Disney World’s Newest Restaurant Is Open - Steakhouse 71 Lunch Review & Contemporary Resort Changes
Steakhouse 71 Lunch Review at Contemporary Resort
Transcript
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welcome everyone i mean the woo here as
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a recording of this tuesday october 5th
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2021
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with one of my favorite transportation
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devices
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going into the contemporary
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where a new restaurant has reared its
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head
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steakhouse
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71
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celebrating the 50th anniversary of wdw
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which opened in 1971. i'm gonna go get a
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meal i'm inviting you to join me and i'm
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also going to peruse around the
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contemporary resort and just see some of
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the changes that have happened
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in the last you know recent months
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a little nostalgia has started to pop
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back into there which is nice everybody
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gonna join me
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shall you and the new lobby down here
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has a very merry blair theme also
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katie's the one that made the
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reservation what time is the reservation
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120. see i forgot all about this you
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said do you want to tag along for our
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rezzy and i said
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yes please you're excited
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so excited
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oh look at this a five-legged goat
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that is cool and it's on my ears too
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that is oh you have the you have the
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five-legged goat on your ear i do
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both ears we're just now just on that
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one on this one i got the contemporary i
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like that a lot this is a contemporary
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day contemporary day
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no more wave of flavors it's now
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steakhouse 71 1971.
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to you and i'm
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we lost steakhouse 55 at disneyland it's
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now over on the east coast yeah and it
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jumped up 16 years
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exactly it fermented a little
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i really like the vibe through here look
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at the art where the chairs are nice and
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the artwork up here pretty fantastic as
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well i'm not really sure what this is
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supposed to be i mean most art is up for
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interpretation but yeah
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interesting and it's really nice that
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mary blair her artwork is really
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starting to be prominently displayed
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more than just the mural what's up on
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the top and walk up there a little bit
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later and also show mary blair's
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signature that's up on the wall i don't
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want to forget about that see this is
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not the five legged goat this is only
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four legs on this coat the artwork
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behind the counters here are pretty
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awesome too i kind of really want this
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in one of my one of my establishments i
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would love to have this above i don't
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have a fireplace but if i did
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this right here is amazing
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the monorail look there's even some
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guests in the model they won't let you
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ride in the front of the monorail
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anymore that is a throwback i
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love that photo oh dang look at this one
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too that's the inside of the upper lobby
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right there back in the day with the
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monorail going by that's pretty awesome
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too take a look at that with the window
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out to the outside and everything i am
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just loving all this retro artwork
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that's here along the walls at the
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check-in desk for the contemporary yeah
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it's like that is that the people mover
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that's some sort of people mover artwork
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and here's a photograph of mary herself
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doing like maybe the dedication before
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they put it up on the side of the wall
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see how it's kind of laying downward
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there she's behind almost looks like
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she's behind a podium but she's actually
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behind a piece of the artwork
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that's up in the in the main lobby area
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and it's all here underneath the well
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above the seating area here you got all
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the artwork above these retro seats as
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well as another monorail going by here
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above these seats and these couches
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these pillows are something else look at
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this they almost look like a little
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transportation vehicles themselves i
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don't know exactly what they are but are
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very very stylish pillows here along the
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this are these leather or is that
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like i said these are i think it might
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be it might be lovely it's pretty nice
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yeah it's pretty dang nice i love the
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monorail there and above the monorail
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you got a little little fire alarm i
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have to ask how difficult was getting
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the reservation it's pretty popular
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right it was it was actually difficult
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but i did it and you know it was it was
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tough i had to do it early in the wee
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hours of the morning the wee hours of
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the morning that's the secret i dropped
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the ball on it and you just said you can
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just tag along with us i grabbed the
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ball picked it up and ran with it
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did somebody say something about the wii
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parts of the morning
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top
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this is also incredible this photograph
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kind of blown up here which has the
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the view from the bay lake side going
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out you get the monorail beams not even
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placed through the middle of that yet
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that is that is awesome
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right there
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yeah bay lakes i see the monorail beam
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over on the other side over there
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there's a lot of glare but
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you get the idea
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just got the alert that the table is
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ready to be seated there are a few other
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people also got the same notification
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about to head in through this little
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corridor right here steakhouse 71 okay
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going in
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there he is there he is talking about
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the florida project get a little walt
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recognition through here which is pretty
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dang cool look at the monorail beam
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right here
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that is that is that oh there's roy
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right here check it out a little homage
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to roy in photographic form now roy came
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out of retirement to finish his
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brother's park because walt never got to
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see the completion
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of wdw he passed before
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look at that there's roy right there
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three caballeros up top here i know it's
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no secret i love
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the monorail oh wow look look over here
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look over here autopia well raceway and
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the sky buckets
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and main street usa some of these
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photographs i've never seen and here's
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the opening day speech
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from roy right there with nikki the
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famous story of mickey roy was so
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emotional
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that he had a hard time walking out to
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do the speech at the podium so mickey
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grabbed roy's hand and walked out to the
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podium
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to like give him a little a little
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motivation because he was having a hard
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time because his brother was not there
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and here's the
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the famous photograph here which i
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believe was in life magazine one of
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those magazines there of the opening day
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october 1st
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1971. you want to do the you want to do
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the mickey opening day voice
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i love the vibe i love the furniture i
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love the artwork
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does it get it doesn't get any better
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than this the people mover you got
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raceway basically autopia east down
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there you got the guests going on there
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you got the sky buckets and you got
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space mountain oh i think the table's
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ready i'm getting i'm getting just
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distracted with how awesome all this
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whole area is this is incredible now i
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should also mention this is going to be
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the lunch menu there's also a dinner and
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a breakfast menu
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katie is telling me this is the lunch
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menu so i will not be showing breakfast
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and i will not be showing dinner i will
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be showing the lunch or at least what
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i'm going to order and then we're coming
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back for dinner not tonight another time
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that's way later no spoilers
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now they do not bring a technical paper
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menu they they have you go on the app
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itself and you can kind of scroll
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through so these are some of the options
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crab cake prime rib a steakhouse 71
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stacked burger turkey club a fish
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sandwich a gourmet grilled cheese i
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could just could go on there's steak
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what is that f-r-i-t-e-s and quotes
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free steak and fruit
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steak freaks so i'm hearing the
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hamburger the cheeseburger that it's the
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best burger the best the best burger
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cheeseburger yup what's it called what's
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what's gonna they also have salisbury
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steak what they have salisbury steak on
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here
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the best that's a that's a big it's a
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tall order big thing but i've heard a
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lot of rivers okay so where is it going
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to be on here we got fish
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okay the stack burger right there yeah
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there it is steakhouse 71 stack burger
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20. that's not a bad deal for everyone i
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get it i'm gonna do it french onion soup
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i'm always down for as well
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we're gonna get a lot of food eaten
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today between the three of us we could
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get a lot of options to show we should
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all get something different
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or i'll get the burger
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or all the burger
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spencer's like i don't care that you're
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filming i'm looking at the menu i'm i
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have an appetite that i need to suppress
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eating anything we're hungry let's also
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decide on some appetizers got the french
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onion soup that you were mentioning
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there's also some baby iceberg wedge
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salad
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a fork and knife caesar salad some onion
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rings a shrimp cocktail a salt dusted
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potato brioche brioche
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bacon and eggs
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and some lump crab cakes
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plenty of options yeah of course yeah
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the coke was that's a cook spine perfect
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thank you
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and to water also thank you so much
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yes straws will be good perfect
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an array of straws
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i think i'm gonna get the fish sandwich
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and a shrimp cocktail and these
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beverages oh that's amazing oh it's a
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what oh it's a 71 on there and it's
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served on a like a paddle so if you if
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you send any disrespect to the chef it
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might take you out behind the barn
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you utilize remember the older days is
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dehydrated vegetables that at the end of
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the night they roast they grind and in
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the morning it is freshly stenciled onto
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our butter that's amazing linda you are
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a wealth of information thank you so
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much i appreciate that but it is just
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meant to be pulled apart we have some
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plates here for you so this is potato
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brioche
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with uh there was some more garlic and i
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don't know if it's in the bread or like
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the butter that's a bun
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tear that apart with our hands so
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should i just go into that one or should
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i whatever you want to do
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just going to check a little we can
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always i'm just going to kind of pull
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this apart like that
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and get the
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i was hoping for some steam but there's
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no well there's a little bit of steam
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there a little bit all right i'll just
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have this just a little piece right here
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a little tomato jam here just sprinkle a
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little it just fell over there's not a
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lot of the 71 left although as far as
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the number goes but i'll kind of like
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polish off that little top there that is
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really good
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it's good with the tomato and the
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71 sauce i don't even know what the 71
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sauce
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is butter it's butter
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and spencer has ordered and been
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delivered some sort of a lit up drink
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that's your right spence yes it is it is
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i will look it up for you really and
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katie is displaying it almost like in
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perfect vanna white fashion adam that is
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the magical beacon cocktail the magical
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beacon the beacon of light
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it's almost like the beacon of lights at
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all the parks correct that's why i got
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it
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cool the blue top oh it's alcoholic
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beverage yeah it's got gin blue curacao
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which gives it that blue color uh minute
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made premium lemonade uh organ which is
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almond lemon hibiscus grenadine and a
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souvenir glow cube as you see glowing
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right there everything out of there i'd
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probably drink the lemonade i was going
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to say just the lemonade that's about it
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for me i would like to get the glow cube
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down
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please for the cube
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doing it for the cube
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how is it take a sip
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review time
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wow
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it's refreshing is something roy would
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approve of i believe so
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do you think roy ever had a beverage
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with a glow cube in it he doesn't strike
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me as a glow cube kind of guy i think
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you're right about that but mary blair
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on the other side that's true oh yes my
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appetizer shrimp cocktail has arrived i
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thought it was on a mound of mashed
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potatoes but no it's not mashed potato
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it's on a mound of other shrimp
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it's like a stack of shrimp like a
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volcano
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style shrimp
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and your appetizer has also arrived i'm
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surprised i did not get the french onion
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because that is like my go-to i know i
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don't i was i wanted to mix it up so we
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could show a bunch of different stuff
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that's true that was a plan and that
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paddle still waiting over there for
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someone to utilize with rosemary sprigs
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for an accent
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this looks really good also the bread
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was twelve dollars i thought it was
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complimentary because he said no it was
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eighteen dollars i was in shock
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and then she re-looked it up and it was
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twelve dollars but you know what
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i kind of want to order a second bag
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it was really dang good yeah but i got
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shrimp here
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this is kind of a fancy place so i eat
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with my fingers
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i think you can
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it's
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shrimp shrimp shrimp trend trend
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did you want to look at this mixture you
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want to want to look at the revolving
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sushi bowl i'm not sushi but the
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revolving shrimp bowl i like how they
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just kind of like decorate it with a
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little green and the little shrimp sauce
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down there that presentation is unreal
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stare into it long enough you will be
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hypnotized by the sea
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and ursula will come down and take your
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voice
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yes
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look at this
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yeah you want
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you know what we didn't know what to
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decide on the appetizer we all got
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something different because life's full
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of tough choices
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that is a cheese bowl and a half
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that it is all right
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like chili lillian like french onion
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soup yeah they she like the finer things
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and won't like more of the simple things
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there's the onion rings right there
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oh they smell amazing
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that sauce looks great now you're saying
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these are a vegan option but there's no
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meat in onions so would it be this is
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cooked in like a uh
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when it's cooked in a vegetable oil not
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a meat oil yeah okay
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so i don't think is um
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you're going out dairy based
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okay so that's maybe it's the sauce
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that could be or they cook it on a
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different cooking mechanic how are you
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going in i wanna
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oh i can hear the crunch all the way
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from over here the thing about a good
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onion ring
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is that
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when you get a bite it doesn't pull the
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onion out yeah you get the bite and you
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get just that bite that's my judgment
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for onion rings
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i need one i'm gonna have one of these
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onion ring time oh yeah crunch
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now they do make all the food fresh so
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it takes a little while you got to be
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patient but trust me the appetizer was
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worth it and i'm sure the entree will be
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as well so i'm just kind of taking this
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time to
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walk around a little bit more and see
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some of the artwork that is through here
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oh there's another monorail over here as
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well yeah i love all the monorails and
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all the retro goodness oh yes now this
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looks amazing here this is that is a
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good sized tomato with the lettuce the
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fish sandwich it looks like a almost
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like kind of like a little bit harder
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bread than normal what would you call
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almost like a bagel roll almost almost
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like a bagel roll kind of interesting oh
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yours is also kind of like the bagel
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style burger with the burger and you got
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on the side you got all the the little
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wedge the additional
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stuff that you could put on top where
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mine automatically comes on the fish
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sandwich yeah well this is a wedge salad
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oh a wedge that's a salad yeah it's a
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little wedge so if you want to put it on
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there you can or you can eat it like a
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salad yeah you can do that okay
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interesting i also went with the pasta
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salad i do love pasta salad soccer and
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there's some sort of like secret sauce
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down on the bottom of that too like
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almost looks like i don't know i don't
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know exactly what kind of secret sauce
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that is but there's definitely some sort
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of sauce on the bottom of that bun
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as well okay this is my entree i ordered
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the appetizer and an entree and from
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what i heard this this is highly
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regarded this burger yeah i decided not
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to get it because you and spence both
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got the burger and i just wanted to get
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something a little bit different but if
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you guys have high praise of it
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i might come back and get the burger out
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of later later almost like a smash
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burger yeah and they said that the chef
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actually created it yeah especially and
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they said it was so good that they added
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it to the venue it looks pretty there's
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a lot of cheese on there too i know
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spence loves cheese so he's probably
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that is a lot of a fish sandwich right
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there oh there's even like pickles on
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there oh and there's secret sauce on the
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and the bottom as well
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did you want to show any of this before
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i started oh yeah to just
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indulge into it
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fish sandwich and a fish
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look at this though there's that's
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that's a lot of fish that looks like a
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good piece of cod i'm going full fish
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today shrimp first and then the cod
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special
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seafood seafood specialty okay it's not
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a bagel bun it's actually a lot softer
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than i thought yeah going in
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it's good
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wow oh look at that fish though
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that is good is it
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much better than the mcdonald's filet
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fish i usually will continue so it has a
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little piece of pork belly some pickles
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onions cheese and a sauce on it and
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before i go into my pasta salad
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katie said that that was the best burger
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she's ever taken
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that's a very tall order i've eaten a
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lot of burgers in my diet see i have it
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so i would like to see your
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you know my favorites on it but i will
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say
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everybody that kept telling me like oh
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this burger's so good it fits the bill
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so not only is it best life and beyond
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but it's also best burger in your mouth
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now i do realize we're pretty much
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filming the exact same thing i'm just
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going to give a teaser if you want to
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see spencer's reaction got to go to
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their video all right at a different
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angle that's right what i'll do is i
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won't show you consuming it but i'll
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watch you concerned
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so i'm watching your reaction right now
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i know how you feel
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don't put words in his mouth let him
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express it himself
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just the burger
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it's real
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to have a very steady hand it's 15
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layers yeah that is a very tall piece of
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cake right there 15 levels
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is that a raspberry up on top there or a
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straw it's a raspberry two raspberries
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double the raspberries that is a good oh
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you're throwing the little well thank
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you very much that's a good looking
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piece of cake right there that is some
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good 15 layer cake
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very chocolatey that is so good thank
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you it is now tipped over we're
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devouring this thing on its side
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this is something this is a sight not
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only to behold but to also to consume
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i am pleasantly happy
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with this little snap the ganache love
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i'm getting a little bit of a sugar
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sugar buzz going on right now there's a
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lot of space mountain paintings in here
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look at that over there there's the cars
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from raceway tomorrowland this place is
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great little lounges over to the side
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and look at the little chandeliers up
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there reminds me of like something like
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a superman superman that's why you came
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to earth all right i gotta say i am
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pleasantly
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content and happy
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with steakhouse
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71 i love all the nods to walt and roy
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lillian and the history
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also i will reiterate myself well done
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on this little walkway in with all these
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photographs i highly approve
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of these photographs and just like walt
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at disneyland there's roy here at
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florida's magic kingdom there's roy
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walt's brother right down there and
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mickey goofy and pluto also stepping
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into this room which has
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quite a bit of history in here you guys
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happen to know what room this is is this
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the crooks is this the nixon room this
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is the nixon no
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room so nixon was standing at a podium
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right here where this water cooler is
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wow so nixon was well the podium was
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nixon walks through this door that you
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just walked through
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goes over here stands behind the podium
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all the media was here
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and he delivers the i am not a crook
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speech right in this very room
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inside the contemporary so right about
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right about there
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i am not a crook
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isn't that crazy to think about
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right inside of here
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also talking to another guest who was
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enjoying food at the restaurant 70 with
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steakhouse 71 and this he said for lunch
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they do not serve steak but he asked if
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they could prepare one for off the
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dinner menu and they said yeah so they
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they will make a steak at least they did
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for for that gentleman as he told me i'm
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going up to the upper level right up to
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here to the the main level of the
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contemporary
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as well oh perfect timing there's a
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monorail going look at that
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perfect
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perfect timing 50th monorail going by
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and there is that mary blair mural
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i was referring to earlier
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in the day
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magnificent really is a magnificent
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piece of art here you can just see how
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incredibly tall
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this thing is 15 stories
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just like the cake i just had 15 stories
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is the
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height of the levels and if you walk
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over to this area
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by the way you can hear some
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construction going on
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they're working on some of the rooms
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on the theme park side but if you go
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over to this area you will see mary
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blair's signature
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right on the top little block
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right up there there's some more non
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five legged ghosts those are four legged
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ghosts the five legged ghosts
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on the other side of this i don't know
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if i can get to them because they're
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doing all the construction you see the
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construction workers
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up there but yeah mary's
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mary's little blocks up at the top there
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with her name on it as shown here
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mary blair
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that is so dang cool
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opening day resort
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1971
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to this hotel also celebrating 50 years
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just like walt disney world and
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florida's magic kingdom
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and i'd say this is probably a good
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place as any to
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go ahead and end this episode
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that's going to do it for today
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from the contemporary resort
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steakhouse 71 our first time frequenting
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that establishment just recently opened
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very happy and content with the food
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and the nostalgic throwbacks honoring
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walt and roy in the history
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of wdw
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i recommend it go check it out
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we'll see in the next video the vlog
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is over i think a monorail is going by
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that goes
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the monorail