The World’s First KFC - Eating At Harman Cafe & Museum / Other Interesting Salt Lake City Places
Worlds First KFC Franchise
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today's adventure begins with heading
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into the waiting area
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this is the entrance to the waiting area
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as a recording of this
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friday
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june the 10th
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2022
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so this is the waiting area
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right over here and what will i be
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waiting to see i don't have to wait very
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long
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a 33 foot
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dramatic
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very traumatic welcome everyone
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adam the woo was that a little too
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welcome everyone
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my dad
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is also waiting
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i'm just waiting you're waiting
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does the iguana come alive
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now this is fun
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i'm inviting you to join me and my dad
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who is waiting in the waiting area
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shall you
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stopped off here because we are on our
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way after we get done waiting in the
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waiting area i don't know why this is
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here i don't know why this waiting area
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so people can wait
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won't have to wait long i don't know
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what we're waiting for
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this is the red iguana restaurant we
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will not be eating here at the red
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iguana
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we will be eating are you hungry
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i'm always home
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i know i'm your son because i am always
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hungry as well we're gonna be going over
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to the first kfc
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franchise
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here in salt lake city by the way i'm in
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salt lake city utah
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but stopping off at a couple places
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before
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heading over there
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back in the
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50s 19 that's a
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1950s they used to have these
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cereal pieces before the saturday movie
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and there was one i remember that was
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about
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these giant iguanas in probably africa
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or somewhere yeah and that is exactly
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what this thing looks like in fact
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that's about the size
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of the iguana that was chasing after the
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star of the series was it like a
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western cereal or was it like a horse a
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horror film
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yeah i've always heard that indiana
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jones was modeled after the old westerns
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like that style of filmmaking
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look at the feet there
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now if i was not going to delve into a
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little kfc history i would say we could
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get a bite to eat
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inside the red iguana well not inside
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the belly of this iguana inside the
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restaurant
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of the iguana
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but i like i like kentucky fried chicken
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and when in rome or when in salt lake
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city
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you got to go to the first franchise
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don't leave any chicken on the bone
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don't leave any chicken
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we were listening to a baby you're
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watching a baseball game the other night
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the announcer said don't leave any
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chicken on the bone talking about don't
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leave a player on the plate you're on
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third base and yeah yeah don't eat the
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chicken don't leave the chicken on the
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bone the iguana's probably happy though
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that we're not gonna be well they
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probably don't serve iguana over there
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do you know what a you know what you
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call an iguana with no eyes
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no wanna with no eyes an iguana with no
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eyes
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blind
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i think we waited long enough okay we've
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waited long enough in the waiting area
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and now let's make our way over to kfc
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we're not in kentucky
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we're in utah who knew
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kfc history are you done waiting i'm
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done waiting all right no more waiting
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let's go out of the waiting entrance
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i am really curious why there is a
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waiting area here
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maybe maybe when people come up
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to put their name in you know for a
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table at the restaurant that makes sense
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he says
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wait wait over there
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that could be it that could be
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it seems like this is a pretty popular
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place there are a lot of parking spaces
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this place is probably pretty popular
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but notice how the iguana is staring
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over where everyone is waiting not
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he's like waiting on them
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he's waiting for his lunch on the
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waiting patrons but not he's not staring
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at the restaurant no
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okay let's move on
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drove a couple blocks away from where we
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just were above the shopping cart
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corner of 700 west and genesee ave
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whenever i think of genesee
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i always think of
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west hollywood
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the filming location for the house from
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nightmare on elm street sets but this is
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a different
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iconic structure
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there is a pyramid
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right next to this house
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right here
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well could be a house could be a
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business
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a lot of spray paint over here
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on the side of this road
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but this is the pyramid of
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mummification
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and what that means
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i do not know
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possibly an information placard
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somewhere
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around the side
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it's very shiny it's almost like a
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beacon the sun bouncing off of this
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those on the freeway okay here we go
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s-u-m-m-u-m
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built in the 1970s
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you cannot get inside just from what i'm
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reading online about it
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the grand principle of creation is
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nothing and possibility
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come in and out of bond infinite times
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in a fight night
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moment
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that is a quote from samam
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which obviously has a lot to do with
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the pyramid of mummification that's some
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statement
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some
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okay that sounds very familiar to um
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like some mummification
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there's got to be a correlation
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right
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mum mom's the word i mean i'm not trying
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to make
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mom
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some um
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if vacation there has to be a
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correlation there right am i just
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going out and i'm stretching it a little
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thin
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okay
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this is pretty interesting though you
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can go inside this door
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to the pyramid is there a door i can go
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in there and see some of them
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okay this says
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divine consecrated and sanctified what
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were you saying about the dollar bill
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this looks very similar to the pyramid
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that's on the dollar bill
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and the only thing really missing i
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guess is the all-seeing eye up at the
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top
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and obviously this has religious
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connotations based on the terminology of
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the plaque here and that's all egyptian
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religious uh emblemism emblemism emblem
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emblematic
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images images yeah
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so do you think that there are there's
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got probably our mummies in there
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that would be an assumption all right
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we've done a little bit more research
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while standing over here and it appears
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as if the person who created this the
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founder his name was samum that was his
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first name
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and he was told according to
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you know the interwebs
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it was revealed by an the alien race
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that he was supposed to mummify himself
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and in 2008
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he did very fascinating
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is that your shopping cart
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no
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there is a squirrel
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right up there on the fence okay the
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squirrel's gone now went into the tree
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i see a squirrel
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you are just full-on relaxing mode right
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now
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is that comfortable and this is on the
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way to our destination
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i just find this kind of stuff
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fascinating and figured heck it might as
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well stop off and show this
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very fascinating this has been utilized
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for a lot of artwork down here
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across from the way even the fire
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hydrant there
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it's been tagged up
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what do you think this is used for
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you had to guess
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i would say that is a building that
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houses
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i think that's probably a pretty good
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guess
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or it could be where they store the
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leftover donuts from some donut shop
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i do like this fish here
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someone is painted
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it looks like a holey fish
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halo
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oh it does have a halo
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it's an angel fish
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and the freak
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the freeway is right there so as the
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interstate traffic goes by
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you can see this from the road the
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traffic you're stuck in traffic you can
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see this this pyramid and i'm sure a lot
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wonder
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what's in that pyramid
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right here at the rainbow neon sign
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company
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there's a tree up top there
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sign of quality since 1945
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has a very unique item tucked away
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around the back corner
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there is a appropriate facial covering
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wearing
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spock
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version of a muffler man
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at least the upper torso from the waist
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up
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is back there
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you can see where
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it was a muffler man holding the muffler
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and then it was converted into a spock
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and now
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has a facial covering on
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got the spock haircut
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has the
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emblem there on the shirt
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and has the hands
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held in a fashion where
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it was holding a muffler back in the day
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that's how muffler men got their name
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and this
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is the spock version star trek
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and from one muffler man to another now
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this is more of just a sign
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it's not the roadside relics that
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i and others have grown to love
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this is the muffler master
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about a mile and a half about the spock
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the reason i point this out is because
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it's directly across the street
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from the very first kfc franchise
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anywhere located here
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in salt lake city utah
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right there between those trees and the
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sign the old-timey sign
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that sits here on the street corner of
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3900 south
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does not say kentucky fried chicken it
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states harmon cafe
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and i am just going to
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assume
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that they have completely redone the
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building because this building does not
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look like something
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in the good old days this is more of a
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modern building but it does say kfc you
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know short
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for kentucky fried chicken over there it
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says fried to order and you see the
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bucket
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a beacon
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above the tree line over there there's a
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little bit better view of where it says
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the world's first okay they are really
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signifying this as the world's first kfc
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not the one in corbyn kentucky which
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really also holds that title
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you know it's kind of a gray area but
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because it's the first franchise
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you do have that
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that statement world's first kfc
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definitely the first one
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in this neck of the woods first
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franchise so let's just call it
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the world's first kfc and the original
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building opened in 1952
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since remodeled and out front to pay
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homage
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are three gentlemen here
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on this end
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well in the middle
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colonel sanders
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who
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his glasses
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are they suppose
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you couldn't hold it out you couldn't
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hold it could you his glasses okay take
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two we have three gentlemen here there
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are three gentlemen who are being paid
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homage to
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i'm gonna guess that this is mr harmon
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is it harmon
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hammond
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does it say on this side i've already
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forgotten
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this is the one that colonel sanders
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sold the franchise to or at least went
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into business went into business with
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and over here on this end do not
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recognize
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this sculpture
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okay i had to look it up pete
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harmon
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was his name
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pete hartman was the one who created the
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original franchise and he stands next to
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the kernel
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right here there are lights down here
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for at night time can be illuminated
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on these two guys
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i don't think his glasses are supposed
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to look like that okay mr harmon's
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glasses are broken off here
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you think they melted
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are they supposed to look like that
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awesome well they melted yeah
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they could have melted over time
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yes but they are looking
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at the spot so if you stand right there
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dad
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you have the colonel and mr harmon
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making eye contact with you
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they're saying go in there and get some
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chicken some chicken get some chicken in
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there
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now we have been we did our road trip a
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year ago we did a 10 day father and son
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road trip
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to all the places that you ministered at
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all the places that we lived and stopped
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at a couple places that didn't tie into
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our life and one of them was in corbyn
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kentucky where the very first
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kfc began
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by the colonel
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so now we've been to two kfc's one more
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thing about the trip to kentucky last
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year to the kfc
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and we could not actually get in the kfc
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to eat the dining area no the dining
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area was closed that's right so we just
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had we went to another kfc and we ate in
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the parking lot and just
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you know got the vibe of the first kfc
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here so now we can actually go in
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and uh watch chicken strips we can get
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chicken chips we get chicken i think
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they might even have a little mini
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museum in here oh okay i've been here
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before six or seven eight years ago but
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i have forgotten all of it my first time
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so i don't remember any of it either to
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use your statement i slept since then
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yeah yes
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all right it's happening this is
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becoming a running theme
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whenever we hang out we just go get kfc
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at historical kfc
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spots
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actually it's only happened twice but
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that that's good enough that's good
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enough for a running theme
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all right we're already coming in here
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we already see the mini museum has begun
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we got mr har mr and mrs harmon right
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there and here it is key to kfc recipe
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was one savvy
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salesman and mr harmon did not have a
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photo of himself
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on his briefcase he had a
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well uh artistic rendering of the
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colonel
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that's from the 60s right there he would
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have been walking around with that yeah
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back when people carried briefcases
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advertising they can't see
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here's some of the
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harman's operating values probably
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correlated with the colonel probably had
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you know just continued his tradition
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and then him here's him and his wife and
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could this be an original menu or at
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least a menu from back in the day where
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you could get a double header they used
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to sell hamburgers yeah this is pretty
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neat this is the pot where some of the
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original herb was at seven herbs and
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spices were cooked in one of the
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original pressure cookers down here
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the colonel's secret recipe oh and this
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is signed by the colonel he's got his
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his autograph on there that was signed
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on february 21st
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1972
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and they got some chicken over there
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waiting for us just to purchase and get
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you're gonna say interesting quotes
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along the wall up here
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all the different quotes from the
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mr harmon or from mr harmon when you
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hire someone probably the greatest thing
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you can do is make them believe they are
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going to be
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successful second key is to let them
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know that you care the tables have all
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the historical
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artem's as well and here's one of
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colonel sanders original suits
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so colonel harlan sanders would have
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worn
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this suit right here and of course he
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now the iconic look
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you know with the slacks and the blazer
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and the
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kentucky bowtie is that the terminology
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for it i just made it up the kentucky
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bow tie i think that's right yeah the
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cream rises to the top don't fire the
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cook on a friday night because the
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weekends are gonna be really busy
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i'm gonna that's what i'm interpreting
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that to me
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so you called it the kentucky tie
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this is called quote the colonel's tie
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oh look there's the workers all wearing
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the colonel's ties back in the day how
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about that the colonel's tie a string
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tie quite popular in the south and has
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been even more in the past hundred years
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the tie of choice
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for colonel sanders
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okay i'm hungry now nothing i'm smelling
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it
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here's a bust
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down here mr harmon
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as well okay went ahead and got our
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beverages they are preparing the food
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just waiting for it to be
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completed and this is a little
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documentation of what the first building
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looked like
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back in 1952.
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so that's what it looked like
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also had the coca-cola emblem which is
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interesting because now they only serve
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pepsi and they're getting a mountain dew
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and they have pepsi products
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but back then they sold coca-cola they
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also had root beer and it said do drop
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in which is always a
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clever say oh in fact
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the dew drop in
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is where it all began in 1941 pete and
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arlene harmon purchases hamburg okay
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never mind this is not the original kfc
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it was the original it was original
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hamburger stand which morphed into and
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then in 51 they tore down the original
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dew drop in built a new restaurant this
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place and never closed for a day the new
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continued curb service added 100 seats
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and announced the new name
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the harmon cafe and then when pete
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harmon met colonel sanders
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the rest
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is history this is a rendering of the
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original dew drop in salt lake city has
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appeared in 1941 it was very long-winded
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but just kind of wanted to explain that
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and here is
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harmon and his wife and the colonel a
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little sculpture there as well
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okay and here it is back in 2004 and got
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an interpretation of the sign there too
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harmon cafe featuring colonel sanders
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recipe
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over here is a spherical design
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of the chicken bucket
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the original celebrity chef right here i
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got the colonel oh is this the colonel
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on a camel look at this the colonel's on
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a camel
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look at this parade
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he's on the parade float
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oh i have never have i never seen this
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photo
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i wonder where that is
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i don't know if that's at disney doesn't
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look like disneyland
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pretty neat place
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and here's a colorized version of the
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kernel on mr harmon a lot of the other
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ones are
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you know black and white
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of the
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age of it all right and this is what
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we're dealing with got the side of
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mashed potatoes and gravy
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small side of mac and cheese i went with
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the four piece which is basically
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let's see a breast thigh a small leg and
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a wing
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if i'm looking at that correctly and
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what'd you get yeah the four pieces of
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uh chicken tenders
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and you got your french fries how about
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them french fries
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and he got the biscuit
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all right and a ketchup
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and a soda
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mini
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soda
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and they still stick with one of their
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well i would
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one of their slogans
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finger
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licking good because
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you get the juices of stuff on the
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finger there and you want to
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lick your fingers because of the seven
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herb is the seven herbs and spices
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i think it's a it's a variety of herbs
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and spices the colonel secret formula
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wrapped up here in this chicken
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there's no secret formula for the mashed
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potatoes and gravy it's pretty basic
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ever seen a smaller chicken like that
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that's about baby chicken
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most of them are bigger than that
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i'm also noticing over here
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so the kernel
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is
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in
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kind of cartoony form pictured on the
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buttery spread i think he might be
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standing on his head
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and then also the honey sauce
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now in recent years the colonel has been
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kind of depicted a little bit
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differently than he really was he was a
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very serious
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very serious man but he's depicted now
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in a very comical and buffoony cartoon
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cartoony way
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now granted he did have a sense of humor
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you know he's got the chef's cap on over
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there he was riding the cam of all that
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so he did have a fun side
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but he definitely was not as
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he is pretty he is today
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i kind of wonder what the family would
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think about
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the company
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portraying him in that fashion
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they might not even own the rights to
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his image anymore this is a little bit
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bigger than the leg
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there's a lot more meat on the bone
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don't leave the chicken on the chicken
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on the bottom yeah that's the baseball
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and now that's only a chicken on the
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boat
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i'm more of an original guy
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i don't really get the spicy you know
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with the strips though you didn't even
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get the
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yeah i guess it does kind of resemble me
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in a roundabout way i mean i do wear
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glasses and i have a beard and i have
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unkempt hair
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a couple wearing a hat now so let's put
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a race cap on them that could be me okay
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finish the meal i'm just going to
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continue walking around this says
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the colonel was the number one chicken
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salesman went all the way around the
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world logging on to 25
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250 000 flying miles
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per year and it wasn't called the bucket
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back then it was called a pale
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pale of kentucky fried chicken not a
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bucket but a pail and the colonel ran
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for senator if not for 187 votes he
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would have been
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kentucky senator
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and here shows the correlation so you
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got the 1941 hamburger stand 51
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new design 54 different design
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74
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and 86 and this all see harmony cafe
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began to do drop in
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restaurant undergo many structural
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changes and is now a brand new museum to
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honor pete
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and arlene harmon which is where i'm
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standing at the moment i was way off 11
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herbs and spices
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not seven
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11 herbs and spices acquaintance
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of his
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colonel sanders was an acquaintance of
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his in kentucky and he showed up one day
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at his burger place
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so it's still up for discretion on
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whether it's the world's first
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as the bucket or should i say pale
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they called them a pail back then not a
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bucket a pail of chicken
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so it's up for
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it's up for discretion
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nonetheless this is the first one in
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this area and the first franchise that
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is official
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i'm sure the folks in corbin kentucky
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would probably argue that theirs is the
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first
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and that's gonna do it for today
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salt lake city
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home of a few
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unusual things that i stopped off at
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on the way over to harmon cafe
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the first franchise of kfc kentucky
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fried chicken
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utah history
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utah fast food history
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all his glory right there
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carmen cafe
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a new building
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someone pulling through the
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drive-through to try some of those seven
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corner of state street and
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i'll see you in the next video the vlog
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is over
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you