This is old boys, and I wanted to tell you some more about old or hot shot old Billy Cypress that I was telling you about on the last podcast And they you know hot shot is always up to something I don't mean that he's a bad boy because he ain't he's a he's a good old boy But he just you know he's fun loving and he's always you know doing something funny He's got this buddy down here named they called him junior I don't know what his name is but he's they always called him junior and They they two boys live about a half a mile across the field over there and junior's Junior's mama's name is Miss Green and his aunt's name is Miss White now that you know sounds funny But that's the way it is that her is a his mama is Miss Green and his aunt's name is Miss White Well, I'm always getting them boys to work for me I like to have them work for me when I have stuff to do down here because well They're good workers if you can keep in mind on they work now They they like to play and talk and you had to remind them You know to get back to work because they'll piddle around if you don't because they just like the you know joke and and play But they are good workers and Besides, you know, they need the money because I ain't neither one of them got no daddy's You say I told you about Billy Cypress's daddy on the last podcast and I don't know where Junior's daddy is But anyway, he don't live around here. So but they come down here and work for me From time to time and sometimes the the women you'll miss Miss Green and Miss White or maybe hot shots Mama Miss Cypress will come down here and work for me too. See I've got this Pecan Grove down here and It's a it's a big old grove of pecans been down here a long time I take care of them because they're real real good trees They have these big old paper shale pecans and so we pick them up and take them up here to the stores And I make you know real good money off of them pecans every year and they just they bear Real good pecans so I get them boys to come down here and help me pick them up It takes us a good long while sometimes the women will come down here too and help and so this particular Time that I'm thinking about well old love oh hot shot and Junior come down here and hot shot I mean a Junior's mama Miss Green and and his am Miss White they was down here And I don't know where hot shots mama was but him other two women was down here and they was helping pick up Pecan's and they kept having to get after a hot shot and Junior because they kept messing around You know like boys will do you know boys will be boys and so Miss White kept telling Junior that she was going to whoop him if he didn't get to work So they would work a while and then they'd get to play it again But anyway about a limb a clock they sent hot shot and Junior to the store to get him some bologna and bread and And I told Miss Miss White and Miss Green both I told him I said now y'all plum welcome to eat with me I said I don't know what I've got in there, but I said whatever I've got y'all welcome to half of it You know Flossy Butts comes down here and cooks My dinner you know every day and I pay your for it and you don't never know whatever which is gonna cook But it's always good whatever it is and so I told him that they was welcome to come down here But I mean to eat with me, but she said no that she was gonna let the boys get some bologna and breads and they liked it So she sent him to the store about limb a clock and she said they was gonna work Until the boys got back and so they went on around the corner down there and passed my house There's two ways to get to to Carl's place You I told you about Carl's place before there's two ways to get there and one way you can go around the road Do Carl's place and it's about two miles down there if you go by the road But you can go out across the field and there's a foot bridge what they call a foot log Which is just a tree that has fell across the creek over there and you can cross on that foot log and it's about a half mile over there So them boys they was gonna cut across the field because it was so much closer So they was gone and they was gone They don't take that long to go to that store down there if you go the way them boys was going But it got on to be about about dinner time about about 12 o'clock And I told the woman to get the ladies again I said now I don't know where them boys is but said if y'all want to come on in and eat and she said no We'll just stay out here They'll be back in a little bit or at least they better be she said so anyway, I went on in the house and ate and come back out and them boys still hadn't come back yet and so It got on about two o'clock and Directly I looked across the field and I seen them boys coming and Miss White she commits to cutting her a switch and I said now miss White You you ought to wait and talk to him and see what it is that you know why they're late I said they could have you know a good reason and she said yeah, I'm gonna listen to him She said I'm gonna listen to him and then I'm going to whip him so Them boys come on across the field and about they stopped about oh 50 yards away and and miss White said you come on here and and he said Mama I didn't and she said come on here and tell me where you been so they finally had to you know and they come on across and And it was a long story for them to get it out But what had happened was this them boys had seen this they've got this movie show down here That's been open a long time and they show these old movies that was made long time ago and so down here they were showing the movie Robin Hood and So them boys had seen that movie and so they went across that foot log and they was playing Robin Hood And they was trying to knock each other off of the log and Somehow or other Junior got knocked off the log You know hotshot is a big old boy and he knocked old Junior off with Junior's a big old boy too But anyway that particular time hotshot got the best of Junior and knocked him into the water And so then they got back on the log and went on to the store But when they got to the store they found out that they had lost the money and so They come back looking for the money and of course They first first place they looked was in that that creek over there where they had been playing And I don't know if it was there or not, but they didn't find it well as it turned out before they got to the I've got this old Mule up here at the barn that He's a I don't he helps me get in wood and stuff and he pulls you know I'll look him on to a log and a Mule up you pull the log up to the house, but you can't write him I know I wouldn't even think about riding him because he'll start booking and if he can't book you off Then he'll run up against something and drag you off And so them boys got to messing with that mule and dare at each other and so oh hotshot was gonna ride the mule and he got on the mules back and Of course the mule bucked old hotshot off and then Junior told him he didn't know how it wasn't much of a cowboy And so he got on the mules back and the mule drug go Junior He went run up against a shed and Junior didn't have no choice But to get off of them until you know fall off the mule otherwise that mule was gonna he's gonna get hurt again that shed So anyway, they they was messing with that mule So they thought maybe they had lost the money up there when they was messing with that mule But that was where they had been so long They had gone to the store to get that baloney and braid and then they lost the money and they kept looking for it Because didn't they want to face them women had without you know some baloney and bread and so Soon as Junior got through his story Miss white took a hold to Junior and give him a weapon and Miss Green She she gave it to a hotshot and of course the whites and greens you know they just the What I meant to say was that Miss Green and hotshots mama miss Cypress is just as close you know as they can be they they know each other real good and so she give a hotshot a woman and So anyway Junior and hotshot both got a whooping that day and it was it was funny because the women Miss Green is about 4 foot 10 little obitie skinny woman and Miss White She's about about the same height, but she's a you know chubby chunky chunky woman And it was funny to see them big old boys both of them is about 6'2 And they were running around and around the mama's like like kids you know you've seen kids they'll be you'll be getting a whooping and they'll be running around hollering and They that's what them boys was doing They woman had them by the hand and she was laying that switch on them and you could hear them holler for a mile And she wasn't hurting them because you couldn't hurt them to all boys as big as they are But they was you know they was embarrassed because they was getting a whooping in front of me But anyway, they give it to him good that day and that just that I was telling you that because that shows you the kind of Bo is them Bo is he is they just they just full of the devil is what they are So I'm gonna stop here But I'm gonna tell you some more about him in the next podcast. I'm gonna tell you what How hot shot made a hero out of his self and I'll tell you that in the next podcast This is old blower and I've told you that I was gonna tell you one other story about old hot shot Which I aim to do and this will be the I just tried to get you acquainted With the people that live down here because I think they're interested in people I really do but oh hot shot You know I told you about him last time and I talked to uncle Fred the other day and uncle Fred said that he was gonna make sure that Hot shot was well Prepared forward that he was a his future was secure is what he said meaning that he's gonna try to help him See he likes old hot shot no Fred.
He's the gruffiest man that you've ever heard I mean you think he didn't he just didn't like nobody but he just real grumpy It's just way he's always been but if you show uncle Fred that you're trying to help yourself He'll help you and that's what he aims to do for hot shot But I'm getting off the subject what I meant to tell you was that old hot shot his only fault if you could call it that is that he he's a big shot he wants to be a big shot and he's always bragging and so he he was out at school there and he the kids was Was raising him about Getting thrown off of that mule and he said you know He told him he didn't get though off the mule He said that he jucked off the mule and they come in slapping at him and and oh Junior said no You did not shot that mule Thowed you and and one one thing led to another and one word led to another and finally hot shot said that he could ride That mule anytime he wanted to said he just didn't want to and some of them said well Why don't you do it to him and he said well? I don't want to and of course they got to laugh and at him saying well you couldn't and so forth So hot shot found out he didn't have no choice but but to go up there and ride that mule and You know you have to you had to add more in for that because I see he's uh He he's not scared of anything hot shot to take any day of you dare him He'll do anything it might get him killed one of these days But anyway, I didn't know anything about this of course See if they was just doing that up at school and I didn't know anything about it first thing I knowed about it was I think it was a week ago week ago Monday I believe it was and I was having breakfast I just built the cows and I was Having breakfast well Emily had already gone to school and I heard this racket out in the yard there and I went out there and it was about Old ten people standing around there and and so I asked him what they was doing and they said they was waiting on a hot shot So I didn't ask him no questions I went on back in the house and directly that doors got to get louder that racket got to Getting louder and louder and I went outside and I bet you they was 200 kids out there in the yard leaning on the fence and They wouldn't hurt nothing They were just talking and carrying on but and I said what in the world is going on up here And they said well mr. Porter didn't you hear they said oh hotshot is gonna ride your mule and I said the dickens You say and they said yeah, he he told us he was gonna do it well directly showed up Oh hotshot come along the road and you know He was he was dressed up fancy had his cowboy hat on and and had his uh, what he called? What he called chaffs?
He I don't worry he'd got that outfit, but he was dressed like one of them You know Western gun fighters and had that half pulled low over his his Face and all the kids was hollering at him and laughing at him and and I went over there and I said no hotshot What in the world are you doing? I said that mule has already told you one time and you coming back here? And he said that you'll never told me and I said no hotshot you can get away with telling some people that but you know You can't tell me that that mule will throw anybody I said and that mule gonna hurt somebody one of these days if you and you It might be you if you're gonna try to ride that mule I said that mule get you off of his back any way he can I said he'll run you into a shed or run you under a clothes Line or anyway to knock you off and he said oh I ain't worried about that mule and so I Said well hotshot I ain't gonna tell you what you can do I said if you want to ride the mule you go to it But I said if you get hurt don't blame me and he said well I ain't gonna blame you because I ain't gonna get hurt and so he You know, but strutted around there and bowled and and all the kids was laughing at him and you know I tell you something I have never tried to ride that mule But one time and that was about ten years ago, and I got on that mule back and he told me I mean just bucked me off just as quick as I got on and so I never did try to ride him no more And I've seen other people try to ride him We had this old boy named Luther and he was he got drunk one time and he was gonna ride that mule And that mule run him under a clothes line and drug him off and like to kill him But anyway, oh hotshot he bowed around there and So I led the mule out of the barn and I said all right hotshot here you go It's all up to you and so we didn't have a saddle for the mule because you know We didn't need one because anybody ride him, but we had a blanket and hotshot though that blanket Oh, well that mule's back and then he strutted around there some more and bowled and waved at everybody and took his hat off and put it back on and strutted around there and They was how I'm going hot shot go on hotshot well directly hot shot jumped on that mule back and He rode that mule out to the road and back and out to the road again and back And then he jumped off his back that mule didn't do a thing He just let hotshot ride him He is the only person that I know of in my life that has ever rode that mule and he just I guess that he just Showed the mule that he wasn't a friend and the mule didn't know what to do except that hotshot riding But that's all I can figure but he's he rode that mule and boy hotshots say he rode now He jumped off that mule back and he said I told you what did I tell you and of course I always you impressed and I wasn't impressed, but I was amazed I didn't think I didn't think he could do it. I thought he would get hurt I was afraid he would but anyway That just goes to show that you can't never know what's going to happen I would have bet anything in the world that hotshot was going to get thrown off that mule back, but it never happened