TDW 1702 - Birthplace of Osborne Spectacle of Lights
Thanks to Spooky Talk Show for having me in the shack of horror https://youtu.be/EqAKc4m2HV0
Transcript
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I can't decide what's more exciting the
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self pumping nozzles or the fact that
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gas is still under $2 a gallon welcome
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everyone Adam the woo here before we
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delve deep into today's Vlog I have a
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serious question I want to ask you and I
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would like your honest humble opinion do
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you notice a difference between a canned
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taste Mountain Dew versus a bottle cuz I
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sure the heck do been drinking this
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stuff a long
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time and I honestly can tell the
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difference is that a little bizarre it's
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my second channel daily Vlog channel
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it's the daily and the big bottles taste
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a little bit different than the small
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bottles and the small cans taste
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different than the big cans my mind
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cannot wrap my head around that it's the
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daily woo at the sight of the Murray
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Lock and Dam now and above the dam is a
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large walkway for pedestrians
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and bicyclists a bridge you could call
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it in fact here in
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town they call it a big
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damn
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bridge I'm not making this up it is
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pretty neat how the structure is built
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directly above the actual working Lock
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and Dam itself and stretches all the way
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across the Arkansas River there was
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nowhere to park my RV down there only
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car parking spots and everywhere that
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wasn't a car parking spot was a million
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no parking signs so I opted to put Large
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Marge off the side of the road right
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over there such a beautiful day a little
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windy and a little cool just the way I
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like it if you have ever been to Central
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Florida during the holidays during the
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Christmas season especially around the
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Walt Disney World area you have no doubt
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heard of the Osborn spectacle of lights
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and contrary to some people's original
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thought when they hear that name it had
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nothing to do with the singer a Black
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Sabbath who had a reality show about his
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family it's a different man with the
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last name of Osborne and he resided here
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in Little Rock and I want to show you
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where it all originated it did not start
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off as an original Disney idea that came
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way later in fact it started off as one
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man's love for his daughter in the late
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60s Jennings Osborne and his wife
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started the Arkansas Research Medical
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testing center and became very wealthy
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and then in the late ' 80s they welcomed
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the birth of their first born and one of
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their daughter's favorite things was
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Christmas decorations and in
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1986 a very young girl asked her dad can
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we put up some Christmas lights he said
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yes and it began at their house a little
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bit up the way here on cantril road he
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hung up 1,000 lights that first year but
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slowly but surely the Clark Griswald in
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him started to come out the following
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years were bigger than the ones before
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more lights more lights bigger and
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bigger in fact he ran out of room and he
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ended up buying the two properties next
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to him two houses next to him were
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purchased just so he could string up
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more lights I parked here because this
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is the only place anywhere in the
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vicinity of the mile that I have to walk
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down to to the destination I tried
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finding something in the residential
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area is there was no room the only other
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options would have been to just stop
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here in the middle of the road or maybe
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park on the median there Black Sheep
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style a hike down a main thare would do
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me good anyway a little walk in Little
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Rock kind of R and all these little side
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roads I attempted plenty of no parking
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signs I think where I stopped is good
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though as long as there's not a tow
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truck waiting when I get back continuing
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with the story though by
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1993 the property
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that is directly before me was
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completely engulfed in over 3 million
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lights starting at the edge of this
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premises house number one main house
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number two and on the back side of that
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house number three all were part of the
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display side note this house is
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currently uninhabited and I did consider
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driving up and parking in the driveway I
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thought about it very hard as I passed
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by here two and throw a handful of times
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and I opted not to do that just in case
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in fact from the appearance of it even
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the main
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house is not being used and lived
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in this is it the
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birthplace of the Osborne lights right
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here along these
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walls it happened because of the
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immensity of that 19 93 display six of
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these neighbors filed complaints they
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were not happy about the traffic problem
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that was congregating through here
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Jennings had an interesting response to
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those critics and those complaints did
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he take the display down no he doubled
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it the following year not 3 million
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lights 6 million lights and he
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illuminated them for over 30 Days
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Straight From Dusk until after midnight
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this furiated the neighborhood the
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massive Christmas tree the huge Globe
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the Angels the canopies all that you
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might be familiar with from Hollywood
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Studios was all right here the Arkansas
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court system stepped in and told him he
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could only run the lights on this home
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the middle home and the third property
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for 15 days during the holidays and only
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for a couple hours a night but that was
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not good enough for him in his own words
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paraphrasing he wanted to create a
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little bit of Disney Magic on his own
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for people who could not afford to go to
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Disney World or Disneyland they could
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just cruise down this road in Little
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Rock and get a little magic for
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themselves the locals however did not
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share his passion fearing that emergency
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vehicles would not be able to get
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through because of the traffic
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the order stood he was however not
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finished he gave it one more try and
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took it to the Supreme Court this case
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went all the way to the desk of Clarence
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Thomas who upheld Arkansas's ruling and
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the lights of Little Rock were shut down
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at least on the grand scale that they
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once was I found some old photos back
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when the lights were displayed on the
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homes way back in the day a photographer
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named Jason bang posted the them on
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wdwmagic.com 17 1819 years ago they're
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the only photos I found online so I want
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to give him a little plug and show you
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those photos now these are daytime shots
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so you can get the perspective of how
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everything was set up the Christmas tree
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was perched there on that section of the
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roof and the carousels right over in
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here and you can see everything else the
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house and the walls and the facade all
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still look the same as it did then but
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no remnant of the lights remain just
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standing here you could even imagine
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that the lights were just up this last
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holiday season cuz everything looks
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identical except the fact that there are
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no Illuminating
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strands that remain there the dancing
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angels that are now pretty much world
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famous from streets of America in recent
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years at Hollywood Studios used to all
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be right there just basically on on a
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net going across the front of the far
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right
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property Christmas is starting
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now in fact even that globe that we all
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know very well used to be perched right
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in there and another interesting fact it
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had a DOT on the map where Bethlehem was
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and Little Rock The Tale of his legal
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troubles made news all across the world
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this fell on the ears of Walt Disney
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World who knowing the passion for making
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people happy that Jennings had offered
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to take the lights and move them down to
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Florida his only condition was as long
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as they were going to be on residential
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street just like this residential street
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which they were for a while and then
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they bulldozed residential street and
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moved on to New York Avenue later
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streets of America so I don't know what
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the ramifications of that was but that's
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how it got started the only lights on
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display currently here however are ones
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that have fallen into major disrepair
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and if you look very closely there are
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serious
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remnants of those days look at the
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nails the lights were hung on that is
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incredible the wiring that harnessed the
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electricity it was said that one night's
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power bill was the same as a normal home
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in Town's full year bill just think
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about this if you've ever stood in
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Orlando watching those lights dancing
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around none of that would have ever come
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to fruition if it weren't for that
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nail and this nail that don't forget
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your roots or don't forget your nails
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even some little brackets and harnesses
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up
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there for the strands to lay in remnants
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of the
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past pieces of History
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reminding
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us of the evolution of the Osborne
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lights Jennings Osborne a man who did
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not make everyone happy but made a lot
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of people happy even after his passing
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in 2011 the lights continued and people
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smiled at his creation Now the real
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question is where are the lights now
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Disney's Hollywood Studios has stopped
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lighting the lights illumin ating them
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in the holiday season where will they be
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next there are a lot of rumors floating
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around hopefully they end up somewhere
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to be seen and loved thankfully I
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haven't been towed it's still up there
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on the side of the Hill a cruise by the
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property one last
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time just like so many people
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did at a lot slower Pace than I'm doing
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taking a gander at the lights he's
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looking for the lights all he wants to
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see is the the lights just just give him
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some lights please he just look at him
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he's just looking for the lights he just
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wants the lights I have been invited to
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go on and hang out on the spooky talk
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show tonight here in Little Rock and
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researching what their program was about
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I was really fascinated and I accepted
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their invite because it's something very
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similar to Wayne's World where they're
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in the basement they have bands play
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they have guests that format that Medium
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of entertainment really does exist
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anymore Tom Green used to do it even
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before MTV in Canada and I've always
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liked that aspect of just having a desk
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having a host having bands having a few
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people in the audience so when they
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contacted me I molded over watched some
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of their former stuff and said heck yeah
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I want to check these guys stuff out so
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it should be fun that's where I'm
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heading now I think I'm at the right
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place according to this wooden spray
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painted sign got to go this way so you
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make all these and you sell them you
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have a little side business Etsy store
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yeah these are all different sci-fi
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weapons this is from Logan's Run This is
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the yeah the flame gun that the uh the
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Sandman used in Logan's Run so you have
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all three running constantly making
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almost almost all the time and this is
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what they refer to as a 3D printer yeah
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I'll run short little small pieces
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during the day and then overnight I'll
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run 12 you know 12h hour prints there's
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a fine assortment of Beverages and
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snacks and pizza and Jackal up over here
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in the corner Dave Dave ker style I was
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given this patch and I'm told that it
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glows in the dark and I'm showing down
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on a piece of pizza I got my name up
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there it's not technically in lights
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it's like on a TV but and this is Josh
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he's the host and this is where all the
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magic happen right here next to Morris I
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like you have a framed morisy photo
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originally he was for a bit like going
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to be a recurring bit um which I think
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we did on the second show
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and the bit just didn't didn't really
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take off but it didn't seem appropriate
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to get rid of his picture so you never
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get rid of once Mory is planted
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somewhere you never get rid of and it's
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all filmed inside this cabin inside this
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spooky cabin here waiting for you to
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mount the cameras on top of the tripods
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I'm just waiting for us to get started
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waiting for someone to show up and put
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the cameras there but there they are
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they're these little they're these
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little teeny tiny webcams and that's the
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live stream right this is something I'm
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not familiar this is called
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professionalism I never use I never no
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no seriously I never use these
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microphone people always complain about
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my audio but see you have it you have it
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nailed down this this mounts on your
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shirt like this like a little it's like
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a dinosaur and you get good audio from
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this this is It's called a lava it's
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called a what it's called a lava
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microphone a lava leer yeah I need to
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you need to give me a
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lava we uh we'll can I have this can I
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have this one well no that one need that
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one I'm looking at the studio audience
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here here and I'm noticing a special
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guest back there on the wall Don knots
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Don KN he showed up back there Don KN
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Don Nazi Don Nazi Don Nazi you you'll
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notice I was looking up there to see who
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was on the couch and I just realized
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it's me that's you that's me up there
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look at that that's that's so confusing
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the camera the camera adds a jacket
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that's what does they say the camera
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adds about 50 lbs in my case 80 hey
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everybody Welcome To Spooky talk show we
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got a special event so let me hear some
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noise I don't know who it is but he says
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he's a that I'm a fan of his so we're
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going to find out in a minute so the
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colonel come in tell us what you got
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going on ladies and gentlemen the
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colonel all right it's like I told you
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on the phone I got a special guest he's
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coming down get ready right I'm ready
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I'm ready but give me some kind of idea
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what uh what can you give me a hint I
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love surpris me it's me well it's
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someone you really like from YouTube
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okay then it's uh oh it's red and Link
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from Good Mythical Morning caught this
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dude had like a Disney World jacket on
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he was like peeking around talking into
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a cell phone wait a minute just being a
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I mean just just nosing around the damn
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cabin you know wait a minute I think a
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nosy
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YouTuber okay nosing around an abandoned
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there a big dude I mean he's big he's
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bigger than me very disrespect
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I may have an idea I grab the bag over
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his head and he he put up a fight but I
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got him all right so
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standard embellishing this that's not
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really what how that's how we book them
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here somebody open the small box and let
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Adam the wo out get him I'm coming out
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of the small box get him over here
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coming out of the small box really there
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was no box I was just sitting over there
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eating pizza so he did feed me he did
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feed me I am now officially the first
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person that has signed the door it's for
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posterity I put Adam the the W was here
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but escaped if I ever return to these
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parts there will be
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more signatures on the door here in the
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cave
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cabin spooky talk
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show this TV is very Poltergeist esque
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Nightfall is about to rear its ugly head
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and it's starting to
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rain I'll see you guys
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tomorrow
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Vlog over