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Paula sits down wth her husband Michael and they talk about what they did over the weekend including a surprise trip for Michael!
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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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hey yo I know y'all just love seeing
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Michael oh and he loves just knowing
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y'all gonna get to see and it's get to
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hear him talk he's as happy as a clam
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when he gets to meet up with y'all
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and oh gosh didn't we have a good time
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this weekend ahead of all I went up to
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Macon y'all I was invited to Macon
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Georgia to be a judge in the dance with
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the Stars competition there and you know
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Michael is so good about following me
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around and and I feel guilty because you
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know I know and he's doing all this just
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just to be with me and support me so
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when he gets something out of the deal
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too I'm always so so happy and Michael
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set through like half of the Dancing
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with the Stars competition and then
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somebody had arranged to get him tickets
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gregg allman
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the Allman 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 wants the
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big house is a museum that they set up
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for the Allman Brothers and it has a lot
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of old memorabilia and pictures and
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album covers and ticket stubs and
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guitars I get to hold the gold Les Paul
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at Duane Allman played oh the name of
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the guitar is Layla and then they had
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actually had Dickie Beck's case but they
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didn't have his guitar and I think his
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name was Goldie his guitar but on then
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they had two guitar that uh yet Gregg
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played Melissa with the original one
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anyhow I had a lot of fun no and we we
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kind of got had backstage passes it was
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a small venues
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under people which is the best kind
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really you know so we walked in and then
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I called my buddy in he said I'll come
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around back so we went around back and
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as I walked up I saw saw some guy that
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wasn't sure who he was but I knew he was
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a musician I said uh hey yeah 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
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and uh so it was really neat to meet him
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and he got a he played with Greg was the
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first time they'd ever jam and I think
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years ago they used to do that a lot a
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lot of different musicians would come in
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and play with and I think a lot of that
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took place in the big house because what
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I understand the Allman Brothers the
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band they 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 - yeah yeah so I
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wonder you know I I've heard stories
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about how dirt poor if these boys were
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in fact a story that I heard this
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weekend was we got to go to H and H and
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have hot chicken uh-huh and the the
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little old lady I understand just sold
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that business thing is that correct she
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did but I think what you're talking
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about was miss miss Hattie's with Patti
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miss Hattie was the these they were you
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know up-and-coming musicians they and
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they had made it so they would go to
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miss Hattie's and they had she had
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southern food like yes yes lot like
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yours and it was like six of these guys
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the whole band were going in they would
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about one or two plates one plate and
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they would share the food and uh she
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noticed it and most people that have
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restaurants like Paula they like to see
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people eat so they don't like to see
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them six people to share on one plate so
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yes she went over to shoot them so she
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she gave him the food and off she went
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she went over and asked them why are you
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boys just getting one plate and they
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said well we only have money for one
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plate and her comment was I will feed
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you guys so she fed him which
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a pretty good investment because she
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became she would go on the road with him
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and and cater all their food yeah they
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took miss Hattie on the road with him so
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miss Hattie's to all their meals for him
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so miss Hattie is a few free meals
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really paid off my thinking in a long
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run because yes they love to miss Hattie
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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 right so how could those boys
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have afforded well it's like that the
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the big house belonged to one of the
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band members parents okay and they
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become Party Central's pretty much oh
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okay now and they you know they they
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wrote a lot of songs there highway 40
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ones going right by there and ramblin
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man as as highway 41 in it they he told
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us what several mistakes for our blues
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was plated it was written there but
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anyhow two or three songs were written
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it was and inspire them I hate that I
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was I was you know committed to stay to
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the end of dance for the stars so I was
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sorry I didn't get to see Gregg you know
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I have not seen him since our wedding he
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came to our wedding and I hadn't seen
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him since since I hope he's doing well I
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think he is he look good
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oh thank good good
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I saw him I've got a story I was at home
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when you were doing elizabethtown you're
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moving here in Pasadena I had to come
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home self and flew home and well when I
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when I left
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Pasadena I've met Cameron Crowe oh
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they're so good on the plane came back
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and in in Atlanta I saw a Greg Allman so
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I started talking to Greg Allman so we
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sat next to each other on the way from
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Savannah to Atlanta to Savannah you know
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when I got off I said boy how is my life
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changed I just talked to Cameron Crowe
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and then I was talking about Greg Allman
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and uh actually Cameron's had written
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the movie what was the movie cameras
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moving Elizabeth don't know about the
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about oh about his almost famous yeah
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Cameron had written a movie yeah because
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he like a fourteen or fifteen year old
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kid he was actually writing for the
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magazine yeah Rolling Stones the Rolling
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Stones he had written a movie almost
7:08
famous and it was about all my brothers
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right I said so that was pretty you had
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a little connection there going I think
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that's just time I've seen him since
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then uh-huh well I know Greg and I are
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the same age and y'all will probably say
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well what was Greg doing a child's
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wedding
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well Greg actually lives here in
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Savannah out in Richmond Hill Oh
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so that's that's why he was wood on our
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guest list when we were dating
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um Paul and I've always been a huge
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Allman brother fan oh how many concerts
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I've gone through so Paula says uh would
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you like to go to a concert I said you
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know who she said the Allman Brothers I
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said oh yeah 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 I said really
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she said yeah yeah I was backstage
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pantry said I hope I know great
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excessive oh yeah so I helped her we
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were baking cookies I said if oh if I
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told my buddies ten years ago that I
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would be baking cookies for a gray
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almond they would have said you are out
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of your mind there's no way they would
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get close to you like this bake cookies
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I know it well I was so glad that you
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had that experience oh I had more fun it
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was really an H and H if you like hot
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chick oh it was really good yeah that
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you can get chicken two ways you can get
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the hot chicken or you can get just mild
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regular chicken and naturally I've
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always gotten the mild when we get
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eat it one of those rocks drink I think
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there was 15 people at our table yeah
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you know everybody got mild except maybe
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I had to get hot huh that scared me
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because they were skid mile as in it
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this might be like some kind of one bite
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of it and he said I saw him pick up his
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napkin and say shoot the chicken yo and
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then I think they actually dunk it
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completely under in some kind of kick
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butt hot sauce it was good yo some of it
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just like to be heard some of us like
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you know it's hot but it's like gasoline
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great but this had a real good really
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good flavor I know and some heat yeah
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good flavor a lot of heat a lot of heat
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in 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 us to meet up
9:53
there at a certain time on Friday
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afternoon and we got to go to the
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tick-tock which is a nice restaurant in
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Macon y'all the tick-tock room
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yeah the tick-tock room and it's it's
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it's fancy
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it's the the meals are a little bit
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fancy on the fancy side and that's where
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Richard a little Richard right that was
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his hangout he used to he started out as
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a dishwasher right down the street and
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after he get through washing all the
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dishes at this restaurant he worked at
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he would come down there to the tic-tock
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room and he would jam along with others
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and I heard a story which was a pretty
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neat story which I'd never heard before
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but uh Jimi Hendrix played in with liver
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Richard yeah and they they separating I
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don't know if he fire fires I think a
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little fiery like fired jimmy hint
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remain ott have been a good move but
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yeah i'll take yeah yeah i'll tell you
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what i
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what that little Richard told Jimmy he
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said there's only room for one pretty
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boy in this band and that's gonna be me
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so hit the road Jack and don't you come
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back no more I don't know that was a
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real wise to fire Jimi Hendrix that's
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like well they both did all right Jimi
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Hendrix no I'd be like oh uh how about
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the basement basketball coach they cut
11:33
Michael Jordan Michael Jordan yeah how
11:36
do you think he feels that's his claim
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to fame my god yeah I'm sure he's
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thought that one over once or twice well
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let's take a quick break and we'll we'll
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maybe think of something else we did but
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we had find it week ahead of all just a
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weekend to you and me course our room
11:52
had we had adjoining rooms with Cece
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wood bubbles and feel so we had a good
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we're back y'all and something I've been
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meaning to call to your attention the
13:11
most questions I get asked about you is
13:15
is Michael catching any shrimp and it
13:21
always confuses me but you know most
13:24
people think that your shrimp er well
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you know where that came from
13:29
where on your show Michael Sullivan my
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friend went by yeah the way as he went
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by the dock on the shrimp boat you said
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there's Michael hey Michael and
13:45
everybody thinks Michael is me is that
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wait so by you saying there it goes
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Michael everybody thought I was Tom back
13:55
to you because I'm really the most
13:58
important Michael around okay
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now that we got that squared away so
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that's what I came from
14:07
let me tell all of you who are listening
14:10
this podcast what Michael does we other
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than manage you and keep everything keep
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and I might have to take off these
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breeches cuz oh yeah besides all that Oh
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Michael is a harbor pilot Michael gets
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owned container ships here in the river
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and he parks those ships he parallel
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park some he'll turn them around in the
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river and parallel park them and they
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unload the containers and then he'll get
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back on it and take them out of their
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parking place
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get them to the river and then hand them
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over to a river pilot which takes them
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into the ocean and so Michael is not a
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shrimper he is not a fisherman he is a
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Harbor pilot tell everybody what a
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typical day is for you none
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okay epical though they're not I work we
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corn in a week off and I'm on call for
15:21
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 shifts
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they called me pretty much an hour
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before the ship arrives at Fort Jackson
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and I have to end I have to get on I get
15:46
on close proximity to the dock and then
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direct the tugboats and the and the ship
15:53
I did boat takes you to the ship
15:56
talk about puts me on the show right
15:58
because they're in the middle of the
15:59
river right so he can't swim out to them
16:03
but the so he gets on a tugboat they
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take him to the ship and he climbs up on
16:09
the ship on those ladders those rope
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ladders right and at that time there's a
16:16
river pilot on there and a river pilot
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gets on a the sea buoy and they also
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called bar pilots and the reason they
16:22
would call bar pilots because they get
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get you over the sandbar but anyhow the
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river pilot my younger brother is a
16:28
river pilot and our NIC and they bring
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the ship they got to ship up the river
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and without tug assistance and then when
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I get aboard
16:38
I used the tug assistance to to turn the
16:41
ships around and document so I'm talking
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to the to the tugs with walkie-talkie
16:46
and then I talked to this the helmsman
16:49
and the quartermaster and give them
16:51
commands on the ship so I pretty much
16:55
fill it and turn the ship around a
16:56
docket and I tell people I'm in the
16:59
valet parking for ships that they are my
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younger of my son and my son-in-law our
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mates on the tug boats so they're
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working their way up through the ranks
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also it used to be very incestuous back
17:17
in the day white net you you bout had to
17:20
have a father it pretty much and it's
17:25
funny how they it's funny how things
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work out because years ago
17:30
it wasn't a real lucrative job and you'd
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go out on a boat and just you'd rock
17:38
around and wait to the ship comes in
17:40
there and you'd get seasick and it
17:42
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
17:51
didn't want the job so you this was this
17:54
going on when you this way before you
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get time yeah so the daddy would it was
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their business so they had to grab their
18:05
son and son come on and they would start
18:08
teaching his son really real early I
18:10
mean yeah 15 years old
18:13
or some younger than that yeah they say
18:16
in Newell as they take them at eight
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years old and you know so by the time
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that kid was 18 years old he'd have 10
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years experience so it was called back
18:27
then it was a necessity now they got
18:30
faster Bhosle running in and out the
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this become lucrative it's a it's a
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better paying job is so everything is
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better their ships are better the docks
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are better everything's the tugboats and
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everything is is a lot better than it
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used to be yeah so it's a way better job
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than it was now it's called nepotism if
18:54
you if you bring your son is but they've
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they've got away from mana become a
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river pilot you are required a college
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degree right yeah yeah so where if you
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if you dropped out of 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
19:18
generally as the things have changed a
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good bit um I I had no family um you
19:24
know my younger brother you actually
19:26
started and now Nick my younger brother
19:29
he had no family because it's two
19:30
different organisations so Nick had no
19:33
family in his business and I had none of
19:35
mine so it can't be done it was rare at
19:38
that time right right now you are you
19:43
don't have to
19:43
your own insurance but aren't you like a
19:47
free agent yeah I'm a independent
19:52
contractor and they but I use of ships
19:55
insurance if I had to if I didn't sure
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everything on my ship and the cranes and
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everything else I have oh I have to
20:05
charge them such an exorbitant amount
20:06
they were right they couldn't plan yeah
20:10
yeah so I'm pretty much in charge but
20:13
I'm never really in charge the captain's
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always enjoy uh-huh so sometimes you
20:20
have to set this captain straight don't
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you well no not really
20:23
most of them are most of them would
20:26
prefer us to handle the ships because a
20:29
captain is they they feel better and all
20:34
their arm their expertise is in the
20:38
ocean right they and see they want the
20:42
idea of the close quarter quarters is
20:44
two miles they want to stay two miles
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away from any other shame that crazy
20:50
y'all that out in that ocean if you got
20:53
closer than two miles to another ship
20:55
you're too close
20:56
well this is not too close but they they
21:00
leave that much for error if something
21:03
they want to stay two miles away from
21:06
anything
21:06
Wow and what's your smart you don't want
21:10
to get well with the movie Michael Vick
21:13
Tom Hanks starred in it was the ship
21:16
that the cat the the captain of the ship
21:21
they yeah the Somali pirate oh yeah yeah
21:26
yeah I actually met that cab well I know
21:29
that's what I was getting it you
21:31
actually worked with that captain that
21:34
was abducted right it was a mercy
21:36
Alabama I think was named a ship and I
21:39
met him I met him before the incident
21:43
then hit him after he was on a different
21:46
show yeah I don't blame him either but
21:52
all that stuff actually happened oh yeah
21:55
the way it was portrayed in the mood
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 isn't right then I get the best of
22:11
both worlds I guess yeah
22:12
I get my ship fix and then I get to come
22:17
home
22:17
yeah captain Phillips captain Phillips
22:20
right I met him yes and the the second
22:25
ship I saw him on after the incident was
22:28
a car carrier car carriers kind of
22:30
shaped like a cruise ship so it's got
22:32
all this but it doesn't have the windows
22:34
apprenticeship ass but it's real high
22:36
sides and uh so that's why he went on
22:40
that one I think they'd have to climb a
22:43
long way to get up to the top of that
22:44
well it was a horrible experience the
22:47
way it was portrayed in the movie it was
22:49
but in and they have Bob wire big old
22:55
rolls of razor wire all around the ship
22:59
and and they have to have lock downs and
23:02
everything where because of the the
23:04
pirates yeah you'd think this day and
23:07
age is not the air of the pilot all
23:12
right but yeah they still own they still
23:15
exist
23:16
Wow well I'm so glad that you popped in
23:19
this morning and you're full of so many
23:23
interesting stories and you've lived
23:26
even though you've lived a life very
23:30
confined to one small area you've got
23:36
wonderful stories to tell well thank you
23:40
you're welcome
23:41
just after you hear them for like the
23:43
thousandth time you're lucky check uh
23:47
listen I'm I Nev the cat thanks baby for
23:57
coming in I appreciate it because folks
23:59
love to hear you they love to see what
24:03
you've been up to and I know you love
24:05
them every time we get to go out to a
24:07
book signing or something Michael just
24:09
loves
24:11
being able to see all y'all in chat with
24:13
you I do because he appears quiet but he
24:16
can be quite Shatterer so thanks so I'll
24:21
see y'all next week are your loving best
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dishes y'all the space that you live in
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really affects the way you feel so my
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first recommendation is start by
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24:45
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24:47
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24:49
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24:52
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24:54
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24:55
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25:02
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25:07
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Paula that Smith & noble.com slash
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