Poundcake Boys | Sean of the South

Sean of the South

Sean Dietrich

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5.0 • 546 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2017

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Holiness churches, snake handlers, and poundcake. Sean sings, and delivers a tale of serpentine proportions at the Chilton County Poundcake Competition in Verbena, Alabama.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Sean South podcast, and I'm your host, Sean Dietrich.
0:11.8	We're coming to you from Verbena, Alabama, in Chilton County, home of the pound cake competition.
0:22.0	Chilton County, Alabama is home to the pound cake competition. Chilton County, Alabama is home to the pound cake competition and I was a judge for this
0:27.4	competition.
0:29.1	Eight women from two counties competed for the best pound cake.
0:34.6	There was a dessert table with pound cakes of every shape and size.
0:39.0	It was like dying and going to Buehleland.
0:41.9	In the end, I crowned the winter.
0:44.4	She was a small, five-foot-two white-haired woman.
0:48.0	I placed the tiar on her head, and her scepter was a wooden spoon with ribbons on it.
0:53.6	It goes down as one of the good moments in my life, where I love pound cake.
1:02.4	What a fellowship.
1:07.0	What a joy divine.
1:10.6	Leaning on the everlasting arms
1:14.5	I have blessed
1:18.1	peace with the Lord is mine
1:22.3	leaning on the everlasting arms Leaning on the everlasting arms.
1:29.2	Leaning, leaning.
1:36.1	Safe and secure from all along.
1:43.3	Leaning, leaning. the long leaning leaning
1:45.0	leaning
1:46.0	leaning
	...

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