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Craving the Diablo! Recreating Smokey and the Bandit's Classic Sandwich
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Jan 22, 2025
Printable recipe below! In this video, we're recreating the epic Diablo sandwich from the classic film Smokey and the Bandit. With a smokey, spicy kick, this sandwich is a must-try for any foodie. Used in this video: Smokey Woods wood chunks https://smokeywoodsbbq.com/ Kent's Mustard https://www.kentrollins.com/shop Kent's Red River Mud BBQ https://www.kentrollins.com/shop Hasty Bake https://shorturl.at/jlsZ3 Cowboy Apron https://www.kentrollins.com/shop Rode wireless Go 2 mic: https://amzn.to/3seAQ7X Cowboy Hat: Chazhatz.com ARIAT Clothing: Kent’s Favorite Ariat products - https://bit.ly/3LdR2gn Save 10% off your first Ariat order: http://bit.ly/3JXvfst For more suggested products seen in our videos click here: https://www.amazon.com/shop/cowboykentrollins ======================
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I think Jackie and Bert would be proud
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of us maybe even Junior out there too I
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believe it Diablo Samson Dr Pepper the
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go here we
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[Music]
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go let me have a Diablo Sandwich of Dr
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Peppa make it fast I'm in a hurry how
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many times you seen this movie uh 100
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times 100 times you know Heath is really
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probably the self-proclaimed
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fish of what
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smoking would go that far yeah I mean
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you know there is a scene in this movie
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that really jumped out to me when Berke
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Reynolds is in the Old Hickory Cafe you
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know already sitting in there and who
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comes in the door Beau for what does he
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order when he sits down there when
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Jackie gleon comes in a Diablo and a Dr
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Pepper there we go let me have a Diablo
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Sandwich a Dr Pepper and make it fast
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I'm
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Hur you want
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something Daddy got no
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time all right she gives him the
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sandwich okay uhhuh so now when he picks
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it up takes a it ain't very big no it's
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not very big but you can see it looks
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like loose meat on it like it's a
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shreded pork or shreded brisket see it
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running out sides of his mouth backyard
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knocking
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down he got heartburn
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oh let me but with the name Diablo don't
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you figure it's got some heat it's got
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some heat to it I I think it is
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especially when he
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go got that got that heartburn shredded
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chicken shredded pork shredded brisket
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one of them you know it's got to be
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juicy but it's got to be hot yeah so
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we're going to construct our own Diablo
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Sandwich and a do
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[Music]
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pepper
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after hours and hours of deliberation
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and Shan getting tired of watching the
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Smoky and Bandit 27 times me and Heath
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have decided that what we would go with
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a Diablo Sandwich that we're going to
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recreate brisket now you could use
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pulled pork or you could even shred
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chicken for this and we've got a lot of
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brisket videos that you could go back
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and watch but first off you're going to
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have to trim that brisket don't take all
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that fat off of it no and when you put
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it in a full pan and you're saying why a
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full pan because we want to reserve all
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that broth and all them juices with it
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because we want this to fall apart as it
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goes so put it in that full pan you got
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it seasoned really well seal it up with
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aluminum foil let it cook about 10 11
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hours and then pull that foil off of it
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let it get some smoke in there for the
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brisket I really recommend that you use
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Cherrywood and I'm going to add just a
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little bit of Oak to it right there at
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the last so it can get a Oak and Cherry
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mixture of smoke the cherry wood will
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give you such a great bark and I want to
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thank the Folks at Smoky Woods for
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getting us that good cherry wood it is
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the best stuff I ever cooked with now
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when this brisket is done that pan is
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going to be nearly Plum full of broth
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that is rendered down out of that fat
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save that stuff always just take mine
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pour it in a plastic pitch or something
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after it's cool because not only do we
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need some of that back in this brisket
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but it is so good for soup stock
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something like that you can use this
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stuff in so many ways put it in some
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beans woo it is so good now I got about
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a pound and a half to 2 lbs of Brisket
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left over that we hadn't eat Plum up and
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I'd put a little barbecue sauce with it
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already originally but we went back and
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added some more of our mud to it now you
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look back in that video As Old Jackie
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Gleason or Sheriff Buford tea there is
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eating that sandwich you can see and go
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heartburn so you know it's got some heat
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to it with a name like Diablo Sandwich
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you know it's got heat now I think maybe
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so they had some old hot sauce that they
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just put in there with it or something
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but folks if you want to stir up some
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heat just a little bit and get some
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really good Smoky flavor this is where
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we're going some of this Adobo sauce now
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I don't want a whole lot out of there
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and I'd say that's probably pretty close
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to about 3
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tablespoons and just get you a little
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taste here we want to see if it's got
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enough bite to
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it did that help yes oh my gosh you know
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in the movie Shen they had a big old
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basket Hound that went with them we
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don't have a basset but we got a snower
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and he got a lot of fur on him now when
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you put all this back together I really
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think that we should put it back on that
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smoker over the Hasty bake and just let
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them flavors heat up and blend all
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together so we going to put it
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back now we're cooking indirect over
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there all the fire is on that side we
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got the other on this and what smoke are
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you using we're using cherry and Oak
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today you know at this point in time in
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making and recreating this sandwich I am
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going to take the Liberty to go a way
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out on a cowboy Kent Rollins limb I am
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you didn't see it in there in the movie
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you didn't but what hot links I think
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that's what this sandwich really needs
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cuz it's called Diablo Diablo to mean
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means like I'm going kick your butt with
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some heat you can use any hot link you
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want for this but I really like these
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Potters we're going to put them over on
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the smoker for about 20 30 minutes let
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them get a smoke bath and warm up and
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then we going to recreate and put
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together this sandwich and Jackie gleon
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might even show back up today because
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John Wayne's just right up there he be
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wanting to bite
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[Music]
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too well well them hotlinks have been on
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about 25 minutes and you can see they
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split here they are good and tender we
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going to move them right up here they
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really don't need no more cooking uh our
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brisket has warmed up with the sauce and
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the Adobo sauce we need to butter them
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buns and toast them because in that
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video when I was watching it their
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Jackie GLE and sandwich sort of fell
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apart so I think if we was to butter
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them and toast them it'd give them a
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little more resiliency maybe they
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wouldn't fall apart what do you think
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Mage this has got a childproof label on
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it my hands is cold I like these Mrs
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birds that are really big and they got
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them sesame seeds on there I have warmed
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me up a little
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butter I have we just going to give them
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a little brushing right here we going to
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get these all toasted up and then it is
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time to put the Diablo Sandwich
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[Music]
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together well before we go any further
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and we have got everything ready
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assembled to go now when you get a hot
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link done and I guess you could place
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them on the sandwich just like this and
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then covered up with meat but it's going
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to be really too big so I'd thought
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about slicing them this way really thin
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like a piece of bacon and then Shan said
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maybe we ought to slice them the other
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way to where they're like rounds I think
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I think if you did them like in rounds
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and place them on top so we're going to
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slice pretty
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thin and uh you can see that red hot
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link has got some really good color to
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it and folks these things is spicy hot
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so Shan have you ever had a hot link I
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haven't well it's pretty cold out here
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right I want you to go ahead and try
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this bite for the people uh it's got a
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little spice to it I think you're going
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to like
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it and you know like I say this wasn't
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in the movie but I'm thinking with a
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Diablo You' got to have it and you can
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put on there got a little kick to it
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yeah as much as you want or as little as
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you want but when you slice them round
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like this you're going to be able to
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bite them a whole lot easier and not
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pull off the sandwich so this right here
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is going to be the top off ingredient of
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our Diablo
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Sandwich
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[Music]
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n
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[Music]
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well I have brought the expert of the
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movie back here and let me tell you what
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I went ahead and went with the brisket
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and then some good Potter's hot links
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put our spicy green chili mustard on
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there and some purple onion I I think
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it's going to have some Tums or rolad
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after a while I do but you can see it's
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a whole lot bigger than the sandwich
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that Jackie gleon had right there that's
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a whole lot bigger yes so I'm thinking
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we might just go ahead and have a bite
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let me let me get some of
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these cuz I think we going to need them
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okay I bet we're going to need them yeah
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let's see what's had got me some that
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hot link right there on that side
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mhm I it's
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there good
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uhhuh mhm you know the brisket I went
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back and put some more Adobo sauce with
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it some our barbecue sauce to give it a
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little more heat on its own got a little
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heat and when you get it to the back of
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your tongue you think it ain't bad and
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then as it settles that hot Le starting
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to come gets in there I like to Crunch
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the Purple Onion get in there too and
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you use that mustard uh-huh that's
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Mustard's really good oh
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yeah oh my gosh that's getting hot
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too
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mhm this cold but make you want that
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heat get in there make sh it you got to
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drive a
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[Music]
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car well we hope y'all enjoyed this cuz
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me and Heath short did we got to watch
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the movie 28 more times Shan wasn't too
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big a favor of it but it was good uh so
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easy to put together hope yall enjoy it
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but it is with honor great pride and
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privilege that we tip our hat to all the
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service men and women and all the
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veterans that have kept that old flag of
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flying no matter where they're at rest
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of you get on in here close come on in
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here real close cuz we going to give you
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a Diablo
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hug God bless you each and every one and
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we'll see you down the Smoky and Bandit
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Trail can't believe I don't remember all
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I bet we watch that D thing oh we did
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100 times she say the best movie she
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ever seen we didn't we didn't have
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nothing to watch in Japan so we watched
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a lot of these just over and over and
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over can't remember what the dog's name
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was either flash
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uh Fred
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fre thank you you're usually not this
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nice just CU Heath's
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here I might have to blow my nose once
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to start filming I'm I'm going to say
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what needs to be set around
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[Music]
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