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In this week's episode of what's cooking with Paula Deen podcast, Paula talks about her childhood at River Bend that servers as her inspiration for her latest collection.
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well hey friends welcome to what's
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cooking with Paula Deen and I am so
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happy to announce that my new collection
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has come out with my pots my pans my
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dishes and so many things that
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accessorize your your collection and
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it's called the river band collection
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and y'all have heard me talk about river
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band and what an influence it played in
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my life growing up I slept in a chest of
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drawers when I came home from the
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hospital and I believe it was at River
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Bend that this took place the family
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lived in my grandmother in grandfather's
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family business which was the hotel the
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restaurant the skating rink the swimming
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pool and it was like the big place in
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Albany to come to I think we had the
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only swimming pool in Albany at the time
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so I made so many friends during the
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summer every weekend all the church
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buses would come out and the kids would
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unload from that bus and I would be
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standing right there to hug him and tell
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him to come on let's get to swimming I
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had lots and lots of playmate mates
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every weekend and you know it's just
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funny I spent the first 10 years of my
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life at River Bend and and those are
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your very years that that you're being
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molded I think into the person that
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you're going to become and when Michael
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and I was built in the house that we
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live in now
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Gordon was down we were shooting my show
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Gordon Elliot who's my producer had
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flown down we were shooting best dishes
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and I said Gordon come on over to the
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house with me I want to show you the
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progress that's happened since you last
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saw it and so we walked the whole
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property and he said
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do you realize what you've done here and
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I said no no what have I done he said
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you have recreated River Bend in your
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home in this property right here and I
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looked at him and I said Gordon my
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goodness I have subconsciously done just
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that not giving it any thought I have
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reproduced River Bend here so those
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formative years really set me on my path
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and especially the cooking that went on
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in the kitchen that I would watch my
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grandmother and Sam do mama was a
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waitress and a Peggy was a lifeguard
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like I said it was a it was a whole
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family affair but the new river bein
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collection certainly reminds me of those
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10 years it's just happy stuff to me
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just happy stuff and I'm so excited to
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tell y'all it's finally out
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I can't wait for y'all to see it and
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y'all just let me know how you like it
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you know I'm working for you
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I really love you your feedback and tell
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me what you hope to see one day and I'll
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do my best to make that happen
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so right now I'm gonna take a quick
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break but I'll be back in a second to
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wrap this up 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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updating your window treatments with
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Smith & Noble
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Smith & Nobles beautiful handcrafted
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blinds drapes shades and shutters are
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custom made just for you and they offer
4:06
different service options to fit your
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needs to get started today contact Smith
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& Noble to get my special limited time
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offer 25% off on your window treatments
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plus free design consultation
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create a space that you're gonna love
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but details about my special offer go to
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smith & noble.com / paulo that smith &
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noble.com / paulo or call one eight
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hundred sixty five nine thirty three
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hundred that's one eight hundred six
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five nine thirty three hundred hey y'all
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welcome back I'm trying to get a lady by
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the name of Cheryl and I'm hoping she
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will answer Cheryl hey Cheryl dadgummit
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is Paula Dean and I wanted to talk with
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you okay hey Cheryl
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dadgummit it's Paula Dean and I wanted
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to talk with you so very badly you sent
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me a question in and I wanted to answer
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it for you so I guess you're just gonna
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have to watch this podcast to find out
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what my answer is so have a great day
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girl and thank you thank you for being
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so supportive thank you thank you dear
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bye bye all right so here's Cheryl's
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question I just want to thank you from
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the bottom of my heart for your airfryer
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cookbook that you signed for me on
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August the 12th when you were at Yvonne
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this is the first time that I have ever
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gotten
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anything from anybody and since it's
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more than special I will treasure it
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forever it just means the world to me
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and I hold it very precious to my heart
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thank you again so much finally Cheryl
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I'm so glad and I know this is maybe the
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second thing that I've gotten from you
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Cheryl one time you asked why was it
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taking so long for the airfryer to come
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back well that's because it totally sold
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out and it just takes too
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to get more more made but I am so happy
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that you're happy with your airfryer you
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know I'm I know y'all have heard me talk
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about it a lot out there but it truly
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can change your life okay oh yay hello
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Cheryl you called me back
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I'm just oh good well I'm sitting here
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doing my podcast and of course I called
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you up and you didn't answer but I'm
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still in the middle of the podcast so
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this is wonderful great timing thanks so
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much for calling me right back and I
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just I just read your well there was
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really no question it's you were
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thanking me for signing my new airfryer
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cookbook to you which I hope is a long
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long time honey well listen people have
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been doing you right if that's the first
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thing you've ever been given
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oh so I hope you love it I hope you love
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it
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yeah well that's good well you know one
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thing about Yvonne if there's a little
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defect all you have to do is send it
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back and they will see that you you've
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got one that's completely perfect and so
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I'm glad you notice that because what
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makes mine so different you know the
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first time I saw an air fryer I thought
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oh gosh you know I really like this idea
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but how can we take this idea and
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improve it so we did that in a couple of
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ways our bottom
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is an aluminium a shiny aluminum so that
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creates a higher heat and faster so it
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must it must have been a thermostat
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problem but no no that that's not right
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that is not right not unless they were
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the size of a shark well we went when
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did you um I am sick every time school
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starts my husband and I get sick not
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even have any not even having
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school-aged children living in our house
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it's like the air is permeated with all
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these children you know being thrown
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back together so every time I go to
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laugh I get choked and start having a
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coughing spell but when did you return
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it okay you should you should yeah I'm
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telling you it can change your life it's
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that that air fryer can do anything that
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your microwave your stove your oven your
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top of your stove it can do on
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everything everything you know I'm not
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saying a lot I'm not saying a lot my
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daughter-in-law is using a lot of
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coconut oil so so you can use any flavor
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you want it doesn't necessarily have to
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be olive oil but like if I'm doing
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chicken you know I I spray it pretty
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good
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and then when it's halfway done I turn
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it over and I do spray the other side
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because it will get crispy or if you're
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doing fish anything like that you want
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to now I probably go heavier when I'm
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making french fries yeah but still even
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even when you say you're spraying a good
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bit
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it's hardly you need
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you know when it's all said and done
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it's hardly anything it's terrible it's
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terrible and the more I talk the worse
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it gets
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well Cheryl I so appreciate your note
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honey and I'll be with you well let let
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me know when your airfryer gets back to
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you but I want to know and like said the
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folks at Yvonne they are they are so
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good and they want you satisfied and
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happy so they don't take they'll take
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good care of you sometimes he's just
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Thank You Cheryl have a blessed one to
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you bye-bye thank y'all for being with
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me today I did get to a few questions
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but as I was telling Cheryl our last
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question question e or whatever that
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I've gotten it's September and I've
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gotten the back-to-school cruds and the
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more I talk the more I wanna call so but
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thank y'all for bearing with me today
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you know I love you and I always send
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you best dishes along with that love so
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I'll see y'all next week the space that
12:25
you live in really affects the way you
12:27
feel so my first recommendation is start
12:31
by updating your window treatments with
12:33
Smith & Noble Smith & Nobles beautiful
12:36
handcrafted blinds drapes shades and
12:38
shutters are custom made just for you
12:41
and they offer different service options
12:43
to fit your needs to get started today
12:45
contact Smith & Noble to get my special
12:48
limited time offer 25% off on your
12:52
window treatments plus free design
12:55
consultation create a space that you're
12:58
gonna love but details about my special
13:01
offer go to Smith & noble.com slash
13:04
Paula that Smith & noble.com
13:07
/ holla or call one eight hundred six
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five nine 3300 that's one eight hundred
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six five nine 3300
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