The Demolition Of Holy Land Experience & Other Orlando Area Attractions - Windy Day Central Florida
Central Florida Sunday 2023
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welcome everyone out of the woo here as
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a recording of this this Sunday April
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30th 2023 as you can see I purchased a
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pair of sunglasses last night did not
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get the thrift store that I went to
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yesterday the dollar store that I was
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looking at but I got them elsewhere the
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street I'm standing in the middle of the
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road but fret not the street is blocked
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off because every Sunday
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each and every Sunday
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here on Market Street
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they do the farmer's market over here
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art flea Farmers Market I'm not sure the
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exact technical name of what it is and I
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have dug out of the ruins of my closet
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the road to Extinction Jurassic Park
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Universe Studios Hollywood back from
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2018 I believe it was t-shirt not an
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appropriate t-shirt today but I'm
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wearing it anyway today I'm going to be
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heading over to what I have heard a
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pretty strong rumor and I'm going to
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confirm it today that all of holy land
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that I have documented more times
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probably than I ever should have has
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been bulldozed erased from existence I'm
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gonna check that out I'm gonna walk down
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Market Street see what the vendors have
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today and then possibly go down Highway
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192 and just have a casual Sunday day
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they say You're supposed to rest on
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Sunday I don't know the meaning of that
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word in fact this morning I went to the
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gym and I did 120 Minutes something that
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Matt Penfield would be proud of on the
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treadmill at a 3.7 speed and a incline
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of 4.5 I've heard 800 calories
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two hours on the treadmill I am really
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taking
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you know I'm taking getting back in
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shape seriously I know I've had some
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cheat days I ate the Mickey D's I had
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the Slurpee yesterday but I'm not going
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to deny myself yeah The Simple Pleasures
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from time to time but check back with me
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in a couple months and see how I'm doing
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whether it's good or bad I feel like I
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feel I'm doing pretty good that is very
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windy I feel like that's gonna that's
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gonna blow over nonetheless
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I'm inviting you today as with every day
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to Jordan
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can I look like Tom Cruise with this
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aviators on shall you it is very very
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Gussy today in fact earlier before I
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went to the gym there was a tornado
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warning and since then the tornado
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warning has ceased as the morning
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progressed and now it's into early
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afternoon there is no not even not even
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any rain but we just moved so yeah
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I was kind of surprised when all these
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vendors were set up when I got down here
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but they are
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one thing about Florida
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you know it could be raining one minute
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and then five minutes later it's like
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something out of the back to the future
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too I'm just using all the movie
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references today
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well I've used Jurassic and Back to the
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Future what's two not all of them now
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last night there was going to be an art
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walk the Art Walk did not happen because
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the weather was very very stormy very
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very windy very very rainy now it is
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just very very windy in fact I'm a
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little surprised that some of these
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haven't blown over because it is
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it is very windy out here
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also the clock up here on Market Street
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is an hour too fast
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yeah it's an hour too fast it's not 2
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30. it's 1 30. this gentleman over here
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is selling goat cheese in this place I
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guess earlier or maybe they were
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expecting a large crowd they got the
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queue lines all set up here with the the
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stanchions have been okay taking the
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sanctions away then again maybe the bulk
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of the crowd has already got here I
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think this goes on to between between
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two and four sometimes two ten times
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three times four it depends everyone
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brings their pets out here too you will
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always see cute little pooches little
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pups out here wandering around
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I love it
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also I was gonna let you know if you
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want to follow along
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with my workouts I post on Instagram
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post stories on Instagram added the woo
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atw on Instagram that's Adam the woo atw
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on Instagram oh my goodness look at this
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little cutie
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all right the wind did deter a lot of
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people usually it stretches all the way
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over there a lot of the vendors are out
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here and where I am standing there is
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usually a huge vegetable and fruit stand
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so the inclement weather the tornado
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watch or potato yeah that's right at a
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watch it wasn't a warning it was a wash
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but it was a indication that maybe a
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tornado might happen
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just you know I can understand a lot of
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vendors probably didn't want to show up
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because you know why wouldn't I
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so I think I'm gonna get a coffee and
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I'm gonna cruise over towards the mall
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of a living area that thing is just
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swaying in the breeze right there
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beware of hitchhiking ghosts this is
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cool
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this little Haunted Mansion thing there
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I don't know what this is going to stay
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up all right just talked to the vendors
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over here at this booth here basically
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going to wrap it up around two they're
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always here at any of the events so they
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have some really cool creative wreaths
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and things I'm not really a wreath kind
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of guy I don't really have like a place
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for a wreath but you like wreaths check
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them out over here that's some cool
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stuff oh nice you know what usually I
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will get Starbucks or I will get the
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cafe on the corner over there the the
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Cornerstone Market or I'll go to the one
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at the church this is called black brews
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coffee established back in 2020. I think
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I'm gonna get a coffee here from a local
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vendor try something a little bit
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different for my piping Hawking hot I
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would imagine they did they also sell
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the coffee so you don't have to actually
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get it
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know at the time of you can buy bags of
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it also have dragon fruit organic black
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tea over here
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yeah this is a little packet that you
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can buy too
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all right I got it he said do you want
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hot coffee or cold coffee I said cold
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coffee don't give me hot coffee kind of
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loud it goes I'm a hot coffee guy too
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yeah
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try something new here
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doing that you're a good man
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did you know here in town the
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skateboards scooters rollerblades and
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bicycles are prohibited on the sidewalk
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everywhere else you can go though all
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right a little bit of a little splash of
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half and half and one packet of sugar I
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always like to try new coffees
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I always like to try new places I've
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already got a beverage piping hot one
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but there's a cold one here on days with
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Davis shaved ice what if that's anything
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like Joe's Italian ice in Anaheim or
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water ice Philly Captain kind of turned
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me on to in Philly when I went to the
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Philly game recently like probably
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somewhere do you like to change the sold
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out for the yeah oh no I want to show
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that they're sold out show how popular
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these are you sold every one of these
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today yeah
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we're gonna where can we watch the video
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I have a Channel It's called The Daily
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woo on YouTube The Daily blue
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yeah you're off the wagon homemade
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always fresh cookies all right you guys
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out here every week every weekend yes
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we're all down the road usually okay
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I'll come back and check it out one week
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yes we'll be here waiting for you oh
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it's very windy out here yes
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and you're wearing a savannah banana
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shirt which is like they're like the
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Harlem Globetrotters of baseball kinda
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sort of yeah yeah it's nice
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to meet you have a good one
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yeah I really like those guys artwork in
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fact he really features celebration a
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lot I ended up buying something from him
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a while back his name is Hubert he's
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always out here really like this stuff
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that is cool
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you got the emblem here he's out here at
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all he's out here at all the art shows
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and whatnot
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he just specifically does all the
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celebration stuff I like that
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celebration Hotel back when it was well
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don't even say Bohemian yet I guess it
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would be just a standard celebration
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hotel that's pretty cool I wonder if
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there ever like balloons over the top of
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it in fact the one I purchased he has
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not redone so evidently I got one that
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is now gone okay I found another little
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delicious treat stand that also sold out
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it's called yum brownie have many
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brownies it's probably good that every
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place was sold out because I would be
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eating some of these which is not good
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for my diet or my weight loss are you
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guys local yes we live in Champions Gate
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oh Champions guy the mecca of bad
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traffic that congregates there when I
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try to go to Tampa from here every time
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these are awesome you guys are here
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every week yes we try to be and all our
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flavors rotate except for the first one
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which are classified
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okay you look very familiar you're on
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Instagram right all right I knew why I
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like like you guys's vendor because you
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have us but you have the monorail here
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you got spaceship earth what do you got
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the Mickey here we've got the monorail
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I've always wanted a monorail tattoo
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awesome Space Mountain down there Space
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Mountain all right the coffee that I got
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pretty dang tasty it's glow it's a
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little strong I usually get like a
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milder flavor this is more of like a
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dark roast it's like it's got It's got
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some kick to it it's got like a fuel I
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can feel the caffeine flowing through my
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veins the juices are now flowing I
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usually would drink one little small
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coffee in the morning when I get up with
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my Keurig and then I'll have another one
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like this around midday and that's
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usually all I have for the day I've just
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been drinking a lot of water you know
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with the exception of like the the crazy
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sugar and induced Slurpee yesterday was
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this I've been doing this weight loss
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thing I've just been drinking water a
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lot of water and coffee
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all right I'm gonna get going looks like
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a lot of the vendors are going to be
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wrapping it up now and
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the storm clouds have been kind but you
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can just see how evil and looming
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they are right there
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looming clouds
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it always gets a little backed up and
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slows down right here at the 535
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interchange on I-4 I'm also kind of
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wondering because a lot of the products
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were sold out you know they were they
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were wrapping up at two and then the one
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Stan told me oh it's almost over we
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could pull down it two maybe there's
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some sort of contract for vendors
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on Market Street when they do the Sunday
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thing that they cannot pull their stuff
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down before the closing time because two
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places were completely sold out and the
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other place was about to get blown over
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by wind they were just holding on tight
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till two to wrap it up so it must be a
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contractual thing
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I'm not sure the rules and regulations
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of everything in celebration but some of
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the details are probably get a little
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get a little wacky
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this little section through here 535 and
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I-4 in Champions Gate which is west of
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here this is going eastbound going
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westbound in Champions Gate 27. we're
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pretty bad backups
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but I hope one day it all gets rectified
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because no matter what day of the week
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it is no matter how light the traffic is
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it's always stopped right here in a
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Champions Gate for just a little bit all
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right the rumors are kind of sort of
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true
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a few buildings still remain big
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Amphitheater is still over there but I
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would say probably half
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of the property is bulldoze it is an
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active construction site
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that is not a ghost closing that gate
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that's just the wind
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you never want to walk on an active
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construction site trust me when the
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signs say stay out active construction
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site
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you want to heed those you want to heed
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those warnings so I will not be walking
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back in there but you can see they have
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the Advent Health coming soon signage
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right there and there's even a guard and
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everything inside it but the guard shack
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that used to be right here it's been
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bulldozed used to be right there
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right over there last time I was here
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this will probably be the last update I
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do before it's all gone so call this a
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halfway demolition
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I'm gonna walk up the on-ramp and get a
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good view of everything that's been tore
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out and pinpoint where certain landmarks
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used to be
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yeah this is for like a historical
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posterity's sake if you will
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fascinating
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attraction that was here for many years
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old times while it was open ah
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interesting
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that little little guard shack was moved
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from where I just pointed it out it's
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now right over there against that other
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building
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look at that little
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I got a little thing what they're gonna
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save that hey it's probably going to end
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up in a landfill or a big dumpster
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at some point it's all getting just
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smashed up and destroyed everything over
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in here
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they've done a lot of demos this last
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time I was here yeah just look the whole
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wrought iron fence is gone the metal
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fence
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history
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gosh
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well they are just leveling the heck out
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of this the lake was right there
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and I can't tell if there's still water
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in there or not
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now obviously as I'm here is a Sunday
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recording this is a Sunday so there's no
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one on site doing their work but those
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that were worked during the weekend this
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is their their dress code safety vest
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Hard Hats Safety glasses shirt sleeve
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long pants sturdy
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work boots again
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never want to go in to an active
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construction area
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just my advice this used to be the main
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entrance right here
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and they are really just just gone
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it's nothing like into
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and it's just all the oh you know what
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there are a few people over there
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working but not not the full-on
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construction crew just a couple couple
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people watching the property
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wind
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something out
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I mean it's pretty dramatic you know the
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amount of wind that's happening right
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now but it's not as dramatic as it
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appears
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you know there's a lot of hurricanes
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that go through Florida and one thing
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the meteorologists do and the new
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stations do is they always show clips of
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palm trees being blown in the Wind
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and they're like yeah they make it more
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terrifying than it really I mean
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hurricanes are terrifying but sometimes
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when the hurricane hasn't even
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approached the news stations will just
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show a palm tree like this would be like
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it's out of control
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but if you look at it even like a stiff
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win like this you know it's a breezy
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very very Breezy makes a palm tree look
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as if it's like a little more dangerous
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wind wise than it really is I'm not
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saying this is nothing but you know they
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sometimes they over inflate what it
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looks like by filming a palm tree or a
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street sign or you know a stop light
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that's waving in the breeze when really
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it's totally safe to be out in you know
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before the for the outer bands
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come into play and from here you can see
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all the the tubing the concrete tubing
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that's probably going to be laid down
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after the fact that looks like new
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concrete tubing
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for what's going to probably be a
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hospital having health is going to be
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something in the in the medical
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profession
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as well if you can see some of the heavy
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machinery over there just sitting
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stagnant today because it is the weekend
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if I would imagine starting tomorrow so
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place will be a beehive of activity and
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they'll be leveling this thing it's only
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been going on for a couple of days
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saw some things online like I should
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probably head down there and just show
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what is here because by next time I will
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come out here there's probably just
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going to be completely
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completely empty ground even a big
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portion of that area has been leveled is
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even an awning
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it's not usually in that area there's
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now sits there
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but I would imagine this thing right in
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the middle of the screen will be the
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next thing to be torn out
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also now that
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you know from this angle before there
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was a lot of fencing and foliage and
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other rocks
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now you can see what was the recreation
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of
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the resurrection where the the where the
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the tomb was Jesus tomb and The Rock was
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rolled away you can see the hole there
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in the Tomb again
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you know I would imagine in a couple of
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weeks that will be gone
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completely gone
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and it's kind of weird to see it from
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here
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and then the main entrance that you
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would go buy your tickets was like right
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there
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but basically where all that heavy
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machinery is not the first one in the
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foreground but the one back in the
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distance was where all the guests would
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be and they would all meet you know
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different characters from the Bible
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it was an interesting place
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hit a list that was a pretty good angle
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of some of the wreckage
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part of the Holy Land Roadside
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Attraction here in Orlando there was a
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staple of I-4
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very long time very long time far back
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as I can recall and where those poop
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people
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I can't speak not purple purple where
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those purple wooden
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expansions are used to be a photo
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opportunity where you could get a sign
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in front of where it said the Holy Land
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you can see it's right below the on-ramp
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here though
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the on-ramp or off ramp
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you can also see a little bit of the
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whale
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that swallowed Jonah over there and I
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got a little view from there
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for the last time seeing that section
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before it's gone
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they're they're tearing this down real
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fast also I always like these decorative
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flowers they have right here
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off the off ramp I mean they don't need
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to be here I mean there's a little trash
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and styrofoam and plastic baggies and
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who knows what else in there but yeah
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they did a good job just having these
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like flowers down here no affiliation
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with Holy Land but
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holy lands right down there there's
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those wooden Beams I was just talking
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about
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very last day this was open look year or
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two ago a couple years ago it was open
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only for two days if what I heard was
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for tax reasons to keep the because it
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was owned by a church to keeps their
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tax-free status
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they had to open
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and since they hadn't been physically
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open as an attraction in a while they
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had to open for one day and they only
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had a couple of things in there and I
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got to see
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you could kind of dig through the
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archives of videos just search you know
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Holy Land when it was open and that was
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the last time this ever place ever saw a
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gas and I was lucky enough
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to go in there and it was a disaster a
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complete mess I got here really early
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like three hours where the doors open
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and if I would not have done that I
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probably would not have gotten in I mean
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there were thousands of people
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stretching all along here towards the
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entrance wrapping around here going all
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the way out there
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and I don't think everybody got in I
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honestly do not think some of the people
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that arrived even on time ever even got
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in there so I'm glad I got here early
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early bird catches the worm and early
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bird sometimes gets the holy land on
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this last day I know this might seem
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pointless showing it looks to be Jonah
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down there a silhouetted art version
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artistic version of Jonah and the whale
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tale
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but trust me
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this will be the last time this has
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shown
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I've shown this many times probably five
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times
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I've done updates on this over the years
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it's kind of good that they're tearing
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it out though because it was just
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sitting here kind of dare looking empty
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and not even being used and abandoned
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there's no point this is Prime real
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estate and use it for a purpose use it
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for a hospital use it for good you know
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just sit an empty Place sitting here
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rotting away doesn't make a whole heck
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of a lot of sense I'm all about progress
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if it was still open and active
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entertaining guests then yeah it'd be
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cool but I mean this is a this is a
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massive massive chunk of real estate
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Prime real estate right off of I-4 and
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not to ruin the magic but from this
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angle you can tell that the the whale
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swallowed Jonah I was on top of an air
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conditioner unit
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Stripped Away down in there too there
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was a skull a sculpture
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I believe it was of Moses of the Ten
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Commandments that was over there I don't
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see that anymore this was Noah's Ark
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last time I was like walking and looking
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down into here and even Matt's been
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Stripped Away
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goodbye theming goodbye painted theming
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goodbye architectural theming yeah
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the Moe's over there gone someone has a
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little souvenir Moses the Ten
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Commandments somewhere in their home
20:57
probably maybe one of the construction
20:59
guys got it
21:04
oh you can see that door is kind of open
21:04
if you look closely that theater is
21:05
called the smile of a child
21:12
would be the last time it is in a show
21:12
on video
21:16
I mean it hasn't been out here so
21:18
ceiling
21:25
foreign
21:41
there's that awning that's completely
21:41
not where it should be maybe the wind
21:43
blew it across
21:44
and there's what dumpsters says Advanced
21:47
Demolition and the demolition on this
21:49
thing is advancing really fast you know
21:51
what I think about sometimes let's say
21:53
one of the workers like a foreman on the
21:54
worker also I have my umbrella just in
21:57
case it starts downpouring because my
21:58
car is way over there on the other side
22:00
you know what if a foreman came here
22:02
with his family when he was younger and
22:04
has memories of this place you know
22:06
photos or whatnot you know it goes with
22:08
any kind of Demolition and then they
22:10
have to be the one to be like tear that
22:12
down it's got to be a weird feeling or
22:14
someone who's working on the crew in
22:16
there when they were younger came here
22:18
as a youth with their family and they
22:20
have memories and they're the ones
22:22
having to take that bulldozer and plow
22:25
something down kind of emotions would
22:27
that be not just necessarily this
22:29
because with any any kind of like
22:30
attraction or memory or theme park or
22:33
restaurant or any kind of place you know
22:35
those kind of things you don't really
22:36
think much about but
22:38
sometimes I think about that stuff not
22:40
all the time but right now I'm thinking
22:42
about those kind of things I also just
22:44
realized maybe I am wearing an
22:46
appropriate t-shirt
22:51
sure
22:51
oh okay
22:56
all right cool
22:56
I meet you the main area over there
23:00
this guy said he wants to talk to me he
23:02
used to work here what I was going to
23:03
say maybe I am wearing an appropriate
23:05
t-shirt because I'm wearing a countdown
23:08
to Extinction I mean that's a stretch
23:12
it's a stretch and it's Jurassic this
23:14
isn't a dinosaur this is a
23:16
Christian theme park but yeah he's you
23:18
know it's gonna it's extinct now it well
23:21
the countdown to extinctions is already
23:22
well maybe it's not an appropriate too
23:25
sure I don't know it's a stretch
23:26
kind of took me by surprise they were
23:28
Hawking the guy was yelling but he's
23:29
seemed friendly
23:32
said he wants to talk to me he used to
23:34
work here
23:35
so we'll see how this
23:36
how it pans out maybe he's got some
23:38
stories maybe he'll want to be on camera
24:04
all right just had about a 10 minute 15
24:04
minute conversation
24:06
the guy that used to work here and I
24:08
asked if he wanted to be on camera he
24:09
gave us some careful considerations that
24:11
no because when they when they let
24:15
everyone go they had to basically
24:17
sign a non-disclosure agreement about
24:20
some of the info and he just didn't want
24:22
to he didn't want to give a lot of the
24:23
details
24:25
and kind of put all that out into the
24:26
universe so
24:28
just kind of between me and the former
24:30
employee that was here
24:31
nothing too juicy or anything like that
24:33
but
24:34
just a few little facts about
24:36
you know TBN who owns the
24:39
owns the spot and whatnot
24:53
I often battle sometimes with what to
24:53
film and what to put on the interwebs
24:54
anymore obviously what I stated about
24:57
not going in here a couple security
24:59
guards here a couple workers in there
25:01
one of the workers that was over there
25:04
came out and actually said hey you wanna
25:07
you want me to show you around and I
25:10
said no
25:12
just didn't uh
25:14
didn't think that that was probably a
25:16
good idea because if I did go in there
25:20
then I would film it and I would
25:22
probably show who allowed me in
25:26
for legal reasons
25:28
just to cover my own behind that I
25:31
wasn't going in there without permission
25:33
and then they
25:34
would probably get in trouble
25:36
so
25:37
that's basically my life on YouTube in a
25:40
nutshell these days
25:42
I just don't want to get anyone who
25:43
might not think is an issue
25:46
you know I sometimes I have to I don't
25:48
have to think for others but some people
25:50
don't realize
25:51
you know repercussions that might come
25:54
I just I just I said no
25:56
I probably gotta regret it
26:00
but yeah
26:01
that's what happened would love to see
26:03
what's left in there though
26:05
also
26:07
heavy rumor heavy rumor
26:11
from one of the couple different people
26:13
that I've just spoken to that's probably
26:15
like six or seven people on property
26:18
and talked to a few including the guy
26:20
they just drove by
26:21
and the other that made the offer this
26:24
might stay
26:26
this might be used by Advil because
26:28
there's a stage in there so this is a
26:31
small chance that this might remain
26:33
still look at all this Rubble
26:40
so they have kind of a sync crew in
26:40
there right now dismantling stuff but
26:42
the main construction crew is not here
26:44
today
26:54
TBN still owns this building also they
26:54
still have some offices in here they're
26:55
the ones that they're the ones that
26:58
owned holy land they also owned another
27:01
attraction and I think it was Costa Mesa
27:03
California that wasn't quite as
27:05
expansive
27:06
as this one but I went that one many
27:09
many years ago I think it's kind of near
27:10
one of the malls down in Orange County
27:12
Costa Mesa but that's been closed for
27:14
well not the mall but they're a TB in a
27:16
tray is called TBN their attraction
27:36
there's some pieces of Gates Right There
27:36
they used to stand right where kind of
27:38
where they're sitting at the moment
27:44
and uh electrical electrical boxes and
27:44
whatnot always fascinated by this place
27:46
and probably will continue to be
27:47
fascinated by this place
27:49
one of my you know I've visited
27:51
occasionally when I go through North
27:53
Carolina South Carolina right in the
27:55
North Carolina South Carolina line
27:58
I think it's just just below the South
28:00
Carolina line North Carolina above
28:01
Heritage USA Jim and Tammy Faye Baker's
28:05
Empire it was more of a theme park that
28:07
place far exceeded the expansiveness of
28:11
this place
28:12
but kind of you know in the same vein
28:14
religious theme park of sorts one here
28:17
in Florida
28:18
that no longer exists only just also
28:22
speed limit five miles an hour
28:25
it's weird this gate just wide open
28:31
like I said there's about a dozen well
28:31
sick half a dozen six workers in there a
28:33
couple different vehicles and workers
28:35
back in the back of the property
28:37
all right I'm gonna move on now
28:43
that's all this will all be torn out by
28:43
the time next time I come by and
28:45
see this but I wanted to stop in for one
28:47
last little update and yes I know that
28:49
would have been me 10 years ago 12 years
28:52
ago I'd have been all up in there
28:54
filming all of it showing everything
29:02
beagle fees community service
29:02
trespassing charges I speak from
29:04
experience
29:06
yeah I'm not messing with that
29:07
those days are over too old for that
29:09
crap odds on this satellite dish working
29:13
I don't know
29:16
this is the next little complex ever
29:17
where I parked my car
29:19
first time I ever saw a satellite dish I
29:21
was living in Niceville Florida and I
29:23
had a friend of a friend
29:25
that had one and they were I just
29:28
thought they were the most wealthy
29:29
people on earth when probably they were
29:30
just normal middle class I just had a
29:32
satellite dish
29:33
but they could just look up anything I
29:35
remember went over their house like what
29:37
do you want to watch
29:38
and I was like what what's on TV they go
29:40
oh no you tell us what you want to watch
29:42
and we will find it this is in like the
29:44
late 80s
29:46
and I said I wanted to see
29:49
the Disney movie Blackbeard's ghost
29:52
and they found it
29:53
on the satellite dish
30:00
they probably just they probably just
30:00
turned on Disney Channel but yeah yes
30:02
that's so that's my first thought of it
30:04
satellite dish love me some Blackbeard's
30:06
ghosts I love that era of live animation
30:09
or live action Disney look at these
30:12
picnic tables over here those two ducks
30:15
skip Adeline
30:28
or they're really driving the five mile
30:28
per hour thing home aren't they
30:39
brass field and gory
30:39
that's the name of the company
30:41
Brassfield gory
30:54
oh yeah there's more people back in
30:54
there now
30:55
it's like a bunch of yellow shirts
31:02
it's just more people on property than I
31:02
was thinking there was
31:04
a surveying the
31:06
the scenario
31:11
I'm gonna go buy another spot that I did
31:14
some you know updates in the past and
31:16
now it is completely leveled over on 535
31:19
where I was earlier
31:21
and
31:22
heavy rumor is what they were planning
31:25
to do is not gonna happen
31:32
they tore out you know 20 30 40
31:32
businesses to do what they said they
31:35
were going to do and now they're not
31:36
going to do it at least temporarily and
31:38
while I'm in this area swung by where
31:40
the former mystery fun house used to
31:43
have been
31:44
holy wow
31:47
this place is going vertical with
31:49
whatever's going to be here mystery
31:51
Funhouse was another thing I covered
31:53
very intensely over the last 10 12 years
31:56
I went in there many times when it was
31:58
open Roadside Attraction kind of similar
32:00
to the one I just showed had a big
32:02
wizard out front and I was here like a
32:05
week after they started demoing and they
32:07
still had the demo units out and now
32:09
they have the building units out
32:13
mystery fun house is completely gone no
32:16
longer even any remnants of what was
32:20
and I figured I might as well show that
32:21
too because it's kind of like former
32:23
roadside attractions that are gone now
32:32
the wizard was right over there
32:32
so wild
32:38
yeah sometimes I'm on the fence with
32:38
covering over covering things and maybe
32:41
doing updates every three or four or
32:43
five or twice a year updates on certain
32:44
things
32:45
but looking back on this stuff
32:48
I feel like I'm going to be grateful and
32:50
others might be grateful that I have
32:52
shown things through their progress of
32:54
closure
32:55
sitting empty being abandoned starting
32:59
demo and then being torn down completely
33:02
and then whatever goes in their place
33:04
things that are pieces of history for
33:07
people who you know it's a very touristy
33:09
spot and I have lived in this area since
33:11
91 my parents moved to site Cloud
33:13
Florida I moved with them we moved from
33:15
Oklahoma granted I have moved to a lot
33:17
of different places around Kissimmee and
33:19
Saint Cloud and now up in celebration I
33:21
have lived in California a number of
33:23
times for a few years here and there
33:25
but I have a lot of memories around this
33:27
area and I think a lot of other people
33:28
do too so
33:30
sometimes that's why I I will do updates
33:32
every few months on certain spots so
33:35
anyway that's my mentality
33:37
this was mystery fun house it's gone
33:39
I mean just look at how big this
33:41
building is where the wizard used to be
33:43
and the dinosaur mini golf
33:46
was the laser tag all of that
33:50
is gone
33:58
this was also on the property this was
33:58
around the back side of mystery fun
33:59
house this very unique art sculpture
34:02
that is still here
34:12
even on the weekend
34:12
quite an experience
34:14
I of course getting worse and worse and
34:16
worse I've seen the progress the whole
34:18
time I've been here
34:20
exit 68 which is the 535 exit you see
34:23
this fence
34:24
that's where all the businesses mini
34:26
golf courses
34:28
restaurants grocery stores from the
34:31
crossroads used to be and they're
34:33
supposed to put an off ramp there but
34:36
evidently that plan has hit some sort of
34:40
a loophole a red tape or a gray area
34:43
and now it's just sitting empty all the
34:45
businesses are gone but the off ramp to
34:49
heat congestion and slow down congestion
34:51
has not happened all the signage is gone
34:54
all the construction is gone
35:04
this was the main entrance here
35:04
not a construction crew out here at all
35:27
you see the entrance over there to Walt
35:27
Disney World Resort that's Hotel Drive
35:28
leads to Disney Springs
35:31
no one's obviously at the slide in fact
35:33
I'm parked right here in the middle of
35:34
the road where you would have gone
35:36
either left or right or over to Disney
35:40
Hotel Plaza Drive now it's just this
35:53
a couple car seats there people have
35:54
discarded there is oh my gosh this whole
35:57
used to be at Goodings over there
35:59
off in the distance way down there was a
36:01
miniature golf course Pirates Island
36:04
they cleaned house on this
36:08
other restaurant was right there there
36:10
was a Mickey D's
36:12
right over there
36:14
was a Soup Plantation Sweet Tomatoes
36:16
back over there where world of Mike and
36:18
I first had our first Hangout
36:21
got a lunch together in fact him and I
36:23
did an update here when they first
36:26
first announced they were going to start
36:27
tearing this out
36:32
what was said the rumor was that the
36:35
reason they were going to do that is to
36:36
take I-4 all that congestion over there
36:38
that bottlenecks is going to be cleaned
36:41
up because they were going to have it on
36:42
and off ramp here
36:45
but that's been put on hold this is a
36:47
massive
36:48
amount of property I mean it looked
36:49
really big when they had all the
36:51
restaurants and the grocery store and
36:54
the attractions in here
36:56
but you can really see just how
36:58
expansive this property is
37:05
back over in celebration now this is the
37:06
first time I've seen both of these two
37:07
classic cars side by side usually
37:10
they're kind of spaced out a little bit
37:12
this 1931 this is like used to promote
37:14
the bike rental thing here
37:16
the bike rentals over there they call
37:18
them like bike taxis
37:21
this one always reminds me of the Mr
37:22
Toad Mr Toad car
37:25
you see Jay Thaddeus cruising around
37:27
celebration in that thing I think they
37:29
have a good Halloween costume I could
37:30
dress up as Jay Thaddeus toad maybe rent
37:32
that if they rent that out
37:34
I don't know if they do rent it out but
37:46
I want to drive this thing around
37:46
celebration
37:48
is that possible this turned out to be a
37:50
really nice day look how many people are
37:51
walking along the back side of the lake
37:53
the lakefront here the Lakeside the back
37:55
not the lakefront but the lake back
37:57
how the lakefront would be like you know
38:00
over that way but there's a lot of
38:01
people out walking around the lake doing
38:02
the loop
38:04
I was like this angle here
38:06
looking over back down Market Street and
38:09
the theater and the celebration Hotel
38:12
see they have
38:14
gotten rid of the little bear case and
38:15
all that and then all the
38:20
Farmer's Market flea and farmers market
38:20
and veggie Market Art Market
38:25
has been put away
38:32
there's market right there which is
38:32
pretty much you know that's like
38:34
celebrations Main Street USA
38:37
kind of modeled like traditional
38:39
old-time Americana town
38:51
I love it here definitely turned out to
38:51
be a very beautiful late afternoon
38:54
nice day
39:07
also I'm getting used to having glasses
39:07
again I have high glasses like the last
39:09
10 days 12 days just pops up last night
39:30
yes Wendy
39:32
Howard the Duck over there just bouncing
39:35
around it's a decoy duck Centerville
39:38
duck
39:59
seeing a little wake on the on the lake
39:59
here that's a rarity oh wow
40:08
disgusting yeah you don't see much chop
40:08
on this Lake ever this is a rarity
40:23
I love walking around this Lake and do
40:23
it all the time
40:25
this is always kind of an interesting
40:26
thing for me too I mean this is like
40:28
this is something I noticed because I'm
40:29
a local and I'm always down here but
40:31
over here on Lake Ryan hard there's a
40:32
little placard here that designates a
40:34
name of the lake and there's always a
40:37
sign here that says do not feed the
40:38
Gators
40:39
and sometimes it's here sometimes it's
40:41
not today it's not usually it's like
40:43
stuck right here down here at the bottom
40:45
of the stairs
40:46
also I haven't seen a gator in a while
40:49
but there's a local fisherman who's out
40:50
here yeah pretty pretty consistently
40:52
three or four times a week and I'll talk
40:54
to him I'll chat about with him
40:55
occasionally and I asked him the other
40:57
day have you seen any Gators oh yeah
40:58
I've seen three or four Gators so I
41:01
don't know if they removed some of the
41:02
other Gators or maybe if they just
41:04
fluctuated over to the other lakes on
41:05
the other side of the walking path over
41:07
there but evidently the Gators are back
41:09
so I'm going to keep a keen eye out for
41:11
the Gators cool
41:13
is one of the names of my friend Daphne
41:16
gave the gator last time she was here
41:17
visiting so hopefully I see cool
41:22
again at some point
41:24
I mean I've been gone a lot so I haven't
41:25
really time to have time to kind of look
41:27
around for the Gators but
41:29
it'd be kind of nice if I could see the
41:30
Gators out here I like them when they're
41:31
out here
41:32
I mean I can understand the reasoning on
41:34
why
41:35
they might not want them here but yeah
41:39
all right that's gonna do it for today
41:41
thanks for watching
41:43
ending this here in downtown celebration
41:45
on Market Street kind of where I began
41:47
it
41:48
I'll see you the next video the Vlog
41:51
is
41:53
as this car turns
41:55
Clear View down Market Street
41:58
the Vlog
41:59
the last day of April
42:05
that was a climactic ending that person
42:05
riding by the Vlog
42:07
is over