Final Day of Metrocenter Mall - Closing Moments at Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure Location
A visit the to final day of Metrocenter Mall in Phoenix Arizona .
Transcript
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welcome everyone Adam the whoo here
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today's adventure brings us to Phoenix
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Arizona behind me is the Metro Center
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Mall which today as of closing will be
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its final operating moments no longer
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will be existing the doors will be shut
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the Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure the
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1989 film history and filming locations
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will no longer be accessible to the
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public
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I'm here to document not all the spots
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around town from the movie but to focus
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more on the end of an era another mall
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goes away inviting you to join me shall
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you want me yeah what you eating Shawn
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Clark here we got Pat here and you have
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a lot of memories here right Pat oh yeah
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are you gonna miss being able to just
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swing by here and as the final day now
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if you heard anything if they're gonna
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tear it down or if they're gonna just
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keep it going like as far as I keep the
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property like still here they're trying
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to sell it as a whole but from given the
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gargantuan size of the mall that's going
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to be tough
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still exist was called new Jade in the
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film but now it now it's called je I
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don't know if it's gonna be open today
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however they have it covered up with the
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look
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the plasti the plastic here it's like
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the entire food court is a real big
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throwback you kind of want to explain
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what happened in here initially when
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this mall first opened
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pretty much all the surrounding area was
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here except this middle was cut
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completely out and there's a downstairs
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it was a ice-skating rink and then they
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had a big so below this was the
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ice-skating rink so when they look over
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this was like completely like sliced out
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yes so they put a second floor up here
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so when the they're looking over down at
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the ice-skating rink it would kind of
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been in this section correct and they
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had like a spiral staircase an elevator
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on the way down you could get to and
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then after some years when roller
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skating wasn't as popular they filled it
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and was it roller skating or ice K from
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the movie that next to in the movie was
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Pizza diem or but how the pizza place
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filipino was got shut down and he had
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they had the the slushies would have
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been kind of like right here so these
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aren't the same tables but they he
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brought them out and if you notice
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there's they drink they're talking to
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them and they have the slushies and then
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a couple frames later they've gotten up
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and they've left a mess of their
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beverages like the slushies are all
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sitting there and the worker kind of
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walks from over here with a very
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disgusted look on his face dang these
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customers they got no table manners I'm
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not trying to focus on a specific detail
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filming location video there are a lot
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of spots all around the greater Phoenix
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area but I did want to document the end
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of this mall itself to locals was a
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place that was very close to their
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hearts had a lot of memories acetal
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quite a few things online of people who
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have been showing up the last few days
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to more or less pay their respects the
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food court really is like stepping back
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a few decades oh my goodness look at
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this
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it is Wow food courts
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they still exist this one
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as a subway I think that was a sub was
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like a subway sign you having any luck
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matching some of the shots up you know I
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don't like to go by with amateurs oh
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well I am NOT doing eye mask I'm just
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documenting the last night but you're
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gonna do a detailed video on all the
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spots I'm gonna do not a forest holla
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grounds but a Hollywood solid grounds on
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villain heads so we're gonna go to all
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the locations we've already done a few
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you're doing it you're going all the
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spots you lit all the spots and oh yeah
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what I'm saying is there's been some
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people that have done videos from this
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mall and I know they've gotten things
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wrong like saying that the brickwork was
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we're angling and runs by when it's
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clearly downstairs and that brick works
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because there's a hot topic on the
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upstairs that everyone confuses is the
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same brickwork which really on this
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started from the bottom and went up you
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know that's amateur hour you know I
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frown upon now round happily I get a
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furrowed brow going to we're gonna right
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some wrongs today and hopefully bump
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into some Bill and Ted fans that are
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locals that know a little more of the
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history of this place than we do and
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they can help educate us also side note
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Shaun's video might take a couple days
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for him to compile everything he's even
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though I'm tagging along with him as the
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spots helping him film and just kind of
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you know seeing it with my own eyes he's
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gonna be doing a more grand scale than
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what I am which is more about what's
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taking place here today so if you're
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looking for it upon immediate uploaded
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this on the day this is being put out a
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bunch of YouTube this might not be up
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yet
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be patient if not early next week so a
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week goodness a fourth is a lie all
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right you're hearing it here all right
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everyone's gonna look for it unfortunate
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I don't know do it that's true Abe
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Lincoln was so I'm gonna say named
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presidents day after him no he was born
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on presidents time president that's what
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it is I got it rocks yeah I totally
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screwed that up I totally screwed that
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out I wonder if anyone will take this
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home as a souvenir the Metro Center Mall
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opened in 1970 through its 1973 it
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states it right here on this tabletop
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175 specialty shops three movie theaters
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how many times have you guys been here
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since the eighties you have a lot of
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memories here what do you think what do
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you think about it closing being the
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last day yeah it was right below where
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we're standing now correct yeah what's
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good we're all here to kind of
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commemorate the last day yeah nice
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meeting you guys have a good one just
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have to always remember the good old
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days this is not the first small that
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has met its demise and the overview from
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the directory's perspective here at the
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base of those famous escalators you have
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the Hat around the back to you get the
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wild stallions hat there we go that's
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awesome you think some more people are
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going to show up all dressed up you
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think you guys are gonna be the only
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ones in your thoughts on the final day
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here at the mall and you like to
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nostalgia Cancer we're in the New Coke
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sure that's right that's nice Andy I saw
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a little you were like shedding a tear
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there for a moment I saw like rolling
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down your cheek oh and shot shots near
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me doing a little little FaceTime over
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here just a little spoiler or who's
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facetiming with Alex winter right now
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that's who's on the phone
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oh you got the you got the uh I get them
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what you got here you got the VHS very
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nice
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weren't the Davis how very cool you got
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a sign yeah that's awesome we're trying
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to look for anyone who has anything Bill
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and Ted very cool is that just like how
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did you get that on the back there do
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you make that yourself oh very cool and
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you wearing the shirt on the front as
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well don't touch it and I mean fine
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McClintock
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that movie is been here to so many of
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our hurt in the Mafia to felt like
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Thomas and in hearing that the mall is
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actually closing and when I come to this
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mall I can't help actually I was just
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thinking if this place still was hot dog
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on a bat I would probably purchase a
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t-shirt because that would be pretty
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awesome
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drop your camera bill S Preston X and
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square
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Billy the Kid Billy the Kid and as far
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as feelings on the ball closing I mean
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balls are starting to do that all over
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the place
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knowing that our time
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it's a change the history of Bill &
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Ted's Excellent Adventure so it's always
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going to be in that film
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it's going to be able to watch it but
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they've changed them all so much there's
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no longer the hockey rink that's right
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that's good we can all be here on the
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last day yeah thanks thanks for talking
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with me
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I pay it's a video you can move just a
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little bit there we go
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nailed it
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you write it right at this table here
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would have been those two girls you're
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talking
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who's John facetiming now Dan Schorr
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Billy the Kid always talking to Dan
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mm-hmm and that was so he was just
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showing his scene right here for a deal
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better oh that's pretty cool
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all the escalators are blocked off but
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everyone's just still kind of utilizing
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them as stairs anyway even though
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they're obstructed everyone just so just
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going up and down
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check this out everyone's rollerblading
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okay I've got a skateboard a lot of
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roller bladers this guy is rollerblading
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back or skateboarding no skateboarding
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regular skates backwards you really
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rarely will see some people
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skateboarding and rollerblading or skate
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skating through fall all bets are off
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the rules are are inconsequential at
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this point no skateboarding or on roller
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skates inside them all those don't apply
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here
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oh wow a band has set up that here I got
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the drum kit set up the security guard
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we've seen him around all day he's
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starting to I think he started to
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realize that maybe they should have have
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a few more people on duty I think he's
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the only one that was sick it is really
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this is something else this whole thing
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is really something that I have never
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seen before happening
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it's really cool I gotta be honest
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while I was inside somebody gave me this
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shirt a little memento so thank you so
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much and ten minutes until the doors are
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locked so I'm gonna run it to the car
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and then go back in for the final
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moments of the Metro Center current time
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six-fifty the final moments are you glad
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that we made the trek at this point from
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what you've seen absolutely no this has
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been a lot of fun and it's just been
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mayhem and I don't even know what's
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gonna happen in the next seven eight
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minutes tops
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people are people gonna leave we did it
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we made it back in we just under the
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buzzer now are they think they're gonna
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lock the doors or that it's gonna be
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late
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they just have to be he's gonna get
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escorted out he's getting kicked out of
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them all
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he's the first one to go he's the first
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one now there's like 500 more of us that
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thing
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hi $5 just like that it seems to be
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everyone exiting in some fashion no you
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talked to the security guard again tell
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you Kym's there's something wrong she
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wants everybody out okay Kim wants
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everyone out yeah okay Kim wants
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everyone out okay thank you gotta hit Oh
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landed it how many do you think that you
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saw them take like random people just
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taken we saw these two tables and
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probably about eight to ten chairs go
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missing so they just grabbed another
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five seven minute period so he just
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grabbed him and grabbed on and walked
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out the door
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are you Kim okay we were told that you
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were you were alerting we heard about
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you we've heard so much about Kim
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okay the everyone's just kind of
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continuing at us the one door there
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everyone's everyone's next thing out we
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are next it's time it's time to leave
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thanks so much we had a great time okay
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this guy's coming in hot right there you
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can see there's some smoke way down
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there
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oh man yeah oh my goodness
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huh okay that might be that's why he
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turned around right there that's gonna
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