Downtown Portland Walking Tour - Car Break In at First Voodoo Doughnut / Sizzle Pizza & Local Lore
Portland Oregon 2023
Transcript
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here has a
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recording of this Friday TGIF February
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10 2023 I am in downtown Portland Oregon
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Jeepers
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Creepers clear ski Portland you are a
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local resident born and raised right you
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never telling me you know it in this
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area love it Portland Oregon we've been
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trying to connect for a while YouTube's
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own clears to the creeper
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I want I need coffee I do too piping hot
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caffeinated beverage Voodoo Donuts is a
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couple blocks from here we have parked
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in the structure right here
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right up top there I feel like my car is
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probably going to be good in there as
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opposed to street parking definitely
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so we're gonna do that we're gonna walk
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over to Voodoo the first Voodoo Donuts
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ever in existence I go to Universal
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Hollywood a lot there's a voodoo there
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this is not a theme park the Homer Donut
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oh they have a homer donut Simpsons
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Portland is Portland a theme park
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it kind of is canopy could be some
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excitement today it is Wu but after we
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get a piping hot caffeinated beverage
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the rest of the day is in your hands to
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give me a tour around the greater
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Portland area and some fun wacky fun
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things sound good
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I'm fine we finally met
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it's been I love it it's been a while it
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took a minute but it took a minute it's
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happening it's happening it's overcast
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rainy cold everything I would want the
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Pacific Northwest to be
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I'm inviting you to join me and the
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creeper shout you
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love it
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I certainly do love old neon check out
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the Portland outdoor store
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so the first Voodoo was like a block
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from here so we're in a good area to
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walk around and see some stuff
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this neon is great
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it's like a horse up there is that a
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cowboy riding a horse
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is that a cowboy riding a horse up there
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that's you riding the horse
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he don't have his hat though oh it's in
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his hand
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oh yeah well I didn't realize it flashed
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either that's so cool so the cowboy
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portion you said the Cowboys modeled
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after you is that what you said
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Maybe
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but the is he's not illuminated it's the
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horse
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that's true
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but I am so maybe it isn't me you're
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illuminated also notice that I know I
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know you love yeah I call those Wheel of
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Fortune moments they're called ghost
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signs oh that's right where they kind of
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bleed through a little bit no signage so
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you were saying there's usually a really
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long line here yeah it's kind of it's
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funny because sometimes I'll come down
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there won't be any lines and then
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sometimes they'll be where they have
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these uh oh here's your word oh actually
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that's a world of mica term a world of
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Micah taught me that and I just kind of
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stole it from him the stanchion those
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have it stanchioned off because there'll
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be a line like all the way around and
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then also Adam check it out the Paris
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Theater there I like the old neon of the
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Paris Theater yeah yeah so fun fact back
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years ago
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is that Jim Carrey's autograph up top
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look I think Jim Carrey's right up there
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we were just talking about Jim Carrey
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when I parked you were like I do the
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same thing you say or you think and you
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said like a glove oh he signed it like
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Ace Ventura he signed it spank you very
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much
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oh my gosh that is too funny many years
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ago I'm gonna have to look the data I
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think it was like 2012 maybe 2013. I was
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in a band and we played right over here
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at this Dante's and the reason I
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remember that
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and even the rip the reason I remember
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not only that but I recalled the fact
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that Voodoo Donuts was here is because
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after sound check and all that in
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between bands before we played I walked
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over here and I believe I got myself a
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donut from the first
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Voodoo Donuts
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good things come in pink boxes
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someone's backing up I should probably
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move
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that might be Jerry Garcia up there you
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all do right is that Jerry Garcia up
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there that is actually Portland Elvis
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who is it warmer I think he went at one
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point to the Church of Elvis the 24-hour
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Church of Elvis which was like on it
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kind of wacky Portland roadside oh okay
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attraction commodity and he would
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perform in fact he's so good at his
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performance as Elvis who signed to their
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record holder Portland Elvis because
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Voodoo has like a kind of like a punk
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rock record label they did right that's
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right
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and they actually had one of their very
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first venues was right around the corner
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here I believe it was called the toxic
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Lounge okay and that's where the owners
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had their venue and when this building
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came about they actually just did the
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donuts right out of this window or I
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think it was that window they expanded
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right expanded yeah I think it was just
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this door and then oh right here yeah
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and then eventually grew and now they
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have the record label and Elvis assigned
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to it and they even bought him a big old
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pink Cadillac I found a photo before
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they expanded so it actually it was
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originally opened only at night for the
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people who were coming out of the bars
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they would come over here to this door
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so the first door was right here in the
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middle you could see everything you know
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it still kind of looks the same over
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there with the gray or the uh the area
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up above it there the sign has been
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moved a little bit but it has the little
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air vent and all that so at Universal
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Hollywood they have this donut which is
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one of their kind of iconic Voodoo
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Donuts there with the little pretzel
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through the heart they have that like a
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full size like a 10 foot taller look at
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this little railing this is probably
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like the original railing where you
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would eat the donuts and consume your
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coffee here people have signed the wall
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so here's the original door you can even
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see where it says open late so I'm
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getting in the queue here probably
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didn't really even need to get in the
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queue oh it looks like something out but
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more people are lining up
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I think this is like the original beam
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where people would sit and eat their
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donut on kind of just hang out yeah the
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store over here kind of reminds me of
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like
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you know in the movies where you'd go up
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and you do like the secret knock if
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someone would open that up and say
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what's the password
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secret password
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got to know the secret knock
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but if someone open that up what if
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Portland Elvis open what if Portland
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Elvis opened that up and asked you for
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the prepared for that I didn't even
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think that part I should definitely not
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do that all right look they have a shirt
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established 2003 and we're kind of
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looking at the oh there's a Marshall
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Mathers donut right there and then
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here's the board up top this is the
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inside of the very Elkin there's a big
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donut right up here there's like a
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little cardboard or a wooden cutout over
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here of
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can't tell exactly who that's supposed
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to be you know who that's supposed to be
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kind of wedge in the corner there
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there's a skeleton eating a donut
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an iconic Portland piece for like a a
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camper place or like some kind of RV
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shop I think it was like a second oh
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yeah I could see the camper down there
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right there
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yeah
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Ravens
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look they had a they had a photo shoot
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in Playboy back in 2004. okay we now
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have stepped out so you're going to show
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me where the church of Elvis was this
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was the very first venue of Church of
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Elvis before it was the wall now when
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you go to Epcot Food and Wine Festival
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sometimes there aren't any tables so you
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have to eat on a trash can so I don't
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mean I don't know about eating on a
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Portland trash can but yeah we could we
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could set our stuff up right here
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is that big the foot
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it's a piping hot caffeinated beverage
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achieved from the first Voodoo Donuts
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let's give a little cheers or cream and
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sugar in both of those and you got the
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Homer
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thank you so much no problem
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and I also got a t-shirt I got my coffee
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gotta watch out for that gum there
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that's stuck on the side of the
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the thing but I also got a t-shirt like
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a little souvenir
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which is not not just a vague Voodoo
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Donut shirt so this is not they have the
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ones that you could get at Universal and
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other I think there's five or six
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different ones besides the theme park
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ones but this is like the punk rock
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version
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Voodoo Donut it's got cast of characters
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here waiting on the original wolves the
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open late
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so I got this as a little souvenir look
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at this guy with the Mohawk kind of
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wedged in there love it as well now I
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looked up so it was back in 2013 March I
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believe
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I could have swore that I played at this
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venue
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when I was in a bag called gutter mouth
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for a while did like five or six chores
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I think it was in the band two years
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Reverend Horton Heat headlined and we
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opened up and I could have swore it was
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here but it wasn't it was a place called
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Wonderland Ballroom which was a mile
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away so evidently I hoofed it a mile
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down here or I played here another time
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and I just very forgetful
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been a while
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all right guys check this out
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Portland Oregon
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Trail yeah look at that that's the Homer
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oh my gosh
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you are doing it
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what did they say forbidden Donuts like
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that's one good thing about broken them
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up on the ground we just got the garbage
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right here so it's like cheers
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oh I think that's good that is so good I
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forgot how good that is actually it's
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been a while we did a full Simpsons
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thing where we came through the
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strawberry frosting paint strawberry
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y'all
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when when oh my gosh that's good that
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was so weird too we're like double
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double
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the magic is in the hole
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that's the Portland slogan right there
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it's a good day bro this is perfect oh
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they got all the lanterns out too for
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Chinatown
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okay
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I love my city absolutely
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the guy walking by in a bear suit
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I barely saw him that was bad sorry I
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can't pass up a donut shop and there's a
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lot out here now
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really spoiled don't voodoo
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no no pun intended has their hands and
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all that holes but
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there are so many different donut spots
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around town that it's hard to pick
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it's a win-win Portland is definitely
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Donuts
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this area can be a little different you
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think so
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you get nervous you know what I like you
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get nervous right now
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you know me too
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all right let's walk that's what I like
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having you with me I'm usually by myself
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you're better off better off better off
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with a partner I could have swore I
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played here also
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pretty sure I didn't hoof it a mile
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from the other spot but I looked it up
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and there's even some footage of me and
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the band playing it what's it called a
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Wonder Room Ballroom Wonder Ballroom
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that's a mile away I believe so but this
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is called Dante's right across
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from the first donut the first Voodoo
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Donuts over there
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drinking previously could wash or rinse
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their mouths out and not go back to work
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smelling like booze the Benson bubblers
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bubblers all right
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now what I actually I like that
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the Benson bubblers
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got one of the entrance of Chinatown
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over there okay I had to look this up
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not only did I play at the Wonder Room
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Ballroom in March of 2013 in September
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of 13. I did play here at Dante's
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with agent orange so played with
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Reverend Horton Heat in March and then
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in September
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with pinata protest and Agent Orange
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right over here
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another ghost signed
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I love the hotel hostel Hotel estate
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sign over there too though not an old
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neon here that's really great
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and I like the kind of fire escape on
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this
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see if I can zoom in and figure out what
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that says
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you're right it does say cigar
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on there I can barely
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motel or something up top
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okay this is awesome this is a mobile
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shower
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that this church provides
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here on the street it's a Union Gospel
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Mission mobile shower that's pretty
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pretty cool they do that
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this block the streets are completely
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blocked off a little seating area out
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here walking over towards part of
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yeah this is good
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this is really good so is that water
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tower still around the Old Town water
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tower oh
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yeah it should be it's literally I think
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you can see it from
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Dice Clay movie wait what deep cut it's
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called like love something uh yeah with
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starring Andrew Dice Clay and this is
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like the club really Andrew Dice Clay
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Hickory Dickory Dock nice I'm not gonna
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finish the rest of them this was
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actually seen in
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um
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uh oh gosh what is it with uh
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Keanu Reeves and this little this little
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tunnel here yeah it was in uh my own
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private Idaho really come cruising up
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this way on the motorcycle was the whole
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movie my old Private Idaho in the
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downtown area yeah
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but they've used they've chose to use
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this like structure here like this
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bathroom a lot because of the
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yeah for sure
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this is great
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up there goes a train going by over
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there
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too
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what was I think there's a McDonald's
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got the Guardians there
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supposedly there's a haunted pizza place
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around here Old Town Pizza should we go
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over there and check that it works in
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the basement we're walking back over
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here we just realized that this guy
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riding off on the bike just broke into
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this car right here shatter the window
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and it's now riding off on the bike
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that guy just broke in the car
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he like literally just broke in that car
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while we were standing here
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I'm glad you I'm glad you had the
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wherewithal to tell me to park in a
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structure
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I don't think I've ever seen
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I mean that was Blake yeah during the
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day
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Portland weird guys but to a certain
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extent cassette tapes iron taped so hard
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back in the day remember the Pencil
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Trick oh yeah throw the pencil in there
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and get it back in business spin it
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around you put the pencil right in here
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right and then you do it a little skip
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it a little spin that's right it would
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like kind of mirror the tape back into
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that's a cassette by the way folks not
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VHS this is kind of interesting
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this vehicle has a plug-in back here
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look at that
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it charges right in the wall
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I don't think I've ever seen that before
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oh yeah
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it's on two beams but
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the max yep are you gonna do it do you
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want to do it do it
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the Mac so red well it's on two red the
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max
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Metropolitan Area Express surrail
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I love public transit dude that was
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awesome dude I've stolen so many year
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words you're probably sick of me all
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right we're going to give a little
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Nirvana history here as well
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so not only Nirvana and Seattle and that
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area there's also a little history over
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here at Mary's
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so I did not know about this you have to
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inform me on what happened at Mary's
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so recently within the last year they
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actually moved the venue into this
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location this isn't the original Mary's
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location this is all new yeah
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design though where was the original
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location we'll go there next a block
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over here so the sign right here is the
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old sign from that original location you
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can see where they took the light bulbs
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out oh yeah but you can still this all
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lights up at night still so the club
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still is functioning and it was at
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Mary's that Kurt met Courtney for the
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first time Courtney dance or Mary's club
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which is which is block up we'll go
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there next so Kurt went in to get to get
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herself a little a little eye candy and
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watch a little dance or something like
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what was the I don't think it was that
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far it was the fact that she worked so
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close to the old Club securcon oh this
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is a block up next so he was passing by
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the Star Theater
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then also Roseland
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here's a deep cut what's Roseland you
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did a video this is a music venue in
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Portland that
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for years have featured all kinds of
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venues they don't just it's not just one
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performance it's all music venues for
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everything
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um but here's a deep one and you did a
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video on it
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g Allen yeah played a show here for real
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whole set and they recorded the album
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inside here what album
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what to look it up murder junkies did an
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album 93 I believe the year was I don't
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remember inside the rose list
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and it wasn't as
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entailed if you will like you said he
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did oh yeah he didn't run out naked
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throwing poo at others pretty close
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throwing poo at people in the streets of
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Orlando
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yeah you never know what you're gonna
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get with me I think the title was that
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yeah I think I titled it that the Dave
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Gigi through Pooh at residence in
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Orlando all right you want to do this
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one oh there it goes the
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monorer monorail monorail monorail
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That's The Simpsons
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we got a great Transit System here all
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the buses and trains
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so it's really a train
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two connectors oh interesting actually
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skipped one when they redid this
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building this is all brand new this was
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where Courtney Love danced this was
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satiricon
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Kirkwood Place shows that when he would
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come to come to Flint yeah she would
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walk like a block over from Mary's and
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come see her this is actually where they
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met
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so he met right in here right here and
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the rest is history yep and the
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addresses don't match up because they
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did like the split so he looked at the
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old satiricon it'd actually be one two
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two I believe
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yeah that's where they met all right
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found them found a photo and I gotta get
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a new one yeah
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and I've used this one so you can see
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what it used to look like
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and there's a pay phone in front of the
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former Punk video
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look at that let's have a dial time
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sport bro you want a cupcake oh we just
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had Donuts thank you so much appreciate
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it
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you were telling me the legend of the
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green man and you were like sometimes
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he's downtown
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it's like for him to pop up that guy
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does have green on though you're right
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he's out here cleaning the streets
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but this so this was the this was the
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venue here
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all right take a look at this this is
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what was it called satiricon
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you can see the building still looks the
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same beside it as well
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yeah these all connect too so the buses
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trains street cars
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that's a shirt that's the original
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Mary's
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famous for Courtney Love
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you can't see where they tore the neon
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down I mean literally fits right in
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he said there was a rumor locally they
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might tear this whole building down yeah
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I think they're preparing they were
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gutting into the Mufflers last time I
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was videoing some
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a pig with Nick Nicholas Cage I never
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saw that one uh right here in this
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building was a SAT as a restaurant oh
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movie that was like a sushi bar in that
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room Nicholas Cage was there yeah enjoy
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downtown oh there's some shoes up there
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oh this hat okay those I can see it's
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easy to throw shoes it's not easy to
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throw a shirt those have been up there
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for a minute too they're like there's
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like some awesome and whatnot
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one thing that I really like that you
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don't see much
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is the circular area that you could just
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walk across and stand in it's just this
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weird little circular area
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so I'm gonna go over here see if I can
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find a photo
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of what Mary's looked like back in the
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all right here it is dine and dance
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there's the original signage
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hey are they there's a lot of people
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down here kind of cleaning up the city
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so you can actually see over to the side
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it all kind of matches up with the
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windows and all that but I noticed that
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there's someone down here painting over
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the graffiti down here they just in
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front of the former Mary's
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has the roller and painted over the
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graffiti but right here was where the
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sign was right up there it's kind of
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like right here
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you're also telling me that Keanu Reeves
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and River Phoenix sat in that restaurant
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for my own private Idaho
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there's a little spot right here on the
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side
23:14
the movie the camera is actually inside
23:16
the restaurant and what made it a dead
23:18
giveaway was not only the part where
23:21
they come whipping up here and River
23:23
Phoenix is on the back of Kiana Reed's
23:26
motorcycle
23:31
they're actually at this
23:31
that window
23:37
car and window just the way the building
23:37
breaks yeah pulled up this little screen
23:38
grab here where they're sitting on the
23:40
other side of the window and this alley
23:42
that we're standing in is right behind
23:43
them so basically they would have been
23:45
sitting
23:46
right there with the camera looking out
23:49
the window
23:49
showing all this right over here behind
23:52
them
23:53
here's a little tree that has all the
23:54
different distances of things that are
23:56
you know kind of all over the the area
23:58
as well as Times Square a lot of birds
24:02
going by up top there Times Square is
24:03
2443 miles from here all right this top
24:06
of these stairs here in the square is a
24:08
sculpture of a gentleman with an
24:09
umbrella
24:10
now I have heard when you're in the
24:12
Pacific Northwest you know the tourists
24:14
are the one with umbrellas you're not
24:16
supposed to have an umbrella I was told
24:18
that up in Seattle which is you know a
24:20
few hours from here so would this be a
24:22
tourist or would this probably not a
24:24
local
24:25
you know Adam I have to say I'm guilty
24:27
of rocking the umbrella yeah for like
24:29
shade and Rain I'd do it for shade
24:31
before you look touristy with it but
24:33
this guy's actually handling the cap
24:34
he's trying to like he's hailing a cab
24:48
and over here is a weather fixture that
24:48
at certain times of the day it will let
24:49
you know what the weather's going to be
24:51
like if it's going to rain it'll Mist
24:52
what does it do when it's going to be
24:53
sunny
24:54
at the very top there it'll pop up
24:56
different little symbols like different
24:58
uh you know the Sun the clouds I think
25:02
there's like a moon okay if it rains it
25:04
also miss so if you're standing under a
25:06
prepare to get a little all right out
25:08
there and there uh there's a a boy it
25:14
seems like all over the planet it's a
25:16
honk for free
25:18
speechers
25:30
oh these are the old bathrooms down here
25:30
too do they still work you still go with
25:33
them so there's Port there's uh tunnels
25:35
under here too
25:37
turn this thing around and I'm telling
25:40
you we can turn it around so you got
25:43
like an underground Portland down
25:44
through the bathrooms
25:47
evidently there are tunnels underneath
25:49
the city that you used to have to go
25:51
through the bathroom to get into all
25:53
sorts of people out here you know
25:55
talking and sharing their views and
25:57
things like that in front of the pioneer
25:59
Courthouse but this is a little
26:00
interesting underground history yeah and
26:02
in fact the sidewalk used to happen the
26:05
brick that would have little like glass
26:08
shingles almost
26:10
where you could get the light to come in
26:12
off the main interesting way down below
26:19
too bad you can't go down there anymore
26:19
oh is the door open
26:25
um so this is kind of interesting
26:25
so you're saying the artist that
26:27
designed these designed the hat that
26:29
you're wearing Trailblazers hat Bennett
26:32
what's his name Mike Bennett Mike
26:34
Bennett
26:35
let me see your let me see here oh yeah
26:37
I did one for the Blazer look at that
26:39
right there I think I've got whatever it
26:41
is on the side there
26:43
big the foot nice
26:46
yeah what a coincidence
26:48
here's some mushrooms over here too
27:08
this is kind of interesting the
27:08
sculpture has a crow on top of a bird
27:16
buses behind me here's a bus stop
27:16
there's a bird here and there's a crow
27:18
perch on top of the Brother Bird
27:20
top of a sack on top of a book on top of
27:24
a box on top of a concrete pylon
27:45
it's kind of interesting I never
27:45
realized Big League Chew was created in
27:48
Portland
27:50
fun fact
27:52
I've had quite a
27:54
quite a few mouthfuls of Big League Chew
27:56
in my day see if this works it's kind of
27:57
shadowed out
27:59
being surveyed we're under surveillance
28:02
of course it's my own camera given the
28:04
surveillance and this mirror here
28:06
there's one on both sides you got a
28:07
mirror back there and a mirror over here
28:10
you're stepping out of the frame
28:12
now you're in there there you are again
28:14
they were creeping on us that's all
28:27
did you ever see the movie Jeepers
28:27
Creepers seen Snippets but I actually
28:28
haven't seen the whole movie that's the
28:30
name of the villain this is the creeper
28:33
the creeper you're him you're him yeah
28:37
so food trucks over here
28:46
this is all spray painted the some art
28:46
down here on the road
28:49
Beanstalk or something
28:51
it's like this whole road's closed off
28:54
oh I know where we're at
28:56
we're on the back side of that
28:58
restaurant that Keanu ate out around the
29:00
corner there
29:01
plus the way over there is Powell's
29:03
Bookstore used
29:05
books
29:07
so that's one of the biggest bookstores
29:09
around this area
29:10
I think so maybe not in like the world
29:12
but it's definitely so stay well and
29:16
well read
29:17
I also like this mural up here
29:24
doing a lot of construction
29:24
new Portland and old Portland meat Fish
29:27
Grotto I like them I like the fish
29:29
grotta sign
29:31
the F and the g are made out of fishes
29:34
and up here is a sculpture of a big
29:36
tonsil
29:37
oh yeah check this out what is this
29:53
oh does it turn
29:53
are you supposed to be doing that oh it
29:56
does
29:57
wait what is that
29:59
is that a paintbrush
30:10
movable art piece called pod pod like
30:10
our tripods for our camera but it's got
30:13
this cool thing we can mess with while
30:14
we're here
30:15
for whiskey so you can get your
30:17
calisthenics done
30:19
I just did I think I threw my arm back
30:21
here too I gotta get it going here I'm
30:24
gonna get this thing whisked
30:27
I feel like I'm gonna break it I feel
30:30
like I'm gonna break it
30:32
oh look at it it's moving even farther I
30:35
think I broke it
30:41
that is wild look at that thing it just
30:41
whisked back and forth okay just to be
30:43
clear clear it does say gives passer
30:47
buyers a pendulum to push
30:54
so you are supposed to push that
30:54
now this is not the pizza place we're
30:55
going to eat at but this is a good
30:57
philosophy eat pizza every day pizza
30:59
pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza food
31:01
pyramid
31:02
a pizza so we're gonna pass this one
31:05
we're gonna go over to the haunted pizza
31:07
place also across from the bookstore is
31:10
Doc Martin store as well with Bouncing
31:12
Souls yeah fun facts the band The
31:15
Bouncing Souls great punk band
31:18
got their name from The Bouncing Souls
31:20
they dispel a little different they
31:22
spell theirs s-o-u-l-s
31:25
but they got it from Doc Martens
31:32
still a few boarded up Windows through
31:32
here
31:33
here and there
31:38
across the way there's another really
31:38
good
31:39
ghost mural
31:44
and uh
31:44
old service station
31:47
the hotel Butte
31:53
get a little closer up to the mural here
31:53
can't really see if I'm down here you
31:54
can only see it across the street
32:01
okay these trees are awesome here at
32:01
this parking area
32:07
looks like they're Towing someone's car
32:07
oh I see the Old Town sign now so we're
32:10
getting close to the pizza place now
32:16
Louie in a great Republic Cafe
32:16
sign up there as well
32:18
this here has been broken and kind of
32:21
chipped off the
32:22
front of this is broke off so is it
32:25
nicknamed the city of roses yep and a
32:28
handful of others city of roses City uh
32:32
Rose City Bridge City right there in the
32:34
middle of the road they have a little
32:36
artistic rendering of an umbrella
32:39
here's the Portland General Electric
32:41
manhole down below and the pizza place
32:45
we're going to is right up here Old Town
32:47
Pizza not on a through street but
32:50
evidently it is that car just drove past
33:07
I think he's ever taken that bike down
33:07
in these sweet fly is that me oh that
33:09
does look like me
33:12
that represents what's that the Naked
33:15
Bike Ride every year in the summer they
33:16
do a Naked Bike Ride so let's look like
33:20
me right
33:22
that was awesome The Naked Bike Ride in
33:25
the summer everybody gets naked and
33:27
rides their bike
33:33
I'm not gonna get naked ride my bike
33:35
around now full two killers it's a naked
33:38
bike rider just like me established
33:41
1974. Oh weird coincidence same year I
33:45
was born
33:45
so what's the story give me the
33:48
family-friendly version of why this is
33:49
haunted I could roughly give it I don't
33:51
know the fool okay give me give me your
33:53
rendition my rendition is from over the
33:56
years of what I heard and stories get
33:57
misconstrued is
34:02
there was a girl that worked here that
34:02
perished yes and apparently she's still
34:05
still working visits or haunts the spot
34:07
gives you a nice they still work here
34:09
nice warm piece of pie and she at Nina
34:12
Nina her name is etched into one of the
34:15
one of the doors oh like one of the
34:17
pillars they're currently open three to
34:19
ten are they open now
34:21
one day oh what time is it we might be
34:25
able to see the Nina pillar
34:27
oh we missed it beautiful woodworking
34:31
what is this is this like an ATM machine
34:45
seen better days look at this
34:45
you need to get some cash out
34:48
my card in there there's a little Skippy
34:51
peanut butter no I'm gonna try it hold
34:52
on I like that guy the guy I'm like is
34:55
that an ATM what did he say he's like
34:57
I'd rather have some milk no milk
35:00
whatever be our milk
35:03
oh there's a mural up there she eating a
35:05
piece of pizza no no it's Thomas it's a
35:07
Thomas Bagel mural hey Grandma we made
35:11
nooks and crannies it does look like a
35:13
big pizza
35:14
an impressive ATM right there putting my
35:17
shirt in the book oh ATM
35:20
sorry
35:21
atw how to
35:23
look at this thing sorry it look just
35:25
does look like an ATM it was an ATM but
35:28
now it's no longer being used yeah it's
35:31
like those pay phones if you see what do
35:33
you call them a skeleton of the past
35:37
I mean this right look at this someone
35:40
yanked this out clip the snipped it they
35:43
like hotwired and they were like in a
35:45
hot wire they were gonna drive this
35:46
thing off camera you can drive this
35:48
thing off down the road
35:50
I was still gonna try to find a slice of
35:52
pizza at some point
36:01
my surprise
36:01
right where we were by the bookstore by
36:03
towels walked up the side of this bridge
36:05
overlooking the river here
36:08
and showed a mural earlier of a water
36:12
tower top of a roof and that there it is
36:20
thank you to I-5 south
36:20
and they're saying five goes a long way
36:22
have used to the five in LA
36:25
there's that water towers on that mural
36:27
and here's the kind of famous iconic Old
36:30
Town Portland Oregon
36:32
signage
36:34
there's a reindeer still up there this
36:37
time of year
36:39
February Portland white stag that was
36:43
the clothing company for many years
36:45
though oh yeah and it's changed a
36:48
handful of times it'd probably look a
36:51
lot better if we were standing here at
36:52
night because I don't want to be
36:54
standing here ah yeah
36:57
so let's just look at it during the
37:00
daytime oh there's the water tower too
37:02
Adam oh from from the uh the mural yeah
37:05
yeah that's about as Portland as it gets
37:07
right there folks
37:09
say clearsky the creeper oh I was hoping
37:12
we could get this going underneath here
37:19
if we go on the other side will we see
37:19
it come off the other side
37:21
River here has a lot of kind of food
37:23
trucks and whatnot
37:25
and this part of Cameron's the old neon
37:27
where it says books is
37:30
kind of shut down and whatnot but I like
37:31
this little food truck area over here in
37:33
the corner still looking for pizza damn
37:35
look at this building across the way I
37:36
really like kind of the architecture of
37:38
this old public parking building that's
37:39
now all fenced off in a dog's Market
37:42
yeah it seems like these little I'm
37:43
gonna call them food truck these little
37:44
food stands that are set up in parking
37:46
lots are pretty prominent here in
37:48
Portland everywhere we have decided to
37:49
walk back over to the pizza place that
37:51
we saw earlier by the Doc Martin store
37:54
so this parking area they're going to
37:55
tear this out you were saying yeah so
37:57
Bryant Square
38:03
videos for uh the TV series grim did
38:03
some filming back in here
38:05
but this is all going to be gone one day
38:17
oh we're going over to Sizzle Pie
38:17
take a look up here
38:22
this is a
38:22
this would me if I hopped on a bike
38:24
right now went down a slide you've seen
38:26
it in these sweet slides lately
38:33
all right pizza's finally gonna happen
38:33
over here at Sizzle Pie they are open
38:36
next to the bookstore we passed this
38:38
earlier we backtracked because the pizza
38:41
place we wanted to go to was closed it
38:43
was haunted eat pizza
38:46
the pizza place goes to this
38:49
Sizzle Pie right here on the corner of
38:52
Burnside Street
38:54
Sizzle Pie
38:57
and when you go in there's quite a quite
38:59
an assortment of merchandise not only
39:02
interesting t-shirts and hoodies
39:04
the hats that promote Sizzle Pie also
39:08
some stickers I ended up purchasing a
39:10
couple of couple interesting stickers
39:12
and we ate inside we didn't we didn't
39:13
get to buy the slice we ended up
39:15
ordering an entire pie inside Sizzle Pie
39:18
with cheese and onions and peppers some
39:22
pepperoni
39:23
full size I'm gonna have some leftovers
39:25
afterwards and some of the interesting
39:27
artwork
39:28
pop culture artwork representing Sizzle
39:30
Pie as well inside
39:35
it's a pretty good pie
39:40
I'm not really a pie connoisseur but I
39:40
do like I like a good pie
39:43
CE
39:45
yeah we got a lot we got the old dirty
39:48
wait what was the what was the old dirty
39:50
I'm not sure
39:52
they're open late everything here is
39:55
I wonder what the old dirty is and we
39:57
just have the old dirty it depends on
39:58
the time
40:04
or is that what they're calling us the
40:04
old dirty I'm old but we just we just
40:07
had the food pyramid yeah we had pizza
40:09
pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza
40:11
pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza
40:17
I think if you ate pizza every day you'd
40:17
be really unhealthy
40:19
I mean I'm no like picture of Health but
40:22
I had pizza every day I'd be even more
40:24
unhealthy than I already am
40:31
Sizzle Pie it was good it was
40:31
I love being a good slice of pie and as
40:34
we walk away from the pizza place check
40:36
out this black hole press-out book right
40:38
there that's kind of rare this place is
40:40
called Billy Galaxy they have a lot of
40:42
good stuff in here including Teddy
40:44
Ruxpin
40:47
do little lunch boxes Mickey Mouse Club
40:50
he pity is the fool that doesn't need a
40:52
good healthy lunch
40:53
like maybe pizza
41:08
and that's gonna do it for today from
41:08
Portland we have continued the tradition
41:11
of keeping Portland Weird my sunglasses
41:15
I think are broken now
41:16
look they're not even sitting right
41:18
are they sitting sideways
41:20
I don't know I feel like Clark Griswold
41:22
on vacation with the sidewalk oh you
41:24
have two glasses of glasses off with the
41:26
shade so I feel yeah
41:27
we're keeping Portland Weird didn't you
41:29
say that has something to do with Austin
41:31
Texas started in Austin and then it
41:34
branched off over here to another state
41:36
on the west coast yeah I was told that
41:39
the original Pete Portland Weird was an
41:41
Austin thing and Portland kind of just
41:43
embraced it we do have a lot of
41:44
weirdness going on a lot of weirdness a
41:47
lot of uh break-ins and cars Portland
41:50
Weird to a certain extent folks and also
41:53
you put an R right there it's actually
41:54
creep Portland Weird yes
42:00
check out clear
42:00
clear creeper with k
42:07
clear ski with the K creeper with the K
42:07
on YouTube YouTube Zone holding a Sizzle
42:10
Pie a famous pie near
42:14
to Keep Portland Weird mural on the back
42:17
side of a venue that I played at 2013
42:20
and another one a mile and a half away
42:21
that I played
42:23
and another time in 2013 and the very
42:26
first Voodoo Donuts is right around
42:30
the corner over there
42:35
that's it
42:35
oh you want to do the outro you did the
42:37
intro Pizza
42:47
Spaceballs reference all right I'll see
42:47
you in the next video
42:49
the Vlog
42:51
is over
42:53
oh there's my investment this must be
42:54
making some Investments here just drop
42:56
the D and it'd be out of the woo
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