An emergency slide and a lost brim show how Rick and Bubba turn mishaps into durable radio bits.
Rick & Bubba's Greatest Hits builds a compact single-episode showcase from two mishaps and the way a morning radio room keeps a story in motion.

Southern conviction with a live-room laugh.
The Rick Burgess Show turns morning-radio momentum into a rolling mix of banter, Bible study, political argument, and domestic absurdity. Its best moments come when airport lines, hunting chores, old songs, or headline weirdness become group material in real time.
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The Rick Burgess Show is a fast, familiar Southern talk show where the morning-room energy matters as much as the topic. It does not ease in quietly. Episodes open with listener check-ins from Southern towns, nearby states, commuters, truck routes, work crews, and hunting clubs, giving the show a daily-roll-call feel before the first argument or joke takes shape. The conversation moves quickly, and the interruptions are part of the texture. A strange airline story can become a workplace fantasy, a legal question, and a running joke about grabbing a beer on the way out. A TSA line can turn into a full routine about people not knowing how to move. Hunting chores become leg day. Fishing turns into a lesson on setting the hook. Old bands, country songs, movie bits, and family memories surface as casually as political headlines. The show is broad, but not vague. Its world includes Trump, Pope Leo, Graceland, the Masters, Artemis, the Sphere in Vegas, accents, deer season, church resources, and ordinary Southern logistics. Faith is woven through the larger feed, especially in Rick Burgess's Wednesday Bible study on Ephesians and the men's ministry material connected to The Man Church. That religious center gives the humor a stronger backbone than a standard comedy-talk format. The show can be warm. It can also be blunt. Its political and cultural commentary often arrives through jokes, common-sense verdicts, and quick group correction rather than long formal monologues. The appeal is in the pace: someone says the thing, someone else knocks it sideways, and the room keeps moving until the point gets clearer or funnier. It is best heard as a living broadcast culture, not a tidy interview series. The recurring voices sound comfortable enough to tease each other, repeat a phrase until it breaks open, and swing from silliness to conviction without announcing the turn. Rick Burgess anchors the clearest named role, especially when the show shifts into Scripture and ministry. The surrounding room gives the daily episodes their loose, crowded momentum. For listeners who want faith-flavored talk radio with regional detail, topical heat, sports chatter, and ordinary-life comedy, this show has a very specific lane. It is loud with familiarity, and that is the point.
Made for: For listeners who like Southern talk radio, Christian perspective, political chatter, sports, hunting stories, and everyday irritations turned into group comedy. It fits people who prefer quick banter over polished interviews.
What sets it apart: The show blends faith-centered teaching and morning-show chaos without separating the serious from the silly. Its listener check-ins and regional texture make it feel less like a studio product and more like a daily community habit.
The Rick Burgess Show is where bold talk meets big laughs every weekday morning. Hosted by Rick Burgess, alongside Head Producer Calvin “Speedy” Wilburn, Content Producer Eddie “Van” Adler, and Rick’s brother, Greg Burgess, this crew has been shaking things up for over 30 years. Together, they bring humor, insight, and a refreshing voice of reason into a sometimes unreasonable world. Airing live from 5:00 am to 10:00 am CT across 70+ U.S. radio stations, The Rick Burgess Show also streams on TuneIn, and YouTube, with daily archives available on podcast platforms and YouTube. From comedy and guest interviews to candid stories from everyday life, the show dives into all topics unapologetically…
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Religious headlines enter a joke-heavy conversation shaped by politics, hunting, travel, music and the accumulated memory of morning radio.
Rick Burgess, Calvin "Speedy" Wilburn, Eddie "Van" Adler and Greg Burgess work by accumulation: current affairs, travel mishaps, hunting, music memories and old radio stories pass around a crowded conversation. Corrections and interruptions become part of the comedy.
A TSA line becomes a full-cast bit before you have time to resent the wait.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
An emergency slide and a lost brim show how Rick and Bubba turn mishaps into durable radio bits.
Rick & Bubba's Greatest Hits builds a compact single-episode showcase from two mishaps and the way a morning radio room keeps a story in motion.
A loose hour keeps finding new laughs in odd little moments and fast-moving banter.
The hour moves in quick, easy bursts, built on promo talk, shoutouts, and a run of small oddities that keep resetting the mood. It lands on a calf-only walk, a camel-riding bit, and a strange Las Vegas sight line, then turns each one into another clean laugh.
Studio banter, song memories, and a comedy riff that keeps circling until it lands.
The Rick Burgess Show leans into listener shoutouts, studio teasing, and a long stretch of back-and-forth over who sang what, which cover-song pick worked, and why a few old comedy bits still hit once everyone is in on the setup.
Loose, local-flavored banter turns accent jokes and a doomed plan into an easy comic run.
The Daily Best of the Rick Burgess Show gets its charge from the way ordinary shout-outs keep turning into comic side roads. Interstate Warehouse in Murfreesboro, Jacksonville, Laurel, Gus Malzahn back at Auburn, and a Thursday-night wrestling event at The Roost all move through…
A TSA-line complaint becomes a compact comic case for paying attention at the front of the line.
The Rick Burgess Show turns an airport line into a tidy little test of public manners. The episode stays with one familiar irritation: people reaching the front of the line without knowing what comes next.
A loose Alabama radio episode turns yard work and a buried-alive fundraiser into uneasy, community-minded comedy.
This daily-best episode finds an easy shape in leg-day soreness and the unglamorous job of taking down a post-deer-season double ladder skirt.
A Champions Tour broadcast turns into a memory test, with old golf grievances giving way to Alabama oddities and security.
The episode uses a Champions Tour broadcast as a way into the hosts' familiar rhythm, where celebrity interviews, first-tee commentary, and a running Alabama large-cat theory all share the same space.



Political comedy with obsessive backstage aftershocks.

Direct questions, playoff answers.

Local conversations, full-strength curiosity.

Garage banter with a voting bloc.
This episode is a lively introduction to the daily best of the Rick Burgess Show, featuring energetic shoutouts to various locations and listeners across America.
This episode of The Rick Burgess Show features audience shout-outs and engagement, with a title hinting at political commentary on Jesse Jackson's funeral.
The Rick Burgess Show crew opens with banter about post-deer season soreness and hunting routines.
This episode of Rick and Bubba's Greatest Hits revisits their long-running involvement with the Regions Tradition celebrity golf tournament.
["Rick and Bubba open with a British Catholic prayer-book story that asks couples to pray before marital intimacy and uses language about tenderness, self-offering, and forgiveness.", "The conversation jumps to JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater, who argued over luggage, cursed on the PA, grabbed a beer, pulled the emergency slide, and was later arrested at home.", "Leon from Gadsden calls as a first-time caller after roughly 20 years of listening, and the hosts work through Keystone, pallets, George, Larry Lee, and the Morning Extravaganza.", "Later, Bubba reacts to the delayed Ares 1X launch like a rocket fan, and Chris Wood's missed Olympic update turns into a running video joke about sleep and a dark backdrop."]
The episode opens with iHeart promo reads and a quick handoff into the Rick Burgess crew's usual banter.
The daily best-of opens with listener shoutouts and the usual room chatter.
The show starts with the Daily Best of the Rick Burgess Show frame, then rolls through shout-outs from Murfreesboro and Jacksonville to Laurel.
Rick Burgess concludes a Bible study series on Ephesians, focusing on Paul's prison letters while promoting his men's ministry resources and devotional materials.
The show starts in an airport line.
This episode features fan check-ins and updates from listeners across various locations, including a mission trip in Guatemala and turkey hunting plans.
The hosts discuss post-deer season activities, focusing on the physical demands of taking down hunting blinds and the importance of maintenance.
This episode features a compilation of listener check-ins from various locations across the U.S., welcoming them back to the daily best of the Rick Burgess Show.