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hello everyone Welcome back to our Q&A
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show and our sampling of that delicious
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summertime trifle that we made Now if
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you haven't seen this video it was the
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one before this one Go check it out and
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watch Thomas and I put together this
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summertime trifle Peaches pineapple
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pound cake pudding and lots of other
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delicious layers Look at this Who wants
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to take this to your barbecue picnic
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church gathering make it at home
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somebody's going to eat it All right you
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guys We're going to dive in We've got
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the biggest spoon that we could
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find And let me show you how to do it
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Somebody in your house wants to eat it
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call me It's also known as a punch bowl
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cake Or you can even serve it up in a
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large serving dish Just build your
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layers I'm going to go down all the way
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to the
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bottom We're going to pull that
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up Who's
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ready yeah it's all the same in
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there We're going to eat this as we
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answer all of y'all's questions And boy
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did y'all have some good ones for us
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this
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time All
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right Just leave it here for y'all If
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y'all want a bite come on up Grab a bowl
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a spoon and you know have a dessert with
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us All right we're going to dive in
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really quick M That's good
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That's really good
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Y'all ready for some Q&
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A's all right The first one is can you
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include Bailey in your Q&A this is
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Bailey This is our beagle She's 12 years
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old and she's acting all shy today
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What's the
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matter she got a camera on her You want
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to go see daddy go see daddy Come here
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Come here What kind of jobs did you both
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do in your life
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mainly I was an administrative assistant
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for any job that I worked at The last
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one was 18 years I worked in downtown
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Houston as an admin for an oil and gas
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company Then they got bought out and
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then I started doing YouTube
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What was yours well it would be uh
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probably the
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insurance I was an enrollment manager
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for an insurance company and then moved
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up to vice president of enrollment and
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did that for eight nine years I guess
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Yep How long have you been doing cooking
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videos 2018 in
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April So about seven
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years How did you and Thomas meet well
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that was an overwhelming question A lot
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of y'all want to know We met at Best Buy
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What were you i was a loss prevention
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manager And I was a customer service
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supervisor How long have y'all been
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married
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well we got married in
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1994 So 31 years I thought it was 32 I
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thought it was 32 31 in January
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That's okay We'll give you the year A
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thank you
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We're going to have to have the kids
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over here Help eat some of that
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All right Somebody had a question Have
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we ever been to Eeges in Tucson on our
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way to Sedona sedona is our very one of
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our favorite places to go for vacation
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So no we go since where we live
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uh it's faster to go up through
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Albuquerque and then hit pick up I40 and
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go straight in Y'all that pound cake
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picks up that pudding and the juices
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from the peaches and the pineapple
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That's good
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How do we come up with recipes
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especially the odd ones like the two
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ingredient French toast ice
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cream y'all that was a good recipe If
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you haven't seen that one yet you should
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go see that one We really really had fun
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making that one And it was really good I
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was really doubtful but it turned out
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really well Yeah I like the idea of all
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the different flavors that you can do
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for the French toast using the different
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flavors of ice cream Boy it just really
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takes it over the top Generally if we're
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on like our phones and we see a recipe
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that you know kind of jumps out at us We
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change it up a little bit to suit our
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taste Yep And then we build it and give
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it to y'all It could be a trending idea
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or it could just be something we've seen
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and that's how we get some of the
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oddballs We get them from all different
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areas Sometimes we get them from y'all
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Mhm Do our children enjoy our recipes
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so let's start with the children Yeah
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Both our children are in their 20s They
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moved out last year so about 12 months
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ago
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They're loving life right now Yeah they
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are They're not liking being broke a lot
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of times but they do like being on their
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own They rented out a house together
5:57
We've all been there Yeah we were broke
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for a long time Yeah I mean everybody's
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experienced that at some point right and
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you look back on that and those are good
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years Yep But yes they will come over
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here scour through our refrigerator
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and look for the leftovers because
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they'll see that we've made something
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and they'll come over here and be mad
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that we didn't invite them They'll bring
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their Tupperware too You mean our
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Tupperware fill it up So yes they do
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like the recipes A lot of the recipes
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they've just grown up with and they know
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the flavors that we put together Did we
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cook like this when our kids were little
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now they've eaten a lot of stuff that
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we've we make when they were little but
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we make more different things now
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because we have to come up with
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different ideas in order to make videos
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for you guys We can't just keep making
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spaghetti and meat sauce or meatloaf You
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know what I'm saying who or what has
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been your greatest inspiration in
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creating the
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recipes i was cooking when I was in
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junior high My mom had me in the kitchen
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and I learned a lot of my flavor
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profiles from that and she gave me a
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junior cookbook from Betty Crocker and I
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cooked out of that thing like crazy I
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always wanted to make something out of
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that cookbook So yes a lot of my cooking
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seasonings and flavorings and that came
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back from when I was young and watched
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my mom cook Well I was a short order
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cook my dad's restaurants everything on
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the grill Well think of um Cracker
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Barrel and that's basically what we had
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on the menu He does all the grilling
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outside So I do He He does a lot of
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steak and it's like really good He knows
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how to cook a steak Oh I love steak but
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it's so expensive Now
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this one cracks me up Someone's like
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"Katherine where do you keep all your
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different t-shirts you wear you never
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seem to repeat a t-shirt." Well I got
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this one here This one we got when we
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were in the Grand Canyon Yep In
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Arizona And so if we're traveling I
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sometimes pick up a shirt or two or
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three I four or
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five And my brother travels with his
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wife and they bring back shirts and give
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us shirts If I see something really
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interesting and I'm somewhere I like to
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buy the shirt I'm I'm a t-shirt hog
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T-shirt connoisseur Somebody brought
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that to life to me I'm like oh my I do
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don't I they're all hanging in the
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closet and I'm like which one should I
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wear today she's probably got close to a
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hundred Wasn't that many yeah that's a
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lot Have you had any culinary training
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or are you just naturally talented well
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I guess we're just naturally talented
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Yeah I reckon because we're not culinary
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trained
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We just know how to put flavors together
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We know what we like and flavor profiles
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I don't like beans So you'll never see
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beans too much at all or mushrooms Not a
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big mushroom fan
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He loves fish but you don't see a lot of
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fish dishes being made Well nobody
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watches those anyway No I not a lot of
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people do I guess we're just uh
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naturally talented Hey we're back
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together
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How long did Thomas and I date before we
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got married
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what do you think about a year Yep About
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a year Yeah about a year I mean that's
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when uh you gave me the ring when well
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we weren't engaged very long Yeah So I
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we um we were dating for a year but we
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got engaged about four months before we
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got married Yeah I'm thinking about
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right around that time frame probably
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Yeah Do we go to any Dollar Trees to get
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recipe ingredients we might
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start but no No we don't But we do shop
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at HB which is our local grocery store
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It's here in Texas Here in Texas And we
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go to Kroger Wait uh Walmart Walmart
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That's where we shop Those are the three
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stores we shop at Do we help our kids
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grocery shop or help them with groceries
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yes Yes we do We h we help them buy
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groceries because prices of groceries
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have gone up so much since they've moved
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out on their own that it's almost
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impossible you know and we have to help
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them you know pick out things and how to
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do things cheaply without you know
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spending too much money on it Has to
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teach them to budget Yeah Because they
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thought they were just going to move out
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eat out every day and just you know Yeah
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That's what they thought Yeah So we had
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to back them up a little bit and get
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them on the right track a little bit
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It's hard for everybody I mean even us I
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mean we really have to you know
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determine what we're going to do each
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week and to be able to shop for it It's
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just Thomas and I There's nobody else
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you know we handle the camera system the
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lighting you know the editing and
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everything There's nobody else here So
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it's not like we have people that we
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could just throw food at all the time
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you know or throw food out to make to
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make the recipe again Yeah So what you
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see is what you get I mean we're just
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like any average person We've got to
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make our list and keep within a budget
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Also everything has a written recipe on
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my blog which is
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katherine'splates.com And you can print
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out the recipes there because we don't
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sit there I mean this
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We don't have a professional food
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photographer coming in and you know
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using fake food to make it look good No
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I mean what our pictures are what they
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are We take a picture of what what we're
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going to eat And this most of this will
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go to the kids Oh god Yeah 90% of it Yes
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Joseph he has a girlfriend Megan And if
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you haven't seen her she's been on a few
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videos here Yeah So she's super nice
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very sweet We love her and they're
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they're just awesome together She is
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she's super nice Yes And then Rihanna
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she has a boyfriend They're just newly
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boyfriend girlfriend but they've known
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each other for almost a year Yeah Before
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they started dating And so hi Chris Hey
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We've met him a few times And he is
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really nice He is He's a very nice young
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man very attentive to Rihanna and Yeah
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that's the important thing Yes Treat my
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daughter right Yeah So at any given time
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they're all over there and eating
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whatever we bring or whatever they pick
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up So yes we have made a casserole
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Thomas and I would eat a piece and then
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we would take it over to them because we
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had something else we wanted to make the
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next day So yeah I'd never get to eat
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the same thing twice There's always
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something we made over here And so if
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she makes something that I just
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absolutely love well I get it once Oh
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my That might be true That is true It's
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true And they do have the cookbooks wi-i
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which I have right here They're trying
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to build up the seasonings and pantry
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items that they need They just don't use
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them enough to where you know they could
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go out of date So you know we're trying
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to help figure out how to keep their
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pantry you know with things that they
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would need to make something So and I
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have these four cookbooks right
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here Um these are three of the first
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cookbooks right here the red white and
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the blue ones
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here And these all have like dinner
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appetizers desserts
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and
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breakfast breads and things like that So
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pretty much the whole thing in all three
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of these here And then this one right
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here is my full dessert
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cookbook Yeah that was fun to put
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together That was fun to eat Yeah Yeah
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These are tried and true recipes that
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we've made here in my kitchen Yeah We
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don't get to try something and go "Oh,"
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and then throw it away and then do it
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again No Find my cookbooks on
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kathern'splates.com in the cookbook tab
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or you can go into one of the videos in
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the description box and they're listed
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in there Also I do have one in the
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editing stage Now we prepare the
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cookbooks ourselves So nobody you know
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nobody prepares the cookbooks We do all
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the editing in the cookbooks and and
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that And then we have a company that
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prints the cookbooks and sends them out
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to you when you want to purchase Yeah
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They print on demand We don't keep any
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here Yeah
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So don't send us any
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money for cookbooks cuz we don't do that
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Now I the cookbook that I have being
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edited right now is our dinner cookbook
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I'm super excited about this one dinners
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in every shape size whatever you want to
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call it It's great I love it That'll be
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coming out I hope by the end of the
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summer here Yep I'm making a holiday
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cookbook It's in the beginning stages of
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that but I'm super excited for that one
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Where was I in life when I met my
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husband well Best Buy Yeah When I got a
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job at Best Buy to work in the customer
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service station as a supervisor he was
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already there as a loss prevention
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manager and we connected Our work
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buddies
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we were all going to go to lunch
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together and then they took off and left
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us at the front and we walked over to go
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have lunch and Grandies At Grandies
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Grandies Do y'all remember Grandy's oh I
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love Grandy's Fried Chicken So that's
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how we connected Our friends at work did
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that So yep Thank y'all Yeah 31 years 31
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years Thank you Yes
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Were things different in the world
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during that time when I met my husband
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yeah Cuz you know I mean it was 31 maybe
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32 years ago There was no iPhones There
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was none of that I mean we rented movies
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from Blockbuster and Hollywood movies
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Yeah You had the little pagers if you
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wanted to connect with somebody I had to
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have one cuz I had multiple stores Yeah
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And you know what back then there was
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eye connection You connected with
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everybody right you looked at somebody
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Yeah You talked to them Nowadays kids
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are just on their phone They're just
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like "Hey yeah hi." Whatever Yeah So
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that's the difference I just wish you
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know connection slower back then
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What does Thomas and I like to make when
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we're not on video we like to come in
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the kitchen and put something with eggs
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together Yeah eggs are good Omelets We
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love omelets with like ham peppers
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onions
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just for a quick easy meal just to kind
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of Yeah And if I have any steak left
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over I'll cut that up in there Have
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steak and eggs Yeah we do like to get on
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the grill throw some hamburger on there
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and every now and then those little
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kbasa dogs like
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kilbased Yeah they're sausage They're
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not hot dogs They're sausage Yeah So
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we'll have one of those with a hamburger
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That sounds good right chips I mean you
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know we keep it simple when we're not
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doing a video Sometimes I'll throw a
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piece of fish on the grill I don't cook
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it in the house cuz she don't like the
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smell No No I don't Oh here's a good one
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What is the last vacation we took i
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think that was Sedona That was Sedona
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Yeah it was a year ago right in the fall
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Was it in the fall it was hot though you
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guys It was in the fall and it was still
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like a hundred Yeah it was so hot We
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like to go to Tennessee also Yep And
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drive all through there in the North
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Carolina area I love being outdoors I
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love the mountains I love the desert
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My favorites are Smoky Mountains and the
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Ozarks We are going to the Ozarks in the
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fall Yep We're going to go um Arkansas
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over where Eureka Springs area Yeah And
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we want to do the waterfall hikes Hikes
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Yeah So we're going to be like following
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waterfalls through Arkansas Arkansas
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What has been your favorite part about
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the cooking show and your favorite
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moments from the show well when I'm
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doing a cooking show with
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Thomas that's my favorite cooking shows
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Yep When I'm cooking with myself that's
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my favorite cooking show My
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gosh We're gonna see how he finishes the
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rest of the show off That's what we're
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gonna do
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No we have lots of fun together We do
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Okay Where are we
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from i'm just going to do this really
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quick for you I was born in Chicago
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raised in Mississippi Hattisburg to be
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specific I was there for my whole school
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life and then came up to Houston when my
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parents moved up here and been here ever
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since And then we were in Oklahoma for
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just a couple years We didn't like it so
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we came back to Houston Nothing against
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Oklahoma My brother still lives in
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Oklahoma And now we're in Katie Texas
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And we've been in Katie Texas Oh my gosh
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Since Rihanna was five more We've been
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here quite a while 23 years that we've
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been in Katy Texas Yep I was born in
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Fort Wayne Indiana Uh grew up all over
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the place No specific place I went to
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school There was one place I lived that
20:34
was just the summer long and that was it
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Then we moved Um been in Texas since uh
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well outside of my military I've been in
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Texas since 1978
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Here's this is a this is a question Oh
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my gosh If y'all could each individually
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only eat the same breakfast the same
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lunch the same dinner same dessert every
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day for the rest of your life what would
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it be oh dear Lord No
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deviations exceptions no sharing meals
21:03
to gain more selections It must be the
21:06
same four courses every day Who's the
21:08
meanie that came up with that one that
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means I would have to come up with my
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four and Thomas would come up with his
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four Oh my gosh Well I'm going to tell
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you I'm a big breakfast fan So if I had
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to have one thing it would be a sausage
21:22
egg and cheese biscuit Yeah that's for
21:25
breakfast Yeah she could eat that every
21:26
day I love eggs So what you going to do
21:29
for lunch knowing you probably burgers
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or Oh yes Oh my gosh Give me burger
21:34
fries and a coke for the rest of my life
21:37
If it wouldn't affect me or or anything
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like that I that's what I would eat for
21:42
lunch for dinner Oh my goodness Tacos
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Tacos You love tacos Mexican Oh my gosh
21:51
Yes
21:52
Tacos I could eat that every day And
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then and for dessert ice cream All right
21:58
All right What's your breakfast
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oatmeal every day I I love oatmeal Lunch
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Uh probably tacos
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Street tacos Yes I love the street I
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like street food period Mhm Um I think
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some of the best food out there is not
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in a restaurant It's out there in the
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carts on the street Dinner He'll get off
22:22
topic
22:24
I have strong opinions Uh dinner I don't
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know I'm thinking a nice piece of
22:31
fish like uh I don't know bass or trout
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or flounder or something like that So
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dessert Mhm Dessert would be watermelon
22:41
I could eat that every day Is that a
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dessert or is that just fruit that's a
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dessert That's what I I would like to
22:48
eat after a meal That would be a dessert
22:52
What do we do for work right now well
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this is it This is work Um yeah
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everything we have to do to put a recipe
23:00
together to between you know grocery
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listings and just recipe research We do
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all the editing all the thumbnails We do
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all the cookbooks We do all of the
23:15
videos putting them in different um
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scenarios like Facebook Rumble Tik Tok
23:23
We get behind on some because we just
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run out of time There's just so much we
23:27
can do There's a lot of expense in it I
23:29
mean video camera if something breaks
23:32
down you know we got to buy it Food
23:36
Food is quickly coming more expensive
23:38
than that video camera I think this is a
23:40
personal question but Thomas wanted to
23:43
answer it for you guys Why does he shake
23:47
okay And why does Joseph shake all right
23:49
I'm going to answer this and then that's
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the end of it It's called essential
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trimmers My dad had it I have it Joseph
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has it And there you go What is the
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funniest thing that has happened to you
24:03
while making cooking videos our dog
24:06
drinking water right as we turn the
24:08
camera on and we got to wait Yep She's
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very thirsty when the camera goes on
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Yeah But not at all I know Not having
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the oven on Yeah Oh one time I put the
24:17
crockot meal together and forgot to turn
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the crockot on That was like hours and
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hours We had to get rid of that Dropping
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a pan of food I took something out of
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the oven a big casserole dish and I put
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it on the edge of the counter and it
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flipped over and went everywhere And I
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mean everywhere The lawnmowers going on
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next door as videos We had birds in the
24:41
vent of our microwave chirping away
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Is my mom still living with us no She
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moved out two years ago you guys It
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doesn't even seem like that long She
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found her a place and for all her stuff
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and her dog
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Lacy and she's quite happy All the
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neighbors help her and just kind of keep
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an eye out on her Yeah So I go have
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lunch with her at least once a month and
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then we take her to doctor's
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appointments and things like that That's
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all the questions but we have questions
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for you guys
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What do you want us to
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make so let us know in the comments If
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you don't think we've made it or you
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haven't seen us make it let us know
25:28
there if you would like to see something
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being made All right you guys We are
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super excited that you came to sit down
25:34
with us during our Q&A I hope you
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enjoyed our summertime delight Make your
25:39
own Yep that's good You can even half
25:42
this recipe if you want to do that Okay
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All right
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Bye you guys Bye We'll see y'all on the
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next episode
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