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Speaker 1: Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the morning show.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you a story. It's kind of a

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Speaker 2: funny story. So the other day we were talking about

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Speaker 2: our favorite convenience store food. Yeah, Danielle was going on

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Speaker 2: about wah wah and I'm a quick check soup guy.

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Speaker 2: Then people were calling in from from Iowa Come and Go,

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Speaker 2: which is a great T shirt to wear it hit parties, BUCkies.

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Speaker 1: They were talking about Bunkies.

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Speaker 2: You to explain the com and go concept for people BUCkies.

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Speaker 2: We're talking about BUCkies, right right, frog Froggy. I love BUCkies. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: We'll say BUCkies is all up and down the East Coast.

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Speaker 2: I guess yeah. So we said, oh my god, you

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Speaker 2: know what we love it BUCkies When we stop in

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Speaker 2: for some gases their pizza and I said, oh my god,

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Speaker 2: we love Bucki's pizza. So then we heard from a

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Speaker 2: gentleman who lives in our area who says, oh, I

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Speaker 2: owned BUCkies Pizza. I went, well, what you owned a

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Speaker 2: chain of convenience store. No, no, no, it's just a pizza

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Speaker 2: pop up called Bucky. Oh not the same BUCkies. So

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Speaker 2: I went online and did my sleuth work. You know me,

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Speaker 2: and I found them on Instagram. I found Bucky's Pizza

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Speaker 2: on Instagram and you can see for the photos how

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Speaker 2: incredible it tastes. It's this crunchy crust.

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Speaker 1: When you when you took a bite before, did you take.

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Speaker 2: That's serious crust you can hear.

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Speaker 1: And you know what, My favorite part of this morning

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Speaker 1: so far is poor Scary. He is so jealous standing

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Speaker 1: behind you because he's on that diet and he cannot

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Speaker 1: have a piece of pizza.

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Speaker 2: As soon as I'm sounds so threatening, limits you to

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Speaker 2: Dominic and Catherine from BUCkies. Hold on, can you turn Catherine?

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Speaker 2: We're going to turn you on, Cantherer. So we heard

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Speaker 2: from you, Dominic, and now your story even though we

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Speaker 2: were even though we're talking about totally different BUCkies. I'm

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Speaker 2: so glad that we said the word BUCkies. That's all

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Speaker 2: it took. Tell everyone how you started doing this, because

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Speaker 2: this is motivational. I love it. It's gonna make me

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Speaker 2: quit my job here and go do something. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So I started BUCkies about seven months ago. In June.

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Speaker 3: I had gotten laid off from my job in Corporate America,

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Speaker 3: two weeks before my daughter was born, and I just

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Speaker 3: always kind of had the dream to start a pizza

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Speaker 3: business in some way, shape.

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Speaker 2: Or form pizza in your life.

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Speaker 3: I had like dabbled, you know, like I COVID hit

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Speaker 3: and you know, there was a sour dough renaissance and

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Speaker 3: I started making sourdough bread and then I was like,

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Speaker 3: you know, this would be really good on pizza. And

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Speaker 3: then it just kind of went from there and it

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Speaker 3: snowballed and here we are, like three and a half,

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Speaker 3: what is it, four years later? So yeah, just kind

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Speaker 3: of escalated without doubt. I mean, if you, if you

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Speaker 3: what is your official account on Instagram, It's BUCkies. It's

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Speaker 3: Bucky's NJ Pizza on Instagram.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so you said, okay, I'm gonna buy an oven,

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Speaker 2: and I'm gonna buy a trailer and I'm just drive

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Speaker 2: around and just sell pizza. So how did you get

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Speaker 2: You mastered your pizza obviously, but how did you find

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Speaker 2: out where to go and how to sign people up

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Speaker 2: for your pizza?

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Speaker 3: So last March, there was a brewery that opened down

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Speaker 3: the street from me, and I just kind of went

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Speaker 3: in there and I was like, hey, do you guys

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Speaker 3: mind if I sell pizza in your parking lot? And

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Speaker 3: they were like, you know, we serve beer and breweries

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Speaker 3: in New Jersey can't serve food, so it's kind of

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Speaker 3: like a nice compliment. And we just started doing that,

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Speaker 3: and then before we knew it, we started making relationships

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Speaker 3: with other businesses. We do pop ups at a local

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Speaker 3: coffee shop in New Jersey about once a month. We

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Speaker 3: go to other breweries, and we do a bunch of

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Speaker 3: private parties and it's just really kind of like snowballed.

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Speaker 3: Influencers started coming out and trying the pizza and then

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Speaker 3: they would post about it. So it's been a really

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Speaker 3: wild ride. It's been a ton of fun.

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Speaker 2: And one thing he said, by the way, Dominic said,

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Speaker 2: it's the most strenuous hard work I've ever done in

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Speaker 2: my life.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, almost anything would be easier.

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Speaker 2: You see what we're doing, Like what could be easier

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Speaker 2: than that? But I mean, but that doesn't matter you

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Speaker 2: to you obviously you're getting off on this and loving, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: what's going on with your lives.

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Speaker 3: I'm like fully dedicated to it. It's like everybody thinks

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Speaker 3: that I'm nuts. They're like, you know, why wouldn't you

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Speaker 3: just go back to corporate America. You had a nice,

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Speaker 3: comfortable job but for me, like I for the first

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Speaker 3: time in my life, like I feel alive and I

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Speaker 3: just love it.

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Speaker 2: Wow. So I'm just you know, it's telling you in

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Speaker 2: the hallway how many people are driving to work right now,

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Speaker 2: going Oh my god. Yes, I want that. I want

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Speaker 2: to feel alive again. So Catherine, what do you what

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Speaker 2: do you do with Dominican puckies?

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Speaker 4: I help with the social and I come to some

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Speaker 4: pop ups and I help out there.

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Speaker 2: Is it your photography that I see? Yes, so that's

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Speaker 2: the thing. If it's tell me about the account name again.

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Speaker 3: Is Bucky's NJ Pizza? So b U c k y

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Speaker 3: s NJ Pizza.

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Speaker 2: Look at it now, Catherine, She's I mean, I could

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Speaker 2: taste the pizza just by.

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Speaker 3: Looking at it, but they don't let me put us

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Speaker 3: anything on the Instagram.

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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I know that's what I'm saying. Wow,

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Speaker 2: I know what, Nate.

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Speaker 5: I love that you have the reheating instructions and this sentence.

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Speaker 5: Should your piece be in need of a crunch restoration,

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Speaker 5: please follow the reheating instructions. Oh my god, that's awesome.

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Speaker 5: We all need a crunch restoration. Yeah, I know I do.

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Speaker 2: So you went out and bought this oven, which is

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Speaker 2: probably a lot of money. You got this trailer, which

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Speaker 2: obviously costs money. So how did you get the money

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Speaker 2: to put this together?

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Speaker 3: A relative of ours was very nice and I also

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Speaker 3: cashed in on my severance and I just made it happen.

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Speaker 3: So we're at a point now where we've pretty much

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Speaker 3: maximized what we're capable of doing with that setup. So

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Speaker 3: we're looking to get into a brick and mortar and

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Speaker 3: expand the business. Continue to do pop ups and such

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Speaker 3: as well, because I like the experience that you get

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Speaker 3: doing that, So that'll kind of be hopefully the way

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Speaker 3: that we continue.

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Speaker 2: And keep in mind seven months ago is when you

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Speaker 2: started it, Yeah, last June, So years and years of

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Speaker 2: things have happened to you in seven months. Wow, And

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Speaker 2: with the help of Catherine of course, and other people

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Speaker 2: that you have working with you.

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Speaker 3: I'd love to give a shout out to my wife

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Speaker 3: because I would not be able to do it without her.

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Speaker 3: She's amazing.

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Speaker 2: Oh thank you, Jess, Good for you. Good for Jess.

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Speaker 2: Well how come she's what is she doing right now?

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Speaker 3: She's at home with our baby.

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Speaker 2: There you go. Really, what do you think of the

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Speaker 2: stories like this?

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Speaker 4: I love a good pop up food anywhere, So I

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Speaker 4: think this is amazing. But I like it even more

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Speaker 4: that you you guys are feeling fulfilled leaving your corporate

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Speaker 4: job and doing something new because it's such a risk,

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Speaker 4: but it's paying off debatable, but I mean financially, yeah,

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Speaker 4: I think we'll sit there.

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Speaker 1: I think you We were actually talking to Barbara Corkran

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Speaker 1: yesterday about this, and she said, you know, you've got

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Speaker 1: to give it a couple of years to get your

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Speaker 1: investment back. You know, the first year usually lose money.

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Speaker 2: You know was here.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know she'd be right.

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Speaker 1: Well, actually she's always looking to invest.

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Speaker 3: We should give her a little call.

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Speaker 2: There you go, big man, think big.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I mean, but I just love your story. I love

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Speaker 2: how we accidentally met and then you know, I went

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Speaker 2: online and you know I turned down the lights and

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Speaker 2: closed the blinds because this pizza is porn. Man, that's

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Speaker 2: a compliment.

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Speaker 4: People are about to come see impeting down the hallway.

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Speaker 4: Now that we know, we better hurry up and we

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Speaker 4: get ours protective.

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Speaker 2: So everyone's asking you. It's BUCkies and Jay Pizza. Jay

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Speaker 2: is in New Jersey.

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Speaker 1: Can people like find you and say, hey, we want

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Speaker 1: you for a party, we want you for a wedding,

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Speaker 1: stuff like that.

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Speaker 3: Okay, that's cool.

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Speaker 4: They just reach out through Instagram or they just you.

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Speaker 3: Can DM us or email us. I think our emails

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Speaker 3: on our Instagram, but I think everyone just says Instagram.

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Speaker 2: Hey Deanna, Well Diana put it up at Elvis Duran's

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Speaker 2: show on Instagram. Great story, fantastic pizza, beautiful photography. But

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Speaker 2: I just love how we met and the fact that

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Speaker 2: you woke up in the middle of the freaking night

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Speaker 2: and you, I mean, seriously, you have two days of

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Speaker 2: NonStop no sleep.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so I didn't sleep last night. I probably won't

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Speaker 3: sleep tonight as I get ready for a pop up tomorrow,

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Speaker 3: and then I have to do it again Saturday. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: just a little bit.

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Speaker 2: I love your story so much. Thank you so much,

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Speaker 2: both Dominic and Catherine for coming in BUCkies n J Pizza.

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Speaker 2: What are looking alry? I'm sorry, sorry so late. We

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Speaker 2: obviously we have our own Catherine in the back working

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Speaker 2: on Emptiana is the best. I'm having this caccio pepe slice.

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Speaker 2: Have you tasted yet? It's so good? Back, Gandhi, You're

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Speaker 2: gonna love it. It has that that black Pepper.

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Speaker 4: I've been waiting for this break to end so that

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Speaker 4: I can.

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Speaker 3: Go get the pizza.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna go on and on, just you come on.

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Speaker 1: Other people are gonna go take it.

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Speaker 5: It's gonna get Pilford.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, they're all looking, they're all going online,

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Speaker 2: all right, perfect. Thank you guys for coming up here.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, thanks for you. There you go. What

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Speaker 2: a dad,