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POOR MANS COOKIES An EGGLESS OATMEAL COOKIE RECIPE. Depression Era Recipe using no eggs or dairy.
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today I'm going to show you how to make
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a poor man cookie specifically an
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oatmeal cookie now this is a Great
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Depression recipe specifically in the
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1930s when people had very minimal
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access to
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ingredients now this is a dairy and
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eggree
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recipe a few Pantry ingredients we're
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going to put these together in a large
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mixing bowl we're going to place three
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/4 cup of some shortening now this is
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what I'm using right here it's by
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Crisco all right we take that
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out now if you use the sticks they're
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already
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measured there we
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go all right we're going to add in some
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sugar suar I've got brown sugar and
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we've got white granulated sugar now
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this recipe was given to me by my mom
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she found it and she really liked this
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recipe because it didn't have eggs in it
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she knows Thomas likes oatmeal cookies
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oh I do so she wanted us to give this a
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try so we're going to pack in the brown
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sugar for one
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cup and I'm just using a/4 cup cup here
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so I can get into
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the
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Container three
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and there we
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go and we'll add in half a cup of white
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granulated sugar I'm just going
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to one and
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there half a
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cup now I'm going to be using my
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electric hand mixer and I'm going to
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cream this together until it's well
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combined start on a low setting first
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and then move to your
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medium all right that's what it should
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look like we're going to set this off to
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the side let's bring over a mediumsized
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bowl and we're going to start adding in
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our dry inred ingredients now there's
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only three of them we're going to put in
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one cup of allpurpose
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flour just dig
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deep just scrape it
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off and then you're going to need baking
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soda and
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salt all right we're going to need one
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teaspoon of the baking soda soda that's
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our leving agent it'll help give a
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little rise to the
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cookies and then a/4 teaspoon of
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salt just going to get a small whisk
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let's blend it all
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together irate the
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flour okay we're going to take our flour
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ingredient mixture here and we're going
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to slowly add it to our our sugar
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mixture and blend it
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in keep it on a low
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setting here we
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go all right I'm going to finish the
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rest of the flour into here
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it's going to be a pretty thick
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dough we don't have any eggs in here or
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milk or anything like that to really
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loosen it
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up there we go all right we got a few
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more ingredients to add let me go get
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those we're going to add in 1/4 cup of
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water that's where our moisture is going
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to come from and for some flavor
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more flavor some vanilla
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extract one
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teaspoon now I heard you can also put
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cinnamon in here if you want to do that
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add some extra
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flavor all right I'm going to mix This
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Together there we go all right you don't
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want to over mix we're done I'm going to
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come up a little bit make sure I don't
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get batter all over my husband
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oh darn I know
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right there we go you just have to lick
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it
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off y'all know why did y'all see my
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shirt be you can lick the beers it
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should say the beaters on there huh life
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is
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short there we go there was no eggs in
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here so it's pretty
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safe let's bring over the oatmeal
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these are oldfashioned rolled
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oats we're going to add two cups to it
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now we're done with the hand
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mixer you don't want to have that mixing
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your oats inside of here you're going to
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break your beers for sure we're going to
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fold them in so I'm going to take two
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cups see there's one
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there we
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go
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and
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two almost shook them right back out of
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the measuring tool here there we
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go let's bring the sunshine
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out now you want to just fold them in so
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just drag your spatula down to the
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bottom and pull the mixture up into the
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oats and then just smashing them in
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there until we get a really good mix
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all right stick with me you guys because
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there is a certain way that we're going
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to have to cook these because they're
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going to spread because there's no egg
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in here that'll hold it all together but
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there are some
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tricks now if y'all are still dealing
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with price of eggs being too
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high here's a Great Cookie right here to
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make they made it back in the 1930s but
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it was good then
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too okay guys I think that's it you're
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going to need a sheet pan pretty large
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one now I know they didn't have
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parchment paper back in the
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1930s or did they what they have I think
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they had wax paper yeah maybe or you can
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use foil and then you can lightly grease
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it or just lightly grease your pan you
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just want to make sure it's
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nonstick now I'm going to do one pan at
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a
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time woo oh there we go scraped that off
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husband got me a knife wasn't that nice
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of them he can't wait for this you want
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to try the dough I won't say no is it
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sweet enough oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah
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that's good all right there we go I
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think I'm going to overfill this one
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here so I'm going to go
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in and place it right on the sheet pan
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here make sure you give them plenty of
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room to spread out because they will do
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that
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there we go I'm going to flatten them
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down let we get enough on this pan
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here there we go oh could y'all see when
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I did
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that sorry I was too busy eating I was
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too busy looking at Thomas I'm going to
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take a little piece of parchment and I'm
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just going to flatten the cookies just a
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little bit just give them a little pat
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down
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there you want to keep them kind of
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small because they will spread
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out all right I've got my oven preheated
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at
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350 degrees I moved my rack up to the
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top level there we're going to bake
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these for about 13 minutes you can kind
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of give them a check they should be nice
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and golden brown on the top and around
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the edges of the cookie I'll be back now
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while these are happening I am going to
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just finish the rest of those and then
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bring you back here you go okay so I
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pulled the cookies out of the oven and I
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immediately took them off and put them
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on a rack to cool down we have 30
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cookies that it made using that 1inch
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cookie scoop with a little bit fill over
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on it all right let me grab a cookie
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here it's nice and golden brown on the
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edges on the top on the bottom look at
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this
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one there we
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go so it's nice and crispy on the
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outside and soft on the
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inside pass one on to my
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husband I'm going to give this one a
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try he yank that right out of my
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hand
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wow that is good there's sweetness to it
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I like the crunchiness of it on the
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outside and a little softness on the
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inside of that cookie that's
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good thumbs
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up all right let me know what you think
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of my poor man cookies the oatmeal
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recipe these were back in the
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1930s and they are fabulous delicious
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taking some to my mom kids are going to
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want some I think Thomas has his own
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plate right here they can have what's on
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here
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here all right thumbs up you guys I'll
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see yall on the next episode bye
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