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0:00
- Hey, y'all, today is a very special day for me.
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If you watched the introduction video
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to the people that are benefactors
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of the homes that we build for them, the wounded warriors,
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if you watched the introduction video,
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I promised y'all that I was gonna grab these guys
0:23
one at a time and bring them in the kitchen
0:26
and cook with them.
0:28
This is Travis Strong,
0:31
and he lost both legs,
0:38
in Baghdad?
0:40
- Baghdad, yes, Iraq. - In Baghdad.
0:43
What year was that?
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- 2006.
0:45
- 2006, so you've been at this a good while, haven't you?
0:49
- A little bit, yeah a little bit.
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- But he has made the most of it, y'all.
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Look at this man.
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Show 'em, show 'em your muscles.
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Holy Cannoli!
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I wouldn't wanna get in a fight with him.
1:03
- No.
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- So he is in the process of being a recipient
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of one of the homes that we build for wounded warriors.
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Just for a little thanks of them doing what they do
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for the rest of us in this country.
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And these homes are designed to match
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whatever disability they came back with.
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You know, some are blind, some are triple amputees,
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some are just a single amputee, double amputees,
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fire, have been real badly burned in fires.
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So it's just wonderful, wonderful,
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that we can do that for Travis.
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And he loves to cook so he's even designing
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his own kitchen in his home.
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When are they expecting you to be in it, Travis?
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- They're talking hopefully,
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around Thanksgiving to Christmas timeframe.
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- Perfect, just in time for you to cook your heinie off.
2:10
- Yep, exactly.
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- For everybody.
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- Yes, it's gonna be good.
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- And you're gonna, yeah,
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and you'll have so many friends show up.
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- Yes.
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- So I had asked Travis earlier in conversation
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do you like savory or sweet stuff
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and what do you prefer cooking?
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- I can cook anything.
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I like to cook all kinds of stuff
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but I'm really kind of a sweets person.
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I love sweet stuff.
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- That's all I had to hear, honey.
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That's all I had to hear.
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So I checked with him and said,
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"How does an angel chocolate mousse pie sound?"
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And you said that was-
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- That sounds great. - That sounded good.
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- Really good.
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- And you know, chocolate pie, it's one
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of those American foods. - Yes.
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- Like mama's apple pie, chocolate pie.
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So that's what we're gonna make today.
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And you know, the other day when I came up
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with this recipe, I didn't realize
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that it was gonna be rain, rain, rain,
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and more rain, Travis,
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because meringue usually will not make on a rainy day.
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- Mm, well.
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- And at five o'clock it was raining cats
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and dogs this morning.
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- [Eddie] It's not real humid,
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so you may have a chance.
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- Yeah, so that's what I'm hoping, Eddie.
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- Alright. - Alright.
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So we've got three egg whites
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and instead of having a regular crust, Travis-
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- Yes.
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- This crust is gonna be made from the meringue.
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- Gotcha.
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- Okay, and I tell you what, let me see if I can slide down.
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If you could toast those pecans for me-
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- Okay.
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- That would be great.
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And you have to watch 'em.
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Is that uncomfortable for you?
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- No, that's fine, it's all good.
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- Yeah, just throw 'em in there
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and nuts will burn real quick like.
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- Alright, I'll watch 'em.
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- So here we go.
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We're beating our three egg whites
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and then we're slowly gonna add the cream of tartar.
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We're slowly gonna add the sugar
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and the cream of tartar, and hopefully,
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this cream of tartar will guarantee a stiff meringue.
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- All right, so seems to be working, Eddie.
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(mixer beating)
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And that was a half-a-cup of sugar
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(mixer beating)
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and a teaspoon of cream of tartar.
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And the recipe doesn't call for vanilla, but just a drop,
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'cause vanilla is good in everything.
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Alright, so the key, uh-oh,
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the key to making this meringue, Travis,
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is it's ready when you can pick those beaters up-
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- Okay.
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And now the egg white falls back in the bowl.
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- Gotcha, never made a meringue before so
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that's good to know.
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- I love like, meringue cookies, they're so good.
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Okay, that's probably been a few minutes, isn't it?
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- Yep, yep.
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- I think that'll be good.
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So we're gonna go back down here
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and we're gonna make this,
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we're gonna put this crust and oops, in our dish.
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So tell us a little bit about yourself.
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Where do you live?
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- Right now, I'm living down in Dallas, Texas.
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- [Paula] I love the state of Texas.
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- Yes.
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- [Paula] I don't like the heat-
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- It is hot.
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- But I feel such a kinship with the Texas women.
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It's like we're cut from the same cloth.
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- Yeah, they're all-
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- [Paula] But, so anyway, tell us all about it.
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- Well, I moved down to Texas.
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I used to live up in Colorado,
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and I moved down to Texas to be with my fiance
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and then also to be a part of a gym that's down there.
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It's a nonprofit gym.
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- [Paula] Um-hmm.
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- It's called the Adaptive Training Foundation.
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- [Paula] Uh-huh.
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- And we teach, we help people who have
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any kind of a disability-
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- Yeah.
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- Whether it be limb loss or neurological conditions
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or spinal cord injuries or anything kinda like that.
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We train them, we train them both physically
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and mentally and try to get them strong
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and get them mentally strong.
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- That's wonderful, and so is that one of the ways
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you have found like, you could handle
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what happened to you in Baghdad?
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- Well, I think with what happened to me,
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it puts any of us that have been injured
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into a unique position to where now
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that we can help other people who are kind of struggling.
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- Yes.
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- I mean, I was injured, close to almost 20 year ago.
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It's been going on like, I think like, 17 years-
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- No.
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- And so for me to be able to help some
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of these guys that are- - Yeah.
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- Just recently injured- - Yeah.
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- Where they feel like they're just struggling
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and they're like, they don't know what they can do.
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They don't know how they can do things.
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- Right.
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- And then here I am, I can come-
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- You come in and show 'em.
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- And show them life's not over, right?
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- That's right.
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- There's still's tons more stuff that you,
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- That's right.
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- That you can do.
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And that's, that's why I just love doing it, doing that.
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- That's wonderful.
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Another way that you give to mankind.
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- Yes.
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- Okay, so our nuts that you roasted for us.
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- I have cooled down, so I think it'll be safe now
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to add 'em to our meringue.
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If you want to just take that spatula
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and I'm gonna just pour 'em in.
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If you'll fold that in, then we're gonna make our pie crust.
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And you see the way he's doing it y'all?
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The fold, you go down, over, down and over.
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Especially when you're working with things like,
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doesn't that look like divinity?
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- Yeah it looks so good.
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- I could eat it right now.
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- Oh yes.
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- Yes, yes, yes.
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- How much do you?
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- Perfect, that's good they just mixed in.
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So if you wanna go ahead and put 'em in our,
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on top of everything that's good in Travis's life,
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he also has a fiance.
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And his fiance has a 10-year-old son named Gabe?
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- Gabe, yep.
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- His name's Gabe? - Yes, it is.
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- And, that he just loves.
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So I think everybody should be institutionalized.
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So I'm glad to hear that you're gonna join the institution.
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(Paula and Travis laughing)
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- Yep.
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- Okay, darlin'-
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- Soon here, soon.
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- Let's see, we'll kinda,
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that's wonderful, so you'll have your new home.
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- Yes.
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- [Paula] And have a place to bring your family.
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And little Gabe is so lucky to have you-
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- [Travis] He's an awesome kid.
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- [Paula] As a role model.
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- Yeah, he is a very, very good kid.
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- That's wonderful.
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So he's one of those that's easy to love.
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- Yes, oh, definitely.
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- Okay, I'm gonna kind of just,
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this is going to puff all up, but when we pull it out
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and as it cools, it'll deflate.
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- Okay.
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- We're gonna put this in the oven
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on 275 and we are gonna bake it for one hour.
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- Gotcha.
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- Recipe calls for two cups of whipping cream, whipped.
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- [Travis] There you go.
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- So to me, I like to sweeten my whipped cream.
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So I usually use to a cup of heavy cream,
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a fourth of a cup of sugar, so
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- That's gonna be good.
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- This is a third of a cup, so I'm not gonna make it
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quite as sweet as I normally would, but.
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We just gonna whip, whip, whip.
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And Teresa has got our chocolate chips, a 12-ounce package
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of chocolate chips and with six tablespoons of water.
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And she's melting that in the microwave.
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We're gonna let that cool.
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And we gonna fold it into our whipped cream
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and our pie's gonna be ready.
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- Nice, sounds good.
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- This is perfect.
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You want a finger?
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- Oh yeah, uh-huh.
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- Tell me if that's sweet enough.
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- Oh yeah, that's good.
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- Okay. - Yep.
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- So we'll put this back in the refrigerator.
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Alright, you strong man with the big muscles.
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- [Travis] Just fold it in, huh?
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All right.
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- [Paula] You want to fold will that in.
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Yes, looking good isn't it?
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- Yeah, it's looking really good.
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- Yes.
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It's important though that you let that chocolate cool
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before you go to fold it in to your whipped cream,
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'cause you don't want that whipped cream to break down.
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Look how chocolatey that's getting, Travis.
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- Yeah, it's gonna be good.
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- Frost pie, baby, frost your pie.
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- All right, just put it on?
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- [Paula] Well not all at one time,
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but just try to make it pretty.
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Can you make it pretty?
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- [Travis] I can try. - [Paula] I know you can.
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- [Travis] I will try.
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- [Paula] I know you can.
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Yes.
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- [Travis] Alright, so-
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- [Paula] Here, you want me to give you room to...
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- [Travis] Just spread it across?
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- [Paula] No, I'll just kind of do this with a knife.
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- [Travis] Gotcha.
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- [Paula] And you just keep digging it out
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and putting it on.
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- [Travis] Okay.
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- [Paula] It definitely separated
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from the pan, so perfect, perfect, perfect.
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Yes.
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Come on baby, sock it to me, sock it to me.
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I hate it shrunk from the pie pan
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'cause it doesn't look as pretty.
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- [Travis] Yeah but, it's all going down the same place.
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- [Paula] I was gonna say-
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- [Travis] It's going down.
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- [Paula] Yum, this is really moussey.
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- [Travis] Alright.
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- [Paula] Thank you darling You have done a fabulous job.
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Let me help you get that off.
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And you have done A wonderful job.
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- [Travis] Cool.
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- See that's pretty, just take a knife,
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kind of swirl it in.
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- Okay.
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- Isn't that pretty?
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- That's gonna be good.
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- And then, we're gonna sprinkle it with a few more nuts.
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- Okay, that's good, that's good.
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- And it's gonna go in the fridge.
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Ain't that pretty?
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Travis does pretty work.
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(Paula and Travis laughing)
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- Yes, I do, I do.
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- Yes you do.
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