A Sunday In Boise Idaho At Hyde Park Street Fair - Freak Art Alley & The Record Exchange
Boise Idaho
Transcript
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Welcome everyone. Adam the Woo here as
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the recording of this Sunday, September
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14th, 2025. I'm standing at this
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alleyway across from Camels Back Park.
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No smoking is allowed here next to this
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fence.
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Not sure about over there in the park
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itself. Hyde Park, I believe is the name
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of it. My sister's here.
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>> Yep. Hide Park Street Fair.
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>> Hide Park Street Fair at Camel Back
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Park.
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>> Yeah, I guess that's called the Camel
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Back Ridge or something. A little
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mountain range over there is Camelback
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Ridge,
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>> I guess.
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>> Yeah, it's pretty pretty beautiful. Very
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overcast day today. Well, slightly
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overcast day today. I'm getting like bit
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by like biting flies or mosquitoes or
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something out here. I've noticed there
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are a lot of flies.
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>> There's a lot of flies
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>> in Boisey. Not to be pronounced Boise,
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but Boisey. But I think I either one is
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probably totally fine. So, we're going
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to try some street food. Well, some some
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food from the fair. Not a fair. What's
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it called?
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>> Street fair.
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>> Street fair. A street fair food. Food
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food trucks. Entertainment about a mile
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from downtown. I am getting eat.
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Maybe they're over here by this. Maybe
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they want to smoke.
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All right, let's have ourselves a day.
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No game plan.
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Just hanging out with my sister enjoying
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some Boisey, Idaho.
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street fair stuff and then maybe grab an
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Uber over to downtown a little bit
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later. Join me and my sister, shall you?
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This is the city of trees, I think, is
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the name of this town. But look, there's
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a lot of bikes here. I like these little
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carts here where you can have the, you
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know, someone else or maybe your child
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in the little side car. Take a look at
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this one. There's like a That's pretty
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kind of a unique setup, right? The
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busiest line of the day so far is the
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coffee line. I'm liking the fact that it
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is a little overcast. Not a lot of
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clouds in the sky. So, well, at the
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moment anyway. There's a little clearing
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here, so it might might clear up as the
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day goes on. Kind of nice. Lots of
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vendors, street vendors out here. The
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Hide Park Street Fair.
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The scenic beauty of the mountains. You
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have people hiking up to the top of this
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little hillside right over here.
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It looks like there's even like a stage.
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Maybe there's going to be some
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entertainment.
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And once the line diminishes a little
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bit, I'll grab a cup of Joe. This is an
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Explore Idaho booth
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over here. You got all these little
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t-shirts
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and things.
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Here's the state layout of the state.
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Bigfoots everywhere.
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Look at that.
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Frank Church, River of No Return,
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Wilderness,
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City of Rocks,
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Oak Turkey Legs. You know, fun fact, I'm
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a big Disney adult, obviously, and
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Disney is known for their turkey legs. I
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have never had a turkey leg, even at
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Disney, the Disney parks right here.
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Maybe one day. Yeah, there's a lot of
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vendors out here.
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>> They want ice cream.
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At 10:20 a.m., this booth has some
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little inspirational type things or just
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little statements. Smart mouth. You can
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do anything. Failure is still progress.
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You are amaz you are an amazing badass.
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>> Boy, Idaho.
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>> Boisey high life. Trying not to say
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Boise
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even though I think both is uh
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appropriate.
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Interesting shirts here. This one on the
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end was the one you're looking at.
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I like this sticker here. You make me
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You make me so happy. Nice buns. You're
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phenomenal.
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I've noticed, you know, just going to a
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lot of Oh, see, look at all the flies.
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There's flies there, flies there. I've
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noticed a lot of vendors now kind of
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have the like half kind of runchy double
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entandra shirts. This is kind of kind of
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cool, though. But I've just noticed that
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over the years that a lot of a lot of
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places are leaning towards like comical.
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That's cool.
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That's a That's definitely a uh piping
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hot caffeinated beverage there.
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>> Yeah, it went really well.
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>> These are neat. Obviously, I could take
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this back with me on a plane, but really
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cool,
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you know, really cool little yard art
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here. Look at the giraffe here on a
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tricycle
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going around,
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>> chickens, owls,
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bicycle
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studio sacred. They're doing a sound
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bath.
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>> I know what they call sound bath therapy
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kind of thing.
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>> Interesting.
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>> Sound bath therapy. A healing sanctuary
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and event space inside this little dome.
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Got the Wind Dreamer Chimes area over
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here with some forks and spoons on here.
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You got some turtles dangling from this
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here. These are very nice.
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This is a It's like a tea kettle coffee
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pot here.
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>> Right there.
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>> There's another one. Another kettle.
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>> Oh my gosh. Look at this.
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>> Jeff Daniels the pooping scene from Dumb
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and Dummer.
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You got Pulp Fiction obviously.
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Oh, this cat eating the ramen. He's
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having like the best time ever.
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>> Definitely a theme of going number two
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over here. So, you got
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>> Come on in.
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>> You know, check out the signs, $2
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magnets.
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>> You got Jeff Daniels there.
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>> Tickets to the show.
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>> You got
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you got the Sasquatch.
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Check this out. Winning in Idaho. You
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got the
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potato pooping out some fries. And then
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the one thing that doesn't fit in with
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all of this
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is Jesus walking with the lamb. Being a
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shepherd to men, you could be just like
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Clint Eastwood.
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I like this hat. An alpaca wool hat.
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That thing
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do love a good hat.
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This is nice, too.
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Now, this is a Jeep right here.
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See? Jeep. And on the steering wheel,
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they got some rubber chickens. Look.
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>> That's their horn.
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>> Is that the horn?
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>> Yeah.
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the way.
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>> Nice.
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>> Coming through. Jeep coming through.
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>> Thank you.
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>> That's what I need for Mini Marge.
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>> Some chickens for a horn.
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>> All right, I just walked past this and
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they have this melted extreme grilled
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cheese stand. And what they were making
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looks so good. I think I'm going to get
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one.
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Free samples of housemade chips bucket
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here.
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>> How are they?
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>> Good.
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>> Getting What am I getting?
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Get this.
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>> How's it going?
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>> Oh, I don't think that's fine. Extreme.
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These are all the different options
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here. This is the one I'm getting.
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Mozzarella cheese, basil, pesto, salmon
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glaze, grilled tomatoes.
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And this
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is what we're dealing with. This is the
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Caprii, not Caprice.
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Caprice is a car,
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but my sister, like myself, thought it
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was pronounced Caprice, but it's not. We
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heard them pronounce it a different way.
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Want a slice of that to have a grilled
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cheese?
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This is what happens when the coffee
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line is so long. Just get a grilled
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cheese instead.
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Show the inside of it.
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cheese pork.
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>> Oh. Oh,
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>> Heard a pretty good amount of thunder
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and saw some lightning off in the
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distance as we were finishing up our
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grilled cheese. So, we'll see how that
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ends up escalating the situation out
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here. Idaho Credit Union has a money
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machine. Look all this money.
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They got so much money. It's just
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fluttering around in there like a
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tornado.
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All these flies.
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Look at this congregation of flies.
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I think we're getting ready to take the
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money machine down because of the
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weather. Oh, they're turning it off. Oh,
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the money has run dry.
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Yep. Because the inclement weather
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rolling in. We're taking the the money
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machine down. That's the way to do it.
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You guys got the right idea underneath
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the table there.
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>> Coming down again. We got to pick a
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booth to do some shopping at. How about
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we go over? Oh, how about over here?
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>> Nowhere.
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>> This is the best way to get impulse
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buys.
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>> Great.
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adult juice pouches.
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Yeah. See, everything's got the little
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clever settings now. They're like kind
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of runchy clever settings. Look at this.
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>> Yeah. Look at that brass knuckles.
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Plastic plastic brass knuckles on the
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side of it.
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>> Wands over here.
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>> Luna wand.
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>> I will. This isn't good.
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>> Magic wands.
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>> That's how me and Liam got ours.
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>> I have mine already.
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>> I don't know how it works. I don't know
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what to do.
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>> Teach him.
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>> Yeah. You don't have to do anything. If
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something looks interesting, pick it up.
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>> Look at it. like
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>> stock moment right now. So you can feel
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free to do the rain chant anytime you
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want.
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>> We'll keep you apprised if there's any
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kind of a weather alert out there. Right
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now everything looks okay. This was a
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intermittent shower they tell me. So
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hopefully we'll have a nice afternoon.
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>> All right. So where we were in Idaho
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City yesterday which is right there kind
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of in the middle.
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>> Let's see.
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Where is Boisey Christian?
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>> Oh, right here.
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>> Right there. Boisey right there. That's
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a Caldwell and Meridian Rad Cape Company
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over here. Handmade capes and
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accessories. Cape right there. There's a
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dolphin cape.
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>> Cactus.
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>> Look at this.
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>> We hand make all the capes ourselves.
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>> That's great. That's not the Smoky Bear
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slogan, I don't think, but
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Idaho potato shirt. That'd be kind of
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neat. Different choices. Choice cuts of
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potatoes. Scallop. French fries. A
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graten. Shar string. Mash. Baked.
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Roasted. Hash browns chips. Chowder.
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Vodka and hassleback.
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Tie-dye
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through here as well.
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>> Crystals. A lot of crystals.
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>> The Jeep has moved over here now. So, we
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are going to go to downtown.
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Not in the Jeep. Not in the Goodies
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Jeep. We're going to take a Uber
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and head to downtown. Think we see
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everything there is to see here. Go do
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some downtown boy stuff.
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We arrived near downtown now at a place
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called Goldstein or Goldstein Bagels and
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Bialis
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and I ended up getting a bagel that my
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sister recommends that she's had many
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many times
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and they're pretty busy so it's going to
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take about 10 or 15 minutes to get the
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bagel but heard good things. So having a
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little gold everything else pretty much
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is at the street fair which is kind of
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basic stuff other than the grilled
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cheese. So now grilled cheese and then a
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bagel here downtown. This is called the
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Sam. 25 was the number that I had on the
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table. They brought the food out,
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prepared it fresh. The Sam
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I have no idea what's on this, but I'm
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seeing an egg, ham. Is there bacon on
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there? Lettuce?
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Heavy metal.
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>> Oh, pesto.
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Um, pushcido. Arugula,
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>> potato chips.
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>> There's potato chips on there.
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>> This is the potato chip.
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>> Okay.
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>> And an egg.
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>> Looks nice.
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>> So good.
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>> That's a That's nice. Like an everything
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omelette.
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>> Omelette. Everything bagel.
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>> Everything bagel.
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Not an omelette. It's an omelette inside
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there.
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>> Yeah. That is so good. When you say,
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"I'm going to go get a bagel," you don't
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think of this. This is This is like
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gargantuan
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sandwich. But man, it is so good.
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>> It's like a good flavor of everything
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together.
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>> All right, now we're going to walk over
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to a record store, the record exchange.
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See what kind of vinyl they have. Just
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strolling around a peaceful downtown.
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Not too many people out because it is
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the weekend. Oh, Sunday
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located on the corner of West Idaho
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Street and North 11th Street in the
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Hitchcock building. Hitchcock
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would be a building.
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the record exchange. Last time I was in
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town months ago, I bought an album from
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a local band from here.
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Just bought one record,
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but I'm going to buy another
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album from another band. It's from
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Boyisey, Built to Spill. They are from
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here. I'll see if they have any Built to
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Spill albums. And if they do,
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I will purchase one, put it in my bag to
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take home.
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It'll be the second record that I
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purchased from the record exchange in
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Boisee.
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Look at this here. You got Abraham
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Lincoln.
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You got a dog riding a bike. And you got
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a potato going to heaven.
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And this looks like this cross is made
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out of potatoes.
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And on the
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on the door itself, they have a
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promotion for the street fair we just
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attended right there.
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Like the murals here on the side.
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Here we go. The Hitchcock building
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mural.
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We're at the record exchange. All right.
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Accomplished getting another record. I
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believe this is their second album. I
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was looking for the very first one, but
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they didn't have it. They had a few
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different ones. This is There's Nothing
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Wrong With Love. It was $26.99.
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30th anniversary pressing, Jade Blue
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vinyl
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from the record exchange. I always like
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to buy stuff with a, you know, buy
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records with a little bit of a a memory
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behind them. And that way later in life
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when I look back at the records I have
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or if I'm listening to them can always
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be like, "Oh, I got that in the town
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that band was from or I got that in the
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town where I saw said band playing a
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show or where an artist on the recorded
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it or just in my travels, you know,
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different I go to different countries,
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I'll sometimes buy a record in the
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different countries of an artist I never
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heard of. That way when I get home, I
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can remember my trips to certain
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countries. So, I like to have the
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majority of the records that I buy to
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have some sort of a story behind them.
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So, that way, you know, later on if I'm
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listening to them, I can I can remember
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a certain time. So, looking back to my
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my visits here, I got the Built for
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Spill right here.
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A band from
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Idaho.
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Maybe the most popular band from Boisee,
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the most well-known.
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All right, accomplished. Moving on over
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on the main street now. Going to go by
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the Egyptian theater,
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which does have a history connected to
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the Egyptian theater
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in Hollywood. I believe
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there's a few Egyptian theaters. One's
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on Hollywood Boulevard, but I think
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there's a couple other ones. One of them
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right here in Idaho.
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Look at this. This hair place is
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mulletproof.
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do mullets though.
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>> That's a cute shirt.
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>> That's a cute shirt. Oh, it sure does.
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You get a t-shirt for 30 bucks.
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Got Humpty Dumpty right here.
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I should get a mullet my next haircut.
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There it is. The Egyptian theater.
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The marquee says, "Is it fall yet?"
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>> Couple nights ago. I didn't go to it was
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the night I arrived here.
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So, as soon as I arrived, like right as
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I was landing on the plane, they were
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doing a Goonies screening. Goonies and
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Lost Boys double feature.
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Should be kind of neat to see the
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Goonies in here.
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Here's a little history here. [laughter]
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Yeah. 1927,
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which is around the same time as the
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Chinese Theater
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in LA.
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Egyptian theater was listed on the
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National Register of Historic Places in
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74, same year I was born.
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And then Earl Hardy saved the Egyptian
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theater days before it was scheduled for
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demolition in 77.
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Placed on the National Register of
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Historic Places in 76.
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Ghost Almanac on October 5th. They're
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doing bunch of old classic horror films.
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The Haunted House with Buster Keaton.
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Oseratu 1922.
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>> And I can't get inside. There's no
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there's no show today, but you can kind
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of see some of the hieroglyphics there
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on the side of the wall. Pan across to
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see what it looks like inside. Old photo
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of Main Street here in town. And you got
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the Egyptian right there. Hey, I just
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realized when you turn the corner, you
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see the Capitol building down this way.
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So, a classic van over there. Look at
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that thing.
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The architecture down here is pretty
22:28
nice as well. This is the Adelman
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building
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right there. The Adelman building,
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corner of Idaho Street,
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Capitol Boulevard.
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Cecil D. Andress
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the governor
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from 71 to 77 and also 87 to 95.
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You notice how so many people have
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touched the finger there that it's the
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bronze has kind of worn down.
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We're now walking over to a alley, like
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a graffiti alley, full of all kind of
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artwork called Freak Alley. checked it
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out last time I was here. But there's
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just so much to see. I figured since
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we're right over here in the area, pop
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back by again and see what's all over in
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there now. Right, we have entered Freak
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Alley now. You got the squirrel kind of
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popping its head out of the side of the
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building.
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There's almost like a two bodies merging
25:14
into one face right there with the
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fangs.
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This is a
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a lady holding a I don't know maybe it's
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my interpretation of like the earth
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maybe or just like a sphere smiley face.
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I mean, all art is up for
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interpretation, but
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>> there's some honey cover that's like
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People have placed their stickers,
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personal stickers,
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businesses,
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assorted vinyl all through here. Not
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record vinyl, but vinyl stickers. And
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sometimes when I see a place that's been
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adorned dramatically with lots of
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stickers, I really will never throw a
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sticker up on a spot where there's
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already not tons and tons of other
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stickers. I will add to the experience.
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Since since this is an alley with spray
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paint and it is not frowned upon to
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leave things, I have added
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mine right here to the pipe.
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Right here in freak alley. I did not
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write this, but this makes sense. I was
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here. It was fun.
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A skeleton
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right down there. Don't know what's in
26:47
those bags, but I just stepped on them.
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Look at this. Here's like a octopus with
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a video camera.
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I like that
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you got all the barnacles and the sea
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life down below and the articles just
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vlogging. He's doing a little vlogging.
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This guy's eye is the pipe that the
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water comes out of. So, he's like crying
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out of one eye.
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Myrr woman with the squid around her
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face.
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It's really good. Oh, here we got the
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the fish that has the light in front of
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their face.
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A couple of them. Oh, there's a few of
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them. There's an eel
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right there.
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A jellyfish.
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Surfer Kelly Slater. Either that or
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somebody just wrote his name there.
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Says Florida is the goat.
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Highly doubt that Kelly Slater wrote
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that about himself on the side of the
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wall, but maybe
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>> It's kind of a neat piece.
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>> Freak Alley Gallery. Freak Alley
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Gallery. Yeah, I said that right.
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Okay. They have an annual mural event
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that started back in 2011
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and stretches.
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Well, they stopped recording it back in
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2018.
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Changing of the guard, not art and joy.
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2019. So, it has not been documented and
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they have not had an annual mural event,
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at least according to the wall since
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then. So, I guess I don't know what the
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rules are, but
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some good graffiti through here. And
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then here's some like tile work.
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This is really interesting.
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Tile work. There's like the Idaho crown
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You can see how it's broken tile that's
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painted.
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Pretty cool. Freak Alley Gallery.
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Kind of a tongue twister. Freak Alley
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Gallery. Freak Alley Gallery. Freak
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Alley Gallery. I guess it's not as much
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of a tongue twister as I was making it
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out to be. And that's going to do it for
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today from Boisee, Idaho. Thanks for
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watching. Really appreciate it. Hope
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everyone's having a wonderful day and
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continues to have a wonderful day. And
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I'll see you in the next video.
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Never did see a street car. Never. Never
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did see one of these though, even though
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there's a lot of history of those here.
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Maybe one of the museum has them. Didn't
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see one of them personally. But I'll see
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you in the next video.
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Have a good one.
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The vlog.
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What is that? What is that right there?
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What is that? Like a uh hot and not a
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hot air balloon. A blimp.
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I like this freak alley mural mural
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area. Pretty neat.
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Look at this cat right here. Look at
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this cat right there.
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And then this girl's riding on a sea
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turtle
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right there. All kind of great stuff
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through here. All kind of great stuff.
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I'll see you in the next video, the
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vlog. There's Paul Bunan
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and Babe the Blue Ox.
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I'll see you in the next video. The
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vlog. There's some handprints.
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It's over. This thing, this sea
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creature's eating the island.