This is Old Bloess and I'm coming at you again. I'm gonna give you another podcast and I like to do these podcasts you're regular but the reason that I don't is because well this little old community of wildwood down here is kind of a slow community and we've got kind of a easy way of living and don't much happen down here. So the truth of the matter is that the reason I haven't done a podcast lately is because ain't nothing happened down here. So I ain't had nothing that I could tell you and my way of looking at stuff is that if you ain't got nothing to say well the best thing to do is not say nothing.
That's always been my way of looking at it but I wanted to tell you a little bit about what's going on down here. Now first off I heard tell that Jimmy Vanderstig was getting married. Now I don't know if that's true or not but that's the gossip in the community. I don't know who he's married who he's gonna marry but I think it's true that he has been courting somebody heavy and I don't know who it is but I haven't seen Jimmy lately but he is a good old boy and I hope I hope he does marry somebody somebody that's able to you know to talk to him and to get him you know straightened out because Jimmy has a kind of a well what they call a happy go lucky way of looking at stuff and somebody needs to well what I'm trying to say is that he needs to get a little more purpose in his life you know take on a little responsibility and try to make something out of his self because Jimmy is a good boy and he has a heck one heck of a mechanic he can fix a car or a truck or a tractor and but he's from his daddy is you know kind of well to do and daddy is the the banker down here and Jimmy just you know for the longest time thought that he didn't have to do nothing that he could just just you know live off of off of his daddy well I guess he could if he wanted to do that but you know everybody needs a purpose in life they need something that they they you know can be proud of themselves for and Jimmy is like I say he's a real good mechanic and so what he needs to do is to put that that ability and that knowledge to some use so I hope he does get married because I think somebody could help Jimmy because he's a good boy he really is Jimmy will well help you anyway he can so I hope he does get married and then the other thing I was going to tell you was that oh Houston forward is about to get married and I think I told you that Houston was he was in that golf or a Persian Persian golf or I think as a desert storm or some way he was in that war and he had an accident and lost his lost his vision over there in that war and come back over here and he was he was in Las Vegas for a while and no Carl you know Carl owns the the beer garden down here he's he's one of the richest men in his community if you want to know the truth and so Carl Houston is some kin to Carl I don't know what their kin is I think they his cousins or he might be Carl's brother no I don't I can't keep it can't keep it straight but anyway Carl wrote oh Houston and told him that if he wanted to come down here to wellwood that he'd get him a job and so Houston got on the train and come down here and old Carl put him in charge of that little store up there next to the beer garden and at the time that Houston come down here well it wasn't wasn't much of a store you know Carl sold some cold ranks and and candy and snacks and stuff like that but he turned it over to Houston and Houston lardstered it you know a couple times and he put in a whole line of groceries and made a big grocery store out of it and so he's making good money down there you know at that that grocery store now and he was he got interested in this teacher up here named well they call her to it's but her name is friend scene and so he's an veteran way I think I told you but the way he met her was that she was trying to teach square dancing up there at school and she was looking for somebody that know how to square dance well I think I told you that we used to you'll place the guitar and he's a real cracker jack musician and he told her that he know how to square dance not only diet but he knows how to call them square dances and so he got him to come down there to help them kids own them square dances and the first thing I know oh Houston was down there every day so he got interested in old friend scene and so they was you could see him out you know at the cafe down here and I used to see him when I'd go over to Memphis I'd see him over at that TGI Friday's over there and a lot of times I'd go in there to get me a hamburger and I'd see old Houston and she had a dribble with Houston over there and he was caught in heavy with the last I heard oh well Emily you know my girl she come in here and told me that Houston and friend scene was going to get married which didn't surprise me a whole lot because I know he was getting really really serious about her I didn't know you know whether she how she felt about Houston except I figured that she wouldn't be going out with him all the time if she wasn't interested so I hear now that they're going to get married I don't know when it's going to be but I sure do want to hear I want to be there when they do because they ain't too better people in this community than oh Houston and Francine and Francine teaches the kids of Paris school and everybody likes her and and you know Houston he runs the store down here but he works at the the beer garden couple nights a week and plays a guitar down there and like I told you before Houston knows every song that was ever sung I guess I mean least I never mentioned no song that he didn't know and people down there at that beer garden you know they'll come in there and they try to they want to see if they can find a song that Houston don't know and they ain't done yet so you know I'm talking about all the old timey country songs that has been sung you know on the Grand Ole Opry and Louisiana Hey Ride and places like that well they they'll holler out a song don't we Houston every week and Houston starts singing it so I just I hope that he I hope they do get married because I think they're two real good people and I think they'll be a real well they already good for the community you know they take their parts and oh oh Houston if if they're having a program somewhere he'll come down there and play he played for them kids down there two or three times you know when his putting on a show and they want to get to our player Houston can play the guitar he can play the bancher and he can play the fiddle and I mean I don't mean pick the rhythm I mean play him he can play him so he takes his he takes a real active part in the community so I wish the best for him and I sure want to be there when they do get married and so I want to tell you one other thing that happened down here that was kind of funny I told you about old Carl you know he runs his beer garden down here and Carl used to be a professional wrestler that's what he was when he started when he come down here he had been a professional wrestler and so what he done is he took his money and bought some land and and bought this old little little place down here that was kind of a it was old churches what it was original and he turned it into a beer garden and large that you know and so he he put this place in and he's made some out of it and they've tried to close him down a couple of times but he ain't having none of that you know Carl is a good feller but you just don't want to don't want to cross him he takes his part in the community too and he's give donations down here he's he's supported whatever there was in the community he don't go to church but if they're having some kind of activity in the church you know to raise money for somebody that needs money or for some some group of people or you know to give something to have some some kind of activity to provide money for some needy calls I'm trying to say well you'll call he always sends a donation down there anyway what I was leading up to was the fact that they was gonna this fella come to see Carl and he had a line of pinball machines that he wanted to put him into the to the to Carl's place down there and what he wanted to do was to lease them to Carl and Carl said no I said he didn't want nothing like that he said that he didn't want nothing that he didn't own down there he said he owned all the he had a jukebox down there and a shovel board that and that he had bought and said he wouldn't he didn't want to lease nothing down there he said now if the man wanted to sell him some pinball machines he said he'd buy a couple of them and the guy said well Carl you don't want to do that he said him pinball machines he's expensive said you probably couldn't afford them and Carl said well try me and said what do you want for him and the guy gave him a price and Carl said alright I'll take two of them well they got he tried to back out and Carl said no you said you'd sell them to me and he said you just bring them down here and he said I'll pay you your price well the guy he started he said well Carl you won't meet a service them for you because you know we know how to how they work and and we could do the service on them and Carl said okay he said if he if they need service and he said I'll call you so the man brought two pinball machines down here and Carl paid him for him and everything went on okay till a month later they had a little old bit of man to come down here with glasses little old short guy about five five and had his real thick glasses on and he come in down there and had the keys and he was gonna open up them pinball machines and Carl stopped him and he said well what are you doing these things don't need no servicing and he said I didn't call nobody and the guy said well this is regular service he said I service all the machines in that we we own and Carl said yeah but said you don't own these he said I paid for these and the man said well yeah but said we service them and Carl said well you ain't gonna service these he said if if they need service and he said I'll call you and you can come down here and fix them but he said unless they get broke he said I don't need you and the guy said well Carl they sit me down here and he said well you go back and you tell him what I said and that guy said Carl you about to get in a whole lot of trouble and you don't know it and Carl said well I've been in trouble before and he said you just go down there and tell him what I said and the guy said you don't want me to do that he and Carl took a step toward him and he said I told you to get on out of here and the guy of course he took off for the door then but he kept looking at back over his shoulder and saying you in trouble Carl you fixed it into real trouble and so Carl stopped his foot and the guy run out the door and got his car he was driving one of them little obitie mercedes oh one of mercedes it was a oh I can't remember the name of it Jimmy Van der Stig told me but anyway he went on way and two days later these two boys come down here grad big old boys come down here and they walked into Carl's place and they started toward the machines no Carl said oh no no minute what are you doing and they said well Carl we fixed the service these machines and he said I've already told you that these machines don't need servicing and said if they get broke he said I'll call you and the guy said well we ain't servicing them because they broke we come to get the money he said what we're supposed to do is get the money out of them and we supposed to take out our part and then it writes you a check for the rest of it he said that's the way it works said it works for all the places that we every machine that we release has the same rules and Carl said well you ain't least these machines and I paid for these and the guy took a step toward old Carl and had his buddy up there with a new grad big old man and he said Carl he said we just doing what we're told to do and we're gonna do it well about that time Carl retched out and he grabbed one of them with one hand and one hand with the other one one guy with one hand and one guy with the other one and he banged the heads together no he's been bored told me about this I wouldn't I wasn't there to see it happen but he's been bored told me about it he said you could hear their heads crack together said it sounded like two ripe coconuts and said it knocked them this is cold as wet they both fell out on the floor and said Carl got a hold to them and dragged them out to the truck and told them in the camp of their their truck they had one of them big old campers that they was driving they had a bunch of bunch of them pinball machines in there well Carl drug them out there and told them in the truck and I said well Houston did it did it do any serious damage to him and he said well I don't know he said Carl told me that they set there for about 15 minutes and finally one of them got it over there by the stirring wheel and said they drove off and said we heard nothing else from him and see these old boys they didn't they didn't know that old Carl used to be one of the wrestlers and he knowed he knowed just exactly how to you know to handle people you know what you could do if you if you know if you know you know he'd handled a lot of people that was a lot rougher than them boys so I don't think you'll I don't think we'll see any more of them and they ought to know to see if they'd acted right toward old Carl he would have done that but they was gonna impose a wheel on him and Carl wouldn't have another that so anyway that's what happened and I don't expect we'll see nothing else from him but oh Carl has got the machines and he aims to keep them and so that's the end of that story and I'm gonna get on out here I've already talked too long but I'll anytime anything happens down here or you can depend on me getting on this app and giving you a podcast to relate you know what's going on down here in wellwood