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Mourning Closings · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Speaker 1: We got a question for American mama's. Dear mamas, do
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  Speaker 1: you have to go through morning when a local store
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  Speaker 1: closes or is that just me?
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's ask our American mamas.
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  Speaker 1: Mama and joining us now our American mama's Turnetville and
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  Speaker 1: Kimberly Burlison. You know, there have been a lot of retail,
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  Speaker 1: especially bankruptcies over the last couple of years. I think
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  Speaker 1: Big Lots has been going through some of this. You've
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  Speaker 1: seen this with you know, some other stores. But it's
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  Speaker 1: not just the big stores. It's also mom and pop
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  Speaker 1: shops that have been put under pressure. Especially after the
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  Speaker 1: COVID lockdowns, there was just a massive number of bankruptcies
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  Speaker 1: for locally run businesses. When you see that there's a
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  Speaker 1: business you've been going to, a business you've you've enjoyed
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  Speaker 1: going to, do you ever go through a morning process
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  Speaker 1: of I can't believe they're shutting down?
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  Speaker 3: I absolutely do. I get so attached to places for
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  Speaker 3: some reason really passed the past. Y'all know Spaghetti Warehouse
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  Speaker 3: yeh yeah, Okay, so we used to go to spaghetti
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  Speaker 3: for decades.
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  Speaker 2: We went to Daddy weear loved it in our lovedon.
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  Speaker 3: And kids eight free on Wednesdays, you know, so we
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  Speaker 3: went during that. They died during COVID, that's what happened
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  Speaker 3: to them. But we passed it the other day and
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  Speaker 3: my youngest daughter, Shane, she's like, oh, I missed that place.
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  Speaker 3: And then we started talking about memories there. Do you
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  Speaker 3: remember we had Granddaddy's birthday and the caboose and you
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  Speaker 3: know that whole thing, right, And I thought, I love,
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  Speaker 3: lookal what did dad used to say when we were
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  Speaker 3: kids when we passed a business that went out of business, Oh,
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  Speaker 3: like it was dilapidated.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, he'd say. We would say that was somebody's dream,
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  Speaker 2: because that's what he taught us. And he would even
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  Speaker 2: go further and say, just picture, you know, eighty years ago,
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  Speaker 2: fifty sixty, seventy, eighty years ago, they were cutting a
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  Speaker 2: ribbon and he thought he was opening up a hardware
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  Speaker 2: store and he was thinking, my gosh, my my children,
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  Speaker 2: their children and their children's children will be able to
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  Speaker 2: take this over, and here it is dilapidated. So you
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  Speaker 2: kind of got in your head you're making these stories up.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why I think when the fire, when California
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  Speaker 2: had that big fire recently and you had this lady
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  Speaker 2: on there and she was talking and she said, you
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  Speaker 2: know that that used to be my neighbor that would
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  Speaker 2: come out and and you know, open the window while
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  Speaker 2: he played the piano in the morning.
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  Speaker 3: The memory.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then she said that schools where my children.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we don't have the school, we don't have
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  Speaker 2: our neighbors, we don't have the corner store. And my
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  Speaker 2: first thought was all their memories. I know, like, you
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  Speaker 2: know how we can walk into an old elementary school
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  Speaker 2: that we went to and it's still same malls, the same.
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  Speaker 3: Speak about streetports. So Herbie Case when yeah, we grew
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  Speaker 3: up My parents were best friends with the owners, and
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  Speaker 3: we grew up going to Herbie Case and we knew
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  Speaker 3: their stories. We legendary, legendary. You had the guy that
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  Speaker 3: worked there. He always had a cold coke waiting for
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  Speaker 3: us when we walked in and the only day he
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  Speaker 3: ever missed of work was the day is Dad his funeral?
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  Speaker 3: Oh you know, so we knew these stories. And I
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  Speaker 3: think about in Channing Gardens here, Yeah, I love Dad dead.
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  Speaker 3: It's like these people are attached. They're not just some owners.
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  Speaker 3: There are friends. They're the people that we support and
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  Speaker 3: there's attachment to knowing the people that are running it,
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  Speaker 3: supporting their dream. And I feel like we need to
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  Speaker 3: be more about that because these big chains, these big
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  Speaker 3: box they don't care. They don't care. It's all about
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  Speaker 3: the bottom line. But these small places, we've got to
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  Speaker 3: keep them in business well.
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  Speaker 2: And that is one of the things that was so
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  Speaker 2: terrible and tragic during COVID is the government allowed Walmart
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  Speaker 2: home depot like the big box, yes, all these yes,
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  Speaker 2: and yet they closed down the mom and pop shops.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of them went out of business. It was
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  Speaker 2: so unfair and some of them, a lot of them
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  Speaker 2: weren't able able to recover and come back from it.
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  Speaker 2: So it's so important now. I love in Channa. I
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  Speaker 2: love to go to places in towns, any town. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: when I know it's locally owned, there's something special about it.
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  Speaker 2: They have taken the time. Just think about it when
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  Speaker 2: when you've been here as long as I've been here
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  Speaker 2: and report you know each other's like if I go
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  Speaker 2: and let's say in Channon Garden again, dev Cockrell and
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  Speaker 2: her brother Dennis, he makes all of the Marty grawl masks.
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  Speaker 2: She goes to market. She's been doing this for fifty years,
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  Speaker 2: and so she knows everybody. When I come in, she's like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, if my boys had a good game or summer,
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  Speaker 2: you know, she saw pictures of summer get married. She'll say,
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  Speaker 2: you know, oh I saw you know, I saw the
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  Speaker 2: game that was a great win, or Summer's wedding look beautiful.
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  Speaker 3: That you start community, get in this community.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: Working in news, I moved around a little bit from
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  Speaker 1: from market to market, and one of things I quickly
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  Speaker 1: picked up on was you could tell how long someone
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  Speaker 1: had lived there based on the way they gave directions. Ah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: So if you're like, hey, I need to get to
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  Speaker 1: this place, you know where I'm going? And they go,
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  Speaker 1: all right, yeah, you head on down where the dairy
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  Speaker 1: queen used to be, right, And I'm like, man, how
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  Speaker 1: would I know where it you? I mean, if you
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  Speaker 1: say where the pizza hut used to be, I could
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  Speaker 1: probably figure that out because they all a lord the shape,
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  Speaker 1: the set right. But you know, other than that telling
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  Speaker 1: me where something used to be, that doesn't always tell
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  Speaker 1: me the direction, but it does tell me something about
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  Speaker 1: you and about how long you've been in this place.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there's something else too, about I remember when
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  Speaker 2: I was away from Streetport for you know, twenty years,
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  Speaker 2: thirty years almost, and I remember going back to First
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  Speaker 2: Methodist Church downtown, that's where we grew up. And I
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  Speaker 2: walked in and it was like I went back in time.
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  Speaker 2: A smell was the same that all the stained glass windows,
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  Speaker 2: and I was just looking around because it was like
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  Speaker 2: all my childhood came flooding back to the bus. And
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  Speaker 2: then I saw the music director that was there when
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  Speaker 2: I was a little girl, was walking down the hall
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  Speaker 2: will Andres and I was like, mister Andrews like it.
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  Speaker 2: There's something so special about that, if you like deskar American.
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  Speaker 1: One was a question good our website America got ready
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  Speaker 1: to dot com, says Mama's and click on the ass
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  Speaker 1: of the mama's button turned out of Kimberly Brothers and
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  Speaker 1: thank you so much, thank you,