David Crockett

okay then whose apartment is it that he's looking around and he's seeing the Stanford certificate photos of them he picks up the beer yeah

yeah this is the one yeah yeah there's like a Davy Crockett lampshade

oh is that the same apartment okay I thought it was two different places maybe

okay yeah it's like this like palatial

My whole family's from West Tennessee.

That's where a guy named David Crockett was a Congressman twice, as a matter of fact, as you know.

and he lived very close to a place where he gave one of the speeches, he gave the speech several times, one was on the courthouse steps in my hometown, and my uncle, when I was about six, took me to those courthouse steps and told me, and I talk about this in the book, he said, Robbie, you need to know that Davy Crockett was right here, and at the time, I was about six, and King of the Wild Frontier Disney show was on and all that, so I knew who he was, but I didn't know he'd been a congressman.

And my uncle said, he was a history teacher and a coach in public school, he said, Robby, Davy Crockett stood right here and told the people that voted him out of office the second time, y'all can all go to hell, I'm going to Texas.

And what that symbolizes is that question.

what you can do about it, or what can I do about something.

Davy Crockett was not an educated man.

He did not come from wealth.

My whole family's from West Tennessee.

That's where a guy named David Crockett was a congressman twice, as a matter of fact, as you know.

and he lived very close to a place where he gave one of the speeches, he gave the speech several times, one was on the courthouse steps in my hometown, and my uncle, when I was about six, took me to those courthouse steps and told me, and I talk about this in the book, he said, Robbie, you need to know that Davy Crockett was right here, and at the time, I was about six, and King of the Wild Frontier Disney show was on and all that, so I knew who he was, but I didn't know he'd been a congressman.

And my uncle said, he was a history teacher and a coach in public school, he said, Robby, Davy Crockett stood right here and told the people that voted him out of office the second time, y'all can all go to hell, I'm going to Texas.

And what that symbolizes is that question.

what you can do about it, or what can I do about something.

Davy Crockett was not an educated man.

He did not come from wealth.

Tennessee was a university before Texas was ever a state.

Hey, you guys ever heard of Davy Crockett? You ever heard of that guy? No.

Maybe doing some studying up this week if you're the University of Texas.

Joe, I think you would back me up on this.

And I think

that's not going to end well for Texas.

And real fast on the UT thing, just so in case anybody doesn't realize this, if there's a Texas fan listening, you know, Davy Crockett died, the Alamo, 1836.

President James K. Polk requested 3,000 volunteers.

Fess

Parker, also known as Davy Crockett around these parts.

King of the wild frontier.

During the 1940s and 50s, when movies would open in select theaters, studios would often bring actors along for the premiere events.

Their governor, Houston, he was our governor first.

I mean, we can just keep Davy Crockett or Matthew McConaughey.

Take Davy Crockett any

day.

Every

And, oh, yes, I'm still sad about that.

But I remember among many things people were sharing when he passed, I feel like somebody, I don't know if it was you, Scott, or somebody else on Blue Sky definitely mentioned the David Crockett cover,

which

I bet is a lot of fun to listen to, honestly.

trying.

Nobody's coming out of the wilderness with a raccoon skin hat on, like Davy Crockett.

So that's not happening here.

I don't know, man.