's old chicken house.
• 4:53
  SPEAKER_00: So we and uh, you know, you couldn't get parts for them, nobody was reproducing parts at this time.
• 4:57
  SPEAKER_00: Year one was just starting to do it, and uh so I finally about found a uh SE bandit cart at a junkyard.
• 5:06
  SPEAKER_00: It was at a parked underneath a sap tree or a pine tree, had sap all over it, and uh asked the old lady if uh it was for sale, and she said it was her husband's car, and he had passed and that uh she'd love to see it restored.
• 5:22
  SPEAKER_00: If I was going to restore it, she'd sell it to me.
• 5:24
  SPEAKER_00: If I wasn't, she didn't want to sell it to me.
• 5:26
  SPEAKER_00: And I said, Well, I'm gonna fix it and I'll bring it back to you when it's done.
• 5:29
  SPEAKER_00: So uh we took parts off the other cars, fixed that car, me and my dad painted it, took it back to her, showed it to her, and she liked she just cried, you know.
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_00: So at that point, you know, I was really into the car.
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_00: And so uh I go to year one with the car, and they come up to me and they said, you know, hey, this was now, this is you know, it probably took two or three years to restore that car.
• 5:53
  SPEAKER_00: And then uh, so this is around 2006 era.
• 5:56
  SPEAKER_00: I'm taking it to car shows and I took it to year one, and they said, We want to do a 30th anniversary to smoking a bandit car.
• 6:03
  SPEAKER_00: So do you we just don't know where any cars are at?
• 6:06
  SPEAKER_00: And I said, Well, heck, I got a bunch of cars and uh an old chicken house.
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_00: And they said, Well, we don't need nice cars.
• 6:13
  SPEAKER_00: I said, Oh, well, then these are yours.
• 6:14
  SPEAKER_00: These are these are just cars that are sitting around and rotting away that I took from people that didn't want them.
• 6:20
  SPEAKER_00: And so they come and they they uh they uh looked at the cars and they said, We'll take 10 of them right now.
• 6:26
  SPEAKER_00: And I said, Okay, cool.
• 6:28
  SPEAKER_00: So we hauled 10 cars out of there and we took them to their shop, and they were 10 minutes down the road, so that was kind of nice.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_00: And uh, so they start working on the cars and everything, they kept borrowing my original bandit card.
• 6:41
  SPEAKER_00: They said we're gonna do a before and after because we're gonna four-link these, ls them, really soup them up, and they're gonna be super bandits.
• 6:49
  SPEAKER_00: And so I said, All right, cool.
• 6:51
  SPEAKER_00: Well, about halfway through the project, somebody in marketing over there decided to get Burt Reynolds involved, and so they said, you know, it'd be kind of cool if he could autograph these and sign off on them as bandit editions, you know.
• 7:05
  SPEAKER_00: And so uh they got him involved.
• 7:08
  SPEAKER_00: They called me back and said, Hey, we want to pick up a special guest in Atlanta at the airport, but we want to pick them up in your car.
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_00: And I said, Oh, if it's who I think it is, I would I would love to come.
• 7:19
  SPEAKER_00: And they're like, No, it's a closed set, you can't come, nobody can come.
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_00: It's just really just only people that's gonna be filming and and can be there.
• 7:28
  SPEAKER_00: And I said, My gosh, y'all want to borrow my car?
• 7:31
  SPEAKER_00: I'm the only one that's ever drove my car.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_00: And I said, It's my baby, you know.
• 7:34
  SPEAKER_00: It's like I said, it's the only car I've ever built.
• 7:36
  SPEAKER_00: So I uh I said, Well, tell you what, if you can get my legend, Bert Reynolds, to sign the dash and get a picture of it, I said, I'll let you borrow the car.
• 7:45
  SPEAKER_00: They said, We'll do our best.
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_00: We're not promising anything, but we'll do our best.
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_00: Well, you know, that's all I could get.
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_00: It was the best, you know, at least a promise.
• 7:53
  SPEAKER_00: I said, Okay, go ahead.
• 7:54
  SPEAKER_00: Now, I don't even take off work for nothing.
• 7:57
  SPEAKER_00: I've been one of those guys that had perfect attendance in school and stuff like that.
• 8:00
  SPEAKER_00: I always always showed up, you know.
• 8:03
  SPEAKER_00: So uh me to take off work because my car was gone was really something, you know.
• 8:08
  SPEAKER_00: They was like, Why do you need to be off?
• 8:09
  SPEAKER_00: I said, Because my car is going to be gone and I don't want to, I don't want to come to work and know worry about my car.
• 8:14
  SPEAKER_00: So I took off work that day, and sure enough, they called around 10 o'clock and they said, uh, we've got him here.
• 8:21
  SPEAKER_00: And I said, Really?
• 8:22
  SPEAKER_00: And they said, Yeah, uh, you want to come?
• 8:25
  SPEAKER_00: And I said, Heck yeah, I do.
• 8:26
  SPEAKER_00: And they said, Okay, come around back door and I'll let you in.
• 8:30
  SPEAKER_00: And I said, Okay.
• 8:31
  SPEAKER_00: So I brought I grabbed one of these jackets here I had and I took down there.
• 8:36
  SPEAKER_00: And um, they let me in the back door, and they they just got done shooting the scene.
• 8:41
  SPEAKER_00: So he walks me over to Bert and he says, Uh, hey, this is Tim Phillips.
• 8:46
  SPEAKER_00: He's a huge fan of yours.
• 8:47
  SPEAKER_00: And uh he sold us the cars we're using for the show.
• 8:50
  SPEAKER_00: And he goes, Hey Tim, how you doing?
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_00: And I said, Good.
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_00: And he had on a black shirt with the red roses, and I said, Man, I said that shirt looks just like the one from part two.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_00: And he said, Yeah, he said, I've had this shirt forever.
• 9:02
  SPEAKER_00: And I said, Well, all right.
• 9:04
  SPEAKER_00: And uh, so uh everybody starts doing moving and lighting, and they were correct when they said it was a closed set because there was everybody had a job, I noticed, and so everybody just scattered.
• 9:15
  SPEAKER_00: And guess what?
• 9:16
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just standing there with Bert Reynolds.
• 9:19
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just like, man, this is the cool cool as that.
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_00: And like, okay, it's kind of like that awkward first date, you know.
• 9:27
  SPEAKER_00: You've got this, you know, when you've got the really, really attractive woman and you don't know what to say, you know.
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_00: It was it was that kind of situation.
• 9:34
  SPEAKER_00: I'm sitting here, okay.
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_00: I'm standing here with Bert Reynolds now, what I do.
• 9:38
  SPEAKER_00: You know, so I start, you know, telling him about other movies that you know I'd seen that I wasn't just a smoking and bandit fanatic, you know, that I did, you know, know where he came from and his background stuff.
• 9:48
  SPEAKER_00: And he said, Oh, that's awesome, and everything.
• 9:51
  SPEAKER_00: He starts telling me things.
• 9:52
  SPEAKER_00: He said, you know, when uh you know the cars got sold in smoking and bandit, he said the president of the company told me that I could have a car every year for as long as he was alive.
• 10:03
  SPEAKER_00: And he said, I said, great.
• 10:05
  SPEAKER_00: He said he was a man of his word.
• 10:06
  SPEAKER_00: He sent me a car right then.
• 10:08
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, Wow.
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_00: So he had a free transam.
• 10:12
  SPEAKER_00: He said, he said, I gave it to one of my buddies.
• 10:14
  SPEAKER_00: He said, next year, sure enough, another transam shows up.
• 10:17
  SPEAKER_00: He said, So I gave it to one of my buddies.
• 10:19
  SPEAKER_00: He said, by the third year, I thought, you know what, I'm gonna keep this one.
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_00: And um, so uh I'm waiting and it it didn't show up.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_00: You know, it was the same month that the other two had showed up and it didn't come yet.
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_00: He said, I'll give it a month.
• 10:31
  SPEAKER_00: And I thought, well, heck, I'll call.
• 10:33
  SPEAKER_00: So he calls and he you know, he said he spent about an hour getting from phone number to phone number to phone number before he got the president online.
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_00: And uh they said, Hey, so yeah, Bert, we understand your situation.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_00: And uh he offered you a car every year, right?
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_00: As long as he was alive.
• 10:49
  SPEAKER_00: And he said, Yeah, or you know, it just didn't show up.
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_00: I thought, you know, I have four houses at this time.
• 10:54
  SPEAKER_00: He's I thought you might have sent it to a different house or something like that.
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_00: He said, No, he you're no longer getting a transam.
• 11:01
  SPEAKER_00: He passed away last last couple months ago, so you're not getting a transam anymore.
• 11:05
  SPEAKER_00: And so he was like, dang, he said, I had to go buy one.
• 11:10
  SPEAKER_00: But so we shot uh so the producer of the show, then this is leading into the uh how the bandit started for me.
• 11:17
  SPEAKER_00: So the producer of the show, Bud Brunsman, who also produced uh overhauling and stuff like that, he's the one who produced this show.
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_00: And the show is called DIY Burt Builds a Bandit.
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_00: He's walking around with me, kind of just taking candid shots every once in a while during the downtime.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm because I'm just hanging out with Bert.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_00: And he says, he comes to me every once in a while, joking.
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_00: He goes, I'd swear you could you could pass for Bert's son, Tim.
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_00: And I said, Okay, and I just kind of blow him off.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_00: And then he says it again, and I'm like laughing, yeah, cool.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_00: And uh I wasn't trying, I had a go tea, you know, all this kind of stuff.
• 11:50
  SPEAKER_00: And uh, I was just a husband and father then wasn't trying to be Bert Reynolds as it look alike or something.
• 11:56
  SPEAKER_00: And uh so uh when I'm with Bert, one of the last scenes I walked him to where it was outside and he had to sit on my car, which about shocked the crap out of me because just they're like, Hey, we're gonna take a picture with you.
• 12:07
  SPEAKER_00: And he just plops his butt on the fender of my car.
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_00: And I I'm I'm like, Holy cow, if you weren't Bert Reynolds right now, you know, just flop on somebody's car, but I got that.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_00: But anyway, we lock over then we we take a couple shots, and he said, he looks and he says, Bert, I've been telling Tim all day he could be your son.
• 12:27
  SPEAKER_00: He looks just like you.
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_00: And he looks at me and he goes, Where was you born, Tim?
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_00: And I said, Florida.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_00: He laughed, you could be my son, because he was from Florida, you know.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_00: So uh we hit it off pretty decent.
• 12:40
  SPEAKER_00: And um, so we that wrapped it up that day, and it went along so well that Bug came to me at the end of the day and he said, Would you like to be part of the show?
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_00: And I said, What do you mean?
• 12:49
  SPEAKER_00: He said, I he said, Well, well, I like what you did today, and I think you'd be great for the show.
• 12:55
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, you just do what you did for year one.
• 12:59
  SPEAKER_00: You sold us the cars, so we'll just bring you on as the guy who sold the cars two year one, and then we'll walk through the stages of reproduction of the car with Bert, you know.
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_00: So uh yeah, I jumped on that like uh you know, like a freaking fly on, yeah.
• 13:16
  SPEAKER_00: And uh I said, heck yeah, I'll do that.
• 13:20
  SPEAKER_00: So then I had to take off more work, but either way, but it worked out good.
• 13:24
  SPEAKER_00: So uh worked with him, did the show, like it turned out really good.
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_00: Uh we uh came back later on.
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_00: Uh the economy took a dump, you know.
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_00: It just happened to be 2007, 2008 that everything kind of took a dump.
• 13:39
  SPEAKER_00: And so nothing was get really happening after that.
• 13:42
  SPEAKER_00: So about 2010, he uh started working with some friends of mine that was in the car business.
• 13:49
  SPEAKER_00: The car I'd met at car shows and different things like that.
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_00: They had actually met Bert at a car show in Lakewood and talked him into his name's Gene Kennedy, he now runs bandit movie cars.
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_00: I actually talked Bert into doing car shows and talked to Bert's panlers and stuff then.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_00: He said, I swear, Bert, you you're missing a market of people that just love you, and that's in the car business.
• 14:11
  SPEAKER_00: If you would just come to some of these, you know, world wheels and these car shows, um, you know, you could uh really, really uh see all your fans and and people that really miss you.
• 14:22
  SPEAKER_00: And so he's getting up in age a little bit.
• 14:25
  SPEAKER_00: And they see so they say, Well yeah, we'll try it out.
• 14:28
  SPEAKER_00: And I think they said that one time that um they took the first Gene said they took him to the first car show, and he made, I think at the last book signing or whatever he'd done, he'd made like he made like ten thousand dollars.
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_00: Wow.
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_00: So uh, you know, that was the the book shine book signing.
• 14:47
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but this car show was the very first car show, he made thirty thousand dollars that day.
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_00: Oh wow, you can imagine how everybody was like, okay, Gene, never mind, you actually have a great idea here.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, same amount of time, triple the money, you know, just because it's car show people.
• 15:05
  SPEAKER_00: And so, you know, book people's only gonna buy the book, and that's it.
• 15:09
  SPEAKER_00: Car show people are gonna pay for extra for a fender or dash or something like that to get signed, you know.
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_00: That and so it was just all these people were just waiting.
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_00: And uh so what happened was he was so popular, like we know Bert to be so popular, that the people were showing up four hours ahead of time to uh meet him.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_00: And guess what they're doing?
• 15:33
  SPEAKER_00: They're just standing there twiddling their thumbs for four hours.
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_00: So Gene remembered me looking like Bert back in the show days and stuff like that.
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_00: And they said, Hey, it'd be kind of cool if uh you came dressed up and hung out with the fans and uh mingled, and you know, yeah.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_00: And I said, Well, you know, I'll do it if y'all want me to.
• 15:54
  SPEAKER_00: I said, I'll do it and hang out with Bert, you know.
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_00: And so uh basically uh I started going to the shows with them, and one thing led to the next.
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_00: It got bigger and they got bigger, and the next thing you know, they were like, Okay, now it'd be kind of really cool if you could drive the trans amber's guy and do laps and scenes and stuff in front of people and show off.
• 16:17
  SPEAKER_00: So now I gotta you know dress up like Bert and show off.
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, I so I you know, you know, of course, me, I'm gonna jump right on that too.
• 16:27
  SPEAKER_00: If you already have that Bert personality, then this is all this is all like just easy.
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_00: It's like putting a round, round, uh, round uh peg into a round hose.
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_00: So it just slides in easy, you know.
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_00: It's just right.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_00: So it was uh it was a good fit for me.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_00: And I I you know, I just Bert loved it.
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_00: He watched, he would watch the show sometimes, and we did a reenactment at the 40th anniversary where I drove his car around the snowman's truck, got out.
• 16:53
  SPEAKER_00: We act like we kicked the door in to pick up the beard.
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_00: The snowman truck came by and we went back over and we had thousands of fans lined up at Jonesboro, which was Tex Arcana, the movie.
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_00: And we did the whole scene.
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_00: I come over, I looked at Bert, I said, How'd it go?
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_00: And he said, Man, it looked great.
• 17:09
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, getting a joke with him and cut up with him the more and more time I spent with him, he was uh he was really just a down-earth guy, and uh he still had that wit and that laugh.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_00: You know, his body as his body was, you know, giving up on him, his his brain and everything else was still there, which was kind of neat to hear the stories.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_00: One of the funny stories I've got were uh I was sitting on the couch with him, and this lady came in, a little young lady, and she went to interview him, and she's got a list of stuff.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_00: You could tell she'd never even seen the movie, she was too young, you know.
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_00: So she goes, Bert, can you believe that smoking a band it's as popular today as it was 40 years ago?
• 17:49
  SPEAKER_00: And he looked there and he said, Yeah, if I'd known that, I'd ask for more money.
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_00: And so she says, uh she says, she's looking at her notes, she's not even listening to Bert.
• 18:00
  SPEAKER_00: He can kind of tell after a couple of questions, she's just going through questions and just in the interview, she's not even you know really paying attention.
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_00: So he he throws her a slide, a curveball, and she says, Well, how was it riding with Sally?
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_00: And he looks at her and goes, You mean in the car?
• 18:15
  SPEAKER_00: You know, old Bert there.
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_00: And I looked at him like, Bert, you can't say that.
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_00: And uh so uh and he he looks up at her and she looks at him and he goes, I'm gonna tell you something.
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_00: Sally Field was the most talented actress I ever worked in front of.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_00: And I said, Oh, thank God.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_00: And then he looks and goes, and behind.
• 18:36
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, Man, killing me.
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_00: You're killing me, Dow.
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_00: So you know, so uh yeah, funny old Bert.
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_00: He was he was weedy like that and funny.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_01: So did he have did he have the laugh in person that he does?
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_00: Every once in a while.
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_00: I if I I I actually got him to do it a couple times.
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_00: I I joke with him and cut up with him, and you know, and say stuff like that.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_00: Well, you know, I'd tell Bert, I said, you ought to you ought to tell somebody next time that you know, in life, do you ever think that you're ever gonna meet one somebody so amazing one day, and then they look at you and you go, Well, here I am, you know, and he would just do that laugh, you know, and he he was something else.
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_00: He still had the laugh.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_00: And that, you know, it just when it's when it came from him, of course, it's authentic.
• 19:22
  SPEAKER_00: But uh that was really his laugh.
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_00: That was it wasn't produced or manufactured, that was just his laugh.
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_00: So um iconic and it'll live on way past uh his uh memories of his physical features and stuff.
• 19:37
  SPEAKER_00: Remember, they'll remember that laugh.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_00: But anyway, that's how the so the producer you know started it with how you look like Bert.
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_00: And then actually he uh he actually had me put on a red shirt and a cowboy hat and and do uh Hot Rod magazine right here.
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_00: You can you can see it, but they can't yeah, Hot Rod Magazine.
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_00: And also and so um that's how it started.
• 20:07
  SPEAKER_00: I dressed up for Hot Rod Magazine, then I wound up on in this issue.
• 20:11
  SPEAKER_00: And then I uh wound up on the Hot Rod Magazine show uh with the bandit run that started in 2007, and that's going on right now as we're speaking right now.
• 20:25
  SPEAKER_00: The bandit run's celebrating this anniversary today, with the anniversary of smoking a bandit being 45 years.
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_00: So it's going on, it's they're in Destiny right now.
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_00: I'll be joining them Friday morning, and we're filming this Wednesday, but uh, I'll be joining them Friday morning.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_00: So still keeping it alive 20 years.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_01: So so do you uh tell us a little bit about your schedule?
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_01: You it seems like you go every weekend, you all have something, or how does that work?
• 20:53
  SPEAKER_01: Or you you can do our all the south or or the whole US, or what how does that work?
• 21:00
  SPEAKER_00: Been as far west as Vegas so far.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_00: Been out to Counts Customs.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_00: Um we uh you know I birth drove Burt's cars across the uh Barrett Jackson auctions out there.
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_00: Cool.
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_00: And uh he they had a big auction out there when uh they took the cars to Counts Customs, the uh Hooper car, the bandit car, and the cannonball run truck, they took those out there, and that was in 2018, about the same year.
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_00: It was right after he passed.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, he had just passed.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_00: So it was at the end of 2018.
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_00: He passed in September 6, 2018.
• 21:34
  SPEAKER_00: We had just done a show in Pigeon Forge uh Bubba Fest, and uh he passed a week and a half later.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 21:43
  SPEAKER_00: It was uh it was a very sad time, but um we had the auction right after that because it was already planned.
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, every all the fees had already been paid, everything had already been done, so it was you know, just a scheduling thing.
• 21:58
  SPEAKER_00: I know it was a it was Bad on Danny Coker because he was so looking forward to seeing Bert and he already had the cars delivered and they were staying at Danny Accounts Customs.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_00: And then when he got the news that Bert had passed and he wasn't ever going to get to meet him, but man, he he you can watch, he did a show about it, and uh he cries on the show about it.
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_00: But uh yeah, that I go all the way.
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_00: I've gone west, I've gone to Detroit, and Chicago is the closest I've been north.
• 22:28
  SPEAKER_00: I have looked across uh, I think it's Chicago.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_00: You can look across the river there, and it you're up in Canada.
• 22:33
  SPEAKER_00: Oh yeah, yeah, Michigan, Lake Michigan.
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_00: Right, right, right, right.
• 22:37
  SPEAKER_00: So I have seen that up there.
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_00: Our schedule's pretty tight.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_00: This so I've been uh every weekend for the last four weeks we've had a show, and we have um, I think two more weekends, and then we get a weekend off, and then we're back on again.
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_00: But um, I'll read you our schedule right here.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_00: So um yeah, for people that are listening, if we want to go check it out.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, well, you can check our schedule out if you want to look at it online.
• 23:04
  SPEAKER_00: Go to banditandbufer.com and that's got all that's got everything we do and our schedule and how to book us.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_00: And we go around me and Sean Bailey.
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_00: He he came on a couple years back, about I guess we've been working together about three years as Buford.
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_00: And you talking about a guy who's spot on, he's got the cigarette, and when he puts that costume on, he's in costume the whole, I mean, he's in character the whole time, you know.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_00: He never never wavers from character.
• 23:31
  SPEAKER_00: So it's just like uh he's like the snowman, you know.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_00: When he puts the hat on, he just bounces into life, and there he goes, you know, frosty the snowman.
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_00: That's why I'm gonna start calling him for the snowman.
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_00: But when he puts it on, he goes in character.
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_00: We got a uh a guy named Jason Bobbitt that has just joined the team as junior.
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_00: So you know, you saw them at the uh Bose's traffic, and um then uh we just picked up this weekend a young lady who's who's wanting to play play Sally.
• 24:06
  SPEAKER_00: She did a great job Friday, and she's gonna join us in Lebanon.
• 24:09
  SPEAKER_00: And her name's Mandy Smith.
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_00: But um, she's she's a cute little Sally, and you know you you can't be Sally without being cute and smile, and uh, she's so approachable.
• 24:20
  SPEAKER_00: So I think she's gonna be a great addition to the shows, too.
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_00: But uh yeah, bandit and buford.com.
• 24:26
  SPEAKER_00: Or we're we're going to um Buford, Georgia next Sunday for smoking the bandit weekend.
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_00: That'll be uh the 5th, July 5th, and then we're uh going to um Lebanon, Missouri, July 18th for Route 66 Festival.
• 24:45
  SPEAKER_00: Then we're on to Ziegler, Illinois.
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_00: Uh see oh yeah, August, August the night, and then Marion, Illinois the 10th.
• 24:59
  SPEAKER_00: So we're actually doing Heroes and Horsepower the night, and then we're doing Harley Davidson the next or the next day, it's right down the road on the 10th.
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_00: And then we're heading to Graham, Texas for uh 129-year-old cars and stars car show.
• 25:16
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, pretty, pretty busy, which is which is good.
• 25:20
  SPEAKER_00: We're blessed to get to do this and blessed to get, you know, we well, I love doing it for the all the fans, but especially the young fans that's never even seen the movie.
• 25:29
  SPEAKER_00: They come up and they see you and they ask daddy, mom, and they're and I always joke with them.
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, that's bad parenting if they've never seen the movie, you know.
• 25:37
  SPEAKER_00: It's ABCs, you know, the Bible, ABCs, and then Smokey in the Band, you know, teach yeah, teach them, teach them those three things.
• 25:47
  SPEAKER_01: But um, yeah, that's cool.
• 25:49
  SPEAKER_01: I and I know I'm I'm sure all the kids that have seen Smoky in the Band, and then they meet you, they're like, Wow, they probably think in their mind there's Bert Reynolds right there.
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_00: Correct.
• 25:59
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, they see it and then they see us.
• 26:01
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, we're pretty we're pretty close.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_00: I think we're pretty close to the you know, the look and then the laughter, and then uh the the characters and stuff like that.
• 26:10
  SPEAKER_00: And we have the cars, you know, the cars are the stars too, so it's it's it's all added together.
• 26:16
  SPEAKER_00: Good enough to where John Snyder was able to call us and get us a you know, he was big into smoking the bandit.
• 26:22
  SPEAKER_00: And he gave me a call.
• 26:23
  SPEAKER_00: I remember eating lunch with my daughter when he called and said, Hey, you want to come out and film stand on it with me?
• 26:27
  SPEAKER_00: It's a tribute to smoking the bandit, you know, and you'll be the bandit character in it.
• 26:31
  SPEAKER_00: And I thought, man, that's that's a that's a done deal.
• 26:34
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I'll come do that.
• 26:35
  SPEAKER_00: So Bert had passed, and so we was all trying to figure out a way to tribute Bert and Bant smoking the bandit.
• 26:42
  SPEAKER_00: So that just kind of was an easy, easy yes for me.
• 26:47
  SPEAKER_00: So we did that one, and I'm driving his general lee in that one.
• 26:51
  SPEAKER_00: So you're talking about a 55-gallon drum of luck to be able to work with your legend, grow up as a kid with smoking a bandit and dukes a hazard, yeah, and watching those guys on TV and then actually getting to work with them later on, you know, driving Bert's car.
• 27:08
  SPEAKER_00: Uh one night working with Bert became really, really surreal to me.
• 27:12
  SPEAKER_00: My wife had to tell me because I called her about 10:30 after working.
• 27:15
  SPEAKER_00: We did a private event at his house, and then we did an all-day event at his theater, and it was really hot down in Florida, and I was beat because you wear the pants and the long sleeve button-up shirt all day with the beaver hat and stuff.
• 27:28
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 27:28
  SPEAKER_00: It just sucks all the energy out of you, uh, heat.
• 27:32
  SPEAKER_00: So uh I was beat and I was driving his bandit Transam back to his house to crash, and uh I was actually got lucky enough to stay at his house a couple times, you know.
• 27:41
  SPEAKER_00: And so uh I'm going back, he's in the Cadillac with air conditioning.
• 27:45
  SPEAKER_00: I'm in Trans Am with T tops out, but I called the wife and uh I said, uh, hey, uh sorry I hadn't talked to you all day.
• 27:54
  SPEAKER_00: I've been just super busy and just just I'm just wore out.
• 27:58
  SPEAKER_00: And uh I said, all I'm gonna do is get this bandit transam of Burt's back to his house and crash.
• 28:04
  SPEAKER_00: And she said, Do you realize what you're saying right now?
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_00: How many, how many of men's dreams you're living right now?
• 28:12
  SPEAKER_00: You're riding to Bert's house in a his band at Trans Am, you know, and you're crashing to stay at Bert's house.
• 28:18
  SPEAKER_00: And then I it it the whole day, uh the of the all the the ache feed back and the feet with the boots and everything just went away.
• 28:25
  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, Yeah, you're really living a lot of guys' dreams right now.
• 28:29
  SPEAKER_00: So just shut up and suck it up.
• 28:33
  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely, man.
• 28:34
  SPEAKER_01: That's how I felt with uh uh hanging out with John, you know, uh same sort of deal.
• 28:38
  SPEAKER_01: It's kind of surreal, you know.
• 28:39
  SPEAKER_01: When you meet meet guys or your heroes uh growing up and then and then you meet them, you always wonder, you know, man, are they really gonna be cool?
• 28:46
  SPEAKER_01: And it would be disappointing if they weren't, you know.
• 28:48
  SPEAKER_01: But the fact that when you hang out and they're they're they're just just a regular guy, you know, like Bert.
• 28:54
  SPEAKER_01: It sounds like he was a regular guy like John, you know, just regular people and and just uh just good you never know when you meet people like that, but when they come off as genuine genuine as they appear on uh TV and you know, and then and they're like that in real life, it makes it so much better.
• 29:09
  SPEAKER_00: It's just it's just number the number one rule I've always been told is you never never want to meet your heroes.
• 29:15
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 29:17
  SPEAKER_00: Because most of them aren't what the writer and the uh the film in industry and everybody else has turned them into be, you know, these these people that are uh bigger than life as you think they are.
• 29:29
  SPEAKER_00: And then when you meet them, they're just regular guys with headaches and back pains and and problems and and and and everything else.
• 29:37
  SPEAKER_00: And they don't if you don't see that side, you're like, ah, you can then you then you're let down for the rest of your life.
• 29:42
  SPEAKER_00: So really, really the the uh the the rule is don't meet your hero.
• 29:47
  SPEAKER_00: But I've you know I'm glad glad that it it worked out for me and you uh meeting Bert and John because both of those guys were really uh the nicest people in the world, took us in and uh just let us let us shine for as bright as we could, and some of them, you know.
• 30:08
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I still owe you one for poker run.
• 30:11
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I'm watching poker run and and me and you're in it.
• 30:15
  SPEAKER_00: And um the wife, that guy just knocked you out.
• 30:18
  SPEAKER_00: You know, there's a fight scene with me and John.
• 30:21
  SPEAKER_00: Y'all haven't seen poker run, you gotta watch it because uh me and John get in a fight on it, and uh there's a bar fight, and John knocks my block off.
• 30:30
  SPEAKER_01: But uh yeah, I remember um because you were you were at the premiere poker run, weren't you?
• 30:35
  SPEAKER_01: Didn't you go to the premiere?
• 30:36
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, I wasn't able to go and you were there, and I remembered messing you, and you I was like, Let me know how the scene turns out.
• 30:41
  SPEAKER_01: And you mess back, you go, Man, you knocked me out.
• 30:45
  SPEAKER_00: But you know, John, I I I told the wife, she said, I can't believe they put that in there.
• 30:50
  SPEAKER_00: I said, No, that's good.
• 30:51
  SPEAKER_00: That was me and John did good.
• 30:53
  SPEAKER_00: I said, If they yeah, if they put it in the movie, then it looked real, and it did look good.
• 30:57
  SPEAKER_00: It did look like you knocked my block off.
• 30:59
  SPEAKER_00: I give me and you both a credit that yeah that that actually looked good enough for John to use.
• 31:05
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, like that was a fun day.
• 31:07
  SPEAKER_00: We'll put that because there was a lot of fighting, but only a few parts got used, you know.
• 31:13
  SPEAKER_00: It's right, you know how filming it is, and we fought we were worn out by the time we fought.
• 31:18
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we were.
• 31:19
  SPEAKER_01: That was cool, man.
• 31:20
  SPEAKER_01: I remember you telling me it was like, all right, man, you gotta hit by here.
• 31:22
  SPEAKER_01: Just don't don't actually hit me, man.
• 31:24
  SPEAKER_01: Just do it right here.
• 31:25
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and it'll make it look like it.
• 31:26
  SPEAKER_00: And sure enough, man, you hear that they put the sound effects in, boom, it sounds like it looked like it worked perfect because like I said, if you watch it, guys, you're it's just like John knocked my block off.
• 31:38
  SPEAKER_00: My wife thought it was for real.
• 31:40
  SPEAKER_00: She really hit me.
• 31:41
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, no, yeah, well, he didn't.
• 31:44
  SPEAKER_01: It happened so fast, man.
• 31:45
  SPEAKER_01: It's funny though.
• 31:46
  SPEAKER_01: Um, if you watch it though, and watch that scene when I punch you, I I go back like uh like like you had hit me.
• 31:53
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know why I did that, but I guess just instinct or something, but uh we were all yeah, but it was uh man, that was a whole lot of fun.
• 32:00
  SPEAKER_01: And uh yeah, I'd never been in a in a in a bar fight born movie.
• 32:04
  SPEAKER_00: So I asked me after we'd done, you know, I did my scene with uh this smoking and bandit scene, yeah.
• 32:10
  SPEAKER_00: And he said, Hey, do you want to be part of the bar fight?
• 32:12
  SPEAKER_00: And I was thinking to myself of the movie Hooper where Bert was in the bar fight, and I thought, yeah, I'd love to do a bar fight as Bert diddle be great.
• 32:20
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so uh so that's why I volunteered for that real quick, like too.
• 32:24
  SPEAKER_00: I said, I think that'd be kind of cool to be in a bar fight.
• 32:27
  SPEAKER_00: So we did that, and then um then uh you know he got a lot of a lot of good feedback from the uh Bert and Buford character in the first first two movies, and he finally told me, he said, in the next one, I promise you you'll be in the transit because uh you know it's in the generally.
• 32:45
  SPEAKER_00: Then I was in the back of the cop car, and I said, Man, we gotta this is the last movie.
• 32:50
  SPEAKER_00: He swears this is the last one of this sequel, yeah.
• 32:53
  SPEAKER_00: Uh that will or this series that uh I get to drive the transam.
• 32:57
  SPEAKER_00: So you saw at Bose at Trafficanza, and the bandit actually shows up in the bandit transam.
• 33:03
  SPEAKER_00: So this is yeah, that was so cool.
• 33:04
  SPEAKER_00: That would be a cool scene.
• 33:06
  SPEAKER_00: I think that might be a big hit.
• 33:08
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I think it will be.
• 33:09
  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
• 33:10
  SPEAKER_01: Uh well let's talk a little bit uh about Bert.
• 33:14
  SPEAKER_01: I want to ask you uh personally what your favorite obviously is Smokey the Bandit number one for you.
• 33:19
  SPEAKER_01: What what's your let's say your top five Burt Reynolds movies?
• 33:22
  SPEAKER_00: What would you say if you had a had a yes?
• 33:25
  SPEAKER_00: I had to if I had to, of course.
• 33:27
  SPEAKER_00: I I would go with Smokey and the Bandit for the you know, just because it's just the car I was in there too.
• 33:32
  SPEAKER_00: I just really like that car too.
• 33:34
  SPEAKER_00: And it just uh it that you can't you can't beat the chemistry of the cast.
• 33:39
  SPEAKER_00: Jerry Reed, Jackie Gleason, you know, uh and Sally, those those three right there were just killing them.
• 33:47
  SPEAKER_00: And you had you had the combination of everything.
• 33:49
  SPEAKER_00: You had cuteness, you had cockiness, and then you just had the you know the cop that was just pure humor and he reminded you of uh every cop you the way they were back in the 70s and stuff, yelling and cussing and stuff like that.
• 34:06
  SPEAKER_00: But um, so smoking the bananet number one, hooper for me number two, because it's right after Smoking the Bannet.
• 34:14
  SPEAKER_00: Him and Sally are still together, and he's a stunt man in that movie, an aging stunt man, and he uh still has the Trans Am.
• 34:23
  SPEAKER_00: It's a red one in that movie, and he has a uh the Hooper truck, which is a 78 uh Sierra Classic four by four, which I've actually built myself because I love that movie so much.
• 34:35
  SPEAKER_00: So I have that truck too.
• 34:37
  SPEAKER_00: So I have the Trans Am and then I have the Hooper truck, and then uh I would go with White Lightning.
• 34:44
  SPEAKER_00: I like that movie because it's another Chase Carr movie, and then uh of course Gator.
• 34:52
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, definitely Gator.
• 34:55
  SPEAKER_00: And uh the last one he liked it the most, but that's probably the one I'm gonna use Fifth because it's just there wasn't any cars or anything else in it.
• 35:04
  SPEAKER_00: It was just good acting when that was deliverance, so yeah, oh yeah, and that was filmed up here in Raven County, but um, yeah, that was just a you know, a good acting movie.
• 35:14
  SPEAKER_00: That's the movie that Bert liked the most, you said Bert loved deliverance more than any of them.
• 35:19
  SPEAKER_00: Really?
• 35:20
  SPEAKER_00: His best role out of all of them.
• 35:22
  SPEAKER_00: He knew Smokey was gonna be the most commercial movie, yeah.
• 35:26
  SPEAKER_00: But uh critically acclaimed movie, and his he felt like his best acting came through deliverance.
• 35:34
  SPEAKER_00: You know, he broke his tailbone in that movie.
• 35:37
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I think I read that somewhere.
• 35:38
  SPEAKER_00: That's yeah, yeah.
• 35:40
  SPEAKER_00: Wow.
• 35:41
  SPEAKER_00: Funny story about that, you know.
• 35:43
  SPEAKER_00: He'll he's another one of his stories he told me.
• 35:45
  SPEAKER_00: He said, Yeah, he said he's walking by the director and he's watching the film that already shot it, and it was uh the the film where the uh canoe goes over the falls, and he said, he said, check this out, Bert, what do you think?
• 35:57
  SPEAKER_00: And he watched it and they had a a dummy dressed up like Burt.
• 35:59
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and they they let it go over the falls.
• 36:02
  SPEAKER_00: And he said, he said, I can tell it's uh I can tell it's a dummy in there.
• 36:07
  SPEAKER_02: Uh huh.
• 36:07
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 36:08
  SPEAKER_00: He goes, You ought to let me do it.
• 36:10
  SPEAKER_00: You know, Bert did a lot of his own stunts back in the early days.
• 36:13
  SPEAKER_00: And so uh director looked at him and said, Really?
• 36:16
  SPEAKER_00: He said, Yeah, I can do that same.
• 36:17
  SPEAKER_00: It's not a big deal.
• 36:19
  SPEAKER_00: He says, Okay.
• 36:20
  SPEAKER_00: He said, So they put me in a canoe and they tie a rope to a tree, and the guy comes over and he says, There's a typhoon at the bottom.
• 36:28
  SPEAKER_00: He says, So when you get to the bottom, it's gonna try and suck you down.
• 36:31
  SPEAKER_00: He said, Go all the way down and it'll shoot you out like a rocket.
• 36:36
  SPEAKER_00: He said, Uh, you know, just it you'll shoot right out.
• 36:39
  SPEAKER_00: He said, Okay, no problem.
• 36:40
  SPEAKER_00: I got it.
• 36:41
  SPEAKER_00: He says, Make sure you swim all the way down and it'll shoot you right out.
• 36:44
  SPEAKER_00: So uh he said, uh, I let go of the rope.
• 36:48
  SPEAKER_00: He said, I go over the falls.
• 36:50
  SPEAKER_00: First thing I do is I, you know, you see him in the video, he holds his nose, comes down butt first.
• 36:56
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, he's burnt butt right on a rock.
• 36:59
  SPEAKER_00: Breaks his tailbone.
• 37:01
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my gosh.
• 37:02
  SPEAKER_00: Like now he breaks his tailbone, his coccy is broke.
• 37:05
  SPEAKER_00: He flands in the water, his butt's broke, and the typhoon hits him.
• 37:10
  SPEAKER_00: And it he panics for a second.
• 37:12
  SPEAKER_00: The typhoon, he said, rips his rips his vest off.
• 37:15
  SPEAKER_00: So he's just ripping him around.
• 37:17
  SPEAKER_00: And uh he said, I got a broke burn, uh broke butt, and my shirt.
• 37:21
  SPEAKER_00: I'm shirtless now, so he's gonna rip my shirt off.
• 37:23
  SPEAKER_00: He says, but I'm getting sucked down by the typhoon.
• 37:25
  SPEAKER_00: He said, So I he's I remember I swam down.
• 37:28
  SPEAKER_00: He said, just nothing like he said, it shot me right out.
• 37:31
  SPEAKER_00: He said, So I'm crawling to the bank.
• 37:33
  SPEAKER_00: Two guys come grab me on each side, pull me up the bank, towel me off, walking me around.
• 37:41
  SPEAKER_00: And um, I'm walking, he said, they're helping me.
• 37:44
  SPEAKER_00: And I walk by the director, and he's got everything already filmed, and he's looking at it.
• 37:48
  SPEAKER_00: And I said, Well, how'd it look?
• 37:50
  SPEAKER_00: He looked at me and he said, Bertie looked like a dummy going over the falls.
• 37:57
  SPEAKER_00: And I took it as you should, you should just let the dummy do it.
• 38:01
  SPEAKER_00: You're the dummy now, you know what I mean?
• 38:03
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 38:05
  SPEAKER_01: Oh man, that's that's good story.
• 38:08
  SPEAKER_01: Oh my wow, yeah.
• 38:10
  SPEAKER_01: Bert definitely a character.
• 38:11
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I watched this is real uh eerie and spooky.
• 38:15
  SPEAKER_01: I watched his last movie.
• 38:16
  SPEAKER_01: What the last movie star when that last time he did it?
• 38:19
  SPEAKER_01: I watched that and then the next day he passed.
• 38:22
  SPEAKER_01: Like it was so strange how that happened.
• 38:24
  SPEAKER_01: I watched it, yeah, it passed the next day.
• 38:27
  SPEAKER_01: It was it was kind of eerie, you know.
• 38:28
  SPEAKER_01: But uh, did you ever see that?
• 38:30
  SPEAKER_00: Well, that was that was pretty yeah.
• 38:31
  SPEAKER_00: I actually went around his uh premieres for that.
• 38:34
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, you did?
• 38:35
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I went around with young Burt um and helped him promote those uh shows.
• 38:40
  SPEAKER_00: I went I went to three of them, uh one in Rome, Georgia, and one in Nashville, and and uh another in South Carolina.
• 38:47
  SPEAKER_00: Wow.
• 38:48
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we went around and then uh then we did Bubba Fest and then it he was supposed to have been doing the uh the one with um Brad Pitt and then Ms.
• 38:58
  SPEAKER_00: How he was gonna be the Brad Pitt character and and Hal Needham was gonna be the uh what was it?
• 39:03
  SPEAKER_00: Uh stump man uh life of a stump man in Hollywood or what yeah, once upon a time in Hollywood.
• 39:09
  SPEAKER_00: There you go.
• 39:09
  SPEAKER_00: See Bert was supposed to start in that because it's basically written about them.
• 39:14
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, how how need them so uh we're doing Brad Pitt's character, supposed to have been Burt.
• 39:20
  SPEAKER_00: Wow, I didn't know that.
• 39:22
  SPEAKER_00: It's how need them.
• 39:23
  SPEAKER_00: So Burt had a part in there, and he was getting ready to do that part before, but he passed before he could do the part.
• 39:28
  SPEAKER_00: Oh man, wow, yeah.
• 39:32
  SPEAKER_00: But uh so I was gonna tell you a little lucky story about John's film filming stand on it, though.
• 39:37
  SPEAKER_00: I was in the RV and the air conditioning is blowing good, and they're you know, the scene's 20 miles away.
• 39:43
  SPEAKER_00: And um he uh comes bangs on the door, and I'm in there with Mindy and all the other actors just ready to go to the scene.
• 39:51
  SPEAKER_00: Well, he finds out he ain't got anybody to drive the General Lee, you know, and he comes and bangs on the door, and he and you know, this is how cool John Schneider is.
• 40:01
  SPEAKER_00: He doesn't really know me from anything other than I've seen him at a couple of World Wheels and stuff like that.
• 40:06
  SPEAKER_00: And we changed numbers that way.
• 40:09
  SPEAKER_00: And uh, but he knocked me, he bangs on the door, and Alicia opens the door, his wife, and says, What is it?
• 40:14
  SPEAKER_00: She goes, He goes, I don't have anybody to drive the general lee.
• 40:18
  SPEAKER_00: And he looks in there and he goes, Tim, I need you to drive the general lee.
• 40:22
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, I don't care if I'm not got any air conditioning, I will drive that general lee because I've drove Birch cars, right?
• 40:28
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and if I come, I go to walk out, and Alicia stops me.
• 40:32
  SPEAKER_00: She looks at me, she goes, If you wreck that General Lee, I'm going to bury you in one of these swamps out here in Louisiana.
• 40:39
  SPEAKER_00: And I went, I'm not gonna wreck it.
• 40:42
  SPEAKER_00: And so, you know, I I go downstairs or go out to the RV and John walks me over to the car and he shows me how to how to crank it and how to, you know, everything how the car works.
• 40:51
  SPEAKER_00: It's mostly electric on the inside of his, you know, it's nice push button crank.
• 40:57
  SPEAKER_00: And then he looks at me and he goes, You know, it does have almost 700 horsepower, so do be careful.
• 41:04
  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, Okay, and he was referring to Alicia's comment and yeah, yeah, probably.
• 41:10
  SPEAKER_00: So you can imagine following them to the scene in John's General Lee, yeah, yeah.
• 41:17
  SPEAKER_00: First day on the set, you know.
• 41:19
  SPEAKER_00: Wow, drive it for 20 miles, you know.
• 41:23
  SPEAKER_00: That was uh the neatest thing.
• 41:25
  SPEAKER_00: I actually filmed a lot of it and live and like, hey, I'm driving John Schneider's General Lee and blow the heart a couple of times, uh-huh.
• 41:34
  SPEAKER_00: Stuff like that.
• 41:35
  SPEAKER_00: So were you were you in the bandit character when you're driving it?
• 41:38
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, yes, I'm already ready for the scene because I thought we were going straight to the scene.
• 41:42
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't know it's I didn't know it's 20 miles away, you know.
• 41:45
  SPEAKER_01: We imagine that people that you pass by on the road and looked over, they did a double take, like why did why is Bert in the General Lee?
• 41:54
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 41:56
  SPEAKER_00: Wow, yeah, yeah.
• 41:59
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, wow, that's amazing.
• 42:01
  SPEAKER_00: I did pull up a couple people uh at the stoplights and stuff, and I said, I needed a speedy car, you know.
• 42:06
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, there you go.
• 42:08
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, speedy car.
• 42:10
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I bet I can't imagine.
• 42:11
  SPEAKER_01: I bet the reactions when he pulled up the stoplight were like, this is real.
• 42:16
  SPEAKER_00: No, you've seen you know, if you've been in, and then I rode.
• 42:20
  SPEAKER_00: John John drove it back and rode with him, and he he played a lot of the his music and stuff like that, and he has a really nice sound system in it, and that was just the neatest thing to ride to the restaurant to go grab something to eat with John Schneider.
• 42:34
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and so uh memories I'll never be able to replace that I have with Bert and John.
• 42:38
  SPEAKER_00: John, but uh that um you know I'll take with me forever.
• 42:45
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely, yeah.
• 42:46
  SPEAKER_01: It's so cool, man.
• 42:47
  SPEAKER_01: Uh yeah, people who are listening to this who who haven't seen Stand On It or Poker Run, definitely encourage you to check it out.
• 42:54
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I've talked about it a few times, but you'll be able to see Tim in there just as bandit.
• 42:58
  SPEAKER_01: And and uh I think Bert and Hal would be uh uh very proud of that movie for what John did with it.
• 43:05
  SPEAKER_01: I know that's why they he did it as a tribute movie to them, and I I think they would really uh really like it.
• 43:11
  SPEAKER_00: Oh yeah, and uh double or nothing's coming up next, and it's going to be the finish of this series.
• 43:16
  SPEAKER_00: But man, it looks like it's gonna, you know, probably even top both those the way it's going.
• 43:22
  SPEAKER_00: You know, John does a stunt in it where he he jumps the car 150 yards or 150 feet.
• 43:28
  SPEAKER_00: But when I looked at that jump, I thought I thought John must have a terminal illness or something.
• 43:34
  SPEAKER_00: He just wanted to just do something crazy because I'm thinking to myself, why in the world would you jump that far?
• 43:41
  SPEAKER_00: And uh so I show up a little late to the scene and he's about to do that jump.
• 43:45
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm standing there on the bank with everybody, and we're looking over, and then um uh Sean, his handler or bodyguard up there, he hollers down and says, Uh, hey John, look, it's Tim the bandit.
• 44:00
  SPEAKER_00: He goes, hey Tim.
• 44:01
  SPEAKER_00: And uh he says, We'll do your scene next after this.
• 44:04
  SPEAKER_00: And I looked at Cloy Duke, Byron Cherry, and and uh Rick uh Radar or uh what's it Raven?
• 44:15
  SPEAKER_00: And I look above them and I go, Well, I hope so.
• 44:18
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 44:19
  SPEAKER_00: Because this is a long jump, and I'm thinking, I don't remember John Schneider being a huge stunt star, you know.
• 44:25
  SPEAKER_00: Right, right.
• 44:26
  SPEAKER_00: We've watched him in the other two movies do do jumps, but they've never been to this magnitude.
• 44:31
  SPEAKER_00: Where I mean, you're really gonna launch this car a long way.
• 44:36
  SPEAKER_00: All these jumps to this magnitude, guys, are all done CGI now.
• 44:41
  SPEAKER_00: You know, nobody nobody's ever gonna get hurt in them.
• 44:43
  SPEAKER_00: They're all computerized and they throw the car, and you know, it's it's usually a dummy in the car, like in Duke's a hazard movie like 2005.
• 44:54
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 44:55
  SPEAKER_00: You can you can tell it's a dummy in the car and they just launch the car, you know.
• 44:59
  SPEAKER_00: So uh this is actually John Schneider, who's not the uh the young man, he's not Bo Duke, you know.
• 45:06
  SPEAKER_00: Then he's he's gonna jump this car, you know, 150 feet.
• 45:10
  SPEAKER_00: And he does a wonderful job.
• 45:12
  SPEAKER_00: It's probably the best jump I've ever seen.
• 45:14
  SPEAKER_00: And I've done a lot of jumps with tributes to smoking the bandit jumps and stuff like that.
• 45:19
  SPEAKER_00: You were there that that jump was out.
• 45:21
  SPEAKER_00: He drove the car afterwards.
• 45:23
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, yeah, and it's so good the car was able to run afterwards.
• 45:27
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it was comes right over, does our scene, was able.
• 45:33
  SPEAKER_00: I said, You're okay, and he said, Yeah, I'm fine.
• 45:36
  SPEAKER_00: I said, You just launched a 3,000-pound car 150 feet, not five minutes ago, and you don't feel nothing.
• 45:44
  SPEAKER_00: And he said, I'm fine, you know.
• 45:46
  SPEAKER_00: And he was because he he's bent down.
• 45:48
  SPEAKER_00: You've seen him filming our scene, and he's down at the bottom and he's laying on the ground, and he's like, Spin the tires, Tim, spin the tires.
• 45:55
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, I guess he is fine, you know.
• 45:57
  SPEAKER_00: So hats off to him because uh he hollered back at me and he said, I've decided not to do it, Tim.
• 46:04
  SPEAKER_00: It's black and gold, you can do it.
• 46:06
  SPEAKER_00: And I said, I'm with you, John.
• 46:07
  SPEAKER_00: And he goes, Really?
• 46:08
  SPEAKER_00: And I said, In spirit.
• 46:12
  SPEAKER_00: So uh yeah, yeah.
• 46:13
  SPEAKER_00: He said, Yeah, in spirit, right?
• 46:15
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but uh that's hilarious.
• 46:17
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I I saw uh you're talking about Byron.
• 46:20
  SPEAKER_01: I saw him point over to Byron before he goes, Byron, you want to do it now?
• 46:24
  SPEAKER_01: You want to get in here?
• 46:24
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, Right, all right.
• 46:26
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you for you.
• 46:26
  SPEAKER_01: He's trying to hand it off to all the show offs, you know what I mean?
• 46:30
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 46:30
  SPEAKER_01: He was like, No, that that's all he but uh but that jump was crazy, and then that and then we got a cool jump with the uh with the with the uh monster truck going over.
• 46:39
  SPEAKER_01: Right, yeah, and that was that was pretty cool.
• 46:42
  SPEAKER_01: The the shot that they got of them over cap with Mindy and Cody in it, yeah.
• 46:51
  SPEAKER_00: That's gonna be a great scene too.
• 46:53
  SPEAKER_01: I love it.
• 46:53
  SPEAKER_01: Cody was like, yeah, John, John's a crazy guy, but crazy in a good way.
• 46:58
  SPEAKER_01: Right, right, right.
• 47:01
  SPEAKER_00: You know the stunts were awesome, right?
• 47:04
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, I enjoyed working with both those guys and hope to continue working with John on projects, you know, and uh seeing you around too.
• 47:13
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it was uh it was a lot of fun getting to be on set and that bar fight.
• 47:18
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I'll never forget that.
• 47:19
  SPEAKER_01: That was that was that was a fun day, man.
• 47:21
  SPEAKER_01: My wife will never forget it, but you know, we were worn out afterwards, man.
• 47:26
  SPEAKER_01: We we did a lot, but it was uh it was so cool to get to do that.
• 47:30
  SPEAKER_01: Well, we have anything else you want to talk want to add, uh Tim before we get off or no, just like I said, uh just come support us if you can.
• 47:37
  SPEAKER_00: Uh keep uh the memory of smoking the bandit alive and Burt Reynolds and all those great characters from the 70s.
• 47:43
  SPEAKER_00: They don't they very they can't make them anymore, they don't make them anymore.
• 47:47
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, with the you know, we're trying to keep um you know these shows alive because political correctness will never let them be made again.
• 47:55
  SPEAKER_00: So anybody that grew up with these shows, you better cherish them because you won't see anything like that again, not in the world we live in right now.
• 48:03
  SPEAKER_00: So trying to uh keep that uh those memories alive, those shows alive, and those people who believe in, you know, well uh yeah, everything that we believe in, you know, all the conservative stuff that you know God in God would try everything, God, country, and family, you know.
• 48:22
  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely, absolutely.
• 48:24
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I think John calls it southern horsepower comedy right there, and that's right, exactly what it is.
• 48:30
  SPEAKER_00: But you can't do it now, you know.
• 48:32
  SPEAKER_00: And uh the uh what is it?
• 48:35
  SPEAKER_00: Pontiac got they got rid of Pontiac.
• 48:38
  SPEAKER_00: So we're trying to, you know, all the bandit runners are trying to make sure people who love Pontiacs have something to see, and they do that right here.
• 48:46
  SPEAKER_00: So if you can go to banditrun.com, they've got so much Pontiac stuff there if you're a huge Pontiac fan.
• 48:52
  SPEAKER_00: And that's run with Dave Hall and and he at Restore Muscle Car, he does a great job restoring transams into cars, and then uh David Hershey actually helps run the event there.
• 49:02
  SPEAKER_00: They're doing that, like I said, right now.
• 49:03
  SPEAKER_00: If you want to go to banditrun.com, you'll you can see all the shenanigans.
• 49:08
  SPEAKER_00: They do a run from Texas Arkana to Atlanta every five years, and then they do different runs throughout to different parts of the state.
• 49:14
  SPEAKER_00: So you could join into that.
• 49:16
  SPEAKER_00: Go to banditandbufer.com to find me and Sean and all the shenanigans we get into every weekend.
• 49:21
  SPEAKER_00: We got we've got Uncle Jesse, uh David Daniels joined us now, and and um Rusty Cash has joined us as boss hog, and they bring a general lee.
• 49:31
  SPEAKER_00: And so we we bring the 80s back everywhere we go, you know what I mean?
• 49:36
  SPEAKER_00: Everything that was cool in the 80s.
• 49:38
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, and Pete Condice brings the 18 van a lot of times.
• 49:42
  SPEAKER_00: So everything.
• 49:44
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, tell us about uh about Hazard.
• 49:46
  SPEAKER_01: We hazard Hazard Homecoming.
• 49:48
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, very cool.
• 49:49
  SPEAKER_01: Tell us a little bit about that, what went on there.
• 49:52
  SPEAKER_00: So that was another Dukes of Hazard gathering that that they actually, you know, if you love smoking the bandit, then you probably love Dukes of Hazard because Dukes of Hazard came because of smoking the bandit.
• 50:05
  SPEAKER_00: It was a the premises was they you know run crab illegal alcohol and bring it back to uh Georgia.
• 50:12
  SPEAKER_00: Well, the writers and producers and stuff said, man, that would be kind of cool.
• 50:16
  SPEAKER_00: Well, but we don't have a relative illegal alcohol, do we?
• 50:19
  SPEAKER_00: And they went, Moonshine's illegal.
• 50:21
  SPEAKER_00: So there you go.
• 50:23
  SPEAKER_00: It was easy to write and they figured it out pretty quick.
• 50:27
  SPEAKER_00: And so that's how the Duke's Hazard.
• 50:30
  SPEAKER_00: And if you watch the first episode, Duke's Hazard, they mentioned Burt Reynolds in there.
• 50:33
  SPEAKER_00: They're running from the from the cops in the junkyard, or running from the guys in the junkyard chasing each other around.
• 50:39
  SPEAKER_00: And one of them said, or I think Luke said, Luke said, you know, Bert Reynolds never got caught or something like that.
• 50:44
  SPEAKER_00: So he said, Yeah, but he had a cool mustache.
• 50:47
  SPEAKER_00: So so yeah, so it's uh yeah, it's loosely based off smoking to bandit, and then it took off too.
• 50:54
  SPEAKER_00: So uh they had a home run there.
• 50:57
  SPEAKER_00: And it was in Georgia, coving to Georgia, right?
• 51:02
  SPEAKER_00: And like I said, that that was a uh Duke's fest that the smoking to bandit people invaded.
• 51:07
  SPEAKER_00: We had the uh snowman's truck there, we had the cop car, we had the Transam, we had me, and we had a couple of the uh stars that was from still alive that from Smoking the Bannet.
• 51:19
  SPEAKER_00: We had Kay Barrett, she was the little girl that played um uh the high Uncle Bannet scene.
• 51:24
  SPEAKER_00: So she's she was young little thing then, and she opened the door for Bert.
• 51:28
  SPEAKER_00: He says, Hey darling, she says, Hi Uncle Bannet.
• 51:30
  SPEAKER_00: He says, Which one of the house apes is you?
• 51:33
  SPEAKER_00: Kay, oh, he's dropping them like flies, you know, and walks in the house.
• 51:37
  SPEAKER_00: But uh, she still gets residual checks for that, you know.
• 51:41
  SPEAKER_00: Every month she'll get a check for around 25 bucks or whatever, just that one line.
• 51:45
  SPEAKER_00: And she didn't want to do it as a kid.
• 51:47
  SPEAKER_00: She said she was pretty shy, and uh they paid her 200 and something bucks up front to do it.
• 51:52
  SPEAKER_00: She's like, Okay, I'll do it then.
• 51:54
  SPEAKER_00: She said she remembers like yesterday, she didn't want to do it.
• 51:56
  SPEAKER_00: And then when Hal Needham offered her 200 bucks, you know, that's a lot of money in 77.
• 52:00
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, you know, yeah, I'll do it.
• 52:04
  SPEAKER_00: So she did the scene, and she's glad she done.
• 52:08
  SPEAKER_01: That's really cool.
• 52:09
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, so she was there, and then and then uh did I see the 18 van?
• 52:13
  SPEAKER_01: Were y'all getting out of the 18 van?
• 52:14
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 52:15
  SPEAKER_00: So so like I said, Pete's got the 18 van.
• 52:17
  SPEAKER_00: He put all the characters in there.
• 52:18
  SPEAKER_00: I wasn't in there this time.
• 52:20
  SPEAKER_00: I was in the we we did it in uh at Bandit Bash with me and a bunch of other characters that was there, Elvis and everything.
• 52:26
  SPEAKER_00: But uh we tried it with all the characters there too.
• 52:29
  SPEAKER_00: Everybody loves that.
• 52:30
  SPEAKER_00: You know, it's kind of the you know, how many clowns can we fit into a clown car effect, right?
• 52:35
  SPEAKER_00: So we uh we're a bunch of clowns anyway and big kids, so yeah, everybody usually goes for stuff like that.
• 52:43
  SPEAKER_00: That's that's another thing.
• 52:44
  SPEAKER_00: These these guys that dress up, you better watch out because they're up for anything, you know.
• 52:48
  SPEAKER_00: These uh you want to you want to jump out of this car with 15 other people at 50 miles an hour and roll over and play dead, sure.
• 52:58
  SPEAKER_00: You know, it's yeah, what could go wrong, right?
• 53:02
  SPEAKER_00: You know, but uh yeah, it's a makes for a lot of fun.
• 53:07
  SPEAKER_01: It does, and yeah, all these guys that you're talking about, the the lookalikes, man, I mean it's spot on.
• 53:12
  SPEAKER_01: I that one picture I saw of John with uh with uh Uncle Jesse, uh David, that David Dominic's eye.
• 53:19
  SPEAKER_01: Wow, that's that was amazing.
• 53:21
  SPEAKER_00: It's scary sometimes, yeah.
• 53:25
  SPEAKER_00: And David took a picture of my daughter, and it was the same kind of scene where um Daisy Duke, man, it's just crazy how the likeness is.
• 53:34
  SPEAKER_00: And David not only has the likeness, he has the heart too of uh Denver Pyle.
• 53:38
  SPEAKER_00: So he really really loves keeping it going for the right reasons, and that's what you need.
• 53:45
  SPEAKER_00: Um, if if you don't, if you've never watched the shows, I've had a couple people want to, you know, dress up as Bert and stuff like that, but they don't even know the show.
• 53:56
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, the actors are just you know, we had an actor one time try to do it and his heart wasn't in it.
• 54:02
  SPEAKER_00: You could tell, you know, he didn't understand the you know the role, he didn't he didn't know the lines of the movies, and and if somebody come told me say something, he just looked at him like, hmm, what are you talking about?
• 54:14
  SPEAKER_00: And so you got you gotta be really a super nut like me fan.
• 54:19
  SPEAKER_00: And you still watch DIY Burt Bill's bandits on YouTube, and um so uh uh if you watch it, the uh I'm on there, and the guy right off the bat says he's a he's a smoking bandit but rounds nut.
• 54:34
  SPEAKER_00: So you gotta be a nut first, and then you gotta look like somebody.
• 54:38
  SPEAKER_00: Yep.
• 54:39
  SPEAKER_00: And then you gotta be somebody that you want to, you know, portray.
• 54:43
  SPEAKER_00: And then and then the magic happens, you know what I mean?
• 54:46
  SPEAKER_00: Um I've been doing this for uh many a year, blessed at it, and uh hope to keep him going as long as I can physically.
• 54:56
  SPEAKER_00: Stuff I'm I'll be 50 this year, and John Snyder's actually coming to sing at my 50th birthday party.
• 55:01
  SPEAKER_00: How about that?
• 55:02
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so that's awesome.
• 55:04
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's so cool.
• 55:06
  SPEAKER_00: I got the whole group coming, Cody and Keith Burns and everybody.
• 55:11
  SPEAKER_00: So my birthday party on my birthday, they're coming.
• 55:14
  SPEAKER_00: So that's gonna be really when you turn 50, Tim.
• 55:17
  SPEAKER_00: September 9th.
• 55:18
  SPEAKER_00: September 9th, nice, awesome.
• 55:20
  SPEAKER_00: Well happy early birthday.
• 55:22
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, appreciate you, brother.
• 55:24
  SPEAKER_00: Mm-hmm.
• 55:25
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it goes by fast.
• 55:26
  SPEAKER_01: Better, better enjoy it.
• 55:28
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, absolutely.
• 55:30
  SPEAKER_01: But yeah, like you just said, man, it's these people that out there they can dress up as all these characters, but if your heart's not in it, it's just it you can tell the difference.
• 55:38
  SPEAKER_01: But like me looking at you right now with all your stuff behind you, man, and then knowing you, like your your heart's in there with smoking the bandit, and it makes a difference.
• 55:46
  SPEAKER_01: It makes and the fans out there can see it, they can recognize it right away.
• 55:49
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, they can they can they they can pick out a fraud pretty quick, you know.
• 55:53
  SPEAKER_00: Somebody's not really absolutely not really fond of the character, they're just playing a character.
• 56:00
  SPEAKER_00: You know, but yeah, yeah, but uh Rusty loves it.
• 56:04
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Jesse's done it, uh or Jesse, uh David does Jesse great, Rusty does uh boss great, and they're both uh they've gotten this chemistry like me and Sean.
• 56:16
  SPEAKER_00: Now, Sean, Sean Bailey, y'all need to see this guy as Beaufort Tests.
• 56:20
  SPEAKER_00: I'm telling you.
• 56:21
  SPEAKER_00: He's amazing.
• 56:22
  SPEAKER_00: He uh he's he's he's he's doing all right.
• 56:24
  SPEAKER_00: I saw you post that he was in the hospital recently.
• 56:26
  SPEAKER_00: Is he doing better?
• 56:27
  SPEAKER_00: He was uh he was his kidneys shut down on him.
• 56:30
  SPEAKER_00: He was on the road on the road to a show with me this weekend up at Firebird Fest, and he started hurting in his back.
• 56:36
  SPEAKER_00: And so uh he went to the merchant room, and sure enough, his uh he was dehydrated and his kidneys were shutting down.
• 56:43
  SPEAKER_00: He they did shut down for a little while, so they had to uh you know give him a bunch of fluids and and watch him all weekend long to get him back stable.
• 56:52
  SPEAKER_00: They had to get sodium levels and all that back right related.
• 56:55
  SPEAKER_00: He got to come home Sunday, so he's on the men.
• 56:59
  SPEAKER_00: Hopefully he'll be good to go for next weekend.
• 57:02
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I hope so.
• 57:02
  SPEAKER_01: Because yeah, he's he's amazing.
• 57:04
  SPEAKER_01: The two of y'all just just knock it out of the park.
• 57:07
  SPEAKER_01: It's just so cool.
• 57:08
  SPEAKER_01: So and uh, like I said, like I said at the beginning of this interview, man, Bert Reynolds.
• 57:12
  SPEAKER_01: I know he's he's proud.
• 57:14
  SPEAKER_01: I know y'all down.
• 57:16
  SPEAKER_01: He's looking down, smiling down.
• 57:18
  SPEAKER_00: Smiling, doing that.
• 57:22
  SPEAKER_00: He's doing it right there.
• 57:24
  SPEAKER_00: He's a little laughing.
• 57:25
  SPEAKER_00: He's he's just laughing at me and saying, This idiot right here.
• 57:29
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 57:30
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, wonderful, wonderful guy.
• 57:33
  SPEAKER_00: I got a several, I got plenty of his stuff I'm carrying with me and and keeping in in check with me.
• 57:40
  SPEAKER_00: And and uh we have a blast doing it.
• 57:44
  SPEAKER_00: We we don't we don't get you know tons of money for doing it, but we have tons of fun.
• 57:50
  SPEAKER_00: And that's what all I'm gonna I told the wife, she said, Well, you know, you you ought to get paid for this stuff.
• 57:55
  SPEAKER_00: And I said, Well, you know, we get you know this this much covered this, covered out, you know.
• 58:00
  SPEAKER_00: But I said, Look what the memories I'm taking with me, you know, right?
• 58:04
  SPEAKER_00: You know, that's I see a lot of rich people that are unhappy.
• 58:10
  SPEAKER_00: So uh, you know, it's not all about money.
• 58:12
  SPEAKER_01: Yep.
• 58:13
  SPEAKER_01: If you do it what what you love to do, man, that's what that's what we're supposed to be here doing.
• 58:17
  SPEAKER_01: So, and that's what you are doing.
• 58:18
  SPEAKER_01: So it's awesome.
• 58:21
  SPEAKER_00: Well, you know, when you can take a kid that's never saw smoking the bandit, and uh, like uh up at uh knife works with Gene Kennedy when a fern did a show last October, and there was a five-year-old dressed up like the bandit.
• 58:36
  SPEAKER_00: Now, it was a late-minute decision that I was gonna come.
• 58:41
  SPEAKER_00: So um nobody knew if I was really coming or not.
• 58:45
  SPEAKER_00: So the dad had already told the son when he got out of the car he didn't see me there, and he said, Well, I guess he didn't make it.
• 58:52
  SPEAKER_00: And the son was kind of like a little sad.
• 58:54
  SPEAKER_00: He had a little sticker mustache, sticky mustache that you stick on and had the hat and the shirt and everything.
• 59:00
  SPEAKER_00: And so uh uh the other guy knew that I was just in the dressing room getting dressed, and so when I came around the dressing room and saw him for the first time, he did the biggest happy dance where he just jumped up and down.
• 59:16
  SPEAKER_00: He couldn't control himself, he was so happy.
• 59:18
  SPEAKER_00: You've seen this, you know, and so I I I mean, I that was what I do it for.
• 59:24
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, man, I'm all about right there right there.
• 59:26
  SPEAKER_00: It made my day, you know.
• 59:27
  SPEAKER_00: So I took several pictures of him.
• 59:29
  SPEAKER_00: We got him in the band at Transam with him driving and everything.
• 59:33
  SPEAKER_00: So stuff like that, that's what it's all about.
• 59:35
  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely, yeah.
• 59:37
  SPEAKER_01: Putting a smile on a kid's face, man, you can't beat that.
• 59:40
  SPEAKER_01: That's that's the best right there.
• 59:41
  SPEAKER_00: So take that forever.
• 59:42
  SPEAKER_00: And mom's got so many pictures and uh you never know, he may play me one day.
• 59:49
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, you never know.
• 59:51
  SPEAKER_00: He'll do he'll take over my job.
• 59:57
  SPEAKER_00: You know, you did this to me.
• 59:59
  SPEAKER_00: Now I'm I'm gonna keep doing it for for you.
• 1:00:01
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm gonna be like, Cool, carry it on another 20 years.
• 1:00:04
  SPEAKER_01: That's what that's what's keeping the legacy alive, right there.
• 1:00:07
  SPEAKER_00: Just be doing it, then yep.
• 1:00:09
  SPEAKER_00: So it's just so cool to see how it all works out like that.
• 1:00:12
  SPEAKER_00: So I always joke with all the boys.
• 1:00:14
  SPEAKER_00: I say, when you're gonna grow a mustache like me, and then all the girls I go, don't ever date a guy with a mustache.
• 1:00:25
  SPEAKER_00: Great, you know, so hell yeah.
• 1:00:32
  SPEAKER_00: All right, well, John, it's a pleasure, buddy.
• 1:00:35
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna thanks so much for joining us.
• 1:00:38
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 1:00:39
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I think uh I think a lot of people are really gonna uh enjoy this, and probably that that'll make them after listening to this, maybe they'll be able to put on smoking the bandit and relive those memories from back in the day.
• 1:00:49
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah.
• 1:00:51
  SPEAKER_01: So thanks for keeping the uh legacy of bird alive and everything, and hope to see you at the next uh next event.
• 1:00:56
  SPEAKER_01: All right, yeah.
• 1:00:57
  SPEAKER_01: Check us out, banditbefer.com.
• 1:00:59
  SPEAKER_01: All right, Tim.
• 1:01:00
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks so much, man.
• 1:01:00
  SPEAKER_00: Have a good one, everybody.
• 1:01:02
  SPEAKER_00: See you both.
• 1:01:02
  SPEAKER_00: Bye bye.