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Paula and Michael sit down this week and talk about their adventures this week with Paula's judging dancing with the network stars and Michael enjoying his time with the Allman brothers. Michael aslo discusses the history of the Allman brothers and the Big House
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so hey y'all welcome to this week's our
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podcast look who I've got here with me
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yo I know young just love seeing Michael
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oh and he loves just knowing y'all go
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get to see and it's get to hear him talk
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he's as happy as a clam when he gets to
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meet up with y'all and gosh didn't we
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have a good time this weekend ahead of
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all I went up to Macon y'all I was
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invited to Macon Georgia to be a judge
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in the dance with the Stars competition
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there and you know Michael is so good
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about following me around and and I feel
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guilty because you know I know and he's
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doing all this just just to be with me
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and support me so when he gets something
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out of the deal too I'm always so so
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happy and Michael set through like half
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of the Dancing with the Stars
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competition and then somebody had
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arranged to get him tickets uh Greg
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Allman all my brothers they are we also
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went to the the big house but we went to
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the Gregg Allman concert and it was now
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what's the big house everybody went to
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the big house is a museum that uh they
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set up for the Allman Brothers and it
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has a lot of old memorabilia and
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pictures and album covers and ticket
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stubs and guitars I got to hold the gold
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Les Paul at duane allman played of the
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name of the guitar is Layla and then
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they had actually had dickey betts case
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but they didn't have his guitar and I
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think his name was golias guitar but uh
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then they had to guitar that uh Greg
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played Melissa with the original one
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anyhow I had a lot of fun knows and we
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kind of had backstage passes it was a
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small venues 600 people we're the best
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kind really is he you know so we walked
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in and then I called my buddy in he said
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I'll come around back so we went around
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back and as I walked up I saw saw some
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guys it wasn't sure who he was but I
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knew he was a musician I said hey I said
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what's your name he says he was the lead
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singer and a blackberry smoke which is
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one of my favorite bands too and uh so
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we really need to meet him and he got a
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he played with greg was the first time
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they'd have a jam I think years ago they
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used to do that a lot but a lot of
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different musicians would come in and
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play with and I think we're a lot of
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that took place in the big house because
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what I understand the Allman Brothers
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the band they lived at that place yeah
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at one time in the big house right yeah
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it was a sound studio too yeah yeah so I
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wonder you know I've heard stories about
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how dirt-poor these boys were Oh in fact
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a story that I heard this weekend was we
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got to go to H&H and have hot chicken
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bus and the little old lady I understand
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just sold that business is that correct
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she did but I think what you're talking
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about was miss Hattie is rude oh no
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patty miss Hattie was they lose they
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were you know up-and-coming musicians
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there though and they had made it so
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they would go to miss Hattie's and they
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had she had southern food like this no
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oh yeah yeah a lot like yours and it was
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like six of these guys the whole band
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were going in they would buy one or two
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plates in one place and they would share
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the food and she noticed it and most
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people that have restaurants like Paula
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they like to see people eat so they
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don't like to see him six people share
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on one plate so yeah she went over to
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him so she she gave him the food and all
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he when she went over and asked them why
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are you boys just getting one plate and
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they said well we only have money for
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one plate and her comment was I will
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feed you guys
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so she fed him which was a pretty good
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investment because she became she would
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go on the road with him and catering all
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their food yeah they took a patty on the
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road with him so Miss hatty to all their
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meals for him so this hat is a few free
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meals really paid off my thinking a long
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run because yes they love to miss Addie
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yeah and she's still living but I
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understand she's just recently retired
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but so these boys were so broke and
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that's a very nice house I mean it's a
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brick home so how could those boys have
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afforded well feels like that the big
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house belonged to one of the band
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members parents oh ok you know they
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become party central pretty much okay
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night and they you know they they read a
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lot of songs they're highway 41 s going
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right by there and grab my man is as
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highly 41 in it they told us was several
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states for our blues was played it was
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written there but anyhow two or three
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songs were written did that knows anyone
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i hate that i was i was you know
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committed to stay till the end of fans
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for the stars so I was sorry I didn't
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get to see Greg you know I have not seen
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him since our wedding he came to our
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wedding and I hadn't seen him since
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since I hope he's doing well I think he
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is he looked good Oh me thank you good
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good no I saw him like I've got a story
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I was at home when you were doing
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elizabethtown you're moving here in
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Pasadena I had to come home so I flew
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home and well when I left pasadena I've
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met Cameron Crowe how they're so good on
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the plane came back and in in Atlanta I
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saw Greg Allman so start talking to
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Gregg Allman so we sat next to each
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other on the way from Savannah Atlanta
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to Savannah you know when I got off I
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said boy how is my life changed I just
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told the cameron crowe and then I was
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told Greg Allman
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and uh actually Cameron's had written on
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the movie was as it was the movie
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cameras movie Elizabeth I don't know
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about the butler Oh about his almost
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famous yeah Cameron had written a movie
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yeah cuz he like a 14 or 15 year old kid
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he was actually writing for the magazine
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yeah Rolling Stone a rolling stone
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community he had written a movie of
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almost famous and it was about all my
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brother right so that was pretty brave
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he had a little connector and they're
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going I think that's the time I've seen
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him since then uh-huh well I know Greg
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and I are the same age and y'all will
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probably saying well what was Greg doing
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a child's wedding well Greg actually
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lives here in Savannah about richmond
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hill oh so that's that's why he was well
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on our guest list when we were dating um
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Paul and I've always been a huge Allman
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brother fan of how many concerts I've
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gone to so Paulus is uh would you like
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to go to a concert I said but you know
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ooh she said all my brothers I said oh
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yeah family his eyes lit up girls like
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you wouldn't believe that sounds good
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she said well I have to cook I have to
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bake some cookies for Greg Isis really
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she said yeah yeah I had backstage
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passes out I know great excessive oh
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yeah so I hope that we were baking
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cookies I said if oh my if I told my
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buddy it's ten years ago that I would be
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baking cookies for greg holman they were
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said you are out of your mind there's no
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way yeah we get close to him much less
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bake cookies I know it well I was so
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glad that you had that experience oh I
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had more fun it was really an H and H if
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you like hot chick I was really good
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yeah that you can get chicken two ways
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you can get the hot chicken or you can
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get just mild regular chicken and
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naturally I I've always gotten the
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out when we get to eat eat it one of
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those restaurants I think there was 15
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people at our table yeah you know
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everybody got mild you sent me I had to
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get hot uh-huh that scared me because
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everybody in my loving it this might be
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like some kind of my a lot of one bite
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of it and he said I saw him pick up his
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napping and say shoot it was really well
9:14
I'm a brother chicken y'all and then I
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think they actually dunk it completely
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under in some kind of kick butt hot
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sauce it was good i mean a good part no
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some of it if you like to be hurt some
9:30
of us like you know it's hot but it's
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like gasoline new you can has great not
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to tell you but this had a really good
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flavor i know and some heat and it's
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like a lot of heat yeah lot of eat in
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friday night when we got there we met
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bubbles and feel we had made
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arrangements you know Buster meet up
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there at a certain time on friday
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afternoon and we got to go to the tick
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tock which is a nice restaurant making
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y'all the tick tock room yeah the take
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trunk room and if it's fancy it's the
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meals are a little bit fancy on the
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fancy side and that's where Richard a
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little richard wright that was his
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hangout he used to he started out as a
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dishwasher right i'm right down the
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street and after he get through washing
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all the dishes at this restaurant he
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worked that he would come down there to
10:30
the tick tock room and he would jam
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along with others and i heard a story
10:37
which was a pretty neat story which I'd
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never heard before but uh Jimi Hendrix
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played in with liver Richard yeah and
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they separated I won't be fired well
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Richard art I think it was rich man
10:52
firing I hired Jimmy in trouble may not
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have been a good move but fire yeah my
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super boy yeah I'll take ya out I'll
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tell you what I
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I heard was that Little Richard told
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Jimmy he said there's only room for one
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pretty boy in this band and that's going
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to be me so hit the road Jack and don't
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you come back no more well I don't know
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that was realized to fire Jimi Hendrix
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that's like a well they both did all
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right little really there's a knee
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injury don't matter how hard you Andrew
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no that's big like oh how about the
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basement basketball coach they are cut
11:33
Michael Jordan Michael Jordan how do you
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think he feels well that's his claim to
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fame I guess I'm sure you saw that went
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over once or twice well let's take a
11:44
quick break in will will maybe think of
11:47
something else we did but we had fun bit
11:49
Lakota ball just a weekend to you and me
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course I room had we had adjoining rooms
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with CC would bubbles and feel so we had
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a good time but we'll be right back the
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we're back y'all and I something I've
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been meaning to call to your attention
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are the most questions I get asked about
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you is is Michael catching any shrimp
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and it always confuses me but you know
13:23
most people think that you're shrimper
13:26
well you know where that came from we're
13:29
on your show Michael Sullivan my friend
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went went by a shrimp boat yeah well as
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he went by the dock on a shrimp boat you
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said there's Michael hey Michael and
13:45
everybody thinks michael is me is that
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where it Kim so by you standing there
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goes Mike hold on everybody thought that
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I was telling back to you because I'm
13:56
really the most important Michael around
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okay now that we got that squirtle right
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haha so that's why I came from let me
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tell all of you who are listening this
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podcast what Michael does oh we ever
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other than manage you and keep
14:17
everything keep everything I had to take
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off my shoes and I might have to take
14:22
off these breeches because of y'all like
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yeah besides all that Oh michael is a
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Harbor pilot Michael Oh gets owned
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containerships here in the river and he
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parks those ships he's parallel parks
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them he'll turn them around in the river
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and parallel park them and they unload
14:49
the containers and then he'll get back
14:52
on it and take them out of their parking
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place get them to the river and then
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hand them over to a river pilot which
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takes them into the ocean and so Michael
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is not a shrimper is not a fisherman he
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is a Harbor pilot tell everybody what a
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typical day is for you none
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okay epical that they're not I work we
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caught in a week off and I'm on call for
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the that week and we've got a situated
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where I'm first in second one day first
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and second one day and third one day so
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we get plenty of rest but I can still
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work a lot if there's a lot of um
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they call me pretty much an hour before
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the ship arrives at four Junction and I
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have to end I have to get on I get on
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close proximity to the dock and then
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direct the tugboats and this and the
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ship i did i shud boat takes you to the
15:55
ship chug what puts me on the show right
15:57
because they're in the middle of the
15:59
river right so he can't swim out to them
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but the touch so he gets on a tugboat
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they take him to the ship and he climbs
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up on the ship all those ladders those
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rope ladders right and um at that time
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theres a river pilot on that and a room
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of pilot gets on at the sea blue and
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they also called bar pilots and the
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reason they were called bar pilots
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because they get get you over the
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sandbar but anyhow the river pilot my
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younger brother is a river pilot and a
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nick and they bring the ship they got to
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ship up the river and without tug
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assistance and then when i get a board i
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use the tug assistance to to turn the
16:41
ships around and doc them so i'm talking
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to to the tugs with the walkie-talkie
16:46
and then i talked to this the helmsman
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and the quartermaster and give them
16:51
commands on the ship so i pretty much go
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and turn the ship around a docket and I
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tell people I'm the valet parking for
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ships but uh they are my younger of my
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son and my son-in-law our mates on the
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tugboats so they're working their way up
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through the ranks also it used to be
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very incestuous back in the day wat
17:18
nateyou you bout had to have a father it
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pretty much gone and it's funny how they
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funny how things work out because years
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ago
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so it wasn't a real lucrative job and
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you'd go out on a boat and just you'd
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rock around and wait to the ship comes
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in there and you get seasick and it
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wasn't a real glamorous job so you had
17:44
to sit out there because of what a fast
17:46
boat so you would go out and anchor and
17:48
wait on the ship and a lot of people
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didn't want the job so us and was this
17:54
going on when you but no real violence
17:56
before this way before you can yeah so
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the daddy would it was their business so
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they had to grab a son is way more
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uh-huh and they would start teaching his
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son really real early i mean yeah 15
18:12
years old or some younger that yeah they
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say in oil and they take him at eight
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years old and and a by the time that kid
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was 18 years old he has 10 years
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experience so it was called back then it
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was a necessity now they got faster
18:30
bhosle running in and out the this
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become lucrative is a better paying job
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as so everything is better the ships are
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better the docks are better everything's
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the tug boats and everything is is a lot
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better than it used to be so it's a way
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better job than it was now it's called
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nepotism if you go can you bring you son
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is huh but they've got away from that
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man have become a river pilot you are
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required a college degree right we're in
19:06
a maritime gone yeah yeah so where if
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you if you drop down a school that was
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just fine education was not a top
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priority oh so things have really really
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generally as the things have changed a
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good bit um I I had no family um you
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know my younger bro you actually started
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and now Nick my younger brother he has
19:29
no family because there's two different
19:31
organizations so Nick had no family in
19:34
his business and I had none of mine so
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it can be done it was rare at that time
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right right now you are you don't have
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to carry your
19:44
own insurance but aren't you like a free
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agent yeah I'm an independent contractor
19:52
and they would I use the ship's
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insurance in fact if I'd ensure
19:58
everything on my shelf and the cranes
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and everything else I have sergeant
20:03
spooler why have to charge them such an
20:05
exorbitant amount they were right they
20:08
couldn't over another plan yeah yeah so
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I'm pretty much in charge but I'm never
20:14
really in charge the captain's always
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enjoy uh-huh uh-huh so sometimes you
20:20
have to set this captain straight don't
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you well no not really most of them are
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most of them would prefer us to handle
20:28
the ship's because a captain is they'll
20:31
they feel better and all their arm the
20:36
expertise is in ocean right they see
20:40
they want to UM the idea of a
20:42
close-quarters is two miles they want to
20:46
stay two miles away from any of us any
20:49
other shame that crazy y'all that out in
20:52
that ocean if you got closer than two
20:54
miles to another ship you're too close
20:56
well it's not too close but they they
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leave that much for era of some would
21:03
they want to stay two miles away from
21:06
anything plan and um which is smart but
21:09
you don't want to get close what was the
21:11
movie Michael that Tom Hanks starred in
21:14
it was the ship that kept the captain of
21:20
the ship they were yeah the Somali
21:24
pirate yeah I actually met a cab well I
21:29
know that's what i was getting it you
21:31
actually worked with that captain oh
21:33
that was abducted right it was a mercy
21:36
alabama i think was named bishop and i
21:39
met him i met him before the incident
21:43
then hide him after uh-huh he was on a
21:46
different show oh yeah I don't blame him
21:50
either but all that stuff actually
21:54
happened oh yeah way it was portrayed in
21:57
the movie
21:57
yeah that's um that's a scary part of
22:00
the world yeah yeah well I'm glad that I
22:03
don't have to worry about you going out
22:05
into the ocean that you're just your
22:08
work is ruined right then we lay in a
22:10
real good I get the best of both worlds
22:12
again I get my ship fix and then get the
22:16
come home yeah captain Phillips captain
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phillips right I met him yes and the the
22:25
second ship I saw him on after the
22:27
incident was a car carrier korg areas
22:29
kind of shaped like a cruise ship so
22:32
it's got all this but it doesn't have
22:34
the winners apparently bad but it's real
22:36
high sides and I so that's why he went
22:40
on that one I think they'd have to climb
22:43
a long way to get up to the top of that
22:44
well it was a horrible experience the
22:46
way it was portrayed in the movie it was
22:49
but a lot of human and they have
22:52
Bob wire bigger roles of razor wire all
22:58
around the ship and and they have to
23:01
have lock downs and everything were
23:03
because of the Pirates yeah you think
23:06
this day and age is not the heir of the
23:11
pilot in Irish but yeah they still own
23:14
they still exist well well well I'm so
23:18
glad that you popped in this morning and
23:21
you full of so many interesting stories
23:24
and you've lived even though you've
23:27
lived a life very confined to one small
23:32
area oh you've got wonderful stories to
23:38
tell you you're welcome just after
23:42
you hear them for like the thousand time
23:46
you're lucky chick I listen I'm a little
23:49
jealous I'm a lucky chick i nabbed the
23:54
cat thanks baby for coming in and I
23:58
appreciate it was because folks love to
24:00
hear you they left them see what you've
24:03
been up to and I know you love them
24:05
every time we get to go out to a book
24:07
signing or something Michael just love
24:10
being able to
24:11
cially on and chat with you so do
24:14
because he appears quiet but he can be
24:16
quite Shatterer so thanks so I'll see
24:21
y'all next week for your loving best
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