Opening Day of The First Buc-ees in Florida / Ribbon Cutting & Meeting Bucee In Saint Augustine
Opening Day of First Buc-ees in Florida
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it has finally happened
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like a beacon
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welcoming travelers off of
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interstate 95 either north or southbound
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just outside saint augustine
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just shy of jacksonville florida
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bucky
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the beaver has
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arrived
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in florida
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with a location that has over 100
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gas pumps you can see they are the fuel
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trucks are still there today
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is the opening day
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it is a historic
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occasion
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for the texas based company
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here in florida
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their first spot ever
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current time 9 00 a.m
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i believe the doors opened at six it was
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about a two and a half hour drive for me
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from celebration florida
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and i can see a rather large
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over there kind of blown up saying come
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on over
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do your intro here in front of me
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okay bucky i will
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welcome everyone out of the woo here
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this is kind of a big deal by the way
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i'm wearing an appropriate
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t-shirt that i purchased on my last road
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trip through the frozen tundras of texas
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now i have been
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visiting frequenting documenting even in
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videos over the past seven or eight
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years
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this establishment so this kind of holds
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a special place in my heart for me
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personally i always refer to this as the
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disneyland of convenient stores rest
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stops a
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there is so much
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that really is inside i'm gonna go
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inside see what kind of maybe new
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merchandise they have specifically for
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florida and at 11 a.m within an hour and
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a half two hours they are supposed to be
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doing an official
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ribbon cutting and i wanted to be here
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for that just
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to document this for posterity i'm
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inviting you to join me
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shall you just to give you a perspective
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of the size of that
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that balloon over there
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this is a jacksonville
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news van which is just up the up the way
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it's kind of halfway between st
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augustine
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and jacksonville
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near the international golf parkway
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well right off of it in fact
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but yeah there are a lot of people
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fueling up
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getting gas
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good to see this here in florida
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they are currently hiring here is
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here are the wages they are offering
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still need some employees
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in there and look over here here is
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here's bucky right here
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wearing an appropriate
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covering
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yeah look
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he has a
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there's a bird here a parrot some sort
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of bird
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wearing a hawaiian shirt
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and holding a a beverage
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yeah nice
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now every one of the locations has one
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of these
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out front you can well probably right
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now is not the time because normally you
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could shake his hand give him like a
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little fist bump
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that's kind of the he's the icon he's
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the mascot
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it's his business
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i appreciate the invite
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well i i wasn't invited i just showed up
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on my own accord but you know what i
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mean along the outside they have all
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their barbecue grills
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and if you need ice there are plenty
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there's you know small bags
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large bags
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prices as follows 99 cents for the small
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large for
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1.79 and then more grills around here
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and there's even more pumps
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around this corner this is the opposite
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side
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of where i started as i walk around you
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can just see
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you will not really have too much
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trouble
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finding well actually over here they
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don't have the gas pumps on so you would
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have trouble finding finding fuel on
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this side well maybe not
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someone's parked there okay the other
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are operational maybe these aren't
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turned on yet
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there's some pallets i thought there was
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going to be an entrance on that side but
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there's not there's only one on the
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middle section over here on this side as
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well as on the other end
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but i was around the the receiving
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section there where the bay doors are
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where everything is kind of loaded and
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all the
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the products and things for sale i'm
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gonna step inside now
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i like your shirt
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yeah i know i'm wearing one too
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all right now here go back in the
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entrance we've done a full circle
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there's that news van there
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going in
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i did not realize the real the real
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bucky would be here saying welcoming me
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in hello bucky i'm so glad you're here
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in florida you made the commute i just
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love the fact that he's right here
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saying hi to everyone as they walk in
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that is so dang cool everyone's all
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lined up trying to get some breakfast
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items they prepare everything right here
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there's a deli counter over there they
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have a lot of food in here and there are
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some nuts stewing around down in there
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look at them kind of just like stewing
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around you can get the pecans right over
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here they have little kiosks where you
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can order hot dogs chicken tenders wraps
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tacos burritos and after you order it
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they prepare them over there and then
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they call your number and then you go
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get you go get your item that you that
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you ordered to consume they are known
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for their world famous jerky
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wall and over here is the merchandise
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that is specific to this location right
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there okay so i guess technically it is
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the saint augustine and if you're out of
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gas go to bucky's and fuel up check this
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out you squeeze him and then he pops out
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like a little like a ping pong ball
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right there it's air powered this is a
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pretty good one too yeah i like this i
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like this design right here with it's
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almost like the road trip style maybe
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i'll look into getting this that would
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be oh there's one of those full body
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suits
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over here look at this like a full-size
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bodysuit
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they're also really known for their
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brisket which they sell by the pound
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sliced or chopped and if you need
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something really quick and on the go you
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can get any number of these items little
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breakfast burritos a
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beast taco
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or a
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bacon egg and cheese biscuit or a rhino
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taco i had some of these beaver tots
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before
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pretty good
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oh dang i didn't realize this is all
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jerky as well right here along the case
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they have so much jerky and more or less
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a full bakery with cookies cupcakes and
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other donuts but i'm gonna get myself a
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piping hot caffeinated
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coffee
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piping hot beverage plenty of options
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here too as well and they have tea
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and an ice machine and down at the other
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end a wall of ices i just really love
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anything with a mascot involved see
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there he is right there he's kind of
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strolling
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through the store right there somebody
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else wants a photo
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a photo of it they also have fudge and
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they have a coffee that you can take
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home with you as well as these k cups
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which i have a few of i do still have
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some beaver nuggets left over so i don't
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know if i'm gonna buy any but maybe i'll
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maybe i'll get some you can never have
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too many
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beaver nuggets first time ever seeing
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this place with the florida
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the florida logos on it that is look at
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this happy place and this is what we're
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dealing with i got a sausage
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croissant
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sausage egg i have to open it up and say
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i think it's a sausage egg croissant and
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a medium
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coffee with just a little they put the
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sugar i put a little creamer in it it
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was the the creamer that has like the
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added sugar so i guess time to go there
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sugar
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one thing about this place however they
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they do not allow truckers in the
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parking lot so you cannot have an
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18-wheeler you can't pull your rig into
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here
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it's only for travelers and vehicles
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motorcycles the likes of that just
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because it's probably not enough room
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there's a lot of room for cars but
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those would fill up very quickly i guess
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that is the the reasoning behind it but
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yeah i got my
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got my snack here is 3.48 this is a egg
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and cheese croissant
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and whoops i am
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kind of starting to
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there we go
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all right let's go into this
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oh it's really good the cheese is really
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good
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another thing i'm noticing there's no
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tables or chairs outside so even though
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after you order your food or you get a
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little pickup item and walk outside
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there's nowhere to sit probably to to
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curb the loitering
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that might consist because there's a lot
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of activity a lot of
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traffic through here but today while
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probably in general i'm noticing quite a
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few people are tailgating with their
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trucks they have their
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the back of their
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their truck beds down
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and they're just kind of sitting doing
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some tailgating
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they promote and
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heavily state that they have the
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cleanest restrooms anywhere in fact when
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governor desantis was doing a press
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conference at the daytona beach
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spot that will open a month
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from today they are still under
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construction making that the second one
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he stated that when you are traveling
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and you need to these are his words when
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you have to relieve yourself you do not
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want to go into some
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cesspool i think he likes buckies too it
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also is not a publicly traded company on
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the stark stock market in fact i looked
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it's a private entity you can as far as
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i know you can't buy stocks because i
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thought man this place is
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this place is taking over
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they are popping up everywhere
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might be a good investment if
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you work for the company maybe i don't
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know i'm not not an expert on that kind
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of stuff i also kind of thought that
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maybe
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maybe the governor would be here today
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possibly i mean he was at the ground
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breaking in daytona
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so would he be at the first one
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wait and see
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okay take a listen take pride in having
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the cleanest bathroom
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and to be honest i am all for that there
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are so many different there are a lot of
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units in there there are a lot of stalls
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there's a lot of hand sanitizer next to
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every single
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place that you need to you know to do
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your business
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so not not a
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not a bad thing or just take a picture
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it really is a beehive of activity in
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here is it not it is starting to fill up
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dramatically up there goes bucky
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skipping through there they're cutting
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the brisket over there as we speak i
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would say this is off to a very good
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first day a very good start to say the
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least and these are bandanas 21 inches
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like 21 inches and they also have i
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think that was like a facial covering oh
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these are
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neck gators by three oh no i just
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thought neck gators were spelled like
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the gator like an alligator
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but it's not he's got you got one of
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these on honey which one of these is
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that this one here no well this one's a
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homemade from uh my mom made it oh okay
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i actually run the barbecue okay
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so my when this all went down i said mom
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i need some ass so we actually took the
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pajama pants that are oversold in the
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back right and she made me about a dozen
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of them i like it thank you i'm wearing
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a bucky shirt right now i noticed so i'm
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supporting it no but i travel light10 a
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lot so awesome yeah
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well i like the mask thank you i'm
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sticking around for the for the ribbon
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oh that's going to be great awesome
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awesome all right cool nice talking to
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you thank you yeah there there are a lot
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of employees very busy there are a lot
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of guests in here to accommodate they
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are working hard
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i'm gonna try the orange orange
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dreamsicle flavor i already had a coffee
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but i think i'm gonna go with orange
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dreamsicle you know might as well since
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i'm here kind of a winning row moment
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went ahead and picked this up as well
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you know years from now down the road
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i'll look at this on my fridge and think
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gosh there's like 30 of these in the
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state now and i was at the first one
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that opened so a little documentation a
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little souvenir
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as well
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can i make my way over to the to the
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balloon where they're going to do the
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ribbon cutting in about
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20 minutes parking lot appears to have
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have filled up quite nicely not a lot of
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spots left i see one or two for my
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peripheral
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and there's a little congregation of
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folks already
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starting to formulate over there
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i did talk to
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someone inside and they said the mayor
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definitely will be here but no word on
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desantis
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the mayor that'd be pretty cool to see
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the mayor what maybe saint augustine
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mayor or jacksonville i would guess
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probably saying augustine
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i think that's the technical town this
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is a gotta move fast to get those spots
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one opened up
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someone darted in there
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noticing over there people are walking
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across the road they parked in the
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neighborhood
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across the way just there
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there's not a lot of parking through
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it's a big day
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oh look at that
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those are those brisket sandwiches
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right there you see he's cutting up the
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fresh biscuit
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over there hey how's it going
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this is a brisket sandwich right
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there oh pulled pork okay
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okay
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all right thanks pulled pork
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you guys are dressed accordingly
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oh you haven't even seen the best part
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oh
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oh you have the scrunchie there as well
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now do you guys live locally mexico are
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you excited about bucky's coming to
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florida oh yeah we had to be here for
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those for the first time ever yeah
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count down 13 minutes
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ah she's crying bucky
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can be frightening to some
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hello everybody i want to thank you guys
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for for coming out
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um
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to the store opening here in st
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augustine st john's county this is our
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first florida storm
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and
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we're super excited about it
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we're a texas company and i've been
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thinking about dreaming about uh opening
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the store in florida for a long long
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time
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and so it's been a long time coming uh
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we're excited about it
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we hope that you appreciate and enjoy
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what we bring to the community
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and the facility the service the people
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i hope i hope that
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that
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we exceed all of y'all's expectations
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whatever you've heard or you thought i
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hope i hope that you
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uh really enjoy the shopping experience
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we're family we're family owned family
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ran
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we have a lot of our
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just great people here that are with us
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i hope you all find that we'll be a good
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member of the community
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not only with the employment base and
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the pay scale that we pay
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but just everything that we're involved
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in in the community so this is a big
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deal for
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for me and it's a big deal for our
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company
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and we're just excited and i want to
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thank the county commissioner and we
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have lots of ambassadors out here to
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welcome us and welcome all of you guys
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so god gave us a gorgeous day
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and uh
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in texas i say god bless texas here i
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will say god bless florida
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thank you
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well on behalf of the board of county
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commissioners for st john's county i'd
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like to welcome puppies to st johns
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county
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it's only fitting that the first shop
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they built in florida was built in saint
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augustine area
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so just get them ready and sam's going
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to count
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through one and we're going to take a
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practice cut
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and then he's going to say three two one
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and you're gonna cut and we're all gonna
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go whew
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all right everyone look at us look
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forward
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all right guys i'm gonna have to pet it
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all right
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everybody ready
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all right beaver we're gonna cut on
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through you ready practice cut
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all right you're gonna real cut on three
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you ready
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all right here we go one
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two
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three cut it
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first floor of store is now officially
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open
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that's gonna do it for today
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