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Paula heads to Plains Georgia and makes breakfast for former President Jimmy Carter. Before she heads off to Plains, she makes sweet rolls sometimes known as gorilla bread. Paula's Home Cooking Season 02, Episode 15
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hey y'all you won't believe whose house
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I'm walking out of I'm actually walking
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out of the childhood home of our
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President Jimmy Carter I'm hearing
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planes today just sit down and have a
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chat with the president I want to find
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out about some of his childhood memories
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his favorite foods and all about his
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town so y'all please stay with me I
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promise you it's gonna be a wonderful
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wonderful time with one of the greatest
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men of our times
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so y'all please come with me
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[Music]
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[Music]
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[Music]
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hi I've got the most spectacular day
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planned for us
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we're going to see President Jimmy
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Carter and I'm gonna do the breakfast
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because like any southern girl you know
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I can't go empty-handed
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so I'm gonna have something in the way
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of food to take to him so I have decided
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I fought and thought and thought and I
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said well sweet rolls really go with a
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bed and breakfast so I thought well I'll
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make him some of my gorilla bread and
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it's so simple and easy we're gonna
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start with canned biscuits and before we
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open our biscuits I'm gonna get a stick
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of butter melting and a cup of brown
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sugar and before I open the biscuits I'm
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gonna do one more thing I'm actually
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gonna cut this cream cheese into 20
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cubes and I always have to stop and
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think about this one all right because
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five times four is 20 so I'm gonna go
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down the center and I'm gonna get four
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rows out of this and then I'm gonna come
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back and I'm gonna make one two three
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four or five cuts out of that so that
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will give us 20 squares because we have
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20 biscuits and we want a piece of cream
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cheese for each biscuit that we have all
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right I'm gonna give this a quick stir
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all we need to do is just really get
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that brown sugar melted into that butter
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while I'm working over here that'll
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finish melting and now I'm gonna open
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our can of biscuits I'll never forget
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the day I was on Ready Set cook and I
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was good I was going up against a French
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chef and I looked over at him and he was
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just working like crazy with a can
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opener and a can of biscuits and I
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looked over my I start hollering no no
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no stop stop stop and he wouldn't listen
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to me because he thought naturally I was
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trying to lead him astray well about
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that time they exploded in his face and
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I just died laughing
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I thought everybody knew how to open
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McCann biscuit all right now I'm gonna
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take our biscuits and I'll do one can at
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the time
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I'm gonna spray our bundt pan and this
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is a Teflon Kody but I'm gonna put just
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a little bit of spray in there and I'm
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gonna sprinkle some walnuts evenly
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around the bottom then you can use any
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kind of nut you want but a they're like
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pecans or walnuts and I'm gonna take
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each one of these biscuits and I'm gonna
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flatten them out a little bit and I'm
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gonna cut me a chunk of cream cheese and
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put it inside that biscuit
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doesn't that sound heavenly and I'm
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going to make some sugar and some
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cinnamon together and just stir that up
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take the biscuit and I'm gonna put about
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half a teaspoon of the cinnamon sugar
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mixture in there and then I'm just gonna
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seal that biscuit up real good and then
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place it in my bundt pan and I'm gonna
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do that until every one of the biscuits
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have been done you'll want to make sure
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that you use like a 10-count tube of
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biscuits and you'll want to make sure
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that you use a quality biscuit these are
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not expensive so you don't want to skimp
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on that I'm so excited about this tin
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this man I have been so fortunate in my
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life even though this visit hasn't
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happened yet I'm literally just hours
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away from it happening our butter and
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our brown sugar is separated a little so
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I'm just giving it a few stirs to kind
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of incorporate that butter back into
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that brown sugar all right and I'm gonna
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sprinkle some of our brown sugar and
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cinnamon over that and then I'm gonna
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take our butter mixture and drizzle
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those biscuits and this is gonna make
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like a have you ever had a sticky bun
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gonna be something like that you know
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with the kind of rich caramel sauce on
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top so we're gonna do about half of that
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onto that first layer and then I'm gonna
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take a few more nuts and sprinkle over
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that layer and I'm gonna place the rest
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of the biscuits that I
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I've done on top of those doesn't that
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look good
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biscuits and cream cheese don't believe
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it can get any better alright here we go
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again with the last of the brown sugar
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and butter making sure that gets on
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every biscuit and I love eating this
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while it's still warm out of the oven
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but if you can't get it straight out of
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the oven you can pop this bread into
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your microwave and it's just as good
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alright now we're going to take the
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remainder of our cinnamon sugar and just
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sprinkle over those last 10 biscuits the
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cinnamon smell is terrific then we're
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gonna take the last of our nuts
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and pour over in there and we're really
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gonna have one great big fat sticky bun
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so we're gonna put this in our oven
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about 50 to 60 minutes and I should have
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one over here that's ready this is a
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presidential sticky bun who would have
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thought some little South Georgia girl
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would be making something for President
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Jimmy Carter blows my mind I hope he
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loves it but I think you will I
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understand that he can have a little bit
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of a sweet tooth now I'm gonna take this
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and I'm gonna invert it onto my plate
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now with any luck it won't come out I
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heard a clunk that's a good sign
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y'all ready for the unveiling how does
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it look does that look okay
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I think he's gonna just love it I don't
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know about y'all but I'm ready we go see
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mr. Jimmy cuz we don't want to keep a
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president waiting Billy
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[Music]
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[Music]
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welcome back y'all I'm actually standing
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in the personal Pecan Grove of miss
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Lillian Carter miss Lillian was
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President Jimmy Carter's mother she
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actually harvested the nuts off of these
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trees to help feed and clothe and
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educate her children and you know I
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happen to know that one of President
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Carter's favorite foods is pecans so I
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have cooked him up something extra
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special to serve him up today well we've
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got our gooey and gorgeous gorilla bread
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and these hot fresh scones to take to
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President Carter and you know he still
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lives in the small town he was born in
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Plains Georgia which is actually just a
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few miles down the road from my hometown
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of Albany and you know I've visited it
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many times but I've never seen such a
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beautiful bed-and-breakfast as the one
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mr. Carter helped build on the Main
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Street and true to his character he
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actually constructed it along with other
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volunteers in fact this bed in the
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Presidential Suite was built by
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President Carter's very own Ames his
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wife Rosalyn supervised a different
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decor in the period themed rooms and the
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generosity of workers and sponsors has
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created a historic gym well worth
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visiting but you know I wanted to catch
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up with my own favorite president about
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some of his own history and that of the
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town he loves so much what store are we
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standing in front of well when my father
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had a warehouse insurance business so
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when I came home from a navy this is my
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first office and so I lived here until I
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guess about seven or eight years and
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then finally built another office
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building but this was original quarters
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warehouse and this was a grocery store
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and I'm a local Alton my daddy's brother
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had a grocery store down here and so did
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my father by the way and so all of these
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very wide open operating on Saturday
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night in particular because folks didn't
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have automobiles
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to ride around and I'll pick up trucks
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then they wrote in wagons or either walk
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so once a week they would come to Plains
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this by the way was a bank building it
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was built in 1901 as where most of this
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most of the places along the way and so
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we've converted the bank building into
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the old Bank cafe I've eaten here before
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it's a good place to it's a good place
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you have a really good restaurant Center
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and then this next door here was my
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Ockham's Plains working to your company
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and sometimes on Saturdays I'm
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particular during the Christmas holidays
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I worked in this store yes they had a
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wonderful lost or upstairs for women's
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goods where men couldn't even go
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upstairs up there you know like slips
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and second stage and they had a whole
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bunch of mannequins up there and they
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would put the latest women's styles on a
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manic manic engine and ladies would come
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from all around this part of a state to
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shop here and and where they foundation
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for the foundations and everything and
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my uncles would send his bar up to New
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York City every year twice a year in the
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spring to buy fall fashions and in the
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fall to buy spring fashion so latest
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styles here in flames this was a good
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mercantile store had everything in it
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that you could might have but as much as
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I enjoyed learning about the president's
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family and hometown you know as a
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southerner myself I've always been
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curious as to why he stayed so close to
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home
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well first of all this is where my
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family's been since 1860 it's where
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roses family's been since 1833 when the
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Indians left so I'll land is here our
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churches are here our family still lives
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here the only home we've ever owned is
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here in Plains and we are where we
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belong to be it's just a matter of a
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haven that rose and I have always chosen
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without argument I might say something
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else that just fascinated me is your
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business mind
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it started when you were 40 as early as
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four years old didn't it the the biggest
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thing that
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amazed me though was that eight years
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old you became a property owner yes I
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own five houses when I was 8 years old 8
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years I had saved up a dollar a day all
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during the entire Phoenix
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season every year for four years and I
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had enough money when cotton got down to
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five cents a pound the lowest price had
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ever got in the United States I had
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enough money to buy five bills of cotton
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and I put there one of my daddy's
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storehouses and when he got up to 18
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cents a pound we sold it made a big
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profit and the Undertaker in Plains who
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who owned part of a building where the N
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is now he had died and so I bought five
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houses from him and so the total rent on
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my houses was $18 and a half five houses
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a total rent was 1852 of rent for $2 and
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the biggest ones for $5 and when I went
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off to be in the Navy to the
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neighborhood ketamine I was still
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collecting eight there's $18 my friend
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so I was an entrepreneur and a property
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owner as a little boy that's amazing
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because you know at eight I don't think
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I had learned to tie my shoes yet but I
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desperately wanted to ask mr. Jimmy as
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he prefers to be known around his
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hometown what his food memories were
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growing up in Plains well my favorite
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memory was our Sunday meals when we
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always had either chicken pie or fried
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chicken plus mashed potatoes and rice
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and gravy and hot biscuits with butter
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and then we journey had the you know
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vegetables at that time collard greens
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turnip greens black-eyed peas butter
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beans sweet corn and then we almost
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always had banana pudding or strawberry
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shortcake for dessert just a few simple
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things like that and one of my favorite
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desserts really because I ate it at the
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end of the meal because it was so
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precious was our cornbread crumbled up
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and bought American eat another spoon
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that is so good well I have a few things
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I'm that I have made really you to taste
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if you would have agreed to it and I
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hope you love them can we walk across
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the street I'm looking forward to be
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delighted hurry back
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I can't wait to show you how President
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Carter enjoyed my gorilla bread and then
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he had a surprise for me
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[Music]
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welcome back y'all to one of the best
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days of my life
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I was so proud to spend time with a man
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that I admired so much and as you can
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imagine I was excited about him tasting
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my food but I did worry that the scones
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in the gorilla bread that looks so good
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in my kitchen
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maybe a little too humble for this
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occasion but as y'all will see it
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appears my favorite president has an
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appetite as big as his heart what you
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want to taste first oh yes sir just get
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one and I don't know that I brought you
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some scrub
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oh here's the strawberry figs for you to
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taste it with I made I made these week
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before last off of my fig tree and let's
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see if I can there's your fork
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you know scones are they're a little
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different from our biscuits are no to me
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they're more drier and you need
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something you wouldn't wet good well
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thank you son
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all right look at him lick that that's
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the gorilla bread is so good you cook
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this yes or I made this just for you
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this may be a little messy because it's
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been traveling all right that's
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beautiful I just love it
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Georgia pecan jam yes sir that's great I
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was just so happy that mr. Jimmy liked
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my gorilla bread and scones but now he
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has a surprise for me yes that's right
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mr. Carter wanted to introduce me to his
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favorite cook and local celebrity Maggie
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crimes her homestyle restaurant has been
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mr. Carter and his family for years
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when you come back we'll learn a little
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bit about please in the presidential
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palace
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[Music]
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welcome back to my great jae-in plains
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with President Jimmy Carter who was kind
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enough to ask his friend and favorite
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cook
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Maggie crimes to share some of her
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legendary fried chicken with us
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and this isn't just any old chicken it's
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mr. Jimmy's lifelong favorite Paul is a
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great cook but in flames nobody take
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your feet hurt about you dear yes ma'am
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I have heard about you and your food
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through not just mr. Jimmy but other
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folks here in town and it's all been
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good thank you
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so you got some secrets to tell me and
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you know what I think mom that saw the
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news that makes it so good tremendous
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amount of love yeah I know that you have
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put your heart into that place down yes
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ma'am
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everything that I fixed I want to make
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sure it tastes right and if it tastes
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right to me Lenny should taste right to
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you goodbye chicken yes and what the
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trouble with the food they cut short on
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season to make it taste right you know I
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think the only thing that we differ on
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which surprises me is I think I just
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lost my piece of ice a pecan y'all say
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become hello it's all there four
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different ways to pronounce that
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delicious nut pecan pecan pecan they've
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become
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so you put accent on different syllables
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and you pronounce Anna
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but even when you go - no matter what
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you call it it's wonderful even when you
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go to an international convention about
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because they pronounce it four different
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ways and I sometimes change the way I
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pronounce it well I want to thank y'all
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so much I I hope that one day I'll have
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grandchildren to be able to tell this
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story - well it's a non-judicial it's
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you you mean so much just so many people
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we all love you so much one of the best
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things about Plains Georgia it's not
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only the love that he says but also feel
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good from the inside out you don't come
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regular no sometimes I think about mr.
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Jimmy if you ate every meal then you
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might not - get in your car I had so
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much fun visiting with President Jimmy
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Carter and his adorable hometown of
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Plains Georgia the bed-and-breakfast was
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just perfect it was an honor to cook up
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some goodies for him and I was so
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excited that I
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to meet his favorite cook Maggie her
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homestyle cooking was incredible I want
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to thank y'all so much for spending time
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with me today along with President
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Carter it was a very humbling experience
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for me to be with such a great man so
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from Plains Georgia we wish y'all best
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dishes from our place to yours
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