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Johnny Dawson, Owner of Johnny D’s pizza in Huntington Station Interview · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Remember we talked about yesterday the guy out in Long
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  Speaker 1: Island in Huntington Station that just broke the record for
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  Speaker 1: the highest pizza dough toss in the world? Well, guess what?
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  Speaker 1: We got him on the phone. The world record holder
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  Speaker 1: for the highest pizza dough toss, Johnny Dawson from Johnny's Pizza. Johnny,
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  Speaker 1: thanks a lot for agreeing to talk to us. Tell
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  Speaker 1: us how you came up with this idea to break
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  Speaker 1: the record.
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  Speaker 2: My pleasure. Thanks for having me on the show. So
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  Speaker 2: I have a seven-year-old daughter, Presley, and I own the
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  Speaker 2: pizzeria and obviously making pizzas there all the time. I
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  Speaker 2: make pizzas at my house, and she loves it when
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  Speaker 2: I throw the dough up in the air. She thinks
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  Speaker 2: it's funny and great, and I do little tricks with it.
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  Speaker 2: So one day, I don't know, I just came across
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  Speaker 2: it on the Internet. um, that the Joe Carlucci had
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  Speaker 2: the record 21 and a half feet. Now I'm thinking
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  Speaker 2: in my head, like I, I feel pretty high sometimes.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, I could probably, I could probably beat that.
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  Speaker 2: So I started messing around with it. And in the
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  Speaker 2: beginning I was getting close, but I wasn't beating it.
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  Speaker 2: And then I started practicing and throwing it a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of a different way. And then all of a
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  Speaker 2: sudden I started throwing it higher than the record. And
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  Speaker 2: I said, wow, I could, I could beat this record. So, um,
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  Speaker 2: We turned it into a fundraiser for every inch that
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  Speaker 2: I break it by. I was going to donate 100
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  Speaker 2: meals to family services, which is their local homeless shelter.
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  Speaker 2: And once I started putting that on my social media,
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  Speaker 2: other businesses joined in. and donated two per inch, and
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  Speaker 2: it got pretty big, and we raised a bunch of
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  Speaker 2: money and a bunch of meals for the homeless shelter.
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  Speaker 1: And I've seen the video. By the way, that was
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  Speaker 1: a great video. I love the Rocky music and the training,
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  Speaker 1: but so I've seen the video, and I saw you
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  Speaker 1: break the record. You have video evidence. Why aren't you
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  Speaker 1: in the Guinness Book of World Records?
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  Speaker 2: So when I first started this whole thing, I wanted
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  Speaker 2: it to be in Guinness, and I had reached out
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  Speaker 2: to them And, you know, told them that I wanted
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  Speaker 2: to attempt to break the record and all this. And
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  Speaker 2: they had wrote me back that it was.
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  Speaker 1: $ 13, 500.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my God. What a scam.
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  Speaker 1: You had to.
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  Speaker 2: Pay them to get an official attempt. You know, the
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  Speaker 2: package they give you where they send the cameraman and
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  Speaker 2: the judge. And, you know, basically, I think you're paying
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  Speaker 2: for their logo and the rights to their name. And
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  Speaker 2: I thought that was a little excessive. Uh, so, uh,
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  Speaker 2: I said, you know what? Better off donating the money
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  Speaker 2: to the, to the homeless shelter. I said, if they
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  Speaker 2: could probably use it better than Guinness can. And I said,
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  Speaker 2: you know what? Who needs Guinness anyway? You know, it's
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  Speaker 2: their record, but I'm going to beat it regardless.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. But how about a GoFundMe? How about a GoFundMe
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  Speaker 1: to get that?
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  Speaker 2: You know, that's not really. That's not really my thing.
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  Speaker 2: I don't do the GoFundMes and stuff like that. I
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  Speaker 2: hate asking other people for money. It's not something I
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  Speaker 2: enjoy doing.
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  Speaker 3: Johnny grew up looking at the Guinness Book World Records
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  Speaker 3: like I did. I had one in my house and
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  Speaker 3: I would flip through it all the time. So I
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  Speaker 3: know you did too. But you said, who needs sometimes Guinness?
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  Speaker 3: Because the internet thinks you're the top anyway, right?
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: So yesterday I was Googling who holds the the highest
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  Speaker 2: record for the highest pizza dough toss, and I come up.
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  Speaker 1: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: Google says it's me.
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  Speaker 3: So there you go.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, who needs Guinness? Hey, listen, Johnny, thanks for taking
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  Speaker 1: the time to talk to us today. Congratulations.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate the call.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, man. All right, see you later. Johnny Dawson
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  Speaker 1: from Johnny's Pizza in Huntington Station.