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Speaker 1: According to USA Today, the Godfather of Soul, James Brown,

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Speaker 1: was raised in Augusta and lived there most of his life.

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Speaker 1: Back in two thousand and five, James Brown unveiled a

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Speaker 1: statue of himself, and it has become a prominent landmark

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Speaker 1: in the Augusta common Area. The statue will be temporarily

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Speaker 1: relocated today while the downtown space is being redesigned. The

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Speaker 1: statue will be securely stored in a climate controlled environment

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Speaker 1: at the Augusta Museum of History for safe keeping during

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Speaker 1: the construction, and then be returned to Broad Street for

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Speaker 1: the new James Brown Lanier Park. That's good news, leaves

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Speaker 1: here having a park. Yeah, after the Godfather of soul. So, Steve,

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Speaker 1: you've met the Godfather of soul before you met him?

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Speaker 2: Right? Anytime I've been on stage with him. He bought

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Speaker 2: me up on stage. Uh huh out of the sayans

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Speaker 2: out in Vegas.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what happened.

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Speaker 2: No'll cover your cost now, don't cook.

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Speaker 1: Oh he knew you really?

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Speaker 2: Then I said the hell you bring me up here?

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Speaker 1: You got a favorite James Brown song?

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Speaker 2: Oh Papa don't take me no mess. Probably, Oh Papa

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Speaker 2: don't take no man. Uh huh, Papa don't take no man,

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Speaker 2: all right, And then the other one is, uh, oh

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Speaker 2: you got so many No, I didn't need that one.

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Speaker 2: I was already.

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Speaker 1: Proud, I say loud, I'm black and I'm proud.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was locked in by then.

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Speaker 1: What about what's the one I don't want anyone. I

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Speaker 1: don't want nobody to give me nothing to open up

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Speaker 1: the door I'll get at my.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that one the big payback. That's where I am.

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Speaker 2: Pay the costs to be the boss. That's my damn

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Speaker 2: right there, pay the costs to be the balls. And

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Speaker 2: thinking about all the James songs, you could learn them today.

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Speaker 1: Just one day to learn.

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Speaker 2: He you got just We're gonna play this record twice today.

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Speaker 2: You'll know it by the end of the day. It's

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Speaker 2: so many special people that I had an opportunity to know.

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Speaker 2: But the greatest moment for me, well, I saw James

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Speaker 2: Brown at the Sherington and Augusta and we were talking

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Speaker 2: and I said, Man, if my mom and daddy knew

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Speaker 2: I was talking to James Brown, give on Vote.

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Speaker 1: I called.

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Speaker 2: Give on Vote. I called my mama. She said hello,

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Speaker 2: I said, Mama, I got somebody won't talk to you.

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Speaker 2: I said, Mama. This James Brown LOGIESUS LOGESUS and me

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Speaker 2: and I said, mom, put daddy on the phone. Boy,

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Speaker 2: when I put my daddy on the phone, oh, my

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Speaker 2: daddy was cussing. And James, my daddy.

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Speaker 1: You're listening.

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Speaker 2: Dave Harvey Morning Show