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Momma Jackie: Food Network, Italian Cooking, TikTok & the Recipe for Success · Cats & Pudding with Jennifer Dilandro

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  Speaker 1: This is the Cats and Pudding Podcast.
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  Speaker 2: A melting pot of pudding.
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  Speaker 3: And now, here's Jen.
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  Speaker 4: Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to this week's episode of
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  Speaker 4: Cats and Pudding. And today, oh my God, I have.
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  Speaker 5: Such a great episode and I have such great people
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  Speaker 5: here with me today. I have as my gorgeous co-host, Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: she's sweet. No.
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  Speaker 3: Alexia DiGilio Mancini.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, and you're going to go like this. You got it.
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  Speaker 3: But you can just call me Alexia D, Little Lexi, Lex, DG, AD.
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  Speaker 4: Do you like to introduce our guest that we have
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  Speaker 4: for today on our show?
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  Speaker 5: This wonderful woman. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: I want to say, first of all, thank you so
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  Speaker 1: much for having me. It's a pleasure and an honor
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  Speaker 1: to co-host with you. And, and it's, it's an incredible
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  Speaker 1: honor to present a dear friend of mine, the one
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  Speaker 1: and only mama Jackie.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: You said it right.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you. Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: That was so, I love you. I love you too.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 3: Great friends.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I love you, too.
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  Speaker 3: There's so much love here.
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  Speaker 2: It's a big love fest.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, it is.
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  Speaker 4: It is.
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  Speaker 5: I just met you guys recently.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: I feel like I've known you forever.
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  Speaker 2: Correct.
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  Speaker 5: We just connected, and I just feel very comfortable with
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  Speaker 5: you guys.
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  Speaker 6: I agree. I know you.
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  Speaker 5: You know, for a long time.
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  Speaker 2: Now we bonded completely.
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  Speaker 3: We bonded completely.
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  Speaker 1: We, we, you know, it's, it's funny because you and
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  Speaker 1: I met similar ways to mom and Jackie and I,
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  Speaker 1: we met on Tik TOK, believe it or not.
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  Speaker 3: And, um, you know, after we met and, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Online, we decided to do something together. We did a
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  Speaker 1: blog and, um, And then, you know, our relationship continued.
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  Speaker 1: We'd talk on the phone, we'd help each other, give
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  Speaker 1: each other advice about what we were doing, you know,
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  Speaker 1: because we both have the same, you know, career that
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  Speaker 1: we're doing.
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  Speaker 3: Right now with the food blogging and the cooking and
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  Speaker 3: the influencing. So we would bounce ideas off one another.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: And when we met, we just felt like, wow, we've
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  Speaker 1: known each other forever.
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  Speaker 6: And then we reunited. Yes, we did. Yes, we did.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I know you reunited on... A show.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Yes.
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  Speaker 5: And we can talk about it because it's aired already.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: It's aired already.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: So they were on this wonderful show. It's 100 Cooks.
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  Speaker 2: 100 Cooks.
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  Speaker 3: 100 Cooks and Food Network.
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  Speaker 5: Right. With also with Danielle Committee. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: I love her.
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  Speaker 5: Yep.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Yep. Yes. And a couple of girls that we all know.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. They were together.
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  Speaker 3: So many.
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  Speaker 1: You know, people that I followed on the, you know, that,
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  Speaker 1: that you didn't know who was going to be on it.
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  Speaker 1: It was the 100 of the best home cooks in America.
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  Speaker 1: And we, we were chosen, but you know, the funny
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  Speaker 1: story is this, this is a story. So I had
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  Speaker 1: arrived and, um, I went down for coffee and all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden I'm in the lobby and I look
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  Speaker 1: and I took a double take and I see mama.
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  Speaker 1: I went up to her, tapped her on the back.
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  Speaker 1: She looked at me for about maybe 20 minutes.
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  Speaker 6: Not that long. But I was in shock.
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  Speaker 3: She was in shock. What are you doing here?
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  Speaker 6: What are you doing here? I guess we're here.
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  Speaker 1: And we like hugged and embraced and we were like.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we both got chosen for the show, but
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  Speaker 1: we couldn't tell anybody.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was top secret.
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  Speaker 6: Top secret. It was top secret.
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  Speaker 2: So even all that time, we did not let on
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  Speaker 2: to each other that we were on the show.
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  Speaker 3: Food Network, we kept our word.
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  Speaker 6: Right?
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  Speaker 3: We kept our word.
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  Speaker 2: We kept our word.
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  Speaker 1: But it was so great to have somebody that I
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  Speaker 1: personally knew. We were out there in California by ourselves,
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  Speaker 1: you know, for up to three and a half weeks.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It was a thrill that we were together. We were
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  Speaker 3: on this and we were in the same group. So
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  Speaker 3: we got to go on the bus together and it
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  Speaker 3: was a lot of fun. And it's funny.
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  Speaker 1: I saw Danielle and Anthony in the elevator and I
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  Speaker 1: was like, we both like screamed and, uh, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, those two right off the bat I saw.
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  Speaker 1: And then I saw some people that I followed and like,
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  Speaker 1: tell me like when you saw me in the lobby,
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  Speaker 1: what did you think?
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  Speaker 2: I was in complete shock. Like she said, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't expect to see anybody there. So I'm just
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  Speaker 2: wandering the lobby and all of a sudden, uh, you
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  Speaker 2: turn around and I see her and I'm like, it really,
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  Speaker 2: it took me a, I don't know, really, it was
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  Speaker 2: like 30 seconds at least. That's a long time.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: To kind of just put her, you know, the name
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  Speaker 2: to the face and oh my God, it's you. And
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  Speaker 2: so we had, it was a great.
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  Speaker 5: You met each other in person?
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, no. That we met each
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  Speaker 2: other before. We, like she said, we hit it off. I,
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  Speaker 2: I contacted her first because I was watching some of
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  Speaker 2: her videos. I liked what I was.
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  Speaker 5: It wasn't just online. You met each other. Right. Physically
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  Speaker 5: in person. Right.
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  Speaker 2: Because we just we hit it off. We started talking
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  Speaker 2: on the phone. And the next thing you know, we
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  Speaker 2: just became friendly and we went out.
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  Speaker 3: For a beautiful dinner.
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  Speaker 2: We did.
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  Speaker 1: We got fed mozzarella being fed at Bar Mutz.
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  Speaker 3: Robbie Felice. He's a he's a real famous chef. He
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  Speaker 3: actually owned the place, and it was great.
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  Speaker 5: That was a cool place.
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  Speaker 2: But that was funny because we were going to meet
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  Speaker 2: each other. It felt like we were going on a
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  Speaker 2: dating app, right? So I was worried because I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: why do I know she may be a mass murderer,
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  Speaker 2: you know? So both of us brought a friend.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, we both brought a friend. That's true.
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  Speaker 2: But we had a blast.
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  Speaker 3: We had a lot of fun, some drinks.
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  Speaker 6: It was good.
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  Speaker 2: And that was it. The rest is history. We just began.
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  Speaker 2: Can't get enough of each other.
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  Speaker 5: I know.
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  Speaker 2: I think I miss her so much when she goes home.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, so cute.
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  Speaker 5: But you kind of know at this age, right, who
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  Speaker 5: you're going to click with.
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  Speaker 2: 100%. 100%.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: 100%.
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  Speaker 2: Definitely.
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  Speaker 4: You know who's good and who's not good or people
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  Speaker 4: that you know that, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Let's keep it light or, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know what, I really.
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  Speaker 5: really, like, hang with this person.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Connect with them. The values, the traditions, the this, the that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: people are. That's right.
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  Speaker 3: Remember you said I was your spirit animal?
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  Speaker 5: You too. I felt the same way.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Ray, me and you were on the phone for
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  Speaker 2: over an hour. First time we got on the phone.
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  Speaker 2: We just kept yakking, and we're like two yakking owns
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  Speaker 2: going on and on and on. It's the truth.
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  Speaker 6: I love it. I love it.
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  Speaker 5: It's so true that you get to, you know.
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  Speaker 4: It's nice, I think, you know, it's something to be
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  Speaker 4: said when you make friends with people when you get older, too.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Not easy to do. Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Not easy to do.
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  Speaker 5: Because when you're young, well, you're kind of thrown with people, right?
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  Speaker 5: That's right.
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  Speaker 6: The same school. That's right.
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  Speaker 5: The same church, whatever it is.
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  Speaker 4: Those people, you kind of have, those are the ones
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  Speaker 4: you get to be friends with because those, you're in
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  Speaker 4: that situation with them.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 5: It's all situational.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: High school, grammar school, whatever it is. Right. But when
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  Speaker 5: you're older, you get to pick.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Once you meet, so you meet somebody and you're like, Oh,
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  Speaker 2: she's not my cup of tea or, you know, you're like, okay,
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  Speaker 2: you don't call, text, but you know, when it's like
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  Speaker 2: you guys, you call, you text, you can't wait to
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  Speaker 2: see each other. It's totally different.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. You know, it's a nice feeling though. Right.
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  Speaker 3: Definitely.
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  Speaker 5: Definitely.
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  Speaker 1: And, you know, I also have to say we're all,
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  Speaker 1: you know, doing something really positive, something that we love.
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  Speaker 1: We're all entertaining in some aspects, so we really share
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the same goals and dreams and aspirations,
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  Speaker 1: and we get it.
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  Speaker 3: We get it, you know?
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  Speaker 2: We do.
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  Speaker 1: So I think that I love to see the hustle
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  Speaker 1: and drive, the passion, and to surround myself with other
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  Speaker 1: people that are doing that same thing is very inspirational
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  Speaker 1: to me. You know, me too, because it makes me
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  Speaker 1: a better person and it makes me say, hey, we
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  Speaker 1: can do this.
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  Speaker 3: And the support is so amazing.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Mama, just for example, she invited me to
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  Speaker 1: this to this feast that she she's.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you know, hosting. And it's like, wow, I'm
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  Speaker 3: coming up and I'm getting to meet all these new people.
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  Speaker 3: promoting things. And, you know, she gave me that opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: So it's just great coming on this show.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, right, Mama?
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  Speaker 2: It's one thing after the other. I never expected to
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  Speaker 2: be where I am right now, meeting all these people.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, one person after the other is just nicer
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  Speaker 2: and nicer. And, you know, like you said, being on
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  Speaker 2: social media, no one really understands how much work really
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  Speaker 2: gets put, goes into this. This is a lot of work,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and I work a full-time job. So, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you come home and you're tired. I just want to
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  Speaker 2: like park it. And it's not. And I, and then
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  Speaker 2: I say to myself, I'm like, get your butt up
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  Speaker 2: and get going, make something, make a video, do got
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  Speaker 2: to do something.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Because if you don't, then you're just going to fall
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  Speaker 2: by the wayside. So it's, it's a push. It's a
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  Speaker 2: grind every day. And only us would understand that. I think,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's true. I mean it.
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  Speaker 5: How did you feel? How did you, so as far
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  Speaker 5: as the show, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: How did you guys get, how did you get picked? Like,
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  Speaker 5: how did that happen?
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  Speaker 2: I got an email one day. I think we all
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  Speaker 2: kind of got different ways maybe, but me personally, they
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  Speaker 2: just said, hi, we're so-and-so from Food Network. We've been
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  Speaker 2: watching some of your videos. We think you'd be a
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  Speaker 2: good fit for a new show. Would you be interested?
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  Speaker 2: If so, let us know. And I said, at first
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  Speaker 2: I said, this is a scam. This can't be real.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, Food Network? You know, me? And then
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  Speaker 2: I emailed them back and she said, nope, it's not
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  Speaker 2: a scam. It's a real deal. If you're interested, we
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  Speaker 2: want to interview you. I did a Zoom call and
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  Speaker 2: basically the rest is history. They're like, okay, you're in.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, wow, I can't believe it. I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to California. Holy mackerel.
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  Speaker 5: It was an amazing experience.
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  Speaker 2: It was an amazing experience. Let me tell you, she'll attest,
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  Speaker 2: it was hard. It was a lot harder than I
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  Speaker 2: ever thought it would be.
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  Speaker 5: It's got to be to have to cook that. They're
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  Speaker 5: just telling you, all right, cook. Pick something to cook.
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  Speaker 3: Well, they pick it.
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  Speaker 5: It's like a challenge.
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  Speaker 2: For me, it wasn't even that so much because we
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  Speaker 2: know how to cook.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: It was the stress of not knowing, the stress of waiting.
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  Speaker 2: is it going to be my turn? Is my number
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  Speaker 2: going to come up? If my number comes up, what
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  Speaker 2: are they going to ask me to do? They're going
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  Speaker 2: to ask me to do pasta, chicken, beef. What am
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  Speaker 2: I going to make? If, what are the ingredients I need?
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  Speaker 2: You have to, you're thinking, you only have minutes to
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  Speaker 2: figure it out. And then you're, you're, you're watching these
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  Speaker 2: balls get picked and you're just at the edge of
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  Speaker 2: your seat, your heart's coming out of your chest. And
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  Speaker 2: then whether or not you get picked or not, and
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  Speaker 2: you sit there and now you might sit if you
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  Speaker 2: don't get picked. But I, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: Said it reminded me of being at, I hate to
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  Speaker 2: say this, but being at a wake. Like you're sitting
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  Speaker 2: around doing nothing, waiting, but it's completely stressful. Completely stressed out.
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  Speaker 5: That's how I felt.
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  Speaker 2: I felt like that.
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  Speaker 6: I did not look at it like that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because you're stressed out, right? But you're sitting around
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  Speaker 2: doing nothing, but you're stressed because now you know once
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  Speaker 2: that is over, we're going to do this again. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to pick numbers again. It might be my turn.
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  Speaker 3: It was, you know, I always say it was like
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  Speaker 3: the most.
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  Speaker 1: Physically, mentally, and emotionally draining, but also the most magical, treasured,
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  Speaker 1: and inspirational.
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  Speaker 2: A hundred percent.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, just to be chosen was huge. And then like,
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  Speaker 1: but it was very intense.
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  Speaker 3: 12, 15 hour days.
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  Speaker 6: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: And your heart was, I don't think I've ever felt
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  Speaker 3: that much anxiety. We talked about it, you know. When
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  Speaker 3: we would, you know, end.
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  Speaker 1: The day, we were exhausted. The younger people were going out, partying, drinking.
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  Speaker 1: And I love to party.
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  Speaker 3: And I love a good time.
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  Speaker 6: You saw me.
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  Speaker 3: I was very regimented.
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  Speaker 6: You too.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we went out a couple of times.
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  Speaker 2: It was very taxing. You know, and you go back
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  Speaker 2: to your room. It would be 9 o'clock at night.
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  Speaker 2: You'd order some room service. But meanwhile, I'm studying my recipes.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I was doing. Because you're like, okay, was
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  Speaker 2: that a teaspoon or a tablespoon? You know, you think
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  Speaker 2: you know it. But you have to study to make
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  Speaker 2: sure you don't forget an ingredient.
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  Speaker 5: Did you make.
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  Speaker 4: Sure that you took your best, like make a book
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  Speaker 4: of your best recipes that you took with you? Did
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  Speaker 4: you know that they were going to pick every genre of,
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  Speaker 4: like say it was a dessert, an appetizer?
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  Speaker 2: We had no idea what they were going to pick.
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  Speaker 5: They didn't tell you what you were going to cook?
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  Speaker 2: No, no idea.
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  Speaker 5: Coming on the show and they can make, Anything can happen.
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  Speaker 2: Anything can happen. And there were so many.
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  Speaker 5: Any style of food.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 2: And any, you know, and what happened with me was
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't, I had it in my head. Chicken, pasta.
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  Speaker 2: If I get a chicken dish, a pasta dish, this dish.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But then what was happening was that all of a
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  Speaker 2: sudden they're like, make your best brunch. And I'm like, brunch.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Like I never had brunch.
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  Speaker 6: I'm like.
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  Speaker 2: Brunch, thank God I didn't get that one. I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: I would have just made an egg or something. I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what I would have made.
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  Speaker 3: It was definitely challenging.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 2: So things like that were coming up that maybe I
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  Speaker 2: didn't think of. And I'm like, oh, I never thought
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  Speaker 2: of that one.
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  Speaker 3: What was something that you wish that you got called for?
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  Speaker 2: A pasta dish.
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  Speaker 3: Pasta. You know, like the noodles challenge.
• 13:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the noodles challenge would have been my or, you know,
• 13:28
  Speaker 2: or what was it with the rotisserie chicken? I probably
• 13:31
  Speaker 2: would have did something similar to Antoinette. She was on
• 13:34
  Speaker 2: the show. Yeah, I would probably did something like an
• 13:36
  Speaker 2: Italian wedding soup or chicken soup or something like that.
• 13:39
  Speaker 3: And you know what?
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: I got to give props to Antoinette because she did
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: do the Italian wedding soup, which does have meatballs. But
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: they they eliminated her because they said the meat wasn't.
• 13:51
  Speaker 3: It shouldn't have gone in with the chicken.
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: She should have made chicken meatballs because rotisserie chicken was,
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: but you know what?
• 13:56
  Speaker 6: I agreed with it. We're not, that was, that's how
• 13:58
  Speaker 6: you make it.
• 13:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 13:59
  Speaker 6: It looked delicious. It looked delicious. I love it.
• 14:02
  Speaker 2: They don't know.
• 14:03
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 14:03
  Speaker 2: Yes. She told me that was just recently.
• 14:06
  Speaker 6: Yep. She's yeah.
• 14:09
  Speaker 5: I love her.
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: I love her.
• 14:11
  Speaker 6: Yes, she does.
• 14:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah. That's right.
• 14:21
  Speaker 3: And we're doing a cook, kind of like a 100
• 14:24
  Speaker 3: cooks reunion. Remember I told you to come?
• 14:26
  Speaker 6: Yep. Yeah. Yes, you're coming.
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: And probably, I think, like 10 people from the show,
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: Mama Jackie and I, a few others, we're going to
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: go to Antoinette's house and we're going to do a backyard,
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: like barbecue type thing.
• 14:41
  Speaker 3: She lives in a beautiful complex and the backyard is gorgeous.
• 14:44
  Speaker 3: So we're going to have a good time.
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm looking forward to it.
• 14:46
  Speaker 3: Eat, drink, and be merry.
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to that. It's going to be a
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: lot of fun.
• 14:50
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 14:50
  Speaker 4: So what did you, what was your challenge that you
• 14:53
  Speaker 4: had to come? Cause I didn't get to see you
• 14:55
  Speaker 4: a part of the show. I actually, I didn't get
• 14:57
  Speaker 4: to watch all the episodes. I watched a few and
• 14:59
  Speaker 4: I didn't get, I didn't see your episode.
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: Well, I don't want to sound bitter. I don't want
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: to sound better. I'm going to try to be positive here. So,
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: you know, I am a cook. I like to cook
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: Italian food. I like to cook for all those out there.
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: All those people have video. Um, And finally, you know,
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: I had not been called for quite a few challenges.
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: And I was like, God, when are they going to
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: call my number? I got to get this out of
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: my system, you know? Yeah. And finally, my number gets called.
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: Let's see the challenge. Baking. I hate to bake. I
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: hate to bake. Yeah. I don't care for it. I
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: really don't like it. I'll make cookies at Christmas, but
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: that's like about it.
• 15:44
  Speaker 5: Well, baking is different than cooking. It's different.
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: It's more scientific.
• 15:48
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: That's what I don't like about it either because I
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: don't want to follow directions. I just want to throw
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: that and the other in it.
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: Me too, right?
• 15:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: You know, oh, it needs more salt to add it.
• 15:56
  Speaker 6: It needs this.
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: Not in baking. It has to be precise. It has
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: to be precise. And so I get the baking challenge
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: and the challenge was something you would find at a
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: bake sale, like a children's school bake sale. So I
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: had some ideas in my head, and I said, well,
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: it's got to either be like a cookie, a brownie,
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: a cupcake. And I make these really good lemon cookies
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: at Christmas all the time. Big hit. Been making them
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: for 40 years. I said, I'm going to make my
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: lemon cookies. They're going to die for these. And to
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: be honest, she can tell you, Terry went crazy for them.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: Terry Crews was the host. He thought they were great. Um, everybody,
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: Nick picked them as just for visual. He picked them. Um,
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: and when the cameras were off, they were saying a
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: lot of positive things. So I really, maybe I was
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: a little overconfident and I was like, Oh, thank you.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: I made it. I made it. I made it to
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: the next round. Thank you, Jesus. And all of a
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: sudden they're like, okay. And the people going home are,
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: and I, if you close up on my face, I
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: think my jaw hit the ground. Cause I was like, really?
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: And so I went home. But so that was very
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: disappointing because I didn't even get a chance to really cook.
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: So it's OK.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: I've had a great experience.
• 17:12
  Speaker 6: I cried.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: Did you?
• 17:14
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: I felt so bad.
• 17:16
  Speaker 6: I know.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: I felt so bad because I know like I know
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: you can cook and and you can bake, too.
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: I mean, I know your lemon cookies are amazing. And
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: they're lemon regatta, right?
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: No, no regatta.
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: Oh, no. All right.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: But yeah, I saw them. And I remember you made
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: them on TikTok.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: I made them again twice.
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: And delicious.
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: They were delicious. And, you know, you know, listen, if
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: they said to us, make sure you cook or bake
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: to the challenge, you know. So part of the reason
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: why I was very confident is some of the other
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: contestants made things that I don't think you would find
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: at a bake sale. So I was like, oh, I,
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: in my head, I'm like eliminating that immediately, you know?
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: So it kind of narrowed the field. This is just
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: in my brain. So I just, I guess I had
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: it all wrong.
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: Who won the challenge?
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: Oh, a few people.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: I forget his name.
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: Collaborative type thing.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: Like three or four that are safe. I forget their names.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: Big Papa.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: You know, Big Papa.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: I forget their names. Glenn.
• 18:17
  Speaker 6: Connor.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: Connor.
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: Connor.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: He made the raspberry tart. Somebody else made something. Why
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: can't I recall now?
• 18:25
  Speaker 6: I just can't.
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: What was the thing that they made that why they
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: picked them?
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: A lemon bar, a raspberry tart. I think it was
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: some kind of, didn't, who else got picked?
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: Was the empanada, the empanada win? I forget now.
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: Oh, yes.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: Somebody made like an empanada.
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: Like a sweet empanada.
• 18:46
  Speaker 6: It was mango perhaps?
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: But that's not what you'd really find at a bake sale.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm just, yeah.
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: I mean, that's like, you know, I mean, when I
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: think of bake sale, I think of brownies. I think
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: of chocolate chip.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: I think of cookies. I think of sometimes maybe a
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: rainbow cookie depending on who's cooking.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: Love a good rainbow cookie.
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: I think I....
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: Listen, I had a wonderful experience to be able to
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: say I was on Food Network. I mean, that is
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: just amazing. So, yeah, I am.
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: Out of all.
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: How many thousands of people did they say?
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: They said so many.
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: It took them over a.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: Year to go through videos after videos.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: Mine was two years prior that I got the call.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: But they did it for two years, casting. Two years.
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: That's just.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: I think about that and I let that sink in
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: and I think of, you know, the casting process and,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: you know, how many people, people they got, you know,
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: some people were found like us and then some were
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: actually applicants. They, they put out applications and some people
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: were professional reality show people. They had been on different
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: reality shows or even cooking competitions. Um, and they, they,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: you know, fill out applications all the time. I never
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: even knew there was such a thing, but we found
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: out on the show. Those, I think it was like
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: 80% that were found in probably 20, percent that were applicants.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: Right now something like that makes sense yeah but.
• 20:15
  Speaker 7: That's amazing to be picked like that yeah i'm very
• 20:18
  Speaker 7: blessed i'm happy about that so even though i didn't
• 20:21
  Speaker 7: you know get much further i would have liked to
• 20:23
  Speaker 7: have stayed on a little bit longer but it's all
• 20:25
  Speaker 7: right would they ever.
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: Do they pick people again to come back on if
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: they've been on the.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: Show or not you know it's funny because i asked
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: the casting agent because they're they're doing um casting for
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: season two right now So I said, oh, I wonder
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: if they're bringing back certain people.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: You never know.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: You never know.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: But we'll see how it all goes down.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: We'll see how it goes down. I mean, I'm curious
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: to see because that was the first season, too. And
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: if they change any kind of formats, because there were
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: certain things, you know, that I was like, you know,
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: would they do that again this way? You know, but
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: we'll see how it changes and if it does at all.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: But I'm looking forward to season two.
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: But it's amazing that there was people there that you had, like,
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: a cluster of people that you guys knew.
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: That's what... Yeah. And we really.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: And we made friends. We really bonded. I mean, we
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: have videos and pictures. Yeah. I mean, it was just...
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: We all just came downstairs in the first couple of
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: nights before we were getting exhausted.
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: I know.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: You know, we would hang out together. Yeah. And it was, like,
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: a huge party. And everybody... It's like everybody knew each other,
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: you know? It was really fun.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: The producers never expected us to become actual friends. Yeah.
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: And.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: And develop these bonds. Yeah.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: We're cheering for each other.
• 21:39
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: And I have to say, I loved working with Food Network.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: Me too.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: And they said to us, you know, we are a
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: reality show, but we are not the type that will
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: ever pin you against each other.
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: We're going to highlight you.
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: Make it negative.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: Oh, they wanted it to be positive. But they said,
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: if you make red chicken, it's on you.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's true.
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: It's on you.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: But they were great to work with.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: They were great to work with. And I think that
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: they were. I remember somebody saying how they were shocked when,
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: you know, maybe they called down eight contestants to cook something. And,
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: you know, the 70 other people, maybe. Everybody was cheering.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: And they would help them. The one guy, he was
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: trying to make a wonton or something.
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: No, he did crispy rice.
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: Crispy rice.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: And it wasn't forming.
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: You could see he was panicking.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: And he made it right to the end.
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: And you could see he was panicking. He didn't know
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: what to do. And we're in the audience telling him, forget,
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: abandon that idea. Do this. Right. And he did it.
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: And he survived the challenge. Because, you know, you get flustered.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: You know, once something goes wrong, you get flustered. And
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: now you've got to kind of bring it back and think.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: And the clock is ticking again. So it was stressful.
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: I mean, having to cook something right on the spot and, like,
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: it's got to be stressful.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: It is.
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: To do anything right on the spot.
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: It is, yeah.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: Especially, and the thing is you have to remember all
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: the ingredients, you know. It's like when I cook at home,
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: you know, I go to the store. I know I'm
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: going to make something. I have to get this, this, this,
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: and this. I have a list.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: Right, I don't run to the shop right and, you know, say, oh,
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: what do I need in 30 seconds?
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: You know, it's stressful. And you have 12 minutes to
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: do it.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: And that's real.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: My family thinks I'm nuts as it is. Please.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: I'm ready for the next one. I'll tell you, I'm
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: addicted now to cooking competition shows. How about you? Would
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: you do it again? Right.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I'd have to think. It was a
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: lot of work. It was very hard, but I probably
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: would do it again. Yeah, I'd do it again. I
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: know me. I say that now, but then when the
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: opportunity comes up.
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: Well, I hope I see you in the lobby.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I'm a competitor, so that would get me.
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: I hope we see each other.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: I hope so.
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: But, Mama, tell us about your book.
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so, yeah, I can't believe I made a cookbook.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: I should have brought it with me. Alexia was yelling
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: at me.
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: I said, why didn't you bring your cookbook?
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: I know, I know, but it's on Amazon, and, you know,
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: it's simple. I do simple Italian traditional meals.
• 24:07
  Speaker 6: What Italy are you from?
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: Well, my grandparents are from a town called Teora, which
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: is in the Avellino section of Italy, right near Naples.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: And that's where they came from. I did an ancestry
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: history thing on Ellis Island, and I saw the boat
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: and where they came. I even saw my grandfather's name
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: written in the registry. It's really cool. And I have
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: to order. I keep saying, you can do it. You
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: can do it. It's very cool. And I'm going to
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: order all that stuff and make a thing. That's very nice. Yeah, so...
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: they were very, they were very, very poor farmers, you know,
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: peasant people. And they made very simple dishes. And my
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: grandmother came over and we still were poor here. You know,
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: I grew up in Bloomfield and I, my, my sisters
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: hate when I say this, but it's the truth. You know,
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: we were poor and we didn't know we were poor
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: because everybody else was poor, you know, like, and you
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: didn't know what you didn't have. You know what I mean?
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: Like we had simple meals, you know, pasta, you know,
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: Things like that. Escarole and beans. Escarole and beans. I
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: love it.
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: Right?
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: And it was simple. And then my mother would get
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: a crusty, stale piece of bread, and you'd dip it,
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: and then you didn't even realize it was crusty and
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: stale because it was soaking in the juice. And so
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: that's how I learned how to cook. Very easy, simple meals,
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: but they're delicious. And that's how it all happened because
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: my daughters would watch me scrolling and watching everybody else.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: And they would say, you should go on TikTok and
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: show your recipes. And I'm like, no way. I'm like,
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: no way. And they're like, yes way. You're just as
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: good as everybody else. You have a great personality. You
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: would do great. And I said, I don't know. So
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: my daughter made me an account behind my back and
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: she named it Mama Jackie.
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: Love it. Yeah.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: And then she says, well, here's your account. So let's
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: make a video. And I was like, just for fun.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: I said, just for fun, we'll do it. And now
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: I look back at that video. I hope it gets
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: buried someday.
• 25:59
  Speaker 6: I love it.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: That was about a year and a half ago.
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: Look how great you're doing. You're doing so well.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: And I'm not trying to toot my own horn, but
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: that first from January of 2025 till April, I was
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: doing great. And then I got hacked. And I had
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: to start all over again. So a brand new account
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: and all over again. So I can't believe the blessings
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: that I've had. But the funny story is that we
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: did the video. And I watched it and I said
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: to my daughter, no way. I said, no way. I said,
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: forget it. I am not posting that video. And I
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: was watching it like this. And I'm like, oh, look
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: at me. And she came up from behind me and
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: she went post. And I she says, well, too late.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: It's out there. And I said, what do you at
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: that time? I didn't even understand what the heck I
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: was looking at. And I said, what are you talking about?
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: I just posted it.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: Was that Rachel?
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: Rachel.
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: She's really an advocate for you, too.
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: She is.
• 26:59
  Speaker 6: She is.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: And the next thing you know, I woke up the
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: next day and to all these comments and all these...
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: I had followers already. And I'm like, you just got
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: the fever. Now I'm like, oh, maybe I can do this.
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: Let's make another video.
• 27:12
  Speaker 6: I love it.
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: And then... Do you do one every day?
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: Pretty much, yeah. Sometimes twice because I like to do commentary, too.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: You know, I like... I'm a big person that loves
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: memories and traditions and the old school stuff. And I
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: realized soon on that there's a lot of other people
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: that like to talk about, you know, the old times
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: when we were kids. And so I like to just
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: sit and talk sometimes about things that I remember from
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: being a kid, from my grandmother, you know, that kind
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: of stuff, old school stuff. So I love doing that.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: So I do that as well.
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: And she has like two of her famous taglines. I
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: know what they are.
• 27:52
  Speaker 6: Come with me.
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: I'll show you how to make it.
• 27:54
  Speaker 6: Andiamo.
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: That's Mama Jackie.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: That's my word.
• 27:58
  Speaker 6: That's her.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: And whenever I hear anybody else do it, I say, ooh,
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: that's Mama's line.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: It's so funny. I was like, hey, can I copyright
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: this word, Andiamo? And I looked it up. And you
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: really can't because it's a word. It's a word. It's
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: a word. But whenever I hear anybody else say it,
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: I'm like, my word.
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: It's my word. It's not really accurate.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: But in my mind, I say, Mama coined the phrase,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Because that's something that I saw her do first, and
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: it stuck. So, like, I find it authentic to you.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: And whenever I hear anybody else do it, it just
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: isn't right. Because it's mama.
• 28:33
  Speaker 6: It's mama.
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: Vidiello. Vidiello.
• 28:36
  Speaker 6: I love it.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: My name's going to be all over the place.
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: Oh, how funny.
• 28:40
  Speaker 6: I love it.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: How funny.
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: So funny. That's a new joke. I love it.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: And look, you're dressed to impress with the food shirt.
• 28:48
  Speaker 6: I love that.
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: That's adorable.
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: And a homage to Rhode Island.
• 28:55
  Speaker 6: I love it. I love it.
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: That's so cute.
• 28:59
  Speaker 6: Very, very cute. I love it.
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: That was for you too.
• 29:03
  Speaker 6: Thank you.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: I am actually a pretty good cook too.
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: But I don't cook on social media. Because, you know,
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: I stick people with socials. or i make fun of
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: the gen z.
• 29:16
  Speaker 8: I love your videos yeah yeah i mean really i
• 29:21
  Speaker 8: watch them and i say you are too funny it's
• 29:23
  Speaker 8: right because it's just like you just you have like
• 29:26
  Speaker 8: um a dry sense of humor but.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: It's so hilarious and it's so and you're like just
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: making a face and showing a scare. And then I'm like,
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: I can still relate. And it's relatable. And that's what
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: I find funny.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: Like it's authentic to you.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: And I know that meeting you now these last few times,
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: I say that's really her, you know.
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: And, like, even the night we went to Spumoni Garden,
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: you were so funny. You picked us up in the escalade.
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: She's like, let's go to Spumoni Garden.
• 29:56
  Speaker 6: We had so much fun. It was just like pizza.
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: And it was a great time because she's, like, funny.
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: And she's down to earth. Down to earth.
• 30:04
  Speaker 6: That's it.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: You're down to earth. No, it's the truth. It's the
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: truth because I... I can't deal at this age.
• 30:12
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: I can't like you. We were talking in the beginning.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: I just can't deal. I just I know who I like.
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: And I immediately gravitated.
• 30:19
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: So I am too. True. True. You pick the people
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: that you want to surround yourself with. Yes.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: Nice.
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: You know, and, you know. For sure. People that you
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: really just want to be around.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: I agree.
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: You know, at this age, you don't want to be
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: around people that are.
• 30:33
  Speaker 6: No BS'd.
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: No bs right no bs i know.
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: Formal down-to-earth people true and i love that your kid
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: that your kids are so involved in what's going on
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: they are.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: Once in a while once in a while she's so
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: busy i got two very busy kids one's 18 one's
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: 21 they have the boyfriends you know take a lot
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: of time but They also, you know, go to college.
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: My younger one just starting this year and the other
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: one is in nursing school and she's finishing up this year.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: So she'll be becoming a nurse. And so it's a
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: lot of studying. And she, you know, she's very dedicated. So,
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: you know, when they have time, they try to help me.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: I mean, I know my followers say it all the time.
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: We love when your daughters are in the videos. And
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: my younger one, she doesn't like to be in them
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: as much. I kind of have to bribe her or
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: force her a little bit. But the other one, she'll
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: do it, but it's just a matter of, you know,
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: do you have time? Cause she's always racing somewhere, you know?
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: So what are you going to do? I was like
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: that when I was their age too.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: So when I went to a book signing, I was
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: so impressed, honestly, with her, uh, both, both her daughters,
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: but Rachel, especially it was like in command.
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: She, you know, she did mama Jackie trivia. She was
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: giving out the pasta. Like I was like, wow, she,
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: she's really good. She's very well spoken.
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: She's good. Uh, in front of crowds.
• 31:55
  Speaker 6: What's your, I know, right?
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: Oh, thank you.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: I was like, wow, this is like so, like what
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: a great family thing that she has going on, like
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: with her daughters and the support.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you.
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: Like, I was really impressed.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: With your daughter.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Yeah, they're good kids. They really are.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm blessed. That's what I could say. You know,
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: I'm blessed.
• 32:15
  Speaker 5: And you're lucky to have two beautiful, healthy children.
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: That's what I say.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: And you have beautiful. Two boys.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: Two boys.
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: Yes, yes. Right? Three girls, right?
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: We talked about that. Girls are different than boys. A
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: lot of drama with the girls.
• 32:34
  Speaker 6: Oh, my. Oh, no.
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: Like that video you posted the other day.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: And her facial expressions are killing me.
• 32:44
  Speaker 6: That's what's so funny. It's just like you're.
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: Not saying anything, but I can see the humor in it.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: Like the way she's presenting the video and the facial
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: expressions just like kills me.
• 32:55
  Speaker 6: I'm dead. The skeleton comes out.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: Because we all go through it, you know? And so
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: we can relate to it. Like, oh my God, I'm
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: not the only one, you know?
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: I'm not the only one that's feeling this way.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, right.
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: And I just have no patience or am I just
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: getting old and I can't.
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: It's just different though.
• 33:15
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: It's different. You know what I mean? And part of
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: it is, you know, like, I don't know about you,
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: but I think I spoiled my girls a little bit
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: growing up. You know, I wanted to do so much
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: for them. Sometimes I think we did too much. You know?
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: And so, you know, the dishes, say the dishes, you know,
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: they just put them in the sink. Oh, it's all right.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: Don't worry about it. Go play. Mommy will clean them up. Yeah, well,
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: now Mommy doesn't want to clean them up anymore.
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: You know?
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: Like, do the freaking dishes. Do the freaking dishes, you know?
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: Speaking of dishes, what's your signature dish, right?
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: I have to say, I always say it's my eggplant parmesan,
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: which I learned that you make it very similar to my.
• 33:56
  Speaker 6: Right?
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: Didn't we say that?
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: You did tell me that.
• 33:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: I posted a video. She said our recipe was very similar.
• 34:03
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 34:03
  Speaker 5: Because. Big eggplants are smaller.
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: I use the bigger eggplants, the regular size eggplants. I
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: try to get them skinnier. Thin, thin. I cut them
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: in discs. Yeah. I don't even bother. I don't do
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: that either.
• 34:16
  Speaker 6: I don't do it. She doesn't do it.
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: We talked about that.
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: Don't bother. Never do it. Don't bother. I guess my mother,
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: my grandmother, they never did it. I never knew that.
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: It was something.
• 34:24
  Speaker 6: Some people salt it.
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: I never did it.
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: I never even knew it was a thing until I
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: got older. And people would say, don't you salt your eggplant? Well,
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: I salt my eggplant. I'm like, what is that? Like,
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: my family didn't do it. So I never did it. Yeah.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: And I got to tell you, I mean, everybody loves whenever.
• 34:39
  Speaker 6: I have to go somewhere.
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: We're going to have to go to her house then
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: for dinner.
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely. Whenever anybody comes over or I go to
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: a party, what can I bring? Bring your eggplant. Oh,
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: my God.
• 34:48
  Speaker 6: I love it.
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: Not everybody can make eggplant.
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: We both don't put that cheese. We don't put mozzarella cheese.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: There's no mozzarella in my cheese. We don't put it.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: We do eggplant parm with only Pecorino Romano.
• 34:58
  Speaker 6: That's right.
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: I like that. That's it.
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: No mozzarella. Yeah.
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah. I really used to make it no sauce.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: Oh, I love it like that. Like a potato cheese. Oh,
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: that sounds good too.
• 35:08
  Speaker 5: Nothing.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: Right. You see, the simpler, the better. Sometimes I look
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: at these, sometimes I look at these recipes and I say,
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: they had to originate from the fact that you didn't
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: have something.
• 35:19
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: Right. So maybe they didn't have tomatoes, you know, because
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: it was the middle of the winter and they ran out.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: And she's like, oh, what am I going to do?
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: I can't make a sauce. So I'm going to make
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: it without the tomatoes. And all of a sudden you
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: made this great dish and you didn't even have the
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: ingredient that you wanted.
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: You know, guess what she just did.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: What did I do? Like what?
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: 500 gallons of.
• 35:39
  Speaker 6: Oh, my God.
• 35:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 35:40
  Speaker 6: She made her own. Tomatoes.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: I do that every year. I should have brought a couple.
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: One million gallons.
• 35:44
  Speaker 6: I said, Mama, bring me a jug. I forgot.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't believe it. I wasn't in
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: a fog today.
• 35:48
  Speaker 6: I just not believe it.
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: I was in a fog. I didn't even think. Next time,
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: now that gives me another reason to see you guys.
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: We need tomatoes?
• 35:55
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: Eggplant parm. We're making a list. We're making a list.
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: Oh, my God.
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: I can't wait to go over Mama's.
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely.
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: I want her to say, come with me.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: Sit at my table.
• 36:05
  Speaker 6: I'm the amo.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: I'm the amo.
• 36:07
  Speaker 6: Absolutely.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I did 143 jars. Two Sundays ago, which
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: was a lot.
• 36:17
  Speaker 5: It's a lot. I used to draw sauce. I haven't
• 36:19
  Speaker 5: drawn in a couple of years. It's a lot.
• 36:21
  Speaker 6: We don't have to. We have mama.
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: It's a labor of love. it's a you know you
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: know an old friend of mine used to say you
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: know work or you know get because it's a lot
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: of work you know work or you know get oh
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: that's so every jar is like so it's a lot
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: of work i mean we start at 6 a.m in
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: the morning i'm outside and i didn't come in till
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: like 8 30 and that includes all that cleanup like
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: tomato everywhere on my house on the patio i mean.
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: You had a whole A bunch of people, assembly line, right?
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: Oh, you have to have an assembly line. You have
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: to be organized. And as a matter of fact, I
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: went and bought, not bought, but I did buy another machine,
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: but I got it off of like Facebook Marketplace because
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: I want to even ramp up the production next year.
• 37:04
  Speaker 6: Whoa. So. I like it.
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: Maybe next year you come.
• 37:07
  Speaker 6: That would be fun.
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: Got to have electric.
• 37:09
  Speaker 5: I've got an electric one, too, because.
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: Oh, forget it. You break your neck. You break your arm. Oh,
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: my God. You kill yourself doing that. You could do
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: a small batch, but not a.
• 37:17
  Speaker 5: Not like a big batch.
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: You couldn't do it. You couldn't do it.
• 37:20
  Speaker 5: No.
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: We used to have like, it would be my five girlfriends,
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: their mothers, and the.
• 37:26
  Speaker 5: Three grandmothers doing it. Oh, wow. It was like 14
• 37:29
  Speaker 5: of us doing it at one time. And then. And
• 37:32
  Speaker 5: then that kind of fell to the wayside. I wish
• 37:34
  Speaker 5: I would start again. I mean, it was a lot
• 37:36
  Speaker 5: of work, but it was the best. It was rewarding.
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: And everybody looks, you know, my family, we look forward
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: to that day. You know, even though it's a lot
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: of work, everybody looks forward to it. And one last
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: year I had knee surgery and I was going to,
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: I wasn't going to do it. I said, oh, let
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: me give a break this year for my knee.
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: That people were upset?
• 37:53
  Speaker 5: Oh, are you kidding? We'll do all the work. We'll
• 37:56
  Speaker 5: do it all.
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: You can just sit, please.
• 37:58
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 37:59
  Speaker 5: You're not going to be able to sit and just watch.
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: Oh, I didn't. I didn't. I didn't.
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: It's a labor of love.
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: It's a labor of love. But when you open up
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: that jar in January and you're tasting those fresh tomatoes
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: with the fresh basil that's in it.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: Nothing like it.
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: I think those are two of my favorite ingredients.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, me too. Basil and tomato.
• 38:18
  Speaker 5: My ex-husband almost divorced me. At that point, we're divorced now.
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: But I gave away two of our jars of tomatoes
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: that we made one.
• 38:27
  Speaker 6: Year to my neighbors.
• 38:28
  Speaker 5: He was very angry. Why?
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: I understand, though.
• 38:31
  Speaker 6: Because it took, right?
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: I understand. Because you don't have many people, like these
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: ancillary people that I don't even know. Like, oh, can
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: I have a jar? Yeah, I'll have to remember you. No.
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: Get a jar?
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: No.
• 38:42
  Speaker 5: Give it to this idiot.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: No, you're not getting a jar.
• 38:47
  Speaker 5: Do what it does. Go over it. Well, Tim, I
• 38:49
  Speaker 5: don't give a shit. It took us days to make
• 38:52
  Speaker 5: this before we.
• 38:53
  Speaker 6: Had the electric.
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: But it's true. I can understand that. That's why I make.
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: But that's why I make so much more now. Because
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: now I know I have a little bit extra to
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: give away.
• 39:03
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: So I don't feel so bad. But only the right people.
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: Only the right people. It's a labor of love. It
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: really is. I say that all the time. But I
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: wouldn't give it up. I'll keep doing it.
• 39:14
  Speaker 5: Yeah. I will. Hopefully.
• 39:16
  Speaker 6: I will.
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: I promise.
• 39:18
  Speaker 6: I know.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: I promise. I promise. I promise.
• 39:20
  Speaker 6: I can't wait.
• 39:21
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: I'm excited.
• 39:24
  Speaker 5: So, Jack, tell everybody where they can find you. And
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: when is the next... Are we writing it? book soon?
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm in the process. I'm hoping I can get
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: it done, but we'll see. Fingers crossed if I can.
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: I wanted to do something for Christmas, like a Christmas cookie,
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: even though I don't bake, but I do do cookies
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: and stuff at Christmas. So we're going to see if
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: I can get that out in time. So that I'm
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: working on. But, you know, the book now I have
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: is on Amazon. So it's pretty easy to find just,
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: you know, Mama Jackie's traditional Italian cooking. And so we'll see.
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: We'll see what comes up. But I'm hoping to I'm
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: also gathering recipes to make the next cookbook as well. Excellent.
• 40:04
  Speaker 5: So exciting. Where can they find you online?
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm on Instagram. Mama Jackie. Sixty five. Tick tock.
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: Mama Jackie. Sixty five. I got hacked on Facebook, so
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: I'm working through that with someone right now to get
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: back on Facebook, so I'm not there just yet. So
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: if anybody sees me on Facebook, it's not me because
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: people steal my stuff. I don't know if that happens
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: to you. It's so upsetting.
• 40:27
  Speaker 5: I'm not as big as you, so they're not stealing
• 40:28
  Speaker 5: my stuff.
• 40:29
  Speaker 6: It's so.
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: They're taking my.
• 40:32
  Speaker 5: They actually take her.
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so.
• 40:35
  Speaker 5: It's crazy.
• 40:35
  Speaker 6: Get the baseball bat.
• 40:37
  Speaker 5: Get the bats.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: Listen, you know, I saw her, and it was Mama
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: Jackie in somebody else's kitchen.
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: I'm like, That's odd. And they took her. How did
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: they do this? AI. And they put her in another kitchen.
• 40:49
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: And then they create an account called something else close
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: to Mama Jackie. And then all the followers are going
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: to them. And then I reported it to Facebook.
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: Told them what was going on. They shut me down.
• 41:03
  Speaker 5: They shut you down?
• 41:04
  Speaker 6: Oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness.
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: Can you imagine?
• 41:07
  Speaker 6: Oh, my goodness.
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: They shut me down. And then I took months to
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: try to get it back. It never went. got i
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: could never get it back and so it just was
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: the statute of limitations ran out and now i have
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: no choice but to start a brand new page but
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: i'm gonna ask someone who really knows how to securely
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: make that page so maybe that i don't.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: Know people will find you you have to get meta
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: certified yes it's you know yeah and then you'll be
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: good i know but you know what the people know
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: Where to find you.
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: Yes, the real McCoy.
• 41:38
  Speaker 6: No one can fake who.
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: Mama Jackie is. She's the real deal.
• 41:41
  Speaker 6: Vidiello.
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: Vidiello. Oh, you too.
• 41:45
  Speaker 6: I love it.
• 41:45
  Speaker 5: I'm so happy that you were on my podcast today.
• 41:47
  Speaker 6: Oh, thank you.
• 41:48
  Speaker 5: And I'm so happy that you're in my life now.
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: Me too. Thank you.
• 41:52
  Speaker 6: I know.
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: Me too. It's the truth.
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: And we have so many more things coming up together.
• 41:56
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: It's just going to keep going and going. And I
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: thank you so much for having me, really. I mean,
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: I had a blast. It's a lot of fun. We
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: didn't stop talking once.
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: It's just like we're in our living room.
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I love it.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: And it's great that... you know, we feel so comfortable.
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: And I hope the audience.
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: Can sense that. I hope you guys feel it that way.
• 42:18
  Speaker 6: Yeah, we do.
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: And this is so, like, sincere, you know?
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: No, it's true. It is sincere. And I hope that
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: comes across because it really is. Definitely.
• 42:26
  Speaker 5: I video.
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: I don't.
• 42:32
  Speaker 6: We won't stop. We won't stop. We can't stop.
• 42:35
  Speaker 5: We're just going to call and jump in the middle.
• 42:38
  Speaker 5: Just random talk. Thank you for coming in.
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 42:43
  Speaker 5: And everybody, tune in. Hit that like button. YouTube, Apple, Spotify.
• 42:49
  Speaker 4: Also, I'm going to send these girls after you.
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: That's right. We know people.
• 42:52
  Speaker 5: Have a great day, everybody. That was good.
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: Bye. Yeah, that was great.