After today, Rick and Bubba are no longer in the house.

The memorable theme song that begins with “Rick and Bubba’s in the House” will end.

Rick Burgess and Bill “Bubba” Bussey, the “two sexiest fat men” in the world as they called themselves, have been making Alabama laugh on the radio for more than 30 years, since 1994. Their last live show together was here tomorrow .

“It’s the end of an era,” Burgess said. “Nothing will ever be ‘Rick and Bubba’.”

Burgess has announced that he will be doing a solo show. The start date for “The Rick Burgess Show” is Monday, January 6th. “Best of” reruns of “The Rick & Bubba Show” will air in this slot until then.

Bussey announced that he would be joining the athletic administration at Jacksonville State University. He will serve as the school’s assistant athletic director for broadcasting and oversee broadcast operations for various sporting events. Bussey, a JSU graduate, got his start in radio at campus station WLJS during his college years in the early 1980s. He met Burgess and began working with him at WLJS. “That’s where we learned,” Burgess said. “I don’t remember the class, but I do remember the campus radio station.”

The “Rick & Bubba Show,” nationally syndicated and produced at WZZK, 104.7 FM in Birmingham, was broadcast, according to the WZZK website and the “Rick & Bubba” YouTube channel.

During the final hour of the show, Bussey brought his children Hunter and Katelyn Bussey on air.

“It can be difficult growing up on this show sometimes,” Bussey said.

“I thought everyone’s dad was Bubba,” said Katelyn, a former intern for U.S. Rep. Barry Moore who now works for the Business Council of Alabama.

They both said that people refer to them as Rick and Bubba’s children.

“I don’t have two dads,” said Hunter, who does marketing and runs a YouTube channel.

“‘You’re Rick and Bubba’s daughter’ is a common answer,” Katelyn said.

The presenters’ children were often the subject of the show.

“Was it strange for you?” Burgess said.

Katelyn said she listened to the clips with her on television and was often surprised by the on-air version of events. “I don’t really remember it happening that way,” she said.

For example, Bussey remembers teaching his children about the birds and bees.

“I tell that story a lot better,” Katelyn said. “Our version is much funnier.”

The duo Rick & Bubba have played more than 8,000 shows together, Bussey said.

That required him to go to bed at 8 p.m. and get up as early as 2:30 a.m. to get ready for the show, even though he could go home at lunchtime, he said.

“Just saying thank you doesn’t seem to be enough,” Bussey said. “It was a lifelong dream.”

Bussey thanked co-host Burgess and the entire crew. “I got to choose my brothers, and I chose you,” he said.

Although they eventually got paid well for their popular syndicated show with multimillion-dollar contracts, money was never the primary motivation, Burgess said.

“We had so much fun, I would have done it for free anyway,” Bussey said.

“So many memories,” Burgess said. “Thank you from the bottom of my heart.”

Bussey’s favorite recurring gag was “Good Ol’ Boy Theater” – Bubba reading from the bard William Shakespeare in an exaggerated (or not) rural Southern accent. He returned to the gag from the last show and ended with a Shakespeare quote: “All’s well that ends well,” he said.

“Thank you for listening to Rick and Bubba’s show,” Burgess said as the final words of the live show as a duo. “God bless you.”