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Thanks For Giving A Damn

Episode 109: Ryan Bingham

Thanks For Giving A Damn

Otis Gibbs

Society & Culture, Arts, Music, Performing Arts, Personal Journals

5757 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2015

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Ryan talks about ranching in New Mexico, bull riding, broken bones, Red Stegall, working in a wild west show in Paris, Willie Nelson stories, Poodie Locke stories, touring in an old truck, broke down near the Grand Canyon, horses, etc.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Greetings from Austin, Texas.

0:13.0

I'm sitting here at my buddy Cameron Smith's house here in Austin.

0:17.0

Just drove in yesterday, I took my time getting in, did some roadside stuff. I stopped off in

0:23.4

Pittsburgh, Texas, and I saw the world's largest pilgrim head, a huge statue of a pilgrim's

0:30.9

head about the size of a house. And Judy Hubbard, my friend and wife of Ray Wiley Hubbard, said that he was a local businessman,

0:41.3

and way back in the day when she sold cars, she sold him a car at least once.

0:46.3

I was happy to hear that.

0:48.3

I drove two hours out of the way so I could go to Paris, Texas.

0:52.3

Paris, Texas is always one of my favorite movies, one of my five favorites, and if you catch

0:57.5

me on the right day, you could probably get me to admit that it's my favorite.

1:02.0

But I drove there and just went around the town.

1:05.3

I saw this giant Eiffel Tower replica with a cowboy hat on top.

1:10.5

I went to a local graveyard there, and I found a tombstone that was about a hundred years old that had Jesus wearing cowboy boots, only in Texas. I made my way towards Dallas. I stopped off and visited Bonnie and Clyde's graves, and I made my way downtown and visited the

1:29.5

building where Robert Johnson had his second and final recording session back in 1937. I pulled up,

1:36.8

and there was a homeless shelter across the street, and there were a lot of people, probably 50 or 70

1:41.9

people, just everywhere waiting around.

1:45.0

And it looked like the building was under construction.

1:48.0

They were renovating the building, which is a good thing.

1:51.0

I saw a door was open.

1:52.9

So I looked around and there wasn't anybody inside.

1:55.8

So I walked inside the door.

1:57.7

And I'd done some research over the years and I knew which room Robert Johnson recorded in

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