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Speaker 1: Podcastly good. Hi, I'm Steve Dee Filippo and I'm owner

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Speaker 1: of Dabiosa and I'm not taking a walk with my

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Speaker 1: old friend Buzz Night. Buzz you look pretty good man.

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Speaker 1: This is really fun to be out of the streets

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Speaker 1: with you. We're not gonna get a rested or anything, right,

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Speaker 1: We'll it's very safe, safe with you, very safe. Okay, good.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to taking a walk, an excursion to converse, connect

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Speaker 1: and catch up at a cool location with some of

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Speaker 1: the most interesting people you can find. Here's buzz Night. Well, Steve,

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Speaker 1: it is so good to actually see you in person, yes,

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Speaker 1: and to be taking a walk with you. Thank you. Yeah. Well,

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Speaker 1: you know it's this whole COVID thing is so nice.

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Speaker 1: We're not wearing masks. We're like hanging out together, walking

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Speaker 1: down the streets, two old friends. So in the future, now,

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Speaker 1: let's refer to it as that thing. In other words,

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Speaker 1: we're all tired of the name. So you know, I

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Speaker 1: should have pre warned you that we don't want to

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Speaker 1: use that name on this taking a Walk podcast, But

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Speaker 1: so we'll just refer to it vaguely in the future

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Speaker 1: and you don't have to ask me, how's business been.

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Speaker 1: You know, people they committed to the restaurant, right, and

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Speaker 1: they go, you know, obviously they know I own all

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Speaker 1: these restaurants all over the place, and they go, so, Steve,

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Speaker 1: how's it been? I go, seriously, how's it been with

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Speaker 1: the thing? For two years? How do you think it's been?

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Speaker 1: It's been two years of the most difficult time, you know,

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Speaker 1: and I've gone through. You know, this is thirty six

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Speaker 1: years of owning Daviyo's. You know, I started in Uber

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Speaker 1: Street in eighty five, back when you had Brown here,

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Speaker 1: and and I've been through recessions. I've been through presidents

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Speaker 1: getting shot. I've been through obviously, terrorism with planes going

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Speaker 1: to buildings. You know, I've been through it all. And

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Speaker 1: nothing even comes close to what we've had to go through.

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Speaker 1: And we're still in it. We're not even far from

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Speaker 1: done with this thing. How are your people? Well? But

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Speaker 1: people we have left of doing great, It's just we

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Speaker 1: need more people. I think what happened is people keep

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Speaker 1: asking me that question, where did everybody go? And I

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Speaker 1: week anymore. You know, they realized that, you know, what

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Speaker 1: quality of life? You know, I can get by if

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Speaker 1: doing it anymore. And we lost some people to Florida.

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Speaker 1: Let's face it, people went down south and people retired too,

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Speaker 1: you know. So it's kind of a combination of many

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Speaker 1: reasons I think why we're short people right now. So

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Speaker 1: let's move on to even better things. Okay, And I just,

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Speaker 1: first of all, had never tried the Awaken one eighty menu.

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Speaker 1: I had a lovely zucchini with shrimp zucchini noodles. It

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Speaker 1: was fabulous, Yeah, because it gives you the feeling that

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Speaker 1: the whole one eighty thing is actually quite interesting. I

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Speaker 1: they approached me, oh my goodness, it's probably three years

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Speaker 1: now to get involved in them. They want to be

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Speaker 1: And I had had friends who have did it and

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Speaker 1: do the program. So I did the program and I

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Speaker 1: lost thirty five forty pounds three years ago, and I've

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Speaker 1: kept it off. And then we started doing a menu

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Speaker 1: and it's it's actually been really well. I never thought

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Speaker 1: I would be in radio or TV talking about weight

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Speaker 1: for me personally. Well, you look fabulous. Dare I say

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Speaker 1: almost boyish? No? No, no, no, no, no, no, I

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Speaker 1: definitely not. I'm a grandfather now I'm not boysh but no,

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Speaker 1: it's you know, I run every you know, it's funny.

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Speaker 1: I always thought I was healthy, but you know, I

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Speaker 1: the ability to merge with another merged literally, but to

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Speaker 1: that because I had never gone and talked about I.

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Speaker 1: As you know, I've been doing a lot of radio

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Speaker 1: about me, you know, it was about Davio's. I controlled

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Speaker 1: And they've had over twenty thousand people in the program

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Speaker 1: here Master's which is phenomenal have done well, and so

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Speaker 1: eight locations, so he's had one when I started. That's great. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So the podcast is called Taking a Walk and we're

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Speaker 1: how do you use taking a walk to kind of,

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Speaker 1: just enjoy yourself. How do you do it? Well? Actually,

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Speaker 1: that's my release. I have to do it. If I

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Speaker 1: And you know, sometimes I go for a walk too,

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Speaker 1: we've putting this thing behind us and we're not gonna

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Speaker 1: move on. Yeah, and leader, yes, right, yes, lead a life.

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Speaker 1: And you know what leading a life where I get

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Speaker 1: We're grateful people, and I think some people just want

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Speaker 1: You know, like they were all like, oh, you know

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Speaker 1: a great sign. Twenty two. Yeah, thank you for everything.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you for your friendship, and thank you

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Speaker 1: for all the great times. You know what, we should

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Speaker 1: have had a cow bell the end of an episode,

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Speaker 1: That's what we're saying. I know, you know, that would

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Speaker 1: have been fun. Maybe we'll put some mixing production, all right,

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Speaker 1: I see it. Taking a Walk with Buzzne is available

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Speaker 1: on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts,