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Speaker 1: Today's episode is about a guy who was inspired to
Speaker 1: engineer his own portable wood fired pizza ovens and build
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Speaker 2: It's a beautiful day here in Lano, Texas. The birdies
Speaker 2: are chirping, the wildflowers are in bloom, and It's Day
Speaker 2: three of the Lano Earth Art Festival. But I'm not
Speaker 2: here for the music or the World Championship Rock Stack
Speaker 2: in competition, although I will definitely be checking that out.
Speaker 3: Look at that pipe.
Speaker 2: I'm here to get some pizza, all right, man. But
Speaker 2: as you're about to hear, this isn't your run of
Speaker 2: the milk pizza.
Speaker 3: My name is Jake Wright. I am the owner of
Speaker 3: Oh My Pizza Pie, a mobile wood fired pizza business.
Speaker 3: I'm based in San Marcus, Texas, but we sling pizzas
Speaker 3: all across Texas.
Speaker 2: All Jake Wright never planned to be a pizza man,
Speaker 2: but as you're about to hear, life had other designs
Speaker 2: to understand, and that though, we need to take a
Speaker 2: look back, way back. Jake's childhood was one filled with music.
Speaker 2: His mom was a music teacher, and he and his
Speaker 2: siblings played instruments. His was the type of family that
Speaker 2: had lugged their guitarist to church on Sunday, and it
Speaker 2: wasn't uncommon to have a family sing along in the evenings.
Speaker 2: So when it came that time at the end of
Speaker 2: high school to start making a plan for his future,
Speaker 2: Jake did what many of us do. He tried to
Speaker 2: turn his passion into a career. For Jake, this meant
Speaker 2: enrolling at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, a highly regarded
Speaker 2: school in the music industry, with the hopes of one
Speaker 2: day becoming a producer. Only when Jake got there, he
Speaker 2: found that the music industry wasn't all kumbayas around the fire.
Speaker 2: What about school?
Speaker 3: Didn't you like most of it? I didn't realize how
Speaker 3: competitive it is, and I learned that I crumble under competition.
Speaker 3: It's a very competitive INDI the studio work for music.
Speaker 2: Jake then did another thing that many of us do
Speaker 2: when we're not entirely sure if we're on the right path.
Speaker 2: He went abroad, which is how Jake wound up on
Speaker 2: farms in Germany doing things he'd never expected to do.
Speaker 2: So you're in Germany, you see this oven, and you
Speaker 2: get inspired, and you think, I'm gonna go back to
Speaker 2: Texas and I'm gonna make an oven.
Speaker 3: Yeah. After I learned to bake in that oven, I
Speaker 3: decided to build one.
Speaker 2: As Jake saw it, he wasn't just building an oven.
Speaker 2: He was building himself a job. And the job he
Speaker 2: came up with was to make pizzas would find pizzas.
Speaker 3: What are you doing?
Speaker 2: Brushing the fireback?
Speaker 4: Yeah, and brushing the ashes out of the way so
Speaker 4: we don't get ashy pizzas.
Speaker 3: And then I need to add a log because it's
Speaker 3: looking a little low. I gotta keep him blazing.
Speaker 2: And with his background in music, Jake got the clever
Speaker 2: idea to put his pizza oven on wheels and then
Speaker 2: drive it around into music festivals and other live events
Speaker 2: all over his home state of Texas. Since that first
Speaker 2: weekend of selling pizzas with his dad in West Texas,
Speaker 2: Jake Rank has spent the last twelve years rambling all
Speaker 2: over the lone Star state with his wood fired pizza
Speaker 2: oven in tow And though Jake didn't live out his
Speaker 2: childhood fantasy of getting into the music industry, one of
Speaker 2: the plus sides of being a mobile pizza slinger is
Speaker 2: he gets to listen to live music almost every night.
Speaker 2: That good. What time does the band come on tonight?
Speaker 4: The band comes on at eight tonight.
Speaker 2: You're looking forward to it? Yes, I think you'll be
Speaker 2: able to step away and go check them out for
Speaker 2: a minute for.
Speaker 3: A few songs. And there's also.
Speaker 4: Friday and Saturday night there's right over there in the alley.
Speaker 4: A few years ago they started Shakedown Street and it's
Speaker 4: sort of grateful Dead themes, and there's got a great
Speaker 4: band that plays in there. It's really small. It's like
Speaker 4: thirty fee by thirty feet. It's packing people.
Speaker 2: It's very fun for on the job. I'm Arey Thompson Tracy.
Speaker 3: Okay, so my voice is cracking. I'm older than fifteen.
Speaker 4: I've just been talking over music all day.
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