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Episode 5-Canton Mississippi · Johnny's World

0:39
SPEAKER_00: It's a snow day version.
0:40
SPEAKER_00: Uh snow day.
0:42
SPEAKER_00: I'm up here in Memphis.
0:43
SPEAKER_00: This is like snow day number three.
0:45
SPEAKER_00: I know y'all are having some stuff down in Starkel too.
0:47
SPEAKER_00: How you been doing, Johnny?
0:49
SPEAKER_02: I'm good.
0:49
SPEAKER_02: Uh just trying to stay warm inside.
0:52
SPEAKER_02: It you're right.
0:52
SPEAKER_02: This is uh some crazy weather outside.
0:55
SPEAKER_02: Just looking outside at the snow right now.
0:57
SPEAKER_02: It's uh it's weird.
0:59
SPEAKER_02: It's a little bit different than the snow day we had a few weeks back because we went outside and played in the snow, but this one's like just nasty, man.
1:07
SPEAKER_02: Just icy and just freezing, and just it's a little bit different, but uh yeah, it's it's crazy, crazy weather.
1:15
SPEAKER_00: I don't think we didn't get any snow a couple weeks ago.
1:18
SPEAKER_00: We got some ice like this past Thursday.
1:21
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we got all of our snow Monday up here.
1:25
SPEAKER_02: I got you.
1:26
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's uh yeah.
1:28
SPEAKER_02: I'm looking out right now and it's just it's just white outside.
1:32
SPEAKER_02: It's kind of hard to believe.
1:34
SPEAKER_02: We're in the south.
1:36
SPEAKER_00: Looks like we live in the north.
1:38
SPEAKER_00: It feels kind of tropical today because it was, I think it got up to like the mid-20s compared to uh like one degree the other night.
1:45
SPEAKER_00: So we'll take it.
1:46
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah, it's funny.
1:48
SPEAKER_02: Uh I saw someone uh post something about that.
1:51
SPEAKER_02: It was like I think they were in Madison.
1:53
SPEAKER_02: It in Madison it was like 13 degrees, and in Anchorage, Alaska at the exact same time was like 32 degrees.
2:01
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, what are the odds of this happening?
2:03
SPEAKER_02: It's a little colder than in Alaska and then Mississippi.
2:08
SPEAKER_00: Wow, I can't handle it.
2:09
SPEAKER_00: I'm ready, ready for the the heat to come back.
2:12
SPEAKER_00: I'd rather be 100 degrees than this mess.
2:14
SPEAKER_02: Yes, I agree.
2:15
SPEAKER_02: I agree 100%.
2:18
SPEAKER_00: I think we got like today, and then they're supposed to up here at least, it's supposed to thaw back out on Saturday, and then they're saying it's gonna be like mid-50s and 60s after that, hopefully.
2:28
SPEAKER_00: So maybe that's gonna ease us on into baseball season and you know it's winter.
2:34
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, the uh first baseball games were supposed to be uh in Arlington on Friday of this week, supposed to be state, and playing the Texas teams in the tournament.
2:42
SPEAKER_02: Not there, but I saw we're just got postponed because people in Texas are really struggling right now with with everything going on.
2:50
SPEAKER_02: So I don't know when they're gonna actually end up getting to play it.
2:52
SPEAKER_02: Okay, so they haven't said yet.
2:54
SPEAKER_02: They haven't said yet.
2:55
SPEAKER_02: They just said it's been postponed.
2:57
SPEAKER_02: I would think maybe till the first of the week, or I don't I don't know until they get through, find out what's going on with all this.
3:03
SPEAKER_02: But uh yeah, eventually, eventually baseball season will get here.
3:08
SPEAKER_02: Where are you expecting to play that game?
3:09
SPEAKER_00: Is it is it in where the Rangers play?
3:12
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, uh Rangers uh ballpark.
3:14
SPEAKER_02: Uh, I think they're they have a they built a new ballpark there.
3:17
SPEAKER_02: Uh it's brand new.
3:18
SPEAKER_02: I think this could be I can't remember if last year was the first year or this year.
3:24
SPEAKER_02: I um it's brand new ballpark, uh retractable roof.
3:28
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's uh it looks really good.
3:29
SPEAKER_02: So that's where the first tournament's gonna be out there.
3:32
SPEAKER_02: I think we're we're supposed to play Texas in the opening game, which I guess we still will, but it'll just be postponed for uh a little while.
3:41
SPEAKER_00: I've I've seen the I guess I saw the old one.
3:44
SPEAKER_00: It didn't even look that old.
3:45
SPEAKER_00: I mean, we went to Mary's World a few years ago and saw it.
3:49
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it looked pretty nice.
3:51
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I did a uh tour of it a few years ago, and uh or like you go in the locker rooms and and all that sort of stuff, and uh and actually that's where I met uh wet met Matthew McConaughey for the very first time.
4:05
SPEAKER_02: That's a funny story.
4:07
SPEAKER_02: Uh yeah, he was there uh with his just keep a living organization and uh they had like a fundraiser type deal.
4:15
SPEAKER_02: So uh I went to it.
4:17
SPEAKER_02: My mom and I went to it.
4:18
SPEAKER_02: We drove over from uh from Jackson all the way to Arlington, and we went to the event and turned around and came back home in the same night, eight hours worth the drive.
4:30
SPEAKER_02: But uh yeah, they had it in the batter's eye club there, which is like the you know, the batter's eyes, the black wall at every major league uh ballpark dead center field, uh for the way the pitcher and the batter lines up.
4:44
SPEAKER_02: Anyway, they had a they had like a reception type thing before the game with food and um and then he spoke about his organization in uh Texas and stuff.
4:54
SPEAKER_02: So yeah, so that was uh that was pretty cool in the in the ballpark.
4:59
SPEAKER_02: Like I think it was built in the early 90s, so it's not that old.
5:01
SPEAKER_02: And but I think that they've they didn't tear it down, it's still there, but they just built another one.
5:07
SPEAKER_02: I'm not sure who's gonna be in that one, but yeah.
5:11
SPEAKER_00: What was McConaughey like at that?
5:12
SPEAKER_00: Was it a kind of a quick deal?
5:14
SPEAKER_00: Or I know you got to get more time with him at your show.
5:17
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it was uh it was a quick deal.
5:19
SPEAKER_02: Uh, we talked to him briefly, and uh I told him I told him where where I where I was from and everything.
5:26
SPEAKER_02: And the first thing it's funny because my friend uh is a manager of uh of Chapley's uh steakhouse in Richmond, and I just talked to him the day before, and he had him and his wife just had their first baby that day.
5:40
SPEAKER_02: So I went to the hospital the day before and visited them and stuff.
5:44
SPEAKER_02: And when I told Makani when I met him that night at the bar ballpark, he said, uh we drove over here from Canton, and he said, Canton, Mississippi, huh?
5:52
SPEAKER_02: And uh said, Yep.
5:54
SPEAKER_02: And and the first thing he said was, How's uh how's Nissan doing?
5:57
SPEAKER_02: I was like, uh good.
6:00
SPEAKER_02: And and he said that they used a bunch of the sound stages from um Nissan for the courtroom scenes in the movie A Time to Kill.
6:08
SPEAKER_02: So I thought that was pretty interesting.
6:09
SPEAKER_02: And then the next thing he said was, How's Shapley's doing?
6:12
SPEAKER_01: I was like, What?
6:14
SPEAKER_02: I was like, Yeah, I was like, a matter of fact, I just went and uh said the man general manager is uh one of my good friends, and he just had a his wife just had a baby yesterday.
6:23
SPEAKER_02: I see him all the time.
6:24
SPEAKER_02: He's like, Let me tell you something.
6:25
SPEAKER_02: He goes, uh, being from Texas, I eat a lot of steak, and out of all the steaks I've eaten in my entire life, he said, Shapley's steakhouse is the best one I've ever had.
6:33
SPEAKER_02: I was like, what?
6:34
SPEAKER_02: He was like, that's unbelievable.
6:35
SPEAKER_02: Right here in Mississippi.
6:36
SPEAKER_02: And he was like, Yep.
6:37
SPEAKER_02: He goes, Y'all got a y'all got a gym there in Mississippi.
6:40
SPEAKER_02: And I asked him what uh what he would get.
6:43
SPEAKER_02: I said, What's your go-to there?
6:45
SPEAKER_02: He said, The uh the T-bone.
6:46
SPEAKER_02: So uh so I went back to my friend Jeffrey.
6:49
SPEAKER_02: I was like, All right, Makani said that y'all have the best steakhouse he's ever had, the best steak he's ever had.
6:55
SPEAKER_02: And his go-to was the T-bone.
6:56
SPEAKER_02: So I think y'all need to order y'all need to change the name of that on the menu to the Makane.
7:02
SPEAKER_02: So I went and I went and had one of those T-bones, man.
7:05
SPEAKER_02: And uh, you know how much I eat, and we talked about it that in the earlier podcast, and I had to take it home.
7:10
SPEAKER_02: I couldn't couldn't uh couldn't finish it up.
7:13
SPEAKER_00: It's shout out to Shaple's.
7:16
SPEAKER_00: I I forgot about that place.
7:17
SPEAKER_00: We you know we we have a lot of people that want to be our sponsors on the show because so many people listen and so many people like it like it.
7:25
SPEAKER_00: But Shapleys seems like a really good match for us.
7:28
SPEAKER_00: So so so Shaple's if you're out there, you want to sponsor the show.
7:31
SPEAKER_00: Yes, Johnny's for all your uh your your employees there, just let us know.
7:36
SPEAKER_00: We'll be glad to try out any of your steaks you want to sample.
7:39
SPEAKER_00: Absolutely do like that.
7:41
SPEAKER_00: We're good with that.
7:42
SPEAKER_02: Absolutely.
7:43
SPEAKER_02: Jeffrey, I'm I'm I'm calling you out.
7:45
SPEAKER_02: You gotta hear this, listen to this.
7:46
SPEAKER_02: We we need you on board here.
7:48
SPEAKER_00: Have to have them on the pod sometime and talk about the steak business.
7:52
SPEAKER_02: Yes, we will talk about the steak business and the Shapley's business because they got it rolling there.
7:57
SPEAKER_02: And yeah, if you're in the I'll give them a free plug right here.
8:00
SPEAKER_02: If you're in the in the Ridgeland or Jackson or Canton Madison area, stop them by there and you'll there.
8:06
SPEAKER_02: I know we talked about the combo steakhouse a few weeks back.
8:09
SPEAKER_02: And man, I rival the combo steakhouse and the shapley steakhouse.
8:13
SPEAKER_02: I put them in the same category, it's it's just uh just so good, a little bit different atmosphere as the combo steakhouse is more casual, you know.
8:21
SPEAKER_02: Uh, and and I would consider the Shapley Steakhouse more fine dining.
8:25
SPEAKER_02: But man, I'll tell you what, both of those steaks are are are fantastic.
8:28
SPEAKER_02: So yeah, so that was pretty cool going to the ballpark and meeting McConnell there and having that uh experience.
8:35
SPEAKER_02: And then he said that about about Shapley.
8:37
SPEAKER_02: So I was uh I was kind of forged, so it's pretty cool.
8:40
SPEAKER_02: So that they uh obviously it made uh made impression too.
8:43
SPEAKER_02: And that when I went back and told told Jeffrey about it, he said that he was uh obviously we're the same age, so he was he was about 15 or so when when that was happening, and but he hit that it's family-owned, so his family, uh his uncle ran the steakhouse, and they said that that the cast members would come in there quite often.
9:02
SPEAKER_02: Uh Sandra Bullock and uh Samuel L.
9:04
SPEAKER_02: Jackson, Donald, Sutherland, Kiefer, and and McConaughey.
9:07
SPEAKER_02: So that was kind of their go-to spot uh when they filmed the time to kill.
9:13
SPEAKER_00: I guess Gabby's is it still over there, kind of on Ridge Lane close to County Line?
9:18
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's it's it's same spot as it always is, right?
9:21
SPEAKER_02: Right in between uh, I think uh I can't remember the name of that road, but it's right right off Countyland Road.
9:28
SPEAKER_02: Um, you turn by that Kentucky fried chicken right there, and there's a shopping center, you go around the curb and it's right there.
9:35
SPEAKER_00: Waterland USA USA used to be.
9:37
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
9:41
SPEAKER_00: Did you ever hit up Waterland USA?
9:43
SPEAKER_00: Waterland USA, yes indeed.
9:49
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, Waterland was awesome.
9:50
SPEAKER_02: And then uh, you know, years later, they moved uh the slide, the blue big blue slide for Waterland.
9:56
SPEAKER_02: They moved it over to Rapids.
9:58
SPEAKER_00: Oh, I forgot about that.
10:00
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that was like that was kind of that was kind of the key signature at Waterland USA was that big blue water slide.
10:06
SPEAKER_02: I remember when I was a little kid, how intimidating that thing was, how big it was.
10:11
SPEAKER_02: And uh after they closed it, they they uh I guess they tore tore the whole thing down because it's like a car dealership now, but they moved the big slide over to Rapids.
10:23
SPEAKER_02: And then if you remember, I think it was was it oh six when the Saints had uh training camp at Millsaps.
10:30
SPEAKER_02: You remember that?
10:30
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, they took uh they took the team over to have a fun day at that was like an off day at uh at Rapids, and I remember seeing pictures of some of the players sliding down that that slide they were talking about.
10:45
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's awesome.
10:47
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah, they had a had a good time.
10:49
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I love water parks, man.
10:50
SPEAKER_02: That that's always been a been a been a uh favorite of mine.
10:53
SPEAKER_02: Did you ever uh did you ever go to the any on the Mississippi Gulf Coast?
10:59
SPEAKER_00: But uh there's there's a a funny memory of of the water land.
11:04
SPEAKER_00: So it seems like a couple a couple summers my mom got us, you know, like a season pass, and she would just drop me and my sister off over there when she'd go to work because their office is right down the street, and so she'd drop us off and we'd stay there all day, give us a little money, and you'd get some fries and and uh just just kind of have a good time and usually could take a friend with us.
11:30
SPEAKER_00: But there was one day I was there and they had those slides.
11:35
SPEAKER_00: It was like they weren't really steep, but they were it was two slides together.
11:39
SPEAKER_00: It was over there kind of on the right hand side when you came in and you you walked up to it and you slid down it and um like something happened when I was when I was on there.
11:51
SPEAKER_00: I I slid down it and I get up into the little pool and they have like a lifeguard in there.
11:56
SPEAKER_00: And the lifeguard looks at me, she goes, Hey, are your are your parents split?
12:02
SPEAKER_00: I said, Are my parents split?
12:03
SPEAKER_00: What are you talking about?
12:05
SPEAKER_00: She said, Are your parents split?
12:07
SPEAKER_00: I said, I said, no, my parents aren't split.
12:08
SPEAKER_00: She said, No, your pants are split.
12:12
SPEAKER_00: And and I told her and like just right between my butt crack, there was like a like a split.
12:20
SPEAKER_00: And so, yeah, like when you're wearing when you're you got the swim swim shorts on, it's got the little mesh liner in there.
12:27
SPEAKER_00: So yeah, yeah, it wasn't completely hanging out, but it was it was pretty bad.
12:31
SPEAKER_00: So I ran over and had my towel somewhere, probably like over by the wave pool.
12:37
SPEAKER_00: So I had to to run all the way from that slide to the wave pool and get my towel, and then I had to go to the payphone, call my mom, and tell her to come pick me up.
12:46
SPEAKER_01: Wow, that's pretty hilarious.
12:51
SPEAKER_00: That's that's like the my main memory from Waterland, USA.
12:54
SPEAKER_02: Waterland, USA, huh?
12:56
SPEAKER_02: Wow.
12:57
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, when I when I go to the uh the coast, my my granddad uh uh would always take us to the coast when I was little because they had a he was an alderman at large in the city of Canton, and they had a some type of meeting down there every year.
13:11
SPEAKER_02: And his sister, my uh my great aunt lives down there.
13:15
SPEAKER_02: So we'd go down there every summer, and there was this water park down there called Slippery Sam's.
13:20
SPEAKER_02: And oh man, we had so much fun there.
13:22
SPEAKER_02: It was it was this huge hill.
13:25
SPEAKER_02: You you would climb up the hill and they had a mat, you'd carry the mat, and it had uh like three water slides all connecting, and then it kind of goes under the ground at one point and it comes out in this big uh pool, and then you get your mat and run up the hill and do it again.
13:37
SPEAKER_02: I bet I went up that hill.
13:39
SPEAKER_02: No telling how many hundreds of times per uh time.
13:42
SPEAKER_02: Then they had bumper boats.
13:43
SPEAKER_02: I just loved it.
13:44
SPEAKER_02: It was it was awesome.
13:45
SPEAKER_02: And then uh and then I think it was still standing, it held on strong until Hurricane Katrina came and wiped it away.
13:51
SPEAKER_02: But uh, there was two of them.
13:52
SPEAKER_02: I remember it was Slippery Sam's, that was my go-to, and then there was another one called Wet Willies.
13:59
SPEAKER_02: Wet Willies, I think, was in Gulfport, and it just had one slide.
14:02
SPEAKER_02: I remember it was but they but uh Wet Willies had I think had a uh goofy golf course next to it, and there was one across the street from Slippery Sam's.
14:09
SPEAKER_02: So yeah, I always love playing goofy golf and water slides when I was a kid.
14:15
SPEAKER_02: I could still do it today if we have one.
14:17
SPEAKER_00: Must not be a good business to be in because none of those places are open anymore anywhere.
14:21
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I know.
14:22
SPEAKER_00: It's uh but man, it seems like when we were kids, they were they were booming, and uh there's one in Nashville, I think it's still open called Nashville Shores.
14:33
SPEAKER_00: It's over there by like the Opera Land Hotel.
14:36
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I want to say it's still open.
14:38
SPEAKER_02: Huh.
14:39
SPEAKER_02: That might be it.
14:40
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, there's fun times, fun times, definitely.
14:44
SPEAKER_02: But uh, but yeah, it's uh lots of lots of funny memories.
14:49
SPEAKER_02: Uh have you ever been to the one in in uh at Philadelphia at Geyser Falls?
14:53
SPEAKER_02: I haven't been to that one either, no.
14:55
SPEAKER_02: It's it's fun.
14:56
SPEAKER_02: I went there a few summers ago and uh they got a lot of stuff.
15:00
SPEAKER_02: We took our our youth group at our church when I was helping out there um a few years back for uh a summer, and it's kind of uh it's it's it's it's right by the casino and everything.
15:11
SPEAKER_02: And um it's got a lot of slides there.
15:13
SPEAKER_02: It's from what I remember, it was it was a lot of fun.
15:16
SPEAKER_02: But yeah, I hate that there's not not a water park in the Jackson area anymore because between Waterland USA and Rapids are pretty fun.
15:23
SPEAKER_02: Matter of fact, yeah, I saw it on YouTube not too long ago.
15:26
SPEAKER_02: If you go to YouTube and type in Waterland USA, for those of you who don't know, might not know what we're talking about.
15:31
SPEAKER_02: Type in Waterland USA, original Mississippi and YouTube, and there's a commercial that pops up.
15:37
SPEAKER_02: And uh, I'll talk about nostalgic.
15:38
SPEAKER_02: When you watch that commercial, it'll take you back to being a kid because they'll have the theme song.
15:43
SPEAKER_02: Remember the theme song from Waterland commercial?
15:45
unknown: Exactly.
15:46
SPEAKER_02: Yep, yeah, lots of fun.
15:49
SPEAKER_00: They don't do those commercials like they used to anymore because there's so many good theme song commercials back in the day.
15:56
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
16:01
SPEAKER_00: Oh man, I gotta I gotta find this.
16:03
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna have to look this up in a little while.
16:05
SPEAKER_00: Um here it is, I'm playing it.
16:24
SPEAKER_01: Oh man.
16:27
SPEAKER_00: This this video too.
16:28
SPEAKER_00: There's there's some pretty classic eighties looking folks in there.
16:32
SPEAKER_02: Yes, indeed.
16:35
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that theme phone will be stuck in your head the rest of the day, won't it?
16:39
SPEAKER_00: It will.
16:40
SPEAKER_00: Definitely will.
16:41
SPEAKER_02: Fun, fun, fun.
16:41
SPEAKER_02: It's water, yeah.
16:43
SPEAKER_02: What a great place.
16:46
SPEAKER_00: Well, uh so we we've kind of we've talked a little bit, we've mentioned Canton a couple times, and we had the idea we're gonna talk a little bit about Canton today.
16:58
SPEAKER_00: So I say we segue into Canton a little bit.
17:01
SPEAKER_00: Um, so you know, we both grew up in Madison, but you had more roots in the Canton area.
17:08
SPEAKER_00: Um and then your mom lived there for a while, and your grandparents lived there, and I spent a decent amount of time working there and playing golf there.
17:18
SPEAKER_00: So so I'd say that we have pretty good bona fides to talk about Canton.
17:22
SPEAKER_01: That's right.
17:23
SPEAKER_00: Um so so I'd say we we talk about maybe the grocery stores there, the restaurants, some of the people.
17:31
SPEAKER_00: So I think I think there's a lot we can cover here.
17:34
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, let's do it.
17:37
SPEAKER_00: So so let's just jump in and let's power rank uh a couple things here.
17:44
SPEAKER_00: So a few of the restaurants that I remember, you got the Chinese buffet that's in that little house that looks like it's like a the roof is real slanted.
17:54
SPEAKER_00: What's that place called?
17:56
SPEAKER_02: Uh Golden Golden Dragon, that's it, yeah.
17:59
SPEAKER_02: Or Dragon's Garden, I think.
18:07
SPEAKER_00: Then you've got the the place, the Two Rivers place.
18:12
SPEAKER_00: I guess it's still there.
18:14
SPEAKER_02: Yes.
18:14
SPEAKER_00: And then the place behind it, the Cowboys.
18:18
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, they they closed that.
18:19
SPEAKER_02: Oh, they closed it.
18:21
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, the same people owned it, and man, it was great.
18:24
SPEAKER_02: Uh, they had some amazing rolls there, but they closed it a few years back.
18:28
SPEAKER_02: I'm not I'm not sure what the deal was.
18:30
SPEAKER_02: This they own the same guy that owns two rivers had that, but they kept two rivers open.
18:35
SPEAKER_02: But it was called the Culinary Cowboy, and uh it closed it a while back.
18:42
SPEAKER_00: We've got the Mexican restaurant that's right there on 55 on the frontage road by the car dealer that's just that place is pretty good.
18:51
SPEAKER_00: And then uh you've got Penn's Fish House on Highway 43 out there.
18:56
SPEAKER_02: Yes, Penn's Fish House.
18:58
SPEAKER_00: So I guess that's like the buffet pens, and then you've got like the the other pens.
19:03
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's like and then there's a there's a barbecue place up there by the interstate, kind of behind Wendy's.
19:16
SPEAKER_00: And um I forget what it's called, but I used to go there all the time.
19:22
SPEAKER_00: And then where's this?
19:23
SPEAKER_00: Where is this now?
19:24
SPEAKER_02: I'm trying to picture this one.
19:25
SPEAKER_00: It's so like if you're driving towards the interstate from the square, yeah, behind that Wendy's, it's a barbecue place in there, and uh the nicest guy I can't think of the name right now.
19:38
SPEAKER_00: Cool.
19:39
SPEAKER_00: Anybody knows?
19:40
SPEAKER_00: Chime in.
19:41
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and then really the the Popeyes there is much better than the Popeyes in Madison for whatever reason.
19:50
SPEAKER_00: People are really nice there.
19:52
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
19:53
SPEAKER_00: That's what I've got.
19:54
SPEAKER_00: Is there anything else you can think to add to that list?
19:57
SPEAKER_02: Uh there's a there's a really cool place called uh Miss Barbecue.
20:01
SPEAKER_02: Did you ever try that?
20:02
SPEAKER_02: Oh it's uh you do you know where the uh you know where the fire station is in Canton?
20:08
SPEAKER_02: Like you go, not the one not the one closest to uh uh it's it's the the main one, I think.
20:15
SPEAKER_02: You you go by you take it right by the square, and then you keep on going down and then fire station to the left.
20:21
SPEAKER_02: Right past right past the fire station there.
20:24
SPEAKER_02: Um I think there's maybe railroad tracks, I can't remember.
20:27
SPEAKER_02: Anyway, it's a small little building to the left called uh Miss Barbecues.
20:31
SPEAKER_02: Miss Barbecue.
20:32
SPEAKER_02: Oh man, they get some good, good, good chicken nuggets there.
20:36
SPEAKER_02: Fantastic.
20:37
SPEAKER_02: Um they have they have hamburgers, and I think I think it's one of those places that only takes cash.
20:43
SPEAKER_02: So you know it's a good place when it's like cash, and uh and the woman makes all that stuff there.
20:48
SPEAKER_02: And uh yeah, that the go-to at that restaurant by far, uh, is my in my opinion is that is the nuggets.
20:54
SPEAKER_02: They're they're fantastic.
20:56
SPEAKER_02: Um another another place, uh, it used to be it changes all the all the time.
21:02
SPEAKER_02: I remember me and you ate there one time.
21:04
SPEAKER_02: I think we ate there with the MRA football team when we were playing Kenton Academy one time, uh, right there on the square.
21:10
SPEAKER_02: Remember that?
21:10
SPEAKER_02: It used to be it's changed hands so many times.
21:13
SPEAKER_02: It used to be a uh soul food place, and then one time it was a Mexican place and all sorts of stuff.
21:19
SPEAKER_02: Uh but I'm not sure what it is now.
21:22
SPEAKER_02: But uh, but yeah, Penns Fish House.
21:25
SPEAKER_02: Man, I got some memories uh up there talking about Canton.
21:28
SPEAKER_02: When I was little, uh I was up there quite often with my grandparents, as I said earlier, my granddad was uh Ottoman at large up there.
21:36
SPEAKER_02: So I'd go up there, he'd take me to town and and uh show me off to all of his friends and everyone.
21:42
SPEAKER_02: He was real proud of me.
21:44
SPEAKER_02: And and uh so I would he would always take me as a guest to the uh lines club.
21:49
SPEAKER_02: He would always meet at uh at the uh Pitts Fish House.
21:52
SPEAKER_02: And so he'd go and uh he'd introduce me.
21:56
SPEAKER_02: And then fast forward years later when I was uh in high.
22:00
SPEAKER_02: High school and early years of college, um, he had had a he had had a stroke and he couldn't get around like he used to.
22:06
SPEAKER_02: Well, I'd end up taking he'd still he was he was devoted to the lines lions club.
22:11
SPEAKER_02: So he uh he I'd take him to the Lions Club meetings and they'd still meet there at Penn's Fish House.
22:17
SPEAKER_02: But all those years later, with when he took me as a kid, I would ended up taking him later on, and uh it was always the same.
22:24
SPEAKER_02: And and they had the buffet there, and it was uh it's a good place.
22:27
SPEAKER_02: So yeah, when you when you say Penns Fish House, that I got lots of uh lots of good memories from there.
22:32
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and uh shout out to uh Jimbo Beard and friend of the program.
22:37
SPEAKER_00: Uh he's in the Lions Club, and and I think they do still meet there.
22:41
SPEAKER_00: And didn't you speak at the Lions Club out there too?
22:43
SPEAKER_02: I sure did.
22:43
SPEAKER_02: I did.
22:44
SPEAKER_02: Uh uh when I was working at Baton a few years back, Jimbo actually got in touch with me and called me, and I actually spoke there.
22:51
SPEAKER_02: So that was a real full circle moment for me because I told the club when I met there about all the memories I had coming with my grandfather when I was little and then taking them later on in life and now getting to come back and speak to the club.
23:02
SPEAKER_02: So a lot of the members of the Lions Club there remembered me as a little kid when my grandfather would take me there.
23:11
SPEAKER_02: So it was really neat to uh get to speak there and go there.
23:14
SPEAKER_02: So yeah, lots of uh lots of good memories in Canton, lots of uh lots of stuff.
23:19
SPEAKER_02: It's funny where I was just talking to someone the other day about have you seen uh there's a there's a uh pre-boo to a movie, I'm gonna check it out soon called The Last Blockbuster.
23:29
SPEAKER_02: Have you seen have you heard of that?
23:36
SPEAKER_02: It's a uh it's a documentary on the very last uh blockbuster movie store that was in um in Bend, Oregon.
23:46
SPEAKER_02: And uh it took me back to uh to the days of uh going to the video store my with my granddad.
23:53
SPEAKER_02: When I was up there, uh when I'd spent some summers up there in Canton, my uh granddad, like I said, he would always take me to town.
23:59
SPEAKER_02: And I've always been into movies uh ever since I was a little kid.
24:02
SPEAKER_02: I I think part of it started this, started when he did that.
24:05
SPEAKER_02: He would always take me to the video store.
24:07
SPEAKER_02: And man, I would stay and spend hours in there just looking around, just looking at all the different uh videotapes while he would uh he'd always talk to the uh lady behind the counter.
24:16
SPEAKER_02: And there was two stores I remember.
24:18
SPEAKER_02: One was on the square, and one was um closer to uh closer to her house in the shopping center where the Jitney Jungle used to be, or Piggly Wiggly.
24:28
SPEAKER_02: And uh, but one one vivid image I have is the video store.
24:33
SPEAKER_02: Uh I think it was just called the video store or the movie store, video store, something simple right there on the square.
24:38
SPEAKER_02: And it was do you remember when you got people who listen to this podcast who might be young might have will have no idea what we're talking about because that's why I was talking to someone the other day about it.
24:49
SPEAKER_02: But no one knows what a video store is now because everybody just pulls up Netflix or all the streaming and all your movies right there.
24:56
SPEAKER_02: It's so back in the day you had to actually go into the store and rent a VHS tape.
25:00
SPEAKER_02: But uh this this video store, they would have like the video, the uh VHS tape, the cover out there, and right below it would be a nail, and on the nail would be like a little circle, and it had a number on it.
25:14
SPEAKER_02: So you would pull the uh circle from the nail, and then you go give it to the lady behind the counter, and then she'd go find the the uh the cassette, uh video uh VHS tape behind the counter and then give it to you.
25:28
SPEAKER_02: So I always I was mischievous, but I never did this.
25:31
SPEAKER_02: But I always thought I was someone who was really mischievous as a kid, but could probably do this and really mess people up.
25:37
SPEAKER_02: Is man, they would be in a mess if they if you went up there and then you you switched to all those little circles with all the different nails because each each thing, each circle went with that particular movie.
25:48
SPEAKER_02: So uh yeah, but that was that was a very unique, uh unique video store.
25:52
SPEAKER_02: I remember that.
25:52
SPEAKER_02: So uh that was cool getting to do that and uh just remembering all those memories I had.
25:59
SPEAKER_02: He would take me to the city hall a good bit.
26:02
SPEAKER_02: And uh yeah, when we're uh one of our good friends who used to be the uh the mayor of Canton when my granddad was Augur, but he now lives in Columbus, and we still keep in touch with him.
26:12
SPEAKER_02: And I talked to him just last week, and we were talking about when I was little, uh, they gave me a key to the city of Canton.
26:20
SPEAKER_02: And uh and uh I looked it up when I was doing those posts on my birthday with uh from growing up as a kid.
26:27
SPEAKER_02: I ran across those pictures and I I told him and told him about it.
26:30
SPEAKER_02: He remembered that day vividly.
26:32
SPEAKER_02: It was uh then they did a fundraiser for cystic fibrosis.
26:34
SPEAKER_02: They did it in Madison and in Canton, and uh it was a lockup where they had people that would uh get locked up and then you got to bail them out.
26:43
SPEAKER_02: Um, and there was a big fundraiser for CF and they ended up getting the key to the city of Canton and the key to the city of Madison on that day.
26:51
SPEAKER_02: And uh so I ran across those pictures not not too long ago, actually.
26:56
SPEAKER_00: If you have the key and you know it's like say say it's like 10 30 and you feel like you need you need something from from one of the the restaurants there, you just go in with your key and just just open it up and say, Hey, I got the key.
27:12
SPEAKER_00: I wish that would work.
27:14
SPEAKER_01: That would be pretty cool, wouldn't it?
27:16
SPEAKER_01: Can't get it get in anywhere, get in anywhere, bring that key with you and say, Look, I have a key to the city, let me in.
27:25
SPEAKER_02: But uh yeah, but going back to uh grocery stores, yeah.
27:28
SPEAKER_02: I remember uh they used to have uh it's changed hands so many times, and that when last time I was up in Canton about a month ago, it's nothing right now.
27:36
SPEAKER_02: Do you remember the grocery store?
27:38
SPEAKER_02: It was right next to the right by the iPlace where you worked at.
27:41
SPEAKER_02: Uh it used to be the Gindy Jungle, and then it was Pigley Wiggly, and now it's just closed, it's just sitting there.
27:49
SPEAKER_02: Uh, but there's another pigly on the other side of town.
27:52
SPEAKER_02: But uh yeah, I remember going there a lot when I was a kid.
27:55
SPEAKER_00: Well, the people that that I used to work with in Canton, they always told me to never go to that pigly wiggly.
28:01
SPEAKER_00: We had to go to the one that was closer to downtown because they had better food too, and the people in there were nicer.
28:07
SPEAKER_00: So I guess that something was up with that one.
28:10
SPEAKER_02: Oh yeah, I don't know.
28:11
SPEAKER_02: It must be they must they they were onto something, I guess, because yeah, it's it's still closed, and and that was a shame because it was so close to our house.
28:18
SPEAKER_02: And uh, but yeah, everyone I talked to were talked about how great that other pigly was and how nice it was and everything.
28:24
SPEAKER_02: So as far as I know, that one that was still up.
28:26
SPEAKER_02: But at one point, uh right after we moved, uh, they closed that one.
28:30
SPEAKER_02: And the only grocery store around was that everybody had to go to was uh Walmart, the one over there by the highway.
28:36
SPEAKER_02: Um, because they didn't actually have a grocery store.
28:38
SPEAKER_02: But I did notice that they opened up the the uh pigley closer to town uh not too long ago.
28:45
SPEAKER_00: Well then you know we can't forget the the country club of Canton, Canton Country Club.
28:49
SPEAKER_00: I mean, they they've got some good burgers in there.
28:52
SPEAKER_00: There used to be a guy that would cook in there, um and he he'd make some good burgers and fries.
28:57
SPEAKER_00: And you could go up to that little window and order.
29:00
SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah.
29:02
SPEAKER_00: And then if you're playing golf there, I want to say it's the ninth hole.
29:07
SPEAKER_00: It's like that long par three, or it's either ninth or eighteenth.
29:12
SPEAKER_00: And if you slice it at all, you're gonna be in the swimming pool.
29:18
SPEAKER_00: And I think I've hit it a couple times over there and it's like bounced around in there where people are like laying out at the pool.
29:27
SPEAKER_00: Any kind of barrier up there.
29:30
SPEAKER_02: Oh yeah.
29:31
SPEAKER_02: What about what about that hole that's right there on highway, what is that?
29:35
SPEAKER_02: Highway 16.
29:36
SPEAKER_02: I've always wondered about that.
29:38
SPEAKER_02: Like if you uh if you slice it, or you're gonna you're gonna hit right into or hit a car on 16.
29:44
SPEAKER_02: I wonder how many cars have been hit right there.
29:45
SPEAKER_02: You know the one I'm talking about?
29:47
unknown: Exactly, yeah.
29:49
SPEAKER_02: You know it's been done.
29:50
SPEAKER_02: Someone someone's hit the ball there and and uh hit a car.
29:55
SPEAKER_02: I've always wondered about that.
29:57
SPEAKER_00: One time we were playing, this wasn't in camp, but this was up here.
30:00
SPEAKER_00: Uh John Pitts, um, he was on this golf course up here, and he hooked it off the T.
30:08
SPEAKER_00: And it it's a busy road, and it was like in slow motion.
30:12
SPEAKER_00: That ball was bouncing.
30:14
SPEAKER_00: I saw it bounce two times, and then this car hit it on the bumper and it shot straight up in the air, and then it landed on the roof of another car.
30:23
SPEAKER_00: And Pitts was so scared after he hit his hand and he got in his golf cart, he started driving away before he even saw anything happen.
30:32
SPEAKER_00: Wow.
30:33
SPEAKER_02: Luckily, nobody ever came after us, but yeah, we had lots of fun stories uh talking about golf courses.
30:41
SPEAKER_02: We'll have to do that one time, especially that number two north bay comes to my my memory quite often.
30:48
SPEAKER_00: We're gonna have to pull up some north bay stories.
30:50
SPEAKER_00: What maybe have to get a couple extra people in here?
30:52
SPEAKER_00: Uh I know King is King has hit a few things in the golf course there.
30:56
SPEAKER_00: Um hit some dogs, and uh another friend of ours hit some squirrels, so there's yeah to talk about with that.
31:05
SPEAKER_02: But oh, yeah, we'll we'll have to do a whole segment on golf courses, won't we?
31:10
SPEAKER_00: Well, is there is there anything else we're missing in Canton?
31:13
SPEAKER_00: I feel like we covered it.
31:14
SPEAKER_00: I mean, we got all the good restaurants, we got Pickley Wiggily, the country club.
31:18
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
31:19
SPEAKER_02: Um I the Christmas time in Canton is always a special, special time.
31:27
SPEAKER_02: If you're enlisted in this and never been to Canton at Christmas, I highly recommend it because they they go all out on the square.
31:33
SPEAKER_02: They have uh obviously the buildings are all lit up at night all the time, but they really go out Christmas though.
31:39
SPEAKER_02: They have uh it's kind of uh I think they have horse rides, carriage rides around the square, and lots of uh Christmas music playing.
31:48
SPEAKER_02: It's a real fan-friendly event.
31:50
SPEAKER_02: Uh so they they really go all out.
31:51
SPEAKER_02: So it's it's a special place.
31:52
SPEAKER_02: I got lots of lots of childhood memories from there, and especially at Christmas.
31:56
SPEAKER_02: I've always spent Christmas with my grandparents in Canton.
31:59
SPEAKER_02: So it's a cool place.
32:07
SPEAKER_00: Well, um I think that about covers it.
32:10
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32:15
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32:22
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32:23
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32:27
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32:29
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32:38
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32:41
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32:49
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32:54
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33:03
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33:10
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33:13
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33:15
SPEAKER_02: Sam Pittman, we'd love to have you.
33:17
SPEAKER_02: We're we'll always keep saying that one of these days.
33:20
SPEAKER_02: Sam Pittman might be a good one.
33:23
SPEAKER_00: All right, Johnny, we'll talk to you soon.
33:25
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