How I Spent Thanksgiving Day 2023 - Giving Thanks & Spending Time With Family / Golden Corral Buffet
Happy Thanksgiving 2023
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here Happy
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Thanksgiving as a recording of this it
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is Thursday November 23rd the
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day to give thanks and I must say I'm
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pretty grateful for my
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life how things have worked out for
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myself over the past 10 or 12 years
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personally and from a business
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standpoint from a career standpoint if
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you
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will starting this YouTube channel not
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even knowing what the future
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held and just kind of seeing the
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timeline I'm inviting you to join me
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today just going to throw it out there
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real quick just kind of get that out of
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the way no real Rhyme or Reason what I'm
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doing today well there a couple things
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my mom and dad are driving up from their
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home and they're going to be meeting
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here meeting me here in about an hour or
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two we are going to end up getting some
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food my mom said she did not want to
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cook a big meal did not want me to go to
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to their place because during Christmas
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time she is going to pull out all the
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stops and cook a SCH morish Borg of food
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for the entire family so today said I
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don't really feel like cooking I said
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celebration they're going to make the
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commute up not too far they're only
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about a half hour 45 minutes from here
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and we're just going to kind of meander
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around this area and go to a buffet
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which should be interesting I've never
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been to a Thanksgiving Buffet
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assuming that we can get in there I
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would imagine you don't have to get
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reservations about a mile that way right
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across on 192 but they have turkey they
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have stuffing they have mashed potatoes
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they have cranberry sauce I thought
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about possibly the three of us going
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over to a Disney Resort my mom's a
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passholder my dad is not an annual
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passholder even though they do have
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Thanksgiving meals in the
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park be way too difficult and too hectic
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to try to get in there and eat a
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traditional Thanksgiving meal so we're
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going to stay off of out of the Disney
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parks and I was also looking up
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steakhous 71 they have a traditional at
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contemporary and the portion size look
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really small the last thing on
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Thanksgiving that you want to do is not
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be really full this is a day not only
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for gratefulness but also for
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gluttony buffet buffet time I'm inviting
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you to join
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me thanks for watching shall you later
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on this evening I'm going to throw the
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Blu-ray on of Planes Trains and Auto is
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a tradition where every year there are a
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couple times I do not have the chance
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but I would say probably for the last
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decade or
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so every once in a while there'll be a
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year where it doesn't happen but I will
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watch Planes Trains at automobiles
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greatest Thanksgiving film probably ever
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made and probably up there with the top
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one of the top films ever made John
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Hughes so I'll be doing that a little
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bit later
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obviously that'll be like late that'll
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be later tonight in the comfort of my
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own
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apartment right now it's 11:00 go going
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to be a really lowkey day and a low-key
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episode I wanted to just document the
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day got some local residents out riding
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their bikes the tree is up not no snoke
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yet no tree lighting yet that happens
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post
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Thanksgiving so basically Christmas has
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been going on you know Christmas pretty
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much starts especially in the theme park
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world right after Halloween I mean
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Halloween soon as Halloween starts
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October 31st in you know Halloween ends
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immediately Christmas kicks off on
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November 1st when it when it comes to
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the themed world but in the quote
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unquote normal World it starts off right
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after Thanksgiving is Christmas time not
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Christmas day but Christmas time so that
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is when everything goes into full-on
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Christmas thing but you can't you can't
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slip over Thanksgiving Thanksgiving is
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very important and it's wedged in
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between two massive consumeristic
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holidays
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of Halloween and Christmas but don't
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sleep on Thanksgiving you got to feed
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that belly not that I've been doing
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really well with how I've been eating
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hav't been doing horrible haven't gone
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completely off the rails I've been
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moderately like one foot on the rail and
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the rest of my body leaning off the rail
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today all bets are off there's no diey
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on Thanksgiving we're crying in baseball
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and there's no dieting and no watching
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what you eat on turkey day even if you
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don't eat turkey if you choose not to
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eat turkey that's
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fine shove your face full of lots of
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other
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things just come on do it strictly
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enforced by the new
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generation toway Zone because they are
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this this whole area down here you can
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no longer drive down Market Street and
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you will not be able to drive down
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Market Street until after New
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Year's so within the last week or two
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they put all this up and there will be
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no vehicles on Market Street for 112th
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of the Year actually probably oneth of
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the year because halfway through
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November let's say 1/10th of the Year
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Market Street is not accessible to
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vehicles and we don't have real ice here
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this is a fake ice plastic ice that you
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can ice skate on one day I'm going to go
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to New York and I'm going to go just to
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the the big Christmas tree there and the
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ice skating ring from Home Alone 2 one
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day but not this year very pleasant
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right now it's 63° it's only going to
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get up to 69 it's only going to be 1°
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below 70 definitely thankful for cool
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right there I'm also thankful that cool
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is staying on that lower step and not
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like charging towards my feet but look
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he's just like relaxing right here on
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the first step right here Lake along the
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front cusp of Lake Reinhard right there
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look at him he's like eyeballing me
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enjoying enjoying the weather out here
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behind what if anyone's giving him any
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turkey you shouldn't never feed an
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alligator do you think there's any any
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turkeys floating around in here I mean
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there's a goose over there not the same
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thing but yeah you probably should need
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a turkey yeah you probably should need a
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a turkey cool look at this though he's
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just like relaxing right there that's
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great just just like uh nest in those
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little little toies on the
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concrete one day I would like to have
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one of these little carts right there
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they're kind of hard to find though I
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don't really know where you'd buy
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something like that but they got the
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Christmas trees up here they are
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completing the little gingerbread house
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which is where Santa is going to be
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nestled in there to meet everyone here
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in town down the road not not today but
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yeah all right it's really busy inside
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the Starbucks really really busy inside
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the Starbucks they close it for today
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peppermint latte normal peppermint latte
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hot with two pumps of mocha instead of
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the five so about half mocha for
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Alden oh man it was busy in there it was
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hard it's hard to it's hard to hear it I
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mean there was like so many freaking
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people in there a very pleasant day
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weatherwise Vibe wise Ambiance
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wise lot of wisdom flowing through
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celebration right now on Thanksgiving
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Day 2023 people out walking their dogs
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got some crows over there on that trash
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can you got people riding their bikes
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going by I'm standing here at the
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fountain drinking my Alden Starbucks
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Coffee fresh coffee fresh piping hot
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beverage as well cool is over there well
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cool was over
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there still no sign of Howard the Duck
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which is normally right there with that
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PVC oh I think I think Howard's just
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gone I think it's just gone just a nice
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relaxing day sometimes it's nice to
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enjoy a holiday not really go too
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intensely I did two of the Disney theme
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park Christmas parties one at Hollywood
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Studios a couple nights ago and then
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last night I did it at Magic Kingdom and
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let me tell you they kind of wore me out
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so T today it's kind of nice to have a
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more relaxing lowkey kind of D it's it's
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going to be nice that is like
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effervescently flowing right
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there those two little little holes like
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beaming the water up
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there now even though technically
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celebration is CMI downtown CMI is 10
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miles away Miami
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192 Captiva Island over there St Pete P
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Canaveral even have Boston on there was
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just recently in Boston and then you got
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Burbank it's like over there written on
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this side it's interesting why they I
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guess probably they put Burbank over
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there cuz that's where Walt Disney
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Studios is I don't know why Boston I
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don't know why they chose Boston and not
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like New York City not that it has
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anything to do with Disney but and I
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heard a rumor that when they first
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created celebration back in the mid99s
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and they built this Fountain they
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misspelled Walt Disney World I think
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it's said wad Disney World I'm try I'm
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still trying to find a photo
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documentation of that there's a heavy
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rumor on the locals here but they
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misspell Walt Disney World they spelled
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it wad
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Disney kind of wish it still was wad
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Disney World I've never noticed that
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this was the slogan here Celebration
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Florida you've got to see this place and
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this is located on the around the other
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side of the guide map here the general
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layout of the land which back in the day
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when it first opened had boats in the
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water there there are no boats in the
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water anymore but I kind of wish there
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would be boats in the water think it
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kind of add to the Ambiance a little bit
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if you're familiar with celebration you
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know downtown is very difficult to find
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parking especially the two lots beside
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Market Street take a look at this
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sometimes there's not even one spot
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open I don't know if I've ever seen this
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parking lot this
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empty which is good
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everyone just going spending time with
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friends and family probably traveling
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leaving town going over to to other
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places but this is a rarity just just to
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show that and right there look there's
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just like a bunch of street
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parking and then over
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here rarely if ever cuz this is a
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smaller lot is there a spot
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day it's like Twilight Zone which is
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interesting because the Starbucks when I
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got my coffee was insanely busy like
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next level
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busy much as be people who live in the
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immediate area that just walked
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in something's going on up here the
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little dock up here has closed down not
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really sure what happened the family
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over there at the bike runn place that
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must be one of their little scooters
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sidewalk closed cross here something
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happened it looks structurally sound
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is such a nice day out earlier this
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month I was able to go I was up in the
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Boston area in that area went down
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towards Plymouth Massachusetts the
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Plymouth Rock the pilgrims were saw the
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Mayflower
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2 so kind of need to do that in the
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month of Thanksgiving I'm glad I did
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that I never been
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there some Cypress knees right here
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cypress tree and Cypress knees cuz
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they're smaller and they look like knees
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as I was walking over there a couple
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were walking and they go are you taking
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photos I go I'm taking some video I go
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there's an otter over there just keep
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walking so I kept walking they kept
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going on I never found the otter I've
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never seen an otter in this Lake I don't
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know if they were pulling my leg pulling
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my chain but I would like to see an
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otter if there's an otter in here which
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I don't know if there is but they said
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there was I've seen Gators in here and
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I've seen birds and I've seen Turtles
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but I have not seen an otter so I don't
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know if that's true or maybe could be
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whenever I hear the word otter or see an
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otter how cute they are I think of the
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Dennis L no cure for cancer comedy skit
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which I'm kind of paraphrasing but how I
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you know you only only consume consume
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animals that aren't cute CU we only we
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only save the cute ones I'm an otter I
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swim around on my hands and do cute
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little human tricks with my hands you're
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free to go what are you I'm a cow get on
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the truck pal all right got the Nativity
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up over here o and it looks like baby
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Jesus is intact in future in previous
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not future in previous years they didn't
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have this around the
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Nativity but you know over time they got
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to put stuff up like that because
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sometimes people would come in
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here and I had seen that the baby Jesus
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was not in there
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and I was kind of reading some stuff
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online it seems as if when it comes to
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nativities sometimes that is the thing
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that a lot of people just want to take
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which is like horrible like I don't know
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why but they got this around it and they
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also have this Plexi around it so don't
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don't steal
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that also there's also I've mentioned
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this in the past like why that why you
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know Jesus went down in there and some
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people have the theory that he will not
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be in there until
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till till the day after
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Christmas that's what some say because
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he didn't arrive until then but clearly
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he's right there right now on
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Thanksgiving I don't know and even
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though how Howard the decoy duck is now
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a
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PVC I think the new
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thing new character of Celebration if
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you will I showed the other day but one
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is the
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cone it's the dirty cone down there in
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the water looks like a koi fish but it's
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not a fish they were
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cones celebration
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cone that's a serious amount of birds up
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there in those
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trees
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right all right we have arrived at the
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Golden Corral on Highway 192 the line is
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insane which makes sense buff I open 10
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to 10 it's about Mom and Dad got into
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town it's about 225 now which is kind of
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hanging out with them catching up
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haven't seen them in a little while
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we're going to get in line the fun fact
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years ago this used to be Water Mania
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the slogan was catch a wave at Water
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Mania now Water Mania is gone was a
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water park and now there's some
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restaurants some hotels things like that
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located here at Camden Town Square yeah
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look over there look at the
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line think there's a lot of people that
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don't want to cook
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though want to say hi Mom hey Happy
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Thanksgiving everybody Happy
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Thanksgiving you've been to Golden cral
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for Thanksgiving once before right yes a
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long time ago how was it it was
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delicious everything you could think of
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my Dad's here as Welly
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I was on Facebook the other day and I
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was rudely interrupted by a jogger that
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bounced off my
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windshield dad you remember what this
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used to be years ago this this property
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right here I think this was the Water
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Mania Place yeah the wave remember the
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wave pool yeah the wave pool they used
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to sound some kind of an alarm a horn or
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something they got out
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there and then this big tsunami came
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whing you up yeah back up into the
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picnic tables it was
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amazing it does seem to be moving pretty
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quick seems to be I think they're just
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running about the
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other all the tables are full folks keep
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keep moving keep moving that's keep
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moving oh yeah and there's not a lot of
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places that I don't think Buffet wise
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that have like the full
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Thanksgiving there's not many buffet
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places period they're kind of like a
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thing of the past y when pmic came lot
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of them went out of business that's true
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not Golden Corral they still holding
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strong and obviously there's plenty of
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people it's like even Batman has showed
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up to get his Thanksgiving Buffet on The
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Dark Knight is
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yeah it was tough to find parking but we
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did find a parking
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spot our shrewd driver I'm the driver
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I'm I'm a shrewd you're a shrewd driver
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oh yeah searching your Columbo skills
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Columbo like research
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skills I will admit when we first pulled
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in here I did not think this live will
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be moving this quickly but it's moving
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pretty
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fast you know what kind of plants these
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are flowers those are that's a shrub
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butun that what is
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itun
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no those are sprinkl wrinkles all right
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they're holding the spot in line I just
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realized left my wallet in the car my
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wallet's gone I think he took his wallet
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I think he took his wallet it's 280s
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references there throw and back when
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this was Water Mania in the early '90s
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my sister and I came here my sister is
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going to be down here hopefully for the
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Christmas season next month so she was
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able to make it down for Thanksgiving
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but her and I attended a ranger Bob
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television production Ranger Bob was a
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TV personality in the '90s around here
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and at the wave pool me and her we're in
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an episode of the Ranger Bob TV I've
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never been able to find never been to
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dig through the interwebs or find the
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ranger Bob episode my sister and I were
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on it and also the guy that played
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Ranger Bob years later worked at
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Hollywood Studios as one of the street
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performers the citizens of America back
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the citizens of Hollywood I should say
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at MGM Studios before they started to
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like downgrade the amount of performers
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are there now there like hardly any but
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originally they were like 30 and then it
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went down to like 20 and then 12 and
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then six he was like one of the original
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ones the guy who played Ranger Bob went
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on to work at MGM wish I could find
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those clips at Water Mania catch away I
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just realized what everybody's in line
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for yeah the cof there's $25 Universal
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Studio
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tickets that's what this Line's for the
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time
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share $25 tickets one free Park ticket
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or $150 cash yep now I know why the
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line's like
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this also legol land oh Legoland's $25
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SeaWorld's $35 good good deal all right
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their business hours are 10:00 a.m. to 0
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p.m. 10 a.m. to Z I don't need to
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have they're open till 10: so big thanks
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to the Golden Corral and the workers for
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being open to serice a nice traditional
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meal the whole tourist Mecca in here you
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take a look at the line out the door
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now yeah a holiday dinner to enjoy over
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and over and over and over again holiday
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Buffet traditional holiday favorites
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turkey ham and holiday beef roast a
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little uh green beans a little mashed
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potatoes and gravy you got the turkey
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here you got the bread up top they don't
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really call it all you can eat anymore
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they just say holiday under over and
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over again usually now it's called all
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you care to enjoy voted the best buffet
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in the US might be the only buffet in
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the US that's even still exists I almost
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feel like we're in line for
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Ratatouille right feel like we're in
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line for Ratatouille right now we run
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out of food before we get we did that
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time before we got up there get our
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broke down we have the worst luck with
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rid we wait in a long line and then when
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it's time to get on the ride it breaks
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down we run out of Foo we know we're
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curse m
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we been on two rides that have broken
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down what we waited like an hour in line
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for I was looking for the price it's $1
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19.99 make memories around our table
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1999 all right there's a Corral of
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people right here that were about to
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join and there's a lady with a walkie
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talkie letting everyone know to move up
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to the line for the buffet all right
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step one is done
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we've made it into the second q
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line all right the employee with the
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walkie-talkie gave us the table for
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three over here so the line starts here
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and stretches there's two lines one and
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one it goes all the way over to the
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Buffet
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Grill and got two plates each just in
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case cuz you definitely don't want to
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fill up one plate and then wait another
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20 minutes on the line to get back up
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for the meats and stuff so we're going
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to fill two plates up each all right
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that was a little bit of a challenge but
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not too terribly about it did move
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pretty quickly I got the roll I got the
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green beans I got the roast right there
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with the roast goodness got some corn
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dad got some meat products too but he
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also got a salad up there mac and cheese
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carrots definitely got the uh kind of
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the the traditional style turkey here
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cranberry sauce we went with the
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stuffing right there I didn't see any
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mashed potatoes however my mom she kind
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of loaded up as well too you definitely
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don't want to make too many trips cuz
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the line is really really long so did
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you load it
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up we don't want to have to get back in
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that
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line all right I tried the turkey the
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turkey it's really good I tried
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the stuffing stuffing was really good as
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well too kind of wish there was mashed
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potatoes and gravy or maybe maybe it's
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on the other side that we didn't see
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it
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ho there you go Santa Claus is over
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there the guy with a big white beard
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look like Santa Claus all right I'm
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getting pretty full but got to save room
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for some dessert got some bread pudding
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here apple
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cobbler pies down in
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there I think the pumpkin pie is going
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so fast like flying off the shelves ooh
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that looks like pumpkin pie right there
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I think that is pumpkin pie also says Be
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Thankful every day right there that
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right there is pumpkin pie I got lucky
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with the pumpkin pie cuz they brought a
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a new one going pretty
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quick and then I got red
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pudding got apple cobbler some kind of
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Jello-O I'm not sure what this is banana
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pudding banana pudding that's what that
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is and a pumpkin
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pie all right heading out now through
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the exit door and back out and see how
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long see if this line has dissipated and
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does not look like it
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hasoo that I am
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full very
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full thanks to Golden Corral for being
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open thanks to the employees for working
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thanks for delicious
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food a little bit of a weight but no
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cleanup no cooking and washing
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dishes enjoyed some time we satting
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there for probably about an hour
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eating catching up with my mom and dad
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take a look at the line over there
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constant line Golden Corral Happy
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Thanksgiving all right made it back over
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to town now cross 192 back over in
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celebration I am pretty full mom and dad
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went home they got their their eating on
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as well we all ate a little bit too much
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was not
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disappointed and they actually did add
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mashed potatoes back up to the buffet
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but we were so full after eating two
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plates of food and the desserts we did
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not opt to go back up for the mashed
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potatoes and the other options that they
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put out but it was worth it definitely
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very very busy but glad that glad that
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they were open for the Thanksgiving
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season for the thanksgiving's day and I
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think now I'm going to head over to my
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place and watch throw a little Blu-ray
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on little Planes Trains and Automobiles
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a Thanksgiving tradition and kind of
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relax in the evening my apartment thanks
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for watching I'll see you in the next
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video the
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