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AGR Anniversary · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Speaker 1: By the way, Lewis, happy anniversary today. Today is the
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  Speaker 1: eighth anniversary of American Ground just flown by, and we
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  Speaker 1: have a question for American mamas. Dear mama's happy anniversary
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  Speaker 1: to American Ground Radio. Well, let's talk to our American mammas, Palma.
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  Speaker 2: And joining us now.
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  Speaker 1: Our American Mama is Terry Netteville and Kimberly Burleson. It
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  Speaker 1: has been eight years for American Ground Radio. Our our
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  Speaker 1: anniversary is Labor Day. That's that's the day we started
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  Speaker 1: on Keel Radio in Shreveport, Louisiana. We're now all across
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  Speaker 1: the country including New York City and New Orleans and
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  Speaker 1: California and Oregon, and we're in Florida and where at Tennessee.
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  Speaker 1: That's Chattanooga. Tennessee. Got lots of stations there and it's
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  Speaker 1: definitely grown. I keep thinking back to when we began
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  Speaker 1: and Lewis and I were offered the show, and we went,
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  Speaker 1: we want a female voice on the show because so
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  Speaker 1: much of talk radio is just guys talking, and that's
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  Speaker 1: only forty eight forty nine percent of the country. We
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  Speaker 1: need women to be talking and be willing to talk
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  Speaker 1: about politics too. And Lewis said, hey, look there's this
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  Speaker 1: author here in Talent. She writes articles all the time.
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  Speaker 1: She's a great writer, she's very smart, she's very friendly.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna love her. And he brings in Terry Netterville
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  Speaker 1: and says, hey, we want you on the show.
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  Speaker 2: And you were like, nah, I think so thanks, but no,
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  Speaker 2: thank you. It was so flattering. I think at the time,
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  Speaker 2: eight years ago, I thought, I don't have anything to offer,
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  Speaker 2: you know how, You just like, there's you know, I
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  Speaker 2: like to write on Facebook. I knew I had a
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  Speaker 2: following on Facebook because I would write things about my family life.
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  Speaker 2: But I thought politics, and you're like, no, just to
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  Speaker 2: the mother.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and you're also writing for magazine, y magazine, And.
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  Speaker 2: So I was flattered. But I thought, no, I don't
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  Speaker 2: want to Not only did I not want to embarrass myself,
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  Speaker 2: but I didn't want to let y'all down. And so
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  Speaker 2: I thought, you know what, how do you not let
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  Speaker 2: someone down? You just don't do it, You just say no.
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  Speaker 1: Now you brought in Denisia.
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  Speaker 2: I did, I've got someone for you.
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  Speaker 1: And so the two of you came in together. You
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  Speaker 1: were introducing her us, and we watched the two of
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  Speaker 1: you talking and we were like, no, no, no, it's
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  Speaker 1: the pair. It's not just Denise, it's not just Terry.
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  Speaker 1: It's the pair.
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  Speaker 2: It worked, and that was yea.
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  Speaker 1: And y'all started off. It was a little slow. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you didn't really want to talk about politics.
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  Speaker 2: You only really slow.
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  Speaker 1: You want to talk about cooking and and maybe.
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  Speaker 2: Husbands and children. And Denise of course, as y'all know,
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  Speaker 2: life of every party hilarious.
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  Speaker 1: So I was always had a friend.
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  Speaker 2: She always did and she made all of these topics
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  Speaker 2: even funnier. She was just so great about it real quick.
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  Speaker 2: And then we slowly evolved into the political realm because
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  Speaker 2: people were asking those questions of us, wanting to know,
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  Speaker 2: what do you think about this? It's nerve wracking because
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  Speaker 2: we have people that were friends with on both sides, liberals,
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  Speaker 2: and we didn't want to turn this group off, but
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  Speaker 2: we also wanted to use our voice and more. Once
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  Speaker 2: you have permission to use your voice and you have
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  Speaker 2: other people going thank you, you just spoke for me,
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  Speaker 2: you feel empowered and think I've got to do this now.
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  Speaker 2: It's not just I want to, I have to. I
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  Speaker 2: have a platform now. So when she passed away, we
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  Speaker 2: lost Denise and devastated us. Yes, I went through this
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  Speaker 2: period of morning without her here. And of course I
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  Speaker 2: have my sisters to Lena when I you know, during
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  Speaker 2: the loss of her and Denise, and I would always
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  Speaker 2: have Kimberly. Kimberly loves politics the way that we did.
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  Speaker 2: So whenever there was something that came up that I
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  Speaker 2: wasn't sure how I felt, I was like, we would
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  Speaker 2: Denise say, call Kimberly, let's see what she says. And
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  Speaker 2: she said, well, this is my take on it. So
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  Speaker 2: when the time came, I was like, you know this,
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  Speaker 2: this makes sense. I'm going to ask Kimberly. And if
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  Speaker 2: you know, my sisters and me, if one of us
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  Speaker 2: signs up for something, we're all in. We all signed up.
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  Speaker 2: You know, what's the date of it? When do I
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  Speaker 2: need to be there? Where decorations I need to bring?
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  Speaker 2: So I asked him. I say, Kimmelin, I know this
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  Speaker 2: is not comfortable. I know you'll have to drive from Texas,
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  Speaker 2: but I need you. And she said, well, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I've never even entertained the idea of it, but if
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  Speaker 2: you need me, I'm there. And I think the reception
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  Speaker 2: that she has received from everybody has been so heartwarming
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  Speaker 2: because they understand that not only is she genuine and
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  Speaker 2: very very intelligent, very much a patriot, but she knows
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  Speaker 2: me better than anybody.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and Kimberly's got a centeredness to where that's that's
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  Speaker 1: very very very calm, important, hopeful.
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  Speaker 3: Well, thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: I know I was terrified coming in.
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  Speaker 3: I was scared to death to let all of you down.
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  Speaker 3: But Denise, I love Denise so much, and she's larger
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  Speaker 3: than life. Her personality is the most amazing, one of
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  Speaker 3: the most amazing people I've ever met in my life.
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  Speaker 3: So I was scared to sit in her seat, but
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  Speaker 3: now I feel so honored to sit in her seat,
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  Speaker 3: and I feel her presence. I fill her with us
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  Speaker 3: and I can't believe I get to do this with
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  Speaker 3: y'all and my one year is my one year anniversary,
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  Speaker 3: and I.
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  Speaker 2: Think she would say, it is now your seat, Yes,
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  Speaker 2: it is now your seat.
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  Speaker 3: I feel very proud to be a part of this
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  Speaker 3: amazing team.
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  Speaker 2: We're so grateful to you and lewis what y'all do.
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  Speaker 2: The bantering that y'all have, We always when we listen
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  Speaker 2: to y'all, it's a.
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  Speaker 3: Lot of work that goes into it and.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of research, a lot of work, and y'all
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  Speaker 2: have y'all have hit something here and in all these
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  Speaker 2: different areas, and when people when I talk to people
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  Speaker 2: about it, they just love you, guys.
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  Speaker 1: I always want the audience to know that we've created
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  Speaker 1: something special for them that day. I never want people
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  Speaker 1: to listen to the show and go, oh, they're just
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  Speaker 1: phoning it in, because nobody has to listen. Nobody has
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  Speaker 1: to listen. We have to create a show that people
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  Speaker 1: want to listen to.
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  Speaker 2: A big part of it wrote a book together, and
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  Speaker 2: there's more.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's more, There's more. Yeah. If you like to
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  Speaker 1: ask our American Mama is a question, go to our
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  Speaker 1: website American ground Radio dot com slash mamas and click
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  Speaker 1: on the ask of the Mama's button. Terry Neutville, Kimberly Burlesson,
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  Speaker 1: thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you,