Welcome into this episode, Real Conversations.

Chase Parm Ben Craddick with you here on this recording on a Friday,

around 11 a.m.

Been running all over the Jackson Metro area, getting stuff done,

getting bills paid, getting to work over there.

I'm on this work week that's coming to an end,

and I'm in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Where Ole Miss and the Crimson Tide getting ready for game two tonight from Sewell Thomas Stadium

here in Tuscaloosa. And I was telling Ben that it is dead as a hammer around here. Alabama had

graduation two weeks ago, and there is no one in town. A lot of restaurants are either not open or closing really early because you know tuscalo is not a tiny place and when i was leaving the park last night it was around 10 o'clock on thursday and was asking people that worked inside the facility going hey like where can get some food what's this like? And they literally looked at each other and went, uh, what a burger?

Everything was closed right now. And it was 10 o'clock on a Thursday, nothing open. It was a, it's a, it's a great time to be in town because you can just get across town, park wherever. Alabama didn't really care about baseball as in the attendance. They put money into it, but like the attendance. and it's much better than if there were 40,000 students lingering around and you're having to fight them for traffic and get everywhere. So if you had to be on the road for the final week of the season, this isn't a bad place to be. Yeah. I mean, you need to go to the shrimp basket. In Tuscaloosa? Yeah, they put put one there it's actually right across from the crystal in tuscaloosa yep how are you aware of that we we actually

stopped there years ago uh forgot where we were going but we pull in tuscaloosa and uh right

off i was look i know what it was the crystal was actually being redone they were doing forgot where we were going. But we pulled Tuscaloosa and right off.

I was looking, I know what it was.

The crystal was actually being redone. They were doing a re-image. And I looked across the street and there was a shrimp. Now, I assume it's still there. It might not be. But this was maybe, I don't know, eight years ago or something, seven years. But yeah, shrimp basket, man. get you some, they have really, really good hush puppies at the shrimp basket.

I'm a big hush puppy fan. That's like, that's one of my things now. Like, get a little cocktail sauce, make it a little spicy. Like I am, I'm in. You know what? So on Friday, so I told you my situation, my crew went, they went to the beach.

And so today I'm going to line up my day to where I come in around five on Highway

49 from Byram, Mississippi.

I'll pop out at Florence, Mississippi.

And I will hit Jerry's catfish house at 501.

I think they open at four, actually, and get my fish and go home and just enjoy my hush puppies, my coleslaw, and my catfish.

How often do you do this?

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