"Lou Holtz" Kick Off Football 2024!!!

[Music] je Louise Richard and William thank goodness for college football season because you pretty much ruined 2024 with your premature announcement of your breakup just want to let you know you done you done ruined our year took a little steam out Rick and Bubba Rick and Bubba I think I speak for everyone in the audience when I say that it's been nothing but grief in 2024 since hearing about your divorce but Rick it's it's it's pretty it's pretty obvious after your re recent beach run Deo with Rich Wingo who came between you and Bubba defc Springs more like defunc Springs Rick Rick we all hope you enjoy your transition to being the woman in the relationship that was hard to deal with yeah Rick and Richie sitting in the tree walking down the beach k a i s s i n g that's not really how it goes but that's how I did it thank you thank you getting aside guys we we sure are going to miss this radio marriage Rick and Bob you two are a match made in sh a a combo a combo straight from a Quincy's Buffet might I say Quincy the big fat EO guys the reality is I'm I'm not guaranteeing this but this could be the last Dr Luke appearance on the Rick and Bubba Show and it's hard to believe that that I've been sitting in these seats and spitting on these mics for 15 years that's hard to believe guys that's half of your career Rick and Bubba I've I've been here at this studio so many times in fact I did the math and I've missed less days than Bubba over the last 15 years guys guys it's Bubba I'm going to be out today I got a jam out with my ham out at kijah oh me hey if you think it's been bad hang on November is coming good graac where where hey he must SP Wells Fargo guys guys enough on the enough enough sadness it's the best time of year is schless football season what's up everybody I guess we should give a man goodness can you hear that pregame drum line Cadence reverberating off the hallowed walls of your favorite Stadium guys can you smell that juicy hickory smoked barbecue being fetched off that Grill after 12 hours on the Big Green Egg can you taste that ice gold Dr Pepper on your couch as you eagerly await the next episode of fanville on the tube and can you feel that mosquito sucking the blood right out of your calf and that suffocating blanket of August humidity guys it's Labor Day weekend which means it's five consecutive days of college football kickoffs the perfect time for a vasectomy frozen peas and football play yeah Rick and Bubba a whole lot has happened since we've been together a lot of developments and number one the goat has left the building in tuscala guys Nick sain has retired and and he has been replaced by a man with a woman's name isn't that weird to anybody else kayin kayin oh never mind that wasn't supposed to be a big header anyway so it's okay I forgot his name to be honest I thought you were going to play off the board for former former washing Huskies coach kayn dor who who had zero chemistry with Rick Burgess on air at a 20 24 regions tradition you were trying for I was working hard boy I tell you what I hadn't seen somebody work that hard in years Tes see he takes the reain and tus Lo and oh kin will look to do the impossible he will look to keep Crimson Tide fans from sending death threats to his family for more than a week that's that's the standard that's the standard guys that's the what that's the standard and guys in their defense in their defense the Alabama Crimson tight fan base is only tough to pleas because they're extremely intelligent in fact poll show nine out of 10 Alabama fans believe kayin dbor is a step up from Nick sa right you know cuz they're so intelligent Road tied everyone right and he is a step up because he is about a foot taller so that's that is true but ricked Bubba the powers that be in Tuscaloosa know Nick sabin's value oh yeah they do so much so they'll be naming Bryant Denny Stadium Field Sabin field here in the next couple week it'll be called Sabin Sabin field for former listen to this former coach former coach Mike Price heard about this recognition and has asked if they can at least name the flag pole after him oh goodness gracious hey hey cinnamon and Veronica can you ladies dance a little for me while you move that flag to half mask yeah you're terrible they terrible guys serious business serious business Nick Sabin has had an absolutely incredible career aside from Dion Sanders aside from Deion Sanders Nick San is arguably the greatest college football coach of this modern era would you not agree but he does need he needs to step up his sunglass game because Legends are built by blenders as Dion Sanders would say say speaking of Dion Sanders though his his son shadur Sanders sadur Sanders it's a great name he's a starting quarterback and high hasman hopeful for the University of Colorado guys he says the buffalos will be viewed as every opponent's Super Bowl this year now wait a minute who is it said that this is sador Sanders sad sador I wish You' had gone to Syracuse and you know shador is right because they're easily last they're easily last year's best 4 and eight team plus plus they built some huge momentum going into this season winning one of their last nine games keep keep an eye on them guys they're on a roll rck Bubba here's an interesting college football trivia fact for you okay NFL legend and current Miami Dolphin Tyreek Hill oh was once on the University of West Alabama football roster this is true and this is wild and I did not know this and boy is he making our state proud isn't he you know just this year it was revealed that he's now fathered 10 kids with four different women good gra Tyreek says if you want to end up where he is you just got to keep grinding kids you got to got to keep grinding you're terrible he hey let me say you something Tyreek Tyreek Hill is is not only a cheetah he's a cheater oh my goodness guys it is ironic though that West Alabama knows this is not not kidding they're they're known for their outstanding Rodeo program just a weird coincidence there we're not even going to go there that's it no that's it we're St we stop right there Lou has grown up so has Greg we stop there one more piece of NFL news here not sure if you guys heard about this but the Buffalo Bills announced that they are launching a chapter of the ngffl the national gay flag football league this is true story it's a true story it is true never never has there been a more uncomfortable time for fans to get the explanation from The Ref for illegal touching we we it's just not not good boundaries lose you know I did I did go up and catch up with some of the lgbtq community about this and Britney grinder she's actually spoken up she says I may be playing some football soon yo go steamroll some of these Ms just send the email directly to Dr Luke I don't know what his email address is but you have oh my goodness are you still using Speedy at rickandbubba.com hey Dyan Mo Dylan Mulan is also fired up about the league telling me it's about dang time they PID us girls some attention I can't wait to pull some of those rainbow Flags you it's like no time on the clock got guys guys transitioning to another topic here the great the greatest scholar greatest college football news in 11 years EA's college football video game is back and boy is it beautiful the SS The Sounds the gameplay is spectacular on this latest generation of consoles EA Sports absolutely outdid themselves Rick and Bubba I would like to if you're okay with this for those unfamiliar with this beloved video game I'd like to highlight a few features Ina college football uh 25 just show you how realistic it is first EA's designers nailed Bri Denny Stadium if you zoom in on the crowd every other tide fan has two teeth a wife beater and a full sleeve Bear Bryant tattoo.com here's another incredibly in fans by the moment realistic detail if you play as Auburn versus New Mexico State at Jord Stadium every fan will file out of the stadium by the end of the third quarter another Inc incredible detail feature of the game the crowd at uab's protect Ive Stadium fills up one one section for most games but listen to this for big games they fill up four [Laughter] sections a unique a unique touch a unique touch EA added here jsu's Stadium already features the new B5 Wing the bill Bubba busy broadcast Booth also known as Eli's boss's booth and I just I just want to let I just want to let Eli know Eli Eli you've been oted to the second most famous voice in the football program because there's a bill Bubba busy in town baby thank you all for that land M know he like one last one last amazing feature here if you play the ironball at Jordan Air and there is a fourth and 31 play with the game on the line you will be forced to run the dumbest defensive play call in the history of play calls you will Rush no one and let the opposing QB have 15 minutes to find an open rece that's so true guys guys one one last bit of real news this is transition into real news here down on down on the plains of Auburn before we uh go to break here in a minute uh Hugh freeze leads the tigers into his second season and guys he's very optimistic about the direction of their program although there is some concern with the kicking game that's that's right preseason all SEC ticker Alex mcferson is having some gastrointestinal issues have you heard this this is a this is a true story guys apparently he has been diagnosed with IBS irritable bowel syndrome and guys after hearing this those I think it's safe to say that Auburn will have the most explosive kicking game in the country terrible you're awful but real but real talk real talk this puts this puts Auburn in a serious con a serious conundra because it's a major dilemma when your kicker always wants to go for two that's awful that's awful that's pretty good and who's the quarterback at Colorado oh that that's sador Sanders who who does not have problems with irritable bow synd well I tell you get all the big stories here wow I got all of them guys we'll come back we'll break break down some individual games with Dr Lou and then coming up next hour uh former intern Firestone Lance Ingram who plays Dr Lou Will reminisce over the last 15 16 years including internship with the show we'll be right back Rick and Bubba Rick and Bubba Dr Lou you told us that you also had a dream right well guys you know it's it's just it's a beautiful it's a beautiful moment when I come in here and see you guys faces every every week and you know I was just reminiscing and relaxing just last last week and and you know I I dozed off and and just fell asleep there on the couch watching Rudy thinking about you guys as I love to do but it was it was 7:30 p.m. long long past my bedtime and before I knew it I had dozed off and my in my emerald green and gold recliner and and there I was I saw it riding my motorized scooter down the street of my retirement community yes went out of no where a leprechaun stamper in front of me startling Me by shouting daddy causing me to lose control of my vehicle yes well I toppled over on the asphalt and the next thing I knew I was lying on on the scorching hot pavement blinded by the radiant light in the sky overhead I knew my time had come to exit this Earth but out of nowhere the shadow of a giant bearded leprechaun descended from a huge black Ram 1500 with a lift kit oh boy he wore a he wore a jersey that simply read old 75 oh my gosh and he he shielded me from the sizzling Sun's Rays his imposing silhouette offered relief from the heat he carefully kept my body temperature as cool as possible until I passed away there on the asphalt what what Rick Rick and Bubba Rick and Bubba it's time for me to say good bye to this show and for you to say goodbye to Daddy don't you just say that Rick why don't you say byebye Daddy byebye Daddy it's been quite the ride but my scooters headed off into the sun said Rick Rick if you could shade me from the Sun I know that would make bill burd just proud so so long sexy fat man oh my gracious thank you Lou you got room for two on that sco oh my gosh Come on come on with me bubba you can you can you can wrap your arms around my my strong chest We R away you picture that it would it would have to be good wheels on some horse power guys wait you know sorry this is such a a big shift in the gears here to go from from a a funeral now to to talking about G football season but I tell you what I thought you were going to make it I tell you what the Coastal Carolina Santa clar the the Santa clar are coming in going to be they're going to be playing the Jacksonville State busy Burgesses tonight and we got a we got a big one on CBS Sports Network and I tell you what I I may be visiting that Apothecary store next week look like a fun time I didn't get an invite from Bubba or or even Hunter Hunter didn't invite me either so but I may you know I may just uh I may show up uninvited you know spoil the party and and be there with they like go B bu bus get them it's it's going to be a great time it's going to be a great time guys I love looking at you in the eyes while I'm just sitting here talking about college football I'm going to miss this I will take a mental snapshot at this moment right here 15 years 15 years who cares about football I love you to we got we got a good good time good times coming tonight and you know I I'll tell you this I have used the Jacksonville State game Cs on on EA college football 25 and their quarterback I forget his name but it's really good so I'm going to go with the I'm going to go with the Jacksonville State busy Burgesses by 74 it will be and you know it it will be the the typical 76 to2 game you 74 there you with Santa clear will get a safety late on lat on to make it seem like it was closer cover the spread it'll seem closer guys guys big game uh Clemson and Georgia on Saturday I don't know why they're starting at 11:00 a.m. could could be a later later day game and then capture many people's attention but but I I you know I think this is going to be closer than the experts think because you know when you're when you're sleeping on dbo he he tends to wake you up yeah and so I'm I'm going to go with the Clemson the Clemson Tigers over the Georgia Bulldog they're going to win 21 to 20 that's just what I came up with right there in my head just now uh I know I know it's only 30 seconds left you want your beloved Notre Dame at Texas an oh I mean is there any point in talking about this I mean the University of Notre Dame Fighting ours Mark May can kiss it because you guess what they're going to win the national championship this year it's going to be an ugly year they're going to go 17 and0 and they'll win the national championship there you have and they'll play and they'll play South Carolina or William and Mary in the finals game or possibly Arkansas we'll see all right Dr Lou thank you it J been an incredible run if you're leaving us have a big day don't forget Rick and Bubba archives so you can catch any part you miss we come back we'll talk with Lance Ingram who plays Dr Lou I love looking on the text option people saying we thought this was Adler all these years today's my first day I realized it's Lance Ingram it only took 15 years we'll be right back we're in the vapors of Dr Lou and uh over the years there's been all sorts of uh rumors who who is Dr Lou Who plays Dr Lou we saw people why does he play we saw people on the text option thinking it was Adler thinking it was Speedy thinking it was Speedy uh there there of course some of those didn't know that that Greg actually does it I've done it a couple times Lance couldn't get here so Lance Ingram is actually the man who brings you Dr Lou and has for 15 years and Lance you have a history with the show all the way back to an internship yeah that's right when in fact my brother who's sitting right over there Rob Rob Rob was actually the one to tell me about this show probably uh probably 20 years ago it was it was 2005 and he said hey I work with these guys doing sales right Rob uh and he said I can get you an internship with this radio show and to be honest I didn't even know who yall were at the time but yeah yeah you so young your boat a little bit there there's moments where we wish that was still the case but go ahead probably and and many audience members agree Rick but he told me hey I can get you an internship with this awesome radio show that's you know blowing up and reaching a lot of people and I said okay you know at that time all I cared about was you know hanging out with friends and playing college football on the uh Playstation uh in college and so uh I said yeah let's do this let's do this internship came in uh thought you were really uh uh tough to talk to actually at the time which is so funny because now you know it's you're completely I feel like you're a completely different person uh but I like to Bubble more at the beginning the bottom line is most oh yeah most do so but but Rick the year's robot yeah so they called me they called me Firestone uh because the the soul Patrol the soul Patrol had come in Taylor hick Soul Patrol while American Idol was going on they had come in to visit in studio they said you look kind of like the bachelor Andrew fire right they called me Firestone y all said we're going with it and so an turned on the show as Firestone which was a great time but really uh we didn't you know we didn't have too much of a relationship over the next couple years uh and then it came in for a year Ender and that's kind of where this Dr L story began it was year Ender 2009 when all the interns were crowding around the mic getting there two two and a half seconds of of on air Fame and I said you know what I said you know what nobody nobody cares about what Lance Ingram AKA Firestone is doing they they barely knew me at the time anyway and so I said you know instead of getting up there and giving you three seconds of Lance iner I'm going to do an impression one that I had only done for a handful of people uh the my friends in college and my family on a couple occasions and I got up in the mic and said hey guys you know this is Lou Holtz over at ESP just working at SP do college football commentary and that moment both of you guys y'all probably don't me remember this but y'all were like oh my goodness fir Stone you sound just like Lou Holtz and right after uh Speedy came to me and said hey will you do a college football uh kickoff segment with us in 2010 which was ironically the year that Cam Newton provided plenty of content for That season and so oh yeah came in came in in 2010 did that segment with you guys and the first one was a hit and the irony that this guy over here is is sitting here uh Mark Garnett because Mark Garnett was a part of the second segment the first segment was a big hit and everybody had asked that y'all do it again so y'all reached out said hey can y'all please do it again he was actually here for the second segment which is when I really went into full suited Dr Lou mode like he was on ESPN at the time at halftime and I did like a a full-on commentary instead of just some some random jokes I did a full-on commentary and did a motivational speech to the University of Alabama that one blew up and ended up on the front page of Sports illustrated's website and that one was the was kind of the viral one I think it was a couple hundred thousand views in the first week and y'all said hey we let's come back start doing this and and you know we we'll pay you big time money so much to where you can retire from everything else and uh and so we we came back did it and and uh you know the the audience enjoyed it and it has been so much fun and it's also given me a conversation starter with so many people I mean you you reach so many people and and so now it's it's cool I was telling my wife this morning how this silly segment as as as honestly as dumb as it is uh it has given me a great platform to connect with people to then share the message of Jesus Christ with them which is what my heart's all about I know I know the the character of Dr sometimes doesn't doesn't really doesn't really shine that way well that's quite a connection quite a connection but but it has been it's been such a a fun journey of of coming up with you know new college football it's it's been a challenge it is a brutal assignment to come up with 15 to 20 minutes of college football comedy over the duration of 15 years and probably we're talking you know 50 50 segments it's a lot of comedy and uh the sports Zars they they can they can vouch for this uh come coming up with funny stuff and and filling air time it's it's a lot but but I you know it's been an honor to be on the show for that long and you know I'm I'm just glad to to hopefully provide some some laughs for some people out there and you know people always ask me how did you come up with the leprechauns tell me tell me about the leprechaun dreams well I remember specifically it was like the third or fourth week of doing this and I'm like my gosh I've committed to doing this every and and I got to come up with some cont and and so so I went and got some uh some uh of the devil's lettuce and I no I'm just kidding I did not do that I not people people think people think I I'm I'm you know on some kind of drug when I'm coming up with these things but I really I just stared at my computer screen and I said you know what Lou Holtz loves the Notre Dame Fighting ours and they are they are connected to leprechauns it's time to pull out some leprechaun dreams and they've they've been funny enough they've been kind of the hit over the years with people so God good it's been it's and of course you were asking the the the question earlier Bubba so the timeline does that agree with Patrick Campbell what he just said about the time so Rob Ingram is here Rob come isend and so so Rob Ingram like we just heard we knew Lance's brother first Rob because he was a salesperson and you bubba you were saying that there were you had some conversation with Rob about about his brother doing Lou does Rob do Lou as well or did you do an impression to Rob I don't I don't do Lou guys all so you you did have he's always been the brothers that didn't have the list okay so so yeah so so you you got him to be this was too strong to ever be on the radio so so you're the one that stupidest it's the stupidest segment on the radio I don't know why anybody listens to this idiot okay hey so but you were you were selling the show at the time and you you're the one that brought him through I was actually I was I was selling the show when the cumulus Club was available do you remember this thing where they would we could bundle all the all the stations but I actually sold exclusively at the time for um rock 995 and 10 well I guess it was 100 1077 thex at the time which then switched to 100.5 so I worked for Davis Hawkins and uh Daddy D yeah laner um uh what was L's last name anyway she was my first sales manager but I had been in Montgomery at wlwi there before that that was really my first job out of college so that's but you did put this together you brought him in as an inro yeah and I think I I I was the one that said you need to really do this in front of them because I think you've got something here he did it one day while we were at our lake house at Lake Martin and um man it we were just all like wow that's actually really good and this could be something and um I guess I was right so yeah you were I remember this guy's the Gen this guy's the genius behind the genius behind every genius is a is an older brother genius I'm just I'm just the guy that walks around and tells people Dr Lou is my brother and I get some like oh that's awesome I get some like oh I've been there so you we're familiar with that response you're with a group that we we work with quite a bit now you're with Lifeline children services right Lifeline children services yeah and so incredible organization we've done a lot with them and I did want to take a moment on September the 7th you guys are going to be having a children's run for one and uh it's going to be in the Birmingham market around in Homewood at uh at Dawson uh and you can register by going to Lifeline child.org run so this this is just another fundraiser and a lot of people don't know you guys help people with adoption and all that right and so um this is our annual run for one that benefits our Global orphan Care Ministry and so uh Global orphan care there's 153 million orphans in the world and uh this uh run everyone that participates in our 5K which is you know adults whoever wants to run 5K and we also have the um the CH the kids front Fun Run U adults can be a part of that too and then we also do a run where you are so for those that aren't at in 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