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Sam Brooks visits with Sam Williamson, the defensive line and associate head coach for the TTU Golden Eagles football team. They touch on life growing up in Greeneville, Alabama and very tight knit community, when he saw he had more of a future playing football, and his experiences going from high school to playing Division I football.

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Tiffany Anton meets with the owners of Irrationale Kitchen + Taps, Torey & Katy Hess. They touch on if it was it always a dream of theirs to own a restaurant, some of the specials they offer from Wings Up Wednesdays to offering Sunday brunch, and if there has ever been the thought that what they're doing isn't going to work.

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Buddy Pearson sits down with Grant Swallows, the Director of Schools for Warren County. They discuss what he's been able to achieve from the goals he set when he took the job, how he deals with safety in schools on a daily basis, and what is different today about being a student-athlete today compared to when he was in high school.

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George Halford visits with Steve Tiebout, Pastor at The River Church, and Pastor Bobby Davis of Life Church. Bobby and Steve both look back on their upbringings, what we are doing today with the state of faith in our region, and where they both think we're going with faith and thoughts on the future. 

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Ben Rodgers talks with Junior Jones, the Property Assessor for White County. They touch on Junior's background spending most of his life in White County and what led him to the assessor of property role, discussing the transitional support he received from the staff when he took office, and when the next reappraisal year is for the county. 

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Sam Brooks visits with Matt Manzaro & Lee Maxwell, golf pros for the Cookeville City team that took part in the Cookeville Cup. They discuss Lee and Max discuss their memories of playing in their first Reels Cup, how huge of a lead four points is with teammate Paul Ballard going 4-0, and what the weekend's schedule looked like beginning on Friday. 

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Tiffany Anton meets with Tracy & Mike Frankin, owners of Cookeville's Aspire Barber and Beauty Academy. The group talks about the journey the couple took to open a barber and beauty academy, Tracy discusses the class that the academy is doing today and about the students that come from all over, and what the aspiration was to start a podcast on top of everything else they do.

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Buddy Pearson meets with Socorro Cooper, an ESL interpreter for Putnam County Schools, and Nickey Philpot, the ROTC Instructor at Cookeville High School. They talk about what inspired both of them to go into military service, how helpful the role Socorro plays as an interpreter for parents in the school system, and if either of them have noticed in the schools the talk of honoring veterans has picked up.

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George Halford visits with Rafferty Cleary from the Monterey Depot Museum. They touch on growing up in Kingsport discussing family being a big part of his background, some of the stories and other experiences Rafferty has found since living in Monterey, and some history of the town and what's to come in the future.

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Ben Rodgers talks with Cookeville City Councilman Chad Gilbert recapping his first year in office. They touch on things like any surprises Chad's encountered in his first year on the city council, when he began thinking about the idea of wanting to run for an elected office, and how the city and county can maintain the services they offer to those already here and those moving here.

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