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We survived another year, y'all.
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I'm going back to 1965, the year I graduated,
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it was such a great year.
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2025, can you believe it?
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That we have been in the 2000s
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now for a quarter of a century?
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That sounds crazy when you think about it, doesn't it?
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'cause like 2002 or '03,
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it was just a little while ago, wasn't it?
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Or it seems like it to me.
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Eddie has got me hooked up with
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some kind of champagne.
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Theresa, would you see if that's an important call?
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If not, I'm gonna keep on talking
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about celebrating the New Year's.
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sometimes they'll pick me up a little tiny bottle
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of Prosecco, you know, if we're celebrating
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somebody's birthday or something like that
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'cause, you know, I'm a sissy and that's good
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and champagne tastes pretty good too,
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but you have to watch it.
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It'll sneak up on you and bite you in the back,
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- Yes. - How about you, Eddie?
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Does it bite you in the back
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or you'd rather have gin bite you in the back?
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- [Eddie] Yeah, gin doesn't usually do that.
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- It doesn't? - Champagne might.
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- Well, we'll just have to sit down and have some champagne
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and see the real Paula and the real Eddie come out.
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See what kind of dogs bite in our back.
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- [Eddie] That'll be another show.
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- Another show, an after midnight show.
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So I hope, I know me personally,
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myself and my family, along with my family,
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we feel so very hopeful for the year 2025.
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I think every one of us are looking for maybe prices
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to start coming down and gas to start coming down.
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I know we would all appreciate that, wouldn't we?
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So, like I said, I'm looking forward
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to a brand new year with a brand new start,
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brand new hopes, brand new dreams,
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and for all of my friends out there
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that have followed me for a long time,
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this is not gonna be the first time you've heard this,
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but I don't make New Year's resolutions, y'all,
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because I feel like I'm setting myself up for failure,
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because if I don't last but a few days,
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then I feel like a failure and I'm disappointed in myself.
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So if I don't make 'em, I don't have to feel guilty.
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That makes perfectly good sense to me.
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I don't know about y'all.
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But I do make the resolution that whatever I do,
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I'm gonna try to do it better than I did the year before.
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So I've got nowhere to go but up with this. (indistinct)
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never acquired a taste for this stuff
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and it's a good thing 'cause Paula Deen has a good time
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just au naturale on her sweet tea.
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I hope this new year brings you all
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that you're wishing for and hoping for,
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health, happiness, wealth.
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Friendship? I don't know.
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But, you know, tomorrow we will be eating hog jowl
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which is for your health,
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the black eyed peas for peaceful luck.
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We'll be eating the collard greens and the turnip greens
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that represents money and what was the other one now?
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Health, wealth and luck.
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Health, wealth and luck.
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So I'll be cooking all of that for us tomorrow.
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It's funny that hog jowl represents health, isn't it?
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Everybody needs a little pig though every now and again.
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Happy New Year to you and love and best dishes.
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Don't forget to eat that hog jowl,
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black eyed peas, collard greens
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We all have to make our own happiness, don't we?
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We can choose to be happy or we can choose to be sad.
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So why don't we make a resolution
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to try to always pick happy?
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Be safe, be safe, be safe.
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Hey, y'all, it's Paula Deen.
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Love and Best Dishes Y'all.
