Tito’s Tacos in Culver City - Southern California Take Out Food Review / Long Lines at Opening
A visit to Culver City California to check out Tito's Tacos .
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welcome everyone Adam Izuru here today
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number 29 of this current series on
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Southern California eateries heading up
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to Culver City to a place I've been
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wanting to check out for quite some time
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inviting you to join me
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shall we you just need to load up the
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few accessories and off I go
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you're right big the foot that is a
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train next to us I'm not gonna get in
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the carpool lane oh I don't think that's
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justified arrived at the corner of the
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11,200 block of Washington Place in the
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4000 block of globe Avenue had to park
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about a block away to find parking it's
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11:15
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they opened at 11:00 and driving by it
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is already very busy I guess technically
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where it's located the straight ahead
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underneath well just pass the underneath
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of the freeway I'll give you those cross
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streets when I get there
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oh yeah the crowd is definitely
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formulating taller
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polar having it
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it's a real beehive of activity it just
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reopened at the first of the month so
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it's been about a couple of weeks and
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I've seen some pictures that the line
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stretched underneath the freeway onto
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the opposite side so considering myself
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pretty lucky getting here this early I
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have procured a shaded spot under this
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tree you see to have the markings on the
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ground the arrows just waiting my turn
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as I stand here reading this as they
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opened in 1959 and they precise
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addresses 1 1 2 2 2 Washington place the
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back door is open and there are some
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tables but no one is sitting at them
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about 100 percent sure at this rate
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if it's only takeout or dine in
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be very patient
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why is not moving too incredibly quick
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but
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the feeling it's going to be worth it it
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was officially the longest line
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I have waited wait time lies in about
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three months I've been joining it
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was forgot what it was like to wait in a
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long line
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getting close to the end however for
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some tables in the front section also
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and no one's sitting up the setup looks
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as if it kind of parlays off into a few
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different sections up to a couple
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different windows I'll know better when
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I get a little closer reading the
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signage there on the doorframe it says
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do not enter Tito's tacos unless your
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temperature has been taken so to go
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inside at little temperature check but
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to get takeout there isn't one
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I'm believe I'm going to go with a
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couple of bottle otters that they have
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them
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and three
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of the $4 regular tacos with cheese
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wiping down the table so I guess you can
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sit at those tables doing
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cleaning methods I don't see him help
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door menu good thing I checked before
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walking up there speed things up a
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little bit
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however sitting right there
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the queue would be really in close
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proximity to where your to where you're
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snacking I think I might find another
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spot
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my next step will be to move from here
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over into that box right there
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but given my number on number of 56 is
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calling for 53 right now it's only got
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three orders ahead of mine
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how does a mural over there on the side
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of the wall
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the total came to 1390 decided on just
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two tacos which he's a set of three
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instead of the third taco I got a four
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ounce baka moly
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and a large orange drink just a standard
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orange soda all my items compacted here
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in this box and the logo on the cup I'm
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going to walk down to a park right down
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there about two blocks or so and hope
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for a picnic table check out what they
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did with this public phone former public
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phone it's very creative
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I really like this area
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this is gonna work out well shaded an
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assortment for a total of four trash can
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of five trash cans you count that one
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over there
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just for this one table this is my spot
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I have inserted the straw and let me
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assure you I am I am ready to wet my
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whistle but first let me present this is
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what we're dealing with dog two tacos
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layered with cheese salsa there and
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tucked away under a mountain of ships
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that come complimentary with every meal
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is that their specialty guacamole right
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there oh yeah this is a nice little
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assortment those tacos looks so good I
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can't really see what all is going on
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down inside there there's cheese but
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what pinecone just fell
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weather is so nice out here last few
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days prior to this one it's been a
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little toasty
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well toasty for Southern California when
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it comes to East Coast humidity just not
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to if not too intense but we're out here
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it's been a little a little bit on the
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kind of drinks a little bit us
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oh yeah good old orange soda is gonna go
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with the water and really the selling
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point was having their logo on the cup I
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have a sucker for a logo or have a
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mascot sometimes I will eat ooh the
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place just if they have a clever mascot
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or something pulling you and like a
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tractor being from the road and for the
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sake of a video to showcase the place
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that I am
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supporting frequenting eating at going
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to for now for if the content for the
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episode if I got a friend coming by a
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friend coming by back there
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so much dogs are out here playing catch
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with their dog noticing the salsa is
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very very liquidy very a lot of sloshing
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going on that almost feels like a slushy
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does look like a slushie old-school I
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can Jeep okay first thing I'm noticing
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is the shell is a little bit different
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you know you've ever been to
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jack-in-the-box the way they they
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deep-fry and they kind of like kind of
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smooshes the angle of the taco shell
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that's kind of what this reminds me of
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as well going for
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I was gonna say you can mention I was
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gonna mention I could say you can hear
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how crunchy that is but I got distracted
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by the conversation but these are tasty
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oh my gosh that's really good different
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but good
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it is very unique it's not a traditional
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style well it's not a traditional with
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what I would consider traditional stores
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like a homemade or something that you
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would get at a regular fast-food taco
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place except for maybe jack-in-the-box
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tacos have you ever had those which are
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very similar to the kind of like it they
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dip this and they fry the shell to where
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it contorts and kind of careens itself
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against all the meats and cheeses and
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other items I would be the closest thing
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that I can really compare it to and the
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meat is really scrunched up down in
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there oh I should have picked that I
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should have gone a little bit of this is
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some of this on there taste it with some
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of that
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not a dipping sauce but I'm using as a
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dipping sauce and why the heck not
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I liked either their filling when you
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first perceive how much of a meal is
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given to you when you open the box if
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you think based on the price far from
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inexpensive not really steep when it
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comes to the total cost somewhere right
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in the middle but you would think for
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what you were paying I'm looking at it
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it wouldn't be worth the deal
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but already eating this one I'm starting
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to like I'm instead of getting full but
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I'm starting to feel
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I figured out what it is draws people
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out
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it's the uniqueness it's a little
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uniqueness of the flavoring I'm having a
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I'm having a premonition future moment
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that I'm gonna be craving these later as
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time goes on it's just like
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he's gonna kind of get into my mind am i
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psychic
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I'm glad I didn't get three now see
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looking at it it doesn't really look
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huge but there's a lot going on inside
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this thing
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you know how they say a bagel
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it's like small in stature but it's like
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half or a whole loaf of bread crammed
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into one it's kind of like what this is
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so much pressed out in there what I've
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been doing
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I've only been eating one meal a day the
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last few days I did get the orange drink
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your orange beverage but I try to eat
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around noon get up in the morning make
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the previous day's video uploaded a film
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till around 1 2 o'clock get back home
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sidenote this series has been great for
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me because I'm used to being on the road
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always my mind is always spinning and
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thinking about where I'm gonna go
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traveling staying in hotels or staying
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in different areas that wouldn't really
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say I am kind of at home well I've been
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sleeping in my own bed and going out
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filming in the morning portions until
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the early afternoon then editing in the
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evening wake up the next day upload the
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video make it live and then go out doing
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this series and because there was not a
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whole heck of a lot open now things are
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starting to open which is good but not
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everything is open I'm going to continue
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this no set amount of days but I'm gonna
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continue this until I feel that it is
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right to just move on with the series
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where was I lost track of I lost track
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of my thought there also
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my mind went out the window going off on
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a tangent
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I'm gonna pipe put an edit in here until
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I can remember what I was saying what
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I've been doing last few days I've
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really kind of stepped up this process
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as I eat a heavy meal if you want to
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call to tacos and chips or the portions
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I've been having I guess technically it
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is heavy because it's not help food and
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then I will not eat the rest of the day
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I only drink water the rest of they kind
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of flush everything get the system going
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and I might have a little snack in the
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evening but most the time I don't even
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eat in the evening and I'm hoping that
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helps make me feel a little bit better
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and keep this this train continuing also
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I believe it was stated today maybe
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yesterday night today that gems in
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Orange County and LA County are now open
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for business again so that might be an
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idea too he was also bike rustic bike
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rides around in the evening so I'm
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trying bear with me I'm I'm trying not
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to over eat except there's a lock like I
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said there's a lot going on the biggest
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problem for me especially with the theme
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parks closing and me not going out you
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know everyone doing the at home thing
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including me for a long time you could
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see how my daily steps just really taper
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it off I think it's probably safe to say
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that most people were the same way I so
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gotta get back that back up again
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completed the two tacos now on choosing
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chips
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the cheese off those little flakes of
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cheese that have fallen off the cheese
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is really good like really fresh almost
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like grated on the spot I don't know if
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it really is but tastes like it's like
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freshly grated hello great graded a
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cheese
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it's a little bit like Whittier and
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runny ER and other guacamole I've had in
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the past
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I like it not really a whole lot of
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chunks of anything inside there
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sometimes you're getting with onions
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tomato chunks this is just just standard
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what's a big piece
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I wonder how a mixture would be you know
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obviously it's just me eating alone so
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it doesn't really matter that I do this
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that was a coincidence
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move on food but definitely eat there
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again eat here again in this part
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there's some other places around this
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area that I would like to try at some
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point it's a it's a cool place clover
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city when you go up and down these
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streets there's so much old-school
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signage nostalgia around this area
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there's some other eating establishments
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that I want to work in over the future
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kind of media future but there are a few
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other ones just in this general vicinity
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I would like to come back to so we might
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even revisit this park is windy my
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glasses fell off the table
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I should have been quiet about t-shirts
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we saw some of the workers wearing this
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logo on the front of their shirt I
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didn't step inside I noticed no one was
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going inside everyone was doing takeout
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they kind of peeked into the dining area
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no one was in there doors were open it
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is such a beautiful day it makes sense
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just to be out and about any I'm gonna
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go back by there I parked on the other
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side so I'll swing back by I get a
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couple more exterior shots and not even
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gonna finish it all left half the
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guacamole and half the salsa and about
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three-quarters of the chips I am full
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take the drink with me doc as far as
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proximity goes the park I was just out
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is directly behind me you can see Tito's
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way over there some really good neon
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over there including a cinema sign
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that's awesome the line is not
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dissipated at all in fact now it's
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stretching out on the other side of the
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road when I arrived at 11:15 took me
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about till about noon so 45 minutes or
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so to get up and place my order then
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about another five to get my food that's
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