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Adam Richman Talks "The Food That Built America" and "Adam Eat's The 80's" | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
Mar 2, 2022
Adam Richman is all over the food game. He has two amazing shows on the History channel documenting food of our past. He checks in on Sway In The Morning to talk about it.
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that should be ladies and gentlemen this
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guy isn't just a guest i don't even even
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consider him a guest no more it's like
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family dropping in unannounced when it
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comes to this guy right here man we
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don't see them all over the channel
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travel channels the food networks he's
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been all over the world one of the most
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standout things about this guy is he has
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a really beautiful personality it's
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great when you meet people
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uh behind the camera and you realize
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that damn this is somebody i would hang
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out with whether he was on tv or not but
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the fact that he's on tv helps a lot
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because somebody got to get the bill
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please welcome him back to the show
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citizens the one and only adam richman
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is here
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thank you for that beautiful intro man
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that was very very thoughtful man thank
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you yo it's been a minute bro how you
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been
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too long
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you look good i like the hat yeah thank
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you very much yes yes i uh i'm gonna be
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delivering newspapers in 1909 after this
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interview
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thank you i'll be here all week tip you
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wait let's try the video adam it's one
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of the few people that could compete
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with you sway with the hat game i must
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say oh no i cannot compete with sway
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fred
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you won't
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not
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i just have a large head big ears and a
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bald spot so that's why i have a lot of
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hats
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where you get your hats from though what
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do you shop for it depends this one this
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one i got in london
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uh sometimes uh hack club
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um
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sometimes i love minor league baseball
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hats i think uh i want to support
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grassroots and they have the coolest
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mascots
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and then one time i went to the lower
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east side i went in i said do y'all have
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those big obnoxious wide brim hipster
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hats i think i was like i have just the
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thing and it was exactly what i was
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looking for so i copped the stats
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i guess i spent a couple hundy on the
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stetson i don't remember how much it was
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but i mean it's a real stetson that you
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gotta
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take care of but
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i i probably spent more of that on the
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the surgery to fill the bald spot
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yeah man i fully come to it 100 man 100
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and i did it before the technology like
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really caught up now you know people
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getting that crypto hair like i had like
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the analog like
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seashells and dollars hair
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but like i didn't you know what i mean
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so no i did it and i had a doctor that
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was a little bit at the cutting edge and
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like
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you know i mean it's always a race
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against time but and i have to do my my
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mash 4077 camouflage
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at the top you make sure the flash
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yamaka is covered for both dates and
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filming
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and
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i do the best i can with what it is i
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have man
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isn't that what moe says at the end of
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whom he says
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he says i'm doing the best i can
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yo you mentioned dating i i never even
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i feel like we might have tapped on that
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in the past but i just always i always
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dip and dodge because i just find that
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people whenever anything when i mention
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family or i mention anything because you
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know as many people will say something
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nice
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i'm going to say something not nice so
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that's why i've always been real cagey
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about that stuff because it's like i say
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i went vegan for six months ah you son
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of a [ __ ] then i go you know what i
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mean i showed a picture of my cousin
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that bar mitzvah look at this little
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[ __ ] it's like he's a 13 year old kid
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getting a bar mitzvah
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and then like people just like went in
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so that's why i always just try to like
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focus it's like people think it's like
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me just trying to be like you know
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oh he wants to plug a show and who
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doesn't but it's like i just find that
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the less people know the less they can
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attack like yes yes i'm still fat from
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the quarantine yes yes
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[Laughter]
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yo look at this i bet your dates all
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expect you to cook though right that's
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what i'm saying i love i love cooking
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for people though i think that's like
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one of the purest forms of love because
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it's like i'm making this thing that you
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can nourish you that can appeal to so
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many different senses at once and i
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that's kind of what got dead ass that's
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what got me into food it's got what me
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the food journal it started it off of me
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in 95
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uh
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all started from a place of just like
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the language of food and like the love
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and like i had had a really crappy
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breakup and
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i went i bought like a blank notebook to
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write really like crappy college breakup
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poetry like
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really like lame ass like oh my heart
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bleeds tears and steel into my eyes like
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whatever and then like i went and i went
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to college in atlanta and i would drive
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deliberately to neighborhoods so people
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didn't sound like me look like me
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whether it was somalia neighborhoods or
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you know uh nigerian neighborhoods in
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college park or
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asian neighborhoods in beaufort highway
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in shambly or going to a baptist church
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for like a and greet that they were
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having to raise money uh and conyers or
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something and so i drove around and i
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found the place and it was like writing
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about like
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the vibe and the food that allowed me to
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get into the feelings because
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you know i couldn't just sit there and
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be like dear diary i'm sad
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i'm not [ __ ] on people who journal
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please don't make that clear that's just
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not me no journaling is very therapeutic
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but i also feel like
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you can get taken advantage of when you
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are that poppin like chef that cooks for
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everyone like i remember in college
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having conversations on varying
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philosophies with my girlfriends because
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they would use men just for food
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and i was like or even like with heather
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b sometimes i feel overprotective of
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heather because everyone's like heather
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when you cooking when you cooking but
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nobody's saying they gonna pay for it
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these foodies ain't loyal
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i'm choosing my words carefully i've had
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to go on sway and apologize for [ __ ] in
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the past i choose my words carefully now
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your boy doesn't learn
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right now everything you do you put a
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disclaimer on everything you say
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black financial advice
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he apologized to it's people who journal
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i'm sorry i didn't mean nothing nothing
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by it
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i know right all of a sudden journal
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stands up in the mentions like yo man
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i'm coming at you ben's blazing
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you know what keep that thing on me you
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got that [ __ ]
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[Laughter]
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this is a good thing your camera didn't
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just fall right there and we just saw
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something you know what i mean that
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would have been huge
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hey so let's talk about um
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adam eats the 80s man i promise you man
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in the 80s
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oh man that's where i first discovered
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it's it
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the ice cream sandwich that's when i
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could first afford it
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that was a more west coast thing wasn't
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it
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it might have been a west coast thing
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where you said it's it's it's an ice
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cream sandwich tracy that it's big two
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big cookie wafers in the middle of this
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big chunk of ice cream
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it tastes amazing as a kid well my young
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palette loved that i put it i had it's
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it's nestle crunches whatchamacallits
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these are all my go-to um captain crunch
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you know i was into the crunch berries
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peanut butter yeah a peanut butter
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berries crunch oh yeah all of that stuff
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that's a deep cut
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no nasty ass apple pies you used to buy
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for two seconds
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yeah
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all of that stuff man well we killing
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ourselves
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no you know what that's the thing that's
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so fascinating if you that that would
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say movie of mikes and men i love
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because you know ghostface has always
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been one of my favorite mcs and then
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says here goes face he's like
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rhapsodizing about his brother in a
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wheelchair and odb making him laugh and
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then he goes man when that ice cream
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chuck came around that toasted almond he
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goes the coconut joints ha
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like you know and like the fact that
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this guy who has created some of the
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most
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powerful painful indelible terrifying
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you know wrap around
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is able to just remember like the vibe
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when the mr softy truck came around and
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his order he goes there he goes oh
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strawberry shortcake coconut joints ha
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and
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i think that
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that's kind of what we wanted to key in
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on right like
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there's a whole bunch of the population
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that has no connection to the 80s so we
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got to have really dope food for them
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good history or a good story
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everyone else can vibe on the nostalgia
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so for me like no
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the point i'm trying to make is that you
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know everyone has these indelible
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connections to these different foods and
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i think that like we have to for the 80s
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people like in like i said fort collins
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we all walked around going oh my god i
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had that lunchbox airwolf that's peggy
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bundy's necklace from married with
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children that's the bike from peewee's
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big adventure that's you know mr t
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cereal or planters cheese balls
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and you know what the thing was it's not
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so much that we're killing ourselves
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it's that
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flavors had to change because of the
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health stuff with it and so like
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mcdonald's french fries used to be fried
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in beef fat beef towel so they had one
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flavor one smell and now they have
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something else so we went to a food lab
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in your old hood in the bay
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and called
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again called uh yay area it's called uh
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yeah i hear like e40 is gonna call me in
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the background what'd you say did you
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mention
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come on
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you mentioned the loquar tree you
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mentioned that low poetry
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you would like i would get something
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like this it's open to v
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um
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uh but no so the thing is i went to a
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full lab in the bay in eight right and
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so they recreated everything from the
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original 80s microwave popcorn which you
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recall used to have to be in the freezer
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section
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they recreated the beef fat french fry
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and you realize that food did taste
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better in the 80s because we had a
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little more freedom to use real sugar
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real fats
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then we switched to a lot of synthetic
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stuff the differences now kind of come
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through that tunnel at the other side of
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it and now you have to have a vegan
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option a paleo option a vegetarian
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option a kosher option and back in the
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80s like you were lucky if you had you
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know
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some without cheese and it's really it's
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dope the thing that i love about being
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on history is that you realize like all
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the chicken stuff mcnuggets 83
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chicken tenders 86 og chicken sandwich
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at bk that's not because they were
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innovating
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the ranchers the u.s ranchers in the 70s
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carried a ton of debt into the 80s and
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they ended up selling off a ton of their
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cows so because beef was more expensive
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they all pivoted and so that's why it's
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like a chicken sure and that's why
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chickens started popping off everywhere
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so it's pretty that's the stuff that i
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think is kind of cool you actually learn
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the why if that shit's happening you
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better sell the hell out of your show
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adam fishman yo
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i'm watching this adam eats the 80s
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premiering sunday february 27th
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make sure you're watching that adam eats
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the 80s hey man what's your top and
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that's gonna be on the history channel
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yeah what's your top five foods from the
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80s top five i'm glad you asked so these
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are not in any particular order but
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these are not necessarily in the show
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i would say
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the bk original chicken sandwich the og
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chicken sandwich slightly spicy one on
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the bun
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barbecue
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burger king dk
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hold the pickle hold the lettuce special
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sauces don't forget don't upset us yeah
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yeah yeah
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yeah they had the home of the whopper
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that's right
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but they did the uh they had the right
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your way right away at burger king now
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exactly
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by the way
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by the way man i got to throw one random
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fact with twitter because i know sway
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always is down with the random facts
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this is like good watercooler trivia so
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the others showed the one that's on
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right before uh adam eats the 80s which
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is called food that built america we do
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famous amos and mrs fields so mrs fios
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and palo alto but wally amos was an
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agent at william morris and i kind of
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knew that i did not know he discovered
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simon and garfunkel
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and
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the first three people who gave him
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money for the famous amos franchise were
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helen reddy
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bill cosby and marvin gaye
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bill cosby was giving a lot of checks
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out bro
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supported black business in the black
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community man nobody helped it didn't
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count later
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jesus
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famous amos cookies were legendary but
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mrs fields was from the bay
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yeah
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so yeah so
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80s food so i would say the og
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mcdonald's french fries that were the
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bee fat fries
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the bk chicken sandwich i would say
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microwave popcorn it was really created
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in the 80s just
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what it did
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the convenience uh
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hostess pudding pies
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they were like short-lived so it had
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that
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shell that like glazed pastry death
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shell that you could drop from the
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empire state building
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inside it was pudding
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and it was the chronic that was like it
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was also more calories you need in a
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week but it was like a schedule one
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narcotic that was incredible
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and michelle i don't know if you knew
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this this is a bit of trivia too you
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could use the shell from those hostess
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pudding pies you could actually use the
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shell as a cup holder if you didn't want
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to
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know that it's a koozie and also
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i don't know like i'm just trying to
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come off the dome on this one maybe like
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the reggie the reggie bar the reggie
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jackson candy bar
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what is that i actually bought one off
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of ebay i didn't have to eat it but they
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there's a they were like a round baby
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ruth with marshmallow if i recall
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wow and i was a huge reggie jackson fan
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huge and randomly my first little league
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team was the yankees and my next one was
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the angels so i was like
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number 44 the a's though bro i only ate
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them because of the oakland ace when he
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played oh really yeah
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because of the yankees and the angels
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the reggie jackson bar um tracy was a
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barn that was made after
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reggie jackson the famous baseball
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player mr october random
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tina
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uh who's married to tony good friends of
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my family has a daughter named alex uh
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who married dwayne
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um and they had two three kids and um
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one of them is named justin aka j walt
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uh who we know it's the mc and reggie
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jackson
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is his uncle what the hell no way
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reggie jackson is jaywalk the rapper
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from the bait that's his uncle
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that is crazy
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like mac dre is related to like john
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mcenroe now or something like that well
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it's funny you bring that up
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fantastic
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oh no i was just going to say i didn't
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eat the old reggie bar but on this show
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i do actually eat some of those i know
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you like that drama sometimes like we do
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we i did try like a 41
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year old star wars cookie from 1983 and
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the original high c ecto cooler from the
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original og juice box
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and these were such bad ideas they were
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such bad ideas
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how did your body react to it
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yeah you'll you'll see well
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so i practiced the jew craft and uh it
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was yom kippur and the first thing i ate
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that day was a 41 year old cookie and we
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were doing the whole this guy has the
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guinness book of world records largest
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star wars collection in the world in in
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actually in petaluma and uh it's called
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rancho obi-wan and so we were recreating
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the whole star wars meal and we had the
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blue milk like luke does in the first
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movie
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and so
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they have the light side and the dark
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side the light side of the vanilla
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cookies and all the good characters and
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the dark sides of the chocolate the bad
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characters
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and uh the the vanilla ones smelled like
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formica so i was like pardon me but [ __ ]
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that and then i tried the chocolate one
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and i was like well it smells a little
16:48
chocolaty and i took a bite of darth
16:50
vader's head and the dude who runs the
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museum
16:52
is looking at the package i'm like
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there's some old oil in that is it he
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goes maybe some shortening goes oh wait
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a minute
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there's eggs and butter i'm like yup 41
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year old eggs 41 year old butter and at
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that moment my stomach so help me makes
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like a chewbacca noise that's so loud
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you can hear it on camera like my mic
17:11
picks up this really unattractive like
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oh no
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wow and it was and my camera guy had to
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put the like the mic down
17:20
the only one that was really rough was
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the high c ecto cooler juice box because
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all that aluminum coating on the inside
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of the juice box degraded and the dude
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the dude whose house was oh yeah he ran
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off camera and puked twice
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wow man sorry to blow up your spot bro
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you you probably blew up a lot of spots
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that day
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40 year old milk uh
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well listen man hey congratu you know
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what i love about you adam you're always
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as excited as you were the first time
17:50
talking about
17:52
about your projects and you always have
17:54
quality work and it's just in this quick
17:55
conversation we found out so much
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information yeah adam east the 80s
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premiere sunday february 27 at 10 and uh
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um the food that built america
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is
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sunday yes uh from at nine on the
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history channel so you're getting the
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double dosage of adam richmond love it
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love you too brother all right thank you
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for having me success man
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success to all y'all
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thank you thank you very much
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[Applause]
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next time i'll have you recite some bars
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like i normally do but you know we'll
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get it next time i know you just relax
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all right all right
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brother i know
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adam richmond y'all all right
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peace
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