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Hot Dogs, Floats, and Thousands of Your Closest Friends
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Tucked away in northeast Arkansas, the small town of Rector transforms each Labor Day weekend into a vibrant celebration that draws crowds of up to 20,000 people. Dating back to 1940, this beloved tradition has become the community's signature event - as one local puts it, "Most people celebrate the Fourth of July. In Rector, we celebrate Labor Day."
In this episode, we experience the Rector Labor Day Picnic firsthand, capturing the sights, sounds, and flavors that make this 85-year tradition special. From award-winning parade floats featuring sharks and octopi to the volunteer-run food stands serving hundreds of burgers, every aspect of this celebration showcases small-town America at its finest.
What makes this event extraordinary isn't just its longevity but the spirit behind it. Everyone you meet - from the burger cooks who arrived at 6:30 AM to the creative minds designing elaborate floats - is a volunteer. These dedicated community members give up their holiday weekend to create something special, with all proceeds supporting the upkeep of the local cemetery.
The food alone is worth the trip, with carnival classics like funnel cakes and fried Oreos alongside massive $10 corn dogs that "looked like turkey legs." We chat with longtime residents who've attended 40-60 previous picnics, getting their perspective on what makes this year's perfect weather and exceptional turnout particularly memorable.
Join us for this heartwarming exploration of community spirit, tradition, and the special magic that happens when a small town comes together. Whether you're nostalgic for small-town celebrations or simply curious about unique American traditions, this episode captures the essence of community identity in a rapidly changing world.
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Podcast Introduction & Labor Day Picnic
Speaker 1the battery. Gosh, get on, leave the dog alone. You ain't even ready, you ain't even got your headphones on yet I can hear everything oh, okay, you good yeah, I'm gonna throw this away. Okay, cool, yeah, you throw that away. Man, my goodness, people get around and tyler just goes off the rails. What's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up. Everybody, welcome to a brand new episode of the Almost Brothers Podcast. On today's episode, we are at Labor Day Picnic Rector, arkansas 2025. Let's go.
Speaker 3Yeah, yeah, let me adjust my stuff. There we go, yeah, go, yeah. Yeah, let me adjust my stuff.
Speaker 1Uh-oh, there we go. Yeah, man, yeah. So this is our me and Tyler's first every time being here. Yeah, how you feel, tyler? So far it's warm.
Speaker 3It's warm, Someone took my parking spot and I saw a dog, so I've got mixed feelings. Okay, yeah. So some good, some bad.
Speaker 1We are also here with Rector Native parking spot and I saw a dog, so I've got mixed feelings. Okay, yeah. So some good, some bad. We are also here with rector native ben jimmy yancey, jimmy ben yancey, hello, how's it going, man? Going good, going good. How's life?
Speaker 4been really good yeah, man.
Speaker 1So how many is this for you? Do you know? Do you have like a counter, an idea?
Speaker 4I'm 44 and I've probably been to 40.
Speaker 1Oh gosh, yeah, so you've been here for a long time. Beautiful dog, leave the dogs alone. Man, leave the dogs alone.
Speaker 3He was a service dog. I'm not going to disturb him. He's working right now. Appreciate your service.
Speaker 1Right, he's doing his job, man. So man, my good. So do you know how, how long?
Speaker 5how long like this has been going on like what year it kind of originated?
Speaker 1I do not. No, I don't know either. I should have. I should have checked on that before, before we started this. See, like, how long has this been going on? Because, man, I'll tell you what it's.
Speaker 3It's put together, let's ask some people walking by right.
Speaker 1Does anybody know how long this has been going on? What year was this this established? Let's see if we get okay. No, I thought T-shirts may have it on there. No T-shirts, no T-shirts. Yeah, yep, yep, the T-shirts. So what is your favorite part about this? That is going on about this picnic, because, man, they got pageants, they got rides, they got games, the food. There you go. So what's your favorite? Carnival or stuff like this type of food.
Speaker 4The funnel cake.
Speaker 1Yeah, I like the funnel cake. So what's that? Did I hear a little birdie said that there might be deep fried Twinkies around here.
Speaker 3I've not been to the other side. I know there's fried.
Speaker 5Oreos.
Speaker 1There is fried Oreos. See, I haven't made it over there yet. Yeah, I need to get over there and check that out for sure. Yeah, check out the food. So, tyler, what's your favorite carnival type food?
Speaker 3Funnel cake, cakes up there, I had a little bit of the kids funnel cake yesterday up there. Oh, I don't know, I don't really go to carnivals very, very often. I'm not really a uh, a carnival food connoisseur okay, uh so live.
Speaker 1Had a pretty good looking corn dog yesterday. Those things were massive, it was $10.
Speaker 3Well, it looked like $10 worth. Sarahbeth had one wrapped up in aluminum foil. I thought it was a turkey leg.
Speaker 1That's what I thought it was at first, because Jamie was like what is Liv eating? I was like it's a turkey leg, isn't it?
Speaker 3But the flaw with that? The flaw with that, it wasn't the batter wasn't completely cooked.
Speaker 1Oh, okay, okay, so you could.
Speaker 3it looked great on the outside and you peel away and it's like, oh, it's still drippy yeah.
Speaker 1Okay, Okay. Well, I mean it was massive, so I mean I get it, I get it.
Speaker 3I was literally like is there a way y'all can make it not as massive? Like we'll use the jumbo corn dogs. I mean, can you be a little light on the batter?
Speaker 1Yeah, it looked like a jumbo corn dog, that's for sure. Can I get a half?
Speaker 5order You're right Right.
Speaker 1How close were you been to getting in the hot dog eating contest? Very, yeah, I thought about it too, but I'd be the worst of the worst.
Speaker 5I mean, I could put away some hot dogs.
Speaker 1Yeah, I could probably eat a lot of them, but I couldn't eat a lot of them quickly.
Speaker 5The bread, choking that down as fast as they eat too. That's hard.
Speaker 1Yeah, and I think the winner was like eight and a half in five minutes.
Speaker 5I feel like I would. I've done that for lunch before by myself. Yeah just in one sitting.
Speaker 3I was saying I'd be the person that would enter, but take my sweet time. Who could eat the hot dog In my mind. Who could eat the hot dog the slowest? I'd be go Just one bite.
Speaker 4Looking at it.
Speaker 3Tom, maybe a sip of water, another bite.
Speaker 1How many did you get?
Speaker 3I got three quarters my tummy started hurting, just a little bit.
Speaker 1That is so funny. I'll tell you what, Ben. We're going to have your wife on here in a second and talk about the float. That parade was amazing. It was so cool. It was so many, so much going on. It was hard to focus on stay with the flow. So I'd talk to people hey, how's it going? I'd look up, it's like, oh no, I'm six cars behind here, I've got to run back.
Speaker 4This year was an exceptionally long parade.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, it was good man. People on both sides I mean it was fantastic man. Yeah, it was a good time, it was a good time. So what would you like to see out of this next year? What do you think we can improve on?
Speaker 4More picnic tables for people.
Speaker 1There you go, More places to sit. There you go, and it's like I guess you just never know how many people are going to show up. But man, sometimes it's just cool to see all these people in one place. So, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 4If we could bottle this weather up, yes, and pour it out next year.
Speaker 1Yes, yeah, because what was it? Was it last year or the year before where it was like really really muddy Year before? Yeah, they said it was like knee-deep mud out here.
Speaker 3Oh, that's disgusting. Yeah, yep, yep, yep, bad year.
Speaker 1Yep, absolutely Well, ben man, we love you so much.
Speaker 5Holler at your wife and tell her to come on over what y'all do.
Speaker 1Oh, thank you so much, man. It's a blessing, man, it's definitely a blessing, and we're just glad to be here, dude for sure.
Speaker 3But your wife, if you would, and have her come on over tyler. But yeah, what did you go on? Any rides I don't do, right, you're not a ride. You're not a ride guy, right, I don't know. Okay, I am the designated purse holder.
Speaker 1They're just standing there just like oh no, I'll hang out oh yeah, I don't have to go on any rides are y'all from this, y'all from this area over here?
Speaker 3I'm not sure when you started okay, here.
Speaker 1Okay, that's what I was gonna ask, yeah, um betty esmond has always been in charge of the cemetery?
Speaker 1okay, yeah, it's usually listed over there. That's what I was looking for on the shirts. I was like, well, maybe the shirts say it, but it's a long time, okay, yeah, absolutely. Yes, ma'am. Uh, we'll be out here. We're gonna record a couple episodes, so we'll be out here for a while. Yes, ma'am, uh, we'll be out here. We're gonna record a couple episodes, so we'll be out here for a while. Yes, ma'am, yes, ma'am, yes, ma'am, yeah, so we're gonna find out how long this has been going, because I know it's a little bit like ben said he's been to 40, you know. So I know it's been a while, a lot longer than you've been alive, tyler yeah, wouldn't, uh, wouldn't surprise me yeah, yeah, but yeah, man, so no ride.
Speaker 1So do carnival like. Do they scare you?
Speaker 3I always feel uncomfortable I'm to the point where I've seen too many accidents from rides. Also, I'm not a fan of moving at high speeds if I'm not the one controlling it. Yeah, I guess that's true.
Speaker 1What's your favorite carnival game? I know you said you're not a carnival guy, but what's your favorite game? I like the balloon popping.
Speaker 3That's a classic Simple, effective. I don't like the, I like the balloon popping, that's, you know, simple, that's a classic, yeah, I don't like the like ball in the basket the puxico homecoming yeah, always said I don't think they do it anymore. They had a uh little stand where it was like these little plastic cups that would like float in like a little kiddie pool.
Speaker 3Right, they're a ping pong and no one ever won, yeah, except oh, this one time it was actually when I was dating an ex in college yeah, and she won, and she won a freaking bunny.
Speaker 1And she made one Like how many did she have to make in to win the bunny?
Speaker 3Just one, really Just one, really Just one. Because it's a plastic cup and it's a ping pong ball. So the idea, at least by the people that created it, was it's just going to bounce out. And of all the years that I've been coherent, it's not a lot. It's not a lot right um so five maybe I've only known two or three people that have actually done it. One was my ex and another one was actually like one, yeah, one something from it.
Speaker 3One was a another friend of mine, then some, I can't remember someone like I knew of. Okay, but that's it. I don't know anyone else. I'm sure there might be more.
Speaker 1I'm sure there's some somewhere. Maybe there's bunny rabbits right now live because of that game, maybe, yeah, no, no, so we've got Mandy Yancy on the better half of Ben. The better half, yeah. Absolutely the better half. How are you doing? I been the better half. Yeah, absolutely the better half. How are you doing? I'm hot. Yeah, yeah, a little bit, yeah, so how many? So we're starting with. How many is this for you of coming here, because you didn't grow up here?
Speaker 2I did not grow up here. I grew up in corning, which is another clay county town. Yeah, I'm 17 years, okay, so it's still been a while it's still been a while though it's still been a while that I've been here.
Speaker 1We're trying to find out how long this has been going on.
Speaker 2A long time yeah.
Award-Winning Parade Float Discussion
Speaker 1So the parade we were talking about the parade and how it was awesome. There was people everywhere. I was telling Ben I'd stop and say hi to somebody and then I'm five cars behind and I'm having to catch up. It was great.
Speaker 2I do believe this was probably one of the biggest parades I have ever that was exactly what I was gonna ask.
Speaker 1Is this kind of one of the bigger ones?
Speaker 2this was the bigger one that I have ever seen. I've never seen that many floats yeah, and everything yeah in here man, it was so good.
Speaker 1It was so good so we're announcing right here which they announced it over the loud speakers a minute ago but we won first place in the float competition. Yeah, and that was you Like. You're the one that you know kind of put it together. You were the brains behind it and, most of the time, the hands behind it, you know. So congratulations not only to the church, but also to you.
Speaker 2Good job Well, thank you.
Speaker 1It was pretty awesome.
Speaker 2It was pretty awesome, the shark on the ranger. I think probably won it for us.
Speaker 1Yeah, oh, that was the one that took us over. I think it was the octopus and the. What was the other one?
Speaker 2We had the octopus, a seahorse and a shark on the float too.
Speaker 1Yeah, that was so funny, man. So good, so good. I have $10. Hi, baby. No, you cannot have $10. I gave you $20 last night. What are you doing? What are you doing? Well then, that's your. I don't know what to tell you, but yeah, and so how many times that you can remember have we won first place?
Speaker 2I know three times that has been our first place.
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 2Since I've been helping and participating with the float.
Speaker 1Okay, so you're up there. You're like the Michael Jordan of floats right now.
Speaker 2I took offense last year. We won second place and I was like that's not happening again.
Speaker 1Yep, and it's cool because this is my first. I got here right after this last year, so I got to hear about it but not actually be here for it. So it's cool to be a part of and it's cool to see and it's cool to watch the whole town and of course, we have other people that come in and are a part of it but it's cool to watch the whole town say, hey, we're going to really join in and be a part of this.
Speaker 2Yeah, this is our big most people celebrate the Fourth of July. Yeah, this is our big most people celebrate the 4th of July.
Speaker 1Yeah, rector, we celebrate Labor Day, labor Day yeah, that's what I was talking to Brian Truelove earlier and that's what he said. He said it's just really cool seeing the whole town get into it. It's like a movie.
Speaker 2It is.
Speaker 1You know where you see, like everybody get into one event and everybody goes all out. The ending scene of Grown Ups, the ending scene I think that was 4th of July also yeah, it's really really cool and really awesome to be a part of. So it's great and I love getting connected with people like you that really you put your time and energy and effort into it. It wasn't just, hey, we're just going to throw this together. It's like no, we're going to plan, we're going to get stuff together, we're going to you know Well, and what's good about it?
Speaker 2everything that goes on out here is completely volunteer work.
Speaker 5Yeah.
Speaker 2None of us are getting paid. All the money that is raised here today actually goes to the Woodland Heights Cemetery for the upkeep of that, which is the big cemetery in Rector. Yeah so yeah, all the workers out here are all volunteers.
Speaker 3Wait, wait, wait, michael, I'm not getting paid for this.
Speaker 2No, no, wait, wait, wait, michael.
Speaker 1I'm not getting paid for this. No, no, sorry, ty-ty, did you not? Oh, he's out, he's out.
Speaker 2Sorry, he's got babies to raise.
Speaker 3I mean come on, he needs some money. Any bit will help. Any bit will help.
Speaker 2But it is really cool and to see. I mean, you have so many different generations that come out here. You have the little kids, you have the older adults, you have all the different churches and organizations that come out and support you want to say hi Ryan, hi Ronis.
Speaker 1Yeah, and that's what it is.
Speaker 2It's all the businesses, all the churches, everybody comes out here I'm like this is our big thing and we have a lot of class reunions that go on and it's not just one day, I mean, it has been all. It's an all weekend thing.
Speaker 1Yep, yeah, so is this the first year? It's been multiple days.
Speaker 2This is the first year that the carnival has been multiple days.
Speaker 1Okay, yes.
Speaker 2Normally we do pageants on Sunday and Monday, but for the carnival coming in which we got a new carnival crew and this is our first year to do Friday, saturday, sunday and Monday.
Speaker 1Nice. It's just so awesome man, so awesome to be a part of it. Well, mandy, again, congratulations, first place. You know all I do is win, win, win. I should have had that on here, but you know that's what she does.
Speaker 3Yeah, all I do is win, win, win. I should have had that on here, but you know that's what she does. That doesn't have the same.
Speaker 2I can't win at a beauty pageant, but I can make a float.
Speaker 1There you go. What's up, buddy?
Speaker 2Come here, brantley, you want to say hi.
Speaker 1That is awesome, hi, he's so awesome. Yeah, so, if you want, will grab alan and and jerry if they can, if they could scoot free, get them over here.
Speaker 1I'm gonna apologize now, but I'll get them yeah, well, we're gonna talk to them a little bit on on on man, just just cooking and being able to serve people here, man, and like like mandy said, you know everybody is volunteering, everybody's spending their time, spending their weekend, spending their labor day to come up here to cook, to serve food, to love on people, to put on the pageants, all that stuff.
Speaker 3How y'all doing what's up? Man, you are jacked.
Speaker 6I love it.
Speaker 1Just wild, just wild. What's up? Yeah, go ahead and have a seat. Where's Jer Bear? What's going on? What's up? Yeah, go ahead and have a seat. Where's Jer Bear? He's going home. What's up? Sit on. Huh, oh, he's coming there, he is Okay. Come on, jer Bear, right here, right here, right here beside me. Go ahead and pick that microphone up. What are you going to do? Just talk. You got to pick the microphone up. You got to turn it on what's going on. What's up, man? Oh, you know How's it going.
Speaker 4Hey, we've been cooking burgers.
Speaker 1Been rocking. You have to talk into the microphone. Yeah, I know, there you go, what up Jer?
Speaker 5Not much, brother. We're just having a great time today.
Speaker 1Yep Having a good time. How long have y'all been out here?
Speaker 5I got here at 6.30 this morning.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 5Started getting things ready, yep.
Speaker 4I got here about 6.45, then we went over to church and got 100 pounds of onions.
Speaker 1Yep church and got 100 pounds of onions.
Speaker 4Yeah, and I knew y'all were talking yeah, y'all were really chopping up the onions yesterday. Uh, we fixed uh 16 sausage and egg biscuits and we had yeah, alan done a good job this morning yeah, I was gonna.
Speaker 1I was gonna come over like we were lining up for the float and I was like man, I should have went over there because I seen you called me. I seen you called me this morning. We was getting ready.
Speaker 4Yeah and, uh, we had some people that just kind of walked over to the stand hey do you got any coffee? And then we end up offering them a sausage.
Speaker 1That's awesome yeah.
Volunteer Burger Crew & Food Service
Speaker 4Cheese biscuit. It was pretty, pretty awesome yeah.
Speaker 5You know the thing of it is. We started rotisserie and doing the burgers this year.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 5And there's been about four different guys that come back and get a second burger because the first burger was too good.
Speaker 1Oh, there you go yeah, that's what I'm talking about. Yeah, and how many do you think that?
Speaker 4y'all have cooked so far Probably close to 500.
Speaker 1That is awesome, awesome, awesome, oh, wow, wow, okay, so 1940 was the first year that this went on.
Speaker 3Wow so 85 years.
Speaker 1So how many have you been to personally?
Speaker 4You know I've probably been to 61 of them 61 of them.
Speaker 1That is awesome, man. That is awesome. Yeah, 1940, yeah 86 years.
Speaker 3Wow, that is awesome. Yeah, 1940,. Yeah, 86 years?
Speaker 1Wow, that is awesome, that is crazy. How many have y'all been to like personally 50 years, 50?
Speaker 455 of them.
Speaker 1Wow, that's so cool. And one this is our first baby.
Speaker 3Well, I guess a half, because the day's not over yet.
Speaker 1Yeah, I guess that's true. Yeah, that's so true.
Speaker 4You know, they got kiddie rides right.
Speaker 3Oh, oh man, don't make me make Richard jokes at you. That was bad man.
Speaker 1I was about to say I'm surprised y'all had burgers to serve, so how is this, on the scale of all the ones that y'all have been to, how do y'all think this one is going so far?
Speaker 5This one right here is probably the best I've been to so far, because the weather is perfect. Yeah, I mean the parade was a lot bigger than I've ever seen. I mean it's just been awesome.
Speaker 4God's been awesome to us. The weather really made a big difference. The cooler weather really made a big difference. Yeah, I mean, there was probably what 15,000 probably in town today Dang, it was a lot. 15,000, 20,000 people, oh yeah.
Speaker 1Yeah, because I mean we've got the park's full with parking, the church is half full with parking, harps is half full with parking. I mean it's everywhere, man.
Speaker 4And when everybody got out of the parade, the stand, we was fixing hamburgers and cheeseburgers and barbecue as fast as they was selling. Yeah, we couldn't keep up.
Speaker 1Yep, that's what we came. So we had to go back get Jamie's car and we came over man. There was a line of people.
Speaker 4I'm like, wow, this is awesome. I'm like somebody just quit eating for the weekend and decided to come eat.
Speaker 3Yeah, just come on out and get you a burger.
Speaker 1No grocery shopping this weekend, Right yeah and man, it's just awesome Again to see you know Mandy talked about how everybody volunteers.
Speaker 2What's up?
Speaker 1Everybody volunteers, Everybody puts in.
Speaker 4you know their time, their, energy and their effort to just come here and be a part of this to put on the best event that you can put on how many pounds of barbecue is?
Speaker 5that in that bucket, three pounds of barbecue in that bucket, and we're on our fourth one, no, sixth one, oh, wow, really 18 pounds of barbecue meat or barbecue sauce.
Speaker 3What's?
Speaker 4up buddy. Barbecue meat man 18 pounds, and we're not a barbecue stand, we're a hamburger stand, actually, right, right, you know what?
Speaker 3You got to diversify sometimes. Yeah, yeah, meet the needs of the customers.
Speaker 1Has anybody came in and like, hey, can I get a burger and a barbecue? Put it all on one.
Speaker 4Well, last year we did. Yeah, I called it a butt burger.
Speaker 1A butt burger. There you go. That's not bad man trademark I'm pretty good it's not bad yeah, oh yeah, it's questionable Pepper jack cheese.
Speaker 5I've got to get back to my grilled onions.
Speaker 1Oh, absolutely, man. We appreciate y'all Love you so much. Come and check out the. Yeah, the. He didn't see I was making the.
Speaker 3The burger.
Speaker 1Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3You're goofy.
Speaker 1He's wearing an over and doing a great job with the kitchen and man y'all are y'all are killing it, dude.
Speaker 4So we've done a lot of new stuff this year to see uh we call it uh work smarter, not harder that's, yeah, that's seems to work out we've done a lot of the burgers on the rotisserie yeah, that helped a lot. It didn't have so many people in the uh kitchen area there hitting and bumping and grinding on everybody. Yep and it worked out real good, going good.
Speaker 1Yeah, man, sure did. Well, we appreciate you, man. We love you so much, love you guys. Yeah, good luck getting back to it, man.
Speaker 4Love the service that we had yesterday. Oh yeah, I counted about 147 people.
Speaker 1Yep.
Speaker 4I didn't like the timer, but anyways.
Speaker 1Yeah, you didn't like the timer. I gave you an extra five minutes. Oh yeah, Blame it on the people. Yeah, that sounds right.
Speaker 4I couldn't help it. They was way over there and way over there.
Speaker 3Hey, big Rich in the house.
Speaker 1Big Rich 77. So for our listeners that don't know, richard has been in the hospital for the last few days, so we are so glad to see him, we are so glad he is out. He got discharged this morning and he's about to come and sit down and and he, uh, he made me leave early last night.
Speaker 3He told me I was with him for about an hour and a half yeah and he said I'm getting tired, I need to go to bed, yeah, whatever that man I thought he richard posted on facebook like getting out of here sooner, or something like that. I thought about commenting like free my man, rich, or something like that.
Speaker 1That's what we were talking about yesterday. I was like dude, I was like if you want to go, we can get you out of here, we can find a way. And then we started doing the Mission Impossible music. Guys love it, love you. Be careful You're awesome.
Speaker 4Love you, love it. Love you, be careful.
Speaker 1You're awesome, love you, love you.
Speaker 4Big.
Speaker 1Rich. What's up, bubba? How you doing? I thought you'd be here a little bit later.
Speaker 3I thought you were going to take a nap. I would have.
Speaker 5Yeah, well, you know I'm immortal, so oh my gosh, yeah, right, right. I'm built different.
Speaker 3All right. Yeah, tristan, all right tristan, you're immortal.
Speaker 5That means that's your heavenly body, yeah, something like that. How's it going guys?
Speaker 1it's going good. How are you? Not 100, but I'm getting there getting there yep, feeling it, feeling it, yep, that's good man, I'm just glad you're feeling a little bit better yeah, yeah, yeah man what we talking about. We, we are man. Just talking about how this is also your first year at this right.
Speaker 5You've never been Okay and I've missed 98% of the stuff this has been going on since 1940. Oh, wow.
Speaker 3I thought they said 39.
Speaker 1Or 39, 40.
Speaker 5Yeah 85 and a half years. Yeah, that's a half. Yeah, it's not over yet this year.
Speaker 3There's some discrepancy between 39 and 40, so I'm just meeting the middle. I got you. They did a half affair, the first year 39.5.
Speaker 2Hey, there's Jamie Daniel Simmons.
Speaker 1What's up, babe? Uh-oh here, come on over here.
Speaker 3Come and say hi to Richard. Is something on fire over there?
Speaker 5It looks like it doesn't it it's on fire, you're on fire.
Speaker 1What's up, baby?
Speaker 6Hi honey, Hi, Richard Randall, how are you? What's up? What's up, what's up. I need to take over this podcast, wait a second Take over.
Speaker 3What's going on? Hey main chick and side chick Ready to go?
Speaker 1I don't know why, you While you're sitting by me, and sweet potatoes, uh-oh and sweet potatoes, no that is not a thing.
Speaker 6The sweet potato that is not a thing.
Speaker 1No. So, babe, how are you enjoying your first Labor Day picnic? It's fun, it's pretty awesome, isn't it?
Richard's Hospital Release & Final Thoughts
Speaker 6Today is like wow, like I did not think it would be this many people. But you know, they kind of told us it wouldn't be so I expected it, but man.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 6Just the food and the crowds, yeah.
Speaker 1And just you know, mandy talked about everybody coming together, volunteering their time, like it's just so cool to see everybody go. Hey, we're going to spend our time doing this, we're going to come together and we're going to put on the best event that we can.
Speaker 3Yeah, Rich, apparently we're not getting paid for this.
Speaker 6What Wait? I'm not either. No, I'm out.
Speaker 1Who told you this? Who hurt?
Speaker 5y'all, there's a mic drop.
Speaker 6Can I get paid in burgers and funnel cakes? Yes, please, I will give you the best high five ever after a while Crisp high five, yes, the most crispest of high fives.
Speaker 5Yeah, yeah, but it's all I mean. I pulled up and it's like there's people everywhere Like it's insane. Yeah, it's great man, it really is, yeah, Pretty awesome.
Speaker 1Yeah, man, yeah. Well, babe, what else you got? You got anything. We're going to do another episode, the entire time.
Speaker 6Yeah, I was told Richard was only supposed to be out here for a minute and then it's back.
Speaker 1Oh no, I don't think he's escaped he said no, Richard, a grown man can do what he wants, don't tell my wife, I'm escaped.
Speaker 6Yeah, that's right, he's escaped man he's escaped.
Speaker 3Richard is a grown man.
Speaker 5Just out of curiosity what does AMA mean when you leave the hospital?
Speaker 3He's like his thing is still just me, I know how to unhook an IV.
Speaker 1The nurses are running wild right now.
Speaker 6You went AWOL.
