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Speaker 1: Hey, it's Neil Savedra. You're listening to kfi EM six

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Speaker 1: forty the four Report on demand on the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 1: Now I am your Well Fed host, Neil Savadra. How

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Speaker 1: do you do Every Saturday, we get together for three

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Speaker 1: hours and we celebrate food, the culture behind it, the

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Speaker 1: people that make it, cooking, going out to eat, tipping

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Speaker 1: a glass, and everything in between. I've said this before.

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Speaker 1: The very word companion, the root word is bread pond.

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Speaker 1: Companion means someone you break bread with. So we celebrate

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Speaker 1: those things on the show every week. And my next guest,

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Speaker 1: Christy Vega, is from Casa Vega. We've had her on

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Speaker 1: the phone once before, we've never had her in studio

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Speaker 1: and I know she was with her buddy Tim Conway Jr.

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Speaker 1: The other day, but we welcome her back to the

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Speaker 1: studio today. Hi, Hi, nice to see you.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, I'm thrilled. It is. It's so strange because

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Speaker 1: being in La growing up in this area, being born

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Speaker 1: in Encino. But I like to clarify to people it

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Speaker 1: was the north side of the boulevard. They're like, oh,

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Speaker 1: it's you know, I'm like, no, Burbank Boulevard. Sorry, so

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Speaker 1: loving everything La. You it's a staple. Tell everybody that

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Speaker 1: might not know about Casa Vega how long it's been

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Speaker 1: there and the family background.

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Speaker 3: So Casa Vega, we are celebrating our seventieth year in September.

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Speaker 1: Wow, just like Disneyland. That's sorry.

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Speaker 3: Nineteen fifty six and it was founded by my father,

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Speaker 3: Raphael rey Vega, at the age of twenty two, and

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Speaker 3: he founded Casa Vega as a way to put his

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Speaker 3: parents back to work. My grandparents were restaurant tours in

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Speaker 3: La when they immigrated from Tijuana, and they owned a

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Speaker 3: very famous restaurant. It was the first sit down Mexican

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Speaker 3: restaurant all Street. And then when they I don't know

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Speaker 3: if you if you know this little bit of history

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Speaker 3: about La they were considering banning alcohol because it became

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Speaker 3: part of the state park district. And so my grandpa

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Speaker 1: So they no one can.

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Speaker 3: Nobody can. So they went to Hollywood. It didn't turn

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Speaker 3: little bit of anti Latino sentiment. Operation went back, so

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Speaker 3: they closed and then my dad came back to support

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Speaker 3: He quit to come home and then he and my

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Speaker 3: grandmother would cater every night, and by day he would

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Speaker 3: He's like, well, we're belly up, we don't need money.

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Speaker 3: And she said, I have a place in Studio City

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Speaker 2: Three months free rent.

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Speaker 3: And so he borrowed from everybody he knew, and then

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Speaker 3: he put his parents back to works. My grandmother got

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Speaker 3: But when we got to the valley, and so we were.

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Speaker 2: Just a few blocks.

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Speaker 3: East of where Cosa Vega is now, there's a barbecue galore,

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Speaker 3: if you know, yeah, and so it was wonderful. They

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Speaker 3: And Marlon Brando really put us on the map. I

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Speaker 3: mean he brought everybody in. He was in five nights

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Speaker 3: Nico said that they were getting to go food.

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Speaker 2: It was like a.

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Speaker 1: Little hideaway sort of too, because you're coming down the

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Speaker 2: That's just funny.

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Speaker 3: Quentin Tarantino described it as you know Cosa Vega you

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Speaker 3: can you can fall, well, he said, the Mexican restaurants,

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Speaker 1: Yes, we'll tell you more about that connection when we

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Speaker 1: come back. So go nowhere. It's our Oscar show just

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Speaker 1: because the Oscars are tomorrow and there is even more

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Speaker 1: that when we return. You're listening to the Fork Report

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Speaker 1: with Nil Savedra on demand from KFI AM six forty.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for hanging out. It's it's the day before the Oscars,

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Speaker 1: so of course we do our Oscars show. Started this

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Speaker 1: Of course, you know Wolfgang Puck when it comes to

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Speaker 1: catering the actual event. But we have so many places

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Speaker 1: the people behind the scenes forever, and Casa Vega is

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Speaker 1: one of them on Ventura Boulevard there, Christy Vega is

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Speaker 1: with us. Took years in the making, but finally you've

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Speaker 1: got that stunning Now I've only seen pictures. I'm going

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Speaker 1: to grab the fam and we're going to come out

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Speaker 1: and check it out. But I've seen the beautiful pictures

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Speaker 1: of the new patio. Tell us about that.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the patio was a three year journey because I

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Speaker 3: knew al Fresco with the city wasn't going to be

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Speaker 3: I went through the massive cup process and changes you

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Speaker 3: to land, which means that I now have a three

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Speaker 3: they can we can keep the heat in. And then

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Speaker 3: I've got an eighteen seat bar, full plumbed bar, which

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Speaker 3: are not doing al Fresco. I added two bathrooms and

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Speaker 3: the patio seats one hundred.

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Speaker 1: Wow, that's awesome. Is there a fire pit out there too?

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Speaker 2: There's not a fire.

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Speaker 1: Pit because there's something that is stunning that goes the

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Speaker 3: It's waters. But I do wow on there too. So

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Speaker 3: I built I call it the heartbeat of a patio.

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Speaker 2: And so there's a.

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Speaker 3: the fountain. I dedicated it to date nights because we

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Speaker 2: This was our first date.

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Speaker 3: This was our first date, so we get families in

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Speaker 3: first dates. So the fountain is dedicated to date night.

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Speaker 3: And then but I have I piped in gas natural

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Speaker 2: So you'll see a lot of elements like that.

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Speaker 3: So we have gas lanterns all around with a live

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Speaker 3: so that dances in it. And then it's really beautiful.

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Speaker 3: And so I did a tottom run iron. I have

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Speaker 3: outdoor leather tufted boots, so it gives that old Hollywood

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Speaker 1: It looks gorgeous. And I can tell by just your

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Speaker 1: how you dress that you have an eye for detail.

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Speaker 1: Did you have a lot of say in that? Did

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Speaker 1: you really say, hey, listen that you know, can we

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Speaker 2: Absolutely?

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Speaker 3: Every decision I was involved, I was there, I approved,

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Speaker 3: I picked it. It was you know. Of course, it

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Speaker 3: takes a huge team to do something like this. We

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Speaker 3: every single decision I was like, no, I need to know,

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Speaker 2: I want it to look like this.

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Speaker 3: I was very specific because this is my family, it's

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Speaker 3: and I want to honor the customers that have kept

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Speaker 2: I don't want to mess anything up.

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Speaker 3: I want to keep Cross a Veg irrelevant, but I

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Speaker 3: don't want to dishonor what's made it so famous for

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Speaker 1: Did you name yes?

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Speaker 2: And was I named the patio the rey Vega patio.

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Speaker 1: I love it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's after my father and our founder, And we

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so he'd give up and just like throw up

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Speaker 3: I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it

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Speaker 3: I found in the corporate books all the way through

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Speaker 3: and I just got the land this year.

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Speaker 1: Wow, good for you. That is awesome. That is awesome.

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Speaker 1: Good for you. That is what legacy deserves. I have

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Speaker 1: a friend who owns I don't know, ten different restaurants,

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Speaker 1: the joke that he'd perform the powers that be and

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Speaker 1: the politicians in LA to just go no, we hate business,

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Speaker 1: we want to help, we want to help, but they don't.

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Speaker 1: A friend of mine is on the city council, councilwoman

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Speaker 1: Monica Rodriguez, and she she was thrilled because we originally

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Speaker 1: and I said, of course, yeah, you coming, we'll all

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Speaker 2: She is one responsible for the party is open.

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Speaker 1: She's real, she loves food and small business and she's

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Speaker 1: the real deal.

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Speaker 2: And every time we would get stuck.

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Speaker 3: She would pull me out and push it through, and

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Speaker 3: I was just like, Ela needs more of this.

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Speaker 1: She is the real deal. And I bust her chops

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Speaker 1: on the daily run for mayor already and straighten this

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Speaker 1: garbage out. Just be honest. I don't nobody really cares

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Speaker 1: when it comes down to it, if somebody's a moderate

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Speaker 2: Get it done. And that's what she does.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and she absolutely does does. And I you know,

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Speaker 1: love with her. I'm just like, she speaks the truth.

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Speaker 1: You know. Do we always agree? No, of course not.

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Speaker 1: and that she's you know, looking through these things.

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Speaker 2: But you will be mayor one day.

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Speaker 1: Yes, Oh no, I believe. I'm satting on the show

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Speaker 1: many times. Is so much so. One time we I

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Speaker 1: are you running? I'm like, good, yea, get her to

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Speaker 2: She's a huge advocate for restaurants all.

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Speaker 1: Over time, big time, big time, and I'm glad she

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Speaker 1: was a part of that because she's like, have you

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Speaker 1: seen the patio? He said, only in pictures? And so

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Speaker 1: if we were there today, she was gonna come hang

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Speaker 1: out with us because she's just an amazing person, one

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Speaker 1: one of many like yourself that are the bones of

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Speaker 1: the culture that are important. We can't let these places go.

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Speaker 1: God bless you for living through COVID, which was frustrating.

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Speaker 3: It was awful and frustrating, but it honestly made me

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Speaker 3: ruffled a few feathers, and it did.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And you'd think it would come from a seven

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Speaker 1: foot two body. Would you walk in and goes who's yelling?

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Speaker 1: And then you look down, Oh man, that little thing

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Speaker 1: looks past. Well, what a pleasure to meet you in person.

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Speaker 1: You're welcome on this show. Anytime anything any you know,

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Speaker 1: specials or events or anything takes place, you let us know.

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Speaker 1: We'll either get you on or promote it well. You

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Speaker 1: just anytime we support you and have to thank you.

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Speaker 1: We can't lose you.

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Speaker 2: No, we're a family business, so that means everything.

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Speaker 1: We just can't So thanks for coming out. The food

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Speaker 1: is fantastic. I've been nibbling here. They were so kind

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Speaker 1: to bring us food. We're gonna eat some of this

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Speaker 1: fantastic and stunning, and I'll post some pictures as well.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for coming by and sharing your legacy

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Speaker 1: with us. It's the Fork Report. That's Christy Vega. Christy

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Speaker 1: Vega that now Sam is familiar CAUs A Vega. Check

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Speaker 1: it out, go see the patio, make your date night there.

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Speaker 1: The food, the attitude, and the vibes are spectacular and

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Speaker 1: it really is a place that we need to fight

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Speaker 1: to protect and to keep. You've been listening to The

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