The Worst Street In Philadelphia - A Few Rocky Locations / Cosmi’s Cheesesteak & Termini Bros Bakery
Philadelphia February 2023
Transcript
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welcome everyone Adam the Wu here as a
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recording of this Tuesday February 14th
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2023. I am in Camden New Jersey right
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across the river
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from Philadelphia
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I'm gonna do some Camden spots and I'm
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gonna go over what do you want what are
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you laughing at Dan Dan Bell's here
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hiding in the Valentine's Day today's
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Valentine's Day
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fancy meeting you here
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Adam and not see each other in five
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years Dylan's here my husband just got
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out of prison
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what yes Adam the moon I are married
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Happy Valentine's Day spoiler alert
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we've tied the knot
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we haven't but you never know how the
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day will progress
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so what are we doing you're gonna first
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you're gonna take a photo on that uh
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it's there's an odor coming from over
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there
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there is right
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I just love all these photos you take on
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old couches
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all right I'm gonna go walk over this
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way
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while you take your photo so we're
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starting off in Camden New Jersey Dan's
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gonna show me a few things and then
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we're going to go over to Philadelphia I
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don't really know how the day is going
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to go
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but I'm inviting you
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to join me
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photo turnout turn out get pretty good
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you're happy with it yeah I love it here
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we go
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you see it there
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what's up what's what's on the agenda
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today Dan
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I'm taking me you're driving around
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you're a cheese steak okay cheesecake
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two cheeses uh so I am here for a series
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of days every day when I hang out with
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someone new I'm gonna have them take me
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to my favorite Cheesesteak place yes see
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you're the first yes cosmics cosmics my
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favorite first of all you said Cosby's
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when you were telling me right I thought
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now that Bill's Bill's out we gotta the
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rope and all uh cheese steak yup
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all right so we'll go from here Camden
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over to
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over to over I mean we're in Jersey now
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right
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uh yeah we're in Jersey and then we're
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gonna head over to Philly Philly you
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call it Philly or Philadelphia
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oh really
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smelling your hand to see what was on
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that couch I think I set my hand in some
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doo-doo as we're driving around found a
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really cool building over here you can
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also see the Camden water tower across
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the way but it's really kind of popped
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out at me
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no trucks are allowed and Camden you can
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see the no truck sign right there but
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take a look at this there's like pieces
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of glass that make up this whole this
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whole building
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over here on the side
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sparkles in the sun very beautiful
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oh look at that that's the
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the dog looking into the phonograph
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machine
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you got the Sun up top
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up there
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I like this corner lot right here the
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style of this building
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kind of this angled number 1800 and you
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can see there's a lot of buildings on
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the sides that have been torn down or
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burned down
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now we're contemplating getting some
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coffee somewhere we try to find a coffee
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shop somewhere nearby but this house
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used to have a a metal railing the
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winter like a rusted out metal railing
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here
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going around the whole side of the the
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building I think the city that's a trunk
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a bus stop here
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I'm in the Dan bellmobile the bellmobile
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what do you call your vehicle
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um
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a truck expensive payments at the liquor
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store here we are at the triangle
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they have a Western Union
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they must call that corner corner
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streets the triangle
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here's something I never knew the Camden
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Soup company is based
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well now I'm looking at it what used to
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be a bus stop but she said the Camden
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Soup company oh what did I say this is
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Campbell's in Camden oh
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what did I say Campbell's you said
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Camden suit okay
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I have trouble talking before coffee Dan
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other side of the river from Camden
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is Philly it is on the other side of the
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river right
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yes
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at some point today we're going to be
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over in Philly what's up over in Philly
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all right that's it for Camden we're now
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going across the bridge we're trying to
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find coffee
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we're going across the bridge
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Pennsylvania
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all right we have found a Duncan
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so where are we Tech we're we're in
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Philly now
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we're in uh Miami
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welcome to Miami we're in Philadelphia
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so this is technically Philly yes all
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all right look at Duncan following
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Starbucks lead and now have Refreshers
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yeah
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you got a refresher Dan it looks
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refreshing
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I hope we're here is an empty building
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let's spray painted up any idea what
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this is was
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like an old
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dockings oh it's the municipal Pier
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number 38.
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okay this might be the most awesome
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vehicle I've ever seen
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I think whoever's driving that would
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sell me that van
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look at that thing it's like the heart
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it's like a heartbeat it's like a pulse
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on the side
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that is great
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I don't know why I love that if you
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crash it flat lights we are now heading
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over to an area would you call a suburb
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Kensington a suburb
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no it's not a suburb it would be a deep
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inner city hell Escape
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okay
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heading into Kensington
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this is Suburbia
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all right we're underneath the elk they
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call it the L train here yeah
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oh in Chicago they call it the L train
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so I guess it'd be called the L train oh
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no no this is the
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the S train the S train it stands for sh
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I'm noticing the sign says famous
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meltaways is that a barbershop is a melt
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away like another name for like a
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hairstyle
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and melt away
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now years ago I played in a band we
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toured through here and I think this
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looks like the area where Adrian's pet
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shop is and I walk the street at like 10
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o'clock at night
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because I wanted to see Adrian's Pet
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Shop from Rocky
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it was an auto dealership right there
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well this kind of looks like the place
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of the fight scene in Rocky happened out
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in the Rocky 5 our place
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there is uh they have some books in
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now this is saying any checks are cash
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or whatever check you have you can get
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it cashed over there are there different
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types of checks
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like
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how many different kinds of checks are
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Adam's like oh I think that's where the
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fight happened in Rocky five yeah
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I'm a movie nerd what can I say
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right I had to look up
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exactly where
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pet store was
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going on through here
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we're gonna stop at the pet store right
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yes yeah we're gonna go to the pet store
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all right according to what I just
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looked up
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you see in the photo when Stallone comes
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out he walks past here so we think it
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was here and they tore it out
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I think
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might have been right here
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because the fire hydrant in the movie
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was right here so
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so I guess it was here the stairs were
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right here
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going up into it
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across the way was where the fight scene
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right there we just confirmed it with a
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local business owner right here
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okay I did a little more digging online
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which can you know sometimes you can
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trust the internet but I found a couple
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articles that in 2017 this was bulldozed
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it tore it out you're taking a Polaroid
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of me yeah for posterity here yeah
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the clue though is definitely this
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the fire Hyde yeah which right now is
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probably not in good working order
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right there
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all right if you look across the way
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where the professional boxing area was
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where he was
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waiting to train and had the match at
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the end of the one movie you can see the
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kind of still matches up even though
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they did kind of extend the windows down
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a bit so this is just directly across
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from where we're standing even though
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these bay doors are have been lengthened
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down this way this over here is the same
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style of window that went across the
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four Windows across and it says boxing
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across there and if you watch that scene
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where Stallone walks in the stairs were
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right here he walks in Adrian's right
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here behind the counter there's some
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shelves right over here and then he
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looks over here in the corner and
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there's butt kisses over here in the
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cage
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hey you like my Saloon
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hey
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I'll play uh you're gonna be Adrian you
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got to be very shy she was very shy
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oh yo Adrian
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can you get out of my store please
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thank you please yes
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Hey Bully
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right there so that's where the that's
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where the shelves were behind her with
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the fish food and all that
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in that same spot right there pretty
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cool see if I can match something up
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over here the fight scene in the road
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too okay we just kind of watched a quick
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little clip from the end of Rocky five
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where Salone
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a rockiest
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Tim and Tommy Gun are out here in the
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middle of the street we couldn't figure
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out if obviously this is the this is the
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boxy training area over there we think
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that that might be the bar or maybe the
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bar was down there
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a good photo of me that you took with
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your Polaroid right there in front of
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the Adrian Pet Shop
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nice
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I just look like I look just like
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Stallone yeah right uh with a brain
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injury
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bags have a Kensington Philadelphia
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mural over here we kind of decided since
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we're so close we're gonna go buy
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Rocky's apartment from the first movie
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which is in this neighborhood too
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I think that's it right there
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all right this is it right here
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damn I think it was this one right here
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this first one
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1813. I think you're right
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I wonder if the needle will be living
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here now probably so
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yeah 1813 or is it 18 18.
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I can't tell if it's 18 18.
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in fact you can see in the movie you can
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see that it's 1818.
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this is pretty dang awesome though yeah
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it is
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cat going by
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so was it down on the end where they
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were he walks down and they were singing
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the song the guys were singing the song
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to him I think it might be over here too
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and then he got the train going by up
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foreign
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Philly Vibes here
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I think someone lives there
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they have there
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most people stand up there oh nice Dan
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can you film me all the steps absolutely
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on the steps of the rocky house
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in Philadelphia
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those are still the same painted numbers
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from the movie thanks huh yeah
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awesome
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well yeah
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all right definitely see why they chose
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this road to get the vibe there with the
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train going over yeah I think that's
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where they were like singing the song to
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them down at the end of the block but I
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could be wrong
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look there's a YouTuber now I gotta
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start making our way over to uh Philly
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cheese
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steak place look at that old clock up
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there little building
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and while we're stuck in a little bit of
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traffic here this is the Gloria
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day old swedes church National Historic
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side over there listening in the sun
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above it
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Gloria was my grandmother
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your grandmother yeah she built the
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whole thing by herself is that true
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we'll get a little behind the scenes of
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this photo shoot right here
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at prostody
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it's produced
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we have now parked
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Dan did a really good job of parallel
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parking which I could probably have
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never done a good of a job
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and we are now going to cosme is it
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cosmics cosmy's Deli this is my favorite
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place to get a cheesesteak in
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Philadelphia so you're saying this is
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the best cheesecake place I'm not
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concerned and I've tried a lot of them
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okay that's my favorite so I was here
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four or five years ago and I did genos
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and Pats the two touristy spots everyone
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said you got to go to the real spots so
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now I'm asking people from the what's
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your favorite Cheesecake place as well
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all right yeah it's just the bread the
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bread's really good the bread that's the
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secret yeah and then also I guess it
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makes it better because then after you
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leave this you can go to that like the
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cheese place all right
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oh side by side so we're gonna have
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cheese steak and then cheesecake
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and you were just cheesing for the
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camera
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yeah it's a lot of cheese and I'm gonna
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have diabetes and cholesterol
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all right went ahead and placed the
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order now we're gonna walk
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over and you place the order at
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termini's so that way we have everything
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we also got to find a place to eat
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there's there's no tables in either one
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of them so we gotta find a place to eat
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out here on the road
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I really like the Retro Vibe this place
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has going on with the old neon up top
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you know obviously they got the
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Valentine's Day Sucks today is
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Valentine's Day but there's an old neon
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up front and then the Retro looking
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store front where you kind of walk in
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and they have a lot of artifacts this
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place has been around for a heck of a
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long time it's a lot of the different
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artifacts that are inside here and
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excited not to get cheesecake though
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having to end up getting something else
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but
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I think I'm gonna end up finding finding
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something else to get because after
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eating a full cheese steak I don't know
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if I want cheesecake to go with it but
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I'll get something I'll get something
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from in here definitely definitely we'll
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get something
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it will look like a horseshoe almost
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it's called an almond almond horn
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so I'm going to polish off this would be
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my dessert after the cheese steak
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from cosmis
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yeah I want to try while I'm here in the
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Philly area the next series of days I'm
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gonna try a different Cheesesteak every
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day
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I want to be Aficionado buddy hi fourth
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hour the next week we're gonna have some
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proper tailgating going on here got the
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tailgate down
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eating on the streets of Philly
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right over here
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so there was no we couldn't find any
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place to eat so we're just gonna eat on
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Dan's tailgate
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I don't know why they took the tables
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out
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we all got the same thing right I think
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Cheesesteak cheese what kind of cheese
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did you get I got the same kind of
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cheese you got you got American right
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yeah you got provolone this is provolone
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I don't what is the proper etiquette to
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eating a Cheesesteak as far as cheese
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goes do you get
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I guess it would be all about the cheese
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now it's more about the meat it's like
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how they is it like I got whatever you
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get I just said double it see this nice
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grilled onions yeah you can get Peppers
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too and then the cheese is in there but
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it's melted okay
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so whatever you got I got the same
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Cheesesteak Ro
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that's an RO
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crazy though yeah the cheese like
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disappeared off of this thing it like
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melted into it
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now they're not using that anymore
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me there's
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delicious because they
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it shaved right in the store
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are in the deli
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what's the other kind of cheese where
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they put it over the top of it look it's
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called something else right
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sauce
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with cheese whiz yeah
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really you like path better
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it's hitting me okay
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is it the bread you're disappointed in
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the bread it's like yeah
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something something went awry but it's
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still good hello
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something no this isn't Rye Brad no a
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ride oh yeah all right now it's time for
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dessert
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what is that
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oh it's the boss oh it's the boss
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this is an almond I said the name
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earlier it's like an almond horseshoe
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try it out
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that's really good
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yeah I don't know what's in it but it's
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good it's fries
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the fries are good too
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you want some of this I want to buy this
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no this is so dang good
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oh my gosh
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you got a cupcake right
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yeah but I after eating all these fries
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and
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cheesecake I can't eat a cupcake
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I feel like I'm gonna explode this is
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good
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I don't know what's all in it other than
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peanuts and chocolate but whatever the
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the bakery I was made out of is really
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tasty and we figured probably one of the
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best spots to end this since we went by
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a couple Rocky locations
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would be up at the Rocky Steps
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and the rocky sculpture from Rocky III
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Over across the way there one thing
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though there is a lot of traffic this is
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where Rocky was running all along here
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and part three when Mr T confronts them
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it's at the top of the steps
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and that is where that's where this used
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to sit I figured something went by a
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couple of the spots we might as well
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might as well show this here
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there's also that scene when Rocky shows
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back up on his motorcycle once up at the
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top and he throws I think he throws his
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motorcycle helmet at himself
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always kind of reminds me of this but
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take a look
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Rocky Balboa okay this is a quote from
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later on this wasn't from the third film
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this is a later 2006. it's not how hard
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you hit as how hard you can get hit keep
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moving forward
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that's how winning is that I remember
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that that's from the Rocky Balboa film
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which would have been I guess Rocky six
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and went to where the little
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the bar and the street scene was from
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Rocky five but I think Rocky's sick
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which is Rocky Balboa was far more
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Superior than rocky five Rocky 5 is
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probably my least favorite
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of all the films
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it's pretty dang cool
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it's been a while since I've been to
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Philly this works out pretty perfectly
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with the sun kind of setting over there
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got a little Sunburst going through the
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trees well it was now it's kind of
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I would imagine hundreds if not hundreds
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of thousands if not millions of people
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since that movie came out have ran up
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and down
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these stairs
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and at the very top
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there are Rockies
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footprints
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so you can stand exactly
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where Rocky stood
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and look down
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at Philadelphia
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off in the distance I could see why they
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chose this
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for that climactic scene where he runs
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up people are even running up now
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downtown Philly
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off in the distance full of traffic
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you made it
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did you run up
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you made it I saw you sprinting all the
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way up to the top
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you did it
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you did it oh that's where Rocky's doing
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that's where I stood these are the these
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are the steps
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you did it I've never seen the movie
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you've never seen it
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self it's classic
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I love it I like everyone damn
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everyone's seen this movie except for me
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I'm gonna do the triumphant hands up in
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the air
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go for it
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I look like still on right yeah a
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picture of Health right here right right
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like if Stallone was in a really bad car
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accident
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I could no longer work at me
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thanks Sam always a vote of confidence
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trying to figure out where Mr T stood in
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part three like where the podium was it
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was like somewhere around here Burgess
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Meredith Stallone
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they actually had dinosaur feed where he
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stood they had dinosaur feet where where
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that's a Mr T-Rex no they erased the
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feed as his career faded right
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as soon as as soon as the cereal came
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out Mr T cereal
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all right the weather's gotten cooler
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and crisper I have the hoodie on now
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I think I'm in my video right here
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what'd you say take your video no I said
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I'm gonna end the video here oh okay
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that's gonna do it for today
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Dan Bell
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Dylan hi we are standing here
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what were you doing you're like hiding
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behind me oh
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this is the first time we've hung out in
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like five years yeah it's been a long
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time it's been a while
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I think it was in DC you and I you wrote
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me in prison I really appreciate that
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you drove up from Baltimore yes to visit
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pick me up my accommodations yes and
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drove me around I had no idea what we
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were gonna do I'm A desperate uh sad
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individual who feels uh
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voids with online celebrities
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let me know when you find one
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all right I'll see you in the next video
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the Vlog
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