Downtown Chicago Touristy Spots - Visiting The Bean (Cloud Gate) & Buckingham Fountain / Chinatown
Downtown Chicago April 2022
Transcript
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welcome everyone adam the woo here as a
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recording of the saturday april
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16th
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16th i believe tampa j is here we are
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standing in downtown chicago welcome to
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chai town
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nice great i was gonna do this amazing
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reveal that behind my head
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is a moose head
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chewing bubble gum
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not the they live quote
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this moose is i'm all out of bubble gum
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but that moose is not all no rowdy roddy
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piper today
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we are going to guaranty rate field for
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our second
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chicago white sox tampa bay rays
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game of the series right over here is
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where cowbell max is staying downtown
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he's on his way down we're going to get
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a piping hot caffeinated beverage while
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waiting for him i'm not really going to
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film much of the game today but i did
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want to do a kind of a true vlog a day
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in the life of myself
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and my friends who are here
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no real rhyme or reason i thought about
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not even filming today yeah and then i
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said heck it you got to show chicago i
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got i want to show some of the key
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points downtown
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before going to the game and then maybe
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i'll film a little bit after the game
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sounds fun to me so file this one under
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a daily vlog it's the daily
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oh i haven't heard that in a while
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join me in tampa j and as soon as
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cowbell max gets down from his elevated
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hotel room up there this is pretty
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elevated
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join me shall you
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should also mention as i wave my shadow
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here it is currently 37 degrees
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notice how the train
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is kind of tilted through here
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first pitch today is at one o'clock so
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we're trying to get there
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a little early for batting practice
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as of right now don't see that every day
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in florida you don't see that in florida
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every day
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it is 9 15 at the moment and i am seeing
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a dunkin donuts down here
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let's get a little piping hot
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caffeinated beverage
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from duncan please
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okay the interesting thing is we waited
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about 10 or 15 minutes for the first
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train
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we only waited about
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one minute for the second train
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there
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goes
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not a monorail
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cta
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and the bean is a half mile from here so
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i think we parked over here in this lot
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by the way they don't have hourly
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parking down here there was no hourly it
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was 15 15 bucks 15 bucks
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so we're going to walk down that way to
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the bean
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it's also it's also
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my hands are my hands are that's a
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little chilly in the in the shade
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in the shade
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no this duncan's open 24 hours it's a 24
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hour dunkin donuts check this out
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you know what that means
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we can come back up here about 3 a.m
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let's do it 3am we should wander the
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streets of chicago and get some dunking
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what's vlogging
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i'm being
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i'm not we're not doing that okay that
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was a hypothetical okay
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i don't know if i would be walking the
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streets of chicago at 3am all right max
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has arrived day two baby day two alright
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get it on are you a coffee drinker
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honestly i'm not much of a coffee
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drinker you know i i was going to assume
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you weren't so we went ahead and got
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ours so we got a little dunk in here you
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know what max
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you love tropicana field
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and we love that pulp free orange juice
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baby and you know why i mentioned that
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because right over here is the tropicana
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machine
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that's right look at this
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it's like a taste of home
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so you'd rather have an oj than than a
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than a coffee and for everyone that
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thinks this was planned this was a
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complete coincidence like we literally
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just walked
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down the corner of my eye
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would you
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do you think there's even anything in
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this
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like let's be honest is there anything
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in this machine there's nothing in this
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it's time for you to become a coffee
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drinker
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where's frizzles
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grills grills yeah oh there's a mountain
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dew
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this is the inner workings of a soda
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machine well an orange juice machine
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i like how they have an orange juice
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company tropicana on the side but then
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over here it's just
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it's just soda mountain dew
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diet pepsi
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to chicago heaven
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they made me look
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trade's about to pass over where are we
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right now we're on wall bash street
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right here this building to the right
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more so to the one to the right
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is the filming location from child's
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play oh chucky the toy the toy store
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this is where chucky was created
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now four or five or six years ago i was
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walking these streets through here
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and i stopped by here and the building
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still exists
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the dad from a christmas story also adam
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sandler's dad and billy madison was in a
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tv show in the 70s
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called kolchak
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and this right here
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was his office right here on this corner
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it's pretty interesting the traffic goes
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right underneath the train itself
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kind of reminds me of philly too philly
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lafilli's like this
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philly has these type of trends
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let's send to that
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all right covering some ground doing a
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lot of walking this area through here
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has some vintage signs
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a little vintage parking a little
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throwback
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parking there and neon here the plymouth
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up on the top of that building
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almost looks like some gargoyles or some
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sort of winged
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creatures there on the corner
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walk sign is on from all crossings
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and the walk sign is on
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for all crossings who is that lady
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gotta head down this way
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try to get a view of the skyline and of
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course the bean
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and the fountain
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also route 66 starts and ends
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right around in this little neighborhood
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too
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not doing a route 66 trip but
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it does i've done i've been here before
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the sights and sounds of chicago
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look at this central camera shop
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yes
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that is a relic right there
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beautiful
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that old neon the kodak camera films
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yeah i like that a lot
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and the pigeons
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flying around as well
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there it is kind of silhouetted out
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but it says the end of 66
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here in chicago illinois
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right here all the way to santa monica
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yep starts in chicago into santa monica
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or starts in santa monica in the chicago
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depending on which way you're going look
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how it works that way
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starts at the pier ends in downtown
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chicago
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i highly recommend doing that trip if
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you've never done it i did it it's
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pretty awesome
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all right getting closer to the skyline
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side of downtown
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and the bean is down that way
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now kind of like one of the most iconic
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landmarks
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here in the windy city right now the
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wind has subsided just for a moment
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now there is a classic 80s film
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based in chicago
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and this building you see up here on the
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far end a very unique skyscraper
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with a diamond shaped roof line
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was seen prominently
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however the movie was not filmed in
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they just used that building
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and kind of superimpose it on some
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alleyways and streets
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not in chicago
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movie magic
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that was the building she was like
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climbing out on top of
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dressed as thor
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great movie
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and one or two blocks over from where i
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just was showing the end of 66
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this block shows the beginning of 66 so
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if you're going east to west or west to
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east
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you can you have to start on one block
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or the other i've only gone from west to
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east in one direction i've never gone
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never started in chicago but gone to
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santa monica maybe one day
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i've done a lot of parts of route 66
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and then i'll veer off i've only done
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its entirety once
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we want to do a little food review
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so street tacos here we're gonna be 100
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real
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tacos are super great scale of one to
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ten
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we'll give them a seven and a half oh
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wow seven and a half that's the cowbell
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seven and a half the cowbell max seven
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and a half seven and a half t doing
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eight all right and you got those over
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there there are quite a few food trucks
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next to where the bean is
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there's so much awesome stuff to see
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here this city i feel like you can stay
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here for a month
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and not show everything
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so right up here is the bean in fact i
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can almost see its spaceship like
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silhouette
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peeking up over the trees
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but of course this time of the year
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there's no greenery and no foliage on
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the trees but the bean
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straight ahead right over there
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and here's a closer view
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from that
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picture's a babysitting
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building
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wow there's a look at that there's a
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face on that oh the face is moving
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the face is blinking and smiling
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next to the skyscrapers look at that
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there it is right over there on the bean
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see it up there on that little elevated
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area
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with the reflection of downtown in the
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beans
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silhouette got to get up here and get a
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good view of the bean
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we need to take a look
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we need a group photo let's beat it
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in front of the bead yeah real quick
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like jay if you could just get me
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standing here this is for posterity okay
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have me in the center you got it just me
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here
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there you go looks nice
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looks good the beans to your to your
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left are right silhouette all right
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there are more than a few people
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let's go
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whoa
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we're meeting a lot of people wearing
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ray's stuff i know bro that's like
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that's like the seventh or eighth person
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downtown that's crazy
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i haven't seen any white sox or cub
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stuff and i've seen probably 10 ray
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shirts already today so far so that
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means the bay's out here baby we out
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yes sir
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that is
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a rather large bean it's not a real bean
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you cannot
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do not nibble on
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that snack like
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sculpture
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the bee
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quite the glare
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on this thing
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got the sun burst there oh you can walk
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underneath the bean
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look you can go directly underneath the
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bottom of the bean
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full circle
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one of the most popular
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photographed
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landmarks here in
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oh there we are right there right there
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hi
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still got your coffee i just finished
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fine almost like one of those 360
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cameras
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wow you go to the theme park you get the
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three this is weird isn't it weird super
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weird
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we're like so far away
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right there look let's all get in
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here that's us right there
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cheers
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this is so weird
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it's not even that long
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no it's just it almost looks like you
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can reach up and touch it you can't
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though it's like an optical illusion
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it's like water
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it's like very fluid
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remember that snl
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dub bears chicago bears da da bean
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dub bean or chris farley
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ditka
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is it chris
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farley where was the guy from cheers
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look at that skyline reflection though
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that is something else
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looking at it from this angle is awesome
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with the reflection of the skyline in it
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yeah dude i was i got a good picture
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it's like a painting when you get close
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you're like am i looking at the skyline
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and then you turn around you're like a
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modern
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spotted art masterpiece
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that was a really failed that was a full
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metal jacket cut
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arleigh irmi quote
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you're like a modern mar
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what can i watch a modern mart modern
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art masterpiece the first the last words
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out of your filthy sewers will be served
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i'm trying to remember
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the snl skit the bears was chris farley
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in that skit don't bear cs yes sir do
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you remember that yeah he was in one of
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those and the guy from cheers the guy
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played norm was in it too right yeah i
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believe so norm from cheers yeah i don't
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know why but now you guys are making me
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think of the country bears where it
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could have been cliff was it normal
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cliff country bear jamboree yeah
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this is really good you can see all
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three of us right there look at this
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it's like a mirror my coffee's not even
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hot been holding this coffee it's not
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cold it's not piping i've been holding
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this for a while get rid of it it is
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it is about half full of
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chili
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frosty
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caffeinated beverage i'm gonna just
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throw it or throw it away like you said
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half full not half empty it shows a lot
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over here i'm noticing
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something kind of dangling from the
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trees like jellyfish there's something
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in the trees there's something in the
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trees yeah one thing about this chicago
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trip this it truly is a sausage fest
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a real
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this explains it right here in the
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window
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this is a good
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little sculpture here
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look at the mane on that thing
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got the illinois state flag up there i
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got the chicago city flag with the u.s
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flag
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and evidently this is cook county
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the cook county county
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i did not realize that
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chicago was in cook county
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we'll take cooks
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i gotta do arnold that's right come on
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we'll take cook's car he won't be
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needing it
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on our way over to the fountain i don't
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think the fountain's gonna be on though
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because of the the weather conditions oh
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wait i think it's open
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probably that was probably only on in
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the summer summertime
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could be wrong though
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they almost they almost kind of like a
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purple tint to them too like a bluish
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purple yeah
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so that's interesting there's a few
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leaves on the trees through here but
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most the trees
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it's kind of weird that most so most of
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the big trees over there have no leaves
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but these smaller trees have leaves
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and then the flowers down here are
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growing
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i know for sure though those are not
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petunias and obviously it'd be much more
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impressive if the water was on
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from the intro from married with
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children
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i'm going to start singing the love and
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marriage song and then the water kind of
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spews up from here however
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a sitcom like that would probably not be
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made today
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what between that and the simpsons they
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kind of put fox the television studio
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fox or the tv station
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tv
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company fox on the map i'd say so
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married with children in the simpsons in
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fact they used to mock
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fox on marriage with children yeah they
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did
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on the tv commercials
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you know al bundy
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and when she's groveling at your feet
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give her the mark of the z
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tell her you got the ring
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from out bundy
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hey man
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don't bundy that butt i'd probably break
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an ankle look how look at that that's
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the end that's only like
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two like two and a half feet that's not
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too bad it's probably frowned upon
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though max yeah you go first though i've
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done some things in my days that were
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frowned upon
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and it came back to haunt me
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trust me
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you're looking around
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you're thinking about it i think you're
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banging the area
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don't do it
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don't hey man hey max
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don't bundy that book
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starting to become a really nice day the
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weather is nice it's cool and crisp but
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the wind is not blowing too hard and the
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sun is out there's not a cloud in the
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sky yesterday was very overcast and
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rainy and dreary
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i like the cool temperatures i don't
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even mind a little bit of a breeze as
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long as it's not too gusty and windy
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right now is perfect
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this is a good day
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in chicago
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but a good day i'll put these back on
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it's just bright that's something right
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santa claus is coming
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to the lakeside mall
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remember remember the santa claus
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episode i think so yeah when santa claus
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fell
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he was going to parachute into the
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lakeside mall
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one of the funniest
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can't even get it out so hilarious as
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traffic goes by over there take a look
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there's little sailboats
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out on the water
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got a little artwork here in the alley
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is this a tooth is this a piece of
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toothpaste
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oh yeah is that a toothpaste too it's
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squirting out the top there all right
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going all the way over there looks like
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a toothbrush down there or something
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yeah the back alleys of chicago
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all right
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oh yeah as we're going back to the car
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perfect timing another train going by
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and look peeking up over the top is that
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the former sears tower willis tower
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might
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be spires the tower up there with the
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steam rolling off of it
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advertisement
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max just pointed this out
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that's so random
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we got the tropicana machine down there
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and we got what the heck
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walking under this train overpass
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going to the stadium
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yeah it's pretty neat they got a little
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baseball cards through here we parked in
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a different area today than we did
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yesterday it seems like the weather's
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better there's going to be a lot bigger
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turnout it was yesterday yeah there's
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definitely a lot more people here today
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because the weather is
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much better than yesterday gates are
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just about to open now it's going to be
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a full house all right the game has
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already kind of been continuing on
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move from
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seats over here to center field
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i didn't go with the hot dog but i went
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with the sausage
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i'll take these back to the
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seat as well
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pretty good angle from here you can see
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the stadium is pretty full today
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and they intentionally walked
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g-man so now bases are loaded with two
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outs
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troy on first
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phillips on second
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looks like yandy diaz on third
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brought in walls
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this is their moment if ever there was
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one
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oh there's a ball
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white sox didn't like that at all
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one and one
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one more strike needed to strike out the
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rays but all you need is a base hit
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bring in the tying
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out of the infield to bring in the
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winning rod
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oh man this is so stressful
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nice little view from the second level
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exiting out of the skyline
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of downtown chicago over there that's
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pretty cool
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hello
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found a parking lot over here and gonna
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head to chinatown
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with the train stopping and downtown
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skyline in the distance there it is
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right there the archway
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well the entry point i should say it's
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not really an arch but the entry point
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in a chinatown right here on wentworth
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and then i went ahead and ordered a
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batch of spring rolls these are like
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these are veggies are they either
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veggies or these shrimp spring rolls
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and over here in the corner is a k-pop
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store
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there's a k-pop store over here as well
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and a big truck going bye
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the look of legacy downtown
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i always like the little waving cats the
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luck the good luck cats down here
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now all of these are kind of shifting
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these are like
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in the right here in the window display
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of the store
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the solar powered little solar powered
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grid so that they don't think they run
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on batteries like the since they're here
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the sun powers them up in the cats the
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good luck cats
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we'll wish you good luck and wave at you
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as you walk by
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i love this old signage look at this
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it's got the bulbs on the side around
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the
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around the edge and then it appears as
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if it had some old neon where it says
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means enterprise
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the neon has been removed this sign has
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seen some years
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you could even see it in the reflection
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over here to this side as well
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and with the sun about to set
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it's my shadow right there
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and that's gonna do it
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for today
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from chicago
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a full day
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starting in downtown
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bruising around some of those
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the places the skyline the bean the
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fountain
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baseball game and then chinatown we'll
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see you in the next video
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the sun is setting
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and the vlog and the temperature is
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dropping
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the vlog
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is over