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Giada De Laurentiis · On with Mario Interviews

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  Speaker 1: You're on with Mario Lopez.
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  Speaker 2: What's up, you're on with Mario Lopez. Joining me right now,
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  Speaker 2: legendary chef, writer, and TV host, my buddy Giada De Laurentiis.
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  Speaker 2: How are you, Giada?
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  Speaker 3: I'm great. How are you? It's been a minute.
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  Speaker 2: It has been a minute. It's so good to see you.
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  Speaker 2: I've been wanting to see you because I have to
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  Speaker 2: tell you something. I recently ate at your restaurant, Giada,
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  Speaker 2: at the Vanderpump Hotel in Vegas.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I had the Giada's signature lemon spaghetti with the shirt.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: That I like, I think about it often. I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: oh my God, that is so good. Thinking about it
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  Speaker 2: right now makes me mad because I want it. And
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  Speaker 2: it's so good. I just have to tell you that
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  Speaker 2: I was like, damn, whenever I'm eating, I'm going, oh damn,
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  Speaker 2: this is good. And I'm like talking as I'm eating.
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  Speaker 1: There's something about lemon that kind of, I mean, it's,
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  Speaker 1: it's really like a lemon Alfredo is really what it is.
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  Speaker 2: And I love lemon, like, especially being Latin, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we love lemon, lime and all that. My wife loved it.
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  Speaker 2: We loved it. So it was really, I just want
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  Speaker 2: to share that with you.
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  Speaker 1: Big fan.
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  Speaker 3: Aw, thank you. That makes me happy. I've been there
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  Speaker 3: a long time now. Wow. It's been like over 12 years.
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  Speaker 3: 12 years. So it's exciting. Yeah. It's really fun to
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  Speaker 3: have lasted that long. How many restaurants do you have now? Six.
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  Speaker 1: Six. Wow.
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  Speaker 3: That's incredible.
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  Speaker 2: That's incredible.
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  Speaker 3: Well, congratulations on all that. Hey, thanks. Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: And congrats on you competing in the current season of
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  Speaker 2: Dancing with the Stars. How was the whole experience in general?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you've done it too, right? Didn't you? Did you win?
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  Speaker 3: Is that... Did you win it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, many seasons ago.
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  Speaker 1: I know, but I hear it doesn't matter what season
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  Speaker 1: it was. It's all still the same.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, you know, it was crazier back then because
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  Speaker 2: it took it a little more serious and it was
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  Speaker 2: only two in the finals and the whole thing. My
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  Speaker 2: mom convinced me to do it because at.
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  Speaker 3: First I was like, nah.
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  Speaker 2: And is it true your daughter convinced you?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, the thing is, is that over the years
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  Speaker 1: they've asked before and my daughter was young and I
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  Speaker 1: was just like, I, it felt like it was going
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  Speaker 1: to be too much. And I do remember the hype
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  Speaker 1: and having actually visited the set at one of the,
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  Speaker 1: one of the episodes when Maria Menounos was competing and
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  Speaker 1: I went to see her and I thought, oh my goodness, never,
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  Speaker 1: I cannot do this.
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  Speaker 3: And plus I don't dance. I think you do. I
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  Speaker 3: think you did dance, right? You had some dance background.
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  Speaker 3: When I was a kid.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Okay, but I didn't do dance at all. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't even do ballet when I was a kid. For
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  Speaker 1: some reason, my parents were into sports, but not dance,
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  Speaker 1: not ballet, none of that stuff.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know why.
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  Speaker 1: Anyhow, and I couldn't even count music. which is embarrassing, Mario,
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  Speaker 1: that I am now in my 50s and I could
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  Speaker 1: not count music. But now I can.
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  Speaker 3: Because of Dancing with the Stars because of Alan.
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  Speaker 1: And so, I mean, you know, I think I didn't
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  Speaker 1: last as long as I would have liked to, but.
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  Speaker 3: I think that I got a lot out of it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I really did. I did two dances. I
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  Speaker 1: learned the tango. I learned the salsa. I understood how
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  Speaker 1: to count music and how to figure out how to
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  Speaker 1: dance to the counting of the music. I I feel
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  Speaker 1: like I learned a lot about my body and what
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  Speaker 1: it can still do, which I was afraid it couldn't
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  Speaker 1: do anymore. I think that when we get to my age,
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  Speaker 1: you kind of like, you don't want to step out
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  Speaker 1: of your comfort zone anymore.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: It's like fear sets in a little bit like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: am I going to get hurt? And then I will,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, I'll have too much pain as I
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  Speaker 1: get older. Like you just start to like have all
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  Speaker 1: of these fears that come up that I never had before.
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  Speaker 1: And it was my daughter, you know, she now has
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  Speaker 1: got off to college, but over the summer we were
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  Speaker 1: getting ready for it. And she's like, you should just
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  Speaker 1: do it. Jump in and do something that makes you
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  Speaker 1: really afraid, like something that really scares you. and be
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  Speaker 1: vulnerable and just get out out of this like little
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  Speaker 1: comfort shell that you've created for yourself and do something
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  Speaker 1: that makes you feel really afraid and so she's like
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing it I think we should do it together
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  Speaker 1: I'll go to college start my new journey and you
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  Speaker 1: do this and honestly Mario it was a blast just
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  Speaker 1: having her.
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  Speaker 3: Be part of it all that's great and you know,
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  Speaker 3: checking in with me and seeing how it's doing.
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  Speaker 1: I did break my toe in the beginning of it
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  Speaker 1: before I did the tango, before I did the first episode,
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  Speaker 1: I did do some things that, you know, I just
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  Speaker 1: happened during practice, but it really taught me a lot
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  Speaker 1: about myself and a lot about the fact that I
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  Speaker 1: move a little too quickly sometimes I think in life,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm not enjoying the moment that I'm into enough.
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  Speaker 1: And so valuable lessons. And I think it was an
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  Speaker 1: overall experience. a really great experience for me. Nice.
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  Speaker 2: Valuable lessons.
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  Speaker 3: Good for you.
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  Speaker 2: Very cool.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, these things are like, it happens
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  Speaker 3: so quickly.
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  Speaker 1: Sure.
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  Speaker 3: All of it. And there's a lot of pressure and
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  Speaker 3: there's a lot going on.
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  Speaker 1: And honestly, there was, I mean, when you look at
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  Speaker 1: the people I was dancing with, I thought, I mean, this,
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  Speaker 1: you know, clearly this is going to be semi short-lived,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, it was fun to be in the room
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  Speaker 1: with them. It was fun to be, to dance with
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  Speaker 1: all of those people and it gets you energized and
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  Speaker 1: it makes you feel like I felt, I felt like
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  Speaker 1: my body was younger than I thought it was. And
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  Speaker 1: that's a good thing.
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  Speaker 2: That's a great thing. Especially we're getting in, as we're
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  Speaker 2: in our fifties, I should say, you should always continue
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  Speaker 2: to sort of push yourself and challenge yourself. Cause that,
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  Speaker 2: that little voice in your head does come into play.
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  Speaker 2: I know exactly what you mean. You also have a
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  Speaker 2: project coming to Hallmark. for the holidays called Christmas Eve feast.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me about that.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, that is, you know, funny.
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  Speaker 1: These Hallmark projects, they like take forever.
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  Speaker 3: We started working in that, I think five years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 3: And so I know a long time ago, working on
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  Speaker 3: a script.
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  Speaker 1: About the feast of the seven fish and the Italian tradition, especially, um,
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  Speaker 1: And not so much just from Italy, but really Italian-Americans
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  Speaker 1: who have moved to this country and how that has
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  Speaker 1: influenced their culture and the Italian-American experience, which is really
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  Speaker 1: tied to the Southern Italian experience. And it's just a
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  Speaker 1: really fun, heartwarming. I just love it because I love
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  Speaker 1: Christmas movies from Hallmark. I've been watching them forever. I
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  Speaker 1: think they are just what we need. in this world
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  Speaker 1: right now, just pure joy. And you learn a lot
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  Speaker 1: about cooking. There's a lot of food, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: recipes that are being made. And it's very much the
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  Speaker 1: tradition I grew up in. And so I think, I
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  Speaker 1: think it's going to be a really fun watch, especially
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  Speaker 1: at Christmas. I've always wanted to do a Christmas movie
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  Speaker 1: with Hallmark. So dream come true. Nice.
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  Speaker 2: Well, speaking that the holidays are just around the corner
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  Speaker 2: and cooking, what would be your number one tip for
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  Speaker 2: people who are hosting and are going to be cooking
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  Speaker 2: this year?
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  Speaker 3: Potluck it if you can. Create a menu. That's the move.
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  Speaker 1: And definitely don't try to do it all on your own.
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  Speaker 1: But also like when creating a menu, think of the
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  Speaker 1: things that your family members, you know, what are their
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  Speaker 1: strong suits? Like do they make great salads or do
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  Speaker 1: they make great appetizers? What is the thing that... that
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  Speaker 1: person or is it just buying something right like it
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  Speaker 1: could just be putting together a cheese platter which you
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  Speaker 1: can look at many youtube channels that everybody's doing it
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter but use the strengths that you know
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  Speaker 1: your family has and include them in it i think
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  Speaker 1: it allows people to participate in a way that i
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  Speaker 1: think that's what the holidays are about it's about bringing
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  Speaker 1: the family together allowing them all to participate and honestly
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  Speaker 1: even for myself i'll do the heavy lifting.
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  Speaker 3: Like I'll make the turkey for Thanksgiving. I'll do those
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  Speaker 3: heavy lifting things.
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  Speaker 1: But I ask my family to bring things, whether somebody
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  Speaker 1: makes great cornbread or a great dessert or a really
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  Speaker 1: cool appetizer and just get them involved somehow, no matter
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  Speaker 1: what their skill level is.
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  Speaker 3: I like that move.
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  Speaker 2: I like potlucks just in general. I want to invite
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  Speaker 2: you just so you can bring the lemon spaghetti. Just
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  Speaker 2: so you know, so if.
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  Speaker 1: You get an invite, I'm creating this lemon spaghetti for Costco.
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  Speaker 3: So soon in the new year, you might be able
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  Speaker 3: to make it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, are you making it for Costco?
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  Speaker 1: Is that right? I've been working deeper.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. It's been like eight months, so it
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  Speaker 3: might just, you know, we'll see.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, in the new year, you might be able
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  Speaker 1: to find it and make it yourself.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, look at that.
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  Speaker 2: See, that is a perfect note to end it on.
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  Speaker 3: I just dropped that on you.
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  Speaker 2: I like that.
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  Speaker 3: I like that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, it's always nice to see you.
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  Speaker 3: Congratulations. Great to see you, too.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone, be sure to catch the latest season of Dancing
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  Speaker 2: with the Stars airing Tuesdays on ABC and Disney +. Giada,
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  Speaker 2: thanks for checking in.