Emmy Award Winning Writer Rita Mae Brown On "What's Barking Local!"

[Music] guys welcome to what's barking local thank you kindly for joining us on a gorgeous yet humid Wednesday afternoon across Charlottesville's central Virginia the Commonwealth in the world what's barking local the epicenter or the water cooler for everything animal related here in our backyard in our home and it's powered by the fabulous folks at animal connection for more than 17 years animal connection has been the go-to the market leader for everything all natural pet related in central Virginia on that note let's welcome the Pioneer the visionary the enterprising businesswoman Patti Bowden to the show she is looking stunning right here on fresh from a buying trip in hot Hotlanta and it was hot talk to us about the week that was for you and your business well there was kind of a whirlwind week and we like to go to trade shows either in New York or Atlanta Dallas Denver San Francisco you know we try to go to a different regional but international trade show every year just to get great ideas look at display see what else is out there that could be pet related but maybe taken in a different way but you know definitely things cool stuff restore displays and wait to see my big red pickup Chuck I'm very excited about the the stores big red pickup Chuck so we spent three days literally I was on a show floor for 14 hours on Wednesday and about 11 hours on Thursday so my dogs were barking but it was worth it and Christmas is purchased for good dogs and cats and people who love them and and we're ready there's gonna be some really unique things that nobody else is good you know television and shows like Shark Tank make entrepreneurship seemed glamorous spectacular and the life of a rock star in a lot of ways it's quite the opposite Pattie it's it's got its days and it's got its days I can totally really you know so you are back in Charles Ville what can we expect for animal connection throughout 2019 well let's see well we did have our first pups and pints over at three knots brewery and it was a little bit rainy thunderstorm a Thursday night but the good news is they're going to be doing it every Thursday night for the rest of this month and hopefully we can get them to do it next month for August but show up at three knots there'll be bags of dog treats waiting for you and some really good beers and let's see we've got free frozen treat weekend all weekend long we're gonna be spotlighting some of the primal pet foods edible elixirs and some really cool combinations of yogurt and bacon and blueberries and sweet potatoes and butternut squash and yummy things that dogs alike and they're frozen and very cooling you know it's perfect for this kind of weather but it's all free all weekend long I love it that's the first sizzle reel right there we will send a snap shot of what to expect from animal connection and I think what you've done an exceptional job with your show is showcasing and championing the animal community Rita Mae brown our guest and we'll go to the studio cam and welcome read it - the show epitomizes that oh my gosh well I met Rita Mae brown many years ago in foxhunting or as we prefer to call it fox chasing we're chasing scent not not hurting little animals but I became a member of Oakridge fox hunt Club who has definitely the world's best tailgate parties after any event and we like parties we do like parties and Rita Mae is a really fun author she writes a sneaky pie Brown series of mysteries and the sister Jane horse related mysteries among gosh a lot of other books I mean her list is long of the things that she's written and what a variety and and so you know she's been in Charlotte so a long time and she knows horses and Hounds and local color and Laura and gossip and all kinds of fun things so let's boogie I love it so that's the start of the second season Patty's introduction to read ma I'm gonna throw this to you and we will get out of the way who what when where and why of Rita Mae brown all right I first saw Charlotte on 1949 and down at the old CNO train station and mules took your they put they were mule wagons they put your bags on it we would come in the summers because part of the family was down here and in those days all the young men wore coats and ties I mean that people were really very fancy yeah and I loved Virginia now my mother was a Marylander and so mother said oh honey let me tell you something about Virginia oh you know one out of every four Virginia's is mentally ill you'd think of your three best friends if they're alright it's you she didn't want me to come down but it was okay at all it all worked out but we I mean again Patty and I did meet fox hunting and fox hunting is an unusual sport and that somebody with millions of dollars can be riding next to someone that doesn't have two cents exactly and it doesn't matter it really does is a great equalizer yeah you either can ride the horse you can that's really matter who you are and and that I think that's the thing I love about it most and also it can't be besmirched commercially you're never gonna see somebody in the hunt field with an advertisement on their horses flank and all the other sports that I grew up with aunt patty - I mean they've all literally been ruined by money by my standards maybe y'all don't think so but it was fun and you learn a lot what what I love and what I try to write about miss sister Jane series is to get well sure you want people to be entertained but you want them to be thinking about the environment exactly and the way you describe the animals I mean she put such a personality to the animals in fact you know describing things like foxes like foxing you know how do you find a fox ten well you can smell it you can look for it they like to collect I nee fing you know just the way she describes animals and what they like to do and puts voices to the hounds and to the barn dogs and the barn cats and personification exactly it's a real feel well one of the things that that science is just now catching up because before it was I don't know what it is I don't know if that's the Puritan background or whatever the point was animals like Skinner remember BF Skinner they're not supposed to have any personality they're just driven by need no I mean anybody out there who has a pet knows their problem yeah they have big personalities and somehow have a little or they are the bigger the person you know and now science is finally catching up like and even about language that one of the Hungarian universities has done studies that animals dogs they've focused on dogs learn language the same way humans do the left side is logic the right side is emotion isn't that incredible yeah somebody say this and you have a child so I don't know about this but somebody said that they believed that all babies and all all puppies kittens you know whatever it is young you have a command of every languages in the world really anytime and it's just how you're raised to what you develop that I mean can you imagine if you could really do that I mean I thought that was kind of an interesting concept a little nature versus nurture there could be you have written over 15 novels actually 68 68 69 'this is in that FedEx box over there being shipped I'm old I'm old you know this doesn't count the screenplays put that into perspective for us I mean that is incredible what I was a classics major in college Greek and Latin classics in English and I was one of the beginners of the women's movement you know all this was going on and I couldn't get a job when I graduated because they were afraid I would disrupt the school like I would organize the women I mean it was really I mean I really got knocked around so I thought I've got to do something nobody's gonna hire me so I know well I maybe I can write you know maybe I can try and so the first book ever would be free chingle became an overnight sensation it was the funniest thing in the world I woke up one morning and I was I wouldn't say famous but I was sure notorious has it always come easy riding yes really sure I know a Greek and Latin why wouldn't it I having a tremendous foundation that's why I am furious they took Latin out of schools mm-hmm I mean it's the basis of all Western culture not just our language every language yep mm-hmm when you are what is what is your path to inspiration for writing some folks it's getting their mind right maybe it's an adult beverage some folks have to go to their serene their happy place some folks oh well how do you get inspiration all I have to do is wake up really fresh my house is less I mean I look at the Blue Ridge Mountains there's there's rocks in those mountains a billion years old what am i next to that you know what you know and I have this one dog rescue dog he's crippled he has a twisted spine and he is happy about life and he just goes through the day I got a little cart for him it doesn't work he falls over he can't get out so I just let him go you know and he he's part of the family and I look at it and I think you know what like that's what you make it absolutely that's one thing I really enjoyed too much about hunting especially when we go to your farm is you know some 500 with maybe five or six other hunts in my life and you know sometimes it's you know very stuffy and proper and whatnot but I love the fact that all the dogs are out I mean every size shape I mean yes yes you've got the the official hounds but all the other guys come along to I mean you never know what's gonna happen and it's really fun it's just great to see how joyful they are about being outside and being it's like a big party well it is a big party I think about it it's a big win Lloyd Red Rock counts she lets her pug go with them know that you're not supposed to do this of course but I can't help but besides reached I can't keep him in but my my idea of a great day of course is to be with animals but to be hunting the house and to turn around and see everybody's smiling oh yeah it's just great you know you don't get old I'm Chuck beagles riding at 91 years old right and he looks great I will have the energy and the charisma and the like janessa quoi of like a 25 year old well that's very nice to say but I look in the mirror and I realize plastic surgery won't do it I need taxidermy it's going too far and then I look at some of the congressman you know well no we should well your live for the world Reader Bay you can certainly talk about that if you like well I mean I think we're all concerned with where we are and and I pray for congressman but you know what I pray for I pray they get a Velcro Reggie because they are doing it you know I look at how do those people get in there yeah my goal is imagine if you were standing at the airport you know dollar sir Reagan a plane comes in from Iowa just pick two people off I would say you're the senators for Iowa they do better than the ones that got now because they'd be real people may be worthy I've been good I got I must say I mean I'm not in despair you might as well find the humor in something it is it sometimes it is hard to believe I love it that right there I think it's a perfect ending to the second sizzle reel right there because that was absolutely fabulous let me throw this to you here central Virginia Albemarle County Afton the community and totality what do you love about this place well it's it's a mixed blessing I mean it's like any long-term relationship there's love and hate obviously I've always hated the snottiness to be blunt mm-hm and Patty knows it I mean it there there's that element here there are people what we call come here so you think they can buy their way in I don't like that either money it's not really what's going to get you get you going here you need let me put it this way there's a real easy way to understand Charlottesville and and this part of Virginia a Yankee will tell you how smart you I mean Yankee will tell you how smart he is a southerner will tell you how smart you are and that's the ethos of central Virginia a quietness sort of hospitality well in US and a sly humor like we would never call the City Council people whose IQs would make a good golf score that would be rude but you can call them our Civic worthies which in a way is the same thing that's a very southern well what did the Civic worthies do today I love that about Charlotte's well I love the fact that there's fabulous horse people here and it's beautiful but we have not been very good about preserving what we have I mean I don't know how you feel what specifically we've destroyed some of the old buildings which I wish we had not we've built some really ugly way and we're allowing our countryside to be somewhat damaged I mean we have to have better and I don't mean people shouldn't live and build beautiful houses but I think we need to be a little more alert to our water table what gets into the one because all of those beautiful lawns all of that fertilizer and stuff and the poison gets into your water table yep water sheds a big deal yeah oh yeah and and we got to think about these things and and we're a little behind on it I mean we are well partly because we've had it too good our problems in central Virginia are really the problems of Plenty you know we have a fairly decent soil it's not Iowa but it's fairly decent we have all the water we need we have beauty we have four distinct fabulous seasons oh yeah I mean how can you I could do with three this one's this week challenge and the tough part is we have this through August but you know at the same time we're above the mud so what can we complain it but it's true that's true it could be worse how about the you've touched on this a little bit and you guys have this in common the horse aspect of the community and a lot of folks we have on the show because Patti is well-connected from that community horse people tend to be very practical and they tend to be environmentalists whether they say it or not you can't not but you're out there even if you're not a Fox Center even if let's say you're a show ring rider you see everything I think the most remarkable thing about horse people but we are medium-sized predators any animal that has its eyes in the middle of its head is a predator because we have to focus on our prey any animal with eyes on the side of its head is a prey animal so a horse is a large prey animal here's the medium-sized predator having to understand the mind of a large prey animal and a lot of people don't get it they're up there well why does it do this well why does the horse do that but if they will humble themselves and learn how a horse thinks and meet him halfway what's really beautiful is the horses they're waiting for you that's the truth I my one of my mentors Buck brandman who I'm gonna get to ride with next week when my favorite analogies or in chose he has to his seminars or clinics whatever you want to call him but he's just talking about horses and the fact that you know we are predators and we were asking these horses to let us get on their back in a predator position where an animal might you know dig their claws in go for the jugular you know hold on to that and then oh and by the way we're gonna strap hides of dead animals on you and we're gonna ride you you know and you've got to have a lot of trust from an animal to be able to do things like this oh yeah there we go also once you once you have that bond it's irrational it's like falling in love it really is what I mean irrational well all of what gets you to be a good lawyer or a good businessman it's not necessarily gonna help you with horses or hounds you have to look at things in a different way it's very it's ultimately very spiritual which is the one aspect of course people don't want to talk about because it makes you sound like a mush ball but it is its spiritual and you connect to the animal and you connect to other people one of the great things I love about horse people is we can cuss one another like a dog I mean we can really lose our tempers but if you if you need people there they are lovin you told a fabulous story off air of man of war oh sure mana Manoir was first lets everybody know III we know hello folks Man O'War man o greatest thoroughbred of all time Man O'War it would I guess yes the mostest horse with the mostest want everything and the other two I would say would be of course Secretariat area and citation right at that but that's me somebody might have a different list anyway there was a very arrogant driven guy Samuel riddle who lived around York County Pennsylvania in that mason-dixon line which is of course where I have my family's from so that's how I know the story and he got this horse for his wife to hunt and it was Man O'War very young and it just wasn't quite he could do it but the groom said well mr. riddle I think that horse should go to the track and by god it did but to give you a clue to the kind of man riddle was he finally left York County because he infuriated all the amateur Amish as well as the people that lived there so he has me at a woman ORS want everything and he wouldn't really breed Manowar to too many good mares he wanted to breed her to his own so we did not get the full use that's another thing people don't understand you to capital we did not get the full use of the genetic capital but you know it there's some out there but you have to kind of look for it yeah that's right Wow I love that story because I it put it personified and put some background to a horse that we really only know from mainstream media you have offered perspective of like behind the scenes and you do it and in such a way that is not just tied a man-of-war do not just tie to your books but just about every way you communicate I just love that skill that you have well you know I wish I mean I wish there were a bunch of us here that were horse people because everything comes up that's one of the great thing there's no political correctness among horse people you sit down and you say what you think and you get it out there and it can be just like a squirrel in your dryer I mean things can be spinning around pretty fast but because people hear one another out we can find a consensus I mean you've been to some terrific I mean you know what some of them board fights are like it works out and and that is my fear is where we're losing the face-to-face contact in our country because she can't because of this yeah you can't work things out on the computer you have to sit down with somebody well I find it so refreshing that you don't have a computer no of course not I'm that great Rita Mae brown does not have a computer right that's amazing you don't need it I don't know you rarely rarely use a cell phone how do you how do you write your books typewriter my mom blunt diplomat pen and a piece of paper really yep and then when you're done with the book I guess you mail the main you oh no they die you give it to a time I gave it to a wonderful typist hers first his first name is joy and she is and she she gets it going and I don't know how she struggles with some of this handwriting but she does but it's it's I mean well there's two reasons one to bring the optic fiber to my house would be eight thousand dollars and this is after yeah I don't really need it I mean firewood says it's gonna do a Firefly or whatever but we'll see but the other thing is I don't I don't want to look at a screen I don't want to do that to my eyes it's like I won't listen to rock music I don't want to do that to my ears what's your music choice Gregorian chants yes why what's very spiritual that's interesting I would have never thought I would never yeah but um well I mean I grew up in the church I guess that's part of it but on the witch row no no because the church I went to was very very old it was for the 1600s and the row you sat in was indicative of when your family got to the county well my family were sort of late we got there in 1622 there were people that had actually got in there early they were on a sign to sign rose well no it was a it was just like a spoke it was unexpressed okay yes but here I got to tell you a great Church story please my mother my mother was wild as a rat but she had impeccable manners okay which is that you can do that in the South okay well anyway so we have this gorgeous church we finally made money it was originally a log cabin it was this beautiful gorgeous Georgian Kurt I mean beautiful Church and so we're sitting in the fifth row and in front of us was the Mundus family and mrs. mundis would always process down the aisle there were two big aisles and we were on the right okay real sir one day my mother had had it she's real pearls of course there was biggest Robin's eggs just checking I mean it so she was I said one day mama had it and mother's sitting there and she says in her stage whisper this is a huge Church it has a balcony but you can hear her she says she's so good poor thing gosh no what are you great I think her mother knew my mother hilarious kelly died welcome to the show of Mary Lake thank you for joining us Lee RG thank you for joining us you have a lot of folks watching right now Rita Mae brown I'm curious as someone whose first career out of UVA was as a writer now I was a newspaper writer I'm always curious with someone who's as credentialed and as well alkylated as you are how you go about start to finish now we've touched on it a little bit with your inspiration we've touched on a little bit with your Montblanc and your paper what do you know you're done what do you know a book is finished what do you know when I'm help blind know if the book is gonna be a hit when you're done right having a clue really know and you're like let's put it out there I'm just having a good time I love the English language I really do I do and I'm fairly well-read obviously that my goal I remember one time I was giving a speech and somebody in the audience who knew of my educational background stood up and said why have you squandered your talent because I write I write commercial fiction and I you know I got the Emmy nominations and all that stuff and I I had a moment because I'm not really academic and I don't care about being intellectual you know lose your temper no of course not and I said ma'am if when I die people say I was the Will Rogers of literature I will I will have lived a good life that's a fine take people away from their troubles give them a little escape yeah let them laugh let them have but let them learn a little something if you've ever listened to well Rogers there was always good information in there if you wanted to listen if you want in every one of these books like this one there's information like there's a lot in here about the Foreign Service it's it's and and I always do that you know if you want to learn about these things you can you can you can go further into it but I have no desire to be acclaimed academically a best-seller in the Academy's 5,000 books do you know what would happen to me or John Grisham or David buck if we solve 5,000 books Wow we'd be we'd be done but you have to learn how to reach people and you don't reach people by telling them you're smarter than they are are you reaching people I make them laugh I really do and I want to you know you're good at it um I just I'm not smarter than anybody else I just have a little wrinkle in my brain that allows me to use language in a different way I mean everybody you meet knows something you don't that's true let get to it let him get it out and a microcosm of that and that's that's the third sizzle reel undoubtedly Harris my question to read ma all the way through that point a microcosm of everyone you meet has something that you can learn from Mary miner and the post office Mary miner lost her mother and father and put it set the stage for a miner okay these are the sneaky PI box actually the the miss that the Mrs Murphy mysteries and the cat partially writes them well of course the cat I'm just the typist what you know what at any rate this was a Smith graduate I saw have so many friends to a Smith I have to put him in there and in her senior year her parents were killed in an auto accident so she inherits this farm but they don't have a lot of money and she gets a job at the post office she doesn't you know she's that she's a law at a loss obviously on every level and her major was our history and it's a Crow's a post the old crows a pelvis right yeah and the lady there mrs. Hogan Dober takes her under her wing well that's her backstory when you come in to Mary's life who's called Harry cuz she married a man named Harris Dean who's a vet she's you know she's when you first meet her she's in her thirties now she's getting into her middle 40s every four books is one year every four books is a season spring summer fall that's how I keep it at my head but she's um she's not very good at reading emotions she's not very emotional she's not the typical woman her husband is much more sensitive to people this big six-foot-four guy but every now and then somebody has to jerk or chain to say what are you doing you know what are you doing because she just sees the job and wants to get to it and in way she's a flawed but delightful character now most of the mysteries in the past the flawed character who was now had to be a drunk you know harmed by a woman I mean but that was the deal in the forties she's just kind of inept so I love her of course because I'm kind of a nap teed up I mean in the south it's a social and Biber they're not they're not jocks are social and bobbers well you know as as my aunt said spirits will never touch my lips but she did have medical needs that's right what's your favorite spirit coca-cola coke but you the more you get to know Marion Harry the more you like her she and her best friend but she just stumbles into things she can be so stupid I think God those animals are there to help her out small appearance in the book I do I'm in one of the sister Jane books and sister Jane is this amazing horseman hounds one hounds woman farm owner that sought help solve a lot of mysteries in the country and and and what's so fun about Rita Mae's books is you'll be flipping through the page and there's the name of somebody hey I know that person or it you know there's at least 10 15 or so names it was Cindy Cindy Chandler right and I was reading through one day and when they sister Jane was buying dog treats at the animal connection and there I was so it that's kind of cool you know what a surprise I loved your line off air what was the line and I'm gonna paraphrase here better treat me right or you may show up at one of my auntie's roasting those people and that was in the 14th century so if you're not good to me I put you into a book and I give you syphilis yeah you better be good to me nice right watch out perpetuity of literature with syphilis you don't want to do that if someone's not good to her she will know it was don t he's still roasting people right now I can play don't ever screw around with a writer I mean that really is it's just it's just not really well I mean they're you know some of these tell-all books are hysterical yes but is that gonna be on the agenda for you I tell ya did you get some stories well well I did one when I was 50 because my publisher said you better write this down because what if you forget Oh God was I mad at though you know anyway but I tell you what happens is the closer you get to where you are the more you pull your punches because you really don't want to hurt people you don't and I mean exact analogy you just don't want to hurt people I don't know if it's so like I said patty and I know people who are harmed and sometimes they've harmed themselves too much alcohol and other times they've been just hit out of the blue by things like dementia or MS and you don't you know you got to be a little careful now if somebody's dead of course you could just do whatever you want or maybe you can drive them to it if you really don't like but it so also I'm not sure I have the ego to write about me I'd read that book I'd read that book to hear some of the stories I mean you know like the stories you told me you know that but you're growing up and just about just about life in general I'd read that I'll read that book any time you know it was more fun to hear it from many that may be one of the reasons to do something like that is to show what what we aren't anymore smoking mirrors yeah I went when I was little there was no air conditioning so you sat on the porch and you talked and you would the in the summers of course people would drink gin Rickey's or whatever and there would be lemonade but everybody knew everybody and that's not so much now and also families were together we didn't have the transportation systems that we have now and in order to get a good job you almost have to leave you know and I miss all that I do I mean I was raised by people born between 1880 and 1920 basically and they were they knew a lot yeah it's great to listen to them I mean and I like listening to I mean there are a lot of people in the horse community that I really respect I mean I could listen to Pat Butterfield talk for hours do you know we went to have a junior prom together you did not yes I did not well of course it was Sully his reputation there was just why I'm telling it the same high school we were all on the tennis team together I went with his best friend and he went with this real blonde bombshell oh yeah Pat was fun and still is oh yeah I mean I saw his stories Tom Bishop stories eliwood Keith Baxter stories I mean she could go on forever isn't she gonna be 97 this year 96 or 97 she's up there and she's lost her heart she still wants to get on a horse she lost the last of her I I don't know she don't know she won the medal MacLaine 37 second it was the middle McClay yeah there's some amazing people around her like Cindy Chandler we just had Juan the Eclipse Award twice that's like the Oscars four horsemen right and she's our position is always perfect on a horse I mean I could just spit pins yeah I mean yeah and then and Willie Drake yeah Willie Drake who owned Mountain Lumber Company a great antique yeah back back in the day and and he was on the cover of Sports Illustrated for being a very excellent junior rider hey and he inspired you to launch the business in some way he did yeah he was big and recycling and found a niche and took a gamble and took a big chance and and that's that is exactly what inspired me oh yeah well you know if you can't be inspired by a Chesapeake come on aren't you nobody grew up with him that was my first dog yeah she got some I love it I love it let me throw this to you here you have been such a pleasant interview we've filled 40 minutes and it's felt like four minutes well I think it's because you're a good interview no I I just stay out of the way I would like to throw this to you I have a one final question you I'm sure have a final question to you where you know I want to get how we can find your books and the folks that are watching so they can be touched by your titles and your books the question I want to really want to know about is how do you maintain this incredible zest for life that's contagious I started life in an orphanage to me every day's fabulous sort of life in an orphan I get I did puts it in perspective i'm d'lai I should have been dead I should have been dead a couple of times in the women's movement the gay movement I mean I should have been dead I mean sometimes I'll be with Gloria and I'll say Gloria we're not in prison we're not dead this isn't Russia no matter what happened we're still here you know we whatever happens here what we think is bad is really not I mean we could be in Syria but I'm here I'm alive and I've been carried along this life by my friends I mean God loves you through your friends and my friends have done it for me as writers or the family you pick yeah I mean family is blood friends are fate yeah and I have wonderful I don't know why they put up with me but they do and I mean I'm alive I mean I'm alive because people fed me that I didn't even know hmm so what do I have to complain about not it yeah we nobody really does you know you always find something good in anything we can everybody yeah not everybody yeah well work glass-is-half-full people chase I like about you too well I mean I was I was at another business on Tuesday spending some time and and one of the dear people that worked there just came back from her family lives in Tibet well part of them you know part of them live here and part of them lived there and just what she had to go through to go and see her family you know for the first time in a couple of years at a wing and a prayer and and what she was allowed to say or do or not do in cameras and things everywhere we really are so very lucky you know for everything that we have know yeah that's my mission that's my that's my sermon I love lucky and right now it's very fashionable to dump on America you know slavery was worldwide mm-hmm Hamilton owned slaves yes you know it's just they all did at an 1861 there were about 35 thousand slaves in New York there were 12,000 in New Jersey somehow that doesn't get talked about but at any rate we have all been it from benefited from slavery we have all benefited from the oppression of women let's go forward right you know what I mean 1.5 million children sleep on the streets of America every night that to me is a real issue I'm sorry if somebody's emotionally disturbed but these kids need a home and food why aren't we talking about it yeah I mean that that's where I get frustrated and when I look and I realize people are complaining because they're actually rather well-off yeah that's a perfect stopping phenomenal matter seriously phenomenal Harris you look at that man's a pro he already knows that that's a social rails marking Harris told her is our director and he's fabulous at his job Rita Mae brown where can we find your books well in Barnes & Noble downtown over the moon in Crozet a I know you can do it on ebooks but I don't know how you do that yeah I do it on Amazon Charlotte so yeah get these books get these books she's fabulous I truly enjoy this this show is powered by animal connection for more than 17 years animal connection has been the the ringleader and the market leader for animals in the central virginia community and it's thanks to the sweat equity the vision and the risk-taking of Patty Bowden we encourage you to visit her and the McEntire Plaza just have a chat and get to know her because I think if you do you're gonna be coming back many times it and if you want to know about hounds and history and horses of this area you know come and see me I love talking about the hounds and you know I can let you manners yeah I can let you go where you can see things like this and you know fox hounds when they are retired make the most amazing house pets they you know they love their job when they're there but they also love to snuggle up on a sofa on a bed and they can be very very loyal house pets so you know if you're ever interested in something like that you know come see me they're you know they're great dogs I love it Wednesdays at 3 o'clock put them on your phone put this show on your phone be there we'll see you next Wednesday with Conrad oh boy I'm out of town and 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