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Crispy Cowboy Chicken Fried Steak with Homemade Green Chili Gravy
May 23, 2025
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did y'all hear that crispiest chicken
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fried steak in the world and I'm going
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to show you how to get it that way but
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also we're going to change it up just a
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little we're going to top it with some
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green chili gravy we don't get no better
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than this
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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hey thank y'all for stopping by camp and
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what are we talking about today
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something that I have probably cooked
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thousands and thousands of pounds of and
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that is what chicken fried steak now a
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lot of y'all might have found our
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channel really originally from the
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cowboy coffee and the chicken fried
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steak hey and I'm just going to tell you
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right now if you want to go back and
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look I done beat Bobby Fle when he come
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into camp thinking that he knew how to
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fix a better chicken fried steak than I
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did but folks we're in New Mexico now we
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got to dial it up a little and tune it
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in what we're talking about chicken
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fried steak with a green chili gravy oh
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my gosh i mean ain't that a wonderful
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title i mean just think about it chicken
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fried steak with green chili gravy
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poured over the top of it this is a
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holiday step one husband trainer meat
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mallet and step
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two good piece of meat now when I'm
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talking about chicken fried steak first
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of all this weighs nearly 5 oz that's
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what I'm after i don't want a little old
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bitty piece of 3 o of meat that you
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couldn't see when you covered it up with
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gravy now I've used top round bottom
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round now I really prefer bottom round i
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think it has a little more flavor to me
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i could be wrong but that's just me but
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hey I have used a New York strip in a
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tight cut the fat rind off of it flatten
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it out it makes a great chicken fried
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steak so when you go up there to the
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butcher and you look across all them
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shelves and you're wanting a piece of
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chicken fried steak meat that's
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something that's already been cubed now
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what are we talking about cubing well
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they've got this little rotary deal
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that's got all these little teeth on it
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and they run it through there and it
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tenderizes it they'll run it through
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again i like to do them three times and
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they'll come out they'll be bigger
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around and they'll be really tender so
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but if you can't find that get you about
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a 5 ounce piece of that bottom round or
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top now when you look at this one and
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you see there's not a lot of gristle
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running across here and everywhere it's
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got a little fat rine across the edges
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on the outside which we will trim off
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and that is pretty easy to do with a
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sharp knife and if you've got puppies in
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camp they will be proud that you did cuz
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this is going to make about three bites
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right here mage so it's time to
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tenderize now many years ago when I was
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a child and I'd watch my mother or my
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grandmother and they would just take the
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edge of a plate and just beat it on
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there like that
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but I'm liking one of these right here
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so we're going to tenderize it which is
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going to make it a little bigger cuz
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we're flattening it out a little but we
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don't want it jerky thin we'll probably
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try to keep it I'd say nearly a/ inch
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thick so we're going to go to working on
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it when you're talking about chicken
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fried steak when I used to cater so many
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years ago people that had never heard of
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it would come up there and say "Are we
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eating chicken or we eating steak?" Well
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to chicken fry something really means to
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batter a piece of meat to make it appear
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bigger than what it is and to give it a
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really good crust now my dad used to say
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back during depression they deep fry
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jack rabbit like that and they would
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batter it to where it was a bigger piece
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of meat now the meat might have stayed
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the same but you had a big old layer of
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crust that really tasted pretty good on
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them hungry days it did but you got to
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have something that's really going to
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bind to it well but also give it a
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little pop in the dry ingredients as
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well and we're going to start with two
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cups of allpurpose flour if that's all
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right Miji does that suit you okay he
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said that'll work
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now something that makes flour adhere to
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meat
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better corn starch how many of you know
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there is many uses for cornstarch but
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one of the best uses that there ever was
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on a ranch was a cowboy would come in
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like
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this first day been riding in an old wet
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saddle and he'd say "Hey Cookie I'm
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pretty well galded and I need
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something." And I'd say "Got what it is
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right here takes a place of baby powder
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we always use corn starch so we're going
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to add about I'd say that much to that
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we want this crust to be able to pop a
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little too so a little baking
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powder we'll shake some of that in
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there and
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then what did I beat Bobby Fle with our
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original seasoning now if you don't have
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that and you're really wanting to make
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this for supper tonight salt pepper a
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little garlic powder you'll be fixed up
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so we're just going to take the lid off
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of it mage put her in
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here i'd say about that much and let's
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go ahead and get that mixed up well time
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to mix up the wet and to me if you're
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deep frying something and you need a wet
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ingredient buttermilk is the place to
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start and why is that well it's thicker
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and I think it just has a little more
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acid into it when you get it all tied
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together all the flavors just blend
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really well now we got to have some hen
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fruit or cackle berries two of
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them and if you can get fresh eggs for
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this it's even better them old yellowers
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be good and dark don't get no better
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than that we're going to steal this
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whisk just a minute get that mixed up
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lou do you like eggs and buttermilk huh
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baking powder was in there but bacon
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powder going in here as well that way we
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can know that things is going to take
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place so let me get her stirred
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up now I'm fixing to give you that tip
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to make this the extra crispy crispy
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goodness that you want on a chicken
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fried steak but folks this will also
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work on anything that you're going to
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batter and deep fry from chicken to
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chicken fried steak to any wild game
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that you might want to do and the trick
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is remember the wet that we mixed up
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we're going to take about a half a cup
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of that and pour it in the dry and mix
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it what's that going to do it's going to
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make for some big old pieces of that
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batter that are going to hang off there
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and get that really crispy stuff you'd
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be thinking we done covered it up with
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corn flakes and run a torch across it
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this will be crispy glove up folks cuz
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you going to make a mess take that
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chicken fried meat that you have
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tenderized dip it down in the wet bring
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it up shake it off a little let it just
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sort of run off into the dry it goes
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coat it really well if you need to give
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it a little patent with your hand pull
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it up here shake the excess off and
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folks remember we double baptizing back
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in the wet it goes back to the dry coat
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it really well then a mustave you got to
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have a wire rack set that on there and
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let it set for at least 5 minutes that's
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what helps that fly and everything
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adhere to that meat even
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[Music]
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better now remember that meat has been
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sitting out there for like five minutes
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so it's maybe warmed up a little but not
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much so when that first one goes in it's
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going to shock it just a little that's
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why I like to start a little above
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350Ā° and get you a good high temp oil
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that you're going to use because you
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don't want to smoke it you don't want to
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burn it so I try to use something that's
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got a 400Ā° smoke point most of the time
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when I'm deep frying some of the best
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oil I ever had in my life and it's when
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we were catering so much and doing four
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and 500 chicken fries at a time and I
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got these big old basket deep fryers and
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I used a creamy fry oil from Sam's come
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in a in a threegon container and folks I
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could get four or five cookings out of
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it because you could screen it when you
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got through when you start to deep fry
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these just gently lay that meat down in
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there or use some tongs to put it in
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there with and it's going to be really
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fast right there at the first you're
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going to see all that bubbling come up
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but folks these are probably going to
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cook about 2 minutes aside two and a
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half at the most you can flip it but
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don't flip it too quick let that bottom
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crust sort of set up that's in the
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deepest part of that grease then roll it
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over you'll be to see that good golden
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brown color that's what we want on both
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sides pick it up out of there let it
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drain put it back on that wire rack and
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then it's time to map gravy
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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that is the second prettiest thing I've
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ever seen shan being the first but that
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thing is so crispy we might just turn
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the camera off and I'll go ahead and eat
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it now when I made so many of them
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catering 4 or 500 I had tips and tricks
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that I used to keep them crispy because
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if you cover them up put a lid on them
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they sweat then the crust falls off and
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it ain't no good cuz nobody likes a
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soggy chicken fried steak i promise you
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but say you're doing 10 or 12 at home
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all the kids have come in they got to
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everybody with them and you want to keep
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them crispy preheat that oven to 170Ā°
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now you can use a foil pan that you've
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got lay you some paper towels in the
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bottom go over to your bread sack get
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you one slice of bread put it up against
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the end of that foil pan put your
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chicken fried steak to it then another
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piece of bread any moisture that's there
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that bread is going to adhere it and
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it's going to take it away from it but
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they're going to stay crispy you're just
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stacking them in there like cards never
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stack them one on top another that's
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just going to make for something soggy
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and messy always stack them with a piece
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of bread between them they'll stay
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crispy as long as you need them to the
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next most important thing to a crispy
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crust on a chicken fried steak is Frank
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Sinatra smooth gravy all over the top
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and I'm going to show you how to make it
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right now got my skillet sort of
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preheated here first we're going to go
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ahead have one tablespoon of butter but
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folks when you're frying with something
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and I do know that bacon grease makes
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good gravy but we just got done frying
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that chicken fry so we're going to just
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take some of that grease and put in
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there which is about that much
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one of the most important things you can
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have when you're making gravy is a
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spatula got some holes in it of some
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sort to where you can do some really
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serious mashing so we have got that in
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there next comes
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flour i wished I had my sifter out here
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but I don't so we just going to shaker
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in there lightly we
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are you got to have a base for that
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gravy now I have made gravy forever and
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ever and when I was on a ranch I'd make
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it in them big old 20-in skillets but
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you can see to me really when you get
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that butter in a gravy it just gives it
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that rich golden color that I'm after
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and we're just going to let that sit
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there and mind its business for a little
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bit you can see this is browned up here
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just a little so we're going to turn the
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fire off cuz it's got hot now making
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gravy on ranches I use canned milk most
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of the time and y'all have seen me make
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gravy that way but when I'm usually
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doing chicken fried steak like for me
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and Shan or maybe just for a handful of
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people I love to use heavy cream now
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we're going to put two cups in there and
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when that cold hits that folks it's just
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going to go try to thicken it up real
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quick it is and clabbered and it's going
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to try to thicken up and it's going to
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try to make some knots in there if you
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ain't careful and that's where you're
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going to get some of them lumps so we'll
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get that other one in there but you can
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use whole milk you can use canned milk
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whatever you think you want to put in it
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just don't do it with buttermilk i don't
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think buttermilk makes good gravy now
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when I was in New York City cooking for
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some folks one time and we made a bunch
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of gravy for the Women's Culinary
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Association they called it white sauce
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they didn't know what it was they said
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they didn't ever have white gravy where
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they live they always have brown gravy
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this is what I grew up on is white gravy
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and
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folks when you can be out here in New
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Mexico and you can take some what fresh
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green chili right here from the Hatch
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Valley and put it in there with it i
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don't think that anything would get any
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better than this and you put as little
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or as much as you want me I think that's
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about the right amount it's not really
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going to change the the color it's not
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going to be green gravy but you're going
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to see it in there and look at that
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thickness that's already taking place
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that there will stay on a chicken fry
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but folks I got to season it just a tad
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and I got to taste it to see what's
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happening so we're going to give it a
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little taste
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first them green chilies is shining
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through need a little seasoning i'm
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going to use our original you can use
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black pepper and salt so we're just
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going to give it a little shake here and
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that is good
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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gravy before we cover that beautiful
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masterpiece up with gravy I want y'all
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to hear
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this i mean look at them crumbs falling
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off of
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there that is a crispy chicken fried
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steak
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[Music]
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y'all heard of the blue plate special we
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done created the extra special blue
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plate special right here folks this is a
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masterpiece of design here chicken fried
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steak the gravy with the green chili got
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that crispiness to it first thing I'm
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going to do is I just want a piece
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without any gravy i want you to look
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here see how thick i want you to pull
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this batter off her see how thick that
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is right there listen to
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this the crunch that was heard around
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the world that Paul Rivere shouting to
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everybody about now I'm going to taste
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this
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meat so tender so much flavor but if
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it's traditional chicken fried steak in
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my country it's got to have some gravy
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on it so we're going to cut this piece
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off
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some of the gravy tried to leave me it
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tried to leave me
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again
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magic give it up for chicken mage give
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it up give it up give it up woo i hope
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y'all enjoyed this cuz folks really this
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is a classic meal that I have fixed so
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many time on ranches but grew up with it
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i changed it through the years to make
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it a better crust on there to make it
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extra crispy but it is with pride honor
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and privilege that I tip my hat to all
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the servicemen and women and all the
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veterans that have kept that old flag of
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flying over camp we commend you all rest
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of you come on up in here really quick
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i'm going to give you one a chicken
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fried steak
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hug god bless you each and everyone and
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I'll see you down the chicken fried
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steak green chili gravy trail
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dooker you've been napping over i don't
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think you actually been working much
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lulu you're going to have to come get it
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i'm not bringing it to you
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lou
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Lou oh come on Lou sweetie are you off
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the clock there we go
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