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Town Talk Church Point
A Taste of Nostalgia: Reliving the Flavors and Tales of Buggy Town
In this episode we did something a little different, we are joined by Willie Bergeron.
We find ourselves wrapped in the warm, familiar quilt of nostalgia, pieced together with tales of Sunny's Fried Chicken and the vanished Dairy Pride. Laugh with us as we recount the bygone days of fried food, fierce fast food rivalries between the behemoth Popeyes and our very own Fat Albert's, and the quirky traditions that still echo in the empty spaces where our beloved haunts once stood.
You won't just hear stories in this podcast; you'll feel the texture of our town's history through the emotions and laughter of those who lived it. Mayor Spanky provides the backdrop of our civic past, while Willie brings the color with his vivid recollections of Buggy Town's hidden gem status and the theatrics of ordering at Sunny's. It's not just a walk down memory lane; it's a reunion with the heart of our community, where every listener is an honored guest. Join us for an episode that goes beyond the mere recounting of events, and instead revives the spirit of a town defined by its eateries, its people, and their stories.
It's the Town Talk podcast. It is Chris, mayor Spanky and another special guest we have Willie Bajar on joining us in on this episode. And this episode is going to be a little bit different, mayor, you wanted to do something a little fun. Normally in our episodes we talk a lot about, maybe, issues in town, or, you know, we talk about Mardi Gras, we talk about water, we talk about events that are happening, and this one you just wanted to kind of have some fun and reminisce.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because I mean that's what the serious business is, what we normally do. This is something that I wanted to do just to kind of get people to listen and just kind of like, yeah, I remember that and jog that memory a little bit of how it was. And I mean we're from three different kind of generations.
Speaker 1:And speak for yourself. You're the oldest.
Speaker 2:I mean, you were a graduate in what? 80?, 86., 61?
Speaker 3:You're transposing numbers, it's 86.
Speaker 1:And you were, and I was church point high class of 93. And I'm 2000.
Speaker 2:So you see that, holy cow too soft.
Speaker 3:I just look rough, you look rough, you're sitting there with your shoes off, your crocs, on one side of the room. I should be in a suit. Well, you're in a suit, you're just wearing crocs.
Speaker 1:So just a little trip down memory lane and obviously I think we'll all have almost like if this makes sense, a different take, but kind of all the same. I know 80s, 90s, 2000s and I feel like our town has changed. Our town has changed for the better. There's a lot of stuff that we may remember, whether it's a grocery store, restaurant, whatever it is. I think a lot of us and a lot of people that listen will have those memories. I mean, I know, for me, obviously, you think a church point and you think of Sonny's Fried Chicken. Right, it's a staple, people know that. But I'm going to say Dairy Pride.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, oh Dairy Pride, you know Dairy.
Speaker 1:Pride and the Piran Special. That is a memory for me forever. I still think about Piran Special.
Speaker 2:When I passed down, was it Anne Street or Biavenue, I still like, man, that burger, dude, that big ol' burger.
Speaker 3:That big ice cream Like Chris at the Brown Derby. Oh man Between, I had more chocolate on my face than I had in my mouth.
Speaker 2:Between that and Sonny's. That's kind of what made you the specimen you are.
Speaker 1:With the scurnish figure that I have, and then also the video games that were outside, where they had like Asteroid or Centipede and they had an old pinball machine for a very, very long time, man, and that's just one of the things that I say, one of the things I mean, we all remember a lot of things, but just one thing for me was that Piran Special and Dairy Pride.
Speaker 3:Well, I'm gonna date myself. I went in my mama's attic a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 2:I found my old Atari with all the games and the controllers With the sneak pit or whatever. Pidfall, pidfall. Pidfall yeah, I like it a little bit for my little boy said Daddy, what kind of games can you play on?
Speaker 3:I said, you know I like it, but it's just Bloop, bloop, bloop.
Speaker 2:I'm home.
Speaker 3:So did it work? I don't know, I haven't, you didn't put it up yet. Because on the back of the TV it has the two prongs that you put on the off air antenna. Yeah, and I don't know how to do that on a fancy TV, just splice it with a USB.
Speaker 1:Technology and age don't sort each other, well yeah splice it with a USB?
Speaker 3:Yeah, Should work. I'm bringing the Chris.
Speaker 1:There is a way to do it. We'll have to figure that out.
Speaker 2:We might have to do a podcast playing Atari. Playing Atari Playing Atari.
Speaker 1:What about you, man?
Speaker 2:Well, I'm gonna go back to sonnis. You know, like I just remember, I loved the way and it's still that way, but not as guttural as it once was how you got your food, it was. It wasn't like you know, ryan. You know your order's ready, it was 45.
Speaker 1:Coming from who. I think you know where you're going with this, ms Helen. The legend herself.
Speaker 2:I think you can hear it from down the road, whatever was going.
Speaker 3:We used to leave high school in the afternoon. Ms Helen was hanging out halfway out there and wind in the front. 45.
Speaker 2:50. That's right. There was no way you were and, like I said, normal places you'd sit down and hear that and be like, wow, that's kind of. Sonnis was just like that's how it works.
Speaker 1:That's how it works.
Speaker 2:I'll never forget I was. Ms Helen was a very nice lady but she didn't take no bull, no bull at all. I was standing behind a guy and I don't know if y'all remember they had a refrigerator that had like salads in it.
Speaker 3:Well, the guy they lived cakes.
Speaker 2:They lived cakes in the salads. Well the guy walks in and he goes I'd like a salad. Well, she kind of looks at him, she bends over, she grabs the salad, she puts it on the counter. He goes Never mind, I'll have chicken. She said get out, get out, get out. Right now he had to leave. You know it reminded like the soup Nazi on Seinfeld, and you know what. That guy probably came back the next day to get that chicken again.
Speaker 3:He didn't get a salad.
Speaker 2:It wasn't insulting it was hey, you don't play around. You wanted a salad. I got it for you. Get out Now, willie, you might remember this a little bit more.
Speaker 1:I vaguely remember it, I remember it, I remember it, I remember it, I remember it, but Popeyes, not Popeyes what was it Fat Albert?
Speaker 2:sorry, Fat Albert Fat.
Speaker 1:Albert, that was the other chicken place which was nearby. That's where Subway and-.
Speaker 3:Right by the.
Speaker 1:Newrods. Okay yeah, you remember when that opened. Do you recall that at all and how long it had stayed open?
Speaker 3:I don't remember how long, but I do recall when it was open and it's hard for people to it's sunny, sunny, sunny, sunny, sunny, sunny. All of a sudden you have Fat Albert. People change a little bit when they come back to Sonny's. Do you remember Buggy Town on the other end? Buggy Town was when you're driving from the Northern. It's set back. It still looks like a business.
Speaker 2:Right by the bay.
Speaker 1:Oh, that was by CJ Stowin that was yeah, yeah, yeah, that was Buggy Town Cross-priced chicken. Cross-priced Chicken, that's for Moscow.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Cross-priced chicken that's for. Moscow, yeah, yeah, cross-priced chicken.
Speaker 3:Yes, yes, yes, okay, I never knew that. Mm-hmm, that was a chicken place. That was a chicken place. That's Really town where you take a left to go to the middle school, get a big barbecue pit set up, is that, mr Butler?
Speaker 1:Mr Butler yes, mr Butler's barbecue. I remember that Butler's barbecue.
Speaker 3:Holy smokes you didn't leave town on a Friday night without Mr Butler's barbecue.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I guess that's the difference from 85 to 2000.
Speaker 1:I never heard that, dude, you asked about Butler's barbecue. That was another thing, that was another staple.
Speaker 2:Really.
Speaker 1:I'm not sure again when that started, when that kind of faded out, but oh yeah the barbecue was Home team and visitors.
Speaker 3:when you left town you stopped and got some barbecue.
Speaker 2:And, like when you're in Mamoo, you go to Durgan.
Speaker 3:You go to Durgan. Thank you, come again.
Speaker 1:Something else just popped in my head. I talked about Dairy Pride. What about Tommy's? Remember Tommy's Drive-In?
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, that was a little bit before me.
Speaker 1:Tommy's was now. That's where near the skate park is correct.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're putting the snow cone stand.
Speaker 1:Right there, yeah, on where that was. That drive-in was there for a while too, because we had Dairy Pride and then we had Tommy's or Bears, which was the La. Fosse, I don't even remember Bears, which that was across from the high school correct, yeah, corner video at one time.
Speaker 3:That was corner video at one time, but in the 70s maybe it was Bears, drive-in, 70s and before, so everybody would go to Bears and then when I was in school in the 80s the late 80s it had opened up again. So we'd leave, you'd wait for the bus, you'd run across the Bears, you'd grab you something to eat and come back.
Speaker 2:They don't allow that, no more.
Speaker 3:A lot of things. They don't allow them more than you say. That's right I remember corner video.
Speaker 2:That was like. I mean, you had country video and you had corner video and there was an extreme difference in the two Corner video. Poor thing would have like Casablanca from the 60s.
Speaker 1:You know like this is not too current over here.
Speaker 2:Then they would have like different, like knickknacks and stuff, and then country video was the thing for a long time and like I mean I know I mean back in the day you could rent the VCR, you could rent the Nintendo. I mean when you rented on a Friday night the Nintendo system, it was like this is gonna be.
Speaker 3:You could rent a Nintendo too.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 3:It was like a big briefcase. Well, just remember you needed a pickup truck to rent a VCR with that case.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you came in a truck. No, you didn't have to come back.
Speaker 2:And like as a kid you just looked at, I think it was Tommy Carras that worked there forever.
Speaker 3:It was like man.
Speaker 2:that dude's got the best job on this earth Cool job. Oh yeah, and we'd watched that. You know that slide where they dropped the video, man, it's like what is right there? I know, I want it, I know.
Speaker 1:I want it.
Speaker 2:Like you know, it taught us patience back in the day.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Right now people can have anything they want anytime. Back then it was, they had a new release. They had two copies.
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 2:So if you went in the first two, you weren't getting it open and we had it.
Speaker 3:You had the pre-release. You had to go sign up to get it. I was about to say you remember the service that they had.
Speaker 1:So you can call in, you can reserve your movie for the Friday. So if you didn't call in and reserve it, dude, you might not have watched that movie till three weeks later.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, at least, at least.
Speaker 3:I mean at least oh yeah, at least. Oh you friends talking about the movie and you say, man, I didn't watch it yet.
Speaker 1:But my name's not on the three weeks. I don't even have a VCR on.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I should get it soon. That's right, and you know, then they had your mainstream or key come out. It's like oh this is a whole nother world.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You know they had the Hank Jr CDs. They had the music Rowdy was working there, and Rowdy, which I'm sure you all know, rowdy, he ordered Slayer's new album for mainstream or key. It wasn't a hot seller, no, but I mean like just the video rental. Then we got movie gallery and then I was like oh my goodness, this is an overload
Speaker 3:of the town is booming Like yeah, this is crazy.
Speaker 1:That was the new school version where they had six, eight, 10 copies of a movie and you could buy popcorn and candy. You can do all that stuff too, yeah.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, that was good time, man, and, like I said, it was that you knew that was going to be a good weekend when you had all that going.
Speaker 3:Remember that I don't know about y'all, but us old people. We'd ride up and down Main Street and we'd ride up and down the Boulevard, and then we'd stop, we'd visit, we'd take our couches out, the back of the trucks at the graveyard we had, we had old Mr.
Speaker 3:He was a policeman, almost a guilt, and I think was his name. The only. I went police call so somebody would speed, he'd pull him over and he said okay, you see, if you pay your ticket by end of the night, I'm not going to turn in, I'm not going to tell you mom and dad. So everybody would gather up. We threw quarters and coins and dollars. We'd go get them out of Hock.
Speaker 2:Hey, I remember that when I first became mayor I was going through clippings and you know all kind of stuff and this was probably eighties and I was like that wouldn't work. Today they started a letter program where the first policeman that caught a person littering got a hundred dollars. So they were on they were on the newspaper like officer gets a hundred dollars for first ticket for litter. I was like, yeah, that wouldn't go out today. I wouldn't go out today.
Speaker 1:You know, and that's one thing, Willie man, on a Friday night, Saturday night, you, just you wrote around and you made, everybody made just the same Son is to Boulevard, son is to Boulevard.
Speaker 2:You do that five, six times, then you'd make one skirt like a round in the countryside then you came back, came back and sometimes you go to Crowley.
Speaker 3:Yeah so are you miss and it?
Speaker 2:was like the starting point. And that's what I say a lot to like kids these days. You know like back in the day none of us had phones. There wasn't no phones to be had except them, ones that were like 80 pounds, and you would oh right, you know, we, we didn't have none of that, you had to have one.
Speaker 3:Well, you'll have cell phone. I didn't get my. I got my first cell phone in 1991.
Speaker 2:My first cell phone was 2001.
Speaker 3:Like we just, think I'll read it and have cell phones, no doubt. Most times I was across the street playing pool with that old ball which ball that one was the name of it Right down the corner at Eric's no that right there by the, by the, by the Depot.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's Eric's, or you had a by the mobile, frank's, yeah by the move.
Speaker 1:Not, not only not only the Franks.
Speaker 3:They're on. Main Street Franks, franks. Yes, go play pool yeah, Whenever they which I don't know.
Speaker 2:this is old story, you know, when they bought the bill and they had all kind of mattresses in a random room man that remains.
Speaker 3:Let's just see, I was like I want to get back to Bill and you're going to have to. You would never find out.
Speaker 1:And then but I mean, there was a point in church point. You could for sure buy a beer and you could for sure rent a movie. I mean, dude we had our share of bars, we had our share of movie rental places.
Speaker 2:That was the economy.
Speaker 1:But you think about it, the video rental, I mean what. What did back then? What? Could you buy a movie for 20, 30 bucks? Oh well, I mean what. What did, let's just say, country video? When whatever new movie came out, what do you think they purchased it for?
Speaker 2:They would always tell us that it was like $99. Okay, it was for the movie For the movie, like if you lost it or something. So I don't know if that's what they paid for it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but they also threw you to Rewind and we never did that.
Speaker 1:And it was a quarter or whatever.
Speaker 2:It was, if you didn't rewind rewind and had that sticker on it, and if you didn't get it back by a certain time, you got, you got docked.
Speaker 1:There was a lot of structure going on in it. But there were some. There was some profit to be made renting movies and renting games. I mean, you think you'd buy a Nintendo game for probably 30, 40 bucks and you rent that thing out for four or five dollars, whatever it was, per day. Oh yeah, that was. That was pretty good.
Speaker 2:Like I said you could at that time, you could rent the whole system with the games and everything.
Speaker 3:What kind of movies would you rent?
Speaker 2:Me At that time it was probably cartoons. You didn't go behind those wooden doors. Oh no, no, no, no, no, what? When?
Speaker 3:I see something, oh no.
Speaker 1:He's making me nervous.
Speaker 3:I know you crawl underneath them swingers.
Speaker 1:Your eyes are looking when that door opened, though.
Speaker 2:All I know is when somebody would come out that secret room. I just shamed. They didn't want to look at you, they didn't want to look at them. Oh, there was a lot of judgment on this side. I never been in.
Speaker 3:I remember the judgment I do remember that Like oh. Yeah, like Chris said, the one that doors opened. What's?
Speaker 1:there on. Look at me here, don't be caught around, that.
Speaker 2:It was like a wooden don't come in, or something like that. Yeah, that was good memories. Like I said, I was all next to. Was it Freddie the barber?
Speaker 1:Freddie the barber and then Kelly's IGA Yep.
Speaker 2:Kelly's, you know the big thing and I actually told this to Scottie and Miss Betty the other day. I remember they had the slush machine that you would pump and it said only if you had a large, it was three pumps. So you do your three real slow, and then you look at Miss Betty and when she turned her head, you, that was the sweetest little slush.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, and I told her. I said I probably owe you a few dollars Kind of. You know, I went a little heavy your syrup it was stinging your face, it was so sour.
Speaker 1:You had Miss Betty, and then what was her name? Miss Odelia? Was she the other one? She was. She was also, I guess, one of their managers, and you'd see her face, oh yeah.
Speaker 3:They would watch like a hawk with the slush.
Speaker 2:Three and then you had rods, and we were talking about that, where you'd go to get your milk, and you had, like this hustle with this plastic.
Speaker 3:The plastic, the louvert curtains.
Speaker 2:You're like, I need a gallon of milk.
Speaker 3:You couldn't see what you were getting because they kind of aged a little bit on the curtains.
Speaker 2:It was like that tanish like yellowing. But you'd see like a person checking the dates on the milk and only have their body would be out of the canister. I always thought that was kind of like wow, that's different One day.
Speaker 3:I pulled up at the old rods and I saw this guy and he had a milk crate and some stuff. That's what he was doing right there. As I got closer, I saw some pictures, some Xerox copies, some photocopy pictures. It was junkyard dog. Oh yeah, that's right. He was standing in the front door selling his autographs for a dollar a piece on a paper. And then, oh, people were lined up.
Speaker 1:Hey GYD.
Speaker 2:He was living in church, for when he died he was, uh huh, he was living down Church Street. Get out of here. Uh huh, he had went to his daughter's. You talking about the son of your March back. He wasn't, as you know he had fell a few rungs from the 80s you know, but he was living in Church Point.
Speaker 2:He was going to a high school graduation. Coming back he got in a wreck and killed him. You know he was living, I think, down Church Street and he would go to Rod's Sonic and uh, we got a memorialized that, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Rod, I remember being at Sonic doing some autograph signs. Yeah, yeah, it was like photocopies. That's what it was photocopies, and he just signed it. There you go.
Speaker 2:Look, and the thing about it is, I hate to say he was ahead of his time because right now all the more wrestlers that's all they do they go to them, Comic-Cons and all that stuff. Yep, and you were getting it at Sonic and Church.
Speaker 1:Point Rod's at Church Point. So a couple other things. You brought up stores. I know you would be familiar with this Spanky. Where Spanky Small Engine is now was Deggles. You remember Deggles at?
Speaker 2:all Deggles Grocery.
Speaker 1:Grocery store? I don't remember it.
Speaker 2:I just know it was there. I didn't remember it.
Speaker 1:So that was, you had your slush puppies at Kelly's and then Deggles had the Ices. That's where you would go to get the Ices. Then you could look at some. I think it was like some posters they had in there too.
Speaker 2:The big, gorgeous flipper.
Speaker 1:You can look through. You can look through the posters. And that was the thing, man, you'd either go and get an Icy or you would go and get a slushy, and I always rather the Icy, because then you could collect those cups Like they had the Major League.
Speaker 3:Baseball cups.
Speaker 1:They had the football cups.
Speaker 3:Dude, they had the ones that cover with the helmets yes, you can collect that.
Speaker 1:So I mean, at one point we had three grocery stores in town you had Rod you had Deggles, and then you had Kelly's. We had three, Didn't?
Speaker 2:they even have one right outside of town where the old Firecracker stand was.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that was Mr Jemez, and you had a bunch of those little country stores all around, so you brought it up across from CJ's towing.
Speaker 1:What was that years back? Do you all remember what that store opened up as?
Speaker 2:San Francisco mall yeah uh-huh Was it always.
Speaker 3:I don't know, it wasn't always that I don't know what that was.
Speaker 2:Oh, somebody told me that it was always new to us.
Speaker 1:The same Francisco, Mark yeah.
Speaker 2:But they had a guy that opened it from the, from the Giggle, and I forget his name. He did that for years. And then it turned December, and then yeah. I can't remember his name.
Speaker 1:And not far from that yet, carrier Club 88, where one Sunday afternoon, vinny Testa Verdi and Mark Carrier, and I think there might have been one other person that was there signing autographs, I don't remember.
Speaker 3:Vinny being over there.
Speaker 1:It was a Sunday, if I'm not mistaken. I could be wrong, but I think it was three of them. Carrier Club 88, it was.
Speaker 2:Vinny Testa Verdi and a guy that I think he played from Minnesota Vikings and I remember that. And then he had a second time where he came and he had when he was with the Browns and he had brought a guy that played. He was a water receiver and his name was Michael Jackson Get up. His name was Michael Jackson. I was like who the guy they got Michael Jackson at Carrier? Really, I was like this guy just got serious, but it wasn't the Michael Jackson.
Speaker 3:It wasn't the.
Speaker 2:Moonwalker no, no, no, it was just a guy. But yeah, I mean, those are all like dude. That was big time. We thought we were rolling with the Hollywood elites.
Speaker 3:When you all were in school, did you Probably not, but we'd leave campus. We were waiting on the bus. They would sell cool cups all around there. So that was probably the last junior high class at the middle school. So, man, when the bell would ring, you're waiting on the bus. Everybody would run across the street. Somebody was selling cool cups.
Speaker 2:You come back with a big ice-frozen cool-aid 25 cents, and then they'd put the ones with the stick in it and they'd put the aluminum foil over it. Put the stick in it. Oh, that's good stuff, boy.
Speaker 1:They sold that when I was at Church Point High, which I was a freshman in 89. So a thing like 89, 90, the Pep Squad would sell them. They would sell them after school. I remember that too, and they would sell them for a quarter and sell those cool cups A quarter, dude.
Speaker 3:They had sock hops when you were in school.
Speaker 1:After the football games. They wouldn't call them sock hops, but they would just call them the victory dances. I'm old.
Speaker 3:It was a sock-up, they called it no.
Speaker 1:And that bonfire you'd bus up the car. You'd do all that at homecoming. I remember that.
Speaker 2:I've never experienced it, but wouldn't they like join? Going beat the hell up in a car or something.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they would. And you had a sledgehammer. You get up there and you just beat the crap out of it. Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:Yeah, woo-hoo. Yeah, that's probably. It's a good fundraising. That probably stopped. I want to say early 90s. I'm not sure Again. I remember them doing that like 89, 90, like 91, 92. They may have stopped the bonfire and stopped the beating of the car. I don't really remember it in my junior or senior year.
Speaker 3:Football players and ag players would just leave. They'd take the day off at school and they'd go all over picking up trash, wood and pallets, and pollens and sticks and sofas.
Speaker 2:They had ag players when you were a football player, football players and ag. Ag students. Ag students, that's what I meant.
Speaker 3:Ag players they all played like we were students, so we were players. But yeah, you want to be smart, Because that's what you, the mayor.
Speaker 1:You catch things like that Not really Dude, that's a yeah, that's I mean homecoming parades and homecoming. And just back in high school, even when I was there, pep rallies were huge. You know, there was a lot of spirit man. I'm not sure how it is now, I would guess it's probably not that much spirit. But we actually look forward to the pep rally. They have the spirit stick and then you know, certain clubs would win the spirit stick and there was a lot of pride back then.
Speaker 2:All right, but there was so much things to get excited about at that time, like when I could tell you when I went to OMP the Monday, that the healers would come in and start building the ferrids For the bogey festival For the OMP Bazaar. Man that was like oh, it's happening now. It's go time man. The scrambler of the ferris wheel, oh yeah, and like, think about, like the roundup, there was literally a chain and, like you, just I was like. To me it was like oh man, I don't know.
Speaker 3:That was just sheer death right there that roundup. If they had a malfunction on that ride, you would just fall to the boom If you were standing on the wrong side of somebody that just ate a corn dog?
Speaker 2:No it was like what did you call it the scrambler? That was the same thing.
Speaker 1:You could see it in their face.
Speaker 2:Uh-oh, it's about to go down.
Speaker 2:Good time and I mean, you know, church boys, known back in the day, they had what? 50 bars and probably 10 barber shops. I mean they had a lot of that. I mean the barber shops was, you know, freddie would scare the hell out of you because he'd come with that razor blade and he would shake, and then when he'd get to your sidebar it would go perfect. But boy you just you'd see that blade coming at you. It's so shaky, like oh, this is not going to go well, and then Percy had that comb that you could comb a horse on your head.
Speaker 1:I remember that you were like yes, yes, yep, the circle.
Speaker 2:You know, like I said, they got just a lot of nostalgia there and that's just what we're talking about Having a good time with it. And you had one style haircut, whatever your mama or your dad has it. I remember I'd go to Percy and I would do it on purpose, just to you know. Whatever I would say, ok, I want a little bit off the back and a little. And look, he would look at you and he'd, oh, yeah, oh, yeah, that's gonna look good. And then it I'm tight, that's what you got.
Speaker 1:You can talk about all you want.
Speaker 2:You're getting what I'm giving you, you know, man. Things have changed. And I mean, like I said, now I shoot, I go all over the place. You know Me, when I was young, Baton Rouge was like oh man, we were a traveler. It was like you didn't sleep the night before because, like, okay, this is a long trip, we gotta head over tomorrow. Now Baton Rouge. I go in the morning and I'm back by noon.
Speaker 3:It's true, yep, my daddy would get so nervous driving. And Baton Rouge, you get nervous driving and laugh it.
Speaker 2:Well, sometimes I don't know if it's gotten worse or better, but sometimes I laugh it. Right now I'm a little nervous, yeah.
Speaker 1:Boy. It was a trip down memory lane on this episode and maybe it's gonna be something that we'll do from time to time. I think what I'll do whenever I post this I'm gonna ask people to comment with a memory or maybe something that they remember from town.
Speaker 2:And I can jog our memories and we can keep this thing going. You know, maybe every couple months we do an installment on it you know Cause it just brings a little bit of fun to it going down memory lane, you know, can we talk about the dress code?
Speaker 3:Which dress?
Speaker 1:code my, oh, the dress code today, yeah.
Speaker 2:Oh no, I'm bare feet right now, hahaha.
Speaker 3:Almost wore a suit and tie to come over here to be with the Marinese barefoot in his cross zone without the room. He's relaxed.
Speaker 2:I'm relaxed on the podcast. I mean if nobody can see you. No, they can't, unless you're live to me. Then I gotta go get dressed, yeah.
Speaker 1:So, willie Badgerall, thank you so much for joining us on this. I'm Chris, mayor Spanky. As always, thanks for being part of the Town Talk podcast. Hopefully you'll comment with your memory, and again, we always say this wrapping up the podcast If there's any questions you may have about what's going on in town issues, you can message the Town of Church Point Facebook page.
Speaker 3:Thank you, thank you.