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Love & Best Dishes: Join Paula for the Grand Opening of RoadHouse Convenience Store
Jun 18, 2025
Join Paula for the Grand Opening of RoadHouse Convenience Store - Paula and Michael attend the grand opening of a store based on the Roadhouse movie in Jasper, Missouri, along with their buddy Jimmy Houston!
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0:00
- Hey, y'all.
0:01
I just wanted to tell y'all how wonderful
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mine and Michael and Eddie's trip to Branson was.
0:07
We went to...
0:11
What is it, Jasper?
0:13
All those little towns around in there.
0:17
Steve Tong, our dear friend,
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opened up a place called The Roadhouse
0:22
and it's like one of those super duper gas stores.
0:26
It's just got everything.
0:28
Hey, y'all.
0:29
I'm having such a fun day today.
0:32
I'm out here in, where am I?
0:34
- [Lady] Jasper, Missouri. - Jasper, Missouri.
0:36
That's what I thought.
0:38
There's a lot of little towns out here though
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and I can't keep up with them.
0:43
A friend, a dear friend of mine, Steve Tong,
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invited me to his grand opening
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of his new place here at Jasper
0:53
and it's called The Roadhouse.
0:55
And his daughter, Helena,
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named it because she loved "Roadhouse"
1:01
with Patrick Swayze.
1:03
This place is incredible!
1:04
This is Helena. - Hello!
1:07
And "Roadhouse" was based out of Jasper, Missouri,
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the movie originally was.
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- I do not know that. - Yes.
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- I did not know that.
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- Finally, we have the original Roadhouse here.
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- I love it.
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My brother Bubba,
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after 2013, my brother
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moved out here
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and went to work with Steve on his farm
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and he told me,
1:33
"Sister,"
1:35
sis, he called me sis,
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he said, "It was the best year and a half of my life."
1:40
Being out here with y'all.
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He just loved you. - We loved him deeply. Deeply.
1:46
- And so it's kind of bittersweet me being here.
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I so wish he was here with me to see this.
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- Hello, y'all!
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- [crowd] Hi!
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- Welcome to The Roadhouse!
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I'm Paula Dean and I'm so happy to be here
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for my friend, Steve Tong, and his daughter, Helena.
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Big place. So neat!
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And he's been keeping me posted,
2:13
sending me pictures of it.
2:14
And so my assistant is up here, this is Eddie,
2:20
and he's taking some film
2:21
so I can put it on my website
2:24
and let everybody know it's here.
2:29
Hey!
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So, I'm so glad to be here with y'all today.
2:37
And if you're near Branson tomorrow,
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I have a book signing from 11:oo to 1:00
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at Paula Dean's Family Kitchen in Branson.
2:47
So, I'll be in that area.
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Hop in to see us
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and enjoy a good meal.
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- This is Daniel (indistinct).
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He's from the (indistinct)
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- Derrick (indistinct)
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- Derrick (indistinct)
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- Tell them where you're from.
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- (indistinct)
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- I'm army chaplain. 4th (indistinct)
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- [Paula] Wonderful, from my neck of the world.
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- We got some spouses here too.
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- [Paula] Oh, wonderful. Thank y'all all so much.
3:16
I am a national ambassador for Helping a Hero.
3:21
And we build custom homes that fit the disabilities
3:27
that some of our heroes come home with.
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I love, love, love Helping a Hero.
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So, thank y'all. Thank y'all. Thank y'all
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for everything that you do.
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And your wives, for your partners,
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the people left behind that keep things lifted up.
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So, thank you guys.
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- [Lady] We've been waiting an hour.
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- [Paula] Good, good, good.
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Hello. Hello, my friends. Hello.
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- [lady] Do we have Howie up there?
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- How are you ma'am?
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- I'm good. How are you? - I'm very good, thank you.
4:21
- [lady] That's it, Howie!
4:26
(crowd chatters)
4:37
- [man] Are you ready, Petey?
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- I'm ready.
4:39
(crowd mumbles)
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- [man] Tell me when.
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Count it down. 3, 2, 1.
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- Ready? 3, 2, 1!
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(crowd cheers)
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(crowd chatters)
5:07
- Wow! Wow! Wow!
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- Oh my goodness!
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Holy cow!
5:14
- I'm Shelby Neely.
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- And I'm Gary Bandy.
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We are not in the studio.
5:17
We are in a studio, but we're not in our regular studio.
5:22
- They dropped us for the middle of the party.
5:23
- Yeah. Bad idea guys. We like to do that.
5:27
It is amazing here.
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We are at, let's just go ahead and tell.
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- Okay. We're at the Roadhouse.
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- The Roadhouse.
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- It is amazing. I mean, you can't move around
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there's so much cool stuff here.
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You've gotta get in to see this.
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Really you got to get here by five.
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Would be a great idea.
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- That is a wonderful idea.
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- There's definitely a special guest here
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that you're gonna want to meet.
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But we are having so much fun. This place is packed.
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We're so glad as this grand opening time.
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- It is. We're gonna tell you all about that
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all over the next hour here on Living Well.
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We will introduce you to some of our guests
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of honor in just a couple of seconds.
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We actually have a lot of them to introduce you to
6:03
between now at five o'clock.
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But, I wanna ask everybody who's watching,
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just to give everybody an idea how big this place is.
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Everybody, you can hear me, I want you to cheer loud.
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(crowd cheers)
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Look who is with us live on Living Well.
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The legendary Paula Dean.
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Paula, you are too sweet to allow us
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to be on our show with us.
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- I'm so happy to be here.
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Hey Jimmy!
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- Hi, Miss Paula.
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- How are ya?
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- Doing good.
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- You have fun fishing today?
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- Mike caught more fishing than I did
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and he caught bigger fish than I did.
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What's the deal with that?
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- So much fun.
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This gal has her whole crew here as well.
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Your husband's here.
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You can see Steve, one of the owners
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and Jimmy Houston.
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- Jimmy Houston's here!
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- He had the microphone a minute ago.
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I thought I've lost my job.
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(crowd laughs)
7:01
- I tell you what.
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This is the Shelby and Gary hour right here.
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And this is called Eye Candy.
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Eye Candy and Gary.
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- They got to change the open of the show to that.
7:15
- Will you vote for that?
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- I like my show.
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- Everyone else will.
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- I'll vote for it.
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- Well, Paula, we want to talk to you a little bit more
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because you do the books.
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- I do.
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- I love your restaurant.
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- Thank you. Thank you.
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So do I. And the people that work there.
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I'm gonna be at Paula Dean's Family Kitchen
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tomorrow from 11 to one.
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So please come out.
7:41
- You were up and fishing this morning. How'd you do?
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- We did really well. Michael and I fished this morning.
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We caught a a lot of bass. We caught a lot of crappie.
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And I would tell you exactly where we caught 'em,
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but if I did, I'd, I don't already die.
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I might hit you a couple times
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and give you some hints
7:58
about where we were, but that's about it.
8:01
But we had a great time.
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Michael has a great technique.
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He is a conservationist and it's called a quick release.
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Like you get them up there, they jump up, get the bait out.
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They take one look at him and they're gone.
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And they're just gone. They're gone.
8:15
- Sounds like my dating days, Jimmy.
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- I've heard a lot about your dating days.
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Both of them.
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- Steve, we know you know everything about this.
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Can you share a little bit about these?
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What we're presenting here.
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- Those are our Coca-Cola (indistinct)
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He's made her a couple special things and also Jimmy.
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Got him want too.
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We love Coke.
8:40
- I can't wait to see it. Is it a surprise?
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- It's a surprise, so please do.
8:47
- Oh, it's got my name on it!
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- Jimmy, you get one too.
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- Oh wow!
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- Hold on. I'll hold the microphone.
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Look at that. Hold that up to the camera.
8:58
- [Jimmy] Two-fisting microphone!
9:00
- What Paula is seeing is there's one bottle for her
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and one bottle for (indistinct)
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They did that.
9:07
Let me give you a mic back.
9:10
Oh, in a second.
9:13
- The folks at Coca-Cola wanted you to have that.
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So, that was so moving.
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And here comes Bubbles.
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- Bubbles from Coca-Cola is here!
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He wants to give you a hug as well.
9:26
Bubbles brought this all the way here.
9:30
- Jimmy? You want a hug from Bubbles too?
9:33
- I'm not sure if I want to hug from Bubbles or not.
9:36
Bubbles there. He might crush me.
9:39
I don't know. Come here bubbles.
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- [Gary] You can handle it.
9:45
(Bubbles laughs)
9:49
(indistinct)
9:51
Paula Deen.
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You need to be at Roadhouse!
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And we're gonna be back with more Living Well
9:56
in just a minute.
9:58
- Love y'all!
10:02
- How many people was here? Hundreds.
10:04
- I don't know. But you see that finger right there?
10:09
- Uh-uh. - See that crook in it?
10:12
That's some signing stuff.
10:14
- Nice nails.
10:17
Good chips.
10:18
- No honey. Those are real.
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I don't know what you call them.
10:22
- Well, you call it French dip. I'm like a nail connoisseur.
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I know lots about nail.
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I have a lot of money invested in nail.
10:29
I have a wife, a daughter, and a granddaughter.
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- Yes, you do.
10:32
- Your displays here are gorgeous.
10:34
It was a fantastic time. The Roadhouse is incredible.
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I mean it is absolutely incredible.
10:41
- I finally got a chance to walk around and look at it.
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- Me too. Me too.
10:45
- And you know what interest me is...
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- Patrick Swayze's picture.
10:51
- The one in the men's bathroom!
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I guess I went into the men's bathroom.
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- I did too.
11:00
- My name is Paula and I didn't go into the men's.
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- By accident.
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Lord, no.
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- No, it wasn't by no accident.
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- The one in the men's bathroom,
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what does it say?
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- It's a picture of Patrick Swayze.
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- And what does it say?
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- I thought you'd be bigger.
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- She has been in the men's bathroom!
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That's exactly what it says.
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A picture of Patrick Swayze
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and it says, "I thought you would be bigger."
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- He didn't have be.
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- Oh, I'm not going there. I'm not going.
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I'm just gonna quit with you right now.
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I had a hard time explaining to you one day
11:33
the difference between a male and a female crappie.
11:36
I kept calling some male and some female
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and Paula kept picking up
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and looking at them.
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Finally, she asked me the question,
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which I'm not gonna go with it.
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No, no, no, no. Paula. No, no, no, no.
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- I don't remember it.
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- Well, good.
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Good.
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But it's quite a place. It's a great time.
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They got all the Paula Dean products here.
12:01
Incredible stuff.
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And I've worked with you fishing with Michael.
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We had a great time. He told me some stories that...
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No, no, we can't repeat 'em.
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We can't repeat 'em.
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I'm just not gonna talk anymore about that.
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But we've had a great time.
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- Well, thank you. Thank you. You are my friend.
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It's been wonderful day.
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- Had a lot of fun.
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- Yes. I'm so proud of Steve
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and his daughter.
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- His what?
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- His daughter.
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- Daughter. Daughter. Daughter.
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Is that like a daughter?
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Same thing.
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- How'd I say it?
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- Daughter.
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- Y'all got to come by.
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- I love you, girl.
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Y'all have a great one.
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- Let's go fishing.
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- We're going fishing. See y'all later. Fish lucky.
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Remember we do love you, don't we?
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- Yes. Drowned a worm.
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Hey, y'all, it's Paula Deen.
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