Exploring Downtown Cleveland Empty Galleria Mall & The Arcade - Superman Birthplace & Baseball Ends
Downtown Cleveland Ohio
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today's adventure brings me to downtown
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Cleveland as the recording of the
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Saturday October 8th 2022 it's about 830
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a.m. starting off the day with a cool
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crisp Breeze here in downtown now last
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night we kind of wandered around here
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during very very busy times much
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different on a morning a wet overcast I
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think it rained last night as well MN
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down this road kind of like all the old
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me on and whatnot House of Blues is here
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and then the Cleveland welcome center
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right over there what's the name of this
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road this is East Fourth East Fourth
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Street we're going to mission for some
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coffee first and then do the intro and
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we're just going to kind of wander
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around downtown here for a little bit
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and right here at the entrance is a
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rather large hand not sure the
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significance of this but there's a hand
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here you can almost put your hand in
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that one you were telling me about the
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arcade last night said I need to go
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check out the it's not the typical AR
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arcade no no not at all it's more of
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like just the design of the building
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also hi welcome everyone out of the woo
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here splore and Ryan we are going to
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game two of the Wild Card series
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Cleveland not the Indians the Guardians
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they've changed their name and Tampa Bay
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Rays I am wearing an appropriate hat I
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think I might be the first person going
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inside Progressive Field ever to wear an
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Epcot Center 35th Anniversary from 5
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years ago shirt you have your hat right
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I do it's it's uh hanging from the old
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you're getting you're getting it ready
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but before we do do that I'm not going
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to film much at the game I'll film a
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little bit whether the Rays win or lose
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they lose today they are completely
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eliminated from the playoffs and the
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season is over that's a whole other
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subject but I just want to do other
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stuff around downtown anyway go ahead uh
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so uh this over here this arcade yes and
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I will join you in a second this arcade
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over here brace yourself cuz after what
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Adam told you about an arcade you're
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going to be thinking one thing you're
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going to get something else and
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hopefully you'll join us shall you for
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just a little sporing
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all right mixing signal here join me
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shall you nailed it we threw me off with
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that how about that the door has been
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opened oh wow look at
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this I'm getting some Blade Runner Vibes
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in
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here oh my look at this what the heck
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yeah this was not what I was thinking
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when I thought of an arcade you've seen
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Blade Runner uh the original the
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original Blade Runner doesn't this kind
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of remind you of the Blade Runner
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building where Harrison Ford lived kind
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of sort of yes well Blade Runner the
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Remake was or the SE whatever you want
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to call it was filmed in Cleveland I
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don't know if it was in this building
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the guy from La Cleveland yeah yeah
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what's his name uh laa laa guy yeah he's
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s in some films all right take a look at
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this so here is a kind of a retro
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throwback type of photo and you could
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just see everyone dressed in their
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Dapper best back in the day you got the
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flag up top says the arcade Cleveland
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Ohio now I'm looking in this glass
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window is this the grocery store you
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pointed out the other night when we were
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walking or last night when we were
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walking around absolutely is
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intersection of uclid a and East 9th
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Street so we're going to go by here this
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is now a grocery store mhm right here
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can I point out real quick uh when you
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go in uh and I'm sure we'll we'll get a
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chance to look at it there's U murals at
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the top that were painted by a gentleman
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that actually died on the Titanic oh
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okay you got to show me that one we get
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in there and here is a very brief
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information placard on some of the
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points of interest covered passageway
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lined with shops that's pretty obvious
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but modeled
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after Galleria vctor vctor Emanuel 2 in
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Milan Italy the arcades International
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reputation and one of the finest
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buildings of its type and the arcade was
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built for $875,000 back in 1890 known as
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Cleveland's Crystal Palace got the
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staircase leading down here and over
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here is the post office and there is the
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rising star down there it's the rising
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star coffee the five-story galleries
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connect the 10-story towers facing the
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city's two main thoroughfares I like to
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use the word thoroughfares unique
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architecture designs of one of the
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daring construction exterior Romanesque
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Revival popular
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Victorian
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style all right going to get some coffee
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I'm wearing pants today too cuz it's
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cold and before I put the lid on it I
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want to show off my vanilla bean latte
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right here very decorative has a little
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heart on it got the lid and this was
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from rising star coffee
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roters looks good we're going to Pepper
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in a a few movie locations as well now I
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stayed at the Christmas Story house I
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don't know a year two years ago give or
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take I've done the some of the filming
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locations even though some of was in
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Canada some of was here in Cleveland but
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I never been over here to where they
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stood in front of this building the May
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Company and then over here so exploring
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Ryan was informing me that that is where
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Santa was the Ho ho ho scene when he
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like takes his foot ho
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ho ho so it was right
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behind this sculpture right here and
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there's also a very beautiful cathedral
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church over here we're going to walk
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over
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to when you think of when you think of
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Cleveland you definitely think of the
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Christmas story oh easily easily and you
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also said Avengers took place right down
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through here so right over here they
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filmed a lot of the Marvel movies to
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begin with over here Captain America and
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the Winter Soldier if you watch the
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scene with Nick Fury being chased down
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by the Winter Soldier in his car right
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through here that the car came right up
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here that's awesome yeah and right about
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here is where his car would have
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exploded and turned upside down now I am
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more of I think I'm more of a DC
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Superhero guy I've started to get into
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the Marvel stuff yesterday you were
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wearing a mashup Simpsons W division
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shirt which is pretty awesome I like w
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Division and I'm doing that tie-in
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because also Superman was created here
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in Cleveland speaking of DC you know
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Superman Batman DC you more of a Marvel
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or a DC guy uh Batman is my number one
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character you're wearing the Batman
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shirt you're wearing the Batman shirt
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I'm wearing the the old school Batman
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shirt look at that right there for
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movies I would say I am more of if I'm
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going new school movies it's Marvel but
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Batman 8 is my favorite movie ever you
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heard it right from sporing Ryan YouTube
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Zone exploring Ryan and because Ryan is
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local to this area before he moved to
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Orlando he knows quite a bit he was also
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saying that this was the precursor to
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the original
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Macy's you see from the you know Macy's
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day parade and
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whatnot so real quick I should mention
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that uh Macy's is a separate company but
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when Macy's starting getting bigger the
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May Company uh which turned into a few
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other things has been swallowed up by uh
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Macy's and with the leave CH leaves
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changing through here very beautiful I'm
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kind of slightly zoomed in CU I want to
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show this ghost signage up here that's
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what it's referred to when you see an
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advertisement painted on the side of
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brick this says visit our lunchonette
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section must have been a furniture store
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I just love this kind of stuff little
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relics of the path
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now fun fact they did not film much of
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Major League the film the baseball movie
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Inside Cleveland or in the city of liit
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of Cleveland except for the beginning
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scenes it was all filmed in a different
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state however some of the intro scenes
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took place right here
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including this sculpture let me step
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down I stepped up here just kind of get
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the angle but right here this was shown
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at the beginning of Major League you
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know a pepper in some filming
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locations but this is where the namesake
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of the Town got its name from Moses
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Cleveland okay I was listening in as you
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were talking to your camera you're
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telling me where Loki stood in The
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Avengers is right next to the Christmas
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story window over here it is all the
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same it is all the same uh complex Tower
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City complex so Avengers Loki I do like
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the Loki show cuz it has the one guy
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from Cars the wow Guy what's his name
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wow wow ow Royal tenant bombs Owen
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Wilson no was he was Owen Wilson in
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Royal tenant bombs I don't know he was
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in bottle rocket nonetheless over here
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Jack Casino Christmas Story window is
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this his cabbage looks like
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cabbage I don't know if I would eat that
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looks like someone someone has those
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someone's nod on the side
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thereo it's kind of brisk and chilly
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outside kind of nice to be going in
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somewhere
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it's kind of
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warm wow I
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just not an Owen Wilson nod but doing
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that on my own accord look at this roof
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and over there that mural says welcome
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to Tower City take a look at this US
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mail letter box right here and there's a
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little placard here that says the very
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first railroad was an April 14th Of 1872
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at this spot all right as I walk in here
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this kind of reminds me I know I was
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filmed it speaking of filming locations
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this kind of REM reminds me of the
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escalators from Legend of Billy Jean
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right here with Helen Slater and chrisan
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Slater this kind of reminds me of that
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even though that was filmed in that is a
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filming location this is this is also
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Captain America and the Winter Soldier
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this was uh Chris Evans and SC Hansen
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coming down here wearing their uh I
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don't remember if it was this escalator
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right here or the one that you see over
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there but they were coming down here uh
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trying to look inconspicuous okay
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it also reminds me of the legend of
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Billy Jean escalators kind of sort of in
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the stairs who knows it's not that was
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filmed in Texas spor and Ryme were just
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telling me that they used to have War a
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Warner Brother store an old school
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Warner Brother store back in the day
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with some sculptures of like who was
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over there uh we had uh that I remember
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they at least had Bugs Bunny and they at
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least had Daffy da bug they were giant
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gold uh and they were wearing uh Tuxedos
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and kind of look like giant Oscars yeah
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okay yeah nice when you went inside
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there were Superman and Batman statues
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bursting out of the walls nice and it
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certainly was a fountain no water
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effects at the
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moment but the water would kind of go
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down the side of this like
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that into this little retention area
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here
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and here's a photo before they got rid
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of bugs and
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Daffy which both of them stood right
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over there in that
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area as the bus pulls in I just noticed
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over here this window to this now it's
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an open convenience door has been
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shattered out look at this the windows
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here is but completely completely busted
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out now as I approach this Cathedral
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here this church building you see the
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very impressive steeple I was seeing
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online that this is one of the very
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first street lamps ever created now I
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cannot confirm if it's the first one in
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the US or if it's the first one just in
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Cleveland but it's next here next to the
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society National Bank and look at this
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depository box here this after hour
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thing that has seen some years as well
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all right after looking up a couple
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quick things online you never know you
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can't completely trust the internet but
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the web says that this was put here in
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1890 which would have been about 50
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years after the bank itself and it
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stated that this was Cleveland's first
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Street Lamp and Ryan explain to me what
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these little bugs right here are no it's
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MES it's Canadian soldiers can okay so
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these basically these are like the love
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bugs Florida we have love bugs here in
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Cleveland you have these little insects
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which are kind of every everywhere yeah
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this is awesome established 1820 the
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Spire which rises above the tower stands
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as ATT tribute to the pioneers and early
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settlers of Cleveland and I thought
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someone was sitting over here but this
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is not a real person this is a sculpture
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right here as well says truly I tell you
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whatever you did for one of the least of
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your brothers and sisters of mine you
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did for me okay we were kind of cut off
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back there talking about the bugs yes so
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they do not have eyes no they don't have
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they don't have mouths so how do they
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eat exactly they don't they last about 2
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days they just come into town they breed
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they lay their eggs and then they're
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they're gone and there's piles of them
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usually afterwards interesting so this
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is the Cleveland love bugs yep midges
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are Canadian soldiers they connect with
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each other make sweet sweet love I'm
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sure they do I just don't watch in two
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days they only survive two days though
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get your they got to get it in while
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they can get your kicks and this is a
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very impressive sculpture right here
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pointing towards the heavens this
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Fountain right here in this little
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Courtyard now standing in front of this
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jewry Plaza
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Hotel Honest Abe I there quite a few a
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Lincoln here around town I think most
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cities have old Honest Abe who is
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overlooking quite the Majestic
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Courtyard look at
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this these little figurines are kind of
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in this little Courtyard as well and
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there's some pieces of
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artwork down here we got different words
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and letters going through
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pyramid so look down into the library
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yeah it looks like I think it does what
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was the Tom Hanks movie uh Big
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Splash the the one where he's
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investigating the bit uh oh
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uh I don't remember and just like
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Superman Clark kit would have done kind
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of go through this little I always think
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of Superman when I walk through here and
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I believe it's on the second floor so
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we're going to go up the granite
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staircase awesome look at this okay
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confirmed it is in here homecoming a
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Heritage of Ohio's own
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Superman what the heck
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yes here's Jerry seagull's writing desk
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look at this Jerry SLE purchased this
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riding desk at his home University
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Heights in 1940 almost always writing at
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home on his typewriter wrote hundreds of
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scripts at his desk for Superman comics
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this is the freaking
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desk
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what that's
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awesome his daughter donated the desk to
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the Cleveland Public Library back in
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2017 and over here not only Jerry seekel
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but also Joe Schuster
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seagull passed away in '96 Shuster in
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'92 and here's a little in carving of
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them
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here some of the plaques and
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medallions and of course one of the
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first Superman films that was actual on
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film non-comic versions filmwise was the
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TV Superman George Reeves not to be
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confused with Christopher reev Reeves
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and
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reev Chris reev from the rich Donner
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Superman it's the SE early you know the
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late '70s version which is my favorite I
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prefer the Donner cut of Superman 2 but
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this is a George Reeves life mask right
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here and here's a Superman and the meman
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script from
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1951 now my dad and I kind of bonded
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over Superman the original Donna
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Superman but he always told me that this
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was his Superman I'm a Chris Reef
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Superman my dad loves Chris ree too but
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my dad always said that this was who he
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you know was a fan of growing
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up yeah definitely Superman's probably
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my favorite
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superhero this is so freaking
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cool Adam man versus
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Superman a job for
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Superman Kirk
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Allen you know what I'm not really
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familiar with he was the first actor to
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portray the Man of Steel on
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film back in 1948 how did I not know
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that and the fact that they have the
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desk right
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here that's pretty freaking cool and
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truthfully I had read that they had some
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stuff in here but there's a lot more
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than I expected you know they have some
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of the souvenirs and collectibles over
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the years some of the newer stuff older
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stuff
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Supergirl got Wonder Woman up top kind
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of keeping with the DC
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Vibe oh Superman 2 look at this right
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there there
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Zod I need this board game Neil before
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Zod Chris is gone Margo's
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gone but it still lives
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on in pop culture
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the hearts of a lot of people who love
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the
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franchise look at this it's also amazing
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that by just putting on glasses you
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would never know that it's not the man
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of steel you would just simply think
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that it was Clark Clark
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here's a deep cut check this out a Canon
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film you know I love Canon films
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Superman 3 was a Canon film I think you
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know what maybe no Superman 4 was the
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Canon film Quest for Peace was Canon
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that was
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Warner Superman 3 was Richard prior I
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always heard stories that prior kind of
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regretted doing Superman 3 I don't know
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if that's true or not
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but yeah Superman 4 was the Canon
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film this was a good stop off also
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getting out of the cold for a little bit
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it's a little brisk out
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there right here in
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Cleveland creating one of the most
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recognizable pop culture icons of all
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time to find an entire generation of
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Comic Book Heroes seagull and Schuster
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go through several different
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incarnations of Superman character
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including the villainous version before
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finally settling the
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1933 Superman as we know today the last
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son of Krypton and the creative team of
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seel and Schuster would appear for the
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first time in PR 38 Action Comics number
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one the rest as they say is
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history check out the Man of Steel with
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a kind of a a little smirk on his face
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promoting the pasteurized process of
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imitation cheese spread
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it's funny
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right I'm kind of a sucker for these
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like Retro 7s early 80s vintage glasses
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that's
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Reeves
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yeah reev Chris reev Christopher reev
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those are his
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glasses Reeves glasses no it's Chris
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it's Christopher reev yeah but they
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belong to him oh pluralized re you got
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me on that one I almost missed this so
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obviously it's a bird it's a plane it's
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the 75th anniversary of Superman which
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was quite a while ago already but this
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shows the timeline here of C has sent to
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Earth rocket lands in Smallville become
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super boy you know there's the gets a
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job with the Daily
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Planet oh meets up with Batman and Robin
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oh that's the Batman and Robin years
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teams up years Super Boy Meets crypto oh
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beo the Super Monkey uh-huh that's a
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deep cut there's is that Lex Luther
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right there
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I think it might be good Le Luther yeah
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and then of course going towards the
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crescendo of the I used to have the very
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last episode remember like in the '90s
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they put the one out where he poly
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bagged black yeah I had that one
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thinking it was going to like seal my
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retirement and be worth a lot of money
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later spoiler alert it's worth 25 bucks
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man now back
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outside through these tree branches
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there's a dog being walked there's a
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couple dogs over there they're barking
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at each other two dogs C crossing the
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road here's another look at all these
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bugs here along the
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side side of the wall here they're
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everywhere they have no
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mouths ooh I even have one on me is it
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like a mosquito is it like or it doesn't
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have mouth there's no way it can like
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it's not like doing the vampire thing or
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anything right should I just kind of get
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get off of me bug finding a place to die
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really get off of me bug actually I
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think just did fall and there it is a
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rather large oversized gargantuan stamp
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look at the comparison with that car
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driving by and people walking by in
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front of the stamp it has the words F re
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e free written on the side of it big old
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stamp over there
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this looks like maros here
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wind risk here is the freest stem the
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Lake's right there it is this is this is
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uh this is Lake
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wind rather large stamp set take a look
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at this beauty the
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Galleria you know what I don't even know
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if it's even open they got some cones
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out front but the Galleria looks very
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retro looking
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oh yeah oh my goodness look at this the
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gallery and Tower at eie view oh my gosh
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just like an empty Mall oh
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Lord empty Mall alert and this is just
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basically right downtown walking over to
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the stadium got to get over there for
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first pitch game two the Wild Card
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series there's no one in here just some
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Mall walkers
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this is the kind of stuff I just love so
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much I don't know why I'm
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whispering look at the old elevator
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there not working kind of stened off
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section over here the old food
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court this is
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gold retro
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gold wow restroom closed
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oh man you do not see empty food courts
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like this too often now you see a lot of
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malls that have do have things open and
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the music Still blaring and stuff this
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place is a relic of the
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past it's like something out of stranger
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things
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there now this leads up and down to
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something this must
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be restrooms or something down
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there but most of the
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escalators are not operational
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I feel like my friend Dan Bell or Ace's
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Adventure would love this place either
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one of them this is right up there alley
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it's my up my alley too but that's if
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they were here they would definitely
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love
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here completely empty Mall
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alert
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hello hello
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hello just love this elevator
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cannot go up to the second floor for
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obvious reasons there be no reason to go
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up there I don't even know there's any
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reason to go down here on the first
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floor that was well worth stopping in to
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check out look at this speaking of
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checking out it's got some some speakers
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2011 just random speakers very unique
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mural here on the side and it says
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inscripted on the bottom of it says life
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is sharing the same park bench so this
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is an interpretation of a park bench it
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says it right over there behind those
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speakers that's what the terminology
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says now a little earlier I was talking
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about the the old bank that is now a
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grocery store this is that old building
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the Trust Company the Cleveland trust
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company that now has a grocery store
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inside of it and Ryan just filled me in
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on something also Spider-Man 3 utilized
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this grocery store SL Trust Company
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building in Spider-Man 3 I didn't
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realize that until now now I should also
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point out this AT&T building right here
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was the inspiration for the Daily Planet
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speaking of Superman
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go there
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go run it out
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safe oh double play it
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up yeah woo
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woo all right
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Jason that's how it's done
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on to the 13th
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inning 13 Innings we're heading into the
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13th oh wait no maybe
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not what the
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heck okay that was very peculiar
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evidently there were two strikes that
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ended up being the third strike but the
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scoreboard only said one strike so the
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Rays went off the field Guardians
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thought there was only one strike into
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two strikes but ended up where
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there was two yeah that was very conf
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now in the bottom of the 13th veteran
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starter Cory clubber for the race bottom
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of the 14th scoreless Innings complete
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shutouts on either side two strikes
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clubber on the mound two outs could go
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to the
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15th taking it to the
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15th play one with the
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walkoff my last baseball game of the
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year could have gone either way two
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close teams and that's going to do it
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for today from downtown Cleveland Ohio
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I'll see you in the next video the Vlog
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is over