Shadowing Practice: I Opened a Better McDonald's - Learn English Speaking with Video
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I just opened up the world's best McDonald's
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and there's hundreds of people waiting hours just to get a taste of our burgers. But why?
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It's no secret America's in trouble.
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One in eight of the world's population are now fastest obese.
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Toxic.
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Ultra processed food.
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Obesity rates for kids have tripled.
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It's a double chunk chocolate cookie!
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And I believe there's one company to blame for all of this.
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McDonald's.
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So I've created a plan to take them down.
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The plan, create the world's healthiest and tastiest fast food restaurant.
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And I'm gonna call it McDonald's.
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Oh, um, McDonald's sucks.
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Now, according to chat GPT, because the logo is slightly changed, I should be able to get away with it.
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Also, the founder of McDonald's himself right up just stole the business from these two dudes, so we'll just call it get back.
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McDonald's, please don't sue me.
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I'm just, I'm just a chill guy.
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So now I have a logo and a name
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and now I just need to find a place that's willing to let me have my McDonald's Sucks grand opening.
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The next day we started our mission of finding a restaurant.
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Restaurant number one.
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Hi.
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I was wondering
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if you guys would be open to the idea of us renting out this location for a day
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and opening a fake McDonald's.
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No. Okay.
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Alright.
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After this we started speed running local restaurants with the hope of finding one by the end of the day
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But unfortunately none of these restaurants seem to be too fond of our idea I don't think
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so I doubt we can do
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that No No No No No No No Next question That's the only question I got
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so Yeah But that wasn't gonna stop me One after another I was pitching these places my idea
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And once in a while I get a glimmer of hope 99% no I'm holding on to
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that 1% Alright Thanks man have a good day And same with this place, Irv's Burgers, which literally looked perfect.
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Okay, well, um, I think I'll have to get in contact with my manager.
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If you want to write your number down, that'd be awesome.
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Perfect, yeah.
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Okay?
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Thank you.
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Yeah, yeah.
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I'll give you a call.
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Okay, perfect.
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Mike?
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Yeah.
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It's Mike?
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All right.
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All right.
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Thanks, appreciate it.
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I gave them my phone number.
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The manager, hopefully, will give us a call, but I think we should probably keep asking around.
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So we kept asking relentlessly, but to no avail.
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I realized this would be much harder than I anticipated and honestly started doubting the plan just a little bit.
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It's been a rough day.
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Not much luck.
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We're gonna keep going.
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Hopefully we can get a yes.
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But as the day was coming to an end, we got a surprise phone call.
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Hello?
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Hey Jack, it's Mike from Earth's Burgers.
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Oh, how's it going?
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Yeah, we talked to some people at your restaurant earlier today.
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It's coming to me, it's coming to me, it's coming to me, it's coming to me.
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Is that something that you guys would be interested in or would be possible in any way?
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Right now it's not a good time for us.
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It's pretty busy down there.
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Is there like any upcoming dates, like even one day?
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One day.
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If it was any day, it would have to be Friday.
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That's the only option I got is this Friday.
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Do you have like a rough estimate on like how much that would cost potentially?
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Yeah, sure.
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We can do the numbers.
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On the spot.
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I'm gonna have to go with about two thousand dollars Jack.
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Okay Yeah, we'll do we will do it we'll do it.
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I can like send you all the details and we can like like lock it in.
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Okay sounds like a plan that sounds good to me.
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All right.
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Yeah, bye-bye.
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Hopefully that's not a mistake.
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Okay that was actually one of our favorite places we went to earlier today.
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So yeah, not only is it this Friday, which means we have only a week to get it ready, but it's going to cost us $2,000.
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For the love of God, please join the movement and subscribe to the channel because we're going to need everything we can get.
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I think we can call it a night.
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Hopefully it goes through.
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Let's get out of here.
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The very next day, we locked in Friday to rent out herbs
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and made our way down there to meticulously measure every inch of this place in hopes
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that we could create perfectly sized decals to make this place look like a legit McDonald's sucks restaurant.
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Back at home I did some rough Photoshop work and created all of the decals.
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I called a ton of decal places to see
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if any of them could get them done in time and one place said, yeah we should be able to get that to you.
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So I placed the order.
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With that out of the way I started designing some absolute drip for Irv's Burgers employees
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that would be helping us serve up all of our meals.
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Finally, I sent them to get printed at a local print shop.
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Now that all of that was done, all that was left to do was hope it all comes in time.
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Okay guys, it's day three, which means we open in just four days.
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Look, I've been doing a ton of research on ingredients and I think I've literally created the world's best fast food meal.
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This meal makes Ronald look like an absolute clown.
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Our goal is to serve 250 meals, which means we're going to need a lot of each ingredient.
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Now we could try to profit off these meals like the money hungry folks over at McDonald's, but I decided we're already in the hole financially.
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So let's just give the meals away for free.
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You know, something for the people.
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It's probably a horrible business move and I might go bankrupt, but, you know, I think fast food has just gotten way too expensive.
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All right, let's get to work.
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And I'm back in frame because I got to turn the camera off.
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To buy ingredients, we made our way to Whole Foods, which is basically a grocery store for rich and healthy people.
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And it's the only place that has the exact cheese we need.
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Pasture-raised organic cheddar.
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I'm telling you guys, this is the good stuff.
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The problem is when we asked to buy 250 slices, they said they didn't have nearly enough.
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But they did tell us.
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I know the Whole Foods in Tustin is a little bit bigger.
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Maybe I want to check with them.
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So we bought out their entire stock and made our way to the Whole Foods in Tustin, where they let us buy out all the remaining cheese we needed.
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Is it drippy? Is it what?
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You know, I like my cheese drippy, bro.
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While we were here, we also grabbed some grass-fed butter as well as a bunch of organic ketchup.
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Now we had to go all the way to another store called Sprouts to get our beef patties.
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So we're gonna have to...
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Ow!
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What the... Was that...
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Was that Ronald?
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That was Ronald McDonald right there.
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Does he know what we're doing?
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Did you see that?
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Dude just came by.
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Ronald McDonald, he like socked me in my eye.
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He punched me in my face.
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I'll probably like get him back or something.
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Yeah, I don't really know.
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We still have to get ingredients.
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So let's just keep going.
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Ow!
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Yeah, so that was kind of jarring, but luckily they had the exact beef patties we needed.
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Organic, 100% grass-fed patties.
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There is literally not a single fast food chain that offers beef this high of quality.
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Not only is this stuff healthy, but it's delicious.
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We wanted to buy 250 of these patties.
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So what are 50 of those pets?
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When do you need this by?
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A week from today.
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I have to order them.
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Can you give me a call tomorrow for that order?
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Just in case we run across anything because it is the holidays.
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The warehouse are very limited.
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So we don't know what supplies they have right now.
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Give me a call tomorrow.
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Yes, sir.
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Appreciate it.
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So that night I called and placed an online order for pickup and hopefully they'll arrive in time.
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The next day was arguably the most important part, promotion.
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Now I spent hours emailing a bunch of local food
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and health influencers on behalf of McDonald's Sucks in hope that some of them might post it or even show up.
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Then we made our way to pick up a box of flyers.
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We just picked up 1,000 flyers.
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These things look actually super professional.
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Guys, my Photoshop abilities, they're getting pretty good.
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We're just going to try to spread the word as much as humanly possible
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in hopes that hundreds of people show up to our restaurant.
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We started by putting these things up next to Irv's burgers on every single wall Guys, can I talk to you?
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Yeah So what are your names?
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My name's Owen, his name's Jack They have McDonald's logos on this and it says McDonald's suck on them Mike, do you know about this?
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Sorry guys
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Which literally took us like five hours We have some spectacular
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news Our boy Santa Cruz Medicinals 500,000 Instagram followers He just posted a story saying that we're opening this McDonald's.
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I hope that we get some traction.
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I'm hyped on that So hopefully that does something.
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We're gonna keep promoting this thing
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So we made our way to go promote this thing even more and everything was looking up, but then Wait, bro Hold on slow down.
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Wait pull.
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Yo pull over.
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Pull over, bro. For what?
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Is that who I think it is?
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Not this fast Come on, let's go.
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Yeah!
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Yo, Ronald!
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Return to the Mac.
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Get up when it does what it does when it does.
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How do you feel to get punching me?
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Get up, fresh shot, come struck walking.
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Little bit of humble, little bit of conscious.
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Somewhere between like Rocky and Cosby's for the game.
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No, no, y'all can't compete.
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You make lovin' it now?
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Freakin', freaking chicken nut.
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You like me?
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Give me extra cheese with that, yo.
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Hey, give me.
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Let's go.
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Talk to you.
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Get outta here.
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Okay, he's not coming back.
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And now that Ronald was finally taken care of, it meant we can keep promoting.
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We put these flyers all over local colleges.
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You gonna be there?
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Yeah, we be there.
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I love you, bro.
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Love you too, man.
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I love you, bro.
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High schools, middle schools, and every other place I could possibly think of.
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And by the end of the day, I knew there was only one place left to hit.
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The Ops.
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Hey guys, how's it going?
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Enjoying the burgers?
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We're opening a restaurant.
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It's named McDonald's Sucks.
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We're just kind of handing these out.
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It's completely free.
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You know, a little healthy alternative.
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Keep it up, brother.
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Thank you guys.
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All right, we've converted two.
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It's named McDonald's Sucks, but we don't want any trouble.
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I don't know.
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I'm just gonna leave a few here.
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And you know, like, I'd love for you to come.
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I feel good about that.
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We just spent the entire day putting up flyers.
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If this fails, we can confidently say that we tried our best.
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I need some sleep and hopefully people turn up to this thing.
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With only two days before the grand opening, I was getting pretty worried our orders weren't gonna be ready in time.
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But luckily, the call started coming in.
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We took a long drive to pick up our employee outfits.
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We picked up our shirts.
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I'm thinking about the turnout of the event, if there's even going to be people there.
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I'm stressed and worried about the whole thing going to plan.
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Usually, I cut out the low moments in these videos because I try to keep it as positive as possible.
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But I thought, I might as well let you guys know even we have our off days,
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but we're not going to use that as an excuse to quit because we still have a ton of work to do.
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We're turning out these videos as quickly as possible and with that comes a lot of uncertainty, but we're trying to get to that million subscribers and we're out here grinding as hard as we can.
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Let's keep this going.
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Let's keep pushing forward and let's get this restaurant open, baby.
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And we pushed onward to get our decals.
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Big shout out to Sinorama.
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They came in absolutely clutch.
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Yes, this is perfect.
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Dude, this is gonna look like a real restaurant.
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McDonald's sucks!
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Hamid Okay, good.
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Yeah All right, thanks bro.
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We loaded everything into the car and prepared for tomorrow the day before the grand opening This thing's rolling.
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Good morning guys.
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We're here outside of of sprouts and we're here to pick up some more ingredients.
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We got a long day ahead of us, we have a lot to do.
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Let's get cracka lockin'.
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First we picked up our 256 beef patties.
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Bro's got more beef than Tyson and Jake Paul.
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And then we needed to get a ton of organic potatoes for our french fries.
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Can we just take a second to appreciate this wonderful woman here that hand counted each and every one of these potatoes.
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Now I'm gonna let you guys in on a little secret here.
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This is called beef tallow and it's what McDonald's used to fry their french fries in.
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It's not only tastier, but it's way healthier.
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Unfortunately, no surprise here, but McDonald's ended up becoming stingy and now they fry their french fries in this.
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All of these ingredients.
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Nasty.
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Then we got even more potatoes and 250 spring water bottles.
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This is what 250 water bottles looks like.
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We then loaded everything into the car and made our way to Irv's to store everything to keep it nice and fresh.
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And now it was time to cut these potatoes into french fries.
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We assembled these fry cutters we got on Amazon.
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It's time to cut our first potato.
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Hopefully this thing works.
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It worked.
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And then we started speed running some potatoes.
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These fry cutters low key sucked and they kept slipping and getting jammed, which made this process much harder than I anticipated.
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After the fries were cut, we would throw them in this ice water to get the starch out of the potatoes
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so they'd get nice and crispy when we fry them.
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Then we dry them off super well before putting them in the freezer.
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Watch out, Gordon.
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You might have some competition.
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Probably not.
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That just took three hours, and we're only halfway done.
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I'm delusional.
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It's been a long day.
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It's been a long week.
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So this is the home stretch, and then tomorrow we're gonna be up bright and early to open up the restaurant.
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We're gonna take down McDonald's.
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We ended up cutting potatoes for a total of six hours before we were finally done.
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We ended off the night by attempting put up some decals.
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We got our first decal on.
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It looks so good.
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We're going to put these up all over the restaurant and slowly transform this place into a McDonald's sucks.
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And after a bit of decorating, this place was really starting to come together.
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All right, guys, that's going to be a wrap on today.
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I am so exhausted.
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We got like half the restaurant done.
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I think it honestly looks incredible.
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One of the security guards walked by and literally thought that it was McDonald's, Which I think is hilarious.
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I'm super, super nervous for tomorrow.
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I don't even know if people are gonna show up.
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That's it, I'm going to bed.
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All right, today is the day.
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It's 6 a.m and today is the grand opening.
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I can't believe I just said that.
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I'm super nervous and I don't know what to expect, but let's do it.
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With no time to waste, we made our way down to Irv's to get this place set up.
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We started by putting up all of the outside decals.
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We put the fries in the bag, so you don't have to.
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What up, Jimmy?
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And then the banner.
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And to finish it off, we added some final touches.
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Introducing the world's first McDonald's sucks.
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This place came out way better than I could have imagined.
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That looks insane!
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Oh my gosh, that literally looks like a McDonald's.
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And it seemed like people were starting to notice our creation.
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I was like, did McDonald's buy them out?
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I live on Belmo Island and they had the flyers around me on the farm.
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Nobody realized it at the time and I went, no, if you look, it's just McDonald's.
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I started to worry that nobody was going to show up, but regardless, we started firing up the fryers and getting our employees in their outfits.
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It's currently 11 o'clock.
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So technically it opens in about an hour.
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Um, no one has showed up yet, so I don't know if that's a bad thing.
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Hopefully people start showing up so we can actually serve some burgers.
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Time was passing without any sign of any customers and I thought we might be screwed here.
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But then the customers started coming in.
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Hey, what's your name?
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I'm Jack.
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I'm Jack.
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Oh really?
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Nice to meet you.
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Nice to meet you.
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You're here for the burgers?
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Yes, sir.
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Oh, sweet.
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Yeah, yeah.
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We're going to start serving in like probably like 45.
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Okay, for sure.
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Yeah.
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And with 30 minutes before we open, the line was looking like this.
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There's a line of people in there.
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All right, guys.
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It's about 30 minutes later.
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We've acquired quite the line of people.
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There's probably...
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You know what?
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Let me just show you.
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Come on.
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Oh my dude.
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What are we gonna do?
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Oh my god.
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What are you doing?
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Oh, I love you dude.
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Dude!
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Dude, it's packed!
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People lying down the street.
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Dude, what the...
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I'm like super excited, but I'm like really overwhelmed.
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We opened in like what, 10 minutes?
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So we got ready to cook the first meal.
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We threw down our grass-fed patty, followed with organic pasteurized cheese, and laid onto Herb's buns with some fresh shredded lettuce.
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The burger goes in the custom McDonald's Sucks bag, and the seasoned beef tallow fries are thrown in as well.
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And to top it off, a spring water bottle.
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This is definitively the highest quality fast food meal there is.
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And just like that, the first meal was served.
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But the question is, how does it taste?
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Out of ten?
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Yeah.
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Nine, for sure.
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We started serving meals at a rapid pace, one happy customer after another.
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This is really f*ing good.
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Maxwell burger.
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Peaseless, exploding in my mouth.
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Pause.
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It's better than the burgers my boyfriend makes at home.
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Oh!
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What did you say?
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Oh, no, nothing.
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She was saying, like, you make the best burgers, dawg.
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Okay, thank you.
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We've been open for an hour, and I don't even think we're like a quarter way through the line.
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So I'm starting to get pretty worried about if we're gonna be able to serve everybody and how long it's gonna take.
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Then somebody special showed up.
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Santa Cruz Medicinals.
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The same guy that helped us out by putting up that story post.
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Funny enough, I happened to watch this dude's content before we ever reached out to him.
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So we had to get him a burger.
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He was one of the first health conscious people I ever followed or watched online.
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So I accredit this dude to a lot of the inspiration for this actual restaurant.
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Hey now, I would never eat McDonald's.
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This is grass-fed beef, this is pasteurized cheese.
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Dude, I will eat this for sure.
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That's a 10 out of 10.
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Let's go!
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We kept serving these meals and the people were loving it.
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Now this turnout is better than anything I could have ever hoped for, but I didn't realize how far people would actually go just to get one of these meals.
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Where'd you come from?
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Captain Valley. For burgers?
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Yeah, he goes out Balboa here and he hands it out a flyer.
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And that's how you found this?
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Yeah, yeah.
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It must have been us.
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I wonder if we have the clip.
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I bet we have a clip panning a flyer to you somewhere.
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You look a little familiar.
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I think it was you.
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Okay, let's go!
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That tastes real.
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It was worth the wait.
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What was it, like two hours?
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We drove an hour to get here.
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It was worth it.
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We started to get pretty low on meals at this point, but luckily the line was much shorter now, so we kept serving in hopes that everyone would get a burger.
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Where are we?
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I showed up.
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You're for the McDonald's!
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No, dude!
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We're opening a restaurant.
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It's named McDonald's Sucks.
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I really respect the UK.
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We are fighting against McDonald's.
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We have officially turned a real-life McDonald's customer into a McDonald's sucks customer.
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Is it better than McDonald's?
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Way better.
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Yes, baby, let's go!
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As we serve the final customers, some relief came over me and all I could feel was thankful.
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Everything is going pretty well.
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Hopefully we have enough burgers.
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I'm hoping everything continues to go well.
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I'm kind of just...
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Yo, what the...
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Yo, Ronald!
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Yo, Ronald!
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Hey, come here!
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All right?
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Yeah!
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Keep walking.
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Keep walking.
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Only he's coming back.
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The fact that we were able to give people a cheap
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and healthy alternative for just one day and prove that this is even possible is everything I could have hoped for.
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And the crazy part is, you guys watching pretty much made this entire thing possible.
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So, thank you.
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We're serving our last customer.
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What was your name?
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Steve.
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I'm Jack.
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Nice to meet you.
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Oh yeah, baby.
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Is it better than McDonald's?
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Oh heck yeah!
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Yeah, let's go!
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McDonald's sucks!
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We're done.
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We did it.
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McDonald's sucks!
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McDonald's sucks!
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Subscribe.
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I'm leaving.
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Guys, as epic as that all was, this war isn't over.
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I'm gonna be honest with you guys, my relationship with food hasn't always been the best.
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When I was stressed, I'd eat junk food.
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When I was lazy, I'd eat fast food and when I was craving, I'd eat candy.
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And as an effect, I didn't like who I was becoming.
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I felt out of shape and just disappointed in myself.
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And I'm telling you guys this honestly, this was a genuine struggle that I had in my daily life.
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But going into the new year, I am gonna be healthier and stay away from these nasty foods.
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And I hope that you guys will join me on this journey.
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And remember, next time you wanna go grab some food, choose wisely.
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Like the ceiling can't hold us Like the ceiling can't hold us Can we go back?
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This is the moment Tonight is the night We'll fight till it's over So we put our hands up
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