Portillo’s Hot Dogs In Buena Park - Southern California Food Review / Chicago Dog & Italian Beef
A visit to Portillo's Hot Dogs in Buena Park California .
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welcome everyone out of the whoo here
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today number 30 of this current series
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on Southern California eateries heading
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up to wayna Park to one of the few
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locations in this neck of the woods of
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this establishment most of them are
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based around Illinois Indiana and those
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surrounding states this is gonna be good
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I'm inviting you to join me shalyah
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preparing to pack up my accessories and
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heading out
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I agree big the food I was thinking the
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same thing this place just might have a
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Chicago dog here in SoCal fine flow
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arrived at the corner of La Palma and
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Buena Park Downtown East
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those are the cross streets in fact
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there is a rather large sign here
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stating the area it was in looking
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towards the drive-through they have
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someone over there taking the order
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really nice old school neon there there
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are a variety of choices you can choose
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to get your food I believe yeah the
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according to that banner on the other
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side of the patio there says the dining
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room is open I'm gonna play that
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half-mile by ear however I notice there
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is a park in close proximity so I just
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get it I just get it to go and keep up
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with the theming of the series it was
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built to look like a a vintage diner a
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roadside diner and maybe mix with a
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train station of some sort on either
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side and they have beef burgers and
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salad looking at the lettering there on
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the side also they work owns a look at
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the neon signage from this particular
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angle look the tree is blossoming there
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a few vehicles there peeking up over the
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hedge line getting their orders through
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the drive-through section giving their
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tasty meal seems to be very busy it's
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very popular I've heard a lot about this
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place so I'm pretty happy to try it out
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the backdrop of the palm trees is a nice
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touch as well certainly love that and I
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have met up with kin from theme park
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access you've been here before Ken's
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about how many times if you had to say
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yeah so more than more than ten times
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you ate lunch here with Jay Leno just
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randomly showed up sat down at your
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table what was the what was the menu
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item the Jake should I get Jake what Jay
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chose Italian people
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an Italian beef what would you recommend
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I was thinking Chicago dogs I guess
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Chicago dog that's that's what they're
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famous for is the Chicago dog the same
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as an Italian beef or is that different
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Italian beef is a shredded beef shaved
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feed like sort of like a french tips
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okay so I'm not gonna get that cuz I had
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French Dip recently but I haven't had a
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Chicago dog probably since the last time
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I was in Chicago I'm gonna do it they
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really have dressed it up nice in here
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good enough taking a gander here at the
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menu
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I'm not sure what he's getting at oh he
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ordered onion rings they're suffering
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some of the classic characters that you
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would know from that area
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Capone up there on the top corner to
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pick up section over there behind
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Wrigley Field if you will
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oh whoa what's going on up there this
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guy's like looming down upon us this
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guy's taking a nice little bubble bath
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up top back in there is where all the
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magic happens
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sure in hundred they're just all kind of
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figures up there along the railings
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there they also sell a take-home bottle
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of their own hot peppers that's pretty
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dang cool see if she shared a meal with
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Jay got our order I got a couple bags a
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couple of little drinkable items hey so
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there's a park close by Yeah right right
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up the street here where they do the
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summer concerts all right let's cruise
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over there and eat boys Iraq Park bo is
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s e ra NC the center of the Southland
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Lena Park California I never realized
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that that was their slogan or one of
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their slogans we have found a bench to
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sit on now there is a picnic table kind
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of tucked away between those few trees
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over there but there is a gentleman
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walking his dog who has procured it and
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there's also a picnic area but it is
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taped off but I think the guy with his
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dog might be yeah it looks like he might
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be meandering away so we'll sit here for
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now are we gonna try it we're gonna try
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to walk over there okay let's get rides
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do it now what's gonna happen is we're
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gonna get all the way over there and
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then he's going to sit back down yeah
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you're still on the phone look let's
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just let's take our chances all right
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got ourselves a table cam
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two bags of food and what do you see
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kind of shake that was chocolate cake
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shake they take their chocolate fudge
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cake what I see I got the standard
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vanilla and you got the chocolate cake I
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don't have any cake in my No thank you
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no where'd you get it - iced tea iced
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tea you always go for the tea yeah I'm
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going with the bottled water even though
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I got a shake yeah kind of balances it
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out I believe it was a yesterday or the
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day before they said these were not
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technically required when you're out and
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about anymore as of today as of today a
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point apart still has a mask code so
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when you go in to order yourself like
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that when you eat you could they haven't
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maybe they've created one that you could
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maybe put a straw through it oh yeah I
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got the logo right on there it's a it's
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a little dog it's a pup I'm a hot dog I
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could smell it like treason - yeah
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there's the Italian beef the Italian
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beef wow what kind of cheese is that on
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their problem provolone cheese that
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looks pretty tasty and then get the
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gravy on the side so they give it you go
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inside well normally they put it on
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there they really wrap that up in a bag
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like well yeah cuz it leaks so you put
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it on the side you kind of dip it in
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interval it on that way it's not all
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soggy when you get it to where you're
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going okay that make sense and then
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inside here that's all mine oh you got
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on your rings - yeah those are your
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onion rings I'll let you got those one
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of your enter rings fell out into the
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bag somebody take one
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okay good aren't they we're good onion
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it's done by two dogs this one you can
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see chili already coming out and this is
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my proper sir cago dog they don't call
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us a cago dog do they they do name it
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that how do you pronounce that house you
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are Jew
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oh you're gonna just go dump it right on
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mmm
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that way it's not all soggy when you get
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it here so I make sense so it's not dip
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beforehand you going on first impression
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well you've had it before but first
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impression on this this outing this was
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good Wow Chicago and chili dog I was
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thinking the same thing you kind of read
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my mind on that one Wow yeah look at
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that just like oozing oh look at the bun
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look at the little flavorings why is
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that sesame seed it might be sesame seed
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sesame seed bad poppy poppy seed but why
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I have Kilowog he can distract me on the
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menu items if I've learned anything from
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these 30 30 days I've been doing this
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now but I know nothing about food other
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than the fact that it tastes really good
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okay I'm gonna take it down
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mm-hmm I've yet to have anything from
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Portillo's it's not you
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I like onions a lot there's a lot of
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onions on this
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and this chili has beans on it and
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nourishes a couple different types of
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people people who do not want beans in
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their chili and those that love beans in
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there chillout I'm kind of either or do
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their a meat chilling or being told
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right but there are some people who
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adamantly do not like either told
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grilled chili does no beans
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there's beans enough a little messy but
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definitely worth it definitely worth it
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just challenge out and I think I can't
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stop eating it just pour it on don't be
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shy
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oh I get like I get food items all over
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my lens all the time let me see my
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fingers they have like chili and cheese
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all over them so what happens after I
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finished the videos sometimes even
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halfway through I have to take the
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little Lysol wipes and wipe everything
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down not for the obvious thing that's
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floating around that people are
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concerned about that too but more to
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clean all the sticky stick-to-itiveness
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from the food off of my camera little
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side little behind-the-scenes info
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mm-hmm you know it's good when I was a
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crunch that snap snap
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often think about that too when I have
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someone kind of tagging along for
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tagging along to eat and I put the
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camera at the far end to get those shot
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yes you know that way you can see both
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people in the frame that if we were both
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on this and what if the picnic tables
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sit back huh do you want to try it
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hasn't happened yet if I keep eating
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like this every day in a couple couple
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weeks to a month and I have a little bit
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more weight on me too that freaking
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water that's up balancing now
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switch the camera angle up just a bit
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slide to the other side you can see back
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over there they have those picnic tables
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kind of roped off even though the tape
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has been torn down yeah I kind of
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figured I supposed to be back there but
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this tables not it's fine oh yeah look
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at this oh yeah that looks good when I
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went to Chicago
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I know Chicago is known for its pizza
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but I never even got around the pizza I
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got around to eating a lot of these
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items the Chicago how they should do it
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well because they're a chicago-based
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company that's what I'm thinking look at
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this it's got the little pepper on there
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it's got the full cut-up half-size
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pickle well full length plus slice down
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here pickle and some onions I've also
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learned that you do not it's also
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frowned upon you do not put ketchup on
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Chicago dog that is a big negatory but
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mustard as seen here what stop talking
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see the suckers
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okay mm-hmm and far beyond okay right
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now there was a lot of noises going on
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whoo when I was crunching into this
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thing hear the snap of the hotdog
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you had the swashy bizarre sound of the
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pickle swirling around in there
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and then he had the juiciness of the
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tomato being crunched into what's all
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about a symphony of food it was like
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music playing it was music to my mouth
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well not to my ears I could hear it you
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could always hear what's going on when
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you bite into food more vocally in your
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ears than the person sitting next to you
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or people watching well we definitely
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heard that
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so imagine how it sounded to me
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there's old
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there's a lot of relish on that I'm not
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usually a relish guy but it works with
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this do you know the type of peppers
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these are no they look like green beans
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with their peppers why by itself I think
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it's better when it's the whole package
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this was a good stop and in your
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hometown yeah right done super it's a
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local spot for you yeah not far from me
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only for my miles there's only like two
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in California yeah I was looking up
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there's one over near kind of hamona
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area I believe somewhere in that area I
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came here the name of the exact town but
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there's like no other than that there's
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not even a tea in Northern California in
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Indiana as well
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Indiana Chicago baby Minnesota just in
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the states around Illinois and maybe one
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in Florida I'm gonna go here again
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two dogs down number are you normally
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more of a fry guy or an onion ring guy
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definitely you always go for the onion
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rings how do you compare these onion
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rings to other places I don't know these
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are pretty unique they taste different
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than most places like what you think the
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flavoring is this different or the way
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they're made
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got the crunch aren't you not dried out
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on the inside that's a big fact
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sometimes you'll have like a good
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exterior but the inside just kind of
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throws it all to the wind and they're
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not you know a lot of places to
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over-salt them like they turned salt
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their fries yeah like the one I had you
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got a good size hanging inside of it and
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you get a pretty good amount yeah pretty
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good pretty good all right sometimes you
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order from other places you wonder why
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do you get like three onion rings three
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or four yeah yeah do or need half up you
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still got like half a dozen laughs so
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pretty good amount when I was a kid my
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dad would always get vanilla ice cream
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or vanilla shakes and I would say what
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the heck I've told the story before but
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I'm gonna reiterate it I always always
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say why the heck would you get vanilla
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when you could get you know mint or
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chocolate or Neapolitan that's how you
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pronounce it Neapolitan yeah but as I've
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gotten older I'm starting to embrace my
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father's thought process and I have
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opted I'm going to spill all this I have
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opted for vanilla on more than one
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occasion good vanilla is one of the best
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flavors for the taste buds if it's done
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right I'm gonna see if this whoo it's
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oozing I must see if this is done right
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I've been discarding of our trash over
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in the receptacle this right there we're
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noticing that it might be the only
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people in recent days that have done
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that there's quite a bit of litter
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around us at the moment cups and napkins
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now my lid I did not put back on because
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I've laid it on the table just put my
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inserted the straw Sabby just I went on
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that whole rant about an ally now I'm
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looking at your cake chocolate chocolate
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cake chic
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chocolate so what do they do they grind
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it up put it in there with been allies
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for you ended up in the shake so you got
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a piece of cake and a shake
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he's the cake handshake holding one next
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time I'm gonna get that for now
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don't try to sway me on my vanilla go
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with getting that through the straw
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stuff that's a thick shake so is yours
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even possible to drink with a straw
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yes versa to chunky it is it's possible
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to drink it through straw until you get
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to a chocolate cake suddenly came
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through this there's chunks of cake
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chunks of frosting let's see if we can
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find a big chunk there's some smaller
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chunks it looks amazing but the frosting
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is really good when you get to it and
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sometimes it's stuck to the side of the
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cup seeing it I say even the frosting
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included when they grind it but there's
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there's a huge chunk at the bottom
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feeling it down in there oh yeah see if
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I can dredge it up but it's it's a huge
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chunk of frosting you'll get to it
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just be patient
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not something you want if you're on a
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fitness program or a weight-loss well at
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the way to the shake you lift it game
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the muscles if you're making it if
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you're the one making the shake and
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shaking it all out beforehand you might
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burn a few calories but for us
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I know as I was giving me a shot chunk
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of frosting together frosting
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I'm a sucker for a good shake this is
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really good we also deliver
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all the info there they also hope Peters
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like a big party right now they might
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not be doing too many of those catering
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big parties know California's two
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gatherings of a hundred now you can
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gather a hundred people now that's a
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hundred people's a lot so if you had a
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hundred people in this park no one would
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say anything come up and say hey you got
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to disperse that well we need fifty
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times our current amount to reach 100 I
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don't know would you be comfortable with
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being in a crowd of a hundred people if
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they were all kind of packed together if
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they were wearing masks yes
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if most of the people weren't wearing
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masks I would I guess since the theme
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parks have already started to announce
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that they're opening there's gonna be
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way more than a hundred people there
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yeah but they can only operate and
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tracks anyway
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but they used operator my sparks are
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going with 35% so when you think
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Universal and Disney opens out here what
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do you think the percentage of capacity
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building and your your your theme park
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access knowledge probably about it is
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Neil probably open about 35 36 percent
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so here's 80,000 people so it probably
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be 25,000 total this capacity here
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Disney World a two thousand now you need
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to 100 right when I used to work at
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Disney before the expansion it was sixty
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thousand per part but now with galaxies
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are just a little more they've added a
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little bit more that's a probably 70
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totally 70,000 so 25% of that it's like
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20,000 I'm like 20,000 25,000 and then
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they'll be plenty of elbow room and then
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with like knots they're gonna they're
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gonna run it their minimum which is
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probably got 16,000 days
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and now it hasn't announced today yeah
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yeah but it's a good tie in because
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we're in Buena Park and not this right
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there and so is this place
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that's gonna do it for today as I show
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this very twisted looking tree branch
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on all these trees are just all look at
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a big bird's nest it has to be a
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gargantuan bird to take all those limbs
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of that proportion to stick them up in a
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tree I'll see you in the next what's
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that buddy what's that up there I know
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I'll see you the next video
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