The Weird & Very Crowded PicklesBURGH In Downtown Pittsburgh - Dill Pickle Festival / Yinzerpalooza
PicklesBURGH 2024
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of This is Saturday July
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20th
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2024 I am just on the cusp of downtown
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Pittsburgh which I believe is that
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direction a few miles I am going to head
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to two different events that are taking
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place today one of them
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picklesburgh Pittsburgh goes full
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pickle I've heard good things about it
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also yinzer
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paloa is taking place over near the
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Pirates baseball stadium it's a whole
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street party that's taking place not
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going to a game today but going to be
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checking some of that out yinzer paloa
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and then crossing over the bridge the
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Roberto Clemente bridge to another
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section of downtown for some pickle
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goodness
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picklesburgh 2024 I'm inviting you to
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join me it's a nice day out
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shall you made it downtown now right
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here at the Gateway station also known
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as the T which is like the subway
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station just going to wander around
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downtown
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Pittsburgh and see what's
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happening the tea coffee has been
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accomplished here at Dunkin Donuts there
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is no pickled flavor in that but I
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imagine at some point throughout the
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course of the day I will be having some
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sort of pickle flavor in
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in an item of some sort right over here
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at this Square it's all set up pickles
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in fact looks like they have pickle
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balloons right over there so this uh see
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this group of people here is walking
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with a pickle balloon that says pickles
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Bird right there look at this it's like
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a pickle it's like a balloon pickle
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floating through the floating through
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the
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air I did fail to wear any green however
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looks like they have olyp pickle Game
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Olympic Games right over here they have
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pickle eating pickle drinking they have
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pickle bobbing juice drinking and more
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juice bobbing and drinking I got to
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check out the official picklesburgh
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merch which is located over this way I
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guess over here in this booth all right
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there's a couple of the pickles just
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kind of waving in the breeze
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sporadically bouncing back and forth the
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breeze ryzen Bry picklesburgh Dill iing
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all things pickle since
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2015 downtown picklesburgh welcome to
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picklesburgh look at this there's like a
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ton of balloons up there all kind of
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congregating towards the
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top yeah a lot of great merchandise here
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here's the uh the different prices they
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have hats bandanas drawstring bag a
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pickle balloon is $8 a stress pickle is
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$5 a t-shirt is $20 I'll think about the
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a t-shirt get a t-shirt over here at
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this fud shop check it out they have
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chocolate pickle flavor pickle back
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right there which I guess is just come
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on
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down pickle
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flavored yeah stay away from that but
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that looks a pickle flavored fudge right
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there
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i' pickle flavored spun you're at
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chocolate moonshine they also have non
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pickled Pittsburgh stuff too just
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regular Pittsburgh not Dill
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pickleberry go Pittsburgh pickle Express
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right here look at this it's got a sweet
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little mustache on it right there little
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uh pickle
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goodness I think I'll try a piece which
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one do you recommend I like chocolate
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pickle chocolate pickle y you SE about a
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pickle what's the Pittsburgh pickle just
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regular plane I'll try just a little
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little sample of that that go good with
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my coffee thank you so
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much all right here
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goes it definitely has a pickle flavor
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definitely very uh very
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pickly I didn't like
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that it wasn't the worst thing I've ever
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have but it doesn't really mix well with
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the fudge I also have a dill pickle on a
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stick over here for $5 I feel like I
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should just peruse around first though
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drink my coffee CU really pickles and
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coffee does not go together well a
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pickle sickle look at this the pickle is
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inside of the popsicle a pickle sickle
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keep things cool with a pickle sickle
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from pop World get the shirt or you can
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get the pickle sickle Crea a crass here
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with the pickle there on the Berg here
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at a Mand yeah glass
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wear yeah pickle eating contest is about
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to happen this guy is dressed like Sean
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Conor charge keeping us entertained
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while we're not doing
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this contest eating round H History
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Center then you know this gentleman it
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is the one and only Andy Mesa give a
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round of
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applause and if you don't know his
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you will know his voice it's so good to
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be with you here today this is an
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historic place this was 150 years ago no
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200 years ago this was the diamond the
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diamond was the place where all the
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roads met and this was Pittsburgh's
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historic Marketplace and in
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1854 young HJ hind came right down that
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street with a F
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har Pi that his mother had made in shurg
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and he decided he would sell them here
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in Mar Square that's kind of hard to
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hear him but he's saying that HJ hindes
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over 100 years ago cared a will bear
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pickles through here right in this
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little Courtyard here where the very
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first commercially successful us plate
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and glass maker is founded
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yep it exists a gargantuan pickle
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floating behind this Monument up here
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sculpture as
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here they have a refreshing pickled cool
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drink over there and they have an inform
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so as I'm filming this is Saturday
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there's a couple of different ones
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there's Stanwick Street and Smithfield
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Street also has events going on here is
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lineup for both of those stages
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got the festival bar over here domestic
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pickle domestic and craft beer you get
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Pickle flavored
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beer
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here a lot of pirates and Philly shirts
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here today too both the teams that are
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playing tonight not going to the game
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but they're playing they played last
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night they playing tonight too
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wi they got them you want them the
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pickle
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smoothies that is a large
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pickle that is one big pickle
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all right it looks like that was just
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kind of the
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precursor to the main drag through here
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the I'm kind of a big Dill emblem right
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there I've seen a few people wearing
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those shirts this is the boulevard of
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the Allies which is where the festival
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is taking place I was hoping I'd see
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someone one dressed as a pickle right
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here there is someone dressed as a
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pickle oh wow goes way down
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there look at
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that holy
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this is like this is a
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lot a lot more people than I thought
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there was going to be all right there's
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Grandpa Joe's candy
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shop a little bit of a bottl that
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congestion of course Grandpa Joe
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was the grandpa from willly Wonka that
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didn't want to get off his lazy butt and
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help the family out get a job but he
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goes gets invited to a chocolate factory
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and he just starts dancing around having
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the best of
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times this is a this is kind of a a mess
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through here taking this little sideway
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shaded path down to the end runs
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parallel to it we'll go to one end and
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then walk back to the other end I mean
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are I don't even know 50,000 people down
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here might be an exaggeration but
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there's a lot of people down here all
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right over here at the engine company
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one fire station so this is the farthest
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end down the Avenue you just look at how
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many people there are all the way down
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this one street of the not even the side
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street it's just the one Main Street
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it's a lot of people all right this
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looks pretty good A pickled Chef the
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pickle Chef grilled cheese sandwiches
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with a little pickle
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flavored on it as
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well but that probably is pretty good
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cuz I do like pickles on things in fact
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I do love dill pickles
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not really a real sweet pickle guy I
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love dill pickles more than sweet
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pickles all right evidently Jersey
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pickles have the best
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pickles ever and this place has fried
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pickles pickle mean heat fried pickle on
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a
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stickle oh here's some shirts here
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here's some shirts I need a hug and a
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jar of pickles Pickle Me pee look at
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this look at this right here I'm here to
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eat all the pickles
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and I like this pointing pickle right
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here I like this
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pointing pointing Pi pickle right there
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is a good
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shirt I like that you can get a pickle
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flight a sample pack of pickles half
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sour kosher full sour horseradish
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horseradish pickles sounds pretty good
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not just a pickle on a stick but a a big
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pickle on a stick you can get full sour
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which is garlic or kosher dill I could
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definitely go for a full sour also long
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as it's not sweet $5 and you get to keep
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the stick as a little souvenir all right
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Hines has a booth out here also Hines
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has a I'm kind of a big Dill little
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ketchup hat not seeing any mustard hats
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you got the merchandise in there I'm
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kind of a big deal as let's see massive
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lines for merchandise this is all
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merchandise lines they have a cheese
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steak over here pickle cheese steak
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$10 get a pickle cheese
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steak here's the I Dill oh it's the ill
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pickle line right
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here I know it started to wrap around
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starts right
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there hot dog
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pickles cheese
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pickles bacon
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pickles that here is a proper Pittsburgh
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pickle another merchandise stand over
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here picklesburgh merchandise here in
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this big
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building okay this is getting a little
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little out of control there he is the
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pickle pirate right there he's got his
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eye patch on his pirate sword the SS uh
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what the SS C over here has a little
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squirrel in the pirate ship there the
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other squirrel too the same squirrel
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more pickle fudge I tried earlier wasn't
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super into the pickle fudge but I am
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going to have some pickle items all
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right the perogi line is very very
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lengthy look at this perogi line goes
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all the way down the sidewalk that
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direction that is the perogi line
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there's also band over here entertaining
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everyone at the end of The Avenue
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pickle ice cream over
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there the pickle
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crepel lot of
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people and pickles out
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here a big old
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pickle all right I'm going all in now
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I'm in line H maybe 35 people deep to
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get a pickle popsicle I looked at those
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earlier now that I've consumed the
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coffee I'm a little hyped up on caffeine
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It's Time to Go full
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pickle 35 people deep no one of the
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shorter lines though all right honestly
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was not too long of a line the line went
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move very very quickly $6 for this here
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so the one I saw on display the pickle
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was right in the middle but my pickles
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at the very top of the of the little the
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little uh little delicious treat right
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there it looks like someone has taken
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the wheels off this uh bicycle
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here it's just basically dill pickle
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juice yeah it's not too bad I like it
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better than I did the fudge plus I'm
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kind of geared for it now kind of geared
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for the pickle
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Pop I know now that I get the taste bud
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for a little
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dness come come on up come on come
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on give them a little wave let's hear it
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for these guys come
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on they have to M it up there to clean
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it up all right I got to say once you
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take a bite out of it it's not as tasty
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as just like licking on it uh it's like
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a it really is something when you take a
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bite out of it it's like
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I love it all right first up on my list
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you guys if you been not as good as just
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like
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the spears they are going to whatever
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their strategy is for 90 sec I'm sorry
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for 1 minute they are going to Bob okay
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so they're going to put their heads in
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and get as many pickles as they can into
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their little container and then we will
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take it over to our amazing pickle
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station and find out who our
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winner for reference in it's now
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starting to now that I
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have decimated some of it it's right
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there in the middle of there is a
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pickle up as we
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Gob my woo listen Lisa is my favorite
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contestant yet for 40 seconds she had
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one chip I'm not kidding she had one
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chip in here but she was smart because
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she's cooler than the rest of you cuz
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she's all wet now so she said it was
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burning her eyes you were such a good
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got a little taste of Dill now going to
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get in the line for a a dill pickle on a
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stick a regular pickle not a
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frozen basically that was basically
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Frozen pickle juice this is going to be
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the actual pickle the Cucumber with
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dness on it light's
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probably 25 people
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deep that just like a like a shot of
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pickle juice that's sliced pickles yes
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and these are five they're both five
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they're cut up they also have a bread
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and buy butter pickle sugar cookie this
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was $5 she put it in the boat she called
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it a boat because she said the stick
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does not hold up very well that's a
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decent Siz pickle by bones right there
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I'm more of a dill pickle guy I do want
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to try something garlicky as well but
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not really a real sweet or bread and
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butter pickle guy I will say this is all
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pigeon I will say pigeon this is way
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better than the popsicle the popsicle
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was definitely just kind of some watery
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Dill juice this is a a real deal dill
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pickle the real Dill the real deal made
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out of Dill very
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dillish and it's a cucumber I like
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cucumbers too all right I finally met up
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with the pickle Squad I was wondering
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where you guys were the pickle squad has
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arrived are you dill pickle bread and
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butter or sweet pickles you know what
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I'm going to say Dill he's bread and
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butter he's probably sweet all right
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they got the the trilogy yeah thanks
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guys in the group The the pickle
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have arrived here good to see the
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pickle here I just saw the pickle
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Squad now pickle Squad now the pickle
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have a good one guys I think it's
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kind of cool over here look at the side
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of the building up here the way the
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reflection
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is see all the people there angled
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down really it's very interesting
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looking how the side of this building
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is the angles of the window you can't
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see some people and some of them but
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then those angle those like pyramid
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shaped you can see the group of people
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that are directly below down below
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them all right here is a layout of the
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land do all of
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this we have to be back here where she's
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competing
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okay Market Square is where we just were
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this is PPG Plaza here this is the
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boulevard of the
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Allies so it's basically just that
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walked all of that PPG Plaza is where
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the big inflatable pickle is Market
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squar is where they have the contests
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and here's all the a lot of the
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different vendors that are here there's
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doc pickle right there there's a doc
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pickle the Olympic game stage I like
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that it's a clever
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word oh there goes the Pittsburgh Party
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Peddler right there they're all heading
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into the belly of the pickle Beast
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says no outside alcohol the thing is all
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the alcohol that's sold in here is sold
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outside so it's a very confusing sign
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it's a
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very yeah I don't get it going to start
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my way making my way over to the bridge
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and as I'm heading that direction I'm
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noticing this little plant shop has some
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of the cutest little perennial flowers
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over here and vases that looks like a
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little almost like a frog of some like a
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little snail right there here's a little
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little owl plant American Institute of
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Steel construction Awards this the
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annual Award of Merit back in 1928 the
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most
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beautiful Steel
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Bridge Roberto PL
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Bridge alagan
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River City of bridges a lot of them
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they have the bridge closed off to
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traffic so you can walk right down the
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middle if you so choose and get
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photographs what this coup's doing and
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now that I've crossed the bridge I am
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now officially at yinzer palooza two
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festivals in one
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day there's a photo off here Mrs te's
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perogi right there you can get in the
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car oh she's holding a perogi there
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they have free samples you can
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try you can try something Mrs
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T is that Mr T's H
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wife B no I think it's probably it's got
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to be a different
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Mrs I I don't think be Barack has had
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one Mrs
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T's samples down here look at this wa
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under the heat lamp very nice
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why are they
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boo why are they booing me I didn't do
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anything all right where the three
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rivers
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meet right there there's a fountain
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there that has the water from the three
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rivers that goes up in the
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air and there's one of
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the at least
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two Railway inclined Railway as I went
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on last night when I landed
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this is the weirdest bike rack SL piece
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of artwork I think I may have will be
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seeing today look it's like made of a
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chain like a bike chain there's a skull
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down there which is weird like a little
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skull thing and then up here you got the
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Pittsburgh
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Pennsylvania mural right
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here got the stadiums right there you
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got Roberto right there
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now let's not forget this very
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unusual skull spine bike
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rack
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sorts oh and there's the there's the
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incline right there and there's the
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Three Rivers Fountain right
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there some flowers so this
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prunus all right I got to say definitely
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The Pickle Festival much bigger than the
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other festival at least is today any I
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think last night they had like a
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bobblehead giveaway and they had
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fireworks last night and there's someone
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actually doing you can piiz yourself for
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$15 and now that I'm walking back over
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here look at the line now for the
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merchandise this is the merchandise line
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which is just out of control like a few
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hundred people in line to get
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picklesburgh
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merchandise that is a lot of people want
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that merch you would drop kick a child
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for a
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pickle all right this is pickle ice
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cream or pickle watermelon
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sorbet what aell a dill Emma or you
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could just get both right there you just
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get that way you won't have a dil Emma
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also again I think there's more and more
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people showing up out here it is like
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really really busy over here next to the
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inflatable pickle M back over on the
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Avenue now got an assortment of hats got
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this little tiny one right here you can
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collect them all look at there's a
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pickle pen got some socks here you got I
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love pickle socks right here as well
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there is a panhandle cover right there
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this is a
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stapler make it snappy right there
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that's kind of neat that's kind of the
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cool cool thing got some pickle
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Band-Aids pickle cotton
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candy saltwater taffy pickle stuff
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here's Mr
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Pickle right there
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pickle as well here's some sour pickle
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balls right there sour punch bites
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pickle roulette a gummy
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pickle right there as well there's some
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pickle pants pickle this says you tickle
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my pickle right there on those uh oxer
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reefs and here's some pickle popcorn
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seasoning right down here a do pickle
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lollipop and and here's some uh guers
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gummy filled liquid
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poppers get your pickle fix yeah the
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International Airport even has a Bo out
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here in fact here is a cardboard pickle
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plane this is the the freaking pickle
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paint pickle plane is here look at that
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goes through an assortment of places
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right there the pickle
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plane an oozing amount of pickle juice
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here along the ground look at the a line
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of pickle juice green pickle juice just
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flowing through the
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streets there's a pickle menu here dog
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in a dill pickle filled with a hot dog
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is
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$11 they also have these shirts it says
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Size Matters a hot dog with pickle
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around it also the I conquered the meat
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monster which has pickle eyes dilled as
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well you can choose which size you want
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right there well or maybe not maybe it's
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just one size but
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yeah I can't express how
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completely busy this
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really Blown Away by how many people are
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celebrating a build
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cucumber but it
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does all right
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Robert oh I love this fun fact in two so
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this person was the little league
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kickball champ in 2008 all right heading
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away from picklesburgh and going to walk
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over to the point which is kind of
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showed on this little map here a little
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guide map on the ground shows the
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general layout of the land I'm going go
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to that Fountain which is right here at
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the Three Rivers the artistic
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representation of it right there this
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gentleman is known as the sidewalk judge
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created by artist Seward Johnson or
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maybe his name is Seward Johnson right
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there's the the sign created in
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1991 he the judger of the
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sidewalks he's doing a little bit of
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thinking
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that is something else like a geyser
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huge geyser of water here the Three
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Rivers
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aive the train going
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by see the Iron City sign up there well
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it's kind of shattered
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out woo that is a lot of
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water that is a lot of water all right
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that's going to do it for today from
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picklesburgh yinzer paloa which kind of
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wasn't all that great but man the amount
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of people that were The Pickle Fest is a
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sight to
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behold thanks for watching I'll see you
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in the next
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video the
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vog is over