Ep 60 | Blind with a Vision | Author John C. Wilburn

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🗓️ 9 January 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Author John C. Wilburn's life drastically changed during his freshman year of college when doctors discovered a large tumor in his brain. While this led to him losing his eyesight, he never lost his vision. He still pushed and fought for what he wanted in life while using God as his guide. John C. Wilburn joins this episode of Rick & Bubba University to talk about what it's like being a blind author and poet and how it feels being Calvin "Speedy" Wilburn's dad. Don't miss it! Sponsors: Gabi takes the pain out of shopping for insurance by giving you an apples-to-apples comparison of your current coverage with 40 of the top insurance providers like: Progressive, Nationwide and Travelers. · Just link your current insurance account and in about two minutes you’ll be able to see quotes for the exact same coverage you currently have. Gabi customers save eight hundred twenty-five dollars per year on average. It’s totally free to check your rate and there’s no obligation. Take two minutes to see how much you can save on your car and homeowners insurance. Go to http://gabi.com/bubba ExpressVPN: The VPN that just works. Enjoy unrestricted access worldwide. ExpressVPN defeats content restrictions and censorship to deliver unlimited access to video, music, social media, and more, from anywhere in the world. Stop letting big tech and big government censor and track you. Defend your rights and protect yourself at https:ExpressVPN.com/RickBubba and get an extra three months of ExpressVPN for free! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the first edition of Rick and Bubba University the podcast in the year of
0:12.1	2021 we've had a two-week hiatus it's good to be
0:16.2	back at and Bubba today we're going to go you know we throw a lot of
0:20.4	pictures here at RBU and and one of them is that we go inside people
0:24.8	connected to the show you know we've interviewed all the different members of the
0:28.9	Rick and Bubba team we've interviewed most of the wives not all but most of the wives, not all, but most of the wives.
0:34.0	We've got two wives that refused to come on so far, but we'll eventually wear them down.
0:39.0	But today we're going to be talking to John Wilburn and that last name may sound familiar to lots of the Rick and Bubba fans or if you're new and this is the only Rick and Bubba experience that you have
0:51.3	Our producer for what Bub about 26 of the 27 years
0:55.4	26 and a half yeah
0:56.8	Calvin Wilburn but you know him better is speeding we are going to
1:01.9	interview his dad today John John Wilburn. So Mr.
1:04.8	Wilburn, welcome to Rick and Bub University. Well, thank you. A great day.
1:08.6	I appreciate being here, guys. Thank you so much. Well, it's a pleasure you have, we want to get in, you know, we've talked about on the big show, you know, that you have become a children's book author and we're going to get into that because the latest, the latest book in the series has been released but I want to
1:25.0	start out talking a little bit about you because I want you you have a
1:29.1	fascinating story and you know Speedy's talked about on the show that you know have you have
1:35.3	issues with your sight and sadly and sadly some of that has gotten worse and
1:41.3	deteriorated but it really in a you know an interesting way was used to save your life
1:49.0	There may not have been a speedy and of course you have a daughter named Lynn that may have never
1:54.7	existed if this problem with your eyes had not revealed something that was very
1:59.8	dangerous so tell the tell those that are listening to this or watching today this fascinating story.
2:06.1	Okay, sure will. Yeah, I've always had early in my early days just a fantastic eyesiding. As a matter of fact, when I was a senior in high school,
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