Bubba On the Lake
#43 Sit down interview with Kathrine Robertson, Hunter recaps the Natty
22 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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This is Bubba.
Hello again, everybody, and welcome to Bubba on the Lake. I'm your semi-retired, mostly watched up host, formerly of the Rick and Bubba Show, and I want to welcome you to Bubba on the Lake. Man, we're broadcasting here from the Meliella studio, and we have got a great show for you today. We always say this program is about people, places, and perspectives.
And we're going to introduce you to a person today that you may or may not know. Her name is Catherine Robertson. She is a candidate for attorney general of the state of Alabama. And I met her and invited her on the podcast. And we're going to have a conversation with her and you'll get to know a little more about her. I want to thank everybody for your emails.
We've got a funny email I wanted to read to you. I'm going to paraphrase some of it here, but it's from Whitney in Huntsville, Alabama. And she says, Bubba, basically, I had doubts about you hosting the show. I know that you've been part of a team for a long time, but you're doing a great job. I appreciate that, Whitney. Thank you very much. She said she's really enjoying the podcast.
She said, and it's grown on her. She says that she really is looking forward to each week to it coming out. And she had a suggestion. We need to call it the People's Podcast. And I thought that was great. By the way, Whitney, thank you. So maybe we should call it Bubba on the Lake, subtitle, The People's Podcast. I kind of like that. I really do. So we'll keep that in mind.
We've had a crazy week. Got to go hunting for the first time this year. Got out, and I really wasn't, you know, all fired up to harvest anything. I just wanted to see if I could get out there and get in it again. and, uh, boy, we saw a lot of stuff. Uh, it's the rut here where we live this time of year and boy, deer were just running everywhere.
I saw a big nine point, uh, chasing does and, uh, had him in the scope, had the safety off. And, uh, I thought, you know, do I really want to mess dinner up, uh, by having to go and, uh, and bring this in and, uh, you know, carry it to the processor and all that stuff. And I was more hungry than I was after the deer that day. So I let him go. He was busy helping the population.
So we let him go on that, but it was just great to be out there again. Now I did get a buck. Some of y'all saw that on social media. I was coming down a road, going about 45 miles an hour in a stream of cars, some in front of me, some behind me. And First thing, so I was really paying attention to the cars in front of me, as you should when you're driving.
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Chapter 2: Who is Kathrine Robertson and what is her campaign about?
He thought he saw a doe. He smelled the doe. I don't know what he was doing in the middle of the lake. So I took some pictures. I actually took some video, too. And I came back in to text Mike. some of my neighbors and I went back out and he wasn't there. So I don't know if he swam off, he drowned. I don't know what, what happened. But deer are very good swimmers, by the way.
They are not intimidated by a lake at all. But we live on kind of an island with limited access land-wise. So some of them here become pretty good swimmers if they want to leave. But I just thought that was weird. And in some of the pictures, as you guys started commenting on it, it does kind of look like a Loch Ness monster shot.
Yeah.
Oh, me. So we've had a lot of fun with that. Don't know where he went. I hadn't seen him on any cameras around the house here. So we'll keep looking for him. I'm sure he's out there somewhere. But just a strange week. Very strange. Great show coming up. Catherine Robertson is going to be with us. Hunter Bussey is going to check in to talk sports. We had a national championship game Monday night.
And he also was showing me a new sport that I had never seen before called indoor golf. And we're not just talking about a bunch of ragtags. Tiger wood is in this. So it's, it's, it's, you know, it's, it's the real deal. So we got that and we'll have some other things coming up too. So we're going to get started without any more delay. Thank you for being part of Bubba on the lake.
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Chapter 3: What challenges does Kathrine Robertson face in her campaign?
It's a pleasure. I met you at a Jack State game not too long ago. And we talked about getting together and trying to visit a little bit and talk about your campaign. And hey, you made it out today.
Here we are. Here we are. Not much of a sacrifice to come to Lake Martin, I'll say.
Well, you know, there's better days to be here when it's a lot warmer and you can get on the boat and do the podcast on the pontoon. I always like that. We did have a little excitement this morning. We had a deer out in the water out here.
Oh, no kidding.
And it got out. It was a big buck and got out to a shallow point and just stood there. And I saw it this morning. I thought, well, I wonder what his plan is. I don't know if he was chasing a doe or just went for a swim or what.
We need to go out there and check on it.
Well, I came back in for a minute, and I was texting some people the picture, and I went back to the window, and he was gone. So he made it. I guess he swam back. You know, they'll do that every now and then.
Well, let's go back to one thing you just said there. You invite me back for a pontoon ride when it gets warmer?
Yes, yes. Okay. I'm going to put it on my calendar. So I met you at a Jack State game, and you told me you were running for office.
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Chapter 4: How does Kathrine Robertson view public safety issues?
You get to do a little bit of everything.
Yeah, I knew you were a tennis player. When I saw you, I said, that girl's got to be a tennis player. She just looks the part. How are you? Pretty good?
Decent, yeah. We came in second in the state championship. I won my seed, and yeah, I still love it. I don't get to do much tennis these days, but looking forward to get back to it.
Yeah, my joints are not really up on being able to keep up with tennis. But I started late life. I didn't start until I was 40.
Yeah.
But I sure did enjoy it, and we really got into it and ended up coaching a few years. So we had a lot of fun with it. It was a fun sport. I wish it was a little more popular in the U.S.
I know. Now everybody's into pickleball.
Well, and I resisted pickleball for a while, and now I've kind of got into it a little bit with my joints wearing out and not having to run so far. And plus, if you want to see anybody here where we live, you better play pickleball or you better have a good cart because you're not going to see anybody much because it's a big part of the society here.
I take a lot of pride in the fact that I don't play pickleball much, but my tennis background, I can normally dominate. I'm just, you know, with all humility, I'm pretty decent at pickleball.
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Chapter 5: What insights does Kathrine have about the Attorney General's office?
And so that will always be, you know, a priority of the office. And then kind of when you look outside of Alabama, what our role is in the national conversation is. The AG's job is to make sure that Alabama maintains its sovereignty over the issues that were given to the people from the day our country was founded. And so there's a lot of conflict with Washington.
Sometimes even with a friendly administration, there's still a lot of bureaucrats in Washington that want to kind of own the states and boss us around. And so those two big picture things will always be at bottom of what you do as AG. And then The rest is kind of what's going on in the world. Is there an opioid crisis? Is there a pandemic where constitutional rights are in jeopardy?
You just never know. Are there going to be boys and girls sports? You never know what may pop up. So you kind of have the things you know you've got to prioritize, and then you've got to leave a lot of bandwidth to react appropriately for things that come up.
How do you balance what the law says or how you enter? Obviously, the law is written and we want to follow the law, but people interpret it very different at times.
Yeah.
And how do you how do you work that and balance that with what the constituents who voted you in? Obviously, you have a position on it and they support you as a way you get in there. That's right. But do you ever run into a position where you go, gosh, the law says this. I know it means that, but people are not going to be happy with it. How do you balance that out?
That's an insightful question because I think in most political offices, you can pretty much get away with saying anything. Because, I mean, you know, you're there to represent the people. If they're mad about it, you're mad about it. And you say that. The AG's job is very different. Because if my boss gets out there and says the wrong thing, he could end up being cross-examined.
He could end up being deposed. I mean, and so it's a little more serious of a role because of that. Because you are stating the state's legal position in court documents, in federal court, at the United States Supreme Court. There's not a whole lot of room for rhetoric and talking points. Right.
So one thing we try to do at the state level, at least, is if there's a law that we know we're going to enforce that's going to cause issues for the people or there's going to be an interpretation problem, we try to go over there and engage the legislature as they're writing the laws. Right, get ahead of it. To a lesser degree, we do that with Congress.
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Chapter 6: What are the current pressing legal issues in Alabama?
A grown-up go play in the Little League World Series. What am I missing about this, man?
You know what I think is the virtue signal that went too far. It's the virtue signal. And I think this issue ran away from the left. I think it just snowballed out of control, and then they just couldn't stop it.
They couldn't go back.
It's almost like they never even meant for it to go this far because it's such a losing issue for them. It's such a losing position. And I got to speak at a rally last week in D.C. And I went back and looked at all these quotes from all these prominent Democrats, you know, five years ago where they were saying, oh, we would never allow this. The sports issue is a red herring.
This would never happen. You know, whatever. And it's almost like it got away from them. And now they're just having to own it. And you see that on a lot of issues, whether it's crime or immigration or now the sports issue. It's almost like maybe we never meant to take it this far, but here we are. We've just got to own it. And it is such a loser issue.
And a lot of them... Like you said, the issues, it gets out of control. And if Trump ever takes a position, then they're galvanized. And they've got to be the opposite. No way around it.
They're for crime. They're for disease. I mean, you name it. Yeah, it's a mess. But this issue is horrible for them. And it's fascinating that really almost no prominent Democrats have stepped up and said, you know what, I really just cannot go along with this.
Yeah, I mean, I have a wife that plays sports. I had a daughter that played sports. And they're very good at what they do and how they do it. But, you know, again, if you play a mixed sport, that's fine. But it's just, I don't want.
Soccer, basketball, swimming.
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Chapter 7: What are the highlights from the College Football National Championship?
They don't want to be ragged out on political commercials. And your opponents can say anything about you. It doesn't have to be true and just wear you out on TV. Correct. Yeah. So it's, you know, sometimes it's just a no-win situation. But we appreciate people wanting to serve. And I've got to mention this because I almost called you Pam a minute ago. You are a young lady. You have blonde hair.
You're very attractive. And you probably get compared to Pam Bondy a lot, who was the Attorney General in Florida. And I didn't mean to say that, but I wrote in my notes to be sure to mention it. And I called you, Pam. Do you get a lot of connections with her? Have you met her before?
Yeah. So Pam was the Florida attorney general early in my tenure at the Alabama AG's office. And so we've crossed paths a lot. She's been really great to stay in touch with our group and we still feel a close connection with her. I have been called Alabama's Pam Bondi.
I don't think that's a bad thing.
Not a bad thing at all. I mean, you know, Pam Bondi is her own person. She does not, you know, I feel like she doesn't always wear a black suit and try to be, you know, she is who she is. She's got a fun personality. She's smart. She's spunky. And so certainly not offended by the comparison at all.
Let me ask you about one other legal issue that I thought was interesting. And when we first booked you, it had just happened. And I want to get your take on it. The United States went in and got the leader of Venezuela. Yeah. literally in the middle of the night, in his pajamas, him and his wife, they were under conviction for drug laundering and a whole long laundry list of drug offenses.
And I heard a lot of people screaming, that's illegal, you can't do that. He is not the correct legal president of Venezuela. He lost the last election and just stayed because he had the guns and nobody else did it. So legally, what would you say to somebody that said that was an overstep or that was illegal? Do you have an opinion on that?
I think, you know, first of all, I think anything that Trump does, as we've discussed, you know, there's a you know, everybody's going to scream and clutch their pearls if they're if they didn't vote for him. I don't think most Americans are bothered by that at all. Venezuela, under his leadership, has been a huge problem for the United States.
And I know that there are lots of different reasons that the administration made that decision. But the drug issue alone, it just cannot be overstated what that has done to our country. And it is very, very calculated to weaken America. And it has. And, you know, when we're sitting here in Alabama, we don't really feel like that affects us in a very direct way. But but it really does.
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Chapter 8: What are the future plans for Kathrine Robertson's campaign?
We need the young ladies and the young men to get involved. And I think there's a lot of them out there. A lot of them may not even have decided to run for an office yet. But You know, it doesn't matter if it's county clerk or city council or mayor.
You know, we need those people that make those decisions because the school boards, you see some of the crazy things that go on there that's driving people to the private schools. We've just got to get back to what... The basics. You know, what we believe as Christians, as Alabamians, we don't hate anybody. We ain't trying to push anybody down, but we don't want people acting crazy.
We want to have safe streets. You know, we want to pay our fair share in taxes, but not somebody else's. That's right. You know, we want to get out and enjoy life, enjoy our football games, our concerts, and not be worried about being killed while we're doing it. I mean, is that too much to ask? No, no.
Not too much to ask, but sometimes it feels like it. I think when I look at our state and sort of the position that we hold, we coordinate a lot with the other Republican attorneys general. So you start to get a pretty good idea of the feel for every state and whether they have the support of their constituents to take on different issues.
And I've started to realize that Alabama is one of the last states in the country that really has a truly conservative constituency. meaning that whatever the fight is that we need to take on, we can take it on because our people still believe in those things. And the number of states that can take those issues on is, I mean, you see Georgia.
I mean, we've more or less lost Georgia's ability to fight hard fights because the politics have changed there so much. And so then when I come back to Alabama after being with that group and I sort of assess where we are, You know, we've got to be vigilant. We have got to be vigilant in making sure that we don't become Georgia. You know, we sometimes see Tennessee being a little more moderate.
I mean, Alabama can't be that. And it's just what you said. I mean, that means that at every level, local all the way up to governor, all the way up to senator, you've got to elect people that don't just talk, but really get it. And are really up for the fight. Because I think Alabama doesn't just stay Alabama on its own.
You can't have all this leftist stuff creeping into the schools and the universities and state government and think it's just going to stay the same. You really have to have people that really get the moment that you're in. And so, I mean, again, that's kind of one of the things that's drawn me into this fight is like, I just cannot sit back and watch this happen.
I don't think people are paying attention enough.
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