McDonald’s McRib is BACK & Taking My Golf Cart On Hwy 192 To Find One / New Updates Near Old Town
Hwy 192 Kissimmee
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Welcome everyone. Adam the Woo here as
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the recording of this is Tuesday,
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November 18th, 2025.
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Driving around in my glorified golf
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cart. I think I'm going to pop over, get
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some coffee, and then head out of the
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celebration bubble onto Highway 192 and
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have a Highway 192
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late afternoon, early eve.
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McDonald's, from what I'm hearing,
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certain locations of McDonald's have
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brought out the McRib, something that is
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normally not on the menu except around
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this time of the year at certain
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locations. Cannot drive this cart to the
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one on World Drive here in Celebration.
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So, I'm going to go to the one on 192
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where I can take the cart. I'm inviting
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you to join me. I'll get to Mickey at
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some point, but some other things on the
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way from here to there first. Join me,
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shall you?
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Thanksgiving right around the corner.
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I will not be in town for Thanksgiving.
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I will be departing the country a few
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days before that. Just a few days from
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right now, I will be heading out of the
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country via an airport. So, we'll not be
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in town for Thanksgiving.
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Looking forward to some world travels
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coming up.
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Look at the three of them up there on
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the porch. Love those. Love those three.
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But I will be back in time for
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Christmas. I'll be back about a week
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before Christmas after I leave. And
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yesterday
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downtown Celebration was putting up some
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of their Christmas stuff, some of their
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garland and lights and things like that.
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So little merging of Thanksgiving and
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Christmas through town. Grabbed my
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disposable holiday cup here. They got
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the streets all blocked off. I believe
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they're going to be doing the Snope
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upcoming soon. Probably probably the
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first weekend after Thanksgiving, they
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start doing the Snope downtown. I will
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not be here for any of that. I might be
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able to catch one of them in the week or
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so before, you know, before Christmas
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when I get back, but who knows? I'm not
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sure. Again, see how it goes once I get
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back. Going to another international
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destination, another country, flying
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overseas, and it's going to be it's
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going to be fun. A place I've never been
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before. So, really looking forward to
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it. right here like zooming in there
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with them setting up the tree, the
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skeleton of the tree before. It's
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interesting, too, because it was around
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this time two years ago that I end up
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getting the keys to my house and I
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started moving out of the apartment that
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was over here on this side of Market
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Street. I didn't officially move in
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until New Year's Day. 2 years will be
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the 2-year anniversary of me purchasing
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the house. But before that, I was moving
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from around this time, middle of
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November, I ended up, you know, getting
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the keys and all that and doing uh
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signing all the paperwork and started to
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slowly over the 5 weeks move out of the
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apartment that was up on the top floor
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right where I'm pointing at. So, I got
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some fond memories of being down here
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when the smoke was happening. And it
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also means that this these roads right
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here, this little horseshoe,
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market street,
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Starbucks to the old theater, all of
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that, none of this will be reopened
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until post New Year's. These roads are
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closed for the rest of 2025. I have
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officially crossed over Highway 192 onto
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the side road on the opposite side of
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Celebration.
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Little access road over here.
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That IHOP appears to be open. There's an
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open sign and one truck down there, but
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other than that, there's no one in that
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IHOP. The $1.99 gift store is not open
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at the moment.
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Yeah, there's no one in that IHOP.
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This place is now leasing. This was a
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hotel
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that I once worked at at the turn of the
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century around 2000.
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Worked back at a pool bar in the back
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part-time. I was working at Kmart
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full-time and then I worked at a video
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store, miniature golf place, and this
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place part-time
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throughout the 5 years I worked at
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Kmart. And it's been empty for so many
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years, and they've been repurposing and
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fixing it up. And now it appears as if
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it's going to be a like a long-term
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rental
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hotel. Extended stay. That's the word
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I'm looking for.
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So, they're doing something to the old
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roadway also. Look at that. Look at
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that. Hey, they might be doing the same
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thing to the roadway. All right.
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Since I've had this golf cart, which is
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approaching 2 years, just after New
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Year's, I think I got this couple weeks
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into January will be 2-year anniversary
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of me having Mini Marge.
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Almost had 1,000 miles.
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Almost had 1,000 miles on this thing.
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When I first had the golf cart and I
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would drive around here, this was just
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empty. Empty. Nothing. This is all
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sprung up quick, very quickly.
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Hello, Elvis. Hello, Marilyn Monroe. The
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side of that gift shop there. Hello
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there.
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All right, it looks like this one here
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across from Oldtown is one of the ones
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that has the McRib.
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Not all of them do, but this one does in
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CM across from Oldtown 192.
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Don't park in this parking spot here,
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though, because the floor is wet. It's a
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wet floor sign.
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Oh, they even have it on the board right
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here. Look at this. They're really back
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in season. It's the holidays. It's McRib
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time. It's McRib.
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Wonder if they have a value meal with
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the McRib.
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Hello.
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>> Hello. Welcome to a dog. Am I order?
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>> Can I get a McRib meal? Yeah.
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>> Okay. No problem.
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Good to go.
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Back over the other side of 192 now
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the old town side.
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Going to have I going to find a spot to
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eat this McRib or fries
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even though I've already started tapping
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into the fries.
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while I was waiting at the light to come
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across.
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Cut through Oldtown here on the corner
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of Florida Plaza Boulevard and Holiday
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Trail.
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Home of the Saturday night cruise they
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do each and every Saturday. I was just
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here a couple Saturdays ago.
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Got to love some Oldtown. I love that
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it's within carting distance. I can take
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the cart over here whenever I want. Hear
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the coasters and golf carts or go-karts
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over there.
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Fun spot
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adjacent
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to Oldtown. There's not really anybody
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at Oldtown on a weekday. Usually it's
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the weekends on that cruise night.
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Nobody here today. Nobody. See the
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extended parking lot over here.
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Got myself a water. Got myself some
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fries that I've already pretty much
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consumed. And I got myself the Mc Rib
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right here. This tasty slab of whatever
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it is,
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assuming it's real meat.
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There's been some
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conspiracy theories on what these are
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even made out of, but I have chosen to
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be over here in the shade. Also, it's
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like really whatever happened to the
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cold front we had less than a week ago.
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It was nice and brisk, almost a little
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too chilly. And now, if you are not in
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the shade, like where I'm at in the
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shade, it's nice. But if you're over
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there, even with the sun about to set,
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pretty warm.
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But the sun will be down soon, so I'll
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consume this McRib and carry on. See, I
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I probably don't want to know what this
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is made out of, to be honest. But it
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tastes pretty dang good. There it is.
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Close. Come back up there. Get back flat
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back. Get the flat back up. There it
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goes. The McRib.
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Onions. Barbecue sauce.
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A patty of some sort. Mush between two
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pieces of bread. A beautiful. It smells
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so good. It's going to taste even
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better. All right, let's give this a
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try. Very messy. I was thinking about
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holding the camera at the same time that
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I was eating this, but even in that
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slight amount of time, it's already
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became such a mess that I'm just going
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to like hold it like this. There really
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is no proper way to display this thing.
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Love some onions.
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I also realized
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that Mickey De's didn't give me any
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napkins. That's going to be a fail on my
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part for not asking cuz this thing you
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need more than like more than a few
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napkins for this.
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Look at that stuff dripping off of
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The McRib,
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you have to wonder if it creates more
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demand by not having it all year
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than it does having it all year. Like in
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the one month that they put it out every
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year, do they sell as much as they would
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if they just had it all year and there
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was no hype for the demand? Because if
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they had it all year, I might not get it
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as much. But you get the craving going
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for the other 11 months.
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marketing.
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What do I know?
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That is good though.
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Messy, but very, very tasty. It's got
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the pickle on there. Pickles, onions.
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There's no one around except two cars
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that are just randomly parked over there
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in the shade. One of them is just
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whoever's in there just like staring at
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me looking like, "What is this guy
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doing?
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May or may not may or may not be the
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thumbnail.
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Maybe. Oh, I like how they have the two
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pickles on there.
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It's McRib season, everyone. It's McRib
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season.
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To be completely honest, I can't think
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of anything else that this tastes like.
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This does not taste like you go to a
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barbecue place and you get barbecue,
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doesn't taste anything like this. You go
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to a burger place and you get a burger,
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doesn't taste anything like this. You
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get a chicken sandwich, doesn't really
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taste like this. What in the heck is
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this?
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It's good.
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That's what it is.
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Can't forget the fries, too. Wash them
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down with the fries and my water.
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Just one little bite left. You can hear
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the go-karts behind me.
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Pay no attention. Those two cars down
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there to this golf cart and someone
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eating McRibs. It's a pretty cool angle
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of Oldtown, to be honest. It'd be a lot
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more action-packed if the sky coaster
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was working and the coaster over here
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was running.
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They just had a a group of the cars
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going over there on the little section
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there with the go-karts. That was pretty
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action-packed. But this is a cool I bet
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at night this would be a really cool
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angle with everything, you know, really
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hectic and busy. Be like a kind of a
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nice little I don't know, like a nice
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area. nice preview shot if you will of
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Oldtown showing all the attractions at
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Fun Spot next to Oldtown from this
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angle. I don't usually stand on this
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side. Usually I'm on the other side of
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the property looking. You can see more
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of the rides and stuff from here. It's
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also interesting when I was waiting in
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the drive-thru at the Mickey De's right
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across the street from Funspot Oldtown.
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They were running the coaster. It took
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them a little while to make the McRibs a
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few minutes and there was a couple
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cycles of the coaster, but since I got
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over here it's not run. So maybe they
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just test it out and maybe they're done
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with their testing. Who knows? It's not
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running now though. Doing some serious
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work on the Sar Lago.
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It's been fenced off for a while. Stayed
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there many, many, many years ago,
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but they're tearing down part of it. So
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right now the fence is up and they got
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security and construction crews all back
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in there right next to Oldtown. And this
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runs right adjacent to
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192 on the other side. That's the
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McDonald's right there where I just got
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the McRibs.
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Little side roads. What do they call
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them? Access roads. Side roads to the
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highway.
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Believe that used to be a Pizza Hut. Now
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it's going to be a bougie cat cafe.
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Huh.
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Look at that cat cafe. A bougie cat
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cafe.
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Now I hear a Now I hear
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Wait, I hear something.
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Oh, you know what it is? It's that
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coaster. It's the mouse coaster.
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Okay,
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I stand corrected. was not the coaster I
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thought it was.
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It's the mouse coaster.
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Dropping in.
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I think I'm going to cruise around.
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Drive adjacent to Oldtown through this
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direction. I don't usually do this, but
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the gates's open, so why not? I love
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this drink Pepsi Cola right there. the
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two officers drinking a bigger bottle,
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better flavor Pepsi Cola and a cigar
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out. And you can see how it's not too
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terribly busy on a Tuesday evening.
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Actually, there's maybe a dozen people
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total parked and walking around.
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Definitely a different vibe than the
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cruise nights.
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One thing I love about having this golf
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cart, just doing stuff like this, just
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whipping around the neighborhood,
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getting outside the celebration bubble,
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taking 192
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surrounding areas within a few miles.
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Long as I got the juice and I'm charged
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up, take as far as I can go to where I
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know I got start heading back. But I'm
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still doing good on still doing good on
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the juice. Kosher's not running. Sign
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out front said Oldtown's open 11 to 11
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every day, 7 days a week. But I think
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certain things are not open on all the
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days.
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The stores are all the stores are. I
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love some Oldtown. A lot of nostalgic. A
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lot of nostalgia, I should say, for
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Oldtown.
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I never realized there's a lot of empty
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land right here in between the new
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development over there. So you got 192
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right over there building some new
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buildings. But then there's all this
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whole parking lot here where there used
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to be an old motel.
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This parking lot, they do not want any
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big trucks underneath there. There's no
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reason for that to be there except to
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keep bigger vehicles out. Never noticed
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this before either. This is the backside
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of a different hotel. I've stayed at
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this one before back when I used to come
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visit out here when I was living in
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California. Got the vomitron over in the
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distance circling around.
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Oh, and
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the slingshot ski lift the the slingshot
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things that like projects you up in the
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air. And the ferris wheels move. We got
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three things moving over there. Nice.
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That's way over there, though. I'm
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zoomed in.
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I'm going to call this prime real
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estate, but it is real estate.
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They are building something right over
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there. See construction right happening
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right there. I wonder if that's going to
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be a crystals. That would be dangerous
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of a crystals
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is a mile from my place. That would be
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dangerous. But that looks like a
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crystals maybe. What I meant to say was
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White Castle. Crystal is the other one
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that is already around. But White
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Castle. I get those two confused
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sometimes. There still the little
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sliders. But yeah, Crystal's been around
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these parts for a long time. White
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Castle. The only one I know of is the
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one that opened recently down I4 a few
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years ago, but there's not one in the
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immediate Celebration Oldtown area. So,
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that's what that looked like. That
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looked like a White Castle setup. We'll
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see.
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This used to be an old Publix right
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here. And this is just kind of sitting
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empty over here, too. The old Publix
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since they built the other new Publix in
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See myself right there in the
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reflection.
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All right, I have an update. Van Halen
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has been painted over. The Van Halen
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writing right there and spray paint has
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finally been painted over.
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Goodbye Van Halen.
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Somebody painted Van Halen there. It was
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there for a year, but now it's gone.
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Back in the bubble now. Back in
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I never ate at this restaurant. And in
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fact, I having a hard time recalling
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what it even was, but it just closed a
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few months ago,
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right next to the Arby's that I went to
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a few times,
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which also closed a year or so ago,
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maybe two years ago, year and a half
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ago. And then it was going to become
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something else. It was going to be
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another restaurant. They put the signs
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up saying coming soon.
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Those signs were up for 6 months.
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And then they took those signs down. So
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it is now once again available as former
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Arby's.
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It's beginning to look a lot like thanks
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Christmas. Thanksgiving and then
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Christmas coming up soon.
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There's the porch pilgrim.
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We're just looking over the
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neighborhood. Thanks for watching. I'll
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see you in the next video. The vlog
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is
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over.