Alabama

Okay, everybody, we are back again.

And I always say we are blessed to be back again with another great episode of Uncharted Alabama.

I'm Allison Owen, if this is your first time listening and watching.

And thank you so much for being here.

It's always fun when I have a fellow Alabamian.

It's always fun when there's someone that I can relate to in not just the music of, oh, we have Alabama the band in common, but also like sort of like the lifestyle growing up and all that kind of stuff.

So that's unique.

as well.

Now, if you are a good Christian person, you know that there's December 25th, the day for Christmas.

And you also know that there's a pretty popular song that was originated back in the 80s by a group of four guys from Fort Payne called Alabama.

And they had a little song called Christmas in Dixie.

And it's a perennial holiday favorite.

Not only do you have Hindus, but you have Jains as well as Sikhs.

And you can see the numbers there on the screen of how many, or at least according to our research staff, of these people that are of these faiths celebrate that are Southerners.

Alabama's got about 28,000 total, mostly Hindus, and Hindus are the dominant of the Indian faiths here in Dixie.

Arkansas's got a lot less, but man, you get to a place like Florida with 255,000 Hindus celebrating Diwali right now.

I mean, sandwiches, they have changed a lot, but they're still a love staple of people's diets.

get to it what who's having deals today firehouse subs jimmy johns popeye subway whole bunch of them slotskis but if you don't go out and buy one yeah just make yourself a dagwood sandwich okay let's see what happened to entertainment on november the 3rd let's back to 1985 number one album was the miami vice tv soundtrack stevie wonder had the number one song with part-time lover Alabama had their number one country song was Can't Keep a Good Man Down.

The number one selling book was Texas by James Michener.

The top movie was Deshwish 3.

Like here I am sitting in these rounds with the people that wrote, Friends in Low Places and Check Yes or No for George Strait.

And I'm like, and Old Flame by Alabama.

And I get to do the harmony with them.

And also Hilda Cronin, she, or Helene, I don't know why I said Hilda, but Helene, she done Speaking Terms for Ella.

It's made up of four different breeds, a Red Angus, a Hereford, a Centipole, and a Barzona.

The cool thing, the backstory on the South Pole, that was developed back in the 80s and 90s by a guy named Teddy Gentry, who played in the band Alabama.

No way.

Yeah.

So he, over years and years of messing with different breeds, and he also wanted an animal that would thrive in the humidity of the South.

Yeah, I was

going to say, where was he living? Or is that a dumb question? Yeah, down in Alabama.

Literally in Alabama.