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Speaker 1: Uh he's a family man or a wife and two

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Speaker 1: handsome young men, and he's a truck driver. Turn baker.

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Speaker 1: That's what we're talking about, online bakery that ships all

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Speaker 1: kind of tapping back into my graphic design and marketing background,

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Speaker 1: then after that Murphy, which is read when it is

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Speaker 1: That's funny, you know, the the Anstes. That was actually

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Speaker 1: the second name I came up with, the chocolate. Now,

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Speaker 1: at what point is the whole thing? Did your wife

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Speaker 1: said you're silly? What's your wife said? You? Sill it? Mark?

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Speaker 1: You said it? You know she loves because she knows me.

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Speaker 1: He knows that's who I am, right, he knows That's

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Speaker 1: And that's what that's That's all that we were saying about,

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Speaker 1: following that passion, you know, getting up out of bed.

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Speaker 1: I always tell people, if it's difficult for you to

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Speaker 1: get out of bed, then that means you didn't plan

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Speaker 1: to get out of bed in the first place. And

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Speaker 1: so if you're smiling and you're laughing and you're enjoying,

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Speaker 1: you're having fun building your dream. When you get out

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Speaker 1: of bed, you can out of bed and find out

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Speaker 1: how many more cakes you can get sold. And that's

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Speaker 1: a different passion than to say a delivery I gotta

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Speaker 1: make in Galveston. That's different. Yeah, so so much different. Yes, okay, cool,

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Speaker 1: let's go to move the next one off. But now

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Speaker 1: the Ross. But now the Ross. No mountain, high enough, valley,

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Speaker 1: lord enough a river wild enough to keep be away

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Speaker 1: from this dessert. I love it exactly. Yeah, definitely. Uh

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Speaker 1: A little tribute to the clean Diana Ross on that one.

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Speaker 1: We take a Morsh banana cake and top it with

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Speaker 1: you'll be upside down inside out and go round and

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Speaker 1: round for more. Man, You're crazy. That is the That

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Speaker 1: is the Banana Ross. We all, we went through the

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Speaker 1: Ready Murphy, We went through the Chaco Con, which is

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Speaker 1: the second name he came up with. Now with the

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Speaker 1: Banana Ross. Now let's go on down to it. German

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Speaker 1: dupri which is Germaine Duprix. Yeah, actually lived in Atlanta

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Speaker 1: YouTube The Dirty South, The Dirty South. Okay, yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: you you don't have to be in Atlanta icon to

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Speaker 1: enjoy this one. We take a traditional German chocolate a

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Speaker 1: cake and mix it with chocolate icing and a classic

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Speaker 1: that's hot, man, and it contained nuts. That's hot right there,

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Speaker 1: right there. Let's go to the next one here, Lamon James. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's the way, James. That's my lemon cake. And I

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Speaker 1: would have loved it. Called it Michael Jordan's. But hey,

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Speaker 1: and you know I love LEBRONI hey, my man, Lebron.

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Speaker 1: First of all, you know why I like Lament James

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Speaker 1: a businessman, Okay, he takes care of community. You know,

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Speaker 1: he's fearless and uh again like you man, he says

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Speaker 1: but you when you look at you, when you look

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Speaker 1: at Lebron James, Lebron James stands up for his community fast,

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Speaker 1: my friend. He steps out there. So I thought that

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Speaker 1: was a perfect Lament James for lemon cake. It's perfect

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Speaker 1: right there, So don't shy away from that. Michael Jordan's great,

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Speaker 1: But Lamar and James community and great, okay. And then

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Speaker 1: it's it's crazy at the at the Palm restaurant, they

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Speaker 1: have a carrot cake man the order. It's the biggest

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Speaker 1: slice I've ever seen in my life. So I always

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Speaker 1: go there and get my huge carrot cake. But see

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Speaker 1: now that I can order my carrot cake online from

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Speaker 1: a man brother bakes dot com. Tell us about the

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Speaker 1: Mariah carry which is a tribute to a tribute to

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Speaker 1: Mariah Carry. Well talked about that one. Yeah, so that's

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Speaker 1: my carrot cake. Um, true story. I was never a

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Speaker 1: saying of carrot cake. Now, come on, nae, come on,

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Speaker 1: come on now. I love carry I got some carrots

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Speaker 1: and I got some shredded carrots in my refrigerator right now.

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Speaker 1: I love carriage man. Yeah, well, you know, I just didn't.

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Speaker 1: I couldn't picture carrot and cake at the same time

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Speaker 1: until I tried it. And oh man, I really like

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Speaker 1: carry cake. So when it came for me to, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, have another flavor other than you know, the

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Speaker 1: ones I already had, I tried to excuse me. I

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Speaker 1: see Mark, you're good people. Now, you're good people. Now okay,

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Speaker 1: and then we're gonna close out. Thank you. My brother

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Speaker 1: thingy but Eustonian man, you know as I saw you know,

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Speaker 1: Pivot with a plan. Because he told you about one

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Speaker 1: closing remarks, Mark, I just want to say to people, UM,

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Speaker 1: go for it. You know, Um, this has been a

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Speaker 1: I mean if it doesn't, then you're still not living

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