Dave’s Hot Chicken Is OPEN Across From Celebration - Saturday Night On Hwy 192 In My Golf Cart
Dave's Hot Chicken on Hwy 192
Transcript
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Welcome everyone. Adam the Woo here as a
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recording of a Saturday, March 22nd,
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2025. It's about 5:54. I'm looking at my
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phone. 5:54
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p.m. most of the day today. been doing
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stuff at the homestead and also planning
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out my next international trip which has
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been paid for booked hotel and flight to
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a
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country will be the longest flight that
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I've ever taken to any of my
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international travels and that will be
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happening for 15
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days but I say that with a take that
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with a grain of salt because there is a
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massive time difference in getting there
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and coming back so it might be a little
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less than
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at a slight hint there. Let's just say
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two weeks, give or take a day. I always
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use that term. I am going to be heading
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to downtown Celebration. I'm going to
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get a coffee. Just got to cruise around
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and I'm going to go into no man's land
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off of out of the bubble. Celebration
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bubble. Get into Highway 192 and I'm
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going to try a new restaurant that just
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opened. It used to be where Tijana Flats
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used to be, but that closed and now
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there's a place called Dave's Hot
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Chicken that has reared its head. I'm
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going to try that. I'm inviting you to
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join me. By the way, Easter buddies,
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shall you? Of course, Easter is not
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here. Still quite a bit of a ways off.
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It's going to be into next month, but
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this house always does it upright. They
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had their St. Patty stuff up. They've
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taken that down. Next, the next big
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holiday is Easter, obviously. So, they
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got their Easter stuff
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up. They decorate for every major
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holiday. Pretty awesome. Current
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temperature right now here in
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Celebration, 72°. Again, it's just under
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6 p.m. 5:57.
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also give another little hint. I'm not
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going to tell exactly which country I'm
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going, but you can kind of narrow it
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down to a select handful. Well, more
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than a select handful, but I'm going to
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be going to California the start of
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April. Couple day layover there and then
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a tremendously lengthy flight to where
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I'm going. And then I'll be coming back
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to SoCal for a few days for a few day
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layover and then back home. So, I will
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not be in town for
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Easter, but I'll still be I'll still be
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around for a while. I'm not leaving yet.
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I'm still here through the end of the
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month and early into early next month.
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Those are the only hints I'm going to
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get till I leave. Realizing that it is a
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Saturday night. That is a lot. Parking
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is parking spots down here are very
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difficult to come by, but luckily I
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found that little spot I could wedge in
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right there. The electric vehicle
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parking.
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I don't know what's going on over there.
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Start off with a piping hot caffeinated
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beverage right down
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here. And then I'll just cruise around
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on Mini Marge and see where the night
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leads. But Dave's hot chicken will be
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happening. Coffee has been achieved. Got
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it right here. And I'm standing at the
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forefront of Lake Ryan Hard, which is a
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man-made lake. This was not here before
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they built Celebration. There are some
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swampy areas that were, but this is
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man-made. If you look at old satellite
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images, this was not here before the
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construction of Celebration started in
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the early '90s. The thing that's been
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here the whole time I've lived here has
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been
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removed. It's kind of a neat little
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thing cuz, you know, Disney built this
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town back in the day. They no longer own
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it, but there's still a lot of Disney
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nods around the
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area and there's still sections of the
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town that Disney cast members utilize
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for different things on the outskirts of
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town. But up here was a hidden Mickey
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that's now gone. Used to be right here.
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There were three circles that look like
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kind of like onion rings, but they were
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hedges and they made a hidden Mickey.
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And if you held your camera up kind of
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high, you could see them really well.
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But they have removed those. This
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honestly this looks a lot better. The
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other thing was kind of overgrown, but
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the hidden Mickey is gone. It was a
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distinct hidden Mickey that's now been
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removed.
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RIP. So, April's pretty locked
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in. May's pretty locked in. Going to be
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going to a different country in May for
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a couple weeks. Well, exactly two weeks.
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I
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booked a place for two weeks and the
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flight's already booked. So, April and
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May, good stuff coming up. All right, I
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got to be be quiet. There's a family of
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ducks in there. Looks like they're
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easily
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them. That one's going in.
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flying off. Flying
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off. This is over here by the 192
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Publix. Just drove by, pulled over real
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quick, wanted to see some ducks and say
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hi, so I did.
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Mini Marge of Shadows right there. I got
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so used to driving by here and making
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the joke about free crab available here.
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Joe's Crab Shack tomorrow. See, I always
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put free crab tomorrow,
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but drove by it. Drove the point home
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that it's no longer open. And they got
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rid of that little clever joke on the
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side. I think it's been closed about a
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month now.
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really is incredible how fast stuff
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springs up. Gets torn down, springs up.
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This was an old hotel. It was closed and
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then it was torn down. And especially
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when you leave for a few weeks at a time
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or a couple weeks and then you come
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back, you realize how quickly you don't
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see it all the
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time. Now it's a Advent Health. Look,
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the vomitron's running. That's what that
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is right there. It's called the
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vomitron. I will never do that ever.
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But it's fun to look at. It's fun to
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look out. There's another angle of it
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right here. Saturday night cruise in
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Oldtown is happening. All the classic
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cars. I've been to that a bunch of
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times. Tonight I'm not going, but I am
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driving through this area. Classic
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car
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alert. This lane is the regular cars
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drive through here. The lane right there
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is for the classic cars. I am just just
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passing through here. Just passing
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through. Me and this guy just passing
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through driving past the perimeter of
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Oldtown
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CM. I mean, just the amount of times
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they've done the car cruise is wild. I
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think it's like 33, 34 years. Way past
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30
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years they celebrated their 30th
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anniversary. And I pretty much lost
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track of time. That was probably four or
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five years ago.
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and cut through here. Again, I'm not
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going to the car cruise, but I am going
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to cut through here. The car cruise runs
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along
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here. Going past Mini Marg's Shadow.
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That is a That's a classic car right
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there. I thought that was an El Camino
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at first, but not El Camino. I might get
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a pretty good view here. Sun will be
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setting soon, but right now it's still
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above the horizon. See it glimmering
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over there. And we're going to do a
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little drop in here on the wooden
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coaster with the metal track. Let's see
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what happens. Let's see uh let's see
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what the scream ratio is on a percentage
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of a scale of 1 to 10. What the screams
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are? It was like a three. Busy spring
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break. $20 VIP parking over there. All
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the other regular parking is filled up.
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$10 parking over at Red Lobster. That
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could almost enter the car show right
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there. That's That's not classic,
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though. That's more uh
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sporty. Sporty, but Red Lobster, I
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think, has parking for 10 bucks. Before
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I used to bring Mini Marge over here,
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there's parking for golf carts. I used
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to park by the Red Lobster for 10 bucks.
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So, if you're ever coming out here, the
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Red Lobster
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hack. I just circled around and now I'm
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going to head back over towards another
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destination. That's Oldtown. Saturday
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night, spring break. No parking. Very
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little parking left. Again, speaking of
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things that just pop up, this apartment
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complex over here opened a few months
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ago behind me right here. That's that's
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Oldtown right there. Flip
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around. Last time I drove through here a
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couple months ago, they had just the
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office open for leasing. It's called the
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Baxwell at Century City. This area right
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through here, who knew is called Century
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City, right across from Old Mtown. In
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fact, there's a CVS or a Walgreens and
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there's a fountain there that says
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Century City. I'll show that,
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too. Not a lot of people know it's
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called Century City. I didn't know it
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until I saw the fountain when I was
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driving around on my golf cart one day
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year year and a half ago. This is just a
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big pile of dirt right off the toll
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road.
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Now there's people living
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here doing their thing. There's the
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Walgreens. That's Walgreens there. And
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the Century City sign is right
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there under the palm
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trees. 7-Eleven there. And Oldtown right
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over there spelled with an
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City, smallest city ever, just one
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apartment complex. Wins the award for
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oldest and most
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bent dilapidated video recording in
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progress sign that I've ever seen. Not
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that I'm giving an award for anything,
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but if there was an award, that would be
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it. That has seen some things.
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empty. This spot here is the slowest
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moving along
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construction in this
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area that I've ever seen. This has been
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under construction. It has not halted
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progress, but it's been slowly being
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fixed up for years. I mean, it's
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probably been 10 years that they've been
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working on this a little bit at a time,
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and it's still not open. I don't know
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what the heck is going on with this
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thing. Look at the caution tape
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there. I mean, it looks the best it's
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ever looked, but it's nowhere near
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finished.
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Interesting. $1.99 gifts is not open at
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this hour. 7:08 right now. That's
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closed. This IHOP is open. There's one
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car in the
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driveway. This for a short while. Well,
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it was a seafood boil place. Before
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that, it was Boston Lobster Feast. And
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then after the seafood boiled for a very
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short time frame, maybe like a month, it
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was a dance club. The dance club did not
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last. Now it's a
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steakhouse. Never went in it when it was
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a dance club. Evidently, nobody else did
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either. That building right there is
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where Arabian Nights used to be many
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years ago. This ticket outlet still
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here. But I'm happy to say even though
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the ticket outlet's closed, whoever puts
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Van
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Halen, whoever painted that on there, it
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has stood the test of at least a couple
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months
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time. Van
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Halen spray painted right there. And the
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reason I'm showing this cuz it's right
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next door to where the newly opened
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Dave's Hot
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opened. That's shown right here. They
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repainted it.
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It was the former establishment right
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next to the
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subway Dave's hot
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chicken. I was talking to my buddy
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Exploring Ryan and I was asking whenever
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we would go to Dragon Con, we needed a
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chicken
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place and I was thinking it was Dave's
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Hot Chicken and he quickly corrected me
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that it was Gus's hot chicken and he
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said in his opinion, Gus's hot chicken
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is better than Dave's hot chicken.
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I'm kind of impartial. It's kind of hard
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to mess up chicken. As long as you put
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something spicy on it, call it hot.
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We'll see though. I'm going to get
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something get up in here. I'm going have
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something to eat. Dave's hot chicken.
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Open Sunday through Thursday 11 to 11
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and Friday and Saturday 11:00 to
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midnight. This was a Tijana Flats
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before. And I ate at that Tijana Flats.
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And now I'm going to eat at Dave's Hot
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Chicken. 6113 is the address. Probably
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Highway 192 or Erlo Bronson. Probably
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Earlo Bronson. It's the same thing.
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Highway 192 and Erllo
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Bronson. Going in. I'm liking it
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already. When you go in, silhouetted out
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a little bit by the sun, but there's a
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gator coming out of the water.
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Definitely got the graffiti going on in
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here. Spray painted. It says coming in
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hot over there in neon. Coming in hot.
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Just like that rubber chicken I bought
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in Vegas right there. Looks exactly like
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that. the squeaky chicken that I had in
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Vegas when I was cruising
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around. Seeing it now. It's made out of
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water. It says Dave. And then you got
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the little flamingo inner tube right
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there. I just noticed it says Dave there
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at the order window. There's a pretty
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good amount of people in here. Have no
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spice, light, mild, mild, medium hot,
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extra hot, and reaper. I think I'm going
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to do the two sliders with fries. They
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also have shakes. And they also have
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cauliflower sliders right there made out
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of cauliflower. Or I think I'm going to
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go with the regular chicken. I think I
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walked in at the right time cuz it's
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gotten extremely busier even since I
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ordered. I got the little uh whatever
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they call this thing, the little thing
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that beats or whatever. And I got two
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waters. I don't know how hot I don't
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know how hot my mild is going to be. I
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got the medium. Not the medium. One step
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below medium. I got the mild. I'm going
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to sit right here. And I also order some
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mac and cheese. So see how that goes.
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Yeah, it's a definitely a steady flow of
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people in here. So again, I already
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showed the water, but I also got some
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mac and cheese. Not included in the
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meal. I guess their mascot is that
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little rubber chicken. They got some mac
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and cheese. I went with the mild. These
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are called sliders, which are basically
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just tenders with a little sauce on them
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right there. You got some pickles if you
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want the pickles, which I'm going to put
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the pickles on there. Then you got some
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seasoned fries. So I will
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uh take the pickles, put the pickles on
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there, and do that.
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And you got the got the fries there. So,
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this is what we're dealing with. And
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then you got extra sauce, which I think
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it's the same sauce that's already on it
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with extra sauce if you want it with the
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fries and all that. Dave's hot chicken.
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I've seen some people at other tables,
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they got the really spicy stuff and they
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are they're having a hard time with it.
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So, I guess they can really go extreme
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with the the the hotness of the
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associates.
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It's on a full hamburger bun. I almost
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think it was going to be like a smaller
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bun, but it's on a full hamburger
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it. Probably should have only got one
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slider. I thought they were going to be
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small slider
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like
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bread. Yeah, I should have only got one
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slider.
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When they say slider, they mean fulls
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size chicken
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sandwiches. On
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this, see if there's any added flavor.
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Wow, that seems to have a little kick to
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it
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also. And I probably could have kicked
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it up a notch to medium and still
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handled it. I could have maybe even gone
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up a little above medium. The mild
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definitely has some flavor to it,
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though. If you don't like hot stuff,
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might want to go with the no the no
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heat. And I can't tell if it's just
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lingering from the the uh what I've
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already eaten here and just kind of in
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my taste palette already, but this seems
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as if there's a little spice in this
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also. And I tried these too, but there
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is a little burning sensation in my
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mouth. So, it's hard to
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tell. Those got No, those aren't too
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spice to it. It's just
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regular seasoned fries.
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I like the fresh pickles, though. Those
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are
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good. Yeah. When they say sliders, they
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mean full pretty much fulls size chicken
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sandwich. It's good. Yeah. I don't I
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don't dislike it. I wouldn't say it's
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the greatest thing ever. Pretty much. I
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mean, it's it's chicken sandwiches. The
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chicken tenders are kind of all the rage
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now. A lot of places are doing it. And
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this is kind of part for the course. I
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would eat here again. You know what? I
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probably will because it's just right
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across the street from my place. I will
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be back to this place. This is a bad
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one. Not bad. I'm not really the
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greatest connoisseur of chicken tenders.
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They all It's all kind of the same to
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me. KFC just opened a chicken tender
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place. It was similar to this one.
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And Disney Springs has Chicken Guy. I
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really like Chicken Guy. I like the
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sauces. They have Chicken
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Guy. But I don't know. Yeah, that it was
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good. And because of its
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proximity, I would imagine I will
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probably eat there again. I will eat
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there again.
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I was content enough with
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it that I know in the future I will eat
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there again. That's my review. Kind of
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in the mood for a little ice cream, but
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a little bit of a wine over at the
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Twisty Tree. So, I'll just keep cruising
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on. Maybe I'll go down. That's what I'm
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going to do. I'll go downtown
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Celebration. I'll go to the ice cream
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place down there. I'm in the mood for a
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scoop. Well, two scoops. Well, it
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depends how big the scoop is. If it's a
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big scoop, one scoop. Small two small
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scoop, two scoops. Or I just get two big
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scoop. I will not be going in
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there. It's nice being downtown again at
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the evening hours. I'm usually I would
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say nine times out of 10 I'm usually
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down here during the daytime. But it's
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nice down here at night too. All lit up
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the lights on the trees there and kind
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of pan here from the fountain and the
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clock over there. Turn this way and see
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Market Street all illuminated with the
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lights stretching down. You definitely
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could not have a parade with tall
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floats on Market Street. I like that. My
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former residence is right here on Market
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Street. I lived in an apartment right
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over here on this side for 3 years just
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past that building kind of right where
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the c right in the middle of where the
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camera's pointed there on the top top. I
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live there 3 years before a little over
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a year ago. What's been probably 16
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months now since I bought the house. So
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I've been to Celebration for well over
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four years now. Time just time just
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moves on so quickly. Change of plans. I
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walked over to Killwins. There was no
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joke like 35 people in line to get ice
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cream. Everyone definitely is in the
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mood. The same
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thing during spring break downtown. So,
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decided against it. Decided against it.
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Going back to the mini
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march. A nighttime
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ride in Mini Mar.
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It's always hot in downtown celebration
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of the evening.
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Everyone after 5 or 6 o'clock heads
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downtown, get some meals on. A lot of
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the restaurants are really busy. Fact,
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all of them are pretty
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busy. It's good to see it thriving down
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here. I have another
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idea. A place that I get coffee at, but
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I don't know if I've ever gotten ice
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cream from it. I think there's a
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BaskinRobins. Maybe I'm wrong. the
21:58
Duncan. I think it's combined with
22:01
Baskin. I always get Duncan in the
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mornings, but I've never been back to
22:05
the basket
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aspect. Either way, I'm heading that
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direction. I feel like there's a basket.
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Give me a chance to circle around this
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spectacular looking structure here at
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Celebration Place.
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Big Ben
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Parliament. I just can't get
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left
22:39
kids. Big Ben
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Parliament. Oh, someone's peeling out
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over there on the main
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road. Big Ben
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Parliament. That never gets old. At
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least to me. Sure to everybody else it
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does. All right. I knew I wasn't going
22:58
completely out of my mind. However, this
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might not be open. Nope. There's nobody
23:03
in here. So, I was correct. Except this
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is a daytime thing, not a nighttime
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thing. They close at
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8:00. It's
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8:33. Oh, the delicious ice cream is in
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there calling my name. This is a sign
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that I don't need ice cream. And that's
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going to do it for
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today. Thanks for watching. I'll see you
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in the next video of the vlog. I
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appreciate it. I appreciate you
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watching. The vlog is
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over. Traveling soon. Not immediately,
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but early next month.