Orange to a "T" with George Bove Children’s Book Author

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Welcome, everybody, to another
episode of Connect the Knox.
I'm your host, Julia Hurley,
connecting Knoxville to the nation.
Today's guest is one of the most
amazing children's book authors,
and he's specialized in something
amazing just for Knoxville.
And if you don't know this man,

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you're about to get to know
the one and only George Bove.
Please introduce yourself and let our
people know how you became who you
are today with Little Orange Tea and
tell us a little bit about yourself.
Da da da!
Julie, that's a great introduction.
Thank you.
Thank you for letting me be on the show
and having me and the Little Orange Tea.

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We're so excited to be here.
Like you said, I'm George Bove.
That's B O V E.
Orange is my favorite color.
And I wear a men's medium.
So if you're thinking about buying
me something really nice, that'd be
a men's medium, always in orange.
And, uh, and, but what I do expect
is exactly what you got me last year,
which is absolutely, absolutely nothing.

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Anyway, I joke.
Yeah.
So I'm the author.
I'm the author of The Little Orange Tea,
so it, it, we're so blessed to, uh, to, my
wife and I to have come up with The Little
Orange Tea, and it's just, just a simple
story of origin, uh, where we come from,
and, and, uh, and our humble beginnings,
but more especially the origin of the
Power Tea, our great Tennessee Power Tea,

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and where it became from, and it's the
lowercase t, the little orange t, grows up
to be the Power Tea, pretty simple story.
It is a very simple story,
but it's not simple at all.
It is a very involved story, and
anybody who hasn't read it, it is,
it is a truly heartfelt change.
What is this?
What is this?
That's the volunteer he

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decided to come and visit too.
He's, uh, he's hanging out.
Anyway, don't, don't
pay no attention to him.
He, he's an attention guy.
He loves to get attention for stuff, huh?
Anyway, yeah, so the Little Orange
Tee is, it's a great story, and,
uh, of his humble beginnings.
It's all Tennessee and a funny thing
and a good thing about the Little
Orange Tee books, it speaks both

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to the parents and to the child.
So if you're, you know, you're a parent,
you're watching this or a grandparent,
you want to read to kids, it's going
to, uh, it's going to get you to, you
know, to be interested in the book.
Also, it's not just for children,
but it is a lot of great Tennessee
history, a lot of great Tennessee
characters in the book, and then all

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sorts of, uh, Tennessee, uh, sports.
In the book too.
So yeah, just check it out.
And then there's a new one
called the, uh, the Little Orange
Tea, Great Tennessee Adventure.
And that one, uh, that one is a great
story of the Little Orange Tea and Smokey.
It'll go all around the SEC and they
visit all their friends around the SEC.
And they, uh, they, uh, come

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up with some great discoveries.
There's a lot of big ahas in there.
I encourage everybody to check it out.
So, this isn't your first book.
You had a book before this.
You have a lot of other books.
You have a lot of other ideas.
Share some of your thought process.
I've been blessed enough,
Julia, to, uh, to, to write.
I write, I like to write Christian books.
Uh, books that, uh, Yeah, that's right.

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Sorry, those guys are confusing.
The Christian books, uh, that, uh,
encourage people, uh, that open,
uh, have some big ahas, but nothing,
uh, nothing too groundbreaking.
And so when we have fun, uh, on
the fun side, we write children's
books, like one of our favorites,
one of Smokey's favorites.
One of Volunteer's favorites
is, uh, is, uh, this one.

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Ah, what about that?
Yeah, we like that one a lot, too.
That's right.
Yeah.
Yeah, that one's, uh, that's right.
You never know, uh, you never know
what, uh, what's going to show up.
But yeah, a little orange
tea, a very contrary fairy.
It's all good stuff.
And, and, uh, the Volunteer.
Our Tennessee grape volunteer
and smoker, we all agree.
So tell the audience a little bit about

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you all and about your connection to
Knoxville and your long history of
volunteering in the state of Tennessee
and all the things that you do.
Because if people even knew the list of
amazingness that you bring to our area,
not just including this book, I think that
they would be more invested in it as well.
Now, but I think people really

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need to get to know you.
Tell us about you.
I, Julie, thank you.
I think that, uh, it's, it's not the
person who dies with the most toys wins.
I think it's the person who,
uh, serves the most people wins.
So, and for me, that's where I find my
joy in, in, uh, Our satisfaction, my wife

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and I, and our pleasure in helping, not
helping ourselves, but helping others.
Does that make sense?
So for us, what a blessing it was
that Governor Lee appointed me
to the Volunteer Tennessee Board.
I mean, it's perfect, right?
A volunteer state and then the
governor puts you on this board.
That's wonderful.

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But you know, from Shrindam and all
the different things with Shriners
and Shriners Children, or any kind
of community group or community
activity, whether it's even be the
Chamber of Commerce or, or any kind
of charity type of thing, all the
way to, you know, typical community
stuff being just our church.
We want to participate as much as we can.

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I don't have a lot of family.
Julia, you know that, and, uh, and,
and I don't have a lot of family.
What family I do have
isn't very close to here.
So, the community in itself
has become our family.
You're my family.
And, and we've been friends for a
long time, and that's easy to say, but
the folks will know that instantly,
almost instantly, uh, we've become

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friends and family with folks.
And, uh, and I think that the little
orange T Uh, really solidifies all that.
When Little Orange Tee became part
of the University of Tennessee family
of characters, uh, we see our friend
Volunteer and we see our friend
Smokey and they, they show up, right?
And, and, and they're, uh,
they're all part of the family.
Then they adopt, like me, uh, the Little

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Orange Tee into the family of characters.
And now the Little Orange Tee
is, is a part of that fabric.
And so aren't we?
And, and that's only done not by.
Getting the most from folks,
but giving the most to folks.
Does that make sense?
Absolutely, 100%.
Tell everybody, because this is a
nationally broadcast podcast, right?

(06:26):
Hey everybody!
So we only talk about local people,
for local people, so people outside
can see what's available and
who's available locally to them to
understand more about Knoxville.
I mean, honestly, I don't even, I, I'm
going to ask you to brag on yourself
because I can't do that for you right now.
I want you to tell everybody all the

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things you're involved in because
if anybody wants to connect with
you coming into Knoxville, they need
to know what they're connecting to.
Yes, yes.
Yes, yeah, absolutely.
Listen, first of all, welcome each
and every one of y'all that are
looking or thinking about looking
or, or even considering East
Tennessee and the Knoxville area.
There's no better choice.

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I mean, there's a reason why the
interstate is jammed up every
day for people coming here.
There's a reason why we have
the number one visited national
park in the United States.
You could take any visitorship,
put it together and doesn't
equal our one national park.
There's a reason why.
And you all, uh Know that.

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That's why you're looking.
I want to encourage you to continue not
to just look, but to, to come and become
a part of the fabric of our community.
It's, uh, it's incredible.
People are still kind.
People are still polite.
People still say yes, sir, and
no, sir, please, and thank you.
Yes, ma'am, no, ma'am,
and hello, how are you?

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Not only that, Uh, and you all understand
if you're looking here, you're looking
here because, uh, uh, not just for the
wholesomeness of our community, but, uh,
the value of a dollar, uh, your dollar
is going to go even so much further than
it ever, than it ever could imagine in
probably some of the places that you're
coming from, and I'm not going to talk
those places down, but what I want you

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to see, uh, from East Tennessee, is
that this is, I wasn't born here, not
at all, it's not my original birthplace.
But it doesn't matter, Julia, and
the folks who are watching, it
doesn't matter where you're born.
I think it only matters
where you're buried.
And by God, I'll be buried
right here in East Tennessee.

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Uh, this is my home.
It always has been my home.
Um, God doesn't make a lot of
mistakes, Julia, I want you to
know, but I was supposed to have
been born in East Tennessee.
That's just all there is to it.
Now, I don't know if that's a God
mistake or the stork who delivered me.
I believe the stork messed up.
He didn't have GPS back then.
Needless to say, those folks, uh, I

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would encourage you to continue to look.
The values are here.
The opportunities are here.
The investment opportunities are beyond.
I, my wife and I have been so
incredibly blessed, uh, with
investments in properties.
And, uh, not only that, if you have
kids or planning on having kids,
it's a great place for the kids to
come up with the true core values of

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volunteers, of service, of community.
And if you're not, uh, with children
and maybe you're past that age and
you're, uh, you're, I don't know
what they call it, but you don't
have kids at the house anymore.
What do they call that?
Empty nesters.
Yeah, so maybe you're an empty nester.
I don't know what that is, but I
would tell you that there's so much

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activities and so many fun things to do.
Not just counting church activities
or community groups, things of
that nature, but the lakes, the
trails, the mountains, the rivers.
It's just beautiful opportunity to get
outside and enjoy everything outside
in a beautiful place that enjoys.
We enjoy six months of summer every year.

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It's six months.
A lot of these amazing,
beautiful things in your books.
And you, yes, yes, you really do.
That's
right.
Well, that's right.
Yeah.
For your book, like all of these
amazing things that you're talking
about, you include all of this
in your book, Little Orange Tea.
And what's the other
one that just came out?
It's a Little Orange T's
Great Tennessee Adventure.
It's called the Great Tennessee Adventure.

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And you can, yeah, so these folks,
Julia, you're right, they can read the
books or, or get the book right now.
I would encourage you, especially the
Little Orange T, you're going to see all
across the great state of Tennessee, from
Memphis to Bristol, uh, from Nashville to
Chattanooga, all across the whole state.
Everything you could actually think
about from Knoxville, Tennessee, and
the Great Smoky Mountains, and, and

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then You're really going to get the
true meaning of why people bleed orange.
Why we say, I bleed orange.
Why I am orange and white
and that's all I am.
You'll, you'll, it, it will consume you.
It will.
It'll, it'll consume you to the point
that you just say, You take off your

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Buffalo Bills hat, you throw away your
San Francisco 49ers, you're going to take
your, uh, you take your, your, your silly
old, uh, Michigan hat, and whatever it
is, you're going to take them and you're
just going to put on that orange lid,
just like that, and say, here we go.
All right, then, just like that.
What, what brought you to Tennessee?
What, what started this whole process?

(11:24):
Wow, you know, listen, Tennessee, there's
one word, uh, that brings anybody to
Tennessee, and the word is opportunity.
There's still a place God has blessed
with opportunity and, uh, it, whether it's
tech, uh, whether it's, uh, whether it's,
uh, uh, uh, the, in the hospital industry,

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whether it's manufacturing, uh, it
doesn't matter if it's a building trades
type industry, uh, there is opportunity
in Tennessee, unlike any other state.
An opportunity that's offered right out.
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(12:29):
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Tell us about the process of the
ideas behind Little Orange Tea.
How long did it take you to Go
through this process and create these
characters in this book, in this story,
because it is such a great story.
I know it takes, I know it takes more than
that, but what was the process for you to

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create these characters, and how did you
go about finding your illustrator and all
of the things and the ideas behind it?
Yeah, so that's, that,
that was really something.
That's a, that's a tough question.
I had the idea of the Little Orange Tee,
Because we all come from somewhere, right?
And the lower case T grows
up to be the power T.
So I had that idea, but then I

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thought, well, it really needs to be
all consuming for Tennessee, all that
research, you know, that typical stuff
that you do to write a book or to tell
a really good story was done, but.
The trouble is, the real trouble was,
and then of course you know your rhyme,
you got the fun book and your rhyme,
like the Contrary Fairy, it's got
great rhymes in it, and at one time you

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probably had to want to be a rapper, you
know, like, we could, we could, we could
rapper kind of guy, but You know, you
gotta leave the cuss words out, right?
You can't write a children's book
and have the rapping cuss words.
So, you know, washed up rapper
who, you know, ends up writing
funny little children's books.
But the hard part really is,

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is finding A good illustrator,
somebody who can put your word,
bring your words to life, right?
And that, that, there's an art to
that, that my illustrator Christy Lynch
brought, that's just incredible because
our pictures are watercolor paintings.

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Every picture is a painting,
uh, and watercolor because, uh,
because kids could duplicate it.
I wanted pictures that kids could trace
or, or they could hand draw themselves
so it wasn't out of reach for them.
Um, but, and then watercolors where it
bleeds a little bit, the colors aren't so
perfect, uh, and it has that organic feel.

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Now all that's artsy fartsy stuff,
you know, okay, but to find an
illustrator that could really bring
your words to life took A year, a
year and a half easy to find it.
And, and then the work it takes, it took
two years from writing the little orange
T two years to before it was published.
And to say that without being long winded

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to find a publisher, who's going to stand
by you, who's going to help to promote
you and one that more, especially that's
going to believe in your, in your story
and your product, then, you know, as well
as I do, that's very difficult to find.
And, uh, and we found that in Jan Carroll.
Uh, right?
Out of, uh, out of
Johnson City, Tennessee.

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So the book is all Tennessee, written
in Tennessee, all about Tennessee.
Tons of Tennessee history, Tennessee
illustrator, and a Tennessee publisher.
So we kept it 100 percent orange.
I love that.
I think that a lot of people from
out of state, as we continue to see
Tennessee grow, really want a connection
that's localized, and they just don't

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know where to find that information.
Who to connect to, but they see your book.
Where all is your book?
I believe I saw a copy of that in
the, um, I'm gonna, I don't even
remember what store I was in on campus.
I don't even remember the name of it.
Wow, so you had a little orange tea.
Alright, get your pens out.
Everybody get your pen.
Ready?
All right, very, it's very simple.
First of all, Amazon, right?

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We all know Amazon.
That's the easy one, uh, Amazon,
of course, Barnes Noble, who's been
incredibly supportive to us, the Vol
Shop on campus, uh, and yeah, that's
right, the Vol Shop, Hound Dogs has
been incredibly supportive of us,
but we've, we've breached the gap.
We're at Walmart, So
you can go to walmart.
com or, uh, uh, you're probably your local

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Walmart somewhere in Lansing, Michigan.
It's not going to have it,
but you can get it at walmart.
com.
Sorry.
We're sorry.
Anyway, but you can, Target, Target.
com has the, has the Little Orange
Tea and the Little Orange Tea's Great
Tennessee Adventure, both books.
Um, and uh, if you can't find it
anywhere from there, I seen it on eBay.

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Now I know a lot of people don't go
to eBay anymore, uh, but I seen it on
eBay and it was greatly overpriced.
So if you can't shop from Amazon, buy
it on ebay for an absorbent price,
that somebody's trying to get for it.
I don't know why they're doing that.
Maybe it was one of the
first signed copies.

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Well we didn't number them, so you
could tell anyone it was a first signed
copy, because I never numbered them.
Listen, if you want, and let me speak
directly to your audience if you don't,
if you really want to check out the
book, and you really want to get a
feel for Tennessee, go online and punch
in Little Orange T, and coach, that's

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coach, like football coach, Johnny.
J O H N N Y, Majors, Majors, M
A J M A J O R S, Johnny Majors.
And Coach, God rest his soul,
read The Little Orange Tee.
It was one of the last things he'd done
publicly, uh, before he gave up the ghost.
Again, God rest his soul, and,
and, and, and be with his family.

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He reads the book to all the
kids in Tennessee, and I guess
all the kids in the world.
If you really want to check it out before
you, uh, before you give it a spin,
listen to Johnny Majors read it because it
really does come from a Tennessee heart.
Yeah, I bet that was something.
I bet that was something.
Um, How many books do you have
in the pipeline in your head?
That's an awesome question.

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So there's right now there's three, uh,
there's one that's in the works, one
that's being, it's being illustrated.
And Christy Lynch is back at work on
that for me, and that's getting ready
to go to, go to publishing in May.
So hopefully she has the pictures done.
May, June, hopefully this, for this,
for this holiday season, pardon me.

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I had a big old venti, uh, big
gigantic coffee this morning,
you know, and so I'm super hyper.
Uh oh, uh oh, I showed you
who was controlling the guy.
I'm sorry about that.
Let me put it back down.
Yeah, there we go.
Yeah, a couple of books.
I got, I got a few in the
pipe, but you know, really
it's about creating awareness.
And thank you, Julia, for giving

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me that opportunity to create
awareness of the Little Orange Tea.
And The Little Orange Tee's
Great Tennessee Adventure, both
sitting back here at our humble
abode here in East Tennessee.
I remember, I remember your very first
book, and that was very, it touched me
at the right time, at the right moment.
It was very helpful.
Yes, it was a beautiful book.

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It was a beautiful book.
And then you came out
with Little Orange Tea.
I was like, what is this?
This is
amazing.
I can't believe it.
How many years?
Are we on a decade now?
Are we celebrating 10 years?
Yeah, over 10 years.
10 years of authoring, authoring and,
and, uh, and, and publishing books.
And yeah, and a lot of stuff.
You know, God bless a lot of sales.

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I mean, everybody who's bought books
or come out for our signings and
stuff, just so greatly appreciate it.
And I just, you know, and I, I goof
around, you know, with the children's
books, but the Christian books are
serious and, and, you know, they
talk about love and kindness and
patience and, uh, and more especially
to find joy in life, you know?
So, and those things really lead

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themselves into, into the little
orange tee because these books,
they, they, uh, they're not.
Uh, Christian based books, but they are
Christian focused books, if that makes
sense, about love and, and being kind
to each other and being good volunteers.
I love that.
Can you tell us a little bit, so the
next book that you, the next couple
of books that Christy's doing for you,

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are they, are they more orange tea?
Are they little orange
tea, like, adventures?
That's, it is a good question.
Okay.
Give me a second.
Yeah.
So I know she does have good questions.
Right?
Uh, look, so the next one that Christy's
working on right now is just huge
Tennessee and it's all about Rocky top.

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And I, it's hard to, I don't, I don't
really want to say a lot about it.
I'm sorry.
I
know that's okay.
I'm okay.
Where was the tea?
Yeah.
Smokey's in it and the, and the
Smokey mountains are in it and
there's Just so much Tennessee
in it and really the heartland,
the heart of Tennessee is in it.
And when it's, it's a, it's a rocky top

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book and, and when I just, it's hard to
say a lot about it, but it's just so good.
And I'll be frank with you.
When I wrote the book, and you know,
you write them, Julian, you know,
you've written it, and you understand,
you kind of set it aside because
you're consumed with it, and then you
go on through life a little bit and
enjoy some things, maybe come back

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a few weeks later or a month later.
When I came back, it was a month
later, and I read the book, I cried.
It was such, I kid you not,
I literally was teared up.
I couldn't believe that I wrote that.
I thought, what happened to you, dude?
Right, but it was, it's really, uh, it's
really a lot of fun and, uh, and I can't
wait for the Rocky Top book to come out.

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It's, it's on its way and
it's gonna be incredible and
Smoke's super excited about it.
He's shaking like crazy,
he can't stand it.
Smoke, you wanted to say that you
were just look so beautiful and you
have a great smile today, Julia.
I feel like I'm very happy.
It's, it's really great weather.
Makes me super happy.
Um, so, what this will publish, I believe

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this episode may air in the next three
or four weeks, depending on how many
we have already recorded previously.
Just give everybody an idea of where they
can, are you going to have any signings
coming up, where people can actually
meet you one on one, do you have anything
planned over the next few months for that?
No, really don't.
We'll have, we'll have
the new book come out.

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Um, we're working on a book signing
at Hound Dogs, you know, a couple
of Tennessee outlets like that.
Um, I don't know, uh, oh my
god, I'm getting notes here.
Okay, no, I'm sorry.
Come on, dude, really?
All right, I'll, yep.

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Our Tennessee volunteer wanted to
find out if you're single, Julia.
He's, he's single.
Ah, see that?
All right.
He's gone now.
He left.
He's out.
He's been hanging around
for that the whole time.
That's messed up.
I thought he was here to support me.
Um, yeah, nothing,

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nothing major coming up.
The two books, The Little Orange Tee here.
And then the Great Tennessee Adventure
right here, uh, they're just on the move.
They're doing their things.
This is kind of the quiet season,
especially when it comes for things
with the sports oriented, uh, you
know, Julia, and those folks who
may not know, we're in between
football season and stuff like that.

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Now baseball season's fired up and they're
a great team and they're killing it.
Wait a second, we just got one coming.
That's it.
That's it.
My buddy, my buddy left,
but this is what he left me.
So, and I'll tell you what, wearing a
coonskin cap, wearing a coonskin cap
around Tennessee is perfectly acceptable.
As a matter of fact, you might

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become pretty popular, right?
Yeah.
Anyway, yeah, not a whole lot.
Uh, we'll, we'll set up some things and
we're working with Jan Carroll Publishing
to see what they have in store for us.
But other than that, just really trying
to do some, uh, electronic promotions,
like what you're doing for us here, uh,
social media and things of that nature.
We love that.
And we've only got a few minutes podcast

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as a whole, so I want to do, I want to
change the focus and make sure, one,
everybody knows the titles of your
books, so restate those for everybody.
This is the Little Orange T.
Let me, let me see if
I can get it over here.
Little Orange T, uh, the Little Orange,
and you can see he's a T right there.
He goes up to be the Big Power T.
And this bad boy right here, now this
is the new one, The Little Orange T's
Great Tennessee Adventure with Smokey.

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So these two books are available
pretty much everywhere you could look,
everywhere you could possibly find a book.
And even if you don't live in Tennessee
You might wanna read them to your kids.
Anyways,
it's a great story.
What would your dreams be for anybody
to pass on, say any kids that wanna come
out and say, I wanna write something like

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this, or, I love this, I wanna learn how
to do this, or, I have a passion for this.
What advice would you give them?
Sure.
For the younger folks, first of all, to
read every day, read, read a little bit.
And, and I'm not, I, I could
tell you a, a funny story.
I met this, uh, I signed books a
lot and I met this gal and, uh.
She said to me, somebody
introduced me as an author.

(25:11):
I find that kind of strange anyways,
but they introduced me as an author.
And I said, she said,
Oh, you're an author?
And I said, well, yes, ma'am.
I am.
I reckon so.
And she says, I says, do you like to read?
And she said to me, Julie, she said,
well, yeah, I read Facebook every day.
And you know what I said?
It was nice talking to you.
I hope you have a great day.

(25:32):
So, you know, I'm trying
to encourage kids.
Reading is not Facebook.
You're going to read a little bit.
Something with some good words, right?
Something with a good story.
And uh, read a little bit every day.
And then what it's going to cause you
to do is, is use your imagination.
And that imagination will cause
you to create, uh, to write books.
And when you write those books,
it's so much fun to go out and
share them with other people.

(25:53):
And, uh, and then they, uh, they use
their imagination with your imagination.
It's just a beautiful thing.
Does that answer your question?
100%.
I think that's some of the best things.
When we meet kids and they ask questions
like, How many books a day do you read?
What are you reading right now?
And the better the vocabulary
possibilities are, the more they

(26:14):
imagine what words can mean, and the
more they understand the meanings of
the world around them, and then they
can create a new world for themselves.
Sure, that's right.
And you know, Julia, at one
time I used to be contrary too.
I'm still contrary.
What are you talking about?
That was a powerful statement.

(26:35):
Huh?
That's right.
That's it.
That's right.
Anyway, the, uh, look at, uh,
for the younger folks to read
every day and, and then use your
creativity, your imagination.
It's okay.
Uh, not everything has been done yet.
Uh, we're living proof of that.
You and I both.
Not everything's been done yet.
So, use your imagination stills.

(26:56):
There's a lot of creativity left, and
there's a lot of ingenuity, uh, that
needs to be, that needs to be worked on.
So, I would encourage every one of them
to read, and to use your imagination.
George!
so much for being our guest
today on Connect the Knox.
It is very, very, very important that
each and every person that listens
in and tunes in and we appreciate it.

(27:16):
We have a little over 17, 000 listens
a month and we appreciate your support.
17, 000?
17, We just got our trademark in today.
Uh, so we, we finally got our
trademark approved and, uh, Connecting
Knoxville to the Nation is a tagline
that was also approved for trademark.
I encourage every listener to please
go look up George Bove in his app.

(27:37):
Because all of his books will be
listed there, regardless of whether you
need some Christian motivation, some
support, or you have a hankering to
learn a little more about Tennessee,
because the history inside of his
books from Memphis to Mountain City.
And there's my book!
You got that
right!
And he's co helping me here.

(27:58):
Decade of celebration for Little Orange
Tee and it's one of the best children's
books I've seen that is located
just for one space, except it's not.
University of Tennessee has the
second largest fan base in the
world and this book has touched
each and every one of those people.
Please go and visit Little Orange
Tee and George Bove in Amazon.

(28:18):
I want to say thank you to the
Little Smokey and Volunteer for
also joining us on today's podcast.
George, we'll see you very soon.
Thank you so much.
Everybody, again, thank you for tuning in
to another episode of Connect the Knox.
I'm your host, Julia Hurley,
Until next time.

(28:40):
Bye, Julia.
We love you.
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