Love & Best Dishes: Paula Deen House Tour Updates

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Uploaded: 2026-07-14T10:05:34+00:00
Duration: 14 min 12 s

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- Hey y'all, a good bit of y'all reached out to us
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and said they think it's time for another tour
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of our living space where we stay in this house
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and because Eddie will change things around and it's fun.
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It's fun.
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Sometimes I walk in and feel like I'm in a new house.
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A lot of y'all have commented on this picture.
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And this is a picture that was painted by Jim Richardson,
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and his last name Richardson?
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- I think so. - Fabulous artist.
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And we were doing a painting, a Paula Deen painting party.
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And he was the guest artist.
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And he gave us tips while we were painting
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and just, like I said, a great talent.
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So this wall was so hard to, you know,
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do anything 'cause it's that hard stuff.
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What is it?
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Is it, what material is it, Eddie?
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- [Eddie] Let's see, what is?
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- Is it...
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It's not porcelain.
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I know it's not porcelain.
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I know it's not soak stone.
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This is soak stone right here.
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And this, and this is ceramic, wood ceramic?
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- [Eddie] No, no, no, no, it's not ceramic.
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Gosh, I can't think...
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- You'll think of it though, I'm sure.
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And I just love this chicken sitting here.
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It pulls out some of the brighter colors on the portrait.
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And I gave this to Aunt Peggy years ago.
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So since she's living here in Savannah now,
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I brought it on so I could look at her,
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look at my chicken and think about her along the way.
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And for, was it Valentine's Day
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that Michael gave me this beautiful old copper?
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- [Eddie] That was for your anniversary.
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- Anniversary, March the 6th.
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So I do love copper, do love it.
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And look at this, this is a meat.
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From the 1700s, y'all.
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Look at it.
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And that's what they cooked their meat in.
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I guess just put it in the fireplace
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and cooked away, you reckon?
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I don't know, but I just love it.
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I love old stuff.
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And Michael says, "I'm so glad you do."
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'Cause he getting old. (chuckles)
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So, I don't know what y'all have seen
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and what you hadn't seen.
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The only thing I'm not real crazy about in this room
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is this big sofa right here.
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I'm not crazy about it.
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There's no other place to put it.
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And of course, we sit here all the time.
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I just wish it was a little smaller, not so long.
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And we added these pictures.
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Our daughter-in-law Ashley gave these to me for Christmas
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of our dogs, Max, Lulu, and Gus.
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And I love them so much.
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So, so much.
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Eddie, when did you give me this lamp, this chicken?
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- [Eddie] Oh, that was two Christmases-
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- I was going to say, I thought it was
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like two Christmases ago, and what is this chicken?
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It's a real old...
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- [Eddie] It's a Staffordshire chicken,
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Staffordshire porcelain. - Staffordshi...
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Say it one more time. - Staffordshire.
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- Staffordshire. - You know,
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like Staffordshire dogs.
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- Yes, yes, we got some, I think over there in that cabinet.
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But this is beautiful,
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and Eddie had it made into a lamp for me,
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so that chicken is just gorgeous sitting there.
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Oh, and Eddie buys the best presents, y'all,
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because he knows me probably better
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than anybody else in this whole world.
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Because he gets to see me any time of day, good or bad,
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he gets to see it. (chuckles)
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So he knows what I like and what I don't like.
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And he gave me this beautiful, beautiful,
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beautiful silver chest.
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And I'm not going to hit anything, am I?
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And when Michael and I married, I never had silver.
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So I started my silver pattern,
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and now we've got a place to keep it.
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I just love it, Eddie.
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It's beautiful.
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And that came from Tapley's.
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If you haven't been to Tapley's, I just love it.
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It's like a big yard sale, but then there's like 70 vendors
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and there's some really high-end vendors in there.
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So you know, you can find something for $500 or $5,000,
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just depending on what you're looking for.
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And I don't think anything has changed over here.
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- [Eddie] Well, so the biggest comment
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is your dining room changed.
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You had bought a round dining table
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for this space where you had,
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this is a different farm table
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than what you originally had there.
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- Yeah.
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- [Eddie] And so the farm table, we moved out and we put-
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- Where is it? - It's in Michael's garage.
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- Oh, okay, good.
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- [Eddie] And the round table just was not, I loved it.
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And you loved it,
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but the round table just was not fitting this space-
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- And it didn't work with
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the chande... - The chandelier-
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The room was more rectangle.
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The rug was rectangle.
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The serving piece was-
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- Yes, I said, "Oh gosh, what are we gonna do?
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What are we gonna do?"
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And, "Pauline, you're sitting crooked, honey.
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Get your act together."
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Maybe she can't, but she's sitting crooked.
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Okay, just sit any way you want to, girl.
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But, so I came home one day,
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walked in the house and it looked like this.
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And...
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- [Eddie] So now, I didn't just do it.
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I didn't just do it because I felt like doing it.
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I've been listening to all kinds of things,
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you know, how the family used the space.
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- Uh-huh, uh-huh. - And no one ever sat
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in this big room.
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- Never. - That had two big sofas
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and four chairs.
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- Yeah, we had a sofa right here.
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We had a duplicate mirror image of the couches.
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- [Eddie] And then your dining table
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only had six chairs around it.
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So when all the family went here,
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we were setting up folding tables, card tables,
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children's tables.
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- And praying that they could maybe eat on
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one of the porches.
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- [Eddie] And so this table, which is beautiful,
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and it works really well in this room with the dark,
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you know, the mahogany.
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- I love the base of this table, Eddie.
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You know, and you can actually keep things
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on that level down there,
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like your napkins or salt and pepper.
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But I do, I love this table, and it's actually got leaves.
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- Yeah, so it extends out- - I'm so spoiled
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by the Lazy Susan.
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And I'm not talking about you, Bubbles. (laughs)
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- [Eddie] So by moving the table in here,
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I was at, we had a smaller farm table out in the garage
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and I moved that in here.
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So that gave us really when we needed it
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almost another 10, 10 spot to put chairs that we use.
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- [Paula] You know, and that round table
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was beautiful over there in front of that sofa,
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but we didn't use it.
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I don't know why.
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It's like we couldn't make ourself go past the farm table.
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- [Eddie] Yeah. So this...
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All right, so then we ended up creating actually
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another seating area. - Yeah.
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- [Eddie] That no one really sat over there either.
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- And they use it now and chairs,
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because when the family's here, they wanna watch TV.
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- Right. - So don't have
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to move any chairs around.
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All we have to do is just swivel them around
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and this gets used now, a good bit.
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- [Eddie] And I think this room really opened up a lot
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by getting the sofa out right when you walked in the door.
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- [Paula] Yes.
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- [Eddie] It just, I don't know,
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I just think you have more space.
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- And we can see how many, two, four, six, eight,
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we can see 10. - You can get 12 pairs
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when the leaves are on.
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- Yeah, I mean, the leaf will bring it out like this much
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all the way around.
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And it's so nice when I have that number
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that's sitting at the table.
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I just enjoy the roundness,
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because you can see everybody
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and you can talk to everybody in a rectangle table.
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About the only person you can talk to
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is the person to your right or left.
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- [Eddie] And my number one biggest fear
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of having this beautiful table-
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- What? - In your everyday space is...
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(Pauline laughing)
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- Oh my goodness.
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Are you gonna point out something I'm gonna hate?
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- [Eddie] Is that.
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(Pauline laughing)
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This is the farm table I can handle a spot on it,
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but that mahogany table, that would-
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- Yeah, that wouldn't be pretty.
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- [Eddie] That would hurt my soul.
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- It's a spit. (laughs)
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Well, I'll watch it like a hawk, baby.
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I promise.
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Has this always been here?
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- [Eddie] Yes, yeah, that scrape has always been here.
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- Okay, well, somebody asked me the other day,
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we were sitting here eating,
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and they said, "What happened here?"
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I said, "Lord, I've never noticed it."
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- [Eddie] Yeah, I'm getting ready
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to get the dark wax out again, yeah?
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- [Paula] Well, look at that,
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how long has that one been like?
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- [Eddie] I think that happened last night.
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- Last night? Oh, you know what I did?
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I had a diet soda, and I set it right there.
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Last night, and it sat there all night.
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- [Eddie] That table, this table, I can work with.
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The mahogany table is a little unforgiving.
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So that table would have looked messy pretty fast.
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- But a tablecloth, I don't think a tablecloth would.
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Well, it'd be hard to use a tablecloth, wouldn't it?
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But so I think that's how we've done different.
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Of course, he changed up the mantles.
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- [Eddie] Well, we got some, you know,
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with Aunt Peggy moving here,
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we got some of her blue and white from her house,
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so we added that.
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- Yeah, a couple of pieces.
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But I think I had...
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- [Eddie] The top two ones,
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the top two ones are from her house,
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the smaller ones are yours.
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- Yeah, I had.
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But I just love the blue, you know, God's colors,
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the blues and the greens.
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But that's all we've done, right?
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- That's it, yeah. - That's all you've done.
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- [Eddie] That's it, just these two rooms.
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- And I just love over here,
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looking at all my little bitty stuffs.
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I just love it.
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And I'm so in love with mud men.
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I think they're just beautiful.
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And these are the small mud men.
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You can look and tell that they were made out of mud,
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like dried, hardened mud, and then they painted them.
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Oh, so back to this table,
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it came from Joe's Seventh Heaven.
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- Yes. - We've taken you on
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tours of Joe's store.
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And it's best that I not go in there very often
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because I'm really out of space.
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So anything, another mud man.
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Love them.
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Like I said, you can look at the bottoms
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and tell that they're made out of mud.
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I can't imagine somebody forming that mud
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into those beautiful shapes.
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So is that it, Eddie? - That is it.
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That's all the changes we've made.
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- But you never know, come back tomorrow.
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'Cause living with Eddie is really fun. (laughs)
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Love and best dishes, y'all.
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