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Emily Morrow (0:00)

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Jason Morrow (1:14)

And Jason. Emily, we are here yet again without video this week. We are in the attic.

Emily Morrow (1:22)

The attic, but not our attic. That's what we plan on calling the new podcast space at our new house.

Jason Morrow (1:27)

Because it's kind of an attic space.

Emily Morrow (1:28)

It's definitely an attic space. This is way nicer than what you're going to get.

Jason Morrow (1:31)

Yeah, except you don't get to see it because we're not on video.

Emily Morrow (1:35)

We are at the Hostess with the Mostest House, Elise McKinj. We've mentioned her before. In Plymouth, Wisconsin, she's letting us stay up here for free. Because we are treasure hunting for treasures for our new house.

Jason Morrow (1:51)

Yeah, well, you know so many places in Wisconsin that have treasures, antiques, thrifts, all the good stuff.

Emily Morrow (2:00)

Yeah, I feel like I'm treading on someone else's property, like territory.

Jason Morrow (2:06)

Right, you're hunting on someone else's ground.

Emily Morrow (2:08)

Right, I feel kind of bad about it. Because if someone came to Paducah and was treasure hunting, I'd be like, get out, these are my treasures. Like this is for me to find.

Jason Morrow (2:16)

Not that we have very many spots, we have more, too.

Emily Morrow (2:18)

Well, I've heard that the reason Paducah kind of stinks is. Well, I could tell you a number of reasons. It's a sweaty little river town.

Jason Morrow (2:30)

Little inside joke there, if you haven't seen, what's that show called?

Emily Morrow (2:34)

It was the A&E. What was the show? The one your mom was on? Yeah.

Jason Morrow (2:38)

About the murder.

Emily Morrow (2:39)

About the murder of my mom's friend. We're not gonna talk about murder this week, so you don't have to.

Jason Morrow (2:44)

This is a kid-friendly episode. For once.

Emily Morrow (2:50)

We won't even say the word darn.

Jason Morrow (2:53)

Not once, darn it.

Emily Morrow (2:57)

Well, anyway.

Jason Morrow (2:58)

Oh, we should tell about the restaurant. We'll get to that in a second. Go ahead.

Emily Morrow (3:03)

The guy on that, whatever. Documentary. Yeah, documentary thing. He called Paducah a sweaty little river town, has a culture of its own. It's the actual, it's a cultural mecca of Western Kentucky. Like, okay.

Jason Morrow (3:19)

I mean, there's no other towns.

Emily Morrow (3:23)

Barlow.

Jason Morrow (3:24)

But there's one point, too, he kept talking about the culture. He's like, one point, the narrator's like, and Paducah, it actually has a culture.

Emily Morrow (3:31)

Believe it or not. Believe it or not.

Jason Morrow (3:33)

It has a culture.

Emily Morrow (3:34)

We are people.

Jason Morrow (3:35)

It's like, oh, wow, there are humans there, despite what they look like on video. They are a human specimen.

Emily Morrow (3:43)

Well, one thing that I always heard is that Paducah is just like, it was a depressed area, very poor river town.

So there weren't many people rich enough to have nice stuff to then carry on the antiques, which other areas, I guess, apparently Wisconsin, when a lot of people came from Germany in Wisconsin. I don't know if they were rich, but they have good stuff. I mean, the Germans are known for making good stuff.

Jason Morrow (4:14)

And then the antiques, if your ancestors are not at least well off or at least have nicely made stuff, then there's nothing to pass down and there's nothing to, you know, gather.