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- Y'all, this video is questions and answers
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and excuse the noise.
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The yard people are here blowing off the driveways
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so I hope it doesn't overpower us
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and the the water flowing but I love that water sound.
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Love it.
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So these questions
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came from people that come into the Paula Deen store.
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They always are asking the ladies
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this or that, this or that.
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So they can pretty much guess what the answer would be
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but they would rather me answer 'em myself.
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So that's what I'm fixing to try to do.
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Theresa is gonna tell me the questions that they're asking
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and hopefully I'll have an answer.
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- [Theresa] There are kind of some funny questions so.
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- Oh, some funny questions.
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- [Theresa] So roll with them, mhm.
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The first, the number one question
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that they ask all of the girls there,
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they say to them, "do you know Paula?"
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So I guess they don't know,
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people don't really know if you come into the store I guess.
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- "Do you know Paula?"
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Like I'm some character that lives in a little place
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and only comes out?
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Yeah, I'm in the store, I'm in the restaurant,
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certainly not every day but I've been there a lot lately
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because Jamie took a portion of space
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that we really weren't using
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and he opened a little corner that he calls The Chicken Box.
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So for locals that don't wanna come in
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and experience the whole deal,
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you can come into The Chicken Box
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and you can get a little bit of food
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or you can get a lot of food.
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It's up to you.
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And Jamie has sandwiches available and salads
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and then whatever we're cooking that day in the hot line.
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So in fact, I'm going back there tomorrow, y'all.
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- [Theresa] This is the second most asked question.
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- Okay.
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- [Theresa] "Are you and Michael still together?"
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- As far as I know, we are.
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He still crawls in our bed at night so.
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- [Theresa] And then they ask-
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- Yes, we're still together.
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- [Theresa] "How long?"
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- Well, we married in 2004
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so next year we'll celebrate our 20th.
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So we just celebrated our 19th
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and I can't hardly believe it.
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I cannot believe it.
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If I can hang in there seven more years,
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it will have matched the time
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that I was married to my children's father, to Jimmy.
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We were married 27 years.
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So yes, we're still together but Michael had gotten
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where he wasn't traveling with me a lot
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because the river had, his job had gotten so demanding
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and older people were retiring
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which they needed Michael more and so quite often,
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plus, his knees and his hips are in bad shape
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but he just is now recuperated from a hip transplant,
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a new hip and now he's got the knees
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and then hopefully I'll have the bionic man.
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- [Theresa] You kind of answered this
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but this is another question they get a lot.
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"Are you involved in the day-to-day
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runnings of the restaurant?"
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I mean, are you still really active
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in decision making in the restaurants?
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- Not really.
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I'm not involved with the day-to-day running
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but I do try to keep up with,
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to make sure nobody's making decisions
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that I would not bless
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but that's really Jamie's, Jamie's role.
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- [Theresa] "How many grandchildren?"
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- I have as y'all know
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that have ever listened to this YouTube channel,
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I have 11 grandchildren
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- [Theresa] A lot.
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This is a question I even get asked.
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"Do you live in Savannah or New York?"
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- I could never live in New York.
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I'm good for about two or three day visits
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and then I'm ready to get back in the south
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where the pace is a little bit slower
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and the folks talk a little bit slower.
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I'm still in Savannah, y'all.
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I moved here, my children's father moved us here in 1987.
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I was here two years before I started The Bag Lady
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- [Theresa] Leading into "how many restaurants do you have?"
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- Okay, how many restaurants do we have?
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I reopened with a partner, Uncle Bubba's
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and it was Paula Deen's Creek House
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because it sits on a creek but it just wasn't the same.
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I knew it would never be the same again
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with Uncle Bubba not being there.
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I hear when I go off on trips,
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"I met your brother and he was the sweetest thing.
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I had my picture made with him
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and he just had the best personality and was so kind"
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and that's the way I want people to remember him
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because that's what he was.
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- [Theresa] So we just have The Lady & Sons in Savannah.
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- Yes, The Lady & Sons in Savannah who is our mothership.
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That's the mothership.
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That's where everything really started
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when we got moved downtown in 1996.
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January the eighth, 1996,
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downtown was our first day in the historic district
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and we have never looked back.
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People were so worried about me.
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The local people who is what I fed
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when we were on the south side, they were so concerned.
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They said, "Paula, you are making a mistake.
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Please don't do that."
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And I said, well, I have to.
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I got a burning in my gut
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and I feel like that's where we belong
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and sure enough, that was where we belonged
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and there was maybe four or five restaurants
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downtown at that time.
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Now there are what, 1000?
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- [Theresa] It feels like it.
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- I think it's somewhere around 1000.
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Do you know, Eddie?
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- [Eddie] I have no idea.
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- We'll have to Google that one then.
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- [Theresa] We will have to.
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- Because some I've never heard, I've never been in but-
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- [Theresa] Where are you Paula Deen Family Kitchens?
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- And the others, Paula Deen Family Kitchen.
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One of 'em is in Foley, Alabama
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and it's down there in the panhandle of Florida,
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right above the panhandle
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and it's in a recreational park called OWA
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and I believe it's owned by an Indian tribe
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and it's really got such potential.
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It's kinda like a little Disney World
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and as soon as they get more things coming in,
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of course the pandemic I'm sure hurt them some too
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but they've got great attractions like the water park
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and of course our restaurant, Paula Deen's Family Kitchen,
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a nice hotel and just all kind of events
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and I'll go up and over.
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The next one would be Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
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and it's a great restaurant.
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Got a nice big store.
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All right and then let's go on up and over
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to Nashville, Tennessee.
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I think that would be next.
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- [Eddie] Kitchen Foley, Nashville.
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- Uh huh, Nashville, Tennessee
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which is located by the Opryland Hotel,
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that huge, huge hotel and we're right there kind of,
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kinda between them and the mall.
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There's a big mall that you look out our door at
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and it's a beautiful location, beautiful
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and I'm so proud of that one
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and I've been up there two or three times in the last month.
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The next one would be Pigeon Forge.
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Now, Pigeon Forge is the home
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of the very first Paula Deen Family Kitchen
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and my partner Bob McManus is,
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to me, he's right up there with a genius
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on opening restaurants.
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He knows, he knows how to open a restaurant,
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he knows how to staff it with the best staff
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and my hat is just off to this man
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and Pigeon Forge will always,
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it's located on the island that Bob himself developed.
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It's like a little-
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- [Theresa] It's really like a Disney World.
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- Uh huh, it's like a small little Disney World.
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Wonderful rides and wonderful food
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and okay, they got two blowers going now.
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And let's see.
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All right, we've got Nashville, Tennessee and Pigeon Forge,
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home of two of the Paula Deen Family Kitchens
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and then we're gonna move on over to kind of the Midwest
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which is Branson, Missouri.
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I love, love that Family Kitchen there.
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It's probably the smaller of all the stores
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but it's a beautiful store.
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They've got so many things and here is the wonderful part
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about Paula Deen's Family Kitchen
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as I get to hop around and visit all of the restaurants.
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When I have my meal, I cannot tell the difference
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from one restaurant to the other.
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The consistency and the training is unbelievable
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which is what Bob is so, so good at and that's wonderful.
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If I was blindfolded,
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I wouldn't be able to tell you where I was
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because the food is so spot on in every place.
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- [Theresa] Okay, so this is the funniest question to me
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and this is our last question for today.
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We may have more down the road but they wanna know-
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- Hit me with your best shot, girl.
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- [Theresa] "Do you sound the same in person
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as you do on the shows?"
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So basically, do you make up your accent?
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- How do I sound to y'all right now 'cause this is me.
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This is what I sound like.
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In fact, I get real tickled.
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I'll go out with no hair and no makeup and Lord have mercy.
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I don't want nobody to recognize me
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'cause I look like the rat
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and I'll forget and I'll talk or I'll laugh
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and people will turn around,
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"I know that voice and I know that laugh.
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Where is she?"
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So as long as I keep my mouth shut,
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I can get by looking like Ned in the first reader, y'all
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but no, this is me.
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It's all me.
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So until the next set of questions comes in,
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I'm sending y'all Love and Best Dishes now and forever.
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Hey, y'all, it's Paula Deen.
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