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Local Legend Randy Smith Joins The Show · The PayneCast

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Two seconds and the clock is counting. Will he go to a knee?
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Yes, and then he has touched, but no infraction. This football game
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is nearing its conclusion. This season is nearing its conclusion. Oh, coach
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Philip Palmer has been doused with totitos chips. Perhaps who cares? Here come
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Tennessee fans from everywhere. Here comes media from everywhere. You can count it
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down with us five four three two one. The national champion is clad in
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the Orange Tennessee twenty three, Florida State sixteen. And that is one of
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the highlights of my entire fandom right there. And the reason we played that
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is because we've got a guy today who was involved in some the Vault network
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for a long long time. But more than that, he was he's involved
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here locally, Chield three SPA warts for a long long time. He still
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writes. He's got a good presence on Facebook. He if you read too
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much of his stuff, you'll wind up crying at some point in time,
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because he's got the talent that he could do that. We have local legend
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Randy Smith on with his ready Thanks for taking time to be with us,
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Tom, Thank you very much. Greg Glad to be here. Uh.
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You know, I was sitting right next to John when he said the national
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champion is clad in big orange. I didn't know that. Yeah, sitting
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right beside. How cool is that? Well? I feel like that's poetic
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that we opened up there. Yeah. Perfect, We didn't even know it.
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Yeah. So the thing about him was, uh, and we'll we'll
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talk more about him. But one of the things that I remember him saying
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was that he he didn't script these things ahead of time. They just came
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to him and he said, yeah. He he used to tell me he
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goes in, he went into a character, you know when he when he
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did his play by play, it's like John Ward. It wasn't John Ward
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was you know, I know how to describe it necessarily, but John that
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had a wonderful knack for being creative. He was so creative. Man,
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I tell you what, I loved listening to that guy. But let's talk
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more about you first and then we'll move into John Wartstock. So I told
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Rady ahead of time we were just going to kind of talk about We're just
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gonna go walk through his life. So but I've read it, You've talked
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about some of that stuff before, and Listen, the Lord will forgive Randy
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for this. But he's a giant Yankee fan. But let's talk about your
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upbringing. I mean, you're come from Nashville. Talk about your childhood.
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Tell me some of the highlights. Well it was, like I said,
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my life's been pretty vanilla. But I grew up in Madison, Tennessee,
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which is a suburb of Nashville, and graduated from Madison High School in nineteen
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sixty nine, the same school that Brenda Lee went to. She graduated about
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eight years before I started there. And that's but and Geen Manese, I
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know, you know, Gen, he and I were teammates for a little
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while there at in Madison during summer baseball and those kinds of things. And
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uh, I was I was not a great athlete, but I was a
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pretty good athlete. But the school was so big, you know. I
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never could make the baseball team. Wow, never could always made the last
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cut. But they won, They won everything except the state championship while I
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was there. So but I played football until I got hurt and decided I
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didn't want to play football anymore. But I decided to go into teaching and
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coaching. My uncle was a very successful coach in Middle Tennessee UH, coaching
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girls basketball and football. So I decided I wanted to follow in his footsteps
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and UH and I did for a while. But you know, I decided
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when I got to college that I might want to stay in radio because I
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actually had gotten a job hosting a high school football school board show on a
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radio station that was about two miles from my house in Madison. That was
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the first full time country music radio station in America. It was W E
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E N O. We called it, we know, and my mother worked
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there. She was a traffic manager there for the radio station, and she
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got me a job hosting a school board show on Friday nights, and from
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there it went to a college school board show on Saturday. I got ten
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dollars a show you were as big, big money back in sixty eight,
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you know when. And from there I did. I started doing color on
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high school football games and then wound up doing play by play on high school
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football games and got the same position when I went to Murphysboro. I went
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to Middle Tennessee State, met my wife there and continue to do play by
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play, and I lucked into a job on the campus radio station doing color
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analysis for Monty Hale, the legendary broadcaster up there, and did that for
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three years. Came to Chattanooga in nineteen seventy five. You know, you
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know, if you got something you want to ask me to stop or I
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I'm letting you go and then I'm gonna I know things that we're gonna ask,
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but I want to I just want you to go. Okay, all
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right. I came to nash to Chattanooga in nineteen seventy five. Actually,
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when I graduated college, I my wife was a year behind me. So
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I went to graduate school while she graduated, and then when she graduated in
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seventy five, I had two job offers when I got when I got ready
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to move. One was a sports director's job at w d XB radio here
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in Chattanooga, and the other one was middle school football coach and pe teacher
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at Shelbyville Central Middle School in Shelbyville. And I struggled with that, yeah,
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but I chose the radio job, and I never looked back, you
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know, I never looked back. And so you came here in seventy five,
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and you were married the same year. No, we got married in
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seventy three, seventy three. All, I came here and that was your
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first job. How long did you stay there at WDXB? About a year?
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Then what I got a job offer w DoD remember that, working for
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the Great Bill Nash and worked there for two years. And then I got
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an offer to come to Channel twelve. And they called me and said,
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we're gonna make a change in our sports director. We want you to come
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in and try out or do a do an audition. Yeah. Well,
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I'd never been on TV before. I'd been in radio several years, but
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I'd never been on TV. And I sat down and they gave me the
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script from the guy that they were getting getting rid of, and I it
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was so terribly written. I just I couldn't do it. I said,
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look, turn the camera on and I'll go. So I just had lived
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my way through three or four minutes, and they looked at me and looked
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at each other and they said, when can you start? How cool is
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that? Yeah? You know? And I was surprised. I said,
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you know, I was afraid that I was going to screw up the audition,
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but asking Toad lived. But you know, that's the way I've done
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it all my life. So that but I got that job held that one
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ten years worked in radio the whole time I was in the first couple of
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years I was in television, I still did play by play on Friday nights,
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and to this day, I'm still doing play by play on Friday nights,
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doing Boyd Buchanan's games and speaking of what a thrill it was this past
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year. So yeah, we talked about them quite a bit. Sea.
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We're going to dig into that because I know you have you know a lot
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about boydcanon history. Yeah, well, you ought to get coach ranking on
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on your show. We would love to have him on. I don't know
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him. Yeah, if you can set that up, we will go to
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him. Yeah, yeah, he didn't even have to come here yet.
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We would do that. But he is a he said, he doesn't play
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golf, doesn't fish. Football is his life. Wow, you can have.
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And the guy's got four hundred and eighty six wins. It's decent.
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That's eighty three losses and seventeen state championships that you know what it sounds like.
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It sounds like somebody's playing a video game in dynasty mode and they're just
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don't they just don't lose, and they keep winning the national Here's the thing.
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In NCAA Football fourteen, you can play for the state championship. I
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have any won that many state championships on the video game. You're probably not
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going to. Yeah, I guess so bored with it. I'm like,
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oh, it's time to go to college and to simulate through. And I
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lose in the state championship. All right, So you so still doing the
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Friday night football games. You obviously loved that. Finish out, finish out
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your broadcasting. Okay, career, let's see, all right, keep going
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from I worked there at wdf TV for ten years. I started doing UTC's
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TV play by play, and then I decided that after ten years, I
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wanted to start my own business and then be able to freelance as I played
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by play announcer on the ESPN, which i'd gotten a game or two,
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and I did that. The economy tanked. The first time it tanked,
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it was nineteen ninety. I ran around nineteen ninety. It just terrible,
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and so I went I shut down my business. It was a video production
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business, and I started doing I even marketed UTC's games myself for a couple
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of years. But then there I went to I went. I went to
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the Marion County Chamber of Commerce worked for them. All the while I still
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did play by play, did sports as much as I could. And then
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the nineteen ninety four a guy named John Fricky, I don't know if you
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remember John at Channel three called me. He said, Hey, can you
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come in and do weekend sports this weekend? He said, I said,
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yeah, I'll do it. So I did it, and they asked me
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to do it again, and eventually he left and they hired me so to
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be the sports director. So I started that in ninety five. And all
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the while I was doing I did the Southern Conference TV package for twenty two
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years and and that included the championship game. It was on ESPN, and
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I remember yeah, yeah, and uh and then from there, UH,
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I just continued to do play by play on ESPN two Fox. In fact,
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I was one of the first play by play men on Fox Sports.
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That was when it was Ted Turner's company. It's called Sports South. That
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was when it started, I think about ninety ninety one ninety two, So
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I was I was one of the first there. And uh. I worked
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at Channel three for fifteen years and the economy got me again. They decided
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that Channel three decided they didn't want to pay me anymore, and I didn't
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want to take a big cut, so I just left and taught school coach
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softball. I was the head coach at Brainard a while for one year I
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was. I was there teaching at at Brainard High School, and in fact,
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the year before I was at Red Bank and I was all set to
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be an assistant coach to I forget his name, Red Bank's coach back then
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he went to Notre Dame you t know about football, baseball, baseball,
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Trey Hicks, Trey Hicks, Trey Hicks. I was going to be his
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assistant. And then they moved me from Red Bank to Brainard because they had
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a program over there that they wanted me to start as well. I reluctantly
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agreed. But I enjoyed that year at brainerd as much as any year I
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ever had teaching, you know, And I talked about seven years altogether in
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between TV jobs and those kinds of things. But it's kind of funny looking
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back on that team they were. They gone oh and six the previous two
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years. Now, this is only six games they played, and they forfeited,
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forfeited almost half of them. Yeah, and they had no equipment,
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no uniforms, and I took a whole I took fifteen girls that two of
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them only two had ever played softball before. And we started practicing in November.
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We practiced in the front yard of the school on Greier in high school
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and h I raised a little money and I even spent a lot of it
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out of my own pocket to buy uniforms for them and all that, and
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we were a good looking team. We didn't play very well, but we
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were good looking team. And after the first six or seven games, we
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started getting better. And the bottom line is we finished oh and seventeen.
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But the fact that we've got seventeen games in is is amazing to me still.
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But we came close. In fact, in the fourth inning of a
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game against Clifford Kirk when he was at Seal Creek. We were in a
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tournament and we were leading him six to four. In the middle of the
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game. We had only two girls that had never played softball before, and
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he wound up beating us eleven to six. But he came up to me
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the after the game, he says, you're into something that You're not used
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to, aren't you. I said, well, yeah, I'm not used
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to losing, but you know, but neverthele that he was a good friend
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of mine, Clifford, I don't know if you remember, of course,
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legendary coach. And so from there I retired. I went to Coholla Creek
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for two years, assisted the softball coach down there, Josh Sweeney, you
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know Josh, and helped him, and then I finally retired and uh start
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I started writing for the Chattanoogan back in twenty twelve, and uh been doing
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that for what twelve twelve years now, I've been doing that, which is
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unbelievable. You do two or three stories a week, and you know,
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over twelve years, that's a lot of stories, it is. But you've
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got a lot of stories to tell. Oh yeah, I mean, look
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at that I do. I do. Look at that resume you just you
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just laid out there for I mean, do you guys see why I said
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local legend? I mean, what's he not seen? Right? You know?
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And uh, did you have any dealings this? I didn't ask you
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about this ahead times? You have any dealings over there Channel three with some
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guy named Doug Short? Yeah, I did. Doug was was the sales
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manager of Channel three. He was my godfather. Really yeah, he and
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uh he and Brenda are just Yeah, he's a great guy. I loved
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it, Folksyeah, he was a great guy. Yeah. So, I
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mean I I've known them literally my whole life. Yeah, the big Buddies
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with my dad. Uh so. Uh but yeah, I knew I had
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to remember to ask you about that. All right, So let's talk it
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for a second about because that's a lot right there, and I'm not going
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to try to pull out different things from it because you did a great job
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of summarizing it. Talk about working for the big Orange scoreboard. How did
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that come about? It came about back in eighty four. Tennessee was getting
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ready to make a big change in their broadcast format. They were going to
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do a pregame show talk show, which nobody ever did that. Nobody was
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doing that at the time in college football, but John Ward. I got
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a phone call one day when I was at Channel twelve and John Ward said,
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I'm coming to town. Could I sit down and visit with you a
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little while? I said, sure. Now did you know him? Prior
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to that? I had met him a couple of times. In fact,
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let me I want to back up and tell you a funny story. The
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first time I ever met him, I was working at WDOD and I,
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you know, I always went into Bill Nash's office first thing in the morning
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and uh sat down talk with him, and then I would go back and
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start my day. You know. So Bill was on the phone with somebody,
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so I sat and listened to him for a few minutes, and then
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I, of course I was nosy. I said, who's that. He
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said it was John Ward. I said, no, John Ward. Wasn't
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he? Uh? He said, yeah it was. I said, well,
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what do you want He said, I can't tell you. I said,
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okay. I said, I said, you're lying to me. That
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was not John Ward. He says, okay, I'll tell you what he
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said. Forget it, Just forget it. I wouldn't talking to anybody.
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I said, if that was John Ward, I will kiss No a minute,
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what was it, I said, he's coming, He's coming tomorrow,
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He's coming to the station tomorrow. I said, if that was John Ward,
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I will kiss his hairy ass. Well, the next day, we're
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gonna have to the next day, I was in one of the studios,
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and I came out and I walked in Bill's office like I did every morning
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at nine o'clock. I sat down on his sofa in his office and he
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stood up, and sure enough John Ward and Edwin Huster came walking through the
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door, and John introduced me to Bill. Bill introduced me to John,
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and he said, Randy, is something you'd like to say? How about
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that? So but anyway, that was the first time I met him.
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The second time was when I did a basketball game up there on the It
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was the Tennessee UTC N I T game back in eighty four, and I
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did that one with David Bryan and and John was there and John was very
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nice. That was when that was before the thom SA Bowling Arena. We
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were we were in Stokely and we were up above in the rafters, which
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is where John broadcasts from, and we were up there too, So I'm
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visiting with him a long time. He was very cordial, very nice.
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He obviously didn't remember the time when I you knows, W do O D
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thankfully, thankfully. But I back in eighty four he calls me and he
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says, we're getting ready to do a a big change, A big format
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change in the ball network. We we are going to start a pregame talk
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show for an hour before we get into our pregame show, and then we're
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going to do a scoreboard show after the game, which they had already been
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doing, but they the big change was the kickoff calling show, which was
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in the beginning of the broadcast, which was around an hour and a half
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or so hour forty minutes before kickoff. So he said, I'd like to
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I'd like to talk to you about coming to host it. I said,
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when does the season start? You know, when do you want me to
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start? Yeah? You know well he he hired me right then and I
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worked went on the air up there and did that for seventeen years until my
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son got a scholarship at UTC to play football, and I turned in my
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resignation on the radio side. I stayed with TV and did basketball for I
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did basketball games up there for thirty years on television and after the after the
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I left there. Davy played did really well, kept getting hurt. You
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know, well, he's soft, question about it. He was. When
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he was a true freshman there, he fractured his no, he separated his
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shoulder and had to have surgery, missed the whole freshman year. The second
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year he was a red shirt freshman. He made the travel squad and was
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the number two UH starting a number two left guard, and he played at
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West Virginia. Got in on six plays pancake to the dimensive linemen, was
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having a great game, broke his fifth metatarsal bone in his foot and missed
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another whole season. So after he went through Rodney Allison's first spring practice,
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which they say is the roughest that they've they've ever had it u TC.
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He told me, he said, I want to be able to walk when
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I'm thirty. He said, I just can't. I just don't want to
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do it anymore. I said fine. So anyway, after that, I
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stayed with TV with their TV for a long time and finally left there in
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twenty fourteen when the ESPN contract took over and just wiped all the TV out
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of it. I did a lot of football too on TV, the playbacks
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on CSS and Fox and those kinds of things. In fact, I can
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remember doing a game. I don't remember much about it, but it was
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the first year that Thompson Bowling opened, I think, which was in ninety
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seven. No. Eighty seven when Thompson Bowling opened and I was doing I
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did a Tennessee Kentucky playback game with the aw Davis, the great Tennessee player.
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He did color. We did a lot of games back then together.
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But yeah, that's you know, I mean, that's impressive. These guys,
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you know, they're they're twenty seven years old, so they everything that
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they've ever wanted to watch has been on TV and now it's on their phone.
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I mean, it's you know, it's all that. But eighty four,
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when when you did that with Tennessee, I was in high school and
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I listened to the games weren't on TV. I mean maybe when they played
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Alabama was on TV sometimes, but like now, every Tennessee game is on
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TV. If it's not on you know something you can get we can still
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get it. We watch every game. But back then that was just not
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the case. So for me listening to you, it was really cool for
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me because I didn't know all this stuff. You know, A lot I
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knew was this guy's on I see him on TV, I hear him on
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the radio, and he's just this is Chatanuka guy. He gets to be
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with Tennessee. You know you know what I'm saying. Yeah, for so
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a high school guy who's who. I didn't get to watch him much,
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but I listened to you. I listened to the pregame, I listened to
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the post game. I listened to all of it. I would lay in
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the floor in my room and and just listen to the games and the John
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Ward calls. Mean when I hear him, it just takes me right back
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there and it means so much to me, just like I know with you.
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You didn't mention this, but I guarantee you still to this day.
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You love to listen to baseball on the radio. Oh yeah, I do
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too, I mean, because that's it. There's something about it that takes
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you back where all the memories are around you. But I would remember thinking,
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this guy's everywhere because of all the stuff that you just said. I
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would hear you. I would see you on TV games and or and hear
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you, and I'm like, this guy is literally everywhere. And now you
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talked about Davy. We're going to talk about your family in just a second,
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because I have to tease about that guy. Right. So he's he's
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he's a small guy. You guys, you guys no, Davy down to
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day I've met Davy. Yeah, he's a big felm. He's tiny.
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Yeah, he's not bad. One of the best guys you've ever want to
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meet. For real, He's he's just awesome. But give me a hard
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time for getting somebody thrown in that third base. Oh that's right. It
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was my fault though, That's right. We did still at will, That's
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right, he did get after you. Yeah. So okay, so you
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let's just go on into the family life part, because I don't know that
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your wife had a bigger fan in this world than Stump Martin. Oh yeah,
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Stump thought she hung the moon. I know she. She loved him
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too. Yeah, and uh, and I loved him. Oh of course,
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he was my big brother. I mean I loved him just like that.
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Yeah. But he I don't recall that I've ever met your wife.
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But but he would talk about her like she was the greatest of all time.
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And I'm going to give you a chance to talk about her like she's
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the greatest of all time. Well she is. There's no question. We've
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been married fifty this coming, maybe fifty one years. And I met her
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in college when I was at you see I was a rising junior, she
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was a freshman. I'm two and a half years older than she is,
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and my roommate at the time introduced me to her at in her dorm and
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I came in and I had my red, white and blue shoes and it
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was Oxford kind of looking shoes, and I had a blue shirt that was
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unbuttoned all the way down to hear gray bell bottom pants. I looked the
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nineteen seventies roll. Yeah, there was no question, and we kind of
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hit it off and she I couldn't ask her out for a date because the
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breaks of my car were messed up. I didn't have the money to fix
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them, so I had I said, I will call you as soon as
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I and we'll go eat and go to a movie or something. And she
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kept waiting, waiting, and I didn't have the money to fix my car
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get my car fixed. I was having to ride with somebody else all the
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time. So finally I got my brakes fixed, I called her and we
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went out to uh We went to the State Fair in Nashville. That was
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our first date and we've been together ever since. And she is she's she's
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a one. She's a wonderful mother, a great grandmother, and uh been
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a good wife to me for a long time. I don't know how I've
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deserved her. But nevertheless, the stump is right. She she needed she
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needs to be on a pedestol. Yeah. Well, when you've got someone
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that's as busy as you've been and gone as much as you've been gone too
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for her, that that's imperative. You got to have somebody to support the
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home and all that. I don't know where she went wrong with Davy,
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but now let's talk about it. So let's talk about you. Let's talk
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about Davy. Tell me, okay, so I know you guys went.
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I heard you say you went to you went to the Yankee Stadium, old
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Yank Stadium, But they didn't just recently you guys go to you went to
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Cincinnati. But yeah we we Uh Coleman, my oldest grandson when he was
28:22
twelve, played in Cooperstown. Yeah, and that big tournament they Yeah,
28:26
Tyler played in that, and we went up there and we decided we would
28:30
take an extra day or two and we went to uh Cincinnati and watched the
28:36
Reds play the Braves, and then the next day we drove over to Cleveland,
28:40
and watched the Yankees play Cleveland. I think that's why you that's I
28:44
really think that's what you did. Yeah, because you manipulated the whole trip
28:47
just to see the Yankees Cleveland. Yeah. And uh and the thing about
28:51
that game I remember most was watching Aaron Judge in the on deck circle.
28:56
And he's one of the biggest, biggest men I have ever seen in my
29:00
life. I mean, his arms are like tree trunks. Yeah, I
29:04
mean that man is huge, and to be as fast as he is and
29:10
just freakish, he's a freaking Yeah, question about it. Because I told
29:14
Davies some things to do when you got because I'm a huge Cincinnati fan,
29:17
and I told him some things to do there and we kind of kept in
29:18
touch. I was watching the trip because I was I was very envious that
29:22
you guys were getting to do there. I think that's great. So Davey's
29:30
got kids. Now these these are you have three grand you have three five
29:33
five? My daughter. I don't know your daughter at all. Yeah,
29:37
she played softball at GPS. Okay back in well she was one of the
29:41
very first softball team that ever a GPS. Well Susan the coach then,
29:45
uh no, Ken Henry was when it started. I love Ken Henry.
29:51
Oh he's great, he's great. He didn't know a thing about soft He's
29:53
a basketball he's a basketball and a tennis guy. Yeah, but he's not
29:57
a softball thing about softball. Yeah, But the first year or two,
30:02
I think it was the first two years when she was a She started there
30:07
as a seventh grader. She played as an eighth grader under Ken, and
30:14
then in ninth grade Susan took over. I think Ken just coached him one
30:19
year. But she had a great record at GPS as a pitcher. She
30:26
was forty two and seven wow, and went on to She played at Presbyterian
30:33
College over in Clinton, South Carolina. The pale hose is that what?
30:37
The blue blue hose? Yeah, I know, it was something hose,
30:40
blue hose, and she loved that. I mean, that was the school
30:44
she picked out. She had some offers from other schools, but in fact,
30:48
a lot of them wanted her to walk on. And you know,
30:52
UTC wanted her to walk on. That's when Ralph Weakley had just started here.
30:57
And but she had a good, good career and like Davy, she
31:03
got hurt, hurt, her back hurt, her knee. And so she
31:07
played three years at Presbyterian and uh finally had to give up her senior year.
31:11
But she graduated from there and she she was a guidance counselor for a
31:17
long time. It lost us and she's now retired because she's you know,
31:22
her husband works at TVA. It makes more money than God. So do
31:27
you know how many people work at tv A About ten percent? Yeah,
31:33
that's good. I'll yeah tell all that to tell you. But she's got
31:38
two wonderful daughters. I've got five great grandchildren that they're just unbelievable that they're
31:45
what keeps me going. You know, Oh, I see it, I
31:48
see it. I see you at the you know when we we we did
31:51
play them. I guess it was this past fall, was it this?
31:52
Yeah, yeah, and we played them and you were you were over there
31:56
coaching them up. Uh you know because Davy again coming slop lots Now I
32:00
say all that, No, you know, I'm teasing because you know I
32:04
know that well that you're not the only person that teases even like that.
32:07
So I mean he's well, he's so good natured, but he gives it
32:10
back. I mean, yeah, he's not he's not defenseless. Yeah,
32:15
talk about your your love of the Yankees for a minute, and then I'll
32:17
get back to your grandchildren, because I know that's your highlights. So I'm
32:20
holding that Yankees. I became a Yankee fan in nineteen sixty. Uh.
32:28
I got to following the Yankees. My dad was a big Red Sox fan,
32:34
so that that yeah, so he that did not work out real well,
32:39
but he and I used to sit out. He had an old Nash
32:43
Rambler that had a great radio, and we could sit out in that car
32:49
at night and listen to Yankees games on wpi X radio in New York.
32:54
I don't know how we got him, but we got him. And uh,
32:59
we set there and listened to Yankee baseball on radio. And that was
33:05
one of the first one of the first things that got me to want to
33:10
be a sportscaster was listening to Gary Yola was on the broadcast for a while.
33:16
I think Bill White, remember Bill played first place for the Cardinals in
33:21
the sixties. He was a Yankee announcer. And Phil Rizudo obviously holy cow.
33:29
Oh yeah, and well we listened to them, and I never got
33:36
to see the Yankees because back then, you know, there was no interleague
33:39
play. I watched them on TV. They remember they had the CBS Game
33:45
of the Week yep. And in sixty six I think they the CBS bought
33:51
the Yankees and put them on TV every week. Well, I was in
33:54
heaven then I watch them every Saturday. But Dizzynean and p Re remember them,
34:00
yep, of course. And but we I've loved the Yankees ever since.
34:07
I became a real Yankee fan the next year when Mandel and Mahyors had
34:10
the big Chasing Bay Bruce record, yep. And I became a big Roger
34:16
Merris fan. But I was always a Mickey Mantle fan. Yeah, I
34:21
mean he just he's I still say he's the best baseball player I've ever seen.
34:25
If he doesn't get injured, there's no argument, there's no argument.
34:29
Yeah. Yeah, Mickey Mantle. You know he when I was a boy,
34:32
he would come over to the Battlefield golf course and have the Mickey Mantle
34:36
invitation over there. Yeah. And I was too young to appreciate who this
34:39
guy really was. Yeah, because I would my grandfather would take me over
34:43
there. I would talk to him, you know, I mean whatever.
34:45
I was probably five years old and I just didn't appreciate that that was Mickey
34:52
Mantle until I started collecting baseball cards and then started figuring out these things are
34:55
worth something. And everybody talked about their Mantle rookie card, and I'm like,
35:00
but that's the guy that was at the Battlefield golf course. Yeah,
35:01
you know, it really wasn't that special in my little brain at that time.
35:06
But yeah, no question. I think if he doesn't get hurt,
35:09
no one's arguing he's the greatest of all time. Did you have a did
35:13
you have a baseball car collection? Of course, my mother threw him away.
35:17
Well, my mother didn't throw mine away, but I brought mine with
35:21
me in Right after I got married, I kind of did an assessment of
35:28
all my cards, and at that time my collection was worth ten thousand dollars,
35:32
which is a lot. It was a lot, ye think about what
35:36
it would be worth now. Yeah. But we had a house fire and
35:42
lost everything, including my baseball card. Oh no, I had. I
35:46
found one card. It was charred around one edge and it was a handker
35:51
in nineteen sixty two. You still have it. I still have it,
35:54
of course you do. Yeah, the only one I got left. But
35:58
I had I had several Mickey Mantles cards. In fact, I had three
36:02
of his. I forget which one it was now, but it they were
36:07
at several years ago. They were worth four hundred dollars apiece. I had
36:10
three of them. Yeah, I had George Brett Rookies because I started collecting
36:14
a lot of seventy five So George Brett robbine out and they were taped up
36:16
to my wall. I taped them on the wall. That's not worth anything.
36:22
Those things are making a comeback now, probably like grade five. Yeah,
36:25
after you do that, if that, Yeah, but you know Johnny
36:30
Bench All Star card taped it up the wall. Pete Rose taped it up
36:31
the wall. These are these are awesome players. Can't you tell them?
36:35
They're on my wall? And I still Randy, you look around, he's
36:37
seeing in my in the studio. Yeah, it's I still surround myself with
36:43
the baseball stuff. But I love that you said you talked about the memories
36:50
with your dad sitting in the car listening to the and then you fell in
36:53
love with the broadcasting and all that, because I have a similar story my
36:58
grandfather's house at we would it was the Cardinals. I never was a Cardinals
37:02
and I always reads, but you could get the Cardinals on the radio and
37:07
we would. I would fall asleep to that every single night. So it's
37:10
a special place. That's why. Like, like I said, when you
37:15
were on the radio and I started figuring out, this guy's a chatting guy.
37:19
This guy, this guy's he's this really big deal he's on the radio.
37:22
Because these guys nowadays, you know, they don't even listen to the
37:27
radio. They listen to their Spotify and Apple Music or podcasts. It's just
37:32
everything's so different. But for the folks that are my age and your age,
37:37
and oh yeah, they know exactly what we're talking about. The guys
37:39
that they are, they like, these guys are old. What are they
37:40
even talking about speaking of old? Let's talk about your grandkids, all right,
37:46
all right? So Coleman, Coleman, I know Coleman. Yeah,
37:51
and he's also a big lad. Yeah he's thirteen, he will be fourteen
37:57
next month. Yeah, where's the size fifteen shoe? Lord, he's six
38:02
one two and twenty pounds. He's thirteen years old. I'm not even sniffing
38:07
a fifteen shit, I'm twenty seven years old. That I saw where he
38:10
made a game winning shot the other day. Yeah, he is rebound or
38:14
something rebound. He Davy said. It was the most athletic play he's ever
38:19
seen him make in any sport. It what I saw it, It was
38:22
I hadn't seen all those plays, of course, but it was athletic.
38:23
Jumped up. The kid threw a ball through a prayer up and he jumped
38:29
up, caught the ball and while he was in the air, put it
38:32
back in. Yes, feet never touched the ground till he came down,
38:36
went in and we beat. Of course, they beat their bigger, big
38:42
rival, Silverdale, and that that that made it extra special for Coleman.
38:46
But Coleman is a really good football player. He's a really good basketball player.
38:52
But baseball is where he really shines. Is that his first love?
38:58
That's his first love? No, of course, and about in fact,
39:00
he told me, he's told me every day for the last two weeks when
39:05
I've seen it, even that I can't wait to baseball season he gets here.
39:07
I can't say that in the middle of basketball. But we know,
39:10
yeah, we know, we get it. But he's he's a you know,
39:15
I don't want to bore everybody bragging about him, but no, that's
39:19
what you should do. He hit eighty five on the raar guns last fall.
39:23
It's about as hard as I ever threw it. So I played second
39:27
base in college. Yeah, so he goes to David Meade very good,
39:32
David needs it, very good, and you know he's he just loves it,
39:37
loves baseball, loves every part of it. He best a no hit
39:42
her up in Cooperstown in that tournament, and we finished second out of about
39:46
one hundred and twelve teams something like that. That's what we did. Tyler's
39:50
team finished second when he went, yeah, I mean, and it's almost
39:53
just as good as winning it, because you get treated just like this.
39:57
I mean that you win it. But the pomp and cert cumstance was leading
40:00
up to the oh yeah you went, I mean that's awesome. But you
40:04
didn't. You don't win. You still got to participate in that. He
40:06
played against C. Brian Hayes, you know, start third base with the
40:07
Pirates. He pitched that. Yeah, he did, was over two with
40:12
two walks and two strike Yeah. It's pretty good. Curveball, Yeah,
40:15
was pretty good. You remember a guy named Wayne Garland. Of course I
40:19
played against him when I was playing baseball. In Nashville and uh what two
40:24
for three against him? That's that's the big athletic highlight on my life against
40:30
the major league. Yeah, guy that would pitch in the major league.
40:32
Yeah, well, I mean that's pretty good. Yeah, that's pretty good
40:36
because even even then younger, those guys are still they still stand out.
40:40
I mean, you know, you could tell Tyler played against Tyler Stevenson when
40:44
he was twelve years old catch for the Reds on the way home. What
40:47
I tell you, Uh, when we were ten? Was it ten?
40:51
I think we were ten. I thought you were twelve. It doesn't matter
40:53
because we played it when Yeah, let's just say it was twelve. Okay.
40:57
He said, well, you just played against your first first rounder when
41:00
he was twelve. I could see he was the first round pick. Yeah.
41:01
I mean it's no question we was that obvious. Yeah. What is
41:07
a kid's name? Big, tall, black kid? Is you have to
41:13
I have seen your moments all the time. I can't remember anything. That's
41:15
okay. I have him too. His dad played football and baseball at Clemson,
41:22
and he is at thirteen. He was offered already been offered a scholarship
41:27
for both sports if he wants it. At Clemson, several of them right
41:30
now. Colman's played against him. Yeah, Colinan's played against Coleman, struck
41:34
him out one time. Nice, but uh gosh, I wish I could
41:38
think of his name. Well, it's okay, Davy's listening right now screaming
41:44
out his name. So that's not helping us. But thanks, thanks Daving.
41:49
Yeah, because he's probably doing this at about Monday, you know,
41:52
around noon, So that's not helping us in the future. Yeah, but
41:57
I can't just give all the all the blessed to Coleman. Oh no,
42:00
so you're let's let's walk me, walk me through all your grand kids.
42:05
Next is Boone. Boone is one of the sweetest kids you've ever seen in
42:09
your life. He's smart, he's funny. He's two and a half years
42:17
younger than Coleman. He was Let's see, he was born in twenty twelve.
42:22
Coleman was born in twenty ten, so he's a little over two years
42:27
younger than Coleman. He's a good athlete too. He's he plays baseball.
42:32
In fact, he's now playing the wreck team at East Brainer that he had
42:38
for the last two years, has won back to back state championships. In
42:43
Dizzy Dean, which is not nearly as impressive as it used to be because
42:47
the league is selects just taken over. Yeah, but now they're playing.
42:52
He's the coach is a wonderful guy named Warren Brandon, and Warren is taking
42:59
him up to a select ball this year. So we'll see how that goes.
43:04
I told him, I said, just be prepared to get your brains
43:07
beat out. You know, a few times that's happen. That's okay.
43:10
But but we got I got two plays select baseball now, and I've got
43:15
the next three. Your granddaughters Maddingly Maddingly is the youngest. She is not
43:22
playing any sport, but she could be the best athlete of the whole bunch.
43:27
They obviously all take after Allison, right, that's Davey's wife. Yeah,
43:32
take after Alison. And uh but Christie has two daughters, Dela May,
43:39
who is eleven. She and Boone were born within a few days of
43:45
each other. And uh, we call them peas and Carrots because they're both
43:50
just alike. And they they hang out together and they even say, uh,
43:55
We're gonna go have a peas and carrots day, you know. But
44:00
and then there's Corley who is She's nine, she's in the fourth grade.
44:07
I've got three of them at Boyd began and Boone starts there next year,
44:13
and then Mattingly will start. I think when Coleman the year after Coleman graduates.
44:17
I think, I think that's why it's gonna work. But they're wonderful
44:22
kids, that they're beautiful. You know, I'm you know, I'm I'm
44:27
the most blessed man in the world to have them and in my life,
44:32
and it's just it's just an amazing thing to watch them go play ball.
44:37
I go. I tried all my life to be more than one place at
44:42
a time, two places at once, and you can't do it. But
44:46
we, my wife and I will will divide and conquer. Occasionally she will
44:52
go with one, I'll go with the other. I wrote a blog this
44:55
past past week about h a typical grandparent Saturday, where you start out at
45:05
nine in the morning for a basketball game, then you watch that when you
45:09
go to the next one at noon, then you go to the next one
45:14
at two, and then you watch your grandson played four. And in between
45:19
the two and four, there are other games that we watched, so we
45:22
watched six games on one Saturday from nine in the morning until six at night.
45:30
Oh my wow, good thing. Y'all like sports? Yeah, yeah,
45:35
yeah, So all right, let's wrap up with Boyd Buchanan because you
45:37
walked in here with your boy Buchanan hoodie on. Boyd Buchanan had an amazing
45:43
year this past year. Yes, they did. You're a boy Buchanan family.
45:46
You've already established. That was perfect segue right into to the last question.
45:51
So I know dave you played there, So let's talk about Boyd Buchanan
45:54
and what it means to what it means to the Smiths. Well, they
45:58
say that Boyd Buchanan is a rare and special place, and it is.
46:02
It was when Davey was there back in the nineties, and it's the same
46:07
as when Coleman is there. It's just a great place. It's like a
46:14
family. We have reconnected with people that we knew when Davey was there as
46:22
grandparents. We're all got grandkids there now and it's just an amazing place.
46:29
And I really can't put my hand on it because when we started there in
46:37
ninety See, Davy was a freshman when he started there in ninety seven,
46:43
and he played football for Robert Akins, who is still one of my best
46:49
friends. And the first game he played, we played Tyner the year they
46:55
won the state championship and we kicked the field goal when they had three nothing.
47:02
Final score was ninety five to three. Favorite time. I feel like
47:06
I've heard that someone did tell us that story on the show. Yeah,
47:10
yeah, because I knew what was coming. When you said that, I'm
47:13
like, oh, that's that game. It might have been ogus And I
47:15
wondered at the time, I said, what have I gotten myself? But
47:20
we we toughed it out and over the next three years, Boyd had as
47:24
the winning his program in Chattanooga. Over the next three years, we we
47:29
uh. We went to the state semifinals. Christ Presbyterian beat us, and
47:35
it seemed like every year we have to get beat by Christ Christ Presbyterian in
47:39
the playoffs. But they knocked Davy's team out his senior year. Yeah,
47:45
and then they they have eliminated Boyd three years in a row. But the
47:51
last one was in the state championship game. So they were massive. They
47:58
had thirty They had thirty one senior. That's crazy, and Boyd Buchanan had
48:01
only eight Yeah, seniors. And just a couple of years removed off of
48:06
Oh, not a very good season at all. They talked about that on
48:08
the broadcast of How young this Boy and Buchanan team was. I think it
48:13
even surprised Coach Ranking how far they had gotten in such a quick amount of
48:16
time. Yeah, yeah, I mean that was that was special. We
48:20
folwed them, pulled for them. Would you agree that Boyd Buchano would be
48:22
a better place if there was no Chad Workman over there though? I mean
48:27
you know that Dad is my producer and engineer for our Friday night football games.
48:30
He's awesome. Chad and I've been friends for thirty something years. Yeah,
48:35
we worked together at the World of Chad Warden. Oh yeah, he's
48:37
great, great, great family. I think the world of him too.
48:43
He's a He's a good folks. But man, you walked us through a
48:45
lot. Is there anything that I didn't give you the opportunity to talk about
48:49
that you want to talk about? Well, you know it's there's there's still
48:53
another hour or two, like the the time I interviewed Bear Bryant. Let's
49:00
do it for that. He's our Alabama away. Why I was working at
49:07
w D O D and I had my little tape recorder and Bill Nash got
49:10
me an interview set up on the Crystal Bus with Coach Brian. Now,
49:15
Coach Brian had been on the wagon for about six months until he came to
49:20
Chattanooga and got on the Crystal Bus and started drinking cocktail. So I didn't
49:25
know it at the time, but he was pretty lit when I got on
49:30
the bus. And uh, you know this, This was the big thing
49:37
I learned out of that experience was you never ask a serious question when you
49:44
do an interview to start with you, you you asked something off the wall.
49:49
Get them, get them to talk, get them to loosen up a
49:52
little bit. I turned my tape recorder on and said, uh, coach,
49:57
how many more years can we expect to see you at the University of
50:00
Alabama? And you're right when I said it, that I boy, you
50:05
screwed up. Then well he looked me right the eye and he said,
50:08
I don't think that's any of your GD business. Okay, interviews over click.
50:15
So I wanted to go climb out the bus window, which is where
50:20
we were, and just let the bus run over me take me. That
50:23
would have been better. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, well, we
50:27
did the interview, and yeah, I ran into him again. Back in
50:36
nineteen eighty he came to speak at a banquet at UTC and I was at
50:39
Channel twelve. It had been there a couple of years, and I did
50:42
an interview with him, and I interviewed him again, and when we turned
50:47
the camera off, he looked at me. It says, this one went
50:51
a lot better than that last one. I said, yes, sir,
50:55
that's great. It's great that he remembered it, because guy's been interviewed with
50:59
him times. Yeah, that's Bear Bryant for having that most famous person you've
51:05
ever interviewed. Well, I also interviewed Ate offer up one time, and
51:08
uh, this is kind of a funny story too, because he was we
51:13
were. I was at Middle Tennessee working on the radio broadcast and Monti Hale
51:17
was the play by play announcer and he told me, he said, go
51:21
go find go get you a halftime interview. I said, well, I
51:23
looked around, I went up asked Bobby Knight, who was sitting doing his
51:30
postgame interview, and when he got up, I introduced myself and I said,
51:34
coach, can I get you to come over and do an interview with
51:37
me. He said, no, I'm tied up. He just blew me
51:39
off. You know how Bobby Knight was and you know always was, yes,
51:45
So I got my feelings hurt. So I went downstairs to the bathroom.
51:50
And this is the old gym at Kentucky, not Rupperena, but the
51:53
Rapperena was under construction at the time, but the old Memorial Jim was right
52:00
there, and and you had to go downstairs into the locker room area.
52:05
That was the only bathroom for the media. So I went down there and
52:08
uh, there was only one other person in there. And I went up
52:13
to the urinal and did my thing, and he was at the urinal doing
52:15
his thing. And I looked and it was coach Rup And I said,
52:21
Coach, I thought you would be with the team. They were playing somewhere
52:27
else that day, and he says, I can't get them to take me
52:30
anywhere anymore. I said, well, would you like to do an interview
52:35
with me at halftime? He said, sure, son, tell me where
52:37
you be. Well I told him where I would be. He came up.
52:40
I did the interview, and I looked at Coach Knight, who walked
52:44
by me, and I wanted to say it's okay. I didn't need you
52:47
anyway. I got eight off up to do the interview. You this game.
52:52
You might have heard of this, you know, but that was those
52:55
two of my two I guess, two of my biggest interviews sever did.
53:01
Okay, So tell me, I mean, notwithstanding the fact that they're extremely
53:07
famous and we all know who they are, tell me an interview that just
53:10
jumps out. If I said, tell me your favorite interview that you ever.
53:14
It doesn't even have to be somebody necessarily famous, just something that impacted
53:16
you. Oh gosh, I just put him on the spot right there.
53:22
Yeah, well, you know I can figure it out. Bill Curry was
53:28
one of the best interviews when he was the headmaster at Baylor. Remember this
53:31
back several years ago. I interviewed him and he was delightful, delightful person.
53:39
I mean, he just was friendly, gave me a great interview.
53:45
We talked about the time he played with the Baltimore Colts when he was the
53:49
center for Johnny Unius, who I was a big Unitis fan all my life,
53:53
and we talked about that. But Bill Curry, I would say that
53:58
one stands out probably as much as any while you're interviewing these guys and they're
54:04
saying things like that, talking about heroes of yours. You know, Bill
54:07
Craig talks about Johnny and Nightis and that resonates with you because you said,
54:12
he's, you know, one of them. I was a big fan of
54:14
his at that time. Are you like, I cannot believe I'm getting to
54:17
do this. Yeah. I always said I wanted to write a book about
54:22
my career and call that the best seat in the house, Yeah, which
54:25
which it was. There was no question. I I got to see a
54:30
lot of great sporting events, never had to pay us get get in to
54:35
see any of them. I always got in free, had great seats,
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you know. And one of them was one of my favorite interviews. Back
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up a little bit was Bruce Pearl when he was at Tennessee, and uh,
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what a character. Oh he's He was a great guy though I loved
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him. In fact too, he and my wife developed a good relationship because
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he was recruiting a kid at east Ridge High School, Stephen Noah Phillip Jurik
55:07
Yep, the Big six eleven kid. Bruce recruited him when he was at
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Tennessee, and uh, of course she was his guidance counselor at east Ridge,
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So Bruce would come in there once a week to visit and he would
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always go to her office and they would talk and everything. So but he
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he you know, I hated to see what happened to him at Tennessee.
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But shouldn't have happened. It shouldn't have happened. He should have Well,
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he didn't handle it very well. He didn't. But they didn't. This
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is just my opinion. They didn't back it up. They threw him under
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the bus. They didn't. And of course he you know, he was
55:43
guilty of what he said. But the thing is he did not. What
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he did was not that big a deal. But when he lied about it,
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that's it that that did him in. But I pulled for him.
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He's at Auburn and he's done well there, done better than anybody he's done
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since Sonny Smith, was it. Oh? Yes, But he's he's just
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a great guy, really is. Yeah. Have you now you already mentioned
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you're like bear Bright the first question and all that, But uh, did
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you ever have an interview that you thought? I just didn't. I just
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didn't get what I wanted out of that? Do you remember anything like that.
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Yeah, most of the time, there were people that just did not
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give good interviews. It's tough and uh, like high school athletes. Sometimes
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you you would interview them and you'd ask him a question. They'd say,
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yeah, Coach Patterson was that way down at Ringold. When I was doing
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with Stump on the little show that he had, we we would interview.
56:43
I did not interview Coach Patterson, but Mark Gamble did and he asked him
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a question. And you can't ask yes or no questions, right, And
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Mark asked him a question. Mark said, are you concerned about Ridgeland's defensive
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backfield? He said, of course I'm concerned. Okay, good, good
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interview, you know. So it's it's things like that that you you have
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to figure out how to answer a question that's really open ended to get them
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to go and then when they go for me. You see, I don't
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have a script. I just listen to what you're saying and then try to
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go there. Have a couple of ideas of things I want to I want
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to find out, but outside that, can you tell me one more thing?
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Tell me the the favorite game you've ever seen in person? Probably the
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Fiestamo when Tennessee won the national championship, right next to John Ward. Sitting
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right next to John Ward, that's the biggest thrill I guess I've ever had
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in my career, and a lot of the top Yeah it is. You
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know the fact that that was his last game, yes, and uh and
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of course Bill Anderson was in there. I loved Bill and h the two
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of them sitting there and I was sitting right in between them, and uh,
57:57
just unbelievable, unbelievable experience. I'm jealous. I'm really really jealous of
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all the things you've gotten to do. But when Randy sat down, I
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said, I said to him, I said, I thought that guy the
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greatest job in the entire world. And what did you say, You said,
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I did? I did, I had the greatest job. Yeah,
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no question. Well, and we appreciate your time, but more partably that
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we appreciate all the impact that you've had on Chattanoo to sports and uh,
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man, I just I'm a fan of yours and appreciate you coming in here.
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Guys, did anything that I mean, it's you guys, don't understand
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just because you I mean, I remember I remember you talking about him a
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lot yeah, Yeah, it's just it's cool to have you here. Well,
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and we tried to work it out for it, but you're on a
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cruise, you know, and enjoy the retirement. Yeah, but we got
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you back in here now and Davy and his family on that cruise. Yeah.
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Again, you're going to force me to talk about Davy. But Davy's
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awesome. Oh Davy's music. Tell me just a second about that, because
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he said he was going to retire, but he hasn't. He still does
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he still does it like and he's so good. Yeah. He Uh he
59:08
was born twenty years too late, yep. Because he's a country music guy.
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He's a classic country guy. Yeah, there's no question about that.
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And uh, he's very good. And but they they wanted him to be
59:23
another Kenny Chesney, that the guy that was produced wanted that. He had
59:32
an investor, Brenda Brenda Lawson invested in him in his career, was and
59:40
did it for a couple of years. He did a lot of wonderful things.
59:44
But uh, he told me one time, he said, this guy,
59:49
this producer they've they've hired to do my records, he wants me to
59:52
do stuff like Kenny Chesney. He said, Kenny Chesney's five eight. He
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said, I'm six foot six. I can't I can't be Kenny Chesney.
1:00:01
Not the same sound. I want to be Kenny Chesney. I want to
1:00:04
be me and uh but but you know eventually that that, you know,
1:00:10
peter down a little bit, but you know, he he still sings.
1:00:15
He still got the attendance record for Nightfall in Chatan Nouga. Totally believe that
1:00:20
that was just that wasn't long ago, A couple of years ago, maybe
1:00:22
three years ago. This fall, I thought, maybe God's Davey Smith.
1:00:28
He's the real deal when it comes to I mean, he's a real deal.
1:00:30
Anyway, this music very very good. I didn't want to in my
1:00:32
mind said I wanted to say that. Sorry, I had to add that
1:00:35
on the team. No problem. But anyway, Randy, thanks for your
1:00:38
time and thanks for having me. I really appreciate I've enjoyed it. Of
1:00:42
course we'll put this out and everybody will walk down memory Lane with you.
1:00:46
A good deal. Thanks men. Saw the score Chuttles twenty Florida seventeen in
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the Gators with the field gold made will tie the game. Snap the kick
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is in the air and the kick best time, is no sir Ree,
1:01:05
No sir Ree? Final score Tennessee twenty Florida, seventeen. Pandemonium rains coming
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down the Old High