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You're on news radio eight forty w h S in
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the studio with the actors Linda Pearl, Hello, and Patrick Duffy.
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It's okay to say actors, still right are you do?
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You're still working a little bit and everything something comes up.
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Now, I never used the R word an act No.
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No, It's always.
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There because and the only thing that changes is the
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level of work that you do and the age range
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of the character you play.
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Yeah, when did you Patrick, when did you feel like
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they were asking you to be more of a mature.
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Man when I was no longer asked to take my
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shirt off?
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Yeah?
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I knew then the writing was on the wall. I said, okay.
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And Linda, when let's see you're you're the mom on
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the You're let's see what on the office?
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Mom on the office? And Mattlock's daughter on Mattlock and
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then finds his fiance. But when I was first on
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Happy Days, I was Ron Howard's girlfriend and then later
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became Mattlock's daughter. So then we sort of wondered, does
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that mean that I was dating my brother or I
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don't know. It is very incestuous.
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And at what point did someone call you ma'am in
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the script and you're like, wait a minute, what happened.
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Well, there was actually a thing on the office where
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Michael Scott decides that I'm too old to date him.
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And I got the script and at the time, I
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was maybe fifty three, I guess, and I have to
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say that I'm fifty five, and I was having conniptions,
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like a panic attack. Wait a minute, am I that old?
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And somebody must have sort of intuited that I and
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they changed the line to my actual age and I
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felt much better. But I was still too old for
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Michael Scott. So that was that.
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Well, everybody was too old for Michael Scott.
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This is true.
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It's a troublemaker.
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Although I have to say, just to distinguish between Michael
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and Steve Carrel, Steve Carrell is a prince of a
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human being. He really is wonderful, wonderful man.
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It's so fun that you guys are such a huge
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part of American culture and that people will see you
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and they want to have a conversation. How doesn't get tired?
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I know, Penn gives you and you love. I saw
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you at the Derby twenty years ago and twenty five
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years ago, and you were so kind to so many people.
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Well, it's everybody's first time. That's what you have to remember.
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Every time somebody comes up to you, it's the first
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time for them. It doesn't matter how many times you've
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been asked who shot Jr? Or any of those questions.
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It's their first time. And once you realize that, it's
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a gift to them. And what's better than giving somebody
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something that they'll have a legacy that they'll keep forever.
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And it didn't cost you anything. It costs you, you know,
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thirty seconds of your time and a smile, and that's
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just what better way to live your life. It's when
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they stop asking, that's right, And then I start whistling
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my theme song.
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When you got the pitch for Dallas? When did you
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and the castmates sort of get a feeling this may work.
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When they shot Larry, when they shot Hagman and the
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world stopped true then we all thought, oh my god.
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And there was always a sense between all of us
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and the original seven members of the cast, and we
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were just so thankful that he not only was shot,
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but he held out on his contract. He wanted to renegotiate,
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and everybody thought he was in Europe and he wasn't.
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He was in the Caribbean, and he and I were
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on the phone a lot, and he would say how
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they do And I said, they're not going to replace Chapelle,
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They just keep going. And he renegotiated everything. You know,
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the high tide floats, all the boats we all know
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beneited from it, benefited from it. And then we were
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able to be one of those rare actors who, for
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thirteen years, knew exactly where our next job was. We
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were coming back to work in the same studio, the
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same parking place, the same group of friends for thirteen years.
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It's unheard of. It doesn't happen anymore now. There's just
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too many venues of where to be seen. But that
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was when we knew that it was because they shot Hagman,
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biggest mistake CBS ever made.
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Well, I mean that you're right. The world was mesmerized
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by the whole thing. Yeah, we had a DJ on
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this station, Gary Burbank, who did the song who shot Jr.
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And that was a big hit.
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Oh yeah, you could do anything if you had a
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T shirt. You know Pearl Beer in Texas. I don't
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know if you know Pearl Beer in Texas. They made
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a who Shot Jr. Run of Pearl beer with a
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bullet hole through the can, you know, Oh my god.
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And they sold hundreds of thousands of cases of this beer,
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and Hagman bought about ten thousand cases himself, you know,
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and he wouldn't give it away, but he'd sell it
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and he made more money.
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We met a gentleman in Dublin, an irishman who had
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written a song who Shot gr And still, I mean.
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He's asked to sing it all the time. It's his career.
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We got to shake the hand of the man even
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and that's.
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You know, that's twenty five plus years since the show
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went off the air, you know, more than that.
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Right, What was the pitch to sell you on the
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shower scene?
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Do you want to come back? And I said, yeah,
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that was the pitch.
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Well was the money better?
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Oh they backed up the truck. Oh yeah, No, the
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money was really better. And it was not only just
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the money. The show was a really terrific group of
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actors in a show. And I left the show to
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try and get my own show. It didn't work out
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that way, but when I came back, it was really
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Hagman and myself you know, as the Warring Brothers. And
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it accomplished what I wanted to accomplish when I left,
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but in a completely different way. So I had the
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best five years in addition to the first eight that
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an actor and asked for. Plus, Larry Hagman was my
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best friend from the day I met him. We shook hands.
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I went home. I told my wife, I said, I
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think I met my best friend today. And we were
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best friends. Linda and I, Linda Gray and I were
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in the hospital with him the day he died. Best friends.
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He was such a character. I mean he was at
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the Kentucky Derby with Texas Rangers guarding hill.
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Oh yeah, oh my god, oh yeah yeah. Even if
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he didn't need them, he.
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Would hire them.
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Oh god.
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It was hilarious.
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It was all presentation.
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You know. That's so good. Well, I'm glad that you
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have great feelings about the work that both of you
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have done. Oh yeah, because that's what matters is that
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you didn't feel like you were shunned and that you
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know you stuck with people, you're part of their lives.
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Well, there's that, and also the lifelong friendships. We thought
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when we were speaking for myself anyway, bouncing around those sets.
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It was just going to work with some really nice people.
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But there are fifty year plus friendships that sustain to
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this day. And that's the gold thread we were weaving
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and didn't know it.
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How did you two find each other?
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We met just passing in the halls. We did a
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reading together in nineteen eighty. We passed each other in
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the halls in a theater in London. Twenty years later
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and I can't quite do the math anyway, it was
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like so ten twenty year intervals. And then we were
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at a convention about seven years ago in Los Angeles.
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Somebody mentioned that Linda Gray was across the hall. I'd
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done a movie with her, adored her. So I scampered
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across the hall to see Linda as she had gone
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to the powder room, but standing there at the desk
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was Patrick's. It was like, Hi, nice to see you.
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We shared a mutual friend and Richard Thomas and I
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was in touch with and Patrick said, well, here's my number.
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I've lost touch with Richard. Get us back in touch.
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The three of us then started texting. I was living
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in New York, Richard was too, Patrick was living in Oregon.
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We started to text and thought, oh, it'd be fun
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to maybe have a drink together and Happy Christmas and whatnot.
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Then COVID, so I repaired to my house in Colorado.
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Patrick stayed in isolation in Oregon, and there was nothing
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else to do. So for about three months, two to
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three hours a night, we started to zoom and got
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to know each other. And that was really the downbeat
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of knowing each other. We were acquaintances, vague acquaintances up
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until then.
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Yeah, so we got to take care of all of
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the things that you would normally date forever, to learn
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about each other without ever having you go, oh, jeez,
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do I walk her to the door? Do I kiss her?
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Am I going to be invited up? Or none of that.
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We would just and then one night, one night, we
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were signing off, and we'd been doing this for a
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couple of months, and it was an hour difference, and
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she'd get tired a little sooner, and we'd say, okay,
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it's time to go see you tomorrow seven o'clock, right, okay, goodnight,
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good night, And I said good night, I love you,
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and I hung up and I went oh, no, oh,
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no oh. And I didn't know whether I cemented the
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deal or blew it up, and so it was a
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sort of a tenuous moment the next couple of days.
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But then shortly thereafter we realized we have to figure
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this out, and I jumped in my car and I
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drove twenty three straight hours, ended up in her driveway,
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and we have been together ever since, never been apart.
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I love the way each of you looks at the
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other one when you're telling the story. Yeah, that's nice. Well,
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and is producing something really pretty fabulous too. Now I
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read about duff Duffy's dough bread, which is a sour dough.
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Tell me more soward dough.
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Well, I'll give the brief intro, and Linda really is
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truly the brains behind the actual business of Duffy's Dough.
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But my mother was gifted a sour dough starter. For
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those of you out there who know what a starter is,
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and they're very snooty, So where your starter comes from,
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and how old it is and the provenance is very important.
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Was gifted this in Alaska when she took my father
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and her took my sister and myself up to Alaska
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in nineteen fifty two. I was three years old. Do
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the math, and then we lived on that. Literally, the
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Duffy family lived on sour dough bread and sour dough pancakes.
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And my sister then got the starter from my mother.
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I got the starter from my sister. When Linda and
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I got together, I was baking, and so I would
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bake cinnamon rolls and pancakes and tarts and everything. And
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one day we thought, well, maybe this could be a
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business of some sort. And then Linda's the one who
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really thought, yes, it can, and she then ran with
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it and developed Duffy Still and we always had the
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idea of this legacy portion of our life of giving
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away all the profits. So we give away one hundred
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percent of the profits of the business fantastic too, and
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then Linda then orchestrated the entire rest of them.
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We had no idea what we were doing. It was
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like business business, what's that? But we were just stupid
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enough to jump in. So we started in our garage
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and talked to some smarty pants business friends and they said,
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all right, we'll just make an all in one kit
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and start a website and just sell it through the
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website basically to your friends. Launch two hundred kits, launch
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it in the summer. If they're sold by Christmas, great,
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and if they're not, you've got Christmas presents. So we
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followed instructions. We made our little starter kits and we
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called you know, we had some friends over. We set
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up the factory tables in the living room, cranked up
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the rock and and with some friends we packed this
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and we launched on a summer day. People magazine picked
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us up. Slow News Day went viral and before noon
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we'd sold two hundred, which was a thrilling and absolutely
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terrifying moment because now what then we had to keep going,
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So we did, but we were on the road affair
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amount of the time, and it was labor intensive because
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it just was we were doing the work, make the
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pack thing that, you know, take it down to the
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post office and uh anyway, but grateful for it because
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we then, because it was just Patrick and me doing it,
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we learned it from the ground up. But we knew
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that we needed to if we really wanted to make
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a difference, and we do, we needed to find a
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responsible partner. So we went online who distributes food. We
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saw that basically six countries companies rather in America distribute food.
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rather do that someone who can make our bread and
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then put it on their own shell. And one of
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those three companies had a huge and serious charitable arm,
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and that was Kroger. So then we just got somehow
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sprinkled with fairy dust. We were introduced to an executive
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at Kroger. We had a terrifying zoom. He said, well,
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what are you kids up to? And we told him
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and he told him talking to a multi billion dollar
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corporation saying what we're doing in our garage and all
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twelve people we had sold to her, I guess a
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little over two hundred at that point. But they said,
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all right, well come to Ohio and we did. We
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went to Cincinnati, knees knocking, and we thought we would
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have a thirty minute pitch and get thrown out of
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the room. And four hours later we walked out of
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that room with a handshake deal. And they said to us,
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the gentleman running the meetings said, we're from the Midwest
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and our word is good, and so it has been.
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Isn't that refreshing?
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Amazing es in our business?
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That's right now? The business we've all dealt with where
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contracts and all kinds of things. Right says, We'll shake
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your hand and it's good.
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And it was.
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So we gave them patrick Starter and our recipes. They perfected.
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It made it a way to be consistent. Married us
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to a wonderful bakery in Maryland, and we have five
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varieties of taking bake sourdough bread and the starter, the
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actual starter is under lock and key at the bakery
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in Maryland, so every bite of sourdough that's sold is
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actually from Patrick's starter. And Kroger, as you probably know,
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has a zero waste, zero hunger policy. And as we've
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rolled out now in Ohio, Texas, Southern California, Tennessee, Kentucky
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with some states to follow. But as we go to
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these communities, we see how integrated their zero waste, zero
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hunger program is to each community. When food hits its
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expiration date, it moves right to the back, the trucks
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come up the food pantries. And then also besides visiting
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the stores and the division heads, we get to go
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out to some of these pantries and we meet the people,
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the army of selfless workers soldiers who are making these meals.
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From three am four am, they make three thousand meals
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a day they feed, you know, anywhere between one thousand
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and fifteen hundred people a day. I mean, it's humbling.
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It's a world I really knew nothing about the level
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of hunger in America is astonishing. Basically, one in seven
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adult goes hungry, one in five child goes hungry, and
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forty billion pounds of food ends up in landfill. And
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Kroger is really serious about making a difference. So our
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product helps that all of our profits go to food scarcity.
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That's our dedicated support place that we want to give
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be giving to right now. But we're moved every city
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we go to. It's just it's a humbling experience. We're grateful,
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But Kroger's out there business people, so we absolutely understand
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that the only way they're going to keep us going
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is if our sales stays strong. So we are at
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the mercy of people getting to the Star and trying
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our bread, if they like it, buying it again.
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Duffy's dough, And I guess it's a taking baked product.
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Taking baked product, you can you can pretend you made
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it yourself from scratch. It's because you stick it in
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the oven. It smells fresh baked. You can, you know,
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serve it to your family and your friends, and if
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you like it, keep coming back, because every time you do,
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we're able to drop a penny on the pot.
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We all know the story of the loaves and fishes.
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You've got the loaves covered well lovely.
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Thank you, Thank you for saying it's very nicely.
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Keep this going and the word will keep spreading and
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you'll show up on our radio stations all across America.
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Because of you and people like you.
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Linda Patrick. Great chatting with you. Send people to Kroger
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all through the area, and people can meet you tomorrow
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at the Kroger store.
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In Lmont from one to three.
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In Lexington, Kentucky tomorrow afternoon. Great to talk to you guys.
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Thanks for spending a little time with us. Thank you,
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Thanks for feeding people.
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Oh thank you.
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That's the beautiful legacy, best chapter ever and it's going
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to go on a long, long, long, long time, long time.
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We're back in a few on news radio eight forty
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You're on news radio eight forty w h S in
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the studio with the actors Linda Pearl, Hello, and Patrick Duffy.
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It's okay to say actors, still right are you do?
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You're still working a little bit and everything something comes up.
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Now, I never used the R word an act No.
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No, It's always.
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There because and the only thing that changes is the
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level of work that you do and the age range
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of the character you play.
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Yeah, when did you Patrick, when did you feel like
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they were asking you to be more of a mature.
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Man when I was no longer asked to take my
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shirt off?
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Yeah?
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I knew then the writing was on the wall. I said, okay.
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And Linda, when let's see you're you're the mom on
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the You're let's see what on the office?
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Mom on the office? And Mattlock's daughter on Mattlock and
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then finds his fiance. But when I was first on
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Happy Days, I was Ron Howard's girlfriend and then later
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became Mattlock's daughter. So then we sort of wondered, does
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that mean that I was dating my brother or I
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don't know. It is very incestuous.
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And at what point did someone call you ma'am in
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the script and you're like, wait a minute, what happened.
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Well, there was actually a thing on the office where
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Michael Scott decides that I'm too old to date him.
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And I got the script and at the time, I
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was maybe fifty three, I guess, and I have to
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say that I'm fifty five, and I was having conniptions,
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like a panic attack. Wait a minute, am I that old?
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And somebody must have sort of intuited that I and
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they changed the line to my actual age and I
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felt much better. But I was still too old for
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Michael Scott. So that was that.
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Well, everybody was too old for Michael Scott.
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This is true.
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It's a troublemaker.
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Although I have to say, just to distinguish between Michael
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and Steve Carrel, Steve Carrell is a prince of a
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human being. He really is wonderful, wonderful man.
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It's so fun that you guys are such a huge
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part of American culture and that people will see you
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and they want to have a conversation. How doesn't get tired?
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I know, Penn gives you and you love. I saw
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you at the Derby twenty years ago and twenty five
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years ago, and you were so kind to so many people.
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Well, it's everybody's first time. That's what you have to remember.
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Every time somebody comes up to you, it's the first
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time for them. It doesn't matter how many times you've
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been asked who shot Jr? Or any of those questions.
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It's their first time. And once you realize that, it's
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a gift to them. And what's better than giving somebody
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something that they'll have a legacy that they'll keep forever.
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And it didn't cost you anything. It costs you, you know,
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thirty seconds of your time and a smile, and that's
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just what better way to live your life. It's when
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they stop asking, that's right, And then I start whistling
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my theme song.
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When you got the pitch for Dallas? When did you
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and the castmates sort of get a feeling this may work.
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When they shot Larry, when they shot Hagman and the
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world stopped true then we all thought, oh my god.
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and the original seven members of the cast, and we
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were just so thankful that he not only was shot,
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but he held out on his contract. He wanted to renegotiate,
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and everybody thought he was in Europe and he wasn't.
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He was in the Caribbean, and he and I were
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on the phone a lot, and he would say how
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they do And I said, they're not going to replace Chapelle,
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They just keep going. And he renegotiated everything. You know,
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the high tide floats, all the boats we all know
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beneited from it, benefited from it. And then we were
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able to be one of those rare actors who, for
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thirteen years, knew exactly where our next job was. We
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were coming back to work in the same studio, the
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same parking place, the same group of friends for thirteen years.
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It's unheard of. It doesn't happen anymore now. There's just
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too many venues of where to be seen. But that
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was when we knew that it was because they shot Hagman,
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biggest mistake CBS ever made.
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Well, I mean that you're right. The world was mesmerized
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by the whole thing. Yeah, we had a DJ on
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this station, Gary Burbank, who did the song who shot Jr.
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Oh yeah, you could do anything if you had a
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T shirt. You know Pearl Beer in Texas. I don't
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know if you know Pearl Beer in Texas. They made
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a who Shot Jr. Run of Pearl beer with a
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bullet hole through the can, you know, Oh my god.
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And they sold hundreds of thousands of cases of this beer,
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and Hagman bought about ten thousand cases himself, you know,
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and he wouldn't give it away, but he'd sell it
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and he made more money.
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written a song who Shot gr And still, I mean.
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He's asked to sing it all the time. It's his career.
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We got to shake the hand of the man even
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and that's.
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You know, that's twenty five plus years since the show
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went off the air, you know, more than that.
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Right, What was the pitch to sell you on the
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shower scene?
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Do you want to come back? And I said, yeah,
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that was the pitch.
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Well was the money better?
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Oh they backed up the truck. Oh yeah, No, the
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money was really better. And it was not only just
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the money. The show was a really terrific group of
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actors in a show. And I left the show to
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try and get my own show. It didn't work out
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that way, but when I came back, it was really
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Hagman and myself you know, as the Warring Brothers. And
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it accomplished what I wanted to accomplish when I left,
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but in a completely different way. So I had the
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best five years in addition to the first eight that
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an actor and asked for. Plus, Larry Hagman was my
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best friend from the day I met him. We shook hands.
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I went home. I told my wife, I said, I
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think I met my best friend today. And we were
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best friends. Linda and I, Linda Gray and I were
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in the hospital with him the day he died. Best friends.
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He was such a character. I mean he was at
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the Kentucky Derby with Texas Rangers guarding hill.
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he didn't need them, he.
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You know. That's so good. Well, I'm glad that you
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have great feelings about the work that both of you
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have done. Oh yeah, because that's what matters is that
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you didn't feel like you were shunned and that you
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know you stuck with people, you're part of their lives.
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Well, there's that, and also the lifelong friendships. We thought
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when we were speaking for myself anyway, bouncing around those sets.
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It was just going to work with some really nice people.
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But there are fifty year plus friendships that sustain to
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this day. And that's the gold thread we were weaving
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and didn't know it.
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How did you two find each other?
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We met just passing in the halls. We did a
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reading together in nineteen eighty. We passed each other in
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the halls in a theater in London. Twenty years later
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and I can't quite do the math anyway, it was
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like so ten twenty year intervals. And then we were
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at a convention about seven years ago in Los Angeles.
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Somebody mentioned that Linda Gray was across the hall. I'd
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done a movie with her, adored her. So I scampered
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across the hall to see Linda as she had gone
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to the powder room, but standing there at the desk
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was Patrick's. It was like, Hi, nice to see you.
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We shared a mutual friend and Richard Thomas and I
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was in touch with and Patrick said, well, here's my number.
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I've lost touch with Richard. Get us back in touch.
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The three of us then started texting. I was living
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in New York, Richard was too, Patrick was living in Oregon.
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We started to text and thought, oh, it'd be fun
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to maybe have a drink together and Happy Christmas and whatnot.
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Then COVID, so I repaired to my house in Colorado.
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Patrick stayed in isolation in Oregon, and there was nothing
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else to do. So for about three months, two to
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three hours a night, we started to zoom and got
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to know each other. And that was really the downbeat
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of knowing each other. We were acquaintances, vague acquaintances up
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until then.
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Yeah, so we got to take care of all of
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the things that you would normally date forever, to learn
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about each other without ever having you go, oh, jeez,
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do I walk her to the door? Do I kiss her?
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Am I going to be invited up? Or none of that.
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We would just and then one night, one night, we
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were signing off, and we'd been doing this for a
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couple of months, and it was an hour difference, and
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she'd get tired a little sooner, and we'd say, okay,
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it's time to go see you tomorrow seven o'clock, right, okay, goodnight,
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good night, And I said good night, I love you,
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and I hung up and I went oh, no, oh,
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no oh. And I didn't know whether I cemented the
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deal or blew it up, and so it was a
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sort of a tenuous moment the next couple of days.
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But then shortly thereafter we realized we have to figure
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this out, and I jumped in my car and I
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drove twenty three straight hours, ended up in her driveway,
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and we have been together ever since, never been apart.
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I love the way each of you looks at the
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other one when you're telling the story. Yeah, that's nice. Well,
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and is producing something really pretty fabulous too. Now I
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read about duff Duffy's dough bread, which is a sour dough.
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Tell me more soward dough.
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Well, I'll give the brief intro, and Linda really is
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truly the brains behind the actual business of Duffy's Dough.
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But my mother was gifted a sour dough starter. For
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those of you out there who know what a starter is,
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and they're very snooty, So where your starter comes from,
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and how old it is and the provenance is very important.
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Was gifted this in Alaska when she took my father
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and her took my sister and myself up to Alaska
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in nineteen fifty two. I was three years old. Do
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the math, and then we lived on that. Literally, the
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Duffy family lived on sour dough bread and sour dough pancakes.
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And my sister then got the starter from my mother.
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I got the starter from my sister. When Linda and
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I got together, I was baking, and so I would
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bake cinnamon rolls and pancakes and tarts and everything. And
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one day we thought, well, maybe this could be a
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business of some sort. And then Linda's the one who
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really thought, yes, it can, and she then ran with
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it and developed Duffy Still and we always had the
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idea of this legacy portion of our life of giving
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away all the profits. So we give away one hundred
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percent of the profits of the business fantastic too, and
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then Linda then orchestrated the entire rest of them.
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We had no idea what we were doing. It was
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like business business, what's that? But we were just stupid
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enough to jump in. So we started in our garage
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and talked to some smarty pants business friends and they said,
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all right, we'll just make an all in one kit
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and start a website and just sell it through the
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website basically to your friends. Launch two hundred kits, launch
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it in the summer. If they're sold by Christmas, great,
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and if they're not, you've got Christmas presents. So we
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followed instructions. We made our little starter kits and we
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called you know, we had some friends over. We set
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up the factory tables in the living room, cranked up
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the rock and and with some friends we packed this
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and we launched on a summer day. People magazine picked
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us up. Slow News Day went viral and before noon
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we'd sold two hundred, which was a thrilling and absolutely
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terrifying moment because now what then we had to keep going,
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So we did, but we were on the road affair
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amount of the time, and it was labor intensive because
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it just was we were doing the work, make the
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pack thing that, you know, take it down to the
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post office and uh anyway, but grateful for it because
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we then, because it was just Patrick and me doing it,
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we learned it from the ground up. But we knew
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that we needed to if we really wanted to make
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a difference, and we do, we needed to find a
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responsible partner. So we went online who distributes food. We
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saw that basically six countries companies rather in America distribute food.
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Three of them also make food, and we thought we'd
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rather do that someone who can make our bread and
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then put it on their own shell. And one of
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those three companies had a huge and serious charitable arm,
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and that was Kroger. So then we just got somehow
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sprinkled with fairy dust. We were introduced to an executive
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at Kroger. We had a terrifying zoom. He said, well,
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what are you kids up to? And we told him
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and he told him talking to a multi billion dollar
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corporation saying what we're doing in our garage and all
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twelve people we had sold to her, I guess a
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little over two hundred at that point. But they said,
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all right, well come to Ohio and we did. We
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went to Cincinnati, knees knocking, and we thought we would
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have a thirty minute pitch and get thrown out of
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the room. And four hours later we walked out of
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that room with a handshake deal. And they said to us,
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the gentleman running the meetings said, we're from the Midwest
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and our word is good, and so it has been.
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Isn't that refreshing?
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Amazing es in our business?
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That's right now? The business we've all dealt with where
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contracts and all kinds of things. Right says, We'll shake
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your hand and it's good.
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And it was.
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So we gave them patrick Starter and our recipes. They perfected.
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It made it a way to be consistent. Married us
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to a wonderful bakery in Maryland, and we have five
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varieties of taking bake sourdough bread and the starter, the
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actual starter is under lock and key at the bakery
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in Maryland, so every bite of sourdough that's sold is
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actually from Patrick's starter. And Kroger, as you probably know,
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has a zero waste, zero hunger policy. And as we've
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rolled out now in Ohio, Texas, Southern California, Tennessee, Kentucky
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with some states to follow. But as we go to
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these communities, we see how integrated their zero waste, zero
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hunger program is to each community. When food hits its
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expiration date, it moves right to the back, the trucks
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come up the food pantries. And then also besides visiting
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the stores and the division heads, we get to go
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out to some of these pantries and we meet the people,
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the army of selfless workers soldiers who are making these meals.
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From three am four am, they make three thousand meals
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a day they feed, you know, anywhere between one thousand
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and fifteen hundred people a day. I mean, it's humbling.
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It's a world I really knew nothing about the level
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of hunger in America is astonishing. Basically, one in seven
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adult goes hungry, one in five child goes hungry, and
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forty billion pounds of food ends up in landfill. And
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Kroger is really serious about making a difference. So our
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product helps that all of our profits go to food scarcity.
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That's our dedicated support place that we want to give
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be giving to right now. But we're moved every city
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we go to. It's just it's a humbling experience. We're grateful,
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But Kroger's out there business people, so we absolutely understand
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that the only way they're going to keep us going
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is if our sales stays strong. So we are at
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the mercy of people getting to the Star and trying
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our bread, if they like it, buying it again.
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Duffy's dough, And I guess it's a taking baked product.
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Taking baked product, you can you can pretend you made
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it yourself from scratch. It's because you stick it in
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the oven. It smells fresh baked. You can, you know,
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serve it to your family and your friends, and if
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you like it, keep coming back, because every time you do,
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we're able to drop a penny on the pot.
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We all know the story of the loaves and fishes.
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You've got the loaves covered well lovely.
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Thank you, Thank you for saying it's very nicely.
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Keep this going and the word will keep spreading and
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you'll show up on our radio stations all across America.
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Because of you and people like you.
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Linda Patrick. Great chatting with you. Send people to Kroger
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all through the area, and people can meet you tomorrow
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at the Kroger store.
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In Lmont from one to three.
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In Lexington, Kentucky tomorrow afternoon. Great to talk to you guys.
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Thanks for spending a little time with us. Thank you,
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Thanks for feeding people.
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Oh thank you.
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That's the beautiful legacy, best chapter ever and it's going
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to go on a long, long, long, long time, long time.
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We're back in a few on news radio eight forty
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