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b'Fred Smoot on the beauty of star gazing~\\n\\n"It\'s so free. All you got to do is get away from some lights. So you\'ve got to get out of the city a little bit to really gaze ... and look up. And it\'s free. It\'s free. People don\'t understand the best things in life are free."\\n\\nFred Smoot, Inimitable with host Andy Ockershausen in studio interview\\n\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tThis is Andy Ockershausen and this is Our Town and I\'m absolutely, positively say this all the time but I\'m so delighted to have, to talk with someone that really needs no introduction to people who\'ve been aware of what goes on this world. But, I\'ve known this gentleman for at least 10 to 15 years. We have been talking about it to Comcast SportsNet about doing a TV show. We never got around to it but Fred Smoot, you are a hoot and I am so delighted for this industry that you\'ve decided to do some radio work.\\nFred Smoot - Life\'s Philosophy\\nFred Smoot:\\tOh most definitely. I love to talk. I\'ve never met a mic I didn\'t like. This thing about me, I love to conversate with people and I was saying earlier that I\'m an only child so when I do get around people I got good energy and I like to talk. I like to converse. I never met a stranger in my life.\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tFred it\'s so ... Because when you put it out people give it back to you.\\nFred Smoot:\\tThat\'s what I ... I\'m one of those people, I really believe in good energy. If you come around with good energy, keep a smile on your face, you can change the way somebody\'s day is going. You can make them feel better. And we ain\'t on this earth long so every day that I get up I\'m smiling. I\'m having fun.\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tBesides being a philosopher, which you are, you have a tremendous sense of humor. I\'ve listened to you do some of your radio shows and it comes through. Fred, you\'re a different person. You\'re not a dumb football player. You\'re not even a football player anymore. You\'re one of us.\\nFred Smoot:\\tI\'m a person and I like to talk to people. That\'s what entertainment is. It\'s communicating with people. It\'s showing common ground and the one thing that brings us all together, that\'s colorless is sports. There\'s two things that does this, sports and music. It brings us all together, no matter what, so when we talk and have a common ground yes, I want to talk about sports most of the time but I also want to talk about people and I want to see how they\'re feeling.\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tThat\'s what I\'m so impressed with you, what you do on the air. I\'ve heard you on Sports Talk. But one of the things we do with this little bit of podcast that we put together is finding out and talking to people away from whatever it is. I\'m not interested in Smoot football. That\'s on the record somewhere.\\nFred Smoot:\\tYou want to know the real Fred Smoot.\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tI\'m meant the Smoot that grew up in Mississippi.\\nFred Smoot:\\tCollard green cooking for you Smoot.\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tChurch\'s Chicken.\\nFred Smoot:\\tOh you know it. That\'s down south right there. You got to go down south to Church\'s Chicken though.\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tBut there\'s so much to you Fred. You grew up in Jackson. That\'s a pretty good sized town in Mississippi.\\nGrowing Up in Jackson, MS\\nFred Smoot:\\tWell, it\'s the capital city. It\'s a city that goes through it\'s ups and downs. Things could be a lot better there. It\'s a city that you would love the people and the food\'s so good Andy O. You know you\'re going to get diabetes and you still going to eat the food Andy O.\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tThat\'s an attitude. But Jackson, Mississippi means a lot to a lot of people and you went to Provine.\\nProvine High School - Pro Sports Factory\\nFred Smoot:\\tYes sir, we are the football factory of the city. I was lucky to play with three or four more pros on my team alone. Good at football, good in basketball. We got a couple of Olympians. We put out a lot of athletes at Provine.\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tWere you a good student also?'