Halloween Countdown With Dunkin Donuts Pumpkin Spice -Splendid China Theme Park Memories & The Birds
Dunkin Donuts Halloween
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welcome
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everyone Adam the woo here as the
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recording of this it is
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Monday October 23rd 2023 Halloween is
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upon us in just a little over a week 8
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days from right
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now I have to say one thing
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vlogging it's for the birds vlogging is
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for the
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birds today I mean because I'm going to
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go see the movie The Alfred Hitchcock
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classic celebrating this year is its
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60th
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anniversary yeah
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Hitchcock would be proud was hoping a
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bird would fly by I was trying to
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incorporate the vlogging as for the
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birds a little bit better than that I
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could have delivered that a little bit
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better could have packed a little bit
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better of a
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punch but that was a fail you get the
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idea I'm going to go see the birds I'm
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vlogging
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join me I have never seen Alfred
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Hitchcock's classic he's got a few
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Classics people think of psycho think of
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the birds and psycho rear window North
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by Northwest there's a bunch of
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them seen psycho in the theater the
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original they when they brought it back
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and then the Remake years ago but I've
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never seen the birds it's happening
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tonight but I'm going to fill the day
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with other stuff the movie is not till
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700 p.m. like nowhere near then
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join me shall you plenty of time to do
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many other things I've been going to
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quite a few movies lately I'm really
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liking the AMC is not far from
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celebration over at Springs up it just
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moved I got to get moving and they're
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playing a lot of throwback classic
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movies which makes me happy a Hitchcock
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oh heck yeah so it's only 224 right now
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and the only one it's playing in it's
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only one time for one date today only
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October 23rd at Springs as I was leaving
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notice over at Lake ryanard the turtle
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was over here but also look how close
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cool was up to the steps of the
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shoreline yeah getting closer up to the
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steps just wants to say hello to
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everyone I'm now cruising down Highway
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192 just outside of town I'm going to go
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by Dunkin Donuts and see what they have
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for Halloween maybe try a pumpkin spice
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latte from Duncan now this particular
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Duncan is located pretty close to the
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Big Orange
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which looks like currently still has all
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their merchandise out front they haven't
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reopened inside yet since the fire half
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a year ago countdown to
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Halloween
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man I Halloween season has been going
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strong the first Halloween event I went
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to was on August 11th of this year the
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day after my birthday was the opening of
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Mickey's Not So Scary then I had a
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couple week
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lull and then it just kind of R to
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Dragon Con first of September went hot
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and heavy with the Halloween stuff so
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the countdown's on just a little bit
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over a week till all this I really got
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to embrace it because I'm going to miss
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it when it's gone all right I was I gave
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into temptation and got a nice delicious
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treat along with my pumpkin spice latte
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I don't want to lose these napkins so
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I'm kind of curious to see before I go
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into start off into the dut it's the
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spider donut how the pumpkin spice latte
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here I've never had pumpkin spice latte
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from Duncan before I've had it at
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Starbucks many many times try to change
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it up today
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though oh it's a little spicier it's got
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a little more spice to it about the same
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amount of pumpkin the same amount of
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heat
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but gosh I don't know which one I
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prefer they're both pretty dang
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good I think i' prefer the Starbucks
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pumpkin spice latte over this one this
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is good
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but 93% is
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good however Starbucks does not
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have
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this you want this look at this it's a
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spider it is windy out here probably put
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this bag away I'll sit on the bag sit on
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it
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poy look at this right
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there oh can you get the shirt in
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there I'm I'm saying it like I'm not the
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one filming talking to the camera saying
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camera can you get the shirt in
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there there it
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is so I've learned something about
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Dunkin Donuts remember the commercials
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back in the day the time to make the
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donuts guy back in the olden days the
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early classic TV
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commercials the ' 80s probably ' 80s if
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I had to say there was the time to make
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the Donuts guy he would get up every
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every morning say goodby goodbye to his
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wife family and those in his home time
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to make the donuts time to make the
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donuts would show up and make the
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donuts I don't know if there's any
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Dunkin' Donuts that still make donuts in
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inside anymore they make them offsite
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and they ship them here so sometimes
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I've had this issue on St Patty's Day
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where if you don't get here early you
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don't get the holiday seasonal Donuts
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especially for St Patty's Day I guess
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Halloween they probably bring a lot more
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in and they're not it's not like a one
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andone day thing cuz Halloween lasts
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like forever all right I'm going in on
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this looks like it has a little donut
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hole that looks like a spider look ooh
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spooky I think that might be pumpkin
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flavor on top I think it
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is it's pretty good there's no cream
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filling in there
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though
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just a basic
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glazed with some pumpkin flavoring on
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top icing making out the legs of the
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spider I have just devoured one of the
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spider's legs creepy legs not that
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spiders are clowns but you know how
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clowns are used in a lot of haunted
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attractions where the clown there's good
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clowns out there there's non-evil clowns
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what do the good clowns think about
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everyone thinking they're evil now in
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scary and what do spiders the spiders
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like what the heck I'm not a scary
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this to do that's okay not the greatest
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thing I've ever had but not the worst
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either all right moving on we check out
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some 192 stuff head over to Springs a
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little bit later I will say it stains
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your fingers the little pumpkin only
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pumpkin spice latte inside and on that
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dut pumpkin flavoring on there my
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fingers have stained the cup also if you
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ever come out here these air conditioner
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units do not appreciate solicitors do
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not
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solicit those air conditioner units also
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there used to be a restaurant right here
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for years it was here
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abandoned it was open before it was
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closed and then sat here desolate and
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empty and rotting away for many years
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they they finally tore you down I
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noticed that a few months ago also one
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thing I will say about the competitor I
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have a lot of different coffees
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Starbucks the one that the pumpkin spice
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lot today that I've had the most of is
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always very scalding hot one thing I'll
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say about Starbucks this one was not as
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piping hot still tasty and good and warm
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and toasty something about Starbucks
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bucks it's always even Keel temperature-
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wise got me thinking maybe over the rest
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of the next week leading up into All
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Hallows Eve I'll try other places that
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have different pumpkin spice lattes
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right now the 4Runner Starbucks I got to
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say that they're they're the number one
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I haven't had many but that's that's my
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favorite so far you know as far back as
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I can remember this
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Motel here has been sitting here empty
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it's been a construction zone for a long
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time I can still hear workers over in
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there but this thing's been closed for
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probably 10 years I don't know what it
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is about Highway 192 and closed down
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motels that never seem to get fixed up
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and never seem to
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open but this is another one right here
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there's the front
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entrance or was the front entrance
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Lobby this is still one of my favorite
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192 spots the big
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mermaid
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souvenirs I also never knew that this
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little stop off here is called alligator
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Bluff right outside inside the mermaid
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the Little Bus Stop Camera is
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on probably don't want anybody digging
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through the
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dumpster wonder if anyone ever talks
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about that pizza
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place I don't
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know all right looks like this parking
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lot has been opened back up this area
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was under construction for a while over
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here off Formosa Gardens Road at the
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Formosa Gardens Plaza this used to be a
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grocery store if I remember correctly
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was a wind Dixie and then for the last I
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don't know the last year they've been
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remodeling the whole front so the former
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Splendid China theme park which closed
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down a couple decades ago was directly
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located behind this so it was all themed
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Around The Splendid China theming but
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they have kind of omitted a lot of that
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and changed all that you can see parts
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of it are still over there this grocery
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store was very interesting because they
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used to have the theming was really on
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point back when the theme park was
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behind it and I was curious because this
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used to this was all blocked off they
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would have big fences across here for
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the last year or so but the fences have
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been removed so I want to see if they've
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done anything inside here it doesn't
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look like all right now peeking in the
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window I would have assumed that they
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would have torn out all the interiors
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that look like this but it's not torn
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out it's all still in
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here bizarre
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doing construction on this place they
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must have just been
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doing stuff to the exterior not the
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interior and this is
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unbelievable so I had the well I just
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locked out I came by here a few years
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ago on this last day opening before all
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the construction
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started and I mentioned how it would be
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pretty neat to own that panda bear and
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it's they didn't remove move and it's
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still in
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there I am really surprised that all
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this stuff is still inside this
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building evidentally they probably
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trying to sell it or lease it out to
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another store and
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just maybe they figure the new owners
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whoever that will be will want some of
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the theming in there like that I am
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really surprised that that is still in
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there thought that'd be the first thing
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to go I thought a worker would be like
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that would look good in my living room
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check out these bushes over
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here they're all cultivated and cropped
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down very
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artistically so the splended China theme
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park if you went around this way and
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then took a right it was like a couple
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streets over and then what was that
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noise scared
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me I mean this is kept pretty mowed down
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and manicured but it looks like there
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used to be a not a trailer park but an
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RV park right here
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leading into the former Splendid
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China now Margaritaville Resort a
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massive property massive
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property in fact the main entrance the
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main poing entrance of Splendid China is
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the same
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driveway that's located right
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here this was the main entrance looks
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completely
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different but that was
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it and this fence is the original fence
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also and I think one of the few things
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that's
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left are these little indentations right
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here in that wall yeah it's just wild
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the think that used to be splended China
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back in there now it's all fixed up
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looking
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nice Margaritaville Resorts right over
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here is where the rather large sign used
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to be letting everyone know that there
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was a theme park back in here it was
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sitting right there in that little
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little median there using the word
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median a lot
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today noticing this I turned around over
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here on the corner of perosa gardens in
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US
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192 someone has taken these old bed
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frames from a
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hotel made some signs out of them
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back over heading towards downtown now
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cruising down Water
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Street going to go home for a little
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while relax and then head over to
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springs for 60th annivers
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of Alfred Hitchcock's the birds directly
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above my TV is Alfred himself the master
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of suspense so when I'm watching
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anything I just look up and I
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see the iconic director sitting in Mrs
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baits his chair and I do have the movie
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on
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Blu-ray seen it many times has some
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special features as well but there's
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just something about seeing something on
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the big screen and I've never seen this
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in in a movie theater with a crowd that
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probably has seen it multiple times as
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well so it's going to be quite the vibe
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in there I love going to re-releases in
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a theater 60th anniversary of this
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classic horror suspense film
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Hitchcock would be proud also show this
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just kind of ties into what I was just
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talking about Orlando's newest theme
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park right here here's a guide map
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sponsored by Coca-Cola budget
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Fuji
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film right
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there see China by
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day it was just so incredible all the
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stuff that was in
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there massive
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property featured over 600 authentic
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replicas 76
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Acres now owned I don't know if all of
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it's owned but I would imagine most of
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it's owned Now
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by Margaritaville Resort I've been to
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San Francisco a couple times in the last
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series of years and I always stay in a
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hotel right by Union Square you can see
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the cable car going by over there
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there's Tippy right there walking across
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the road one of the beginning scenes
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from the movie so it's going to be neat
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to see it on the big screen
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tonight every time I'm I always stay
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like two blocks from here and it's just
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like wow that's it's pretty dang cool it
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was also during that moment during that
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scene where they go over to a little
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Backlot section where Alfred Hitchcock
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himself walks his two dogs out he always
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did little
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cameos for anybody really did it he put
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them in all those movies and there he is
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walking out I love how posters used to
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be like this these old horror
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posters nothing you have ever witnessed
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before has prepared you for the such
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sheer stabbing
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shock in techic color and obviously it's
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just kind of a play on words of joke
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saying that vlogging is for the birds
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because it's not you know because I'm
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going to see the movie after the same
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title that'd be kind of a a fun thing
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also there's a cone down here right in
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the water look at this so you got the
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pole over there which is where Howard
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the decoy duck usually is but there's
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like a little cone right here
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look palm tree
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row it's not the palm tree row it's one
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of many Palm Tre rows out there in the
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world but yeah you know what I mean B
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all right I4 westbound pretty backed up
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kind of going over the top of
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it Sun is
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power all right I got my popcorn here
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with a large popcorn they promoting this
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thing on the side this Fanta what the
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Fanta here on the side but I don't know
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if I want to try that because it says
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freaky
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Fizz it sounds like a soda to me I might
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just go with my go-to minute made zero
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sugar cherry
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limeade take the lid
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out e the lid get the lid out of there
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try it
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again all right finished up the movie
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heading home man that was awesome seeing
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a classic Hitchcock film on the big
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screen one thing I will say about AMC
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at I almost said celebration but the AMC
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at Downtown
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Disney usually when I go there
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they'll have 30 minutes of preview so
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let's say the movie starts at
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7:30 the movie really won't start till
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8: she have 30 minutes of previews this
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one I walked in 8 minutes after the
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slated time and the movie was already 8
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minutes in so evidently they started it
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right on time without any preview so I
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missed the first 8 minutes start it
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picked up when she was in the pet store
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looking at the love
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birds which is fine but I did get I did
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miss the early in the movie The First
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minute or two is when Hitchcock does his
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his little walking the two dogs and the
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Cameo so I missed that which kind of
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bummed about that and I missed the the
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opening sequence of her walking
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across
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the the the road there in Union Square
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in San Francisco so missed the first 8
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minutes I got the rest of it man what a
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great film but really the unusual thing
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is if you didn't know it was called the
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birds and know it was about the birds
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you wouldn't even really know where the
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movie was going to go till about halfway
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through it and then it just completely
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does a Twist a lot of Hitchcock stuff it
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makes you it has it going One Direction
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and then it throws you for a loop great
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movie some classic classic scenes and I
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did recall this a while back but it's
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been a couple years since I watched the
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film no music no soundtrack
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whatsoever the only noises are the
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organic noises and added noises of the
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birds scratching making noise you know
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pecking and just fluttering and things
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like that and then you know the the
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school scene when the the kids are
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singing the song There's that and then
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he turns on the radio at the end to hear
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the news you hear a little bit of a song
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before that but other than that there is
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no there's no soundtrack to the
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film and I think some directors nowadays
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they got to go all in with the editing
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the Quick Cuts lots of music the jump
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cuts and all that's kind of fine but I
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kind of feel like they need to find a
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balance you know obviously it's 2023 you
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don't need a movie from 1963 and emulate
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that exactly but you can kind of take
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elements of that that are missing from a
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lot of new films the suspense the
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buildup sometimes in the newer movies is
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not there they're just kind of going for
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the jump scare and I also got to
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thinking you know obviously neither
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Living Dead which I think predated that
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which they were boarded up in a house
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but when I was watching the whole second
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half or you know the last probably
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quarter of the
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birds I don't know how many films
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beforehand utilize or had that plot line
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where people are are held up in a house
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boarding up the side of the window and
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you know hunkering down like they were
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so pretty genius the whole thing is is
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pretty genius and I want to go back to
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the Blu-ray I have at some point and
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watch all the behind the scenes on it
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and kind of see you know using the sound
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stages using the real locations of
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Bodega Bay and San Francisco and I just
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I kind of need to revisit the extra
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scenes and deleted scenes and the
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original ending and all that but that's
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going to do it for today thanks for
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watching I'll see you in the next video
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it's for the
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birds the
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Vlog is over