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Paula sits down with Jesse, Lulu and Gus and accounces here new TV show, Positively Paula! Hear what Paula has to say about her new show and see an exclusive clip from her new series shot in her kitchen.
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well hey y'all welcome to what's cooking
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with Paula Dean and I come into the
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studio today and they tell me they put
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uh pulled a uh Switcheroo on me uh my
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buddy Jesse Blanco was
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here my friend gusy come on guys come on
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and Lulu and Max are all with me so when
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I came in this morning they said okay um
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we want you to introduce Jesse and then
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Jesse is going to interview you
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so I don't know what they're planning to
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find out that I hadn't already told them
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but we'll see are good morning Jesse I'm
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good I'm good just recuperating from a
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little surgery yeah on my knee you'll be
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back out on tennis court no time oh
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listen I'm planning on uh going dancing
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this Saturday night nice no TV cameras
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around for that one no dancing my
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Dancing Days Are Over I think that's
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what caused this I got asked the other
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day about a week go if I'd be interested
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in in doing one of the local dances for
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charity thing oh yeah yeah I did one for
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for a charity about 3 years ago and I
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won so I told him you know I love the
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cause and I'd love to help but I'm
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retired undefeated I'm not doing it and
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I said but you might want to call Paula
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no no
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honey I don't blame you that was smart
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to go out the winter hey I'm done one
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and done I quit what dance did you win
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with we did um it was kind of a tri to
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Saturday Night Fever so we did we did an
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old disco hustle mixed in with some
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salsa because I'm Hispanic yeah yeah and
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I won by one point by one point yeah and
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I got a big old trophy in my office so
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it was a lot of fun good who was your
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partner um oh she's going to hate me for
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forgetting her name this was about four
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years ago it was with butterfly Ballroom
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here in Savannah and um I'm not familiar
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with that one Ken is the the the
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director there but yeah we uh there's a
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lot of work in that I mean obviously
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with yours everybody got to see cuz the
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cameras were there yes but even Beyond
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with with what we saw of your dances
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there's just so much attention to detail
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and there's some serious focus when
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you're not cutting up because the
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cameras are there you know there there
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really is um uh danc with the Stars
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preferred that you dance six hours a day
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and that was seven days a week so it's
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it was pretty brutal yeah yeah yeah fun
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but it's work yeah yeah yeah what else
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You' been up to oh that's about
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it wow so uh if I Grimace or Gran it's
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just because of pain hit me but
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everything's fine okay very good so
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we're going to go see what our sponsors
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got to say today and then we'll be right
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back and I'm going to turn it over to
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Jesse the floor is his the space that
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3300 we're back y'all and uh Jesse's got
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the
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floor and uh so you can ask me anything
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that you want to ask me you driving this
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car yep yeah flying the plane um so you
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uh you you've been busy I thought I was
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busy but you've been really really busy
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I have been very very busy yeah you um
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you you you have a big announcement
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you've got you're you're going to be on
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TV yeah I got a big announcement coming
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up uh we have been working on a new show
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called
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uh positively Paula positively Paula
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somebody said the other day by mistake
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perfectly Paula and that has stuck in my
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brain so ever since that person said
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that I have to stop and think positively
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Paula the kids call that earworm ear an
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earworm yeah cuz it's stuck in your head
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yeah it gets in there and it won't crawl
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out the other side right right uh but
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it's it's a wonderful uh show Jesse I'm
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having so much fun filming it because
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you know we have gone back to basics
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it's it's the show that uh I originally
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started doing what 14 15 years ago right
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and I'm in the kitchen with my
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friends and uh sometimes I'm alone
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sometimes I have guests and it's just
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um you know a
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time for me to um interact and be with
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the audience out there and you know it's
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it's my hope that for 30 minutes they'll
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forget everything that irks them forget
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all their problems just sit back with me
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for 30 minutes and have a good time
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reminisce yeah absolutely I've seen I've
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seen some of the clips um and this is
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partially shot in your home yeah yes it
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is actually shot in the home that
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Michael and I live in right uh now my
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studio kitchen is about a mile from the
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house that was uh the first house that
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Michael and I built that we thought we'd
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live there forever and ever and ever
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and uh we started filming Paula's best
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dishes there and we woke up one day and
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realized as we were walking under lights
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and stepping over uh cameras and bags
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that the house had become a studio it
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was not our home anymore so we went down
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the road and built another house and
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uh so I have two different kitchens that
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I can film in yeah but I love love love
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uh filming in the kitchen that I
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actually cook and live in every day so
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you are uh you're going to be um cooking
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here in this kitchen in your new kitchen
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in your old home or the new kitchen in
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the old kitchen in the new home we do
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have a clip we can look at and see what
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some of this looks like good good cuz
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we're having a good time yes y'all enjoy
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[Music]
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[Music]
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well hey
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[Music]
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friends are you up to frying some
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chicken with me everybody loves fried
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chicken I think it's time to see if my
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lips fit this leg it's so good cavity
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toy cavity to Cav hush Bobby well I
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browned my meat and then I drained it
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wrong stop right there is what you said
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has anybody ever told you you have a
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Southern accent I'm more Southern than
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y'all I have a susha her name is Pauline
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not a lot of people can say that
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right stopped here to get a sausage dog
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and you've eaten
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two how do you like my facial I tell you
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what it's only my second facial in the
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world I don't have any makeup on now I
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would give anything if y'all could be
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here with me I'm sorry guys
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I need a
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moment I'm in my kitchen and you know
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what you never know who you going to
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find hey y'all welcome to my kitchen
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today there's some things that you taste
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that'll almost make you
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weak because the memories that flood by
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can you know they're all good
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memories thanks for getting these
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shrimps oh gosh thanks for cooking them
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in the last month somebody mentioned
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that to me oh every time I go I have to
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bring your mama's pudding the one with
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the cookies on the top and as
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enthusiastic as they are about it I'm a
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little eh it's not really my thing I'd
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rather eat pork chops thank you I think
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that it's just a
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um it's one of those things where my
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mama makes better Fried Chicken than
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your mama no she doesn't my mama makes
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better Fried Chicken than
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yours but I think I have a legitimate
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claim and all these years later
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it still reminds
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[Music]
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me of the way I showed my love for might
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not buy them the newest toy but I could
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fry them some
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[Music]
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chicken yum yum yum
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[Music]
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so so you that that looks wonderful that
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looks like it's a lot of fun yeah it is
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it's a lot of fun so anyway I've done uh
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a lot of shows sometimes by myself
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sometimes with others uh one of my
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favorites was with Claudia my my little
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Latino daughter-in-law who is so cute
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and the language barrier is uh sometimes
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really gets me tickled but get this she
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did all the cooking right I want to see
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what she could do she is um Cloud eats
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and Bobby eat very very clean right very
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clean and uh cloud is now a vegetarian I
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didn't know that yes she has she has
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turned into a vegetarian all right and
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uh it wouldn't surprise me if one day
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she doesn't wind up vegan because she
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everything she prepared was vegan okay
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and I ate it
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y'all the whole thing yes and it was
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good yeah it was really good like vegan
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isn't bad I just couldn't do it every
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day no no I couldn't do it every day
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either no but hey but what she made was
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really good oh gosh one of the one of
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the shows I did with um an actor named
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uh Tom Beringer his name sounds like
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fine wine in fact I told him that
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doesn't that sound like a good Tom
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baringer uh he has um done very well in
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his field he has been in uh like platoon
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right and then he played in oh what's
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that wonderful old movie one of those
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that's retro The Big Chill The Big Chill
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don't laugh at me but I just saw The Big
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Chill for the first time this summer you
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are kidding the first time ever my wife
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had been telling me since we got married
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19 years ago you got to see The Big
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Chill and we just sat she just finally
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pinned me down to watch it well Tom Tom
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was real interesting we called it our
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Emmy award-winning show he brought his
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Emy so I pull my Emy out of the nice out
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of the uh theater room em Envy yeah yeah
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yeah and I said well he deserved his a
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lot more than I deserved he had worked
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very very hard for his Emy but what a
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nice guy and he brought his wife right
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so you know I I just felt like I made
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new friends M but uh I'm looking forward
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to having more and more people you know
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like regular people like everyday people
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right um I love getting in the kitchen
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with women that only cook at home right
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sure of course and bring their ideas to
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uh to the table yeah yes you know you
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could do all kinds of fancy food or the
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recipes that you've done for years but
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at the end of the day some of those
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things aren't your average Tuesday night
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meals some of them aren but some of them
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aren't it be it' be interesting to learn
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about what people do during the week I'm
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turn the table and ask you did you ever
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see Julie and Julia I think that was uh
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yeah that was that was a few years ago
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it was and it was I I so enjoyed
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watching um Merl Street that's right yes
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uh she is so good but you know I always
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wanted to meet Julia Child always but I
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didn't get to MH I never got to meet her
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and um did you did you ever at any point
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when you first got going with with the
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bag lady um and everything that you were
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doing early on before TV came along did
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you ever think I'd like to be like her
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no no not really uh the person that I
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wanted to be like was my
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grandmother who was so accomplished in
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the
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kitchen
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um and another Local Hero for me was
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Miss wils mhm did you ever meet her oh
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gosh yes in fact when they would close
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down you know they close the whole month
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of January and miss wils and her family
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would come into our restaurant and eat
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that's fun and it always thrill me to
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death when I'd see Miss wils walk in the
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lines for that place I drive by him
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regularly they are they're around the
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block sometimes but it's a it's a good
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time it's Unique you know it well it
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just goes to show that that Mother's
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cooking and grandmother's cooking will
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never go out of style no it'll be in
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demand till the day we all die mhm so
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this uh this television show positively
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Paula sounds like it's going to be a
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very big deal I'm so excited I don't
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care where I go Jesse people come up to
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me and they say Paula please please get
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back on TV I miss you so badly yeah and
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you know it's just so sweet some of the
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things they whisper in my ear so I hope
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everybody is as ex excited as I am about
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being back in front of them absolutely
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and that's supposed to happen October
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the 15th y'all yeah so get cranked up
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and um you can find um hopefully it'll
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be in your viewing area if not you know
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you can I guess you could call your your
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local TV stations and inquire like back
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in the day I Want My MTV I want I want
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my PA that just dated me but um anyone
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who wants more information can find it
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positively paula. TV right you can go
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right you can go to that website very
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good positively paula.tv now the
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episode's going to be online at all uh
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you know I don't I don't know about that
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I don't know about that okay we'll start
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with TV for now it's always good to
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spend 30 minutes with Paula and see what
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she's whipping up pinto beans or vegan
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vegan sausages or whatever it is at Jo
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yeah and I had so much fun you know
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duplicate one of Julia's meals yeah very
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good uh yeah what' you make uh it was
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some type of chicken it was a chicken
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dish cocoa vanan there you go there you
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go so you used wine and it was good yes
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did you put any in the food
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uh oh yeah you know I'm not a wine
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drinker so it all went in the food y'all
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there you go very good but it it was fun
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just doing a a show Strictly in in
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memory of her and the doors that she
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opened for the rest of us very good she
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really paved the way she uh and I know
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how you feel because I know a lot of
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people feel that way about you really
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what you've done absolutely absolutely
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JY that's such a sweet thing I I I come
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across people uh all the time who know
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that we're friends and hey you know I I
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needed some advice and you think I could
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talk to Paula and and they absolutely
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look at you as someone you know
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everybody knows your story and how
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incredible it is but you know there's a
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path that's made a little bit clearer
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because of what you did over the last
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what 20 years with your boys so yeah
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that's something to be proud of well
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thank you Jesse that's so kind you know
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one of my one of my biggest goals was um
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to always be there to encourage women
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and men but being a woman I know some of
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the positions that women can find
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themselves in and I've always wanted to
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be there to be an encourager and a
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cheerleader uh for those women you know
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don't give up on your dreams don't don't
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let anybody get in your face and tell
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you no I will take this opportunity to
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tell you something you told me one one
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time we were visiting I've been doing my
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TV show now for 5 years here in s and
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that's wonderful congratulations but you
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uh you mentioned to me a long time ago
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that you were um I don't know if
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struggling is the right word but you
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were you know really working hard for 12
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years before your life changed yes I
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struggled yeah for 12 years it was a
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struggle and and it's easy to say well
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those 12 years were very difficult in
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one sentence but 12 years is what 25% of
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of your lifetime I don't do math but
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that's a long time and so it was it it
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was it was a struggle it was a struggle
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but uh you know I think if you're
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focused and you keep your eye on the
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prize and at the end of the day I
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believe you were enjoying it because if
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you if you were you'd have had some kind
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of I need to I need to go through
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something I couldn't have
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withstood 16-hour days every day had I
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not been in love with what I was doing
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very good long as you're having fun and
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love what you do absolutely absolutely I
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I it it beats working for a living right
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yes yeah so positively paula.tv is where
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we can find more information about
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October the 15th y'all positively Paula
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and Paula's going to be back on party at
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my house invite all my friends over to I
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hope I get an invite can we get me an
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invite yes my doors are always open you
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honey you know better than that I know I
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know um very good so we'll we'll I guess
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it's my line that I write in the paper
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uh at the end of my columns every week
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in the Savannah Morning News I write see
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you on TV Jesse but now I guess that
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applies to you see you on TV Paula right
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see y'all on
19:24
TV the space that you live in really
19:27
affects the way you feel so my first
19:30
recommendation is start by updating your
19:33
window treatments with Smith and Noble
19:36
Smith and& Noble's beautiful handcrafted
19:38
blinds draped Shades and shutters are
19:41
custom made just for you and they offer
19:43
different service options to fit your
19:45
needs to get started today contact Smith
19:48
and Noble to get my special limited time
19:51
offer 25% off on your winter treatments
19:55
plus free design consultation create a
19:58
space that you're going to love for
20:01
details about my special offer go to
20:03
Smith and noble.com
20:06
slpa that's Smith and noble.com paaa or
20:10
call 1800
20:13
659
20:14
3300 that's 1 800 659 3300
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