Ali Dawah - October 29, 2018
DADAS DINER ep1 || SALAM DINING
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Summary
In the first episode of Salaam Dining, we visit Dara's Diner in Acton, between Acton and Shepherd's Bush, and we have a special guest waiting for us. We review this place and tell you guys how good it tastes and how halal it is.
Transcript
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Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh to brothers and sisters and dear friends
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welcome to our first episode of Salaam Dining we're gonna be heading to Dara's Diner in Acton
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in between Acton and Shepherd's Bush we've got a special guest waiting for us we're gonna review
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this place and tell you guys how good it tastes and how halal it is follow me okay brothers and
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sisters so we are inside Dara's Diner we're here we've got our menus they've given us three
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one for you one for me and one for the guy behind the camera but you cannot see him oh by the way
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we've got our guests but undisputed his style is impregnable his defense is impecable was it
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impeccable impeccable so we've got brother I was gonna say brother Salaam I've got brother Mahmood
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one of the G's in the hood halal of course G so when you come in brothers and sisters
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inside it's closed as well but this is the outside garden bit here's more I don't know
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you feel it more I don't know like peaceful if that makes sense you feel more relaxed with
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the water noise in the background okay what would you like I'm gonna I'm gonna go with
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my same regular buffalo chicken burger and can I have sweet potato chips with that instead of chips
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can I get the starter I'm sorry it's better not the special yeah stir fry and what was it
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egg noodles yeah no problem yeah get the mango thingy you have all the one the banana yeah we
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didn't order any stars because usually what we do is we review how long it takes between the starter
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and the main meal to come because usually when the starter comes and the main meal comes like 20 minutes
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or late when you've eaten a bit you start getting full and that affects you know then you can't eat the
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main meal do you get it so we're a bit critical in that matter I see I see so anyways putting
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everything to the side it's going on here we have to this is very serious this is salam dining please
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let's talk about that you went hunting all right yeah you went hunting I saw a picture of him
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looking very crazy with a what was it a cow deer it was a deer he had the deer what was it was
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he carrying it on your shoulder or something yeah it's called a murder buck a what it's called a
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murder buck the deer is called a murder buck no you know if there's vegetarian vegan watching
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it was actually the first time i've been hunting and uh up in scotland not far where
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no in norway no no way went before but we didn't do hunting there okay um but yeah so you got you
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went scotland yeah and scotland's legal so you told me yeah i've been norway before a few times yeah
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and we've done expeditions there okay but this expedition was in scotland okay and we were able to go
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hunting with someone who's got the accreditation okay so real gun real gun rifle
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real rifle yeah dangerous and my five is going to be on your case so it was so how did it happen
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like how what distance did you hit the animal um as far as i remember it was something like 125 meters
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yeah um but it was a long long long day i mean we went up three in the morning yeah and
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we went to all these that we walked yeah do like they call it stalking yeah walking really quiet then you
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go to these places they've got high chairs yeah kind of a lot or high seats where they are and you
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basically go and sit in them and uh and you can observe everything around and you just sit there
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and wait wait wait until a deer or they call robots yeah um appears now they've got these policies
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different times of years you can shoot male and different times of years you can use female
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yeah yeah so we weren't allowed to shoot any females in this time okay yeah that's when feminists will
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be happy yeah yeah and so we were going for the the male the male deers and um the guy with us his name
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was michael yeah pretty decent guy man really good he does all the time um we had to wait a few hours
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yeah so i was literally nodding off falling asleep he said to me just rest just go to sleep i'll wake you up
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when i see one so all right i'll do that yeah i mean we we did about four hours yeah we didn't see
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nothing we did see one or two but they were so far away and uh once we saw something but we couldn't
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catch it after that we couldn't see it i think so literally my time is about to finish and he had to
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pay him for this time no serious yeah regardless if you shoot a day or not you gotta pay him yeah yeah
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and um it's not a little money it's it's it's a decent amount of money and um so he was basically
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using that he wasn't sleeping he was making it work now yeah i was kind of sad two thousand years
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later four and a half five hours almost gone literally i'm it's to walk back to the car yeah
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yeah so we're not going to get anything yeah but god we came to one just edge of a forest and i'm
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walking walking and quietly quietly and then it all goes stop right there yeah and then he gets his
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little mono little telescope thing you look so you get this the scope out and you're aiming yeah
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and like this is my first ever shot yeah i mean even when through target practice i was taking my
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time you know you need to control your breathing and everything so you move your breathing goes up
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and down yeah you stop your heartbeat well i don't know if you can stop your heartbeat yeah but you
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meant to shoot with your heartbeat so you're kind of timing it yeah so i did that took my time the
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day before but now it's pressure you've got the deer standing there too much quality you've got to
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basically yeah exactly so i'm put i put down the gun i'm looking and then he moved behind me to take
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a shot when he moved the deer noticed no so decently goes and looks towards us here and then he goes to
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me you better shoot now yeah it's gonna go it's gonna go okay and i was told you to shoot mainly um near the
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neck area oh sorry not neck the front shoulder yeah yeah shoot it there and then basically it'll
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it'll drop yeah and uh that's the easiest way of doing it obviously as muslims we say bismillah
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allahuala faal and then shoot yeah but i thought if i aim for that little target there i might miss
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allahuala faal and shoot animal animal deer yeah deer so i can eat it afterwards and it's also we're not
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shooting for fun how is that permissible though you're because what if the animal dies when you shoot it
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because the whole point is to like slaughter it no yeah so that's i found out about that i mean
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obviously normal slaughtering is by uh halal is to slit the throat and say bismillah yeah but when
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you're hunting if you're with bow and arrow with a rifle and so forth as long as you make the intention
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and say bismillah when you shoot then it's fine in fact even some scholars say that if you kind of
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forget in the moment say bismillah as long as you had the intention when you went out for hunting then
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you're going it for collecting food okay and you say bismillah before starting your journey then that should
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be sufficient as well let's try this out man what time is it yeah try it at home it's been 11 minutes
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what is banana milk and chai tea is it okay the chai tea doesn't taste anything
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it's nice you know what in this place they were doing this drink watermelon lime strawberry and ice
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especially when it's hot in summer yeah amazing it's good it looks good okay so what time what time is
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it uh it is 3 52 so it took 19 minutes 19 minutes to come yeah okay we'll talk about that when we are
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in our conclusion didn't actually sort of stir fry what i didn't ask him it's beef yeah so beef oh is it beef here yeah
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beef so fine that's nice i'm gonna try some oh tabasco this is like a love-hate relationship this doesn't
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look like sweet potato pie yes um i think they made a boo boo i think they forgot
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we'll we'll excuse them no problem okay so basically the buffalo chicken i ordered
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usually comes in a bun yeah but it's messy to eat that and you can eat this like that as well but i
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prefer it like this for some reason i feel like they put more chicken in it when i asked for a wrap
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it's not bad it's got got that tabasco sauce already in it
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two people two people had this shared this enough
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it's funny actually i was listening to a lecture the other day yeah
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and the chef reminded you mentioned that you were talking about the concept of baraka yeah
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generally non-muslims don't understand or it's very hard to explain because in
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in the dunya in general to get more you have to do more yeah that's when you want to work hard
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to get what you want to get yeah but the concept of baraka is to do less and you get more yeah so
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it doesn't make sense to them but rasul allah mentioned mentions in all in a hadith for example
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he mentioned um that um paraphrased that when you when you when you share food
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whatever's available for one is enough for two yes what's the three
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two is for three but that's for three it's for four yeah
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and um and the shaykh also mentioned a little side story to that anecdote
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because the sahaba used to come and um and there's a hadith that one who feeds a guest
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allah forgives him of his sins or some of his sins yeah why do you know that so some of the
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sahaba used to come to rasul allah and he used to complain and he used to say is allah stopping us
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from getting forgiveness because i haven't had guests come to my house in the last three days two three
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days that's how regular they were in getting guests coming to the house instead not just coming
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and sitting down the house but feeding them and so he said that it's not that a guest comes along
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you think oh no i have to make more food no if you have to understand the concept of baraka
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no what you cook for your family already is enough a few more people that come along
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the food will be sufficient always brothers sisters we finished eating alhamdulillah it was nice
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all we're going to do now is we're going to go through our 10 point salamis
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so what we're doing so okay we'll do this we have five things that we check that's more with the
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quantity and then we have five the halamis yeah so we'll see how halal it was
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how's the time keeping in mind that they were not moving so usually in restaurants i would say
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half an hour that is calm it's like waiting half an hour it's okay yeah it's 15 minutes it
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wouldn't start us either so yeah it kind of made it a little bit longer as well so i would say
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personally i don't know what do you think like it was 19 minutes in it it was 19 minutes yeah
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19 minutes so i would personally say what would you say five out of five i'd say three out of five
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yeah it could have been faster that would be like yeah i would say yeah definitely but it wasn't
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unreasonable time yeah it was calm they had a few customers yeah i would say calm maybe it should
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work a little bit i would say freestyle it definitely that's fair that was unfortunate
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it was big okay but now we need to keep something in mind usually when it comes to portions if it's
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too much we usually take stars off oh really yeah so if the portion is too much we don't give it
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edge to start because it's like okay do you get what i'm saying so with the portion would you say
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that seemed to me i don't know how you said it was too much for you i i don't know that seemed a bit
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normal to me like not normal i would say just but did you find it a bit over the top um
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um i think less would be a bit better so but as you said if it's it wasn't so small if you hang
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on i've paid a lot of money i'm getting a couple of handfuls i mean i'm easily put i mean if you
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would share between two people i think that would be perfect yeah yeah it would be perfect enough two
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people with a drink and a little star that kind of thing okay if you want to start that would be
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problematic yeah okay but we didn't what would you give a lot tell me how good i'm going to give
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money i get three out of five yeah i would i would give it four personally because my approach was
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perfect it was just perfect it was it was more right yeah so should we meet in three and a half
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yeah yeah so three and a half star proportion uh price how's the price i think i think it's
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special what's the special special special was 650 i think yeah and my one buffalo chicken burger was
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690. that's calm i mean i think mine was a better value than yours yeah yeah 100 and knowing that they
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have that baby sandwiches here it's like 350 like a full baguette chicken like i think definitely i'll
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definitely give them four star for uh price yeah definitely 100 100 plus first in the two how would
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the two like mine bro like this this specific food here yeah yeah and i've tried a few other stuff as
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well yeah i like this place i'll definitely give it i'll definitely give it yeah four man i'm sorry i could
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do it before yeah it's really nice it's a nice fat of chili in it i mean i like chili maybe people who
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don't actually yeah but you can tell them you better tell them in advance yeah you don't put chili
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yeah but the buffalo chicken bone like it's it's actually very nice all-star 100 okay that wasn't
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chewy yeah right okay so now that was our quality but obviously guys as you know what makes us unique and
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different is that we'll review how halal it is now as far as i know the menu is fully halal yeah so it's
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fully halal yeah that's one star yeah do they pay music um no there is inside they do okay they don't
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it's not a matter of giving half stars to be honest it's because if it's packed here then you're
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going to have to sit in tight so they pay music so it's okay no stuff like that do this with alcohol
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no probably so it's not items no no alcohol so they'll be here they get a start for that yeah so
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what do we do we do we do halalness music alcohol do they have a prayer room it's not big enough
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probably they do no they don't have no even using something to get places where they have a little
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clothes but they don't have a prayer room here um and i don't know the nearest nationally either so no
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stop for that and also do they have privacy for sisters you have like private brother you want
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to hold his wife or sis wanted to come they don't they haven't got private boots i mean they don't
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they have got little restrictions for a husband and wife to sit down but not that kind of thing if
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the sister wears wants to remove a hijab or whatever and then you know boris is going to get upset as
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well and he's got his hair cut out of me to be honest that's it man like you know problem
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systems that's it that's about it from salam dining hope you guys have benefited free white
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from me and mahoos anything else you want to say mahoos it's too big to hook sorry it's too big
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to hook no of course we're going to pay for it oh okay yeah what uh i don't have to pay for it
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what what paper you can pay you can pay you can pay it's going to pay someone's going to pay
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yeah that's what promises more episodes come in very soon now