September 11, 2025 • 29 mins
Paul Thorn | The Arts Council Ladies | Conversations with Creatives Singer/Songwriter Paul Thorn joins the ladies with a fun conversation about his music, yard sales and his Hillary Clinton pocket knife!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
On today's podcast, we have the very famous Paul Thorn.
He may be the most famous person we have had
on the air. No offense to anybody else.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Congratulations, Paul, Yay.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Stay too.
Speaker 4 (00:16):
Well, I'm glad I got invited to be on whatever
this is.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Welcome to Conversations with Creative.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
With the Arts Counsel.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Ladies.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
I'm Lindsay and I'm Leslie.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
And on today's show we have the one and only
Paul Thorn with no E right.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Well, yeah, my family was really poor and when I
was born, we couldn't afford.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
To eat, afford the drop the e.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Hey that's a good remember it, It's right, I love it.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Well, we're excited Paul's going to be He's been in
the Arts Council the Song Theater several times and he
will be back in action on September nineteenth, and we
cannot wait. And you better get your tickets because he
will sell out.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
It's like getting close to sold out now actually, so
you better hurry up.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yeah okay, but before hold on, Paul, before we let
you tell us all about you, we have something we
do every podcast.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
We ask a very important.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Question, a very important question. Are you ready for this
very important question.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
I'll see what I can do.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
All right, all right, I think, lindsay, I thought of
this last night. Usually I google these, but I came
up with us on on my own. If you were
a magician, what would your signature trick be?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Making here, I would make irritated, irritating people disappear.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Wow, I don't know if that's a magician or superpower. Yeah,
that's pretty cool. I got a couple on a list
if you want to practice. So yeah, I think you
have more than a I got a book, so you
don't want to get on her list?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Well, actually that's funny because that's kind of what I
chose as my trick as well. But I would I
would be at the magic show. I would make myself disappear,
and then I would just leave everybody to wonder what
was happening. Just leave the audience.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
Actually, you're actually your your your scenario is better than
mine because when you're around irritating people, really and truly
the best thing to do is just leave and don't
say nothing.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
There you go, just right irish, goodbye, goodbye.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
You don't need to resolve anything, Nope, just leave.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Yeah, sleep, Yeah, no question they can't ask you questions out.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
The block them on everything.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
There you go, there you go.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Change it from but let but be happy. Don't do
it with don't do it with anger and venom. That's
how you get set free, and that's how you get happy.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
There you.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
When you get them poison people out of your life,
you can get happy.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Then you're a.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Very wise magician. So right, do you have a signature
very gracious? I don't know my signature trick. I like
making people happy. So is there some kind of wizard
wee wizard.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Week wizards.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Wizard we Yes, Yeah, it's early wizardry to poof and
everybody's just smiling like me. Possibly the happy world. I
don't know, lame, but you know I'm going with it.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
That's nice though, but it's not realistic his magic, though.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
There's gonna be problems coming into your life every single day.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
I know.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
That's right, that's the human condition.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yeah, there was a song that I think it's on
your new album that it was something about that, like
problems don't troubles don't last or something.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Oh, it was a tough times don't last.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Look at it.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yeah. I was like, no, that's a good one. Because
I've had some doozies lately.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Yeah, it's getting better.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
There's there's a lot of words in your right.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
I didn't make up that phrase tough times don't last,
but I've heard it all my life and it's such
a good thing to hold on to it. But the
second half, the second half of that phrase is what
the real money shot is. It says tough times don't last,
tough people do. Yeah, And it's just.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Saying, you know it is going to be hard and.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
You are going to get knocked down in life, but
your goal is to get back up.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
And you know it's Ah, that's just my philosophy.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
And like, because I have had a lot more failures
in my life than I have successes, So I just
cling to those successes and I let that other stuff go.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
I think that's good.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
That's a good lesson for today Today's lesson from Paul
horne Hey. That leads us into let's learn about your
We call it the villain origin story. Tell us about
do we want to ask this first though? Yeah, we
we have a troubling question when we googled you. That
(05:48):
could go a lot of ways, couldn't it. But about
where you're from. Now, don't tell us yet, because we're
gonna We're going to ask it in a question for him.
We have multiple choice.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Okay, are you ready to answer? Yes, ma'am Lindy Okay.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
So A is Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
B is Tupelo, Mississippi, C is neither, D is both.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
Are yes?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
We're asking to answer AB.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
I was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin. O. My father was
a Pentecostal preacher, and my dad was pastoring a church
in Kenosha. But when I was born, my dad got
transferred to another church, which was in Tupelo, Mississippi.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Oka.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
You go.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Even though I was born in Tupelo, I don't have
any memory of I mean, born in Kenosha, I have
no I have no memory of it because I was
an infant when I was there. You know, God, all
my memories are from the Tupelo area.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Tuplo. I didn't detect any like Wisconsin accents.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
So yeah, yeah, I don't know. I have a very
sick uh Southern accent.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
But can you can you do a Wisconsin accent?
Speaker 5 (07:12):
I don't think I can.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
We were practicing ours yesterday, guys.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
See, guys, let's go to Lake Michigan and have a dip.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Come on, Lindsay. Lindsay had a pretty good one.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Did you say, was it?
Speaker 1 (07:25):
I don't know. I think he said, guys, let's.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Go down to the river and have a soda a sa.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Yeah, yeah, that would be great.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
That'd be great.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Leslie's goes into.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Like, I don't know, like that'd be great.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
When it's what I said, it sounds creepy.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
All right, Well when did you start music?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Tell us all about two polo Mississippi man right there
with Elvis.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Right yes, where Elvis was born. Yeah, buds, I never
met the guy, but I know so many. I know
so many people that did know Elvis and older people
that went to school with it.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
He was just another kid, you know, back in the day.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
And uh, I actually know this woman that she's an
old lady that works the hospital and back in her
younger days, she went to Elvis's house in Memphis, uh,
and heard Elvis made love in the jungle room and
(08:29):
then when he got done, he gave her a He
hired a limousine to take her back to Tupelo.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Nice in that sweet sweet I like a gentleman, what
a gentleman.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
A gentleman.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
How you look at it, it's almost like he hit
it and quit it.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
You know, that doesn't sound sound like.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
He was just a man.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
He was just a man, and he had a lot
of availabilities. Put yourself in his shoes.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Boy, that's a great way to start. I love it.
I love it.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Tell us about your musicians.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
No before? Oh yeah, a musician. Oh that's right, you were.
You had a boxing career.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
I forgot about this.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
I want to know about this boxing career.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Well, I was a professional boxer in nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
You girl from a different generation. I doubt you eight.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I was born earlier.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Yeah, but was a world class I was a world
class box at the one time. And you know, I
was good, but I was not great. And there's a difference,
you know, in any in any sport. You know, there's
a lot of great basketball players, but there's only one
Michael Jordan. It's that kind of thing. I was good,
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but I couldn't. I couldn't become a champion because I
just didn't have that little extra something that it takes
to be a champion. But I took it as far
as I could. And when I returned retired from boxing.
I'm most known for a fight I lost in nineteen
eighty eight.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
I fought Roberto Durant.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Anybody, anybody my age knows who that is that followed boxing,
and he was one of the greats.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
And I gave it a good shot.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
But at the end of the fight, they stopped the
fight after six rounds because I had a horrific cut.
There was blood was flowing into my eye, so they
stopped the fight.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
But you know, I gave it my all.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
But my gi Yeah, we read about that one. What's
that we read about that one?
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Yeah, it's it's just it is what it is.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
I did my best, but at a certain point I
realized I wasn't going to be a champion. So there
was no need to go or any further because I
took it as far as I could take it, and
so I went back into what I'd always done, you know, music. Yeah,
I grew up, grew up singing in church, just like
Elvis did.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
You know, Well, I think.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
That has probably had a lot of influence on your
music because there's a lot of like gospel kind of
sounds in your music from.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
A I grew up.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
I grew up going to a lot of the same
churches that Elvis actually went to himself. Uh, there was
there's two types of churches to this day. Uh, it's
there's a uh, not not exclusively, but for the most part,
you have churches where white people attend and you have
(11:44):
churches where black people attend. It's not a hate each
other kind of thing. It's they have different styles of
doing things. You know, the music I learned at the
at the at the white folks church, it was like
country Western gospel. It sounded like it almost sounds like
country western, but it's gospel lyrics.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
But you go to black church and they have a
different type of.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Rhythm, so like it's almost like it's almost like a
jungle beat. It's just really it's really awesome that the music,
the rhythm and blues.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
Type of music that they played at the black church.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
And I got to sit at the feet of a
lot of people who did those things, and and that's
really really what was the foundation of my musical abilities
is the going to the black churches and the white churches.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Wow, do you have any one person or a couple
of people that really influenced your music and the way you.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Play and.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Well, I have not to sound cliche, but uh, Elvis
was a big influence on me. Yeah, you know, I
grew I remember, I remember exactly where I was when
he died.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
You know I was. I was at a babysitter's house
and she was a acost The.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Lady had her hair all piled up on top, like
and Pentecostal people ladies do. And when she heard the news,
she just broke down sobbing and crying. And uh, but Elvis, Uh,
what Elvis did and what he accomplished will never.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
Be done again.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
And so you know, when when Elvis came out, there
was only three TV shows or three three TV channels,
and when he got on the s Sullivan Show, every
person in the whole country saw him on there.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
And then the next day he was a household name.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
That couldn't happen today, though, because there's so much content
and so many people uh uh, you know, competing for eyeballs.
Elvis would Elvis would have just been another Uh. If
Elvis came out today, he'd just be another singer. He
would not be what he is now. The timing and
(13:54):
his charithma, and he was.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
Very fortunate and talented to do what he did.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Well, I can definitely hear the influence in your music,
and yeah, for sure, how would you if someone had
never heard your music, how would you describe it?
Speaker 5 (14:16):
I don't. I used to do. I used to do,
you know, I just I don't.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
It's a lot of it's it's it's a it's a
task I don't want to take on, you know.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
I do.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
I do what I do, and I'm influenced by this
and that. But I don't have a genre I put
myself in. I just let the listener figure that out.
They can call it whatever they want to call it.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
You know.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
I write songs. I try to make them mean something.
I try to sometimes make people laugh. Sometimes some of
the things I say they make people cry. I'm just
a singer songwriter from People of Mississippi, a band I've
been touring with for about thirty years.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Oh wow, the same band.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Well, maybe let me let me back up, maybe slightly exaggerated.
I've got I got.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
My drummer's been with me for twenty eight years and
my keyboard player has been with me for twenty four years.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
Wow, And the other guys have been with me over
ten so that's awesome.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Yeah, it's you know, it's really it's not an easy
task keeping a band together for a lot of reasons.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
One of them they got to you know, they got.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
We're still playing a few sea but the CD is gone.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
It's done.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
It's just and so you know, we used to make
a lot of money off CD sales, but now that
that's gone, you have to really buckle down and build
your audience.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
With social media things like I'm doing today.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
If you don't blow their mind, if you don't really
make it, only if you don't really put on a
good show, they will come back. And me and my band,
we take a lot of pride in working on our show.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
Every night.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
When the show is over, we might say, man, that
sounded good what you did. I like what you did
on that little guitar field or whatever. But then there's
other times we got to say, you know, hey, man,
you get might let's look at what we play it
on such and such, and let's change such and such
and and.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
And we work on the show.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
We make it because, like I said, in today's world,
where physical records aren't saying, you got to put on
a really great show that people will remember shared with
their friends. And you know, I've been for the last
three or four months, I have literally posted on social
(17:11):
media some sort of content, content every single day. And
when I I mean, I'm not a world famous person
like a lot of people, but you know, just just in.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
A few months, I have making the posts every day.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Just in the last few months, I've gained over I've
got fifteen thousand new followers.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
Oh wow, new followers.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
And so being consistent and putting stuff out and being entertaining,
putting on a good show, that's all the weapons we
got to fight with, right now.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Well, I did enjoy your yard, cell I know right
real that you put out.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
You're entertaining, all right, you sure are? I like that?
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Well, thank god, I don't know which one you're talking about,
because I've done a whole bunch of Well the one.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Where you had an old buddy and he bought your
not you a knife.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
Oh yeah, I saw it.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Well, I went to a yard there and there was
a pocket knife I wanted and it wouldn't open right.
And I said to the man that was selling, I said, man,
this this blade on the open right, And he said, well,
just give.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
Me a dollar for it. Then, so I was. I
was going to give him a dollar for it.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
And then this guy that I used to know that
I hadn't seen in years, says, i'll pay for it.
She was only a dollar, but it was a thought
that counted. And then and then I thought I remembered
him from elementary school. But I knew I remembered him
from somewhere. But I made a mistake. I told him,
(18:51):
didn't we used to work together? And he goes, no, No,
I'm sorry. I said, didn't we go to elementary school together?
He goes, no, but we worked together. And then then
I really did remember him working at the furniture fact
camp for twelve years and certain sales.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
It's just been a thing my family has always done.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
My parents, my sisters, we always we're ard sell people,
you know.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
And we didn't grow up rich, you know. We grew
up going to thrift stores. You know.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
To this day, I still go to the thrift stores
when I'm home and I look for stuff.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
I look for little, just silly.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Stuff, or I might I might find a shirt in
there that you find nowhere else.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
It's fine to hunt for stuff that you don't need.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
It really a shop, I know, right what do you
think is the most interesting thing you've ever found or
and purchased out of yard cell? Oh?
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Man, that's a hard one. Well not too long. A
couple of weeks ago, I found a two thousand and
eight Hillary Clinton pocket knife. It had, yeah, it was
a pocket knife. It was a locked blade pocket knife,
(20:12):
and it had uh.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
Hillary Clinton's face on it.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
And I thought when I looked at that knife, I
thought to myself, if I've got this knife with me,
nobody can stop me. I'm unstoppable because between between the
knife itself and the spirit of Hillary, who was one
of the meanest women you've ever met in your life.
She would step on your head like a step This
(20:39):
woman is vicious.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
And so if I got a knife.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
It's got a vicious woman on it and her picture
on it, I'm unstoppable.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Oh does anybody want to admit that they got stabbed
with the Hillary Clinton blade?
Speaker 2 (20:52):
So I tell.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
You, you know, the other day, I was in uh
I can't remember or where I was shoot.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
Where was I?
Speaker 4 (21:02):
I was somewhere in Lake Tahoe, That's where I was.
And I was got up at six o'clock in the
morning and I went for a run and Right as
I was running, I ran by a big.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
Trash bend.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Right by that bend all at once was a big
old bear.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
I mean a big one.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
I mean it was so it was, it was so
close I could have touched it on the nose.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
I just snuck. I snuck up on it.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
It didn't see me, and I didn't see it, and
so we started each other. And so so I was
already jogging, so I just turned back. So I just
turned and watched and ran backwards so I could at least,
you know, face this bear in some kind of way
if I had to. And guess what in my pocket,
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I had my Hillary Clinton pocket and I pulled that
thing out. And as I was and I kept backing up,
I was not wanting to fight this bear. But I
told myself, if this bear kills me, when the fight's over,
he's gonna be missing an eye and uh.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Hillary clin.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Me, but he's gonna have my Hillary Clinton Knife's gonna
be stuck right in his eyeball. He's gonna and uh
but luckily he didn't move. He just stood there and
he he didn't do anything. I was just I got lucky, man.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
But anyway, I guess the Hillary Clinton knife is probably
my next to my children being born, probably the greatest
moment of my life.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
That's a pretty good one. That's maybe and your marriage,
maybe your wedding.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
You know, yeah that too, that too, that third Yeah,
so funny.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Wow, my goodness.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Man, that is for a better yard tale things than
I do. So yeah, yeah, I've never found anything that good.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Are you passionate about yard sale that you?
Speaker 3 (23:10):
I used to be when I was a teenager. I
used to go to vintage stores and yard tills and
all but all the time, but I just don't go
that much anymore.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
So, well, without the desire, there's no point in doing it,
that's right.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Yeah, those are some wise words wise more wise words,
wise word with Paul Thorn without the e yes, awesome. Well,
we're super excited that you're coming back. That's what I
was going to ask you. How many times you probably
don't know, we're trying to count how many times you
think we already asked him that We asked him how
many times he's been.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Or no, we asked him the last time he was here? Yeah,
how many times? It's a different place?
Speaker 5 (23:51):
What place are we talking about?
Speaker 3 (23:53):
The song at the Shelby County Yards.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Who am I talking to?
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Yeah, the Shelby County Yards, Counts of the Song Theater
in Colombiana, Columbiana, Alabama.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
You know what, I'm being completely honest. I know I
know that place. I can, but I can't see it.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
In my head.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
That's okay.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
Well, I mean I do about one hundred and forty
shows a year. Sure, sometimes sometimes it's hard to remember them, right,
but when but when I get there and I see them,
it all comes back to me.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
So you'll be able to answer that on September nineteenth.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Yeah, it's gonna be fun, So it will be Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Yeah, this gonna be a good show.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
If I said it on the last couple of shows
and they were really good. So I'm looking forward to
you coming back again.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
Well, which one I get them? Which one of these,
Lendsy and which one of the year the Girl in
the Blacks last week?
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (24:53):
And Lindsey, Yes, with the punctuality problem, great and the
great shure.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
I'm just gonna start introducing myself as that I'm high
Lindsay with a punctuality problem. But it is true I
have a punctuality problem, So I can't lie.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
My wife's like that.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
My wife does everything at the last She's a wonderful lady,
but she does everything at the last minute, and she's
always in a panic to be anywhere on time.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
Yep, does that describe you, Lindsey.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
But every once in a while, I will have a
very rare day where I get up early. Everything's going good,
I'm not struggling. I'm there early.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
So wrong a couple of times at work a few times.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
Well, if you could turn if you could turn that
isolated incident into regular behavior, you be on a good path.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Sure you should be my father.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
He would agree with you so much.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Well, thank you so much for joining us today. It's
been very entertaining, Paul.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
I love you guys. Love when I saw you. Yeah,
and then when I.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
When y'all are y'all coming to the show.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Yeah, we'll be there, We'll be okay, Lindley.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
Is gonna be a test for you?
Speaker 3 (26:13):
I will not.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
Why I don't get there at the last minute.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Well, for the shows, I always get there at least
like an hour before the door's open.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
So I get there about two hours before. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
So okay, but look forward to it.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Well, Paul, can you tell our people where they can
find you on all this wonderful content that you're putting
out with your yard cells And that's right.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
You can find me on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. That's
the three that I'm on and I'm posting every day.
And it's just like my posts are just like being married.
Some of them are good, some of them are not.
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I still, you know, it's like, you know, some of
my videos are pretty entertaining. It's like anything else. It's
hit and miss. But I show up right and I
give up myself and I hope people will join up.
And because we I have.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
A lot of fun on there doing all that social
media stuff. You can keep up with my you can
keep up with my music, you know.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
That's That's what I'm really promoting here is is my
band and doing the shows all over the countries, right,
and so all that stuffs on social media, and so
I encourage everybody to join and follow us.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
That's right, Yeah, and come see them. Get your tickets soon.
It's on September nineteenth, Columbiana Song Theater, seven thirty.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Doors open at seven that's.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
Right, Lindsey, Right, Lindsay right down seven pm.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Yes, but I'm going to be there at five thirties.
She's gonna yes, I'll make sure she's there, got it.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
We'll see, We'll see.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
I'll be there.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
I'm yes, I'm gonna be sitting at that back door,
waiting for you, Yes, waiting for you.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
I'm be there before soundcheck. You just watch out now
if you get.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
A dream, I have the purpose.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Pray no Hillary Clinton knife Yeah, you just call that
Hillary Clinton knife out and I'll back I'll back away.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
I just use that on Bear.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
I don't use that on people like Okay, it's my
bear and nye.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Okay the Bear Knight, the bar knighte awesome. Well, it's
been fun having you, Lindsey. Where can they find us?
Speaker 3 (28:40):
You can find us at Shelby County Arts Council dot com.
That's where you can purchase tickets to this show with
the Arts Council Ladies. Conversations with Creatives is on YouTube,
Spotify and Apple Podcasts. You can find our instagram Shelby Underscore,
County Underscore Arts or the Arts Council Underscore Ladies who
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all on Instagram find us follow us like yeah, I
like us, like us please like cribe do I love I.
Speaker 5 (29:08):
Went past like I love y'all now.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Thanks Paul, Right back at it. You got Paul.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Thorns, Yes, and we'll see you on September nineteenth.
Speaker 5 (29:20):
Didn't wait for y'all.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Yeah, be good bye bye everybody.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
Lady
Hello.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
On today's podcast, we have the very famous Paul Thorn.
He may be the most famous person we have had
on the air. No offense to anybody else.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Congratulations, Paul, Yay.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Stay too.
Speaker 4 (00:16):
Well, I'm glad I got invited to be on whatever
this is.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Welcome to Conversations with Creative.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
With the Arts Counsel.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Ladies.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
I'm Lindsay and I'm Leslie.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
And on today's show we have the one and only
Paul Thorn with no E right.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Well, yeah, my family was really poor and when I
was born, we couldn't afford.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
To eat, afford the drop the e.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Hey that's a good remember it, It's right, I love it.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Well, we're excited Paul's going to be He's been in
the Arts Council the Song Theater several times and he
will be back in action on September nineteenth, and we
cannot wait. And you better get your tickets because he
will sell out.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
It's like getting close to sold out now actually, so
you better hurry up.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yeah okay, but before hold on, Paul, before we let
you tell us all about you, we have something we
do every podcast.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
We ask a very important.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Question, a very important question. Are you ready for this
very important question.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
I'll see what I can do.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
All right, all right, I think, lindsay, I thought of
this last night. Usually I google these, but I came
up with us on on my own. If you were
a magician, what would your signature trick be?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Making here, I would make irritated, irritating people disappear.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Wow, I don't know if that's a magician or superpower. Yeah,
that's pretty cool. I got a couple on a list
if you want to practice. So yeah, I think you
have more than a I got a book, so you
don't want to get on her list?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Well, actually that's funny because that's kind of what I
chose as my trick as well. But I would I
would be at the magic show. I would make myself disappear,
and then I would just leave everybody to wonder what
was happening. Just leave the audience.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
Actually, you're actually your your your scenario is better than
mine because when you're around irritating people, really and truly
the best thing to do is just leave and don't
say nothing.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
There you go, just right irish, goodbye, goodbye.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
You don't need to resolve anything, Nope, just leave.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Yeah, sleep, Yeah, no question they can't ask you questions out.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
The block them on everything.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
There you go, there you go.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Change it from but let but be happy. Don't do
it with don't do it with anger and venom. That's
how you get set free, and that's how you get happy.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
There you.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
When you get them poison people out of your life,
you can get happy.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Then you're a.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Very wise magician. So right, do you have a signature
very gracious? I don't know my signature trick. I like
making people happy. So is there some kind of wizard
wee wizard.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Week wizards.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Wizard we Yes, Yeah, it's early wizardry to poof and
everybody's just smiling like me. Possibly the happy world. I
don't know, lame, but you know I'm going with it.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
That's nice though, but it's not realistic his magic, though.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
There's gonna be problems coming into your life every single day.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
I know.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
That's right, that's the human condition.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yeah, there was a song that I think it's on
your new album that it was something about that, like
problems don't troubles don't last or something.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Oh, it was a tough times don't last.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Look at it.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yeah. I was like, no, that's a good one. Because
I've had some doozies lately.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Yeah, it's getting better.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
There's there's a lot of words in your right.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
I didn't make up that phrase tough times don't last,
but I've heard it all my life and it's such
a good thing to hold on to it. But the
second half, the second half of that phrase is what
the real money shot is. It says tough times don't last,
tough people do. Yeah, And it's just.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Saying, you know it is going to be hard and.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
You are going to get knocked down in life, but
your goal is to get back up.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
And you know it's Ah, that's just my philosophy.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
And like, because I have had a lot more failures
in my life than I have successes, So I just
cling to those successes and I let that other stuff go.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
I think that's good.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
That's a good lesson for today Today's lesson from Paul
horne Hey. That leads us into let's learn about your
We call it the villain origin story. Tell us about
do we want to ask this first though? Yeah, we
we have a troubling question when we googled you. That
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could go a lot of ways, couldn't it. But about
where you're from. Now, don't tell us yet, because we're
gonna We're going to ask it in a question for him.
We have multiple choice.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Okay, are you ready to answer? Yes, ma'am Lindy Okay.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
So A is Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
B is Tupelo, Mississippi, C is neither, D is both.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
Are yes?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
We're asking to answer AB.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
I was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin. O. My father was
a Pentecostal preacher, and my dad was pastoring a church
in Kenosha. But when I was born, my dad got
transferred to another church, which was in Tupelo, Mississippi.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Oka.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
You go.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Even though I was born in Tupelo, I don't have
any memory of I mean, born in Kenosha, I have
no I have no memory of it because I was
an infant when I was there. You know, God, all
my memories are from the Tupelo area.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Tuplo. I didn't detect any like Wisconsin accents.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
So yeah, yeah, I don't know. I have a very
sick uh Southern accent.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
But can you can you do a Wisconsin accent?
Speaker 5 (07:12):
I don't think I can.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
We were practicing ours yesterday, guys.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
See, guys, let's go to Lake Michigan and have a dip.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Come on, Lindsay. Lindsay had a pretty good one.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Did you say, was it?
Speaker 1 (07:25):
I don't know. I think he said, guys, let's.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Go down to the river and have a soda a sa.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Yeah, yeah, that would be great.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
That'd be great.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Leslie's goes into.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Like, I don't know, like that'd be great.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
When it's what I said, it sounds creepy.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
All right, Well when did you start music?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Tell us all about two polo Mississippi man right there
with Elvis.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Right yes, where Elvis was born. Yeah, buds, I never
met the guy, but I know so many. I know
so many people that did know Elvis and older people
that went to school with it.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
He was just another kid, you know, back in the day.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
And uh, I actually know this woman that she's an
old lady that works the hospital and back in her
younger days, she went to Elvis's house in Memphis, uh,
and heard Elvis made love in the jungle room and
(08:29):
then when he got done, he gave her a He
hired a limousine to take her back to Tupelo.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Nice in that sweet sweet I like a gentleman, what
a gentleman.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
A gentleman.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
How you look at it, it's almost like he hit
it and quit it.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
You know, that doesn't sound sound like.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
He was just a man.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
He was just a man, and he had a lot
of availabilities. Put yourself in his shoes.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Boy, that's a great way to start. I love it.
I love it.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Tell us about your musicians.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
No before? Oh yeah, a musician. Oh that's right, you were.
You had a boxing career.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
I forgot about this.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
I want to know about this boxing career.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Well, I was a professional boxer in nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
You girl from a different generation. I doubt you eight.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I was born earlier.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Yeah, but was a world class I was a world
class box at the one time. And you know, I
was good, but I was not great. And there's a difference,
you know, in any in any sport. You know, there's
a lot of great basketball players, but there's only one
Michael Jordan. It's that kind of thing. I was good,
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but I couldn't. I couldn't become a champion because I
just didn't have that little extra something that it takes
to be a champion. But I took it as far
as I could. And when I returned retired from boxing.
I'm most known for a fight I lost in nineteen
eighty eight.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
I fought Roberto Durant.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Anybody, anybody my age knows who that is that followed boxing,
and he was one of the greats.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
And I gave it a good shot.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
But at the end of the fight, they stopped the
fight after six rounds because I had a horrific cut.
There was blood was flowing into my eye, so they
stopped the fight.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
But you know, I gave it my all.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
But my gi Yeah, we read about that one. What's
that we read about that one?
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Yeah, it's it's just it is what it is.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
I did my best, but at a certain point I
realized I wasn't going to be a champion. So there
was no need to go or any further because I
took it as far as I could take it, and
so I went back into what I'd always done, you know, music. Yeah,
I grew up, grew up singing in church, just like
Elvis did.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
You know, Well, I think.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
That has probably had a lot of influence on your
music because there's a lot of like gospel kind of
sounds in your music from.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
A I grew up.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
I grew up going to a lot of the same
churches that Elvis actually went to himself. Uh, there was
there's two types of churches to this day. Uh, it's
there's a uh, not not exclusively, but for the most part,
you have churches where white people attend and you have
(11:44):
churches where black people attend. It's not a hate each
other kind of thing. It's they have different styles of
doing things. You know, the music I learned at the
at the at the white folks church, it was like
country Western gospel. It sounded like it almost sounds like
country western, but it's gospel lyrics.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
But you go to black church and they have a
different type of.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Rhythm, so like it's almost like it's almost like a
jungle beat. It's just really it's really awesome that the music,
the rhythm and blues.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
Type of music that they played at the black church.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
And I got to sit at the feet of a
lot of people who did those things, and and that's
really really what was the foundation of my musical abilities
is the going to the black churches and the white churches.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Wow, do you have any one person or a couple
of people that really influenced your music and the way you.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Play and.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Well, I have not to sound cliche, but uh, Elvis
was a big influence on me. Yeah, you know, I
grew I remember, I remember exactly where I was when
he died.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
You know I was. I was at a babysitter's house
and she was a acost The.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Lady had her hair all piled up on top, like
and Pentecostal people ladies do. And when she heard the news,
she just broke down sobbing and crying. And uh, but Elvis, Uh,
what Elvis did and what he accomplished will never.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
Be done again.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
And so you know, when when Elvis came out, there
was only three TV shows or three three TV channels,
and when he got on the s Sullivan Show, every
person in the whole country saw him on there.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
And then the next day he was a household name.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
That couldn't happen today, though, because there's so much content
and so many people uh uh, you know, competing for eyeballs.
Elvis would Elvis would have just been another Uh. If
Elvis came out today, he'd just be another singer. He
would not be what he is now. The timing and
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his charithma, and he was.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
Very fortunate and talented to do what he did.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Well, I can definitely hear the influence in your music,
and yeah, for sure, how would you if someone had
never heard your music, how would you describe it?
Speaker 5 (14:16):
I don't. I used to do. I used to do,
you know, I just I don't.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
It's a lot of it's it's it's a it's a
task I don't want to take on, you know.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
I do.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
I do what I do, and I'm influenced by this
and that. But I don't have a genre I put
myself in. I just let the listener figure that out.
They can call it whatever they want to call it.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
You know.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
I write songs. I try to make them mean something.
I try to sometimes make people laugh. Sometimes some of
the things I say they make people cry. I'm just
a singer songwriter from People of Mississippi, a band I've
been touring with for about thirty years.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Oh wow, the same band.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Well, maybe let me let me back up, maybe slightly exaggerated.
I've got I got.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
My drummer's been with me for twenty eight years and
my keyboard player has been with me for twenty four years.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
Wow, And the other guys have been with me over
ten so that's awesome.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Yeah, it's you know, it's really it's not an easy
task keeping a band together for a lot of reasons.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
One of them they got to you know, they got.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
We're still playing a few sea but the CD is gone.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
It's done.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
It's just and so you know, we used to make
a lot of money off CD sales, but now that
that's gone, you have to really buckle down and build
your audience.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
With social media things like I'm doing today.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
If you don't blow their mind, if you don't really
make it, only if you don't really put on a
good show, they will come back. And me and my band,
we take a lot of pride in working on our show.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
Every night.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
When the show is over, we might say, man, that
sounded good what you did. I like what you did
on that little guitar field or whatever. But then there's
other times we got to say, you know, hey, man,
you get might let's look at what we play it
on such and such, and let's change such and such
and and.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
And we work on the show.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
We make it because, like I said, in today's world,
where physical records aren't saying, you got to put on
a really great show that people will remember shared with
their friends. And you know, I've been for the last
three or four months, I have literally posted on social
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media some sort of content, content every single day. And
when I I mean, I'm not a world famous person
like a lot of people, but you know, just just in.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
A few months, I have making the posts every day.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Just in the last few months, I've gained over I've
got fifteen thousand new followers.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
Oh wow, new followers.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
And so being consistent and putting stuff out and being entertaining,
putting on a good show, that's all the weapons we
got to fight with, right now.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Well, I did enjoy your yard, cell I know right
real that you put out.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
You're entertaining, all right, you sure are? I like that?
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Well, thank god, I don't know which one you're talking about,
because I've done a whole bunch of Well the one.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Where you had an old buddy and he bought your
not you a knife.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
Oh yeah, I saw it.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Well, I went to a yard there and there was
a pocket knife I wanted and it wouldn't open right.
And I said to the man that was selling, I said, man,
this this blade on the open right, And he said, well,
just give.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
Me a dollar for it. Then, so I was. I
was going to give him a dollar for it.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
And then this guy that I used to know that
I hadn't seen in years, says, i'll pay for it.
She was only a dollar, but it was a thought
that counted. And then and then I thought I remembered
him from elementary school. But I knew I remembered him
from somewhere. But I made a mistake. I told him,
(18:51):
didn't we used to work together? And he goes, no, No,
I'm sorry. I said, didn't we go to elementary school together?
He goes, no, but we worked together. And then then
I really did remember him working at the furniture fact
camp for twelve years and certain sales.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
It's just been a thing my family has always done.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
My parents, my sisters, we always we're ard sell people,
you know.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
And we didn't grow up rich, you know. We grew
up going to thrift stores. You know.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
To this day, I still go to the thrift stores
when I'm home and I look for stuff.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
I look for little, just silly.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Stuff, or I might I might find a shirt in
there that you find nowhere else.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
It's fine to hunt for stuff that you don't need.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
It really a shop, I know, right what do you
think is the most interesting thing you've ever found or
and purchased out of yard cell? Oh?
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Man, that's a hard one. Well not too long. A
couple of weeks ago, I found a two thousand and
eight Hillary Clinton pocket knife. It had, yeah, it was
a pocket knife. It was a locked blade pocket knife,
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and it had uh.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
Hillary Clinton's face on it.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
And I thought when I looked at that knife, I
thought to myself, if I've got this knife with me,
nobody can stop me. I'm unstoppable because between between the
knife itself and the spirit of Hillary, who was one
of the meanest women you've ever met in your life.
She would step on your head like a step This
(20:39):
woman is vicious.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
And so if I got a knife.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
It's got a vicious woman on it and her picture
on it, I'm unstoppable.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Oh does anybody want to admit that they got stabbed
with the Hillary Clinton blade?
Speaker 2 (20:52):
So I tell.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
You, you know, the other day, I was in uh
I can't remember or where I was shoot.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
Where was I?
Speaker 4 (21:02):
I was somewhere in Lake Tahoe, That's where I was.
And I was got up at six o'clock in the
morning and I went for a run and Right as
I was running, I ran by a big.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
Trash bend.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Right by that bend all at once was a big
old bear.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
I mean a big one.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
I mean it was so it was, it was so
close I could have touched it on the nose.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
I just snuck. I snuck up on it.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
It didn't see me, and I didn't see it, and
so we started each other. And so so I was
already jogging, so I just turned back. So I just
turned and watched and ran backwards so I could at least,
you know, face this bear in some kind of way
if I had to. And guess what in my pocket,
(21:57):
I had my Hillary Clinton pocket and I pulled that
thing out. And as I was and I kept backing up,
I was not wanting to fight this bear. But I
told myself, if this bear kills me, when the fight's over,
he's gonna be missing an eye and uh.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Hillary clin.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Me, but he's gonna have my Hillary Clinton Knife's gonna
be stuck right in his eyeball. He's gonna and uh
but luckily he didn't move. He just stood there and
he he didn't do anything. I was just I got lucky, man.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
But anyway, I guess the Hillary Clinton knife is probably
my next to my children being born, probably the greatest
moment of my life.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
That's a pretty good one. That's maybe and your marriage,
maybe your wedding.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
You know, yeah that too, that too, that third Yeah,
so funny.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Wow, my goodness.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Man, that is for a better yard tale things than
I do. So yeah, yeah, I've never found anything that good.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Are you passionate about yard sale that you?
Speaker 3 (23:10):
I used to be when I was a teenager. I
used to go to vintage stores and yard tills and
all but all the time, but I just don't go
that much anymore.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
So, well, without the desire, there's no point in doing it,
that's right.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Yeah, those are some wise words wise more wise words,
wise word with Paul Thorn without the e yes, awesome. Well,
we're super excited that you're coming back. That's what I
was going to ask you. How many times you probably
don't know, we're trying to count how many times you
think we already asked him that We asked him how
many times he's been.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Or no, we asked him the last time he was here? Yeah,
how many times? It's a different place?
Speaker 5 (23:51):
What place are we talking about?
Speaker 3 (23:53):
The song at the Shelby County Yards.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Who am I talking to?
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Yeah, the Shelby County Yards, Counts of the Song Theater
in Colombiana, Columbiana, Alabama.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
You know what, I'm being completely honest. I know I
know that place. I can, but I can't see it.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
In my head.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
That's okay.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
Well, I mean I do about one hundred and forty
shows a year. Sure, sometimes sometimes it's hard to remember them, right,
but when but when I get there and I see them,
it all comes back to me.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
So you'll be able to answer that on September nineteenth.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Yeah, it's gonna be fun, So it will be Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Yeah, this gonna be a good show.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
If I said it on the last couple of shows
and they were really good. So I'm looking forward to
you coming back again.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
Well, which one I get them? Which one of these,
Lendsy and which one of the year the Girl in
the Blacks last week?
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (24:53):
And Lindsey, Yes, with the punctuality problem, great and the
great shure.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
I'm just gonna start introducing myself as that I'm high
Lindsay with a punctuality problem. But it is true I
have a punctuality problem, So I can't lie.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
My wife's like that.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
My wife does everything at the last She's a wonderful lady,
but she does everything at the last minute, and she's
always in a panic to be anywhere on time.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
Yep, does that describe you, Lindsey.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
But every once in a while, I will have a
very rare day where I get up early. Everything's going good,
I'm not struggling. I'm there early.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
So wrong a couple of times at work a few times.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
Well, if you could turn if you could turn that
isolated incident into regular behavior, you be on a good path.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Sure you should be my father.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
He would agree with you so much.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Well, thank you so much for joining us today. It's
been very entertaining, Paul.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
I love you guys. Love when I saw you. Yeah,
and then when I.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
When y'all are y'all coming to the show.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Yeah, we'll be there, We'll be okay, Lindley.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
Is gonna be a test for you?
Speaker 3 (26:13):
I will not.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
Why I don't get there at the last minute.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Well, for the shows, I always get there at least
like an hour before the door's open.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
So I get there about two hours before. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
So okay, but look forward to it.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Well, Paul, can you tell our people where they can
find you on all this wonderful content that you're putting
out with your yard cells And that's right.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
You can find me on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. That's
the three that I'm on and I'm posting every day.
And it's just like my posts are just like being married.
Some of them are good, some of them are not.
(27:03):
I still, you know, it's like, you know, some of
my videos are pretty entertaining. It's like anything else. It's
hit and miss. But I show up right and I
give up myself and I hope people will join up.
And because we I have.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
A lot of fun on there doing all that social
media stuff. You can keep up with my you can
keep up with my music, you know.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
That's That's what I'm really promoting here is is my
band and doing the shows all over the countries, right,
and so all that stuffs on social media, and so
I encourage everybody to join and follow us.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
That's right, Yeah, and come see them. Get your tickets soon.
It's on September nineteenth, Columbiana Song Theater, seven thirty.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Doors open at seven that's.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
Right, Lindsey, Right, Lindsay right down seven pm.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Yes, but I'm going to be there at five thirties.
She's gonna yes, I'll make sure she's there, got it.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
We'll see, We'll see.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
I'll be there.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
I'm yes, I'm gonna be sitting at that back door,
waiting for you, Yes, waiting for you.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
I'm be there before soundcheck. You just watch out now
if you get.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
A dream, I have the purpose.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Pray no Hillary Clinton knife Yeah, you just call that
Hillary Clinton knife out and I'll back I'll back away.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
I just use that on Bear.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
I don't use that on people like Okay, it's my
bear and nye.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Okay the Bear Knight, the bar knighte awesome. Well, it's
been fun having you, Lindsey. Where can they find us?
Speaker 3 (28:40):
You can find us at Shelby County Arts Council dot com.
That's where you can purchase tickets to this show with
the Arts Council Ladies. Conversations with Creatives is on YouTube,
Spotify and Apple Podcasts. You can find our instagram Shelby Underscore,
County Underscore Arts or the Arts Council Underscore Ladies who
(29:00):
all on Instagram find us follow us like yeah, I
like us, like us please like cribe do I love I.
Speaker 5 (29:08):
Went past like I love y'all now.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Thanks Paul, Right back at it. You got Paul.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Thorns, Yes, and we'll see you on September nineteenth.
Speaker 5 (29:20):
Didn't wait for y'all.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Yeah, be good bye bye everybody.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
Lady
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