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Theo and Sen. John Kennedy Talk Louisiana(M4A_128K) · Drawn of History

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  Speaker 1: You live in Madisonville? Yeah. Nice.
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  Speaker 2: Near Mandeville.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I live right on the line between Madisonville and Mandeville.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, it's grown a lot since you grew up there.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. I go back a good bit.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know. I mean, it's just you can't really
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  Speaker 2: tell the difference now between Mandeville, Madisonville, and Covington. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, my stepdad goes over there to a coffee house
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  Speaker 1: over there by friends right there on the lake.
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  Speaker 2: I know what you're talking about.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's in an old house.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Beautiful Creole cottage.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, something like that.
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  Speaker 2: I can't think of that. I've had meetings there before.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's nice, man. I used to live right over
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  Speaker 1: a buddy of mine. His family let me live in
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  Speaker 1: their basement over there, which living in a basement in Louisiana,
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  Speaker 1: it's dangerous.
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  Speaker 2: It can flood.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it can flood.
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  Speaker 2: And you can find varmints in there.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, definitely, man.
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 1: Your hair's clean in the morning. I know that. Something
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  Speaker 1: will run up and eat everything out of it.
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  Speaker 2: And snakes will crawl in there with you. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: My wife called me and got me out of it.
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  Speaker 1: Let's don't go from snakes to your wife, John.
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  Speaker 2: You're right about that. But she called me the other day.
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  Speaker 2: I was in the middle of a hearing, and she
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  Speaker 2: was hysterical. And she showed me a picture. There was
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  Speaker 2: this six-foot rat snake on my deck. And I said,
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  Speaker 2: just leave him alone. You want him. You know, don't
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  Speaker 2: hurt him. See, I'm going to call the neighbor and
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  Speaker 2: they'll kill him. I said, don't do that. He's a
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  Speaker 2: rat snake. Even if you could pick him up, he
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  Speaker 2: might bite you, but it won't hurt.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, if you're a rat.
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  Speaker 2: If you're a rat, he'll eat you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you got a problem, man.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he will eat you and spit out the bones.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, they always got something over there. I used to
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  Speaker 1: work over at Friends on the Lake. You know where
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  Speaker 1: that is?
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  Speaker 2: I know Friends well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So before they remodeled, it was just one story right down.
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  Speaker 2: It's highfalutin now.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, it's, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's high end now.
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  Speaker 1: It's fancy.
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  Speaker 2: But I liked it the old way. There was another
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  Speaker 2: place called Coffee's Boiling Pot.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: They've under new ownership, and it's gotten a little more expensive.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But it's just grown so much.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. And Baddows. I used to go to Baddows,
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  Speaker 1: get me a little burger.
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  Speaker 2: Baddows is still there.
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  Speaker 1: Get me a chocolate malt over there.
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  Speaker 2: You got it?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, so much sugar on my face, I couldn't blink
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  Speaker 1: my damn eyes for an hour. But it was worth it, man.
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  Speaker 1: But I worked at Friends, and I will tell you this.
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  Speaker 2: You were a waiter?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, no, I was a busboy forever. Were you? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I was never promoted. That was my, yeah. And then
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  Speaker 1: I got to a point where I was like, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not being a waiter even if y'all want me to.
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  Speaker 1: You know, that was some of my energy. But it
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  Speaker 1: was a good time over there. And when they would
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  Speaker 1: cook duck, when the chef would cook duck, every now
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  Speaker 1: and then they had duck on the menu. And back
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  Speaker 1: in the busboy section where the ice machine was, they
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  Speaker 1: had these– They had some missing baseboards down there, and
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  Speaker 1: these raccoons would come out of the wall. So one
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  Speaker 1: of the busboys would have to sit back there with
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  Speaker 1: a broomstick and just beat them back in it, literally
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  Speaker 1: just beat them back into the wall where they were
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  Speaker 1: cooking duck. Listen, we had— Raccoons love duck.
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  Speaker 2: We had an outdoor cat for a while. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But I would bring cat food out there. And it
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  Speaker 2: was always gone so quick. And finally, when I went
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  Speaker 2: out there one night and just kind of eat it,
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  Speaker 2: A raccoon was coming out of the woods, just snarfing
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  Speaker 2: that stuff up.
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  Speaker 1: Just pretending to be a cat.
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  Speaker 2: We've got raccoons. I back up to woods. We've got raccoons, deer.
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  Speaker 2: I went out one night to take out the garbage,
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  Speaker 2: opened up the top, a possum.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they act like it's theirs.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Now, raccoons, they're kind of cute. Possums, uh-uh. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Those things scare me.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see a cross. We'll have a cat coon every
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  Speaker 1: now and then. You'll see a couple of them start
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  Speaker 1: cross-pollinating out there. If the humidity gets high enough, you'll
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  Speaker 1: see some of them animals start mixing species.
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  Speaker 2: As you well know, we've got everything.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We've got alligators. We've got more alligators than we've got
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  Speaker 2: people now.
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  Speaker 1: Is that true?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You're lying.
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm not. It's just 25 years ago, they were
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  Speaker 2: getting it.
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  Speaker 1: And watch the Democrats try to get them to.
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  Speaker 2: Register to vote. Yep. It wouldn't surprise me.
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  Speaker 1: Wouldn't surprise me. Sorry to interrupt you, but I was
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  Speaker 1: going to forget that joke if I didn't say it. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: Louisiana has more alligators than people. Dear God. Get the
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  Speaker 1: kids away from the river.
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  Speaker 2: But tourists love them because they will. These boat tour
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  Speaker 2: guides go out and they feed them. And so when
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  Speaker 2: they see the boat, they come immediately. And the tourists
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  Speaker 2: just eat it up. They think they're tame. They're not.
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  Speaker 1: It's perversion to me, brother. I don't mess with the devil,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't mess with his pets. That's one way.
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  Speaker 1: That's how I operate. I don't mess with those types
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  Speaker 1: of things. That's for sure. But, yeah, it's nice for you.
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  Speaker 1: It's nice for you to be here. Nice to just
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  Speaker 1: have a taste of home in the building, man.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what else I grew up on is
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  Speaker 2: Vienna sausage, man.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, God, brother.
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  Speaker 2: Vienna sausage.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, makes my neck hurt.
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  Speaker 2: I'd go fishing, take Vienna sausage.
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  Speaker 1: One for the fish, one for you, huh?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. In fact, if you run out of worms or
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  Speaker 2: crickets— If you can get the Vienna sausage, stay on
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  Speaker 2: the hook. I've caught many a bram and a catfish
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  Speaker 2: with Vienna sausage.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you can catch a girl in Avondale with a
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  Speaker 1: couple of them too. I know that, Jeff.
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  Speaker 2: That never worked for me, man. That never worked for me.
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  Speaker 1: That was a good reference though, wasn't it?
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  Speaker 2: That was damn good.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: That was good. I can tell you're a Louisiana boy.
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  Speaker 1: You know what? I think– You know, Louisiana has had
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  Speaker 1: a tough time, and you know this. Louisiana has had
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  Speaker 1: a tough time over the years with a lot of
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  Speaker 1: economic growth, right? We've struggled some. We've had a tough
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  Speaker 1: time with a lot of job stability and job growth, right?
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  Speaker 2: We were very long in gas dependence.
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  Speaker 1: Right. We are, 100%, right? And some of that's adjusted
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  Speaker 1: over the years, right, for sure?
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  Speaker 2: Or less so, but it's still important.
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  Speaker 1: But one thing that we do have is we have
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  Speaker 1: good people, we have resilient people, and we have good storytelling.
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  Speaker 1: And some people say, well, there's not a lot of
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  Speaker 1: financial incentive in that, and that's fine. But there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of pride in that, though.
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  Speaker 2: Look, I've lived in five states and a foreign country,
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  Speaker 2: and I've never met people like the people in Louisiana. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You know. They're God-fearing. They're hardworking. They're fun-loving. They're authentic.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And I tell my Senator Cruz a lot. He's from Texas.
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  Speaker 2: I tell him, he'll start talking about Texas, and I'll say, Cruz, look,
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  Speaker 2: Texas is a great state. You get all this wonderful publicity.
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  Speaker 2: God bless you. You deserve it. I love Texas. But
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  Speaker 2: Texas is five and a half times bigger than Louisiana,
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  Speaker 2: but we're 10 and a half times more interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Than you are.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, let's go. Louisiana is an interesting state.
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  Speaker 1: I read somewhere that 100%.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting people.
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  Speaker 1: The best, man. The best storytellers ever.
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  Speaker 2: We're good at oil and gas and petrochemical and education
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  Speaker 2: and agriculture and aquaculture.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, we'll even eat fish that have been in a
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  Speaker 1: damn oil spill.
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  Speaker 2: We'll eat anything that won't eat us first. We eat
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  Speaker 2: things that most people would call an exterminator far to
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  Speaker 2: get out of their backyard.
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  Speaker 1: Just bring your fork, baby. That's it.
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  Speaker 2: But it's home, and I love it. It's never dull.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's not. I read somewhere that it's the most
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  Speaker 1: native state where people that are born there die there.
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  Speaker 1: Did you ever hear that?
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  Speaker 2: That's true. We have... We have, I forget the percentage,
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  Speaker 2: but we have a lot of people that are born
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  Speaker 2: in Louisiana and they never leave.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. That's pretty special about something. Yeah. You know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying? Because that's interesting. It's so good right there.
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  Speaker 1: Some people don't even get out their chair.
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  Speaker 2: People in Louisiana, they have fun. Yeah. And they enjoy life. Now,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't mean they don't work hard, but we became
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  Speaker 2: very dependent on oil and gas. And when... A lot
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  Speaker 2: of that changed. Most of it, of course, has moved offshore.
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  Speaker 2: But when you're dependent on a natural resource, oil and gas, coal,
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  Speaker 2: iron ore, whatever, commodities, you have boom and bust cycles.
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  Speaker 2: And when times are good, they're really good, man. But
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  Speaker 2: when times are bad, they're tough. Now, Louisiana is much
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  Speaker 2: more diversified today. And so things are better. Yeah. But
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  Speaker 2: we're still, you know, if you want a good time,
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  Speaker 2: if you want to get good food. A guy told
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  Speaker 2: me a joke the other day. He said, Kennedy, what's
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  Speaker 2: the difference between a zoo in Louisiana and a zoo
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  Speaker 2: in every other state?
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  Speaker 1: I said, what?
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  Speaker 2: He said, if you go to the zoo in every
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  Speaker 2: other state, each animal has its cage. And at the
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  Speaker 2: bottom is the name of the animal. He said, if
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  Speaker 2: you go to a zoo in Louisiana, each animal has
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  Speaker 2: its cage, and at the bottom is the name, and
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  Speaker 2: underneath the name is the recipe. I love that.
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  Speaker 1: Dude, that's perfect, man. That's so true, man. Yeah, Louisiana
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  Speaker 1: consistently ranks as the state with the highest percentage of
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  Speaker 1: native-born residents who never leave. Amen. According to U.S. Census
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  Speaker 1: Bureau data, slightly more than 77% of Louisiana's residents were
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  Speaker 1: born in the state. Because the population is so sticky
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  Speaker 1: and transplants are rare, this larger... Largely translates to most
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  Speaker 1: of its people being born there and spending their entire lives.
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  Speaker 2: That's where you got your start.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, spending their entire lives right there.
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  Speaker 2: Then you went to L.A. and you got famous, and
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  Speaker 2: then you came to NASA. But you got your start.
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  Speaker 2: I've been reading about you.
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  Speaker 1: On the Chifonto over there.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: You know how the Chifonto got its name?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: This is modern.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, finally. I didn't know that.
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  Speaker 1: I got one for you then, John. The Chifuncta got
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  Speaker 1: its name because a long time ago, they had like
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  Speaker 1: a Native American tribe, and they went there, and they
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  Speaker 1: threw a big rock into the water, and the sound
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  Speaker 1: it made was chifunct.
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  Speaker 2: Really?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You serious?
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  Speaker 1: Chifunct. And it's kind of how a rock, when you chifunct.
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of how it goes in. So, yeah, that's it.
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  Speaker 2: I go fishing on Litchfunk. Oh, yeah, dude. But that's
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  Speaker 2: where you got your start.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Where'd you go? UNO? You went to LSU for a while.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I went to LSU for a while. I graduated
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  Speaker 1: from UNO. How do you think Lane's going to do
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  Speaker 1: over there at LSU? Let's put it out there. What
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  Speaker 1: do you think's going to happen? And I wore my
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  Speaker 1: raging cages today. I wore this for you today.
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  Speaker 2: I see that. Lane is, how can I put this?
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  Speaker 2: He's a brilliant strategist. He's a good strategist. He's brilliant.
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  Speaker 2: He knows how to recruit. He's got a great football mind.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes he talks too much, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Look, Lane, look.
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  Speaker 2: He'll say it, man.
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  Speaker 1: One of Lane's fans is Lane.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Lane's one of the. smartest people on the planet, just
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  Speaker 2: ask Lane, and he'll tell you. But he's– I think
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  Speaker 2: he's going to be a good coach. But I'll tell
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  Speaker 2: you this.
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  Speaker 1: Love you, coach. Love you, coach.
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  Speaker 2: We paid him a lot of money. Now he's got
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  Speaker 2: to go win.
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  Speaker 1: Now that's a good point, bro.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not saying he wasn't worth it, but– He's making
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  Speaker 2: a boatload of money, a bucket full of money.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, he's making like 4% of our GDP.
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  Speaker 2: He's making like 4% of our GDP. He's got to
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  Speaker 2: win now. He's just got to win. But he did
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  Speaker 2: a great job at Ole Miss. Oh, yeah, he did.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I thought Nick Saban, this is probably here
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  Speaker 2: in Louisiana, I thought Nick Saban was a great coach.
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  Speaker 2: I hated to lose him when he was at LSU.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, I think everybody thought that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, a lot of people got mad at him.
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  Speaker 2: from leaving. He went to the Dolphins, I think. And
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  Speaker 2: then he went to Alabama. And a lot of my
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  Speaker 2: people in Louisiana, our people, got mad at him. And
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  Speaker 2: I kept my mouth shut, but I'd say, look, because
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  Speaker 2: he went to Alabama, I said, at the time, Alabama
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  Speaker 2: offered him like $ 5 million or something. I said, you're
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  Speaker 2: telling me that you would have turned down $ 5 million? Oh, shit.
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  Speaker 2: Just so the people of Louisiana wouldn't get mad at you?
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  Speaker 1: We were still trying to pay him in beignets, I think.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. But he liked, I think he liked Louisiana.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh, yeah. Look, I know that he's happy there.
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  Speaker 1: He's having a good time, man. Look, Lane loves to
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  Speaker 1: have a good time. I'm hopeful for him for sure.
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  Speaker 1: And this is where he's at in his journey. So
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  Speaker 1: it's like you've got to hope the best for somebody.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, but he's into hot yoga. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I've been to a class with him.
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  Speaker 2: Have you?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I went to a class with him.
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  Speaker 2: What's hot yoga like?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it depends on who all is in there. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to go there, Theo. I've got to
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  Speaker 2: run for re-election.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't think your wife would be happy if
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  Speaker 1: she went there. But look, I went there right there.
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  Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin right there. Hot yoga right there.
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  Speaker 2: There you go.
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  Speaker 1: And I wear a towel like that because I was
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  Speaker 1: raised by a single mother. You see that?
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  Speaker 2: Look at you guys.
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  Speaker 1: We was leaking in there, cut.
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  Speaker 2: Now, yoga's good for you.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, man. It's really good.
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  Speaker 2: It'll give you good workout.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, definitely, man. Make me feel like a 94-year-old.