A Day In Dana Point & Mission San Juan Capistrano - The First Taco Bell Sits Empty In Parking Lot
Southern California Fun September 2022
Transcript
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welcome everyone
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adam the woo here has a recording of
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this september 14th
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wednesday
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2022.
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i am walking down the street where i
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parked
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down the way here in san juan capistrano
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california a very beautiful area
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and heading over to a coffee shop that i
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could not find parking at so i had to
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park a few blocks away
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but i don't mind because this
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is very scenic
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but no matter where my paths lead i'm
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inviting you to join me
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shall you
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also noticing this here
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the combs home is right next to the
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railroad tracks also the mission is over
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here and there's this little cottage
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over here as well
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should also mention i met up with my
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friend tom
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who was kind of familiar with this area
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is that the word is that that's when i
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did um that's the viewers
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the baseball game they call them the
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woozies i call them woozies and they
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seem to
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grasp is it caught on yes it's caught on
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even little cindy lou wu out there
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adam are you stealing our christmas tree
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well i know honey i'm
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just kind of going around san juan
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capistrano so this really is a secret
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coffee shop because i would have never
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known this little it's called hidden
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house because it's actually hidden it's
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sort of literally hidden it really is
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hidden
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you've ever had coffee here before i
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have okay this is the los rios district
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okay of uh san juan capistrano
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or in english st john
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st john
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capistrano okay
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but um yeah do you know what you know
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what corpus christi christie means i
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learned this from my dad who was a
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member of christ what are you your dad
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was a minister and how old are you 22
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and you don't know what corpus christi
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means
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sorry i have one thing to say
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here now you know what it is
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i didn't know until a couple of years a
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minister yes your whole life yes your
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entire life yes
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and adam's life so what does corpus
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christi mean i didn't think i
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i should have never brought it up
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tomorrow i'm three years old
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other than that time in the punk band
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you should have been learning i should
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have been but i know it now
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so are these the gentlemen that used to
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live here yeah so the lower one is my
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head shot that's that's
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that's you huh that yes all right let me
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get a little zoom in here no these these
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are of course this is a very historic
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district yes here in san juan capistrano
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and these are part of it look i mean
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look at that
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have you i mean you've taken a lot of
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photography of yourself as have i
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because i've been in in um the
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entertainment industry i do not have one
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shot of me that looks that cool that is
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pretty cool and you know it's a it's a
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good vibe out here when you got these
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little birdies all around i was going to
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show my
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hidden house coffee too because they put
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a little heart on the top of my vanilla
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latte
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you got tea though
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this is just a just a regular tea
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regular so hard darkness they just make
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it black you're not a coffee guy i'm not
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a coffee guy okay my wife will say
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i think they gave me hot chocolate try
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this is this hot chocolate and it's
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coffee
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she pulls it and then
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the taste buds are wrecked even if
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they're two days even if they make a
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little heart on the top of it you're
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still not tempted my parents my mom my
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mom and dad were
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coffee addicts you know early in the
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morning pot of coffee like folgers
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maxwell house days
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yeah that's part of waking up best part
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no that's full just
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good to the last drop good to the last
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drop so they would they would start the
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coffee early and i mean coffee through
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the day
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and uh i've got two brothers and two
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sisters and
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we're all tea people
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and i have really no reason it's just
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like coffee yeah i just
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didn't like it and i like now you like
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tea hot cup of tea nice i've done this
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house here so you would just set up your
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your easel and stuff here this is my
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plate right here
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in the shade of this uh
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what is the phoenix palm i think this is
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i think that's the name of this kind of
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pond
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and those are pepper trees i'm trying to
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learn all the the trees and things just
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to do it you just set up here in the
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shade and then you look at this i mean
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that's really a historic little house
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but look at all the the beautiful cacti
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how the light hits it the palm trees
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and that that bush
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that bush was so such
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so dark at the bottom see and then the
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soap green that changes
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into the color of the flowers
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um
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i know it's boring to many but it's very
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challenging to paint
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so when you paint do you take anything
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home with you or do you just sit here
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and paint the entirety of it sitting
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right here oh i i've come back twice
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here
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to finish the painting and sometimes
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i'll come back three times
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and would you ever take would you ever
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snap a photo and then paint off the
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photo or you have to i do i do i do both
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things i do both things and i think
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most artists do sometimes you can this
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is a if you're making a very intricate
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painting of everything here i try to be
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what painters would call a little looser
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a little more
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artistic license with it
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with uh with the colors and shapes right
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yeah it's just a beautiful day so you're
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out here in the day you're under the
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beautiful palm tree you're you're
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you're doing this work in your mind it's
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it's a wonderful
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it's like advanced sudoku you know
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because you're playing with colors
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and shapes
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the values of the glow how dark is that
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pink there's a kind of a purple in that
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bush in the shade all of those things
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that are going on like this so
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to me it's a great great puzzle to try
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to solve and then at the end you have a
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prize
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you have the painting which which to me
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is usually about
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the paintings to me when i look at them
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i mean they're lovely to look at but
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really my paintings to me remind me of
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that day and that experience sure and
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the difficulties of painting that bush
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and all of those things right which
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gives it a richness it's the memory of
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what you were it's the memory of the
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doing of it right and most art for me
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is about the doing of it sure you know
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what i mean i mean it's really even
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acting acting is a there's nothing it's
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you can watch any movie or the tv show
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and okay it's a story and everything but
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that feeling of being across from you
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and actually for a moment
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we're doing a magic trick
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to everyone and for a moment
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it feels real to everyone
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and then you stop
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like the tada moment is like what just
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happened wow yeah that i mean
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i'm being all all grand and dramatic
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about it but that's the feeling
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of creativity
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not the going to the screening and just
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standing there and just showing
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everybody the movie and just say what
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did you think well what did you think of
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me i was particularly brilliant that's
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that's you know it's it's the making
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thing
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is the thing like you do you do you get
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more satisfaction
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in watching your video at the end
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or in
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making this in in this in what we're
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doing now it's and it's in the doing
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it's in the difference it's in the doing
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and then when i look back people say oh
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i remember that video that you did i
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remember what i did between the tanks
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exactly more than what's in the editor
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exactly the product people say oh and
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what did you think of that scene in that
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movie or whatever i said you know when i
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look at the movie
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i'm sort of looking at one of these
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videos i'm looking at oh that time
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remember that hotel we were in
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with and they had a pizza place like two
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blocks away from where we were shooting
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so that's all the things that i think of
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um when i'm when i'm watching absolutely
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you know
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i've never made a movie but you know i
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make a little time isn't it isn't the
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time also what do you think of my
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sunglasses do you like this i look like
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tom cruise
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maverick tropica i've never worn
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anything i loved you in war of the
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worlds
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thank you oh i thought you were tom
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cruise for a second i didn't love tom
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cruise and more than nothing personal i
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did i didn't see it yeah i didn't best
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perform i didn't see it i don't watch
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things
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you don't watch anything i really i
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watch very little
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besides the dodgers on baseball games i
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watch dodgers baseball i watch um
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what did i watch
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up like a movie yeah what's the last
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thing you put on like netflix or disney
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plus or blu-ray or
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my wife and i watch the thing about
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whales
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i like nature like nature stuff
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documentaries about the about whales the
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different species of whales all it's
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absolutely fascinating fascinating
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like whales have a song that literally
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this song goes all around the world
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within like
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an alarming amount of time like within a
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day or something all of the whales have
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communicated to all the whales around
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the world they can all hear each other
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well they they it's the vibration
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whisper down the lane i guess for women
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oh gotcha okay so they must they must
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get it wrong by the time you're in
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iceland the song must be wrong but no
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right it's not
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the story the story yeah yeah mambo to
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the banana patch on sunday no
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and it's then it's and then all the
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whales laugh they come together and what
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did you hear bob
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um but we watch him
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so no movies just watch nature stuff
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yeah you ever watch your own movies have
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you ever seen a movie you were in
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i've watched i've watched the back to
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the future movies okay yeah um i was the
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only ones there nothing else here i i
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said look paul newman big big movie star
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never watched himself
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i
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watched him packaging
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never i watched the futures i've watched
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a couple of things and then i just
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stopped because you just you're just so
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you're busy doing something else
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yes you're busy doing something else but
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all of us are very tough on ourselves
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are you tough on yourself if you're
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already watching i'm my worst critic
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right and i'm like i'm filming this
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right now and i'm thinking do i look
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okay in this actors generally are crazy
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perfectionists unless you know you've
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got the kid who's you know got the six
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pack and he's all looking good and he
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goes around i love looking at myself but
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generally if you're an actor and you're
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doing a scene
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always you finish the scene and then on
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the way
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to lunch you think i forgot to do the
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thing about them oh i wanted to do that
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when i go to the piano or whatever it is
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right whatever little thing it is and
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then you're watching the movie
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and you're so i'm such a a
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crazy
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perfectionist that there is like if it's
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if i believe that it's absolutely
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fantastic genius that is acceptable
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you know what i mean so my
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my lever is just just broken on on
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the quality of my work because i'm just
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too tough on myself okay
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i understand but everybody's like that
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right everybody records their their
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outgoing recording on the phone yeah
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listens to it back and says that's true
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my voice can't possibly sound like that
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oh my gosh i've been talking like this
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the whole last 40 years or whatever it
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is so we're all very tough on ourselves
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that 10
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judging oh i hope this looks good and i
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hope that i like the way this came out i
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just you know swing for the fences do
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the best you can and then forget it now
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their slogan is quote worth a visit this
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was founded back
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1776.
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i don't know if i've ever been in here i
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might have been in here once but i don't
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recall
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that is amazing how they all have ants
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are amazing they have all the food in
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their mouths
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it's kind of deserty around here it's
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it's it's dry
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and uh a sandy beard so boy
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there are a lot of ants everywhere yeah
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but these bells are still there the
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mission bells
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i don't see them where are you looking
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well you want to come here are you you
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want to go up this way yeah all right
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to be honest i don't think i've ever
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been in here
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are you ever forgetful like that where
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you don't remember where you've been
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where you haven't been
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oh my god
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i was back doing stand-up comedy i
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you know i worked with people for a week
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and then i say nice to meet you and see
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we work together in omaha for like two
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weeks
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oh oh yeah
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this is beautiful you said they rebuilt
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this once or twice and then it got
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destroyed again we'll go around this
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corner and you'll see what i mean but
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here are the mission bells oh there they
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are yeah
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1776 bells
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and sometimes they ring here
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usually for um
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historic events
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wow that's awesome
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and it was commemorated by president
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nixon
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because he used to live in this area in
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fact his favorite mexican restaurant is
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like a block away from here because this
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is the original
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that's the original portion of the yeah
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the original what are they called the
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apps i believe
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i'm probably wrong but that is the
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original chapel of the mission
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no kidding
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yeah they're setting up for some sort of
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a concert or something they got the well
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go right in here adam just just a foot
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in and i'll wrestle the guy to the
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ground if we get in trouble okay but
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because you can see the little alcoves
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they go three up in the back of that
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that dome
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and there would be candles
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in all of the out alcoves in the back
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and the altar would be right there this
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is the original 1776
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um so all the way up all three of those
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little all the way up there will be
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candles and at christmas time
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they put i mean electronic cans but they
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put candles in there so all of that
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inside of that old
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church
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is lit up and they have a christmas tree
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out here it's very beautiful
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look at that whole window up there yeah
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two more bells over there
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can't go any farther than this they're
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having a fundraiser some a mission they
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try to you know
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so it's a big fancy schmancy uh
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dinner and dance that they have with
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music up there and they put the tables
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out
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got the lily pads down in here
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now todd just told me something very
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interesting that the missions back in
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the day were built every 20 or 30 miles
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from way south down here all the way to
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san francisco
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that way
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they could travel in a day's walk
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from one mission to the next
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so they're all the way up through still
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in california there are there are bells
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and on the bella would say el camino
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real you know like the true way right so
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that is the route
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that the the priests and the
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workers and everyone would take to to go
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from mission to mission so literally
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those trails became say
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ventura boulevard or something yeah and
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it will have a bell on it this is el
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camino real that means this is a main
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road here so
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real means the true way yeah and what
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does corpus christi mean uh body of
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christ
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i know what that noise was
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the original south wing foundation this
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is what you were telling me about the
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earthquake
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kind of tough to see down in there with
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the glare but
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the original four tiles dating back to
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1790.
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so the mission was secularized in 1834
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it means it was no longer part of its
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original religion
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it's been it's been actually
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it's been through a lot like wars
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attacks literally from ships coming in
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to what's what is now dana point i'll
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show you that if you want yeah
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so i've always heard my parents use the
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word you know secular meaning
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non-christian non-religious right yeah
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worldly yes that's what that's referring
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to right yes well yeah
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i look i'm not a historian of california
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but i know that there were ranchers
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and
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cattle in this area and that was the
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trade in the early 1800s and mid-1800s
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around around southern california
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this has probably been painted many
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times probably without the trash cans
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there but
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i would paint in the trash can you would
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paint the trash cans though
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now if you were to paint would you put
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in the foreground would you put this
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pole or would you just admit the pole
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and do that no you some people like the
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foreground exactly well if you look over
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there a lot of people like this shot
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let's come over toward this wall okay
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they love
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how this light and dark comes yeah
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looking through so you have all the
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arches it's a challenge to draw all
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those arches the joshua
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joshua was the tribe that lived
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back in the 17 1800s so you would
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probably paint it from here you could
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paint it from here
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some of the original foundations here as
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well
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they had an excavation in 1935 i
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unearthed this stuff
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these cooking pots
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they unearthed these back in
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1935
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mission products were made tallow
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cooking stoves
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wow i've never been in here yeah this is
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amazing all the
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work behind here stepping back outside
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john o'sullivan was the pastor of the
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old mission 1910-1933
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this is not for for um
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for monsignor or sullivan that's not
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this is for uh the people
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uh the poor
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the native people
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the uh
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the the priest the sister everyone who
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died
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in the around building of the mission
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itself this is a monument to them
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water in the plants and stuff i'm gonna
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go into this little alcove
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you're a catholic i
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congratulations is that how it works
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welcome i don't think so
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welcome to the fold
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across the way is the trading post which
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says
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capistrano home of the swallows you
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don't know that swallows
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no
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really there's a song migrating swallows
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migrate south and then in the spring
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they come back and it's very famous and
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there's a swallow big celebration over
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at the mission and everything but they
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come back in much much smaller numbers
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they come i mean i see them you can see
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little groups of swallows because they
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they really they're like ferraris of the
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air they just use all right made it over
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to dana point now
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and what i thought was a pirate ship is
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not a pirate ship
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you're saying that's the that's called
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the spirit of dana point and it's great
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that you're here because it just came
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back it was
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it's very very it's a wooden boat too
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i think that um
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a two-masted brig
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it's close to a model
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of a ship called the pilgrim
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that richard dana sailed in here and
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okay about 1830. so dana is pretty sure
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yeah richard dana wrote a book called
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two years before the mast
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which is actually an excellent book that
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people should read if you want to like
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early california history but he was a
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harvard student
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wanted an adventure
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and went out on a trade ship
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that was like the amazing thing of these
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ships is
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when you look at it these things went
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around the world like trading and
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everything look at how kind of small it
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is yeah comparatively and you're
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going everywhere around the capes and
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you know covered with ice i mean it's
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really really something because this is
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the shipwright's house
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right here oh yeah where they inside
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there they they work on a lot of wooden
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ships that come in here to be repaired
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what a view to be up there huh yeah the
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thing the ships would come into this
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harbor
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and um it's so rocky around where the
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creek goes out to the ocean that you
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couldn't get wagons down here
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and the trade like i told you the trade
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was in leather in steer hides
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so they would literally they would take
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the wagons full of steer hides to the
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top of those cliffs
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and the guys would take a steer height
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at a time and literally throw them off
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the top like frisbees
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and they would land down on the beach
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here right and then other sailors would
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collect them put them on the ship and
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then sail away wow and richard dana
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wrote about in two years before the
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masters book wrote about being you know
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a lot of the steer hides would get stuck
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in the trees and bushes or fly back into
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the surface of the cliff itself
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and they put a rope around them he was a
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young athletic guy just lower down there
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lower him lowering him from the cliff
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to get the steer hides okay throw them
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down to fill the ship amazing
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things are a lot easier now a lot easier
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he wrote a book called two years before
22:46
the mass where he talked about this
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adventure and i mean it risks your life
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it's very
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very hard work
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incredibly dangerous but he made it home
22:57
he made it home to massachusetts he
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actually became like the attorney
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general of massachusetts and and
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with the profits of his book his book
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was hugely popular he was a superstar
23:08
and with the profits of the book he made
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a fund to help old sailors
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had no money no retirement so there's a
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there's a monument to richard dana here
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here in the harbor
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but the funny thing he became famous
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and then uh
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20 years later he wrote another book he
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came back to california
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and he was everyone knew who he was
23:34
just from the book yep and he said and
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he's it's the 1850s and he said
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southern california was like a ghost
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town it was there was no trade going out
23:43
of it the buildings were crumbling
23:45
nobody was here because of the gold rush
23:48
everyone left in the 1850s
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people thought
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southern california is finished
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nobody's even there
23:56
and he went up to the cliffs he writes
23:58
it beautifully in this book
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20 years later i forget the name of that
24:03
book but he's sitting up on these cliffs
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and he's looking out at the harbor
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at all these dilapidated houses and not
24:10
much little scraps of leather around
24:13
and he said he got so sad
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because he was an older man he's famous
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he's rich now he's famous
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he was an older man but he said he would
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have given anything
24:23
to be there with his friends with them
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lowering them down on the rope and doing
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all these dangerous adventurous things
24:30
you know just saying that that that was
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like this
24:33
the sap of my life you know was in the
24:36
danger and sailing around the world and
24:38
with the you know i mean all those the
24:41
sailing shanties and the guys pulling
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the rope all that stuff was so
24:45
precious to him that's what he remembers
24:46
more than being rich and famous and
24:48
popular
24:58
so is this technically the point out
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here no
25:00
that's not the point
25:01
that's the field that's the point
25:13
wow look at those waves crashing against
25:13
the water sorry it's not a really
25:14
beautiful day for you it's amazing
25:16
you're kidding me
25:24
wow look at those waves
25:24
there's a big surfing spot then
25:26
no this was well now tom the boring
25:29
historian again
25:30
this surfing well first of all down this
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way
25:37
that is doheny state beach down there
25:37
that's the harbor down there's doheny
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state beach with all the beach boys
25:40
songs down below doheny way everybody's
25:43
gone circle all that stuff down there
25:45
that's down there okay but this
25:48
this was a surf spot called killer dana
25:51
killer
25:52
because there was a lot of rocks as you
25:54
see there are a lot of rocks but that
25:56
point makes great waves as you see there
26:00
yeah so in 1966
26:04
they needed to uh more room for boats
26:07
they needed more harbor
26:09
so they actually
26:11
sort of wrecked the killer dana surf
26:13
spot in order to build all this
26:16
i mean this whole
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water break
26:19
all the new boats
26:29
oh yeah you can't walk past that
26:29
the sign that says danger hi sir
26:33
look at this
26:34
wow
26:35
i was just questioned or just asked a
26:38
question what is the most famous voyage
26:40
not richard dana
26:42
a different voyage out of dana point
26:46
to ever
26:47
depart from dana point harbor
26:50
to ever depart from dana point harbor no
26:52
kidding
26:53
oh what
26:54
you have you have hold on yeah yeah it
26:56
was it must be a three hour tour that's
26:59
it he got it
27:01
the minnow the filming locations right
27:02
the minnow yes literally left from dana
27:05
point harbor how do they know that
27:07
three-hour tour gilligan the skipper
27:10
the millionaire his wife the movie star
27:13
the professor professor and married now
27:15
in the first when the show was first on
27:17
the song was literally
27:18
um the movie star and the rest that's
27:22
why you know that i didn't know like two
27:23
more people and then they actually
27:25
changed the professor and mary and yeah
27:28
interesting so the minnow
27:31
right out of there
27:33
so we when you watch the show they pull
27:35
out of here yep and and it gave so many
27:38
comedians so much material
27:40
there's so much gilligan's island stand
27:43
up is there oh yeah
27:45
the professor can make a radio out of a
27:47
coconut he can't fix a one foot hole in
27:49
the boat how about glue professor but uh
27:53
that's a million guys with microphones
27:55
in front of a brick wall yeah
27:57
did you ever do a gilligan island joke i
27:59
never did i never did you were imitating
28:01
someone else bob saget used to sing the
28:03
entire song and did a beauty and he had
28:07
the gilligan's island chunk literally on
28:09
the guitar singing the entire song
28:12
commenting on all the characters so he
28:14
had i mean we're talking very early i
28:16
met bob when i was like
28:17
19 years old
28:20
and bob had the big gilligan's island
28:21
chuck so you couldn't go near guilin
28:24
i never knew bob saget played the guitar
28:26
and sang
28:27
i never knew that you're not familiar
28:29
with it like 1979
28:31
1980 okay bob had
28:35
bob had a whole contraption
28:37
where he would sing seriously my guitar
28:40
gently weeps okay why am i going to try
28:42
to compete why
28:47
and with his left hand he would squeeze
28:48
this thing and water would start pouring
28:50
out the bottom of the guitar
28:53
guitar would be literally weeping
28:55
that's a bob saget early early bob
28:58
second okay
28:59
i learned something new all the time
29:01
every time i'm with you yeah dennis
29:02
miller was a prop comic yeah wow and he
29:06
had a he had a like a board a cardboard
29:08
thing with
29:09
um like
29:11
juicy fruit gum
29:12
right
29:13
juji fruit the right gummy kim yeah and
29:17
uh and jujubes the really hard ones the
29:19
little hard ones
29:21
and you just go like hey just to get
29:23
this straight everybody juicy fruit
29:27
juice fruit
29:28
jujube
29:31
let's get it straight something like
29:32
that i mean it was but we were very very
29:35
young guys pretty good dennis miller
29:37
even did the little mouth thing hey hey
29:39
wait hey i don't know anybody who's just
29:42
nobody calls me like tito or whatever
29:45
now i haven't seen dennis in a while but
29:46
i mean dennis you see him tito the t-man
29:50
making it happen
29:52
yeah you know when people see you and
29:55
they go hey hey woo baby how's it what
29:59
what's happening with you
30:00
you're like i don't everybody just calls
30:02
me tom pretty much
30:04
dennis i don't but i hear a lot of
30:05
people
30:07
man
30:40
yeah i realized probably not the safest
30:40
place that was a small one that was a
30:42
small one
30:44
it comes all the way up here
30:46
oh guys are always taking their cute
30:48
expensive cameras put them right here
30:50
right down there you know um
30:52
watch out what's up buddy i think it
30:55
just blasted
30:57
and just just shows the general layout
30:59
of the land so we're here
31:01
you got dana point and then you kind of
31:02
go northbound go up past salt creek
31:05
beach mussel bay laguna and then laguna
31:08
beach
31:09
and then keep going way up the coast you
31:11
get into like santa monica venice way
31:13
way up here
31:14
i have now made the commute up to irvine
31:17
from where i just was
31:19
to the taco bell headquarters
31:22
and i'm around the side parking lot of
31:24
the taco bell headquarters located at
31:26
one glen bell way
31:32
and this building
31:32
that you're looking at right here just
31:33
so happens to be the very very first
31:37
taco bell in existence it all began
31:40
inside
31:42
these walls
31:43
this used to be over in downey it was
31:45
moved to irvine back in 2016
31:48
and i covered it before it was moved
31:50
from its original location
31:52
and then i also came back here
31:54
months later and it was
31:56
shrink wrapped around
31:58
and was completely engulfed
32:01
in shrink wrap you could not see it
32:03
however
32:04
passing by this i noticed from the
32:06
freeway which runs parallel to taco bell
32:08
headquarters
32:10
that you could see it from the road so i
32:12
drove into the property down
32:15
this little turn in next to the parking
32:17
garage
32:18
and it's just sitting here
32:20
in the empty parking lot
32:22
all by its lonesome not on display no
32:26
placard no information
32:28
other than the fact that it says taco
32:30
bell across the top
32:33
myself included
32:34
anyone
32:36
who has ever eaten a taco bell which i
32:37
would say
32:38
kind of have to be living under a rock
32:40
to not at least try to talk about once
32:42
one of the biggest fast food franchises
32:45
in history
32:47
here in the us started here in southern
32:49
california
32:51
and this is the freaking building
32:53
sitting here
32:54
i'm amazed that it is not
32:58
in a museum to quote indiana jones this
33:00
belongs
33:01
in a museum
33:03
you see the textbook architecture of
33:05
what the taco bells looked like back
33:06
then
33:08
with the little archways here
33:12
going up and over
33:17
sitting on top of these little pylon
33:17
wooden pylons
33:28
an amazing piece of fast food history
33:28
just sitting here next to the freeway
33:31
incredible
33:37
they move this in the middle of the
33:37
night
34:00
there's the parking there
34:00
and if you just go around the building
34:01
itself i pulled in over this way
34:07
it was a pretty good day but i wanted to
34:08
swing by this on the way back to my
34:09
hotel
34:10
i'm staying up in buena park i have been
34:13
for the last week or so and i'm here for
34:14
a few more days before leaving town
34:17
at least a few more days maybe even a
34:18
little longer well that's gonna do it
34:20
for today
34:22
i'll see the next video
34:24
the vlog i know i kind of just kind of
34:26
bookended this video with this but this
34:28
was too important not to show
34:30
the vlog
34:32
it's over