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Louisiana Roots: Nashville, Zachary, and Growing Up Southern
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Kennedy explains that his trip to Nashville is double-booked: a function for Tennessee Senator Bill Hagerty and this podcast. The two immediately connect over shared Louisiana geography — Kennedy grew up in Zachary, near Baton Rouge, and Theo in Covington and Mandeville on the north shore. They reminisce about local landmarks: Friends on the Lake, Coffee's Boiling Pot, Baddo's chocolate malts, and the creole cottage coffee house near the lake. Theo reveals he used to bus tables at Friends, where raccoons would emerge from broken baseboards whenever the chef cooked duck. Kennedy counters with his own raccoon story — the creature sneaking in to eat cat food — and a six-foot rat snake on his deck. The conversation drifts into a meditation on small-town high school: Kennedy had 100 classmates, cared about basketball and cheerleaders, was terrible at both, and would go back in a heartbeat. Theo finds a real news story about a 24-year-old arrested for impersonating a teenager at a high school for over a year, which Kennedy takes in stride.
