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5 Questions With ABJ Dan The Candy Man · ABJ

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  Welcome everybody, we are back. Five questions with a BJ
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  WrestleMania weekend, Addict Brewing Company, Labor of love.
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  Huge thank you. You guys let me come in here and
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  film. I gotta be honest, the beers are
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  pretty good. Loving the beers.
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  Wrestling has not started yet, but I'm sure it's going to be
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  crazy. It is pouring down rain all wake
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  week in Philly, but I think that's going to show why this
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  city is the best wrestling city in the world.
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  Because rain, snow, thunderstorms, whatever it is,
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  you're not stopping us in this awesome weekend of professional
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  wrestling. I am joined here with today.
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  Hey, it's me. Delightful Dan the candy man.
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  I hope we don't mind if I as. Sweet as fish, yeah.
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  Yeah. Yeah, please, please.
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  My favorite. Did you know this?
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  Did you know this? My favorite.
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  All right. Actually, no, I didn't know it
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  and I brought it specifically for that.
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  Maybe, maybe there's a candy question at the end here.
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  So what is your current goal in life right now?
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  You shouldn't eat while you're on camera.
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  But we're breaking all the rules.
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  We're. Breaking also crinkling it in
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  front of them. Yeah, that's that's good.
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  That's good ASMR. It's really just get, get around
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  as much as I can. Put as many smiles on faces as I
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  can, you know, see where I can go with this silly wrestling
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  thing. And it's fun with it.
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  It's very silly when you boil it down.
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  Right, it is very I. Had these two guys on before.
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  Take it they're too serious. They take things too serious.
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  Oh, I'm going to beat every You're brand candy.
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  I saw them, they had scowls on. Yeah, just.
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  Like, come on, guys. Yeah, it's pro wrestling.
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  Jesus. Anyway, what are you currently
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  doing to achieve your goals? I mean, I'm, I'm just trying to,
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  yeah, go out, be, be present, work on myself, work on
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  everything around me, try to make everywhere I'm at a better
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  place to be. I want smiles on from the.
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  Fans to. The locker room I.
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  Want you brought smiles for me. I'm eating Swedish.
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  Fish I want to bring joy to to literally everyone I possibly
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  can. I'm drinking beer and eating
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  Swedish fish. You you are hands down so far
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  the best 5 questions with. ABG obviously.
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  Thank you, but. Don't tell the other.
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  Guys, I know, I know I am. But but in all honesty, it's
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  like it's like, you know, I don't think any some people get
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  into wrestling when they're older, but most of us, it's like
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  when we're kids, we're like, oh, look at this wrestling.
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  It's really cool. I I like that.
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  It doesn't need to be much more than that.
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  I eat candy. I like that.
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  Doesn't need to be much more. So I want people to see a thing
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  and say I like that. I will say this, I know, I know
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  some of these catch point guys are going to the northeast PA
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  area like the school county and working places like that.
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  There's there's a guy named the dude.
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  The dude has gummies. Do not eat those, OK?
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  Yeah, they they have a little extra to them and you will get a
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  little weird in the head. Oh yeah.
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  So stay away from those. Give them a try.
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  I mean, I've eaten. I've eaten some pretty crazy
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  stuff. All right, all right.
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  Yeah, I've eaten my fair share of warheads.
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  And they are. These are a little it's a
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  different war you're going to fight in your head in that
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  situation, but what is currently holding you back are a
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  distraction from your goals. I will say I do think that
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  people see someone like me, which I understand.
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  I'm not the most conventional professional wrestler.
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  I'm not serious. I want to fight you all the
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  time. But I do want to wrestle and I
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  do want to win and I take it seriously when I do it.
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  I just, I'm not angry. I, I apologize for that.
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  If you want anger, you're usually not going to get it out
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  of me. But I think a lot of people see
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  me and they see me as a comedy wrestler or a gimmick guy or a
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  joke. And it's, I'm a wrestler, you
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  know, I, I think people don't necessarily see me as a
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  wrestler. And, you know, I think that that
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  that gets in my way at at points, but I want to push
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  through that so that wrestling isn't just one thing.
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  It is the canvas on which you paint.
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  The art, well there there's a guy on TV now who's throwing up
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  little tiny thumbs UPS and he doesn't really, he's not a
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  conventional guy either. And he's the number one merch
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  seller. So I think, I think sometimes
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  when you stay true to yourself, you're going to do pretty well.
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  Absolutely, yeah. Who or what motivates or
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  inspires? You wow, funny you speak about
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  that guy. He is Orange Cassidy is
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  definitely up there. He, I, I've gotten to work with
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  him in the past and his, his attitude to, to wrestling, I
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  think is amazing. Also, you know, I got to say big
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  up my school T2T wrestling Academy.
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  I've been part of it since 2020 and honestly, everyone involved
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  there, Logan Black and the head trainer is a huge inspiration
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  that he's really done a lot for me.
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  Angelo Carter, one of my best friends, who you'll see him
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  everywhere in a matter of minutes.
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  And also just the pretty much the entire student base.
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  We've had people come in and say, oh, I want to check this
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  out because this is the gay school.
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  It wasn't started as the gay school.
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  But I see so many people who just feel comfortable being
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  there. And the more, the more queer
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  students, the more queer representation we have, the more
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  come in. And it's great because like I,
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  you know, I've been lucky. I, I am a CIS person.
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  I've gotten to live a pretty privileged life by comparison.
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  People have done a lot more struggling than I have.
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  So, you know, my peers inspire me and I hope to inspire them
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  to, you know, root them up and show them how good they can be.
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  I think Effie said it best. Wrestling.
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  He's gay. It really is, yeah.
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  It truly is, and there's nothing wrong with that, I'll tell you
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  that right now. What are you currently grateful
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  for and are you happy? Currently, I would have to say I
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  am grateful that we are coming off of Easter and if you go to a
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  local Target or Walmart, everything's going to be marked
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  down. You might have to go to the back
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  of the store. To find.
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  It candy. Good.
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  Particularly the Kit Kat lemon bars.
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  I know my friend Bobby Orlando is a huge fan of them.
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  Any chance he gets he will ask me for them.
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  So they are seasonal items, so make sure you pick them up now.
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  Have you had the the donut ones yet?
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  No. I haven't.
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  I'm looking for them. Have you guys seen them?
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  The Kit Kat plays donut. I need to get that in my life.
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  And am I happy? I don't know.
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  He looks pretty happy. Where can people find and
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  support you? So I'm all over social media.
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  Find me mainly on TikTok, but also, you know, at Twitter,
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  Facebook, Instagram, all at God at goddamn Candy, man.
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  Also follow along with TGT Wrestling Academy under
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  different handles in Brooklyn. We just launched our YouTube
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  channel, so every Tuesday we'll be putting out matches.
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  And I'm really proud of the work that we've all been doing.
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  A lot of stuff hasn't really been released to the public
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  before, so I'm excited for people to see what's about to
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  come out of 222 in Brooklyn. There's some good.
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  Stuff cooking. That's fantastic.
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  All right, We'll see you guys next on the next time 5
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  questions. ABJ, we're out of here.
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  We are back, still drinking, still eating candy.
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  This is amazing. One of the coolest 5 questions,
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  I got to be honest, is one of my favorites.
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  Very cool guy, very cool. I mean, if I don't ask a candy
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  question to the candy man, I think it's it's a disservice to
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  everybody, you know, it's a disservice to my channel.
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  It's a disservice to the world. We just got off Easter with a
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  big one of the biggest candy holidays.
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  What are your top five like Desert island candies.
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  You go to a gas station on the way to a show, you're getting
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  that sugar rush before your match.
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  What are you grabbing? Do you have children?
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  No. OK, No.
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  Well, if anyone, God no. If anyone out there has.
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  I don't have. To share candy.
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  I don't want to do that, Yeah. But if you have children out
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  there and you are sincerely asked who is your favorite
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  child, I think that's a very disrespectful question to ask.
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  All right? That's like a Sophie's Choice
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  question. And the fact you asked me that
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  really hurts me. But I understand why you ask it.
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  But yeah, it's a tie between literally every candy that's
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  ever existed throughout the history of time.
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  But I'd say, you know, things go in and out.
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  And right now, as I mentioned before, you know, those lemon
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  kit Kats are pretty good. And I'm also partial to take
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  Fives. OK, just come off the top of my
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  head. Are you partial to, like,
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  gummies, just chocolate bars to like, Is there a preference?
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  Yeah. I'm partial to all of them.
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  OK, OK, I personally I'm a Peach ring guy.
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  I love Peach. Ring.
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  I'm a Peach ring, blue sharks. I think I learn more gummies
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  than anything fair. Are you a fan of Army guys?
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  I've never had. Those they are.
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  Green apple gummies they are. Green apples a tough self.
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  It's a really good, it's a good flavor.
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  If you see them, they're hard to come by.
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  But if you see. Them If there's a bowl of Jolly
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  Ranchers, I'm eating every flavor but green apple.
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  Interesting. Yeah, I'm leaving those for,
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  for, for the psychopaths of the world who eat those.
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  That's wild. Yeah, I think people do that
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  with grape, which I I love grape.
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  Yeah, love. I think grape is great but green
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  grape flavor? Also, you ever get the the Peach
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  eggs? It's like a little, it looks
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  like a cracked egg. Oh yeah, yeah, they're pretty
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  good. They're good ones.
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  Delicious. Peach flavor is just my jam.
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  OK. Yeah, definitely.
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  This is more a question to you. Yeah, Yeah, I.
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  Think you got me excited. You got me super excited about
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  Candy, but yeah, a blessed man. Please go support this guy.
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  Very fun. All my guests on this channel
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  have been amazing and we have way more content coming.
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  Philly weekend, baby. We are rocking and rolling.
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  Let's keep the party going. That was awesome.
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  That was so.