The Birthplace Of Kentucky Fried Chicken - Colonel Harland Sanders Cafe in Corbin Kentucky & MORE
Day 9 Road Trip May 2021
Transcript
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welcome everyone adam the woo here
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today's adventure the beginning of day
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number
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nine day number nine day number nine
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father and son road trip we have covered
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a lot of miles a lot of ground
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we are on the home stretch
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corbin kentucky is where when you think
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of kentucky
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what do you think what are some of the
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things that you think of although let me
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think i think of horses and race horses
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and i think of
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mountains and coal mining and i think a
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chicken
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kentucky fried kentucky fried chicken
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now finger looking good kfc is what
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is is all the cool folks are calling it
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kfc is for short and it began
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here according to this sign it all began
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in
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corbin where harlan sanders first worked
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in this kitchen
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behind us worked on 11 spices and herbs
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for his recipe
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secret don't no spoilers no secret herbs
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and spices
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i've enjoyed quite a few kfc pieces of
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chicken in my day
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we should go in and see what all the
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the hoopla is about here in corbin
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and i believe on the outskirts of town
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they have erected a uh
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a memorial to him as well so we'll go
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here and see all this
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and then see how the day progresses i'm
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inviting you to join me
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are you figure looking you're looking
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good
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i want some chicken shall you
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calling me chicken subconsciously
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there is a very expansive parking lot
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and as you turn the corner to where the
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parking lot
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is is a rather large bucket up here
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now they still serve the chicken in
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those type of buckets but this bucket is
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very retro looking and there's harlan's
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face yeah that's old school bucket
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right on the side it says north
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america's hospitality
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dish colonel sanders recipe with the
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retro neon they have really fixed this
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place up
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very nicely sanders cafe and there's a
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placard over here
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which is going to give us a little more
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info and we were just driving along
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trying to make our way back towards
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florida
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the road trip will be coming to an end
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in a timely
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fashion and saw the sign off the side of
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the road that said
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pull over here so we did said
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let's go check out colonel sanders
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recipe and where it began
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at sanders cafe a gas station
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well i would imagine a gas station once
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sat here
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here we go the life of colonel sanders
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and his legacy
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i should get a walking king you could be
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like the colonel i could be like the
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colonel
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okay this is towards the end of his life
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let's go over here towards the beginning
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okay here's
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way back at the beginning we got a ferry
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boat a riverboat here
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here we go what does that say 1930
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arlen sanders moves to corbin kentucky
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where he operates his first restaurant
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consisting of a table and six chairs in
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the small front room
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of his shell oil service station that
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would be
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what these are alluding to doesn't say
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shell it says
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firebird firebird
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all right now we're getting the timeline
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here so we got 1930 is when he started
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it
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yeah and then in 31 looks like he
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expanded the dining room
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new location for customers okay so he
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moved somewhere else so that's where the
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discrepancy is because
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there i think i've been to other places
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where they claimed
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a little bit of the history of the first
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but this is where he worked and had the
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gas station
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actually this says he moved across the
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road so right over
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across the way over there possibly
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it's all very very confusing
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i think this may have been the final
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spot
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in 31. you know
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i don't know either it's it's it is a
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tangled web
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that they weave here yes along here yes
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but in 35
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the governor ruby lefoune in recognition
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of his conch
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ruby
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what that's an unusual name
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that's like clue it sounds like kluso or
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gaston from beauty and the beast friends
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that is an unusual name that most will
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not forget the governor ruby lefoun in
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recognition of his contributions
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made him the director of the national
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restaurant association
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ah all right
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let's head in just to give a little more
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specifics this
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does claim the birthplace
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of the original recipe
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no matter what argument anyone tosses
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out there this
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is the birthplace of the original recipe
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that's what i'm going with the 11 like
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you said the 11 herbs
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and spices and spices i don't know what
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any of those herbs are nor do i want to
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know i don't even want to know what goes
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into the chicken all i know
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is it tastes finger licking good
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pretty good the birth of a legend
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kentucky's most
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famous citizen colonel harlan sanders
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began the part of his life that brought
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his fame
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in a small gasoline service station
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on this highway he was born in 1890
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in indiana that's very interesting i did
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not realize he was born
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in indiana moved his family into the
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quarters
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behind the station started pumping
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gasoline
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okay it looks like the original gas
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station was on the opposite side of the
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road
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where that bank
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no placard on that side of the road but
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there
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is a placard you call this a placard or
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a plaque
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or an information tablet thingy
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a thingy and then around the other side
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near this site you got it near this site
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i think they have reconstructed the the
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one armed on this side of it
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they're giving their interpretation of
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what it was like
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across the way a lot of question marks
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i can almost hear the wheels in your
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turn and your head
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turning thinking the gas station was
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over there
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and when he expanded from the one table
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to several tables to a restaurant this
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is where he opened
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all right let's let's see what up what
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other kind of facts we can
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we can dilute and not get
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inside sanders cafe
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this is great sometimes the best stuff
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is not planned out
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we we didn't even know this this was
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going to happen we were just driving
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along
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talking about the trip i told you that
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these posts are
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probably modern they're not from the
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original you don't think colonel harlan
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sanders leaned against this
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i don't think so no but i'm gonna in my
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mind he did
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oh okay that's why there aren't
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cars in charge oh wow yeah
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well sad trombone moment you might just
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have to peek through the window
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they do not want anyone inside i think
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you're right
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i'm sorry dad i know you wanted to go in
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and
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and have some licking them with some
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fingers in there in the booth
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across the way from colonel harland
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sanders where he created his
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the empire began not today now peeking
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in the window you can see they do have a
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few items on display they got some cases
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down in there
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a little recreation of what it would
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have looked like back in the day
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i believe so probably some artifacts now
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peeking through the other window are
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some of the sayings that he would
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now i have worked for a lot of employers
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over the years
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and one of the colonel's quotes some of
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my employers would state
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if you have time to lean you have time
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to clean
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did the cr the colonel might have
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been the one that made that popular if
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you got time to lean
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you got time to clean you ever hear that
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dad i've never heard that you never had
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any of people you were working for say
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that
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no you know what it means it means
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if you've got time to lean you've got
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time to clean
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so right now if i was your boss you had
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me going you were leaning i would say
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sir employee you got time to lean
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got time to clean you've got to like
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your work
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you have got to like what you are doing
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you have got to be doing something
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worthwhile
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so you can like it because if it's
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that makes a difference don't you see
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in a way it's probably a good thing that
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this was not planned so we're not
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hugely disappointed that it's not open
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right so we'll just carry on we'll go
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look at some of the other things around
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town and dedication to harland
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williams did you know his name was
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harlot
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or did you just always call him the
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colonel yeah i vaguely remembered that
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yeah the one that i read it i remember
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but you will always remember the 11
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herbs i'm trying to remember what they
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are
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okay 11 herbs and spices go
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not sugar that's not what we know salt
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flavor some other sort of flavoring
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a myrrh
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frankincense gold
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i don't know i don't know what any of
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them are
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okay let's think about this they're
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cooking it on the grill it gets off the
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bill they're gonna sprinkle something on
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a leavener the colonel says you got time
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to lean you got time to clean
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and there's nothing in your hand grab
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one of those herbs grab
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ten more things and the other herb and
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put all 11 on this
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chicken rosemary
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rosebud i'm trying to remember the
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song they've never announced it it's a
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secret
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that's why you kept it a secret kept it
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locked in the vault
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it's like a secret sauce i wonder if
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it's gonna i don't even absolutely
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maybe everybody can find they're just
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buried in here maybe it's across the
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street
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i can't think of one herb or spice i
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could google herbs and we can see what
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it is
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i'd rather not know i just i wanted to
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just let it be a mystery
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some things are better left one of those
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finger licking good mysteries
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and as we're driving into town check out
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some of these little cars over here on
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the side we got the ecto-1 we got tow
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mater and we got
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a cruiser from back almost like andy
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griffith days
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in a way and now technically pulling
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into the
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town limits of corbin around this corner
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so it was just on the outside corbin and
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right downtown
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is sanders park
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named after the man the myth
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the legend standing in front of me
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with his hand outstretched his walking
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cane
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the train in the background there
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this is nice this is not on the site
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of his cafe but there is some
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information right down here
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memorial park in grateful memory
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of the men and women who made
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significant contributions towards the
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growth okay this is for the park itself
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and here's the train down here corbin
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kentucky loves company
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dedicated on august 5th 2015
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and here are those who had their hand in
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creating
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this park and the colonel
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now we got to talking driving from the
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cafe over to here
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that the reason there is a little
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discrepancy because it was not
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the first kfc franchise
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it was his cafe so that might be why
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other places claim
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i'm still really confused by it are you
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confused by it still no
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you got a handle on it now got the
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handle on it okay try to give me your
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rundown
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yes yes he had a gas station on the
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south side of the highway up here yeah
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and then had one table with six shares i
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think it said
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and then when he started having more
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customers he moved across the street
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opened a cafe kind of more restaurant
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that's where he invented
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the 11 herbs and spices secretly which
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you looked up on the way over i now know
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tell me two of them partially sage
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rosemary
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and time that song was about the colonel
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i think it was it might have been and
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then like you said
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like you were saying that
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recreated rent uh replica there is of
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the cafe
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the first actual franchise of kfc was in
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a different location
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okay that's where the confusion lies
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we could we could print that off in
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mimeograph copies to send it out to
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people
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there will be a quiz later it'll be a
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test later of this whole 10-day trip
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almost like there will be a quiz on how
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many places
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we have lived and if anyone has kept up
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in the non-chronological or
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order by the way you know why the
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chicken crossed the road
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i don't remember he was following the
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colonel right over here
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they're having a beatles abbey road
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moment
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against the side that's what that is
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that is abbey road look at that
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you could go over and get some takeout
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and bring it right back over here you
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sit here and eat on this little
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checkered sidewalk
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and this chicken has feet off they have
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not feet but of course they have feet on
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but they have
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shoes on look at this
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that is awesome
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if only they realized where they were
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we're off to
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chickens i'm not gonna tell you you
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would be disappointed
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but follow along he's like the pied
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piper
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a foul
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hey bird i like the little bear
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we're doing a lot of earnest quotes
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there are
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why are the chickens wearing shoes well
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the one in the middle isn't
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and i was just saying the chickens have
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no idea where they're heading
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they're following him i think they're
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going to a party they're going to a
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party
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maybe they went along with them because
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he called them chicken
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i bet you won't come along with me
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that's his head on the back yes your
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head is attached to the back of his hand
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yes yes
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from here we have no game plan except
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going
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southbound we're just going to drive
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we might find something else we might
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not find anything else we didn't think
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we were going to find this
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we did we had no plan for today and
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there's no plan continuing on so
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it might be a short video it might be a
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long video we're just gonna
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wing it see what i did there with wing
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in it
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no chicken wing chicken wing legs
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linga looking good
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finger licking look at this guy right
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here
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did he have any idea that he was going
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to be known forever as the colonel
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emulated by so many actors you're like
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reaching out there
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you're trying to get the i'm trying to
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be the mirror image of this
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first celebrity chef some say that's
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what i heard i read that somewhere
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he was the original celebrity chef
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because he was he wasn't the first chef
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but he was the one who really wasn't the
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first celebrity
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but put the two together what a
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combination
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and he now has a bench
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right over here he created a benchmark
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for all to follow and it's been
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documented by this
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i think we spent too much time here i
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think it's time to move on dad
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there's something across the street we
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got to see before we leave
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okay a chest scent oh let's go size
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chest step
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we could almost recreate a beetle moment
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here yes oh you know what's very
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interesting
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what is that i have once again my
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beatles t-shirt on that's right you gave
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me this for christmas i did
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and i'm wearing that crossing over this
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is an abbey road
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but it kind of fits in with colonel
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walking across with the chickens i just
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realized
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why that chicken doesn't have shoes on
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the one chicken that doesn't have any
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shoes on paul wasn't wearing any shoes
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when he wasn't walking on the abbey road
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thing he got it
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i didn't put two and two together on
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that that is a pawn
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paw this is
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this is a white oh a white castle
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just like a little slider burger place
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that just opened in orlando nice tie-in
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that is a night that is a night here
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that's the king the
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you can move the first move of the pawn
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and go two up
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then you can take the bishop and go all
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the way to the end
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like so there you go do the horse over
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there you can go in an l
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shape don't fall and then the pawn to
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take out the bishop that's
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right just like that done yes yes
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crowd me
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we played a lot of ping pong together we
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played tennis together
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but we also played a lot of chess a lot
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of chess over the years
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got pretty pretty decent i mean i have a
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handle on
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how the the pieces move
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i was never any good i was not a chess
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master by any means but was i you did
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teach me
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all the moves of playing chess and i
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prefer chess over checkers
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there's a personally flying around your
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head a wisp
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i think you're sleep deprived
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is there a wasp on me why are you
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staring at me that way i'm looking for
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the risk he flew away i guess
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he's gone all right let's move on we
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spent too much time here
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now pulling over to the corbin tourism
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and convention commission where
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supposedly there is
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something interesting up here in front
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of the door
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if it still exists and there he is now i
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am completely mistaken on what i thought
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this was going to be
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i read online and
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i thought i read it was a chainsaw
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wielding kernel
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but no it is wielded out of a chainsaw
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it's it's the wood here it's been carved
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from a chainsaw i was expecting to see
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the kernel
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with a chainsaw pretty
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made out of a tree it is well check it
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out he has real glasses
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up there how about that need to chip off
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the old block
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now when i head over i said we're gonna
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go see the colonel with the chainsaw
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and you made a joke you want to repeat
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the joke remember what you said
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something about him being a cut up he's
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a real cut up he's a real cut up yeah
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we were also discussing how he was a
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very
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kind of a timid serious guy but over you
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know over time
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the commercials have kind of turned him
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into a cartoon character of sorts a real
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life cartoon character but he really
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wasn't that way he was very very serious
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businessman you know we were also
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talking about how
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he became obviously very successful in
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this business but in the early years
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he failed and failed it failed at
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getting people to take his franchise
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idea and make it a reality
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and how how discouraging that must have
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been in the beginning
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uh until finally he he didn't give up he
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kept going until finally people said you
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know i think this will work and
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my goodness the rest is history what's
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significant about the three chickens
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three chickens that's true the car the
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painting in town had three chickens
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the one with the shoes yeah and i'm just
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scared do these have shoes
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no shoes on these just wooden blocks
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just wooden blocks
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but yeah that's a good point every time
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he's around chickens
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there are three of them it's like the
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three amigos or the three stooges
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three three three blind three caballeros
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and the three chickens
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around the colonel and after carrying on
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a bit
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crossing over tennessee state line
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back in the day the tennessee emblem
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the slogan used to be the three states
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of tennessee
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there was western tennessee middle
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tennessee
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and eastern tennessee i say they don't
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use that anymore
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fueling up in rocky top tennessee
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i think that was a song about this town
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stop just outside chattanooga at a place
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called
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sir goonies which is a raceway and they
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were kind enough to let us walk over
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this is a muffler man called a muffler
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man because he used to hold a muffler
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now he's got a a wrench and a tire
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as well and it's right here along the
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track have you ever seen a muffler man
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you know it's interesting how the mind
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works yeah or maybe more correctly how
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the mind doesn't
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work okay when you said muffler me
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what did i what did you think i said i
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imagined a man whose
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arms and legs and torso and face
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were constructed out of a muffler
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mufflers no
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it's it's called that
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i'm glad the race cars aren't going by
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here it's called that because he was
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holding a muffler and
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these are this is like a piece of
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americana all over the u.s there's not a
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lot left
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but there is one here it's sir gooney's
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outside
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chattanooga maybe they should call him
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flat tire man
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flat tire and wrench man flat
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ridge tire man that's that's that's
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right flat
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tire man flinch man he's holding the
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wrench
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in an unusual spot right there in the
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middle right on the right
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tip of his feet you're not going to be
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able to turn any bolts like that
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and now going out of chattanooga
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and into what's that sign say welcome
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georgia and it appears as if we are in
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pine cone territory
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here in georgia we covered a lot of
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miles today i think
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that's going to do it for today right
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here at the state line
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the georgia welcome center you want to
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do the honors of the outro
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say are you licking your fingers the
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vlog
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is over nice hey
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yeah you hungry let's get something to
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eat
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you've been wanting this since corbin
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did everything you wish for
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we also notice that nowhere in the
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general vicinity
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out of every the last couple states you
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can't go inside any of the kfc's they're
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all drive through or take out only
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currently but we took it out