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Paula and Bobby sit down and talk turkey - specifically how much they love friends, family, food and fun on Thanksgiving and the beauty of giving during the holidays and some of the wonderful foods they make during the holidays.
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hey y'all welcome to what's cooking with
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Paula Dean well I'll tell y'all What A
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lot's cooking cuz guess what time it is
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oh yeah my favorite holiday of the year
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is it yes
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Thanksgiving Thanksgiving it's all about
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the 4fs y'all uh
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family friends fun food and fun all
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right I love it you know I there's
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nobody that loves to give more than me I
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love love giving but our family has been
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so
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blessed that I can't think of anything
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to give them you know we're all guilty
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of going out and getting whatever we
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want or need so when it comes holiday
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time you know we I don't need anything I
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don't want anything so well I got good
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news for you I'm not used to getting
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Thanksgiving gifts so I know that's what
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I'm saying I love it y'all cuz we're not
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we're not beating down we trying are you
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combining Thanksgiving and Christmas
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together well no I'm comparing
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Thanksgiving and Christmas together
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that's why I love Thanksgiving so
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because you don't have the burden of
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trying to buy everybody that perfect
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gift and figure out what they want uh I
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have found one thing though that they
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don't
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return Your
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Love my son is so funny I know they
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don't return my
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love some of them
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don't thank goodness you're not one of
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them no sunny boy that was so good that
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was good I do have something that they
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don't return my love or your money or my
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money that's the one thing I found that
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nobody ever returns they don't take back
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back to the store and return money too
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funny I I'll be the first to tell you
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that I am so blessed and so fortunate I
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don't need or or want for anything I
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feel the same way son I don't want y'all
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spending your hard-earned money on me
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but there's this pressure that comes
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with this time of makes you feel like
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you have to go out and buy stuff I think
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that I think that some of the uh I think
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that some of the best things that you
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can do is is just spend time with with
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one the older I get the the less I think
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about like gift but if you're going to
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give people gifts you can make things
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from scratch you do a lot of crafts
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that's a really nice gift to GI
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something something really person listen
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why don't why don't take why don't we
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take a second to get over that are we
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breaking already that line that you
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threw me about my
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love let let me regroup myself and uh
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we'll be right back we'll think of some
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stuff
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Paula or call 1 1800
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659
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3300 that's 1 800 659
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3300 so let's talk about than well hey
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y'all welcome back and uh I'm sitting
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here enjoying my time with my youngest
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son Bobby uh y'all he's so funny he is
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so so funny
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uh so what are you thinking for
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Thanksgiving uh you know what this is
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just I love this time of year um fall is
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just the best because you get some of
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the best fruits and vegetables uh at
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this time of year and it used to be that
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fall was followed by winter I don't know
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if y'all remember that but we used to
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have a thing called winter when I was a
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kid I don't 8 happen to Winter I don't
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know I don't know hot um but you know I
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I love this time of year because of uh
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the great memories that I have uh
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growing up Thanksgiving has just uh it's
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always been a time where we we've never
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had a really big extended family and um
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but the but Thanksgiving was always the
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time when we did gather together in
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Statesboro Georgia with our extended
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family aunts and uncles and cousins from
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Florida and we would get together and
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just the the just the best from scratch
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Thanksgiving dishes and and um it's just
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a great time of year and now as an adult
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um we always get together and go to
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Mom's house people ask me all the time
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uh about being Paula's son and what it's
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like to be in our family and I've always
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kiddingly said that it's fattening um
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which is it's kind of a joke but kind of
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it's not you know because we're when we
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do get together it's always around food
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and some of the things that I enjoy the
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most I don't really eat that often but
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when I go to my mom's house inevitably
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there will be um cakes and cookies and
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things that she's made on the countertop
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and I'll always find myself snacking on
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those things so he goes straight to the
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pantry straight to the pantry and and
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and and I rare and it's not because I'm
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passes up my homemade stuff and goes and
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gets salting crackers oh stop it I think
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that that goes back to how much I love
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cornbread stuffing I'm a I'm a big
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starch fan and U me too your uh people
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call it people call it some people call
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it dressing some people call call it
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stuffing it has different names but I've
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always called it cornbread dressing and
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I think it's just my favorite thing at
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Thanksgiving I think is that cornbread
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dressing and giblet gravy and we always
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do a um a ham and a turkey uh macaroni
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and cheese and of course the the beans
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and sweet potato sou and turnup greens
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and we I feel mashed potatoes we have
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every kind of potato born to man on that
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day cuz I love
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fortunate to get together and to have so
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much to be thankful for and so many
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family members to be thankful for and uh
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and to just be so blessed in every way
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so I'm looking forward this year again
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to coming to your house and um a lot of
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you know if you keep up with the podcast
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or if you watch my mom's show positively
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Paula um so proud of that by the way I
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watched it last night with you did I
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forgot I forgot it was on well my wife
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Claudia uh who is just a hilarious
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person so cute she's really some of the
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funniest people that I know don't really
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realize that they're funny and cloud is
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funny in that same way um but we we were
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at home last night she said uh tonight
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is my show with your mom we got to
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record it and uh so we did and when when
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the time came for it to start she said I
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I don't care that we're recording let's
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watch it turn it on I was like okay all
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right you want to watch yourself on
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television so I turned it on
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and uh and it started and within 30
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seconds she was going oh my God turn it
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off turn it off turn it turn it I look
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like an idiot I sound so stupid turn the
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channel and I said welcome to my world
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because I have done lots and lots of TV
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with you and with my brother and with
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you know different people yeah and on my
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own over the years and I don't I just
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don't watch the stuff that I do because
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um well the way I look at it is not the
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consumer of it I'm not the person that
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I'm making the the TV shows for whenever
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I'm able to do it so anyhow Cloud got a
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little taste of her own medicine last
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night when she saw herself and said is
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that what I look like is that what I
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sound like I said it certainly is looks
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just like you sounds just like
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you but it was a show the show my mom
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show CL was cooking my mom show last
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night po my mother's show last night
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positively Paula featured my wife
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Claudia who without my mother knowing
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um was making lunch for my mom and it
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was a vegan lunch and mom didn't know
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that that was going to happen and uh I
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think you enjoyed it it was kind of hard
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to tell I did the only thing I I I
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enjoyed it all Bobby the only thing was
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that dessert that brown knot of
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something it was like in a ball it was
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kind of dark date paste you didn't like
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it not really she's probably not as
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sweet as you were expecting well I fixed
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it I fixed it for did yeah you did cloud
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is a is a really good little cook she in
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her own right she really knows how to
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cook really well she's really fast what
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she doesn't do well is the dishes in
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fact in
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fact Cloud will will will walk by the
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sink while I'm washing dishes and just
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start piling stuff into it and laugh and
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smile at me as she keeps on walking by
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so she loves to cook but she doesn't
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like to clean up after herself too
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much just kid I do that to Michael it
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makes him so mad to throw dirty things
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as he's washing dishes in well makes me
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mad too and Cloud knows it so she just
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goes just keeps right on walking my
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favorite part about the show last night
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was when M I have a neat little trick
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with um uh with cutting Tomatoes like
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cherry tomatoes and things if you take
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two plastic tops like Le imagine Lids
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from like a sour cream container or
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something like that and uh put one down
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face up with the uh or or bottom side up
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with the rim up and you fill it with
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cherry tomatoes level them all out and
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put another one on top you got just
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enough room between the lids to run a a
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a knife and cut all of the tomatoes cut
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them all at one time in one swath and
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it's a great uh time saer and a super
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little little tip and I showed my mom
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how to do this I don't know a few years
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ago and uh mom showed it to Cloud last
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night on the show and of course my wife
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looks at my mom and goes oh that's great
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Bobby never does that at home just any
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opportunity to throw me under the bus on
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television see I don't even remember her
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saying that of course it's the first
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thing she
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said so now back to Thanksgiving well
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you probably don't need to do that many
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tomatoes at one time at home uh you know
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what I do find myself doing a lot of
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tomato what I don't have you know what
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it is really for me is I don't have
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those Lids the lids that are the lids
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that are really great to use are um if
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you've ever seen these plastic
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containers that are like like they're
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like quart size containers they heavy
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dut like what you would find yes like
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what you'd find like an egg drop soup in
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something that can contain those kind of
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Liz and I just don't have them lay on
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you're right so that's I had to dig to
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find two to make them work to show Cloud
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so Thanksgiving is coming and we're
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going to come to your house so I can't
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wait to see what cloud is going to bring
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me either y'all probably we probably
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won't recognize it no you will oh you
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you think we will probably gonna bring a
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big bowl of flax seeds and stuff I don't
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recognize and some Chia some chia seeds
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the wor is a oh a che we might bring the
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garden
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salad and a big bowl of fruit listen and
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you know what that girl's going to make
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Thanksgiving cuz we going to have more
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fun with her it's good to be she all
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have a wonderful Thanksgiving and Happy
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Thanksgiving y'all God bless the space
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that you live in really affects the way
12:07
you feel so my first recommendation is
12:10
start by updating your window treatments
12:13
with Smith and Noble Smith and Noble's
12:16
beautiful handcrafted blinds draped
12:18
Shades and shutters are custom made just
12:20
for you and they offer different service
12:23
options to fit your needs to get started
12:25
today contact Smith and Noble to get my
12:28
special limited time offer 25% off on
12:32
your window treatments plus free design
12:35
consultation create a space that you're
12:38
going to love for details about my
12:41
special offer go to Smith and noble.com
12:44
slpa that's Smith and noble.com
12:47
paala or call 1800 659
12:53
3300 that's 1 800 659 3300
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