Grand Opening of Bucees in Daytona Beach Florida - Ribbon Cutting / Meeting The Governor & Much More
Opening Day of Buc-ees Dayton Beach Florida
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it is happening today's adventure
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brings me to daytona beach this beacon
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right here off of interstate 95
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daytona beach buckies has
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officially as of right my voice just
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cracked out of excitement
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has reared its head
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current time 10 15 a.m
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give or take a moment there is an
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inflatable
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right over here with a lot of
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look at all these little waving in the
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breeze
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those flags and there's not just
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one inflatable
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bucky the beaver but over there next to
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the hundred
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plus gas pumps is another inflatable
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where they're going to be doing the
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ribbon cutting
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in about 45 minutes
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is natalie here who has never been to a
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bucky's now i
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went to a bucky's last month
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precisely one month ago st
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augustine bucky's open and don't quote
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me on this but i believe this bucky
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is a little bit more
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gargantuan in size than the last
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previous spot we're gonna get some maybe
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get some beaver nuggets
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get some piping hot caffeinated beverage
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someone is honking
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witness history the second florida
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bucky's open you've never been to a
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bucky's texas based company
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and just see what's going on
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historic day what is your excitement
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level
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um like an 11 on a scale of one to ten
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yeah i guess i have a scale of one to
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twenty that would be like
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not so great let's get a tail
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a scale a scale of one to ten one to ten
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this one goes to eleven eleven let's get
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in there i'm ready to join me
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and natalie
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already a small congregation of folks
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here
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preparing about 40 minutes
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how's it going how you doing buddy
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i think you're doing the ribbon cutting
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at like
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you got the you got the face covered you
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got the hat i'm not playing you are
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excited about buckingham i love buckies
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me too because of your videos maybe you
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love books
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i love [\h__\h] stuff
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now i feel like i got to meet you so fun
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videos so 11am they're doing the ribbon
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cutting right yeah i know the
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government's supposed to be here too
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the governor's gonna be here the
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scientists you got detectives and
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desantis is gonna be here anything yes
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what he's flying from tallahassee as we
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see he's the one that stated
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that they have the cleanest bathrooms
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and he said you don't want if you're
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doing some traveling
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this is his quote not mine yes if you
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are traveling
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into florida you don't want to go into
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some cesspool
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to relieve yourself you want to go to
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bucky that's his quote not much not
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yours
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that's the governor's quote and that is
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true that is true
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i'm going to go inside meander around
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and come back out when this happens
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good to see you and they are they're
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doing some hiring here here are the
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wages
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that they are offering if you are if you
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are interested and then you get you know
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i have ice
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here out front small bags larger bags
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there's the inflatable there and just
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gonna head in
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see what's happening oh yeah look at
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this look at this little cute guy right
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down here
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good morning how are you fantastic you
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have quite a bit of
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you got some beaver nuggets you got a
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hat it is oh what would you say that
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you're doing a little
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a little exploring a little splurge and
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greg's here
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how's it going a little plush and i'm
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wearing i'm wearing my
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wearing an appropriate t-shirt yes well
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i am too i'm wearing an appropriate
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t-shirt also is this the one and only
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bucky
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good to see you bucky i like your hat up
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here i like the hat and the headphones
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i'm wearing the shirt as well i'm
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supporting the [\h__\h]
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community all right i'm going to be here
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for the ribbon cuttings i'll see you
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i'll see you around
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now ryan has just reminded me something
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he also heard this is the largest
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bucky's ever tell them here are you
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putting that into the universe
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i'm throwing it out you're throwing it
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out i don't know it's definitely larger
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than the saint augustine
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so i'm just going to leave it at that
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you ended up getting a blanket here and
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you got that you get jerky oh
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you stocked up completely i got a whole
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bag full of [\h__\h] got the
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the coffee mug a little bow
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you got a holder stickers for the tour
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those are good
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got the t-shirts for the kids for their
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jerky wall
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yep you just got you just got the the
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whole hidden caboodle down there
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and not only do they have a complete
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wall of sodas but you can get you know
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saltines you can get bean dip you can
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get
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fruit cups you can get salads and of
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course you can get
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you know a lot of meat products over
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there as well as all the merchandise is
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all way
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way over safari much like a walk over
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there as well oh they got some uh
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some delicious fudge down here hey good
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morning
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look at the butter pecan down here we
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got bucky over here just hanging out
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next to all this fudge i really like the
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mask do you want to get the
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[\h__\h] do you want to get the stuffed
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bucky the facial covering
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you should also get coffee at some point
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a sandwich what about these this could
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be like a nice dessert a nice delicious
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treat that's like a florida thing
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as it states here world famous jerky oh
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you look very beautiful
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very nice i like it
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there's bucky behind the wheel here but
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also bucky over here
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posing for more photographs i will say
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this is off
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they do some kind of a chant when the
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meat like goes on the cutting board over
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there what's some kind of champ they
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don't
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oh there we go they say fresh chopped
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brisket on the board oh he's cutting it
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up over here let's go walk over here and
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let's take a look at the
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look at this look at that that's what
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he's doing right there that's cool
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that's the brisket right there we should
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get a brisket sandwich oh my gosh
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wow he is uh he's an artist
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of sorts okay very nice piping hot
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caffeinated beverage has been procured
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cheers went with the small and i haven't
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tasted it quite yet because i see there
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is a real yeah there is a
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there are a lot of folks over here
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this is great classic car
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alert look at that thing that's nice
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hey how's it going
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this is a good turnout i was told i'm
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not allowed to walk past this
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cone this is as close as i can get i
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can't go past the cone so if i step
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any closer to this from the cone will
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get reprimanded
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as far as i can get to the cone i was
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just told i was standing up here and i
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was told i cannot be
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past the cone so
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don't go past the cones it's fine
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there's a cone here though
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oh no thankfully there's this guy get
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people behind
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the um this curb so if everyone could
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move
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basically behind the press behind these
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cameras
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and and keep this space completely empty
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um and then the people who are going to
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be speaking or
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in the photos can stand in this parking
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spot here please
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uh i'd really appreciate it thank you so
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much
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now the gentleman over there he has uh
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he has a bucky's flag that he is waving
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there
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waving in the breeze he's also got a
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selfie stick and even from where i'm
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standing you can see the inscription
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right there on the overpass that says
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daytona beach
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could this be him rolling in with the
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escort here
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possibly i think it might be i think
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it's happening
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oh there he is there's the governor
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who's inside
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you know they say in texas how they do
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things big well we have big
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hearts in daytona beach and volusia
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county and i couldn't be prouder to see
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the turnout
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to welcome this new facility we have a
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number of elected officials that are
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here today that i would like to
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recognize and we are not asking them all
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to speak but we would like to recognize
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their
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uh presence here and thank them for all
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of their efforts in bringing the
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facility here as well
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and i'm going to quickly go through
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these because we really want to hear
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from the governor
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we want to hear from mr aplin about why
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he chose daytona beach in this exciting
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day today
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so we have mayor derrick henry with us
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dana
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daytona beach commissioner paula reed
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representative will roberts the tax
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collector for volusia county
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and we have our city manager jim
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chisholm we also have
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several other officials here keith
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norton with team volusia our recruitment
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arm for volusia county
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along with staff members heather
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sherberg and chris wimsetter in the
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crowd
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chamber and the entire business
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community welcome to daytona beach
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buggies
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and uh without further ado it's my great
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pleasure to see my time to
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our fearless leader the governor of the
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great state of florida ron desantis
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well thank you this is really exciting
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to be here i must say
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as somebody who used to drive 95
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up and down this congressional district
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and driven all over the state
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i know my way around uh rest stops and
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service stations and everything like
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that
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and i got to tell you bucky's this is
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like the shangri-la
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shirt service station you go look in
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there all the different things that they
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have i mean you have all these people
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both local and visitors that are going
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to be coming down this way
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what better place to stop than here
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where you can literally have anything
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that you want really in addition to
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filling up your tank
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um you know beaver when he came to see
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me a couple years ago now i think
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and was talking about it the expansion
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to florida and they had identified
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daytona beach and st
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augustine and and fort myers and i told
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him i said
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you will do very well in florida i was
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like you know because we have visitors
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we have people coming here
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and everything like that and so it's
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really good to see this come to fruition
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i was here for
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the groundbreaking which was when
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probably two years ago something like
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that 2019
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2020 something like that a year ago i
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think yeah i think he came to see me two
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years ago so
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so you're doing that and then here and i
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can tell you
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i knew about bucky's i had heard all
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these great things it's like a legend in
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texas
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as a gas station connoisseur myself as
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someone that's been traveling around the
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state for years and years
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it's something that i'm that i got
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excited about but i had never actually
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been
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in a bucky's until today and i think
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that it exceeded my expectations and so
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i'm excited there are so many people in
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there that were really excited about
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about being here but i think what it
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shows is
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you know if you look around the country
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you have businesses closing in a lot of
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these states
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florida we have businesses opening
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that open within the last month or so so
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february 22nd in saint augustine
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it's now their number two performing
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store in the country
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just right here
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and look i mean i know this whole
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stretch in 95. so i'm not surprised it's
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done well
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but i got to think this one's going to
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do awfully well as well so
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we're excited about the progress i think
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this is symbolic of a state
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people want to be in florida or i would
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be here very very
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windy so bieber why don't you come up
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here and say a few things
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good afternoon everyone uh thank you for
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for uh showing up and and governor thank
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you he did make that commit to me
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commitment a few years ago that uh he
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would be here for the ground breaking in
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the ground
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in the grand opening if we pulled this
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thing off and we did and
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um he's fulfilled his commitment we
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fulfilled our commitment and
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and now my next commitment to you guys
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and it's exactly what the governor
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mentioned is
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we aim to exceed your expectations
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that's
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kind of really all we that that's how we
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kind of boil down our
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our business model or our business
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statement is to exceed your expectations
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and so
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uh we're excited about being here um
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he's right the
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um st augustine has has exceeded our
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expectations we hope we've exceeded
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uh theirs and uh we have a lot of
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buckies people here
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and we are committed to bringing the
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best service
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uh to the state of florida bucky's and
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and
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and what we plan on doing for the
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community and for the traveling public
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how many gas stations are here
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gas pumps yeah i guess so there's a 120
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fueling position
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he didn't mention you know they take
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pride in everything like two years on a
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long trip you may need to
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take a break that's right and have some
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relief yes these
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bathrooms are the cleanest bathrooms
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you've ever seen that's right i don't
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want to use those cesspools
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that's true i don't want to use that
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cesspool
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thank you all for coming out
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welcome beaver the governor and all the
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officials here today wait for bucky
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wait wait for bucky wait for bucky don't
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do it
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wait wait for bucky he's coming in hold
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on
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bucky almost missed it that would not
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have been good
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oh
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that was pretty cool there is uh yeah
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there's a lot of people here
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this is an event this is one for the
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document for the ages you're driving
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down 95.
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well if i remember driving down 95 at
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any point up or down
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95 north or south i could say i went to
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the grand opening of that
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i saw the ribbon cutting
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this was unexpected i knew they were
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going to do a ribbon cutting but i
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didn't realize it was going to be
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be like this wow another classic car
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alert this
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is number one number one
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i'm gonna try to get a word in word in
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edgewise with him and just
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see if he's tried the beaver nugget you
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got it i see that i know you said i know
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you said this is your first time in
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there but have you tried the beaver
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nuggets yet i've not tried anything yet
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i recommend the beaver yeah yeah no i
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mean next time you're here i mean
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honestly like
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not get it up if i didn't have this here
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i probably would have spent 50 bucks in
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there on all that stuff
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i got the last interview
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thank you all right after all that
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excitement back inside gonna do a little
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a little shopping in here get a few
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mementos little souvenirs
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i'm glad i'm not the only one in here
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with a camera what's that
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that guy there he's got a white white a
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um
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quite a camera rig quencher thirst
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bucky style how much is that eight bucks
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that's not bad it's not bad at all bad
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at all goes well with
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every flavor of fudge every flavor of
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fudge and
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54 ounces of coffee a little something
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for the sweet tooth a little something
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for
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for uh lunch or dinner time yeah every
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[\h__\h] someone just broke something
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i believe i saw you at the opening in
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saint augustine yeah you did and you
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were saying you were the meat manager
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you were
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you were like i am the barbecue
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bitmaster for monkeys welcome to bucky
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we're gonna let this dry come in
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oh yeah so as we do we have a crazy uh
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the barbecue pit master for bucky he's a
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pit master
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so welcome to bucky's and of course
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we're in the texas roundup
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right here this is where the magic
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happens
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not only do we break down the brisket
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right here on the board in front of
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everybody
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we make the sandwiches because we want
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you to see how much meat these
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sandwiches truly have
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what do you recommend if i got one meat
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item oh i go brisket
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hands down from texas it's welcome
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i'm gonna get a brisket sandwich game
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changer let me tell you about the
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brisket okay the brisket and egg taco
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outsells the bacon egg and cheese tacos
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in the morning and that's a classic but
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let's go to lunch and dinner lunch and
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dinner
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the brisket chop brisket sandwich
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outsells the 59-cent soda
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yeah give me an idea that's how many how
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much load that brisket gets i'm gonna do
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it i like
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all right oh we got more coming in all
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right thank you
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nice seeing you again nice talking to
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you i got some souvenirs
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i feel like i do need a soda i think
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this gentleman's going to get himself
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so i'm going to get a soda i'm going to
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go with the orange dreamsicle
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so i'm getting the orange dreamsicle
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what are you going with cherry lime
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going with the cherry lime this is gonna
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go with oh i over filled it
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okay go in with the chopped brisket
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right here so we need two of these right
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chopped brisket barbecue sandwiches
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one two and maybe how about a couple of
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those
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really loading up on the merchandise
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here we're really getting quite a few
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items
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throughout the course of this yeah we're
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gonna have a lot of stuff
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always good to see
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[\h__\h] you got the covering here
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as well it's not a thought
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it's not what you would you would think
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of it's like a little bit larger he's
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using an entire t-shirt
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to cover up i'm going to use the t-shirt
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that looks parched maybe want like a sip
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of his beverage
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this is the chop where's this again this
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is the chopped chopped brisket chopped
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brisket
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the vlog is over