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Speaker 1: Piece of the planet, Charlamagne the God here and as

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Speaker 1: we come closer the closing out this year, I just

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Speaker 1: want to say thank you for tuning into the Black

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Speaker 1: Effect podcast Network. There have been so many great moments

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Speaker 1: over the past year. Take a listen to some of

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Speaker 1: those captivating moments in this special best of episode.

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Speaker 2: Hey guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke.

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Speaker 2: I'm your host Colleen Wit and today we have very

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Speaker 2: very special guests, DC Young Fly What it do?

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Speaker 3: What it do? I thought we was already recording. Oh

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Speaker 3: that was crazy. You was putting on a twenty five

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Speaker 3: minutes and I just knew it. I was like, what

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Speaker 3: is good?

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Speaker 4: I want none of that.

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Speaker 5: She's gonna get used. Oh my lot, So what are

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Speaker 5: you gonna have me intoday?

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Speaker 6: You're kind of like, what's the what's the school they

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Speaker 6: go to to go to be a shif?

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Speaker 5: Culinary school?

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Speaker 3: No, not color, it's culinary, but court on blue.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's like to stage right before cut on blue,

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Speaker 7: like show me it did?

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Speaker 3: Like, Oh that's that? So you whip back? Did put

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Speaker 3: it with the noodle? You caught it on blue?

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Speaker 5: That motherfucker?

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Speaker 3: But what kind of sauce will you get? I would

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Speaker 3: have told you to get this sweet baby raid. But

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Speaker 3: it's all good will.

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Speaker 5: All this time, and you just not realizing the missing

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Speaker 5: and creamy.

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Speaker 3: No one I realized what we were doing. I forgot

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Speaker 3: the extra. But now that I'm here, I'm like, damn,

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Speaker 3: it is a little bit more to it. But this

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Speaker 3: the man did.

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Speaker 5: Okay, So what's the missing sauce?

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Speaker 3: He said, Sweet baby Rain, what is it?

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Speaker 5: Is that hot sauce sauce? Yeah, barbecue sauce. But wait,

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Speaker 5: you add that to ramen you don't know.

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Speaker 4: About, Sweet Baby Ray.

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Speaker 5: Do you really add that to your ramen?

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Speaker 3: You don't know about?

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Speaker 5: Sweet baby No?

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Speaker 7: I know every every listen, if you still eat hot sauce,

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Speaker 7: you are technically as sleep. We have been past the

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Speaker 7: hot sauce stage. That ship was with none of nine

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Speaker 7: to the two thousand. When back that ass up came in,

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Speaker 7: we own sweet Baby Ray.

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Speaker 3: Okay, he got some motion. He got this sweet chilny.

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Speaker 3: That really the one to eat.

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Speaker 5: This Atlanta based or something.

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Speaker 7: Sweet Baby Okay, sweet baby Nation ride as soon as

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Speaker 7: you go on the barbecues.

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Speaker 3: He got a whole six. It ain't just like like

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Speaker 3: a little like shill. She would have got shell shell shill,

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Speaker 3: come on down.

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Speaker 2: Okay, you look at the whole hour, You're like, who

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Speaker 2: this Sweet Baby Ray?

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Speaker 8: They all him.

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Speaker 3: No, you gotta add that on top of that. And

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Speaker 3: sweet Baby Ray good with steak chicken, just.

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Speaker 5: A good little you know what I'm saying, little little

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Speaker 5: little additive. You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: You could put into whatever you got.

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Speaker 4: Man.

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Speaker 2: You know, I really wish I would have tried it

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Speaker 2: with the sweet baby right now.

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Speaker 5: You ain't never had sweet baby well, not with ramen

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Speaker 5: and cookie show.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know what, you will be the first

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Speaker 2: guest to ever do ramen with hot dogs with Sweet

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Speaker 5: It would have been It would have been legendary.

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Speaker 3: See sweet need to go on hand. They put me

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Speaker 3: in the commercer.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, at this point, no cap the first thing come up.

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Speaker 5: Ain't out a half sweet baby?

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Speaker 3: What?

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Speaker 5: So I'm gonna show you what I'm gonna do with

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Speaker 3: Y'all got beef. Let me show you something.

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Speaker 5: We have beef and chicken. Don't worry about We're gonna

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Speaker 5: mix it up.

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Speaker 4: We're gonna get both.

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Speaker 5: I don't know if you have enough water.

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Speaker 3: We got no water.

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Speaker 2: That's not big no that, I'm gonna stay out the

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Speaker 3: We don't need all that if we're gonna get it right. Beef,

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Speaker 3: you can't even be next to I'm gonna chove it up.

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Speaker 3: We got chopp like you gonna do this real beef

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Speaker 3: cut at the head. Okay, then you got a butterfly.

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Speaker 3: Oh you got a butterfly.

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Speaker 9: Butterfly sticky in the middle, so we can burn in

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Speaker 9: the middle. All right, to all my real noodle uh uh,

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Speaker 3: What's the first thing you do with the with the noodle?

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Speaker 3: What you do with the noodle?

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Speaker 5: You break it alight? Did you know did something before?

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Speaker 10: Don't no matter?

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Speaker 4: Eat long lass over.

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Speaker 5: I don'tbody know how that puts a ship.

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Speaker 4: We want to do to be right here, nigga.

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Speaker 9: You seeing her here twisting it this shit and I

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Speaker 4: Man, we want last noodle.

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Speaker 5: Man. I never seen someone cut the hot dogs before

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Speaker 5: the boiler.

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Speaker 3: You gotta cut the hot dogs. You see the pet

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Speaker 3: who you gotta save it?

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Speaker 9: When you see it how full it is, You're like, Yeah,

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Speaker 9: that's a lot of South.

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Speaker 3: All the young kids know that South.

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Speaker 2: You got to have you some South for they beef South, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: which one better beef chicken chicken?

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Speaker 5: Well, I'm an anti beefer and you know what I'm

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Speaker 3: I can't eat chicken.

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Speaker 5: It's just a I'm still up here about to kid myself.

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Speaker 5: But this show, but there's no chicken in it. No, yeah,

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Speaker 5: but I'm saying so to remove the flavors.

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Speaker 9: So this really but no, but this has been like

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Speaker 9: be chicken.

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Speaker 3: So we gotta throw like it was chicken.

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Speaker 5: Okay, damn, why I'm gonna mix the sauce.

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Speaker 4: I almost did it again.

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Speaker 3: It's all good. You don't put that in there right

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Speaker 9: Doing sometimes when you crush them up too much, you

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Speaker 3: And now they look like frosty flake. They just in

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Speaker 3: the little noodle.

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Speaker 3: Then we're gonna talk these like in him like there's

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Speaker 3: some oysters and you let that cool.

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Speaker 5: Okay, So take me back to what was going on

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Speaker 5: when you were eating ramen consistently. All right, let's focus

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Speaker 11: Okay, I'm gonna keep it very very very basic and

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Speaker 11: I'm gonna do some spaghetti with the signature ground turkey

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Speaker 11: that I.

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Speaker 3: Grew up that my mom used to use signature.

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Speaker 11: I mean, I guess everybody's ground turkey now, but we

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Speaker 11: when I was growing up as a kid in Chicago,

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Speaker 11: my mom she was you know, we didn't really eat

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Speaker 11: that's why my love for turkey come from. So that's

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Speaker 11: why I cook everything with not everything, but a lot.

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Speaker 11: I do a lot of other things good. But see

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Speaker 11: the streets.

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Speaker 4: The streets.

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Speaker 5: I'm sorry, you're gonna have.

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Speaker 4: The streets. What did you say?

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Speaker 2: You screamed the streets, Jerry, I'm gonna say it now,

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Speaker 2: legendary Jerry Clark scream streets.

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Speaker 5: Are you married right now? I don't want to say

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Speaker 5: that if you're married.

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Speaker 4: I'm not married, streets. I was married before. I was

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Speaker 2: Okay, the streets got streets have anything to do with

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Speaker 2: the possible ending?

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Speaker 11: No, No, not that I'm a square. I'm a quiet square, real,

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Speaker 11: a quiet square guy.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna cook.

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Speaker 2: I find that hard to believe you you're legendary and

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Speaker 2: music exact, you work with all these Southern rappers.

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Speaker 4: And yes, so what does that have to do with

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Speaker 4: me being in the streets? Colon.

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Speaker 2: By the end of the interview, I'm gonna we're gonna

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Speaker 2: determine if you if you was for the streets or

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Speaker 2: if you are a square.

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Speaker 5: We shall see no.

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Speaker 4: But you know what, technically you can be both.

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Speaker 5: You could be that's someone that's from the streets.

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Speaker 4: But say that you could beat both.

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Speaker 11: Okay, but you look, I have not to cut you

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Speaker 11: off and have some mom wheat noodles that I like

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I noticed that you were very particular. What's up

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Speaker 5: with the wheat? I didn't even know they sold wheat

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Speaker 5: until you said wheat?

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Speaker 4: Come on calling you stop?

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Speaker 5: I was like, ship, how do you tell? I literally

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Speaker 5: Which ones are weak?

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Speaker 2: And then I saw some that look like wheat, and

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Speaker 2: I saw some that said wheat, And I said, okay,

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Speaker 2: there is such thing Colin.

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Speaker 4: You had never heard of wheat noodles.

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Speaker 5: I eat protein noodles. Have you heard of protein noodles? Exactly?

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Speaker 4: Just like you got white bread, you got wheat bread.

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Speaker 4: So it's anything you can.

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Speaker 5: You know, what's your obsession with these wheats? They taste better?

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Speaker 11: Nah, just like their little healthy And I'll eat some, mom,

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Speaker 11: I'll eat some where do you tell I'll eat some Mom,

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Speaker 11: I'll eat.

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Speaker 4: Some white noodles?

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Speaker 4: Yes, I will.

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Speaker 2: And you took all that spaghettiod for two yeah?

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Speaker 5: Can I die?

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Speaker 3: All right?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 11: I look, I'm I'm I'm talking and cooking.

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Speaker 4: And I'm not.

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Speaker 11: I never usually do that, and I really don't cook

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Speaker 11: a lot. Feel you should?

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Speaker 4: I feel very special you should. Okay, so you definitely should.

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Speaker 5: You cook it.

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Speaker 2: Take me back to what was going on during this

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Speaker 2: time of spaghetti noodles with ground turkey.

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Speaker 4: I had a very simple upbringing. Uh.

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Speaker 11: My parents were married before before my father passed in

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Speaker 11: twenty sixteen, they were married for forty five years. So

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Speaker 11: I had a good, solid upbringing. Uh, three siblings. I'm

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Speaker 11: second in the pecking order, so I watched a family

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Speaker 11: you know growing up. My mom was big into uh, well,

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Speaker 11: my parents were big into you know, having dinner. No

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Speaker 11: matter what we had, whether it was practice or you know,

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Speaker 11: moving around, we had to have dinner, whether it was

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Speaker 11: five ten minutes before we you know, every night. So

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Speaker 11: all that to say, I I came up in a

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Speaker 11: in a variant, I'm a p very appreciative of coming

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Speaker 4: A very stable, solid upbringing, cause I look at shit, now.

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Speaker 5: Shit was it middle class or oh.

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Speaker 11: That was the best decision my parents could have ever made,

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Speaker 2: Did the economics change in your family when they moved

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Speaker 5: Also?

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Speaker 4: Yes, yes, now it did get better than in Chicago.

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Speaker 4: We didn't have no money. Knoxville, we didn't have no money.

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Speaker 11: But when we gave them Atlanta things, you know, got

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Speaker 11: Was in the industry for years, and he used to

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Speaker 11: that this fit is very fickle and phony, but you

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Speaker 2: Lex And from poor minds is in the building. I'm

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Speaker 5: So what are you about to cook up?

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Speaker 6: Okay, So today we're gonna be making some rowtail dip,

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Speaker 9: It is.

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Speaker 6: It really is, like we make it for the baby showers,

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Speaker 12: Growing up.

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Speaker 6: My mom used to always make these, my aunts, my

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Speaker 2: Okay, I've actually never had the rotail dip. Really really excited.

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Speaker 2: I saw a bunch of cheese and guey stuff.

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Speaker 5: Huh, and I was happy. I was happy. I'm with it.

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Speaker 5: So what are all the ingredients in the rotail dip?

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Speaker 10: So rotael is it's a cheese dip essentially, So you

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Speaker 5: Use Italian and it's the Turkey Italian Italian sauce is.

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Speaker 10: So we have onions, you know, whatever kind of dresses

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I like to use a few different cheeses. Some

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Speaker 6: I have cream cheese, Velveta and pepper jack cheese.

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Speaker 5: Okay, see I don't know what that green pepper is

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Speaker 5: called valpo. And then you have these what are these

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Speaker 6: Green chili, green chilies and the tomatoes, and then that's tomatoes.

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Speaker 5: Okay, are you cooking all of those ingredients? Yes, okay,

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Speaker 5: well I'm gonna cook.

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Speaker 6: I'm gonna actually like kind of well, I don't know.

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Speaker 6: I'm probably not gonna saltate actually, but I'm just gonna

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Speaker 2: Okay, I'm excited. So get to get to cook in

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Speaker 5: Okay, it's gonna.

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Speaker 10: Be a good little line.

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Speaker 6: Okay, So I'm gonna cook the meat first, so let

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Speaker 2: Okay, man, I played y'all because usually I try to

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Speaker 2: I don't.

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Speaker 10: Know, authentic the whole process. People being in the comments

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Speaker 10: asking every little thing, well, what did you put this on?

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Speaker 5: What is right? So now y'all can see they see

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Speaker 10: It's on medium heat, y'all.

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Speaker 6: So do we have any like butter or oil or

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Speaker 5: You know what the most I have is that butter.

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Speaker 3: Okay, this will works.

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Speaker 5: It's so funny because I saw it and I said,

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Speaker 5: they don't need butter.

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Speaker 3: A little bit, just a little.

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Speaker 10: Were from the South, we put we want the fattiest

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Speaker 2: I live and die by butter. I go through like

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Speaker 5: Did you ever go through a phase where you ate butter?

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Speaker 2: My two year old is actively using butter like it's

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Speaker 2: be like butter. She dips your little fingers in it.

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Speaker 2: She'll bite it like that's crazy. And then I'll see

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Speaker 5: Like when I was younger.

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Speaker 10: I got really really sick one day, and my mom

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Speaker 5: Did, yes, And I had put like a whole stick

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Speaker 10: And I was so sick. And she went to the

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Speaker 10: your ass you can get from it. I mean, I

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Speaker 5: I'm not gonna lie.

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Speaker 2: I'm one of those parents like I give into everything

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Speaker 2: I'm like, you know what, just handed to it, I'm like,

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Speaker 2: you ain't nothing else. So but I never let my

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Speaker 10: Be handling your baby a stick of butter is crazy.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes sometimes I gotta do what I got, what you want,

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Speaker 5: I've never confessed that to anyone. I'm sure, like, pick

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Speaker 5: a butter in your purse? Just I really should?

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Speaker 3: You know?

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Speaker 10: Nah, But I let her.

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Speaker 5: I'll let her.

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Speaker 2: I'll let her take off a little piece of butter,

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Speaker 2: a little whatever is left, you know.

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Speaker 5: But in my mind, you know, one of my other

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Speaker 5: homegirls said that, I'm like, look, man, he don't eat nothing.

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Speaker 5: At this point.

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Speaker 2: If she wants donuts for breakfast, I'm with it, like

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Speaker 2: calorie is a calorie because it's.

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Speaker 10: Better than having right, that's true, that's true.

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Speaker 6: I understand that it was a very peaky eater as

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Speaker 3: But this is one of the things that I love.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was I was a skinny mini person, and

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Speaker 2: I feel like this is God's way of punishing me.

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Speaker 5: All the taxes my mom told.

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Speaker 2: To try to get us to gain weight, and now

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Speaker 8: My parents came from Mexico and we always ate Metxican

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Speaker 8: But when mom was in the kitchen cooking and we

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Speaker 8: But this right here is what we turned to. Like

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Speaker 8: after school, we're hungry, can't wait till dinner? Is some

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Speaker 8: cheap bread, the most non nutritious bread on the planet,

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Speaker 8: white bread. There was a place called Weber's in San Fernando,

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Speaker 8: But that only lasts about a week. Yes, you got it,

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Speaker 8: So we would buy Weber's Bread back then. I don't

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Speaker 8: even know if they're still, you know, in business, but

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Speaker 8: Wonder was the second choice, and then Skippy was. Luckily

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Speaker 8: for us, we got to have a name brand peanut butter.

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Speaker 8: I don't know why, because most everything in the house

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Speaker 5: That's what my thea cereal.

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Speaker 8: All invitation cereals. When the government was given the powdered

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Speaker 8: get tired of real cheese, but yeah, we got tired

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Speaker 8: old blocks. But anyway, so here we are. But this

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Speaker 8: that my daughter made and it's a marmalade, a lemon marmalade.

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Speaker 8: And my daughter cooks, and my mother's no longer with us.

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Speaker 8: She was a homemaker. She cooked from scratch every day,

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Speaker 8: and she actually would make a lot of things from scratch.

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Speaker 8: She would in frascot you say it in Spanish. She

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Speaker 8: So she actually used to make some jelly once in

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Speaker 8: I'm gonna make some jelly strawberry what have you?

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Speaker 12: So?

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Speaker 5: Were any of your peanut butter and jelly sandwiches just

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Speaker 5: peanut butter and bread?

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, I was.

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Speaker 2: I was nervous when Gabriella brought the big peanut butter

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Speaker 2: to see the jar of marmalade. I've never had this soul,

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Speaker 2: not the peanut butter. I've never had the marmalade. So

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Speaker 2: let's go ahead and start.

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Speaker 5: Doing peanut butter and jelly, the og classic.

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Speaker 8: All right, let's start with some bread.

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Speaker 2: So I'm just curious, out of those eleven eleven of

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Speaker 8: It was almost even as even as you can get.

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Speaker 8: It was six girls, five boys. I'm the youngest. All

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Speaker 8: she didn't become an engineer and things like that.

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Speaker 5: So your sisters essentially ended up.

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Speaker 8: Well, no, look, they have a wonderful life. They have

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Speaker 8: beautiful children, you know them and their husbands would go

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Speaker 8: to work and they everybody was able to own a

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Speaker 8: home on first generation. My generation is first generation college

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Speaker 8: on both sides of my family. My mother and father

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Speaker 8: are from Demastian Hali School Meeko, which is this little

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Speaker 8: dirt town. When they were little boys and girls, there

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Speaker 8: were no formal schools like we have here in the

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Speaker 8: United States. When they got married, my father being twenty

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Speaker 8: my mother being eighteen, they looked around and said, well,

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Speaker 8: nothing's changed. If we want the next generation to have opportunities,

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Speaker 8: we got to get out of here. So they came

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Speaker 8: to California and then stayed here. You know, had us

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Speaker 8: eleven kids until they passed away. So this is what

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Speaker 8: we made for ourselves. My mom made a stack of

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Speaker 8: homemade tortillas every single day, a big pot of beans

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Speaker 8: every single day, made some fresh rice and something else.

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Speaker 8: That was the traditional food in our household. It was

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Speaker 8: a third dish. And then rice and beans and tortillas.

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Speaker 8: That was a staple every day.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 5: And then was it like meat was the.

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Speaker 8: Luxury of yes, exactly, that was the third dish. It

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Speaker 8: was either some chicken or some.

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Speaker 5: Ohated some kind.

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Speaker 8: Yeah. Well the thing is, let me clarify. We never

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Speaker 8: lacked for what we needed in our home. Our mother

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Speaker 8: and father, my mom stayed at home. That was the deal.

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Speaker 8: They got married, high tailed it over here to California,

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Speaker 8: and my mother and father made a deal that my

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Speaker 8: mom mom wouldn't work outside the home, she would stay

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Speaker 8: home and be a homemaker, and my dad would work work, work,

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Speaker 8: and my dad, his average week was a six day

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Speaker 8: work week. And so my mom was an amazing cook,

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Speaker 8: thank god. But she made large quantities of everything every day.

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Speaker 8: But what we're eating here is what we used to

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Speaker 8: make for ourselves as kids.

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Speaker 2: Eleven kids, though, is like she I don't even think

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Speaker 2: even if she sort of even like, even if we

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Speaker 2: were intoday's times, if she wanted to go to work.

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Speaker 2: Eleven kids, is you need one parent to stay right?

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Speaker 4: Oh my god?

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Speaker 8: Today a big family is you know, three four kids,

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Speaker 8: and that's more than a handful. And you know, I

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Speaker 8: constantly speak respectfully of my parents because I remember growing

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Speaker 8: up there were some people that when we're in the supermarket,

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Speaker 8: you know, there's three or four trailing my mom and

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Speaker 8: we're sitting at the checking stand, and I could understand English.

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Speaker 8: My mom and dad understood very very little English, and

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Speaker 8: I could I could hear the words of disrespect that

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Speaker 8: they spoke of my mom, like, you know, talking in

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Speaker 8: English to the other checker, like, oh, can you believe

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Speaker 8: how many kids or what have you? You know, they

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Speaker 8: probably can't even afford them, and stuff like that. But

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Speaker 8: that's not true. We never lacked for food. My parents

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Speaker 8: bought a home in nineteen fifty five and raised the

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Speaker 8: soul in that home until they passed away. So yeah,

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Speaker 8: I'm very very protective of the image that people have.

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Speaker 8: Immigrants come to this country and they have a bunch

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Speaker 8: of kids, and those kids are a bunch of good

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Speaker 8: for nothings or a bunch of troublemakers. N uh Not.

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Speaker 8: One of us eleven kids growing up in Pacoima, not

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Speaker 8: the you know, it's a low income community, a lot

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Speaker 8: of beautiful families there. Not one of us ever ended

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Speaker 8: up in a gang. Not one of us ever ended up,

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Speaker 8: you know, in the backseat of a police car. So

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Speaker 8: you know, to my parents, you know, and one of.

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Speaker 2: You guys ended up, Yeah, changing a lot for the community.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, well, yes, I say this one once in a while.

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Speaker 8: I speak truthfully about if you asked my brothers and

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Speaker 8: sisters when they were you know, when I was like

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Speaker 8: eight ten years old, and you asked them right down

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Speaker 8: on a piece of paper, where do you think Tony's

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Speaker 8: gonna end up? They probably would have said some not

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Speaker 8: mean things, but accurate things like, I don't know, he's

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Speaker 8: a big trouble maker, you know, he's I had the

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Speaker 8: hottest temper of all my brothers and sisters. I was

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Speaker 8: the one you could light me as like a match.

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Speaker 8: I was the one that would bawl my fist up

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Speaker 8: before I would think about what I'm gonna say. So

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Speaker 8: God is good because they gave me ten older brothers

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Speaker 8: and sisters to help keep me in line, and I

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Speaker 8: needed every single one of them. They gave me two

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Speaker 8: parents who were as strict as can be, so had

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Speaker 8: I not had the upbringing that I was given and

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Speaker 8: afforded by two amazing parents who were strict, ten brothers

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Speaker 8: and sisters were like, Oh, you can't do that. I

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Speaker 8: can't let you do that problem.

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