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Speaker 1: My next guest first introduced Texans to their mouth watering

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Speaker 1: turkey legs as the Houston Rodeo. In let you know

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Speaker 1: about the Houston Livestock Showing Rodeo. Roughly two million people

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Speaker 1: attend the Houston Livestock Show a rodeo every year. Just

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Speaker 1: let you know. It's not just a regular rodeo. So

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Speaker 1: just to get just to be a protestant. Their vendor

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Speaker 1: at the Houston Livestock Showing Rodeo is a game change,

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Speaker 1: especially for minorities. In three short years, the Houston couple

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Speaker 1: has taken their widely popular turkey Legs to new heights,

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Speaker 1: expanding their menu to include seven varieties of succulent fall

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Speaker 1: off the home, fall off the bone turkey legs in

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Speaker 1: a full complement of homemade delicacies at their first Turkey

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Speaker 1: leg location on al Meter Road and the heart of

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Speaker 1: Houston and historic Third War Texas. Third War Texas Texas

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Speaker 1: Southern is their University of Houston, where I went to school.

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Speaker 1: Was there Jack Gates, one of the most powerful football

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Speaker 1: program African American programs in the history of Texas football,

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Speaker 1: is located in Third War Texas The Rest and has

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Speaker 1: also become a popular Houston spot hotspot with late night

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Speaker 1: hours and sold full live music every Tuesday. Please welcome

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Speaker 1: to Money Making Conversation. One of the owners of Turkey

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Speaker 1: Leg Hook Turkey leg the originators of the world famous

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Speaker 1: stuff turkey Legs. Please welcome. Kia Price. Hi, good morning.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. Um, you know, just saying your name, Ms.

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Speaker 1: Price makes me hungry. You know that, you know that

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Speaker 1: you know. I got the I got the website up,

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Speaker 1: I got all this amazing food. You post the video.

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Speaker 1: The rappers love you, your videos going viral. Before we

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Speaker 1: even get into the questions, just let me know. Are

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Speaker 1: you overwhelmed by all this or it's just like you

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Speaker 1: prayed about it and you knew this was gonna happen,

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Speaker 1: you know, with hard work and faith and all that

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Speaker 1: good stuff and people surrounded. Let's talk about how you

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Speaker 1: feeling about this, because right now I'm feeling hongry. I

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Speaker 1: think it's definitely something that we prayed about. Um. We

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Speaker 1: never in a million years did we imagine that it

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Speaker 1: would be to this extent. But every day of the journey,

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Speaker 1: we take it one day at a time, and one

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Speaker 1: day at the time means what because your business, because

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Speaker 1: you're expanding We're gonna talk about that later. Expanding the business.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure people just dropping all these ideas about franchise

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Speaker 1: and gr y'all could be the next such and such,

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Speaker 1: And you have to take that in stride because the

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Speaker 1: fact that, like I said, what were you when I

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Speaker 1: was at the livestop? Were you have before I was

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Speaker 1: at the livestop? And so? But before that, my husband

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Speaker 1: had a repo company. He was reporing r V trailers

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Speaker 1: and I myself was a junior project manager for a

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Speaker 1: or culinary experience. Um, you know, was something that that

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Speaker 1: to you know, with the rodeo. We were subtling people

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Speaker 1: into the rodeo, so food wasn't even our main focus

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Speaker 1: we were shuttling the people, and we had turkey legs

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Speaker 1: good and sausage on a stick. And you know, we

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Speaker 1: at the rodeo. And my husband, he, you know, his

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Speaker 1: thing was just repost for us social media, social media.

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Speaker 1: Everything is social social media. We post for us, let's

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Speaker 1: see what happens, and it just snowball from there. So

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Speaker 1: the fact that he had the foresight and understand the

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Speaker 1: value of social media and you got the these giant

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Speaker 1: because would you say your clienteles African American? Yes, okay, cool,

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Speaker 1: I wanted just before I make the stake because black

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Speaker 1: see you see this giant I'm telling you, so that

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Speaker 1: I can say this and black people they can, they

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Speaker 1: take a blackbert to the restaurant, we they can't go

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Speaker 1: home with a dog your bag. You got them. As

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Speaker 1: mean all of our plates are sharable. We give you

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Speaker 1: You gotta do something with it because you're not eating

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Speaker 1: then y'all, I'm gonna say, call y'all crazy because y'all

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Speaker 1: not stuffed it. Yeah, crazy people think like you're crazy.

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Speaker 1: People of geniuses. Okay, it's a genius about this whole

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Speaker 1: Then they're gonna go just the crazy part. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: put something else in there, extra stuff, extra stuff. And

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Speaker 1: then so so that's the part. Now when y'all was

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Speaker 1: I was shuttling people in, you didn't have the stuff

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Speaker 1: part of the campaign yet, correct? Ok, okay, when did

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Speaker 1: that craziness developed? Kill when? Who thought that was it?

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Speaker 1: Or was it you who thought of that? I have

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, because he knows. He knows

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Speaker 1: So everything you look at, you always want some extra

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Speaker 1: What I'm saying, but he don't care. It's all going

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Speaker 1: amazing restaurant called the Turkey Leg Hut in Houston, Texas

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Speaker 1: What was the first jazz that you added to the beat? There?

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Speaker 1: The first jazz that we added was the dirty race.

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Speaker 1: then thereafter we had the shrimp in the Alfredo. Saw

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Speaker 1: normal for now. See Dirney, right, you can keep that

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Speaker 1: just I love about what I'm talking about it because see,

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Speaker 1: a price point. I learned that from Thorn concert. Everybody.

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Speaker 1: Everybody don't want to buy the twenty dollar ticket. Some

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Speaker 1: turkey leg. This is very true. Yes, otherwise, and that's

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Speaker 1: actually our best seller. See I know it's my food,

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Speaker 1: I missed this question. What gave you the idea to

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Speaker 1: husband's idea, you know, he we were playing around with everything.

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Speaker 1: You know, how we the the original turkey leg, the

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Speaker 1: regular turkey leg. It has stuffing in it, but it's

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Speaker 1: there's a process to how we do our turkey legs.

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Speaker 1: talk about your journey. Okay, before that, you had two jobs,

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Speaker 1: and we're not not not cooling very related. That's not

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Speaker 1: what you guys, correct. You had to transportation, transporting people

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Speaker 1: but please start us all about the whole process of

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Speaker 1: was very unique. It wasn't you know, the typical you know,

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Speaker 1: this is the place that you all want to continue

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Speaker 1: to sell turkey legs and um. And that was it.

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Speaker 1: So we you know, we went over there. We didn't

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Speaker 1: More has been trial and error, Like we didn't know

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Speaker 1: need him. I need to talk to my boy Lynn. Okay,