Stories from Cold Springs
This is a storytelling podcast that celebrates the creativity in everything from the mundane to the extraordinary. Creativity knows no bounds, and Stories from Cold Springs nurtures the story in all of us.
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Stories from Cold Springs
Stubbs Lucus - Pea Patch to HGTV
Authenticity and craftsmanship shine through every moment of our conversation with Daniel "Stubbs" Lucus, whose remarkable journey from rural poverty to HGTV recognition captivates from start to finish.
Stubbs (only his mamma calls him Daniel) takes us back to his childhood, where, at just 10 years old, he started his first business—growing and selling peas with help from his grandfather's mule.
His entrepreneurial spirit defined his unconventional path through life. When traditional education wasn't working, he convinced school officials to let him attend vocational training as an eighth-grader by threatening to quit.
Despite being told that "left-handed men aren't good at nothing [sic]," he discovered his talent for woodworking and began mastering the skills that would define his career.
The storytelling here is masterful as Stubbs recounts his evolution into one of the region's most respected cabinet makers, eventually landing him regular appearances on HGTV's "Hometown" show based in Laurel, Mississippi. Between tales of hunting adventures that led to hosting "Real South Hunting" for a decade and the hilarious accidental marriage proposal to his wife of 28 years ("The only thing I'd change about you would be your address"), we witness the authentic character of a man who built success through determination and skilled hands.
What resonates most is how Stubbs frames each challenge as an opportunity—whether paying for his children's births with watermelon farming proceeds or working 16-hour days to support five kids in his blended family. His story showcases the power of practical wisdom, an unwavering work ethic, and staying true to your roots.
Want to hear more? We do too; we've invited Stubbs back for part two in September. In the meantime, share and rate Stories from Cold Springs to help us delight even more folks with Mississippi's most authentic storytelling podcast.
*Check out Stubbs's craftsmanship on HGTV's Hometown or find his Real South Hunting channel on YouTube.
Hello everybody and welcome to Stories from Cold Springs. I'm your host, j Stephen Beam. This is a podcast where we concentrate on creativity and storytelling. I've got to tell you I'm extremely excited about our guest today. Storytelling I've got to tell you I'm extremely excited about our guest today. His name is Daniel Lucas, but if you call him Daniel Lucas, many people won't know who you're talking about, because his nickname is Stubbs Lucas. Thanks for dropping by, stubbs Lucas.
Speaker 1:Man, it's an honor. First of all, stubbs, tell us how you got that name? Oh gosh, that's been a long time ago. That was my, my grandpa. We called him Dutt and his name was Cicero, but anyway, cicero. He was a cutter now and, of course, when I was just just a little boy, I was one of the first grandkids actually the second, but you know the ten little fingers, ten little toes, two brown eyes and a stubby little nose. Well, every time I walked by him he was going to grab my nose and say I have a little stubby nose. Then it went to stubby, then somewhere along the road it went to Stubbs. Now there's all kind of rumors floating around about Stubbs, but that's where it started, I think.
Speaker 2:I've heard some of them. I wouldn't doubt it. You know your life, and all that you've accomplished fascinates me, so maybe you could start with how you grew up.
Speaker 1:Right, very, very poor, very poor. Four brothers and sisters Lived in a little two-room house. Great life, I'd do it again, ain't no doubt about it. By the time I was probably 10 years old, I started my first business and that was a pea patch of my very own. My grandpa had a little plow mule and me and that little mule.
Speaker 1:What was the mule's name? Do you remember, gosh? I think we just called him Red, it's all right. Yeah, he was a small mule. I called him a jackass and that would make my grandpa so mad. He did not want his mule called a jackass and he used a lot more prime words than that when I would call his mule a jackass. But his little mule I had I had started had pea patch.
Speaker 1:Daddy helped me get planted and daddy was sick. The whole life he had got down was in the hospital with kidney stones or his back or something. I don't recall that. So I was just a kid and, um, my peas needed plowing, what we would call laying by. They'd been plowed one time and you understand about laying by, but it was time to lay the peas by. Well, daddy wasn't there.
Speaker 1:Well, I was a little kid to have a mule in the field. Well, I went and asked my papa my papa, I did not call him a jackass when I went to borrow him. I asked him, could I borrow his mule, you know? And he said yeah. So he went and hooked him up. Well, I was just a kid With a little mule when you first hooked him up, he liked to walk real fast. So did I. So the faster we walked, the quicker we got through. So after about the second round, the little mule wanted to slow down and I was putting a whipping on him. So it would probably have been an hour. And you may remember these times Back then, when you was in the field working, you'd get a quart of ice water and a brown paper bag and she'd put three of.
Speaker 1:My grandma would put two or three cubes of ice in it, that brown paper bag. You'd unscrew that lid on that jar and it would be so good. My grandpa come walking up. I was behind the house, house, bunch of hedges there, and that little mule was so tired he was about to fall down. I had with him every time he slowed down.
Speaker 1:That didn't work out well for me, no, but uh, the mule lived, it didn't hurt him and, uh, I got the peas plowed and that was the year that I was in business for myself, that was my. I bought the fertilizer, I bought the seed, I done the plowing and I sold the peas and I started, 10, 11 years old, my first little business right there. Did you make a profit? I did, I did. I don't remember, of course, how I had the time. Uh, I don't remember just what I bought, but it was probably a can of Skol and you know something, I don't know what, a pair of rubber boots, maybe Dog collar, who knows? Imported stuff, I'm sure. Yeah, that was my first run, and I know. Then, you know it's pretty good being in business for yourself. You could kind of do as you pleased, anyway, you know.
Speaker 2:So you were in school? Oh yeah, Did you do okay in school?
Speaker 1:Oh, for the most part. When I went I done really good, yeah. After I got up, probably about the seventh grade, things changed. There was, all of a sudden, there were girls everywhere and these girls had blossomed. I remember you know what I'm talking about. Oh yeah, and it was so hard for me to, I don't know, I just couldn't concentrate. So I did fall back a little bit then.
Speaker 1:But oddly, you should ask and this is not premeditated, y'all doc just asked me. But uh, I made it to the eighth grade and so I went to the counselor the first day of eighth grade and I said I need to go to Vo-Tech. He said we don't do eighth grader in Vo-Tech. I said oh, okay, I said I'll just quit. Then and he said what do you mean? You'll just quit? I said I'll quit school. I mean what do you mean? You just quit? I said I won't quit school. I mean I, I'm not here. I'm not gonna do very good in these books. If I could get down there where there wasn't no girls everywhere, I could learn me a trade, but up here I I'm occupied. So he told me, you know, he couldn't allow that I was too young. I said well, I'll see you later. I'm gone, I won't be back.
Speaker 1:Well, that evening of course I'm gonna get home. But on the bus he called me in his office. He said what's your daddy gonna say, you know, if you go home and tell him you quit school, when he's gonna say, son, what took so long? He really wonders why I'm going anyway able-bodied to work and doesn't have a good job. But anyway, he said, I think I can get you in vo-tech. So I did go to vo-tech for four or five years, however many years it took. After that I went to welding trade and then auto mechanics and did graduate high school. Sure did.
Speaker 2:So you graduated high school. Do you have any businesses for yourself at that point in your life, or are you just going to school?
Speaker 1:I did. I mean, I kept farming. I farmed what we call truck farming all the way through the little hardware store in Summerall, right downtown, Pete Waite's old store. You know the one I'm talking about well.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I went to work there during the school week. I could walk to the hardware store at school and then catch a ride home. I'd catch a ride with somebody coming through, because we closed at five and if it'd be somebody coming through town it would give me a ride. And it wasn't. That was when I was 15. So I got my first truck $150, f-150 Stepside. I got it and then I had a way to make money to buy gas and I had a truck. So just a few times that I had to catch a ride home until I got me a truck.
Speaker 2:Let's go back just a moment. You mentioned truck farming. Some of our listeners may not know exactly what you mean by that. What is truck farming?
Speaker 1:Okay, truck farming, what we call it. Now, what I've raised is that's that'll be when you plant peas, potatoes, corn. Uh, you see the old guys sitting side the road with their truck. They may have watermelons or cantaloupes or peas. That's what we always call truck farming. So I'm, I grow squash, I grow, I growed. We'll get to that later, but the watermelons paid for two of my kids to be born. They sure did.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you bought your truck, mm-hmm. At that point you're still at Votac.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, oh yeah, okay oh yeah.
Speaker 2:And so the years passed, mm-hmm, and you graduated, mm-hmm. Was everybody happy at your house that they had a high school graduate, or did they not care one way or the other?
Speaker 1:I don't know that anybody went to the graduation and probably Mama did. Mama was really proud of me, she was, and Daddy was too. They were proud of me. I was the first to graduate, but I don't remember them going to the graduation. But no, they could have. That's back when we as a matter of fact, they went back to that this year at Summer Hall to graduate and on the football field. That's where we went to graduate and was on the football field and we all went to sit down and there wasn't no seat for me. It was not a seat. So that is when uh, mr ww downs, that was an interesting night way, how we cried it around I got a girl to sit in my lap, which did not bother me, not in the least, but I told the girl sitting there next to me I'll never forget mr marshall lot, she was a ale lucas and light. We were sitting side by side. I said you can, you can just sit on my lap here, won't be a problem. And, mr W W Downs, though, everybody knows W W.
Speaker 2:He was the principal.
Speaker 1:Assistant principal. Okay, for years, years and years. And he got up and announced he even said I think he told that night he'd be retiring because he said he would not retire until he'd seen Stubbs Lucas graduate. And he was the one that called the name out and he said I didn't know how many more years I was going to have to stay, but since Stubbs is graduating. And then he said I present Stubbs Daniel. I don't think he even said on my diploma it says Daniel in parentheses, stubbs Daniel. I don't even. I don't think he even said on my diploma it says Daniel in parentheses, stubbs Lucas.
Speaker 2:Now I've got to ask you were going to Votek, so you were away from the girls, but did you have girlfriends in high school?
Speaker 1:Not particularly, and that's another story. When I got down there and I just saw one of them, you'd never believe this. I went to Weldon and when I walked in the door there was three girls taking welding. I don't know if they'd want me to mention her name or not. I wouldn't. I just seen one of them yesterday. Yesterday we are still friends to this day. As pretty as a speckled puppy under a fig leaf was three of the prettiest girls you've ever seen in Votek.
Speaker 2:So your plan didn't exactly work out, then it really did.
Speaker 1:I wasn't mad about it. We stayed in Votek together two or three years. We took and had the best time, and I did learn a lot about welding. When I finished that class I could have certified anywhere in the state.
Speaker 2:Okay so you graduated.
Speaker 1:I did. What did you do? Then Went straight to Cochran. At that point I had quit the hardware store and moved up to get more hours at a service station, so that was changing flats all the whole nine yards. I at a service station, so that was a chain and flats all the whole nine yard. I had a complete line. I was the guy just like on the old show Barney Five. Yeah, oh yeah, I was gooper. Oh, when you pulled up I watched you wind chill, gassed you up, checked you all. We had that service station downtown. Some of it's tore down now Worked there for I don't know, maybe a couple of years.
Speaker 2:So you worked there? You mentioned carpentry. How did you learn that trade?
Speaker 1:Simply again backtracking a little. The summer, when I was 14, I went and worked with Jody Williamson Jody, he's still a hero of mine to this day. He was I don't know, he was a cat, but he was a framer. And he asked me to, you know, have him have a wounded job. I said yeah, so that was the first year that I worked carpentering After I got graduated. There's a little story with that, of course.
Speaker 1:Tommy Reed Williamson, my hero was Toot Williamson, and Toot asked me. He said you want to go to work with us? Well, back in the day Tommy Reed was the man, he was the best carpenter around. I thought, man, if I could go to work with Tommy Reed, I mean I could get three bucks an hour. I mean they ain't nothing that could stop me. I went out there and I didn't work for just a few minutes. He looked around and he said son, if I'd have known you were left-handed yesterday, you'd be home watching cartoons, because I ain't never seen a left-handed man good at nothing. So I think that may have motivated me, just to show him that a little short left-handed man could be a carpenter. I think red helped me again. I still love red this day red still. Uh, I still see him and to this day I still call him paul red you ever bring up the fact that you work for him and he fired you.
Speaker 1:No, he didn't fire me. He said he wouldn't have never hired me if he would have known I was left-handed. You stayed with him.
Speaker 2:Oh, absolutely Okay, I misunderstood. I quit him. Yeah, you quit him. Why did you quit him eventually?
Speaker 1:Okay, that's me and Dito, my buddy Dito. He passed away a couple of years ago, uh, fell off a ladder, uh, still carpentering. Of course I'm still carpentering. But one day we were working and uh, it started raining. So we kept our nail aprons in Red's truck and uh, it started raining. He said we're going to another job. It was in the summertime, it was hot. It was one of them little thundershowers. He said it ain't raining over at Lake Serene, we're going to go deck that house. We had two or three houses going. I got thinking, man, I said I don't want to deck a house today, I just don't want to. So I went and got a red truck. I said I ain't going to deck no house. He said what you going to do? I said well, there was a fellow called me yesterday about buying my truck. I'm going to quit, sell my truck, ride my motorcycle the rest of the summer and enjoy life. I was 18, 19. So he jumped out and got his. That lake brought out 19. So he jumped out and got his. Now, they were not a red truck. He said I quit too.
Speaker 1:We were working in Hattiesburg. I just talked to Curtis Cornett a week or two ago. It was his house. He remembers every bit of this, perfect. We get out to Hardy Street and Red's turning left. We pull up beside him and wave at him, turn right. He told one of the boys riding with him. He said you can tell them two this evening. They're fired. He didn't fire us. We had done quit that night. We didn't have a phone.
Speaker 1:That night I heard Dito's motorcycle. He lived a couple of 300 yards down in the woods from us so I was sitting on the porch and I heard his motorcycle crank up. He pulled up to the house. He said well, that's the same day. We quit now. But that night he said we got to go back to work. In the morning I said what in the world? And we just quit. We'd quit like at dinner. We'd rode our motorcycles all evening. I sold my truck that evening. So I had money, I had a good motorcycle and I didn't want to work. He said no, griffin and Kenny Ray. Griffin just called and they need us to help them. I said we ain't got nowhere going. He said Griffin bringing us a truck. I said he's bringing a truck. He said he'll be here in a few minutes. He pulled up in an orange. I forgot. We named the truck something eventually. But we didn't even get one day off. We me and Dito went right back to framing the next day we intended to take the summer off.
Speaker 2:Didn't work out for us it didn't work out.
Speaker 1:You were 18. 18 or 19. I may have been 19 then. I think I was 19. We'd done worked about a year with Red. I got out of school 18 and worked the summer, winter, and it was the next summer, so I was probably 19.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Okay, then what happened, oh gosh.
Speaker 1:Then I worked with everybody in the country I worked. All the Williamson's were framers. I worked with all the Williamson's and the last one I worked with was Sebring Room. Sebring was framing and trimming. I decided to go in business myself. Randall Russell teamed up. He called me one night and said I need help decking a house Because me and him had worked with Bud Weidson. I said who's building it? He said I am. I said all right. The next morning me and him went and decked a 12-12 house. I guess me and him stayed together a year, maybe a little over. When I quit him or when we separated, I went strictly to trimming cabinets.
Speaker 2:You learned that on the job.
Speaker 1:I did. I did when we went to work. You remember I talked about Kenny Ray and Griffin.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:The second job I had they done cabinets. Kenny Ray, to this day, is the cabinet man. You can ask anybody around here to this day is the cabinet man. You can ask anybody around here. The 70s to mid-80s Kenny Ray built everybody's cabinets, so he was one to learn from. Now, never built a cabinet with him, just being around it Just listening to the talk, watching what he's doing. What little bit of time that I had to watch. I picked up enough until I knowed how to start. Then, of course, I had to learn on my own.
Speaker 2:Well, if I ask people around here who is the best cabinetmaker around here, they say Stubbs Lucas.
Speaker 1:Well, I appreciate that we have built I don't know how many hundreds of sets now, Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds. For sure it's been good to me, yeah.
Speaker 2:Okay, well, just share with us anything else you feel, like stories or whatever.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, we're talking about that. The cabinet business has got something to do with everything I've ever done in my life, every connection I've ever had. It goes right back around to the cabinet business. As you know, I'm on the hometown show HGTV. It goes right back around to the cabinets. I've done the pilot show for Ben and Aaron with Ben and Aaron on the hometown show.
Speaker 2:So they redo houses right.
Speaker 1:They do. That's right. That's HGTV, hometown Laurel Mississippi. I imagine it's still number one show on HGTV so you can catch me. I don't do them all, but you can catch me. Usually six to ten houses a year. I do the cabinets for them. Have a good time. They're good folks Just about everything. Real South Honey. When I got started with real south hunting as a realtor, sold brook, a house in some row, and then I was looking for somebody, a pro staff, on real south hunting. So back around you know the realtor and the cabinet. The realtor worked for me building cabinets before he was a realtor. So I got tied up with real south hunting and had that was 10 good years of my life. I've just I I'm gonna say quit them. I'm still an owner. I hadn't sold my part but I've kind of backed away from it just because you do on that show.
Speaker 1:I guess you'd call me the host, yeah, I guess, so I don't know when we were doing commentary. If you go to YouTube, you can probably see that I about, like today, done a lot of talking.
Speaker 2:Now.
Speaker 1:I done a lot of hunting. I had some really good times and met some of the most awesome people in the world. Did you grow up hunting and fishing? Absolutely, we eat quail like three times a day for three months out of the year. That's back when. Well, we'll throw back there a minute. Basketball Summerall was known for its basketball. They went to state championship in 1976. So that era of my life, the turkey tournament, thanksgiving was big. I mean, the gym was packed Standing around the floor. Everybody went to see Summer Hall play on the turkey tournament every year.
Speaker 1:Well, quail season opened Thanksgiving Day. You had Thanksgiving Day Friday and Saturday. Them three days caught us up for the year because me and my brother we cleaned everybody's quail. Everybody quail hunted but them men would come in at dark. They'd stop by and throw the quail out at our house because they wasn't cleaning quail. That night they was going to the ballgame, I can assure you. Well, mama, to this day I believe we could ask her she's never froze a quail in her life. She put them in salt water and dish pan and we eat them for breakfast, lunch and supper.
Speaker 1:Now, if Daddy didn't hunt for a day or two, we'd get ahead. That Thanksgiving week We'd get way ahead, so she'd have enough for the next week. And then daddy hunted every saturday and every evening that he could, and then they was always the ones that hunted. They just didn't want to prepare the quail. Well, they got dropped off at our house. Because we were poor five kids. I think people felt sorry for us. We didn't have much to eat. No, truthfully, not just saying that so people would just come by and drop off and mama can fry a quail oh, my goodness, she can fry one.
Speaker 2:So you had a lot of experience with hunting and fishing, I'm sure too, so you got on this show as a host with a great background of knowledge of that sport and, as I recall, you made a lot of trips to other areas of the country for, oh yeah, to film your hunting show and, oh yeah, see a lot of amazing things and hunt a lot of amazing animals I really, really did.
Speaker 1:I've got a wall full. I've got a wall full of turkeys and deer and we mainly hunted turkey and deer, which, uh, you know, I've always coon hunted, rabbit hunted, squirrel hunted. We'd done it all they was at one time. At one time I had a dog for everything. I had bird dogs, quail dogs, duck dogs, rabbit dog, coon dog, squirrel dog, you name it. I had a dog for everything at one time and I always enjoyed hunting with the dogs. I enjoyed that Deer hunting with dogs. For a few years probably 10, 10, 12 years I deer hunted with dogs. We didn't work them winters. When you get involved with dog hunting, work will get in your way like that. So I probably went honest to goodness four or five years that I didn't work, from the time deer season opened to the time deer season closed. I dog hunted every day, except Sunday. Mama wouldn't allow that. No, we went to church and ate Sunday dinner at Mama's. Yeah, couldn't do it.
Speaker 2:So you're in your 20s. Did you ever decide it may be time to find a woman and settle down?
Speaker 1:I did I married down. I did I married young. I did I married young at 21. I married a little local Local girl lived just across the field, she was 17. I was 21. That lasted about 10 years. Got two wonderful kids that ended Then. It was, I thought at the time, her fault.
Speaker 2:Well, sure yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Probably don't feel exactly that way now. I may have had a little to do with it. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:As we get older, we get wiser, don't we?
Speaker 1:Well, I've come to learn, you know, I still think most of it was her I'm joking, it was mostly me, but we parted ways. I didn't like being single, doc. That didn't work out good for me. Neither did I stay single very long, well that's one of my favorite stories.
Speaker 2:Yeah, About you. That you told me one time Made you tell it to me a couple of times. I just wanted to hear you say it over and over. So tell us about your present wife. Nan and I was trying to think through this story and y'all had a date. Had you known her before?
Speaker 1:I did. I did Our kids, kind of got us back together. I had known Nan through school. Of course she was four or five years under me, so I noticed she was a captain of the cheerleaders. You know, she was a oh, she's a little doll and still is Beautiful girl. And my oldest little girl kept telling me Daddy, don't worry about it, I'm going to stay with Miss Nan this weekend. And then she told me, she said I want you to meet Miss Nan, and I really and truly was not interested in meeting nobody. And I said I don't really need to meet Miss Nan. Well, it worked around there a month or two, a couple or three months, and so I take Noelle to a little function. And she said come meet Miss Nan. Literally. I said literally. I said oh god, I'm going to meet miss nan. She's divorced too. I said I really don't need no drama in my life at this time. I'm finally free. And when I seen miss nan, I said oh nan little, oh, oh. So I didn't make a big deal.
Speaker 1:But a couple of nights later, a couple of nights later, I was standing out. It had got rather late. I was standing out by my truck. I'll never forget, never forget. And it was off the hip. It wasn't premeditated. I was just standing there, I drank my truck and I'd been sitting in the house and it was hot in there to me, it was cold weather and it was big frost on the windshield. It was 1 or 2 o'clock in the morning and I was leaving and I just you know how you feel somebody looking at you. I looked up and I was standing at her door.
Speaker 2:And what were you doing at her house? Had y'all been on a?
Speaker 1:date. Oh yeah, oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 2:Okay, was that your first?
Speaker 1:date? Probably the second or third. It was right when we Okay, so she's standing in the door she's standing in the door Boy.
Speaker 1:She is pretty Standing there with that light. She's just glowing, oh yeah. And I look up and see her and she's looking at me and I pull up pretty close to her house when I park and she said can I ask you something? I said, absolutely, ask away. She said tonight, if there was one thing you could change about me, what would it be? And I mean time she said it. I said the only thing I can think of would be your address and you could just see it, just go from her head to her throat. And she eased the door shut and didn't say another word. She took it that I asked her to marry me and it wasn't but a few days we got married.
Speaker 2:Yeah, did you take it that?
Speaker 1:way, I guess, so I was pretty well impressed.
Speaker 2:It was yeah For sure.
Speaker 1:And how long ago was that About oh gosh? That's probably been 27, 28 years now, so it's been a good marriage?
Speaker 2:Oh, absolutely.
Speaker 1:Absolutely, it has.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so she had children from before. You had children from before. You had children from before Mm-hmm, did you have any children?
Speaker 1:together. We did, we did. She had two, I had two, we had one together. It was like having two sets of twins. When we married, she got a four-year-old, eight-year-old, I had a four-year-old, eight-year-old. So I got two sets of braces, two, I won't say a dark spot in my life. That's when I disappeared. I disappeared about 10 years there and I worked 12 to 16 hours a day. I didn't dog hunt, I got rid of my dogs. Dan was born about a year and a half after we married. So I went from two kids with nothing, no bill in this world, to five kids, and you know, and the girls growing up. You know, by the time they got 10 years old, I was spending money on them and then it just elevated as they got older.
Speaker 1:But yeah, I had to work about 10 years. Actually it's kind of a. If I tell this story it'll be about 10 years. You'll say, well, how'd you get from 31 to 45? What happened then? I don't really know. I just worked, Just worked. I just worked, and that's the truth. I just worked. I started wearing shoes when me and Nan were married. She had never seen a man go back with it all the time and it would embarrass her. So I got used to wearing shoes and I just it was a changing point for me all the way around I went to work, steady, uh, before that I worked when I needed to yeah because I didn't never want to, so when I needed to, I worked and I provided.
Speaker 1:Now, we were not poor. I had money all the time, not a lot of money, but we was not on food stamps. We were not.
Speaker 1:We didn't take any benefits right I was gonna tell you a while ago my farming paid for my kids to be born. I'd plant me a watermelon patch. I know I may be going over on time, but you know I went. I went to the doctor and you know they said, uh yeah, how much. It was gonna be, six thousand dollars, something. I said I'll pay you in in june and the baby was going to be born in july. They said, well, we expect monthly. I said I don't have monthly. I'll pay you a lump sum in june. The baby's going to be born july. She'll actually come july 14th.
Speaker 1:I said the last of june or the very first of july, when my watermelons come in, I'll pay, pay you the six thousand dollars. And the doctor, the receptionist, we don't do that. So I went and talked to the doctor. I didn't know him. I said, doc, I don't know you and you don't know me, but I tell you right now I'm a man of my word it doesn't matter if I have to borrow it what I got to do. I'll pay you by the 10th of July. You'll be paid in full. Told the lady whatever he says, do it. Sure enough, when I sold watermelons I went and gave them $6,000 in cash, counted it out in $100 bills. And that's the way Noelle, my oldest, that's the way I paid for her and the youngest, I paid both of them watermelons and I paid the other one with cabbage cabbage fill. So truck plumbing paid for my kid to be born. Yep.
Speaker 2:That's when you're at the end here. Do you have any more particular stories you wanted to be sure you could talk about today? We could go, I know we could go. That was a dangerous question.
Speaker 1:That was a dangerous question because I don't want to give you a bad name for having too long a podcast.
Speaker 2:Yeah Well, let me ask you this Again Real South Hunting can be found on YouTube, yes, sir, and they'll see. They still can see some episodes with you on there, oh, absolutely, oh, yeah, for years.
Speaker 2:Look for Daniel Stubbs Lucas on there. He's a first-rate carpenter and a first-rate cabinet maker, a good, good friend and truly a man that you can depend on, and sometimes there doesn't seem to be a lot of those in this world for us sometimes, but he's one of those. Thank you, stubbs. Yes, sir, stopping by and sharing your life story amongst other stories.
Speaker 1:If you get the feedback, I'm not opposed to picking up and going again. If you get the right feedback and anybody wants to hear any more about what old Sub is doing or what he's doing me and Doc. Every time we get together and Doc knows this we talk usually for hours. Doc's got good stories too. I have to one-up him every time that I can, but Doc's got good stories.
Speaker 2:We grew up very similarly, but he's had a more exciting life. I have to admit that. Once again, we thank you for joining us. Be sure to join us next month when our next podcast will drop. They drop on the 7th of every month and always have interesting people of various backgrounds. I promise you you won't be bored. So once again, thanks, and see you next time.
