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Chef Jamika Pessoa Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: She's on the phone. This is an old friend I've
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Speaker 1: been seeing on TV. You know, I'm kind of jealous,
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Speaker 1: and I see people on TV that I like, you know,
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Speaker 1: but it's kind of like a good jealous, you know,
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Speaker 1: because you go, you see him developed, you see their career.
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Speaker 1: She has a beautiful smile and she's but she's always eating.
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Speaker 1: That's why I'm jealous, because everybody knows me, knows I'm
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Speaker 1: a foodie, and I've seen her do a lot of
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Speaker 1: these little shows where she's doing desserts and bore. Nothing
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Speaker 1: makes me mad when I see a great dessert on
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Speaker 1: TV and I can't eat it. My next guest is
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Speaker 1: a celebrity shelf and she's a regular on the Food Network.
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Speaker 1: She not co hosts a show on the Food Network
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Speaker 1: and it's a popular digital on pop very popular on
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Speaker 1: the digital platform on the Food Network. And then show
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Speaker 1: it's called Let's Eat. She's also an entrepreneur and the
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Speaker 1: name of her program or company that I should say,
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Speaker 1: it's called Life of the Party. Please welcome to money
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Speaker 1: making conversation shelf Jamaica beautiful introduction, rash thank you. You
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Speaker 1: know I didn't say your last name because you know
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Speaker 1: nowadays you know that's you know, you celet your celebrity
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Speaker 1: that you know, celebrities only just do the chef and
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Speaker 1: then the first name. You know that now, right, Well,
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Speaker 1: if it's almost like the Oprah, you don't need it anymore.
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Speaker 1: I feel like I'm the only Jamaica, right. I've learned
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Speaker 1: this in life. You're right with people gonna here and
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Speaker 1: they shifted me has always been. Let me just tell
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Speaker 1: you a little background about my relationship with her. When
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Speaker 1: Steve Harvey Our did al radio short movie from New
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Speaker 1: York to Atlanta with Officers and Buckhead and so we
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Speaker 1: had this deal with this agency with Here's shot Farm
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Speaker 1: that was right correct, Here's Farm Sausage, and we have
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Speaker 1: a little kitchen and she would come over and she
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Speaker 1: cooked these meals. I'll show my little kitchen and she'd
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Speaker 1: be back there and then we sample of food on air.
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Speaker 1: That's how I met her and so and so and so.
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Speaker 1: That was just just seeing her back then. She's always
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Speaker 1: tell me, Rashan, I want my on TV show go Okay,
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Speaker 1: go for it. I'm I'm gonna be big in this business.
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Speaker 1: And I'm just telling the truth. And she just but
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Speaker 1: she was focused and she knew it. She didn't know
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Speaker 1: how she was gonna do it, but she knew that
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Speaker 1: that was that was a goal of hers. And I'm
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Speaker 1: just telling you. I would just see you on TV
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Speaker 1: doing these doing these little guest segments, being a guest judge.
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Speaker 1: Tell people how it all really got rolling for you.
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Speaker 1: I know you started, you know, you started with me
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Speaker 1: back there there was like two thousands, two thousands nine
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Speaker 1: and uh and and you you came in first of all.
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Speaker 1: This was still that professionalism. Okay, I knew her brand,
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Speaker 1: beautiful smile. She always had a face for TV. To
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Speaker 1: let you know, I always had a face and smile
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Speaker 1: for TV. So when she talked with you doing TV,
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Speaker 1: some people tell me they're gonna do TV, I go, really,
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Speaker 1: I didn't say that with her. But no, it's funny
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Speaker 1: how I actually got started, because a lot of people think, oh,
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Speaker 1: I just fell right into the to the chef roal,
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Speaker 1: the culinary world. I started corporate America right out of college,
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Speaker 1: Like I haven't agree in marketing and business and I
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Speaker 1: was in corporate America for several years, and it was
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Speaker 1: just you know how and I know a lot of
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Speaker 1: people can identify with this. You you get into a career,
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Speaker 1: you think it's gonna be so outstanding, and then I
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Speaker 1: just got there and I was like, this is not me.
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Speaker 1: I quickly realized I don't want to be in a
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Speaker 1: meeting after a meeting, talking about meetings while we're having
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Speaker 1: so many meetings, and it was just like I felt
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Speaker 1: changed to my desk. I didn't feel like I was
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Speaker 1: being fulfilled and utilizing my full talent. So it was
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Speaker 1: back in with two thousand one and I was working
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Speaker 1: at a PR company in Atlanta and it was right
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Speaker 1: after night eleven and they started, you know, losing clients
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Speaker 1: and laying people off, and they came to me and said,
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Speaker 1: we can either demote you or you can go. And
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Speaker 1: I was like, wait a minute, this is my chance.
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Speaker 1: At first, I was like, wait, I need I got
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Speaker 1: bills to pay, I got student loans, I need to stay.
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Speaker 1: But in the instant, I said, this is my time
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Speaker 1: to take that leap of faith. I gotta jump right now.
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Speaker 1: And I took it, and I said, if I just
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Speaker 1: let me go and everybody in the room looked at
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Speaker 1: me like I was crazy, and I didn't really have
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Speaker 1: a plan in mind. I just knew that I could
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Speaker 1: not go to that job or do that career for
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Speaker 1: the rest of my life. I knew there was so
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Speaker 1: much more for me. And right after that, I went
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Speaker 1: to UM the Art Institute Atlanta for culinary school because
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Speaker 1: I always loved to cook. I grew up with my
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Speaker 1: grandmother showed me how to cook. I was that little
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Speaker 1: chunky kid. Everybody was on the playground like I was
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Speaker 1: in the kitchen with my grandmother, been learning how to
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Speaker 1: like need dough and stuff like that. But I never
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Speaker 1: really considered it as a career. So when I went
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Speaker 1: to a culinary school, I said, this is what I
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Speaker 1: love to do. Let me just see what happens. And
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Speaker 1: it was the best decision that I ever made. So
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Speaker 1: it was like I took hay cut and my parents
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Speaker 1: didn't understand what I was trying to do. Everybody thought
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Speaker 1: I was crazy, but I knew that was the path
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Speaker 1: that I had to take. And a lot of times
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Speaker 1: and people think it's crazy, that's a decision that that's
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Speaker 1: the best decision for you, because you can't let every
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Speaker 1: everybody can't understand what you're trying to do. You gotta
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Speaker 1: know for yourself. And that was the one thing I
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Speaker 1: always love to do, and it's a career choice. Everybody's
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Speaker 1: eating all the time, so I knew I would never
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Speaker 1: be laid off. I would never be out of a
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Speaker 1: job because everybody's always eating. So that's really what I said.
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Speaker 1: Let me do the chef thing you right there before
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Speaker 1: we go, I'm gonna get more into her because she's
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Speaker 1: really a great person as you can tell about her motivation.
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Speaker 1: Let's talk about the show you're currently starting off the
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Speaker 1: Food Network, Let's Eat. I want you to break it
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Speaker 1: down because you have two other additional celebrity co hosts
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Speaker 1: on the show. Let's talk about that because now it
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Speaker 1: used to be just on Sundays, but now you can
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Speaker 1: catch seven is on the digital platform. Young people love
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Speaker 1: me on the go with you all the time, Chef
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Speaker 1: Jamika on the go right there. You know. The show
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Speaker 1: is called Let's Eat, and as I describe it, it
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Speaker 1: is the most delicious thirty minutes you will ever experience
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Speaker 1: that I saw just I saw yesterday with a man
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Speaker 1: a girl. I'm mad. I'm man because I'm just I'm
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Speaker 1: just like that. All my friends know me and chef
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Speaker 1: they go rachean. You don't get no way you eat,
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Speaker 1: but it you want to eat, you know, I go
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Speaker 1: to buffets. I deserve before I eat my meal. I'm
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Speaker 1: just like that. In fact, you know this morning I
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Speaker 1: had stir talking about let's seat, let talking about see
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Speaker 1: we were talking about food and on the ends and
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Speaker 1: let's focus myself because we could talk food all day.
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Speaker 1: But no, it's it's the talk show style, and I
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Speaker 1: mean it's the three of us. It's another host, Brandon malloy,
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Speaker 1: she's a Internet sensation, and chef Stewart O'Keefe's an Irish chef.
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Speaker 1: So it's a great, I mean diverse panel. And we
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Speaker 1: all come from different walks of life and we all
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Speaker 1: bring a little bit of ourselves to the table. So
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Speaker 1: for me, I am Southern and Caribbean and I'm just silly.
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Speaker 1: I love having a good time in the kitchen. So
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Speaker 1: I bring the realness, I bring those one liners. I
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Speaker 1: bring it. I just make it fun. If you can't
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Speaker 1: have fun with around your food and with your food,
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Speaker 1: then you shouldn't be in the kitchen. So I mean
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Speaker 1: I give you recipes we give you hacks, we give
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Speaker 1: you tips. It's really about making your life more simple
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Speaker 1: in the kitchen. And it's a little something for everybody.
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Speaker 1: I mean, we're going for a younger demographic because we
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Speaker 1: have a lot of digital um components to the show,
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Speaker 1: a lot of like the most instagram morble foods and
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Speaker 1: crazy things you see online. But we also have it
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Speaker 1: for the moms and the dads, and we have recipes
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Speaker 1: to get the kids involved. Holiday recipes, good fall recipes
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Speaker 1: when it's coming up, it's getting cold out, starting to
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Speaker 1: get cold outside, Like those are the types of recipes
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Speaker 1: that you need, a quick, easy, affordable and your family
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Speaker 1: and your friends are gonna love it. Like that's what
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Speaker 1: we really do on this show. Well, that's what I
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Speaker 1: love about the show because see I'm a see I'm
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Speaker 1: a person that I I can cook and I can bait.
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Speaker 1: I hate complicated recipes like it shouldn't be complicated, should
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Speaker 1: never be And that's what and and and videos and
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Speaker 1: food videos are the most popular videos and social media
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Speaker 1: they are. So now you're saying something that was really interesting.
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Speaker 1: You're saying that the the young young cooks, the young people,
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Speaker 1: this show is engaging them. How do you engage the
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Speaker 1: younger generation. I have a daughter who twenty one. You know,
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Speaker 1: she's trying to cook. She's always talking, calling me every day, Dad,
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Speaker 1: I made this to day. And you know, I've told
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Speaker 1: her to watch your show, you know, and I don't
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Speaker 1: know if she's watching yet, because you gotta watch this shows.
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Speaker 1: The show is really cool. You can pick up some
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Speaker 1: nice little hitts because I like the show because there
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Speaker 1: are three different points of views, and I think that
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Speaker 1: really helps me out because it lets me know that
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Speaker 1: everybody who cooks, are bake has their own take on something.
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Speaker 1: And sometimes when I look watch the show, by looking
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Speaker 1: at a different persons to take, I said, oh yeah,
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Speaker 1: I would have done it that way. That's why I
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Speaker 1: really like to show one of the layers. It's several
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Speaker 1: layers of the same meal. It is, and it takes
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Speaker 1: a lot of the classics that you're you may have
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Speaker 1: grown up on it with as a kid, or you
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Speaker 1: may be aware of you tasted before, but we put
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Speaker 1: a little twist to it and kind of bring it
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Speaker 1: into where we are currently and how people eat and
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Speaker 1: with their time and their budget. Because the thing is
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Speaker 1: with millennial I was reading a study the other day
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Speaker 1: that one in three millennials is skipping a meal because
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Speaker 1: either they can't afford to cook or they don't know
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Speaker 1: how to cook. And I'm like, that is ridiculous that
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Speaker 1: people are skipping meals just because for lack of knowledge
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Speaker 1: or money. So I'm like, I wanted to create a
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Speaker 1: platform where you really have no excuses. All of our
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Speaker 1: dishes are it's super affordable, and it's really I tell
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Speaker 1: people my recipes are suggestions. You'll see me do it
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Speaker 1: on on the show and you're like, hey, I kind
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Speaker 1: of like that, but I wouldn't do it that way.
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Speaker 1: I like this, so I'll try it this way. I
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Speaker 1: have so many people that try my recipes and they
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Speaker 1: tag me in it and say, I do gluten freeze,
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Speaker 1: so I did it this way, or I didn't like
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Speaker 1: this seafood, I like crawfish instead of shrimp. Like it's
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Speaker 1: really about customizing recipes to make it your own so
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Speaker 1: that you can't say, oh, well, I don't know how
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Speaker 1: to cook. Cooking is as difficult as you make it,
10:22
Speaker 1: and you you buying both. There's so many different tricks
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Speaker 1: and tips that you can use that we talk about
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Speaker 1: on the show that you can cut costs and still
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Speaker 1: feed yourself, feed your family and feel accomplished like you
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Speaker 1: don't have to be a professionally trained chef like myself
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Speaker 1: to eat like that and to feed your family and
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Speaker 1: your friends like that. You can look like you've been
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Speaker 1: in the kitchen all day and you only spent twenty minutes,
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Speaker 1: Like who doesn't want to do that? Well, I'm telling something,
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Speaker 1: your board, but fixed me a lotster role this weekend.
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Speaker 1: I fix me some crawlfish deal too seeky, So I'll
10:53
Speaker 1: be out there. I'll be up to eat. Now, you
10:56
Speaker 1: and I gotta get together because I gotta make you
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Speaker 1: my crushed puppies. It's a crab stuff. Hold on, called
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Speaker 1: me said, let me do you wanna take It's a
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Speaker 1: crab stuffed hush puppy. So you deep fried giant hush
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Speaker 1: puppy and it's season to perfect and then on the
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Speaker 1: inside you take a bite and it's so it's like
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Speaker 1: a crab cake needs a hush puppy. Now that isn't
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Speaker 1: the best Southern Friday. You really need to stop. And
11:19
Speaker 1: I got I got the friar to do it too.
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Speaker 1: I got my little master built, got my little master
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Speaker 1: do it for parties. You do it for holidays, you
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Speaker 1: anything like that, because and I love to bring myself
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Speaker 1: to a plate. So it's because my plat my cooking
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Speaker 1: style is Caribbean heat, meat, southern sweet. Because I grew
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Speaker 1: up born and raised in Alabama and my family is
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Speaker 1: from like the islands of Jamaica and Trinidad. So I
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Speaker 1: love to kind of combine those two worlds together. So
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Speaker 1: it's you see me, I'll deep fried some some jerk chicken.
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Speaker 1: We'll have some fried jerk chicken. Or I mean I'll
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Speaker 1: bring you some candy gams and do mango and a
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Speaker 1: coconut rum sauce. Like I really just love to play
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Speaker 1: with my few. Everybody's mad at you. You need to stop.
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Speaker 1: Everybody's bad, every everybody you know going did she say candy?
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Speaker 1: You went from crawfish and to this crab cake balls
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Speaker 1: to kiddy yams too. I'm mad. Okay, We're gonna be
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Speaker 1: back because you gotta. We're talking about these different shows
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Speaker 1: you're doing to the Food Network. Besides Let's Eat, we
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Speaker 1: went back with more. Chef Jamaica on the goal, Chef
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Speaker 1: I like that Jeff Jamaica on Jamika Jamika on the
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Speaker 1: Goal Jef Jamiko to go, be right back with more
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Speaker 1: moneyment conversation. She's back on the phone. I'm hungry. My
12:27
Speaker 1: name is Za, Chef Jamaica on the goal. I'm hungry. Um,
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Speaker 1: I'll just tell you something, Chef. I gotta First of all,
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Speaker 1: you know you're special. You know I'm gonna say that
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Speaker 1: in a very compliment moment. I just I just watch
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Speaker 1: your growth. I've been watching you on TV and just
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Speaker 1: to hear on the car, I want to bring you
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Speaker 1: back if you don't mind, or you know by Bob,
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Speaker 1: you know, Thanksgiving earlier for two weeks before that, and
12:51
Speaker 1: bring you back for Christmas time frame, because you know
12:54
Speaker 1: it's about brand building. And I know you got some
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Speaker 1: some recipes waiting on us. Face recipes, I got tips,
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Speaker 1: I got ideas because around holidays, that's when my phone
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Speaker 1: blows up. People call me on Thanksgiving Day. It's some
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Speaker 1: people mad about this, some people mad about that. Correct
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Speaker 1: that crab meatball you just threw out there. Yeah, that's whatever.
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Speaker 1: We can't eat it, so we don't know. You need
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Speaker 1: a hush button. I will say this. The recipe is
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Speaker 1: on chef Jamika dot com. You can make it anytime
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Speaker 1: and tell everybody. Any time you make something that recipe
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Speaker 1: of mind, you gotta tag me in it. Every send
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Speaker 1: me that link today. And I would posted Wednesday on
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Speaker 1: my Facebook page because on Wednesday, I'm gonna tell you something,
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Speaker 1: chef this it's really cool. See what I do on
13:41
Speaker 1: my Facebook page on Tuesdays and Fridays. I have Baker's
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Speaker 1: Spotlight on Baker Baker Spotlight, where I post bakers, unknown bakers.
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Speaker 1: It's real. It's wildly popular. On Tuistays and Fridays. Every
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Speaker 1: time I posted against like two thousand, three thousand likes
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Speaker 1: for the Breaker, And on Wednesday, I post a tasty
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Speaker 1: video and then on Saturday Sunday morning, I post a
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Speaker 1: tasty video. So if you want to, I start posting
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Speaker 1: your stuff. I don't know tasty, I don't know delicious.
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Speaker 1: I know you. So if you want me to, I
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Speaker 1: start posting anything you want. On Wednesday and Sunday morning,
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Speaker 1: I do it for you. And then and that when
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Speaker 1: I posted on Wednesdays, it's the only post I do
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Speaker 1: on my Facebook. And I got seven and thirty thousand followers.
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Speaker 1: So if you like to start providing me with little
14:24
Speaker 1: links that you rush to promote, post this. I started
14:27
Speaker 1: supporting you. I really will because my because my followers,
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Speaker 1: they love food, they love to eat, like them are
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Speaker 1: female followers, and like I said, I would love to
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Speaker 1: really support your brand because you're you're you're fantastic and
14:41
Speaker 1: you're blowing up. I want to help you on that
14:43
Speaker 1: carpet ride that you own. Well, I will take that
14:46
Speaker 1: and I will send you anything so we can get
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Speaker 1: everybody cooking, keep everybody hungry and cooking, and they can
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Speaker 1: follow me at Chef Jamaica and we will. I'll put
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Speaker 1: up all these videos. I'll send them to you so
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Speaker 1: everybody can see it and we can cook. I appreciate that.
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Speaker 1: To start, We'll start this week. Okay, we'll starting this week, Samantha.
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Speaker 1: Everybody heard that. No, no, they know what they're telling
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Speaker 1: us truth. And like I said, I do it every wen.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna get these videos up. Fans know that I
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Speaker 1: post food every Wednesday and I post food every Saturday.
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Speaker 1: In fact, I was gonna post this Wednesday. I made
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Speaker 1: uh some fridge toasts you know, cinemon and had a
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Speaker 1: couple of eggs over easy and some paint sausage Jimmy
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Speaker 1: Dean pant saws. I were gonna post that, so I
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Speaker 1: won't post that. I'm gonna post Chief Jamaica on the go.
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Speaker 1: Oh there you got this other show, getting I wasted
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Speaker 1: your time talking about food because I'm my fantasy. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: they got your upcoming, uh judging on the Hunted Gingerbreads
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Speaker 1: showdown on the Food Network. And then The Best Thing
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Speaker 1: I Ever Ate? Yeah, and see that's another side job
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Speaker 1: that I get to do. I get to travel and
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Speaker 1: keep and talk about all the foods that I can
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Speaker 1: make everybody hungry. And but the thing is I take
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Speaker 1: all the calories for y'all. But then you all can
15:57
Speaker 1: check it out, and when you're in those cities and
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Speaker 1: those towns, you can go those places yourself. So it's
16:02
Speaker 1: it's a great gig. I mean, little teas it does,
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Speaker 1: little teevs on the on The Best Thing You Ever.
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Speaker 1: I hate that show. It makes me mad because people
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Speaker 1: you can't. I tell everybody, don't watch me on TV
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Speaker 1: when you're hungry, because you're you're really just gonna the
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Speaker 1: best thing I have eight, the best thing I ever ate.
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Speaker 1: They actually be talking about the food, just be salivating,
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Speaker 1: and they shoulder food. Well, we gotta describe, go into
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Speaker 1: detail like that's how we get you. It's it's tell
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Speaker 1: us about one of your tell Us about one of
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Speaker 1: your favorite because you've done this show a lot of time,
16:30
Speaker 1: tell us about one of your favorite meals. I mean, Atlanta,
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Speaker 1: any place in Atlanta, we can go on. Any place
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Speaker 1: in the country. We can, Oh my goodness, um, Atlanta.
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Speaker 1: I will tell you this once, some of the best
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Speaker 1: mac and cheese and color Greens and you. I did
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Speaker 1: this on the show and everybody's like, what It's a
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Speaker 1: vegan mac and cheese at Soul Vegetarian. They've got two locations,
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Speaker 1: one in the Highlands and one down by one House,
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Speaker 1: and tell I think you've been to that one, you know,
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Speaker 1: and everybody and I've seen Andre three thousand there. I've
16:58
Speaker 1: seen so many celebrities there. And everybody that that that
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Speaker 1: really knows knows that it's the best mac and cheese
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Speaker 1: in Atlanta and it's vegan. So don't don't get turned
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Speaker 1: off by that. I'm telling you. I know it's right
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Speaker 1: across the street from Christma cree It's right across the
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Speaker 1: street from Crispa Creeve. I know exactly what right next
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Speaker 1: to that drug store. Come on, I'm telling you some girl.
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Speaker 1: I knows about some food co sign on it. Everybody
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Speaker 1: would believe because I tell people vegan mac and cheese
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Speaker 1: and they're like, oh no way, don't park, don't don't
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Speaker 1: park in the in the CVS parking lot. They will
17:27
Speaker 1: tell you, oh yeah, absolutely, don't get and don't go
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Speaker 1: across the Christpa cree because they told you that too,
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Speaker 1: So get that, get it to go get there early.
17:37
Speaker 1: You know, I've eaten there several times and I would
17:40
Speaker 1: tell you I like the food that I've never tried
17:41
Speaker 1: to mac and cheese so is one of the best.
17:44
Speaker 1: I did it on the show and I mean the
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Speaker 1: business everybody went in there was like Jamica said it,
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Speaker 1: so I'm going so you've heard it here again. Sold
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Speaker 1: Vegetarian in Atlanta, Georgia is one of the best mac
17:54
Speaker 1: and cheese in town. But it's stuff like that that
17:56
Speaker 1: you'll see me doing on on Cooking Channel and Food
17:59
Speaker 1: Network and judging, like the Halloween Showdown is coming up
18:02
Speaker 1: with Gingerbread. That's a crazy competition. I got costumes on.
18:05
Speaker 1: We're having a Blast for Halloween, so you gotta tune
18:08
Speaker 1: in starting October seventh with that. So, I mean, there's
18:10
Speaker 1: so many fun things. Just keep flipping between cook and
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Speaker 1: Channel and Food netwhere you're gonna see my face and
18:15
Speaker 1: then go online and then go on the app and
18:17
Speaker 1: you're gonna see more of me. So now it's the
18:18
Speaker 1: cool thing about now the now the Let's Eat is
18:21
Speaker 1: on the Food Network. There's also on the digital platform
18:24
Speaker 1: now on the Food Never. You download the app and
18:26
Speaker 1: you can watch all the full episodes anytime. The How
18:29
Speaker 1: did Gingerbread? Showdown? Is on the Food Network. Yes, it's
18:32
Speaker 1: actually on television and it's premiering October seven. Check your
18:36
Speaker 1: local listings for a time. So if you are Halloween
18:39
Speaker 1: fanatic and you think, well, gingerbread is typically only for Christmas,
18:43
Speaker 1: so we have taken it. So their haunted Gingerbread. So
18:45
Speaker 1: we have different themes and I mean we dress up
18:48
Speaker 1: the contestants are a phenomenal. You'll see gingerbread, You're like,
18:52
Speaker 1: how the heck did they do that? Like that's the
18:54
Speaker 1: kind of competition that I was a part of judging.
18:56
Speaker 1: So if you want to be wild and scared and
18:58
Speaker 1: hungry all at the same time, you gotta tune in
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Speaker 1: for that. And then you have the best thing I
19:03
Speaker 1: ever ate. That's on the Cooking Channel Cooking Channels, so
19:06
Speaker 1: that that's starts September, and I mean it's if you've
19:10
Speaker 1: never seen the show, it's an array of chefs and
19:12
Speaker 1: food experts and we all just talk about some of
19:14
Speaker 1: the best things that we've ever eaten. So I mean,
19:16
Speaker 1: if you're ever there or if you live in that city,
19:18
Speaker 1: you got to check it out, because I mean, food
19:21
Speaker 1: is on point. Every time I followed a few people
19:24
Speaker 1: and I'm like, Okay, this is now the best thing
19:26
Speaker 1: that I've eaten because it's pretty darn good. So shows
19:29
Speaker 1: like that, that's where you'll see me all the time.
19:31
Speaker 1: That show right there, Man, they have desserts on there,
19:34
Speaker 1: and they have daily food. They are pizza's the rows
19:39
Speaker 1: on that show. I'm just our fantasy eating because I'm
19:44
Speaker 1: not there. I'm talking to the best pizza on that show.
19:47
Speaker 1: And then you used to that other show where they're
19:49
Speaker 1: like the little desserts you're talking about, and that's on
19:52
Speaker 1: Cooking Channel as well. And the thing is a lot
19:55
Speaker 1: of people see me and they think, oh, she's a
19:57
Speaker 1: new face, she just got started. I tell people, I'm
19:59
Speaker 1: like I've been people have just been sleep or something.
20:02
Speaker 1: Because we've been doing this for a while now it's
20:04
Speaker 1: just now coming in into full fruition. But I mean
20:07
Speaker 1: I have been This has been my dream since when
20:09
Speaker 1: I met you years ago, and I've been working on this.
20:11
Speaker 1: So I tell everybody, whether you're in the food or not,
20:14
Speaker 1: just watch me anywhere you see me, because it's just
20:16
Speaker 1: a testament to motivation and inspiration. Whatever you're trying to do,
20:20
Speaker 1: you watch me just to say if she can do that,
20:23
Speaker 1: I can do that too. Because I started didn't know
20:25
Speaker 1: anything about TV, didn't know how to get on there,
20:27
Speaker 1: and it's just been nothing but God and just me
20:29
Speaker 1: just pushing forward with a dream and that. So I
20:32
Speaker 1: tell everybody to support the inspiration of just seeing me
20:35
Speaker 1: on TV. It's the same thing for anybody else that
20:37
Speaker 1: has a dream that wants to do something and fulfill
20:39
Speaker 1: that and then you finally your your judge on this
20:42
Speaker 1: Guy's on everybody. I love that show, Dive, the Three
20:44
Speaker 1: d Guys, Girls, Three Games that I mean, that was
20:48
Speaker 1: like a dream come true to be sitting in the
20:50
Speaker 1: presence of God Ferry. I've never met a chef and
20:52
Speaker 1: a TV personality and a host that's so enduring. That's
20:55
Speaker 1: so about the money you got stuff on Crew show.
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Speaker 1: You have no idea, you think you know, you have
21:02
Speaker 1: no idea, and you have no idea that that's your money.
21:05
Speaker 1: Make a conversation we can talk about Oh oh it's crazy.
21:11
Speaker 1: But he's such a good guy, such a philanthropis like
21:14
Speaker 1: I mean, and the show is so much fun, Like
21:16
Speaker 1: it is literally a full on full like it's a
21:19
Speaker 1: full on grocery store when they're not just when we're
21:21
Speaker 1: not shooting. I would love to go in there and
21:23
Speaker 1: just take stuff off the shelf like it it's a studio,
21:26
Speaker 1: but it's everything you can ever imagine a grocery store.
21:29
Speaker 1: The contestants are amazing. I've experienced to judge several times
21:32
Speaker 1: on there, and I'm looking to go back and upcoming season.
21:35
Speaker 1: So I mean that show and I tell people that
21:37
Speaker 1: show is for anybody to apply to home cooks, chefs, anybody.
21:41
Speaker 1: But people say I want to be on TV, like
21:43
Speaker 1: that's one of the best shows to apply to and
21:45
Speaker 1: go through it. To wrap up, I gotta get some
21:47
Speaker 1: stuff much fun. Okay, we know you're only Let's Eats
21:50
Speaker 1: on Food Network. You can catch it those Sundays also
21:53
Speaker 1: twenty four hours on all the digital platforms. That's one
21:56
Speaker 1: of my favorite shows. Now, remember every Wednesday, I want
21:59
Speaker 1: to start posting your videos and stories up. You so
22:02
Speaker 1: started getting this a commitment to hold less slate out
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Speaker 1: for you on Wednesday. Let my followers know I tag you,
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Speaker 1: I believe in you. I'm so proud of you. You
22:13
Speaker 1: definitely got to send me that recipe about that. And
22:17
Speaker 1: next time we see each other, we're gonna have a
22:19
Speaker 1: cook off and you're gonna be back on the show
22:21
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22:22
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