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Kristina Lavallee | The Cake Girl | 06-29-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: So yesterday morning, I made my way very early.
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  Speaker 2: I picked up at five am on a Sunday to
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  Speaker 2: go to Fox New so I can get yelled at
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  Speaker 2: by Rachel Campos and Charlie Hurt and Griff Jenkins.
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  Speaker 1: Although I think I did a very good job holding
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  Speaker 1: my own. In fact, I think I won.
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  Speaker 2: But there was great and they're great people, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: doing it again very very soon.
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  Speaker 1: And I bumped it to.
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  Speaker 2: These fine, beautiful people. This lady is a big deal
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  Speaker 2: on NBC. You see what Savannah got three all the
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  Speaker 2: time she was on the show yesterday too, and she's
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  Speaker 2: known by these three words.
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  Speaker 1: The cake girl, the cake girl.
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  Speaker 3: So how are you, mister doing great this morning?
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  Speaker 1: You've got a real name too. It's like Christina Christina.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but everybody calls me the cake Girl, and I
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  Speaker 4: responded to us all.
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  Speaker 2: The time, and you're like a big star on television.
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  Speaker 2: They do a lot of these segments all the big shows,
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  Speaker 2: Today's Show, Good Morning America, The Terrible Show with Gail King,
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  Speaker 2: and Fox two. But they have you, guys, big time
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  Speaker 2: cooks and deserve people like you show up and cook
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  Speaker 2: on the set.
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  Speaker 1: So did you do you do? Stop on the set? Yesterday.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, So we recorded a show called American Kitchen, which
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  Speaker 4: is actually the Beauty this weekend on July thir or Friday,
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  Speaker 4: and we basically brought a cake for America's two hundred
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  Speaker 4: and fiftieth birthday.
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  Speaker 1: Can you say this the greatest cake I've ever seen?
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  Speaker 1: I'm a right patriotic guy. First of all, it's like
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  Speaker 1: the size of the Leaning Tower of Piece. That's huge,
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  Speaker 1: and it's so patriotic.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I mean, if it tastes as good as it looks,
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  Speaker 2: it's got to be an amazing cake.
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  Speaker 4: That's what I always I always say, not only has
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  Speaker 4: to look good, but it has to taste right.
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  Speaker 3: It has to have both.
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  Speaker 2: Because I buy my it cakes for his birthday because
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  Speaker 2: somebody was little, because they were good themes, and then
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  Speaker 2: the cake.
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  Speaker 1: Tastes like wax.
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  Speaker 4: Exactly a lot of people they always come up there like,
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  Speaker 4: I know your cakes look great and all, but do
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  Speaker 4: they taste good? And I'm like, I always say, it
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  Speaker 4: has to taste good and it has to look good.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So I believe you. I believe that's it.
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  Speaker 2: You don't get as big as you are without being
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  Speaker 2: great at what you're doing. How did you become the
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  Speaker 2: cake Girl. How did it all start?
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  Speaker 4: You know, it all started when I started eating well
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  Speaker 4: back then.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously my boyfriend Kirby now my husband.
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  Speaker 1: He's not the black guy with the big muscles.
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  Speaker 3: Is a good friend.
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  Speaker 1: That was chef rush Oh my god, I thought that
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  Speaker 1: guy was like the wrestling champ or something. So he
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  Speaker 1: works for you too.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, we're actually really good friends, he says. He's
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  Speaker 4: one of the other chefs that actually did cooking with
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  Speaker 4: us in the show and American.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I've never seen a large I covered the NFL
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  Speaker 1: for years.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, he actually was. I think it was for presidents.
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  Speaker 4: He cooked at the White House for that. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 4: that's just how he's well known for sure. Okay, but no,
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  Speaker 4: Kirby is actually my husband. But he actually used to
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  Speaker 4: call me when we used to day back in the day,
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  Speaker 4: the cake Girl. So the name stuck and then that's
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  Speaker 4: what we named our business.
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  Speaker 1: He's been.
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  Speaker 3: He's the guy behind the scenes.
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  Speaker 1: But he's good to.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, he actually can't let you full. He does
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  Speaker 4: decorated with me sometimes, so he's a great supportive Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I not only agree husband, for sure.
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  Speaker 2: That is that is fantastic. How long I've been doing
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  Speaker 2: this for Oh.
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  Speaker 4: Wow, I know that business is solved as a brick
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  Speaker 4: and mortar has been open for seven years. But been
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  Speaker 4: doing it, Oh my god. I started from home more
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  Speaker 4: than ten years ago. Then we took it to festivals, markets,
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  Speaker 4: food truck.
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  Speaker 3: And then now a store. So it's been quite the journey.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god.
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  Speaker 1: Good for you.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and do you remember how old you're own your
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  Speaker 2: first baked, your first cake?
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  Speaker 3: I was five years old. Five five years old.
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  Speaker 4: I used to I was born and raised in Puerto Rico,
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  Speaker 4: and I used to tell my mom, I want to bake.
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  Speaker 3: That's all I wanted to do.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously not what I do today because I was so little,
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  Speaker 4: but that's I wanted to take this as a career
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  Speaker 4: for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: So today's a big day for you because you're actually
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  Speaker 2: debuting a brand new item.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes, it's actually so.
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  Speaker 4: We've had the Craven Captures is cake and a jar
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  Speaker 4: for those that don't know, but we've had it and
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  Speaker 4: sold it out of stores as an eight ounce cup.
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  Speaker 4: What we're debuting is a four ounce jar. So that's
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  Speaker 4: the new product. We are gonna be carrying a smaller jar.
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  Speaker 4: Same great flavor. We're just gonna basically do a four
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  Speaker 4: lineup and then just basically roll it out and.
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  Speaker 1: You have all these different flavors. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So right today we're debuting our Cookies and Cream, which
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  Speaker 4: is cream which is marble cake, and then we have
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  Speaker 4: Cookies and Cream butter cream icing and then top the
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  Speaker 4: oreos on top.
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  Speaker 1: Of Come on, it's fantastic, No, it's great. How many
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  Speaker 1: flavors all together do you have?
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  Speaker 3: Of these?
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  Speaker 4: All the smaller ones, we're debuting four. We're doing a
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  Speaker 4: lady in Bread which is red velvet. We're doing an
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  Speaker 4: Unicorn which is very rainbow colorful cake with cake, butter
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  Speaker 4: butter cream, and then we're doing a cookie butter which
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  Speaker 4: is best Off cookie which is very popular vanilla cake,
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  Speaker 4: best Off filling, and then the cookie butter butter.
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  Speaker 2: Could people reach out to you and have you custom
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  Speaker 2: make something for July for it this weekend?
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  Speaker 1: Yes? Something American patriotic?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: So what is the best way to reach the cake.
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  Speaker 3: Girl under our website?
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  Speaker 4: So under the Cakegirl dot com you'll be able to
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  Speaker 4: fill out a request form or you can also order
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  Speaker 4: the bigger jars are eight ounce jars too for shipping nationwide.
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  Speaker 3: Too different.
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  Speaker 2: And you guys you out of Tampa, Florida, right, Yes,
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  Speaker 2: and you're going back tonight and you've got a big
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  Speaker 2: event coming up to the Jacob Jovi At Center.
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  Speaker 4: Is all about the summer fancy food show or debuting
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  Speaker 4: our little jars in there. There's a lot of buyers,
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  Speaker 4: there's a lot of entrepreneurs. So we're taking our forums
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  Speaker 4: job jars, I'm sorry, you know, to showcase them and
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  Speaker 4: see if this is something that we could put in
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  Speaker 4: stores and retail stores.
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  Speaker 3: So we're very excited.
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  Speaker 1: And you have a what a weekly relationship with Today Show?
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 2: What is relationship with the NBC and all of that.
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  Speaker 2: How often you on that show?
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  Speaker 3: So the Today Show we did once, yeah, once, and
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  Speaker 3: it was for.
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  Speaker 4: America, not a biggorant heritage, it was for Hispanic heritage. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: So we debuted our Puerto Rican cake since I'm from
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  Speaker 4: Puerto Rica. That's one of our popular cake flavors that
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  Speaker 4: we have in our story that we do.
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  Speaker 3: And then on Fox we've been a few times.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's great Fox. Okay, So again, but folks who
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  Speaker 1: want to take advantage.
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  Speaker 2: Or can we date this stuff after the show. I'm
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  Speaker 2: very excited about it.
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  Speaker 3: I want to know your opinion about it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure I'm gonna love it. What is again, the
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  Speaker 1: best way to contact you.
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  Speaker 4: Guys, thecgirl dot com, thecagirl dot com.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you're lovely. It's great to see you again two days.
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  Speaker 2: In a row.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for having us.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, have a safe trip back to Tampa and continued success.
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  Speaker 2: You're doing great.
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  Speaker 1: I'm happy for you.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: You're welcome. But cakegirl dot.
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  Speaker 2: Com folks, make sure that you hit yourself something delicious
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  Speaker 2: for the big two hundred and fiftieth birthday party coming
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  Speaker 2: up this weekend. Nobody does it better than the cakegirl
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  Speaker 2: dot com.
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