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- Hey friends, you know, I can't believe it's,
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here we are in New Year's Eve and wow, man.
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What can we say about 2020?
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It's definitely been a very hard, trying year.
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And things just going on in America.
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If things couldn't be bad enough,
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there was so much destruction, too, to our country in 2020.
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And so many lives were lost from the awful COVID.
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But all you medical workers, y'all have been so wonderful.
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While we were running from it, y'all were running to it.
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So y'all are definitely our heroes.
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You know, when I think about my 11 grandchildren
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and the scientists working day and night to try to find
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a shot for this flu and look, and it's happened.
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It's happened, we have the vaccine now.
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And hopefully this terror of death
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from COVID-19 will come to an end.
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So I don't know about y'all, but you know, you try to look
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at the good things that come out of bad things.
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Here's one good thing for me
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that came out of 2020.
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My son called me one day and said,
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"Mama, why aren't you doing cooking shows on YouTube?"
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And I said, "Well, I don't know, son."
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And I looked at Eddie and I said,
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"Eddie, why am I not doing cooking shows on YouTube?"
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He said, "Well, I don't know." (laughs)
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He said, "You can do it."
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So 2020 brought me back to all of my fans
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and my friends out there.
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And that's definitely a good thing for me
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because I was hoping that while we were all forced
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to quarantine and stay in our houses,
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it just really ate on my mind about how many people
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out there that got caught in this
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and is having to quarantine alone.
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I mean, that really ate at my gut thinking about that.
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So I said, well, this'll be perfect.
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Maybe I can come on every day and do a little cooking show
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and just give people, maybe just help bring a smile
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to their lives, you know, with them being stuck in the house
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and can't go anywhere.
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Maybe this will be a form of entertainment for those
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whose lives just kind of came to a halt.
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So we did, we started doing it.
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And I want to thank y'all for the wonderful,
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wonderful support and all that y'all brought to this.
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Y'all really, really supported me
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like I never believed would happen.
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So I want to thank y'all for that.
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And I hope I have brought maybe a little fun, you know,
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for a few minutes in your life every day.
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You know, I'm the type of person that sometimes
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you might want to cry, but I feel like if I laugh,
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I will feel much better.
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And I'm thankful, you know,
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that my daddy left me with that ability to laugh.
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So I hope that each and every one of y'all
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can find something positive out of 2020
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and maybe bring a smile to your face
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when it's gone, after it's behind us.
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But I do, I just want to thank y'all so much
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for your love and your support that you've shown me,
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your kindness and everything.
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It just, it really takes my breath away sometimes,
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all the letters that I get from y'all and it's amazing.
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So I hope that, like I said, that y'all can find something
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that you think, well, this is what's good
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that's come out of 2020 for me.
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So I hope y'all find that, but in the New Year coming, 2021,
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I wish you peace and contentment.
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And to me, contentment is such a powerful word because,
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you know, you know what your life is.
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You know how it's gonna go.
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And if you can be content in that, then you can be happy.
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So if you're not trying to overreach everything,
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but those that want to reach and go after their dreams,
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oh my goodness, you do it.
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You do it because you may hear some nos,
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but you might just hear a yes in all of that.
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Y'all take care of each other
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and y'all have a wonderful, healthy, happy New Year.
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And don't forget to love one another.
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- [Man] Hey, do you wanna maybe tell everyone
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what you came up with for a name?
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- Yes, you know, I have asked y'all to submit names
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for the new show because it started out
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Paula Deen's COVID Cooking.
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What now, what we called it?
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- [Woman] Quarantine.
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- Quarantine Cooking.
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Paula Deen's Quarantine Cooking.
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But this has been so, so wonderful and fulfilling to me
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that I'm gonna keep doing this.
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I'm not going away with COVID, good Lord willing. (chuckles)
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So I'm going to continue to do this show every day.
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And we have decided to call it
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Paula Deen's Love and Best Dishes.
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You know, I've been saying that for probably 15, 16, 17,
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I don't know, but that was my tag right from the start
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when I was doing "Paula's Home Cooking."
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So Paula Deen's Love and Best Dishes.
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And thank you for all of your suggestions.
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Oh, and don't forget,
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I'm gonna be doing the Monday bundles, too in 2021.
