Worlds Largest White Castle - Opening Day in Orlando Florida / Ribbon Cutting & Trying Menu Items
Opening Day of Worlds Largest White Castle Orlando
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today's adventure begins very early
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about five minutes till six a.m
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a historic moment
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in florida fast food history
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is about to happen
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as soon as i get there i'm almost there
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located on the corner of daryl carter
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parkway
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and palm parkway
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as soon as the light changes
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i'll be heading over that direction
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to the world's largest white castle
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a few minutes after six at 6 08 am
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you see they got the lights on
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pulling up on the parking area
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as stated here
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that says white castle parking
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all right it's happening
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the lane next to me is for the
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drive-through you can start lining up
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for the drive-through this early
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eight o'clock is when they officially
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will do the ribbon cutting and the
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opening but you can line up for the
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drive-through which means you have to be
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sitting in your car
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just idling for well i guess you could
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turn your car off
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for an hour and 50 minutes
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and there's already probably a few dozen
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folks in the lot there's some news media
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out here welcome everyone adam the woo
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here it is early nothing like just
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rolling out of bed grabbing a quick
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shower
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heading over
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world's largest white castle does not
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happen does not the grand opening of
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that does not happen very often now a
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couple months ago
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i was able to
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get a box a crave case of sliders
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from a what they called a ghost kitchen
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that was a little bit of a kind of a a
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little bit of a mess they were only open
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for one day it did not go according to
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their plan so they shut that down
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and said
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we are not we are not going to reopen
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until what i am now feasting my eyes
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upon even though i'm around the back
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parking lot area
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of this
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white castle was here in florida many
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decades ago
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they left the state and now they are
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back
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bigger than ever
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with the world's largest facility and i
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have not had a piping hot caffeinated
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beverage i don't know if i want to drink
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that and be tempted to get out of line
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because i'll be standing in a queue over
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there for about the next two hours give
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or take i'm inviting you to join me
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shall you it's kind of located right
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here in the middle of a construction
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area there's a portillo's which was
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supposed to open
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about a month or so ago also that has
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not opened it's also a dog house pup
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hot dog stand right there
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and also my buddy gary's here he's got
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an eye i love wawa shirt on
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i like have you been to bucky's yet
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yeah never tried it you got to head to
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bucky's bucky's is is kind of like the
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the disneyland of of convenience stores
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that's right here yeah it's pretty
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awesome
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so you're here bright and early with me
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yeah man getting a crave case for myself
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you're going to get a crepe case yeah do
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you think they're going to serve lunch
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or only breakfast oh they're going to
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have both they're going to have both 60
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max sliders
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60 in a crepe case well there's 30 i
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think in a crave case but you can only
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get 60 right now
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so you're gonna do that i heard they
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have a pallet too you get a pallet for
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like six grand oh yeah
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let's see what i'm not gonna get a
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pallet worth but
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all right let's get over there gotta get
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in line i got channel nine over here i
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with this news channel nine got their
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their light there extended we also we
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also got wesh
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channel two
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over here oh there's media parking okay
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okay there's that would be classified as
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media
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we also got orange county
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out here this is the line
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not too bad maybe like
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people line of cars
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this 50
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i was kind of expecting more
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i thought there'd be more people here
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good morning good morning how are you
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i'm hungry
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i mean black castle crystals yeah i'm
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gonna go with white castle on this one
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there's crystals
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the burgers are great the chicken rings
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everything
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front of the line
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621 they're gearing up over there you
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got some tents be able to sit underneath
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and consume
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little sliders
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but this vehicle vehicles pulling by
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here very very beautiful with that sun
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starting to rise over there is the dawn
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of not only a new day but a new era of
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white castle in central florida they're
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going to move these little stanchions
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they're not quite they're not quite
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cones
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this is where the cars will be pulling
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and to across the menu they have all the
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little streamers and the flags here
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might be the first
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little establishment here on this corner
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that's opening
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all the others are still under
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construction i have not opened yet so
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this is kind of a first for this little
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little corner of the street you were
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near the front of the line yes you're
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right there yes sir are you part of the
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first group or like maybe five or six
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people back absolutely absolutely i got
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here around like 11 45 in the night you
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know
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seven hours you've been here seven hours
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already absolutely you know it's been
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seven hours that i've been out here
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almost about i'm still gonna be here
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until one o'clock what's the first thing
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until one o'clock yeah to like what
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you're gonna stay all day kinda kinda
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cause my brother um he's from well he's
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in jacksonville he's gonna come pick me
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up okay gotcha literally come i came
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from jacksonville
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so you're gonna be full by 1 pm about so
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about so
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all right man
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have fun don't eat too much what was
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that don't eat too much no no i want it
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all right oh they're saying at 6 30
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they're gonna start moving everyone up
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so in nine minutes this line is gonna
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move
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good to see you man
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all right so in a few minutes this is
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going to move up
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the line's growing just a little bit
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i was like
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white
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everyone has their white castle shirts
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on
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and now the cars wrap around the
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building
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i think as the morning progresses the
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day progresses it will grow
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considerably
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there's a photographer over here taking
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pictures of everyone in line
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it's probably going to end up on a
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website somewhere
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okay we're moving forward
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there's some cheering up here
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got them all ready for us
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we're ready
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you ready we're ready you ready to eat
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some sliders
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i left new jersey 30 years ago
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yeah we're not we're not live
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a good 30 or 45 days okay probably for
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that okay thank you
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we're gonna wait 30 or 45 days
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is that what he said
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we're here
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we are here
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oh this is the queue
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we're ready to eat
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congratulations
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here's the queue over here oh i thought
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this was going to be where we were going
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to be they were going to have tables
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but this is yeah we got a queue here
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switchbacks for hamburgers
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that could be the name of your new
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podcast
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no more kingdom cast it could be called
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the switchbacks for hamburgers
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good thing i'm doing all doing all this
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walking because i'm it's going to give
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me an appetite it's going to make me
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even hungry i wasn't really very hungry
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but now i am now i'm really hungry
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a hamburger pre-show
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i have a feeling that cooler over there
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it's gonna like this cooler's gonna
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start singing and dancing
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a talking trash can like push
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oh we're gonna have some free t-shirts
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over here
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all right moving forward now
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going to the next boarding group
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i failed to get a t-shirt though i
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didn't have one in my side they only had
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small mediums
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what were you saying very few people
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that are here just this hour yeah
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there's nobody here waiting for
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hamburgers
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it is 7 18 a.m
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20 minutes after seven so i got 52
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minutes to go
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42 minutes to go
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did you say the onions taste so good
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when they hit your lips the whole thing
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does but i agree
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you can use that as a bib you can use it
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as a bib
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there you go opening day craver this
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will fit right 2000 what's the front
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look like two axes
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here we go white castle orlando opening
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so craver refers to anyone that likes
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white castle as a craver
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of the sliders crepe guys
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i think all these down here are small
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vasa
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no one really wants the smalls
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there's a few more over here though
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see maybe if there's either i could
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probably do a large
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probably a larger or an extra large wx
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here you have just 1x
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do you have a regular xl i just got two
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x's of wire just here
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all right i went ahead and went with the
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2x and just kind of wear it around home
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like a little bedtime shirt or
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something around the house so you know
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why now this is a historic occasion so
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gotta have this shirt
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but this time frame hearing that they're
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not letting anyone else in the
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drive-through the drive-through is so
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full
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that they're sending people around the
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block so you have to either park and
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walk up or come back a little bit later
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for the drive here they're rerouting
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everyone around you'll notice down here
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on the ground is a drone they've asked
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us to back up a little bit they're going
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to fly this through here through the
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tent
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and get like a nice little angle of the
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crowd so this is going to be launched
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flying it in the tips
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give me two minutes and we'll be done
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all right gonna stay behind these little
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little stances here
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i always probably stand at the theme
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park terms
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sean's fancy
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this is gonna get a little angle going
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by where we're all
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oh i started too early
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there we go
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oh there we go right there
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we're gonna wrap this place
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the king and queen have arrived
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you might be the first whole day it is a
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beautiful day you might be the first one
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that's got a beverage from in there
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right right how is it it's a beverage
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here man is it good
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sorry including the people
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oh you got some sunglasses you got me a
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pair yeah i got your nice
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these are
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so cool
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coca-cola sunglasses there
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we are getting close to launching our
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official festivities we have crowds
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cameron from far and wide i think some
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of our vips might be coming in by
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helicopter i don't know uh just because
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uh you know there's a little bit of
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traffic which is a good thing so we're
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thankful for you being here and we're
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gonna get started just a little bit so
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bear with us and uh sorry if i did a
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head take
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welcome to the world's largest white
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castle in the world
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it's a large billboard as well
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make sure you stand 36 sliders apart
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the epicenter of all cravings let's hear
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from our creators out there
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you have waited patiently some of you
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since 8 pm last evening
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his career in law enforcement his
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dedication to public service is
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our community
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you know when you come and look at a
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piece of land that has nothing on it and
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maybe some cows and some dirt you're
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thinking if you build it will they come
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and you guys have absolutely
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waited 96 hours uh in scottsdale when
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they opened they were given the honor of
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cutting the ribbon
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and so they're going to be part of our
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ceremony today i'd now like to call
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forward fourth generation family member
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john kelly
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john is holding the white castle sector
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um
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quite a bit of dedication to this
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specific location and that individual
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is harry blackledge
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in
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scottsdale and today they'll be used to
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cut the ribbon in just a few moments
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i've never somewhat see someone knighted
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at a fast food
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orlando
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8 o'clock last night
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going in
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i like just the original slider the
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original slider is what i grew up on
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cheese or no cheese no cheese no cheese
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you get that pure taste though all right
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the onions with the beef with the bun
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all right
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i'm gonna try i want to mess with
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perfection exactly all right
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thank you
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oh yeah disney springs walk in the
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distance over there
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not too far from the parks
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they're going to be open late at some
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point they're going to be open 24 hours
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you could probably sit here and joist
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ride on the patio while watching the
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fire that's true you could watch the
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fireworks from there once the fireworks
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come back
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20 21
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finally here how many white castles have
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you opened
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uh
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two this is the
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now it looks as if you can do your own
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order on the little self-service or you
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can go up to
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cashier to order as well and they have
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facial coverings here
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as well
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it is a real beehive of activity back in
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there
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look at them preparing all those little
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sliders
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original sliders since 1921 100 years
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this place has been in business not this
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particular store this is opening day but
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just the company in general
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all right one of the first crave cases
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oh with bucky overlooking and the first
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crave cases that's a bold move getting a
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crepe case
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which one did you go with
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um well the top one is plain and then
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the one on the bottom it's the same
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thing but it has lettuce
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okay
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and stuff like that you're gonna eat all
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of these in one sitting
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getting a look at the menu there was
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told cash at the register i didn't bring
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a whole lot of cash so the kiosk is the
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option for those with credit cards
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that's what i'm going to use
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made my way over here and i'm going to
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pick up got some limited time
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cravers i'm going to go with the sliders
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with the original slider cheese slider
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go with the original slider
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i'll go with two of those
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add to the sack
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i'm gonna go with
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cheese slider
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go with two of those
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oh you can do different kind of cheese
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i'm gonna get
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smoked cheddar cheese
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and a sack
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uh all-day breakfast
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a breakfast sausage slider that was
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pretty good the original slider with egg
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and cheese
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yeah
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let's do that
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go with
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american i'll just go with one of those
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and
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need a little nibbler and a side
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i'll just go with the regular
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french fries here
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just one of those i'll go with the
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medium
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i'm going to add that to the sack
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lastly a soft drink
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go with the coca-cola here
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go with a large
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and add that to the sack
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and i'm gonna view
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my sack
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i'm gonna pay now
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or you can add more you can create more
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but i'm gonna pay now
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total there's only 12
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12.39
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if you actually get well i'm going to
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get more i'm going to crave more that's
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not enough i'm going to go with you know
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what i'll go back with the limited go
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with the new
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the new
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the impossible try the impossible you
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know try the impossible
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i'll try a meatless
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meatless with cheese i'm gonna add that
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to my sack
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i'm gonna view my sack
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and then i'm going to now pay for my
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sack
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choose your drink
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well this is one of the freestyles i'm
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not gonna go with dr pepper instead of
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coca-cola go with the dr pepper with a
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little cherry dr pepper
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and touch here to pour
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order my own drink here we go
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got it
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this is a napkin dispenser so
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grab some napkins oh and it spits more
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napkins out
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that's a pretty neat idea hey i think i
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got enough napkins and it spits out more
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for the next guest
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oh that's ingenious
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oh
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it's amazing to see a boom mic
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over a grill
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they're working hard back there
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it's taking a little while because they
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make them fresh there's a good thing i
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got here early
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it's already about 9 40.
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still waiting on my food
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i believe they have now kind of cut the
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line off
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the line has stopped everyone's just
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waiting very patiently
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through here but you can see
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no one else
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is being allowed to order even though
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you got
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these little
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self-service kiosks
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no one can go past this point until
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all the orders are fulfilled
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you got 30 sliders there you got the
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crave case and then you got a little
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something else too in the back a little
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side piece
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give me that unveiling we got the
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briefcase for fragrance down you call it
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briefcase
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but everybody's got everything
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oh you got a mixture you got half and
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half
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you got half cheese half naan cheese
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that's right
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you're obviously going to take some of
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these home
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for later yeah
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when's the last time you had one of
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these
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one
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proper white castle in
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probably
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seven years eight years you want to go
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in i'm going to go with the cheese yeah
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do it gary
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this is what we're dealing with
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yes
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so good
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one down
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29 they got 29 in here 30 of them yup so
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i got 29 more to go all right i got i
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didn't get quite as many but i did get
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an assortment i even got one of the
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impossibles which is meatless but i did
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get some some traditional
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as well this is what i'm dealing with
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here on the 100th birthday
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so i got let me actually let me just
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take them all i got some fries as well
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i get rich in the meats man
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i skipped the fries man
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that worked i got meat sliced
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with cheese
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you were saying that they don't have
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pickles when you buy the frozen ones
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right but there are pickles on these
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the pickle must be submerged in the
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cheese and the meat
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that's good
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how many times are you going to frequent
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the place
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this month a lot i'll probably hit it
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really hard
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and then taper off
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this is the first of many briefcases you
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guys need any condiments or anything
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anything
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you guys are good thank you
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and i have never tried
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one of the breakfast sliders this is
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this kind of breakfast time
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i went with one with the egg on
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traditional slider with the egg on it
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you ever had the egg on your slider
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before
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never
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i didn't have breakfast
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breakfast at white castle or just
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breakfast in general
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you never knew breakfast was a thing
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until today
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all right gonna end with the traditional
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no cheese
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and the onions and that pickle
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that you cannot get in the frozen food
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version
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what was the time frame for the frozen
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ones you were saying
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everybody's got their own scientific
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method mine's minute and weight they're
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a minute and eight minutes eight seconds
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on it frozen with a perfect
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high all the way through no frozen
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that's what the 950 watts like
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you were a connoisseur
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a minute and eight seconds at a 950 watt
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what did the box say a minute
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the box is wrong
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you may never eat a frozen one again
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there's no reason to now yeah that
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minute eight seconds think of them
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i have completed
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my consumption of white castles this is
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the line now
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stretching out here
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glad i got here when i did
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grand opening
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i believe that sign says 90 minute wait
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you putting out the 90 minute weight
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signs it's at least two hours two hour
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wait
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that could be for the maybe just to
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drive through
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90 minute wait he said at least he said
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two hours
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so not an hour and a half as a sign
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states and over here
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you see it says restaurant parking
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they also have oh that is the
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that is the line down there for the
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drive-thru
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look at that oh it goes way down there
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wow
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all the way down
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holy cow
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around the corner
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that's something else
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that is something else
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i don't know which would be quicker at
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this point
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drive through or just walk it in
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zoomed in
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yeah that is that's that's down there
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someone was blogging me vlogging we did
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it a historic event gary it's true i got
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my briefcase opening day
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those will be gone by the end of the
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evening i'm predicting
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this is lunch right here and we were
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smart to get here early because yeah it
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is a real little beehive of activity now
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i feel like oh there's a private jacket
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on there
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sure is
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people are right i feel like later in
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the day or this evening this place is
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going to be even busier
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everybody's eyeing me up when i walk by
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oh that's true we should probably walk
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this way
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walk around let's go let's go back by
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the
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by the crowd
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all right that's it
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the vlog
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is over