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DONKEY: New Jersey Restaurant Writes ‘Happy Birthday Wheelchair’ On Disabled Customer’s Dessert · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: It's time for donkey of the day. There's a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of donkeys out here. Call donkey of the day. It
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  Speaker 1: really caught me off guard.
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  Speaker 2: We live a life where we bite our tongue based
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  Speaker 2: off who we may offend. We never would say anything.
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  Speaker 2: You are a donkey.
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  Speaker 1: That is why Charlemagne is here. Some donkey of the
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  Speaker 1: day just saw themselves. On The Breakfast Club. Okay, Chalamet,
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  Speaker 1: who are we giving donkey of the day to today?
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  Speaker 2: Donkey of the day for Thursday, August 27th, goes to
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  Speaker 2: a diner in New Jersey called Blue on the Hudson.
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  Speaker 2: Blue is in Weehawken, New Jersey. And the headline that
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  Speaker 2: caught my attention this morning came from the New York Post,
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  Speaker 2: and it said, NJ Diner outraged after upscale restaurant serves
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  Speaker 2: her dessert with offensive message. Now, we live in an
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  Speaker 2: era where everyone is so easily offended. And personally, I
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  Speaker 2: don't get offended easily, but I have offended people. OK,
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  Speaker 2: not on purpose, sometimes on purpose, but that's not always
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  Speaker 2: my intention. But I have. So when it comes to
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  Speaker 2: people being offended, oftentimes I'm like, here we go again. OK,
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  Speaker 2: but I will be honest with you. I can see
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  Speaker 2: why this person is offended. OK, see, the victim's name
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  Speaker 2: is an Antony Sinbaldi. Drop on the clues bombs for
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  Speaker 2: Antony Sinbaldi. Happy belated born day, Antony. She's twenty nine.
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  Speaker 2: And she was celebrating her 29th born day, and she
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  Speaker 2: ordered an.
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  Speaker 1: Apple tart tatin for dessert.
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  Speaker 2: I don't even know what the hell that is, okay?
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  Speaker 1: I know what an apple tart is. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what the tatin is. What's a tatin? Anybody know? I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, but blue food is good, though. Oh, you've
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  Speaker 1: been there before? That's my spot. Yeah, they say it's upscale. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my God, it's so good. The steak and the drinks
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  Speaker 1: is amazing.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there was a happy birthday message on Antoni's plate.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go to CBS News for the report, please.
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  Speaker 3: It's the birthday memory Antonia Sinabaldi was not expecting to make.
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  Speaker 3: It was back on June 20th when she, along with
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  Speaker 3: friends and family, went out to celebrate her 29th birthday
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  Speaker 3: at the restaurant Blue on the Hudson in Weehawken. Sinabaldi,
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  Speaker 3: who is a singer-songwriter, was diagnosed with a cervical cancer.
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  Speaker 3: spinal injury when she was two years old, the result
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  Speaker 3: of a car accident involving a drunk driver. She has
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  Speaker 3: relied on a motorized wheelchair and ventilator for most of
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  Speaker 3: her life. On this evening in June, when it was
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  Speaker 3: time for dessert, she was served a message that was
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  Speaker 3: far from sweet. What it said was happy birthday wheelchair,
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  Speaker 3: a message that stunned the table and the birthday girl.
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  Speaker 1: Just me by surprise.
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  Speaker 4: I shouldn't be reminded of something that I already know.
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  Speaker 3: In a statement to CBS News New York, a spokesperson
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  Speaker 3: for Blue on the Hudson said management was deeply saddened
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  Speaker 3: by what occurred, apologizing for what it describes as an
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  Speaker 3: unfortunate mistake, saying in part the word wheelchair was used
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  Speaker 3: as a reference to identify where a birthday dessert with
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  Speaker 3: a candle should be delivered. Unfortunately, that notation was misunderstood
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  Speaker 3: and was written on the plate itself. There was absolutely
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  Speaker 3: no malicious or disrespectful intent behind that notation.
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  Speaker 1: Don't bring my disability in every sentence.
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  Speaker 4: There's a lot of people they should know.
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  Speaker 2: Now, full disclosure, because God knows my heart, okay? God
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  Speaker 2: knows just hilarious his heart too, all right? I just
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  Speaker 2: need to be transparent for myself. I completely understand why
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  Speaker 2: whoever did this deserves donkey of the day. That's why
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  Speaker 2: I'm giving it to him. But boy, I find this hilarious, okay?
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  Speaker 2: This was so unnecessary yet so funny, okay? Poor Antonia,
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  Speaker 2: as you just heard, has used the wheelchairs and she
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  Speaker 2: was two years old, okay? Suffered a spinal injury in
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  Speaker 2: a car accident involving a drunk driver. That's why you
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  Speaker 2: shouldn't drink and drive. She just out there wanting to
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  Speaker 2: enjoy her 29 years of life. Beautiful birthday dinner surrounded
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  Speaker 2: by friends and family. Then dessert comes out and written
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  Speaker 2: on her plate. Happy birthday wheelchair. You might as well
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  Speaker 2: have had the bottle girls come out with the sparklers
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  Speaker 2: and the big ass sign that said happy birthday handicapped.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: What kind of birthday greeting is happy? a birthday wheelchair
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  Speaker 2: okay who would do this all right what if this
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  Speaker 2: person had down syndrome what if they had a lazy
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  Speaker 2: eye what if they had alopecia okay and i don't
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  Speaker 2: know who in the restaurant did this but it's a
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  Speaker 2: good chance if i had to use the process of
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  Speaker 2: elimination they were black okay because this is how we
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  Speaker 2: talk we'd be like okay wheelchair yeah all right okay
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  Speaker 2: shoulder pads We will reduce people to whatever it is
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  Speaker 2: they are in the moment. Happy birthday, ball head. Happy birthday, ringworm. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: happy birthday, CPAP machine.
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  Speaker 1: All right?
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  Speaker 2: You can't just start identifying people by whatever distinguishing characteristic.
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  Speaker 1: You noticed when they walked in, okay?
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  Speaker 2: And I'm mad at myself that I find human error
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  Speaker 2: so funny because the blue restaurant says they weren't making
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  Speaker 2: fun of Antonia.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't think they were either, okay?
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  Speaker 2: They say wheelchair was written on the ticket so employees
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  Speaker 2: would know who the birthday dessert was for. I totally
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  Speaker 2: understand them, okay? But you're not supposed to write this
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  Speaker 2: stuff down. These are the things we're supposed to say
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  Speaker 2: to each other. Okay, hey, shorty in the wheelchair, it's
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  Speaker 2: her birthday, all right?
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  Speaker 4: Bet.
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  Speaker 1: You can't write wheelchair on the ticket, though. All right?
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  Speaker 2: There's people out there in restaurants who communicate like this
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  Speaker 2: all the time. Hey, bald head dude, red shirt, order
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  Speaker 2: the steak medium. Fat dude in the Yankee hat, order
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  Speaker 2: the Diet Coke.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why.
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  Speaker 2: Those type of identifiers are fine amongst each other. But
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  Speaker 2: somewhere between the ticket and Antonio's table, wires got crossed,
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  Speaker 2: people got too comfortable, and somebody saw the word wheelchair
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  Speaker 2: and decided to write.
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  Speaker 1: It in chocolate sauce, okay? Why? Why? You know that's
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  Speaker 1: not her name. Okay, see, y'all just like Target.
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  Speaker 2: With the minstrel show, okay, with the minstrel show clown suit,
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  Speaker 2: all right? That order and plate went through too many
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  Speaker 2: hands for someone not to catch this, and that's why
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  Speaker 2: y'all getting donkey of the day. And I don't want
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  Speaker 2: the people fired. I want them studied.
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  Speaker 1: OK, because at no point while you were beautifully piping.
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  Speaker 2: The word wheelchair onto this woman's birthday plate, did your
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  Speaker 2: brain tap you on the shoulder and say, hey, quick question, bro.
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  Speaker 1: F you do it.
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  Speaker 2: OK, they had several opportunities to abort this mission. You
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  Speaker 2: saw the ticket. You got the plate. You picked up
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  Speaker 2: the sauce. You wrote happy. OK, you wrote birthday. Then
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  Speaker 2: you started writing wheel. OK, your brain didn't send up
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  Speaker 2: one flare yet. Not even around the second E. By
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  Speaker 2: the time you got the chair. Somebody should have knew
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  Speaker 2: what the hell was up. Somebody had to come pick
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  Speaker 2: that plate up. Another human being. They didn't look down
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  Speaker 2: and say, what the hell? They looked at a woman
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  Speaker 2: sitting in a wheelchair, looked down at the plate that said,
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  Speaker 2: happy birthday wheelchair, and said, here.
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  Speaker 1: Here.
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  Speaker 2: You wrote happy wheelchair birthday and salted caramel, and not
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  Speaker 2: once did your brain say stop. Look, I don't believe
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  Speaker 2: every terrible mistake comes from a terrible heart. Sometimes nobody
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  Speaker 2: is malicious enough. Sometimes nobody is hateful. Sometimes people just
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  Speaker 2: dumb as hell. And that's what Donkey of the Day
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  Speaker 2: is for. Please give the folks at the Blue, at
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  Speaker 2: the Hudson, the sweet sounds and the Hamiltones.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, now you are the donkey of the day. You
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  Speaker 4: are the donkey of the day.
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  Speaker 1: Yee-haw. I know it was black. I know, I know.
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  Speaker 1: And our culture don't translate to everybody. And that's a
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  Speaker 1: long-ass word, wheelchair. You know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 4: By the time you got to the second E, then
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  Speaker 4: the chair, like, yo, what's up with you?
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  Speaker 1: They didn't mean nothing by it. Was she black? Because
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  Speaker 1: they probably thought that she was going.
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  Speaker 4: To be cool.
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  Speaker 1: No, she wasn't.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't mean nothing by it. That's how they was
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  Speaker 2: talking amongst each other to her.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but why would you write that in chocolate? It's
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  Speaker 1: just a brain lapse.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, bro.
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  Speaker 1: This is why AI is going to take over because
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  Speaker 1: we already moving like robots. We don't got to stop
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  Speaker 1: going there though, right? Are they all black that weren't
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  Speaker 1: there long? No. They not?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: It's a few far in between of us there, but
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  Speaker 1: the food is really, it's good. People in wheelchairs might
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  Speaker 1: feel it. People in wheelchairs might feel it.
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  Speaker 2: It ain't rolling up no more.
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  Speaker 1: It ain't coming in there, man.
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  Speaker 2: I would definitely say something the next time I'm there,
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  Speaker 2: but I just need to make sure I can still go.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, wheelchair. Happy birthday, wheelchair.
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  Speaker 2: And then you bring it out and sit it down
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  Speaker 2: and you like right there saying happy birthday.
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  Speaker 1: So like the family like, hold up. They was calling
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  Speaker 1: her wheelchair all night from the time she walked in.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know what I mean. The people that
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  Speaker 1: weren't there. Not the time she walked in. She walked in.
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  Speaker 4: God.
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  Speaker 1: Say thank you, please. Thank you for the donkey today, Sharla.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for donkey today. Happy birthday. And what's her name?
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  Speaker 1: And Tony. Happy birthday. Oh, my God. We got Just
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  Speaker 1: expert at anything, but she has some life experiences that
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  Speaker 1: she can help you with some of your issues. Okay.
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