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re: Per Finebaum... The legend Auburn caller "Charles from Reeltown" has passed away.
Posted on 6/5/25 at 9:01 am to AHM21
Posted on 6/5/25 at 9:01 am to AHM21
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In that case your opinion is shite.
Woah there amigo. Didn’t mean to make you pre melt.
But if listening to unemployed trailer trash mumble about football when they have an elementary level grasp on the game and then brag (lie) on how many beers they drink a day is quality sports radio… then so be it.
Sorry to shite on your source of information.
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Posted on 6/5/25 at 9:01 am to paperwasp
I still remember Bobby from Homewood vs Shane from Center Point facing off in studio. Bobby pushed Shane to the point of Shane chain smoking outside of the studio before he sped off in his Mustang 
Posted on 6/5/25 at 9:04 am to CleverUserName
How is it any different than idiots who troll on here? It’s entertainment and even though it’s not what it once was, that doesn’t mean that it wasn’t good radio at one point in time.
This post was edited on 6/5/25 at 9:05 am
Posted on 6/5/25 at 1:55 pm to HillabeeBaw
Has anyone checked on Jim from Tuscaloosa?
Posted on 6/5/25 at 2:24 pm to HillabeeBaw
Was Charles the guy who had some sort of surgery about a year ago and called from the Hospital just before being taken to the operating room and said they had given him a 50% chance of surviving the surgery and it was about 4 weeks before anyone knew what had happened?
Posted on 6/5/25 at 2:26 pm to ElroyJenkins
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Has anyone checked on Jim from Tuscaloosa?
I think I'd stop calling. Maybe that's what he did.
Posted on 6/5/25 at 2:28 pm to AwgustaDawg
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Was Charles the guy who had some sort of surgery about a year ago and called from the Hospital just before being taken to the operating room and said they had given him a 50% chance of surviving the surgery and it was about 4 weeks before anyone knew what had happened?
No, that was Larry who also recently passed. I believe he called in from the hospital on more than one occasion.
Posted on 6/5/25 at 2:38 pm to ElroyJenkins
am I the only one that could care less that these callers died
Posted on 6/5/25 at 2:48 pm to ElroyJenkins
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No, that was Larry who also recently passed. I believe he called in from the hospital on more than one occasion.
Damn....I hate that. I haven't listened to the show in a while but its about that time of year again....
Posted on 6/5/25 at 2:49 pm to nicholastiger
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am I the only one that could care less that these callers died
Doubtful, there are 8.2 billion people in the world, doubtful anyone of us is the only one of us in any category.....
Posted on 6/5/25 at 2:53 pm to HillabeeBaw
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WDE and RIP Charles. He coined the phrase "we gave them a country boy arse whoopin'," Paul. Referring to the gumps of course.
Do people outside of Alabama listen to this?
Posted on 6/5/25 at 3:10 pm to AHM21
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Charles and Tammy dead. Phyllis is gone too.
Libertee rose to prominence in the wrong era — Disney/ESPN would've been falling all over that dude.
Posted on 6/5/25 at 3:33 pm to HillabeeBaw
And before anyone gets their panties in a wad, Charles would neither want nor expect kind words from a Bammer. His hatred for all things Crimson was legitimate and from the heart.
So to Charles I say, tell Pat Dye hi. I’m sure it’s warm down there. RTR
But seriously though, R.I.P.
Posted on 6/5/25 at 3:49 pm to HillabeeBaw
For all you guys that talk shite about Paul Finebaum and "never watch it," you guys sure know a lot about the cast of regular callers.
Posted on 6/5/25 at 5:57 pm to Harry Morgan
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The callers that made his show great
Hes kinda right, you probably never knew the show before it came to the SEC Network, maybe knew of it but not knowing it's content.
Back then, in the 90s, early 2000s it was funny as hell, Paul was in on it a lot of times, agreeing with others that Bobby was probably gay and living in his mothers basement. DING, DING, an irate Bobby calls up. He knew how to push their buttons, now he would never do that at ESPN.
One guy called in and pretended to be an old woman, said she was Bear Bryans lover, and that she and the Bear "Bumped Uglies", I think they found out later it was a former Bama assist coach, who later coached at Troy and elsewhere.
It was more akin to a bar hangout than a sports show.
Posted on 6/5/25 at 6:29 pm to TTOWN RONMON
Oh I knew the show alright. Way before the SEC network. 
Posted on 6/5/25 at 9:31 pm to TTOWN RONMON
The "Bear Bryant lover"was Mildred.
Posted on 6/5/25 at 9:40 pm to AdamsHouseCat
Paul's first radio show was the short lived "Fussin with Finebaum". This name was a takeoff on his sports opinion columns in the Birmingham Post Herald which were often controversial.
Posted on 6/6/25 at 2:18 am to AdamsHouseCat
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Mildred
Genuine or fake, that caller was absolutely HILARIOUS. What made it all the more absurd was the fact that Neal Vickers was always in studio laughing uproariously like a donkey every single time she called in.
Those of you who only know of Finebaum from his time on SEC Network are really missing out on what the show used to be thanks to the old school callers like Phyllis, Mildred, B.O.B, Libertee Belle, Shane, and the like.
Posted on 6/6/25 at 5:09 am to RollTide1987
The heyday of the show was when us Bama fans were truly at our lowest. Admittedly, we were all panicky, angry, & over emotional & that made for great fodder on the radio. I dont even know what the hell the show even is now. Seems like its just Paul trying to plow through as many retarded callers as possible. Its not fun or entertaining in any way at all. Its so stale now.
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