Florence
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Sep 14, 2026
Scott LathamSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Opportunities, uh, to me, where we can be helpful to our banks i, is to help, say, for instance, with that talent acquisition.
Scott LathamSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I was telling you over, uh, after lunch, I believe, about a, a program we have in Alabama where our association, through our young bankers, is on about a dozen college campuses each year, uh, from Florence, Alabama, all the way to Mobile, you know, University of Alabama, Auburn, uh, larger, smaller universities, uh, with those schools of business, holding events, bringing real-life bankers in who make presentations and say, "Hey, think about us when you're prep- uh, preparing to graduate and start looking for jobs." That's been incredible.
Scott LathamSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We've had a number of wins from that.
Scott LathamSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We've had a number of, of jobs offered and accepted just from those events.
Thomas StubbsHOST
The accounting was also real.
Thomas StubbsHOST
Sam Phillips grew up on a cotton farm outside Florence, Alabama, 40 miles from Muscle Shoals.
Thomas StubbsHOST
He picked cotton alongside Blackfield hands as a child.
Thomas StubbsHOST
listened to what they sang while they worked.
Dustin SwedelsonHOST
Arkansas did score a touchdown while we were looking at the game in Atlanta.
Dustin SwedelsonHOST
It's 13-0 Razorbacks over the North Alabama Lions of Florence, Alabama.
Dustin SwedelsonHOST
And the PAT, is it coming or did we miss it? I believe we missed it.
Dustin SwedelsonHOST
Is it 13-0? Is that the score there? North Alabama.
Anthony CodispotiHOST
But a pivot from finance to operations put him on a path that kept him leading the same waterfront property for over two decades.
Anthony CodispotiHOST
From controller roles at Marriott Properties across the Gulf Coast to vice president of finance and accounting, his trajectory took a sharp turn when he moved to Florence, Alabama in 2004 to take the helm of a resort sitting on the banks of the Tennessee River.
Anthony CodispotiHOST
His name is Larry Bowser.
Anthony CodispotiHOST
and he's the general manager of the Renaissance Shoals Resort and Spa, a full-service Marriott property operated by PCH Hotels and Resorts.
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Larry BowserGUEST
And he smoked a pipe inside.
Larry BowserGUEST
And he was just like, Larry, tell me a little about yourself.
Larry BowserGUEST
And it was just kind of, you know, told him my story, how I ended up in Florence.
Larry BowserGUEST
And he promoted me the next day to the controller.
Marianna BarksdaleGUEST
Yeah.
Marianna BarksdaleGUEST
But I love Boston because the one thing that stood out to me was it looks like where I grew up in Alabama, like Florence, Alabama.
Marianna BarksdaleGUEST
The downtown looks exactly the same.
Marianna BarksdaleGUEST
Wow.
Marianna BarksdaleGUEST
Everyone is just walking really fast and talking really fast.
Marianna BarksdaleGUEST
And I'm like, you guys don't even know that this is exactly the same as Florence, Alabama.
Marianna BarksdaleGUEST
You don't even know.
Madison MalloyHOST
Well, what did the pilgrims just veer off? And they're like, we're building the same place.
Austin ScherrHOST
you're very welcome i have a million questions to ask you uh normally i would save this for later but we have to start with the influences here what inspired this record i know i feel like i know the answer but i want to hear from you
Chrissi PolandGUEST
Well, kind of the shortened version, I've told the story and I can get quite elaborate with all of the details, but the bit of the short version is I was on a tour in 2022 and I went through Florence, Alabama, where Muscle Shoals is part of the three towns there, to play there.
Chrissi PolandGUEST
And I knew that that's where Fame Studios was, where Aretha and Etta and Wilson Pickett and so many artists that I love had recorded these records that I have loved my whole life.
Chrissi PolandGUEST
And so I dropped my bags and I went and took a tour of the studio right away.
Max GillHOST
And for anyone who grows up in a car culture, especially in the 70s with the muscle cars and, you know, no seatbelts and, you know, just disaster ensues, of course.
Max GillHOST
Apparently, there was a local TV station called W-O-W-L in Florence, Alabama, where Patterson lived.
Max GillHOST
It had a giant owl on the side of the road with light bulbs in its eye sockets.
Max GillHOST
And when there had been a fatal car crash in the last 48 hours, the owl's eyes were replaced with red light bulbs.
Rick BarthGUEST
It's not about the name on the degree.
Rick BarthGUEST
And, you know, I've got my wife's got a first cousin that got a business degree from the University of North Alabama in Florence, Alabama, a very small regional school that a lot of people have never heard of.
Rick BarthGUEST
And he is he is now on his second CEO and presidency of a Fortune 500 company.
Rick BarthGUEST
And that is with an undergraduate, not a master's, not a doctorate from the University of North Alabama.
Blaythe SteuerGUEST
Like I would go to like Southern Tennessee for shows.
Blaythe SteuerGUEST
I would go to Florence, Alabama.
Blaythe SteuerGUEST
Tons of shows were happening in Decatur when I was a child.
Blaythe SteuerGUEST
Okay.
Brett GuthrieGUEST
was
Jim DeCesariHOST
born, Florence, Alabama.
Jim DeCesariHOST
Yeah, you and Senator McConnell.
Brett GuthrieGUEST
Yeah, he was born in Sheffield, which is, there's a river between us.
Brett GuthrieGUEST
So the hospital was on the Sheffield side of the river.
Brett GuthrieGUEST
When he was born, now it's on the, well, when I was born,
Jim DeCesariHOST
it was on the Florence side.
Jim DeCesariHOST
Yeah, so Muscle Shoals, Sheffield, and Florence.
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