Things Have Changed On Beach Blvd - A Day In Buena Park / Visiting Moobys Location & My Favorite Pho
A Day In Buena Park
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Welcome everyone. Adam the Woo here as
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the recording of this Wednesday,
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September 17th, 2025. I am in Buena
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Park, California. Not really sure
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exactly what I'm going to be doing
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throughout the course of the entire day,
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but I'm starting off by going to grab a
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coffee over at the coffee shop Starbucks
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before you go in to Knottberry Farm. I
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might pop in here or I might just walk
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down Beach Boulevard through Buena Park.
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Whatever I do, no matter where the day
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leads. Oh, yes. No matter what happens,
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I am inviting you. Yes, you. It's good
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to have you here if you join me.
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I'm going into the shadows.
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I'm going into the shadows now.
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Wow. The coaster is not running. It is.
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What's the time frame? It's 10:26. I
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think Knots's open at 10:00, but I don't
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hear the I don't hear the coaster
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running. All right, let's get the Let's
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get the day going. Join me,
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shall we? Fountain looking. Oh, the
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coaster's going by over there. To be
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honest, I don't know if I'm even going
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to pop into Knots. I guess I could. I'm
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right here and I do have a season pass,
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an annual pass. But first priority,
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piping hot caffeinated beverage, which
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is on the other side of this building
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right here. Grabbed myself a pumpkin
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spice. They wrote my name on the side of
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the cup.
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Heading down Beach Boulevard.
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A lot of cars on Beach Boulevard right
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now in Buen Park, California.
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Look at that thing. There's a big ladder
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on that.
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You get across the street from Knots,
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you start to notice there's some theming
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here that has the little bit of the same
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kind of flare as in the theme park next
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door. The Claim Jumper, which is a
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restaurant, has a little mine cart right
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here. I don't see any gold nuggets down
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in there. Oh, look at this. So, this is
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dated back to 88.
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November 1st of 88. I'm reading it
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upside down, but also November 1st of
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57. Looks like people wrote their maybe
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birth dates in there. Not really sure.
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One thing is kind of a bummer. So, the
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McDonald's over there used to be themed
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all old western style for many years. It
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was amazing. You go in there, they had
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trains, miniature trains going all
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around the little restaurant area where
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you'd have your booths and things. Above
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your head would be some miniature trains
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and there was pictures of the Old West
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and Knots back in the day. And without
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any notice, maybe like a year ago,
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they just tore it down and built this
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new one. I mean, almost instantly it was
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gone and the new one sprung up. So,
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goodbye to the past and hello to the
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future of Mickey D's. In the sun, it
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feels way hotter than 82 degrees. Way
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hotter. Thankfully, there's going to be
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some cloud formations rolling in. It
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feels like it's 100° out here. It's not.
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It's only 82. I didn't mean to make a
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not joke because not right next door.
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That was an accident. Yeah, I missed the
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old McDonald's here. Everything's all
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streamlined nowadays. Not kitschy
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anymore.
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Good old bu in a park.
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That's a pretty neat looking sign
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though. I got to be honest. It's kind of
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a kind of a cool sign.
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Oh, you know, so you got the golden
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arches there, but other than the
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McDonald's logo being the golden arches,
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nowhere on property does the building
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have any golden arches. Just a sign now.
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Not a lot of shade here on the road
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either. But what there is
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is the mark of the beast.
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But what there is is Rock and Bruce has
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some uh records down here. Like right
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there, that is Madonna
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like a virgin.
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In the concrete itself, it's like a Walk
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of Fame.
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Patty Smith, horses,
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the Who? Tommy
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Grateful Dead.
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Got John Linen flashing the peace sign
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right there.
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I ate here one time.
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I don't know, maybe four years ago.
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That was the only time.
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There's a helicopter up there going by.
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That's right. Come on.
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That's right. Get to the chopper.
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So, this many years ago used to be a wax
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museum.
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All that over there, there used to be
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celebrity handprints. Arnold was one of
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the ones over there.
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There used to also be a entryway into
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the wax museum. And when they tore down
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the wax museum around back, they left
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the little entry point in that was a
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coffee shop for a while. So, it's been
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bulldozed and they were going to build
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some sort of a butterfly exhibit here,
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but construction has halted on that.
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Also, Medieval Times across the way
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there used in the Cable Guy, Matthew
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Broadick, Jim Carrey classic directed by
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Ben Stiller. That
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is the medieval times from the cable
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guy.
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Stand up and cheer for your night.
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That's the spot.
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Kind of wish they would have
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left the handprints.
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Let me see if I can step up on here.
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Left the handprints up over here.
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So, there was a lot of history. the
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celebrities that have all placed their
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hand and footprints and signatures in
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the the ground kind of like Hollywood
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Boulevard and Orange County version of
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Hollywood Boulevard, not up in LA down
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in the OC.
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But they took the bulldozer through,
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plowed it all up, and now there's
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whatever these are in their place.
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They've been sitting here for a long
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time.
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There might be some broken up celebrity
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handprints down in there somewhere, all
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shattered.
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Nice little castle right here on the
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side of the road. There's one of these
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in CMI, Florida, too. Not too far from
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where I live in Celebration.
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Nice little mural up here on the side of
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the building as well. Let me walk up
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here to show the the painting of all the
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different knights that you can root for,
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stand up, and cheer for.
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Also, if you've ever seen
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Cable Guy, the announcer for the
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medieval time scene, I already mentioned
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Jim Carrey and Matthew Broadick, but the
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announcer was Andy Dick. Fun fact,
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he was great in that role. Couple of the
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horses over here. Look,
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snacking on some of the foliage there on
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that tree. Very nice.
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That's a great old RV right there. Look
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at that thing.
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Nice.
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Very retro. On the corner of Sunset
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Boulevard and Vine Street up in
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Hollywood, there's a similar building to
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this that has a mural right there on the
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side.
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This one is geared towards Buena Park.
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Got the old Prospector, the ghost town,
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water tower, some cowboys. I've never
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actually taken the time to sit and look
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at this. Also has the the Rio
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Southern Railroad train from Knots, too.
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Look at that. That's pretty dang cool.
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Made out of tile. Yeah, but that bank
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reminded me of the same one that's up in
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Hollywood. Might even be the same person
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that did the tile on that one. I believe
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this sign here is new.
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The prospector in his trusty mule is not
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though.
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That's been there for a long time.
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He's got his corn cob kite.
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Mules got his bags all packed up.
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They're doing a little traveling.
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And I believe,
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don't quote me on this, but I believe
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this is a Claude Bell piece of artwork
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who did the Cabazone dinosaurs. And also
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at the wheel end that was used in
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Peewee's Big Adventure when he gets his,
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you know, loses his wallet, realizes
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wallet's gone.
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Also, when he walks in and says, "Large
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Marge sent me." That building was
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bulldozed. But in front there used to be
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another recreation of this.
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The old prospector and his trusty mule
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in front of that diner. And that's been
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long gone. It's been long gone.
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But this one's still here.
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Had grabbed an Uber and made it over to
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my favorite FA place. Faux 21. F. Fo.
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You can pronounce it either way. I
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pronounce it fo but sometimes fu. Out of
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all the fu fo places I've been. This is
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my favorite here in Buena Park,
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California. Been here probably a hundred
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times in my life. Most of the time when
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I was living here obviously, but when I
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visit and I am in Buena, I will stop off
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here at F21. So good. So good. Something
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about the broth, something about the
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spring rolls they have. Next level good.
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highly recommend here in the OC a little
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FU21.
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In fact, I remember back in 2020 when
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everything closed and you couldn't eat
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indoors, they had everything set up out
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here. I even did some
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food review stuff and pepper again, the
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daily vlogs where I was eating out here
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cuz you couldn't go inside. That was
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quite a time.
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In fact, I think I ate at this table
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right here on more than one occasion.
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And my go-to meal when I'm here is
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always the same. I get the fogga,
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which is I don't remember the number. I
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just always say faga
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right here. Nope, that's not it.
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Wow. Is it still on here? It's got to
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still be on here.
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Oh, here. Number 16. Chicken noodle
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soup. And I will get an order of spring
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rolls. So, number 16, faga
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and spring rolls.
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That's my go-to. Definitely my go-to.
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So, I went with the large bowl. Again,
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the faga chicken, the sliced chicken. I
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always get the extra
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the extra onions as well. I always like
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a little extra onions. And usually I
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don't go too heavy on the Sriracha.
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Maybe like a little tiny bit. I went a
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little heavier than I usually go on the
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Sriracha. And it definitely open up
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opens up the sinuses a little bit.
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getting the Sriracha. I think next time
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I'll I used to eat it with no Sriracha,
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but now I've been using Sriracha. I
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think I went a little too heavy on the
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Sriracha, but still amazing with the
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broth and the Sriracha mix and all that.
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And now I'm right next door to Foot 21
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at
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a boba place right next door, directly
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next door. It's the next next door over.
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And I got myself a number seven, a
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caramel milk tea right here. Little boba
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tea.
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I had water with the meal, but now I'm
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having a a boba afterwards.
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I got to grab another ride share and get
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back over towards where I'm staying.
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Pretty good. Caramel or is it caramel? I
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never know how to pronounce this. Like
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Caribbean Caribbean. I think either is
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appropriate. Look how Look how delicious
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that looks.
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Little dandelion here. They say if you
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make a wish,
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you blow the pedals off, the wish will
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come true. Is that how it works?
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This area is over in a spot called Korea
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Town in Orange County. Says I love Korea
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Town and I love Orange County.
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I went to Korea earlier this year.
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Went to Seoul, South Korea.
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Enjoyed it.
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Here's the Korea Daily Paper
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I'm just waiting on my Uber to show up
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and browsing around.
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Another international
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travel destination in November. That'll
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be my next international travel. Big
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truck coming by. Still in Buena Park
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over off of Stanton.
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Stanton Avenue. And right in here off
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Stanton was an old abandoned Burger
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King. This lot back when Kevin Smith
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made Clerks 2 was like a gravel lot. And
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then Movies,
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which they basically rented the old
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Burger King and turned it into Movies.
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The fast food place is right over here
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where Jay and Silent Bob were on the the
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corner.
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What got me thinking recently I was on a
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flight with Jason Muse who played
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Jay
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and I knew it was in Buena Park and I
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wanted to go show where the movies used
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to be. Used to be right up here right on
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the course the right on the Corsica
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streets right on the cross streets of
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Corsica and Stanton. In fact, when you
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watch the film, many many times do you
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see the building that is now the Buena
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Park Inn, which is a motel before they
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added this hedge here. You can see these
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windows up here. Also, Kevin's here.
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>> We're here. We're back. Spooky weekend.
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Here we go.
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>> We're ready. But before that,
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it's movie. It's movie day.
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Movie. Where did he get Where did Kevin
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Smith get the name Movies from?
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But it was right here. This is where it
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was. This is where the Burger King was
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right here that they rented. I think a
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lot of the scenes was on that kind of
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that corner there where the uh where
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Jay's like 15 bucks little man put that
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you know what in my hand was like right
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there and then there was a huge crane
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scene up here. It was a huge dance dance
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sequence where they were all right here.
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Can't really match up a whole lot up.
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And I was thinking you could probably
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match up across the road.
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But even across the road, the old car
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wash and everything has been torn down.
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That was over here. And now there's a
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dental place, a wireless spot, a
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wellness spot, and a new 7-Eleven that's
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opening over here.
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Oh, look at that building. That almost
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looks kind of Nazish
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off in the distance there. That's
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interesting. Again, it's very hard to
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match anything up, but if you look
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across the way, there's this power pole
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when he runs out and she's driving off
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in the car and you see the power pole
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and you see that beige building with
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that kind of unique rectangular
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dark, not a door, but the side of it
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there that
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is still over there. There's the power
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pole, and there's that kind of dark side
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of that building there. But this used to
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all be a flat area. So, the entrance of
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Movies would have been probably around
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where that that pole right there is.
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Tucked away in there. I wonder if the
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people live here have any idea they're
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living where movies was.
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Or maybe they're watching Clerks 2 right
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now. Maybe. All right. The building next
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door in what I thought was an empty lot
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is the same auditorium. You can see the
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roof line there for the auditorium. The
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glass going to that little L-shaped.
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>> Yeah, there we go. That's the same right
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there.
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There's the glass and there's the
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L-shape. There's a couple things you can
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match up. All right, match up one more
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thing. Here's where the table was
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outside of the movies and you can see
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the wall there now covered up by
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foliage. Then you can also see that
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motel in the background. It's really the
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only thing that you can heavily match up
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these days over here in Buena Park. The
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Buena Park in
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right there, the wall behinds that
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foliage. And there's the the balcony you
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can see so many times. This is also when
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they were on the roof singing
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was basically right here. You see, hey,
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you see this motel I don't know, 20
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times in the movie.
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And this is what it looks like now. The
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former home of movies.
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All right, just strolling along.
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Speaking of old motel, check out the
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Westward Wagon Inn. I don't even know if
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it's Well, if it's open, there's nothing
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on the marquee.
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kind of has that old western feel all
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around Knottberry Farm.
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The air conditioning units on so looks
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like it might be. Then there's the
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Colony
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in it suites right here.
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And down Beach Boulevard, there used to
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be a lot of these old motel.
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A lot of them, but a lot of them been
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torn down.
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This is over on Crescent I believe off
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of beach
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I was looking at the weather for
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tomorrow. It's supposed to rain tomorrow
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like storm tomorrow.
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I mean I'm used to it being a flidian.
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Used to the storms but in SoCal you
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don't really get a lot of a lot of the
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clouds. And it's starting to be close to
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dust. Starting to get the the Orange
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County birds. The crows are out. Well,
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they just flew off. They got a little
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camera shock. I'm curious to see if
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tomorrow if it does storm like it's
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going to say. It doesn't really storm in
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Southern California too often.
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You can see the clouds up there.
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Might even storm tonight.
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It's like dusk is about to rear its head
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and then nightfall. I'm going to go
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ahead and call it a day. Got a busy a
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busy extended weekend starting very very
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soon.
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events, hecticness,
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things happening.
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It's going to be a busy one. And then if
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all goes well, by early to middle of
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next week, I'll be home for my 4 plus
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week time back in Celebration, Florida.
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Solid month at home, you know, into the
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middle of next week. We'll we'll see if
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the plans don't change, but that's my
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plan anyway. All right, that's going to
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do it for today. Thanks for watching.
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I'll see you in the next video. The vlog
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is over.