Excessive Heat In Phoenix Arizona - Roadside Oddities At Mystery Castle & Eating At Long Wongs Wings
Phoenix Arizona June 2023
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welcome everyone Adam is the Wu here as
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the recording of This is Wednesday June
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28th 2023 have my sunglasses on because
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it is right out here High 90s teetering
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on 100 degrees supposed to get up to a
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hundred and seven today here in Phoenix
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Arizona I am going to roam around just
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see what I can find stay in the shade as
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much as possible sometimes I'll be out
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in the sun like right now I'm
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right here there's a shaded area here
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there's a sunny area here
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so what I would like to do
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step into the Sun for a moment and then
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for more moments be in the shade I'm
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inviting you to join me
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as I explore Phoenix
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car just bumped a little bit going down
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the end climb there join me
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you see downtown on my glasses
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right over there
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shall you
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currently 95 gonna get up to 107. it's
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10 38 at the moment this is not
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enjoyable weather even these little p
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looking items
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Peapod items that are on this tree are
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like kind of dried up now what I'm being
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told by some of the locals that this
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isn't even 107
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isn't even a hot day
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and keep people keep saying also it's a
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dry heat it's still Heat
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you don't have that humidity like you do
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in Florida but 107
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there's nothing to scoff at I mean you
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could scoff at it but then you'd
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probably get unless you're wearing
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sunscreen you'll get burned I made a
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short commute over the corner of Sherman
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and 7th Street yeah Seventh Street
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right over here
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close to the George Washington Carver
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Museum
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and
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near Chase Field is this interesting
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sign here A roadside
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signage that was placed here in 2012 for
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the anniversary
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of the state itself
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so I guess now the state would be a
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hundred
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11 years old
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that's correct on that
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19th you can see the 1912 and the 2012
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so yeah the 100th anniversary of Arizona
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and just all made out of street signs
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right here so you have the business area
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signs watch for animal signs you have
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the no parking signs you have the fire
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danger sign you have the
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officer driving by sign
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pretty cool
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standing right here in the median
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so we got to be kind of a far away from
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it in order to see it from over here
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this is located
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fire hydrant but also on the corner of
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Grant
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do not pass got another plane landing
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over there
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and do not park on this side of the road
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I parked over by that mechanic shop over
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there I think the mechanics thought I
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was filming their shop I said oh no I'm
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just going here to film this unique
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little
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wall
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classic truck alert hey back in the car
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now got some horses over here this is an
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area known as mineral Canyon
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they're just trying to
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stay cool over there some Mountain off
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in the distance a small Mountain
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and pulling into this neighborhood found
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this little parking area of what appears
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to be
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a castle
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off in the distance and I was reading
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some stuff online and at one point it
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was open
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for visitors but it does not appear to
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be open today
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I don't think I'm going to be able to go
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past this fence line and if they are
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open to visitors today is not the day
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just to visit it it's right here in this
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neighborhood
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well at the end of the neighborhood can
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even see a little
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footpath where people have tried
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this direction just to get a better View
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oh yeah
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someone has knocked the fence down
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look at this cactus cactus is everywhere
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here and probably snakes scorpions
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yeah someone has like the fence has been
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blown down or torn down
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and now they put this line across it
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at First Impressions maybe that was like
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an electrical fence it's not it's like
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just like
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just like a
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rubber string
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the car pulling up behind me maybe it's
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someone that works here or maybe it's
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someone the neighbor's telling me to get
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lost
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all right they drove off didn't say
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anything I think maybe they were just
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doing a U-turn in the area
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so going off with the inner website
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which sometimes is true sometimes it's
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not the lady that lived here built it
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out of junk
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as a gift to her daughter
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and then years later did tours until she
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passed on in 2010.
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so it was made completely out of junk
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but it looks like a pretty structurally
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sound Castle here
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and it's in a good spot it'd be pretty
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cool to live there
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right on the side of this mountain
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something is crawling up my leg
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is that
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South Mountain is what this is called
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over right here have the air-conditioned
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kicked on pretty hard look at this
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winning lottery there's a whole
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prospector
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so evidently this gas station
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convenience store that it's adjacent to
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sold a winning lottery ticket at some
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point
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or maybe not but that's just what I'm
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taking that to mean
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all right I've now made it over to the
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corner of North 80th Ave you see the big
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cactuses right there in front of suburb
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just went by
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so years ago I think I did an unedited
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video many many years ago
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gosh probably even close to a decade ago
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here at this gentleman's yard who's been
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collecting stuff for decades
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this is just an incredible look of photo
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enforcement Zone
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a little totem pole there
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is a Batmobile down here
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some old Mickey D's items
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you got the little uh hamburger guy
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there for the play area
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foreign
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New York streets I've seen a lot of
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street signs today
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New York city limit sign the Statue of
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Liberty with glasses on
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shell old gas station
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and it appears as if I don't remember
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this from years ago
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so there's a Paul Bunyan over there
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Muffler Man I should say not holding a
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muffler but holding an ax
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looks like it's branched off across the
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road where from what I recall
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used to just be on this one side
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not the lucky number seven from Vegas
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there there is a
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there's a
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Circa 2015 temp tracker
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mustache on that cactus
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as a hippo
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hungry hungry I always Pluto down in
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this uh bird cage
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I always wonder what people think that
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live in the neighborhood when a resident
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moves in that does this to their yard
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a lot of scrap metal through here though
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this thing is like a riddle full of
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holes
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so these apples are used sometimes to
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keep away Birds
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on this owl right through the that took
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us there has a sword from that night
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oh there's another good Ronald back in
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there
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with the dog up there looking through
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the glasses
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it's Godzilla
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right up there oh
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it's an old 666 sign Roswell city limits
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elevation 3500 but it's got the 666.
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I already got all these signs from
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did he go to this Asylum and be like oh
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that would look good in my yard
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so yeah very all the other houses here
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are pretty normal
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this one with a camper over there
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so I'm sure when this resident
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you know back in the day before GPS
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existed and the friend would come over
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they'd be like tell me how to get to
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your house be like oh just look for the
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big
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Paul Bunyan holding an ax the Muffler
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Man
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that's my neighbor
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figures with axes there's another one
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right there this one holding an ax
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okay
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it was an okay sigh but there's a Pizza
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Hut sign
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like how do you get a Denver city limit
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sign like how do you get that you just
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go to Denver and
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say that that's nice and it appears as
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if there's like a little camera right
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oh there's a hand right with those hand
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chairs
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retro hand chairs
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looks like there's a bear up there with
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long arms
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sweet potato weevil
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I didn't know that that was going around
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it's unlawful to move sweet potatoes
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Beyond this point
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this is lucky
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there's Peter Griffin
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I wish Hercules
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look at that
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lentiment Zone
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I'm sure with liniment city of forks
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interesting
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he's got a bra on here oh there's a
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there's a big boy
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I was like to see a big boy
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train conductor PP conductor Railroad
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fogged up glasses there
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there's a moose there there's a cow
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oh there's an oxen
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there's a bear
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there's a fish
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wow like there's the Moon
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I've been doing this was the yard of the
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month at some point second place for the
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yard of the month
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so if this place won second place
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I like to see the first place winner
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more Mickey D's items here
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that was Mickey D's trying to remember
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what character that name was there's
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alien
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there's Marge Simpson
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dinosaur from the gas station
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I'm noticing a theme with a lot of
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glasses like Bears bearing glasses
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there's a sheep in glasses
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someone else is pulling in to get a
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gander at this yard actually no it's the
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neighbor there's a chipmunk
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so this chipmunk just staring right into
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the neighbor's yard this person's
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backing another driveway and this
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chipmunk is just gonna stay right at the
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passenger as they pull in
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imagine pulling into that every day and
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seeing that
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especially if you didn't get along with
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your neighbor I'm sure they probably get
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along with them but yeah
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oh
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Muffler man's eye
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could be the hypno toad right there
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oh there's a golden arches up top too on
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top of the roof right there below the ax
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oh there's a cowboy over there
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riding up on the horse
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these neighbors seem unfazed by what
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lies right next to them
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they see no evil here no evil and speak
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no evil so this is the entrance so I was
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only the homeowner removed the lock and
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walked down this very path
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towards the back and see the little
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walkway here
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and you know a lot of grass growing out
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the desert
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we don't have to worry about mowing or
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weed eating the yard
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there's hundreds of pairs of glasses
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like not normal sized glass oversized
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glasses
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bugle another big pair up on the roof
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there's a pig
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wearing some uh glasses
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and then over here look at this one like
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hiding in the corner like slumped over
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trying to find Shades like get me out of
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the Sun
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like a little like a polar bear
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definitely not doing well on this
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Arizona desert heat
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so two residents or at least one
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resident with two homes
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have completely loaded their yard up
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with Nostalgia metal
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and all of these things if you were to
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touch them would be very very hot
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because the sun is permeating out here
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it is no joke out here
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popping up out of the bottom of that
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garbage can there
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got a tiki couple tikis there as well oh
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it's a pumpkin
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it's a water cooler
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like everywhere I look there's just more
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and more stuff another cactus
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this hippo looks like it's like in the
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middle of singing a song almost looks
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like it could have been like an
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animatronic or something
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some point a little bicycle behind
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the golfer there at the golf club
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ah there's a there's a wasp or is that a
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bee
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I was kind of hoping that someone would
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be home and I could ask them about some
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of these items like what is the the
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infatuation with the glasses the meaning
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behind all the glasses now out of the
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sun underneath the awning underneath the
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garage area over there or even more
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items
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got a zebra
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got a guy with a top hat on got some
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angel wings
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someone has been operated on this is an
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oversized Noggin from the game
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of operation
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quite possibly the most unusual Street
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in Phoenix
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pretty unusual
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and Hunt see a goose over there
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I see a couple Lions this one looks very
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startled
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and as suspected plenty of stuff
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going over into the backyard as well
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it's the whole corner
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and I have my hand on this concrete and
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it is
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warm
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I don't think that's a safe speed 250 is
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the speed limit
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where Road was that out
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all right I'm in traffic now heading
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over to another spot I'm noticing this
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item right here at the traffic signal I
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don't know what that is
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that a baseball or a peach
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that is a very unique looking building
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it's closed but
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that A-frame style building there
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from one unique yard
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to another unique yard completely across
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town check out this Cactus is very grain
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but look at this tree the tree is green
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also it's a completely green
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tree
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actually they're all kind of a greenish
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hue
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possibly the sun does that and when I
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looked at this from this angle I thought
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this bird
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kind of looked like Donald Duck a little
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bit but it's actually the back
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of the bird
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it's not a duck it's a bird
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this is a rock garden that someone has
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created years ago
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it's closed off
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but you can see some of the unique items
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from the road as well it's right over
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here next to a mechanic shop in a
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trailer park behind me you see the tile
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interesting tile
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and broken glass that makes up these
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unique structures you got a lighthouse
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up here
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seems to be a thing in Phoenix where
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people just decorate their yards with
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very interesting items
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pretty much every one of these
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sculptures are made out of Rock
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see a few back there in fact it looks as
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if that is a family eating at a table
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like a picnic is going on
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see them over here there's three the
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three youngins
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right there possibly the dad here maybe
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another one of the youngest maybe that
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is the father there okay there's another
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windmill there looks like part of the
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windmill kind of broke off has a star
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above it there is a horse dangling from
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the top of that canopy
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and then over here some very interesting
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looking bushes now these trees are
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normal color trees
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not green
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but often the distance is kind of the I
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almost said the meat and potatoes of
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this little Arch structure here in this
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yard
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with the backdrop of the mountain
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big tower there
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almost looks like the Seattle Space
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Needle
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there's a dog waving
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I think the dog's way I think it's hard
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to tell those paw up
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there's a little sort of
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another dog there and their owner
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another windmill
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so it's made out of Rock
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and possible concrete but then also has
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the glass
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kind of shoved into the side
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I just have to peek over the fence here
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because there's no one here at the
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moment again I go to these places
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sometimes hoping that they
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person living there will walk out
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pull in with their car but
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hasn't happened today
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and as stated as the at the other place
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just kind of wonder what the neighbors
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think
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about or the artistic
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collecting of items and
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artistic renderings that happened
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in their neighborhood
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the trailer park over here the side view
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of the picnic table
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looks as if they got some forks and
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knives there
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yeah they've added a fork and knife
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into the hands
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gotta be at a little pixelated and
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grainy because I'm zooming way in
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you can see some more of the sculptures
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over there too
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it's like little cubby holes
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as well with some items on them
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oh it's great to see this bowling alleys
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open has that retro vibe to it
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kind of nostalgia 80s look
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even a great
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logo and billboard here out front
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Marquee
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let it roll
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today's special Got A Wheel of Fortune
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moment
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Dunner
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leagues are now forming
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proudly serving Thrifty Ice Cream
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and just look at the view there
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we got those apartments over there the
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mountain behind them so something out of
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a movie Sometimes you stumble on a place
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that you didn't know you needed in your
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life until you see it
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a place that is next to
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a little strip mall area
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with a shark on the roof
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place
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by the name of Long Wongs
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with a flamingo
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Wings Burgers Pizza fish subs and hot
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dogs this place is like a beacon
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off the side of the road someone has a
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palm tree-esque sun visor sun visor
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would be very smart to have or a sun
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shade area for your
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dashboard
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look at this this this whole episode is
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a cornucopia of yard Decor this is not
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in a yard this is in front of a
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restaurant Long Wongs wings
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what in the name of heck this
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is awesome
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dinosaurs up on top of the roof
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buffaloes
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I'm in the mood for some wings
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we have no clue what gluten is
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what is this place
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should have ate at Long Wongs
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Phoenix is in the a plus category of
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unique yard art
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certainly
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oh it looks like long Wong put his name
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down here in the concrete
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look at this
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it's like a gorilla making a wrestling
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move
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thank you voted the best wings in
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Phoenix back in 2022 last year
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. looks like that's Elvis there with a
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fashionable pair of pants his truck has
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seen better days the windows are busted
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out it would take a look at Homer over
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here
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snoozing
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dreaming of Long Wongs
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with the flamingo
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I'm gonna go inside this place
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they drew me in
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a lumberjack there probably very warm in
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that outfit
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seen these around I think there's one of
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these at the OC Fair
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of a ketchup we're gonna catch up a hot
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dog trying to decide on ketchup or
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mustard
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I like mustard on a hot dog some people
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like ketchup but I prefer mustard you
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know I've never noticed the
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one other ones of these I've seen each
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eye eyelash eyebrow is ketchup and
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I like this place already I'm going
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inside stepping inside everything I had
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hoped and wanted it to be from the
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exterior
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duplicated and then some on in the
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interior
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just a Cavalcade of kitchen
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nostalgic goodness all along the walls
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on the roof
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above the counter above the menu board
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just a just an incredible amount
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stuff in here getting with some some
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retro arcade games pinball
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there's a little bit of everything it's
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almost kind of like nothing was off
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limits to just throw up in here from a
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certain area you can see everything has
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been kind of wedged in here from many
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decades ago
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up in there and I decided as I peruse
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the menu board
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I mean it is a wing place I figured I'd
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get 12 wings
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and you know what the wings pretty dang
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good
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how to get some ranch too and some
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Waters
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because the water is not enough so I had
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to get a couple Waters
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I liked it
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I like the Ambiance outside and inside
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and I will always remember here in
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Phoenix
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it's lasted this long it'll probably
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stay on stay long stay continue to be
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open for a while I can see why the wings
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were tasty
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and long Longs wings
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since 1980.
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where else can you get wings and other
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sort of things have hot dogs fries have
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pizza
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where there are dinos on the roof
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there's a few other places but this
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place is in Phoenix I like it
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and that's gonna do it for today from
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Phoenix Arizona a very warm a very hot a
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very toasty
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let's say it's dry heat that's true
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there isn't as much humidity as Florida
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but goodness gracious that sun is
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poignant
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saw a lot of very interesting Roadside
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Attraction S-Type things in yards in
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front of restaurants
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and just out and about in Phoenix I'm
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enjoying my visit my tenure here
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thanks for watching I'll see you in the
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next video
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the Vlog is
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over
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that hamburgers dancing
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that's only 104 degrees
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excessive heat watch
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oh man
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ah
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in their humble opinion they make the
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best dentures in the world
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good to know